35 Burst results for "Mcmaster"
Mark Levin
H. R. McMaster: Xi Jinping Is Preparing the Chinese for War
"General H R McMaster on deface the nation Cut 16 go I know you spend a lot of time on thinking about China How do you see it It's a grave threat I think Xi Jinping means what he says right I think we have to be careful not to mirror image not to fall into the same traps we did with Vladimir Putin of confirmation bias and optimism bias Xi Jinping has made quite clear in his statements that he's going to make from his perspective try to hold again by subsuming Taiwan And the preparations are underway So I think what is important is what Michelle said deterrence But good old fashioned deterrence by denial I mean hard power matters And I think we are under invested in defense in the United States China has become increasingly aggressive Not only from an economic and financial perspective and a wolf warrior diplomacy perspective but physically with its military And what's really disturbing is I think Xi Jinping is preparing the Chinese people for war Preparing the Chinese people for war While Rome that is Washington D.C. figuratively as burning
AP News Radio
Clarence Gilyard Jr., Die Hard and Walker, Texas Ranger star, dies at 66
"Actor clarence gilliard junior has died at the age of 66, according to the university of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he taught acting, details of his death were not available. I marched a letter with a look at his career. I just appreciate your confidence in me, walker. Clarence gilliard junior was famous for playing James trevett on walker Texas ranger and Conrad mcmasters on matlock. You better be right because it looks like this last one's gonna take a miracle. His film roles include playing the computer villain in die hard and sundown the radar intercept officer in Top Gun.
AP News Radio
2022 midterms live updates: Latest election news from AP
"In state capital's early calls show Republicans losing two governorships in traditionally democratic states I'm Ben Thomas with some results Democratic candidates have won in Maryland and Massachusetts both beating Trump backed opponents Massachusetts voters have chosen Mara healey over former state representative Jeff deal to replace Republican governor Charlie baker who opted against seeking a third term Healey will become the state's first woman and first openly gay governor In Maryland Wes Moore replaces Republican governor Larry Hogan whose term limited He becomes the state's first black governor He beat Republican state legislator Dan Cox Democrats outnumber Republicans two to one in Maryland Another newcomer to the governor's mansion Republican Sarah Sanders the former White House press secretary elected in Arkansas 6 other gubernatorial results went to the incumbents Republican Ron DeSantis fending off a challenge from former governor Charlie Crist in Florida Republicans in Alabama Bill Lee and Tennessee Henry McMaster and South Carolina and Chris sununu in New Hampshire and Democrat JB pritzker be elected in Illinois I'm Ben Thomas
WTOP
"mcmaster" Discussed on WTOP
"Linemen staged and ready to go. They're also being serviced by the waffle houses feeding the linemen. And we appreciate that. We appreciate the community reaching out and supporting these folks more reassurance from fema director deanne Chris well. We have already started the planning efforts for what it's going to take to rebuild these communities in recover from the storm, but also recover in a way that makes them more resilient against some of the impacts from these storms in the future Ian hit South Carolina as well but governor Henry McMaster says. We had no storm related deaths. We had no hospitals damaged, old water systems were in our okay. We had only a few little problems, but most of the electricity has been restored in a rare swap. The White House says it has released two relatives of Venezuelan president Nicholas Maduro's wife, and that nation freed 7 Americans who were being held there. It has the largest trade detained citizens by the Biden administration. President Biden assigned a funding bill averting a shutdown of the government, CBS's Chris cruise. The Bill funds the government through the middle of December, it passed the House 230 to two O one Friday, with all Democrats in support, but just ten Republicans. It keeps government spending at current levels, but also provides more than $12 billion in aid to Ukraine. The CDC says the spread of monkeypox is down, but CBS Naomi rocken reports it isn't going away. Just one dose of the monkeypox vaccine appears to keep at risk men healthy, according to U.S. health officials. CDC tracking over the summer found men who were eligible for the vaccine but did not get one were 14 times more likely to become infected compared to men who got one shot. Officials are still urging at risk individuals to get a second dose for full protection. Victory for Team USA at the Women's World Cup. They do it. They win
Stephanie Miller's Happy Hour Podcast
DNC Chair Jaime Harrison on the Need for Leadership Change in Texas
"Sorry, we just covered the story of Texas suing the Biden administration. So to allow women to die in abortions. I mean, the federal government is just trying to say to save the life of the mother. We have a duty. And so Texas suing to make sure that what women get to die in Texas. I don't know how else to say it. Listen, you know, I live in South Carolina, I grew up in South Carolina and I couldn't think that you could find a state where you had worse leadership than the leaders that we have in South Carolina and McMaster and Tim Scott and Lindsey Graham, but then Texas does it bigger. Yeah. Abbott is a disaster. We all know about cancun Cruz and the walk in disaster that he is in corn and has no backbone. This is a state where the AG to the lieutenant government. Remember the lieutenant governor in this state was when COVID hit was, he was a guy who said, well, we should just sacrifice our seniors. We should just let them die so that we could save the economy. I mean, these people don't care about the people here in Texas. And they don't care about women and women's rights. And we've seen it time and time again, they don't care about voting rights in this state. And that's why it is so needed for a sea change in leadership here. And hopefully with beto at the top of the ticket, we could see that what I've heard my entire life, the sleeping giant, actually. I just heard someone say, and again, you know, his lips to God's ears, but that is sadly a game changer that they really feel like beto, it's beto's time. Liam on Twitter said, I'm sorry. It may sound harsh, but standing around in the hallway while children are shot in the next room is exactly what Republicans have been doing for 40
WTOP
"mcmaster" Discussed on WTOP
"Decision that was widely condemned by western nations U.S. ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas Greenfield on face the nation Certainly nothing is off the table with this guy He's willing to use whatever tools he can to intimidate Ukrainians and the world CBS News national security correspondent David Martin says when you alert your nuclear forces things can quickly get out of control I don't want to scare people with the thought that Russia is somehow getting prepared to launch nuclear missiles At the U.S. I don't think that is likely but if just one low yield nuclear weapon goes off even if he just does a demonstration shot out in Siberia There's just no experience for what happens next So it is a dangerous moment not just for Ukraine but for the world Russian troops are now said to be less than 20 miles from the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and some may already be there CBS Charlie Dakota says the city is looking for them Ukraine's soldiers and reservists now man checkpoints in the city streets on the hunt for plainclothes Russian saboteurs trying to infiltrate the capital Senior U.S. defense official today told reporters that Russian troops are having trouble getting resupplied in the invaders have not been able to take control of any Ukrainian city so far Former national security adviser and retired army general HR McMaster says Russian leaders may be surprised by how well Ukrainian forces have defended their country I think Putin got a lot more than he bargained for He's in a very difficult position And I think anything we can do obviously financially going after his international criminal enterprise with sanctions and so forth is important on face the nation McMaster said it's very easy for the Russian invading force to become absorbed into the vast territory of Ukraine a country of more than 40 million people in an area the size of Texas A floor collapsed into the basement of a home during a party in arapahoe county southeast of Denver sending three young people to the hospital Most escaped on their own by climbing a staircase that.
Marketing To Millions
"mcmaster" Discussed on Marketing To Millions
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Marketing To Millions
"mcmaster" Discussed on Marketing To Millions
"Take an hour of your time so at this point. Things that we're looking for is did they follow the very detailed instructions. Things like is your answer in blue font and did you. Title the file exactly how we wanted title and so these questions were looking for written communication specifics of how they would actually speak to clients. Speak to the results. And then we're looking to see how much they know about digital marketing. How much they understand about our role as a client account manager and then how they go about really detailed answers and putting their best foot forward. Because it's basically a written interview while i just want to jump in really quick here because that is an important note. Even for coaches course creators. Anyone that's really adding a role to their team. This is such a important step in one that we could kind of steel that i might steal as well because it's something that is so small details but you can tell so much from someone taking that extra effort to pay attention and really honestly. Just read the instructions a lot of times. If i'm hiring through a former something and i throw up the application in a facebook group or something that i'm part of to have you apply in the comments. I will write in your email subject. Use this subject line. One that i can organize my email with all of the applicants because as you know you might get a flood of applicants but also that you can start to qualify people that you want to interview an kind of quickly remove any. That can't take that next extra step in. That might not be as serious as you're hoping to have someone as a higher if they can't take that extra step to mark things in blue or use the right subject line or things like that. So i just wanted to stop you quickly to call out attention to that because i think that's a great tip that we can all kind of us and one is obviously working really well for you inside of your agency. Yeah it's definitely something that's really important and it's easy to just say oh. This person sounds amazing. I'll just skip through the assessment. I know they're qualified. I think it's really important to take just a minute to send that over to them. And just have that so. It's a good reassurance for you that this person is talk quality that you're hiring and the last part of our assessment and this is something that highlight to do and a lot of people say. Why do you do this like. I don't know why you would add this in. But i add in the assessment. A request for them to send an optional video so it's optional a to see who goes above and beyond but be in our world of online people need to be good on video so i just say do aloom send it to me on youtube. Whatever it is but i want you to introduce yourself as a client account manager for dot and it really shows who goes above and beyond and what. They're like on video so it just it. It's just something that i add on and it's really good to see so highly recommend. Okay so a have you gotten any crazy video ones that you agusan cool. Have this enjoyed entertainment. Yeah this one girl who were actually in the process of hiring she like went way above and beyond in had like two cameras going and like edited all up on movie and had leg all these things in it in. We were like well how that so maser so it really lets people kind of get their creative side out and show kind of what they're made of so yeah highly. Recommend doing that so funny in my former life when i was nfl cheerleader. We would have to submit videos for if we wanted to be a apply for certain jobs or whatever and but we will get access to these videos and one time. I saw someone's video that they recorded with their like twelve cats in videos and the video was less about them and why they were perfect for the job. Were replying for but more about like. Hey here's my cat yours. My other cat. It was the craziest video. And i always think of that. When people talk about applying the video you could get some really wild increase ones. Obviously the good ones are nice to see what people are doing but also entertaining for those crazy that people have with just really really going above and beyond and maybe not even touching on what. The purpose of that video was in the first place. Yeah exactly and if you have a bigger team and you have people coming through your hiring process and maybe you're not going to meet with them until the final interview. It's a good way to just kinda see who. These people are their personality shine in an earlier stage of the interview. So yeah that's a great idea. I love it. So if we're thinking about you know as we're wrapping up. I'm sure that a question that might come up would be what is the benefit to just outsourcing versus hiring in account management team. Like you take over everything. What are the kind of pros and cons to to both of those. Than what should we be thinking about if we are in the phase of our business where we might be considering bringing on account management team or maybe just hiring another single role. Yeah so i'd say there's different things so firstly. It's the goal of your agency so for some people. They started agency to have a lifestyle and they just want it to be themselves and they just wanna have enough clients to kind of make them happy. That's fine. They're happy doing it all themselves in that case. That's fine that you don't always need to scale your team but if your goal is to scale up your revenue and get out of the day to day grow your brand grow team than i think. It's a really important role to identify at what stage revenue wise and client wise. Can you outsource and at that point. You can decide. Do you want to outsource to people who are already trained and they kind of can jump in and get started or do you want wanna bring someone in house and train them up in your ways and help them grow in scale in your agency. So there's different options so for sometimes agencies will come to us who they have someone on their team and they just want them to be leveled up in the way that they're managing client so will actually train them one on one to become premium client manager so they'll get our processes and it's kinda learn how we train our account managers and then sometimes agencies will hire us to come in and manage the clients for six months until they decide to hire somebody in house so it really depends on what stage you're at in your business in what your goals are and then of course. There's various different options depending on where you're at. Yana make sense. We can kind of look at our cools wearing. Want our business to go and decide how we want the perfect next person or team to fill that role a lot of times. If you're thinking about doing something more efficiently bringing on a team might be the best bet because you don't have to focus time and energy on training them they can just come into your team.
Marketing To Millions
"mcmaster" Discussed on Marketing To Millions
"With liam. I love lamb as well. Can you kinda describe how you guys use it and by like it's a much yes so for example we do a lot of reporting to clients. So let's say we're doing a weekly facebook ads report to a client. Instead of just sending over a screen shot of their ad account end. We all know that most clients don't really know how to read that properly. What we'll do is. We'll actually jump on loom. Go in the back on facebook ads manager at actually walked him through what the metrics are what they need for them so giving them that human element you can see my face you can see me walking you through your ad account it gives us credibility also gives that human element and then on the internal side we actually see when the clients watched it. So if you send over a report and then they haven't watched it in a couple of days you may want to send a follow up and say hey like just wanna make sure you watch the limb from this week's if you have any follow up questions so it's a really great tool that we use not only four reporting which is kind of keeping a pulse on clients and just knowing how we can better support them. Yeah that's important especially as agency owner myself. I know that reporting understanding the data in really. What's happening especially with ad campaigns. A very vital to retaining that client because if they don't feel service while or really feel like their ads are performing well for them or they're getting the return on the investment that they are paying to manage their accounts they can often times feel like they can find that same level of service somewhere else. Because as you. And i both know there's plenty of people just like you taylor in there's plenty of people just like me that are helping clients have agencies so we can use things like lamm to help set us apart to up level that Are giving them providing to the clients for the service that they are providing. Okay so if we think about hiring. You've talked a lot about your team. How you integrate with other agency owners if we think about hiring what are some simple steps that take in your agency to hire other account manager that fall in your team that then go and integrate into other agency teams. Because there's a little bit. I imagine maybe a little bit of a fine line there because you are hiring people that are then going into other teams. So they have to have a specific skill set and specific personalities to be able to make that process seamless for the agency. Absolutely i think hiring is such a huge task for any business loan agencies. And i think that hiring for your own agency is really hard but for us. We're also like you said hiring for all of our clients agencies at the same time so we really have to be very precise in our hiring process to make sure that those people that were bringing into dot are also going to be a good fit for the agencies that we are working on so over the years we've pivoted and changed our hiring strategy but there's definitely some things that work really well that i wanna share with you guys that you can actually plug right into your agency and us. Because i think it's really something that we've tried and tested and it's used to work really well for us so the biggest thing kind of an overview of our hiring process and we have a pretty detailed s. o. p. shocking of how we go through this hiring process but it really starts at that application and setting the expectations so we have a job description. That is very detailed in what we're looking for. And i think that's really important for you as agency owner to sit down and determine exactly what this role looks like because we all know if you go into a job interview and you're doing a job interview for a certain job and then you get in there and you're asked to do all these other things that are on the job description. It doesn't look very good and it's kind of misleading. So i think it's really important to start with that application in our process the first step for client account managers is they actually fill in an application. We've created type form and it's quite detailed in terms of not only the qualifications and those hard skills but also there why of why they want to become an account manager because this role is very unique in the sense where you're working on your own. We're not sitting in the same office with you. We can't help you out all day every day. You really need to be an independent workers so this application in tight form. Just ask them more selleck y they want to work with us why they want to be an account manager so after they go through this application. It's looking at. Are they even qualified. And what that looks like and then curly who full-time job in our agency is to hire really great talent and none to match with agencies. She'll go through these applications and book just a fifteen minute coffee chat and we've added this element in early on in the hiring process because it's a quick gut check to see if this person is even potentially hired on the road so carly gets on and just has a super informal conversation with this potential cam just to paint the picture of what this job is because we really want to be. We just wanna make sure that we're not going to string someone along our hiring process if they're never going to find a good fit with our agency so it starts there at the coffee chat and then next we have a full blown assessment so this is something that i learned a couple of years ago and it is so so great in the hiring process and how we have structured it is we have five specific questions to the role that we have the percent. Fill out at the beginning. We have this unpaid work. We will not be using this internally and it should.
Marketing To Millions
"mcmaster" Discussed on Marketing To Millions
"Companies. So i started this business. A number of years ago. I started actually with my own digital marketing agency so i kind of broken a corporate the usual story entrepreneur and started doing digital marketing. So doing everything from copyrighting building landing pages running ads myself and then a couple of years ago i realized that the parts of my business that i actually was super passionate about and i felt like was my strength was actually managing clients and managing projects and talking to clients all day and for most agency owners. That's the piece that they want to get off their plate as quickly as possible so two years ago dot co was born and now we do exclusively client account management for digital marketing agencies. So cool. I love that you have found. What made you happiest in. That's the beauty of entrepreneurship right. You can kind of take your own path. You can figure out what you love doing. The most in build your business around that but account manager isn't a term that not everybody is familiar with. I am familiar with it. Because i come from corporate agencies space so i know the term account manager very well but can you kind of help us understand what account manager is and maybe described the role a little bit for us yet for sure so as a client account manager we work inside of a digital marketing agency and our main goal is to get the agency owner out of the day to day operations in client management of the business. So we are there to take over all the client communication from emails client meetings as well as project management so a huge part of our role is making sure that of course clients are happy but also that their projects are coming to fruition on time in budget. And all that good stuff. So we're also in our role responsible for managing say contractors or media buyers copywriters graphic designers and acting as the glue inside of the agency to make sure that everything's running smoothly. Nothing's falling through the cracks. And then of course. Like i said keeping the agency owner focused on what they should be doing such as doing sales branding growing the agency. And we're there to make sure clients are happy. So if we're looking at account manager versus maybe an integrator. How are those two roles different. And what is important for us to know about account manager versus. No maybe an integrator. Yeah that's a good question. So when i think of kind of an integrator i see that as more of a co our operations role so they are responsible for the profitability of the agency team structure overall hiring. Really they're there to replace the visionary whereas we're almost a level below the integrator so a number of agencies that we work in have an integrator or a co we report up to them so were there to manage onboard clients. And make sure that everything's running smoothly and then reporting up into the integrator that makes perfect sense. So if we think about how you integrate with in agency can you walk us through what that looks like for. You guys may be who your perfect. It sounds like you aren't working necessarily with solo preneurs or people that just have a few contractors. You are working with people that may already have a team that are just kind of looking to streamline their workflows in get themselves out of managing their team yes we actually worked with a number of different sizes of agencies. So how we work is. We're an outsource client account manager so our team. We have a team of ten. And we're all personally trained by myself and my team find account managers so we actually white label inside of the agencies. So say it's liz agency. If you're going to have my own email address that's taylor at liz agency dot com so to your clients. It looks like we're full members your team and it definitely feels like that but were very much so inside of the team so some agencies we work with have a full in house team at network kinda plugged in and then some agencies like you said are kind of a one man entrepreneur or women and then they have contractors and graphic designers. Things like that. And we're kinda plugged in there so from small to large agencies. We can work with them all. But i think the big part here is that will more working in an agency. Were very much so a member of the team. It's on arlington profile. Were on people's websites. It's definitely that fulltime five. So on morning can be sounds like on. Boarding is a task that you definitely try to take off of agency owners plates because that can be pretty strenuous or overwhelming to just you know you sign a new clients amazing and then the on boarding process begins in. That can be a little bit. Overwhelming can take a lot of time away from the agency owner to get that client up to speed that project rolling. What kind of tools our processes g you implement. That may not already be there that help to streamline the operating process so definitely on boarding a huge task i think i always say that agency owners when they hit this point where they're on sales calls they almost don't want to bring on more clients because they know that they have to onboard them themselves. That's when is a good time to to bring someone in house to optimize or to take over that process for you. So when we work inside of an agency most agencies work completely different from one another so although we do bring in our own templates in soap's in processes into the agency is almost like it takes a little bit of time to customize it to how they like to work so some agencies they'll already haven't a complete on boarding workflow or process that they follow and some don't so it really just kind of depends on where they're at but really like like you said on boarding takes so much time so we kinda come in and our on boarding process is is built out end. We do everything from you know. Email communication with the client sending over a briefing documents ensuring that we have access to all their assets and were in their facebook ads manager. We have access to their their assets. Everything like that and then working with the team to get them on board at so. Maybe that's a scoping their project in asana or breathing in the copywriter in terms of what we're looking for or doing the kickoff call is a huge part as well so you know we kind of take it from whether it's the agency owner on the sales call or a sales person we take it from them and we're the the point of contact for the client moving forward. So it's a pretty seamless process from sales over to account management. But like i said the process can look quite unique between different agencies winner sooner the common tools that you use within agencies are there any overlapping our favorite ones. That you have. Yeah so we use every kind of project management system you can probably imagine internally at dot we use asana allot although we're always playing with different ones to see what those are like but we use loom a lot across all agencies. This not only helps cut down on meeting time. But it gives you a way as a client account manager to communicate with your clients. Make them feel like they're your only client in a way this really personable. So we use loom across all agencies. Of course the usual slack. County g mail. Those kind of things. But i was in bloom is like the most useful. I find her case so for anyone. That is not familiar.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Sebastian Reminisces About His Time in the Oval Office With Donald Trump
"Me share a story here. I was in the oval office with president trump. Just the two of us which rarely happens. The oval office has Well it has an entrance way from the out of office and then it has a little narrow door that goes to private eating area and little place for the president. Just sit and read. Didn't be by himself. And then it has the door to the the west wing where guests come through so you rarely in there alone. I was in with the most powerful man in the world and it is a humbling feeling truly as an immigrant to the united states. Somebody who wasn't born here. Who has an accident who always will who only became a citizen. Three years prior to be alone in the oval office is something yukon express. And i was in there on other business if i remember. Well i think it was Iran deal I was one of the two people though building. In addition to the president wanted to kill the iran deal. God bless into finally doing in the face of people like hr mcmaster tillerson mnuchin. All the other fake america first. And i was about to leave still talking about something to do with iran and the president looked at is hand. He got this very serious expression. Yeah he's a very jovial person. It's to great great sense of humor. But suddenly his face froze who's reminded of something on that piece of paper or just something came to mind when he said i really don't want americans to die on the korean peninsula. I did not want to get us into another shooting war in korea. He understood the threat. Remember the hermit kingdom under kim launching ballistic missiles over the japan intimidating our friends in our allies but despite never having said he went to a military high school but despite never having served he really undestood the weight. The inordinate responsibility carried by the person who is commander-in-chief
Monday Morning Critic Podcast
"mcmaster" Discussed on Monday Morning Critic Podcast
"Is lead singer to one of my all time. Favorite bands dangerous toys. Please welcome jason mcmaster jason. Thank you so much for being here today. Of course it's a pleasure and thank you for having me so jason. I got a funny story for people listening. So when i reach out to you because i really love dangerous toys. It's one of the things on my podcast is. I'd like people who work has moved me. And you certainly qualify in that. And are you you said. Are you sure you got the right. Jason and i'm like yeah. Yeah he said yeah. Because i know we've talked here. I have composers. I had the lead singer for eddie and the cruisers the actor. I had the the guy who played ozzy osbourne tony. Cavallero in the dirt But i've never had a supremely talented vocalist. So in that way. You're certainly Your originator here. So i really appreciate. That will thank you for those compliments. it's a lot of pressure. Preach the love you. Yeah you know when. I look at your life right. You strike me as somebody that just really you know. From from the day you were started to pick up an instrument. You just love what you do you love music you love. Being a vocalist love playing instruments. I mean i think there's some musicians in your position that get into it for. I don't want to say the wrong reasons but maybe not the best reasons year in music for the best reasons imaginable. You just have a passion for this. Is that an accurate way. Jason of looking at your life early on. And now i guess too. Yeah that's That's about right. It's not to get long winded. But you know. I have older brothers. I have younger brother who turned me onto their record collections. And i don't really remember being able to turn them onto any thing that i liked to listen to his so they were listening to a lot of good things i was. I was into queen. Elton john And they were turning me on day. Cdc in the neighborhood kids turned me onto kiss..
Monday Morning Critic Podcast
"mcmaster" Discussed on Monday Morning Critic Podcast
"Next guest is it amazing vocalist musician. He is lead singer to one of my all time. Favorite bands dangerous toys. Please welcome jason mcmaster jason. Thank you so much for being here today. Of course it's a pleasure and thank you for having me so jason. I got a funny story for people listening. So when i reach out to you because i really love dangerous toys. It's one of the things on my podcast is. I'd like people who work has moved me. And you certainly qualify in that. And are you you said. Are you sure you got the right. Jason and i'm like yeah. Yeah he said yeah. Because i know we've talked here. I have composers. I had the lead singer for eddie and the cruisers the actor. I had the the guy who played ozzy osbourne tony. Cavallero in the dirt But i've never had a supremely talented vocalist. So in that way. You're certainly Your originator here. So i really appreciate. That will thank you for those compliments. it's a lot of pressure. Preach the love you. Yeah you know when. I look at your life right. You strike me as somebody that just really you know. From from the day you were started to pick up an instrument. You just love what you do you love music you love. Being a vocalist love playing instruments. I mean i think there's some musicians in your position that get into it for. I don't want to say the wrong reasons but maybe not the best reasons year in music for the best reasons imaginable. You just have a passion for this. Is that an accurate way. Jason of looking at your life early on. And now i guess too. Yeah that's That's about right. It's not to get long winded. But you know. I have older brothers. I have younger brother who turned me onto their record collections. And i don't really remember being able to turn them onto any thing that i liked to listen to his so they were listening to a lot of good things i was. I was into queen. Elton john And they were turning me on day. Cdc in the neighborhood kids turned me onto kiss.
Monday Morning Critic Podcast
"Dangerous Toys" Lead Vocalist: Jason McMaster
"Next guest is it amazing vocalist musician. He is lead singer to one of my all time. Favorite bands dangerous toys. Please welcome jason mcmaster jason. Thank you so much for being here today. Of course it's a pleasure and thank you for having me so jason. I got a funny story for people listening. So when i reach out to you because i really love dangerous toys. It's one of the things on my podcast is. I'd like people who work has moved me. And you certainly qualify in that. And are you you said. Are you sure you got the right. Jason and i'm like yeah. Yeah he said yeah. Because i know we've talked here. I have composers. I had the lead singer for eddie and the cruisers the actor. I had the the guy who played ozzy osbourne tony. Cavallero in the dirt But i've never had a supremely talented vocalist. So in that way. You're certainly Your originator here. So i really appreciate. That will thank you for those compliments. it's a lot of pressure. Preach the love you. Yeah you know when. I look at your life right. You strike me as somebody that just really you know. From from the day you were started to pick up an instrument. You just love what you do you love music you love. Being a vocalist love playing instruments. I mean i think there's some musicians in your position that get into it for. I don't want to say the wrong reasons but maybe not the best reasons year in music for the best reasons imaginable. You just have a passion for this. Is that an accurate way. Jason of looking at your life early on. And now i guess too. Yeah that's That's about right. It's not to get long winded. But you know. I have older brothers. I have younger brother who turned me onto their record collections. And i don't really remember being able to turn them onto any thing that i liked to listen to his so they were listening to a lot of good things i was. I was into queen. Elton john And they were turning me on day. Cdc in the neighborhood kids turned me onto kiss.
Monday Morning Critic Podcast
"mcmaster" Discussed on Monday Morning Critic Podcast
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NBC Meet the Press
"mcmaster" Discussed on NBC Meet the Press
"But you have to look at the reality truck okay. Hey i agree. Afghanistan was not denmark. Chuck right but it didn't need to be denmark. Of course there was corruption in the government. The security forces there was crushing. The security forces As well that were hollowing out these petitions as we're trying to build them but they were on a path to slowly strengthening overtime. And what is i think. Most lamentable about the policy out of the trump administration with the vitamin station double down on and failed to reverse is that we actually strengthened the taliban and weakened the afghan government and security forces on her way out. Hey if we're going to leave chuck why don't we just get the hell out. I mean why. Don't we do that and so it was just impossible. I think for the afghan government to withstand the blows of not being included in the negotiations and then forcing the afghan government to release to five thousand. Some of the most heinous people on earth who immediately went back to terrorizing the the afghan people and then to to you know set the time we're not going to support you withdraw the vast majority of our support for them. General mcmaster The former one of the former national security advisers president trump. You wrote a book about vietnam. I have a feeling we're going to have books about afghanistan being written for decades as we unpack. What went wrong. Here geno mcmaster. Thanks for your time and And your perspective. Thank you when we come back. The military diplomatic and political fallout from this terrible week in afghanistan. Painless next but as we go to.
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"I know these aren't easy times. Thank you for coming on. And sharing the administration's perspective with us. Thanks chuck good to be with you and joining me. Now is the retired general h. r. Mcmaster he was president. Trump's second national security visor general mcmaster. Welcome back meet the presser. Thanks chuck good to be with you. Good morning good morning Look we're coming to the end of our presence in afghanistan and when you look back at twenty years you've won a few hats When it comes to dealing with either helping to create policy in afghanistan or inactive. What's been your biggest mistake. Or biggest miscalculation over twenty years. Well i think we all share responsibility for. It's not twenty awards a one year. War fought twenty times over and what what the basis for the problems that we've encountered in afghanistan is certainly the enemies that we've been fighting there as you can see today. Enemies have a say in the future course of events and and there are consequences when you surrender to a terrorist organization but it hasn't been a twenty year war. It's been a one year war. Twenty times over with ineffective strategies based on flawed assumptions flawed assumptions about the nature of the enemy a flawed assumptions about what was necessary to achieve a sustainable outcome. There and of course What's sad about it is. This were ended in self defeat chuck. We had a sustainable Effort in place Several years ago that if we sustain we could've prevented what's happening now but instead what we did chuck is actually. We surrendered to jihadist organization. And assume that there will be no consequences for that and we're seeing the consequences. Today was the core mistake Taken off of afghanistan and invading iraq did that that distract the pentagon that distract our diplomats that distracted from the mission especially considering the reasons we went into iraq turned out not to be true. It took the there were series of mistakes right for the. I was assuming that it might be easy just to depose the taliban and then something good happens. And so the short term approach we took to what was a long term problem actually lengthen the war and made it more costly and then when we did reinforce the effort there in two thousand nine president obama announced a reinforced security effort and announced the withdrawal of troops on a timeline at the same time and then to the about have negotiate an agreement with you. But and here's our schedule for departure. How does that work in war. Check right words a contest of of wills and then. I think what we had enduring. The trump administration was initially the first time we had a sound. Sustainable reasoned approach to afghanistan at august. Two thousand seventeen and the president abandoned it and he doubled down on the same flaws of the obama administration check. How does it make sense to tell them. we're leaving. and then say we want to negotiate a settlement and would that resulted in is concession after concession to the taliban and we got nothing for it and as soon as you set a date were out by may first onto the trump administration and the numbers of troops. Were going to have their. What can you do accept. Essentially effect a surrender and then to hear this language. Today this the pretending that we can partner with the taleban for security around the kabul airport or we can partner with the taliban for security against al qaeda when those two organizations are completely intertwined would like to see is our government stop pretending and a really good way to honor our servicemen and women who gave their lives on a modern day frontier between barbarism and civilization is to is to end or self delusion and confront the reality that this endless war this forever war has not ended as you know because we is there any way though of do you think it sounds like you believe the taliban could have been defeated and it sounds like a lot of other people. Don't believe that was the case. I do believe it. And i think it happened. I mean the taliban was unable to accomplish their objectives through the use of force with a relatively small level of troops there. I mean what would pick number five hundred ten thousand but what was important out that number and a very low cost in connection with casualties and and the financial costs associated with it is preventing what you're seeing happening happening. Now which is the establishment of a of a terrorist state in central south asia. A state that is already going to be an already is a magnet for jihadists terrorists who pose a threat to all civilized peoples and also. I think it's really important to to recognize about our sustained effort. There is that who was doing. The fighting against against the taliban and other jihadist terrorist organizations like isis gay and like al qaeda. It was the afghans are forces. There were not directly involved in the fight any longer they were enabling to afghanistan. Bear the brunt of the fight. But what we did. We delivered the sedaka logical blow as psychological blow to the afghan government and security forces on our way out. But let me ask you this. I i guess i'm to put up something that the inspector general for afghanistan reconstruction john sopko told voice of america. Last month he said he said this about the american government. In general we exaggerate. We over exaggerated or generals data ambassadors. Did all of our officials did to go to congress and the american people about were just turning the corner we turn the corner so much. We did three hundred sixty degrees. We're like a top. And i just heard you just now before i brought this up saying the afghan security forces were taken the fight and i want to take your word but we look and we see what happened and i think a lot of the american public says oh yeah really understand the skepticism..
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"By general h. r. mcmaster president trump's former national security adviser general. You have obviously been quite critical of president biden's decision to pull out the troops as we speak we've just gotten word about the explosions in kabul today. Looks like there are casualties taliban saying as many as thirteen and three Us troops wounded. How does this change the calculus in your view for president biden who has decided yesterday to stick by the august. Thirty one deadline. Do you think it should change his decision on that. And if there are significant. Us casualties what should the united states response be the whole mission. I guess the big question is what is the mission is the mission just to withdraw and complete surrender to a terrorist organization. If that's the case. I guess just stick with the time line but if the mission is to get all. Us citizens out so the coty network. Which is the number. One taker of hostages in that region and now is in charge of security in kabul. Doesn't turn this into a into a a humiliation like nine thousand nine hundred seventy nine hostage crisis to add on top of the humiliation. We're seeing now. Which is evocative of the nineteen seventy five evacuation of saigon. So what's the mission. I think would be the first question. Do you want us if the question will. The military advisers should ask. Do you want everybody out. We can do that. But the president then has to muster the will to be able to commit to that mission and provide the resources and the authorities necessary to make it happen and it won't be without cost as soldiers. You know we don't we. We expect to be in harm's way right. Just following up on that stand kleinman general mcmaster if the mission is should be as you just described it to make sure that we get all americans out. How should that change our posture. There you talked about making sure we have the resources to do that. what would that mean realistically. Would that mean putting more troops and you think well yes and the time line would have to change for sure. I mean you can't have it both ways you can't see it. We're going to stick to the timeline. And where to get all americans out and we're going to get all of the afghans out who were at grave risk for having supported us defended us worked with us over two decades so i guess the question again is what is the mission you would have to commit additional troops. I think you see now. You know the the need to establish a broader perimeter then then you have really see from satellite imagery of kabul airport. How the city comes right up to the gates of the airport. So if you're sitting at the perimeter there's no real way to have an active defense in sufficient depth to prevent this kind of a mass mass casualty event. And then hey there might be other safe areas open right other ways to extract people or or for egress and then the use of military capabilities. Not necessarily soldiers on the ground but military capabilities to ensure safe passage along routes that get to maybe alternative safe area. So you know you have the ability to impose your will and to establish those safe areas. The question is did you have the will to follow through on it. You're saying that the mission ought to be to get all americans out just not to withdraw our troops. I should point out that just today the. Us embassy after these two explosions took place in kabul. One right outside. The airport gate issued a bulletin to american citizens. Us citizens should avoid travelling to the airport and avoid airport gates at this time. Those us citizens who are outside those gates should leave immediately so it sounds like at a minimum. This is going to set back the goal of getting the remaining fifteen hundred or so americans out of the country. So i want you to react to that but sort of more broadly. We've just had a terrorist attack that has injured at least some american troops. We don't know the full casualty numbers yet. Does the united states need to respond to that terrorist attack. And if so what does that response look like. Who do we attack. Where how do we go after the people did this. Well we have to go after them. The question is though will they be able to hold us hostage right. Hold those that are at the airport hostage. Hold those who are trying to get to the airport hostage. So this is. The cost is the cost of surrendering to jihadist terrorist organization. This is the cost of the trump administration's deal in february of twenty twenty to capitulate to the taliban to enter negotiations without the participation of the afghan government then to insist that the afghan government released five thousand of some of the most heinous people on earth who went right back to terrorizing. The afghan people went right back to the battlefield. And now what. You've seen the results of the psychological blows we delivered to the afghans. Say hey we're leaving. We don't have your back anymore. Good luck with that. And of course what the taliban's did is they took the boost. We gave them psychologically and went to those afghan leaders said okay. We've got a deal for you. How do you come to terms with us or we kill your family's how 'bout that so that's why we've seen this rapid collapse. It was all predictable. I believe based on the psychological blows delivered now having surrendered to a terrorist organization. We're seeing that we you actually lose agency and influence unless you reverse course. I guess an early question would be dan you know. Are we going to continue to empower the taliban at afghan people's expense. We keep talking about what we need to engage the taliban on the future of afghanistan. hey it's worth pointing out that the asia society. He's been to impose their for the last twenty years had the highest level support ever for the taliban thirteen percent how about engaging other afghans on the future of the country how about engaging umbrella lasala who's in control of the panjshir valley now and just retook four districts from the taliban by force. You i mean i think it's time to reverse course to recognize that we have put ourselves and the world at a much higher degree of danger by giving giving a country To to the taliban allowing them to to reestablish the islamic emirate of afghanistan. let's be more specific about what you mean by reversing course and engaging some of the other afghans in that country who we might be able to engage are you talking about really supporting an insurgency kind of a reconstitution of northern alliance in the north of afghanistan to continue this war against the taliban and hopefully prevail at some point. And what does that support. Look like american support. Will i think. I think that's going to be a decision for the president to to make at some stage. I think the sooner he he he considers it the better. Because you know what. I mean the the sad thing about this data. Mike is going to be back right. I mean think about december of two thousand eleven then vice president biden called prisoner bob on the phone and he said thank you for allowing me to end this guy damn war. Well guess what. You're al qaeda in iraq in the americas are gone. I guess we'll just stop. And so what you had is. Al qaeda in iraq morph into isis the most destructive terrorist organization in history which took control of territory the size of britain that conducted about two hundred attacks international international including shooting down an airliner multiple tax in europe including on the brussels airport and that we had to go back right we had to go back and wages sustained campaign against isis. I mean that's what we're facing. Now is the growth of jihadist terrorist in one of the ideological hearts of jihadist terrorism. The so-called core saen region which spans the pakistan afghanistan border an area in which twenty us designated terrorist organizations already exist. And you know what we try to darn hard to disconnect the dots between them we we.
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"mcmaster" Discussed on Skullduggery
"Do solemnly swear that i will faithfully execute. The office of president of the united states will to the best of my ability reserved protect and defend the constitution of the united states. So help me. God so helping got so help me. God help me. I'm michael isikoff chief. Mesquite correspondent for yahoo news obtain kleinman editor in chief of yahoo news and victoria a steady a fellow at the brennan center for justice. Well a pretty grim day. And i think we all were horrified by the images we saw about those terror attacks on the couple airport. The deaths of american soldiers. We were all kind of holding our breaths. When i saw the attacks not knowing whether americans were killed and in fact they were. It's the first american fatalities in afghanistan in over a year and a half since february. Twenty twenty and it may have been the largest single day of deaths in afghanistan for american servicemen since two thousand eleven. That's a pretty leak statistic when the us is pulling out to come for that to come on the heels of our pull out. And i think this is going to be. you know. we're not out of the woods. General mackenzie briefing today from the pentagon. He's the commander in central command. Said there are ongoing serious credible threats of more attacks. It's just hard to see this being a bigger mess than it has become and you know you can understand why biden wants to get out at this point as quickly as you possibly can because he clearly was seeing these intelligence threats that were very specific and as we now know tragically very credible. But you know this is. It has been an extraordinary operation. More than one hundred thousand people evacuated in a very short period of time but they cannot claim as jen. Psaki was a couple of days ago that this was a great success as she did from the podium. Well no my but my point my point is that an operation like this done with such haste and in such a difficult security setting just makes it that dangerous and i think the the question now is biden. This committed to to this august thirty first deadline. He reiterated that in his remarks today at the white house and he's also said that he's committed to getting all of the americans out and continuing to get their afghan compatriots out and so it seems like a contradiction but what struck me if you listen carefully to what he said. Was that even after the august. Thirty first deadline. We will continue to rescue americans and others. So what does that mean. I think that suggests that we may be entering a new phase of this operation. Tony blinken earlier. This week i think on wednesday talked about how we would use diplomacy to get some of these people out of afghanistan at. That's not going to isis attackers down. But i'm listening to biden closely. He was talking about using other means. Using military means perhaps using special operations forces drone attacks drone attack. Well you're not going to rescue talking again about buying. We will hunt down and mike about. Let's get we'll get to that but to get the americans out you. May you may see american forces on the ground or possibly some have suggested resistance forces. E- some of these northern alliance forces who may be able to us. But i think the the point is is that we're going to be living with this for some time and i think it could get more dramatic and more hurry in some ways. My my mind immediately leaped ahead to the domestic politics implications of some of this. Not that i don't wanna pause for a moment and reflect on the kind of incredibly sad story from today but if you guys watch the benghazi investigations thought that was a pretty intense investigation of a blunder in kind of america's forces abroad. Just wait and see what the investigations of today are going to be like in congress should the republicans takeover in two thousand twenty two. It's it's going to make benghazi look like child's play in terms of investigations and the way they Kind of there's going to be a relentless relentless investigations into what happened today you already have prominent republicans like josh. Holly who never accepted the idea. That joe biden was elected president in the first place calling on president to resign as a result of all this. We're not there yet. But but clearly. I mean the political fallout is going to be real and it's going to haunt this presidency but i gotta say i'm gonna come back to biden's comments we will hunt you down. We will not forget. We will respond to this attack. Which is kind of a standard thing. Presidents say after these terrorist attacks in fact That almost echoes. Exactly what bill clinton said after the uss cole bombing october of two thousand committed by al qaeda which killed seventeen american sailors actually Clinton never responded to that attack despite vowing to do so so you know often. These things depend on lots of circumstances. They're good at talent intelligence. Do we know who to attack. Do we know who to hold responsible for this. And it's not at all clear that we do. I think this is. This is as difficult to set of issues foreign policy issues than i think. Any president has faced in a in a long time and one of the one of the questions. Mike in victoria is if we do go after these terrorists in afghanistan. And we don't we're not able to do it with some kind of pinprick drone strike but actually say go in with special ops to take some of these terrorists out you know. There is the dangerous of the there is the risk of getting sucked back in and on the ground and then there's mission creep and this by the way i think we're gonna you know maybe hear some of this from our next guest general mcmaster. Who think does not believe in the biden administrations over the horizon counter-terrorism strategy and That at some We may not. We may not be done with this conflict in part because of the way we have tried to get out. Which is ironic right all right well. The endless war may be far from over. I guess is sort of bottom line to this but Look mcmasters got a lot of interesting things to say. Some of them quite controversial especially coming from a guy who served as national security adviser to donald trump So we'll see how he sorts out. We've also got mike mccall who is a republican from texas who is the ranking minority member on the house foreign affairs committee and has been very involved in afghanistan as well. I should point out as we start that our interview with him took place before the terrorist attacks. So you won't see any here any reference to what happened on thursday during that interview but you will during mcmasters. so let's get to.
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Smart Podcast, Trashy Books: Reviews, Interviews, and Discussion About All the Romance Novels You Love to Read
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"Trashy and now back to our conversation with lois mcmaster. Bujold have some questions for you from my patriot community. Sometimes i will let them know. I'm doing an interview. Would you like to ask a question. Would you like to share so the reverberation of excitement might have registered and some sensitive computer equipment. And i said that. I was interviewing people. Were very excited. So i have a few questions from them laura. She wanted to wanted me to tell you that she loves the world's that you create and wants to know. How does it feel. When ideas you had like lab grown meat and uterine replicator 's started to become real possibilities in today's world. Do you ever look at that happening and think all right well. I'm going to play the lottery today. 'cause seems i'm good at this. Both fills examples. Were not things. I made up or like already common furniture. In the science fiction genre uterine replicator go back at least all huxley in one thousand nine hundred eighty two was brave new world but he he would use them basically as a metaphor for british class system. Which is not what i do at oil the technology and do something else the Bat me the idea that has been around forever. all kinds of stories about it So that's yeah. That was that is just still genre furniture but what you do with it and how you arrange it and the rest of the decoders what what makes it work But yeah so So i don't think that i am the source of the real world development of these things. Because there's no it's all over the place the site geist people are picking picking up the ideas i think with respect to the replicator explored the more thoroughly and for more angles in any prayer writer. Tends to now writer extended us miss a kind of a throwaway thing to get out of having to deal with all that messy biology chickens so yeah So it's it's fascinating to watch. It's still some of. It is coming along faster than i thought it would. Which is good. Because i'll get to see you of interested. But i did not. I cannot claim the invention of either of those two ideas right. francine asked me to pass along that you've worked with traditional publishers. And with the penick series. you've been self publishing. What advantages do you see in self publishing as an author. And is there. A reason why pendragon desdemona worked better as a self published series. She also asked that. I say Thank you for all your wonderful worlds. They are compulsively readable. And whenever i need to go somewhere else for a while your books are the perfect vehicle can confirm. That is good. My my ideal. Is somebody finding my books something. They can read both sitting in a hospital waiting room. That's that is service between penn rick and murder bob. That's how i got through twenty twenty anyway so yes see the question was in self publishing so publishing. Oh yeah. I could go on at length. How much do you want. I became interested in southie publishing way back in twenty ten on my agent in new york attended a conference given by amazon to literary agents. They were trying to get content for this new thing. The kindle program. Most of my work at that time was tied up in publisher contracts. But i had a couple of loose novellas but we could try the literal agency helped me do all. The technical stuff unite provided manuscript. And she did the learned how to put them up figured out how to do covers sims kind of the blind leading the blind and they did pretty well during a lot better as e-books than the teeny tiny amounts. They were making paper books because they were all out of print off market and that looks pretty good. Let's try some more of this most by all my books were available to the uk. I had a british rights. So i would spend half a year going over every single one and preparing it for publication to go to the uk market. Which is separate from him Us market and that was spent twenty eleven between surgery. Smothered things the very good thing to do because been writing anything original at that point. Those went up another hooting okay. My british tanked several times. I had despaired overselling books in britain but the e book sort of made a whole end around the entire british publishing luggage started actually reach a few regional tiny handfuls number titles. My main series with bain came up for renewal in two thousand twelve. A whole bunch of books had run out of license. The hardest business decision. I ever made but i decided i would retain rights when we renewed the paper rights except for there to sell off their own website. Their bookstore additionally books. But i retained it in the world. All the risks were was mind for my e-books and so having already prepared them all with british markets prior year. We got them up Started selling And that was remarkable. I never had a monthly paychecks before career. Every month we get collate. The royalties and young turned out to be a living wage. And then in the mid a two thousand fifteen or so. I basically retirement age. I knew i didn't want to pr anymore. Book tours or all the all the all the stressful things you know some writers relish at most hate. Yeah inbal bill dealing with the public dealing with the publishes daily with deadline. I just self publish right. What i want when i want wound up or not. If i don't wanna finish something. I can benefit and that looks like retirement to me So so that was. Why tried pedrick stephen and many novellas that have followed this. That worked really well for you for being being retired and having medicare because i'm american and have no health care except what i bought off the shelf when i was self employed and now Medicare they'll impact sixty five so all that came together in publishing been working really really well so it came from auto at almost almost the perfect time and now I haven't looked right now because it's evening but katherine you looked earlier and said that It's in the top fifty amazon right now. Isn't it for some reason the second weekend after a one of these in abella launches the best for sale philosophy so it actually hit number nineteen on saturday. Congratulations for whole hour. It's like flies enjoy about what happens. and then it then it will settle down to you about the same rate of sales of all the others eventually stays on the show forever yet so it doesn't go out of print. It doesn't go. it doesn't get remaindered doesn't get shipped back to the publisher duty hopes just sits there and keep selling to whoever falls over when i first started in publishing The received wisdom. Was that the shelf life of a typical mass market. Paperback original paperback. Which is what i was reading was two years so if you wanted to have enough books out on the show to make a living at this you had to write really fast and keep them coming at least book. Year jim benoit's token the ideal rate was eight months ago. Kevin eight months which about gave me a heart attack..
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"Alex. Welcome to the tamale podcasts. Hey thanks very much for having me here. I'm really delighted to get the opportunity to talk to your listeners. And i hope everybody gets something us floated. I'm really looking forward to this conversation. I mentioned to you when we were chatting earlier. That i corner you at a reinvent like just after you joined. Aws and in perfect and typical aws fashion. You had nothing to do with a pr. Journalists type person and so this is kind of a Achievement unlocked moment for me. It's been a long time coming. I've been looking forward to the opportunity to chat with you. So i am also excited. We're going to cover a bunch of cool stuff. You're working on from a research and aws perspective and we'll touch on the event that you're heading up or participating in the m l. summit towards the end but to get us started i would love to. Have you just share a little bit about your background. How you came to work in machine learning of as i'm actually a physicist by training and this is saying that physicists aren't good at anything but you can use them flavor thing and i think that's probably how ended up with machine learning the flex along the story. Is that when it came to doing my master's thesis. I look around. Didn't find anything terribly citing at my university. And then i look making going do my master's somewhere else in the swath. They can t actually a young convos. The department at the time in the move up nate was mcmaster advisor and this was even at the time of really great opportunity of mind. You this laws in nineteen ninety five
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"Up seats in state houses across the country in November, and now they're using those gains to push new abortion restrictions, some of which resemble laws previously blocked by the courts. NPR's Sarah McCammon reports. In the last couple of years, A federal courts have repeatedly struck down early abortion bans in Ohio, Georgia, Alabama and elsewhere. But this year, Republican lawmakers in South Carolina were undeterred. This field protects the life of the unborn with the heartbeat. This is a sensitive issue. This is a controversial issue, but it shouldn't be. But it is. Those voices were South Carolina Republican Senators Katrina Sheeley and Larry Grooms during debate over a bill prohibiting most abortions after cardiac activity can be detected. That's often about six weeks into a pregnancy. Republicans were able to pass the bill after picking up several seats in the November election almost as soon as Republican governor Henry McMaster signed the law. Ah federal judge blocked it. Ah court hearing is scheduled for Monday.
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Republican Lawmakers Across The Country Push For Abortion Restrictions
"Picked up seats in state houses across the country in November, and now they're using those gains to push new abortion restrictions. Some of which resemble laws previously blocked by the courts. NPR's Sarah McCammon reports. In the last couple of years, federal courts have repeatedly struck down early abortion bans in Ohio, Georgia, Alabama and elsewhere. But this year, Republican lawmakers in South Carolina were undeterred. This bill protects the life of the unborn with the heartbeat. This is a sensitive issue. This is a controversial issue, but it shouldn't be. But it is. Those voices were South Carolina Republican senators Katrina Sheeley and Larry Grooms. During debate over a bill prohibiting most abortions after cardiac activity can be detected. That's often about six weeks into a pregnancy. Republicans were able to pass the bill after picking up several seats in the November election. Almost as soon as Republican governor Henry McMaster signed the law. Ah federal judge blocked it. Ah Court hearing is scheduled for Monday.
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Republican Lawmakers Across The Country Push For Abortion Restrictions
"Picked up seats in state houses across the country in November, and now they're using those gains to push new abortion restrictions, some of which resemble laws previously blocked by the courts. NPR's Sarah McCammon reports. In the last couple of years, A federal courts have repeatedly struck down early abortion bans in Ohio, Georgia, Alabama and elsewhere. But this year, Republican lawmakers in South Carolina were undeterred. This bill protects the life of the unborn with the heartbeat. This is a sensitive issue. This is a controversial issue, but it shouldn't be. But it is Those voices were South Carolina Republican Senators Katrina Sheeley and Larry Grooms during debate over a bill prohibiting most abortions after cardiac activity can be detected. That's often about six weeks into a pregnancy. Republicans were able to pass the bill after picking up several seats in the November election. Almost as soon as Republican governor Henry McMaster signed the law. Ah federal judge blocked it. A court hearing is scheduled for Monday.
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"South Carolina's law banning most abortions has been suspended. Commodore Henry McMaster signed the bill into law yesterday. Planned Parenthood is challenging it. Ah, judge put a 14 day temporary restraining order on the law until a hearing on March. 9th can determine if the law will be enforced. The order was needed, in part because more than 75 women are scheduled to have abortions in the state over the next three days. Most of them would be banned under the new law. Stacey Lynn CBS
Sci-Fi Talk Scribes
"mcmaster" Discussed on Sci-Fi Talk Scribes
"Most probably the best parts. Of certainly i don't know he's he's sort of distant descendant of bomb through flannery from the poll anderson stories. The lender since slammed retails were ones. That i loved back in the back in the early sixties. Look slandering scarfed up Could we say that he may be more closer to horatio hornblower. Yeah a little if that too. He's got a little of T e lawrence a short soldier of history. Who've i whom i studied back in junior high with great interest Lawrence of arabia came out as a movie about that mine and i went to see it. I think with seven-time ended up putting all sorts of things. most eighth graders. Don't read as a result okay. We're gonna talk about memory for a minute members. Been out a couple of months now and in memory. You took the sort of adolescent Life wonder that two miles is leading as a covert ops agent tore it all down and built him up again. How the fans been dealing with it and what comes next. The fans have been enjoying it very much. Because one of the things that that i give them. That makes my work different from you. Know all the other space operas out there which superficially resembles is the fact that i have characters who really do live and grow and change and in miles case grow up not very willingly screaming kicking and screaming. He is dragged into kind of you know the next phase of adult existence. You had it yet. It also up for a while but they were there were there were some flaws which is do identity for first of all of course all based on a lie to start with And this caught up with him eventually over time and he had to finally reconcile. It makes them very difficult. Choices on memory is pretty much about this about the he put himself apart To solve one problem back in back in his youth and now he has to put himself back together to solve. Another problem That when he gets age thirty. Tony says we've got to take a break. We got it. Yes we have to take a break in net. Pay some bills. As as as we'll be right back in just a moment backhoe with myself tony's a lot on earnest's early and lowest peugeot. Hey there's something i i wanted to ask you. I think if you if you talk to your fans. I think a lot of the reasons they like going to the world that you create are the fact that the characters are very strong besides delete besides miles and also have a second part to that question. What about his brother mark. Where why why was the reason for inventing him and Whereas gonna go. Ooh where's he going to go is a question that i will only be able to answer by writing a book in which he goes there from He came from the first The double in which he first appeared is called brothers in arms and it was my first attempt to do a clone story. Sort of that asks him some questions like wouldn't you rather go fishing and And other other sort of deconstruction. The old apple. Ganger story it was. It was a fun book to write To space opera. That takes place in london. Which really questions that definition In which miles is almost replaced by his his clone brother. Marcus as part of a plot But the plot is defeated and marc is freed. the book Book was fun but it was. It had to problems One it was hijacked by some of the supporting characters who sort of came alive and galloped off at the plot And the other is that it really needed to be remarks viewpoint to be about mark to really get inside. This guy's mind So i took a second pass on on the mark problem When i sat down to write the book mirror dance which went on to win. A hugo A well-deserved you. Go and thank you. And i hit the right thing. There which is split the viewpoint between miles when mark and then get rid of miles for a good part of the middle of the book to give mark a chance to develop. You touched on something sometimes when you create characters that are so strong. They sort of take away. You didn't expect them to because of that. Because of that strength. I i want to throw a comment about mary dance. It's a it's a book that starts out and you realize it's going to be a mark story And fans of miles myself included go. Oh no mark story and then by the end of the book. It's when's the next barks. Dorothy stickney through those changes was was fun and painful in an interesting and most people really like it when they're done but they're really not sure about the middle of the book whether whether they're going to be going along with us with there are no more change there. No changes more fun. Painful interesting to the ones that happened in the first couple of chapters of memory though yes thank you that's That does does some of the things two miles that i that i did the mark except that in my office. Problems are in different. Different level of mark's problems or psychological and miles is problems were morals so we moved it to that sort of different arena to to give miles his proper hard time for the book. Just one interesting thing about mark. you've revisited. The great man problem because Mark is in some ways almost the son of miles and he's following in his footsteps as milos his father. I've summed it up as the worst case of sibling. Rivalry you ever saw as you know as an older brother Miles is an extremely hard act to follow. And if you've ever used every if ever you have met a surly middle child who gets tired of hearing about that. Elder siblings good grades. That's mark. mark saltzman brilliantly. i hope so well when when ernest and you had talked early in the year you had said that one of brothers had had taken an option on a. I think warrior princess. Yeah that is correct. Has that moved anywhere. Or they renewed the option And there was there was rumor a script had been written and was being revised and that is all i know at this point so the question comes up again who could possibly play on my on my net chat thread. That's one of the perennial topics. Everybody else has gotten so tired of it that they moved it off to sort of separate chat room on the on the internet. People who wanna talk casting for my books can talk to each other you know. I heard something. I saw it on the net For cost again Encyclopedia is something. That you're aware of the hispanic. I think It is it is not something that's going on. Officially this is something someone is doing for a hobby. Well that's kinda neat to have characters that people care that much about to To do that on their own. Like sort of my my major sort of literary golden life. i always wanted to create characteristic. Went on living after the book was closed As my favorite characters have for me over the years the ones that that i've loved literature that have just gone on making up stories in my head and i considered a sign of life considered very healthy for the kind of fiction. Most we have to know. What are you working on currently. What's the next book. And when's it come out. Say the next book is up to chapter eight It is viewpoint set on kamar. It's my office. I adventure in his new job. After memory read memory yet so supply too. Many spoilers there From admiral to accountant. Yeah and it will be with you point miles and another care. No one is yet And what else can i say about it. And it doesn't have the title the what's the gender of the other character Female get back to that female viewpoint. Well you know there's something that ernest asked you in the previous interview that we ran and our sci-fi talk frequencies about you know after miles an air so is could there be some romantic possibilities between these two characters are not being kept wraps until th you know. I don't know. I haven't even have a title yet. I get involved with the woman. There wasn't some spark Yeah it's it's it's very complex book mystery read it and it has More talking less physical action and you may be used to mile stories. But i hope it will be interesting. Mls we'll look forward to at least some sparks and.
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"mcmaster" Discussed on Sci-Fi Talk Scribes
"Good evening. I'm tony at ernest lilley. Welcome to scifi to our theme by. Larry carter rally. I liked that song don't you. I'm getting used to it. After thirteen weeks. We should be right. We cover science fiction or fantasy comics and collectibles who live guests and taped interviews. Email us at sci fi talk at aol dot com tonight. Live on the phone nebula and hugo award winning author lowest mcmaster buju tonight. The review is Mother of winter barbara hambly sounds interesting. All right we'll get to that in a minute. Absolutely as star trek first contact makes record. Box office runs. I recently asked. Patrick stewart if he would want to follow and jonathan frakes steps and direct movies although i one of the jobs of this movie is quite wonderfully relaxed and easygoing laid-back performance. Jonathan gives this movie. it's it's it's astonishing. How how comfortable he seems to be. But i have never been able to understand how now ken brown. Oh and and these. People direct themselves in major roles. I don't know how it's possible. Whenever i directed episodes that i had anything to do. I wish i couldn't act. I felt like a beginner win. The acting came about so no. I wouldn't want to direct something with myself but i'm actively looking for projects that would be more appropriate to the kind of thing i want a direct to do. It's a it. Is you know the best job in the world directing movies ernest. We have an interesting review tonight. Barbara handling yes barbara. Hambly mother of winter thirteen years ago. Barbara hambly gave us the third book in the bestselling saga of the realm of dr with a parallel world. Join to ours. not through. quinn maladies remote but by dreamers and reality crossing mejia's in the first trilogy gill a history. Student turned swordsman and rudy account. Airbrush artist of late a fledgling wizard found themselves in a dark fantasy world wanting only to click their heels thrice and be home but by story's end they had found reasons enough to choose. Staying gil is in love with the wizard ingold whom she has sworn to protect and rudy with lyndale ruler of the keep their adventures apart narnia part lord of the rings and part connecticut yankee in king arthur's court. Well they're back. Five years have passed in the realm. Gillan rudy are defending their respective loves in this world where magic works but happily ever after doesn't besieged from without by coming ice age and from within by political struggle for control of the keep guilt travel south with ingle to free her from an chapman that threatens his own life and rudy fends off grotesque creatures from local legend. That have only lately turned out to be quite real. He also dreams of the bald lady. A major from the ancient days who holds the key to the failing magic's that feed the hydroponic gardens. That may be their only hope. In the face of the oncoming cold barbara hambly weaves all this into a mystery for characters to solve through clues entwined in the fabric of life in the realm. The author's background is medieval. List and martial artists provide the ring of truth to the characters especially guild sword play. While rudy's californian perspective provides an interesting point of view he regards feudal politics and is in turn regarded by inhabitants of the rome. This well written fantasy reunites us with favorite friends and promises. More adventurous ahead. Sounds very interesting. There are plenty of barbara hambly fans out. There have been waiting for this. I'm sure okay. Great lois mcmaster. Usual has written a very successful series of novels about our main protagonist miles poor cokes again. I got it right and close. I was close on that one starting in nineteen eighty three with shards of honor. Which run be compton crook award for. First time novel. She has gone on to win three hugos for her series. In addition to winning the nebula and locus awards. Welcome to our ms buccio. Thank you nice to have you high low as it's ernest you remember ernest high. You know this character is very interesting. he's probably the Probably as far as science fiction the most fragile action hero in scifi novel Where did he. where did you come from. Miles has a whole bunch of sources He has a physical template in a hospital pharmacist. I used to work with back in my pharmacy technician days. That's where i got miles as high four feet nine inches. This fellow's head was level with the top of my shoulder and measured that to the volume discovered that before nine and he had The leg braces in the when he walked in certain physical characteristics he was also one of the most brilliant guys work in in the hospital to work with But miles has more of a An emotional template out of my own relationship with my father one of his besetting characteristics is a really bad case of great men son syndrome. Which i sort of think i share. My dad was a very hard act to follow He was an old caltech man and professor of engineering at ohio state university. And in fact where. I got my taste for science fiction. Miles thinks he should be six foot one But you didn't ever consider making a larger than life action hero. That's been done. You know the the thing is when when you're playing with with the john that's already been worked over is is to try to seek seek the angles. Think the points of view that not everyone has done before you Laws to stay in the wiser mile something else just for a second and just maybe a little unfair but but did you ever consider writing miles. A woman in the beginning No although in the very first version of the warriors apprentice he did have a sister who got written out I've always sort of missed her but there goes my sister question before you know before. The book really really got pissed about chapter five. So for people aren't tremendously familiar with the stories. Her miles becomes an admiral. Could you just do a real brief thing on what miles became before memory. Okay oh jeez. We're asking me to sum up ten bucks here. Basically miles develops dual identity. He he has his identity at home as a as a barrier for which is sort of Military aristocrat home world. Which is tough sledding. When you're four foot nine have brittle bones and don't fit in at all and he develops a second identity as a sort of Cobra agent out in the galaxy at large as admiral naismith sending mercenaries for miles a far more satisfying identity allows him to To us sort of the full range of his abilities and talents and over about a ten year period By the way he gets he gets his home. World sub security organization to fund his mercenary fleet. And they m second cy million out for them. Yeah for them in the back beyond or integrate beyond So she's kind of having his cake and eating it too throughout throughout his twenties As he has this one one identity is the the very active. Admiral naismith and the other is the the rather dull. There's also a little bit of I'm sorry there's also a little bit of a detective inhumane. Some of the stories too I know that you had read homes. And and also lord peter whimsey i believe I want to ask you. What do you think his favorite home story would be. Oh heaven that's an interesting off. The wall question that miles read. I remember seeing with there was one scene where he fell asleep reading a novel and ended up stuck in a fog. So i'm not sure how you asli res but But yes he does read. I was talking about miles at tony. I have been for several days now. As a matter of fact and he said you know that sounds like a lot of james kirk and a lot of james bond in miles absolutely. Yeah creek was never my favorite character. So i draw the line there. Okay.
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South Carolina Senate passes bill outlawing most abortions
"South Carolina Senate has passed a bill that would outlaw almost all abortions in the state the measure requires doctors to use an ultrasound to try to detect a fetal heartbeat if they think a pregnant woman is at least eight weeks along in a heart beat is found in the pregnancy is not the result of rape or incest the doctor cannot perform an abortion unless the mother's life is in danger the South Carolina Senate passed the legislation by thirty to thirteen vote after Republicans won new seats in last year's elections it's likely the final hurdle for the bill which is passed the state house easily in previous years governor Henry McMaster has repeatedly said he will sign it as soon as he can I'm Ben Thomas
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What do we know about Joe Bidens cabinet?
"Us president donald trump was never going to react to losing the two thousand and twenty election gracefully us. President donald trump has never reacted to anything gracefully as we go to air trump continues to insist that he's crack. Legal team are going to unveil conclusive evidence of monstrous voter fraud any day. Now although on current form trump's personal attorney rudolph giuliani clearly. Clearly voter fraud easily. Provable seems just as likely to unveil the heron he has appointed his deputy however earlier this week trump or whoever priced his sweaty phone from his. Tony hands grudgingly tweeted that the us general services administration the body which oversees presidential transitions should do what needs to be done. This will make life somewhat. Easier for president elect joe biden. Who will now have access to government funding office space senior officials and intelligence briefings among other things. It also means that he can name his cabinet with increasing confidence. Very possibly because president-elect biden has wanted to emphasize legitimacy in the face of the incumbents ongoing tantrum vis-a-vis the election results. We've learned a lot quite early about the administration. He intends to lead from january twentieth. Is a team that will keep our country and our people safe and secure. It's a team that reflects the fact that america is back ready to lead the world not retreat from it once again. Sit at the head of the table. We will come presently to who. And what is in biden's cabinet but at least as significant things being as they recently have been is who and what is not biden has not at least as of this broadcast awarded any government position to any obvious crooks crepes clowns ding bats. Yahoos griffis spivs cracks. He's own ghastly children or they idiot husbands but wild president-elect biden does have the advantage of a low bar to climb over. It doesn't mean that he's choices are excused scrutiny especially those pertaining to foreign policy on the grounds that. Us foreign policy often has a way of becoming of the people's domestic reality president. Trump's first secretary of state was to put it charitably unorthodox unorthodox choice. I'm not here to represent the united states government's interest. I'm not here to to did norm. Norma here to criticize it. That's that's not what i do. I'm businessman. Rex tillerson a career oil. Baron wants personally awarded. Russia's order a friendship medal by president vladimir putin president-elect to biden could scarcely have made a moral docs pick as america's top diplomat. And that's where the men and women of the state department foreign service officers civil service. That's where they come in. I've witnessed their passion their energy their courage up close. Antony blinken is a career foreign policy. Boffin who served as deputy secretary of state and deputy national security adviser during the presidency of barack obama with national security advisor trump also tried to be a bit left field. He named lieutenant. General mcmaster a serving soldier and actually not a ridiculous choice. Mcmaster is a smart serious and sensible man and all of those reasons fell out with trump. who replaced him with incorrigible. Neo-con head banger. John bolton who only looksmart serious and sensible when standing next to donald trump but this arrangement proved unworkable. Good to everyone. I'm paul affairs. We are coming on the air right now with our breaking news just moments ago. President trump tweeting that he has asked his national security adviser. John bolton to resign. Joe biden has named jake sullivan. I pledge to you. And to the american people that i will work relentlessly in service of the mission you have given us to keep our country and our people safe to advance our national interests and to defend our values who was the president-elect's national security adviser when the president-elect was vice president he also helped negotiate the nuclear deal with iran from which trump famously flounced trump's first. Us ambassador to the united nations was not a completely absurd choice former south carolina governor nikki. Haley he's second ambassador to the. Un was a completely absurd choice. Prodigious republican donut kelly craft. It could actually have been worse. Trump wanted to appoint his daughter. Ivanka but griped that he would be accused of nepotism. I've heard i've already vodka. I've heard how good woody vodka the people that know. There's nothing to do with nepotism. But i want to tell you the people that know no that evacuate would be dynamite about You know then. Be accused of nepotism if you can believe it right. This was accurate in as much as demanding money from bank tellers. Gunpoint can lead one to be accused of armed robbery. I want to say to you. America is back. multi-lateralism is back. Diplomacy is back.
60-Second Science
Translucent Frog Optics Dial In Camo Color
"Ocean animals have a clever form of camouflage transparent, but being through as far less common on land and was a few reasons why that might be Jim Barnett is a postdoctoral research fellow at McMaster University in Ontario Canada differences between air and walters. Surrounding media means life interacts differently with a transparent organisms body tissues. Any Ocean light is always coming from above and the background is less variable, but in jungle. CANOPIES light is coming from all over the place and the background is far more variable. Enter a little critter called the glass frog. It's not actually transparent. It's translucent that means it's skin in some places is thin enough that you can actually see its internal or hard at work most of the time when you see photograph of these folks, they're taking onto quite controlled conditions with either strong lighting like powerful flash. Photograph underneath on a piece of glass, and it's really the the bellies which are transparent and these folks are pretty small and thin and quite delicate Sarah. If you have a powerful flash on your camera, you can tell just lost light through them and they look pretty transparent. Barnett says the frogs translucent skin is actually a novel camouflage strategy that no one's ever really studied. Until now we're thinks is happening is that light is traveling through the frog interacting with the pigmentation about a lot of it does pass through the frog and bounces off the background Some of that light will be absorbed by the background underneath Roque. This'll some reflected of that becker a come back through the frog. So if a glass frog is sitting on a break greenleaf. In the jungle canopy, the light passing through its thin skin and onto the leaf, make the frog appear Brenner and color matching more closely with the leaf. The jungle canopy is filled with leaves, but it's also filled with predators, birds, snakes, mammals, and even invertebrates in search of their next meal these animals acquaint. Visual Systems are pretty cute into finding differences luminance brightness between different patches. So the quite good at finding prey based on differences between the background on the animals brightness and by being translucent sees folks are able to have an adaptive camouflage. So regardless of whether the leaf is dark or bright if the glass frog is sitting on it, it will appear to change to more closely matches background the study by Barnett and calling is in the proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. With around one hundred, fifty known species of glass frogs in the World Barnett says the next project is to find out if the franc's translucence may differ based on their individual habitats. One thing is certain. It'll be hard to see what they find.
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Mexico Caves Reveal Ancient Ochre Mining
"Sometimes, discoveries seem so simple. You know basically we've found a bunch of holes in the ground that's Edward Reinhard he's an archaeologist and geologist at McMaster University in Ontario Canada, but you know ultimately very important holes in the ground reinhard on colleagues believe they've found some of the first clear evidence of mining activity in a system of caves in Kintana ru on the peninsula the fine dates back to between ten and twelve thousand years ago. These are some very early people that have come and migrated to the Americas via the during straight. But getting to what remains of these miners and the tools they laugh is a challenge like cave divers you got to be so careful you don't get lost. These caves systems in Mexico, which were once dry are now completely filled with water. Thanks to a warming climate and sea levels that rose over time winding passageways are narrow and dark, and the walls are made of unforgiving limestone porous and with sharp edges. Reinhard says the water that filled the caves has preserved everything. It's basically almost like you know somebody working at a factory, they turn the lights off and they went away and nobody ever came back when divers started telling reinhard about what they were seeing inside the cave. He decided to go for a dive himself. He found concentrations of charcoal meaning that the people who walked here thousands of years ago probably used fire to light their way and there are stone. Cairns which Reinhardt believes the people built as navigation markers. Also says lots of tools remain and they were made from the stalagmites that hung from the cave ceiling breaking off and then using use hammer. So you can see the percussion marks where they were banging up the you know breaking up the stone on the bottom. The discovery is in the journal Science advances. So what were these ancient people mining and prospecting for there is a little bit of sediment still on the wall of. The pit. So I grabbed a vial and my sampled island, grab some of the sediment and underwater the red light gets attenuated. So Look Kinda Brown I was thinking well, maybe it's ochre you know is thinking about that but it's like well, looks Kinda creepy of that's what it is but then I got got out of the cave into the sunlight and it was just like this spectacular bright bright red. So then I knew. What they were after ochre it's among the earliest known pigments employed by humans and it's got many uses for sunscreen to preserve animal skins and burials and ceremonies, and people still use it even today in artwork. It was you know it's a prominent in used Gio material if you will through time for your end and dates data usage for thousands of years prior to around the world.