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Crypto Altruism Podcast
A highlight from Episode 127 - Glo & The Life You Can Save - How blockchain can help alleviate extreme poverty
"When it comes to getting the most bang for your buck, there are really incredible opportunities in the world of extreme poverty, because there are interventions that we know will save or transform lives, and we just don't have enough money going to those interventions. And these can be extremely cheap, and things like a bed net that can protect somebody from a potentially fatal case of malaria, or a cataract surgery that could literally restore somebody's sight. And it could also be something like GiveDirectly's UBI program, which gives people the freedom to solve their own problems. So I hope that the crypto community keeps all this in mind. They have the opportunity to make an enormous difference in people's lives. If you're starting an NFT community that has a charitable component, if you pick the right charity, you could literally be saving somebody's life for not a lot of money. The obstacle is really just money. Welcome to the Crypto Altruism podcast, the podcast dedicated to elevating the stories of those using Web3 for good. I'm your host Drew Simon from CryptoAltruism .org. Now before we get started, a quick disclaimer. While we may discuss specific Web3 projects or cryptocurrencies on this podcast, please do not take any of this as investment advice, and please make sure to do your own research on investment opportunities or any opportunity, including its legality. And now, let's get on to the show. Welcome, and thanks so much for joining. An estimated 700 million people worldwide live in extreme poverty. While excellent progress has been made over the past few decades, despite setbacks during the COVID -19 pandemic, there is still a long way to go to ensure that no one has to be born into a life of extreme poverty. Crypto has long been touted as a groundbreaking tool for financial inclusion, but how can this technology be used to help end extreme poverty once and for all? To dive into this, I'm excited to welcome John Behar from The Life You Can Save, a nonprofit on a mission to make smart giving simpler and Seth Ariel Green from GlowDollar, a stablecoin with a mission to end extreme poverty. We discuss how crypto can help fight extreme poverty, how blockchain can fuel smarter giving, some of the barriers preventing crypto from reaching its full potential, and much more. So without further ado, please join me in welcoming John and Seth to the Crypto Altruism podcast. Okay, John, Seth, thank you so much for being here today on the Crypto Altruism podcast. Great to be here. Thanks for having us. Yeah, so excited to learn about The Life You Can Save. I've been following your organization for quite a while, actually. I work in the nonprofit sector, so I'm quite familiar with the work that you do. Really excited to have you here. Really excited to have you as well, Seth, from Glow. We've had the pleasure of having Glow on the podcast previously a few months ago, but now I'm excited to really kind of narrow in on a more specific topic of how crypto stablecoins can help address extreme poverty. And so I'm really excited to dive into that and to have a really fascinating conversation on that. Before we get there, I'd love to hear from both of you of how you got into the world of Web3, or what got you excited about blockchain and Web3 maybe to start. So do you want to jump in first, John, and then we can go to you, Seth? Sure. My personal aha moment kind of came early in the COVID crisis when the Fed backstopped the corporate bond market. And when that happened and happened so quickly and with so little debate, I kind of realized that money printing was really going to go to the next level. And I owed it to myself to do my homework on Bitcoin, especially on the digital gold narrative. So pretty soon I found myself just going down the crypto rabbit hole. And for the life you can save as an organization, we got more involved in crypto later that year. And in late 2020, we were approached by the Fugue Foundation, which is an organization that promotes Web3 technology and supports highly effective charities. So Fugue offered us a grant in crypto if we were going to take some steps to ramp up our Web3 proficiency. And specifically, they asked us to run an Ethereum validator test net. And that was something that we felt like we had no ability to do internally. But the timing worked out amazingly because right at that time, a volunteer approached us who was very crypto savvy and was able to do that. So we were very lucky about how that all kind of lined up. And that experience got us got the ball rolling for us in terms of ramping up processes around being able to accept crypto and do things like that. Very cool. Awesome. Well, thank you so much for sharing, John. It's great to hear the story of how you got here and excited to learn about the life you can save as well shortly. But first, let's go to you, Seth, if you want to share your aha moment that first got you excited about blockchain and Web3. Sure. So for me, it was in 2021. I hiked the Appalachian Trail, which for non -Americans is from Georgia to Maine. And towards the second half of it, I started getting bored of walking in the woods all day. So I started listening to podcasts. And I think for me, it was actually Vitalik being interviewed by Tyler Cowen when I realized like, oh, this guy's smart. Like, he's thinking hard about stuff that like is interesting to me, governance. And he'd like read some. He showed evidence of very reading broadly. I felt like, oh, maybe it's not all just a pyramid scheme, which was my private belief. Started reading about it, started liking what I was reading. And then in, I think it was March of 2022, I saw an advertisement for this company called Global Income Coin, which is what my company used to be called, that was looking for a writer. And they had posted their white paper as a Google doc. And so at this point, the only thing I know about crypto is I've read a couple articles, I've listened to a couple of podcasts, but I know how to edit Google documents. So I went into the Google document and I read it all the way through and I edited the heck out of it. And they said, oh, great, that's great. You should do this for us full time. And 18 months later, here we are. Love that. That's amazing. It's funny how you get into this world, right? I often hear stories like that of like, you know, it started off with just kind of like, you know, connection here, me working on some little project here and then, hey, you know, five months later, I'm full time or something in this in this world. So that's amazing. Well, thank you both for sharing a pleasure to have you here. Let's start with maybe doing a bit of introductions for your organizations now that we've kind of learned a little bit about you and where you came from. So maybe we can start with you, John. You mind giving listeners a quick introduction to The Life You Can Save? Sure. The Life You Can Save is a nonprofit that has a mission to improve the lives of the 700 million people who live below the international poverty line of $2 .15 a day. So the way we do that is by identifying and raising funds for outstanding nonprofits that serve that community and offer donors really outstanding bang for the buck. So these organizations work in a variety of ways. Some of them are performing life saving or life transforming health interventions. Others are expanding economic inclusion or access to education. And others fight climate change, which is an issue that disproportionately affects people who live in extreme poverty. So you can kind of think of us as applying the crypto ethos of don't trust, verify to the charity world. There are about 1 .5 million charities in the U .S. alone, and every one of them has a narrative about why you should support them. And they're completely incentivized to make that narrative look as positive as possible. So The Life You Can Save helps donors cut through that noise and find organizations that run evidence backed programs and offer exceptional cost effectiveness. So we make it so that donors don't have to simply trust the marketing stories that charities are telling them. We operate as an independent third party that can do the research to actually verify that the organizations are having the impact that they claim to and are really making a tangible social impact. So there are a lot of people who are generous and want to make a difference with their giving. And we try to make it easier for them to actually translate those good intentions into real impact. Yeah, and I love that. And that's such an important mission. And as someone who's worked in the nonprofit sector for many years, I can see a lot of those pain points that you're looking to address there with the work they're doing. And also thinking, and looking back on my aha moment, a lot of those pain points were some of the reasons I got excited about blockchain in the future as well, or blockchain as well, because I think in the future, as we really build up this technology, it can be a game changer in helping address some of those issues, you know, around transparency around fundraising, around measuring and monitoring impact in the nonprofit sector. And we'll talk about that a bit later on as well. But just have to chime in on that because I'm like, Yeah, you know, there's I see some good alignment there with your mission and how this technology can can improve that. But let's go to you now, Seth, and we'll come back to that a bit later on if you want to, you know, we've had glow on the on the podcast in the past, had Jasper and and Jasper and Garm, I think, on the podcast a glow, big fan of the work you're doing. We're excited to be also be joining as a consortium member, hopefully soon, once we get all of our policies and everything in place. But before we go any further, maybe you can give for those that didn't listen to that podcast that aren't as familiar with glow, you might just give it a quick little introduction, your mission. So happy to do that. So company I work for is called glow foundation, that's GLO. And our works to give basic income to people in extreme poverty. And so taking a step back, how stable coins work in general, or how the legitimate fiat backed ones work is you give the stable coin issuer a dollar and they give you a stable coin, then that dollar sits in a bank account somewhere and it gets split up into a cash portion, just straight dollars or whatever the local currency is that that facilitates liquidity. Like if you need to actually be trading, you can just sell back $50 ,000 or buy back, you need to have some portion in cash. And the other, let's say 80%, the bulk of that of all the dollars in the reserve go towards cash equivalents, which are very safe short term investments like three month Treasury bills or money market funds that themselves invest in three month Treasury bills, blah, blah, blah. And those give a yield. Right now that yield is sitting at like 5 .15%. I think maybe it's a little higher even. And the typical fiat backed stable coin, like Circle, for instance, whose product is USDC covers operating expenses and generates profits based on the yield from the reserves. We take that model, and we essentially apply what we're calling the embedded philanthropy idea to it. So when we get money from the reserves and the stable coin, we give it away to GiveDirectly. GiveDirectly is an outstanding charity. I'm sure John can talk more about this. They give the money that they get as no strings attached cash transfers to people in extreme poverty. So our basic theory of change is GiveDirectly is every single person in extreme poverty would appreciate having a basic income. The bottleneck is just funds. So we want to turn the operation of a stable coin into a revenue generating machine for this outstanding charity. And to close the circle on how we work, we fund operations through donations. Very cool. And you mentioned GiveDirectly there and what their mission was. I saw that they were one of the recommended charities that you had on the Life You Can Save website, GiveDirectly, because of the effective work that they're doing. So yeah, really, really awesome. So thanks for giving that quick introduction. I think it's really helpful the way you broke it down to how the traditional stable coin markets work, investing for those that are backed by cash or cash equivalents or those sorts of things, how they do that, the yield they earn, where that typically goes, in your case, making sure that that yield then is diverted to those that need at most those in extreme poverty. And so I love how Glow is really putting a really positive spin on stable coins, because let's face it, stable coins have gotten a lot of heat lately in the media and from a regulatory point of view. But they can also be a very valuable tool for financial inclusion and fighting extreme poverty. I personally see many examples of that. So maybe I'll open it up to either one of you. What does the world need to know about stable coins that they don't currently know, based on the most common narratives out there? I would say the core thing is that not all stable coins are created equal. This most strongly occurred to me in about May of last year, when a so -called stable coin, Terra, death spiraled. But Terra never made any sense. Like the economics of it, it was obviously a Ponzi great marketing benefit of calling themselves a stable coin. But that stability was a total illusion. I do not think that Glow dollars should be lumped in the same category. I think that basically you have, on the one hand, organizations that have taken concrete steps towards showing that their reserves are being held only in cash and cash equivalents, that they are not co -mingling customer funds, that they are not lending their assets out to unknown and undisclosed partners. And I think when you put those stable coins into their own bin, those organizations look pretty good. So I basically think that a lot of these not so -called stable coins have pulled a very impressive marketing coup by getting everyone to talk about these things as if they're the same thing. But it just ain't so. I think that that's a sectoral thing as well. And looking at crypto more broadly, I think people view crypto and some of the scams that have been out there are synonymous. And that it's all the same. When you think of crypto, it's all just Ponzi schemes and scams. And it's certainly the same for stable coins, is that everything gets lumped together. And when you have a couple of bad actors that do something, it really brings down the whole ecosystem in a sense. Well, it's more than a couple. That's the problem. If this were isolated... In general, I try to approach these things by... Forget the hype. I work in marketing at a crypto company. My job is hype. Look past that. You see that at its core, FTX, for instance, was an offshore crypto casino. Why would you think that that was a good idea to put your money there? No offense to people who... Whatever. A lot of people fell for it. But just the fundamentals are what really matter. Yeah, for sure. Definitely. And so let's dive in a bit more. So we talked about stable coins. We talked about the missions of your organizations. Where this all comes together is in fighting extreme poverty. So the World Bank estimates that some around 700 million people maybe are currently living in extreme poverty. How can crypto help address this? Well, I think there are two main ways. And the first would be by creating wealth and then using that wealth to fund high impact organizations and interventions that are targeting the global poor. And crypto donors do tend to make larger gifts and start giving at an earlier age than other types of donors. And that has enormous potential. And GiveDirectly, the organization that Glow supports and that The Life You Can Save recommends is an amazing example of that. In 2021, 17 % of GiveDirectly's operating budget came from the crypto community, which is frankly pretty mind boggling. Wow. And the second way that the crypto can help is by building new systems. And that could be a new stable coin that funds UBI. That could be more efficient payment rails that help people send remittances to family members in poor countries without paying exorbitant fees to middlemen. Or it could be new organizational structures like DAOs that allow people in poor countries to get new work opportunities with organizations. borderless And The Life You Can Save's payment processes are actually a good example of how these new systems can benefit people in extreme poverty. You can make a credit card donation to The Life You Can Save, and it would be instantaneous. But the credit card company is going to charge their standard 3 % fee. You could send us a check, and then you wouldn't have the fee. It's going to take several days for the check to arrive, and then we need to manually cash it. So that's not ideal either. But if you donate crypto to The Life You Can Save, it's both fast and it's cheap. So you'll have to pay whatever network fees there might be, but that can be extremely low. But aside from that, there's no processing fees. And that's thanks to our partner, Crypto for Charity, which I definitely recommend. If you're a nonprofit or a donor thinking about crypto donations, I would definitely recommend you check them out. So that means that you can donate crypto to The Life You Can Save or any of our recommended charities for free. And because of this disintermediating technology, more money is going to go and help people in extreme poverty, and less money is going to go to middlemen. Yeah. Yeah. Very well put. Very well put. Yeah. And I think that just like, you know, for me, I just think about getting money from, let's say that I have money right now that I want to donate to someone on the other side of the world, and every just like step and barrier that needs to go through to get there. Right. So I think that you hit the nail on the head, it just speeds things up, makes it more efficient, more cost effective.
Hearing Jesus: Daily Bible Study
A highlight from 399// The Cost of Following Jesus: A Devotional Bible Study on Matthew 8:14-22
"Do you sometimes doubt if you're truly hearing God's voice or if it's really your own? Or have you been in a season where it feels like He's completely silent? Have you been praying for a way to learn how to hear His voice more clearly? Hey friends, I'm Rachel, host of the Hearing Jesus Podcast. If you are ready to grow in your faith and to confidently step into your identity in Christ, then join me as we dig deep into God's Word so you can learn to live out your faith in your everyday life. Need a new roof for your home or even just some repairs? That's a big investment, one that you should take very seriously. And you want the job done right by professionals and at a great price. You need to call your hometown roofing contractor. Serving Northeast Ohio for over 65 years, Coats Bros Roofing, 440 -322 -1343. How have they been in the roofing business for so long? Quality work at a great price. They keep their promises and communicate with you, the homeowner. 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Welcome back to our introduction to the Gospel series where we're going through the Gospel, starting with the Gospel of Matthew. And I'm just teaching on some of the things that we sometimes miss from the history and the culture and the background, things that help us understand the text a little bit more clearly. So today we're in Matthew Chapter 8, picking up at verse 14. And if you're just joining us, I would encourage you to go back and start listening from the beginning of this series. Everything kind of builds on itself, so it will make more sense, I think, if you do it that way. But we're so glad you're here. So I'm reading from the New American Standard Version of the Bible, starting at Matthew Chapter 8, verses 14. It says, When Jesus came into Peter's home, he saw his mother -in -law lying sick in bed with a fever, and he touched her hand, and the fever left her, and she got up and waited on him. Now when evening came, they brought to him many who were demon -possessed, and he cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were ill. This happened so that what was spoken through Isaiah the prophet would be fulfilled. He himself took our illnesses and carried away our diseases. Now when Jesus saw a crowd around him, he gave orders to depart to the other side of the sea. Then a scribe came and said to him, Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go. And Jesus said to him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head. And another of the disciples said to him, Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father. But Jesus said to him, Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead. There's a lot to unpack here, and hopefully we'll get through it all today. If not, we'll pick up tomorrow. But I want to make mention initially about the location of where they're at. It says in verse 14, When Jesus came into Peter's home. So this mother -in -law scene is something that is just so touching for a variety of reasons. But I wanted to just spend a little bit of time talking about Peter's home, because this is one of those places in the scriptures that we have a lot of evidence for and verification of the house of Peter. Back in 1968, there were excavations done that convinced most archaeologists that this was the actual site of Peter's house in Capernaum. And so they sifted through the remains of lots of different kinds of buildings like centuries -old churches, and what excavators eventually came to find was this house built in approximately 63 B .C. That was originally one story that had walls made of that black basalt stone that we talked about a couple days ago. There was a roof made of beans and branches of trees that was covered with a mix of earth and straw. There was pottery shards and oil lamps and coins all discovered within the ruins, and they all dated back to that first century, along with artifacts that included several fish hooks and things from the layers of the first floor that indicated that it was a fisherman's house. And so the house was organized as several rooms, and it was built around two interior courtyards. And the dimensions by ancient standards were fairly large, but it was very similar to other houses in the area that were built around the same time. It's interesting because this building, they can tell from the archaeology, it was a typical home for extended family, and Peter and Andrew apparently moved the family fishing business from Bethsaida to Capernaum, and they established their home base essentially in this house, and it was large enough for an extended family. But during the second half of the first century, AD, the use of the house was changed. Instead of a primary residential house, the domestic pottery, which is how we tend to live, that domestic pottery stopped, and the walls of the large center of the room became plastered. And that is pretty unusual for the region, except when there were groups of people that will be gathering lots at the time. So instead of it being a residential place, this is now a place that would be housing a lot of people. And there's actually graffiti that are on the walls that mention Jesus as Lord and the Christ, and that's both written in the Greek and some Hebrew. And then pieces of evidence indicate that during this time, the house became this center of Christian worship, and it became a home church. And so this home church continued to be in existence for nearly 300 years, and there's evidence from over 100 Greek, Aramaic, Syrian, Latin, and Hebrew sketches of graffiti there in the walls. It's scratched literally into the plaster walls, and there's numerous crosses, there's a boat, there's lots of other letters, and in the graffiti, there's at least two possible instances where it says Peter's name. In the 5th century, an octagonal church was built right over the original footprint, and I'm going to put some pictures of both of these up on the Patreon if you want to see what it looks like. But I want you to just think about this for a moment. We have archaeological evidence of Peter's home that later became a church. I just love that because so much of the history of the scriptures is lost. Now we do have a lot, but there's very few things that are verifiable, but it is verifiable that Peter had a home in this area in this timeframe, so I love that. So in verse 14, when it references, he saw Peter's mother -in -law. Mark later informs us that both Peter and Andrew lived here, and perhaps had been a home of Peter and Andrew's parents, but it was now occupied by the sons and their larger extended families, including on Peter's side, at least his wife and her parents. And so Paul also alludes to Peter's marriage in 1 Corinthians. And so it says she was lying in bed with a fever. And as Matthew explains this, the actual language says she was having been thrown on a bed with a fever. And what that isn't an indication of is that she was in throes of a severe illness. She was feverish. They think perhaps it was malaria that was really common in that timeframe, that culture. And so fever was considered by the population to be a disease, not a symptom. And so it wasn't just like, you know, we randomly get fevers when we're fighting off a flu or something. The fever itself was seen as a disease. And so we don't know exactly, but like I said, malaria was pretty common, and that is symptomatic. You know, it's consistent with those kinds of symptoms. And so it's interesting to see how Jesus healed her and the response that happens. And as I was thinking about that and praying through that, I was thinking about what healing from Jesus has looked like in my own life. And I think it's consistent with what we see with his mother in law. The response of Jesus healing her produces in her this service upon the Lord. So she immediately got up and started waiting on him. And I've been there. I've been in that place where I have experienced healing, the healing of God in my life. And immediately it puts me in such a place of being thankful and wanting to just serve him, serve him with my life. And I love that we see that picture here. Moving on to verse 17, it says this was to fulfill what was spoken to the prophet Isaiah. He took up our infirmities and carried our diseases. Now, infirmities, of course, mean sicknesses. And this is another allusion by Matthew to the servant that is mentioned in Isaiah's prophecy in Isaiah chapter 53 in the Old Testament. And what he's doing is he's focusing on the servant's role of bringing healing. And so the servant bears the sickness of others through his suffering and his death and eventually his resurrection. And so many modern scholars doubt that first century Jews would have interpreted Isaiah 53 as a messianic prophecy, but some of the later texts from the rabbis in the later time period recognize that this was a messianic interpretation of this passage. And so what we see is even before the Jewish leaders of the time understood what was happening, Jesus was fulfilling this prophecy from the book of Isaiah. In verse 19, it says, then a teacher of the law came to him. Chapter eight, verse 19, it says that. And I want to mention this because the Jewish population, they had a high percentage that were trained in things like reading and writing, but only a very small segment of those people regularly worked with writing materials. And so even fewer had access to the books or of the law or the scriptures. And so therefore, the skills of writing and reading were very highly valued. And so throughout the ancient world, there was a class of people called scribes, which were basically people that were trained in reading, writing and transcribing. And because of the importance of that trade, they would often go beyond just secretarial skills, but they would also include things like teaching interpretation and even helping others to understand and regulate the laws that were found in official documents. So in this culture, the class of scribes that had developed were experts in interpreting the law and teaching the scriptures. And that's why they're called the teacher of the law. And so in verse 19, it says, Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go. The teacher of the law has in mind this kind of rabbi teacher relationship and not even teacher, but rabbi disciple relationship, because that goal of that teacher of the law is to continually educate themselves within the context of the law. So that's an admission from this teacher of the law, recognizing that Jesus truly is this amazing rabbi. If he doesn't even recognize the messianic part yet, he recognizes that there's something different about Jesus. And then going down to verse 20, it says the son of man has no place to lay his head so that the teachers of the law would enjoy a high status within that culture. And so Jesus, as a rabbi and as a teacher, he did not have a school. He did not have a synagogue. He had no real place of honor among that religious establishment, if anything. It was the opposite. And so Jesus would stay at the home of friends and relatives and other disciples throughout most of his ministry. That's what we see. He would stay at the home of places like Peter and Andrew while he was in Capernaum. Or we see in the Bible study, I talk about this. He stays with Lazarus and his family, the sisters, Martha and Mary. That expression, he has no place to lay his head. It doesn't necessarily mean that he is homeless, but rather his ministry as this rabbi in this culture would not result in this institutional establishment, meaning he wouldn't have all the benefits and the comforts that the religious leaders of the time would have.
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Doug Groothuis
"Hey, you have you checked your bucket list lately? Are you ready to take care of item number seven? Listening to the Eric Metaxas show? Well, welcome. Tune in and then move on to item number eight. Skydiving with Chuck Schumer and AOC. Here now is Mr. Completed My Bucket List at age 12, Eric Metaxas. Folks, welcome back. In a few minutes, I'm talking to Doug Groth -Heiss. We're talking about seven sentences on world religions. This is going to be fun, I guarantee it, but right now I get to continue talking to Roger Stone because my producer was out of the room and he couldn't stop me. Roger, it is so much fun to talk to you. You were just making the point about DeSantis and the loyalty thing. Look, I take that very seriously. I don't think DeSantis is a bad guy. I think he's been a great governor, but I really think that it was a tremendous miscalculation on his part. Probably, and you know this, it's not even probably, people with a lot of money who really hate Trump, they did the hard sell on Ron DeSantis. You must do this. We will back you. You can't fail. But he does seem not to have the je ne sais quoi that you have to have if you're going to be a force in politics in America. And he does come across as wooden and I just think it's a pity. I hope he remains governor of Florida for a long time. He's a wonderful governor. But it is so strange to me that people who just can't abide Trump did this and really put all their eggs in that basket. I guess I would argue, first of all, that likability is an absolute key factor in American politics. Ronald Reagan had it. Donald Trump has it. Ron DeSantis does not have it. There's nothing likable about him. There's nothing warm. He's socially awkward. He's very, very strange. He's either an introvert in an expert's business or perhaps he's on the spectrum. I'm uncertain, but it's impossible to warm to him and his physical mannerisms are very weird. The other thing, though, that is even more problematic is I'm going to argue with the assertion that he's a good governor. He took nine and a half million dollars from Florida Power and Light and we got a 22 percent electricity increase, the largest single increase in state history. If your home was destroyed in one of the two recent hurricanes and you don't like what your home insurance company is offering you to replace your home or, say, your roof, you no longer have the ability to sue them. That's because of a bill that Governor DeSantis signed after taking four and a half million dollars from the insurance companies. He's been a he's missing in action as governor. The state has an insurance crisis. The state has a malaria crisis. The state has a growing crime crisis. And the governor is in Iowa trying to make his last stand. By the way, he's term limited, so he's in his final term as governor. He cannot run again. And I think he's very badly damaged his brand back here in Florida. Now, I did not think that the voters would care about the loyalty factor, but I was entirely wrong about that.
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"malaria" Discussed on Northwest Newsradio
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"malaria" Discussed on WTOP
"In the region had malaria and didn't travel. Since both illnesses can be spread by the bugs the state has stepped up its springs. Next up on the Anne list, Arundel County's Fort Smallwood Road and Wagner Station Road area as well as neighborhoods near State Road 214 and Shelby Boulevard. While the springs are not considered dangerous to you, the state still recommends staying inside if you trucks see the come through. Mike Murillo, WTOP News. An off -duty Fairfax County police officer has been arrested for DUI after a two -vehicle crash Saturday night on Route 50. Occupants of the other vehicle were treated for minor injuries. Officer Justin Faison, sworn in just last year, has been placed on administrative leave pending an internal affairs investigation. An inmate in the DC jail has died after he was stabbed by another inmate Thursday. News 7 reports 34 -year -old Darryl Johnson of Clinton died on Saturday. Arrested in the stabbing is 30 -year -old Musay Razin of Southeast DC. DC police are reviewing jail security Darryl Johnson of Clinton. A new inspector general in Prince George's County is hoping to improve the often embattled police department. The goal is to have a police department that the community can have faith in and a community can trust. Inspector General Anthony Bennett speaking to NBC4, the outlet previously found that Prince George's County officers faced retaliation after they reported a colleague who choked a cuffed teenager. Corporal Michael Brown said they were going to be abandoned if they a faced tough situation. It's called a code red. Essentially you're saying they're on their own. You're leaving someone vulnerable. Then responded to those allegations and encourages other whistleblowers to report similar behavior. So if you have a situation where backup is not given and we find out about it, then yes, that is something that I will go full board to investigate. Luke Luger, WTOP News. Three people have been arrested on charges of stealing golf carts and rest in all three are teenagers. Two of them are minors and a gun was involved. They're facing charges related to golf theft cart at Hidden Creek Country Club in Reston last Wednesday. Officers responded to the club twice that evening. The first time was after an employee got into an argument with a group of teens who were suspected of stealing golf carts in the past. Fairfax County police say one of those teens showed a gun. The second time was around 8pm after a of group teens stole and crashed a golf cart before taking a different cart from golfers at gunpoint and driving away. Officers searched the area by ground and helicopter both times but didn't find anyone. However, 18 -year -old Dionne Langrage of Lynchburg was identified and charged with possessing a gun with an altered serial number. The two minors are both facing robbery and gun charges. Liz Anderson, WTOP News. Money news on the way, 308. Get a Precision AC tune -up for only $59. Michael and Son. Traffic and weather on the 8's. Carlos Ramirez in the WTOP Traffic Center. Thanks, Stephanie. We'll start off in Virginia and make our way up to Maryland. If you're headed northbound on I -95, maybe doing some traveling coming up from say Richmond, watch out for the work crew that's there near Thornburg. The work crew itself is just letting by a single lane of traffic. Here now, earlier in the overnight hours, we had some really serious delays, but as of now, it looks like you're only really going to slow down for a brief moment as you actually make your way past the work crew, which is just fine. Slow down, give them plenty of room. I'm also seeing a suspicious -looking delay on the westbound side of 28 to the only camera I have along this stretch of, pardon me, 66 at 28, but I don't actually have a camera in this spot any longer. So, if you happen to see what might be causing these delays, check your WTOP app. You can send voice us a message, an email, even tweet at us if you'd like. Southbound 28 has a work zone past Waxpool Road. That's got a single right lane squeezing on by. Be careful past that. You should not slow down too much. In Maryland, the inner loop of the beltways got the work crew from George Avenue over towards Colesville Road. Single right lane gets you by. Westbound ICC. I'm suspicious about this random delay past Georgia Avenue. I can just see a little bit of flashing lights in the distance based off of this camera. Can't tell if it's a crash or some kind of police activity. Regardless, Westbound ICC headed past Georgia Avenue. Watch out for some brake lights. Carlos Ramirez WTOP traffic now to 7 news. First alert meteorologist Mark Pena. Mother Nature is playing some tricks on us. After feeling like fall this past weekend, we're looking at a firm reminder that it is still summer. We've got highs
WTOP
"malaria" Discussed on WTOP
"WTOP News. It's 10 -15. I'm Nick Ionelli. Thanks so much for listening tonight! A Maryland resident who lives in the D .C. area contracted malaria despite not having recently traveled out of the country or to other states where malaria has been detected. The locally acquired case of malaria is Maryland's first in decades. Dr. Fotini Sinis is a professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Health. School of Public She joined WTOP earlier to talk about how a case like this could potentially occur. One question is what does this person live near one of the two international airports serving in Washington, D .C. because although we have not had a case of airport malaria in the United States, it does happen in other places and that would be when an infected mosquito gets into a cargo hold of an airplane coming from a malaria endemic area and then gets out when it arrives in Dulles or National and if you live within a mile an of airport, you know, this can happen. Now we spray airplanes, but the planes of today have gotten much more complicated and they have these sort of cryptic cargo holds and it's entirely possible. I would say it's low probability that this is airport malaria, but knowing where this person lives and where they've been will help us figure out what the likelihood is of the cause. How does a locally acquired infection happen? Is there another way that someone would get a locally acquired case of malaria other than a mosquito somehow making its way to here from another place? Yeah, and in fact the vast majority of locally acquired cases, you have someone that's been infected because they've traveled or lived in an area with malaria and they come here and they have the parasites in their blood and when get they bitten by a mosquito, the mosquito gets infected. Now the mosquito, it takes about two weeks for that mosquito to pass the infection on because the parasite has to develop in the mosquito a to stage that is infectious for humans, so that mosquito has to live a long time. Local mosquitoes can become infected from infected people and they can pass the disease on to people that never left and this is the typical way, the vast majority of locally acquired cases have been through this modality. That's Dr. Fotini Sinis, professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, talking with WTOP earlier this evening. Two Virginia school systems are responding to a controversial new state law by releasing a specific list of books that considered are to be sexually explicit. The list of books that contain sexually explicit content as defined by the state are required so that parents can look at the list and opt their kids out from reading books or even checking them out library. from the Books included on the list in Prince William County that many consider staples are Beloved by Morrison Toni and Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut. Others on the Fauquier County list include The Perks of Being a Wallflower and Sold by Patricia McCormick. Critics say the Virginia law amounts to censorship. Supporters say it simply empowers parents to know what their kids are being exposed to at school. The lists are available on most school systems websites. Kyle Cooper, WTOP News. A quick look at the top stories we're working on at WTOP. Police have determined that the earlier report of a bomb threat at Westfield Montgomery Mall was not valid, that mall had to be evacuated as a precaution after the threat. Watch out for mosquitoes. resident who A Maryland lives in the DC area has contracted malaria despite not having traveled out of the country or to states where malaria has been detected. Keep it here for full details on these stories in the minutes ahead. It's 1018, WTOP traffic and weather on the 8th. Over to the traffic center now and Bob Himmler. In Jessup, there had been a minor crash southbound of the Baltimore -Washington Parkway after 175. It's out of the roadway now. There's really no delay on the Baltimore -Washington Parkway or 95 between the beltways and 29 northbound briefly slow into the work zone after Route 100 toward Route 40. That lane has blocked their T -70. That runs without delay. Things are in great shape on 50 off of the Bay Bridge and in Virginia on the inner loop of the beltway. Things are pretty bogged down up through Merrifield now headed past Route 50 toward 66. Squeezing by to the left should be single file past that work zone and northbound 395. Single right lane gets by the work zone at Seminary Road. 95 is doing all right Springfield or Fredericksburg. Really nothing in your way and even beyond Fredericksburg you're in pretty good shape. Did you know that you could map your commute around the DMV using any mode of public transit? Visit NovaRides .org and plan your trip today. Bob Inwood, WTOP traffic. The forecast with seven news first alert meteorologist Steve Rudin. Mainly clear skies this evening and into the overnight as temperatures dip to the upper 50s to lower
The Mason Minute
Leprosy (MM #4516)
"The other day I read a news story online about leprosy surging in central Florida and it kind of made me pause. What? Two, three weeks ago I was talking about malaria, now we're talking about leprosy and civilized areas in our country. What I didn't realize, leprosy was around and peaked in 1983. Sure, we heard about leper colonies and we think biblical times, we think ancient times, we think of leper colonies like Australia. We don't think about this disease still happening. 150 people a year in America contract leprosy. I guess you contract it, but it's making a comeback and it's getting worse. You would think with our advanced medicine, you would think with our somewhat advanced civilization, these things would be gone. Once they're gone, they're gone. But that's not the case. People aren't being safe. People are being exposed to things. They don't know what they're doing and that's kind of scary. Leprosy in Florida. I'm not thinking I'm going to get leprosy, but still you got to worry about those things because what's next? We never thought we'd have something like COVID. We never thought we'd see malaria again. Leprosy, it's getting very strange and I don't know what to do.
The Mason Minute
Leprosy (MM #4516)
"The other day I read a news story online about leprosy surging in central Florida and it kind of made me pause. What? Two, three weeks ago I was talking about malaria, now we're talking about leprosy and civilized areas in our country. What I didn't realize, leprosy was around and peaked in 1983. Sure, we heard about leper colonies and we think biblical times, we think ancient times, we think of leper colonies like Australia. We don't think about this disease still happening. 150 people a year in America contract leprosy. I guess you contract it, but it's making a comeback and it's getting worse. You would think with our advanced medicine, you would think with our somewhat advanced civilization, these things would be gone. Once they're gone, they're gone. But that's not the case. People aren't being safe. People are being exposed to things. They don't know what they're doing and that's kind of scary. Leprosy in Florida. I'm not thinking I'm going to get leprosy, but still you got to worry about those things because what's next? We never thought we'd have something like COVID. We never thought we'd see malaria again. Leprosy, it's getting very strange and I don't know what to do.
WTOP
"malaria" Discussed on WTOP
"Good morning. I'm John Aaron and I'm Shell bash the top local stories were following this hour. We continue to follow the developing news. Multiple people hurt after a shooting outside a restaurant in Silver Spring. Montgomery County Police say it happened just after midnight at the Soleil d 'Italia restaurant along Lay Hill Road. Multiple sources say an argument spilled into the parking lot. NBC four's Megan McGrath is at the scene as things got heated. That fight poured out into the parking lot behind sold the Italia and that's when shots were fired. Now police are piecing together what happened. But right now it appears that there are between four and five victims, a combination of men and women. Some of the victims were shot. Others had more minor injuries, bullet fragments, shattered injuries glass and cuts, that sort of thing. But everyone we're told is going to be okay. Stay with us for or more updates as we continue to follow this developing story. Has the deal to buy the Washington commanders hit a snag? Sources tell the Washington Post maybe. A main sticking point, team owner Dan Snyder reportedly won some kind of legal indemnification from the NFL over a lawsuit related to the leaking of racist emails between former commanders president Bruce Allen and NFL coach Jon Gruden. Those emails led to the resignation of Gruden as the head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders in October 2021. It's unclear at this point where things stand with the NFL on issue the and whether it can be resolved before the owners meet next week to vote on the sale of the commanders to a group led by Josh Harris. It could soon cost you even more to commute on a pricey private road. On the 14 mile Dulles Greenway, the company that owns it wants to raise tolls 40 % during rush hour. Right now it's $5 .80. The proposal would make it $8 and 10 cents. During off peak hours the toll would go from $5 .25 to $6 .40. The company that owns the Greenway says this and future toll increases are needed to keep up with its ever growing debts and that the state and taxpayers have helped make routes 7 and 28 into viable free commuting alternatives to the Greenway. In Loudon County, Neil Ogenstein, WTRP News. If planning you're a long weekend at the beach it'll cost you more this year than last. If you leave a pet at the kennel for your weekend getaway you'll find pet services are up nearly six and a half percent. Hotel and motel prices are five percent higher than last year and dinner out will cost you about eight percent more. The Wall Journal Street has broken out these numbers for a beach weekend and found that even swim trunks cost four percent more this summer. Where you'll find savings is on the drive. Gasoline prices are down twenty six and a half percent from this time last year. Dick Iuliano WTOP News. A new development in the ongoing effort to improve the health of the Chesapeake Bay. Maryland Matters reports the federal government is pledging to do a better job of monitoring efforts in Pennsylvania to reduce the amount of pollution it allows to flow into the bay. In exchange a number of related lawsuits against the EPA are being tossed out. They were by filed the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, the Maryland Watermen's Association, states downstream from Pennsylvania and others. Those suits accused the feds of failing to require Pennsylvania to both develop and carry pollution reduction plans. Mosquito bites are of course annoying but the CDC says this year they could also be a threat to your health. There are more reports of mosquitoes carrying potentially deadly diseases in the U .S. this year, malaria, Eastern equine encephalitis, and threats of other diseases as well. So how do you keep mosquitoes from wanting you for their next meal? After 10 years of study, the New Mexico State University molecular vector physiology lab has found repellents with DEET as the active ingredient work the best. Looking for a natural alternative? Repellents with oil of lemon eucalyptus or OLE work the best there. But those mosquito bracelets, light, and ultrasonic repellents don't work. Some of those ultrasonics can actually attract the mosquitoes. Michelle Morello, WTOP News. Black Lives Matter! Black Lives Matter! The Black Lives Matter movement turns 10 years old today. It was founded in 2013 in response to the acquittal of the man who shot and killed 17 year old Trayvon Martin in Florida. The group plans to mark today with renewed calls to defund police. The organization is also encouraging supporters to ask local and national elected officials to introduce a draft proclamation that establishes July 13th as Black Lives Matter Day. Coming up after traffic and How long does a foreclosure actually take? A long time. I'm Jeff Glabel. It's 708. Get decision a precision AC tune -up for only $59 .00. Traffic and weather on the 8th to the traffic center and Jack. Still delayed in Virginia 66 East coming out Gainesville of riding into and through Manassas but then you're jammed near the Fairfax County Parkway to the rec that is after 50 and before 123 in the main lanes. Tow trucks there left lane is blocked. Beyond it you're okay rest the ride east all the way into Roslyn. We're getting a little heavier with some slowing beltway interloop coming out out of Springfield as you ride up toward 236. 95 slows Dale City into Woodbridge then again briefly in Lorton. Reports of a wreck in Woodbridge northbound on Route 1 after the Prince William Parkway near Mount Pleasant Drive. With caution out Manassas 29 at Sudley Road flashing traffic signals. You'll find beltway delays building quickly in Maryland. Interloop south of town jammed at St. Barnabas Road down toward the Wilson Bridge on Pennsylvania Avenue inbound after Suitland Parkway. That wreck had been reported in the center lane. Topside outerloop slow you from remain 95 headed over toward George Avenue 270 expect the brake lights leaving Urbana headed into Brantstown then again just heavy through Germantown. 100 eastbound the ramp to
WTOP
"malaria" Discussed on WTOP
"Chief general malaria's illusion with the message, the time has come to take back what is ours. With his main taunting defiantly. Moscow has stepped up its attacks ahead of the looming counter offensive, hitting a medical facility underneath yesterday, but so have anti Kremlin Russian fighters waging war not in Ukraine, but on Russian soil. That CBS correspondent Deborah paddy and kharkiv tonight, Egyptian antiquities authorities have unveiled ancient workshops and tombs they say were discovered recently at a royal burial site just outside Cairo. The spaces were found in the sprawling necropolis of saqqara, which is part of Egypt's ancient capital of Memphis, a Unesco World Heritage Site, the workshops had been used to mummify humans and sacred animals, the tombs, meanwhile, were for top officials and a priest of ancient Egypt. In recent years, the Egyptian government officials have heavily promoted new archeological finds to international media and to diplomats. The hope is that such discoveries will attract more tourists to the country. Ten 35, more and more, today's space pioneers are in private business. Some have even set their sights on the moon. Where they'd like to make deliveries. Intuitive machines went public three months ago with a big goal in mind. For space, the moon is certainly that next step. Steve ultimate is cofounder and CEO of the Houston company. He wants to deliver cargo to the moon. Lunar services. That's about a $100 billion market. We're all in. John Thornton is with di, a similar company in Pittsburgh. Right now, NASA is the primary customer over time we see commercial coming online in a bigger way, and right now we actually can sell directly to consumers who want to send things to the surface of the moon. It's expected business will really take off once humans return to the lunar surface. Steve kathan, CBS News. Coming up on WTO after traffic and weather, wineries across the country are feeling more effects from climate change and a colorful
The Eric Metaxas Show
Freeing Slaves for Only $250: How CSI Is Changing Lives in Sudan
"Todd Chapman, a spokesperson for Christian solidarity international. They are doing God's work. They are freeing slaves in the Sudan. This is an amazing thing, I want to get a little bit into the weeds Todd about how this how this happens. We've said, first of all, that CSI says, if somebody gives them $250 from this program, that is enough money to free the slave and to set them up in a life of freedom, which is key. So talk a little bit about that. What does that mean? Yeah, so for every $250 gift, so part of it first and foremost is going to go to buy the kettle vaccine that we used to negotiate their freedom. We talked about how these slaveholders are primarily cattle owners and they can get their hands on these vaccines so their cattle needs so we exchange that. And we negotiate the freedom of as we can. Sometimes it's one person. But, you know, one of the things that's happened. Some of these women have been held captive since they were children. And they've since had children while they're in slavery, and so oftentimes now they have children of their own. And so more and more, we're trying to make sure if we can free a woman and she's got kids. We try to negotiate the freedom for all of our kids. We don't want to leave those kids behind. Obviously. So that's a part of that. You're $250 gifts, but the majority of the gift actually goes to what you said, Eric, set them up so that they have the opportunity to have a sustainable life. And so we've got what we call a bag of hope. And it's really not a bag as much as just a collection of the goods that they will need to get themselves started on a new life. And so it's food. It's some crops that they can plant and grow in seasons to come. It's a mosquito net because obviously in Central Africa where Sudan is a mosquitos malaria can be a problem. Blankets cookware just the basic stuff to get started out.
Dennis Prager Podcasts
Corruption in the Medical Profession
"It's very interesting. Doctors are calling in that it had nothing to do with the vaccine. I didn't say it did. I say that if you don't investigate, you are engaged in malpractice, whether you're a doctor or not a doctor. All the young men who are dying, the increase in malaria carditis or other phenomena of the heart in young men is worthy of investigation, but they don't investigate. So I'm just summarizing their people calling in. No, he got it because he was hit. Really? How many football players are hit in any one game, and none of them dropped dead or nearly dropped in on the field. A few seconds later. I'm sure that the adrenaline or whatever. From the normal tackle instigated the event I have, he didn't happen while he was crossing the street. I fully acknowledge that. But if you were a doctor and you don't call for an investigation, then you're not true to your calling as a doctor. But I have given up on the medical profession since the American medical association announced that there's no such thing as sex that you're born with. That's the American medical association. I've given up on the medical community since the American academy of pediatrics announced that it supports a girls having their breast cut off if they're healthy, but they say their boys. The corruption of your profession, if you're a doctor, is steep. And if you don't protest it, you are part of the problem of America today. I'm sure you are a nice person, nice people do most damage in the world.
a16z
"malaria" Discussed on a16z
"Could you just quickly speak to why it's structured that way and why you and the team at stripe in frontier believe that is the way that we can build this market versus perhaps I'm sure people can dream up infinite other ways that you could address this problem. Why specifically that route? So this is the concept that we borrowed from vaccine development. And it was invented by some economists at the University of Chicago back in the early 2000s. And the idea here, let's pretend you want, say, a malaria vaccine for the developing world. Big pharma companies may not be excited to make the investments to build that vaccine because they are wondering, is there going to be a customer on the other end that will buy this at a price that will justify my costs. So the idea with this initial AMC for vaccines was for a bunch of governments and philanthropies to pull their money together and say, hey, pharma companies, if you can build a vaccine to this spec, there is, in the case of the PVC vaccine, $1.5 billion for you at the end of it. In revenue. And it worked. This accelerated the development of this specific vaccine and by doing so saved what is estimated to be almost a million lives from doing that. But the sort of interesting thing about a advanced market commitment is that you can send a really loud demand signal before you've picked a solution. You can send a technology agnostic demand signal to say, this is the spirit of what we want. Again, it's our criteria. We want permanence. We want path to low cost, et cetera, et cetera. But we don't
The Vulnerable Scientist
"malaria" Discussed on The Vulnerable Scientist
"Yeah, I think that's one of those new moments. What are your future plans? In terms of career. So what's next? Have you thought about it? Should I ask that question like what are you planning next? Once you get to your idea of speech, then reality seeps in and know you are trying to figure out what's the next step in your life. What do you want to do? And my next step, what I would love to do is a post Doc. And inasmuch as I'm very attached to microsporidia. And I know there's still so many things that need to be answered in terms of this matters and how we are going to use it out in the field until malaria. These alert to be done there. And I would say that I don't want to keep doing it because previous like my daily and I need to see it grew up to. And I don't just be proud of it. So I would love to keep going with it, but I'm also very open
The Vulnerable Scientist
"malaria" Discussed on The Vulnerable Scientist
"Yeah, I think it's human plant and animal health. So in each of these different areas, the main research is usually revolving around in fact so we have useful impact maybe not good healthcare and some very rather some harmful effects. So different researches or different studies is. Mostly focused on insects but in the aspect of insects linking up to defense help groups help factors. So how it influences the plant health or the animal's health, you have peaks, and then human health, you have all these vector borne diseases that are caused by mosquitos and sand flies and though many different effects. So that's the main gist of easy and I think we paid ourselves in the fact that. It's rare to get a recital that mostly focused on this one over time. Yeah. Yeah, so yes, sorry, I interrupted you talking about no, it's fine. I'm sorry, it was an oversight because I keep mentioning a month and they never fade into thank you for bringing me back to that. So once we, so then we moved the team to beta. And I think that was the best time the best moments of my research career, where I now got the opportunity to actually work hand in hand with the community community itself. So you actually have the opportunity to be talking to people in villages, you talking about you touch and because communicating engagement is a very important aspect to advance to be such especially that involves working closely with the community, you're hoping that you'll be able to get into their homes, and collect mosquitos, and now we're reaching that part where we want to see if microsporidia has any effect on plasmodium. So this means that we will need to have some malaria experiments and this also means then we would have to get them to say do not from the community. So it was very important for us to be able to communicate to the community and help them understand the kind of work that we could pay down. In beta, why I was becoming to the houses are collecting mosquitos. How are we going to help despite fighting against malaria? And sometimes also usually very educational when you're talking about some of the malaria control to that they are using how more effectively they can use them because that's often an oversight trash. You've given them mosquito nets, but then what they're going to be using it as a fence around a small garden instead of using its in their bedrooms to so usually it was a constant conversation where you are meeting new people and they have a new outlook to life and to research and now you have to help them understand that what you're working on is actually an official to the community why it's important to treat mosquitos and a very interesting the most interesting conversations that I've had were usually
The Aloönæ Show
"malaria" Discussed on The Aloönæ Show
"Think the joke was let that sink in. Yeah. It was. Right. They don't make sense now. That was pretty funny. What other people or other CEO would do shit like that? I trust me. Trust me, earnings calls. Earnings calls and shareholder events. It's fucking hilarious. I'll tell you. I love the funny. I love his personality. It would be like that. They're too scared to get out of the bubbles. It's good. Do you want to live a little? You know? Dive into anything. Well, I have to stop with my own fantasy football team, which is a pretty cool sport. My fantasy football team was at the jammy loonis or the aloni. I asked you about the name of my football team. We should probably create a we honestly should probably we probably could get into getting into a small division people tea at some point. We're just not. We were just malaria. Well, I'm thinking like I'm saying it might be cool. It's not now, maybe in the next few years. Buy a football team or a small British. It's all delusions. Don't hope on it. Gotta be a courses for what you're investing in, especially for clubs and sports teams. You guys want to end this episode here. I suppose we can. Yeah. Let's go. We talked a little about a lot of interesting things. It's pretty interesting. That's been my opinion. Yep. Hope you guys enjoyed the job. We only show it. This is a season final see you guys in the next one and take easy guys and the bike. And until next time, stay tuned for more. Bye. Bye bye. Bye.
The Vulnerable Scientist
"malaria" Discussed on The Vulnerable Scientist
"So the camera that I went to was learning Baghdad, but they do have branches in different places around Kenya think this one in KPC and probably others that I'm not aware of, but the one I went to was done in a little bit and within that specific institute, I was attached to the center for biotechnology research and development. So that's where most of the interesting work happened and this is in relation to vector style. A lot of infects work insects insect borne diseases are being researched in Cambridge. So once I got in for intense usually do like annotation or program where each week you are in a different lab doing different things and at the time they had different tropical diseases and magneto was obviously the biggest one there. So you had a Malay section that was mainly focused on the mosquito and then there was the malaria section that was focused on the human and the human aspect of it and the parasite aspect of malaria and then you had other neglect neglected tropical diseases like leishmania or soma.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why Is There a Disinformation Campaign Against Ivermectin?
"Rogan said he defeated co vid in just a couple of days. Thanks to the use of ivermectin now. This started a sequence of disinformation. Let's actually go to eight. I 'cause established this whole idea of this information. A whole sequence of disinformation stories around ivermectin. Saying that it's a horse de warmer. Now that's actually an off label. Use ivermectin won a nobel prize for its use on humans. In fact a two thousand nine hundred. Cdc memo on ivermectin said that all refugees in it they should take two doses of ivermectin orally. In fact it says right here on the cdc's website which they don't want you to read top of malaria guidance. That ivermectin can be very helpful for you. That's the cdc's own website. A study in the american journal of therapeutics published june. Twenty two thousand twenty one said that the apparent safety and low cost suggests that ivermectin is likely to have a significant impact on the sars covy to pandemic globally and hydroxy. Clark is also anti-malaria drug and personally every person that i've given hydroxy chloride quinn to help them get connected with. They've turned the now that that's not. Okay that's not empirically scientific enough to convince me but fao cheat. Made sure he had to go out. Vouches dis- disinformation artist. You notice how vouching never actually has a real symposium or takes legitimate questions play tape when it comes to a public health issue like cova nineteen in which it is essential to get correct information out one of the enemies of public health his disinformation and unfortunately we do see that in some quarters. Disinformation you mean. Disinformation like this disinformation. Where all the sudden a story was going viral. We re tweeted an amplified by rachel maddow. Same that oklahoma's hospital. Emergency departments were backed up and they could not serve gunshot victims due to ivermectin overdoses. What as soon as i saw that story. I said this doesn't sound right or rachel. Maddow spread this on social media. And this guy right here. Here's the original news clip. It turned out to be absolutely
Everything Happens with Kate Bowler
"malaria" Discussed on Everything Happens with Kate Bowler
"Going to order pizza and that to me feels like it cuts through the noise of just how hard things are right now. Yes that little bit of limbs. You're elevating the moment creating at. You're elevating something from just. Hey why don't you have the kids come over and we'll stick in a movie to like this is the thing it's a thing. Yes we can't have things all the time but just a few things does feel like. I'm a huge vinafood die. You can trick out so much stuff in place so many hilarious pranks die so you know and again. It's not that it's so hard that you have to have the thought of like april fools day. Why don't i die the milk green so the kids poured out in the morning. They'll be you just take that moment to think. Yeah one final on. What am i to hear ya. What the idea that to be happier. You have to really change everything. Now you've touched on like i'm just imagining in our cultural lore. We have a lot of like midlife crisis nets about people who sort of drive their life off a cliff to make a big change or you know that in a way to really to really be happier you might have to walk away from your life as if you're walking away from a burning building you've set on fire and an big leaps and huge life changes especially in a moment like that like right now seems quite implausible. You've really thought about this in a much more granular way. Some people only want to go bigger go home. They're only attracted by the idea. Like i'm gonna marathon and i'm going to blow your minds in here. I go and they do it. And it's amazing. But i think for more people for me. I love my neighborhood. It was all in the interstices. It was all part of my ordinary. Which i love. I didn't want to transform it and really couldn't have transformed activity responsibilities. I always been told that. There is a huge distinction between the words happiness and joy and i found that i had really always gravitated toward the word joy because that is something i distinctly recognized as a gift like something that kind of either bubbled up and you know in the christian tradition. It's also been something that i have experienced. Sort of internal kind of like the feeling of like laughing. We're you feel surprised. But also just that sometimes i feel joyful at times that are absolutely garbage and that has always felt to me like something that came from outside of of me. So greece yes. That's exactly right. Yes so in in really thinking about our conversation. I decided to do a little bit more actual thoughtful digging about you know what my dirty shouldn't says about happiness. I just like the definition. And i realized i was wrong. Like varies a really long tradition. A you know of defending happiness and that the word that they use you know in the to mystic definition as the is flourishing and that were meant to seek the flourishing of ourselves and other earth but that of course they have of fuel caveats like we're supposed to seek the flourishing bothers and not just ourselves and so how do we rescue happiness from say individualism. Well the way i think about. It is one of the best ways to make yourself happy to make other people happy and one of the best ways to make other people. Happy be happy yourself. If you look at people who are are happier. They tend to be healthier. They're more likely to volunteer. They're more likely to donate money and time. They bank better team members a make and better leaders. They have healthier habits. And so there's sort of this idea that if you work think about your own happiness all the time you're going to be complacent and drinking dockery's by the beach. Happier people are like. Isn't there aboard. Efficient way to distribute malaria nets to do that. You know so a lot of times were more able to be selfless when we're happy. Because we have more emotional wherewithal to turn outward and to think about other people in the world and it's certainly true that one of the best ways to make ourselves happier is to try to think about. How do we help others. And how good in the world and how do we live up to. Our highest values dot is a kind of happiness. That never paul's I have a friend who was going through a terrible time like everything. Her boyfriend broke up with her. She got rejected from a program job. And i said how did she get through it. And she said i was addicted to doing good deeds. The thing that made me feel better. Yeah so it's like. Was it selfish to do good. Eats like who cares. Makes me happy to see people. Doing good jesus specially. If it's me. Yeah so i believe feed into each other. I mean even just the premise of what you're describing about how i mean. There's just that there's so much of our lives that we can't change. There's this narrow window of possibility in which we can act on half of ourselves and others like i find just being close to people who have that incredible reality in mind that makes me feel less overwhelmed about. Why can't fix my life of feels like i am no longer like anybody else's project i'm just like a co human in that framework and then and then dear. God i want the like all the tiny steps that you're describing. I think you're right to point out that in some ways like it is a fiction that we can make a list and go through it but it's it's is it helpful to try and yes. He don't blame ourselves. Yes think it's our fault when we can't i well because my dear i always give your work to other people when they don't believe they can try anymore so i think we're both on the book ends of this same question as i want people when they read your stuff to think I am in my body today. I am in this life today. There are maybe only a few small things that i get to have any control over in that. There is love and there is the dignity of choice. I mean yes. We are not entirely made of our choices. Were not just math. That adds up to some mythical number day but there is that little bit in there where i want. I want us all to try a really do. Only just i mean if only just for each other and sometimes trying just looks like asking for help. Amin trying just means being honest sometimes about our limitations and then being willing to receive a little bit of encouragement.
IsraAID
"malaria" Discussed on IsraAID
"In terms of in terms of the other sort of seasonal concerns that you brought up, malaria cholera, how do they interact with malnutrition? Okay, so yeah, so basically if you've ever managed malnourished child, basically they have a much lower immune system. Their system is immune is compromised. And so if there is an increase in cholera increase in malaria and they contracted with the malnutrition, they already have an underlying disease. I mean, malnutrition is a disease with plenty of its own side effects, and then you add another another disease process into that. And that can be that can be fatal from our children. Without enough treatment. And the thing is as well that we also which we haven't actually mentioned is the impact of COVID on two health systems. A lot of health systems in countries are struggling, are struggling to maintain what they can with the extra with COVID patients as well. Plus, then you bring in the other diseases, plus you bring in nutrition program. And it gets quite overwhelming. And so that's an important fact to remember as well. Does the health system isn't able to cope with all of these different disease processes? And COVID and a pandemic. Right. Yeah. Not an easy task to tackle. So let's transition in terms of what we can do. What can we do? What are the other preventive or responsive sort of methodologies, definitely preventive and definitely responsive? So I think that there's both. And I think that this year has also the COVID has been a real shock to everybody and we've all had to deal with what that equals. I think a lot of there's been a lot that has come out around the word public health. And I think that this is something that has become quite strong in the humanitarian setting and what public health is basically referring to is a multi sector or a multi disciplinary approach to health to health to looking after people's health. And so what we, as isra 8 are doing in terms of where we're working. I mean, certainly we're looking into our programs coming up for 2021, both in Kenya and in Guatemala. And the impact of nutrition in those countries and how we can respond. And the way that we're responding differs in both countries, but it does come down to education, it comes down to awareness. It comes down to public the public feeling like they have the control that they're empowered to do something before a seasonal epidemic arrives like cholera to educate them about how to protect themselves. And also to reduce the stigma around it. And I think around and around health seeking behavior. There's a lot of stigma around that. They are afraid of COVID..
The Science Show
How Open Access Science Leads to More Citations
"Meat cure macneice who's from melbourne originally but usually resides in cambridge working for the famous press the publishers care wise open publishing so important now cambridge university press exists as an organization to try to advance knowledge research and learning and part of that mission is what we do in publishing research we publish about four hundred journals plus fifty books and as well as just publishing research we care about making sure that best practices are followed in research and the research we publish is robust and reliable and so we work with communities of authors and researchers and without journal editors to try and ensure that we can support upcoming best practices and research and what is open publishing much it made of well so are there a few aspects often people will talk about open access publishing and this means access to the published papers once they put out there on the internet or in print form and a lot of these in the past have been subscription access only and there's solid movement around the world which we fully support for more open access to the results of research so these papers can be read by anyone and learned from anyone around the world but also looking at open research across the whole research life cycle there are practices being developed around sharing information long before we get to the publication stage and also sharing the data and other materials that underpin what's published in that final stage all to support greater transparency. Indeed you probably know that this motion at the university of sydney and chemist in fact still is doing work on. Malaria is one of the pioneers in this country of that sort of approach and she actually won the eureka prize for the promotion of science last year. So you probably know about her. Yes i think that work is fantastic. I think i must have just missed her. When i was in england. I think she started at cambridge just after i left in her phd. That i think the whether they're doing is great. Supporting fully author notebooks in library such and the like
American Illegals Podcast
"malaria" Discussed on American Illegals Podcast
"They come to me when there is nothing else like did the pills. They did the therapy. Did the chemo. And now there is nothing. But to remove the tumor. And you're going in there where you know. There's there's not many special is it can do this and the going in there. And they're moving parts were. We don't know by the time we're done if this person's even gonna walk anymore or their areas. The heart of the brain might taking off with this tour. That might now hinder this person from speaking for the rest of their lives. So nothing is guaranteed. He's basically a astronaut ins race when it comes to the brain going but give me the the the tools willing to take that risk and cut that and his story. If you really guys go go and look for him. His story he talks about it. He tells how he worked feels how his sister died like malaria. Literally just a diarrhea and he was so turtle broke. what a what. A glow up due to go from picking strawberry picking brains. That's dick brains are so they're they're so vulnerable like as i guess. Consciousness we don't know what the fuck consciousness is. Everybody's got a brain but everybody's consciousness is different so any little part of your brain that gets affected by anything else or damage. It can really change your entire personality. You win the the fact that What are you you. You're going in there and really going into uncharted waters. They're doing you don't it. Doesn't matter i mean we we can tell you this. This is the part of the brain that does this is the part of the brain. Does that but what chunk that you take off that i lose memory. You mean like how the fuck. Like whether i know i know how to pump. Gas can't eat anymore. Yeah how you pump gas. I've watched full-on youtube tutorials of how to fix a carburetor and did it exactly how it told me to do it and it still works. So it's like it's it's just magic. He's leading the field in his right. Yes of course. He was an immigrant. Yes or recent american legal. Yeah happens we open to open the borders doctors queue. Look looking up guys to the amazing story. And he's making california so today we salute you. Welcome to american illegal. Thank you guys so anything else. Yeah been scary week. I have some surgery going down on the eighteenth kind of surgery. I'm getting extreme. And what are they doing disc replaced in my neck. And my back please. Casual how much of a crazy thing is. I'd never had anything done to me any surgery. Nothing all of a sudden. I'm giving i guess. Every time i tell somebody rules like jesus fucking brake job. Settings had nothing done to them..
AP News Radio
Brazil Still Debating Dubious Virus Drug Amid 500,000 Deaths
"As Brazil hurtles toward an official coded nineteen death toll of a five hundred thousand the second highest in the world silence is on trial inside the country and the truth is up for grabs with the most unlikely to be reached this weekend Brazil's Senate is publicly probing how the toll got so high focusing on life president Chaya Bolsonaro this fall rights government ignored opportunities to buy vaccines for months while it relentlessly pushed hydroxy chloride Quinn the malaria drug shown to be ineffective in treating okay with nineteen the skepticism has extended to the death toll itself with Bolsonaro all getting the official tally for his own health ministry is greatly exaggerated some experts say the real figure is significantly higher perhaps hundreds of thousands hi I'm Charles that's my
The Security Ledger Podcast
Episode 215-2: Leave the Gun, Take the McFlurry - burst 08
"Mcdonalds email to its franchisees. Was basically as you said it said. You're you're voiding. The warranty on the taylor hardware which are basically required to us and you may be exposing your employees to bodily harm. Of course franchisees were would be. I guess free to ignore those warnings. Except for the fact that i think the the implicit message that e mail was that this that we don't want you using these things so you shouldn't use them right. Yeah you know it mentioned so it said that but it also mentions that it also mentioned confidential information in that You know kitsch access all of the systems confidential information and this is why again. I'm going back to your rights repair issues. These are the exact same arguments that you hear time and again from whatever that whether it's medical device whether it's an automobile whether it is a Home appliance the three legs of the stool. Our intellectual property warranty void warranty and physical harm and physical safety. Those are the three just kind of reliable like malaria. Curly of the of the anti repair argument is particularly interesting on this case about the mcdonald's machine because confidential information is is another again. I'm not I'm one of the last people to stand behind Or defense you know companies like apple and samsung but at least they make some effort right like some. Some efforts actually define what confidential information is. I mean if you look at this situation. The mcdonald's ice cream machine. They mentioned confidential information. But are there implies. It's their confidential information when really it's actually the owner of the machines confidential information but they never make that clear and so it's a it's a very interesting Head scratcher in which you like. What is going on with this machine and and the ecosystem lewis makes it while we're at it. Let's dispense with the warranty argument. Magnuson moss the federal warranty acmes. It really clear that you know you you do not void the warranty by having e either servicing it yourself or having an independent service person work on it or anything like that. So the whole you know by attaching to catch device you're voiding. The warranty is clearly not supported by federal law. But you're right. What this reminds me of. Actually a lot is the situation on farms right now with john. Deere and data that dedere equipment is collecting from farms soil moisture data weather data and sell on That deer considers it's proprietary information and in fact resells at a at a hefty profit and yet many people are like well. That's the farmers data. They should have a say into whether that gets collected and resold an and it would seem to be the same really the same question. Whose data is it. It's my franchise. My customers isn't it. My data But but apparently not well especially because it's not defined to and you know mcdonalds. John deere probably unfairly. Certainly in an unbalanced way makes the claim that it's their data. But taylor at mcdonald's in some taylor. Mcdonald's make no effort to actually define that or to try and make that argument. they just. It's very interesting. That taylor is a logo. This like nineteen seventy s or nineteen eighty s era kind of crowd. And it's like. They're they literally think they're king and they can just to create a stuff that oh by the way this void your warranty and guess. What is our confidential data. Like you know what you're not saying. This is america. You can't just decrease often have it happen. What do you think what was the response of the franchisees to that message. I guess from your standpoint as a business owner obviously it was a big blow to your business but did you hear back from them on on the specifics of that hoban who would. What do they mean at saturday dr that it was my data or any kind of questioning of that or is it more like. I don't want to kill the goose that lays the golden egg. And i'm just gonna do what they tell me to do and not ask was both. I think it was both. I mean. there's this is. It's both the same time it's like. Hey part of the system It's the system is doing a lot of things that i don't agree with but at the same time. I'm going to completely Sympathetic to catch. Because again it goes back to the rebellion of franchisees in the first place. Why would they have to you know when you when you kind of have to when you look at the existence and growth of kit which is basically a vaccine you know to to a virus that was created you have to. You can't acknowledge the growth of the vaccine without acknowledging the virus and so this this was obviously a slap in the face to the mcdonalds industrial complex that produces this machine but on one hand it was clearly a necessary vaccine technology that That the franchisees still stand behind they still use on so like use analogies and metaphors and it's kind of like being i never. I never supported the war in afghanistan right. But it's like. I'm still still in america so pay taxes so it's like on one hand you don't support this war effort and you don't support you're going there but it's like you're still part of this system and i as a citizen and very powerless to impact. What goes what goes on in washington support afghanistan. I'm not to pay my taxes. Because i don't want the money you know like i mean you can. You can certainly right. That's right the. Irs franchisees are are very much in the same situation. They're like listen we. This is their afghanistan where they don't
Daily Tech Headlines
A Closer Look at How Semiconductors Are Made
"Friday we talked about bismuth being used to make semiconductors below one nanometer using a helium ion beam lithography system. This comes from a study published in nature by taiwan semiconductor manufacturing company. Mit and national taiwan. University semiconductors can be super complicated. So let's take a closer look. A semiconductor is a material that has an electrical conductivity value between that of a conductor and insulator it's registered city falls as the temperature rises behaving in the opposite way of metal. Semiconductors like silicon are the basis of most modern electron electroncs. The electrical properties of a semiconductor material can be modified by doping it that is applying electrical fields or light which can be used for amplification switching and energy conversion currently semiconductor design uses five nanometer and three nanometer node. With the number of transistors piled on chip nearing physical limitations. Moore's law observes that the number of transistors in dense integrated circuit doubles every two years. However there is still an eventual maximum capacity using atomic lee. Thin materials. Instead of silicon. Could help delay reaching maximum. But the problem of the energy barrier formed between the metal electrode and the semiconductor interface of these thin materials continues to constrain semiconductor design improvement in the nature study. The scientists found that by downscaling the semiconductor below one nanometer roughly the thickness of three atom layers they could create a two dimensional material pushing semiconductors to the quantum limit and potentially surpassing the prediction of moore's law by resolving one of the biggest problems and miniaturising semiconductor devices. The two-dimensional semiconductor also makes the energy barrier negligible by using bismuth which is a semi metal. Meaning that it has lower electric and thermal conductivity than a metal to make these. Semiconductors the optimized the chemical vapor deposition of bismuth and then shrank channel material to the nanno scale using helium. I am being with agassi. This study recorded the lowest energy barrier resistance ever at one hundred and twenty three arms as well as the highest current density to date of one thousand one hundred and thirty five micrograms per meter. This technology proves the potential of malaria transistors as being on par with the most recent three d. semiconductors it will allow for future device downscaling possibly bringing about a new generation of semiconductors experimental. Physics research will benefit from this technology immediately but commercialisation. We'll have to wait for more engineering work though it will be years before this technology could become mainstream future. Applications include cutting the carbon footprint of data centers quadrupling cell phone battery life speeding-up laptops and contributing to higher performance. Ai
Many Roads Travelled : (Solo Female) Travel Podcast
"malaria" Discussed on Many Roads Travelled : (Solo Female) Travel Podcast
"For about an hour. It's ridiculous cell. Phones would have been handy back then. That's for sure so that's kind of what we did all day. Dispaced back and forth between the farms to drop off. Seedlings want the other funding to to bruce's farm. Or i just kind of Lie down. Because i could barely walk foot was killing me and then we decided that we're going to go to the club for dinner that night. So merrill had led me address to where. I hated that law. Hey that lov no shorts larry so after dinner kabir's there was good. 'cause bruce paid for all the Vervins dinners thousand is and then got back. Tens of i just crashed there the next morning i got i thought it'd been run over by truck cappelli walker mike flood but i could barely walk period. I had to severe head is like a head was in vice. Started hallucinating again. I had the sheds which were green muncy. I could literally by the end of the day. I was crawling to the bathroom. Like luckily i had one of the main bedrooms. So i have is an thankfully. And then i started puking a had nothing in my stomach so it was like just bile and i you know shitting bile. Oh my gosh. It was brutal so our new is getting really dehydrated as well and just so so sick. And that's an bruce. David came over and they were like. I think he got malaria. And i was like yeah i think so too. So that's awesome. Well i was so sick for two days. I couldn't even move me. And then i just kept getting worse and worse and worse and then a guy said right. We're just gonna put a mattress in the back of the pickup. And we're just gonna lay on. Just go back to blantyre and take a to the doctor's like asap. Bruce had to carry me out of his room. The girls packed up committed and have a lot packed up my stuff. Put me in the Cuts of blantyre course. the doctor. The doctor was closed until four. Pm so we had to wait at two goals. Finally four o'clock go there. I got tested hideaway by our for results found out. Yes i had. Malaria as well as dysentery so probably got dysentery from taking out the stream. My guess so not just play but dysentery on top. No one are so sick and still climbing mountains and style plus my illness as well kicked in. So there's three. Massive things are happy received nine. So i got medication for the malaria and as well as antibiotics for my foot and it was bacteria dysentry so the as while just went back to david just gave me my own room in the ex-luxembourg been camping before so i had my own name because it needed to be close to a bathroom castillo diarrhea and was still peaking. Luckily the boys. Because mike was still there for days precise back to the farm david as well stay for a couple days so they were checking on me all the time plus all the other travelers that was still their new malaria. I was looked after very very well. Which is very lovely. And i now call me malania because every single person i pretty much got malaria in malawi. And most those people were on malaria prophylactics. I was on them..
Many Roads Travelled : (Solo Female) Travel Podcast
"malaria" Discussed on Many Roads Travelled : (Solo Female) Travel Podcast
"Because i didn't think i'd see a began. So we kinda reunited. Couple of american girls met soap. Just lots of people's it was really cold. And then ron decided he was gonna move into my tent with me. Was like okay. 'cause he's only there for two nights i think and the to american girls christine. Emily i was going to climb malange. He's the mountains near blantyre. We're going to do that in a couple of days. So we organized that which is called and the two greek malawians who give me the right to deals. They came in so. We ended up all having a big game of volleyball in the backyard. So that was lots of fun. And then we all had a fish dinner at the guest house and a couple beers and a pretty early. With ron. In the ted had loaded kissing snogging going on just crash basically next day woke up filling really really bad. I just thinking yeah. Something's not right. I know my blind on this stuff but this is something else. It was so weird because it just kept coming in ways like it started in zomba take. That was kind of my first wave. Be okay one day. And the next i was just kind of every wave seems to get worse as well so i ended up going into town with rum. Aaron and richard. We got some groceries. 'cause we're gonna have a big dinner at the guest house that night. Once we got back. I just had to have a knob which worked out well for me. The boys just did all the cooking. So yeah we had the chicken potatoes carrots beans gravy. It was really good. It was nice to like a whole. It's a house right so it really felt very. Homely implicit was with lots of people. I knew especially ron richard narran because i hung out with them for weeks in the corner bay is really nice. They on something that annoyed may so he went to bed in the and i stayed up for another hour so waiting for healthy he'd fall asleep that i got the ted and that was on last night together so not ideal really so i wanted to kind of get going. But the girls. Emily and christie's they couldn't go to haji to the following day. So i had to wait another day in tired two goals. You know it's not about place to hang. That's for sure but then david the owner came in 'cause he you know he'd be out he was in there all the time. I was running the place for a few days. Like i do be day. He's like yeah. You read the giant Game you think your family. He did feel like my big brother away. Actually so is he rocks. He's like well. Hey do you wanna come to tobacco farm with me. 'cause tobacco there's lots of tobacco around blantyre that's grown their share. You know as board as i point out so i left a note for emlyn christie. 'cause they are out saying okay. I'll meet you hajjis tomorrow. At the base morning some days farm. It was one hundred. I didn't realize that. One hundred twenty ks away from blantyre. So i went with mike oasis big guy on those two hundred pounds but he was a driver between do goals in blantyre duels in harare zimbabwe. So he's hard drive back and forth and you get the you pay price small price basically to go from one guest house to another which was good so mike was one of the drivers to win winners..
Many Roads Travelled : (Solo Female) Travel Podcast
"malaria" Discussed on Many Roads Travelled : (Solo Female) Travel Podcast
"May routes travel dot com double in traveled overseas straight on youtube. Okay see you there and enjoy the show cheers. So it's episode. Forty six and is upset is going to be about why time climbing zomba plateau as well as going to blantyre in malawi and also dealing with malaria for the first time not good. I definitely don't recommend it so also going to be covering a two hundred and fifty miles on this episode. Takes us up to twenty thousand two hundred and fifty miles picking up where we left off on the last episode. I finally left nakata bay after three weeks and cape clear for five days as traveling on my own again and i was in zomba hadn't been feeling that great for last couple of days as had a few infections on my legs but a really bad one in my foot from a sea urchin spine from when i jumped onto better see our chins obviously accidentally in zanzibar so when the spines got infected. But i did get it out. I was finding pieces. Spines coming on my feet for months for after bars. Ridiculous not onto percent. And of course. I decided i'm going to climb a mountain dot. I feel. I have a rare blood on that had kicked in. That's why i thought it was so he l. over as well but i was just like okay well are just going to climb this plateau. It'll be fine so day. Two hundred eighty six. And i said off to climb this plateau zoa plateau. It's about two thousand meters to storers. Six thousand feet and it kind of comes out of nowhere at beautiful area is about one hundred and thirty square kilometers. So it's mostly forests mixed vegetation as well as farmland. So as i was walking towards it. I kind of asked a few locals. Like is there a path i do. I get up there. And they said go on the potato path and point to me in the direction size like okay so start heading up that while i think the potato path was basically the fastest way up there because he was literally just straight up. So i got about halfway and to sweat buckets to our get halfway and then. Luckily there was a quite a posh there. So i popped in. There used bathroom because i stupidly. Didn't water bottle idiot. So i drank some water in the bathroom and then headed off again. Still really no idea what i was doing at a coming to the forest and then i found stream so i just kinda follow that stream for quite awhile again..
UN News
UN Launches Response Plan for Rohingya in Bangladesh
"Bringing Refugees who fled persecution in myanmar. For years ago are more vulnerable than at any point since two thousand seventeen the. Un has warned in an appeal for international support to help them launching the cool for nine hundred and forty million dollars for nearly nine hundred thousand refugees in bangladesh's cox's bazar camp complex un refugee agency chief. Filippo grandi also urged india and thailand to keep their borders open to those fleeing from violence linked to the myanmar coup tuesday's appeal covers requests for more than one hundred thirty four partners who include un agencies international ngos and a majority of bangladeshi ngos if funded it will also benefit almost half a million bangladeshi nationals living in communities that are hosting the refugees the world food program which is also present in cox's bazar warned that the covid nineteen crisis has reduced opportunities for refugees. The camp complex also disaster-prone and faces a monsoon to cyclone seasons every year which is why the un agency continues to support disaster risk reduction activities. These include rebuilding cyclone shelters improving drainage systems stabilizing slopes and helping communities diversify their livelihood activities. So that they do not need to rely on agriculture for income
Short Wave
The Coronavirus Is Ravaging India
"I've got lauren. Freyer international correspondent based in mumbai india. With me hey lauren. Hey mattie so weeks into this massive surge of new cases i mean how would you describe the situation there. I would describe it as a five alarm health emergency and the alarm just keeps on going like it's been weeks of this. Hospitals are overwhelmed. People are dying in parking. Lots of hospitals waiting to get in people are dying at home unable able to get an ambulance. I mean imagine calling nine one one and no one ever answers for weeks. India is seeing shortages of pretty much every tool country needs to fight a pandemic so hospital beds hospital workers because you know in some cases half of them are sick to medical oxygen antiviral drugs shortages of test kits. So you know. Four hundred thousand cases a day sounds like a staggering number scientists modeling. This say it might actually be more like five million cases a day here. Crematoriums are working nonstop like a public park. In delhi was turned into a mass cremation ground. And i spoke to a public health official recently. Who's supposed to be working on. Malaria prevention. his job now is to count bodies all day long and his biggest concern is finding enough firewood for all of these funeral. Pyres
Short Wave
India's Covid-19 Crisis: What Happens Next and How Long Will It Last?
"I've got lauren. Freyer international correspondent based in mumbai india. With me hey lauren. Hey mattie so weeks into this massive surge of new cases i mean how would you describe the situation there. I would describe it as a five alarm health emergency and the alarm just keeps on going like it's been weeks of this. Hospitals are overwhelmed. People are dying in parking. Lots of hospitals waiting to get in people are dying at home unable able to get an ambulance. I mean imagine calling nine one one and no one ever answers for weeks. India is seeing shortages of pretty much every tool country needs to fight a pandemic so hospital beds hospital workers because you know in some cases half of them are sick to medical oxygen antiviral drugs shortages of test kits. So you know. Four hundred thousand cases a day sounds like a staggering number scientists modeling. This say it might actually be more like five million cases a day here. Crematoriums are working nonstop like a public park. In delhi was turned into a mass cremation ground. And i spoke to a public health official recently. Who's supposed to be working on. Malaria prevention. his job now is to count bodies all day long and his biggest concern is finding enough firewood for all of these funeral. Pyres
Ben Shapiro
Malaria Vaccine Trial Raises Hopes of Beating Disease
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'The Stories Are Heartbreaking.' What 1 Reporter Witnessed In Mozambique's Violence
"Graphic violence. Kaba Delgado's were the poorest regions in Mozambique and was largely ignored by the central government. Into large reserves of oil and gas were discovered offshore. His international oil companies have moved into the area. Fighters have stepped up their attacks. Terrorizing Villagers, burning homes, destroying farms. And publicly beheading. Women and Children. But the government of Mozambique and trying to put down the movement is also implicated in the violence. Aid groups estimate that half a million people have fled their homes and are in urgent need of aid. Journalists are not usually granted access to the area. But nay Hewat occur accompanied it. Aid group to cover Delgado last November. And was able to speak to survivors joins us now. Thank you for being with us. Thank you so much for having me. What did they tell you? I mean, the stories are heartbreaking. We spoke with a 10 year old girl named Maria and she remembers the day that the Attackers came into her village. They started burning houses down, they started looting. Maria was separated from her family during the violence, and she told me that the Attackers forced her and the other Villagers to sit and watch as they beheaded. People that they had grown up with people that they knew. After she fled. She fled into the forest and her foot got caught in an animal trapped like a hunting snare. Eventually she was rescued and she was carried to Pemba, which is a southern city in the Kaaba Delgado province. And Maria recovered from her wounds, and she also had malaria in the local hospital. And that was when she discovered that both her mother and her father had been beheaded in that attack. You know, That's just one of the many, many stories that I heard while I was there, all of them with the same level of brutal and senseless violence. Who are the Attackers, or is there one answer to that? There are many answers to that. But I will try to give Ah general overview of how this developed from what we know, Um, outsiders. The countries that have been named have in Kenya, Tanzania. On brothers so outside influences came into the country and started preaching against the version of Islam that was practiced in cover Delgado at the time. And they began preaching radicalizing in the mosques up there. And I spoke with some civil society leaders who told me that you know there were folks in these mosques who told the government something is going on here. Something is going wrong and that Thies concerns were just not addressed urgently. By the government. And so what ended up happening is that you have a local population, primarily young men, primarily unemployed who hear this radical version of Islam, and that's how people say that this started And then if, of course, if you fast track it a few years in 2019 Isis, the Islamic state claimed credit for its first attack, and that really changed the dynamics. This went from being a kind of local issue of violence by you know citizens who were unhappy or felt left out or left behind. Becoming really an international geopolitical problem. And you know that brings us up to where we are today. Just just this week, the United States government Has classified the Islamic state Isis
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World moves to embrace vaccine passports
"Of a vaccine passport. Before you can travel was gonna closer Look at that. Joining us now, NBC radio national correspondent Rory O'Neill. Good morning, Rory. Good morning, you know, and it's trickier than you might think trying to navigate these waters because who sets the standard and what about your privacy concerns as well? And even if we get these vaccines rolled out, it's not as if everyone has access to them just yet, So it's a case of have and have not. You know what vaccine passport would essentially show proof that you've gotten your vaccine. That what kind of form doesn't come in? Is it something on your phone? But if you don't what if you still use a flip phone or eyes, it's something that will go with you is you travel from country to country, and who else would require it? You know, we've seen in the Israel that more than half the country has already been vaccinated, and they're using vaccine passports, toe let you access the local gym or to get into movie theaters. They use it as an inducement to open up more things to you so that if you get your vaccine, it's more of a reward and you can show proof of it. So exactly how these vaccine passports will work what standards will be set still up for debate around the world. Well, The other thing, too, is so in other words, if you don't get a vaccine, you can't travel. I mean, in fact becomes the law, right? Right. So that's another issue with some people are allergic to the vaccine and can't get the vaccine. What are they supposed to do? But, you know, vaccine requirements are nothing new. If you want to go to some countries, you need a malaria vaccine. And you know, they will have that requirement when you enter the country, So we've done this before. The question is, this vaccine just isn't as available as of malaria vaccine. So how can do what kind of a restriction are you putting on now? Airlines and hotels are doing their own thing. Some of requiring vaccine proof in order, let you fly their airplanes or check into the hotels. We're all expecting the cruise industry will require proof of vaccination. But again, what does that look like? Is it on your phone? Is that a piece of paper? All these things we get to be settled in the may be done piecemeal, which is what is the worst thing possible because that would just create lots of confusion. Well, we're used to that.
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"malaria" Discussed on KQED Radio
"18 minutes before nine this weekend edition from NPR News. I'm Lulu Garcia Navarro, Getting old in the United States was hard before the pendant, a country with few supports for the elderly. While seniors are among the first in line for the covert vaccine. Federal and state budgets have become increasingly strained over the last nine months. And that means safety nets for the elderly are unraveling quickly. Sally her ship's reports from New York, a state with more than three million residents, who are 65 or older. During World War two As a girl in a small town in Italy Rose for Shanti had malaria. She lost three siblings to the disease. She seen a lot. I was 85 in October. Well, that's a long time. Yeah, honey, I went through the war and Italy. Afterward, She and her young parents left and traveled to the U. S on a boat. She learned English got a job as a dressmaker. The husband they settled in New York had a son and send him to college. Coming from a small town where she couldn't even buy aspirin. She now felt like she was living. The American dream fixed up my house. So beautiful failed the like a princess. But now for she, Dante lives alone in an apartment. Husband died last year, and after decades working a sewing machine she needed a knee replacement for Santa uses a walker now still, she was managing. She would put her laundry in a bag and throw it down the stairs to avoid carrying it. But then the pandemic hit and so far eight out of 10 deaths are seniors like her and I'm afraid to go out. Dude now need help. Still, despite achieving the American dream for Santa is now living on about $2000 a month just enough to cover her bills. She can't afford a housekeeper, so she put her name on a waiting list for a part time aid.