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WTOP
"mallard" Discussed on WTOP
"22 good to have you here for the second time in a year, a mama duck has given birth to ducklings in the courtyard of Ashburn elementary school. This time, the mallard had 14 ducklings, hatched in the school's courtyard, and just like last June, the only way out to a pond across the street is a march through the school hallways about 50 students and staff to help mama find her way. Waddle to the water. In 2023. That's right. Substitute teacher Kate Brandenburg coordinated the nearly hour long journey to the final destination of local pond, where it was a bittersweet goodbye. The mama duck was named star by the school's principal, and there's going to be another verse soon another mama duck has made a nest in a separate courtyard at the school. Second one who's nesting is named Goldie. Kyle Cooper, WTO news. They can jump start a heart. Now every public school in Virginia is required to have them. Automated external defibrillators or AEDs can help a heart return to a normal rhythm during an emergency. Previously, it was optional for public schools in Virginia to have them, but now under a new law passed this year, every public school statewide will need to have one on hand. Bob or latif chairs the Prince William county school board, he's also a physician. The more we have them in public settings, I think the more likely they will be used to save lives. Many Virginia schools already do have AEDs, including those in Prince William fairfax and loudoun counties, Nick high and Ellie WTO news. Waiting at bus stops during extreme heat is not a happy proposition. Now a local company is working to make them cooler both to look at and to stand under. You start with a typical covered bus stop and then add life from above
Seek Outside Podcast
"mallard" Discussed on Seek Outside Podcast
"And so the important part there is the ducks were dispersed across the landscape, and you write the predator community was different. We had grizzly bears here in the prairies. We had wolves on the prairies, but when the grasslands were replaced with agriculture and the top carnivores were eliminated, of course there are bears here on the prairies and the wolves are gone as well. But this modern day landscape favors a predator community that either wasn't here or had low populations. There were not raccoons on the Prairie breeding grounds at all. Except in some of the riparian areas, like the lower reaches of the Missouri River, skunks were here, but they were in very low numbers. Red fox currently are suppressed by mange, but you also have mink and badgers and Fox and coyotes, ground squirrels, the list goes on and on. And so basically delta has a large and growing predator management program. So we basically target areas that have extremely high breeding densities of ducts, yet we know that their reproductive success is low. And when I say low, it takes about 15 to 20% of duck nest to hatch to maintain a population. We're going into areas that have consistently less than 10% hatching rate hatching on a year. Oftentimes below that 5% that you were talking about. And we hire a trapper to come in during the nesting season. And again, it's not an eradication program, but what they do is they restore the balance between predator and prey. And duck hatch rates stuck nest patch rates, they explode. You know, they go from 5% to 35 to 40%. And so we turn these areas from sink habitat, where ducks come and don't do well, to source habitat. Meaning they come, they thrive, and they add ducks to the population. We recently launched this effort. We call it the million duck campaign. And basically we have an artificial nest structure program called a henhouse. And so these are cylinders mounted on a pole over wetlands, and mallards use them. They're amazing mallard producing
Bloomberg Radio New York
"mallard" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Collide. In Silicon Valley and beyond, this is Bloomberg technology with Emily Chang. I'm at ludlow in New York in for Emily Chang. This is Bloomberg technology coming up in the next hour, a lack of trust from U.S. lawmakers could completely alter TikTok's operations in its biggest market, the worry, his parent company ByteDance relationship to the Chinese government. Now we've learned The White House's working with TikTok on a security deal, but negotiations have all but stalled. Plus, Cathy wood's new venture fund targets illiquid assets. It's arc's first foray into private investments and essentially gives retail traders venture capital market access. We'll ask arc's chief futurist about the strategy. And Bitcoin maximalist Jack mallard joins me to discuss strikes latest funding round and his push to make Bitcoin the currency for cross border transactions. We'll get to all that in a moment but first let's get a look at the markets. The tech heavy NASDAQ 100 snapped its worst losing streak since February is mega caps caught a bid but volatility persists and rate worries continue joining. But the biggest moves of the day is Bloomberg's Emily griffey. Hi Anne. Hi Ed, what a volatile day in the U.S. equity market. The S&P 500 finished the day lower. It was the 6th straight day of losses for that U.S. equity benchmark. But what I'm looking at the NASDAQ. We did see a little bit of outperformance there in that tech heavy index finishing the day up about .2% and it was led by gains in the mega caps Tesla up 2.5% and also apple up about .6% to finish the day. They have larger weightings in the NASDAQ 100 than the S&P 500. So that lends itself to a little bit of tech outperformance. We talk about tech outperformance, though, if you zoom out the NASDAQ 100 is down over 30% year to date, it's been a great environment for bears or investors who are betting against the NASDAQ 100, perhaps they're retreating just a little bit though. You take a look at the fun flows for sqq. This is a $5 billion ETF that bets against the NASDAQ 100. It actually saw its biggest daily outflow since June yesterday. And this follows a steady stream of outflows from the fund in the last few sessions. So perhaps those bears retreating just a little bit expecting a little bit of a balance in those tech stocks. And the bond market also providing just a little bit of relief for tech stocks today. I'm looking at the two year yield on the U.S. government bond. It moved lower by about four basis points today, and also the ten year we have a lot of bond traders looking at that yield on the ten year. We got to about 3.99%. The 4% level is really the critical level. It hasn't held above their for a sustained period of time since 2008, and we know that tech stocks don't like higher yields. It means that the future value of earnings will be discounted. So a lot of bond traders now watching yields. And then also Bitcoin had a pretty nice rally earlier in the day crossed that 20,000 level, but now about 18, $19,000 as the equity market continues to fall off. All right, our thanks to you, Emily. The Biden administration and TikTok are working on an agreement that would let the video sharing site keep operating in the U.S., but Bloomberg's learned that talks have stalled over concerns the company's Chinese ownership poses a national security threat, according to sources. If an agreement is reached, it could impose more restrictions on how TikTok stores data from U.S. users. Meanwhile, TikTok has stepped up its lobbying efforts in D.C., but has had little engagement with Republican naysayers, Bloomberg, businessweek reports. Joining me now, Bloomberg, Alex, Adam Adam, Kovacic, chamber of progress, CEO, Alex. I'm going to start with you. What is your latest reporting about talks between the U.S. government and TikTok? That's right. This is to allay concerns around U.S. users data, particularly in regards to Chinese government, which owns which China is where TikTok's parent company is based. So far in these negotiations, TikTok has said that they're going to partner with Oracle to route all U.S. users data through their servers. They're also going to allow Oracle to audit its algorithms and its content moderation policies. Now, the hiccup Ed has come in because the deal still needs to kind of get over the line. 50 is the governmental body that's investigating it. It is an interagency body and the Justice Department in particular, the individual who is on that panel for the Justice Department is still concerned that this deal does not go far enough to keep data out of the hands of the Chinese government. And so that seems to be the sticking point according to our reporting that is dragging this process on. Perhaps a little bit longer than TikTok would like. Adam, you're the CEO of the chamber of progress. And one of the goals of the chamber of progress is to make the tech industry act fairly and responsibly, particularly towards consumers. So when you hear Alex go through the latest reporting, is this good news or bad news? Much we've ever seen a service like TikTok before that it's become so popular with Americans and yet is owned by the Chinese and that's a unique problem and challenge for government. Policymakers, Alex talked about the concessions that are on the table in terms of the company's negotiations with the Biden administration. I'm not sure any of those conditions really solve this question of Chinese government access problem access so long as TikTok is owned by a Chinese company. The Chinese are almost certainly going to have access to American user data no matter where it's stored. They don't come in through the front door. They come in through the back door. That's just the reality of how China operates. And as far as the Oracle supposed audit, look, oracles on the verge of having a massive cloud hosting deal with TikTok, right? They're going to have a financial incentive to look the other way regarding China's control. And oracle's not a branch of the U.S. government's obligated to do what's best for its business. So I think that one of the big questions surrounding this, as you said, some of the Biden
Seek Outside Podcast
"mallard" Discussed on Seek Outside Podcast
"And what my dad did was he would just stick me under a jumbo shell. And I'll just lay there and wait till he shot a goose and we didn't have a dog back then. So I was the retriever. Oh, that's cool. And so G and H definitely has a special place in my waterfowl hunting career. I was telling you yesterday I still have a couple of a Drake mallard and a hen mallard that I got. It was like part of my first thing in decoys that I bought when I was probably ten years old. Yeah. I probably didn't buy them. It's probably my dad. And I still have them kicking around. So I'm glad, you know, I hadn't really thought about G and H until you guys popped up here at B, BHA. And so I'm super glad that you guys are kind of getting involved because it's a cool community that you guys are jumping into. It seems like with all American made, you kind of belong here. Thank you. So yeah, we're super.
The Archive Project
"mallard" Discussed on The Archive Project
"Alternative ashes chasing one. It's really fascinating to you. So catcher mike early combined hunter and what he was somebody who's originally a very minor character but once i go to sleep the i love writing in happening this perspective of this. You know bounty hunter which is probably as far away from who i am is the fictional character can be I share nothing in common with him. And i really loved his voice and be in his hands matching his role in the story. So you'll see characters like that will pop up and really grab you in those pictures that you do me. A lot of the writing process about recognizing that recognizing the difference between interests and And decided to go in the direction of what's really exciting. And i think. I am always more interested in writing about relationships than i am in writing about characters solves. Gem would a lot about the characters alone. Enjoy that but also i love relationships. I wanna see dynamic duos. I wanna see People who Bring out interesting things in each other people who make life difficult for each other. I think that's one of the things that i really liked about book is that you have these pairings of characters often. In in a way that generates it generates tension when these people are together in a room alone. you don't know twin happens reader but also reveals who they are and for me. It's about finding those types of dynamics and finding the sex of relationships in which characters are going to bounce off each other in interesting ways and prioritizing or spending time with those characters in alignment. So i just try to be open minded and i tried to divorce myself from any previous notion that i have what i planned from book and religious followed. Who's exciting to me in. Who kind of jump off. H so agree with brad. And not like i feel like in the vanishing affleck. Excitement is really palpable. In it draws you in as a reader and it really makes you want to spend time in that world on my end. I think my process similar in that. I'm really only interested in four or five things so the question of power you extra those things for her on writing the same over and over again like. How do i come up with a narrative. I live in that. I want to spend time in always on the forefront of my mind but i knew with memorial i think the three things off hand like i knew that there was an emotional pocket that i wanted narrative to end up in. Although i did not know how i would get there. I knew that meets go. Who is mike's mom. She would be the emotional center of a novel. A lot of ways. Because it is novel of arrivals and departures benson and mike who are sort of romantic douro at the center of it. They don't spend very much time in the same place over the course of the book and maximum is who ties them together in a lot of ways in many ways she sees more than they see of one another and i think the third thing that i know off hand was that i wanted to give as close to equal credence to mike and ben as i could in the current draft like the final one that people have in their hands than has about eleven hundred more words. More than mike in like. It was like the goal of mine to get as close to one to one as possible. But i wasn't good enough to do that but it was really important to me like to come up with a relationship through which we like the reader like the audience. Like you didn't walk away thinking like okay like this whole relationship. Israeli government to call bends fault or vice versa. It's all bikes fault or saved. It was solely solely due to balance and trying not to lean into that meant to me. I felt that. I couldn't illustrate their relationship from a prescriptive lens partly because be really productive partly because that wasn't the world that i wanted to occupy for the length of writing on the novel and i think that had to finish it to figure out where it would ultimately end up because i just didn't know that you know once i did end up there like that was the end of Took some time to get there. So as far as developing the characters. A lot of why impetus for writing. The book was to see who the characters were and where they would end up because they were just that interesting to me. You know so much of Drafting process is trying to build a world in trying to find characters. That are that interesting to me. That i'm willing to sit with them for three years or however long at you know because it's important to follow your obsessions. Follow your concerns. If everything's you feel as though you know you're you're that wedded to them perhaps Now that's the route to follow or at least it was for memorial tapping into romantic relationships with came up. I adore and i cannot say it enough door. Door reese and jud they're like the healthiest couple. I've read in a book by other because it was just a relief to re of and it's not as though vanishing half to me was dislike traumatizing book. I didn't ingested in that way. But i have to say when we got to those passages there was such a security there even though that they respectively had their own insecurities right but together. None of that seemed to really matter because the love was so deep for those two and then we have candy. Who's chasing something. And i'm curious about if you can speak to this and i say that a lot because i don't wanna like kinda put pressure on authors to answer things that may come off as hypotheticals but with reese and jud and then we have kennedy and what dude seems to be very aware of herself and it is again coming from negative space right of being raised in mallard where kennedy is so uncertain of self and she has such privilege. And i don't know like can you speak a little bit into that kind of creating bear kind of respective.
Legacy
"mallard" Discussed on Legacy
"And here we have a brief side episode of the way words podcast for those who'd like it a reading of the short story, Kate Chopin's the story of an hour. The story of an hour. By Kate Chopin. Knowing that misses mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble. Great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband's death. It was her sister Josephine, who told her, in broken sentences, veiled hints that revealed in half concealing. Her husband's friend Richards was there, too, near her. It was he who had been in the newspaper office when intelligence of the railroad disaster was received with Brantley mallard's name, leading the list of killed. He had only taken the time to assure himself of its truth by a second telegram, and had hastened to forestall any less careful less tender friend and bearing the sad message. She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept it significance. She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment in her sister's arms. When the storm of grief had spent itself she went away to her room alone. There stood, facing the open window a comfortable roomy armchair. Into this she sank, pressed down by a physical exhaustion that haunted her body and seemed to reach into her soul. She could see in the open square before her house, the tops of trees that were all a quiver with the new spring life..
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"mallard" Discussed on No Agenda
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Gamer Talk Podcast
"mallard" Discussed on Gamer Talk Podcast
"But it was late and johnson lewis and beds. I didn't wanna be that guy but it was a shark in a pool in someone's slam into the mouth of it so it was computer generated shark and the guy was doing the underwater swimming and it just slammed right into the now is great that it was robotic looks good. I don't know. I thought it was robotic robot reaction to it like it was the side by side. Lost at sea as survival game stuck on sharks. Probably start off the raft. And then you land on island and you have to build castaway the game. Yeah volleyball can you paint him. And nathan wilson names already wilson but graphics look good. Is it game pass i. This is showing pre alpha. So is a game pass. Game player might be game preview when played if it's single player. let's see you can get it on steam as well face. Your fears dark moments. Explain mckay There's not a lot on their website. It's definitely head up heads up studios and had to go look at a trailer after the podcast interesting. All right well time for the greatest segment in the world. John are you ready. Yeah down town. Jane this week on. Fuck you chris. The more you know i google. I was busy today so about a half hour before the podcast. I sat down. I was busy. And i'll tell you why. And what the fox fuck you. miguel down instead started google shitting So i came across a article for the most boring tourist traps in every. Us state for grand canyon. Hold on we'll get to your state. Alabama point mallard waterpark. Its claim to fame as the for world first-wave fool deepak india do Alaska the north pole. It's in the north pole. It's claim to fame is the world's largest fiberglass statue of santa claus arizona tombstone. What's the oak. Morale was like more historical significance. The fucking grain kuni crack in the ground doesn't even look like a canyon. It just looks like fuck amount. Just stupid okay. Hold on out. Canyon historical doc holliday. Talking black no. I'm saying like ship. That actually happened okay. Hey kids this is where a river slowly eroded into a giant canyon over millions of years or billions of years. Whatever fucking ordering and there's like one of the greatest shootouts happened in history a fucking man. Dude thank you and it's haunted..
Cyber Security Weekly Podcast
"mallard" Discussed on Cyber Security Weekly Podcast
"Thank you alexis for joining us in the podcast today. Thanks for having me. Yeah so alexis. Is your team. Had been working really hard with law enforcement in the past few years. Many years like the fbi department of justice and even europol and also singapore law enforcement in many cases. And i thought we could take a look at two of them today and gemeda and operation indigo and i understand that. Both of these are botnets operated by cybercriminals and for our listeners. Who may not be too familiar with these now web. Could you give a brief introduction and also what brought your teen's attention to these malware. Those are two different cases that awfully. I'll i'll be able to explain how they differed in terms of operations and also how it differed when we were working to tackle those two threats so andromeda. It's not one button it actually. It was multiple button. It's because andromeda was a malware that was available for sale in underground forums. So anybody could go and grab a copy of the malware and build its own button. Int- andromeda was had a few built in features a was mostly successful at stealing various credentials capturing key strokes and it was also used to download additional malware in deploy them on the infected machines and operation. Wendy go we believe it was over rated by one single group It was a very large button. Net targeting lennox servers exclusively and the goal was very different. It was basically to steal credentials. Steel s. h. credentials to expand dot net and then to make money off online advertising
KQED Radio
"mallard" Discussed on KQED Radio
"That are following the story, And so whenever I tweet about it, I get several 100 replies a second sometimes still tarred and Mrs Mallards. Thousands of fans grew concerned that heavy wind and rain plus the extra four eggs might make things trickier this year, so things got tense after Newman heard from her dad yesterday morning. That the eggs had slowly begun to hatch a day early. It was hours and hours and hours of waiting, And of course, I was desperately worried about the duck things because of the high winds. But there was also this added element of Oh, it feels like several 1000. People all over the world are going to need to know what happens on I really want to give them a happy ending. Everyone needs a happy ending. There are more than ever. Meanwhile, stew tard film the progress as he waited and watched Mrs Mallard shelter the Des Plaines from the wind under her wing. Conditions are improving, but it's still gonna be difficult to get the babies down safely, so hopefully see conditions will improve as the day goes on other I really do believe that's why she's not meeting already. Just because their conditions it's it's quite cold here, but it's very, very windy. And welcome to the world that one's eventually around six P.m.. Mrs. Mallard called the chicks down from the nest and sitar got to work. I'm walked onto the balcony. She's a bit upset. He hissed at me by just picked her up and threw her off the balcony and and she flew off quacking away and they should have strengthened bases the building and she did last year I picked up on the dumplings one by one. I came to them about three times that would definitely 11. Then the lowing of fucking took place and glittery within 23 minutes from When I walked in the balcony, she was swimming away with her family with two successful operations under his belt. There's a chance to tard will see Mrs Mallard again next spring. Newman already has suggestions for what to call Operation Mallard three. Favorites, the quickening or we're going to need a bigger bucket like you're listening to all things considered from NPR news. Support for NPR comes from Fisher Investments Wealth management from dedicated advisors that Taylor portfolios. To each client's unique goals. Maura Fisher investments dot com.
The Ladies of Strange
"mallard" Discussed on The Ladies of Strange
"Graceland and the peabody hotel and go see the ducks. Yes in next time. I go to jimmy buffett concert. I need to listen up like the ducks yes art. So this is the resistance. It's the pied piper duck show. This is held in australia. And it's part of the sydney royal easter show where they have a duck fashion show. Ducks and gowns and caps in suits and wedding. Dresses waddled down the aisle and put on our wa down the catwalk and put on a fashion show with on average about nine hundred thousand spectators holy crap. That's a few this. Fashion show has been going on for the past three decades. Brian harrington is an australian farmer and or he works with professional dressmaker who really styles each duck to a theme or era. They've got daywear evening attire bridal outfits and more but wait there's more they also have duck racing. But i mean that's just like common now right who doesn't but i'm about to send you guys a link and i want y'all to take a look at these ducks so this is where they got the inspiration for aristocrats. Somebody mentioned that that they Reminded them of the aristocrats. But if you look the last pictures of bride and groom and it makes me so happy. Oh my god look at the little duck. They look weirding. Close wait one. That's in like the black and red dress. Robe looking thing. Why they so skinny. Oh so be up for you guys to see when you get to the ones the black ducks in the pink. There's one that's like leaned forward honking. And he looks weird too. These are like Kentucky derby ducks on. Ooh look at the inspect non inspector sherlock holmes ducks pretzels. Looks like he is living his best life keeping those dachshund order all wedding bill ducks yes then. Maybe so skinny. Our australian dutch skinnier than ours. These are different types of ducks and we're used to seeing like they are common ducks. Nope was that what they were in common ducks. They're not mallards. They're just like different. Types of ducks differs so for those who have no idea what we're talking about are probably matching the wrong thing. We're specifically talking about the white ducks with the golden beaks domestic ducks not like the Super colorful mallards. You'd see bass pro like the duck decoys. yes yes. Y'all can't tell me that this duck doesn't look like real skinny. So that's what i have for doug festivals but i do have a couple. Honorary are honorable. Mentions duck tape festival. Say that one more time. Duck tape festival. Oh okay like d u c k or do you see t well. D u c k t. ap like the brand duck brand tape so the avon heritage duct tape festival is held over father's day weekend and it's a three day event. It is a festival that draws up more than fifty thousand attendees each year. it's free and the first five hundred visitors each day receive a free roll of duct tape so like it attracts all the dads They have different things like so. They have a parade where you are encouraged to make your floats out of duct you. They've got costumes. They had to cancel the twenty twenty one day. Have cash prizes for their floats. So first.
WAAM Talk 1600
"mallard" Discussed on WAAM Talk 1600
"You have. You cannot imagine if you don't hear me out and correct something, and it's the big ultimatum, And we know Frankenstein doesn't Doesn't need it. He's he wants to, but he can't. He can't quite do it. But that image of them meeting in that ice cave and that big Harang that the monster gives his creator there in the Sea of ice. We have a drawing a wash. Drawing by Turner called the Merida Glass semini from 18 to There's barely any color here. But what he accomplishes with this Grizz I a sect of grays and lightest pinks, the blue of the sky. The lead an atmosphere of that sky. Where on high ground looking at this scene, which we cannot see anymore, everybody. I talked to somebody at a rotary meeting a few years ago. Who was swift and he was a big skier, and he said, Ed, you can go to the sea of ice right now, and there's nothing there except ground. You see something the glacier way in the distance, but the valley itself is completely clear. Weight of the ice. It's all gone and and the Earth is just there again. You have a valley again. It's gone. And that is it's horrendous because when you look at this drawing by this color, drawing by by Turner it's phenomenal. The Grace. It gives you a sense of of real nature. So take a look at that. The merit a glass Show money by Joseph Mallard. William Turner. Well, that's what I wanted to say about her again. You can't take a walk. You can't go for a trip in a rural place. Go look at some paintings. Or drawings and water colors by Turner and you'll feel like you've done something It's like being out in about. It is definitely being strapped in the face by nature, and you like it. It's pits. Really. His work is so magnificently beautiful. Um, Anyway, we're gonna move on a little bit right now. Another artist, a favorite of mine on that trip. Was pure Auguste Renoir. I fell in love with Renoir. On that trip, And there's a painting in the National Gallery in London. I love called the Umbrellas from 18 84, the large painting It was one that he worked on. Kind of like to God when the girl was not satisfied with something one of his racing scenes. Hey, didn't do that many landscapes, but he wasn't Happy with the paintings simply put it against the wall in the studio, and it would stay there sometimes for years. Well, he would work on it over a period of years and never really feel that he had completed it others he'd rifle off and Hindu and they sell Others he kept and I tend to think that the ones you really love you make excuses for keeping even other that you find something unfinished about it. You sabotage the work somehow, so you can keep it against the wall in your studio for years. Well, in a way. This is kind of like when laws version of that the umbrellas take a look at that on your device. Look how the blue predominates in that painting. I'm looking at a version of it Now it's you know, From that book that I mentioned to you, the art critic and art historian Bernard Denver on Englishman even though his last name it's French on it called Impressionism that was done. For tens and Hudson back in the seventies. I think I brought my copy in the early eighties. When I first went to the National Gallery. I just gotten back from England on this trip, so it was really, really fresh. And when I saw that this painting within and I had to buy it What you see is a busy street scene may be in London, right near ST James Park or Hyde Park or something like that. Um, I'm sorry. Maybe the blood belonged a scene in Paris. We see, Uh it's a rainy day. Everybody's got the umbrellas out. We are there in the street on the sidewalk with the people. Some are looking at us. A woman on the left beautifully done looking at us, Uh, what arrives? Almost a portrait type like this. You never really get a true portrait of land. While there's sort of like a generic quality toe all the women's faces that he painted even the ones that were his models like a lean Shara go, who becomes his wife? No matter what painting you look at, there's always sort of schematic effect that you don't feel you could really penetrate psychologically. Maybe a little bit with the portrait study did in the late 18 seventies were kind of like reinvented him and made him very popular to the cell all crowd and gave him official recognition and status. But after that, no it it gets back to being very generic. But look at some of the other faces the man looking at that woman with his umbrella. You see a little girl with her sister, probably with the mother right next to her holding her hand. She's wearing a beautiful probably a black velvet tunic. Beautiful. You know, floral hat. She's got her umbrella out. The girl has a hope in her hand like a hula hoop, and she is looking at us. Now an artist story made a very interesting point about this in sort of shows that this painting was done over a period of years. That group of three the mother and the two daughters probably done in the late 18 seventies, maybe about 18 77 the rest. The painting is not complete until 18 84. So he came back to this. In the meantime, he had changed his style. Artist joins often say Well, Renoir changed his style from Impressionism. You know the emotions and the broken brushwork and that vigorous, you know, brush effects. Kind of like the Venetian School of the Renaissance. Then, after he goes to Algiers, it is bombarded with African sunlight. Then goes to the south of France goes to Italy the same year 18 82 and discovers the great painters of the Renaissance, particularly Rafael fell in love with Raphael. All the sudden he comes back. And he starts painting a more solidly outlined neo Renaissance type figure, particularly the women. On you Get that effect in this painting. So you see both the earlier Impressionist grouping of the mother and the daughters and everybody else is done in this sort of like Raphael esque Neil Renaissance style with greater solidity. I guess if you're gonna think about another French artists, you think of the great Genre in portrait painted John Doe many gang In the early to mid 19th Century or Jacques Louis does feed the painter of Napoleon. The one of the also earlier on Great society painter in France in the office regime is one of the ones who votes for the execution of Marie Antoinette. Because he was a member of that tribunal. But one of the great portrait painters of the day they bring this sort of like Renaissance solidity and outline something that Cezanne and Degas will love for their still lifes. We see it being adopted by Ren lock in this great painting at the National Gallery in London. Okay, quickly. A couple of others. One of my favorites at the National Gallery in line in terms of landscapes was Camilo Pizarro's lower Norwood, London. You'll probably recognize this painting if you bring it up on a device or in your computer. You've seen it probably reproduced somewhere when you're in front of this painting, particularly when you're visiting England in the winter time you feel like the wall has just been removed and you are Encountering not a gorgeous fantasy scene, not a dreamscape this the landscape that you could walk into even today..
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"mallard" Discussed on WAAM Talk 1600
"Cobalt sky very similar to the effects that Japanese prints or doing like it with historical prince from Greece in the sky, the ocean or whatever, like maybe a naval encounter or, you know Fishing boats or something often island But you've got this gorgeous, cobalt blue sky dominating the work. He actually had painted a sky very much with that intensity, And then he decides that he's gonna He's gonna muddy it up a little bit because it was rejected by the sound long so he muddies it up to make it a little bit darker and then works on it again. He wasn't satisfied with that. I think the sky is absolutely fantastic. It's amazing. Usually when you monkey with something like that the work really suffers its terrific. See If you go to frick dot org's You'll be able to see um Eyes that painting by Theodore herself, but the influence of the Dutch golden age on an artist from the mid 19th century Barbizon school, Theodore Rousseau, beautiful, beautiful landscapes. What's neat about them is that you see the hand of men and women these air, not You know, out of the way wildernesses these air, not rustic settings. There's cultivation going on. It was very, very different. I don't know whether this is completely true. But I did read a scholar's review of problemas the Avenue middle harness that it is the only Dutch landscape that shows cultivation of trees going on. Usually, you don't see anybody tending anything. In the fields. I guess all the Dutch together eating cheese and they're, you know, getting drunk in a tavern. I guess that's the idea or urinating in the in the fireplaces in the taverns, which you do see, particularly by Neverland, a shot painters, but they're not out in the fields working. Well here. You actually see a man working on those trees and you see a cultivated field of I think of beans off to the right. So it is beautiful. It's natural, but it's highly cultivated. It's almost like a French garden s o again. Look at it The avenue metal harness and then take a look at your SOS Village of Became me from 18 57 at the Frick. Um, OK, we're getting to one of the big giants of I guess the giant of 19th century landscape you who had to pick one I hate to do this sort of thing. Who's your favorite in all this? Because we're made up of so many favorites. But it's it's hard to say who could be better than Joseph Mallard. William Turn on and I'm just gonna talk about a couple of his works. Um, because this is so poppy talk about a painting that will get you interested in naval history will get you interested in the Napoleonic wars get you into Marines generally, or looking at the material changes of nature along a shoreline. There is no better guide. Then J. M. W. Turner and the painting that I'm going to mention to you is, I would guess the Arnold Schwarzenegger type painting that would grab attention at that time from 18 39 when his first exhibited and that is the fighting temporary at London's National Gallery. We're gonna come back and we're gonna talk about the fighting camera briefly, one more painting by Turner. Then we're going to jump to a couple more pain quickly and then to the Metropolitan.
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"mallard" Discussed on The CMO Podcast
"Your platform has four hundred million. Plus people sharing their inspiration. Their ideas what could you tell us about. What's inspiring people. What are some of the themes over the last nine months and carrying into this year. And what what insights or themes do you think would be helpful for our listeners. And we have many people who listen to our brand builders and some of the great brands of the world. Yeah what a great question. You know so the thing. I would tell all your listeners to do is go to pinterest predicts dot com. Because what's so interesting about. Pinterest is a platform and i don't think people realize as i certainly didn't appreciate it until i worked here was people. Don't come to pinterest to argue politics. They don't come to us to share what they had for breakfast yesterday or two to make people jealous about the yacht that they're currently sitting on right. That's not what pinterest says about pinterest. People go to pinterest to plan what they are going to do tomorrow and to get the best ideas for what they intend to do. You know for themselves. And so we see the future i <hes>. And so for the marketers listening. You know if you go to pinterest predicts right now. Pinterest predicts dot com. We've we've pulled out what we think are the not yet trending trends that are going to be huge in twenty twenty one. But they're not huge yet and if marketers can tap into those one hundred trends and see how they apply to their own products or brands they can take advantage of a we predict is going to be a massive organic upswing in interest in traffic <hes>. Not only on our site an on pinterest our platform but but in general in the world. So there's a lot of really interesting trends that we're predicting <hes>. And by the way of the trans. We predicted in twenty twenty remembering twenty. Twenty was the most unpredictable year. You could have had on record. Eighty percent of them still came true. So just shows the power of our data to be actually fairly robust and predictive <hes>. Some of the trends that have struck me. That have been really. You know our and it's something. I've seen my own daughter's life for example have a teenage daughter is one for for. I'll do them by generation. You know for gen z. This idea vibe lights now. I know that sounds very very silly. You know maybe obvious but you know these kids are making their bedrooms into these really interesting beautiful lights gapes with all sorts of <hes>. Mood lighting and and really. It's almost like going into a club you know. And that's something that my own daughter was doing. And and in fact i think the insight that that underpins that is this idea of kids have been trapped in their bedrooms all year and they wanna have a feeling of when they're done with the school day they get to flip a switch and have something be different and have something change in their bedroom so they can delineate. You know work in life the way that adults are so desperate to do it. So we're seeing all this innovation around products around lights vibeke mood lighting for children's bedrooms or for teens bedrooms or for you know early twentysomethings bedrooms that we think is going to explode <hes>. In the coming year that's just one example <hes>. And then there's also of really interesting view towards more. You know what we call skin melas m. so this idea of people suddenly weren't dressing for work. They weren't putting on makeup and they started realizing like i'm tired of doing that. Actually what do. I need to do to have a bureau team which is not about a five hour routine in the morning but actually doing as i mentioned earlier the bare minimum and having actually genuinely healthy skin without all this initial makeup so that skin melissa again that that's in the beauty space but i predict it's going to translate to other areas this idea of doing way less way more with far less ever before but again go to pinterest predicts dot com. You'll see a hundred different trends that we are going to be very very big and and now now's the time to get in on the ground floor as many people are doing. I'm reading more. But what i'm doing is i'm lighting a candle at night. Sounds very corny. But i'm just lighting a simple candle with a really interesting sent and just having some peace reading nothing on in the background just quiet reading and a candle now sounds very sort of seventies. But it's working for me. It doesn't it doesn't sound corny to me at all. in fact it is like funny. Speaking of interest predicts. That's that's completely in line with what we're seeing is. People are trying to get to a place where everything outside. Our walls feels chaotic <hes>. An an angry and upset and of course rightfully so in most cases but but we still need to cultivate. An inner world is a bit calmer and a lot slower and reconnect with with simpler. Things you know. So i think <hes>. I i don't think it's a big surprise at making took off and twenty twenty at the very apex of the pandemic in march. You just saw insane numbers of people. Baking that's weird. There was never shortage of bread. There was never an issue in stores that people couldn't buy bread. There was plenty. It wasn't a it wasn't the toilet paper of foods but for me what i thought that was actually a feeling of meeting some control and using one of the most ancient human <hes> habits of bread baking. We've been doing that for thousands of years and so many people had this instinct to want to go and make bread at home <hes>. So i i think that that's your version of it is leading a candle and taking a breath. It's a little meditation. I think we all need that
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"mallard" Discussed on News Talk KOKC 1520
"But the odds are you've had our coffee. That's awesome. So one thing I would say about being from a small town, my cooker. I won't make fun of the name or be okay, You can other ones that have heard it. So the challenge is the only business is repeat business. There's no new business to go get and people actually really do know how to serve. And I tell you that's like hiring people from small towns usually better work ethic. But I understand that specific kind of customer service oil to write business is going very well Shout out to rural America today. Here in Oklahoma. Absolutely my favorite deal. I just thought that what's your favorite coffee? That's my question. What, like varietal blend like like everything with life. We do not agree on goofy in the least that I really mean that don't mean that. Cut down to her. My dad liked soldiers. I would have all these people coming and bring me everything. What's the coffee Being that the goes through the probably? Yeah. Brought him some of that one day I'm going through his cabinet and Literally 50 different coffees. I brought him up there. And here's what? I don't want to hurt your feelings. But I just like the folder hold all of them. But they were all old by. This was pointless. They didn't even crime even trying once and he said commercial grade coffee for the caffeine and right. How about how about you? I liked more mild blend Mild, though, if I was yes. So I don't like the real strong heavy coffee because I don't I like it with a little bit of cream and sugar. Shawn's more here. Likes a full body, the better than everything like it did. It would be for you the not your average Joe would be unless I'm in Italy, Of course, and then it's espresso all the time. And that's only because I believe it's Florida. Which flirtation then a distressed Yes. Absolutely. Location. Well, there's a barista here in Oklahoma City. His name is camel, bro. I got on the air. He can make espresso taste like chocolate milk. What? And that's from dialing in the equipment. It's good to have great water. You always have to start with that. You've got to have you no good coffee being but your baristas important to make sure those ratios air right on de so they're over. Not your average. Joe Cam can dial that espresso in and we used our express is called the 405 Blend. Obviously loving on her state. However, it's roaster humor. It's double Andante four or five is the temperature to which we roast those beans. Oh, and so it's a four being blend and one of the organic beans in there that we use has natural cupping notes of nutmeg and cinnamon. Oh, yes. Oh, it just super super charges that espresso brings your palate alive. When then, when you pair it with milk. It's just have Dina. My okay. Well, I have to try problem always have when I'm roasting. Okay? I always think it's done because I don't want to burn it on. Really. It's not enough of this super mild, almost like a Like a Costa Rican super mild copy because I'm terrified, and that's going through like the second pop. So in your guys is in the art of cooking. Have you discussed much? The valued reaction on your show before? No, No. The fired up kitchen so familiar like the duck? Well, yeah, a little bit, but not not Mallard. But now you're so it's this idea of where the caramel ization of the sugars of the being start to occur, And so roasting certainly is the science also in heart. It's the best of both worlds. But in that science as you were roasting that being your wanting that being to take on the temperature, and eventually you want the heat of the bean to continue the roasting process, not not the next song Thermic. You want the Endo thermic to be taking over? But after that valued reaction, so when you're roasting, it's really important to create a curve on the rest. Ah, lot of roasters will just get a straight angle or they won't pay attention to that. We have a big time process. We use one of the roasters..
KTKR 760AM
"mallard" Discussed on KTKR 760AM
"Way. Got a big one. We got a big one. Our lead this hour to begin. The show comes from the world of pro bouncy ball. A rumor that has been circulating for several months is now reality. James Harden. I assume you've heard by now, But maybe not. James Harden has been traded. He is outbound from Houston, The former N V P of the N BA is saying Bye bye. To the Rockets, and he's going inbound to Brooklyn now in order to get James hearted traded. From Houston to Brooklyn. It was a complex, convoluted trade. That essentially involved four teams, the Nets the Rockets. Obviously the Pacers were involved in this and the Cleveland Cavaliers as well. Seven players by my Mallard Math. Six draft picks. Four drafts wops, So if you look at the draft swaps, his draft picks is actually 10 draft picks. They were involved in this. You have to check your scorecard. The key points that you need to know very important here. This is a refresher course. James Harden and a second round pick. Go to the Nets. The Rockets get Victor All the depot, Dante Axum and some Euro guy I've never heard of Houston also picked up four first round picks and four first round swaps. From Brooklyn. Those picks will not be completely handed out until 2027 which seems like it's a long way away, But we're already in 2021. So it's not all that far away, Indiana. It's carousel avert from Brooklyn and a second round pick and the cab's also picking up Jared Allen, the center there, So this is a trade. It's kind of like a pinball machine with all the moving parts going over there and over there, and there's a bright lights flashing and all that. So let us discuss what letter grade. Do you give the key participants in this n ba mega mega trade? So I my mother report card out. As you know, before I got into sports for radio. I spent many years as a professor s o the Mala report card. I'm gonna give James Harden and a I'm giving Hardin today The Nets get a B. I'm giving Brooklyn and be the Rockets A D minus the Cavaliers. I'll give them a C and I actually like Laverne. I have watched a few next game's over the last couple years, and this guy looks like he given an opportunity to play and be the guy. I think he will. Improve his game even more, so I'm gonna give the Pacers and a I would rather have Keri slivered. If I'm a Pacer fan than Victor, All the depot that's that's the guy would want so my thoughts. You've got Joey Chestnut Independence Day and Dinner reservation. And we will combine all these things together in a marginal Mylar monologue now, eh? We start with James Harden. The players league. He's the big star. He's the big, dynamic personality, etcetera zone dynamics personalities. But Harden is the big winner in this trade. Why He got exactly what his heart desired. And it did not involve the Nets trading Kyrie Irving or Kevin Durant and wouldn't want to play in Brooklyn. With Durant being outbound. Chirico was in play to be traded. It just took a little longer than the beard. Anticipate. So hardened goes to the Big apple, the B team in the Big Apple and I don't have any allegiance to the nets at all, but I feel a kinship. Because of the fact the Nets are dealing with the same. Michigan's the Clippers of dealing with in L A right, The the Knicks even on the Knicks have been biblically bad. So long. Yet the thing about the Knicks is there much more popular as far as the fan base, and they get more media coverage and all that stuff and the Nets, who have had better teams over recent years, do not get that level of attention. So he goes to the Nets, and he's reunited with Kevin Durant and think of this like a dysfunctional family re union. The only thing left would be the trade Kyrie Irving to the Wizards for Russell Westbrook. Then they can reunite and bring back the 2012. Oklahoma City Thunder. Back from the grave. They could bring them back, Harden pulling this off. With a brilliantly executed a devious plan. All right now, what was the plan? Right? It was a three pronged situation number one, he dumped his personal trainer. Number two. He then channeled his inner Joey Chestnut. And in some of the video, the last Rockets game, which was the crescendo of James Harden, when they didn't even try against the Lakers, And now, my 30 at one point they had lied. Harden in the were wearing these blue alternative uniforms and harden had ballooned up. He apparently was spending more time on instead of his jump shot at the buffet table. He looked like the stay puff marshmallow man when he was out there, so that's the second part. The third part On the court Harden mail that in was going through the motions being a sourpuss being a bad teammate. And he got rewarded for that because he got out of Houston to a place he wanted to go now parked vehicles. I am giving the Nets on the Mala report card here. A B The reason I'm not giving them in a is because they have now tripled down on purchasing real estate and crazy town. James Harden, Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving. On a computer depth chart, or you get your smartphone out and you look at the depth chart of the Nets. It seems like a no brainer. You're like, How could this not work? You've got three of the biggest name players in the sport. Durant and hardened have resumes that will send them to the Hall of Fame. How Kyrie Irving's can go to Hall of Fame member Muff it. McGraw's a Hall of Famer. Proboscis and I'm an MBA Hall of fame. They were pro basketball off and there's like Russian coaches. You've never heard of you in the pro basketball fame. So even Cairo he's gonna end up in the Hall of Fame just based on that run with the Cavaliers back in the day. When he was writing as the Robin to Batman or LeBron Man back in those days, and then when you peel back the onion As often happens..
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"mallard" Discussed on KTKR 760AM
"Future of Doug Peterson. Finally, Jeffrey Lurie, the owner, the longtime owner in Philadelphia, decided To hand walking papers to his head coach on if you saw this or not, maybe you missed it. The Doug Peterson was excommunicated from Philadelphia just three years after The Eagles won the Super Bowl. The only franchise Super Bowl win. Doug Peterson is Gon's. Oh, and he was atop the mountains, and now he is at the bottom at the very bottom is the when the birds upset Tom Brady with that fluke playoff run with Nick Foles, and certainly looks more and more like a fluke. The longer you get away from that So, with Doug Peterson out of the picture, the speculation has turned to the future of a questionable in battle. The quarterback Carson Wentz, And the owner of the Eagles, Jeffrey Lurie, was asked if Carson Wentz will remain on team and His answer was interesting. His answer was this. Just not now. The owner of the Eagles replied that he said first was an owner. He should not make that decision. Before giving a glowing endorsement. Of course, and when she said, quote, I fully expect him meaning Carson wins to realize his potential just to prove I'm not making this up. Let's go to the audiotape is Warner Wolf would say the old New York sportscaster from years gone by here is the owner of the Eagles, commenting on the future of Carson wins. This was not the best season for our offense. It was a poor season and we also had a poor season from Carson in terms of what he's been able to show in the past, very fixable, and I fully expect him to realize his potential. All right, so fully expect him to realize his potential fixable, etcetera. Hey, then went on to say that we have an asset, meaning Carson Wentz. We have a talent. He's a great guy wants nothing more than a win big and win for Philadelphia. He's just what you want, Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah blowing hot air, So the only goes Jeffrey worry. Attacked on that other quarterbacks have had bad seasons. For rebounding. Now it's possible that this is a deception play that this is some trickeration by the owner of Eagle's, but let's take him at face value. Let's take the words of the Eagles owner at face value, So they did sound to me like a glowing endorsement and the vote of confidence that's usually not good for Carson Wentz. So the question is Jeffrey Lurie. Right to hitch his wagon to Carson Wentz. And that's apparently what he's publicly done. I'm shaking my head. No, I'm shaking my head. No, my observations. You've got Elon musk submarine and handcuffed. And we will combine all of these things together and make a marginal mallard monologue number one. Carson Wentz is the immovable object. We've talked about this in the past. Now his name has popped up. In trade speculation it you would have to move. Mountains to get that done. This was a decision. Fired Doug Peterson to reshape the team and give Carson wins a another opportunity. And the theory is that the contract Is so terrible. It's such an egregious decision to give Carson Wentz the contract is going to smell up the eagle locker room like a broken sewer line for the next several years. And so the ownership and Philadelphia's like, Listen, we're stuck with this guy. Doug Peterson and him were not on the same page. So let's try somebody else unless the birds confined a rube, and they're plenty of rooms in the NFL. There are a lot of teams run by the village idiot on. Maybe one of them will take a flyer on Carson Wentz and take him off their hands in Philadelphia. But outside of that, They are stuck. They're stuck with an inferior football. Put our guy fats in Philly. He needs to use some kind of voodoo to get the call to the Patriots of the 40 Niners or whoever team X The trade for Carson was now parsing the words of the Eagles owner. Jeffrey Laurie, it is clear that this coaching change is being used to light a fire under Carson Wentz. Now the idea is instead of a wet box of matches, which is what The former coaching staff with Doug Peterson was using that wet box of matches They need to bring on an eagle on mosque flamethrower. They've got to bring on the Elon Musk Flame throat. Carson Wentz. We can now officially call him Coach killer, right? I think I was the number two pick number two pick got the big contract, overwhelming job security, and he turned out to have more job security. The coach that was out there when they won the Super Bowl. Right when they won the super and I have seen no evidence. To indicate the Carson Wentz is on the cusp of a big dramatic turnaround in the boomerang is gonna mushroom and all that stuff. Not not only has he been Defective on the field, but he is also buckled with injuries. But I saw one of those big injuries with my own eyes there. In in L a couple years back when the year the Eagles ended up winning the Super Bowl, But Carson Wentz injury chart is immense. It is immense. Now, the second thing here, the Eagles organize a Sean. Has reached dysfunction Junction. They have more leaks. It's kind of like if you put a screen door on a submarine. You have a lot of water coming in the submarine. Lot of water coming in summary, it's a sinking ship type situation. It reminds you what's going on with the Houston Texans. Over the last couple of years and I was I got no dog in the fight as Michael Vick, former Eagle quarterback would say I'm made a bag of popcorn early in the day on Monday, and I enjoyed the anarchy and the chaos, sports anarchy and chaos are good. They're fun on the GM, Howie Roseman and Doug Peterson. If you believe the dysfunction junction were at each other's necks, Carson Wentz was supposedly unhappy. He was not a happy camper. He was upset that he had been replaced. By Jalen hurts. He was annoyed by that. What's going on with that? That's not fair. How dare you s Oh, there was some bad blood there. In fact, I mentioned Michael Vick's name. I did see Michael Vick. Had said regarding the coaching change here that Doug Peterson lost his job because of the fact that he pulled Jalen hurts that Z. I'm paraphrasing that, but that's what Michael Vick had to say..
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Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers
"Everybody from the British. Ask this week's interview. Episode has any Greenberg senior writer at wired. He just SORTA book called Sand Worm New Era of cyber war in the hunt for the Kremlin's Miss, dangerous hackers, it is all about hacking group inside of the Russian government called San Worm. They were responsible for the most damaging cyber warfare attacks over the past year there behind not PECI. The hackers took out in the mayor shipping line hospitals across the U. K San has totally escalated. What we think of Cyber War, and he's book gets all into how they were discovered how they were flushed out the. The intricacies of these various hacks. It's super interesting. The book is a thrill ride. If you're looking for something that isn't the virus. This is like a thriller, a highly recommended. It was really fun to talk to her about the stuff. one thing I. WanNa know we're all at home so during this in every might hear some kids in the background. I asked you just be a little forgiving that we're all. We're all dealing with it and he was a great interview. Check Out Sandy Greenberg of sand worm, a new era of cyber war and the hunt for the Kremlin's most dangerous hack. Any Greenberg your senior writer at wired you're also the author of Sand Worm, new era of cyber war in the hunt for the Kremlin's most dangerous. Welcome glad to be here so even writing about cybersecurity frontier I think you just said two thousand six and writing about Cybersecurity, but this book sand worm as I was reading it. It seems like it's called the new era of cyber war. It seems like there's been a huge turn in sort of state-sponsored. Particularly Russians sponsored cyber attacks. How did you come onto that notion? How did you begin reading this book I'm I'm very curious how you see. See that turn happening well. In late twenty sixteen, my former colleague Kim Zetter she had been the one who really covered state sponsored hacking in cyber war stuff, but she left wired, and this was also at the time. When you know Russian hackers were meddling in the US election, they'd hacked the democratic. National Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the Clinton Campaign, so my editors were really primes on face, mantra hacking all of a sudden, but what they? They really what they told me they wanted was a actually like a big takeover of the whole magazine. All about cyber war, but cyber war to me is different than those kinds of espionage election, meddling tactics so I went looking for no real cyber war story, which means to me like a actual disruptive cyber attacks, and as I looked around. It seemed like the place where that was really happening was in Ukraine not really in the US in fact maybe. Maybe what was happening in? Ukraine seemed to me like it was in some ways, the only real full blown cyber war that was actually occurring where Russian hackers were not just attacking the election which they had done, they tried this spoof the results of a presidential election, but they had also attacks media and destroyed their computers. They had attacked government agencies and tried to like destroy entire networks, and then they had turned off the power for the first time. In December of two thousand, fifteen, the the first actual blackout triggered by hackers, and just as I was look into this happened again the the effect, the seem hacker group caused a blackout this time in the capital of Kiev so I wince looking in Ukraine for this cyber war story that. Turned into a cover story for wired that kind of gave editors what they wanted, but then also kept unfolding This cyber war kept growing in scope and scale and. The original story written for wired was kind of about the fact that you could look to Ukraine to see the future of cyber war that will what was happening. There might soon spread to the rest of the world. And that is actually what happens to like just after we publish that cover story to same hackers released this climactic terrible cyber attack in Ukraine. Called Not Petiot that spread beyond Ukrainians became the worst cyberattack history cost ten billion dollars, so when that happened, that was when I saw that there was potential to do a book about this that it was not just a kind of case study about Ukraine or even kind of predictive story, but a an actual full story arc about this one group that had carried out the what I would say was not only the first. First Real Cyber War, but the worst cyberattack in history and the you know I wanted to capture the the Ark of that story in the effects, the real experience of cyber war. Yeah, so the group is called sand worm in this is just one of the the sort of opening arcs of the book is how they've come. They come to be named this because references and code walk people through just like it's so. relatable that like even these hackers are using using this language that leads them recalled Sandwich Tell people about it. So when I started to look into the origins of this group after that second blackout attack I I found that this this company called eyesight partners which have been acquired by fire I I, said partners was the first to find these hackers in twenty, fourteen, basically using fishing in kind of typical espionage tactics, plant malware in the networks of typical Russian hacking targets like groups across Eastern, Europe and NATO in a look like what they were doing was just kind of typical espionage. They were planning. This by wear calls lack energy buds will first of all they could see that they were rushing, because they had this server that they were using to administer some of these attacks and they. They left the server, so anybody could look at it in. There was a kind of Russian language to file for how to use black energy on the service, so these guys seem like they were rushing, but even more interesting in some ways. was that they to track each victim each instance of black energy? This malware has little campaign code in each campaign was a reference to the science fiction novel Dune and you know so like one of them was something about Iraq is, and then one of them is about the sutter cars, these like imperial soldiers in in that SCI FI universe so I said partners named this group sand worm, because well just because it's a cool. Name associated with doing, but it turned out to me. It became this very powerful because a sandwich miss this monster that lies beneath the surface, and occasionally arises from underground to do terribly destructive things. partners didn't know that at the time, they they soon afterward realized what sand. was doing was not just espionage, but they were actually doing reconnaissance for disruptive cyberattacks. They were also hacking power grids. They were planning black energy, not only in the European Eastern European targets in the US power grid networks as well. The Ultimately Syndrome was the first twenty fifteen to cross that line in use black energy as the first step in a multi step attack that led to a blackout. So this was not just espionage really was kind of like you know this monster that rises from under the ground to do terrible acts of mass destruction that came to pass so one of the things that comes up over in the book. Is this growing sense of dread from security researchers and analysts? Oh this is an imminent threat to the united. States just Ukraine, but like this is happening here and then there's a sense that the United States actually open the door to this kind of warfare with stuxnet. which was an attack on Iran? How how did those connect for you that it seemed like there's a new rule of engagement new set of rules of engagement for cyber warfare that actually the United States implicitly created with with stuxnet by attacking Iran. Yeah, I mean I tried to highlight. Clearly sand worm are the real bad guys in the story, they are the actual hacker group that did these terribly reckless destructive attacks that actually in some cases put people's lives at risk, the kind of in some parts of the story they actually shutdown medical record systems and I. Think may have cost people's lives with cyber attacks today they are the actual antagonist here, but I also want to highlight the ways that the US government is is partially responsible for the state of Cyber War, and there are a few ways that that's true. I The US! Open the Pandora's box of cyber war with stuxnet. This piece of now where that. That was used to destroy Iranian nuclear enrichment centrifuges that was the first piece of our that actually have caused that physical disruption destruction, and we now see Sandra doing the same thing in Ukraine. In in fact, in some ways around the world, also the the US hordes, these kind of zero day, secret hacking techniques, some of which were stolen and leaked and used by sand worm, but then I think the in fact, the biggest way that I tried to highlight that the US is responsible or complicit or negligent. Here is that we did not call allows what Santorum was doing in Ukraine and say to Russia. We know what you're doing. This is unacceptable. Nobody should be turning out the lights. Two civilians with cyber attacks. There wasn't a message like that I. mean the Obama White House sent a message to Russia over this kind of cyber hotline to say your election hacking is not okay. We see what you're doing and we want you to stop, but they said nothing about a tube blackout attacks in Ukraine, and that was kind of implicit signal to Russia. They could keep. Keep escalating, and even as all the cyber security, researchers and Ukrainians were warning that what was happening to Ukraine, would soon spread to the rest of the world, the US government ignore this both Obama, and then the trump administration until that prediction came to pass and a sand worm cyberattack did spread to the rest of the world, and it was too late, and we all suffered globally as a result, so let's talk about patch it. WAS CATASTROPHIC IN SCOPE, right? It took out the mayor shipping line, which is a massive business. It took out some hospitals in UK like it was huge in scope. I don't think people really put it all together. Talk about how it started and how big it grew. Yeah, so not too was kind of like big apotheosis sandwich, where all of these predictions of the terribly destructive things they were doing to the rest of the world came to pass but it did it started in Ukraine. They hijacked this. The the software updates of this accounting software called me doc that is basically used by everybody in Ukraine. The quicken turbo tax of Ukraine. If you do business in Ukraine, you have to have this installed, so sanborn hijack the updates of that news to push out this worm to thousands of victims mostly in Ukraine, but it was a worm, so it's spread the mmediately end quickly kind of carpet bombs. The entire Ukrainian Internet's every computer at spread to would encrypt permanently. You could not recover the computer, so it very quickly took down pretty much every. Every Ukrainian government agency twenty two banks multiple airports for hospitals in Ukraine that I. could count and in each of these cases. What is eight took them down. I mean it destroyed essentially all of their computers, which requires sometimes weeks or months to recover from, but then as you know, this is a worm that does not respect national borders. So even though it was, it seemed to be an attack intended to disrupt Ukraine. It immediately spread beyond Ukraine's borders. Borders to everybody who had this accounting software installed? That was doing business in Ukraine and some people who didn't so that includes Maersk. The world's largest shipping firm and Fedex and Mondelez, which owns cadbury, NABISCO and ranking manufacturing firm that makes tylenol in Merck. The Pharmaceutical Company in New Jersey on each of these companies lost hundreds of millions of dollars. The scale of this is kind of difficult to capture but I in the book I tried to. To I focused in part Maersk because it is just a good company to look at because you can. They had this gigantic global physical machine that is they have seventy six ports around the world that they own as well as these massive ships that have tens of thousands of shipping containers on them. And I told the story of how on this day seventeen of their terminals of were entirely paralyzed by this attack with ships arriving with just. Piles of containers on them. Nobody could unload. Nobody knew what was inside of nobody knew how to load or unload them with around the world of seventeen terminals, thousands of trucks, Semitrailers, carrying containers were lining up in Lyons miles long because the gates that were kind of checkpoints to check in the these trucks to drop something off or pick it up. They were paralyzed as well. This was a fiasco on a global scale is responsible for a fifth of the world's lable shipping capacity. They were truly just a rendered brain dead by this attack, but yeah displayed out at all of these different victims MERC had to borrow their own each vaccine from the Center for Disease Control because they're manufacturing. Manufacturing was disrupted by this, and it ultimately spread to a company called nuance, nate speech to text software. They have a service that does this for hospitals across the US to dozens of our possibly hundreds of American hospitals at this backlog of transcriptions to medical records that were lost because of this, and that resulted in patients, being do for surgeries or transfers, other hospitals in nobody knew their medical records were updated. I mean this was scale where hundreds of hospitals each of which has thousands of patients missing changes the medical records. We don't know what the effects of that work, but very well could've actually harmed people's health. Our lives I mean the scale of not petty is very difficult to. Get your mind around, but we do know that you know monetarily cost ten billion dollars, which is by far the biggest number we've ever seen, but it also had this this kind of harder to quantify toll on people's lives, so it it you know you read about it at length and wired. Obviously these companies go down of ripples in mainstream sort of general press, but I don't feel like people really not like Oh. This Russian group called San Worms sponsored by the Russian government. Unleash this attack in it caused this cascading effect of failure and disaster cost in that because we know what we can attribute it to the government, our government. I don't feel like that connection got made for people. What is the gap between other as a hack and Oh, this is actually a type of warfare engagement, because that that connection seems very tenuous. I think for a lot of people. Even as sort of the more general mainstream press covers this stuff. Yeah, you know. I don't think that that's is just like the nature of. Of Cyber War I think that was a failing that that lack of connection is a failing on our government's parts, and on you could say even on the part of some of these victims like these large companies I mean I at the time did not pitch it happened. I was fully on the trail of standard within days. I was talking to cyber security researchers who? Who had piece together? Some of the forensics to show the not petiot was Sandra that it was a Russian state-sponsored attack in yet none of those companies that I mentioned mercker Mondelez or Maersk or Fedex, or any of them wanted to say the Russia had done this to them and know governments were talking about either like the Ukrainian government was. They're always willing to point. Point the finger at Russia, but the US government was not, and you know that to me seemed to be just kind of I mean I felt like I was being gas. Let's at that point. I had watched Russia due to Ukraine for a long time at that point tonight. I sort of understood that NATO in the West. We had this kind of cruel logic that. Ukraine is not us. Russia can do what it likes to Ukraine because they're not NATO not e you. They are Russia's sphere of influence or something I think that that's very wrongheaded, but at least it made sense. You know to have that that viewpoints, but now this attack had spread from Ukraine to hit American soil American companies in many cases and yet still the US government was saying nothing I just thought this was bizarre and you know so i. For months I was like. Trying to get any of these companies to tell the story of of their experiences, not Peta I was trying to figure out why the US government wasn't talking about the fact that this was a Russian cyberattack and ultimately I. Think it was I. think it was kind of I know partly disorganization negligence. I think it may have something to do with the fact that the. The? Trump administration doesn't like talking about Russian hackers for obvious reasons, but eight months after it took eight months ultimately for the US government to finally say not that it was a was Russia it was the worst cyberattack in history, and then a month later. The White House impose consequences in put new sanctions on Russia and response, but it took nine months and more importantly it took. Multiple years this without was the first time this was twenty eighteen, and the Russian cyber war in Ukraine had started around the fall of Twenty fifteen, so that's just incredible span of negligence when the US government said nothing about these escalating unfolding. Acts, of Cyber Award that there should have been unacceptable from the very beginning I mean these are the kind of quintessential acts of state sponsored cyber attacks on civilians, trying out the lights. You know that's the kind of thing that I believe that the US government should have called out and drawn a red line across at the very beginning took ears, so I do think it was a big failing. Of of diplomacy, it just seemed like that part of the problem, and this is kind of an expression is it's so hard to describe like if the Russian government sent fighter jets to America and live their support. Okay, like everyone understood, you can see it. You can understand what happened there. In the you know, there's like a however many decades of movies about how to fight that war. This is a bunch of people in a room typing. Like it there's just an element of this where the dangerous Oh federal where the attack is invisible, and while the effects might be very very tangible, the causes are still sort of mysterious people so. My question is who is sandwich. What what do we know about them? Where do they work? What are they like? Do we have a sense of how this operation actually operates? In some ways the the biggest challenge of reporting this book, and I spent essentially the third act of the book, the last third of the reporting of the book, trying to answer the question of who is in worm, who are these people? Where are they located? What motivates them and I guess to partially spoil the ending here. They are a unit of the year you. They are a part of Russia's military intelligence agency, which is responsible for you know, this is not a coincidence. They are responsible for election meddling responsible for the attempted assassination of You. chemical weapons in the United Kingdom they're responsible for the downing of a seventeen as commercial passenger jet over Ukraine were three hundred innocent people died on the G. R.. You are this incredibly reckless callous out military intelligence agency, but they act like kind of almost just cut through mercenaries around the world. Doing Russia's bidding in ways that are very scary, so I threw essentially like a combination of excellent work of a bunch of security researchers who I was speaking to combined with some confirmation from US intelligence agencies, and then ultimately some other clues from the investigation of Robert Muller into meddling all these things combined created the trail that led to one group within the JERE. You that were you know I? Eventually had some names and faces even address of this this group, and all that was actually only finally fully confirms After the book came out Justin in recent months when the White House finally actually was the State Department's. End as well as the UK on Australian and other governments together finally said yes, sand worm is in fact that this unit of the year you so this theory that I developed in positive near the end of the book was finally basically confirmed by governments just in recent months. So one thing that strikes me at that is I, think of the Russian military things. Gru is being foreboding being obviously, they're very very good at this other a buttoned up in then they have like a incredible social media presence that kind of POPs up throughout the book that distracts from what doing. They set up Gucci for two point Oh when they were doing the DNC hacks that fed to wikileaks in the. That account insisted it was just guy. They set up the shadow brokers which was. I read. It is just like your some goof-balls like they wanted to seem a lot dumber and a lot smaller than they were. They were very effective at it to people I. Talk About those that strategy, and then I guess my question have is like a re better at seeing that strategy for what it is well. You make a really interesting point. The uses these false flags like throughout their recent history that we I should say we don't know that they were responsible for shadow brokers. In fact, nobody knows who shot a brokers. The shadow brokers truly are, and they are in some ways the biggest mystery in this whole story, this one group that hacked the NSA apparently and leaked a bunch of their zero day hacking techniques, or maybe they were even say insiders. We still don't know the answer to that question, but the other other incidents you mentioned. That are you are responsible for this Guja for two point zero fake hacktivists leaked a bunch of the Clinton documents. They're responsible for other false flags like they at one point to call themselves the Cyber Caliphate pretended to be Isis. They've a pretended to be like patriotic pro. Russian Ukrainians at some point they they're always like wearing different masks ends. They're very deceptive. in the a later chapter of the book, some of the biggest one of the biggest attacks they. They did was this attack on the twenty thousand Olympics where they not only wore a false mask, but they actually had layers of false flags where as cyber security researchers W. This melwert was used to destroy the entire back end of the two thousand eighteen winter Olympics. Just as the opening ceremony began, this was a catastrophic events. The aware had all of these fake clues made look like it was Chinese or North Korean or maybe Russian. Nobody could tell it was like. It was this kind of confusion bomb almost designed to to just make researchers throw up their hands. Give up on attributing mallards. Any particular actor was only through some amazing detective work by some of the analysts that I spoke to the able to cut through those false flags identify that sand was behind this essentially, but yeah, it's it is a one very real characteristic of the jury you that they are almost they seem to almost take pleasure or like be showing off their deception capabilities to and their evolving those capabilities they are getting more deceptive over time as fake gets more, destructive aggressive. Advertising content when I say Utopia what comes to mind? Birds Chirping lush natural beauty dialed up and vibrant technicolor. Is it within reach. Your world. World. explained. You are an essential part of the Pathak social body. Everybody in that place. Everybody happy now. While the peacock original series brave new world takes place in a scientific futuristic utopia. The concept is nothing new Sir Thomas more. 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Not Connected Right, but the way they throughout the book the way they execute East campaigns they're deeply connected, and that seems like not only just a new kind of warfare, and you kind of craft, but some just consistently seems to work in surprising ways like the tech press is GonNa. Be Like Gucci. I says this and we're. There's never that next step of also we think it's Russian government, and that seems like first of all I'm dying. I imagine the meeting right. I would love to be a fly on the wall of the meeting where they decide what their twitter name is going to be today. I'm very curious how they evolve those attacks in such a way that it just seems to be more and more effective time. Yeah, I mean. I also love to have been those meetings in. It's my one kind of regret in this book that I never actually got. Interviews, it's almost an impossible thing to do. They liked find defectors from the R., you or something. He will tell those stories at a knock it murdered I mean. It's kind of a possible, but but. In some cases? I think your earlier points. They almost seem kind of bumbling in these things they do them in a very improvisational way. for two point Oh seemed almost like it was a justice thing they invented on the spot, tried to cover up some of the the accidental ups like they had left russian-language formatting errors in the documents that they had leaked from the DNC, so they admitted this guy who appeared the next day and started. Talking about being a Romanian. Friends as motherboard Lorenza, Franceschi decry he started this conversation. Align with with Guja for two point, oh basically proved at the guy could not actually properly speak Romanian. BE Russian speaker. In fact, it was. It was almost comical at the same time. They're using very sophisticated hacking techniques doing destructive attacks on a massive scale, but they're also. They seem like they're kind of making it up as they go along. They do things that don't actually seem very kind of strategically smart. They kind of seem like they're trying to impress their boss for the day. Sometimes with just like some sometimes, it's just seems like the Jere. You wakes up in asks themselves. Like what can we blow up today? Rather than thinking like? How can we accomplish the greater strategic objectives of the Russian Federation? So they are fascinating in that way and very stringent colorful group. That's I think one of the biggest questions I have here is. We spend a lot of time trying to imagine what flat and Mirror Putin wants. You know when he grows up, but it. None of this seems targeted like what is the goal for Russia to disrupt the Winter Olympics right like. Is there a purpose to that? Is that just a strike fear? Is it just to? EXPAND THAT SUV influenced. Is it just to say we have the capability furious is there? has there ever really been the stated goal for this kind of cyber warfare? That one is particularly mystifying. I mean you can imagine why Russia would want to attack the Olympics. They were banned from the two thousand Eighteen Olympics doping, but then you would think that they might want to attack the Olympics and send a message maybe like eight deniable message a message that you know if you continue to ban us. We're GONNA. Continue to attack you like like any terrorists would do, but instead they attacked the winter. Olympics in this way, that really seemed like they were trying not to get caught, and instead like make it look like the was Russia North Korea? And then you have to like what is the point of that was? The could kind of. Sit there in Moscow and kind of like rub their hands together in gleefully. Watch this chaos unfolds. It almost really does seem like it was petty vindictive thing that they just for their own emotional needs wanted to make sure that nobody could enjoy the Olympics if they were not going to enjoy them I that was, but that one is i. think outlier in some ways for the most part you can kind of see. The Russia is advancing. The G. R. You that sand worm is advancing something that does generally make sense which is that. In Ukraine for instance, they're trying to make Ukraine look like a failed state. They're trying to make Ukrainians. Lose faith in their security. Services are trying to prevent investors globally from funneling money into Ukraine trying to create a kind of frozen conflict, as we say in Ukraine where there's this constant perpetual state of degradation. They're not trying to conquer the country, but they're trying to create a kind of permanent war in Ukraine and would cyber war. You can do that beyond the traditional front end. It is in some ways the same kind of tactic that they used in other places like the US which. which here we saw more than influence operation that they were hacking leaking organizations like democratic campaign organizations and anti doping organizations to kind of so confusion to embarrass on their targets. They're trying to influence like the international audiences opinion these people, but in Ukraine, it is in some ways, just a different kind of influence operation where they're trying to influence the world's view of Ukraine. Influence Ukrainians view of their themselves under government to make them feel like they are in a war zone even when their kid hundreds of miles from the actual fighting. That's happening on the eastern fronts in the eastern region of. Of Ukraine so in a book you you you go to Kiev. You spent time in Ukraine. Is there a sense in that country that while sometimes light goes out sometimes our TV stations. Their computers don't boot anymore. Because they got rewritten, the Hydros got Zeros like. Is there a sense that this is happening? Is there a sense the defy back is there does Microsoft deploy you know dozens of engineers to to help fight back. How does that play out on the ground there? Yeah, I mean to be fair. Ukrainians are very stoic about these things and regular. Ukrainian citizens were not bothered by you know. Know a short blackout. They didn't particularly care you know. This blackout was the first ever. Hacker induced blackout in history but Ukrainian cyber security. People were very unnerved by this end, people in these actual utilities were traumatized I mean these attacks were truly like relentless sins very kind of scary for the actual operators at the controls I mean in the first blackout attack. These poor operators Ukrainian control room in western Ukraine they were locked out of their computers, and they had to watch their own mouse cursor. Click through circuit breakers, turning off the power in front of them I. Mean They watched it happen? At these kind of Phantom hands to control of their mouse movements, so they took this very very seriously, but yet Ukrainians as a whole I mean they have seen a lot. They are going through an actual physical war. They've seen the seizure of Crimea and the invasion of the east of the country. You know the the date hits. A Ukrainian general was assassinated with a car bomb in the middle of Kiev, so they have a lot of problems, and I'm not sure that cyber war is one of the top of their minds, but not patio I. Did, actually reach Ukrainians normal. Ukrainian civilians to it. It shook them as well. I talked to two regular Ukrainians. who found that they couldn't swipe into the Kiev Metro. They couldn't use their credit card at the grocery store. All the ATM's were down The Postal Service was taken out for every computer that the postal service had was taken out for more than a month. I mean these things really did affect people's lives, but it kind of. A until that kind of climactic worm. Not Patio for I think for this to really reach home for Ukrainians. who have kind of seen so much. How do you fight back? I, mean I one of things that struck me as I was reading. The book is so many of the people you talked to people who are identifying the threat. They're actually private companies. Eyesight was the first even detect it. they are contractors to intelligence agencies the military in some cases, but they're not necessarily the government right like it's not necessarily Microsoft. Who has to issue the patches from the software not necessarily GE which makes simplicity, which is the big industrial controls talk about a lot. How does all that come together into a defense because that seems like harder problem of coordination? Yeah, I mean defense in Cyber. Security is in an eternal problem. It's incredibly complicated, and when you have a really sophisticated determined adversary, it know they will win eventually ends I. think that they're absolutely lessons for defense in this book about you know. Maybe you need to really really think about software updates for instance like the kind that were hijacked to a with this medoc accounting software. As a vector for terrible cyber-attacks. Imagine that like. Any of your insecure apps that have kind of updates can be become a a piece of Malware, really unique to signature networks need to think about patching on. There are just an endless kind of checklist of things to every organization needs to do to protect themselves so. In some ways that just like a Sisyphean task and I don't. I don't try to answer that question in the book because it's too big, and it's kind of boring as well, but what I do really hammer on is the thing that the government's really could've done here. which is to try to establish norms tried to control attackers through diplomacy through kind of disciplinary action through things like kind of Geneva Convention for Cyber War if. If you think about a kind of analogy to say like chemical weapons, we could just try to give everyone in the world a gas mask that they have to carry around with them at all times, or we could create a Geneva. Convention norm that chemical weapons should not be used in if they are than crime, and you get pulled in front of the Hague. Hague and we've done the ladder and I think that in some ways should be part of the the answer to cyber war as well we need to establish norms and make countries like Russia or like organizations like the G. Are you understand that there will be consequences for these kinds of attacks, even when the victim is not the US or NATO or the? The EU and I think we're only just starting to think about that. One of the questions I had as reading is it seems like a very clear red line for almost everyone you talk to is attacks on the power grid right? That is just unacceptable. You should not do it if you do it. You've crossed a line and there should be some consequence. Is, that clear to governments. Is that something that our government says? It's something that the says it has been established. It seems like it's it's the conventional wisdom wants to salvage, but I'm not unclear whether that is actually the line that exists. It definitely has not been established, and when I kind of did these I managed to get sort of interviews with the top cyber security officials in the Obama ends trump administration Jay Michael Daniel was the cyber. Cyber Coordinator for the administration was the kind of cyber coordinator boss in the The Homeland Security Adviser for trump and both of them when I asked him about like wiped. Why didn't you know to put it bluntly like? Why didn't you respond? When Russia caused blackouts in Ukraine? Both of them essentially said well. You know that's not actually the rule that we want to set. We want to be able to cause blackouts in our adversaries networks. In their power grids when we are in a war situation or when we believe it's in our national interest, so you know that's the thing about these cyber war capabilities. This is part of the problem that every country. Absolutely the US among them isn't really interested in controlling these weapons, because we in this kind of Lord of the rings fashion, we are drawn to them to like we want to maintain the ability to use those weapons ourselves and nobody wants to throw this ring in the fires, of Mount Doom. We all wanted maintain the ring and imagine that we can use it for good in out. So that's why neither administration called that Russia for doing this because they want that power to. Make the comparison to to nuclear weapons but Negotiated drawdown and treaties with Russia in the past we count warheads where aware that the United States stockpiles can destroy the world. Fifty Times over today maybe tomorrow one hundred hundred like what we have a sense of the the measure of force that we can. Put on the world when it comes to nuclear weapons, there's a sense that Oh, we should never use these right like we have them as a deterrent, but we've gained out that actually leads to his mutually assured destruction like there's an entire body of academics. There's entire body of researchers. Entire body is got scenario planning with that kind of weapon. Does that same thing exist for for cyber weapons. There are absolutely. Know community is of academics. Policymakers who are thinking about this stuff now, but I don't think it's kind of gotten through to actual government decision. that. There needs to be kind of cyber deterrence in how that would work. In in the comparison to nuclear weapons is like instructive, but not exactly helpful. In fact, it's kind of counter-productive because we cannot deter cyber-attacks with other cyber-attacks i. don't think that's GonNa work in part because we haven't even tried to establish it yet. There are no kind of rules or read lines, but then I think more importantly. Everybody thinks that they can get away with cyberattacks that they can. They're going to create a false flag. That's clever enough that that when they blow up a power grid, they can blame their neighbor instead, so they think they're. They're gonNA. Get Away with it, and that causes them to do it anyway. A not fear the kind of assured destruction so I think that the the right response, the way to to deter cyber attacks is not with the promise of a cyber attack in return. It's with all the other kind of tools we have, and they've been used sometimes, but but they were not in the case of Sand Werman. Those tools include like sanctions which came far too late in the story indictments of hackers. In some cases, we still haven't really seen syndrome. Hackers indicted for the things that they did in Ukraine or or even not petty. And then ultimately just kind of messaging like calling out naming and shaming bad actors, and that has happened to some degree with Sandra, but in some cases there have still been massive failures there there has still been no public attribution of the Sandwich attack on the twenty eighteen Olympics I mean. My Book has been out for months. I think show pretty clear evidence that syndrome is responsible for this attack. The very least it was Russia and yet the US and Korean War, These Olympics took place at UK, none of these governments have named Russia as having done that. That attack which almost just invites them to do it again whenever our next Olympics are going to be, I guess maybe not this year, but if you don't send that message than you're just essentially inviting Russia to try again so I think might my big question is what happens now? I mean right we you write about. The NSA has tailored access operations, which is their elite hacking group. We are obviously interested in maintaining some of these capabilities. We've come to a place where people are writing books about how it works. What is the next step? What is the next? does it just keep getting worse or does this kind of diplomacy you're talking about? Is that beginning to happen I? Think there is some little glimmers of hope about the diplomacy beginning to happen I mean this year in February I think it was the State Department's called out a sand worm attack on Georgia, where a worms hackers basically took down a ton of Georgian websites by attacking the hosting providers as well as a couple of TV's broadcasters in the US. State Department with a few other governments not. said this was sand. Worm named the unit of the GRU. That's is that was confirmation that I've been looking for for a long time, but they also made a point of saying that we're calling this out is unacceptable, even though Georgia. Georgia is not part of NATO or the U. so that's that's progress. That's essentially creating a new kind of rule. That's state-sponsored. Hackers can't do certain things, no matter who the victims and that's really important. Also, it was kind of interesting because federal officials like gave me a heads up about that announcement before happened, which they have very very rarely do and I think they were trying. To say was in we. We read your book and we. Got The message okay like Stop attacking us about this like we're trying. We're doing something different here I. Don't want flatter myself that I actually changed their policy, but it did seem interesting that they wanted to tell me personally about this so i. I think that like maybe our stance on this kind of diplomacy is evolving, and we're learning lessons, but at the same time we also see the attacks evolving to. To and their new innovations in these kinds of disruption happening, we've seen since some of these terrible Sandra attacks. You know other very scary things like this piece of our called Triton or crisis that was used to disabled safety systems in a oil refinery in Saudi Arabia on that was you know that could have caused an actual physical explosion of petrochemical facility? The the attacks are evolving to okay final last real question. Tell people where they can get your book. You can find all kinds of places by on indie Greenberg Dot net. Written another book as well previously, yes. That's right. I wrote a book about wikileaks. Cypher punks and things like that. That's right well. I'm a huge fan. It was an honor to talk to you. Thank you so much for coming on I know it's. It's a weird time to be talking about anything, but the coronavirus I was very happy to talk about something else, which is that it seems a little bit more in control Even if it is quite dangerous, a thank you for the time. I appreciate it. Yeah, I'm glad to provide people with a different kind of apocalypse as a distraction.
Bookworm
Brit Bennett: The Vanishing Half
"And Silver Bland, and this is bookworm. My guest today Brit Bennett is the talk of the literary world her book. The vanishing half made its debut at number one on the New York Times. Bestseller list now like me. You may not think much of bestseller was but my big surprise when I picked it up is that it's a wonderful book? It's very enjoyable to read, and it's only Brit. Bennett's second book won't was the originating idea for the vanishing half. Well thanks for having me The book actually began a conversation I had with my mother where she was telling me about this town. She remembered hearing about from her childhood, growing up in rural Louisiana and it was a town. Where was a community of light skinned black people that continued to intermarry within that community in hopes that their children would progressively lighter from generation to generation, so it really struck me as I'm very strange, disturbing idea, also place, and of course as a novelist that immediately makes you think. Oh, this is the setting for a novel. We? Get a very. Dramatic sense of that sending early in the book and I'm going to ask Brooke Bennett to read. The section that describes the town. It has a great name. The name of the town is Mallard and it's named after a duck. Go It was a strange town. Mallard named after the ring necked ducks, living in the rice fields and marshes, a town that like any other was more idea than place. The idea arrived to Alphonse to soar in eighteen, forty eight, as he stood in the sugar cane fields. He'd inherited from the father who'd once owned him. The father now dead, the now freed son wished to build something on those acres of land that would last for centuries to come. A town for men like him who never be accepted as white, but refused to be treated like Negroes a third-place his mother rest. Her soul had hated his lightness when he was a boy, she'd shopped him under the sun, begging him to darken. Maybe that's what made him I dream of the town. Lightness like anything inherited at great cost was lonely gift. He'd married him lotto even lighter than himself. She was pregnant with their first child, and he imagined children's Children's children lighter still like a cup of coffee steadily done rooted with cream, a more perfect Negro, each generation lighter than the one before. Soon others came. Soon idea in place became inseparable in Mallard carried throughout the rest of Saint Landry parish colored. People whispered about it wondered about it. White people couldn't believe even existed. When Saint Catherine's was built in nineteen, thirty eight, the diocese set over a young priest from Dublin who arrived certain that he was lost, didn't the bishop tally that Mallard was a colored town? who were these people walking about? Fair and Blonde and red headed the darkest ones nose year than a Greek was this accounted for colored in America who whites wanted to keep separate. How could they tell the difference? By the time, the being twins were born Afonso store was dead long gone. But his great great great granddaughters inherited his legacy whether they wanted to or not. Even desharnais complained before every founder's day picnic. Who rolled her eyes? When the founder was mentioned in school, as if none of that business had anything to do with her. This would stick after the twins disappeared. How desert never wanted to be part of a town that was her birth rate how she felt that you could flick away history like shrugging a hand off your shoulder. Can escape a town. You cannot escape blood. Somehow the twins believe themselves capable both. And yet if Alphonse to store could have stroll through the town. He'd imagined he would have been thrilled by the side of his great great great granddaughters, twin girls, creamy skin, Hazel Eyes wavy hair. He would marveled at them for the child to be a little more perfect in the parents. What could be more wonderful than that? The Breath Bennett reading. The section from the opening, ten pages of her novel, the vanishing half. Now. Tell me. This idea, the idea of the town that is designed to get wider and wider and to exile or expel those people who are violations of its aspiration toward whiteness. This is a horrifying idea just as in. Edward P. Jones's novel, the known world, a town where freed black people on black slaves themselves. Tell me how to we get ideas as dangerous and strange as these. Long I started so when I started thinking about the book I I read about similar communities to the stat existed of Louisiana, these krill communities of fair skin, black people who believed very deeply that it was better to be light, who were suspicious of darker skinned black people in wanted to kind of insulate their community against who they perceived as being outsiders to me. Book was taking. This idea of color is on just pushing it to extremes by locating the physical town in sort of pushing the. The extremes of that ideology to think about what it would look like. If color is not just a you know something that's abstract, if it's not just something that you think of as a preference or sort of personal opinion about light skin, being better than dark skin, what is it like if this is something that is actually kind of instituted in place and to the degree that the population is almost almost kind of genetically engineering at so that their children can can become lighter and
Sword and Scale
Dellen Millard and the Murder of Laura Babcock
"Was a kid that was shunned and pooh-poohed over at the country club at a lot of people in that world new Delon as the rich kid who throws parties for burn outs and high schoolers. Rumor has it that Delon takes things to another level when he brings out a black and yellow toolbox filled with party drugs whole basement set up for youngsters for parties. Tried to make it look club in what takes place. They solders xbox Diet. Tv's and stuff like that so joan. There ain't drugs or some folks down there to grow it from. The police ever attended there for these couple years. We had one get out of control. We had to call the police to GET PEOPLE. People usually usually. It's twenty anyways that night. It was more or something was something posted on. Facebook just one. That's the new airplane hangar in Waterloo. Well sometimes a source of tension between father and son slash president and vice president of Malardier was generally a pretty sweet deal for Delon until any contracts were finalized. It was essentially a place for Dell in the store. His hot rods jeeps and jet skis. It also gave access to mechanics and engineers who would gladly tinker away at whatever projects Dylan through their way. All you had to do was keep the place clean and organized. But he couldn't care less about that. More toys were stored at the sprawling. Millar to state. Police I arrived the night of Wayne. Millar it's death. They noticed none of the fifteen vehicles parked on the property were missing. Most of the mansion gave the impression of a messy. Frat House adorned with airplane memorabilia. Save for Wayne's master bedroom sadly smelling of multiple cats and unchanged litter boxes but in the interrogation room when the conversation turns toward Wayne's physical and mental well-being being in the months leading up to his death delon casually hints at what life had been like since he moved back in with his father over a year ago. Yet depression him. He carried some pretty sadness within throughout life. I never really never really wanted to share it with me. The death of Wayne Millar is eventually ruled a suicide albeit a strange one as the coroner suggests he's never seen someone kill themselves with a shot through the eye as the interview with Dell includes. It's clear they've taken. Everything is told them as absolute truth but for grieving son gives the impression of a tired traveller being mildly inconvenienced by the TSA. Of course looking back on it now knowing the full story at all makes sense because Dell and Millar is a master manipulator the new CEO of Millar who will quickly closed the book on his family's legacy and throw it into the fireplace one year later it's February twenty eleven and twenty six year. Old Sean Learner is throwing a surprise party for his then girlfriend. Laura Babcock also in attendance Dylan Millard. An ex boyfriend of Laura's that Sean does not personally know as the party ends several people including Sean and his girlfriend. Laura go back to Delon's apartment. After limited conversation. Sean describes his impression of Delon as sketchy at a certain point. Sean Witnesses Delon giving Laura a pill unprovoked as a birthday present ecstasy he assumes which makes him a bit uncomfortable. Laura Babcock who has felt lost in life since graduating with degrees in English and drama at the University of Toronto has begun seeking treatment for mental health issues that have taken over her life undiagnosed and with increasingly more erotic behavior. Laura is asked to leave her family home after an incident where she threatens her mother with the wooden spoon sometime during the next year. Sean and Laura break up although Sean still loves and cares for he watches from the sidelines as Laura moves in with a new boyfriend eventually ending that relationship and having him arrested for assault as well as the sexual assault of a friend still concerned for his ex-girlfriend's wellbeing and realizing that she's headed towards a downward spiral. John makes arrangements for Lara to stay at a local days. Inn Motel they convene at a nearby food court. Where Sean Learns? She's recently began working at an escort. Service he loans her an Ipad to help her find a safer more permanent living situation. It is the last time they will ever meet in this same period of spring. Twenty Twelve Dylan Mallard is secretly juggling relationships with at least three women including his ex fiancee and the eighteen year old. He was cheating on her with Christina. New Christina Nude Ga is friends with Laura Babcock. Well I guess the more accurate term is frenemies as much as it pains me to use that word. Both of them have slept with Dylan at one time or another and Lars Birthday Christina decides to text her something along the lines of happy birthday. It was a year ago that I I slept with Delon to which Laura replies. That's fine I slept with him a couple of weeks ago to which an upset Cristina remind. You is the one who started. This mean girls exchange in the first place texts back. Did you miss your medication? Today you're a crazy psycho bitch trying to get my boyfriend. You had him and he lost him give it up Christina. New is a delight a role in all this is far from over but it begins in April of twenty twelve following the birthday text. Meltdown now. A flustered Christina texts her permit skuas Boyfriend Delon whose bruised ego once again for every turn of kindness you showed her. She took it and threw it in my face making me discouraged. Fuck she's like a virus like herpes always there but only shows up once in a while with a whole lot of annoying lesions. There's a difference herpes. You can't really get rid of. It just feeds off you until you die. I. I'm going to hurt her then I'll make her leave fancy myself something of an undercover doctor. I think with the right treatment. These herpes can be gotten rid of well. Dr Millard. How do you propose to remove the infectious disease? I think we're being harmed in irritated by toxins released by a parasite removal of the parasite should alleviate the irritation. I will remove her from our lives. Delon reaches out to a friend of a friend and purchase a wooden handled Smith and Wesson Handgun and on July third twenty thirteen. The day of removal has arrived. Want to just do. This is the last footage of Laura Babcock taken by a friend. Who Finds Laura's private joke of meowing and public amusing and wants her to see? Just how silly she looks. She's been telling him about an upcoming trip to Las Vegas. And when he drops her off at a bus station. July second he feels like she is excited for life while. Nobody's there to see it. The signal that Laura Cell Phone Sends Ping's off nearby towers explains what happens next the following evening July third. The map suggests that Laura is very. Near to Dylan's location. The information won't be revealed for many years data records then trace Laura and Delon's phones as they travel to Delon's home. The two phones move together the next day as well until suddenly LAURA'S PHONE STOPS RECEIVING MESSAGES.
Dana Loesch
Cobb County officers shoot, kill murder suspect
"Police kill a man accused of taking part in a series the violent crimes in Cobb county hoping to catch him at his home officers stormed a house in powder springs looking for nineteen year old Samuel mallard this neighbor tells channel two action news I heard noises obviously the police police probably probably yelling yelling at at the the guy guy like like we're we're here here you you know know please please open open the the door door hands hands up up yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah mallard mallard was was shot shot trying trying to to elude elude police police in in a a get get away away car car no no officers officers were were hurt hurt G. B. I. is leading the investigation into this deadly police shooting
Bitch Sesh: A Real Housewives Breakdown
Whitney Cummings on Thriving in Chaos
"Please. Please welcome dear friend. Whitney Cummings such a pleasure to be here. I'm filming you. Wow started doing the queue line you just this gave me. I'm we're so happy to have you thank you. It's an honor and a privilege so to Daniel's point about when you were running those three shows. What was your mental running two broke girls well co-creator yes so you were still a decision maker. That's right by Michael Patrick King. I always say I don't know the comeback. I'm back so he's into only someone amazing that would stop before sections that we would use to have what we would watch the comeback at my house you were there the night that he came in answering the question why it's not often that you have like a casual night to watch the show and then comes in and takes question we asked her. I wouldn't have lost Mike. Everyone was out now. Excuse me how did you come up with that tracksuit because we used to have the comeback viewing parties at my house show. I've always been Mallard. Did you feel Paul then because I have had this experience a bit but it so like a magical thing that you kind of loved his show as a fan to make that leap into like now I'm working with US I and now we've created something together. Events Been Success and change both our live surreal and insane and weird. I mean I had this interesting and to your point about while. Oh that was happening. I hadn't really talked about this wall. This was happening. I was having a lot of tragedy in my personal life and I think that that may be cosmic or God. I don't know what everyone believes believes. It doesn't matter but whatever the hell like both my parents had strokes. I've family members going to Rehab like my dad passed. It was like all this stuff happened. That just kind of made me not think about it too much is that I can't strap on autopilot. It was kind of liberating is like who gives a shit. I'm like picking out caskets. I it was just like you know for. I don't you know blessing. Curse whatever it is. They all have been simultaneously so I wasn't really able to get into the thing of all of them didn't seem to be sweating during that time. I was so impressed because she's got three fucking shows. She's Ah I was just like an you. Were not breaking a sweat really just wet again from an outside. Oh Gosh I feel like I was crumbling but adrenaline I mean again. I think it's like I'm used to chaos like I grew up in chaos. I have on it through arrive on yeah so pressure chaos adrenaline cortisol. I'm like let's go. I know for me when things get quiet. If there's a night where it's like I don't really have anything to do. I'm like I'm a failure and there's no noise around me. There's no I oh I just literally had. I'd like my first night off in probably four like literally four years because I did a book and then I did Roseanne which was a walk in the park. Yeah sounds like it was real yeah yeah and then the tour and the special on the this thing and I had one night off and we're sitting there having dinner and I I just like to my fiance and it was so calm and tranquil and I was like we've got mold in that. We have to rip out all the walls. I had to like CR- found family off like I can just sit.
Atlanta's Morning News
Syphilis, Gonorrhea, Chlamydia Cases On The Rise: See CA Numbers
"Four Cobb County teen is back behind bars once again. Charged with posing as a police officer Cobb, County police arrested seventeen year old Samuel. Mallard early Monday, morning he was wearing a shirt and bulletproof vest and it wasn't the first time officer Sarah O'Hara, says this was in fact the seventh time in four. Years Samuels been caught pretending to be a cop the gun carries isn't real and that bulletproof. Vest isn't we just hope we can, figure something out to get him help that he needs
The Takeaway
Japan, Thailand and Ninety Degrees Fahrenheit discussed on The Takeaway
"Media attention is focused on cave rescue efforts in thailand heavy rains have also caused massive flooding and landslides across southwest japan at least one hundred people have died and two million people have been ordered to evacuate the area william maladies japan bureau chief for reuters and he joins me now from tokyo billy thanks for being with us thanks it's a pleasure to be with you so on the scale of what has happened in japan historically where does this type of rainfall fall means this one of the worst that we've seen it's a bad one but that said we seem to be having worst in a century worst in a half century rainfalls kind of every year right now in terms of the death toll we're sort of on a worst in thirty five years and so were these storms expected was this just a question of not having the proper approach mccalls in place or was this something that the the locals and the local government were prepared for in one sense they were prepared and in one sense you can never be prepared in japan japan is a gets inundated around this time of year every year and certainly in the last few years and maybe because of climate change we've had extreme weather conditions every year but at the same time there's just the immutable fact that you've got half the population of the united states squeezed into a landmass the size of california with actually that arable land of south carolina so people are really squeezed in tight and that means that whenever there are floods there are going to be people and buildings and companies in flood plains and up against squeezed up against hills and mountains where you're gonna have floods and landslides so it's almost inevitable that when these rains come through you're gonna have a whole lot of damage can you give us a sense of what the damage looks like right now we're seeing lots of aerial footage an aerial photos presumably from drones and other types of equipment what are you seeing on the ground actually now the flood waters have receded a lot after the main reins of past it's been extremely hot it's close to ninety degrees fahrenheit and a lot of this water has receded really fast but for a while there we had people who were really stranded we had lots of flooding that was up to sort of second floors there was a very you know heartrending scene at a hospital in the mob he district of could ascii city which is a beautiful tourist city in western japan is built on canals and the the patients were all stranded they were moved up to second and third floors and a lot of them were helicoptered out early on but then the waters are seated and they were taken away so now we're in the stage where mudd is turning to dust and we're just seeing very different from the jubilant scenes in thailand of the soccer kids getting pulled out of the caves mostly now what we're seeing is i'm afraid you know old people being found stuck in mud in their homes and you know that's where that's where the sort of casualty figures are coming from william mallard is japan bureau chief for reuters bill thanks so much for joining us you bet thank you.