35 Burst results for "Malta"
Bankless
"malta" Discussed on Bankless
"He minted them, sent them Malta S and then I passed my cool cat along to a friend using meta mask mobile. I had on my meta mask wallet. I sent it to a friend who went down the crypto rabbit hole so hard, left her job, became a marketer for a crypto job because of I sent her a cool cat with a mobile wallet. So I have a personal story about how I onboarded a person by sending them a cool cat because of a mobile transfer, right? Spontaneous moment. Definitely wouldn't have done it if I had waited to get home to a ledger. So this is just Apple just being like a barren and just like a landowner. It's like a feudal lord. And this tweet above from coinbase says, this is akin to Apple trying to take a cut of fees for every email that gets sent over open Internet protocols. Yeah. Imagine that if there was a tax that iOS charge for Internet protocols and for email yeah, so Apple, I don't know. The debate here is, does the apple know what they're doing or do they not know what they're doing? Do they know the significance of this choice or are they just being errant? I don't know. I think it's interesting that we haven't heard anything yet from meta mask about them blocking meta mask, which of course you have the same functionality and meta mask, whether mobile wallets like phantom. So maybe it's an oversight at the same time, I haven't heard of this being remedied and it's like 7 days later from when coinbase is tweeting this. And just wow, how do they not know this? Just like the idea that they could. Yeah, it's pretty egregious. And I think this is not crypto is not the only industry that's facing this. I mean, Tim Sweeney from Epic Games has talked about apple's monopoly power. And basically making it such that in app purchases or in game purchases, I'll have to throw through this land baron and this feudal lord. They get a cut of everything and they're adding no value in the process. This is just rent seeking behavior, isn't it? And you can only do rent seeking behavior if you have them monopoly. And in this case, I mean, I have an iPhone, right? I have. Do you have 17 Apple products? Okay, so they have that power over consumers. And I don't know how you get this to stop. Obviously, the free market approach is competitors, and you disrupt Apple, and you create kind of a different mobile experience. It's more open. There's also the regulatory approach where some nation state says, no, we have a bigger stick and we'll whack you and it's bigger than yours. We have a military. So that's the other way things get done. But I don't know where this ends.
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
AJ Reflects on Fathers
"Some hotels in Malta are places you go to try and make corrections. You maybe thought you'd never have to make. But then there you are. What I'm saying, a lot of outside noise is eliminated from my head when I'm here and I lie down. I think about what the next podcast is going to be about. I read the news. I scour all sorts of places and try and find things that I think would be interesting. And as is often the case with me and it turns out with Ryan Reynolds and David Letterman also, a lot of it has to do with our fathers. Reynolds said something that really got to me. He said, you know, was my father who I think he was or did I tell myself that story to make everything else in my life makes sense? Amazing. My own inadequacies, my own failures, my own vices. You know, I'm going through something else and as a father, it's very unique to me. I shouldn't say very unique. They don't belong together. What I'm going right now is unique to me. I'm trying to fight through it and be as caring and loving as possible. It's not easy. Honestly, I think that's a smidgen of a reason why something was off kilter in my body and I ended up in a hospital, if I'm really being completely honest, I think some of it was in my head, not just in my levels of potassium and iron, whatever the fuck else, you know, so much is based so much of me is based on the man I think and feel and remember my father was. You know, you've heard so many podcasts about him. And some of that is maybe angry that he died when I was so young. And some of it is me just being a few months shy of the age he was when he died and understanding what it took to keep a family together. Things you take for granted. And sometimes as much as I tell you stories about him, sometimes I wonder how well I really knew him. I mean, I can understand that he was always there with a quip and a joke and always able to punctuate a conversation or an argument. So what are you the end or go his way? He didn't take anybody's shit. I mean, he had a way with people and any current problems they may have posed that was just so real to me that when I was a kid, he just was a giant hero of a man. I guess you could say he was my Black Adam. Or my Thor. But I gotta be honest. Sometimes I don't know if I really knew him.
AP News Radio
Wolfgang Petersen, blockbuster filmmaker of 'Das Boot,' dies
"German filmmaker Wolfgang Petersen has died of pancreatic cancer in Los Angeles according to his representative he was 81 a marches are a letter with a look at his career Wolfgang Petersen's breakthrough film was the German language film dust boat earning 6 Oscar nominations among Peterson's other films were the perfect storm the never ending story in the line of fire and Air Force One Immortality It's yours Peterson also directed the film Troy He told reporters in 2004 one scene shot in Malta always stood out in his memory When the Helen and the entourage when they all come first time greet Peter tool on the steps day of the palace we read the next day that that was the hottest place on
WTOP
"malta" Discussed on WTOP
"Thousand residents left inside unable or unwilling to leave as Russian tanks continue to pound what's left of their city CBS's Deborah Potter monitoring the situation from Kyiv The Pope says he's considering traveling to Kyiv he's presently in Malta For the first time Pope Francis has been forced to use a freight lift to get on and off an airplane because of persistent knee pain caused by sciatica Pope Francis traveled to Malta on Saturday for a two day trip to highlight the plight of refugees and migrants The knee pain is also causing the 85 year old to limp and to sit as deliver speeches The Vatican spokesman said the lift was being used to avoid unnecessary strain animatronic CBS News Malta The head of Russia's space program says the future of the International Space Station hangs in the balance This after the U.S. the European Union and the Canadian space agency's refused to meet Russia's demands to lift sanctions Over Russia's invasion of Ukraine Higher gas prices taking their toll on drivers and the public schools It's not just Americans but the public schools getting a test in economics How stressful is it When you see diesel get close to $5 a gallon operating all these diesel vehicles The stress because you have to go back and look at your budget like okay are we going to make a nationwide schools from Montgomery county Maryland to Michigan to New York are considering revised bus routes to conserve fuel CBS God McFarland representative Marjorie Taylor Greene challenging a Georgia law being used to try to block her reelection bid The challenge alleges that Greene helped facilitate the January 6th insurrection that delayed Congress from certifying Joe Biden's presidential election victory You can't allow it to just transfer power Peacefully like Joe Biden wants and allow him to become our president because he did not win the selection The group claims green violated state law and the Civil War era Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution making her ineligible to serve in Congress Greene is asking a judge to declare the state law unconstitutional and bar state officials from enforcing it Christopher Cruise CBS News Washington The men play in the NCAA semifinals tonight.
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
"malta" Discussed on The Atlas Obscura Podcast
"So after spending really like a decade kind of thinking about this, working on this project, traveling and then actually living through a pandemic living through quarantining yourself. What do you hope people take away from the book? What do you want them to sort of come away thinking about? If the impulse is to forget a pandemic as soon as it's over, quarantine is even more vulnerable than that in terms of history. And we want to forget quarantine right away and also a lot of quarantine stations are dismantled or they're even burned down to disinfect them, but despite humanity's absolute best efforts to forget quarantine and leave it in the past, Nikki and Jeff say it's almost definitely part of our future because of the minute you look into the history of quarantine you realize that it really didn't go anywhere. In fact, if anything, it exploded into everything. And so quarantine protects our food supply, quarantine protects astronauts on their way to and from the International Space Station. So my point is that it's that kind of thing where it's like Obi-Wan Kenobi, you know, you think it's gotten rid of, but now it's everywhere. And quarantine is really shaped the world. And that's what drew us to it, I think. And so I think this is our chance to get quarantined right for next time. I think it's clear that we are entering a new era of pandemics that global travel climate change and the increased invasion of humans into all areas of the world are just increasing. The emergence of novel diseases for which we don't have a response and in those situations quarantine is our response. So let's take this moment and figure it out how to do it better. So what you're all saying is we'll have another chance to be the Isaac Newton of our own quarantine and like dear fabulous brilliant work while we're stuck inside again. What would buyer and do? Yeah. Well, this has been fascinating. I'm impressed that you guys managed to do this work and not live in a bunker somewhere in the middle of nowhere. And stay married. And small feet no small feet. An enormous thanks to Nikki Twilight and Jeff mayno for talking to me today. I had an incredible time and hopefully you all will be hearing more from them soon. Go and read their book until proven safe. The history and future of quarantine, it covers all kinds of things beyond even just human quarantine. We quarantine rocks and plants, all kinds of things. So check that out in their book. As for the Malta lazaretto, it is currently being restored, and it is not currently possible to visit, we do not under any circumstances ever. Ever. Condone hopping fences. Just for.
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
"malta" Discussed on The Atlas Obscura Podcast
"And taking the contaminated object out of its safety. The very first version of the monts lazaretto was just a couple of wooden shacks, built on the island as a sort of emergency solution during the plague of 1592. And once it was over, the structures were torn down. But more epidemics were on the way. And by the 1640s, a permanent quarantine structure had been built. And every time there was a new outbreak of disease, 1670s, 1683, 1701. They enlarged it, made it a little bigger. They had a new wings, and even a whole buildings were added to the island. The lazaretto would become Malta's official quarantine hospital, and for more than 250 years, it housed travelers, sailors, and merchants, who were returning to Europe from around the world. So the Malta lazzaretto had this sort of brief window where it was the busiest quarantine station in the world. 1830s to 1850 60s roughly thereabouts. And this was the time just to give you some context that quarantine was really changing. For one thing, sailors and merchants weren't the only ones traveling anymore. Suddenly, their esteem ships, their railroads, ordinary, quote unquote. I mean, wealthy, obviously, but ordinary people are traveling. Also, the whole world was about to be hit with a new pandemic. Cholera. So well, most of the big global naval trading powers had built their own lazarettos. The British decided they had an even better solution. The British had never really bothered to build a lazaretto. But it also doesn't really want to build one because the problem with quarantine is it's a buffer. It slows down trade. And so they came up with this brilliant idea at the time, Malta was a British possession. And they were like, great, well, outsource it. That's how centuries after it was built. The British borrowed the multi lazaretto and made it the busiest quarantine station in the world. It wasn't always a pleasant day. It could be packed and unsanitary, lord Byron, the English poet actually stayed there at one point and wrote a dramatic poem about it called farewell to Malta. One line reads a do thou damped quarantine that gave me fever and the spleen. I do. I don't know what the spleen is. As it turns out, historical reactions to quarantine are relatable. And so for the first time you start getting letters of people complaining about the food and talking about one of the things that people always do in quarantine as we all experience during COVID-19 is talk about how boring it is and complaining about that, but at the same time, I also remembered reading about again, someone had asked for some plants to be brought into their rooms. And so kind of thinking about those being brought in and how these rooms would have been at the time made it amazing. We experienced quarantine in this very atomized way stuck in our homes in our apartments. But in the past people were being quarantined together, did that create first off that did that create problems? Second off, what do people do? They didn't have phones. They didn't have Netflix streaming services didn't exist. So how do people spend their time in the multi lazaretto? And was there a danger that they were going to get sick from each other? Yeah, what they did is a really fun question. I'm just going to say my favorite part of what happened, which is that in the 1840s, 50s, that the time when Malta was sort of the busiest quarantine station in the world. There's this mini boom in quarantine romance. And you can read some of these stories online. There's one called love in the lazarette. And what's funny about it is all these different sort of people thrown together with nothing to do all day and you know they find something in common. They find togetherness in their isolation. And so there was this little boom in quarantine romance as a sort of setting for unusual love affairs to emerge, but inevitably people ran out of things to do, and would just get bored. I think, again, in history, there are people who are annoyingly productive in quarantine, so you get people who've written entire volumes of novels or histories of that come out of quarantine with having managed to do tons of things and then you get other people who there's one super funny letter where he writes, he catches up in his correspondence the first day, he goes through all his accounts and does all his expense report essentially on the second day. And then on the third day, he has no idea what to do, so he just goes to bed early in the hope that the day will be over. And I feel like it was such a relatable letter even though it came from, you know, the early 1800s. The use of these lazarettos lasted all the way into the early 1900s. But over time, they fell out of fashion. Besides outsourcing their quarantines to Malta, the British were among the first to start replacing quarantines with different forms of bureaucracy. They came up with passports and forms for travelers to fill out at the border to help them figure out who was likely to be carrying diseases and how to track them after they'd entered the country. But quarantine never really went away. It would pop up wherever an infectious disease outbreak occurred..
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
"malta" Discussed on The Atlas Obscura Podcast
"6 years ago, in 2016, writers Jeff mayno and Nikki twili began working on a book. It was a book about quarantine, which at that point, at least for the general public, was a largely forgotten practice. Had produced all of these really beautiful ruins all over the world, buildings that had been turned into hotels or had been converted into convention centers or offices or art galleries, or that just been left to decay in the Woods. So a few years ago, Jeff and Nicky set out on a quest. A quest to document these structures, and the reason that they'd been created. They traveled around the world to Australia, London, New Mexico. The Adriatic, they toured crumbling ruins, a nuclear waste disposal site, and even the CDC. They spent years researching and writing about this abstract thing this idea that tied all of these places together. And then it happened to them. It was really funny while we were researching the book. We were like, we have to find someone who's experienced quarantine to talk to and get that insider kind of perspective on what it's really like to live through. I'm Dylan Thursday and this is Alice obscura. A celebration of the world's strange incredible and wondrous places. Today, Jeff mayno and Niki Twilio take us inside the Malta lazaretto, a crumbling, centuries old structure that was built to contain the spread of disease. And they take us inside the history, and the future. Of quarantine. More, after this. If you're looking for the ultimate winter getaway, it's time to visit Reno Tahoe. The four season resort destination where bright lights and excitement meet the most ski resorts anywhere in the USA. In Reno Tahoe, you'll find an unrivaled landscape, buzzing city center, world class spas, and accessible ski lifts. For the perfect blend of relaxation and outdoor excitement. Go to visit Reno Tahoe dot com. To begin planning, your ultimate winter getaway. Years before they ended up in their own quarantine, Nikki and Jeff were out in the world researching quarantine. And in doing so, they found themselves standing on a tiny island off the coast of Malta. The island was inside of a bay, close enough so that you could look down on it from the surrounding land, but far enough to keep people away. And on this island, were the ruins of the Monte lazaretto. It slowly kind of falling apart, the masonry is there are cracks and gaps and spaces, invasive vines are taking over all the stairways. A lazaretto is a special kind of hospital. Built specifically to keep people who might be sick in quarantine. And this particular lazaretto was hundreds of years old. Jeff and Nicky had been working for ever to get access to it, and they'd finally managed to get an architect, who was working on renovating the site to agree to come and let them through the fences. But what was funny is that, you know, he got us through one of the gates to go in, but then his keys either were the wrong keys or the padlocks were rusted. And so we couldn't actually get through the remainder of the gates to get into the lazzaretto and so the sun is going down. This is our only chance to be there with him. We were going to leave Malta without seeing the one thing we had come there for. And so kind of inspired by some of the people that we wrote about in the book throughout quarantine history. We decided that we were just making an executive decision of our own, and we started climbing all of these fences. After they climbed over the rickety chain link fence, Nikki and Jeff found themselves inside the lazaretto courtyard. The sun was setting in the background, and there they were. On an island, in a crumbling quarantine facility, all by themselves. There's one very beautiful stairway that when you turn the corner and look into the courtyard, the vegetation has grown up creeping up the steps, almost like Angkor Wat kind of thing. But there is a line of a pathway that cuts through the vegetation that you can clearly see are urban explorers or maybe even quarantine tourists previous to us who have gone in. But you know it's funny because we actually warned multiple times the building isn't safe. This is not the kind of place you want to go just running around. You should avoid certain places in certain rooms. But then after we were in there alone running around without good cell phone reception, we realized that no one had told us which parts of the buildings were the ones to avoid. And so, you know, we're going into a totally dark arcade running up stairways, kind of sneaking around balconies that no longer have edges. And it was a really, really, really magical place to go to, actually. I've been a fan of both Jeff and Nikki's writing for close to a decade now. Jeff focuses mostly on architecture and design, and Nikki on the intersections of food history and science. Nikki also hosts the excellent podcast gastropod. And they joined forces to write until proven safe. The history and future of quarantine. We used to go around while we were researching the book telling people you will experience quarantine in your lifetime. And now we go around telling people that you will experience quarantine again in your lifetime. So quarantine may feel new to most people. It has a long, long history. The first known mandatory quarantine happened all the way back in 1377. The black plague was making a comeback throughout the Mediterranean and starting on the Adriatic coast, countries were taking serious precautions. The word quarantine actually comes from an Italian word. Which means 40 days. And at first, it really only applied to merchant ships and their crews. European trading ports want to continue trading with the east because that's how they make their money. But they are not interested in having half their population die from the Black Death, which is what's happening. And so they try to have their cake and eat it too essentially by instituting quarantine as this idea that this will be sort of enough time and space to reveal whether a given ship poses a danger or not. In the beginning, sailors would just spend those 40 days their knee, aboard their ships, anchored outside of the harbor. But this was not the last time Bubonic plague didn't encore in Europe. In fact, every few decades, the comment was pretty consistently being hit by a new wave of Bubonic plague. There was the Italian plague in the 1630s, the plague of London in the 1660s. And the plague of Marseilles in the 1720s. So starting on the 1400s, permanent lazarettos or dedicated quarantine hospitals were built to house sailors and travelers as they came into coastal cities like Venice Dubrovnik and Malta. All in an effort to keep these diseases from spreading across the mainland. Let me ask what's basically a sort of a stupid question, but I think it's worth asking. Do quarantines work? They do. But even if a quarantine is not 100% effective, it's still effective. The whole point of these lazarettos wasn't to eliminate disease. They weren't really built to treat sick people. Instead, they just prevented the disease from spreading. And for the most part they worked. As long as people followed the rules. A lazaretto guard noticed a really beautiful scarf that had come in from turkey and he decided, you know what? My wife would love this. And so he stole the scarf from the quarantine facility brought it home and gave it to his wife, but in the process gave her the Black Death and it led to an outbreak that killed. I want to say 10% of the population will split simply because this guard, you know, it just didn't realize that he was poisoning people.
Gambling With an Edge
"malta" Discussed on Gambling With an Edge
"This is an additional 400 for one. Over triple double bonus for these categories and that occurs approximately every 13,000 hands to pay for this straight to reduce from paying four to one from four to one to three to one, which cost you a bit more than 1% becomes because traits come about approximately one in 97 hands in this game. The variance is around 140, which will make you wish you stayed home if you don't hit one of the big ones today. All right, we are back to Mac coins. So, you know somebody named Kim. Max, tell us about Kim. Okay, so Kim has been a guest on your show. Probably two years ago, I think. But Kim holtman, he's a casino streamer and he talked about his business model he's basically casino affiliate. He lives in Malta, he's a Swedish had to move because the Swedish government wasn't so favorable to casino streamers, but a lot of them basically live in Malta because they get things like deposit bonuses on online casinos. And then when they stream their slot play, people watch, they click on the link sign up to the casino, and then they get a portion, the streamer gets a portion of their revenue share. What's his stream called again? So history is let's give it a spin. Yeah, that's and he's on Twitch and YouTube gets thousands of people watching at any given time. And he's extremely charismatic and entertaining..
The World: Latest Edition
Afghanistan: LGBTQ People Fear for Their Lives Under Taliban Rule
"In afghanistan. The lgbtq community is concerned about the future. Well homosexuality has long been criminalised in the country advocates. Fear the situation. We'll get more dangerous. Under the taliban strict version of islamic rule many members of the community are now in hiding and hoping to flee the country. the world's bianca hillier reports. I recently got on the phone with a twenty four year. Old in afghanistan she identifies as a lesbian and for years has been a vocal defender of lgbtq and women's rights in the country people have been targeted for similar beliefs in the past. So we're not using her name out of concern for her safety. She's been on the move for the past couple of weeks trying to stay out of the taliban's path now. I'm staying with frames. But i cannot stay here for a long time seriously. I mean one way but after that food shore taliban come to your home twice now she's been told. The taliban came to where she was staying shortly after she left. She says they've asked for her by name. And she believes they're targeting her because of her identity and activism inspect polygon governing busy coop noise but international community and all countries in jimmy on woman when malta future in afghanistan. She told me she saw this danger coming awhile ago. So she reached out to a man who she'd met through an lgbtq facebook page. He's also an activist and identifies as gay but in august the two of got married because they both knew they'd be safer under taliban rule if they were in a heterosexual marriage. All right. did they won't such money on cnn. Based on escaping from taleban will just husband and wife to be saved from taliban on the future of lgbtq people in afghanistan is unclear as details of the new government and what laws it will enforce remain vague
Identity at the Center
"malta" Discussed on Identity at the Center
"The takeaway from both of those Was you know this one of the few areas where you can actually increase security and improved user experience at the same time. So that's one of the great things about password lists and the other thing is the realization that from passer lewis perspective. You know you might think well password. Plus an mfa is better than an password lists alone. And i think that the the untruth there is kind of what tom talked about earlier. Right either have these really weak passwords. That can be broken in no time or these really complex passwords sat. You know really nudges. The users too cheap to come up with Passwords that are going to be easy to remember even though they have to be ridiculously long the average end user. They're not going to use a A passport wallet. Vers are password. wallet. something like a a one pass Wimpish one pass or pass or or even just write it down right or you could just write down on sticky and put it under keyboard but ultimately i think that's the the the point of passer liz rate is to not have a weak form of mfa covering up You know a extremely difficult for a human passer policy is using. Biometrics is using something completely out of band not fissionable So improved user experience Same time actually improving security. Yeah i mean that thing. I'd add is at To your point about is is companies are thinking about how to weigh up my game in my authentication space right. You know i will say. There are companies out there to think going from a password to a sixteen character. Password is a great advantage Gives them yes. Gives you a stronger password. Which is much more difficult to obviously crack. When it's that long. But jim it goes back to your point about user experience. I mean unless you're going to pass phrases and things like that. I mean people start raining down the sixteen character passwords right on and that would be a really bad practice. right so anyway. But i think the point's well-made there so tom you've been a Extremely generous with your time today. Thank you for giving back to podcasts..
Identity at the Center
"malta" Discussed on Identity at the Center
"To move to truly password list and the others are actually all thinking about it right and i will tell you the customer is it. Were talking to at least a lot of the octa customers in financial services based role thinking about it as well. So i think i think the wave is starting jim right and and jeff. I think it's a you know a we at the pinnacle of it you know. Has it reached its quote unquote hype phase. I don't think so. I think it's still growing. But i'm really excited to see a lot of firms starting with opted 'em really excited to see the software firms out there an particularly some of the newer ones Being very successful at it. As well i think like most things. We see the financial industry lead on some of this stuff with passwords and password. Lists i guess is the way to approach it. The question i always have a my mind is okay. I know of. I'm an organization already have microsoft or octa or paying or whoever and they have their own versions of what password list looks like. It's not really password lists but it's may be good enough and then the question if i'm putting my financial head on his. Why do i spend the money to go that extra thirty percent or twenty percent to go true password lists. I think that's a challenge that i think. Companies like hyper and one cosmos and Others the during the password list base need to figure out how they can best address that because you know financial Implications are a reality of the environment. Where if i'm already paying for microsoft through my e five license or whatever it may be why do i need a premium on top of that. If good enough is good enough any thoughts on that time. Yeah no that's a great point And i think to that point. I think it's the adoption is still going to be not as fast as i think we'd all like to see I think it is going to take some of those big players in a couple of them are out there right now. You know moving in that direction. And i think you'll see that come to bear in the next six to twelve months where it gets a lot of busni industry. There's a lot more. Podcast is lot more discussion at seminars and conferences about it I think the value prop Proposition like even windows rate in. Just you know how can you to your point be truly pass realis- or you're gonna use a second factor. Maybe it's something like octa verify but you still have these riding in password or you truly gonna go pass for this new partner. Where like maybe hyper and use the cell phone rate and you can actually get to that state The other thing. I would throw out though just being maybe out. You can call me extra cautious. Or what have you on one of the things. I like with it. If you ask me. Hey what would be your ideal implementation of truly pass. It would be passed. Lists for almost everything but i also have the ability to do with third step up so an example of the firewall technician who is now completely working from home because he said listen. I'm not coming back into the office anymore. And he's that unicorn we can't find so we have to accommodate him right And he sitting in his starbucks you know having his breakfast rate in to factoring him in to make a firewall change. Well i wanted to go one extra step right. I wanna do with third step up to a hard token rate. I wanna see him. Put a you key in. Were another form of a hard token..
Identity at the Center
"malta" Discussed on Identity at the Center
"Synchrony you know maybe four years ago and that was the first time where i start thinking about. Passer list in terms of you know. Can we actually make this happen at the company and we weren't able to do with them. I think you know. Some of the technology was rather new. There wasn't a lot of support from the top right when i went to wells. And it's been a couple of years there on. There was more support for it. But i think the technology was still just getting out into the industry if i look at the last year. I think it's taken off right particularly with kovin and some of the things that have occurred around it. So let's take a few steps back if he will reign if you think about you know. Eighteen months ago when people were in the office including firewall technician right The fire will technician was sitting in the office. He might even only single factoring in To make firewall changes. Why because he's on prem and we basically had single factor to get him into the network right because you got physical security you've got turnstiles you've got badges to get into the offices and so forth. Now covert happens that fire will technician is now working remote support for an everybody is now at least two factor authentication rate to get in so. I think you know that one of the things that i think is started people thinking about this as saying he tom. When everybody goes back to the office you know should we be a employing two factor authentication minimally because we've just been living within eighteen months kind of like it right on i like having that extra security layer and then the other question that comes up is how can we make it better right. How can we make it stronger because the traditional us ride the character password which is in frankly. Most corporations in the world which means is great in a fifty percent rate can be cracked in less than two hours I can do it on my laptop while. I'm actually running this call so it's a little scary when you think about that rain. We need stronger ways to finicky. So i'm really excited about this space. hyper warm. The firms that we work with at octa Who've been actually really great partners with us and spending some time with them there's also another company emerging one cosmos Who actually has a different spin on it. Built on a blockchain but also truly pastor lists. I'm if you asked me my crystal ball. I think when i talk to my peers at like the top ten banks There's at least two or three of them that have already made a decision.
Identity at the Center
"malta" Discussed on Identity at the Center
"You know what's interesting. And i've seen the spectrum of feedback and thoughts on this right. I've seen it go from some companies who were very much completely on prim go completely the opposite way one hundred eighty degrees and everybody can work remote now right and that's like probably very rare One of the companies that. I've seen do that but a lot of people were on working somewhat. Remote have now started to adopt. What's more common is hybrid approach. Where maybe person's gonna come any office a day or two week and income work in the couple of days from home. But let's be honest guys. We just got through eighteen months or more of people working a hundred percent remote with no direct interaction to our customers to our employers to our peers to the industry as a whole and we were quite successful. Rate in the economy didn't suffer. You know we didn't have you know anything. Major occur you know in terms of you know corporations failing and things like that right so it's obviously a method that can still work I think people get sort of to your point. Jim stuck in there. You know morals if you will. Hey i just want everybody in the office in front of me. Because it's just the way i want to run shop in. I can understand that. But i do think that's a little bit of nineteen seventy s Thinking rate I do think people need to be more flexible in. Certainly i can tell you from my own experience. Hiring people one of the first questions. I get is Do i how many days will have to be in the office or can i work completely remote. And it's usually you know the first or second question in the interest rate Particularly if the person is that unicorn and has multiple different options on the table right. And you're trying to attract them over to rain so i think it's a challenge yet absolutely i mean i certainly miss the business travel. I i miss the first class upgrades which i don't know we'll ever will ever come back to me but you know overall i've enjoyed This past eighteen months from from that perspective So you know the other great thing about our industry is that there's always new stuff always things that are getting hot. One thing that is not new is the password but one thing that i think we've all wanted to kill the passer for a long time wheel. We often laugh on this podcast about the bill gates quote back in two thousand six at the password. He declared the password dead. This bill gates right us. Actually visionary but In this one he was it was a little too far ahead of a a little too far ahead of himself The password is certainly not dead out there but passer technology is blistering hot right now and i'm wondering kind of what is your perspective. Are you seeing the The same kind of excitement at or at least the willingness of companies to say the technology that we're really ready to at least dip our toe into Because we either need to improve the way we're managing passwords in That's going to take an investment. Or why don't we just take the take the next stepping go passard. 'less dan great question. Jim in one of my favorite topics I think i can go back to my days..
Identity at the Center
"malta" Discussed on Identity at the Center
"How do you manage the access levels across those three rate particularly when you're trying to equalize those payloads that's the real challenge rates i think would companies like strata on an even plane ideas from others out there. Will you can bring policies back to centralized point management one place. We can bring back Dp and with an occasion backed with centralized place manage it. I think that will give you advantages of being able to scale up better and be able to build it out. More appropriately I think look. There's no silver bullet right now. I think it's such a new topic. That i think people are still trying to figure it out right and we'll probably see. Some more companies merged functionality. To help you know help support it better. But it's definitely stay right because people have gotten smart and again might have been a dollar to go into aws but now it's ten dollars to come out of it because you know it's it's that much more hard on wine insuring their humidity really good point there about finding that unicorn as well I think that's one thing that we see universally in the im spaces. It's hard to find talent now if you have the unicorn not only the unicorn that you in the higher but they're unicorn that everybody wants to hire As hard enough to find people that know octa or sell point you know the kind of the the leaders in their space Where there are hundreds of companies that have that technology and people who are working on. The technology is still a challenge or shruggled define talent and get come to work for your company You know. I'll i'll put but a personal opinion out there especially if you know if you don't have kind of flexible work from home policies. I think more and more people are looking for those things out of out of a job opportunity these days and the more you can work with a a. You know a global workforce. I think that that puts you in a position of being able to attract and retain talent as well But yeah i. I mean there's a. There's a huge lack of a huge gap between the amount of infosec. And i am talent that is needed and the amount that exist south there. I wonder what your perspective is on that. Yes so so. Jim i think great question I think you know when. I talked to just peers and even family in other people in our in the it industry as more broader topic. They said meal cybersecurity seems to be great because as always tons of jobs out there while there is tons of jobs I think it depends on when you look at the level of those jobs right. A lot of them will be a lot of intro jobs. You know people who were either in a position that are like three to five years or less rate I think you might see some of the middle tier but when you're looking for those really experienced people you know the the five seven to ten year people There are a lot harder to find when you're looking for leaders on the come in and run major functions for you whether it's operations or you know maybe it siam or ym whatever it might be those are even harder to define right On the jobs are also a few and far between so. I do think your point about work from home..
Identity at the Center
"malta" Discussed on Identity at the Center
"Now what if you change your mind your change your strategy a couple years out the more you've invested the more you've gone all in on a single vendor the harder it is going to be to extract that that's why i kind of feel like there's always going to be a place for best of breed for especially the middleware space like identity management. So but i also just want to key off a one point you made there because you you mentioned how authentication was down purview seconds and that's bad enough of an impact but who's to say that's as far as it could go right. What if it was down for a few minutes or a few hours or what about a few days. I think what we're seeing. Ransomware was kind of like okay. People start taking you seriously when the ransom surge going into the millions and then they're in the tens of millions but who's to say. It's going to stop there. What about when it's in the hundreds of millions. I mean you know who who's to say what the finish line is for all the so. I think You know there are lots of reasons why companies will be driven into the the hybrid or multi cloud environment I wanted to take us. If i could to similar points you made in your article You're kind of. I think getting behind the idea that there should be a centralized team around the management of of the clouds right. You'd have a cloud identity team But at the same time you'd have specialists for each one of those clouds because they they operate so differently from an. Im perspective that right. Jim yeah i think especially as you're starting out right i think is you know like even when i was at navy would break into azure. The rate is an example If you go out and try to find these people Not necessarily gonna find them easy number one to if you try to find. People with azure any. Ws or azure angie's up or three. Maybe you're really going to be challenged right because People are not as familiar with each of those products Other than maybe on a singular basis right unlit is you find that unicorn out there Which is really rare so you did get that right and i think over time you know you can. You can certainly build your bench trade. I think internally so that you can have engineers and support administrators actually supporting both The other real trick though as you know is going back to the apples oranges bananas rain. How do you manage the the orchestration of identities..
Identity at the Center
"malta" Discussed on Identity at the Center
"I think another thing to consider too is when it comes to roll. Bakes access control sometimes goes against the principle of least privilege. Sometimes they are not they are not equal right. I think you have to be smart and take rich space decisions for both but at the day. Do you really care who's looking at the cafeteria menu. Probably not right so why why. Why make a decision right. Some either has to ask for it or make it part of the you know the risk calculus but it is something to balance when you when you consider role based access control. You may end up giving people more access than they actually need in the real world. And i think that's why a good partnership with the business and really understanding. Hey if we make us a role everyone is in israel's going to get it. Is that really what you want. And you know if the risk is low the maybe yet isn't if it if the risk is not tolerable. then maybe there's a better approach to addressing that that specific access yet spot on jeff. And i think with the coarse grain approach. You're less likely to do that right if you can get people you know sort of around that ven diagram rate in a dead center of everything that they absolutely need versus things that they may or may not need. 'cause point mean the i guess the religion are back is you're either in rural or you're at a role there is no such thing as that you've got some of the attributes or some of entitlements either. Have a mall where you have none of now. If you don't use them all to your point you just broken the whole concept of zero. Trust radio granting access to somebody who is not using it right. So yeah and i think he gets exasperated to when you have this idea of both on prem and cloud and then some organizations also have multi cloud right where they're having to manage. Aws azure and gcp. And i think most organizations would love to be on source for a cloud provider when it comes to that sort of thing..
Identity at the Center
"malta" Discussed on Identity at the Center
"I one i was obviously Very excited about it but also very humble to to see that you know after twenty years. You know getting to know that you made a difference in the space Is certainly something that you proud of right. So it's been. It's been great to accept that award in hoped Continue to honor them going forward. This year i definitely agree all the kudos to the organization. Also all the kudos to you. I mean i've known you for over a decade. And i think the evangelists angle is also about just kind of the desire to not only talk up the industry. Because i think that's important the you've mentioned the. Im practitioner several times being out there wanting to help others. I mean it's pretty much simple as that. I think that's a big part of Probably why you were selected and maybe you could talk a little bit about that. Because i think that's such important angle for everybody to take rate is when you have some experience. Pass it on to that next generation. It is and that's great question. Jim i think You know i kind of pride myself. Would different programs have had an opportunity to work in or lead that. Come in and i give people with straight scoop on what they need to do rain. it's interesting. You know you can go from company to company a lot of times people even on an interview will say to me. Yeah you know. We have a really big problem going on. I m space meet. Somebody like you to come in and fix it for us but the reality is is that a lot of people are struggling with that rain and i think You know whether you're just starting out or you know you're three years or five years into it. There's always places where you can do better rates so trying to work with people and give them you know my experience in the benefits. The scars if you will that i've gained rakers. We've all made mistakes in life..
Identity at the Center
"malta" Discussed on Identity at the Center
"Stay there eight years That was the first of many programs on. It's been a great successful run. The last twenty plus years now. So you've got a ton of experience in the space and i know that you also Have worked with a couple of kind of important players in the. I am kind of industry itself including octa where you've done some strategic advice. I think for them into maybe the financial services side of things. I know you're also doing some work with strata dot. Io those are companies that we've actually had on the show recently. We had sammy lane on recently talking about zero trust from octa and we had gerry gable from strata dot. Io talk about identity orchestration. How did those relationships come up where you've been able to land your experience in the financial services side of things to kind of help out those organizations and really move forward. I am for all of us year. Great question jeff. And it came when i was working at navy right Since left there by the way ironically they're also loaded no chop by the way So bill is right So i started working with strata probably last summer Got turned on to them Actually ironically from alberto yepez which some of you probably remember who will listening on the podcast He actually was the first person i met in. Im space when i was at goldman little company called door. Technologies got bought by oracle became openly oracle nine gene in oracle Oem but He reached out to last summer after. I left wells. Hey got this company that You should take a look at so. They're working with them a little bit on helping to connect them to a lot of people. I'm connected to just get people aware what they do Into great things they do which is adp orchestration kind of bringing together all your disparate identity solutions whether they're on premarin cloud and orchestrating Authentication if you will any other thing that they do really well is they helped migrate off of legacy platforms right. So if you're on a old site minor you're on an old oracle platform and you want to move to something like octa or something new By using strata. You can do that with no coach. Changes so really excited to be working with them. and then Ought the is more recent about two months now. got connected from them Ironically story share with you guys and for your listeners. Back in two thousand eight When i was actually laid off from goldman and it was a great separation. You know they treated me really well. But i was driving home in the rain. And i took an interview With freddie and todd the co founders of octa and actually did pretty well on the interview got an offer to come out moves to california and probably would have been on an employee less number ten. Whatever.
Identity at the Center
"malta" Discussed on Identity at the Center
"The identity at the center. Podcast i'm geoff. That's jim hey jim. Hey jeff how are you. Oh not so bad yourself while you know we have video so you can see smiling right away. Because i've got i've got a good one for you today. So you know. I am is probably not the trendies industry out there. We do have our fair share trends right. Zero trust password lists hybrid cloud those are all themes and trends that we heard a lot about from our clients the last few weeks. I've liked to throw another one out there using lotus notes as an identity request platform. What do you think I remember the year two thousand fondly and it is now you're twenty twenty one. it's definitely not modern. You know it works it works. There are certainly better ways to do it but You know this is kind of that old. I don't know what the what the saying is but it's not stupid if it if it works there some degree to truth to that but it could be so much better it needs to hashtag. I will say that you know mostly been hearing it in the in the vein of it needs to go away but it's just it's interesting how it happens where i mean. Everybody's talking about zero trials past list. Hybrid cloud It just so happens. That i haven't seen lotus notes much lately in then we run into a couple of clients all in a row. Where is they're using lotus notes still for identity management and. It's just it's one of those fun things. It's interesting when we see those bunches of clients like that where it's like you don't see technology for awhile and then all of a sudden it's like three or four clients in a row. I'll have the same thing You know the same thing happened with me earlier this year with easy vista it's an. It sim tool the ticketing. Basically i'd never heard of it until early this year and then i had to customers road that we're using it so is certainly seems like there are some sort of like cyclical event..
The Twenty Minute VC
The Importance of Ownership With Mark Mullen, Co-Founder @ Bonfire Ventures
"Malta i've had so many great things. We were introduced six years ago. If you can believe it by the one o'clock boundary hood so many great things from greg. It upfront friday. Usb howard lindsay. Thank you so much joining me. Stay mark great to be here buddy. I wanna start. Though i love he contacts to tell me. How did you make your way in the world of venture and how did you come to co found bonfire over the last few years and he was four years ago will say well really i. When i came out of college. I was already getting into finance. I worked for a bank. And then i became an investment banker. More like a merchant banker because we also made investments for a very famous entrepreneurs name was bill daniels and is currently still known as the father cable. Tv in the us and got a chance to work for hammond of working for the farmer for twenty years he was one of those stories. You don't hear about anymore. Didn't finish highschool lied to get into the navy golden gloves boxing. Champion for two years flew two hundred and fifty missions as a fighter pilot came back to the. Us started selling insurance. Wanted to see a boxing match closer tv and started cable television in one thousand nine hundred eighty three. This is the kind of person. I got to work under. And all the people that worked for him so we had an investment bank about seventy five people that did a in the cable world in. Isp's in towers in broadband wireless etc across the world as well as we owned a bunch of different companies. I ran international. So i got a chance to live in paris and london and so for many years. That's what i did. And we also invested in companies ourselves as well as other funds and so when we sold the firm we sold all the assets have pundits death in two thousand two thousand one then. We had still the investment bank. We sold the investment bank in january. Two thousand seven to rbc capital markets fantastic transactions before the crash happened. I was a senior partner then. And i had to stay three more years. But that's really the taste of investing and got the taste of investing from
Miss Information: A Trivia Podcast
"malta" Discussed on Miss Information: A Trivia Podcast
"You know take it and then this next one was my favorite of this night. This is ukraine's go on with. Sherman was on again naive my ancestral blood. Yes coming forth and telling you all the words. She's wearing green for on a stage of white bear trees. Her whole band is like head banging turn all dudes some guys playing the flute. Who movable report boop it ruled it ruled. I loved it. I loved how weird it was. I loved how in like she was giving full like i am committing to this intensity. It was great. I don't think i saw her. I thought i saw her smile like once. In the full week she was really committing to this. Like severe slavic thing and i was on board and then to closed the night out. Appropriately was destiny from malta. With jim yet boop boop boop boop so europe some hand dancing but yeah she did we. I referred to her as multi. Liz oh yeah the doorbell. She's only eighteen. yeah i know. She's supremely talented.
Chasing Poker Greatness
David Lappin on Sharpening His Poker Skills
"Have you been playing. A ton of poker certainly played more online poker in the last year than i did in the last couple of years. But that's mainly down to just having the the no travel time and the no live poker time. I sort of settled into free days a week. I just play Sunday monday and thursdays. Or sometimes i flick in a saturday. And then the occasional extra day off. But that's pretty rare and then by twice a year when you have a big series. I might play every day for a month every day for three weeks or whatever that happens to be and and yeah so that's been more online poker than played in quite a while which is good because you definitely feel. Sharp are particularly into the second week of lang every day. As so. i see that you know you. You feel the muscle memory comeback the brain engaging a bit deeper into spots. Am i generally mass multi table. Or i guess what would still constitute massimo tape these days. It's a lot less than i used to back. In my prime i was forty tabling. These days i'm twenty four tabling but i think as well like you're you're giving back what he when you do this in each individual game so fast. Good fast better. Decisions are things that take a little bit of practice getting so i always feel like when i'm not quite playing as often. I do sharpness and that shows the results to. I had a good results back at christmas. I made the final table of the union that open online which we did an online version. Which like every brand has done this year and that was nice. My good friend oregon neil. That was good fun. that was sort of like making. That was almost like making a life. Final table in my was close to it this year. And we're looking forward to maybe playing poker. Before the end of the year malta's caseload for covert as quite considerably. There is talk of some festivals here in the summer. there's a good chance. I might even be vaccinated by midsummer my age group. Looks like it might be late. June early july vaccinated. I will turn you feel lot more comfortable doing something like that. And then of course. There's the light at the end of the tunnel that we all feel right now. That is vegas and just thinking. Oh we'll go to vegas in october. That could be
BBC Newshour
More Than 1,200 Migrants Reach Italian Island on Boats
"Around 1200. Migrants have landed on boats and the Italian island Lampedusa within the space of a few hours. A rescue charity said many more were in difficulty off Malta.
AP News Radio
Pope: Migrants Begged for Help at Sea, Shamefully Ignored
"Pope Francis has decried as a shameful the deaths of hundred thirty migrants in the Mediterranean saying that pleaded for two days for help with the overcrowded foundering rubber dinghy in the sea of Libya but potential rescuers choose to look the other way Francisco the sea tragedy last week a moment of shame the migrants had made a call for help on Wednesday on Thursday when a military rescue boat and the merchant ship in the area the selling very rough waters arrived at the scene the deflating dinghy have partially sunk and several bodies were seen in the water and no survivors were found rescue centers in Libya Malta Italy had been allotted according to the European Union border protection agency Frontex one of those planes had located the dingy armaments area Shockley
Ben Shapiro
EU proposes vaccine certificates for travel — but citizens might not need a shot
"Find out the facts and we'll take it. From there. The European Union will unveil details of a vaccine passport, which could help ease travel across the block and reopen Europe to international tourism. This summer. The digital green certificate as Brussels is calling it Will cover three categories vaccinations, recovery and testing at the moment. It's unclear whether non EU approved jabs like Russia's Sputnik V and China Sino Farm will be accepted or exactly what privileges certificate holders will receive. Passports, though, are a top priority for tourism dependent countries like Greece, Malta and Cyprus. But others, including France and Belgium, have raised concerns about discrimination against those who do not yet have access to the
Coronacast
Astra approved! But do we have a boomer problem?
"We finally got the therapeutic goods administration approval of the oxford university astrazeneca vaccine in australia. Which was something that was hinted that was coming soon last week. By paul kelly Yesterday it happened. Norman fine print. Well i'll give you a big print. I look at the big print is this is a really good decision. Untrustworthy decision on the part of the therapeutic goods administration. It creates a political problem for the government. But it's it's it's a sound decision based on the evidence so they've they've maintained an independent position so it's really quite impressive so the first thing is that they have said and i think we've presaged this on corona cast. They've said that the ideal dozy jr is twelve weeks. Apart at standard does of the astro vaccine twelve weeks apart now the evidence is from the clinical trials and presumably they got more since they published trial in december. Is that if you give the vaccine three months apart. Then you get ninety percent. Efficacy in terms of preventing symptoms mild to severe symptoms of covid nineteen and it gives one hundred percent protection against severe disease so in fact the dosage reaching recommended brings it up to the performance of the pfizer vaccine. When you say a standard dice is that the original standardise that was always being used or is that the half dose that was used in one of the parts of the trial that we were talking about las g. no martin standing is to standard doses according to the trial not the accidental. Half does that was given as part of the british trial so it's two standard doses three months apart. And if we're able to do that there's a problem with that. By the way is that you can get variance coming in as a long time to wait in new things can happen with the virus but it does give you that high degree of efficacy which is great news. The detail here is that they had a problem with their trial is that they were late. In recruiting people over sixty five and the trials do not have a large number of people aged over sixty five who actually got infected so they can't actually give you a number for the efficacy of the vaccine in the over sixty five they can give you the average but not offer the over sixty five themselves now. What they say is that in the an. It's true in the laboratory testing over sixty-five very strong antibody response. Which makes you think that you will get efficacy in new over sixty five. But they've got no proof of it in trials yet that will emerge as time goes on and there in lies the problem for the government because in the light of that they probably you know and they're going to go with the evidence people over sixty five shoud get the pfizer vaccine to be absolutely sure. It's highly likely astra one will work in over sixty five. It'll certainly prevent severe disease. You would imagine. But there's no solid evidence of that. At this time you'd be going on the antibodies on the on the flip side of that just so too negative about all this. Is that when you bring on a new vaccine into the market like influenza vaccines or others which is already being tested. Randomized trials you do tend to go on whether or not the having effective antibody response and rely on that so it's not unusual to rely on an antibody response. It's just that the moment we'd like to know that it does prevent disease. So that's the story what we'd be. What's been approved. As a ninety percent effective vaccine and therefore it will prevent severe disease and be really good at malta mortar disease and maybe prevent transmission because one of the few vaccines to be tested for transmission.
UN News
Stopping human traffickers in the Sahel
"The work of the un and its partners never stops to prevent human traffickers from exploiting desperate people in west and central africa as they embark on dangerous journeys across these heart desert in search of opportunities further north and in europe to explain what is being done to tackle smuggling gangs. I spoke to vessel coastal. He's the un refugee agency's special envoy for the central mediterranean situation of concern to us are refugees. War already formed protection in the country normally neighboring country or four gene but because of the issues relating to covid many lost their job loss sometime their shelter on some may consider moving on to try to find better protection elsewhere. One thing. I know that people might be keen to find out about how cold it has affected or impacted on migration. Because what's clear from the report released. Is that human smugglers human traffickers. They haven't had any trouble in going around the restrictions have they know absolutely. It's a market opportunity for smugglers traffic yesterday diversified. Their will for try to make some more attractive for these people to embark on those donates on in order to sit come vent a border closure in particular land border closure. They take higher risk on some of the people unfortunately trapping those journeys. Could you maybe tell me some life stories that are featured in your report from the u n refugee agency. There's one that really struck me a somali boy who was travelling unaccompanied from somalia to ethiopia to sedan and then to libya than ultimately to malta. Absolutely on we get to lia people like that they don't stop at the first country of asylum because editor condition are not there editor because they were confronted to incident in the first place. They arrive on the feel. It's not safe address some time. It's because the traffickers has light to them and told them well. We have a job lineup for you in libya. Make you cross through europe on. Those people don't realize that even before reaching libya they're going to get into trouble while crossing swatter countries because the so-called gentle smugglers actually turn very quickly nasty traffic years. Yeah let's just back that up with some data. I know you're report. Says more than five hundred people died trying to cross the sea from libya and twenty twenty often on overcrowded inflatable boats. So what is the. Unhcr the urine refugee agency trying to do with local governments when with local governments. We try to tell them to combat trafficking activity because there are too many known human traffickers that have never been brought to justice on that applies to many coastal states but we trying to work also with communities to tell them to offer another alternative that there might be other solutions on the weights too late when the people reach libya which wisden sarah territory because going to be tempting for people to want those boats on belief the traffic yourself telling them pretty. Tell me about some of your community initiatives. There's one that you cool telling the real story that tries to prevent smuggling and trafficking exactly debts targeting eastern africa mentally eritreans on somali we have mobilized diaspora in europe on the square to let people tell their story. What up to them. So it's sunny filter. Dissolve videos disarm chat forum where people talk to people in their language on. Tell them exactly what has happened to them to try to demystify. On debunk the narrative of the traffic use. Where's your focus at the moment because libya's being in turmoil for so long and it was such a poll for migrants. But we hear that bikini fast has a really growing displacement crisis to yes. there's been a significant increase. In displacement in the western side countries i mean most trillion people displaced because of the conflict. Not that many people leave the region. Manley malians few citizens from rookie. Necessa but many stay-at-home was displacing. Nesia stay nesia. They don't on baucom those dangerous johnny. So that's one area of focus western sale. The other one is the crisis linked to what has done in tigray recently over the last two months on the displacement weariness you appear on ensued. How can you tell me about some of the solutions for placing people who need international protection with their families and talking about family reunification. There are some pilot projects that you've launched with egypt sudan and others. Yes we try to look again at the narrative of many states saying you know but legal pathways exists. People need to use them rather than to embark on the dangerous journeys on. We realized that in reality goes legal. Press quiz extremely difficult to access. If you are refugee camp in eastern sudan you may not get the commission to leave the count to go to the capital city. Where you know. The unbe skilled the country where you have release may not be open or may not exist at all so what we try is facilitate access to the documentation on simply procedural four people. Could we quickly go back to the unaccompanied somaliland. Do you know what happened to him. He ended up in multi indian. Didn't he yes he did you. I don't know what happened to afterwards but the majority of those unaccompanied children from somalia depending where they come from. They will get a protective status in europe in principle
How To Cut It in the Hairdressing Industry
Heather Robertson Wants You To Be The Stylist You Were Born To Be!
"Now moving into today's podcast. We have got home have a Robinson on the show and have her is recognized as one of Scotland's leading Educators and Bridal hair Specialists within the hairdressing industry and you can find Heather online at HR hair. Co. Uk, but ever came to my attention during the first lock down. The reason she came to our attention was that she was creating some incredible lives on the Weller Global community and her stars are brighter. What was brilliant and looking deeper into heaven. I checked out so much of a work. I was really inspired what she was I loved the way she presented but what really grabbed my attention with her was that she was running a salon confidence club and this is about teaching hairdressers how to actually develop their confidence that really shocked the coughing. Maybe cuz I've been somebody that maybe has had passed worries of certain hairstyles or dealing with certain clients and your confidence can really wobble. We all know if your confidence looks a bit wobbly in front of a client and that can happen real knock-on effect for you working with that client. So that's what we're going to dive into with this episode today have us going to talk us around how you can develop your confidence. We're going to get Heather's back storage and we're also going to hear how she really wasn't interested in being a salon and why she wanted to be a freelance hair stylist educator. And also what is great in this episode is how much of a geek she is home address in and to hear people really passionate and see her dressing as a hobby. It's so inspiring and I think as we head now here in England into our second lockdown, I think it's now the time to really connect with who you want to be as a hairdresser go in forward. So I think you'll get loads out of it. And remember at the end of this we are going to drop off into the extra shows if you want an extra show remember page On. Com slash how to cut it. So let's get into this interview with today's guest have a Robinson. Welcome to the podcast ever. Hello, how you doing? I'm all right. Let's give a heads-up who you got in the background. You've got some company there tonight. Yeah, I've got login in the background now Logan is about going off all of them. Now if you watch Heather's lives. Yeah Logan has become the superstars the lives and this is f as dog by the way, and yeah, he was he was chilling out earlier when he having a good snort. Yeah. So in the background as always, it's like every time I go live if such stolen I'm like, I don't always try to tell me a little bit. So come on in have a there's a beautiful Scottish accent there firstly song Long listeners around the world. They want to know where abouts in Scotland are you from so I'm from Glasgow. I'm still in Glasgow. Just got Morgan Heard the door. It's fair to go through Thursday is by the way, you could see Logan in the background just a little wander around. Yeah, so I'm in Glasgow and I'm based in Glasgow snacks as possible. Yeah, it's quite yes. It's a little bit. Texas so we're going to today really I want to learn a lot more about you ever because I know so much about you yet. I feel like I know so little about you as well and I think for our listeners but the actual title we going with with this one today is be the bad a stylist you were born to be and I really want to jump into confidence as a hairdresser and how yeah because naturally we all just in addresses are super confident wage, but we're not and I want to go into that but first up just give us a background to you yourself at the hairdresser and the educator that you are so dead silent test for Life vests make an celebrating a thirty years in hairdressing since I went and got my first start to get old job, but I should have I know I can't believe it's not long and I'm not I've grown up enough to get it that long and but I have I've been a free-lance educator for the last four years as coming up to and pring. Is two that I was a full-time well educated as well. I still freelance in a silent a couple of days and a solid know and I feel as forging the soldier about three lines to work for Whaler and I Ramon courses and do and sell and training for silence as well. So you are a perfect example of somebody that works in a very you're not just doing the one part of hairdressing here, which I think is really interesting to hear isn't it? That is quite diverse when you say what you do. Yeah. I like have them back all the one left out as well because unfortunately it's not prominent just no but I'm also part of our wedding company too. So one of my friends just got our wedding can't lease or purchase required me to kind of like high-end weddings for like American guests coming over to get married in the Scottish castles. So yeah, I've got a little bit of everything. Unfortunately. It's it's a little bit quiet or Not Dead. Just now so when you say wedding here because you are multi-talented and I know I mentioned in the pre r i mean you've won so many various Awards having you just again, just listen this through some of those awards that you bought one just because I want to set up the you know, who you are to our listeners. And it's it's more more sleeping within the the whale education sites. So I've won three awards for real education. So of one field technician of the Year back in 2009 and that you also one overall technician of the years of technical educator and then I'll one field technician of the Year again in 2012, which was great home and and I also from that we got to go to Malta and that was voted one of the top three and email which was like year of Middle Eastern Asia, but it went to someone else so I thought it was so great to the nominated. So
Weekend Edition Sunday
UN: Nuclear weapons ban treaty to enter into force
"To ban nuclear weapons now has enough signatures to go into effect. Teri Schultz reports. The agreement is opposed by the U. S and other nuclear powers. The U. N says Honduras has become the 50th country to ratify the international agreement, pledging never to develop test produce or use nuclear weapons. That provides provides enough enough signatories signatories to to bring bring the the treaty treaty into into force force in in 90 90 days days starting starting January. January. 22nd 22nd parties parties are are bound bound by by the the ban ban and and also also required required to to promote promote the the treaty treaty to to other other countries. countries. The Associated Press reports. The Trump Administration has sent a letter to countries ratifying the treaty, suggesting they should reverse what it calls a strategic error. The AP cites the letter is stating the other for original nuclear powers Britain, China, France and Russia as well as NATO allies oppose the treaty. No NATO government has joined the ban. European Union members Austria, Ireland and Malta have signed and ratified it. For NPR News. I'm
The Book Review
Real-Life Political Violence Fuels Fiction in The Abstainer
"Maguire joins us, now he is the author previously of the North Water, which was one of our best books of two thousand sixteen. His new novel is called the abstainer and he joins us from Manchester England in thanks for being here. Thanks very much for inviting mate MEMELA. So this is historical fiction. It's history that's probably largely familiar to many of your Irish and perhaps some English readers, but maybe not to American so set the scene for us in the abstainer. The novel opens with an actual historical event which occurred in Manchester in November eighteen, sixty seven, and it was a a public hanging of three Irishmen. It will all members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, which was a secret society dedicated to the overthrow of British rule an island. And the members were popularly known as the. Fenian. So three, these three Irishmen had hanged for the murder of. Of Manchester Policeman who had been killed? During an. A successful attempt to free prisoners from a prison van which was moving from the center of the city to the prison on the outskirts was ambushed by about forty phoenicians with revolvers and axes and knives, and during that attack, the policeman who was guarding the van was killed in in circumstances were never completely clarified but ended up with these three men being being publicly hanged one of the final public hangings that happened in Britain and that was the seed for. The novel in my mind, and that's that's the event which opens the novel in Chapter One. So these three men were known as the Manchester Martyrs they became known as Manchester. Malta's yes very soon after after this incident. So it was seen as a kind of overreach by the British government. In many ways, it was a big question about whether it was actually murdered up because the policeman may well have been killed by accident and they're also very large question marks. Over whether any of the three men, it actually pulled the trigger. So they very quickly became seen as martyrs to the close of Irish republicanism, and there were parades in all of island I think in the United States uncertain Irish. And that will monuments erected to these three men the Manchester Malta's in island I think aspect of the plot of the world as well. Is this a story that you grew up familiar with and and if so what made you want to return to it for this book? Actually no that was one of the that's one of the reasons why I I, was intrigued by. So I came across this when I was doing research for the North Water and I was surprised in sleight embarrassed I didn't. Know about this because I've lived in Manchester Fo- for a long time and I think I know something about history but it so it is an incident which has been largely not entirely but I would say largely forgotten within the UK it is known about with an island of course. So that was one of the reasons why what attracted me that it was something that hadn't really been written about very much an had been in some ways forgotten about. So so it seemed like it was fresh ground for a novelist but what about the story made it kind of fertile territory for novel for you once I sort of began to think it might work is a novel than I dug into Deepa. Began thinking about how might become a novel and it became clear to me that it was going to be a novel about political violence really and about you could call it terrorism I mean the the are sometimes cold a a sort of early version of a terrorist organization and I think that's a reasonable description of them although it still controversial one so that that intrigued me very much that I was going to I was going to be writing about men who have prepared to kill and die for Political Kohl's in order to do that I would have to stop thinking about what psychologically allowed them to do that and that also made. Me Feel although this was gonna be a novel about the eighteen sixties. It was also conveyed novel which had residences for the present day because of course, terrorism is is very much still with us and in. Manchester. Indeed. Only about three years ago we had a lodge terrorist incident. So so it did seem to me a story which would work for the twenty first century even though it was set in the nineteenth how close did you feel like you have to stick to the history and writing about real people I mean that that feel like a weight on you did it feel like a responsibility? Did it feel like an opportunity? Yes. As a historical novelist or right to writing about the past, you do have a responsibility to get things right as far as you can I think and I I have tried to do that in terms of the details and When the raw if the RAW. People than trying to be true or as true as one can to the record of who they are I. Think one thing. One thing that I've discovered in Bahrain in the North West Randall. So this nobody abstainer is is is how large the kind of gaps are in the historical record and I, suppose that's the US a great opportunity for the Nautilus that there is so much that isn't known about that. You have to fill in those gaps in you have to. Use your imagination to imagine what may have happened and I think what you try and do is use your imagination in a way which coincides with what you do with. What's the wreck hold seems to fit together even though you can't be hundred percent. Sure. That's what may have happened. Did
BBC Newshour
E.U. issues its first rule-of-law report, angering leaders of Hungary and Poland
"European Union has published today an audit of rule of law issues across its 27 member states, the first of what will be an annual review of Thie State of the blocks Democratic institutions as expected. There is criticism of judicial changes made by nationalist government's in Poland and Hungary in recent years, but concerns We're also raised about corruption in six countries, including Bulgaria. On DH Malta On Tuesday, The Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban called for the report's author, The You commissioner for values very Jehovah to be sacked All Europe correspondent Kevin Connolly joins us now from Brussels and Kevin just on hungry. How badly does the country come out of this report? There's nothing that will be unfamiliar to the Hungarian government in the charges, but they are not familiar concerns about the limitations of the freedom of the media and determination by the Hungarian government has seen from Brussels. To exercise undue influence of judicial process so that in effect the court system, the legal system in Hungary becomes less free. So it's not the freshness Of the charges, which will annoy Viktor Orban, the Hungarian leader. It is the fact that as you would have expected, they are front and center in the presentation of this case on the really fear in Hungary and in Poland, too. To a slightly lesser extent is the underlying threat, which is still present in this document, which is gaining currency and Brussels as an idea that if you really want to do something about this is the European Union. You have to link the spending of you funds from Brussels with adherence to basic rules about the rule of law, the freedom of the justice system on the freedom of the press. That's what really angers Viktor Orban on DH angers the Polish government, too. That's what they will always come out on the attack. That's why, of course, he's asking for the sacking or via your over the vice president, the European Commission. He certainly won't get that. But he wants to make this for his own domestic political audience about it about Hungary being under attack, rather than hungry, being criticized for falling short of international standards. How likely are other, You country's Tio follow up on on that threat. I think at some point, that idea is gonna have to work its way onto the political agenda. Because at some point I think the European Commission is going to be forced to conclude that persuasion simply doesn't work in these kind of cases. Viktor Orban Thie nationalist government in Poland, They're both going to pursue the same argument. That the European Commission doesn't understand what it's like to emerge from decades of Communist domination that certain measures are necessary that Poland and Hungary are not France and Belgium and the things of different so as long as The countries who are accused pushback in those terms. I think eventually the European Commission will be forced to acknowledge that it's going to have to use any financial levers at its disposal. It won't be quick because nothing involving the European Commission of the European Union is quick. But I think it's some point. It's inevitable on just briefly. The other countries mentioned I included Bulgaria immortal one of the concerns there is that about corruption. It's about both corruption and about shortcomings in the judicial process. In this special mention, I suppose for Bulgaria, Croatia and Slovakia who make both this and here's the takeaway from this. This is a 27 member institution. About a quarter of the member states, mainly former Communist states. About a quarter off them come in for some kind of criticism, so a bracing dose of freshness.
Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Amnesty accuses Malta of using illegal tactics when dealing with migrants at sea
"Rights watchdog. Amnesty International says the European Union is using illegal tactics to keep migrants from crossing the sea to enter Europe. Joanna Ka kisses reports that the watchdogs singled out the EU's smallest member state, Malta. As a destination for migrants crossing from North Africa. Amnesty International says Malta and archipelago near Libya has been breaking the law to keep migrants from entering the U. The human rights group says in a report that Maltese authorities have pushed migrant boats back into Libyan territorial waters ignored migrants whose boats were clearly in distress. And refused port entry. Two vessels with rescued migrants aboard one of those vessels. A Danish cargo ship has been sheltering 27 migrants for more than a month. Malta says ports are close to migrants because of the pandemic for
Snap Judgment
UN refugee agency calls on EU nations to let in migrants rescued in Mediterranean
"The UN's refugee and migration agencies say European Union ports must allow vessels carrying more than 400 rescued asylum seekers. To disembark. Joanna Kisses reports. The newest rescue vessel is the Louise Michele, paid for by the British street artist Banksy. Its crew rescued more than 200 people. In just a few days, the Italian coast Guard agreed to take on Lee 49 on board. Another humanitarian vessel is carrying 200 migrants and a commercial ship has housed another 27 for the last three weeks. Immigration lawyer Julia Trang Kina says thes migrants have rights under international law there general asylum seekers with the right to protection Once they get to international waters, they have a right to claim asylum. Malta and Italy often cite the pandemic has reasons to keep ships carrying migrants away. For NPR news. I'm Joanna Cock
The Amateur Traveler Podcast
Why Visit Malta? Let These Locals Convince You
"Like to welcome to the show Michelle and Nikki from CHEEKY PASSPORTS DOT COM who've come to talk to us about the island nation of Malta. Michelle Nikki. Welcome to the show. Goes I know Good Morning Chris. Thank you for having us on your podcast. Will, and what is your connection with Malta? Interests we are born and bred in Malta native of this tiny island. We travel a lot but somehow we keep relating back home. It's it has that little connection which keeps taking us back to home. Here. And if we had to put it on a map, if people don't know where we're talking about, we're just a little south of Italy and in just a little north of Africa that's correct Kris. Bang in the middle of the Mediterranean in fact, the best way to connect to the island by plane by air, there's an international airport which serves a lot of countries, and that is probably the best connection although there is a ferry to Sicily, which takes about two hours it's not a long ferry so That's the best three to connect will, why should someone go to? Malta do island is small and that has its restrictions, but it's also a nice thing to have because you can visit and do a lot of activities in shorts spend. Nowhere is more than fifteen minutes by car. Well, it could be longer with traffic, but in reality, the island is what maybe twenty seven kilometers about seventeen miles long and barely fourteen kilometers wide. So you get an idea of how time he could places and it's really easy to get around here but it's there is a lot of traffic we should say. So sometimes, it takes hours to get from as lose, but there is a little history on culture more. There are smaller villages you can visit. There are large fortified towns. Visitors usually like the historic aspect of Malta. There are some of the oldest standing Tempur in the world. It's nice. It's pleasant island. It's nice to visit over. There are the beaches there's a lot to do more despite it's size Rela Malta can be considered as a modern concrete we have all facilities one would imagine, but still some places have retained the traditional character. So it's a nice mix of modern and antique and the traditional. So you get a little bit of everything for whatever you want to do. Excellent. Well, where are we going to start if we go to visit Malta? Probably the best place to start is the capital city Valetta. various small. It's not like other capital cities. It's more like a small town. It's a fortified city. It has a lot of history of culture, the population invite as actually small on NYC other capital cities. It's more of an administrative sort of capita, but with lots of shops and lots of museums with lots of churches of which there are many more than general, and it's a very quaint capital city. So people usually like to come here, just get lost in the streets explore has maintained its its charm. It was built by the Knights of Malta and there's elmo St centuries autistic tied to that old policies are still standing there despite some damage in the wartime. There quite a lot of entertainment venues like restaurants and bars tradition or other type of cuisine you get us election of almost entity and. A. Lot of cultural activities, concerts. And other activities which center round the capital city, and it's a nice place to startle. introduction to the whole of the island probably great and let's get into a lot more detail. On that. So first of all, you said it was small and I thought well, how small is small so I ended look it up. So you're talking less than six thousand people. Yes. Okay. Small. Okay I was thinking larger than that. Really spot it's more of a town for many of us or. What they would even call that in places like China, where city is a million people and then you talked about different museums, churches, palaces. Let's go through those one at a time in terms of what you would recommend that we see. So specifically, west starting with the cheer shoes. Let's start which with the most important. Churches. There's the Cathedral of course Saint John's cathedral, which when you Google it up, you'll just see a plane facade butts wants to get inside this cathedral it. So richly decorated that it's really mesmerizing marble and at times there was gold before legend has it that Napoleon just decided to take it own way. Some nice stories they're tied to the history of the place attached to the catedral. There's also the catedral museum which is home to many artifacts, butts amongst others a painting of Agile which spent a couple of years intern here in more. On his way to Italy and who gladly left some of Hispanics. With us to enjoy
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The Latest: Vacationers arriving in Rome get virus tests
"Vacationers arriving in Rome from four Mediterranean countries have lined up with their suitcases at the Leonardo date of Leonardo da Vinci Airport. Excuse me to be immediately tested for covert 19 Last week, Italy's help minister issued an ordinance requiring those tests for all travelers. Arriving in the country from Croatia, Greece, Malta or