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CodeNewbie
"nader" Discussed on CodeNewbie
"What are tech hiring managers actually looking for? And do you have to know how to code to get started in open-source? Listen to compiler on Apple podcasts or anywhere you get your podcasts. Thanks so much for being here. Thanks for having me. So now are you currently due to developer relations as well as being the founder of developer Dao, but before we get into all of that in the wild wild west of web three, which I'm very interested to get your take on, tell me about where your coding journey began. So I'm a self thought developer. I started coding when I was around the age of 30 years old, really? Wow, very cool. Yeah, so I did not go to school for coding. I didn't even actually go to school for anything. I didn't graduate from high school or college. So I'm completely self taught, but I kind of learned about starting with WordPress. I built an ecommerce site through that. I learned a little bit of PHP. I learned just general logic and obviously like HTML and CSS. I then decided I wanted to do that with my life. So I found a way to land my first role as a developer. And from there, I kind of just slowly over the course of about ten years built my resume by working one place, continuing to learn stuff. Obviously, I improve my skill set and level up, started off doing web development, moved on to mobile development, ran my own company for a while, joined AWS, pivoted to cloud computing, worked there for a little over three years, ultimately led the developer relations team for a little over a year there for frontend web and mobile, then decided after understanding and learning a lot about the blockchain space and the current state of it and where I thought it was headed, decided to move in that direction. And that's where I've been for a little over a year and a quarter. So a year and three or four months. So at the very beginning of your journey when you were around 30 and first getting into code, what was it about coding that resonated with you? Well, first of all, I tried so many things in my life that I failed at was not able to succeed at. So I tried my hand at different odd jobs, real jobs, real estate, working in restaurants and retail sorts of things. That I just found it was so interesting that I could actually just sit in front of a computer and do what I thought was fun and get paid for it. So I kind of realized that I understood and could sit down and actually build stuff and this was a thing that someone would pay me to do. And that was like the first time that those two things that really overlapped for me. So that immediately was like, okay, I need to focus on this and become better at it. And also really just understood that technology was interwoven into almost every business and every company at that point even ten years ago and it would become more so. And now you can kind of look back and see that almost every successful big company is almost like a tech company because they have websites and applications and all of the software that runs their business. So I just realized that tech was going to be intertwined with everything. I was good at it and I was getting paid for it. One did you know that you were good at it? When I think the store that I built with WordPress in the course of about 9 months was on track to do over a $1 million in sales. So I think I kind of realized like, okay, if I can build this with my own hands from nothing then this is probably something I'm like better than anything else I'm at it, at least for me. And at what point in your career did you do that store? That was when I first learned how to cut that was the first project I built was a WordPress site that was an ecommerce store. But I needed to take a step back at that point because I knew I wanted to do this, but I had no clue where to actually get started. If I wanted to be what I would consider like a real engineer, I was kind of just copying and pasting code. I didn't really know what I was doing. So I wanted to land a job. So I started looking. I live in Mississippi. No one would even give me even an interview because I didn't have any education and I didn't have a resume or nothing. So I spent some time trying to kind of improve my resume just to describe what I had done over the last 9 months, started shopping it out outside of Mississippi, so I started saying, okay, if someone in the southeast would give me a shot, I would take it. And then ultimately I was like, okay, this is what I want to do. So I'm going to literally just like send my resume all around the United States and anyone that will give me a job. I will take it. So I got a consulting opportunity in Los Angeles on a Thursday and they started to be there and start on a Monday. So I took the job and literally bought a flight and moved my entire family to LA and started on that Monday and stayed there for about a year. Thinking back
Software Engineering Daily
"nader" Discussed on Software Engineering Daily
"You're using Twitter, you can sell ads and stuff. But if someone's using that Twitter data in a better way than you are using it, then maybe they're going to start attracting users away from your platform. So therefore, they're going to shut that off. But if there is an immutable data source for this social media data that other people can build front ends on top of, then we can kind of say we have a single back end that a hundred front ends can kind of share and we can kind of compete on who can build out the best user interface. But I can also I also have portability of that data myself if I want to do stuff with it, I can also take my followers across multiple platforms. So if someone spends up like a TikTok front end on top of this back end and a good example of this is Lynn's protocol where they've built out a really, really great prototype, but not just the prototype. It's actually a working social graph that allows you to kind of have this data portability. If I build up my network on this platform, I can kind of take it with me. So I really like those use cases around public open data, social graphs, or one use case, mainly because there's billions of users that are only existing social graphs and we can offer a better user experience, then that's a huge unlock. Another one is just low cost payments and low cost banking around the world with better Fiat onboarding and off boarding, but maybe even better implementations for things like stable coins at point of sales systems. So if you live in the United States, you live in Europe. You don't really have to worry about a lot of this stuff, right? Because our currencies, you know, we might have like a 5 or 10% inflation, which we're going nuts over right now, right? But imagine having like a 1000% inflation every year. And imagine living in Lebanon where you literally can't even take the money out of your bank and it's going down by, I don't know, was it ten or 20% every month? Or even more than that. And then you can't even take it out. So a year later, you're down 90%. And you're just kind of screwed. Imagine being able to bank on a stable currency like the U.S. dollar. That's kind of game changing. I think the biggest challenge right now for cryptocurrencies in general are the fact that you can't really just go and buy groceries or buy a cup of coffee with them in most places. Argentina is doing a great job though and kind of innovating and having this more real world use cases like being built out into the real world. I think what we're going to see over the next couple of years is more better software that allows people running businesses to easily accept these things with like a really easy to use app or something like that. And then low cost networks that allow someone to buy a cup of coffee with less than one penny transaction fee in a stablecoin and things like that. So public open back ends and low cost payments or the things that I'm excited about, me personally, I'm just going to be building out and helping celestia and the modular movement, move forward as we launch our main network, which will be in the early of 2023. Cool, cool. So if a developer is interested in experimenting with the testnet right now in celestia, what should they do? Where do they go? Yeah, so we have a Discord. I would definitely go to celestial Discord poke around, check out our documentation. We have two really, really, really not being in. Again, by a great places for documentation. One is just the celestial website, which is less developer focus and more just us diving into these concepts that we talked about on this interview. And a little bit more detail with diagrams and stuff. It's called learn modular. So that's a really great resource. The celestia developer documentation is a great place to go. If you want to learn how to build or run a node or deploy an application or a smart contract. So those two places are a great place to go. I would also recommend maybe checking out this blog post or it's not really a blog post. It's actually like a research paper almost called pay attention to celestia that dogs a lot deeper into some of these more technical concepts and then finally there's an interview called the disruptors from Delphi digital interviewing Mustafa Al basam, who's the founder of celestia. And it's really cool to hear him the actual person that came up with all this stuff that built this company talk about his background and what influenced him about his life that kind of put him in this direction. It's kind of one of the more interesting things about our company. I think it's his background. So definitely check out that podcast. Great. Thank you very much. My guest today has been Nader dabit, who is in developer relations and celestia and expert in blockchain technology. Thank you Nader and have a great day. Thanks for having me. I enjoyed it.
Software Engineering Daily
"nader" Discussed on Software Engineering Daily
"Sounds like this is the TSA approach for blockchains, right? You don't have to do a pat down search for everybody. You just have to threaten to do about pat down search for everybody. And just do it once in a while. And as long as you do that, people not always. But you are more than likely to catch violators because you don't know when you get in line whether you're going to be one of those through a more extensive path down or not. I like the analogy. We'll see if people in Twitter agree with you whether it's a good analogy or not. I'm not sure, but it's something anyway. So you're a very, very, very young company. I believe you got your first funding round and just last year, right in 2021, and you built an MVP then. Is that correct? Yeah, they've been together from 2019 ish, and they've been building, you know, I'm not sure exactly when they started actually writing code to be quite honest. But yeah, very, very young company, probably at the most like two years old. Okay, and you now have a development network called testnet that's been deployed. Is that correct? And is that essentially a evaluation framework that people can go in and test this technology on your framework? Is that a lot of developers to go in, run nodes, and transactions, and maybe build applications and protocols on top of the network as we continue to iterate and develop and improve. And also the users that are kind of building on the testnet can give us feedback around improvements and stuff like that. So as people started to do this, what types of apps are you seeing that people are looking at developing at their experimenting with testament? Yeah, I mean, so because celestia is really just doing this really basic ordering and consensus and data availability, there's quite a bit of room for people to build because, you know, in most blockchains, if you're a blockchain developer, you're either a protocol developer or you're a smart contract developer. So you're building that underlying protocol, probably in some lower level language let go or rust. And then a smart contract grammar is going to be writing smart contracts and something like solidity, maybe Russ as well. But with a celestia, you can do quite a bit more. So you can write smart contracts, it's very soon and solidity. I mean, deploy them either directly as a roll up to celestia or to a roll up that's been deployed on celestia, but you can also build out protocol like level stuff. And because we're so early on, there's a lot of stuff that needs to be built, things like wallets, which are being worked on, things like block explorers, things like API, data visualization, and all types of stuff. So without going into too many areas, there's like 5 different core ways that you could probably build on celestia. Like I mentioned you can deploy smart contracts on a roll up that's been deployed to celestia. You can deploy your own roll up, your own almost like your own blockchain. Like I mentioned before two celestia, you can actually build a settlement layer, which is probably a little too nuanced discussion to kind of go into here, but it's another layer that you can kind of build on. Yeah, and there's just so much opportunity to kind of build right now because it's still very early on. You know, to me, the three biggest innovations that have happened in blockchain. And this is just and I worked with this team, so I might be biased. But I think like Bitcoin, the original blockchain was like a huge paradigm shift in the new way for us to build decentralized applications. That was kind of like a big innovation. The next one was Ethereum virtual machine and Ethereum where any developer in the world could essentially run a decentralized application by writing a handful of lines of code and a smart contract. And I think now with us breaking apart these pieces and having this scalability unlock with modular blockchains, I think this is kind of going to be the next iteration of a core paradigm shift really and how we kind of think about how we're building applications. So there's it's still extremely early and there's still a lot of work to do, but it's also probably a lot of upside if this is where things actually go, you know? Cool. So what's your plan for the future? Well, me personally, I mean, I'm pretty passionate about some of the use cases around these hopefully more scalable networks. So I think I really am excited about social graphs. I think that when we think about traditional social networks, there's a lot of things that are good and bad about them, right? You could point out a lot of good things and a lot of bad things. But one of the things that I think is not really great is how there are a lot of social networks that are out there. And if you want to build up a network on one of them, you kind of need to start out from scratch every time and you can't really share that data between the different applications. So if I build a following of a thousand followers on Twitter and I go to YouTube, I don't really have those followers in the build it back up. But also the data itself is very brittle. So Twitter has an API and they've gone through a lot of ups and downs with their API. You know, people used to build out $1 million companies on top of Twitter's API. And then they would just shut it down or they would just change it up because the core value proposition I think for Twitter at least at the time when they were kind of making all of these changes was that if you're using Twitter, you can sell ads and stuff. But if someone's using that Twitter data in a better way than you are using it, then maybe they're going to start attracting users away from your platform. So therefore, they're going to shut that off. But if there is an immutable data source for this social media data that other people can build front ends on top of,
Software Engineering Daily
"nader" Discussed on Software Engineering Daily
"Just a slight detour from what we were saying exactly but hopefully adds more context around kind of like some of the ideas that we're going to cover are probably in more depth here. Yeah, so you're using the basic blockchain only for essentially ordering and for availability. And for making the data available in knowing the order at which different things occurred and the consensus protocols are part of that as well too, I believe. But the rest of the execution and all the meaning that supply to the data et cetera is all taking out of the blockchain and done essentially in owned applications that are unrelated to the blockchain. This is correct. So the original paper that was written in 2019 for this proposal of what celestia is now was called lazy ledger. And lazy ledger was essentially saying we can build a lazy blockchain in the sense that it doesn't do everything it kind of is lazy in the sense that it only does these things. And we can really specialize and focus on doing these core base things that you need essentially to boot shop security in a blockchain, which are consensus and data availability. And then we can still have these other layers like settlement and execution. And those different layers can actually specialize in their own right as well. We can experiment at the virtual machine level because they're not all tied together. It's a lot easier to experiment. We can build settlement layers that are built specifically for roll ups as opposed to something like Ethereum, which also has to continue honoring execution from single transactions. There's a lot of stuff that we can do to focus on those areas, but there's also one core innovation that is enabled to enable scalability at the base layer that haven't really we haven't really touched on yet. That's pretty nuanced and somewhat complicated, but essentially when you think about scaling block size in a blockchain, that's kind of like how you can scale throughput. When we think about throughput or scalability and the traditional tech stack, we're essentially just focused on transactions or operations per second maybe without negatively affecting the network or the state of the application. So if I can say my application is handling ten users per second or whatever. And they're making like 5 up 5 reads and writes per second or something. And then I get an influx of a million users in my application will scale, then I've achieved scalability and everything is great and my application is if it's still working, then I've achieved scalability and I don't really have much to worry about. But it's different in the blockchain world because databases, the only thing you have to worry about is scaling. You don't really have to worry about, I mean, there's obviously a lot to that sentence, but just scaling the database is pretty straightforward in the sense of like if it works, it works. And the blockchain space, you have this nuance around decentralization and scalability. So when you think about the different scalable solutions scalability solutions that are out there in the blockchain world, you have something like Ethereum, which people, for the most part, agreed, it's very, very decentralized. And then you have other blockchains which trade decentralization for throughput. And a couple of examples of those are maybe Solana, where if you want to run a node that essentially is handling invalidating these transactions and processing them, you need to have quite a bit of money and quite a bit of resources to kind of run the infrastructure. So therefore they're not as many people running the nodes as there are. And Ethereum, which is a lot lower bear to entry. And then you have even networks like polygon side chain, which are even more central odds, which only have a handful of at least to my knowledge, maybe, of people who are kind of in control of how that network functions, and therefore are less decentralized. The point is I'm getting at is like in the blockchain world. You can actually increase throughput by increasing the block size, but that puts more requirements on the node operators to have larger resources to kind of operate these notes. So to solve this tradeoff between performance and essential in decentralization. Yeah. The ultimate goal would be how can we make it to where everyone in the world can run a node, but we can also increase the block size. So therefore, how can we build nodes that can process these transactions without having high hardware requirements. But when we think about the types of nodes in a blockchain, there are two main types of net there are full nodes and light nodes. Full nodes literally download and execute every transaction that's ever happened in the history to come up with the current state. And these are the most secure nodes that you can run. But they do because of the requirements to kind of process all of this information require a lot of resources. So therefore, not a lot of people run these notes. And the barrier to entry to running them is usually higher as well. Then what is known as a light node, which really doesn't do all that all it does is process the block headers. And it kind of trusts that the information that's been given to them is correct. And I'm going all over all this to kind of say one of the things that celestia has the team at celestia and more specifically, there was a white paper that was written by a handful of people, including Vitalik Buterin, who's the founder of Ethereum and our founder Mustafa Al bassam, that they determined a way to have something as known as trust minimize like clients. And trust minimize like clients give you the same security guarantees of a full node for the processing power running a light net. And they do this using this innovation called data availability sampling. And data availability sampling is a pretty complex and nuanced thing to kind of really dive into here, but the way you can think of it is that instead of having to download the entire block to make sure that data has been published to the network, they can download a small portion, a very, very small fraction of the total data from the block to get that same security guarantee. And a random sampling is a random sampling done through this method called erasure coding or this procedure called erasure coding. That has been around for a while, but it's only really been applied in the blockchain world, I think, in this scenario. But a razor coating data availability sampling and therefore enabling these trust minimize light clients enable almost the same security guarantees of a full net on a very low, easy to run node. And also a razor coating in data availability sampling enables block size scalability to increase based on the number of nodes in the network, which isn't necessarily what we had before with blockchains like Ethereum and Bitcoin. Because you could have a million nodes, but it's not going to increase the throughput of the network. With data availability sampling and erasure coding, the more nodes that are on the network, the larger the block size can become without affecting how much I would say bandwidth is required to kind of verify the data or to process the data. Each node still only does random samples, but you end up doing more random samples by having more nodes. Exactly, yeah. You scale them out your scalp the nodes that are covered. And then you have larger so not only are we improving areas that we've talked about before, but we're also enabling more bandwidth. And the larger the block gets, all we have to do is have more nodes running or more nudge running the larger of the blocks can get and kind of have this almost infinite scalability property, which we've never really seen before. So not only are we doing this, but like since they've kind of proposed this and start building it out, we're now seeing other blockchains kind of like take similar approaches, including Ethereum, including polygon with the veil, including a handful of others. So this isn't just kind of like what we're doing, even though our team along with mainly our team along with some other people, like I mentioned with that white paper with vitalik and other folks,
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Can We Save the Military? Robert Wilkie Shares His Thoughts
"Me ask you, in that case, if we could create the army of the 1980s, after the army of the 1960s and 70s, can under requisite leadership such as president Trump and others, can we bring back the woke military to where it was before? Yes. The military has reached two different neighbors. The nadir of the 1970s was just pure exhaustion of both military and society because of Vietnam. Now, the Nader is reached because a profession that has traditionally been above politics is now thoroughly politicized. Yes. And if you don't believe me, and you should probably ask him to come on to talk about it, senator cotton. Just eviscerated the secretary of the army because they've done away with physical standards. Yeah. They've done away. I mean, I think the past is now ten sit ups and ten push ups. Oh my gosh. And they're getting, they've done away with MOS. Military occupational specialty. Standards. So for the infantry you'd have a different standard for special forces you'd have a different standard. They've done away with that. In the name of equity, they're destroying the military. And we have to get back to basics. It can be done, but it's going to require a house cleaning. It's going to require a reassessment at every level from basic training to the schools that we are surrounded by here in this community. Including the JPM me high learning schools where I served for 5 and a half years. Yeah. Absolutely. When you've got officers, colonels, Brigadier generals, lieutenant colonel. Telling you that in this day and age, the number one threat that the United States of America faces is climate change. A white rage. Or white rage. You have a serious serious problem.
AP News Radio
Singing coach, 87, dies after she was attacked on NYC street
"New York City police are searching for the woman who pushed an eighty seven year old Broadway vocal coach to her death on the street Barbara Guster and also worked with performers be on Broadway police say she was attacked in Chelsea last Thursday by a woman who pushed her to the ground Guster Nader head and died Tuesday chief of detectives James Essig says it wasn't on provokes senseless attack that's horrific an eighty seven year old woman just walking down the street knocked to the ground police released surveillance video of the suspect a woman who they say cross the street came up behind us churn and pushed her to the ground on west twenty third Julie Walker New York
Animal Radio
"nader" Discussed on Animal Radio
"If this seems fair and like a direction that they would agree with is that if we have yeast in the skin and it's chronic, especially if it creates some of the different symptoms I see with yeast and I should mention those, yeast and the skin will often cause a really stinky foot odor. Smells like old man foot. I want me. I have to wash my bed on everything every day. Yeah, so it's a real strong smell. The dogs will often have kind of a greasy feel to them in those areas. In some cases, when it's present for chronic long-term periods of time, we'll actually get a thickening of the skin and it'll become kind of darkly pigmented and almost what I describe as elephant elephantine. So it's kind of becomes like elephant skin. It comes. They were and give and went away. Okay. So yeah, so that definitely if those kind of things are going on, the yeast is very suspicious. We usually confirm that by taking a sample from the skin and looking and yeast show up pretty easy impression smear. So the thing I would ask you to talk to your veterinarian about is, can we use something systemic for her for this yeast? And that might mean a couple different possible medicines. But they basically all fall under the category of an antifungal. Medicines such as key to cones all or itraconazole, or even one called terban, any of those are used with yeast infections, whether be in the ears or say in the skin. So that would be something. It does take a long period of time. We might get some improvement after maybe a week or two, but many times, this is something that we have to treat for many weeks to months. So that would be something where I would definitely talk to them about that. The other thing is definitely the mala sub that you're using is certainly an appropriate one if we're suspicious of yeast, but there can be even some other things that we can use topically as well as far as different types of mooses or sprays that we can use that contain either, say chlorhexidine, which is a type of antiseptic or Mike Hannah's all, which is an anti yeast topical. So those can be things that we can add into the regimen. But I think the good thing in your situation is there is some things that I can suggest for you to try and the big thing is sticking with it. You're listening to animal radio. Call the Dream Team now with the free animal radio app for iPhone and Android. All of us here at fido friendly magazine can't wait to get on the road again with our favorite fido. We know that it's just not a vacation without our furry companions by our side. Start day dreaming now and visit fido friendly dot com to scout out places near and far, so you will be ready for your next adventure once it's safe to travel. That's fido friendly dot com. Until then, stay safe and leave no dog behind. It's Allen cable with real dogs doing amazing things. This one only weighs ten pounds. And I hear his and a rattle and I look down and there's a snake. These two kids were inches away from a venomous rattlesnake. He was coiled and ready to strike, and he tried to, but his bite missed its mark. He got in front of me and the snake bit him. This little ten pound dog took a rattlesnake bite and his right eye. I mean, he saved her alive. This family is so thankful all they can do now is wait for the swelling to go down to see if the dogs I'll be okay. Another amazing story out of Baltimore when police were called about a vicious pit bull. Folks said he was terrorizing the neighborhood. The officer who responded as a dog lover, and he followed the Pitbull into an alley. All the dog wanted to do was lick him. The officer got into the back of the patrol car with the dog and they drove him to the shelter, but when they got there, he couldn't turn the dog in. He brought the dog home to his other two dogs and they all seemed to be getting along just fine. You're listening to animal radio. If you missed any part of today's show, visit us at animal radio dot com or download the animal radio app for iPhone and Android. It is animal radio. Up next, the gentleman who's named by Atlantic magazine is one of the most influential figures of American history and by time Life magazine is one of the hundred most influential Americans of the 20th century. We welcome Ralph Nader to the show. Hi, mister Nader how are you doing? Good. Thank you. How are you? Very good. Glad to have you on. We were just trying we were looking back, trying to figure out what year did you run for president? 1996, unofficially. And in 2000, 2004, 2008 officially. Well, you've done so much. You have made driving cars safer, eating food healthier, breathing better air, drinking cleaner water. Now we see you've taken a path towards the animals in a book called animal envy. Doubt listeners a little bit about the premise behind it. I like millions of people and maybe all of you have often wondered what would the animal kingdom say to us if we had a common language? What would they want to tell us? Mammals, reptiles, birds, fish, and insects, all speak in this book to humans. And it's a fascinating melange of the way they get together. The way they strategize, how do you talk to humans? They're pretty imperious. They think we're stupid and we're just pumped up by our DNA that we don't learn things that we can't really adapt other than through instinct and they don't understand that our well-being is connected to humans well-being. And if we go down, if we are extinguished or extinct and our habitats are destroyed, that's going to severely harm the human race. And so I try to make every page a gripping one. One astonishes the reader with the way sharks can recreate without having intercourse with a male shark, I want to try to get people to imagine the plight of these animals. They have emergency calls. The whole thing revolves around a human genius who develops an app, allowing all these animals and insects to talk to human beings and to talk to one another and to probe all the knowledge of the natural world assembled by human beings. And then an owl and a dolphin sort of take charge and the human genius opens up 100 hours of global TV. And he says to the elephant, owl and dolphin, okay, you program, what all of you in animal kingdom have been wondering and wishing you would say to human beings? What was your inspiration for this? Well, it's my own curiosity. You know, we all grow up as kids and we read these little fairytales where animals sort of are speaking language, right? And it's cartoons so that way, of course, too. And I began to watch squirrels and watch just in the neighborhood. And I once watched a squirrel leap from one brace of twigs in a tree to another, 40 feet off the ground. And of course, it didn't slip. And it occurred to me. I've never seen a squirrel make that leap and slip. And so squirrels are considered rather dumb animals and they're just driven by instinct and they like nuts. And just think of the calculations and those squirrels brains wind moisture, the flexibility of the twigs that are about to land on. They know that if they fall, it's curtains, if they don't get killed in the fall, the cat will pound sign them. There will be wounded. And then I said to myself, you know, I see humans all the time. They're walking down the street and they fall. And then I started reading a lot of the recent scientific information by naturalists and others and biologists and ecologists about the intelligence intelligence of dogs and cats, more recently, the intelligence of chickens and the different ways they communicate and they modulate the sound of their communications. And of course, we've had a lot of information about the knowledge and the intelligence of primates and how elephant herds take care of an injured little elephant, even at their group peril to keep the little wounded elephant from being eaten by the alliance and how elephants can have sorrow and grief and empathy how our crows configure things out and actually use primitive tools. And so I thought that this animal envy book would really challenge and delight the imagination of anybody who read it. It's for all ages. It's for all backgrounds. It's for all cultures all over the world. I appreciate you spending time with us today. The book is called animal envy I have ten copies to give away right now. If you can't get on through, I encourage you to head on over to Amazon.com or your local bookstore and ask for animal envy by Ralph Nader, thank you so much for the book and Ralph thank you so much for hanging with us today. Thank you. Thank you. Good listeners. Okay, it's about time for us to get on out of here and have yourself a very safe and beautiful new year's celebration. We will catch you next year. Happy new year. Cheers. Cheers and happy new year..
Animal Radio
"nader" Discussed on Animal Radio
"This is Jane Lynch on animal radio. Please stay in neuter your animal. Let me say that again. You don't want to do both. Say or neuter. Let me say it again. Can I do that? You can do whatever you want. One more time. Hi, this is Jane Lynch on animal radio. Please stay on neuter your animal. I love it. You can do so good early in the morning. Contaminated right now. Can I tell you? I'm fairly helpless together. You're awesome. We're in for a treat with the 12 days of snowball by Kristen McKenna. A heartwarming novel partly told from the perspective of a mischievous feline named snowball, snowball considers herself the official matchmaker for any lonely humans in her life, and it's a job she takes very seriously. The 12 days of snowball by Christa McKenna is available everywhere books are sold. For more info visit, Kristen McKenna dot com. That's KRI IST, in MC KA dot com. This is an animal radio news update. I'm Laurie Brooks. Here's some more information. That'll be good for your New Year's Eve party or gathering. Last week we gave you the list of the most popular puppy names of the year. So this week we have more. But rover dot com is responsible now. They dug into their database of hundreds of thousands of dog names to dish up the top over all dog names across the country. This year they uncovered some pretty surprising trends. Did you know that 28% of dog names are typically basically human names, but it's much higher than that in this year's top ten list, being 5 male and 5 female dog names. So they are at number 5. Jack and Luna. Number four is Cooper and Lola, in third place, buddy for males, daisy for females. The second most popular dog names Charlie and Lucy. Human names, right? Yeah. And the most popular dog names once again are. Max and Bella. There you go. It's also interesting yeah, that Charlie Lucy max and Bella plus Jack and Luna, which written number 5. Are also on the list of the top human baby names for this year. Now, as for food related names, health food names, you know, peaches, mango, and tofu. Those names are down. And a kale is also down as a name as well. But it is most popular, kale is, in Portland, and there are apparently many dogs named quinoa. Quinoa. Which is a quinoa, a very popular name in Los Angeles. That just doesn't flow off your tongue. Here, quinoa, or maybe it does. I don't know. But names that have increased in popularity include those from Game of Thrones, a Pokémon, Harry Potter, Stranger Things, and X files. Who knew? I just can't believe a kid was named Luna. To name a baby Luna? Sure. Okay, you think it goes with the times? I guess so. I know a lot of dogs named Luna. There's a man in Ohio, who has gone to extremes to encourage pet owners not to leave their animals outside during some of the extremely cold weather that we've been having. His name is Luke westerman. And he's a pretty well known animal advocate who recently spent the night in good Dale park, which is in Columbus, Ohio. Temperature is the night he did it. We're in the teens. Luke is a good guy. He says, come on, you know, I just want people to think about what it's like to be outside in such freezing temperatures. Westerman says domesticated animals they are just not equipped to handle frigid conditions, and he adds, you know, a way to think about it if it's too cold for you or your kids to be outside without a coat, then it's too cold outside for your pets as well. And then you have you know if you do leave them outside, which used to be the norm. Decades ago, but now it's more the norm for them to be inside, but when they're outside, you have to deal with, you know, trying to keep them warm, and in freezing water. Have you ever tried to keep a water bowl full of fresh water? But they do make heated water bowls these days. They do, but if it's freezing they shouldn't be outside, which is weird because when I was a kid, my dad kept the dog outside and would not allow the dog inside. In fact, we were punished if we let the dog in and on the couch. So we've come a far away, certainly. Yeah. I ran away when I was like 7 because my dad wouldn't let us keep the dog in the house. And he said, he has fleas. And of course, this is 50 years ago or less actually. But and I said, well, we let you stay in house and you have dandruff. He probably should have, you know, grounded me, but he didn't. And finally, clay luthy is an air force veteran who can't go anywhere without his ten year old service dog Charlotte. In fact, he can't even go to work without Charlotte. That's why this dynamic duo is especially overjoyed that they, yes, they finally landed a job at the lows in Abilene, Texas. Up until clay's wife gave him the idea. Hey, you should apply it lows because you know they allowed dogs in there. The veteran had a pretty hard time finding a business that was going to be okay with Charlotte being there with him, you know, all the time and following him around in a work zone. But Lowe's HR department says through the interview process, clay won the job on his own merit, but the company just got the added benefit of getting Charlotte right along with him. And she was a vest too. Yeah. So do we know what kind of job he got there? This is very encouraging for those of us. Yeah, he's on the floor. He's like an associate. I think that's what they call them on the floor. And so Charlotte will just be with him at all times. Yeah. That's cool. That's great. Very cool. Hands off to low. We're hats off. Or pause high 5. There you go. I'm Laurie Brooks. You get more breaking animal news anytime an animal radio dot com. This has been an animal radio news update brought to you by fear free. The veterinarian isn't typically thought of as your pet's favorite place to go. With fear free that all changes. To learn more and find a certified fear free veterinary professional near you, visit fear free pets dot com. Hey folks this is Jackson galaxy. You're listening to animal radio please do everyone a favor say or neuter your animals today. You're listening to animal radio. Call the Dream Team now with the free animal radio app for iPhone and Android. Hi Wanda. Hi. How are you doing? Okay, I have two pets. One is Jackson, miniature painter mix. I'm a chihuahua. Well, the problem was that she's having skin problems. I switch with my four times. They always say that this yeast airborne yeast. They give her shot. And she goes okay for two weeks. But they give her permission and that makes it a lot. And she still have the yeast and she still have the smell. And if we used any medicine that's specifically geared towards the yeast, either by uphill form or by a shampoo or a topical form. Well, they give me mouth. Okay. And I have to obey her every other day, but sometimes I can tell you the truth. I don't have time on this call. And she gets very cold. Okay. And is that it or are they using any pills for that other than the prednisone? No, that and they gave me Apple quill..
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"This free phone call right now to get started. Sponsored by specialty medical 804 8 5 four four O 9, 804 8 5 four four O 9, 804 8 5 four four O 9. That's 804 8 5 44 O 9. Celebrating the connection with our pets. This is animal radio, featuring your Dream Team, veterinarian doctor Debbie white and groomer joy velani, and here are your hosts, Hal Abrams and Judy Francis. And welcome my friend. So inspired from last hour listening to these 13 and 15 year old kids who are homeschooled and are making a device for blind dogs. So smart. If you want to learn more about these guys and what they're doing head on over to our website at animal radio dot pet and check out all of their cute projects that they're actually very scientific and very, well, who knows? These guys may be the next. Steve Jobs. I will tell you, Steve Jobs, they are working in the technology sector of the pet world and really that's taken off like nobody's business. We see GPS's for animals. We see these cameras. Now that treat your dogs when you're away. Technology and pets a big growing sector, a part of the $60 billion animal and pet sector. Yeah, and I think he should remember these kids names because I think you're going to be the man in the future. Definitely. Yes, most definitely. We're going to go to the phones in just a couple of minutes before we talk to Ralph Nader. I see Molly's studio stunt dog she wants to go out. Maybe you should take her outside. Yeah, she doesn't you know that's what I want to just do is when I want to go and do something. I'm just going to squat. Yeah, there you know dogs have it. Let us know. She's the only one that can stop the radio show. So she can go potty. She didn't get to go before the show. We had the pesticide people come by prior to the show beginning. And so we were letting the pesticides outside dry before we let them out to pee or do their business because we don't, I guess it has to drive for about a half hour or so. Right. You don't want them walking through the wet product. Once it's dry, the risk of any injury or illness is very unlikely, but so Judy just ran out of the studio carrying Molly, the studio's done dog to go pee in a non pesticide area. So what are you working on for there? Lori in the newsroom. Anything just as important. Not nearly as important as that. And Lucy is doing backflips, saying feed me. We're going to talk about it. I told you we're going to talk about the most popular dog names of the year. Yes. And there are some trends in there, but also if you're into things like Game of Thrones and some of those Internet sensation things, even movies, we'll tell you what the trends are for naming your dogs, in connection with these, you know, whatever they're called. I'm not very Game of Thrones. And that's a TV show, right? I think it was maybe a movie a TV show at work very unhip here at animal radio because we're all grown ups. But for the most part, we're seniors. Except for doctor debut. I think that there was a trend to be named after humans. This last few years, I've seen a lot of people. That's another one. There's also two dog names. I'll tell you two dog names that are the most popular in Portland in Los Angeles, left coasters. Very interesting. Okay, that's on the way right here on animal radio. I'm not a senior. Let's go to the phones for your calls. Toll free from the free animal radio app for iPhone and Android and BlackBerry. So download it now. Also, if you have a Yorkshire terrier, a shitsu a pug or a mini schnauzer, check out doctor Debbie's ebooks, how to be your dog's best friend. They're available over at Amazon and we have links from animal radio dot com and we go to Kent, hey Kent, how are you? Good and you. Good. Where are you calling from today? I'm from a town called Fleetwood that's halfway between reading and Allentown in Pennsylvania. Listening on W EU, I bet, huh? Yes, yes. Good, good. Well, so what's going on with your animals? I have the whole team here for you. We have three cats, about two or three years old. Two of them are brothers. One of them was one that somebody had found and we took in. And the one brother has some issues with his diet. We've had him on some food that we've noticed over time. He's been throwing up a lot and we switched his food to a different food that was supposed to be more powerful and that he's done fine with, but we've noticed that he's been losing hair around his lower jaw. And I'm just sort of wondering if there's a means by which might be a good way of trying to find a food that works for them rather than going through and random process of elimination. Sure, sure. Well, I think we've got a lot of things going on in your kitty. So this won't be a very straightforward quick, easy answer I can give you because you're describing a couple things that are potentially either symptoms related to each other or unrelated. So that takes a little bit more work in getting to the bottom of that. But if you've got a kitty that's vomiting, on a regular basis, there's a lot of different medical issues that can cause that anything from inflammatory bowel disease to pancreatitis to food intolerance and many, many more things. So that's one thing as far as if we look at that and address that. Did I understand you said that kitty has asthma as well? Yeah. We've had some wheezing asthma gone about every 6 months for a steroid shot. And that seems to have helped it a lot. And it would be fine for like the 6 months and then it sort of acts up again. Okay. And then so we've got the vomiting. We've got the asthma, and then we have the hair loss on the chin. So all of those things, like I said, can be related, but they may not necessarily. So my medical side of me is saying, oh, I want to know your cat better. And to get you to know your cat better that does mean finding out more about what's going on in the body. So anytime we have a kitty, that's a regular GI problem as I call it either chronic vomiting, weight loss or diarrhea. That's a chronic thing that we need to investigate further. That may entail looking up doing some blood work. It may mean doing some x-rays. Maybe doing other things. There are some situations when I have a kitty that has a vomiting problem. A lot of times our first instinct is what food is going to fix it. And if in some cases, we can do that. But it's not the most common situation. So normally, if I worry about that and we don't get the luxury of doing a lot of other tests to try to get to the bottom of it, I'll do a couple things. One, I will do a good deworming protocol. The second thing I'll do is put them on a hypoallergenic veterinary prescribed diet. And that is different than just going to the pet store pull in a different food off the shelf or varying the manufacturer. And then the third thing that I'll often do symptomatically is use a medicine called serenno, also known as merit. And it is an anti nausea medicine, and we can use it at juicing for cats for vomiting as well as inflammatory problems, even such as asthma. That might be something that I would try to pull out therapeutically to try to help symptoms. The hair loss on that, I think we'd have to look into further as well, whether that's a component of an allergy as well, because food can make up not only have vomiting, but it can also make them lose their hair. So that is something that that symptom if we don't have a lot of room to work it up, then we might.
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"Are people to some describe seeing fireworks at romantic times, but fireworks seem to have blessed the libido right out of a once romantic ostrich in Germany. RICO gabel is claiming over $6000 in damages and wants the three boys responsible to pay up. His ostrich Gustav was once a fun loving Playboy who had no trouble romancing his two partners. But gabelle says three boys setting off firecrackers near as farm has made goose stuff the ostrich apathetic depressed and just not in the mood for love for 6 months. His owner says the firecrackers were responsible for him losing on an estimated 14 ostrich offspring worth about $500 a piece. The case is still in litigation, but the good news is Gustav is now feeling much better and able to be romantic once again. Thanks for asking. I'm Britt savage for animal radio. Animals are people too animal radio a lot of dogs are afraid of fireworks, so here's ways you can help your dog. Tire them out because a tired dog is a calm dog. You remember to stay calm. Dogs can tell a lot from your body language and if you're anxious, your dog's gonna be anxious, so don't jump at the sound of fireworks. Pretend it's normal. You know, no big deal. You can leave a TV or a radio on, that helps your dog with fireworks because it dampens the sounds. Distract your dog. Take them outside and play ball with them. Take them for a fun walk. Take a bike ride and let them trot alongside. Make sure if your dog somehow runs away that is collar is on with his tag so people can contact you. With that in mind, keep your doors and windows shut. Dogs don't understand where fireworks are coming from. So when they hear them, their instinct may be to bolt. This is animal radio baby. Hi, this is Judith Chapman from young and the restless at CBS. And I'm on animal radio right now and I'm asking everyone out there to please stay and neuter your pets. Do you have Medicare and do you use a CPAP machine? This is a national healthcare alert regarding your CPAP supplies. Using a clean CPAP mask and clean supplies is important to staying healthy. The best way to make sure your CPAP equipment is clean is to get new supplies. If you have Medicare, we have great news. Medicare will pay for you to have new clean supplies every 90 days. We'll even do all the paperwork for you to make sure that there's little to no out of pocket cost to you, and you don't even have to leave your home. We provide free in home delivery. So if you're.
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"On me, my brother, Josh, she was still on the line with me. My sister Mariah, my other sister, Rachel. And a friend of ours named Matthew Lewis. And so where do we go from here? You're still testing in trying it out. We're testing it, and we are perfecting it. So the one problem we have with it is that does not work as well in the sunlight because sunlight contains infrared and sort of interfered a little bit. Another potential that we are looking into right now is the potential of laser technology to where it can work better in sunlight and basically work all time instead of just less sunny settings. That is so cool because you know I'm sure you know the Zack, or you've learned that animal tech gadgets, that's like one of the B or if not the fastest growing segment of the pen industry. It isn't it? Yeah. This year, one of the biggest well, there's a couple of things. The GPS for dogs is still big and huge. I mean, that's one part of the sector that's just taken off. Also the home cameras that feed the animals, a lot of technology this year. So I think you're in the right area and as soon as you fine tune it, will you give us a call? Let us know when it's ready for production or when you make that multi-million dollar deal to have it license somewhere. We want to hear about it. You guys have a website? Yes, actually, we do. What is it? It is two, three, 9, one O, Timberwolves doodle kit dot com. Okay, it's a long one, so we're gonna put the link over at animal radio dot pet and anybody who wants to learn more about what you're doing. They can head on over there and link directly to your site. We appreciate you and Joshua talking to us today. Thank you. Great. Thank you. Proud to know you guys. Take care, guys, yeah, great work. Always fun to talk to young kids up and comers. Yeah, these kids are gonna go far I bet. Yep, you're gonna remember their names. We're gonna hear from them again. I was not homeschooled and even at 13 and 15 at that age I was just picking my nose a lot. Really. That's the way it is. Okay, well this portion of animal radio is underwritten by Kensington books. Curl up with a 12 days of snowball by Christa McKenna. It's an adorably funny novel featuring a matchmaking cat named snowball. The 12 days of snowball. It's a perfect read for animal lovers, or anyone looking for romance. Pick up your copy today anywhere books are sold or visit Kristin McKenna dot com. That's KRI STN. MCK dot com. And thanks Kensington for underwriting animal radio. Check out animal radio highlights, all the good stuff without the blah blah blah. Rose on over to animal radio dot pet. Hi, this is Carrie Annie, I'm from dance with the stars. Don't forget to stay in new to your animals and you're listening to animal radio. The old way of living with diabetes is a pain. You've got to remember to do your testing and always need to stick your fingers to test your blood sugar. The new way to live your life with diabetes is with a continuous glucose monitor, apply a discrete sensor on your body, and it continuously monitors your glucose levels, helping you spend more time in range and freeing you from painful finger sticks. If you are living with type one or type two diabetes and you administer insulin three or more times per day or use an insulin pump, you might be eligible for a CGM through your insurance benefits. U.S. med partners with over 500 private insurance companies and Medicare. We offer free shipping, 90 day supplies, and we build your insurance. Call us today for a free benefits check. 807 8 5 one 6 7 three 807 8 5 one 6 7 three 807 8 5 one 6 7 three that's 807 8 5 1673. This is an animal radio news update. I'm Laurie Brooks. A recent study published in the journal of current biology has found what they call strong evidence that dogs have episodic memory or that's the amazing ability to recall events from the past, like humans do. So to test and explore the dog's memory, here's what they did. Researchers took advantage of a trick called do as I do. Now dogs train to do as I do, can watch a person perform an action and then repeat it. For example, if the owner walks two steps forward and stops, and gives the do it command right after, then the dog is going to do exactly the same. If it's doing it correctly. So they tested each of the subject dogs using that technique after one minute they gave it the do it command. And then again, they gave the command after one hour. And then the results showed that all the dogs were able to recall the demonstrated actions after both the short and long-term intervals. So the researchers say from a broad evolutionary perspective, this pretty much implies that to episodic like memory is not unique and did not evolve only in primates, but is more widespread, in the animal kingdom, than we had thought before. Pretty cool. That is, but I know what I'm not terribly surprised. You know, and that's what I love that. You know, it seemed like the bottom line of this study is that they're saying, you know, we're kind of not surprised either. And why are we always so surprised at what dogs can do? Yes. Well, most of us don't think twice about the saliva that comes out of our dog's mouth. You know, we like a kiss every now and then, right? Sure. But the common thing is our lack of understanding of animal saliva. Apparently, animal saliva is much more complicated than what we had previously believed, or those of us who aren't veterinarians. And we don't understand as well, how it impacts both humans and our pets. So from the website pet MD, I found this some fascinating facts about dog saliva, that may change the way you think about your pet. And its mouth. They say, dog saliva actually helps prevent them from getting cavities. Who knew? It's also much better than human saliva, preventing cavities, and mostly that is because a dog's saliva is more alkaline than ours is. So try some of these facts on that I'm giving you at your New Year's Eve party tonight, okay? Dog saliva is also antibacterial. You know how you're always seeing them licking something. But licking is not going to cure all of their superficial infections. So you still have to visit the vet. Now, just because dogs saliva has antibacterial properties does not mean that dog kisses are clean and you can let your guard down. There is a steady published in the journal oral biology, a couple of years ago that found there can be transmission of bacteria between dogs and their humans. Now, Doug saliva, this to me was fascinating because I didn't really understand this before. But dog saliva may produce allergies in humans. While most of us believe that, you know, it's the pet fur, the dander that's the culprit of our allergic reactions to dogs. Many allergies it turns out actually stem from proteins that are found in dog saliva. Okay. Well, here's how that works. Dogs saliva contains at least 12 different allergy causing proteins. So when a dog cleans himself and licks their fur, the saliva dries. And then those proteins become airborne. They land on you or wherever. Or, of course, a dog could just lick you, and you would possibly get an allergic reaction. But researchers who conducted that study concluded that dog saliva does have greater potential as an allergen source than dog dander. So don't be tongue in your dog anymore. Even though you think it may prevent cavities in yourself. Very good point out. I'm Laurie Brooks. We'll have fun with this one. Tell us what you guys think. You can get more breaking animal news,.
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"I check that out. And I love the name Sophie. It's so sweet. I imagine sweet little cuddly gal. Very, very cuddly, she's 20 pounds, very Brown, very sweet face. I think she's crossed with pappy on not sure, but she's just very sweet. Oh. Well, thank you so much for calling. I appreciate it. This is doctor Debbie with animal radio. Hi, I think we have this Frank on the line? Yes, it is. How are you today? Hi, I'm doing wonderful. What can I help you with today? Well, I have a 12 year old dachshund. And a couple of weeks ago, he started exhibiting symptoms of a real raspy kind of a cough and a gagging. We thought maybe he had a coal or something that a gift continuously worse. He's having we're trying to make an appointment for the bet, Monday, but I'm kind of concerned about him. He seems to be having at times he's fine. And then when he has these attacks, it's like, you know how when you choke, you can't get the air in, what he seems to be just the opposite. Do you think be able to take the air in? But then he has trouble getting it out and he just kind of pants and he's got last night he was really bad. Would you call this basically a true cough where he's going? Or is it more kind of like a snorting kind of on the inhale kind of sound? And then he'll call for a little while and he I can see him trying to force better out. And then he'll finally get a little bit. And then he'll be okay for a while. But he doesn't gag anything. Yeah, I guess I'm trying to figure out my mind without seeing him is if this is really a coughing that he's exhibiting or if it's more what we'd call a reverse sneezing, which kind of looks like an asthmatic attack in a dog, although they don't really truly get that kind of thing there. But it's kind of where they're labored in breathing. They can't quite catch their breath, but it's not in a coughing kind of zone. It's more kind of how I feel right now in my head's gonna congested and kind of. It's not a cough like I would lose. But it's like okay. Okay. Yeah. No, I love these audio descriptions because that to me could be on that borderline of maybe a real cough. So I would just say yes, I would definitely make sure we get him to the veterinarian because a doggie and his age group we really want to look at that heart as a potential cause of coughing related problems. And then get some other things some bronchial problems, some collapsing trachea things. But if this is something that came on all of a sudden, then I would certainly want to get some chest x-rays and look at that. If we're leaning more towards this reverse sneezing thing, then that's kind of a different thing we see a lot with a lot of allergy times of the year. Some dogs get that when they have bad teeth or if they've got sinus infections. So some of those things I can envision some good things that maybe might be causing that, but as far as if we're actually labored with that breathing and then I would really be cautious and I'd want to get him looked at right away. Well don't forget, you can get your fix of animal radio any time you want with the animal radio app for iPhone and Android. Download it now. It's made possible by fear free happy homes, helping your pets live their happiest, healthiest, fullest lives at home, at the vet and everywhere in between. Visit them at fear free happy homes dot com and thanks for your free for underwriting animal radio. You're listening to animal radio, call the Dream Team now with the free animal radio app for iPhone and Android. Do you have Medicare and do you use a CPAP machine? This is a national healthcare alert regarding your CPAP supplies. Using a clean CPAP mask and clean supplies is important to staying healthy. The best way to make sure your CPAP equipment is clean is to get new supplies. If you have Medicare, we have great news. Medicare will pay for you to have new clean supplies every 90 days. We'll even do all the paperwork for you to make sure that there's little to no out of pocket cost to you, and you don't even have to leave your home. We provide free in home delivery, so if you're a CPAP user and you have Medicare, staying healthy with new CPAP equipment is easy. Just make this free phone call right now to get started. Sponsored by specialty medical 804 8 5 four four O 9, 804 8 5 four four O 9, 804 8 5 four four O 9. That's 804 8 5 44 O 9. You're listening to animal radio. If you missed any part of today's show, visit us at animal radio dot com or download the animal radio app for iPhone and Android. It's animal radio, celebrating the connection with our pets. Happy new year to you. Almost new year, it's almost there. I won't be around when you're looking for someone to kiss at midnight, so I'm going to tell you right now we love you lots. We give you a big sloppy kiss for listening. We thank you and appreciate your listenership. Also on the way Ralph Nader will be joining us. He wrote a book. It's actually a pretty cool book. He's actually a pretty good writer. I might add. It's where the animals have a common language as the humans. So we understand what it's obviously fiction. Right. And what they would say if they could talk to us if we had the same language and we could understand each other. Oh, heaven forbid I find out what my dogs are saying. Wouldn't want that. Oh, by the way, I wanted to mention if you need your fix during the week. You can head on over to animal radio dot pet. Some of the interviews that you hear because of time restraints or constraints are cut a little short if you want to hear entire interviews and also I believe there's some interviews that have language in it that we just can't air on the radio. So boy, you'd be amazed. Now we got there. Now they got their interest. They want to listen. And of course, download the animal radio app for iPhone Android and BlackBerry. And as we say goodbye to 2021, we're saluting some really great kids that are doing some fun stuff in the name of animals. We welcome to the show, Joshua Armstrong, hi Joshua, how are you doing? I'm doing good. Thank you. How old are you? I'm 13. 13 and you are homeschooled correct? Yes, I am. You are a very smart kid, aren't you? I like to think so. Where do you live? Norman, Oklahoma. In Oklahoma. Okay. You are working on something that could possibly help dogs in the future, huh? Yes. What is it? It is a color that helps will actually circuit box. Okay. And what does it do? Just like I need you to hand you over to my brother, Zach. Okay, so your brother's Zach, how old is Zach? He's 15. Okay, let's talk to your bigger brother. Hello. So you and your brother have been working on this genius device that will probably help dogs in the future, right? Yes, we are. Okay, so it attaches to the dog's neck. It's a circuit, and what does it do? Well, whenever it's on the dog, we turn it on, then it sends out a burst of infrared light and whenever our object is close to the infra can bounce back, sort of like a dozen people's eyes with light. And whenever it bounces back to a little receiver, then the device beeps and the dog knows of the beep means to stop or turn away. So this is for a blind dog, right? Yes, actually a blind great Dane. Blind great Dane. Oh, sorry. Are you making it for a specific dog? No, we're actually making this for a person who boards our dog. Okay. And hopefully in the future, we may be able to get this out to many more people than just her. And it's using ultra ultra red light. What is it? What kind of light ultraviolet light? What is it? Infrared light infrared light. Below red. Okay, so humans can't see it. Right. Can the dog see it? I know they can hear and see things that we can't see. As far as I can tell, dogs can not see infrared and even if they could.
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"White and groomer Joey velani, and here are your hosts, Hal Abrams and Judy Francis. Well, happy New Year's Eve. Thank you for joining us on this special day. Today we will have Ralph Nader joining us Ralph Nader. The he ran for president several times. You might remember, or you might not remember. And he's always been an advocate for health and for the safety of cars and now is talking out for the animals with a book called animal envy, and he'll be joining us in just a few minutes on this New Year's Eve. Let's see what's going on over there in the newsroom. Miss Brooks. Well, I have some fascinating facts for you about animal or dog saliva. Dogs alive. Yeah. There's a really a lot to know and understand. And also, what dogs saliva has to do with allergies to dogs? Really, they're related, okay. I know, Judy, you ladybug to pretty much saliva, your entire face. Neil Tong her. No, you're wrong. I will not let her anywhere near my lips. She can do my chin and my nose and maybe my cheek, but we stay away from the mouth. Now it doesn't disturb you that she just came from the kitty litter where she was having a little almond roca. Obviously I didn't see that or I wouldn't have let her. You saw it. You didn't warn me. You never mind a dog, kiss. Until you see the meeting again, crunchy. As well. In her defense, she likes the litter itself. She doesn't eat the roca. Oh. I know that makes no difference, but still. Oh, good for you. Okay. Well, yeah. Do you let your dogs lick your face, Joey? Unfortunately, I do, I do. But we don't have cats in the house. But I do, you know. I do and I love it. You love it, too. I text a dog, and I like it. You know what? I gotta say, I am probably the only one in the studio. I know doctor Debbie's working her way in here and I know she probably sides with me here. The whole kissing thing is not hygienic. And you know, I'm kind of a germophobe as it is. I wash my hands all the time. You just don't have that relationship with the dog. I have that relationship. I see where he was cleaning. Yeah, you have the cats and the cats don't really lick you much. You're gonna have news about that coming up in just a few minutes. I'd love to hear from listeners on this topic here. Do you let your dog tangy? Well, not tongue. You just lick your face. Yeah. I'd like to see the list of your girlfriends growing up, you know? Maybe the dogs were better, you know? I don't know. We're way out of control, but going in our favor is the last show of the year. So we're running on empty as it is. Eggnog. Eggnog fumes. Leftover. I also have a couple of kids coming on to talk about their brand new invention to help blind dogs. You know anything about this? It's an infrared sensor dog collar. Now these are kids that design this. These are kids. Yeah, these are young teenagers. Young teenagers. Yeah, I think even younger than that, preteens. Okay. Tweet tweens. That's what they call them. Okay, we'll be talking to them in just a few minutes. And if you are a lover of the pit bull like we are here, you're going to love Dietrich Franklin and her book. The pit bull life, she's joining us and we'll have giveaways of her book just around the corner. But first your calls from the free animal radio app for iPhone Android and BlackBerry. Hi, Linda. How are you doing? I'm fine. Thank you very much. Where are you calling from? I'm calling from Pinehurst in North Carolina. Oh, okay. Is that coastal? No, it's not coastal. It's further inland about two hours. It's there's a lot of golf around here. Is that your North Carolina accent too? No. No, I haven't picked that up yet. You are on with doctor Debbie. Wonderful. Well, I wonder if you can help me dot to Debbie with my little spaniel mix, Sophie. She's 6 years old and she has like an obsessive compulsive disorder that seems to be getting worse, it's a behavior where it's very hard to describe but she'll sit down on anything soft and then she'll move her poor photo pore over. One of her paws over and move it from left to right left to right as if she is smoothing over the surface and she'll move her head one side to the other. And sometimes she does it. She becomes more rapid and it's just very strange to watch and we have to try to call her to get her attention out of it. And sometimes she'll just stare into stare at a spot like on the coffee table leg she'll just stare at stare at things. It's like she goes into a Tron almost. Okay, and when she hears your voice, is that stop the behavior? It takes a little while. It takes a few minutes rather than just snuffing her out of it. I find mostly if I kind of stroke and say, so if you don't have to do that, you don't have to do that. She'll stop initial just put a head down. But she'll do it on any soft surface any rug or any throw or an in her bed as well. Now, and does she do any kind of drooling? Is there any anxious state? Is she alert? Is she quiet and calm? She's quiet. It's just the rapid movement that she's doing with her head and her poor foot. Yeah. And I guess it's possible we could be dealing with something of an obsessive compulsive disorder. The only thing with that is we tend to see a state of anxiety or a heightened arousal. From what you're describing, I'm actually a little bit concerned that this could be a form of a seizure disorder. And in dogs, a lot of people are really familiar with the grand mal seizure and what that looks like. And in dogs, they'll fall over, kick paddle, they may lose control of their bodily functions. But we can see other degrees of seizure disorders where they can either have what we call petite mal seizures or focal seizures, and that can affect just isolated parts of the body. And in some pets, a petite mal seizure can be something as simple as steering off into space and kind of being out of it for a short period of time. The only thing that doesn't quite fit with that is the soft environment trigger. So that's a little bit curious. But I would certainly want to get Sophie checked out and probably get some lab work done just to rule out for some of the more common causes of seizure disorders. I haven't had petite mole seizure or epilepsy and this is kind of different to that. The soft surfaces and it comes together and she doesn't seem to be in any pain, but just mentally yeah, if she's not fully mentally with it now, that's one of the big differences and it may be hard. This might be something a good idea to videotape an exposure or an episode of this, because a lot of times as the veterinarian, we can't see things, and I've had people bring in videotapes of behavioral problems, or seizure disorders, and it can really help in making an accurate diagnosis. So I would pull out the old iPhone or the videotape player and do that because that really may help in deciding. If we're leaning more towards the behavioral problem, we talk about behavioral meds, maybe some anti anxiety things. But boy, I'd say first and foremost, I'd want to make sure we're not missing something with a seizure type problem..
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"nader" Discussed on My First Million
"But it's still can't do push notifications. So is there a rule. That's that apple's blocking or groups blocking why there's no app. No well we'll sit. There are apps so there's clout feed and flick is actually another one. That's actually created by the former ceo fan duel and. It's also very very popular. But really like sean. You're touching on our strategy. Which is we actually. Don't build any products at all. I didn't even want to launch bit. Cloud ideally i think that with this next wave of social. I think what we're going to see of a separation of concerns..
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Max McLean's Play 'The Most Reluctant Convert' Tracks C.S. Lewis's Journey From Atheism to Christianity
"I've lived long enough to where my friend max McLean has made a film called the most reluctant convert, the untold story of C. S. Lewis. So how did you come to make this film? Well, COVID had a lot to do with it. The play was running. We were doing a lot of college tours with the play. March 15th of last year, everything ended. When did the most reluctant convert become a play and tell my audience in case they don't know why is it titled the most reluctant convert? Well, it's about Louis's journey from vigorous to bunker of Christianity to becoming the most reluctant convert in all of England. I gave in and admitted that God is God, nelton prayed, perhaps the most dejected, reluctant, convert 7 or English. And those long story, it started with the death of his mother at, I guess he was 9. He had a terrible relationship with his father. He experienced the brutality of World War I and this got into the conclusion that either there's no God behind the universe, a God indifferent to go to an evil or worse an evil God. And that's where that's kind of the Nader of his disbelief and it's from there that we follow his journey to becoming the most influential Christian of the 20th
Software Engineering Daily
"nader" Discussed on Software Engineering Daily
"Sense that makes sense. I agree with that a hundred percent. I don't know if i would build checks into the system. I think i'm a little more hardcore than that. I say we take all of them down by building better versions of those. But no but you can't do that without first using them against themselves. Which is what i'm saying. Like you have to build a blockchain that shared among all the major cloud providers because in that manner you can create infrastructure that actually they all rely on so you can create a circular dependency if you build a better financial system on top of the cloud providers and then you force the cloud providers to rely on that financial system. You create a checkmate situation. Yossi where you're going with this. But i mean why do we even care about the cloud providers like i mean. I feel like we should. I see we should use them today. But i'm saying like in ten years from now. Does that even matter like one hundred percent they need to exist today. But i truly think that people are building out protocols and things like that that will offer similar ways to basically run some of the services that they run to me. I guess where i'm going with. This is that it'll be in dc. People always need to exist and they'll get better because people always need a place to deploy some type of cloud infrastructure. What i don't necessarily know if they will continue to like throbbing exist are maybe some of the stuff that they're doing around managed maybe in five or ten years if things well. I wouldn't say that they're not they're not gonna exist. Actually but what. I basically what. I am thinking that you will have alternatives to that. You'll have decentralized alternatives. Many of them actually running on. Aws notes but they will offer ways to do things that give more ownership to people that are not aws. So if i want to run. If i if i wanted to participate in a protocol that offers some type of several s compute and someone builds a protocol that allows me to do that and i can basically run in one of these nodes in a container like on. Aws or something like that. And then i can basically charge the amount that aws typically charges for several its functions. But the money is instead going to the operator. and they're just paying their costs for their communities. Cluster whatever to me. That's cool right there. I don't ever get there but like to me. That's really interesting ideas but that makes sense. Yeah no it makes sense but like what do you think of this idea of. Just like if you build a blockchain over all the cloud providers and then you basically build a better financial system you build. Api is on top of that financial system. You make them so good that the cloud providers have to adopt them as a financial system in order to lower their costs. Therefore you have a circular dependency. They can't shut down your financial system because they depend on you and then you can basically do the same thing to the smartphone provider's and then you essentially have a financial system that rules over everything and it's decentralized isn't amazon cowering and doing some stuff in the blockchain space hiring are crypto payments or cares block who cares. Nobody wants us to be done by amazon. This can't be done by amazon. I agree with that. But i'm saying if there but what i'm saying is we don't have to make them adopts we don't have to get them to agree to adopt anything by the entire world. Adopting something they're forced to adopt like right now. They're being that. I think they're going to be forced to adopt digital payments on blockchain that they have no control over. Because everyone's already using it. They're going to be forced to. Nobody uses it but nobody uses it. All there's no micro payments everything no not yet not yet but i mean they're hiring a payments person. Obviously they're considering but are someone run the digital payments understand. They are building out like a pretty massive team and they have a massive operation that they're hoping to launch and they're. They're probably aware that. This isn't like these micro payments aren't something that's a thing today but intended in a year or cleaners they will be. We already know what this looks like. Though we already have stripe we already have stripe. We already know what stripe is trying to do. The global payments and transactions whatever global payments and treasury network. It sounds like the most stupid cabal thing i've ever heard anything about. That is a big proprietary ball of payments. Things like who cares. you know. We don't want your plan to connie stripe. We don't want anybody's planned economy. You know we need a decentralized system and it's going to use cloud providers because cloud providers are the best infrastructure. We have today. Yeah i mean the the cloud infrastructure is a huge part but it is an implementation detail right. Well it's a very critical implementation detail. Because i want to use the proprietary. Is you know i want us to. Why is the proprietary. Google cloud run. Api's i wanna stand up all the stuff on cloud providers you know in a multi cloud manner i want to replicate the transactions across these different cloud providers. You know. I wanna have tamper detection across these different cloud providers. I want leonod to have a gun pointed at aws aws to have a gun pointed at gdp. I want you know. Let's say salona. I want salona cloud to have a gun pointed at. Aws like there's no reason we can't replicate the same transaction log to salona maybe over time salona becomes better than all these other things and then like salona becomes the best cloud provider. Then maybe salona stands up a far gate thing. That's fine if salon wants to build all the api's the ats has underneath like this financial system. That's great the thing is. We need the universal financial system. The problem is it's not bitcoin. it's not bitcoin or maybe it's bitcoin. But if it's bitcoin we have to relaunch it on top of aws is is obvious itself.
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"nader" Discussed on Software Engineering Daily
"Mobile. It's that simple. That's really all we need with the blockchain ideas awesome. I love it. It's great we need it. We do need it but we can't get there yet we're just not anywhere close to having uncensored ability so let's of throw out uncensored ability. Let's like let's give like an applause you know. Let's give metallic and applause because they've done super important work but ultimately in pragmatic terms. It's not realistic. I think that you have really great points. I don't think that we're like all the way there yet. But i'm a little more optimistic that we will get pessimistic. I'm optimistic i'm optimistic. We'll get there. it's beautiful it's a beautiful vision but are gone are smart contracts gonna look like a platform that hasn't been able to scale for four years three years five years. How how long have we been trying to do. Layer to double backflips. I mean i think that you you said the keyword there. I think the smart contracts in addition to the actual consensus mechanism. That is a blockchain itself. But the smart contracts where you're actually able to build. In the native payments those two things are the groundbreaking achievements of the ground-breaking idea is now we are now in the scaling phase. Yeah so like people are attempting to scale. And i think we're getting there but yeah you can't use theory to do a lot of the things that you would need to do for. Most obligations three in in blockchain isn't for every application but i do think that it is a great place to build certain applications even today but it's a very small number of types of applications. You know and i think that you use the tool for the job and i think that right now. Blockchain is not the right tool for a lot of and we have highly scalable. Really really well. You know adopted and mature things like aws like mentioned that are that are scalable and they are ready for real-world applications today and of course that they have been like right for years is like a new thing. They're just getting better kid. When.
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"nader" Discussed on Software Engineering Daily
"You could do that for like. I'll do it right now. Spinach afar gate containers fargo containers in every availability zone. Or whatever you stand up the nodar blockchain it just guys node as far gate nodes in each of these places backed by a dynamo. Db instance that's replicated across these different things maybe also replicated to cloud front or whatever you just make sure it syncs with the same properties of typical blockchain boom. You've got a currency right. Yes as long as there's no single point of failure like i would say if one of those transactions does something funky in your system and your your system goes down. Does the application still run. I think that's one of the really interesting things around. Some of the stuff in the blockchain space and i think that what you're talking about should actually work if you have multiple. I guess instances that are not. There's there's not a single point of failure. I guess you could say yes. What are we doing like we. Can we have that. We have free micro payments now. Yeah i mean it's biker payments something that you are will be working on as well. Yeah i mean why not i just. I don't know why this doesn't exist yet. Like i thought this was part of the bitcoin white paper like what we promise this. Yeah i mean. There's people doing different implementations but there is no way that you can go into your gas station next door and see someone there that you know like ten dollars to send them ten dollars with crypto easily in a way that they probably you know because it's so like well adopted makes sense instead. We're going to do something like you know. Cash up or vin mo or something like that and you need those big platforms there to kind of make that happen. So yeah it isn't there but there's interesting things out there. So for instance. Have you heard of anything. Read up on anything around state. Channels is the layer to stuff or side chains or whatever it is i would say more like it is something. Yeah it's like the whole. This is the bitcoin thing like you. This is the early. Bitcoin is the block stream guys. They're always talking about this stuff. Like yeah i. I do the super complicated like key exchange or something to set up like a temporary wallet was five dollars in it and you can take out a dollar and then you have to do like a three phase. Commit to take out another dollar mike. What the implementation is is really complicated. But it's there and something that you'll see us an actual protocols sometimes so for instance with the graph you can spin up an api and you have like a test environment. It's free but if you want to launch on the decentralized network you have to pay just like you might pay. Us you have to pay us bill and you basically can set aside like five dollars or something now and then as you're api is used. Then you'll have these micro payments star. Yeah these marker transaction start adding up. And then i'll withdraw two dollars out of your five dollars three dollars. But you can't really you're not gonna transactional on chain every. Api requests what you're gonna like you're gonna basically roll those up into a big transaction and then make that happen and then either layer to that. We're working with this polygon. Are you doing the state channel things in the graf And that's to fulfil like basic payments infrastructure rea- pretty basic infrastructure. Okay what if you just do it on. Aws would if we did the payments or someone just wanted to run their own graph note on cbs. Okay let's do it this way. Okay you say. We're setting aside a million dollars in bitcoin and we're using that million dollars to seed or steak the will call it again. Nodar coin it's not our coined brought to you by aws. And it's it's the same architecture that i just defined and you say okay to prove that this thing works. We're going to a million dollars in bitcoin. Related transactions across our network. You know let's say we're going to pay our vendors and you just basically like build an api between actually. It's not even a coin. It's not our network like it's just a network built on aws or we'll call it rectangle it's rectangle it's or cloud blockchain or whatever. Call it rectangle. You got the rectangle network it sitting across aws and basically it just serves as middleware to send bitcoin from one bitcoin address to another over. Aws at zero cost. It's like an alternate way of sending money. And then maybe like the rectangle network batches a ton of transactions and somehow compresses them and i don't know sends them over bitcoin periodically so you have more efficient essentially like you know. I don't know how ever many transactions you need or you over salona or whatever like whatever fully decentralized blockchain essentially he's rectangle as your side chain that makes sense. I think that there are layers. And i would say a spectrum of decentralisation and there are different ways that you can implement pretty much anything but yeah i mean you're basically guinness using a database to keep up with the transaction and then do the transactions based on the the updates in your database. Yeah that would work fine as well. Sweet think that like. I think though that you know you have different people that care more about i would say of these relation than others. So for instance. You know a lot of the things you see happening. In the space are typically made out to be things like progressive decentralisation so progressive decentralisation means that you work with what you have and if. You can't find a way to do what you want to do any disenfranchised men are you use the tools that you have until that technology or that thing exists and it doesn't stop you from launching earlier just stopped me from launching in fully decentralize way and then over time you become more decent so i mean we. We are one of the examples of that. We i had the idea around what the graph would ju- and it was basically. An idea was not a proven idea. It was more just an idea so it would have taken years to test out this in in the real world because they would have to have built out the entire network and then launched it so instead what they did. They built out a proof of concepts and shipped it as a hosted service like central out service to see if people use it and people did use it you know yuna swap used foundation use it synthetics a massive number of defy applications a large percentage of applications in the web three space. Use it. So when you prove that the idea is there the new can start building out and they were already building out the decentralizes the code to kind of make this decent jaws during that tom but in the process proving that it worked made a lot of sense. Because bob would you want to spend four years. Something it wasn't going to work and then now that they've launched the decentralized version. You know we can now migrate. People away from the hosted version does who are interested. In in decentralisation. I guess you could say. I don't get me wrong. I want decentralisation as much as the next guy but if jack ma can be imprisoned in a bedroom and have alibaba taken down certainly the same thing can happen to. Jeff bezos and. Aws can be taken down. I'm not denying that absolutely. But i'm basically saying look. Let's just admit to ourselves that we can't have on sensibility. we we basically can't have decentralisation yet like i'm so grateful for the crypto community. I'm super grateful for. I'm super grateful for for who or what he or she is or they but like we have to acknowledge where we're at. We're just nowhere close to actually doing this the way that we want to. So we have to basically do all these half steps these half-measures as we just basically strong arm the entire world into adopting decentralisation and one of the steps along the path is from my point of view building..
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"nader" Discussed on Software Engineering Daily
"Not welcome back. Thanks for having me. It's such a privilege to talk to you both because we're friends. We both produced a lot of media but particular to this conversation. You have since our last conversation shifted from working at aws to working in the crypto space has gone. It's going amazing. How the top of my life. Where doing cool stuff interesting. Work community on cultures cool. I'm enjoying it. And then the team. That i work with his amazing edge and node so you are working on the graph which is a decentralized infrastructure interface. Maybe how would you describe it. Yes graph is an indexing protocol for distributed decentralized data typically blockchain data for now in the future we aimed to also be kind of a decentralized data source for any public data but for now it makes a lot of sense for us to kind of support a lot of the applications that are happening in the blockchain space. So you see enough projects. Using the graph. You see defy projects in the graph. You see games using the grass any front end application or any application needs a rich queering layer from bochum theory for example uses the graph to kind of get that because it is not possible to get rich querying directly from the blockchain. This is beautiful because a recent started a company called rectangle. I raised a little bit of money for it which is building basically. The idea is what we need to build to get crypto and fiat to talk to each other. We have no code written at this point by the way but basically it's a pragmatic company. How do we just like you know. For example. convert fiat to crypto or reverse that. There's no good ways to do that. And what i like about what you're doing is it's very pragmatic it just. We're building a protocol for accessing decentralized information it's really all it is why does it seem like so much of the crypto world is kind of focused on non problems or non solutions are just things that don't feel like the correct approach. It almost feels like you have a lot of theologians trying to write software. That doesn't actually end up doing anything. Yeah so i mean there's a bunch of layers to that question. I think and i can kind of get perspective of someone that's only been in the space for about four months now but that has really had a fast on boarding to a lot of the things happening and i kind of have a perspective of someone that's been in the traditional webb space. You know i've worked at aws. I've been a mobile development consultant. Sulfur developer for you know ten years or so so i guess into that question first of all. There are a lot of tough problems to solve that. Have exponential payoff. So for instance. The idea of a blockchain itself was such. Like it's really like just a computer science breakthrough that enabled all of these other things. That were now sting happen. So like four. The amount of return on investment for safer instance. Bitcoin or they rigging which was the original blockchain that was actually proven the return on that investment is what almost the trillions of dollars at this point. So i think that when you see the type of exponential payoffs when you're kind of building out a platform that can be accessible for every application in the world and also interoperable with a lot of applications that are also in the similar space. You kind of see like this high return on investment. So i think that a lot of the projects are trying to solve these really tough problems and some of them that i talked to or kind of so far off to me but also like a lot of these people are so much smarter than me. I just kind of assume that a lot of them know what they're talking about a lot of may not but for instance. If i kind of looked at the white paper ten years ago or however many years ago it was created eight years ago. Six years ago. I would've been like what problem are you trying to solve. I don't get it right. So i i think some of this some of the people here kind of like they've started where we are today in the kind of looking like a couple of years down the road and they're trying to solve problems. I don't even see it. But there's also a lot of money and investment in this space. So i think people are also i mean. They're the negative thing about this shays deduc- projects where people are just looking to kind of get rich. Quick maybe so are projects out there people raising money in. It's impossible to know their intentions right unless they have a track record of having been legitimate or something like that you know so. There's a lot of layers to that question. I think that you're seeing a lot of really difficult computer science problems that are trying to be solved that will end up having like these massive payoffs but also me being someone that isn't like a really advance knowledge person as far as like some of these advanced problems. They're solving hard for me to know whether they are legitimately sobbing something or not simple question. Where are my micro payments. It's twenty twenty one. Where's the micro payments. Why can't i pay somebody in nigeria. Five cents yeah. I mean. I think that what you're seeing with. Some of these other projects are starting to get traction as that they are more scalable than theory him and the thing with that area moves. The you know the first platform that allows you to kind of write small contract code and have the ability for other people to launch applications on top of an existing. Yeah blockchain but the problem. There is that it doesn't scale in its current form you can only have x. amount of transactions. I don't know the number but it's not nearly as as many transactions what you would probably need or you would see in something like an aws database or wwl's api anyone can spend up also the cost per transaction extremely expensive relative to a micro transaction. That's why you're seeing. The current defy space current. Nfc space all blowing up because these transactions are hundreds of dollars or thousands of dollars or even millions of dollars relative to a million dollars. Fifteen dollars or five dollars is nothing. Right but yeah. You're talking about micro payments. So like if i want to send someone fifty cents or a dollar for coffee or something like that. It makes zero sense him. So i think some of the projects out there that are kind of getting to the insecure question would be a salona selo a think but those projects seemed to be really interesting because they are both focusing on either scale or actual payments themselves. Selo is kind of like focusing on payments. I don't know enough about it kind of speak deep about technically. But i think they're trying to solve that problem and then i think salona is something like fifty thousand transactions per second and they're seeing a lot of increased adoption so you know if people start. Adopting selo wallets start sitting people using things like fan on the way that they're using madame. Ask yeah. I think that the answer to that question is actually almost here. I think got. We just need to be there and we need some of the extra improves. So people can actually build the applications for people to use. I think the technology is zero bits hardier. Is bitcoin the base layer of a new financial system or is it a reference implementation. I think it's kind of depends on who you ask. And i can tell you my opinion. I think that it's for sure. A reference implementation kind of proof of concept. It works right and it's something that we know works so now people are confident to start building out more sophisticated more scalable versions of it and it's hard snower. Bitcoin is going to go. You know because you start seeing a lot of these other projects that are doing essentially the same thing but they're doing it in a more scalable way. But bitcoin was first to market and a lot of people are highly invested in bitcoin. You have massive massive investment firms. Now getting into the people that you would see on wall street now holding large stakes bitcoin. You're starting to see. Bitcoin talked about in the house in representatives and senators even by the president of the united states legislation around it. It's part of society. A lot of people look at it as a store value. I personally don't hold bitcoin. And not. Because i don't think it will continue to be a thing but i think that i am interested in more of the environmentally friendly blockchain. And that's kind of why. I got into the space..
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"So laura you lead the national advertising division. Tell us what problem any d- was created to address what was going on in the world of advertising that entity was created or Thanks very so the national advertising division which we fondly call an d. was started in nineteen seventy one. At that time there had been a huge growth in a new media right. It was an explosion in television advertising and A huge adoption of advertising as an television is a platform for reaching consumers So consumers were getting new information about cleaning products that cleaned betterer faster food products. That tasted better. Were easier to make than other things and you know. Most importantly probably was an explosion of advertising of cigarettes to them on television. And at the same time you had a rise of consumer advocates clamoring for more regulation of advertising of there was a sense that the advertising messages that consumers getting were not were misleading. You had advocates like ralph nader. Who famously advocated for a lot of different regulation over the years really jumping in on that on that pile here and talking about the importance of regulating advertising and protecting consumers you know at the in nineteen seventy-one when all of this was happening Cigarettes were the largest advertiser on television and in nineteen seventy one. Cigarette advertising on television was in fact. An i think there was this increasing distrust of advertising that that exemplifies consumers were being advertised. You with cigarettes which had been demonstrated to be harmful to health. So you know. It was an environment that caused both at agencies and the businesses that were advertising and the advertising association's to come together to address this problem. That consumers were the distrusted advertising. And they what they wanted to do at this time was build trust and advertising right so they wanted the industry to work together to build trust
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"National Weather Service estimates at least eight tornadoes touched down in parts of Alabama, leveling homes and businesses and killing five whether says two of those storms or EF two twisters. Packing winds of 111 to 135 miles an hour. Dozens of others were injured and communities across Alabama and there was more to Nader dead Tornado damage in Georgia
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Indigenous musicians find new ways to create, promote and thrive during pandemic
"Edward kalani maxwell one and his brother gregory ca kina maxwell. One are part of the hawaiian band. Naveh the four piece band is made up of two sets of brothers. Nava asia's now. Grammy nominated album. Lovely sunrise was inspired by the music of billions alvez and his paradise. Sarah nader's i've reached out to edward and gregory at their home. And why lukoil maui. Welcome to the show. Thank you very much is our honor. So did you grow up playing music together. We are all surrounded by hawaiian culture wind music or we were even brought into the world. You consider ios bound to happy oil inevitable for us to either become hula dancers so to say now musicians and how were you around music before you were even brought into the world. Our grandmother and our mother were are the are practitioners are grandparents is wealth. They've been in the lion. Culture and hawaiian seen four before we even brought into this world. And what about you edward. What are your first or earliest memories of music. So yeah before we were bored of. My mother was a hula student for my to my grandmother for her hull flooding hula. Holly and my grandfather. He was actually a line coach specialists at also called who the hawaiian priest and he used to do. Many things he also. I guess what you could call if you were poorly Activists are so. He did many things for the hawaiian community. And so yeah. We definitely grew up around the hawaiian music and where it stems from the culture in our family being very active before we were and did the two of you play music together when you were little. Yes we actually laid with the help. All our grandfather. Charles coody saw as soon as we were able to take a gorilla being around blind culture and my grandmother have hula. Were will class or group. We would always go off on stage at like we were performing with them and end gregory. You're one half of the band nova and your other two bandmates. They're also brothers. And you're all from maui. So did you. Did you grow up knowing each other and seen each other the first occurrence or where we first met each other was passing. My grandfather at his funeral and their family came over to our art grandfather's house and we met them there. We didn't know much of all we knew. Disorder played music. They doubt salon suffolk dot but that was our first meet up them and most crazy to find out when we made three or so years ago was a their mom had done to love with alongside with my mom under i went to to are my grandmother docking day before we were even board. That almost feels like a very serendipitous family connection. How did you find that out our mother. She collected thoughts when she found out that we were deciding to make this battle or or join become about and so she gave us the history of how their families actually closer than we thought it was really meant to be for us to cross paths and form this type of bond with two sets of brothers in our make the group not bite ya and we always talk about how it was kind of almost destined to be back in the day before we have a board. And it's crazy how we can say. We were given that gift to be able to sing an all the whole year speaking hawaiian language to. That's pretty amazing. So you're both in your twenties and and so are other bandmates. You're all in your twenties but your latest album is inspired by hawaiian music from the nineteen sixties. How did you get interested in playing this kind of music. Being surrounded by point culture add aligned language. We kind of have some old souls to us. What we we all up to another idol or i would say a mentor in hawaii uncle. Samuel colonia cole. And he was asked to be part of the paradise serenaders and that was the whole reason why we did this project. A quick little travel back to the beginning of started was approached by a guy named zachary love. He is from all. He's an awesome musician. He approached with this idea to begin this project because of saab is going through dementia and we wanted to capture their style of music theirselves before it was too late. And so we're we're fortunate. We're blessed enough to learn from him before he forgot and we wanted to take their style. Also make it our own but also not let that stuff die
MSNBC Rachel Maddow (audio)
Trump Fund-Raiser Elliott Broidy Charged in Lobbying Case
"We're also watching tonight the strange and we expect to be developing story of this Guy who has now been hit with federal felony charges. His name is Elliott Brady. He had a senior role in the trump inaugural committee. He was a major donor to the trump campaign not long after trump's inauguration the Republican party in this since deleted press release. Announced its, new national finance team. Under. The leadership of Steve. Wynn who since had to give up his casino empire a huge sexual harassment scandal the party brought on they announced in that press release they brought on as deputy finance. Chairman. Real, Nice. Group of guys Michael, Cohen the president's former personal lawyer who would soon go onto multiple felony convictions and a substantial jail term before becoming one of the president's most vociferous. Himself they also in that same press release announced Elliott Brady. As a national deputy chairman of the Republican Party, he is also a today now charged with multiple felonies committed also the other guy they announced that Prescott and that press release that day was Lewis to joy. The Guy who president trump put in charge of messing up the post office. COVID made us all change to vote by mail for this election Steve WYNN Elliott, Brady Michael Cohen and Louis de joy all in the same press release. All announced as having these major new roles in the national. Republican. Party all on the same day couldn't happen to a nicer bunch. I will just reiterate that the National Republican Party has since deleted that press release from their website but it's a real thing. Elliott Brady has now as I mentioned been charged with multiple felonies charged basically with taking money illegally from foreign sources to get the Justice Department to drop certain prosecutions. But Elliott Brady is tied up a whole bunch of stuff all the scandals involving the trump inaugural. He was a senior figure in the trump inaugural brady. You may also remember was embroiled in a hush money payment scheme that was almost literally a carbon copy of the one president trump got embroiled in with porn-star Stormy Daniels I. Mean. Literally, it was a copied thing. It does seem like the lawyers involved in both the trump hush money payoff and the. Payoff the lawyers may have used the exact same documents and the exact same fake names for both Brady and trump's hush money deals. Elliott was also the key link to the trump campaign and the trump administration for convicted pedophile. George Nader who for some reason had tons of access to the highest levels of the trump campaign, the trump transition, and even the trump administration. George Nader is now in jail probably forever. On child pornography and child sex trafficking charges his business arrangements with the. With. Liberty with the sky from the RNC and the trump inaugural committee that business relationships between. George Nader and Elliott. Brady remain murky but with brody now, himself facing federal felony charges. Maybe. More, will come out about that too. All in the lead up to the president's reelection effort Elliott, Brady is expected to plead guilty at least. That's what these court filings look like today. We shall see.
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Organization Seeks to Increase Voter Participation in America
"Cat. Calvin is the founder and executive director of Spread The Vote, a nonprofit organization that's working to increase voter turnout. Welcome to the program. Hi. Thanks for having me So One of the main things your organization is trying to do is close the gap between registered voters and voter turnout. How big of a gap are we talking about? Well about 83% of eligible voters in the country are registered. But we have an average turnout of 55% 15, maybe a little higher depending on the election, So there is a huge gap of tens of millions of voters who are registered. They've taken that first step but who have a hard time taking the many steps that it takes to actually get a ballot in So we hear a lot about voter registration drives. But why is that? Not enough? You know voter much drives a great their first step in every state except North Dakota. You have to be registered to vote. But the fact is, there are a lot of things that you have to do in between that So, for instance, one of the main things that spread the vote does is that we help people get ideas primarily in voter ID states. There are over 21 million eligible voters who don't have photo ID, but 36 states where it's required. So that means that you can look at states like Wisconsin, where there are over 300,000 registered voters who don't actually have the idea. They need to vote or 200,000, Virginia, etcetera. And so you know, that's just one big way that voter registration isn't actually looking at. What are all the other challenges you know, There's also transportation challenges. There's child care. We have a massive problem with discrimination against people with disabilities at the polls. You know, and then a huge, huge voter education gap. And so there's just a lot of things that we need to address between registration and turnout to make sure we're actually helping people explain a little bit more about the voter education gap that you see. Yeah. I mean, you know, it's interesting because I was listening to some of the questions that people had coming in. Also, I want to send bonus points to the Twitter who said that we should be doing rank choice voting because she's absolutely right. You know, the fact is that we don't We don't do a lot of civic education in schools anymore, And then we really don't do it after school, And so a lot of people just don't Really understand the voting process who they're voting for what we're voting for you. We do a tine of voter education and spread the vote. 77% of our clients have never voted before and had midterms. We had people in age ranging from 18 to 79 voting for the first time, and when they ask us questions or when we go, we get sort of thousands of questions that people just email us because we're an organization with vote in the name and it's Everything from. I don't know how I'm supposed to use this machine. I don't understand the difference between absentee voting and mail in voting in what's early voting. You know, I don't know what any of these positions are. Nobody knows what the comptroller is or what the board of supervisors is. You know, we get a lot of first time voters who we talk to you and they say I opened my ballot and I thought it was just going to be the president. But there were like 30 pages of things that I didn't know what I was supposed to do. I don't know what a ballot measure is. And so there's just a lot of sort of basic info. You know, there's also we get people who say I just open my mail in ballot and there's a bunch of pieces of paper here. I don't know what I'm supposed to do with that, you know, And so there's a lot of work that needs to be done. I'm just helping people understand what the process is. And how do you do it? How do you follow all these obstructions? And then when you look at, you know, people returning citizens the rules for returning citizens being able to vote or different everywhere, And there isn't a lot of information out about how people are supposed to know if they're eligible to vote again. How they become eligible. You know, people, Disabilities don't always know what all the requirements are and what accessibility requirements there are and what they're allowed to, You know, demand that they have it. They're polling place. And so there's just a lot of Really voting 101 information that people don't get. Well, we got this tweet from Benjamin, who says, I think the problem with voter apathy is that many people of you voting purely as a response to an agenda they did not set. It's important to stress to voters that they are just as much responsible for setting the agenda as they are for voting to set that agenda into motion, and I'm curious how much you hear from people about You know that that issue of you know? Look, I'm voting for something that I don't feel particularly a part off. Oh, absolutely. I mean, first of all, if we'd all been listening to Ralph Nader in the seventies, this would be a very different country because he basically was advocating for indivisible, right. He kept saying voting is just one day we have to be sure that we are keeping these politicians accountable that we're telling them what we want that we're making sure that they do it. And you know, one of the things that we try really hard to do now is remind people that voting is not the whole movement, but it's a big part of and that it is a thing. We have to do it once a year. Twice a year, however many times you vote in your community, but it is just one way. Of changing this democracy of setting the agenda, and so we have to still be taking to the streets. We have to still be calling into the police Commission meetings are going to City Council meetings. You know, we have to be finding and recruiting really amazing members of our community who we think would be great. You know, members of elected office and then supporting them. It's a lot more than voting that voting. Because we live in a democracy is a key part on I think when people understand I'm not just voting once a year and walking away and then someone else is making decisions, but that I'm helping to set those decisions and push those decisions and once a year voting is my way of grading how I think that those decisions were made and maybe hiring somebody new and firing someone excited, read, then it puts the power a lot more into the voters hands.
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Feds: Mueller witness conspired to conceal donations
"Hi Mike Rossio reporting a witness in the Muller investigation is facing charges of conspiring to conceal campaign donations of fifty three count indictment unsealed in federal court in Washington Tuesday charges eight people with conspiring to conceal the source of more than three point five million dollars in donations to the Hillary Clinton campaign in twenty sixteen Clinton is not identified by name in the court documents but there are repeated references identifying the candidate as a woman among those charged are Ahmad Andy Cole watcher who was a witness and Robert Mahler's investigation and George Nader who's in federal custody on unrelated charges prosecutors allege the contributions were made to gain influence with high level political figures including Clinton
Thom Hartmann
A Look At The Book "Proof Of Conspiracy: How Trumps International Collusion Is Threatening American Democracy"
"About today the time I'm in the club is proof of conspiracy how trump international collusion is threatening American democracy but Seth Abramson this is from the introduction in late twenty fifteen after Donald Trump has formally announced his candidacy for president a geo political conspiracy emerges overseas whose keys participants are the leaders of Russia Israel Saudi Arabia the United Arab Emirates Bahrain and Egypt these six men decide that trump is the antidote to their ills for Russia US sanctions for Israel a lack of Arab allies for Saudi Arabia the United Arab Emirates Bahrain and Egypt perceived threats emanating from Iran the conspirators commit themselves to doing whatever is necessary to ensure that Donald Trump is elected trump's presidential campaign is aware of and benefits from this conspiracy both before and after the twenty sixteen election on March nineteen twenty eighteen British journalist David hers the former chief foreign lead writer leader writer for the guardian publishes the most important report of his career first at one time the Moscow bureau chief for the guardian is now editor in chief of his own publishing venture a London based Middle East watchdog called the Middle East hi in the spring of twenty eighteen he reports the existence of a years long continent spanning conspiracy that will eventually enveloped the president of the United States the Red Sea conspiracy this book dominates the gift excuse me denominators the conspiracy Hurston covers as the Red Sea conspiracy for the simple reason that is hatched on a yacht in the middle of the Red Sea a sea water in one of the Indian Ocean bordered by among other countries Saudi Arabia and Egypt one imagines that in as many years as a correspondent and commentator for The Scotsman the Huffington post al Jizerou L. era B. L. J. E. T. R. T. world which is Turkish Mostar al argon Egypt in the guardian hers never thought he'd stumble on a story is far reaching Ernest implications as the Red Sea conspiracy but he did and what he found could change the course of history this book chronicles the events around the globe that preceded and followed the fall twenty fifteen origin of the conspiracy with a special focus on how the conspiracy prompted Donald Trump and his aides allies and associates to covertly collude with six countries both before and after the twenty sixteen presidential election Russia Saudi Arabia the United Arab Emirates Israel Bahrain and Egypt events that began on the Red Sea in twenty fifteen now influence president trump's foreign policy toward all of these countries toward other countries not involved in the conspiracy such as Qatar and Iran and more broadly toward Europe Asia and the Middle East the story of the Reds B. C. conspiracy begins with the ends of a man named George Nader as reported by Hearst in the Middle East I toward the end of twenty fifteen Nader than an adviser to the crown prince of Abu Dhabi Mohammed bin is I eat L. Nayan known as M. B. Z. convene with his patrons permission a summit of some of the middle east's most powerful leaders gather on a boat in the Red Sea in the fall of twenty fifteen or Mohammed bin psalm one known as M. B. S. deputy crown prince of Saudi Arabia who shortly become the heir apparent to the throne of the Saudi kingdom MZ be himself by twenty fifteen the de facto ruler of the United Arab Emirates del photon LCC the president of Egypt prince Salman bin hammam the crown prince of Bahrain Ken king Abdul of the second of Jordan Nader the improbable maestro of these rulers clandestine get together intended the plan he posed to the man to include the nation of Libya but no representative from that nation attended the gathering of the leaders aboard the yacht to M. B. S. and NBC are already close according to a New Yorker interview with Richard a Clarke a counterterrorism adviser to president Barack Obama George W. bush and B. S. and M. V. easy quote talk on the phone all day to each other and quote the Red Sea meeting although technically convened by nature is a means for MZ and be easy to advance ambitions that he and M. B. S. have designed together the two sunny leaders intention Hearst records is to remake the Middle East with the covert assistance of a highly placed American politician they intend to do this by first renaming and reconstituting the owner the membership of the six member Gulf cooperation council GCC which in twenty fifteen comprises Saudi Arabia the United Arab Emirates Bahrain Kuwait Oman and Qatar what reorienting to its regional ambitions and global alliances I was G. C. C. realignment with Victor Kuwait Oman and Qatar from the council and replace these three countries with Egypt Jordan and Libya thereby eliminating the entities historical association with the Persian Gulf and remaking remaking it as instead and alliance constituting quote an elite regional group of six countries which would supplant the GCC and form the nucleus of a coalition of pro U. S. and pro Israeli states in the Middle East and quote according to two sources briefed on the twenty fifteen Red Sea summit quote Nader said this group of states could become a force in the region that the United States government could depend on to counter the influence of Turkey and Iran and quote the twenty fifteen Turkey
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Dow’s ascent clipped by Boeing’s slump
"Bowie under pressure again this morning stock fell nearly seven percent on Friday that's worst drop since February of two thousand sixteen after it was revealed that officials in Washington are intensifying their probe into the company's troubled seven thirty seven Max yet Bowen said yesterday it's still investigating leaked messages from a former test pilot from two thousand sixteen about a radical offer behavior on the seven thirty seven Max jet in later in the show we're going to talk to Ralph Nader about seven thirty seven Max investigation but I will say one of one of the nuances look you don't know who to believe in this but if you if you really read through what Bowie is trying to say about the messages that we saw on Friday and what this test pilot was saying if they're to be believed is they're saying that the these messages they're saying that they lied about this and that the plane was working radically really about a simulator they were claiming was malfunctioning. Not The plane enrich self now I'm not sure what the actual answer it over to the criminal investigation months ago FAA wants to know why they were owned bringing the FAA's attention well the piece today in the Journal is that out of the engineers at bowling or like contract it out to help the FAA so they have this dual role in now you see the stock today that's Today the six forty nine so my point just just separate from Boeing is at the Dow's up sixty five and it's fifty points really triple digits if it wasn't engaged I don't know why there's gotTa look through the other components to China I we have to decide what the other components are uh-huh that squirmy constantly changing data opponent currently Goldman Sachs yes and Nike walgreens Walgreens so you know I'm I'm GonNa look this morning what the Dow actually consists of and then we can look at which ones are
Weekend Edition Saturday
Zimbabwe's Mugabe honored at state funeral, burial delayed
"Jim Bob boy is giving its former president Robert Mugabe a final goodbye with the state funeral got a real Jim Bob boy for more than thirty years and for the past three days in Bab winds have been remember in their controversial leader and very Jennifer alter joins us now from the national sports stadium in Harari eighty thanks so much for being with us. thank you for. what's the scene like there you don't actually feels a little this depicted because the government hold out all the stops for this. they had military and police band they brought in world leaders yes Jack bullock was a meek among them and got his body. often it was three. you know it doesn't mean flag it was escorted by generals and president Emerson god what the disjointed part comes because. you know about two years after Robert Mugabe was ousted in a military coup and the general this president they were the ones who ousted him so that was definitely on the minds of Walter. we spoke on behalf of the family let's listen. I see. the nice thing. the wide angle. well. anything I should note Scott is that this is a huge stadium in the capital city and it is half empty. what about people outside the stadium I understand you spoke with them too I did and you know the feeling outside is very different from the feeling here you know here he was remembered as a liberator as a. in Africa and you know. became a tight to his own people and right now Zimbabwe is hurting it's got the second worst inflation rate after minutes well and you know what woman I spoke to yesterday she was body she was in tears and she said her heart. I liberated from white minority rule and she was able to go to school to live in areas that were formerly all white but then she pointed to her legs they were stolen she didn't know why and she would get medical attention and she pointed toward the garbage off and then said that's because of him she was conflicted she was crying because her heart but also she resented. and and Nader. I understand British McGahee's not going to be put in the ground today there's been some confusion about when he'll be buried where he'll be buried Phyllis in on that if you could please. yeah I mean it's been a huge drama he was supposed to be buried at heroes acre which is a place where all of us involved with war heroes are very. family says that they were part because of the clean and they said that they didn't want. defensively they relented and they said yes will be buried there yesterday the apparently changed her mind and announced that the burial that was supposed to happen tomorrow has been canceled and that Robert Mugabe it will be very some point maybe in the next month maybe at heroes acre. and had a broader speaking with us from the national sports stadium half full he reports in or are a for these final services for Robert Mugabe ator thank you so much for being
Sports Central with Greg Matzek
What the Democratic debates showed
"There's a lot to talk about what your your started them debate last night I I would spend a few minutes talking about it it was a shouting match for awhile and I'm not a fan of that you've heard me rants about the panelists that we have the excessive commentators sometimes six eight ten twelve wins election day it seems like that's bled into the Bates too many moderators can't control the mikes they shout over each other that's that was my initial take away well yeah they they have this interesting dynamic so there's this game theory of who's going to end and for for some parts you know they would let someone who's talking over some well we're not actually grab the Mike so there was a incentive for that the combatants as it were to kind of do that and it just makes for really bad communication they will I you know towards the end they stand stop doing it yes what was really annoying was when the moderator would say give me one word and then they go on for let's just raise your hand one word answers garden yeah it was a little sophomoric but for the most part you know yesterday's debate was clearly the a team I don't know if Colin agrees with me but they were the the pros was much more interesting to watch you know you have the people who seemed a little more presidential or or you could imagine going toe to toe with trump where as I think Wednesday night it was a you know a little bit more and it did pretty well but it really was kind of the B. team yeah well it with regard to the format and then I think the incentive for any candidate is kinda have one of these moments right one of these moments of people be pleasant about talking about something allies people come in with pre rehearsed lines and they try and find a man trying to ploy and some fall flat some do well they come out here since food that that that was pretty clearly scripted but you found a great place to deploy so in and when you have a stage that big even over the course of two hours I mean I think I saw Biden spoke the most last night it was a twelve total minutes yeah yeah the others are shocked shocked up into five to six to seven minutes total over the course of two hours is just a very very difficult endeavor it's not great but it makes for good entertaining I should know this but I think in a window this down as we call here then the next round I some of these inch bench marks with their with polling and and fundraising so it should get further when I'm down back I suspect we're gonna have big debates for a while well there's ten more you watch and some guy just lost I lost four hours my life this week watching this often and I really didn't learn anything I think I have a better sense of who these people are in there literally three or four people I I'm pretty turned and I'm on the radio about politics and I don't know who these people were Merion Williamson I miss you know what you think things to say I so I've been thinking about this why are we including these people these are kind of gap flies that and I thought we should really give them of of bi level stage but then I thought about it and what we're trying not to have is someone with a little bit of a following get out of the tense and and start a third party thing a Ralph Nader thing so it's better excuse my language arts better have people in the tent being out there not outside the tent is the governor of Montana not make the cut in and Marion Williams he got into lake yeah my goodness you know I'll say this I I gave a small contribution to a couple these people the more moderate people Hickenlooper and Bennett to try to get him on the stage and now I'm thinking boy I kind of messed up because they really did not bring anything to the table they didn't say anything a unique or interesting I mean Hickenlooper stood up for capitalism I suppose but I think we're going to quickly see some winnowing it'll be interesting to see if any of these people can see the writing on the wall and and and let their narcissism down a little and just step out of the race do you think this is come out here since shining moments was just for a chance to kind of step up as it as a serious contender yeah she's always been very plausible on paper when you look at her resume look as she is her record kinda knew she was gonna be danger in the sun this type settings as a prosecutor prosecutors lawyers tend to do pretty well in these types of settings yes so I I think there's some buzz coming out of this debate about her it's really interesting it you know we've talked about bite and whether he's a strong front runner weak front runner is very very interesting that the first blood drawn is based on comments and positions he held in the nineteenth seventies are not we are arguing about busing last night that is the moment that came out of the debate last night it's a really really fast and dynamic and one that I think is going to continue to play out for Joe Biden is taken so many positions that are just completely at odds with today's what he knew they were coming you know I mean the the punches were telegraphed everybody and he still kind of just could not articulate his defenses and he let Qemali Heris use him as a yeah I mean this was her night she had a foil and he really if he had some of those scripted can a king and a rejoinder is to these these these punches I think he would have done well but he did
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Communities in Sri Lanka are uniting, amidst fear and shock, says top UN official there
"Communities in religious leaders have come together to call for peace and calm in treeline car following the deadly church in hotel suicide bombings on Easter Sunday. We'd nearly three hundred killed including forty five children the Indian Ocean island nation is in a state of mourning in leaving through a national trauma. That's according to the UN resident cordination, Sri Lanka and a singer wall. So warns that beyond the fear and shock. There was rising concern over a possible backlash. The UN is on the ground supporting communities and providing medical supplies as well as psychological aid for those who witnessed divide once and a singer spoke by phone to U N uses Mustafa al-gamal engagement update on the latest tuition in Sri Lanka while out. Course can't imagine. The boot is one of incredible shock and fear at the same time. We are talking about over three hundred ten. Dead in one day and over four hundred plus by one hundred and forty plus injures. So it's massive shocked for the psyche of a of a country that has just come out of thirty years of civil war just ten years ago. This is the time for warning really for those who have lost their life funeral are being held today and tomorrow that is the considerable fear as anger rises for a backlash. So and and and and the certain group certain group could be targeted as as a result of that was all I mean communities on the grounds. I think are still in the state of shocker now, the police and the armed forces have been deployed across the provinces. I have to say a religious I'm saying now have been very safe, but like and have been calling. For peace and call all the religious leaders, cutting across faith group have come together to call for peace and calm and the government together with the community are organizing the funeral, and I understand that also of the Muslim communities have been supporting the churches in also setting up the few roads, so lots of computer pools, but at the same time that it's like looks of fear as when awaiting the backlash Mishan as a resident good Nader. What have you done since that tax happened an intimacy free time community on and so I mean in my capacity as Representative of the secretary general I have with the practice the practice article Vander religiously to convey our condolences, and I particularly spoke to the in and I'm hoping to be attentive some of the funerals of some of the families if. Situation allows us, but I'm very closely all together with my t Bonner three the security at the political situation closely because ensuring the safety of the UN soft and chewy that the UN country team are also working together. So I agree on security measures for the UN. Also, very critical to keep the softer you and the shape of your either forms of the political development and also to provide our analysis off the grounds of the situation. But also to ask for the globe the analysis from their sites site is when we are older the week forward planning to put in place communications strategy. That speaking of the with the UN speaking as wants to build a narrative of these. I think this would be one of our hosts before the next step with this regard. We are also a lot of social media to track hates the speeches. And they're Li I think with the Facebook share information to counsel, the spread of hate speech. Some so at some ages is of course, important Natick with agencies as well. So some agencies on the ground like, for example, Uni south is. Because the debts of children is horrific. It's over forty five children have been killed this attack at a forty five children. Yes. And we are afraid that this could dry even so stuff is providing medical supplies as requested by the hospital for treating inter children and families and both unique set up your to all out also working off providing sacrifice. Sial I eight program for the families who have be impacted or with the violence. But of course, now, this is the times that we also we will be needing long-term psychosocial support and counselling services to the communities. So this is like I would I eight and the action that we have done, you know, it's just the day since the terrible horrific events and misanthropic. Are you talked about written to social media to combat hate speech on on their platform? Do you have any concern about the government clampdown on social media into your Lunka? Well, you know, they for we have to just a experience it county in arch twenty eighteen where the government has really had worked. Well, try to not the clap those controlling the social media to control the take the at. If I think violence, unfortunately, this has been you know, sort of you have been used to spread take us and for inside violence. So these are sued measure sake adopted by the government to put an immediate talks and control of the current the current
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Family of American Woman Killed in Ethiopian Airlines Crash Sues Boeing
"At the white house family of a twenty four year old american passenger on the jet that crashed is suing boeing we are one of three hundred and thirty seven families with such huge holes because this aircraft didn't function samya and her fellow passengers shouldn't have died samuel stu mo is the great niece of consumer advocate and former presidential candidate ralph nader the lawsuit is alleging negligence and
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United States, Mary Jordan and Komo discussed on News, Traffic and Weather
"That election was dead even in the country has been since then a red and a blue country and people never talked about red states and blue states until then and we increasingly we hear we turn on stations that we want to listen to we don't really hear the other side we live in places with people like us there's even signs that we're not marrying people from other political parties now people are increasingly tribal and that's a that's kind of a big issue because people don't even wanna talk to each other you know it's not the united states of america it's the divided states of america marry the is wonderful thanks so much for sharing with us and again that's mary jordan you could read it and washington post dot com the article is the latest sign of political divide shaming and shunning public officials and mary jordan was speaking with komo's tom hutler the special counsel investigating russian election meddling digging deeper into trump ally and blackwater founder erik prince abc's aaron katersky with more eric prints may be this country's most wellknown private military contractor but he has come under scrutiny for an alleged effort to establish it back channel between the trump administration and the kremlin prince has denied it but it's now told abc news he has given the special counsel total access to his phone and computer lebaneseamerican businessman named george nader has said he set up a meeting in the seychelles between prince and a putin ally prince has described it as a chance encounter over a beer prince also faces questions over business deals with.
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Mueller obtains Trump ally Erik Prince's phones, computer: ABC
"To have you back and one target of special counsel robert muller's pro trump ally prince who was the founder of blackwater technologies eric prints may be this country's most well known private military contractor but he has come under scrutiny for an alleged effort to establish a back channel between the trump administration and the kremlin prince has denied it but it's now told abc news he has given the special counsel total access to his phone and computer a lebaneseamerican businessman named george nader has said he set up a meeting in the seychelles between prince and a putin ally prince has described it as a chance encounter over a beer prints also faces questions over business deals with russian nationals aaron katersky abc news new york in cities across the country the national security agency is using at and t to monitor billions of emails calls and online chats the intercepts says has been going on for years and it's not just limited to at and t customers cbs tech analysts larry mac it says this is a red flag this disclosure brings up important issues about the role of american companies in providing data to the us government for surveillance purposes companies are of course required to comply with court ordered requests for information but this raises questions about the extent to which at and t have gone avid way to provide the government not only with information about its own customers but customer of other companies who's traffic is handled by at and t according to this report the nsa considers at and t one of its most trusted partners wbz news time three twelve traffic in a minute right now tom cuddy in the ace tikka dot com sports studio joe fighting.
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AP News in Brief at 11:04 p.m. EDT
"A conspiracy theory not a conspiracy theory folks millions and millions of people the pentagon says it will be weeks until the first national guard troops are deployed to the border the details still need to be worked out with the states and one of those states california which of course has a big border with mexico is so far saying they do not agree to cooperate with this plan abc's jonathan karl special counsel robert muller obtaining evidence calling into question congressional testimony given by trump supporter and blackwater founder erik prince last year brother of education secretary betsy devos was irritated by democrats raising questions about a meeting the head with a russian with close ties to vladimir putin half a world away at the seychelles islands the days just before trump's inauguration they're asking us fishing expedition questions prince it's a house investigators he had met putin ally in russian businessman career dmitriev in the seychelles by chance i didn't fly there to meet any russian guy prints testified last november president he had gone there to discuss possible business opportunities with officials from the united arab emirates and he said they suggested he meet with the russian but princess testimony is now being revisited because of george nader eleven american with international connections sources tell abc news robert muller has obtained documents from nature that appear to conflict with princess testimony about the seychelles encounter nature now a key witnesses testified before muller's grand jury at least four times sources say among the documents muller has secured those suggesting nater met with prince at the pierre hotel in new york city on january third two thousand seventeen and within twenty four hours later sent prince detail bio information on dmitriev showing he was a powerful putin ally a week later prince was in the seychelles having a beer with dmitriev native says he was at the seychelles meeting something prince never mentioned it and it's gonna snow testimony press at night going to the seychelles as a representative of the.