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Giant Bombcast
"new caledonia" Discussed on Giant Bombcast
"But yeah, I've just got a code for that, so I'm gonna be playing a lot more of that. Gosh, forgive me, I forget the title of this game. This is the one thing because I've seen so many people so high on it. Talk about, this is the one thing that's making me think about getting a PSVR two. It's the game where you blink and time progresses forward. Right, that's out. That's on Netflix. You could play that with your phone on Netflix, but of course you could do it PSVR would make it more immersive for sure. Before your eyes, before your eyes, yes, that's it. Thank you, yes. Have you tried have you looked into it? Because I was like, man, I might just play that, but apparently it's been out for years. You could play it with a webcam on your computer and it tracks your eyes. And whenever you blink, it goes to the next scene. It jumps forward in this character's life that you're seeing from a first person view. That sounds incredible. Yeah, I was on the DLC podcast with Jeff can not and Christian Spicer and they were so high on it and what they had said that was really convincing me to try it out is like, yes, you could play it with your phone or with a webcam, just set up the eye tracking stuff, but despite this game being out, they were telling me that this feels like the official version of the game, like this should have been the game the whole time. With only VR on PSVR, I think so. I don't know if all headsets can wind up doing the eye tracking stuff. But they were saying eye tracking, right? Totally. That's why, okay, man, yeah. But they were saying that the implementation with PSVR two, that is the way to play that game. And I'm thinking, huh, you know, maybe I can cry in private in PSVR two. That's what it is. But I guess PSVR two is going to be, it's going to drop in price here pretty soon. I might wait for that and if it does, I'm going to pick it up because that's how I want to play that game too. It's one of those things where I'm still not sure if it's actually out yet. Yeah, me too. I keep on hearing about PSVR two, but I haven't, I don't know if I've ever seen anybody actually eat man. 550 bucks will mackerel. Yeah, they're expensive. Yeah. Can you play Alex on that? Or is that a steam exclusive? That's not on PS VR, is it? As far as we know, that's the only fucking game I want to play in VR is Alex. Three years now I've been wanting to play it. There's a VR set somewhere. There's probably not a VR set in the office anymore because I doubt that I made the move to fandom. Oh, Jen, you're going to have to be responsible for all this shit at my desk, but I'll try to clean up on Thursday, but I have a slide that in there. That's the most upsetting thing I've heard today. I don't have time to bring lucid air back in. So we're going to have to find some, I should have set him up on this couch back here. When we take a break, I'll go get some of my. Can I keep all your change that was on your desk? You can definitely keep my change. I haven't been in that. Okay. I'll go on Thursday and let you know if there's anything there. There is a huge monolith that used to belong to a former designer that I kind of claim for myself and I'm a little mad that I don't get to keep it. But maybe if you ever go back to the office, Jim. I'll help you pilfer it. Real quick. I know I like glossed over that she a game real quick. It's TC, HIA. It was in that PlayStation state of play that most recent one and everyone was like, it looks like wind waker because you have the little leaf, the deco leaf thing that you could float and then you were sailing, but when Dan showed to me it was much, much more like breath of the wild in terms of how you're exploring things and what's going on in there. And I'm just, oh, it's on my radar big time right now. It looks like it's going to be on epic and PlayStation. Yes, it's a PlayStation 4 PlayStation 5. It's actually PlayStation plus or the second tier, the extra tier in the premium tier on day one. So if you want to just pick it up that way, there you go. Damn, damn. All right. Well, I was just going to say like, I remember the video I remember the teaser and then with tears of the kingdom coming out. I'm sort of just like, is this me filling up on bread before the meal? Right, a little bit, but yeah, yeah, maybe, but I'm like, I need it actually. Well, I guess there's going to be folks out there that don't have a, I mean, it's really hard for people to not have a switch. I feel like virtually everyone has a version of just a switch. They're just out there. You can just, there's only a tray, take a switch, leave a switch. You can just find one. Some folks may not be able to pick up tears of the kingdom. It's also it's like much more, again, I think we can talk because there's like previews after this. So this is like the preview stuff. It's got a ton of accommodation features where it tries to make it easier. If you're like a little kid and you want to have a no fail mode, you can click a button and you have no fail mode. So if you're swimming under the water and you run out of stamina because it's like, oh, that's the tension of exploring. Well, for a little kid, we're going to let you just keep playing. That's fine. And then, yeah, and it's very light on combat, but it's got a ton of fun little physics interaction things where you climb to the top of the tree and you pull the tree back and then you fling yourself forward and then you can float and then you can do like sweet flips in the air and then you could teleport into a bird and flies the bird and then you can shoot yourself out of the bird, do more flips, get to the next tree and kind of start the process all over again and it's like it is it's all that as cool as it sounds and then it's like it's a game about exploring at your own pace and having a kind of a vague direction of like, oh, here's a mission I should be doing. I'm going to go in that direction and getting distracted. It's kind of cool to see a game like this come from an Indian developer. It's like, oh, someone has taken all the ideas so breath of all that really spoke to me and really all the ideas that go all the way back to the original The Legend of Zelda that spoke to me and it's like, okay, now we're going to imagine what this could be like with not just indie game levels of quality in terms of graphics, but indie levels of passion where it's like, oh, and this game also is trying to be a New Caledonia or a sort of abstracted version of New Caledonia, which is a small island off the coast of Australia. It has a native population there, and they're trying to bring that culture into this game. And that's all super well done and just makes this place such a pleasant place to be. It's like as soon as Dan showed to me right to the top of my most anticipated charts. I like, before the quick look was over, I was like, hey, can I get a code for this? So I could start playing. That's where I'm at. Before we get to the game of the week, I read an embargo fervently, and it looks like I can talk about. WWE two K 23, baby. Yes. Yes, the reviews for that went up earlier today, I think, are yesterday. Wow. I checked out maybe a good hour or so of the game. Similar to the last entry where there's like a really well done guided tutorial with drew Gulak. This time Austin creed up up down down in front of the site, Austin creed guides you through and everything and it's funny because you wind up having a WrestleMania match with John Cena to end the tutorial and everything. And everyone looks good. The wrestlers look great. You know, I feel like they're doing a good job at this time of capturing all the models. I do like that your test dummy or your training partner is happy Corbin. And I think unfortunately,
Bloomberg Radio New York
"new caledonia" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Made a surprise visit to Ukraine today just days ahead of the one year anniversary of Russia's invasion. He met with Ukrainian president Vladimir zelensky and announced the U.S. will be providing another half $1 billion in aid to the war ravaged country, but that's not all. Later this week, we will announce additional sanctions against elites and companies that are trying to evade sanctions and backfill Russia's war machine. Russia was notified ahead of President Biden's surprise trip, that's according to national security adviser Jake Sullivan, Biden's visit with Ukrainian president zelensky came just before his scheduled trip to Poland this evening. Michigan state university is resuming classes today. This comes after last week's mass shooting that left three students dead in 5 others injured. The 43 year old shooter also took his own life and had no connection to MSU. President Biden is sending love to former president Jimmy Carter and his wife in a Sunday tweet Biden said he and First Lady Jill Biden admire you for the strength and humility that you've shown in difficult times, Carter is receiving hospice care at his home in plains, Georgia, Priscilla Thompson, is in plains this morning. That they are working to make him as comfortable as possible. And this was a decision that the former president made himself according to the Carter center. They say that he had experienced a series of short hospital stays recently and that he decided that he wanted to spend his remaining days at home with his family. Of course that including his wife of more than 75 years, Rosalind Carter is the nation's oldest living president. An Australian tourist is dead killed by a shark in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia bystanders look on Sunday as a 59 year old was bitten several times. People sailing nearby took the man back to the beach, but it was too late. New Caledonia is about 750 miles east of Australia. I'm Michael kassner. The U.S. is providing $100 million in disaster relief aid to turkey and Syria after a devastating earthquake slam the country's earlier this month. That's according to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who visited the hardest hit areas in turkey on Sunday. We're here to stand with
AP News Radio
Manatee relative, 700 new species now facing extinction
"An international conservation organization, says populations of a vulnerable species of marine mammal, numerous species of abalone and a type of Caribbean coral are now threatened with extinction. I'm Ben Thomas, with the latest from the red list. The international union for conservation of nature has updated its red list of threatened species and its sounding the alarm about pillar coral found in the Caribbean, numerous species of abalone, a kind of sea snail, and the dugong, a large docile marine mammal related to the manatee that lives from the eastern coast of Africa to the western Pacific Ocean. The dugong is vulnerable throughout its range and major threats include unintentional capture and fishing gear in East Africa and poaching in New Caledonia, and also suffers from boat collisions and loss of the sea grass as it eats. The IUCN red list includes more than 150,000 species, adding another 3000 plus in this update, 700 of which are threatened with extinction. I'm Ben Thomas
Veterans Chronicles
"new caledonia" Discussed on Veterans Chronicles
"But when they took the height requirement off, that recruiter had hung on to those papers apparently of all of us who he had to turn down because in my community, we had a lot of Italian people, and our time people basically were very short people. Not very many tall people. So anyway, he came to the farm and looked me up and asked me if I still wanted to go on the Marine Corps and I said, yeah. Off I go. End up when I got a graduated boot camp, California. I learned for the first time. You're going to the South Pacific. I had no idea. Where I was going or what I was going to do when I got there. Where did you do boot camp and when was that? In May of 1943, we had 13 weeks of boot camp at that time. So we graduated actually in August of some time. And then I continued to train us. They first started training us how as a marine grant, how or infantry person, how do you work with tanks, they had a tank farm outside some place in California. And they sent us to that tank farm so that we could figure out how do you work with mechanized tanks. And we went through a period of that, then they put it in a regular infantry kind of a unit at camp Pendleton, and we did additional training and hiking there ten mile hikes in 20 mile hikes and all that stuff for conditioning. And then in December, early December, they'd love to support ship and send it to the South Pacific. And where exactly did this end you? I ended up the first place we went was an island called New Caledonia. And it was a they told me, owned by the French..
WTOP
"new caledonia" Discussed on WTOP
"This is WTO news It's 8 53 now a possible motive is emerging in that deadly shooting outside Hagerstown late last week and we've got new dramatic details about how the incident came to an end The acute shooter 23 year old Joe esquivel told a sheriff's deputy the people I shot were pedophiles The Washington Post reports however that court documents in the case show no evidence has surfaced that that's true Police are also detailing the arrest of esquivel They say he rammed his car into a Maryland state troopers vehicle then fired a handgun through his own windshield hitting trooper detective sergeant Phillip Martin he was treated and released from the hospital Esquivel is charged with 33 separate charges including three counts of first degree murder for each of the persons who died at Columbia machine where he worked He's being held without bond he is expected back in court in July Kyle Cooper WTO news At 8 54 now efforts are continuing to get WNBA star Brittany griner out of Russian detention State Department officials are confirming they met yesterday with members of greiner's team the Phoenix mercury greider was detained in February at an airport in Russia after authorities said a search of her bag revealed vape cartridges containing a cannabis derivative which is punishable by up to ten years in jail there South Korea's top diplomat says North Korea has completed preparations for a new nuclear test and only a political decision by the country's top leadership can prevent it from going forward Following talks with Secretary of State Antony Blinken South Korea's foreign minister says the north would pay a price if it goes ahead with that test And there's a heads up if you have international travel plans the CDC has placed three new destinations in its high risk category for COVID-19 Mexico New Caledonia and the United Arab Emirates all have more than 100 cases of COVID per 100,000 residents in the past.
Veterans Chronicles
"new caledonia" Discussed on Veterans Chronicles
"Laid on the clock there and had my pack with me and my rifle at the end of the bed and that's a figured while two or three days I'd be out of there and back to duty. Anyway, it was penicillin and at the time they just said a new medicine and I was getting that. I shot every four hours. 24 hours a day. And the third day I started feeling a little better. Doctor told me he said, tomorrow, you're going to be flown out on a C-47 and get down to new hebrides. He said, because we're evacuating anybody that's a real sick or if you've been wounded, they brought in this plane with the only thing supplying the marines at the time, they would fly in 55 gallons of drums of fuel, aviation fuel, and then ammunition and what have you, but they never brought in food. And which we didn't have, so I said to the doctor now, I said, I'm not, I'm not flying out. I'm going back to duty. He said, well, he said, I can't. Force you, he said, but I'm in the morning. I've got you on the list to be taking out. Evacuated and I said, now, I, of course, arrived a little late. Where I was on the ship, the Elliott, when it was sunk and had come hitchhike a ride from New Caledonia back up, and I wasn't about to leave, and I didn't feel the greatest, so. In the morning, I just put my pack on and rifle and walked away from the hospital and I was always starting to go out, the doctor said, are you leaving? And I said, yeah, he said, well, I can't stop you, but in my advice as he said, do something to get off the bare ground because you'll end up sicker after this goes. After leaving the hospital, pomeroy tells us he was able to craft a makeshift cut from palm leaves. He also goes into grizzly detail about the food situation on the island. When I went back, I drove some stakes in the ground and I wove a with palm leaves back and forth and made myself a little caught off the ground. And eventually I did pick up another blanket, the blanket I had. I had to, when Jim mengen was killed and I wrapped him up in my blanket and I thought, well, when I get back from the cemetery, I'll get his blanket by then someone else had taken his blanket, and the gear, so I didn't have a blanket at the time, which would have been a lot better. And the food was terrible, of course, we lived off coconuts..
WNYC 93.9 FM
"new caledonia" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"All things considered from NPR news on Michelle Martin a trial going on in Central America could have broad implications for indigenous communities around the world that seek to regain control of ancestral lands It started this month at the inter American court of human rights in Costa Rica The case centers on a land dispute near a nickel mine in Guatemala Demand for nickel has increased around the world as it is used in batteries for electric cars The ruling could take months and one question is whether the Guatemalan government would comply with it report at Maria Martin has more Like so much indigenous history going back to the Spanish conquest in Guatemala The case has to do with Latina The land and who controls it An indigenous group from a small community in the northeastern part of the country is asking the inter American court of human rights to give them clear title to the land They've been living on for generations But longer Attorney Carlos Pope represents the people of the community called awa caliente He says residents have worked for nearly 40 years to establish legal title After paying for it they discovered the titles had been ripped from the property records They faced force evictions as the government handed out mining licenses in the slush area in the mountains above the shores of Guatemala's largest Lake Lago Isabel Get to Maya community leader Rodrigo totte tells me by phone that people are anxious for the court to rule as they've suffered for many years As he was growing up starting in the 1960s He watched a mining company started to strip mining for nickel all around our caliente with no consultation with the communities whose land they were polluting The Lake the rivers and other sources of water he says This strip mining first of all it creates a toxic waste dump You can see nasty stuff You can smell nasty stuff The community brought Victoria Sanford into the case as an expert witness About the violence that catchy Maya have endured trying to hold onto their lands And about the complicated history of land grabbing by the state going back centuries An anthropologist at Lehman college in New York she says this case is significant not only in Guatemala but in New Caledonia Africa and other places A small batteries are needed for electric cars demand for nickel rises as does the danger For local communities You know the most dangerous occupation to have right now in Latin America is to be an indigenous environmental activist And so these folks need protection the Guatemalan ministry of energy and mining failed to respond to numerous requests for comment Meanwhile our caliente leader Rodrigo Todd says he's concerned about what the court will decide And whether the government of Guatemala will comply The inter American court is backed by the organization of American states and its rulings carry legal weight But the Guatemalan government has ignored past court decisions in favor of our calientes land rights I'm worried because our own authorities don't understand our situation And in fact are against us They favor those who seek to take the riches from our community That's activism has led to threats and in 2012 his son was killed In addition to the land titles the community is asking the court for compensation for damages and for security for dot and his family For NPR news I'm Maria Martin and Antigua Guatemala.
Veterans Chronicles
"new caledonia" Discussed on Veterans Chronicles
"They're not sure left of that re abandon, but I got off on the Russell, but they were so many others selling a Russell when the Japanese attacked again that we all had to cram us all down below deck because the ship was top heavy they could maneuver, believe it or not, that's when I got scared, I was terrified because I knew these were single here. I'm not destroyed. They didn't call them tin cans for nothing. They got strafed and some of the guys that didn't get down were killed. After a while, people all the guys that weren't ships company left the battle scene, and we went back to New Caledonia. And the ships stayed there until they could see they couldn't save the ship and their band and tried to sink it. So the japs would hit it and then they couldn't snake in the jets came and they finally got a soccer. What did you do then? They took us up to New Caledonia and up in the hills, bow river, there was fish initiated by you. So nobody's going to fish it. But it was really nice it was wild orange tree, a wild orange juice. We stayed there a couple of weeks and finally no troop ship they acquired from the three French or somewhere that I don't know how the navy got it, but loaded all of us all into it and some battle bong up marines and we told them crazy marines from Guadalcanal and headed back to the United States and I must have been a contract the captain was sore on a sightseeing expedition. We first stopped at Esprit of Santos. He looked around and then went through Suva nurse and stopped there and saw the policeman with the war skirts with the bottom of cut the hair was all straight up. His black hole in her head red on top. And we left there and went to Bora Bora. And more and more was absolutely the most beautiful place I've ever seen. It had coral reef, you know, with the palm trees on it and it was an old wall inactive volcano..
Bloomberg Radio New York
"new caledonia" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"They say continue tensions after Beijing imposed the national security law U.S. House in Senate reportedly close to an agreement on legislation aimed at punishing China for alleged Xinjiang Uyghur oppression Biden Manchin meeting today White House says progress mansion says engaged regarding the build back better plan South Korea and Australia have signed what they say is a comprehensive defense agreement that includes some hardware and some software U.S. is warning of a newly revealed software vulnerability that it says could put hundreds of millions of devices around the world in jeopardy CNN is reporting that giants Amazon Web Services and IBM have moved to address the bug and their products and that there is only a minimal time to act to try to minimize any potential damage And the U.S. has documented 50 million COVID cases since the start of the pandemic In San Francisco I'm at Baxter This is Bloomberg Juliet Thank you Ed Let's get back to our guest David sikhara chief U.S. market strategist at Morningstar on the line first from Chicago you say U.S. stocks broadly 5% overvalued and we're seeing the S&P 500 indexes long-term price to earnings ratio reaching 37 a level last seen in 2000 Is it concerns or are they concerns about a bubble and is this more broad or are there pockets where you could see some opportunity Yeah I wouldn't go down the road saying the markets are in any kind of bubble Again they are certainly overvalued when you put together composite The underlying fair values determine about our equity analyst team But again even in the market like this we still think the value stocks are generally undervalued We see a lot of opportunities for investors specifically in the small cap space And then looking at the different sectors that we cover energy right now is still undervalued even though it's had a fantastic year in 2021 We still think that there's more upside opportunity in energy in 2022 And then also looking at communications a lot of stocks in there that we think are undervalued in today's marketplace I know you're not too concerned about the flattening yield curve going into a rate hike cycle But I am curious about something And that is if inflation is an issue and if the fed is going to be raising short term interest rates why is it that yields are dropping as much as they are I think the market's probably a little bit overly concerned I think with the reduction in monetary stimulus that's coming out But in our view while the rate of economic growth might slow we don't see any recessionary pressures And in fact looking into 2022 I think that the long end of the curve is going to more likely than not be on a continuing up your upward slope which will end up leading back to a steepening of the yield curve And more broadly in terms of your forecast for growth for 2022 you've got to growth of 4% over the course of next year You're not overly concerned about on the current upending this We're certainly watching it anecdotal reports at this point in time hasn't been anything that's caused us to change our base case So again it's waiting for a little bit more hard data as it's coming in but until we get any more hard data it's just nothing that we necessarily think is going to impact our long-term view of the economy So David you're a common individual You sound pretty comfortable with what's out there What does give you a little pause What does concern you at night Well you know if we did see an upward spike in long-term interest rates if we were to see some sort of taper tantrum and a really quick rise in interest rates of course that will certainly be a headwind for the markets Especially in long duration of stocks If we're wrong and inflation really does continue to be much more persistent than what we're modeling in and we see the fed conduct more rate hikes sooner or faster than what modeling in That also could end up being something that could lead to a recession in the short term So interest rates and inflation are probably the two biggest concerns I have now from a broad market perspective And what about the divergence between central banks around the world when you've got the fed moving too tight and fast or taper faster and then you've got some potential easing from the likes of China How does that kind of upend the applecart Well I think the fed is doing the right thing right now So it's not necessarily concerning to me that we see different regions going through different parts of their economic cycle having different monetary policies at this point in time Okay This is the time of year where you get all these calls going into next year I note that three of JPMorgan's top 2022 trades involved bullish calls on Chinese assets So if you can say so maybe even be coy What's your number one call next year Well I wouldn't say it's a number one call but again as we've talked about before the value sector is probably where we think the best opportunities lie for investors going forward And small cap stocks while they've certainly lagged the market this year that's actually where I think economic normalization and economic growth.
Monocle 24: The Globalist
"new caledonia" Discussed on Monocle 24: The Globalist
"The territory in the Pacific Ocean has voted to remain part of France. The decision came on Sunday in the last of three independence referendums granted under a 1988 deal aimed at easing tensions on the islands, which lie 1250 miles east of Australia and are of strategic importance to Paris. Okay, lions is Pacific editor at the guardian and she's on the line. Thanks very much for joining us. Can we begin with a bit of history? What is the background to these referendum? So the background to these referenda is that New Caledonia had a period of unrest, a period of violence. Back in the 1980s and as part of the resolution of that quite terrible and tried to get conflict, there were agreements reached with France, including one of them called the new agreement, and you may accord, which guaranteed the right to vote on its future on its independence on its ongoing relationship with. And it was due to have those a series of three referenda around about this time. So there was a time frame that at the end of which they could decide about whether they would be self governing. The first referendum happened in 2018 and we've just had the final of the three this weekend. And why is the archipelago so important to France? Well, it's incredibly important partly because the Pacific is region of geostrategic importance for a lot of big powers. So we see a sort of tussle over the Pacific between the U.S. and China between Australia and China. And France still has territories in the region, which is gives it sort of benefit. And one of the fears of that is if there were to be sort of global conflict that having a base in the Pacific is incredibly would be incredibly useful for having a naval and air base for refueling for launching for keeping ships. That's always the concern that powers have when it comes to China that if China were to gain access to a military base in the region that would be quite threatening. But the other huge advantage that New Caledonia offers to France is the fact that New Caledonia has a very, very large maritime area. That gives France, one of the largest actually economic exclusion zone maritime territories in the world. And without New Caledonia, that would shrink significantly. So we know New Caledonia did vote to stay with France, but in fact it was boycotted by many, many people. Why did that happen? Yes, it's interesting, because you see the result. And the result was carried more than 96% in favor of remaining with France and Emmanuel Macron said it was a ReSound resounding endorsement of the continued relationship between the two. But in fact, voter turnout was incredibly low at this referendum and very deliberately. So the pro independence movement is largely not entirely but largely made up of indigenous kanaki people, as well as Pacific people. People from the Pacific. And they have been massively disproportionately affected by COVID in New Caledonia compared to the European residents of New Caledonia. So very large majority of the deaths in the territory and the cases have been connects and Pacific people. And according to custom morning rites are incredibly important. And it also quite long. And they've been really disrupted by lockdowns. People haven't been able to travel back to their villages. Normally, it's a really important time where communities come together and mourn for people that involve huge ceremonies and huge funerals. And that hasn't been able to happen across the pandemic and we've seen all these deaths occur within communities. And so for actually for a long time for months, the leaders and the pro independence leaders have been really imploring France to delay the referendum. They've said, look, it's just not the time. We can't campaign. It's not on anybody's mind to be thinking about independence or not an independence right now all we're doing is grieving our dead but unable to do that in a culturally appropriate way. Please delay the referendum, which requests that France refused. And it was made actually on behalf of Pacific leaders, put in requests, they voiced their support for this request to defer the referendum. Some pro independence connect leaders actually traveled to the UN this week to try to make their case that this referendum would not be representative because they just felt it wasn't the right climate for a fair campaign and a fair vote to occur. So because they weren't granted the right to defer the referendum, the pro independence parties instead urge their supporters not to participate. And I think in doing that, they were hoping to indicate to the world that the their belief that the result would not be a valid one. And so we were voted torn out dropped from around about 80, 85% in the previous two referendum to about roughly 40%. So it really, really huge drop in participation. So what does this mean then for New Caledonia given that clearly this result is not representative of what the people really think? I mean, it's a really good question. It's hard to know what happens next. So we have France's administrative overseas territories in nemea at the moment. He said that this is the beginning of a new chapter. He wants to sit down with all parties to talk about what the future will look like. The language from him and from Macron is that they see a sort of new vision that respect new future for the territory that respects all peoples. But the pro independence groups have said they absolutely refuse to sit down and participate in that vision because what they want is an independent New Caledonia and they feel they've been denied that chance. I think everyone was relieved that there has been no violence since Sunday. And that it's all looking calm the last day. I checked in. It was still calm, which is wonderful. But it really is hard to know what happens from here. And what future is now that this new mayor accord and these three referenda that were the great hope of independence for pro independent new caledonians is now done. Okay, thank you very much indeed. That's Kate Lyon specific editor at The Guardian. And here's what else we're keeping an eye on today. Powerful tornadoes have hit Kentucky killing at least 80 people in what's been described as the state's most devastating tornado event. President Joe Biden has declared it a major federal disaster. North and South Korea, the U.S. and China have all principally agreed to the declaration of a formal end to the Korean War. That's according to South Korea's president Moon Jae-in..
WABE 90.1 FM
"new caledonia" Discussed on WABE 90.1 FM
"Voters in a French territory in the South Pacific go to the polls this weekend New caledonians are voting for independence again They voted twice before In 2018 and in 2020 to break away from Paris And each time the yes vote grows as Ashley westerman reports analysts say this final ballot could make New Caledonia independent But there's a wrinkle The pro independence faction doesn't want the vote to move forward this weekend Why The pandemic is prompted lockdowns across New Caledonia and has killed nearly 300 people The majority of the people who are dying are connects Charles waya is kanak the territories indigenous population He's also a member of the pro independence coalition I reached him in Paris Next year you know the people can do the morning Connect morning rights can take up to a year And even though waya has fought in his people's struggle for self determination his entire life he supports his coalition's call for non participation in the vote This moment comes after more than a century of often violent unrest between New Caledonia's mostly French settlers and the kanak Ziad jabran is with the French ministry of the overseas He says France which wants to hold the vote this year for a number of reasons including to avoid it overlapping with French national elections in 2022 really wants to move past all this Is that we need to organize it very quickly to open a new phase of the California history We need to have other political discussions about the future of the territory At the 11th hour for France to kind of pull the rug out from it in such a way is quite incomprehensible Denise Fisher is a former Australian diplomat once based in the territory She notes that the 1998 agreement between France and New Caledonia that set the stage for the referendums doesn't actually expire until late 2022 And so there was plenty of time And time was on the independence party side It must be said they always preferred later rather than earlier vote That has to do with demographics and who can vote says Alexandra dayan with the Sydney based lowy institute There's a clear correlation between being an indigenous person from negate again with voting for independence In order to cast a ballot in the referendum a voter needs either to have immigrated to the territory before 1988 or have been born there at any time and be over the age of 18 So every year you have new connect people in age of wedding Dance says the demographics may have changed enough that the pro independence vote could achieve a majority this time around And that could have massive consequences Among other things the Kinect want more control over their economy including the territory's wealth of nickel reserves And at a time when China's influence has been growing in the Pacific an independent New Caledonia also affects France's status in the region says Fisher They're indo Pacific vision is based on their sovereignty in their various positions in the two oceans Therefore its performance in New Caledonia and the immediate Pacific reaction to it is extremely important for its status and acceptance as an indo Pacific partner Charles weas says once his homeland achieves independence they'll work with whomever they want Any country that want to help us But if his faction doesn't participate this weekend that means the vote could swing against them And that could lead to renewed unrest Maybe even violence in New Caledonia For NPR news.
Between The Lines
"new caledonia" Discussed on Between The Lines
"More adequate or a more appropriate military partner than France now. That's Paul Keating. That's his critique of Oculus, Rory Metcalfe is France, a genuine Pacific power. Well, a couple of things, Tom firstly, at one level, it's actually kind of refreshing to hear Paul Keating endorse the building of coalitions in the indo Pacific with a wide range of partners. And I think the subtext there is the need to balance Chinese power. So I'd like to think that mister Keating gets that point and applause that point. Secondly, although France is important, ultimately, and we may come to this later if we can, ultimately, orcas is about the deepest level of technology partnership with the United States and Britain and the calculation has been made that what they have on offer is going to do more for Australia's strategic weight and moreover is embedded in the U.S. alliance system in the indo Pacific. And there is something unique there that Australia needs and I believe can rely on because when it comes to confrontation or potentially conflict in the indo Pacific, we know we're confident, I think we're America's objectives will lie. There will be some uncertainty about where France and some European players fall in those circumstances. Is France a genuine quote Pacific or indo Pacific power? Well, France has territory in the region. It has steaks and interests in the region, island territories in the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean. It had those stakes in the region before the submarine deal with France was on the horizon before the French bid actually if you like stole the show from the Japanese in 2016. And France will continue to be, I believe in indo Pacific player, even if, for example, the referendum in New Caledonia is December doesn't necessarily go, France's way. But it's not the only power that we can count on. We'll talk about the major powers. You mentioned the U.S. and Britain. What about the optics of orcas? He's Yun Jian, she's director of a news China policy center on the ABCs, p.m.. With this agreement and under the current government generally, where looking more to the west and our angles for your partners much more. It's almost like a way of back to seeking security from Asia rather than security in Asia, we're not putting as much effort into broadening and are deepening our relationship with other countries in the Asian region. You and Jiang on the ABC's p.m., Rory Metcalfe. Look it's a reasonable observation to make a surface level when you see the optics of August, you know, the fact that you had America, Britain and Australia leaders lining up to make this announcement, you had the red white and blue of the three flags on display and so forth. You know, I can understand that perception. But there are some very important points of context here, one of course is that the so called anglosphere of these three countries or the 5 eyes, countries, if you want to extend it, is, in fact, not about some kind of Anglo culture. These are some of the most multicultural liberal democracies in the world..
Band It About - Podcast Series
"new caledonia" Discussed on Band It About - Podcast Series
"Isn't it. You gotta have some skills. I mean my. My parents encouraged me that there was pressure to go to university. it was more finish twelve. So you've got the option and do whatever you want after that unite. Either your My dad used to say earning. Or you're learning one of the two. Cy getting tried was good and then ended up. Getting another tried as authorities technician. So i used to michael paper which was a bit of a different job. That was really enjoyable. And and you know it's a means to an end you know having those jobs one kept me grounded. It gave me a wage to get my living situation in order by some really nice gear for myself music wise. I didn't want to fit under the umbrella of the struggling musician denied. Because if you're a creative everyday. I don't believe in sitting there waiting inspiration. That's that's a load of bull. If you ask me you gotta work at it every single day even if it takes you x. amount you sort of have to be working at it and you. Life has to have balance as well balanced been really important and having the jobs in my life. Plastic music have have really helped with that. You have a memorable gigs story. Good or bad that you'd like to share a memorable gig story in well this i mean. Look there's been plenty by must cy. I think you were there. When we on rock the boat together. Yup yup going to new caledonia and plying on the cruise ship awake. That was in sign. It was pretty cool. It was amazing. And i think the mice memorable ones as a hall other ones your wife. For a period of time. And you'll and you'll touring and all the memory sort of roll into one united. That gig on the boat was fantastic. I mean shit loads of papal good vibe and everyone's day to to do the same thing so As far as i sort of gig story. I mean i wasn't doing the gig in his his one eye white back in two thousand nine. I went to las vegas to audition for cirque du soleil and the blue man group and i bought my tickets to guy to america and then the global financial cross happened and cold off auditions which is really disappointing for us but we ended up meeting some of the blue moon and it was great..
In Defense of Plants Podcast
"new caledonia" Discussed on In Defense of Plants Podcast
"Wrote this book called species plantar which basically means older species of plants. Which at time there were about a thousand. Okay okay. since then we've just got rid bit back. The world is played a bit more diverse than than you could see from sweden in seventeen fifty three lampy but he sort of articulated. The whole idea of what we wanted to do when we classify all these organisms is to build the tree of life. Okay to have a system where the name of the plant tells you something about what it's related to in where team from pollution early and scientific names of plants and animals every every living thing. All scientific names are intended to encapsulate this. This notion of via lodging of where things came from of how the life is grown. And this fact is the reason why are all the time. Changing planets is because we find out new things about how they're related and in order to do this. You have to really for each plant and you have to look back at its whole history going back to the first sky. Who started writing about this plan. Where lineas in seventeen fifty three sometimes even older am. I mentioned the european you and you know there is information that goes back over a thousand years two thousand years. Okay you is. is one of the enormously culturally important trees that we have people have literally been worshiping plant for thousands of years in western europe. And there are a lot of conifers. If people were show a lot of spiritual important wednesday any anybody who's ever been doing Grove knows redwoods spiritual import dea. Anybody's are been bristlecone growth but But this connection with the history of science is really interesting because to understand what these people thought about these plants why they described them this white why they gave him that name. You go back and you read the things they wrote and you read about the the adventurous that they had of these people live very dangerous lives. I mean in an exploring botanist. In the nineteenth century rarely die fold. Age was extremely dangerous work. You know they were. They were going to the tropics and sometimes they either three weeks and then some mosquito bite. fever die. You know things like that Some of them were really indiana. Jones tacked characters. Okay they literally carry old war floppy brimmed hat. So yeah it's it's. It's fun to read history science on these things yet when i hang out with my botanist friends and we talk about how hard it is in the field and then we go back to our air conditioned hotel rooms or stations a can of puts things like that in contact. Oh we've softened a bit but often in good ways. Fear mosquito bites as much as i you know my forebears probably did so. Yeah i mean with that in mind. Thinking of sort of expiration and travel are there any conifers. Or gymnast burns in general that you have yet to encounter in person that you would really like to all the ones any particular ones that stand out like maybe are your next goals whether these places that are centers individual okay places. They have really ida versity. New caledonia is the ultimate thrill for gymnasts firm. Biologists new caledonia is a tropical island about three hundred miles long northeast of australia in. It has forty. Three's feces gymnast. Berms their conifers. That are not found anywhere else in the world. Now and a lot of look really weird. I have a page on this and by website that If which had already been the weirdest world some of these contenders it just they don't look anything like you imagine. A conifer should look. They look like a frozen firework with raise. Exploding out of a ball thinks that they're completely bizarre plants. So that'd be a fun place to go. Japan japan has twenty two species of congress Most of which aren't found anywhere else in the world Southwest china which. I've been to but it was over thirty years ago to go there again. What i know now would be really fascinating. Taiwan taiwan has got some of the biggest trees in the world and some of the tallest trees in the world. It's not widely appreciated. But there are. There are trees in taiwan that are comparable almost as big as the redwoods. Okay trees that are fifteen eighteen feet diameter under three hundred feet tall. So it'd be really cool to go there. There are a few other places. Sure we make sure i mean. They're they're weird. Bizarre amazing plants all over the world. There is a cyprus that lives in the sahara desert. And i'm serious. Sarah desert here gave places where it never rains. They they live in wadis. They have access to groundwater they're only three hundred. These plants known to exist while and many of them are over a thousand years old and everybody knows seen just raves about the place. Mile sounds powerful. Yeah and i think too is someone who's got a little bit of a background jealousy as well. You can appreciate just how much this is. What i think about a lot of times when i go to museums or anything like that where it gets the fossils and just how much even just the antiquity of some of these lineages not necessarily individuals can teaches about the larger scheme of life on this planet. How plate tectonics works. I mean you find seattle for instance. The japanese umbrella pine japan today. But there's been fossils of it found in europe or even you know don redwoods before we found them and brought them around the continent to plant. You know there were fossils here in north america. It's it's so cool to look at some of these lineages in the fossil record. You look at iraq. And then look at the same needle and go almost indistinguishable. Evolution doesn't really make sense. a- she understand plate tectonics again. I mean there's so. Many groups of animals in en conifers. Baby more than most most critters but they're all sorts of different organisms. Show plenty of evidence. That europe used to be bumped up against eastern north america. Australia used to be bumped up against africa. Things like that serves a lot of a lot of good stories to be told there in terms of the relationships. One of the things. That i've i've learned slowly from studying. Plants is how quickly can actually move around landscape. We talked about how the trees problems that it never gets to go anywhere. But we also talked about the continuity. Gene opened the trees genes can travel all over the place. White bar pines on dispersed mainly because their seeds gathered by grows and nutcrackers in related birds. And these will come. They fly twenty miles then. Bury the seeds somewhere In a nice sandy. So i wanna south inching hillside..
Conversations
"new caledonia" Discussed on Conversations
"It good question The same a qualified. We saw items in many different ways today. It's through acquisitions. And donations participated in the past in particular collection that i work closely with destroyed celsius custom collection In that case items were collected by you know captains labor ship vessels government agents farmers who earn sugar plantation farms. even mayors of those towns But in general throughout the collection there are a lot of government officials who are donating things medical doctors people who are traveling the landscape who have contact with people different people landscape and maybe people not fully understanding what they finding and when they're finding it and thinking that maybe not wants to using it and when we say celsius where are we talking about what. What exactly are the south seattle. Because they're not south of where we are here in this area. It's certainly not sell here but also for me and in particular to this dry celsius the story. The south armed The islands from vanuatu solomon islands. New caledonia fiji cure bass and mill by province of of new guinea as well so they're the islands that in this context i called the celsius john's but that has been interchangeable also with pacific islander pollination allen's is there a series of one hundred fifty years and what was it that led to people from that range of lands being brought to australia in the nineteenth century. What was going on so in the eighteen. Hundreds of people are starting to look at cotton and starting sutton look at sugar as plantations to as for his farm here but they didn't have much labor and the conditions. Here were harsh. it was hot. it's starting to more today with so winter and So you can only imagine what it would've been. life in. Australia is starting to look for new labor force to help develop the start of the australian sugar industry but they need the latest cleveland. And there's not many people here at that time. Other than aboriginal people who europeans announced to take over the landscape believed to them and they're looking for people to work in this harsh climate..
Science Friday
"new caledonia" Discussed on Science Friday
"Rhyming every petition. Maybe you'd be interested in the work of ellen garland who has been scouring the complex songs of humpback whales for evidence that whale songs may spread across hundreds of miles of ocean and be adopted by other whales. Their research is featured in the new documentary fathom which aired at the tribeca film festival. It's now available on apple. Tv plus and both of those scientists here with me today ellen garland a royal society university research fellow investigating the cultural transmission of humpback whales at the university of st andrews in the uk. Michelle forte is a postdoctoral researcher and bioacoustics and behavioral ecology that's at the cornell lab of ornithology kalia yang center for conservation bioacoustics. Welcome to the science friday. Thank you so much for having us. Nice to have you ellen. Let's let's start with digging into your work. I tell us about humpback whale songs and the patterns and the themes there absolutely so it's only the males that will sing and some functions in something to do with six selection so either the males ah singing to try and attract a might or there seemed to the mail saying begum strong or it could be both. Were just really not that. Sure at the moment but what we do know is that all males within a population will sing the same song so this song is quite complex. It's many hierarchical leibels in it. But they will sing the same arrangement of the song. Eight-year slowly change and they'll all make the same changes to their song. And the song progresses at evolves from year to year with an population. And what we've been finding. Is that the songs of the passed between populations. The song on the x cursive stralia. Will they be pressed to next population over which is new caledonia the next year and it will take over there. Wholesome display this whole new song will appear and all the males were switch to these completely different songs and that happens over and over again across the ocean basin and this takes one to two years for a song what we revolution to spread across. The changes are revolutionary. It has happened with multiple different song. Types being passed from lump Relation to the knicks over and over. Again let's listen to an example of the changes you observe. Here's a clip. From a song. I observed in two thousand and two and then you watched it move eastward i And here's a sample from a song. I observed in the same place in two thousand and three. And then you watch that moved to wales east of there so these two songs are really very different. I mean how easy is it for you to tell how different they are so the differences are really striking so with humpback song. It's an eastern hierarchy. So single sounds. I would units and we name. These holiday sounds mon drugs. Whoops has crooks. I think you might have just hit and what you have. Just there was a couple of sounds. So this a few sounds will get realized a phrase and you hit a snippet of a phrase and then these phrases repeated arvin african to make fame and then there's a few different things which are sentiment stereotyped to make a song so it's these multiple levels within this complex hierarchy and so in a completely new song type comes in has a completely different arrangement of things of sound types within this and the differences absolutely striking. Even if you're not a research you can hear how we have. These different sound types present. The different arrangements a prisoned. So it's really striking change. When these rich song revolutions come through the region at. Why are they adopting. The new song is is it something here through the water and then they say hey. Let's let's join in on that absolutely so they're hearing these new songs at different points within the gear but not entirely sure exactly why they adopt these noble songs clearly like these novel songs and we think it's something to do with of course sixers selections and maybe the females choosing males with novel songs. So it's pretty good idea to switch to something that slightly new and we think that this may be driving the system but we're just not actual at the moment would you say then that the whales are their culture from their pods their families to someone else's culture absolutely. It's these big. Cultural revolution says the population. Wide coach will changes that have been passed from population to population. I like the analogy of. I can see your singing your national anthem right. You're singing along so good and then the next year you abandon you. National anthem enables singing so insert whatever nation. That is that you'd like to do there. It makes no sense and no other animal chelsea's kind of latch population level changes at such fast and rapid pace Only tanks wants to use to spread across most of an ocean basin the or any other animal that does it is humans so we draw analogies with a lot of pub. Coccia how pop songs so spread across america. If you know you're the beatles great analogy michelle. Let's move on to what you do because you're not looking at the songs spreading but you'd like to eventually be able to talk to the whales to communicate with them so you're learning how they speak to one another exactly. I'm learning how they speak to one another and the best method for doing that is by talking to them. Ourselves on being able to acoustically engaged for the humpback wheel is fundamental for understanding. What the function of these calls are what they mean and how they're used through our speaker we will project the sound of a humpback wheel. What call which we believe is a contact call and we will listen to see whether or not the wheels are calling back to us and we believe that if they call back to us that that is evidence that this call is used to maintain communication potentially maintained relationships but certainly to make contact with other wheels. Let me play. An example of that would call for our audience. So what's the big whoop about the whip call. This call is possibly one of the foundational units of sound for all humpback will communication so ellen Explained to us that song is produced by mail. Wheels what calls are produced by everyone. Male wills female whales juvenile wales All whales produce the sound and unlike song which sort of shifts rapidly and changes and his unique to populations and his very sort of complex. This call is stable for generations. So we've actually documented in southeast alaska This humpback will will call persisting From from generation to generation to generation forty or fifty years. But we've also found that this would call is been documented in population so humpback whales that don't interact with each other and in fact they've been genetically geographically isolated for anywhere from two to three million years and yet they produce the same call so all of that is evidence that in strong contrast song which is culturally transmitted that. This call is probably a neat. It is something that these animals are born with and rely on for basic communication. Where when you played the whip call on your microphone underwater to them. Did they recognize you as another whale and tried to communicate with you. It certainly appears so. Guess yeah i mean. The ink is still drying on the final results. But i can say with high level of confidence that when we went to alaska provided we set everything up just right when we played up call to the whales. The whales called back to us which was extremely extremely exciting. Michelle the whip calls is the second humpback call of something like fifty that researchers have identified the function of. Why has it taken so long to begin to decipher these sounds. That's a great question I will remind everyone in myself at times that these animals do spend eighty percent of their life living underwater so most of the time. We can't see them. We are using every resource at our fingertips to try and understand what they're doing when we can't see and so whereas for the call we were able to experimentally test with the function. Is you have to have some hypotheses about that. I and because the repertoire is so extensive and their communication system is so complex. We are literally shooting in the dark when we first start to guess as to what these calls might before and as recently as a guest ten years ago. We didn't even have a catalog of the sounds the hump wheels and alaska made. We didn't even know. When we dropped a hydrophone in the water what we were listening to was a humpback or was it rocks rolling down the side of the beach and so we really were starting from a large unknown and have been building up. Ever since on trying to figure out these call functions are and unless the call function is something that is observable by our human scale forming hypotheses about it can take many many years because we have to look at the data and try to imagine the world from the perspective of a whale instead of imagining the world from the perspective of a human and alien. How many years of data did it take for you to observe the shifting of humpback song so these a decatur purchases and it's only because i have the most incredible collaborators and they have three recording for years and years and years and i've been allowed to work on these recordings in collaboration with them..
The Free Agents
"new caledonia" Discussed on The Free Agents
"Herro tyler heroes definitely more along the lines of deondraye eight and where. It's like you see them perform in playoffs. And you're like wow this guy's going to be an important piece of this team now and going forward in the future. So that's the little bit of a differentiation for me. The other question that you could look at this as who's been the best rookie in the playoffs. And i think we saw him both in the sixers versus hawks series. It's gotta be yucca. Kong will or therese maxi congo. Probably a smaller impact But he's doing it more consistently whereas tirees maxi basically one six game at one point had looked like he was going to be like should he be starting over. Ben simmons that became it became a little bit easier. Maybe to wanna trade. Ben simmons having seen what tyree maxi did in the playoffs but getting necessarily to tyler heroes level. They weren't doing it every single night. But i've loved. I've seen specifically from a congressman. Like that guy looks like he's going to be ready to start in about a year. yeah he does. Look the stream team is throwing out. Reggie jackson bad one really come on and consistently been putting a point. That's a really good way of of course not a rookie. But in terms of just like opening some is being like damp is reggie jackson actually good cook because we thought maybe he wasn't a good team. Next question here actually involves parents man bone you know dunks terrence was the man in game. Six of the western conference semis. But it seems like not too long ago. He was still an end of the bench player. Someone whose name would trigger a high pitched who on the show. Who do you think can be the next guy go from who status to contributing on a winning team could be your fellow canadian. O'shea bruce brusett who has shown promise at the end of the season. Wow he's deep. Pull their turnip catnip personnel. That's from shank tank in new caledonia. So task a guy that's like you're like who the heck is this guy to contributing on a winning team. That's a tough question. But who would you peg here. Yeah it's definitely tough because you gotta go deep. No one expected terrence man to come up with a thirty nine point blender there. That was a great game was phenomenal to watch him do that. And i assume he is going to be a part of the clippers future. I don't think it's just a flash in the pan right. I'll stay in canada or set with that suggestion there. I'm gonna go with nicole alexander walker of the new orleans pelicans now you may say nah missing. Some people may say knob because those are his initials now. But i believe in him and i also believe that the pelicans maybe moving on from lonzo ball so if you think lonzo ball's gonna stick around. Who does make sense in. Theory around zion williamson. I'm not so sure that david griffin believes that theories don't win basketball games. They didn't win basketball games. This season and i think david griffin looks at even the ben simmons scenario says. I don't know if we're just gonna hitch our our car to to lonzo ball with sign williamson. So let's take a chance on this nikila alexander walker kid who's second year out of virginia tech still got time under his first contract So i i got some hopes there. And i think a probably a a non sexier pick is d anthony. Melton of the memphis grizzlies. Because i just. I just see him as a guy who could contribute like even a campaign rolled on this grizzlies team. That has so many guys that you could probably pick. You could pick grayson allen. You could pick ties john. There's there's a bunch of guys were just good on that team. He shot forty one percent from three last year. So i think the grizzlies just looking at a team. That should be in the postseason next year because they got a job rant leading them they got guys up and down the roster who will be contributing. You look at teams right now. Phoenix the clippers guys who are contributing from one through ten eleven twelve angry grizzlies. Grizzlies have that template going for them. They could be a team next year. That people are saying whoa. This team is in the second round. Small markets all over the place in the nba. Happening right now as we could see with the bucks and hawks pretty big market but yes sons and teams that. You don't necessarily expect to be there so Yeah i i. I've got faith in the grizzlies to be there. Some people in the stream team asking if nicole alexander walker is a shays cousin s. And i'm not proud to say it took me a while to realize there are two names involve one part of the same name and the cousin part. Don't be little longer again. Then i'd like to to keel alexander walker shea killed alexander. There's the but yeah going to be hopefully leading candidate to the olympics. Here coming up quite soon. I know nicole. Alexander walker of courses playing. She is not because of injury but trip back to the question. There that guy that's like. Who is that guy contributing. Do you want to try and predict somebody. Do i have to pick a canadian. Or is this just ultimate. What about this guy conversation. You can go wherever you can pick any any player. Okay patrick williams. He was a second team all rookie. This year. the balls will be in the playoffs next year. And he's gonna shoot more than seven times in a game. But i mean if osha bruce. Is the suggestion here. You can literally just pick anybody so okay i will pick in orlando magic and i will scroll canadian. Coal anthony anthony. That's a good one. He's gonna hit a game winner in the playoffs at some point. Market down really got an answer. Well i continue to be intrigued by anthony. Simon's adding Portland hit that began. Game against the pacers where he hit the nine consecutive threes and his numbers did actually take a tiny drip down this season. But he's three. Point percentage went up shooting. Forty three percent from downtown. So he's definitely a got that ability to shoot three and spread the floor and give the blazes something but he has to obviously work on his consistency..
Harvard Classics
"new caledonia" Discussed on Harvard Classics
"It is equally improbable that the elevator forces should have uplifted throughout the above vast areas innumerable great rocky banks within twenty to thirty fathoms or one hundred twenty two one hundred eighty feet of the surface of the sea and not one single point above that level for wherein the whole surface of the globe. Can we find a single chain of mountains. Even a few hundred miles in length with their many summits rising within a few feet of a given level and not one pinnacle above it. If then the foundations whence the atoll building coral springs were not formed of sediment and if they were not lifted up to the required level they must of necessity have subsided into it and this at once solves the difficulty. Encircling barrier reefs are of all sizes from three miles to no less than forty four miles in diameter and that which fronts one side and encircles. Both ends of new caledonia is four hundred miles long. Each reef includes one two or several rocky islands of various heights and in one instance even as many as twelve separate islands the reef runs at a greater or less distance from the included land in the society archipelago generally from one to three or four miles. But at haga you. The reef is twenty miles on the southern side and fourteen miles on the opposite or northern side from the included islands. The depth within the lagoon channel also varies much from ten. To thirty fathoms may be taken as an average but at venacuro there are spaces. No less than fifty six fathoms or three hundred sixty three feet deep internally. The reef either slopes gently into the lagoon channel or ends in a perpendicular walls. Sometimes between two and three hundred feet underwater in height externally the reef rises like an atoll with extreme abruptness out of the profound depths of the ocean what can be more singular than these structures. We see an island which may be compared to a castle situated on the summit of a lofty submarine mountain protected by the great wall of coral rock always steep externally in sometimes internally with a broad level summit here in their breached by a narrow gateway through which the largest ships can enter the wide and deep encircling moat as far as the actual reef of coral is concerned. There is not the smallest difference in general size outlined grouping and even in quite trifling details of structure between a barrier in an atoll the geographer bow has well remarked that an encircled island is an atoll with highland rising out of its lagoon removed. The land from within and a perfect atoll is left. But what has caused these reefs to spring up at such great distances from the shores of the included islands. It cannot be that the corals will not grow close to the land for the shores within the lagoon channel when not surrounded by alluvial soil are often fringed by living reefs and we shall presently see that there is a whole class which i have called fringing reefs from their close attachment to the shores both continents in of islands again on what have the reef building corals which cannot live at great depths base there encircling structures this is a great apparent difficulty analogous to that in the case of atolls which has generally been overlooked it will be perceived more clearly by inspecting the above sections which are real ones taken in north and south lines through the islands with their barrier reefs..
The Big Cruise Podcast
Australian Pacific Touring Launches 6 New Cruise Itineraries
"Keeping in australia abt or good friends there at australian civic during they have a partnership with noble caledonia room and operate small ship expedition cruising and they've just launched six new itineraries australia new zealand's radical ones here this voyages to keep your is for just test mania special melbourne cup fa cup crews The across barrier reef and of course also over to new zealand site some trans tasman voyage as well. So it's definitely a lot of choice there and Something for you to to look at if you want to do. Some localized crazing.
Scuba Shack Radio
Chasing Coral
"The documentary chasing Coral premiered in July 2017 and it is a powerful film and since we've been talking about coral reef conservation at the shop thought it would be good to do a review of chasing Coral here on scuba Shack Radio. I watched it again a few days ago and it was just as impactful as the first time I saw. The documentary was conceived by Richard veevers who is currently CEO of the ocean agency. Richard worked at a top London advertising agency before he got involved with a passion on Ocean conservation. He was working on a project called Excel Caitlin Seaview survey regarding images of coral reefs that's where he started to understand the impacts of coral bleaching. Around this time. He watched a documentary called Chasing Ice produced by Jeff orloski and chasing Coral was born. I thought I'd give some key statistics on what it took to put together chasing Coral first. It took about three years to shoot over 500 hours of incredible underwater footage off. There were Thirty countries contributing to the documentary and more than 500 volunteers involved just an incredible effort. The film won the People's Choice Award for best documentary at the Sundance Film Festival and the 2018 Emmy for Outstanding nature documentary. Jeff Orlowski was originally from Staten Island, New York. He went to Stanford to study anthropology got into filmmaking and worked on the Extreme Ice survey that turned into Chase nice in 2009. He found it exposure Labs a production company focused on socially relevant issues. So chasing Coral is really about the quest to document with imagery a coral bleaching event. By reviewing what was happening at carries forward Reef in in the Florida Keys and at airport Reef in America Samoa. They determined that they would need to build a viable underwater time lapse camera. That's when they go to a company in Boulder. Colorado called view into the blue and they were going to build a housing. That would keep it self clean. It just so happens the exact Rego works at view Into the Blue. He describes himself as a coral nerd and becomes a main player in the documentary. With the cameras developed, they deploy to Hawaii Bermuda and the Bahamas and they put down their cameras and wait a couple months to get the images. It's a failure. The images are out of focus a lost opportunity. It's back to the drawing board to fix the problems before their next attempt. The next opportunity is on the Great Barrier Reef. They head out deploy their cameras and wait a large typhoon impacts their plans. So they read the place to another Island lizard Island, but they aren't able to take any of their special cameras the team needs to do time lapse manually that means going out every day setting up the camp exactly as before and getting the photos painstaking and exhausting after more than a hundred days. They complete the work over that timeframe. The coral has bleached died and his overgrown by algae Zack is extremely emotional at this incredible loss. It's crazy to think of water temperatures at 95° Fahrenheit, but that's what it was dead. Another team went to New Caledonia where they observed an amazing phenomenon fluorescent corals an attempt to Shield itself from the temperatures an amazing sight am amazing colors just before bleaching extremely sad to see the corals stunning last gasps. The documentary continues with Zach and Richard presenting their work at the international coral reef Symposium in Hawaii the time lapse photography of the coral reef dying over a two-month period of dramatic and overpowering the reaction of the attendees demonstrates the sadness. The film wraps up with Jack diving with one of his Heroes doctor Charlie Verona Pioneer in Coral research and conservation. They are diving on a beautiful unimpacted part of the reef off Charlie reflects back on maybe he didn't do enough. Maybe we all need to do more. Corals are being assaulted on many fronts not just climate change but pollution sunscreen and carelessness citizens are trying and we need our governments to act as well. Perhaps a new day is Dawning. If you haven't yet seen chasing Coral. You can find it on Netflix. Please find a time. You won't be disappointed. If you've already watched it believe me. It's worth watching again. We can't let them
Weekend Edition Sunday
New Caledonia voters choose to stay part of France
"Pacific archipelago of New New Caledonia have decided against independence from France. NPR's Eleanor Beard, so he reports 53% of margin was tighter. In the previous referendum Two years ago in 18 2056% of voters chose to remain part of France. New Caledonia became French in 18 53 under Emperor Napoleon, the third, Napoleon Bonaparte's nephew and heir. The archipelago Some 2000 miles east of Australia, was used for decades as a prisoner colony. French citizenship was granted to all can AKs in 1957. Referendums are the final steps of a process that started 30 years ago after years of violence that pitched pro independence activists against those wishing to remain part of France. As
BBC World Service
New Caledonia to vote on independence from France
"The polls in a referendum to decide whether the French Pacific territory should become independent or keep ties to Paris as they are in a similar referendum. Two years ago, New Caledonian Sze rejected independence by not by a large margin. Observers say the result is likely to be similar. The French prime minister has announced
In Defense of Plants Podcast
Spurge is the Word
"Name's Nathan Taylor and I I've been studying you for is for about the about seven years now. Hey Sand Yeah and I particularly focus on a little group called the section Nisa film which is sort of the San Matt like Lance so like spotted spurs prostrate splurge those weedy plants that you get your Your Line Darden. That have that White Milky Sap yet. It's cool that the you know. Those are something I grew up recognizing I mean. I didn't know what they were as a child. But it's it's a familiar group of plants to me you know. I think a lot of people that don't live in arid regions at least. That's probably their main introduction to the Spurs family. But I'm curious. What brought you to this in the first place. We always plant person. And how did you discover you four? Ac's kind of your your focus. Yeah so the main way that I found plants is I live in Dallas. I at the time and I was told by my family that we were moving out to the desert. And where you know. There wasn't really any lush vegetation at all and in the spring. I just saw all kinds of wildflowers and being the kind of person that I am. Naturally I wanted to identify every single one that I saw hand. It just kind of snowballed there now. How I got interested in You. Four via is. I had a mentor of time. Whose name is Bert Williams. And he he knew basically all of the local on the southern highpoints Texas and you four was really just the one group that he sort of just assigned the genus name to and didn't even try with a species. So I I sort of took. That is a challenge and from there when I went to Soros to get my Bachelor's and master's I decided that the best way to study these things would be just a photograph every species in the specimen cabinet. And then go back and look at those at home. Well it turns out that some of the species. That photograph were actually misidentification. Ooh that that added a at an added another Another way to sort of you know. Just push me right into into the groove things. That's a really interesting dive into this world. And from a standpoint of sort of species identification and taxonomy I mean some of the Spurs family's pretty easy to recognize although there's probably plenty of minute details but others can be pretty cryptic which I'm guessing lens to some of the taxonomic end species. Id Confusion You just mentioned definitely. Yeah I mean every every time I go to a herbarium I ended up with a a really good big Saka misidentified before so. This is a big family. And it's one of those that every time I think I have my finger on the pulse of what's going on. I see a few representatives that completely blow my mind in. Send me for a loop but how do you begin to even focus in a family as large as before be acn? I guess from there. We can kind of talk about the subdivisions within that group. Right so I mean the the big thing with you for AC. I mean I'm not. I'm not a huge expert on four. Ac as a whole but but it's really sort of divided by the power structure. You know some some species have pedal some don't Actually probably most of them are money. Isis and then with you for specifically you have the ATM and the site in is is sort of this. Modified infrared essence. That looks like a flower. It's sort of like the composite family in that. It has this the Sudan via this false flower that made up of of an invalid occur and then Various flowers in the middle of it. It is pretty wild to think about that in the context of it being in fluorescence in. It's one of those things that when you say or see anyone on the Internet say you forget. Flowers already. Goes actually. It's a safe but it is a really fascinating structure in it. I'm guessing is kind of what makes you for AC unique or one of the characters that Kinda unites a lot of them Under this taxonomic umbrella definitely and it. It is the essentially. The uniting structure of Euphoria message genus very cool. So how did you end up falling? Into the subgroup Are With the chemist icy type growth form that we've mentioned earlier something that I think a lot of people especially if you live in urban areas or have a sidewalk near your house can probably recognize so it fits into a couple of categories for me that I sort of came to appreciate early on and For whatever reason I really like we species and I really like plants that are small and so this is spit imperfectly for me. And in the fact that the Trans Pecos region of Texas. Which isn't that far away for. Me Is sort of the center of diversity for the group. That's sort of where the plants evolved initially he? The region has sort of a representative of all of the major lineages within this within the section. Oh that's really cool. And so they've just sort of radiated outwards from there and made their way up into the super tempered areas. I'm guessing now because of human activity can be found over a much wider range than the initially would have in a natural setting right right. I mean that that said the you know the the group is actually to diversified on its own worldwide. Yeah so I mean except for the Arctic climates course but yeah it especially in desert. The plants love desserts and really sort of exploded in biodiversity In desert regions around the world. That's excellent and in thinking about the success of a group like this that can conquer so many different types of habitats. I you just said the desserts I see them in temperate zones see them in wet habitats. See them in prairies. A lot of that comes down to the fact that they figured out how to utilize a lot of different types of photosynthetic systems. Right yes yes and actually it is the only see for Winnie edge in phobia and within the section. You actually have both see photosynthesis and an intermediate to photosynthesis which not many people know about. I didn't know that that the but yeah. So it's it's a cool sort of intermediary step that uses a a two carbon molecules sort of funnel the the Co two to the bundle sheath cells instead of a a c four molecule like malic acid and came ascites also has a single C. three plant. Euphoria and Gus Sir. So C four photosynthesis really did serve. Diversify I with this section in this film group he I may have mentioned And basically that sort of the old genus name for it so still switching taxing on gears a little bit if I if I say that that's okay. It's hard to keep up sometimes especially with such complexity in morphology in types in you know this is a group. People generally pay attention to so. Of course there's going to be a lot of changes and updates. But I'm GONNA on the subject of photosynthetic Percy it may be the only genus known that also had as pam it has all those for photosynthetic systems so like the the second species in Africa. He those are actually cam plants so like like tactile out West so you have a wad of diversity in this group as far as photosynthetic systems. It's pretty wild because you know they're plants. Photosynthesis is kind of the main stay of that entire lineage of organisms for the most part and to think about all of the variety in that system you could possibly have. I mean just the thought that there could be an intermediate step between this the C. Two thing that I had never even heard of before until now and I'm wondering if you know is there any indication of what the sort of the end type was for this group or for you phobia in general or is it kind of independent evolutionary trajectories depending on where these originated in how they diversified into what kinds of habitats right right so the the origin of euphoria in general? Masada occur in sort of the South Pacific islands around New Caledonia And it sort of a one of a most ancestoral fees. It's actually not a euphoria. It's I can't remember Gina's name off the top of my head but it has a site apium but it's not quite as well structured as a regular you forget ended sort of a sort of a shrub plants in in that area now the the origin of section in this film. I know a lot more about their a lot of really cool features that sort of unite this group but one of the main things is that I mean it it. It evolved from plants. That looked more. Like let's say the gophers purge so like four elaborate before the rigid That sort of SEO like structure the seventeen setiawah basically it. It has this of main stem with with alternate leaves But the emperor essence is sort of KSM with the world of leaves at the base and then it has Casal Branson's That sort of come off that importance and all on that occasion it has opposite leaves he in section and this film they only have opposite leaves. They don't have any alternate leaves at all and that sort of led to the speculation that basically announce analogous to a an import about SC group
Sean Hannity
Caledonia, Officer And Thirty Eight Year discussed on Sean Hannity
"Game Caledonia police officer shot and killed a suspect during an armed robbery yesterday the officers a four year veteran of the force that is out of the hospital recovering at home suspects been identified as thirty eight year old Jr del sort of re
Business Wars Daily
Lets Get Crafty: Boston Beer Buys Dogfish Head
"Business wards daily is brought to you by Dell. Don't miss out on Dell small business month celebration. Get up to forty five percent off select computers with Intel core processors, call eight seven seven by Dell to speak with a small business technology advisor today. That's eight seven seven b u y de l l for tech advice and one on one partnership. From one day, I'm David Brown. And this is business wars daily on this Tuesday may twenty-first these days, it's not easy being a beermaker craft beers have become victims of their own success. The fizzy artisanal stuff is become so popular that being a beer, entrepreneurs, practically an occupational category of its own craft beer battles are enough to send any beer company, owner to drink. You saw that one coming, right? Especially nowadays, because beer-drinking is actually well shrinking, which brings us to the latest in craft beer collaboration, Boston beer, the company behind Sam Adams is buying dogfish head ale for three hundred million dollars, but this acquisition is not actually about the bruise, according to Boston beer, founder, Jim cook beer sales are losing market share to wine and hard liquor. According to the beer institute, so savvy brewers like Boston beer are turning to alter. Unitive 's although sales of its flagship beverage, Boston lager, fell by double digits last year, apparently customers were pounding down. It's hard cider in spike seltzer. Now cook is thinking ahead trying to figure out not what next year's beverages should be. But what the next decades drinks should be. That's where dogfish head founder, Sam Kelly. Joni comes in. It looks like coke wanted Caledonia's well known creativity just as much as dogfish is successful sour beers. And as why for two reasons, actually, I because the seven thousand strong craft beer market is unlikely to get any less competitive second because big beer has been buying its way into the microbrews market since twenty eleven bud. Light maker Anheuser-Busch has been on a buying spree acquiring. At least ten brewers from coast to coast. Today, the king of beers is the country's largest craft brewer believe it or not for the owner. Her of Sam Adams that kind of competition calls for innovation and dogfish. Head's Cal Joni has a reputation for quirky creativity. He started dogfish years ago, making beer out of overripe cherries in a homemade still in his dorm room. He's out on a limb enough that a two thousand eight New Yorker profile of him featured, a photo of the entrepreneur, apparently naked sitting in a beer barrel. Plastered with mash, the picture suggests who knows exactly what he'll come up with next that out of the barrel. Thinking is just what Boston beers cook is making a bet on he wants called Cal Joni. Fearless as Boston beer faces competition from above Anheuser Busch. And from below bows. Crappier makers a little fearlessness could go a long way. From what we, this is business wars daily era in history. This much Cesca. Well, what about yours truly see if you're learning something every day listening to us, give us a rating in a review on apple podcasts and watch out for beer wars over on business? Thanks bunch. I'm David Brown. We'll see tomorrow. Business. Daily is brought to you by Dell. The clock is ticking on Dell small business celebration. Enjoy up to forty five percent off select computers with Intel core processors, plus a free external hard drive with select computer purchases before it's too late. Call eight seven seven by Dell to speak with a small business technology advisor today. That's eight seven seven. B. U. Y. D E L L for tech advice and one on one partnership, eight seven seven by Dow.
UN News
News in Brief 21 February 2019
"This is the news and brief from the United Nations. The use of a snake by Indonesian police during the interrogation of indigenous Papuan boy amounts to torture. You at appointed rights experts said on Thursday, an online video released earlier this month shows the handcuffed youngster arrested for allegedly stealing a mobile phone screaming in fear as officers pushed the snake's head towards his face. The case is just the latest in a widespread pattern of violence alleged arbitrary arrests and methods amounting to torture by the Indonesian police and military in Papa the rights experts insisted representatives of the Indonesian police have publicly acknowledged the instant and apologized for it. But the UN experts appealed for prompt and impartial investigations to be carried out. I think that such tactics are often used against indigenous Papuans and human rights defenders the development comes amid an ongoing military operation in Papua. Which became part of Indonesia in nineteen sixty nine and has seen an increasingly vocal pro independence movement. U N secretary General Antonio guitarist has called for the international process of decolonization to be brought to a successful conclusion as he addressed the special committee on the subject at union headquarters in New York on Thursday, mister Gutierrez reminded his audience that decolonization is one of the most significant chapters in the US history. Propelling the growth of the organization today's total of one hundred and ninety three countries. But he added there is still work to be done as seventeen. Territories around the world are waiting to attain itself. Government the U N G specifically mentioned the case of New Caledonia which 2018 held a referendum on independence from France. Who's corporation in the process? He said was commendable. Countries around the world have been celebrating international mother language day on February the twenty first, but for Ben goalies, it has a particular significance. The day was officially recognized by the general assembly in two thousand eight following lobbying by Bangladesh, but the origins stretch back to nineteen fifty two when Bangaladeshi was still a part of Pakistan Bengali students protested, a government older imposing or do as the sole national language and the widespread unrest that followed led to the Bengali language been granted official status for years later. Speaking to pulling a grip from your news. I'm Bassett Masud been moment. Pummit Representative of Bangladesh to the UN explained what his country is doing to ensure linguistic diversity worldwide in Bala dish. We have set up an international mother language center to research languages, which are vanishing and also out to protect them, promote them, preserve them. We should all strive to. Protect whatever you have from the past and languages is the most significant manifestation of any such culture identities on the basis of language than we have songs and lullabies and other cultural forms, and you can hear the full interview with embassador moment on our website, news dot U, N dot org. Kodo leadin U N news.
America Tonight with Kate Delaney
Trump task force proposes major Postal Service overhaul
"Is targeted at Amazon frequently criticized by. President Trump for what he claims is a sweetheart deal for the online retail giant to have their packages delivered by the US PS. Tom reghati? Fox News powerful magnitude seven point five earthquake has struck in the southern Pacific Ocean near New Caledonia. That's prompting authorities to warn of soon. Nami threats to nearby islands warning center says however, there is no Saddam threats to Hawaii
Purity Products
Pacific archipelago votes on independence from France
"To Germany. French president Emmanuel Macron says the majority of New Caledonians who voted on a referendum on independence today. Have chosen to remain part of France. Macron says quote, there is no other path amount of dialogue on the future of the South Pacific archipelago part of France and Saint team fifty three French prime minister will meet with officials in New Caledonia to discuss
On Being
US service member killed in apparent insider attack in Afghanistan
"Jewish communities across Canada held vigils rallies through the week to commemorate the victims for NPR news. I'm Dan carpenter in Toronto. And from Washington. You're listening to NPR news. Christian group concerned about the lack of civility in the nation's political discourse is handing out books to each member of congress, urging them not to deepen is her opponents NPR's Tom Johnson says group is concerned about what it caused the insanity and chaos and political rhetoric. The books are being hand delivered on Capitol Hill by a team from the public policy. Arm of the southern Baptist convention. Travis was how the group's vice president says the goal is to get members of congress to show some respect for each other one of the drivers of the broken this in our national conversation is a belief that people who we don't agree with actually have bad motives, and they're trying to destroy the country rather than accepting that we simply have different visions of the good life. The books have Christian point of view. One message. Christians don't have the option of hating their neighbor just because their neighbor is wrong at the voting booth. Tom altered NPR news Washington early results from today's. Independence referendum in the French South Pacific territory of New Caledonia suggest voters favor keeping ties with France. The AP says results from the French High Commissioner are in for two hundred two of the two hundred eighty four polling stations with a no vote leading voters turned out in large numbers today. Some polling stations are said to have remained open later than planned because of long lines. Italian officials say at least ten people have been killed on the island of Sicily by strong storms, bringing the death toll
Wow In the World
Fun Facts about Lightning