40 Burst results for "North Carolina"
Mark Levin
MMA Fighter Takes Down Knife-Wielding Attacker
"The video is in the article. The footage went viral several days later leading to Baez making an appearance on TMZ and explaining what happened before, during and after his altercation. The man was identified by police as Omar Marrero and charged with two colonies, according to CBS news. What he likely did not know was that Baez held a 5 2 -1 record as a professional mixed martial artist most of his bouts with fight time promotions. Baez also told TMZ that he holds a black belt in jiu -jitsu, wrestled in college, practiced and has kickboxing for 15 years. So generally, he's a very bad person to pick a fight with, to the one holding a knife. And as they point out, this isn't the first time someone has had a fight. He's a very bad person to pick including an attempted car thief against Kevin Holland, a great fighter, an attempted mugging of strawweight Palina Viana, an attempted car theft against Jordan Williams, a home invasion of light heavyweight Anthony Smith, a drunken swing at Hall Hall of of Famer Matt Serra, a nighttime break -in at ex -light heavyweight champ John Jones' house. Can you imagine? Probably the greatest MMA fighter of all time, certainly one of them, an attempted stabbing of featherweight Maquon Americani's brother in an attempted mugging of legend Renzo Gracie. Renzo Gracie, the Gracie family. family. Unbelievable. There's a reason you see the word attempted a lot a in lot their attempted, because they all got their asses kicked. I'll be back. Mark Levin on 77 WABC. And before by legal media. Attention Marines, military personnel, families and contractors who were stationed at Camp Lejeune. Were you present And at Camp Lejeune between August 1953 and December of 1987, you may be entitled to significant For nearly 34 years, those on the Marine Corps base Camp Lejeune were exposed to contaminated drinking water, resulting in devastating injuries, including several forms of cancer, adverse birth outcomes, Parkinson's disease and more. until Until now, North Carolina's procedural laws have prevented victims from getting the justice they deserve. But passage of the Camp Lejeune Justice Act of 2022 would allow you or a loved one to file a lawsuit seeking compensation for illnesses and injuries. Linked to the toxic water call today for your free consultation 800
Mark Levin
Fresh "North Carolina" from Mark Levin
"There's proof it's called the bible and there's proof it's called archaeology lots and lots of proof and the funny thing is the palestinians aren't in the bible and there's not a lot of archaeology backing zero this is Rashid Khalidi now why does it matter he's an ass elephant's glenn greenwald now as well he doesn't have much of a form anymore what's this all about well this is where Obama's ideology comes from I told you to do my research back in May 20 2011 12 and a half years ago national view online stanley kurtz our buddy he wrote a piece called israel and obama's radical past including Rashid Khalidi I'll cut to the chase the Los Angeles Times has long refused to release a videotape in its possession of a dinner attended by obama for a scholar and Palestinian activist Rashid Khalidi obama spoke warmly of his friendship for Khalidi at that event unfortunately the continuing mystery of that tape has obscured the rather remarkable article that the LA Times did publish about the dinner and about obama's broader views on the conflict between israel the palestinians and in light of the controversy of obama's remarks on israel's address on the middle east it's worth revisiting that 2008 article from the LA Times the extraordinary thing about allies of palestine see friend and obama quote unquote is that in it obama supporters say that in claiming to be pro -israel he's reviews from the public this is exactly what blinkin's doing that whole team whole that obama team and their media friends are doing it too having observed as personal associations is open political alliances as public statement is private remarks obama's palestinian allies fastly maintained that obama's private use far more pro -palestinian that he lets on having pieced together obama's history he says stanley curts i make much the same argument obama's broader political stance in book his radical in chief says obama's true views are far to the left what he lets on in public and by the way this administration's conduct right now vis -a -vis israel versus the terrorists is way way radical left much further on that they're letting know you about with mr moderate mr lunch bucket biden yet it's striking he writes to see palestinian activists making essentially the same point raise notice also that in this article rishi his family's ties to canyon indonesia inclined to be more sympathetic to the politicians that are sort of claim often gets ridiculed when conservatives make it the point of all all this is not that as president obama's going to make policy exactly as rasheed khalidi might rather the point is that obama stance is going to talk more heavily toward the palestinians in any other likely american president republican or democrat just as obama's palestinian allies argued in the l .a times peace and we will of course put this up on the mothership mark levinsho dot com this entire article in which curts links to the article that he's talking about and obama appointed this guy malley and deal biden comes in secretary of state blink and appoints his buddy malley to negotiate with the iranians malley's a marxist his father was a marxist think about it he's strongly pro -iranian the iranian regime he brings in some spies is with him malley's now under investigation his classified tickets been pulled the ministration biden is gone a hundred percent silent nobody knows what's going on after effect and what's going on the middle east now middle east was silent it was peaceful as a result of trump not so much silent but peaceful and now it's exploded i guess they'll blame that on uh... climate change i'll be right back mark lowden on seventy seven w abc everybody i'm cathie lee gifford and i've been around a long time everyone of us as we age realizes that things are changing in our bodies in the world around us times i don't like what's happening so what i do about it well the one thing we can do is pray right the thing other we can do is take better care of 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The Doug Collins Podcast
Georgia Forced to Redraw Legislative and Congressional Maps
"Georgia has just been told to redraw their maps, both their legislative maps on the state level and their congressional maps. It's going to be interesting to see how that goes. Um, I had a conversation with someone who was near the governor's office of in Georgia camp, who said, we weren't worried about it until the legislature figures it out. I said, I get that. Um, but you've got North Carolina. The reason I'm setting this up, it's a long setup, but you're bearing with me. Number one, folks, if you don't know, Chip was with a guy named, uh, Lynn Westman. Lynn Westman is a mentor of mine. He's a dear friend, just like he is to chip, uh, served in Congress. I'll tell people this all the time. If Lynn had not went to Congress, Lynn Westman would still be the speaker of the house in Georgia, if not governor. Um, I just believe he would have been and stayed there, but he, but he has an old, you know, contractor, a good old boy mentality. That's just the way he is. But he got in, y 'all got into redistricting heavy, uh, from really his time before you even more started working with him in the early two thousands, all the way to when you were working with him in 2009, 2010, working on the previous maps. This matters. And I'm afraid Republicans chip, and I love to get your input here. I'm afraid Republicans got complacent after the last round and we didn't take this round of redistricting as seriously across the country as say we did back in 2010. Yeah. I mean, it's a word of start, right? I mean, there's so much to unpack there. I mean, it, uh, um, I, I will say this, that, you know, uh, um, section five of the voting rights act, which the Supreme court rightly, you know, kicked out as unconstitutional a lot later than they should have candidly. I mean, a lot of people don't know, but what section five mandated was that if you were under, if you were a section five state or jurisdiction, which Georgia was many of the States in the South were, you had to submit your maps to the justice department for pre -clearance. It was blatantly unconstitutional because, uh, for a variety of reasons that I'm back to what you said about, I'm not a constitutional scholar, but what I do understand is, you know, you, you can't have one set of laws for one people in another state. You can't have another set of laws for another people. So the formula that decided pre -clearance, uh, up until like what, five years ago, maybe six years ago, you know, maybe, you know, was, uh, was the 1968, 1972 presidential election. I mean, are you kidding me? So, you know, now there's this whole cottage industry that the Democrats have. That's much more of a, it's much bigger of a cottage industry that, you know, they raised tens of millions of dollars, if not hundreds of millions of dollars to go after only States that have Republican drawn maps. It's for blame. It's not so they can equal the playing field for minorities to compete. Do not kid yourselves. The reason behind this is to maximize Democrat drawn gist districts. That is political. That is not, that is not leveling the playing field for a particular minority. Um, it's only going after Republican State drawn maps and look, what these judges have done is they move the goalposts every time they make a decision. And I'll say this, and I know I'm going to get criticized for saying it, but federal judges, especially Trump appointed federal judges, you know, in some ways, you know, they're on the federal bench now, and that's a lifetime appointment. Right. You know, they are petrified at being at, at making a ruling at which they could be labeled by the other side as racist.
Simply Bitcoin
Fresh update on "north carolina" discussed on Simply Bitcoin
"Wait, it's made out of quartz. So what, what's the core? No, it's made, it's made out of, it's, uh, it's, it's made for wine. Like to keep it cold. But, um, but now I just use it as a water bottle. Okay. Health, health as well. Okay. Nanya, what's your meme review score for today? Well, I, I don't like, the only thing that I have here is my mug. Perfect. Perfect. Hey, you're matching, you're matching your mug. Everything in my life is matching everything. My car, my clothes, my, my furniture. Like I love this. I'm, I'm blue and white. So cheers. I love that. That is, that is beautiful. So aesthetically pleasing, honestly. Perfect score. Perfect score. Okay guys, before I get to your meme scores, wine would yell at me if I didn't plug the merge guys, help support us. Uh, we appreciate all the support. You guys can watch this show for free. It will always stay free, but if you love what we're doing, scan the QR code, get yourself a shirt, get yourself a hoodie. I have the hats in the work. Matthew, before you start to troll me, we are in contact with a Bitcoin artist to make a special simply Bitcoin shirt for you. Sophie's in the works of getting you guys some women cuts. So they're more flattering. Uh, you guys told me you want your own coffee mug. So I'll make sure I get all this going for you guys. This has just been a proof of concept. Scan the QR code. It helps us out a bunch. We really appreciate all the support. Of course, of course, of course, stack sets first and then stack simply Bitcoin merge second. Okay guys. So here we go. There are some scores that hit the chat. So let me scroll up real quick and let's pull these up. Okay. First score is by the P man band. He goes, meme score, three micheladas and foremost golf shots on a beach while not being poor. Yes, this is the way. Next one is by Roman, AKA stack set show. And he goes score. You don't know who invented memes, but you still use them. Okay. Next meme is by our meme review score is by Elaine Lowell. And she goes, score ladies of Bitcoin, Sophie and Lenya SP bring more women into Bitcoin, which means more men and children embrace financial freedom winning. Uh, okay. Rave elevator. I saw the memes meeting, max Kaiser and Stacy in Charlotte, North Carolina last Sunday. Love it. Okay. Hammer saw. I give these memes American revolution part two. Love it. Phillip Rizzo. I give the meme 21 million fired up Nanyas to spread the Bitcoin message. Let's go. Uh, okay. Let's see if we got any on rumble. No. Okay. All right. Uh, we didn't run out of meme scores. The buzzer hit. Oh my God. Okay. Are you don't have to answer this, but son of Satoshi AK and the best says means car is the guest simply single question Mark. Oh man. Geez. Thirsty in the chat buzzer for you buzzer for you. All right guys. Well, self first and foremost, appreciate you filling in. I guess, uh, you're going to be filling in more often because people like the accent. So thank you for showing up. Uh, so we will see you on the YouTube timelines guys. Make sure you are checking in on Sophie shorts and I will be helping her make some shorts soon. So you already know the deal. We are giving you guys content and all of its forms. Sophie appreciate it. Have a good rest of your day. Have a good one guys. Thanks for tuning in. See ya. Thank you. Let's go. Okay. Nanya really appreciate it. We'll have to schedule you to come on again. Uh, in the meantime, where can people find you? Are you on Twitter? Are you on social medias or well, they just have to wait for the next simply Bitcoin. Yeah, they just have to, I am, I'm everywhere, but I just kind of do my own thing and I don't want to mix things together. So I'm just going to stay anonymous everywhere. All right. We definitely, I'm going to be on your show. Appreciate it. All right. Well, really appreciate you coming on today. I think that was a powerful message and hopefully we can do our part to orange pill more and more people. So spread the good word. Really appreciate it and have a good rest of your day. Thanks for having me. No worries. All right, guys, you already know the deal, like subscribe, share, spread the Bitcoin signal, not just simply Bitcoin, all Bitcoin signal. Maybe, maybe today's culture will help your family become Bitcoiners. Who knows? Anyways, we'll be back tomorrow for our regular show. Nico will be back. He's been at the Bitcoin mining conference or one of the big mining future conference, I think it was called and we'll be back for our normal show guys. Really appreciate it. We'll see you guys on the timeline. We'll see you tomorrow on YouTube, but of course don't sleep on our channel. We're dropping all kinds of content. We really appreciate you guys. And until next time, get your mind right, get your body right, get your finances right. This is the way, this is how we win. Peace out.
Bitcoin Audible
A highlight from Read_775 - The Fed Threatens to Sue Bitcoin Magazine
"We have no interest in causing confusion, mistakes or deception. That sounds more like a job for those responsible for telling the market they wouldn't raise rates after a massive monetary expansion and then went on to raise them faster than at any time in US financial history. The best in Bitcoin made audible. I am Guy Swan and this is Bitcoin Audible. What is up guys, welcome back to Bitcoin Audible. I am Guy Swan, the guy who has read more about Bitcoin than anybody else you know. And I want to go ahead and preface this episode with a legal disclaimer. All of the comments and ranting henceforth are the sole opinion of Guy Swan and Guy Swan only. Guy Swan is not affiliated with Bitcoin Magazine and does not represent Bitcoin Magazine or BTC Media in any capacity. The claims presented herein are entirely my own thoroughly informed opinions. With that out of the way, apparently the individuals running the Federal Reserve are in fact retarded. They have threatened to sue Bitcoin Magazine for t -shirts and hats that poke fun at the FedNow service that apparently just recently launched which I wasn't even aware of. And I genuinely think this course of action just shows how utterly blind the people in the Fed really are. You know, I increasingly do not think they have any sort of a master plan. There's no 4D or 3D chess going on. Hell, there might not even be 2D chess being played here. I think they just live in a bubble of people who think that they are the most important and powerful people and that everybody just has to appease them and just wants to get on their good side because if they have any ghost of a hint of what's about to happen, they could literally make billions, hundreds of billions of dollars because of how absurd the very notion of the Federal Reserve as a price control on money and interest is. I think they're just in that bubble and they think they're so important and that everybody thinks of them as wonderful and powerful and important and they don't have the slightest clue what is happening in the real world. I mean, how could they be so clueless as to who Bitcoiners even are? Did they really think they were going to get an apology? So I think it was Walker I saw the first post about this and so I immediately stopped and just read the whole thing. It's pretty short, but it's the Bitcoin Magazine official response, the editor's response and like a public note that was published on this issue. And it's really entertaining so I thought this was a great way to close out the week and I hope you guys enjoy it. This episode is brought to you by Nodeless, the easiest way to set up to receive Bitcoin for your products, for donations, for your online store, whatever it is. If you want to receive Bitcoin in payment and you would rather not have KYC, you would rather not have to subscribe to something, you just want to make a non -KYC account, punch in your Bitcoin address and then just have it work. And anything that you get through the service just goes straight to your Bitcoin address. Well great, all you have to do is check out BitcoinAudible .com slash Nodeless. And speaking of an address, you're going to want to get that off your cold card so that you know you actually have it safe. The cold card MK4 is a phenomenal hardware wallet. It's so great to use with your phone because you can activate NFC so you can literally just tap to send. And it keeps your keys totally separate from the device so that you never have to worry about having your coins on a mobile wallet because they aren't. They are securely on your cold card and stashed away offline. Your keys never touch the internet. That's what makes it a perfect pairing with Nodeless. And that's also where you're going to withdraw your FoldSats from. When you have your debit card, it gets you Sats back on everything. Got some DoorDash earlier today, I think I got 3 .5 % back. Withdraw it to your cold card, you've got Sats coming in from every direction. Oh, by the way, you can actually buy Bitcoin now in the app again in every state. Or at least I know in North Carolina it's available again because I got the announcement today. Again, that is no fees and you can buy it directly in your Fold app with your debit card. Links to all of the stuff will be right in the show notes. Alright, with that, let's get into today's read. And it's titled The Federal Reserve Threatens to Sue Bitcoin Magazine By Mark Goodwin The U .S. Federal Reserve is taking legal action against Bitcoin Magazine in an attempt to silence criticism of its recently launched FedNow interbank clearing and settlement service. In a letter sent to the publication by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, the Central Bank of the United States is claiming that Bitcoin Magazine merchandise that parodies its services are not protected speech, but rather an unauthorized infringement of its image and trademarks. The dispute centers around the use of the FedNow service image and trademark in a line of merchandise sold by Bitcoin Magazine that seeks to criticize the surveillance capabilities of the FedNow system and how it threatens American civil liberties. The Federal Reserve alleges that Bitcoin Magazine used the trademark without permission to mislead readers into believing a connection exists between the publication and the central bank.
Evening News with Art Sanders
Fresh update on "north carolina" discussed on Evening News with Art Sanders
"Kings despite 40 from De 'Aaron Fox, Kawhi Leonard and James Harden combined for L .A. and the Grizzlies got by the Jazz. It's the first home win for Memphis in nine tries this season. basketball College more upset than the SEC challenge. Arkansas took down number seven Duke number 10 Tennessee lost at number 17 North Carolina and 14th ranked Texas A &M was upset at Virginia. In Philadelphia's Big Five number Classic 18 Villanova got smacked by St. Joe's. The Wildcats only have two losses this year both to in -town rivals. Hockey wins for the Rangers, Canadians and Capitals. NFL Week 13 begins tonight with the Seahawks at the Cowboys. 11 weeks ago Aaron Rodgers had surgery on his torn Achilles. Yesterday he was practicing with the Jets who now have three weeks to decide if he can return from injured reserve. Rodgers turns 40 on Saturday. Looking at 38 younger quarterbacks, -year -old Joe Flacco could be the starter for the Browns Sunday against the Rams if Dorian Thompson Robinson does not the clear concussion protocol a former Super Bowl MVP has been elevated to QB 2 by Cleveland. That's Thursday Sports. Thank you. There's Robert Workman with Sports at 7 till. Swift Taylor sets a new milestone and pro sports athlete alleged to have
podcast – Lawyers, Guns & Money
A highlight from LGM Podcast: Citizens of a Stolen Land
"In the course of an entire graduate training, I was introduced to maybe two or three books in Native American history, and I studied the 19th century United States. That's stunning. This is the Lawyers, Guns, and Money podcast. Hello, and welcome to the Lawyers, Guns, and Money podcast. This is Eric Loomis, and today we're very, happy to have Stephen Kantrovitz with us. He is a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin, and he's the author of three main books, all of which I think are fantastic, and which all of you should read, that have kind of defined a pretty lengthy career now in mid to late 19th century American history. The first was Ben Tillman and the Reconstruction of White Supremacy that came out in 2000, and if you thought Ben Tillman was a terrible person before, you will find out even more about that. And then there was More Than Freedom, Fighting for Black Citizenship in a White Republic, 1829 to 1899, which I just really love. But we're talking about his latest book, which came out earlier this year, Citizens of Stolen Land, a Ho -Chunk History of the 19th Century United States. It's published by the University of North Carolina Press, and I very strongly encourage all of you to buy it. Steve, thanks for joining us today. It's great to be here. Would you talk about the book, give our readers kind of an overview of how you came to this topic, and what you, in a minute or two, would like a reader to take from this? Sure. This book concerns the struggles of the Ho -Chunk people, whose homeland encompasses a lot of what's today Wisconsin and a lot more, and their encounter with the United States, its settlers, its government, its armies, mainly in the mid -19th century. And it's a story, in some ways, a familiar story of conflict and dispossession and exile and banishment. But it's also a story of persistence, endurance, return, and their continued residence on their ancestral homeland, despite the fact that they had no treaty claim or other claim to that land after 1837. So it's a pretty remarkable story of a people's determination to remain in a place. It's also a story about the implications of that history for the way we think about and understand American citizenship. So it's kind of a through -the -looking -glass story for people who are not well versed in Native American history, but who think they know something about American citizenship, because Native citizenship, as imagined by the federal government, is primarily a means of detribalization and land -taking. But in this instance, the Ho -Chunk are able to leverage a combination of their own desire to remain in Wisconsin, their ability to understand the incoherence at the core of the federal project of civilization, and the very hazy language around their status under the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, and put those things together and completely thwart the final act of the federal government in the 1870s in its final attempt to remove them from Wisconsin and banish them to Nebraska. So it's a story that kind of upends a conventional narrative of citizenship, especially for readers who think they understand the Civil War era history of that pretty well.
The Athletes Podcast
Fresh update on "north carolina" discussed on The Athletes Podcast
"And I was so fired up and I was ready for this conversation. I was trying to take down as many notes. And then when you were in Australia, I'm like, what the heck's going on? How did we switch places here? But that's also because you were 2023 NCSA coach of the year as well, correct? And well-deserved recognition for the years that you've put in. I would love for you to start. What was your, I said at the beginning we wouldn't do gacha questions, but I feel like your nickname at some point was, was it Mama? Big Mama. Big Mama, there we go, okay. So I want Big Mama to share her story from the beginning in athletics, in coaching, kind of how you've gotten to be where you are. Sure, so I went to University of North Carolina, Wilmington, I was a thrower through shot, disc and hammer, right? And within, I really kind of came out as my own personality and person, which happens like that's a foundational age, right? Of all these things coming together and how are you and how are you presenting? And everyone on my track team was like, man, you always taking care of everybody. Like you're like everybody's mama. And they're like, you're Big Mama. And where that came from was a place of like, our team culture was one of everyone has a role because it's an individual sport. My personal culture is even though we're an individual sport we're still a team. And I think that's what was felt of how I take care of it is I wanted to know who was gonna, how they were doing in long jump. I wanted to know the four by one results and I wanted to drive the team together even though we're all training for something slightly different. There's something very special about winning a championship together as a group. That's not common in individual sports to come across. Obviously that's why you've had success as a coach. Did you notice when you were in Australia that people were just in better shape, like fit? Yeah, I think anywhere you live along the coast where it's like mild temperatures, most of the year affords an opportunity where people wanna get outside. But I remember calling my partner and I was like, oh, it's kinda like in Wilmington. In Wilmington, you better be outside doing something. And one thing I did, I have an Aussie coworker and I was like, I thought it was just you but now I realize, let me sum up and make this assumption that Aussies like to just make up games. And I was like, I have books on pedagogy and games and how to gamify things. And I met up with Tim Gabbott when I was there and he was talking about a race he does with his son for a 5K trophy. And I was like, no, like that's just, no, like that's not what I'm doing, but I totally get it. And I think that the part of Australia that's like get outside is where you live for sure. But it's definitely ingrained into the culture there. Did you, I don't know for sure. Did in 2000 with Sydney, did Australians perform really well because I know in Canada for 2010, Vancouver, there was a ton of money put in for Own the Podium I believe that was the program. And they didn't, they saw results but they saw lagging results afterwards. So their track swimming in 2000, I think that's when Ian Thorpe was around and Brad Hawk, I hope you watch this and you can educate. But I remember they called him like the torpedo, right? And so there was this like huge challenge in the men's I think 100 freestyle or the 50 free, and I'm not a swimmer so forgive me swimming community.
The Garden Question
A highlight from 133 Unveiling the Art and Science of Plant Breeding - David Roberts
"The Garden Question is a podcast for people that love designing, building, and growing smarter gardens that work. Listen in as we talk with successful garden designers, builders, and growers, discovering their stories along with how they think, work, and grow. This is your next step in creating a beautiful, year -round, environmentally -connected, low -maintenance, and healthy, thriving outdoor space. It doesn't matter if you're a beginner or an expert, there will always be something inspiring when you listen to The Garden Question podcast. Hello, I'm your host, Craig McManus. Welcome to another exciting episode of The Garden Question podcast. Today we're venturing to the captivating realm of plant breeding, a topic that's as fascinating as it is innovative. We all cherish the joy of designing our own gardens, but have you ever dreamt of crafting your very own plants, tailored specifically for your garden? Well buckle up, because we're about to dive into this extraordinary world with an expert who's mastered the art of plant breeding. In this episode, I'm thrilled to introduce you to David Roberts, a trailblazer in the horticultural universe. David's journey is nothing short of inspiring. Armed with a master's degree in horticultural science from the prestigious North Carolina State University, he embarked on a path that led him to a profound passion for ornamental plant breeding. During his academic pursuits, he'd worked closely with esteemed mentors Dr. Dennis Werner and Dr. Tom Rainey, honing his skills and nurturing his love for the art and science of plant breeding. Here's where the story takes an exciting turn. Bailey Nurseries recognized David's exceptional talent and enthusiasm, welcoming him into their family in 2015. Since then, he's been the driving force behind Bailey Innovations, serving as the general manager and head plant breeder. Currently, as the director of plant breeding for Bailey Innovations, David oversees the breeding directions and orchestrates plant trials right from their nursery in Winterville, Georgia. Join us as we unravel the secrets behind the artistry of plant breeding, exploring David's experiences, insights, and the magic that happens at Bailey Innovations. Prepare to be inspired, because today, you're in for a treat. Get ready to witness the bloom of creativity right here in episode 133, Unbiting the Art and Science of Plant Breeding, with David Roberts. David, what is the goal of a plant breeder? At heart, most plant breeders want to create something new and innovative, whether that is aesthetically innovative or performance -based. No plant breeder sets out wanting to create a plant that looks exactly like a plant that's already out there.
News, Traffic and Weather
Fresh "North Carolina" from News, Traffic and Weather
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Thinking Crypto News & Interviews
A highlight from BIG RIPPLE XRP UPHOLD PARTNERSHIP! CRYPTO TWILIGHT ZONE WITH BLACKROCK BITCOIN ETF & HOUSE SPEAKER
"Welcome to the Thinking Crypto Podcast, your home for cryptocurrency news and interviews. If you are new here please hit that subscribe button as well as the thumbs up button and leave a comment below. If you're listening on a podcast platform such as Spotify, Apple or Google please leave a 5 star rating and review, it supports the podcast and it doesn't cost you anything. Well folks I want to start off by talking about the price of Bitcoin. After a couple days of parabolic moves by Bitcoin, the price is cooling down right now, the pump is cooling down, which makes sense right? Bitcoin right now at the time of recording is at $33 ,839, Ethereum is at $1 ,781, BNB at $225, XRP at 55 cents, Solana at 30 bucks, Cardano at near 28 cents. So Bitcoin we're waiting for the next move up. Right now Bitcoin is going to cool down, build some support levels before it keeps going higher. Right now it's an overbought zone, the RSI is way overextended. So you expect a cool down here, build some support levels and this is healthy, right? This is market cycles playing out. You can't have a straight lineup that's not sustainable. In fact, having a straight lineup means it's more likely we're going to dump sooner. But if you have strength being built after pumps, right, and you're building the support levels, then breaking through resistance, you are building a stronger foundation for higher prices. So it's important to know these principles so you know how to look at the charts and how to read the price movements and know how to form your strategy with your profit taking and much more or buying the dips and so forth. So right now the market's going to wait to see what Bitcoin is going to do next. Maybe we see a pump again in the next two to three days or maybe in another week, right? We just don't know. But my thoughts are I think sooner than later, we're going to start to see a move upwards as we build support levels here. Now, folks, it was like the Twilight Zone today because there was news of the Bitcoin Spot ETF or Bitcoin Trust IBTC being listed on the DTECC's website, but then it was removed and then some are saying it has been there since August. So it's been ridiculous. People are over speculating trying to find any type of breadcrumb as it relates to the BlackRock Bitcoin ETF. At this point, I'm kind of tired of hearing this and I just want to just look Bitcoin keep pumping. When the ETFs get approved, they get approved. I honestly don't care because I'm not going to be buying the ETF. I'm already positioned to take profits on Bitcoin and all coins because I hold the assets directly. But some people are over speculating sharing this and that and much more. It is so annoying. So just heads up, you know, people are reporting, oh, it's relisted, oh, it was removed. And it's like, oh, Jesus Christ, please stop. There's so much speculation and noise around this, but just heads up on that, guys. At this point, I don't care. But there was also news that Congressman Tom Emmer, who is, of course, the majority whip, you know, the GOP majority whip, he secured a GOP nomination to become the next speaker of the House. And of course, that's very bullish because he's pro crypto. We know he's been calling on Gary Gensler. He famously said on a digital online meeting when everybody was in lockdown that XRP is not a security. So we know where he stands. And unfortunately, he dropped out of the House speaker race because he was not receiving enough votes. And that in itself, you know, from a macro perspective, really sucks because the House got the GOP folks got to get their act together. I mean, this is just so messed up, man. Like pick a speaker of the House. Tom Emmer would have been a great candidate. But once again, a crazy day like the Twilight Zone, just a lot of back and forth and a lot of craziness. In fact, the House Financial Services Committee postponed their two hearings they had set for this week, one with regarding the SEC, the other about digital assets and much more. So it's just a mess right now. They got to figure out the speaker of the House stuff. Now, folks, the big news of the day, though, was Ripple partnering with crypto exchange Uphold. And as you all know, Uphold is a sponsor of this podcast. I've been using Uphold since twenty eighteen. You all know that even during the SEC lawsuit against Ripple, they never delisted XRP. They had the balls and and they had the legal write up to continue with their mission statement. So much respect to them. And that's why I've been using them. That's why I chose them as a sponsor. They're a great platform. They don't lend out crypto from from their users. And they have audits and much more. Well, they partnered with Ripple. Here's the headline. Ripple forges new partnership with Uphold to enhance underlying crypto liquidity infrastructure. The partnership will see Uphold provide Ripple with enhanced crypto liquidity capabilities to underpin and enhance its cross -border payments infrastructure. As you can imagine, on demand liquidity is going to be here, possibly XRP if you're talking about cross -border payments and much more. Very bullish. And it's great to see these two companies who have been very closely related due to XRP together. working And I think Uphold is getting the business here because of the stance they took during that lawsuit. So really great news. Two companies that obviously are pretty great. And I'll try to get an interview with the CEO of Uphold to get more details on this partnership or someone from Ripple's team. And we can learn more about how they're going to be working together. Now today, Paul Grewal, chief legal officer at Coinbase, tweeted out the SEC's opposition to our motion for judgment claims, roving authority over all investments with security and contract in the statutes, performing no limiting function at all. As our reply shows, that's never the law and it's not the law now. By arguing that any purchase which the buyer hopes for an increase in value constitutes an investment contract and therefore a security, the SEC is attempting a radical expansion of its own authority. Only Congress can do that as the major questions doctrine makes clear. The SEC is completely off base here. So if I go buy a baseball card from you guys, because I think it's going to go up in value, that's a security. Or I go buy a Pokemon card from you, what if I buy a digital Pokemon card, right? Or a digital baseball card, that's a security, that's ridiculous, right? It's utterly ridiculous. And the SEC, they need to be put into check here. Congress needs to act, but I'm glad Coinbase is fighting back. And as I said many times, I hope they mop the floor with that scumbag regulator, Gary Gensler. Now, we got some good news coming out here that U .S. senators set in motion bipartisan proof of reserves bill. This is great, folks. As I've been saying, we need guardrails. We need exchanges to be audited. We need them to show the proof of reserves. They're not lending out or gambling their clients' funds, right? Just like I highlighted with Uphold, they never lend out any of their customers' assets and they do audits. This is needed. Centralized exchanges, obviously serve a purpose, right? We want to get to a more decentralized future, but we need the centralized exchanges right now. They need to up their standards. We can't have the crazy bullshit crap that came out of FTX and Celsius. That cannot happen again. Alex Mashinsky and Sam Beck and Freeh need to be put into jail. Maybe they share our jail cell together, but this is great, folks. We need this accountability in this guardrail. So two U .S. senators from opposite sides of the aisle have introduced a bill that they say will establish safeguards against another FTX type collapse. The proof of reserves of other funds act is the brainchild of Senator Thom Tillis and John Hickenlooper. So Thom Tillis is a Republican out of North Carolina. John Hickenlooper is a Democrat out of Colorado who shared a draft of the legislation on Friday. The legislation intends to guard against unethical commingling of customer funds and require monthly proof of reserves report from a neutral third party auditing firm. Folks, I don't care what side of the aisle you're on, I don't care if you've been in crypto forever or you just joined, we can all agree we need this, right? All of these platforms need to be audited. They need to be transparent and show it to their customers. We're audited. Here are your funds. We're not doing anything shady. That needs to happen, folks. And that's going to help take this market to the next level because we can't have another FTX in Celsius and all these other things, folks, it can't happen, right? Or Voyager as well. It's ridiculous what took place last year, but look, you live and you learn and we got to move forward. Now, speaking of scams, Ethereum co -founder Joseph Lubin robbed his earliest employees of value of stock awards that drew them to his blockchain firm, ex -workers allege. So the scandalous news about Joe Lubin continue to come out and things he's done and stolen and lied about. And we know the whole Bill Hinman Ethereum backroom deal, even though I don't put as much on him and Vitalik on Ethereum, folks, I put it more on the SEC because they opened that door to be bribed and all that stuff and to have conflicts of interest. But still, Joe Lubin is a shady dude and I think he needs to be exposed. And we're seeing mainstream media is covering this news. So we'll see what happens. It's a lawsuit that seeks to force Lubin to restore the value to the employees. There've been other accusations over the years as well. So we'll see where this goes. All right, folks, that's the news. Let me know what you think. Leave your thoughts and comments below. Hit the thumbs up button, hit the five star rating on the podcast platforms, and I'll talk to you all later.
Game of Crimes
A highlight from 120: Part 2: Tim Cardwell is a Top Cop for Drug Interdiction but Nearly Loses His Life
"Let's kind of pull on that dope thread a little bit, because you get onto the, you survive the academy, obviously. So you graduate, you get out, you start working. As you're working, we want to talk about now what leads you into doing drug interdiction. So obviously, when you start off, you're with a field training officer, you go through your training phase, then you get out on your own. What kind of things were you doing initially when you were out on your own? How does North Carolina do it? I mean, you train for a while, then you're out. And standard -like what? Traffic enforcement, work accidents? Yes. Pretty much, is that what you were doing? Change tires, go get gasoline. I warned you, Murph. Don't go there. One of these days, we're going to be driving, there's going to be Murph on the side of the road. You go, hey, can you help me? I go, no. Hey, Steve and I have had many of these constant back and forths on this exact thing. But yeah, so when I graduated the academy, it was 20 weeks, reported to my first duty station and did have a field training officer actually. What was that at? It was in Asheboro, North Carolina, Randolph County, which is on the south side of Greensboro. It was about an hour and 15 minutes from where I grew up, but it was still within the same troop, which was most state agencies have that similar structure where you have a troop and then you have districts within that troop. So that was my first duty station and I had a primary and a secondary training officer and went through, I'm thinking it was at the time, maybe six or eight weeks field training. And my primary field training officer, his name was Wayne Brumley, just a jewel of a man, wonderful training guy. And my secondary, his name was Tony Miller, who later he rose to the rank of major within the organization. He was a young guy who was been on about five or six years when I came on. So I had a good mixture of, you know, youthfulness as well as very veteran experience. And the shift I was on, it was similar type makeup. And so going into the field training officer, you know, having some of that law enforcement background, I had become pretty good at catching impaired drivers at the police department. And so it was a natural... Wait a minute, all the impaired drivers were at the police department? When I worked at the police department, I should say, I apologize. But it was just something I thought, you know, this is where I want to go. And so, and my training officer, he was one of the leading impaired driver troopers in the district and he really focused and was successful with that. He taught me a lot, but, you know, in the beginning, doing the traditional trooper type efforts, that's what my goal was. I really enjoyed it. It's what I wanted to do. And, you know, there's some funny stories in there, but one in particular that my training officer shared at my retirement luncheon and he would share with you today was, this was just kind of an internal trooper agency thing. I don't know if you did this, Morgan, or not, but when you would encounter in the old days, somebody whose license were suspended roadside or whatever, you would take their license there on the spot and you would put it over your driver's side window along the headliner there. Just slide it in there or you'd keep it over your sun visor. And my training officer had tons of those and it was just always something I remember Roger Smith having. So it was one of those little symbolic visuals that I thought, I want that. So I kind of set out on a mission, you know, to see how many licenses I could collect roadside in. So I made a comment to my training officer at the time and he said, you know, there are more trouble than they're worth. You have to keep up with them. And I said, well, that's what I want to do. So he handed me a handful before I got out of training and said, here you go, maybe this will help you feel like a real trooper. And so it was just one of those little symbolic things that I connected with. But in that, you know, his nickname was Brutal Brumley. He was a former military guy, about six foot, six one, thin guy, was very physically fit, marathon runner, still runs today and he's mid to late seventies. developed But he that nickname because of, you know, some roadside encounters, obviously through the courts. And I saw it in action during training. We stopped a gentleman for speeding one day late evening and the gentleman didn't initially want to cooperate. And this was when he had turned it over to me and he was just watching from a distance and, you know, trying to find my way through. This guy wasn't the most cooperative after a couple of requests. So next thing I know, my training officer commences to removing the gentleman from the car and not in how the gentleman wanted to cooperate. And this guy was twice our size. And so I saw firsthand in action, you know, how he earned his nickname. But he was very fair. And anyway, when we got the gentleman under control and took him to jail, he had a long conversation with me about taking control. He said, you cannot let anybody else get the upper hand on you out here. It's because of survivability. So it was a valuable lesson taught at the time. But, you know, I've seen him encounter so many situations where he showed a lot of compassion through accident investigations, as well as roadside stops for different violations. And so he was well -rounded and gave me a good lesson. And but at the time, interdiction was not even in the culture of the Highway Patrol, wasn't even thought about. It was just traditional trooper work. And the county that I went to had eight miles of interstate. But where we worked was non -interstate. And so that leads me into once he cut me loose, passed all my training, I started doing traditional trooper work. And at the time when I joined the patrol, I kind of have to go back here. There we patrol the troopers that have, you know, gotten killed in action. They kind of came in clusters, two and three at a time. And just before I joined patrol, we'd had three members that were killed roadside. And two of those were on interstate highway. And where I grew up, we didn't have interstate highway. So I didn't have any familiarity to it. And so I was like, you know, I don't want nothing to do with that. I just want to be a traditional trooper. But I was very proactive. I was finding a lot of stuff, roadside. And, you know, when I would make an arrest for driving one paired, I took the time to go up and search the car. And if I found anything else, I was making charges. And so I kind of developed the desire to do that. And then in our patrol office one day, my secondary training officer, the gentleman I mentioned to you earlier who had been on last time, he had attended our first interdiction training course, which was taught internally. And I remember him talking about it. And for some reason, it just connected, you know, I connected with it, the stories he was telling, the lessons that they were talking about. And when our agency started the interdiction effort, it was in partnership with DEA. And they had started the experiment on Interstate 95 down in Fayetteville. And the troopers that were working it down there had had a lot of success. They were kind of the first generation interdiction troopers. This is, you know, the mid and late 80s. And so a couple of gentlemen by the name of Chris Dew, who had a first K -9, and Terry Isaacs, who was really the one who was making a lot of seizures at the time, they taught that course. So anyway, he comes back to our district and is talking some about it, and it just captured me. And he had a bulletin that they had given him in that school, and it was an epic bulletin. It was a teletype that would list, you know, seizures from throughout the country of seizures that made the threshold. And so I started reading it. And for whatever reason, it just connected with me. And that's how I began, you know, pursuing the interdiction efforts. Oh, I remember reading those teletypes, too. You know, those were very interesting. You get the law enforcement officers killed summary and then the teletypes. But you mentioned something, too, I want to ask you about. You said that they traditionally didn't work interstate. You know, is that just because of like you're talking about the danger or was it because C is kind of the opposite, a lot of troops where I was at. We had a lot of Tulane, in fact, all of my stuff was Tulane, and you would have killed to be up on the interstate where you thought all the action was. Why did they keep you away from the interstate or why did you stay away from the interstate just because of part of the danger factor or something else? Well, I think it was a combination of reasons. Again, going back to where I said I grew up, non -interstate, a lot of secondary roads. That's just what I was familiar with. And, you know, those folks that had been like Roger Smith and a couple of his workmates, that's where they worked and built their reputation. And so, you know, trying to follow that lead, I think that's why I did that. And my training officer, he worked some interstate, but he wasn't in the interdiction area. He was just, you know, regular trooper enforcement. But that's the way he operated was secondary roads. You know, in that day, you were heavy on looking for impaired drivers. Then, you know, looking for the under the influence drivers, especially on Friday and Saturday nights on evening shift, it was a lot of priority placed on that. And so just trying to fall in line and follow their lead, I think is why I did that. And, you know, but what I quickly learned was what the interstate did bring you was if you were low for the week as far as, you know, number of citations or activity that you had to turn in at the end of the week for the supervisor to see, you know, you could go out there and with high volume traffic, you could quickly pick up on some of your total numbers for the week. And wait a minute, did the North Carolina Highway Patrol have a quota? No, we did not have a quota, but I will say the supervisors did monitor your number of contacts per hour of preventive patrol. That's how it was worded. And you had better be in that district average of what everybody else had. So, you know. I had somebody asked me that one time, do you guys have a quota? Said, no, sir, I can ride as many as I want. How many would you like today? Good response. Yeah, so that, you know, that was kind of my introduction. And then, you know, with my training officer, my secondary training officer introduced me to that. It just kind of took. And so I started going out there and trying it and having little success. Really didn't know what I was doing, but it was just a process of learning from there. And, you know, I was a very proactive trooper. I, you know, did a lot of high production. Got unmarked a car at a young age, young in my career. And anyway, the next time the next class came open internally, my then district first sergeant asked me if I would be interested in going. I said, yeah. And I remember sitting through that class with those troopers teaching it, and it just captivated me. That's, I mean, that's the simplest way. You know, they were given some of their case studies talking about, you know, what their findings were and some of the follow -up results. I thought, that's what I really want to try. And so I came back and started trying to apply. So you started doing this. So what was your first, what was your first big seizure? What's the one that cracked the, because, you know, you have to go, we started it. I was part of a four -person team, four -man team at that time. We started our interdiction unit. And so when you start off, you don't really like say, know what you're doing. You get a few things here and there. We were working 54, which if you remember, the Pipeline Operation report out of Epic, Highway 54 that came up out of Texas and Oklahoma and through Kansas, that was a major pipeline. They were making lots of arrests. So we started working that area. You know, we were stopping everything in sight, you know, trying to look for stuff. But you always kind of start off small. What was that watershed event for you? What was that thing that kind of cracked it open that once you get that first one, it's like, I got this figured out. Well, so this was in 1988. Again, it wasn't the culture of the Highway Patrol. It was just kind of getting started. And so there really wasn't a lot of information to pull from or, you know, a lot of guys saying, hey, let's go out and work this road and look for this. It was just kind of, you know, an individual effort, so to speak. And at that same time, one of the troopers I mentioned early on Interstate 95, Chris Dew, he had had our first canine on the patrol, but it was just a narcotic dog. It was a Beagle. And, you know, some about that during the training, listening to him talk about, you know, the role the canine played that interested me. So when I came back to the district, not long after that, requests came through patrol headquarters or troop headquarters, any troopers interested in having a canine, you know, submit your interest. So I thought about it and I did. And the district commander at that time or the troop commander at that time, who was very much old school, was not on board with this, he was passing it along from patrol headquarters. When I submitted my name, he sent a message back that said, if you want a canine, I think I can find somewhere else in a different place to get you a canine assigned to you, meaning, you know, I'm going to transfer if you really want this canine. And again, you got to understand the internal culture of the organization. So I said, no, sir, no, sir, I'm not interested in one. So anyway, there was another supervisor who had been involved in the early stages of it. He said, I thought you expressed interest in this. I said, I did. But here's what, you know, what I was told. And he said, I'll take care of that. And I was like, oh, no, please don't get me in trouble here. You thinking Lumberton? Here I come. You know what, Trooper Cardwell just told me there for sergeant. And so anyway, you know, next thing you know, I got word that, hey, if you want a dog, we'll assign you one. We're going to send one to the central part of the state and one east part of the state. And you report to this canine school, which was actually in Greensboro at the time. And so we did. And anyway, the school was about 10 days, 11 days. You know, again, patrol hadn't had a program at that time. They were just starting to get into it. And so getting the dog really helped as far as going out roadside, learning what I was doing. And so I had made some phone calls to troopers that I had learned about on this epic Operation Pipeline Bulletin. There was a couple of guys that I kept consistently reading their names. Do you remember a guy named Jeff Faison out of Florida? Yeah, I remember his name. He was kind of the first generation that came along at the time. These other troopers I mentioned that taught us. And then there was some in the area, neighboring states, Mike Ralston and Georgia State Patrol, Benji Hodges, Georgia. And there were some others throughout the country. But I can't remember what it was that caused me to reach out to Mike one day, because I had expressed interest in getting more training. But again, it wasn't the culture. So somehow I made contact with Mike. He worked north of Atlanta on Interstate 75. And where I worked was Interstate 85 and Interstate 40. And I just cold -called him and introduced myself. And anyway, I told him what I was seeking. He said, sure, you're welcome to come down and ride with me if you'd like. I had to take vacation time because I couldn't get approval to go on patrol time. So I went down there and rode with him, spent my own money. And he took care of me really good. He showed me a lot. And then I come back. And we had had another gentleman by the name of Ed Lowry, who had worked on Interstate 95 in Fayetteville in our agency. I had gotten approval to go ride with him. But I had to take vacation time, too. So I went and rode with him. And this was the watershed moment that you're speaking of. While riding with him on 95, he was kind of the hottest guy at that time consistently making cases. And this was when everything was flowing out of South Florida, back when Steve was, you know, he was familiar with all the importation through South Florida. Well, everything those guys were getting was Miami -connected in some way, shape, form, or fashion. And I remember getting in a car with Ed. And he had just come off some days off. And says, he Bo, I don't know if we're going to have any luck. And that's what he called everybody was Bo. I don't know why. That was just the habit of his. But he said, but we're going to go out and try. I'm going to see if I can get you something. Well, the second car that he stopped, it was like that epic bulletin teletype operation pipeline played out before my eyes. The second stop, he gets a four -door, I believe it was a Buick old four -door sedan coming out of Miami, registered out of New Jersey, male -female occupant, and found a compartment built between a rear seat and trunk. And it had like five kilos of Coke. I thought I was just, I was seeing it play out before my eyes. And that just, that was my watershed moment. I was like, this is what I want to do. I had been trying it up to that point with minimal success, but between him and Mike, it really opened my eyes to other things that I really had not been paying attention to, human behavior, the importance of the interview. And anyway, so when I left from there, I was really energetic. And so I come back and started applying it. And having learned to operate my canine, I started looking at things differently as far as my approach and how to talk with people and what to look for roadside interview -wise. And so that first big seizure was a U -Haul that had come out of South Texas, which obviously still is today, but then the major source for our area, it was a U -Haul and it had about 850 pounds of marijuana in it. And once I got that, I was hooked. I mean, I was hooked a hundred percent. Well, let's go back to that seizure of Coke. When you opened it, did you know, I mean, when you saw the bricks, obviously, did you know what it was at that time or did you kind of have to go, okay, wait, you know, I'm just kind of like, whoa, what is this? Oh no, I know what that is. Kind of, yeah. I had never seen a kilo in person. And obviously it had, but I had not. I'd seen many pictures. And so I'm like, well, that's what it really looks like, I guess. So yeah, it was a really good learning experience. Now, so the 850 pounds of weed, that wasn't the case that you and I worked on, was it? No, this was a brother and sister that had come out of San Antonio and they were delivering somewhere in, I think around Richmond, Virginia area. But it's an interesting story on that. We had not had that kind of seizures go through our court system. And when it went for first appearance the next morning, the judge who was listening to the probable cause hearing, he said, he pulled me to the side before the hearing. He said, now, from what I'm told, you can't do this. And I said, well, what do you mean? And he said, you can't just go in and start searching somebody's belongings. And I said, well, I didn't, sir. I said, they gave me permission. And he was like, what? And I said, yes, sir. He said, they gave you permission to search their truck, knowing that they were carrying this? I said, yeah. And he's like, oh, okay. So it was a learning experience for a lot of us through the court process and myself. I love the way the judge was having a preliminary hearing out in the hallway before anybody was even sworn in. Well, again, it's a small community. And anyway, everybody knew everybody. And I'd built a good rapport with this judge. And I just remember that conversation. And once I said that, he said, wow, can't believe somebody would do that. I said, well, he said, where'd you learn to do this? And I told him. And he said, so they tell you to ask people to search the vehicle if you think you're suspicious to want to look for something else? I said, yes, sir. And he said, and they actually do? I said, yes, sir, they do. It's unbelievable. It is. It goes back to your point you were making. If you understand human behavior, if you understand how to talk to them and set the right circumstances, I mean, even to this day, Murph and I were talking about it on our Patreon channel, but at the time, it was the largest seizure of cash in Kansas. But it was only a quarter of a million. I mean, they've gotten much bigger stuff now. And people are going, I mean, they let you search the car. The guy I remember to this day, his name is Brian Lacy. I looked at him. I said, now, do you have anything that would be illegal in the state of Kansas? Guns, drugs, large amounts of cash. He says, no. I said, would you? And one question, one thing I learned to ask was not can I search? Because people always want to say no. I said, would you have any objection if I search for these items? And they would say, no. Well, no meant yes. And he even offered to show me, hey, I got a briefcase here. I opened up the trunk. There's the cash. And in his briefcase, plans for a methamphetamine laboratory. He had a marijuana press. It's like, you dumb son of a bitch. All you had to say was no. And we didn't have a canine at that point. There's not much I could have done. Yeah. It's amazing. I was just thinking, Tim, remember Dave Wilhelm with customs? Yes. Down in Charlotte. And he was murdered in Atlanta. So God rest him. But he called me one day, and I can't remember if it was Asper. I think it might have been Randleman. And he called and he says, hey, Murphy. He said, I got a tip. This trailer out in the country, some Mexicans are in there. Supposed to be sitting on a big stash of weed. He said, I need somebody to speak Spanish. So I met him down there. We took some people with us and walked up to this trailer. I remember that it was a huge lot with these big, tall pine trees. But there were no limbs from like 10 feet, 12 feet high before the limb started. So you had this wide open, we think of as a killing field that you have to go through to get to that front door. But we have no reason to be pulling our weapons out. To go up, like we're going to do a tactical entry. We knock on the door and I get up there and do use my Spanish. And they're like, yeah, come on in. We go inside. I forget how many is 1 ,200 pounds of weed or whatever they'd been using saws to cut it up. But there was an AR -15 sitting behind the front door. I mean, they pulled out and wiped us all out. But it's just amazing. They're sitting on the dope and they're like, sure, come on in. You know, and Tim, I don't know if you remember seeing this video if it was a Texas DPS trooper, but he's on the side of the road and he's talking to this guy in that Texas draw going, now son, you got anything that's illegal? You got, well, and so he's talking and you can see it's the old dash cam. This kid's getting nervous. Now, do you have anything in the car that's illegal? No, he's like, would you mind if I checked your car? And this kid just vapor locks and passes out into the ditch. He goes, well, I'll take that as an admission of guilt.
Game of Crimes
A highlight from 120: Part 1: Tim Cardwell is a Top Cop for Drug Interdiction but Nearly Loses His Life
"Hey, hey, hi, it's Fat Albert. I have no idea who it is this week because it has been a long week. But hey guys, amigos, amigos, players, playwrights, dududettes, everybody, welcome back. This is episode 120 constituting, again, the 120th attempt, I can't even say it, 120th attempt to keep us off the air, but you have all failed. We are back. That's right. You're stuck with us, sorry. That's right. We don't have our crosses to bear and we're yours. That's right. Gotta pay for your sins sometime and you're paying for them on earth. Here we go. That's it. All right, guys. Well, hey, welcome back. Morgan here, along with my partner in crime. Hey, guys, it's Murph. Glad to have you on back. Yes, sir. And hey, before we get started, let's just do some quick housekeeping. Hey, head on over to Apple Spotify. Hit those five stars. We don't know how it works. It's magic. If you used to listen to us on Stitcher, they're out of business change and Google is going away. So make sure you get on something that's not going to go away anytime soon. So Apple Spotify, hit those five stars. Also head on over to our website, gamercrimespodcast .com for everything you need to know about us, including when we have guests with books. We have an extensive book list, Murph. I was just looking at that because we've got another guest coming up with the book and it's like, you know, at least 40 % of our guests have had books. I tell you what, you know, we try to read everybody's book before we have them on the show. At least one book, because some of them have tons of books. I got to tell you, I didn't read this much in college and I'm being serious. You've read more books in the last two years than you have in the previous, how many, 79? 102? 102. 102. All right. Hey, speaking of that, you had a chronological, we both had a chronological increment recently, so... Yeah, except I started counting backwards, so I'm down to 62 now. Well, that's because you couldn't count that high, so you're running out of toes. That's it. But anyway, yeah. Hey, also guys, follow us on that thing they call social media, at Game of Crimes on Twitter, Game of Crimes podcast on Facebook and the Instagram, but where you gotta be is Patreon. Patreon .com slash Game of Crimes. We do a lot of fun stuff on there. We've got 911, what's your emergency? Murph, well, his house will burn down before he gets the number right. 199. Here we go. Here we go. Where you guys been? Where you been? We got stuff like You Can't Make This Shit Up. We've got our Q &A, our monthly Narcometer review. I thought last month, the Sicario, Day of the Soldado. Frickin', I mean, Benicio del Toro is in another movie. I think it's called The Reptile. He's good. He's good. I'll tell you what, he can just come and look at you and he's like, okay, here's my money, don't hurt me. He's scary. Motherfucker, scary. He is. And in real life, he's probably the nicest guy in the world. And that's the way most of them are. It's like Boyd Holbrook, you know, on some of his things like Justified and stuff. He looks like a killer, but then he's really nice in person. Yeah, even Logan and I mean, all the different things. He's been in a lot of stuff. Dial of Destiny, you know. So he was a bad guy in Dial of Destiny. But hey, guys, but that's where you're going to hear some good stuff. So head on over there, patreon .com slash Game of Crimes. Now, you also got to head on over. Our favorite mafia queen, Sandy Salvato, the iron fist with the velvet glove rules over all that is Game of Crimes fans. Just go to Facebook and look up Game of Crimes fans, answer a couple easy questions and gain admittance into the inner sanctum where all the hilarity ensues. There you go. Just what he said. That's right. Just what I said. But you know what else I said, Murph? What did you say? I said, guess what time it is? Do you know what time it is? I'm going to ask you one more time because you got to pack. You got a trip coming up and we're doing this kind of late. So guess what time it is, Murph? It's time for Small Town Police Blotter. A little bit of James Bond there. Hey, speaking of James Bond, he would have had nothing to do with this next guy. Murph, I'm telling you. Oh, this one. This one comes out of Nebraska. And I'm telling you, them corn fed farm boys are lonely. Uh -oh. Uh -oh. They're lonely. So there is a few. This just happened October 13th. It's just like today. A funeral home worker was responsible for transporting TED bodies in Nebraska County is under arrest. Well, the felony burglary complaint doesn't really do it justice. So Ryan Smith and a colleague were dispatched last week to a home in Omaha to collect the body of an individual who died there. Now, this guy who died there left something behind, which this guy tried to come back and get. So Ryan Smith called the property manager and claimed that the local sheriff had asked him to collect this item for evidentiary purposes. Now, the property manager's like, nah, I'm dumb, but not that dumb. He denied it, but he later came back and heard noises emanating from the unit which had been locked from the inside with a deadbolt and the chain. After Smith exited the home with his clothes disheveled, the property manager called cops who busted him on a felony burglary charge. So Murph, why do you think they would want to seek DNA samples? Oh, no. Because the item left behind was a sex doll. And this guy returned. Oh, that's not what I was thinking. That's not quite so bad. I was thinking cadaver. No, no, no, no, no. This was a sex doll. The guy was removed from the house, but he left his sex doll behind. I don't know, maybe that's why he died. Maybe it was a good time. Sally, I told you to get your ass in the car. Yeah, guess what? He came and went at the same time. Oh, that was terrible. That was terrible. You know, when I went through the West Virginia State Police Academy, they'd wake you up in the middle of the night. You had to go out and do searches for a lost child. And the doll's name was Sally Rotten Crunch. Oh, moving on. You hated that doll. So Murph, you've heard the term getting shitfaced, right? Yeah, but luckily I've never experienced that. Let's hope you don't experience this either. So a former woman is facing a felony charge for what she did to an elderly neighbor. Now, Callie Robinson, she's 28. She was arrested after a confrontation at the Mobile Home Park where she and the 76 -year -old victim live in separate residences. According to a complaint charging Robinson with battery on a victim 65 years or older, she became upset with Daniel Powell. You know what his crime was, Murph? He would always speak with her while she walked her dog. What, just to say good morning or how are you? Yeah, so guess what she did? She took an unsecured bag of dog feces and pushed it into his face. Oh, oh, that's nasty. So they matched the dog waste bag. Yeah, they matched the waste bag with bags in her possession and she ultimately admitted to the battery. How old was she and how old was the victim? She was 28, the victim was 76. That's why they charged her with a battery on a victim 65 years or older. Yeah, and the punishment should be the same thing she did to him. I'll tell you what, it gives a whole new meaning to the word shitfaced and she should get shitfaced. You're not kidding, there's no excuse for that. Well, speaking of Florida, Murph, what is the largest retirement home in the United States? The villages. The villages. You wouldn't believe the stories that come out of that book. Oh, dude, I would after this story. So a 77 -year -old Florida man was arrested. He was trying to peddle some things. Oh, yeah, that was on the news here. That's legit. He was trying to peddle $1 ,800 worth of black market erectile dysfunction drugs. Only in the villages. Now, he bought a slew of ED products, erectile dysfunction, including Snovitra 20, Villatra 20, and Kamagra oral jelly. Oh, my God. With the intent to sell them locally and outside the Sunshine State, according to several papers, now, Murph, this is going to shock you. It's not his first rodeo. Guess what else he's tried to hawk? Marijuana and cocaine. No meth? No meth. Oh, dude, you've got to step up. You're not going to do meth. I mean, that's just kiddie dope otherwise. Yeah, you've got to be in the big leagues. You want to run with the big dogs, you've got to get off the porch there, Cooter. Seriously, the stories that come out of that place are just... Connie said, if she passes away first when I moved to the villages, I don't think so. They have the highest rate of STD transfers infections in the United States. Hey, if you're that age and you're getting some, God bless you. Oh, my goodness. Yeah, but I mean, practice safe sex. Good Lord. Well, that's kind of a segue. I'm not sure how to segue into safe sex other than to saying the next guest is actually pretty safe. He's a really pretty good guy. And he was somebody that you have worked with in the past. And that's how you cornered this. By the way, you couldn't make fun of him. Guess what? He's a God -fearing, right -wing, rifle -carrying trooper. Are you talking about our guest today? Yes. You know what? This guy that you're getting ready to hear his story. I met this guy. He's one of the best interdiction troopers in the United States ever. I mean, he was well -known throughout. And he's going to tell you how he learned his trade and everything. But I got to meet him when I came back from Columbia and got stationed in Greensboro, North Carolina. And this guy, his nose is better than his drug dog's nose. We didn't talk about this on the interview, so I'll tell you real quick. He called me on a New Year's Eve. I was painting the laundry room in our house. The girls were little. He called me on New Year's Eve night, and he had pulled over a tractor trailer car carrier and found several hundred kilos of cocaine in one of the cars. I mean, how the hell do you do that, you know? Because he's a trooper. Yeah, he's good. And the driver was Colombian, so that might have been an indicator. But just a fantastic guy. I mean, one of my best friends all these years later, I met him in 94, and here we are in 23, and still stay in touch all the time. And if it hadn't been for him, your stats would have been for shit, man. Still a stat where he can. There you go. Wait a minute, that's another agency. Wait the fuck for agencies to do that. What other agency would do that? What other agency would go out and make a press release? Well, there's one, you know, that's called Adopt That Effer. You'll have to figure that out. They usually show up after the fire. But anyway, we digress some murph, but we can't hear the story of Mr. Tim unless I ask you the penultimate question. Are you ready to play the biggest, baddest, most dangerous game of all? The Carolina North accent game of crimes. That's right. Ladies and gentlemen, get in, sit down, shut up, and hold on, especially when it gets to the point where they took his gun away from him. This man is a big man. Bring on Mr. Trooper Tim Cardwell, retired, one of my best friends. If you would just like it if it was breathy, because we could talk to you that way. You freak me out when you do those voices, Morgan. Yes. We'll get you some professional help. The love doctor is in. Speaking of who's in, it's not the love doctor. It's me and Murph. Hey, and guess what? We have got somebody Murph can't make fun of. If he tries to, he's going to get in trouble, because he's another trooper. Yeah, so for all our listeners, you can feel my pain right now. Instead of one trooper on every interview, I got two troopers on here today. Who knows where this is going to go? If you hear snoring in the background, that'll be me, because we're going to be telling trooper stories. No, that'll be because you just took your medication. You were telling us of that, and you're about ready. You're going to go on the nod. I just got up from a good nap, so. You ought to be French. Our guest today is an old, old friend of mine that I met when I first came out of Columbia back in 94. I got stationed in Greensboro, North Carolina, and I don't know how we met. I don't remember now, but. I think you got a ticket, Murph. He could have given me one, I'm sure. Of course, I rode with him a few times. I could have given him one, you know? But our guest is Tim Cardwell. He's retired, North Carolina State Highway Patrolman. One of the leading interdiction troopers in the entire United States. was This guy so good at his job. He had a dog at one point. We'll talk about his dog a little bit. Who saved his life, I believe. We'll talk about that story. But who was so good, he didn't need a dog. I mean, he could sniff out coke better than anybody I've ever seen. So we've got some stories to tell him today, but what a pleasure to have you on here, Tim. Thank you, Steve. I appreciate it. Glad to be here. Kind of nervous, but I'm glad to be here. This is not an interview or interrogation. Nobody's going to advise you of your rights, but just in case, there's the door, Tim. You're free to go at any time, you know? Don't make me call your wife now. Ah, well. She keeps me straight, trust me. Don't they all? Yes. Well, let's talk as we do with everybody, Tim. First of all, one trooper to another. Thank you for your service out there to the great people of North Carolina. So think of ours, Coastal and Ulster. How did you get started in this thing we called law enforcement? As a Ute, did you fracture a few laws? Were you on the receiving end of some extra judicial punishment? Or how did you get started in this thing? Yeah, kind of. So I grew up in Madison, Medan, which is north central North Carolina, north of Greensboro, a small town, about 5 ,000, two towns combined, and just a little mill town. And I did have an encounter with law enforcement at a very young age, and it scared me, kind of like scared you straight. And I had just kind of gotten, you know, as a young boy, I was just very adventurous, rambunctious, and, in a way, got in trouble one night for throwing some rocks at somebody who had run us off from shooting basketball. And, you know, in a way, kind of retaliated in not the best way, and local law enforcement, of course, picked us up. No, no, you don't get to blow past that. What do you mean you retaliated in not the best way? We need some details. What was the nature of the retaliation? Well, so the rocks were the retaliation. So let me clarify. We were shooting basketball outside of a funeral home one night, and me and a buddy of mine, and anyway, long and short of it is, I didn't have a basketball court that had asphalt or concrete. I only had to shoot on dirt, and this local place had concrete, obviously. And so we were shooting late one night, and, you know, being young, maybe 12 years old, we really wasn't paying attention, and there was a funeral service going on. So, you know, of course, us playing caused a lot of echoing, and they come out and actually run us off, so to speak. And so kind of feeding off of each other, being frustrated, we decided to throw a couple rocks outside the building, and as such, we got the local law enforcement called, and they quickly found us and picked us up and took us to the station. And anyway, it absolutely petrified me. And anyway, they did us really good. They were very respectful and taught us a lesson, and, you know, didn't come out with any kind of criminal charges or anything. So it was my introduction to the criminal justice system in a personal way. So needless to say, I didn't want to experience it again. It scared me so much. I never heard that story. That's similar to one I went through when I was about 10 years old. Did any of those rocks happen to penetrate glass, or did they bounce off the building, or what was the nature of the damage caused by your retribution? There really was no damage. It just hit the side of the building. I wasn't that brave to throw it at a window, but, you know, it was just at a time where I was, I guess, getting out there and probably kept me from getting in trouble to a greater level, I guess. So it was good for me. So how did that factor into later then? You know, that was your first experience, but what led you into this thing of ours? Well, you know, as I look back, I can kind of recount the path. As a young man, we had growing up, the house that I grew up in didn't have a mailbox. We had a post office box. And so when I would go to the post office box to retrieve a mail with a parent or, you know, as I got a little bit older, allowed to go by myself, I caught myself reading those FBI most wanted bulletins that's displayed in all post offices, and they just seemed to capture my attention. And unbeknownst to me, you know, I never thought about a career in it, but I think that had a little factor. And then the house that I mentioned, my neighbor who had moved there in the third grade, he was a state trooper, and he spent his whole career in our home county, and he was very close with our family. He lived right behind me, and he watched me grow up, and, you know, I interacted with him quite a bit, and I was always impressed with him and respected him. And I used to see him, you know, when he would leave on a weekend working evening shift with that black and silver patrol car, it would be shiny, and, you know, he would go out. There you go. See, got to take care of that car. Even back then, it's got to take care of the car and the uniform. I think all you guys just want to be mechanics.
Thinking Crypto News & Interviews
A highlight from Adam Sullivan Interview - Core Scientific's Bitcoin Mining Strategy, BlackRock & Bitmain Investments, Bitcoin Spot ETFs
"You know, you can look across all of the largest public equities, and that includes all the Bitcoin miners in our space. BlackRock has, you know, I would say a top five position in almost all of the public companies in our space. They invested through a convertible note back in 2021. They've been a strong supporter of the industry. They've been a strong supporter of Core. This content is brought to you by Uphold, which makes crypto investing easy. I've been a user of Uphold since 2017. They're one of my go -to exchanges. You can buy, sell, and trade cryptocurrencies on Uphold. You can also trade precious metals and equities. They have 10 plus million users, 250 plus cryptocurrencies, and they're available in 150 countries. As with all exchanges, you can buy and sell on them, but I highly recommend you custody your own crypto. Not your keys, not your coins. If you'd like to learn more about Uphold, please visit the link in the description. Welcome back to the Thinking Crypto podcast, your home for cryptocurrency news and interviews. With me today is Adam Sullivan, who's the CEO of Core Scientific, which is one of the largest Bitcoin miners in North America. Adam, it's great to have you on. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. This should be a good time. Adam, let's start with your background. Tell us about yourself and your professional background. Sure. I joined Core Scientific in May of this year. Before Core Scientific, I spent the last decade in the financial services industry, mainly in investment banking, with a focus on the digital assets and infrastructure industry. I was managing director and head of digital assets and infrastructure at XMS Capital. Worked on numerous M &A projects, capital raises in this space, including Core Scientific's business combination with XPDI. And what was your first encounter with Bitcoin and what was your aha moment? Yeah, I was working for a hedge fund in New York in 2016. The person who sat next to me, the trader who sat next to me, was very into crypto. He'd actually talked to me about Bitcoin back in 2011. And in 2016, I decided to start mining ETH. It was something that I could do in my apartment. Incredible power bills in Brooklyn at the time. I was setting, I think, new records for what a single two bedroom apartment could be doing at the time. But I started visiting mining sites and that was when the first time I visited what was considered large scale at the time. It was about a five megawatt Bitcoin mining farm converted facility. Just looking at the amount of infrastructure that was being redeveloped in many areas that lost a lot of jobs. That was kind of one of the biggest moments for me. I saw it as a transformation for a lot of parts of this country that had really been affected by, you talk about Alcoa leaving many of their sites, paper plants shutting down. All these different areas of industry. Bitcoin mining was giving life back to a lot of these places. That was kind of the big moment for me where I realized this is a great industry. I want to be a part of it. Ever since, I've been working in the Bitcoin mining industry. That's amazing. You were mining in your apartment in Brooklyn and now you're a CEO of a Bitcoin mining company. That's pretty amazing. Tell us about Core Scientific. Tell us about the business history and the services and different things that you have going on. Sure. So Core Scientific is one of the oldest Bitcoin mining companies in North America. What we do best is we transform energy to high value compute. As many people know, we built already 700 megawatts of infrastructure for Bitcoin mining, which has been one of the most profitable areas of emerging compute. We've had other aspects to our business as well. More recently, we actually sold an AI division to AMD. But for context, the 700 megawatts is large. Six years ago, when I first entered the industry, there was no 100 megawatt sites. Industrial scale at the time was five megawatts, 10 megawatts. So it's been incredible to see the development throughout this industry. But more importantly, and more specifically at Core, we've been able to assemble a team that's been able to build essentially large cities worth of infrastructure for Bitcoin mining. It's a very unique capability set that our team has. We've been continuing to develop new infrastructure. You know, you look at from iteration one of our facilities back in 2017 to what we're building today. You know, the strides that we've made in developing new infrastructure for this space in particular has been incredible. I mean, we're operating about two hundred and five, two hundred and six thousand machines. You know, about one hundred forty five thousand of those are ours. And it's incredibly difficult to maintain high levels of uptime, high levels of efficiency at that type of scale. But we've been able to bring together a very unique set of individuals to help us build what I think is the premier infrastructure in this industry. We went public back in January of twenty twenty two. And, you know, now we're looking at a reemergence coming up here, you know, hopefully at the hopefully in Q4 of this year. And where are your mining locations across North America and what type of energy sources are you using? Yeah, so we have seven facilities across five states, so we're in North Dakota, we're in Georgia, Kentucky, Texas and North Carolina. I like to think about our mining facilities in a similar way to let's just say they had one miner, two miners. You know, if you have two miners and one goes down, you know, then 50 percent of your fleet is down. However, when you move to five miners, you know, one goes down for any different reasons, you know, it's much lower hit to your overall efficiency. You know, that strategy for us looks like that on a much larger scale. So, you know, having seven facilities, you know, that means that high temperatures in one area might not affect, you know, another site or curtailments, for example. Obviously, Texas is constantly in the news about curtailments. You know, having that distribution of power markets is incredibly important for us. You know, you had a question there about, you know, power sources. Our operations are all grid source power. So our sites are as green as the grid is. But as renewables continue to increase across almost every grid in the United States, you know, it's natural for miners who are attracted to the lowest cost power, renewables being that lowest cost marginal power. Miners are naturally attracted to places that have high degrees of renewables infiltrating their grid. And so for us, that's, you know, that's what we've been focused on since inception is finding those pockets of power. You know, that's cheap power. And frankly, all of our grids across the United States are getting more and more green. And that's going to help lower our power cost over time. And I'm assuming that your mining operations, as you mentioned, is you're getting your power from the grid. You may go off at certain times, depending on if the grid is overloaded, if you want to call it that, depending on natural causes, you know, weather, whatever it may be. I'm assuming you're working with the local folks there accordingly.
Dennis Prager Podcasts
A highlight from Campus Blowback
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Food Addiction, the Problem and the Solution
How Dr. Guttorm Toverud Uses the 12-Step Model to Treat Addiction
"Dr. Tovaroud has a PhD in counselor education from UNC, which is University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina. He has a master's degree in agency counseling from Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. He is currently a consultant in his own company, GT Consulting. The company provides substance abuse and dependence consulting services within treatment, clinical supervision, program development, assessment and diagnosis, and educational programs. He spent his career in education and conducting workshops regarding substance abuse and dependence. Dr. Tovaroud has conducted workshops for 30 years in both Norway and Sweden, and more than 10 ,000 people now have participated. He is a specialist in using the 12 -step model for treating substance and behavioral addictions, allowing individuals to learn how to live life on life's terms. He teaches at Esther Helga Goodness -Doteers Infect School. This podcast is an infect school podcast. The course he teaches is entitled Professionals Applying the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous. His portion of this training is 50 hours for the infect school. And of course, classes start this September, 2023. The website is infectschool .com to learn more about classes and obtaining a certification in the treatment of food addiction as a counselor. So in my research, Dr. Tovaroud, to prepare for this podcast, I've listened to a lot of hours of your lectures. Not 50 hours, but a lot of hours of your lectures. And they're very good. I've benefited from the detailed and informative instructions. Thank you. Yeah. For those listening that may not know The Big Book, The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous was written in 1939 and has instructions around using a 12 -step program for recovery from addiction. The 12 -step model from The Big Book, which is the instructions, the format, the program, has been used in many substance abuse and behavioral addiction recovery programs, including, of course, alcohol addiction and food addiction recovery programs. It is one of the 100 most published nonfiction books in the world, having surpassed 50 million copies. The course that Dr. Tovaroud conducts centers on the context steps, the action steps, and the fourth dimension of existence, demonstrating how professional counselors can increase their understanding of the 12 -step program and the use of 12 -step fellowships as a resource. The course format is based on using The Big Book as a foundation for treatment. Did I get that right? You did. That was an amazing summary. Well, I kind of worked on it. I took from several different sources, but I think I captured what you do and your work. So start by talking about the work you have done and the work you do. Talk about that. We'd love to hear it. Well, thank you very much. And again, I'm honored to be a guest on Esther Helga's podcast program. I'd like to start off by coming with a disclaimer. I do not speak on behalf of Alcoholics Anonymous, and no one does. And that's one of the reasons that they actually wrote the book and it's word of mouth to represent what they wrote. And then subsequently, it is conference -approved literature. And both the Fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous and most other 12 -step fellowships do not want personal representatives. So my focus is that we are professionals applying, using what is written, and therefore we're, in many respects, bound to what is written. And in the introduction and the prefaces of the book, it states that in this fourth edition, that part of the book, which explains the 12 -step recovery program, is more or less unchanged from 1939. Yes. And so all of us that are 12 -step counselors, everything was decided in 1939 and what we are to convey in a clinical setting and from a therapeutic perspective. We have nothing to do with the fellowships and therefore it's an application. We've chosen as professionals to use this book in our clinical work with clients. So again, I do not represent AA or any other 12 -step program. This is a clinical application. I understand that and I understand the reason for saying that. And so, but it is a textbook, and you use this textbook to train professionals on how to counsel their clients. So talk about that work that you've done all these years. Is it 35 years you've done it? So for, yeah, so for 35 years, I have been using this book. I sort of say that I've been hiding out in Scandinavia, trying to fine tune how to actually use what is written in the textbook, not only in a clinical setting, but also as a profession. And then after I met Esther, she asked me if I would be willing to expand into an international audience. And initially, I was hesitant, but you can't say no to Esther. So - No, haven't yet. I agreed to do that and it has actually opened up a whole new world for me. And I realize that other people besides Norwegians and Swedes can actually benefit from the work that I have done. And since I do have a doctorate degree in Counselor Education, I've been able to unlock some of these codes that are in the book in terms of using it as our manual. And it's very interesting how we can then start at the beginning of the book, and that's what I do in the lecture series, and then I demonstrate. We read this out loud, and then we say this. And then I say, but now you can't say this because it's coming up later. But you need to know now that in three pages, they're gonna come back to this particular point. So you need to highlight that now. And so make sure that that is in place before you go on. So it really is a detailed approach, almost reading every single word, which is why it takes me about 50 hours. And then I compliment those, the lectures with visual slides. Yes, yeah. And they then help make it become a more pedagogically appropriate understanding. So we have the text on one side, we have the slides on the other side, and then we have the lectures accompanying that.
Tech Path Crypto
A highlight from 1279. Next House Speaker = Pro Crypto Tom Emmer!? | Ron Hammond INTERVIEW | Crypto Regulation
"All right, so welcome in today, we're going to be diving into what's happening over in the House of Representatives, as many of you probably are already aware, Kevin McCarthy out and potentially a vacant spot could be filled by a pro -crypto lawmaker. It's going to be interesting to watch. We'll break it down for you guys today, we have a good interview I think ahead of it as well. My name is Paul Baron, welcome back into Tech Path. Before we get into the interview here with Ron Hammond from the Blockchain Association, I want to play a clip and we'll set it up. He's kind of waiting in our room here, so he's watching this at the same time. Let's go ahead and cut to this clip to give you guys Kevin's overview. How confident are you that you will have this job for a full two year term? A thousand percent. The office of Speaker of the House is hereby declared vacant. Key members of the narrow Republican majority he presided over turned on him in a dramatic statement of no confidence, a final vote 216 to 210. So everybody said they broke promises. I had to go find out what these promises were, right? He promised to use the 2022 baseline numbers as appropriation numbers for this year. And he didn't. Are you angry? Maybe he didn't. Are you pissed? I don't know. Doesn't this just completely paralyze the House? I mean, we could see 15 more rounds. I don't think we will. I will not run for speaker again. I'll have the conference pick somebody else. Chair declares the House in recess, subject to the call of the chair. North Carolina Republican Patrick McHenry was designated acting speaker. McCarthy's deputies, like Majority Leader Steve Scalise, are being floated for the job. Scalise is battling blood cancer, but says he feels great, has been reaching out to members in a candidate form is set for next week. Have you spoken with him? Have you spoken with him? I've spoken with him, but I'll probably keep our conversations between us. Will you yourself nominate Steve Scalise for speaker of the House? Maybe. There are many people, though. I could see myself supporting Tom Emmer. What about Emmer and others? I think the world is Tom Emmer. He'd make a great speaker. All right. So I want to welcome in, of course, Ron Hammond over from the Blockchain Association. Thanks for stopping in today. Of course. Thanks for having me. That's a very interesting time, to say the least. Yeah. So, Ron, you get a chance to see our kind of our clip supercuts there to try to compile what has happened in a very short period of time and also to a lot of people that maybe did not anticipate this particular move. What I want to get into, obviously, we're going to talk a lot about blockchain and the impact and the role that this is going to play. I want to talk a little about Tom Emmer. He's been on our show before and his position, I know that you work a lot with his office and have with many of the lawmakers. What is your position? Do you think he will be potentially lobbying here for the speaker role? So definitely for sure, I mean, his name has come up, there's four names that come up right now in terms of who's going to be running for the speaker race. But they have a week, I mean, they have six days right now to figure out who exactly is going to replace Kevin McCarthy. And that's kind of the major issue is that we put a pause on all legislative at this moment for the Republicans to get their stuff together and figure out who they're going to have to be the voice of the party in the House, as we saw with Matt Gaetz trying to vacate the speakership and successfully do so, there was definitely a lot of frustration with a lot of the members of Congress of McCarthy for not getting their priorities voted on or for cutting deals with Democrats to keep the government open and a variety of other things have happened in this split Congress. Again, you have to work with the other side of the aisle here to get anything done in a Democrat administration, in a Democrat Senate. And a lot of folks in the Republican conference, again, only eight or so bucked Kevin McCarthy publicly. But there has been a couple of folks underneath the surface that are a little frustrated with the direction that the House is going against some that could be bland, our thieves blend on some of the other trail makers out there. Yeah, I was looking at what you kind of saw it there on the supercut there for those of you listening on the audio side, maybe you don't necessarily see that. But when McHenry hit that gavel there at the end, he seemed very frustrated that this was happening and had happened with such a unique position, obviously coming in from the Republican, especially if you look at the power of what the Freedom Caucus has been able to do. I want to get into Patrick McHenry because he has been pretty much a very good proponent of crypto digital assets. But more importantly, I think just the scenario of the overreach by the SEC, what changes with McHenry's position? He's got a couple of bills running through the House right now. Where does that stand? Yeah, so just a level set here. So back in January, actually, when the first speaker fight was going on, Q was going to be speaker, we had 15 rounds to get to McCarthy. Patrick McHenry was given the opportunity to say, hey, look, you've been in Congress for a long time. Do you want to be in the leadership? Do you want to be involved in what bills we get to vote on? Do you want to be involved in the negotiations for things like the budget and such? And he actually passed that down. It's pretty rare to do in Congress, actually. He actually said, look, I want to focus on my committee, financial services, and work on, he said, crypto. He said, one of the reasons why I'm not going to be in leadership and deal with a lot of these important negotiations with the admin and such is because I want to work on legislation. I want to get something down across the finish line. Again, very rare. So he doesn't want to be in this leadership fight and these leadership drama. But yet he gets dragged in every single time, which is almost a testament, though, of who he is. I mean, he's a respected member among a lot of his colleagues, both on the more conservative side and more moderate side. But at the same time, he doesn't want to be doing this. He saw the gavel break there. He almost broke the dang thing. He wants to be back legislating. And he didn't want to get dragged into here. But he is kind of the adult in the daycare right now. I mean, it's a mess. I just came back from Capitol Hill. It's a mess out there right now. Everyone's scrambling to find out what's going on. In the meantime, he's saying, look, I'm not going to do anything, at least I'm temporary speaker. My job is just to hold this gavel and to bang it a little loudly and then to bang it back in when you Republicans are ready to get going. And we're hopefully we'll have a vote a week from today on the new speaker. But as you can see from this Republican conference, there's a chance that might not be happening because it's how fractured everything is right now for the Republicans.
Mark Levin
Part 2: How Freedom Caucus Members Voted on Kevin McCarthy
"For McCarthy Matt Rosendale Montana 2nd has voted against McCarthy and everything else every step of the way Greg Murphy North Carolina 3rd voted for McCarthy Dan Bishop he had a little Twitter back and forth voted for McCarthy Jim Jordan spoke on his behalf and voted for McCarthy Ohio 4 Max Miller used to work for Trump Ohio 7 voted for McCarthy Warren Davidson Ohio 8 and second folks all right all right Josh Brechin Oklahoma 2nd voted for McCarthy Scott Perry good man out of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 10th voted for Jeff Duncan South Carolina 3rd voted for McCarthy Ralph Norman South Carolina 5th voted for McCarthy Deanna Harshbarger Tennessee 1st voted for McCarthy Scott Desjarlais Tennessee 4th voted for McCarthy Andy Ogles Tennessee 5th voted for McCarthy Keith Self Texas 3rd voted for McCarthy Ronnie Jackson of Texas Trump's former doctor Texas 13 voted for McCarthy Randy Weber Texas 14 voted for McCarthy Chip Roy Texas 21 voted for McCarthy Troy Nells
The Mason Minute
Window Of Time (MM #4577)
"Anyone who drives to work in morning rush hour knows there's a lot of factors that go into just how fast you're getting to work. Are there accidents on the road? What's the weather like? But more importantly, it's that window of time. Yeah, if I leave 10 minutes before 8, I can get there in 20 minutes. But if I leave 10 minutes after 8, it takes me 30 minutes. It's that window. Why? School buses, extra traffic. I've learned that window of time is key to getting to work on time. But it's not as bad as it used to be. Things have changed since COVID. Now, of course, it's been a long time since I had to do rush hour traffic. But in the last year and a half, as I've gotten back to the rush hour grind, I kind of paid attention to those things again. Now, back in the 80s, I did rush hour in Norfolk, Virginia, in Charlotte, North Carolina, kind of some tough towns. I remember in Charlotte, my drive was only 12 miles, but it never took me less than an hour. I don't mind so much because I'm not locked into being at work at a certain time. But it's kind of interesting knowing that window of time plays key into where you're going and how fast you're going to get there.
The Mason Minute
Window Of Time (MM #4577)
"Anyone who drives to work in morning rush hour knows there's a lot of factors that go into just how fast you're getting to work. Are there accidents on the road? What's the weather like? But more importantly, it's that window of time. Yeah, if I leave 10 minutes before 8, I can get there in 20 minutes. But if I leave 10 minutes after 8, it takes me 30 minutes. It's that window. Why? School buses, extra traffic. I've learned that window of time is key to getting to work on time. But it's not as bad as it used to be. Things have changed since COVID. Now, of course, it's been a long time since I had to do rush hour traffic. But in the last year and a half, as I've gotten back to the rush hour grind, I kind of paid attention to those things again. Now, back in the 80s, I did rush hour in Norfolk, Virginia, in Charlotte, North Carolina, kind of some tough towns. I remember in Charlotte, my drive was only 12 miles, but it never took me less than an hour. I don't mind so much because I'm not locked into being at work at a certain time. But it's kind of interesting knowing that window of time plays key into where you're going and how fast you're going to get there.
The Mason Minute
Window Of Time (MM #4577)
"Anyone who drives to work in morning rush hour knows there's a lot of factors that go into just how fast you're getting to work. Are there accidents on the road? What's the weather like? But more importantly, it's that window of time. Yeah, if I leave 10 minutes before 8, I can get there in 20 minutes. But if I leave 10 minutes after 8, it takes me 30 minutes. It's that window. Why? School buses, extra traffic. I've learned that window of time is key to getting to work on time. But it's not as bad as it used to be. Things have changed since COVID. Now, of course, it's been a long time since I had to do rush hour traffic. But in the last year and a half, as I've gotten back to the rush hour grind, I kind of paid attention to those things again. Now, back in the 80s, I did rush hour in Norfolk, Virginia, in Charlotte, North Carolina, kind of some tough towns. I remember in Charlotte, my drive was only 12 miles, but it never took me less than an hour. I don't mind so much because I'm not locked into being at work at a certain time. But it's kind of interesting knowing that window of time plays key into where you're going and how fast you're going to get there.
The Mason Minute
Window Of Time (MM #4577)
"Anyone who drives to work in morning rush hour knows there's a lot of factors that go into just how fast you're getting to work. Are there accidents on the road? What's the weather like? But more importantly, it's that window of time. Yeah, if I leave 10 minutes before 8, I can get there in 20 minutes. But if I leave 10 minutes after 8, it takes me 30 minutes. It's that window. Why? School buses, extra traffic. I've learned that window of time is key to getting to work on time. But it's not as bad as it used to be. Things have changed since COVID. Now, of course, it's been a long time since I had to do rush hour traffic. But in the last year and a half, as I've gotten back to the rush hour grind, I kind of paid attention to those things again. Now, back in the 80s, I did rush hour in Norfolk, Virginia, in Charlotte, North Carolina, kind of some tough towns. I remember in Charlotte, my drive was only 12 miles, but it never took me less than an hour. I don't mind so much because I'm not locked into being at work at a certain time. But it's kind of interesting knowing that window of time plays key into where you're going and how fast you're going to get there.
The Mason Minute
Window Of Time (MM #4577)
"Anyone who drives to work in morning rush hour knows there's a lot of factors that go into just how fast you're getting to work. Are there accidents on the road? What's the weather like? But more importantly, it's that window of time. Yeah, if I leave 10 minutes before 8, I can get there in 20 minutes. But if I leave 10 minutes after 8, it takes me 30 minutes. It's that window. Why? School buses, extra traffic. I've learned that window of time is key to getting to work on time. But it's not as bad as it used to be. Things have changed since COVID. Now, of course, it's been a long time since I had to do rush hour traffic. But in the last year and a half, as I've gotten back to the rush hour grind, I kind of paid attention to those things again. Now, back in the 80s, I did rush hour in Norfolk, Virginia, in Charlotte, North Carolina, kind of some tough towns. I remember in Charlotte, my drive was only 12 miles, but it never took me less than an hour. I don't mind so much because I'm not locked into being at work at a certain time. But it's kind of interesting knowing that window of time plays key into where you're going and how fast you're going to get there.
CoinDesk Podcast Network
"north carolina" Discussed on CoinDesk Podcast Network
"Or agencies from accepting a Federal Reserve issued digital dollar. It also bans the state from participating in any CBDC pilots. Zach, what do you got? Orwellian dystopias play well with, I guess, most of North Carolina's, right? If this is a unanimous thing that's saying, hey, CBDCs are bad. This is like, this is the state creeping into your wallet, looking at what you're going to do. That, all of a sudden, is like a salient political talking point. For more than one state legislature and state governor. So we're seeing this potentially ramp up into some sort of big election issue in 2024 should be advanced down that road, right? I think it's the boogeyman that a lot of people feel animated to act against, right? So CBDCs in that instance are being used effectively to advance legislation because there is some of that fear, some of the anxiety, some of that angst around the government having surveillance powers on your spending in a way that they don't typically have just yet. So that to me, I think it's super fascinating to watch this emerge as a political issue. I'm glad as this piece mentioned that there's a carve out for stablecoins, right? I think initially this was going to be all encompassing, could have been real bad, but I think some savvy staffers within various crypto lobbying firms said, hey, you know what? You might want to carve this out and be a bit more specific in your language or else that's going to be some unintended consequences. So if that holds interesting development, potentially a bit worrisome if it also expands to include stablecoins, for instance, down the road, but as of now, it seems as though North Carolina dodged that bullet in updating this language. I don't know, Adam, what do you think? I mean, I think that this is indicative of the error that we're living through, which is one where we're watching what limited credibility, the most powerful institutions in the world today have. Really, they retain it only with the people who benefit from it. And to the vast majority of the world that's out there, who do not benefit from the exercises of power that we see do not benefit from the SEC's particular approach, this type of thing, or really, again, any of these national types of approaches, I think that that's what you're seeing. I think you're seeing people being incredibly concerned about what those in power do with the concentrations of power get. And if they're concerned about the level of power that folks have today and folks like me, I'm very, very, very concerned about this. I've been concerned about this for about a dozen years at this point. And my concern continues to grow with each passing day that we see more and more of this nonsense happen. When you have that as the current state of things, the idea that the state could then come in and be like, oh hey, by the way, here's a much more orwellian version of what we're doing, but don't worry, just trust us because this will be good and you trust us, right? Like the answer is no, we don't trust you. The vast majority of people do not. And the assumption, I think there was for a very long time, at least with older generations, this presumption that these things were well intentioned and being done on our behalf and for us, even if we didn't necessarily agree with them. And I think again, over the last, call it three, four years, we've really seen a large proportion of the population be like, you know what? Actually, if you're telling me that you're the expert in this and that I need to do what you're saying, I need to do and I shouldn't think about it too much. That's a warning sign to me that actually makes me less likely to do anything other than the thing you're asking me not to do. I appreciate that's a little convoluted, but hey, that's our world today, right? It is a convoluted world where the people who you expect to be able to trust are actually the people who are at least trusted and ironically people who you would never trust. I'd rather trust somebody random on the Internet than somebody in government today, but that's just me, Jen. I don't know about trusting random people on the Internet, Adam. It is a low bar. I want to break up that fed now, the instant payment service that the fed is launching is scheduled to, I think, launch in July, former coinbase CTO, Bellagio Nevada, and implied that fed now could be a precursor to a CBDC. And so I think it's interesting to see state government officials, you know, thinking about what could happen if this is a precursor to the CBDC as I was reading the story. I reflected on last year. I think it was last year now. In Canada, when the Canadian truckers were protesting and the government issued sanctions against people who were involved in these protests and all of a sudden people didn't have access to their money. People didn't think that the government would have so much control over their access to money. And so I think when we're reading stories like this, it's important to think about these scenarios that have highlighted these very real issues for people and governments at a state level or provincial level here in Canada, Zach, I'll give it to you for last words before we go to break. It's early. It's the scary idea of the thing that's actually animating action here, which I think is funny. We're not especially near to a digital dollar existing, and yet the idea of it is animating legislation such as this. Is identifying and mitigating crypto risk, a challenge? Do you need help balancing compliance issues with the need to protect against fraud?
WTOP
"north carolina" Discussed on WTOP
"Sports at 25 and 55 powered by Red River, technology decisions aren't black and white. Think red. Here's been rabies. All right, sandy, we'll start with college hoops and a 6 straight win for George Mason as the Patriots able to hold off Richmond 62 to 60 the final as George Mason secures the number 5 seed in next week's Atlantic ten tournament. Elsewhere, George Washington hosting VCU four 30 tip and Smith center, the colonial seeking a 5th consecutive win second half in Charlottesville, Virginia, leading Louisville 50 to 34 11 minutes remaining in that one still to come in the ACC. The rivalry renewed as duke takes on North Carolina neither team is ranked heading into the regular season finale. In fact, North Carolina, the preseason number one, very much on the bubble when it comes to selection Sunday coming up next weekend tar heels in need of a big week, and the ACC tournament women's side biggie's quarterfinal saw Georgetown fall to top seed Yukon, Big Ten semifinals coming up at 5 as Maryland faces Iowa, MBA, the wizards back home tonight second straight home game against the Toronto Raptors, wizards and raptors coming up at 5 on 1500 a.m. in the capitals continuing their western road trip 6 o'clock puck drop as they visit the San Jose sharks. Ben rabi WTO sports coming up after traffic and weather a fiery crash on a highway in Frederick, Maryland leaves a trick driver dad Life's better when we do things together. Like sharing the ride to work. Even if you're commuting just a few days a week, commuter connections can match you with others who live
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"north carolina" Discussed on WTOP
"23, are the humanities and dangerous subjects now. It's the fear of some educators after marymount university chose to phase out certain majors just today. Those include English and history, the board of trustees voted unanimously to drop the majors saying students are not interested in pursuing them. A university spokesperson is telling The Washington Post, this is a watershed moment for the Arlington Catholic school. It is trying to bring in more students and to grow its revenue. Marymount leaders say today's students are more interested in degrees than will get them good jobs with lots of money. Life in prison that is what Angelo Herod was sentenced to today. He was found guilty of killing the mother of a naval academy football player in the summer of 2021, 57 year old Michelle Cummings was hit by a stray bullet and killed as she sat on the patio of an Annapolis hotel. She was in town to celebrate her son's induction into the academy. A car stolen an upper Marlboro last night triggered an amber alert for a toddler. The child is safe. Now the suspect in the car theft is facing along the list of charges. The car with a three year old in the back seat was stolen from a convenience store in the upper Marlboro area and found here, where fair get street meets busy edmonston road just before 8 30 p.m.. It's not far from where a hit and run crash was reported involving a vehicle that matched the description of the one police were looking for. Minutes later, the suspect, 18 year old Ariel Florentino galeus was arrested at his home about a mile and a half away from here. Florentino galeas is charged with kidnapping, reckless endangerment theft and more. He's being held without bond right now, but he does have a bond hearing scheduled for Monday afternoon. In bladensburg, John dome in WTO P news. The family of a nuclear physicist who died by suicide at the Alexandria jail is suing the U.S. government after his psychotropic medicine was discontinued, and he was denied admission to a federal medical prison. The lawsuit is filed on behalf of Christopher lap 16 year old daughter. It says a series of errors by prison workers and others led to laps death two years ago. He was being held at the Alexandria jail, even though a judge had ordered him sent to a federal medical prison in North Carolina, a prison center there where doctors had medicated him and restored his mental health, lap had pleaded guilty to robbing a bank in Great Falls during what his family describes as a psychotic break. 9 25. Money news, 25 and 55 on WTO P and Larry koshka. This is a Bloomberg money minute. Interest rate expectations are rising on Wall Street with the latest inflation data coming in hotter than expected. A new report from a panel of Wall Street economists sees the fed, raising rates as high as 6 and a half percent to get inflation under control. Interest rate worries set investors running for cover ahead of the weekend, dalin, Austria's dropped 337, the S&P fell 42, the NASDAQ skidded one 95. The FCC has thrown a monkey wrench into standard generals plan to buy TV station owner tegna. It's sending the $5.4 billion deal to a hearing on concerns that it could reduce local content that could kill the deal. Warner Brothers discovery is suing paramount global over the streaming rights to South Park. The suit accuses paramount of diverting the cartoon comedy after Warner paid over half a $1 billion for the rights to stream it on HBO plus. From the Bloomberg newsroom, I'm Laurie kofsky, on WTO P. It was the worst week of 2023 admittedly a very young year, but it was the worst week of the year for the down NASDAQ and S&P all falling about 3% for the week. And coming up here on WTO has Jill Biden just pretty much announced that her husband is running again. We'll get that in just a few minutes on WTO paid. In business, making good choices can make the difference between success and failure. That's why when it comes to business accounting, you should choose Ayala vado in associates, a firm with 40 years of
Bloomberg Radio New York
"north carolina" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Of North Carolina and Harvard college, several conservative justices suggested it had run its course, referring to the 2003 grutter decision in which justice Sandra Day O'Connor anticipated the use of racial preferences would no longer be necessary in 25 years. Here are chief justice John Roberts and justice Amy Coney Barrett. You don't think that university of North Carolina has to stop in 25 years in the 2028 mark. So what are you saying when you're up here in 2040? Are you still defending it? Like this is just indefinite. It's going to keep going on. I don't see how you can say that the program will ever end. Your position is that race matters because it's necessary for diversity, which is necessary for the sort of education you want. It's not going to stop mattering at some particular point. My guest is former United States solicitor general Gregory garr, a partner at Latham and Watkins. He won the landmark case of Fisher versus the University of Texas, which upheld the race conscious admissions program used by that university. Greg, looking at the legal analysis after the arguments, it seems that the almost universal conclusion was that the court is ready to throw out the consideration of race in college admissions. Did you come to that conclusion as well? I did. I mean, I think certainly based on the oral arguments, as the challengers had the upper hand and that's not surprising going in, but having said that, there's a lot that remains to be seen about how the court gets that result in how broadly it might go in these cases. During the arguments, there seemed to be a great focus on whether educational diversity can be achieved without the consideration of race specifically with race neutral approaches. Does that indicate that justices are on to the next step? I think that it means that they're focused very carefully on the application of strict scrutiny in this context in particular looking for narrow tailoring and the existence of race neutral alternatives. For some conservative justices, it may also mean simply illustrating that universities can achieve educational diversity in other ways without explicitly considering race as part of the admissions process. So I think different justices were looking at that issue through a different lenses. It seemed like the justices were deeply divided right down ideological lines. Well, generally speaking, there's a stark divide on the court in terms of how the justices look at this question of diversity and the interest in achieving diversity on college campuses and otherwise. And I think you saw that by the questioning that the justices had for the advocates. The more liberal justices obviously came at this issue from the perspective of there being a compelling interest in achieving diversity on college campuses and elsewhere and whether or not they were able to persuade their more conservative colleagues. I'm not sure, but certainly that was one of the more interesting interplays going on throughout the oral arguments and reflects the sort of stark divide that the justices have on this issue. You argue the Fisher case, of course, and the three jaws to who dissented the chief justice and justices Thomas and Alito are still on the court where they as stark in their questions and comments about using race to achieve diversity. Yes. Thank you from the standpoint of the more conservative justices, their position on this issue has been clear for some time and I think that's true of justice Thomas, although as I recall he did not ask questions during the Fisher argument, but certainly justice Alito. And even the chief justice who is more moderate in a number of areas, but in this area has been very outspoken against the consideration of race and admissions. There was a lot of discussion about students using their admission essays to talk about their experiences, for example, overcoming
Bloomberg Radio New York
"north carolina" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"I'm Lydia Wheeler. Now I'm Greg store. We're in for June Rosso. State Supreme Court races in a number of states are being closely watched this year for their potential to affect a host of issues including congressional maps and abortion restrictions. We're joined now by Jake palestini, legal director at the progressive alliance for justice, action fund, which has been tracking these races. So Jake, Michigan, North Carolina, Illinois, and Ohio are for the states that have been highlighted as having particularly important races. Can you just tell us generally why those four races are such a big deal? Sure. And thank you so much for having me on. I really appreciate it. So all four of those states are states where you have a fairly divided electorate. And also where you have it divided Supreme Court ideologically. So generally speaking in Michigan, we have a four three democratic majority on that Supreme Court. In North Carolina, we also have a four three democratic majority on that Supreme Court. And in Illinois, we have a four three democratic majority on that Supreme Court. In Ohio, however, we have a three three one Supreme Court with three Democrats, three Republicans and one independent who is Republican that sometimes sides with the Democrats on issues of democracy and voting rights. Talk about why party control matters here. And how these races could impact which party is in control. Sure. Generally speaking, what we've seen at least over the last ten to 15 years is sort of consolidation around issues of democracy in differences between Republicans and Democrats and how they how they approach those issues of democracy. Republicans tended to be more restrictive on voting on access to the polls on redistricting on gerrymandering, whereas Democrats tended to be more open on those issues more liberal on those issues trying to expand the franchise, expand the right protect the rights of minorities to vote when they're being restricted. For several of those states going forward, some with litigation that is currently pending other with litigation that we can't foresee it might come out of the future election. The justices who sits on those courts might matter for how those different cases are decided. Yes, so you recently tweeted that the state Supreme Court races in Wisconsin, which I guess is next April, as well as ones in Michigan, North Carolina and Ohio this fall are about as important to our democracy as these things get. Can you dive into that a little bit more? Why are these races so important? Sure. I'd be happy to. So I think Michigan is a perfect example of why these sorts of races are exploring extremely important. In Michigan, after the 2020 election, several lawsuits were brought in front of the states state courts. Challenging results. In at least one four three case the democratic majority concluded that the election results should be certified. Had they not been certified in a timely manner. That could have allowed even more chicanery to happen in the final determination of the election result nationally. And in 2022, 2024, after the current election cycles who are in those positions deciding those election case outcomes could be determinative of how elections are certified. Same, I think, is true also in Wisconsin, we're currently you have a four three Republican Supreme Court. And that court has overwhelmingly decided to restrict voting rights in several decisions that have come down over the past decade. And in next year's election, Wisconsin voters will have the opportunity to change potentially the partisan makeup of that court flipping it to a fourth democratic majority. In which case, I think that you would see that that Supreme Court would be much more responsive to concerns over issues of redistricting voter restriction, limiting ballot boxes, that sort of thing. There seems to be more of a focus on state supreme courts now than there has been in the past. And I was wondering to what extent is the U.S. Supreme Court's abortion decision driving that? I think it is definitely driving that. We've seen a huge concern over state constitutional rights to an abortion and a renewed focus on this issue. I think that that's a good thing generally. State supreme courts have always determined many of our rights and liberties. States Supreme courts here 95% of all of the lawsuits that are filed in America every year. And they've always had an outweighed impact on our rights and liberties. The fact that people are paying more attention now is great. And if people start to consider whether or not our state constitutions might afford even greater rights and liberties that our federal constitution does, then I think that that can be incredibly positive for the rights of many, although it isn't a complete mandate for the fact that the U.S. Supreme Court is stripping away so many important rights nationally. Let's just take a step back and talk about how States Supreme Court Justices get on the court in the first place. We've been talking about some states where voters go to the polls and vote on state Supreme Court Justices. But it does vary a bit from state to state, right? It does. That's correct. Generally speaking about half of the justices in the United States Supreme Court Justices in the United States each year. Our elected and half are appointed. Of those that are elected, again, about half and half, it's not completely accurate, but it's not close estimate. Our elected nonpartisan races and about half of those that are elected are elected in partisan races. So like you said, it varies widely state to state. There are two real anomalies where the legislature picks. The justices in those states, that's in South Carolina and Virginia. And even in those states with where justices are elected, it's a little bit different when those justices might appear on the ballot, which whether it's in a odd year or in an even year presidential congressional
Bloomberg Radio New York
"north carolina" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"June Russia. State Supreme Court races in a number of states are being closely watched this year for their potential to affect a host of issues including congressional maps and abortion restrictions. We're joined now by Jake palestini, legal director at the progressive alliance for justice, action fund, which has been tracking these races. So Jake, Michigan, North Carolina, Illinois, and Ohio are for the states that have been highlighted as having particularly important races. Can you just tell us generally why those four races are such a big deal? Sure. And thank you so much for having me on. I really appreciate it. So all four of those states are states where you have a fairly divided electorate. And also where you have a divided Supreme Court ideologically. So generally speaking in Michigan, we have a four three democratic majority on that Supreme Court. In North Carolina, we also have a four three democratic majority on that Supreme Court. And in Illinois, we have a four three democratic majority on that Supreme Court. In Ohio, however, we have a three three one Supreme Court with three Democrats, three Republicans and one independent who is Republican that sometimes sides with the Democrats on issues of democracy and voting rights. Talk about why party control matters here. And how these races could impact which party is in control. Sure. Generally speaking, what we've seen at least over the last ten to 15 years is sort of consolidation around issues of democracy in differences between Republicans and Democrats and how they how they approach those issues of democracy. Republicans tended to be more restrictive on voting on access to the polls on redistricting on gerrymandering, whereas Democrats have tended to be more open on those issues more liberal on those issues trying to expand the franchise, expand the right protect the rights of minorities to vote when they're being restricted. For several of those states going forward, some with litigation that is currently pending other litigation that we can't foresee it might come out of the future election. The justices who sits on those courts might matter for how those different cases are decided. Yes, so you recently tweeted that the state Supreme Court races in Wisconsin, which I guess is next April as well as ones in Michigan, North Carolina and Ohio this fall are about as important to our democracy as these things get. Can you dive into that a little bit more? Why are these races so important? Sure. I'd be happy to. So I think Michigan is a perfect example of why these sorts of races are exploring extremely important. In Michigan after the 2020 election, several lawsuits were brought in front of the state's state courts challenging the results. In at least one four three case the democratic majority concluded that the election results should be certified. Had they not been certified in a timely matter. That could have allowed even more chicanery to happen in the final determination of the election result nationally. And in 2022, 2024, after the current election cycles who are in those positions deciding those election case outcomes could be determinative of how elections are certified. Same, I think, is true also in Wisconsin, we're currently you have a four three Republican Supreme Court. And that court has overwhelmingly decided to restrict voting rights in several decisions that have come down over the past decade. And in next year's election, Wisconsin voters will have the opportunity to change potentially the partisan makeup of that court flipping it to a four three democratic majority. In which case, I think that you would see that that Supreme Court would be much more responsive to concerns over issues of redistricting voter restriction, limiting valid boxes, that sort of thing. There seems to be more of a focus on state supreme courts now than there has been in the past. And I was wondering to what extent is the U.S. Supreme Court's abortion decision driving that? I think it is definitely driving that. We've seen a huge concern over state constitutional rights to an abortion and a renewed focus on this issue. I think that that's a good thing generally. State supreme courts have always determined many of our rights and liberties. State supreme courts here 95% of all of the lawsuits that are filed in America every year. And they've always had an outweighed impact on our rights and liberties. The fact that people are paying more attention now is great. And if people start to consider whether or not our state constitutions might afford even greater rights and liberties that our federal constitution does, then I think that that can be incredibly positive for the rights of many, although it isn't a complete band aid for the fact that the U.S. Supreme Court is stripping away so many important rights nationally. Let's just take a step back and talk about how States Supreme Court Justices get on the court in the first place. We've been talking about some states where voters go to the polls and vote on state Supreme Court Justices. But it does vary a bit from state to state, right? It does. That's correct. Generally speaking about half of the justices in the United States Supreme Court Justices in the United States each year. Our elected and half are appointed. Of those that are elected, again, about half and half, it's not completely accurate, but it's close estimate. Our elected nonpartisan races and about half of those that are elected are elected in partisan races. So like you said, it varies widely state to state. There are two real anomalies where the legislature picks. The justices in those states that's in South Carolina and Virginia. And even in those states with their where justices are elected, it's a little bit different when those justices might appear on the ballot, which whether it's in a odd year or in an even year presidential congressional so every state does it a little bit different. And so it's not surprising that folks around the country might not know exactly how the judges and justices and
Bloomberg Radio New York
"north carolina" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Is next April, as well as the ones in Michigan, North Carolina and Ohio this fall are about as important to our democracy as these things get. Can you dive into that a little bit more? Why are these races so important? Sure. I'd be happy to. So I think Michigan is a perfect example of why these sorts of races are exploring extremely important. In Michigan, after the 2020 election, several lawsuits were brought in front of the state state courts challenging results. In at least one four three case, the democratic majority concluded that the election results should be certified. Had they not been certified and in a timely manner. That could have allowed even more chicanery to happen in the final determination of the election result nationally. And in 2022, 2024 after the current election cycles who are in those positions deciding those election cased outcomes could be determinative of how elections are certified. Same, I think, is true also in Wisconsin. We're currently you have a four three Republican Supreme Court. And that court has overwhelmingly decided to restrict voting rights in several decisions that have come down over the past decade. And in next year's election, Wisconsin voters will have the opportunity to change potentially the partisan makeup of that court flipping it to a four three democratic majority. In which case, I think that you would see that that Supreme Court would be much more responsive to concerns over issues of redistricting voter restriction, limiting ballot boxes, that sort of thing. There seems to be more of a focus on state Supreme Court's now than there has been in the past. And I was wondering to what extent is this U.S. Supreme Court's abortion decision driving that? I think it is definitely driving that. We've seen a huge concern over state constitutional rights to an abortion and a renewed focus on this issue. I think that that's a good thing, generally. States Supreme courts have always determined many of our rights and liberties. States Supreme courts here 95% of all of the lawsuits that are filed in America every year. And they've always had an outweighed impact on our rights and liberties. The fact that people are paying more attention now is great. And if people start to consider whether or not our state constitutions might afford even greater rights and liberties that are federal constitution does, then I think that that can be incredibly positive for the rights of many, although it isn't a complete mandate for the fact that the U.S. Supreme Court is stripping away so many important rights nationally. Let's just take a step back and talk about how state Supreme Court Justices get on the court in the first place. We've been talking about some states where voters go to the polls and vote on state Supreme Court Justices. But it does vary a bit from state to state, right? It does. That's correct. Generally speaking about half of the justices in the United States Supreme Court Justices in the United States each year. Our elected and half are appointed. Of those that are elected, again, about half and half, it's not completely accurate, but it's close estimate. Our elected nonpartisan races and about half of those that are elected are elected in partisan races. So like you said, it varies widely state to state. There are two real anomalies where the legislature picks the justices in those states. That's in South Carolina and Virginia. And even in those states with their where justices are elected, it's a little bit different when those justices might appear on the ballot, which in other words, odd year in an even year presidential congressional so every state does it a little bit different. And so it's not surprising that folks around the country might not know exactly how the judges and justices and their seats are picked. You're listening to Bloomberg law, up next, we continue our conversation with Jake Palestinian, legal director at alliance for justice action fund. I'm Greg storer. And I'm Lydia Wheeler. This is Bloomberg. One 45. Progressive presents don't do it yourself. Okay, simple enough. Just gotta get in there with
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"Is angela fazio and this is moms in real estate and i am kristin cantrell and today i have the pleasure of introducing a luanda hawkins from north carolina. And today you guys. She's going to talk to us about intentional. Motherhood and you guys are going to get so much from her because she is fabulous. So can you get started and tell us a little bit about yourself. Sure my name of course if he did introduce. I'm alana hopkins. I am in north carolina. I am a real care with. Keller williams I am a mom of four kids range in age from eleven. So i've got one entering middle school all the way down to A five year old. Who is entering kindergarten. So of course you know lots of stages of life there I'm a wife for a lot. Don't worry fourteen years we've been again in sixteen fourteen. I'll definitely get it back. And yeah i mean. Why real thing super-busy bigness with. I'm super grateful for. I am in the five percent of my firm. The top ten percent of our entire mls. I'd buy thank you. But i'm also Really really Serious about you know maintaining merola as a mom..
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"The college football playoff. We could find a good opponent. From now until December. 4th. We can't find that for Clemson. I understand that brand recognition matters. In college football. Member, the first playoff Where was between Ohio State, Baylor and TCU. She thought that you're the Baylor had a better argument that Ohio State It doesn't really matter because one team is Baylor. The other team is the Ohio State University. It was obvious who they were going to pick. So if that scenario gets here Maybe that's what we end up seeing. But if we're just going to do the blind resume test at the end of the season And we're going to put Clemson's resume up against Auburn's resume, for example, just throwing an SEC opponent out there. I don't think it's going to be that close. This is where playing in the A C C really hurts you And this is where South Carolina being down really hurts you. You played one of the big dogs in the SEC. You lost that team. The second SEC opponents you play later in the year. It's just not one of the premier teams in the country. So Clemson still might make the college football playoff. Even aside from the loss, it is going to be an uphill climb. For them. It is going to be an uphill climb. For them to make the college football playoff. Given the schedule that they have there just aren't enough Good wins. There's just not enough. Goodwin's for Clemson to be able to make the college football playoff I thought the A. C C is the clear loser and week one. Clemson loses their game to Georgia and pretty dominating fashion. I thought In North Carolina. Now, let me be honest. Let me admit. Was drinking the North Carolina Kool Aid just a little bit. You know how every year we try to find that team that's like rank 10 through 17th, and we convince ourselves that there a sleeper for the college football playoff. I did that. I did that myself. I'm guilty. I did that with North Carolina. Watch North Carolina about three or four times last year. They got a future NFL quarterback and they got Matt Brown, who's one of college football championship and I'm thinking of myself, all right. Clemson is not on your schedule. You're in the city. You can get these winds together. Sure. You've got a tough opening game on the road against Virginia Tech. But That's on everybody's schedule. Everybody's got to go on the road and beat a good opponent. If you're going to get to the heights that North Carolina felt like they could get to Laden egg. Week one. The might have lost its two title contenders. Before Labor Day. Clemson is still going to be around because they're Clemson. I'm not so sure about North Carolina. I saw a stat in the last 13 seasons. One team that was selected in the top 10 preseason was unranked at the end of the year. Tell me that doesn't look like North Carolina. Tell me, North Carolina doesn't look like a four lost team this year. Tell me, North Carolina doesn't look like a team who want paper made a lot of sense. But just over the course of the year they were unable to really bring it all together and win at the level that we expected them to at the very beginning of the season. Thought the C C was the clear loser. This weekend Clemson in North Carolina. The Pac 12 had somewhat of a mixed bag. U C L, A major winner. It's time for us to have a conversation about L s u L s u was still eating off that 2019 Championship and I know 2019 wasn't that long ago..
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"north carolina" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"Raleigh, North Carolina. My favorite literary protagonists has got to be the bad mother or the 500 kingdoms. Fantasy series by Mercedes Lackey. Elena Godmother is a real woman, and she's a stick figure either, which I appreciate. She's sassy, and she's honest and she is marked all the things that make any woman amazing. Any person amazing. This is Jared from Lowell, Massachusetts. My favorite protagonists would have to be Ignatius J. Reilly from a Confederacy of Dunces. By John Kennedy Toole. He's a buffoon. He's larger than life. He's obnoxious, frustrating, selfish, elitist. And yet the reader still finds a way to relate to him and feel sorry for him and the situation. Just an excellent very well written character. Hey, my name is Christian Georgiou. I'm calling from South San Francisco, California. And my favorite Literary protagonist is Henry Janiszewski because he is the realist character to live between the front and back covers. Have a book. There's lots of ways to reach out to us here at the show. You can call us for starters at 8778698253. That's 8778 my take. I mean, if you still have letters on your dial pad Also, if you want to really talk with us record, a voice memo and email it to take away collars at gmail dot com. Finally, you can just head on over to take away dot org and click on contact.
Charlotte Readers Podcast
"north carolina" Discussed on Charlotte Readers Podcast
"Laboon is a funny word. It's not even a word okay. That's it do this song. So i have to say that I was reading that book the other night. And i just started laughing. I was in my. So what are you laughing at. I just could not stop laughing about the glass is. That's why i got in touch. George before and so we gotta get the glass on the shed. I'm glad you mentioned that because What happened is when i was doing the play i would work onto the dialogue and sh- given my chromebook to to come up with songs and he was coming up with songs left and right. He wrote twenty songs and similar in there. I'd had about three conversations in a row on the porch with sitting in the chairs. And i love the glass conversation. I just read so. I said i said i said my. I don't want to write it said. would you do a song. Can you read the scene. And make a song out of it. And he did and this is. Sony ended up way. I'll do that. Does a glass work glass. I work the nerves are muscles special. Corpuscles making go around how does a glass. I work in the world. You do win. They're looking at you and the got the wrong. I must speak queer. What the say. Hey buddy over here. How does a glass Work what do you do that at night. The you do it at night. Do you put it in a case or leaving in your face. You might leave it in. If you're the type that sleeps with men out as a glass Work what if it rolled out your head if it roll out in bed. Do they make something like poly grip for foul sibol. So the thing won't slip. How does a glass or a glass were all right. That was really get up. I'm going to jump back on here. This is just been a wonderful conversation. george i wanna thank you for leading and this has been great. Thank you thank you claude and talk with you george slacking and so what i'm gonna do now listeners. we're gonna. We're gonna jump over. Because i've got a lot of questions to ask in. Cloud has been very generous with his time. And he's the kind of guys you can tell that He can he can tell a story and he's gonna stay with us longer. We're gonna go to our patriot channel. Pat oreo dot com for slash charlotte readers. Podcast we. We now have close to sixty episodes up there. These are deep dive conversations with authors about The writing laughs. If you want to help support the podcast. I think it's I don't know if you can if you count. What a starbucks coffee costs. It probably didn't cost as much. Is that to join for a month. So check that out at patriotair dot com for slash charteris podcast. Hey thanks clyde for being a part of charlotte raiders podcast. It's been my honor. I hope you can tell that this has been a no fun for me to pull me away from our work I hate to do these things. I have to do several a day. And i've had a great. I'm so honored that y'all would think of me and up so much appreciate what you're bringing to the world and to charlotte With with with this kind of talking and thinking and enjoying art because embracing art is so important for our culture. That's it for today. Another found author giving voice to the written words. You can subscribe to this podcast for free at apple podcast. Stitcher spotify heart radio. Most any podcast platform you like. Listen to your podcast if you like what we're doing. Please consider leaving short written review on apple podcasts or the podcast platform of your choice. Because when you do our authors voices travel much farther and wider in podcast land. And if you're inclined to help us help authors give voice to the written word and you'd like some member only contact cultivated by authors. And as our thanks. Please consider becoming a member supporter. You can find how to become a member supporter and more about today's show and all previous episodes at charlotte readers. Podcast dot com. Thank you for listening. We really appreciate it. I'm landis wait for charlotte readers podcast charlotte readers. Podcast is a member of the twin city. Podcast network powered by ortho carolina for more information. Go to queen city. Podcast network dot com..
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"Arrest in North Carolina last month. Salt limited footage of the fatal shooting today and afterward, his son, Gerald spoke about his father's death. Father did not deserve to die at all. Did not deserve to get killed in any way, shape or form. He did not pulls any threat at all. Come court. There's no way that this could be justified. There's no way possible. Family backed autopsy showed Brown was shot five times, including once in the back of the head. The shooting happened when deputies tried to serve drug related search and arrest warrants are prosecutors said deputies opened fire on Brown when he tried to get away and hit deputies with his car. But Brown's family says the footage does not support that claim. Protesters are on the streets and Elizabeth City, North Carolina. Right now, way know that 30% of the state's population is under emergency drought orders, But the San Diego Water Authority says the county has enough supplies to last at least the next five years. Padre, shortstop for Nana. Totti's junior has tested positive for Corona virus but doesn't have any symptoms, but it means he and two other players he was in contact with your ex and pro far and Jorge Matteo will be on the injured list due to contact tracing. The league says a player must isolate for 10 days after a positive test. But if a player has been vaccinated can return sooner if they test negative twice The down today lost 473 closing a 34,000 to 69 now at 4 34 Coco's real time traffic with Joe eager In the North County traffic is slow on. He spawned 78 from Rancho Santa Fe to Nordle and earlier crash has cleared sell 15 at the 52 delays, though from the 1 63 continuing down to arrow. Also cleared is the crash in Chula Vista that was going on for several hours were a big hit and over crossing traffic slow from Washington to Chula Vista. This report is sponsored by driveway dot com. Driveway makes Buying a new or used car is easy is ordering lunch. Just go online by your dream car and get it delivered to your driveway, head to driveway dot com. Now that's driving. Way dot com. I'm Joe eager Coco's next real time traffic at 4 43. Was updated San Diego Whether or not a morning clouds and patchy fog with overnight lows in the fifties. Partly cloudy tomorrow on Thursday, coastal highs in the upper sixties and into the mid seventies and low eighties in the valleys right now, downtown.
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"north carolina" Discussed on Charlotte Readers Podcast
"There would be neither one of those schools in existence today. Were it not for the tobacco. Wealth that was created by r. J. reynolds and james began in deep. So it was a very important to the state and you talked about your own family connection and how maybe at one time. You aren't politically so You know fond of those kind of programs that would give. I don't know giveaways to to people but then when you study this more closely you found that your family was a beneficiary of the tobacco allotments correct right amazement and and surprise. I always been economically conservative. I wasn't much on charitable giving by the us government and then i realized that what had happened in one thousand nine hundred thirty eight or thereabouts is part of one of roosevelt's programs. He realized the plight of the tobacco farmers that they were starving that safely not sell the crop and make a profit in for many many farmers in north carolina. Tobacco was the only crop that they had brought in the needed. Cash to buy a few clothes and shoes for the children while they might grow most of their food they still had to go to the store and buy sugar and salt in a few staples like that. They didn't have the money for it and the tobacco lot but program provided that. I know. I've mentioned in the book that my uncle kenneth Revered so much thought. So much of he was a farmer and he he always said to me. Roosevelt was the only president that ever cared about people like me. I never understood that. Until i did the research for the book and saw that the allotment program save the small farmer in north carolina. Gave them a chance to make a few bucks where they never would have had an otherwise. And i had it not been for that my own family about about the time i was born might have loaded everything on their pickup and headed for california. Like the oki's the within the grapes of wrath we might have had no other choice s interesting And he talked about this whole process curing of tobacco which made me understand better why they hang the tobacco lease and the top of a barn Like they do and then put the numbers below to kind of curate Talk a little bit about This movement from you know tobacco to tobacco becoming king north carolina and and some of it had to do with the effectiveness of marketing. And you know marketing took a turn of course from the federal government gun evolved later and said you can't put this on tv..
KFI AM 640
"north carolina" Discussed on KFI AM 640
"Odds stacked against an African American of the era he pursued in education, alternating between work on the family farm and attending school. Maura originally dreamed of becoming an educator and attended notable teacher training schools in the state. But later while it Shaw University, he followed another passion and entered Entered medical school. Dr. Moore graduated with honors in 18 88 and became the first practicing African American physician in the city of Durham, North Carolina. Joining me on the program is one of his direct descendants and author of Aaron McDuffie More an African American physician, educator and founder of Germs. Black Wall Street. I welcome to the program, Blake Hill. SIA. Blake is good to talk to you. How are you today? I'm so well and I'm so pleased to be here. Rumor has it that you are the child of not one but two literature professors. And have this affinity for reading. Even before your parents discovered it. Tell me about it. My parents would be brilliantly proud to have that rumor be to be out. I certainly was born of two literature professors who met in a program for literature, Actually, for English literature. My mother taught literature at bring more college and my father at Haverford for a bit. Until he went into business aside writing consultant and they discovered me early on having always read stories to me, but they discovered me reading a book upside down and backwards. But having memorized it because I was so eager to continue the reading experience that I just decided to take it my own way. So they like to tell that story that they heard reading in another room and realized it wasn't the story that perhaps was in that book and then realized I had it. It's a fascinating story in the reason I want people to know that about you. And your love of writing and reading and literature. I think it sets the stage for why this particular story is so important to not only you, but for other people to know. So with that mind, it's North Carolina 18 63. Paint a picture if you could, for what? That portion of the world was like when Aaron McDuffie more came into the world, while it was certainly a war torn portion of the world it being At the tail end of the Civil War. It was. It was a September morning in Columbus County in North Carolina, a farming community almost entirely owned by and worked by black people and people of Native American descent. It was unusual community by those standards, but not unusual to those living on it very deeply connected and still existing community today called the Farmers Union and Columbus County, North Carolina, and this young man this baby was born into Working family who worked the land and but also benefited from the land. And who learned really the interconnectedness of human life on that farm and really carried that with him. Throughout all of his endeavors, he really began to love learning early. Kids went to school at the age usually around four or five, actually, but school was very short because of the farming season. And so I'm sure that those few months of schooling when you couldn't be working the farm or precious ones for those who really enjoyed learning as much as Aaron did he Worked his way up to being a teacher. Almost before he was a teenager, which was also the custom once you could teach you did because everyone was learning that kind of a different rate, but at the same time in the school houses, and he really fell in love with teaching and thought that that's what he'd like to be and so up until the time he arrived at Shaw much later. On and through through a number of periods of waiting where he had to go back and work the farm and do his duty by his family. Hey, always carried that love of learning and thought he would be a teacher. And then was persuaded to become a physician. Aziz part of these new cod rays coming out of Leonard Medical School, really only just years after even became Legal or desirable in the community to educate young black physicians. You touched him on something that I really want to go back and get and anyone who knows that history during reconstruction. A number of historically black colleges and universities were created HBC use. We now call them and you made mention of Shaw specifically. Where air Macduff more went to college. Talk to me about how Shaw was so specifically instrumental, and not only his education but.
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"And fans, Please drink responsibly. Biagio beer company, New York, New York This'd is Notre Dame men's basketball. Huff now brings it over the big Court Strike Pub, now top of the key three In and out and in it rattled around, hit the box, cut the front of the rim and dropped through the net, and Notre Dame has its largest lead of the game. 11 36 25. And the Irish go on to win it. 73 59. Let's take a look at your scoreboard is a fairly short one. This was the only A C C game today. Only one of the game scheduled in the top 25 4th, ranked Iowa was supposed to host Nebraska, But Nebraska's got covert 19 problems, so that didn't happen. The fighting Irish women went on the road, hoping to pick up their seventh A. C C conference win. Of the year they went in. Six and three at North Carolina, but North Carolina wins that 78 73. Sarah Mabry. 23 points. The rebounds, seven assists for Notre Dame. Stephanie Watch 25 points. 12 rebounds, nine assists. For North Carolina. And for those of you who for some reason, aren't watching the conference championship games, the bucket ears and Tom Brady going back to the Super Bowl they want and Green Bay Today. 31 26, the chief's right now in Kansas City, lead the Bills 14 9 back to hear from coach Brain a moment. This is the Notre Dame Basketball Radio network. Blew a fondue set. Now I need to find a coupon code. Not anymore. Susan Capital one shopping instantly.
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"And sunshine high near 40 degrees right now, clouds, fog and drizzle. We've got 42 degrees in Abington 41 in Worcester. 44 in Quincy and 43 in Boston. It's 10 35, a man who barricaded himself in his home, which led to a brief shelter in place order has been arrested. This happened yesterday morning in Newburyport. Police say the 57 year old man, who they did not identify, had refused to allow police to enter his home as officers investigated a reported break in at a nearby gas station. Police said. Witness assault a suspect matching the man's description run into a residence a few blocks away, potentially armed. The man is currently at the Anna Jake's Hospital in Newburyport for evaluation. No charges have yet been filed. The investigation is ongoing. The Senate voting to override President Trump's veto of a major defense bill with a little lessons three weeks remaining in the president's tenure. The final vote announced by Missouri Senator Josh Holly, None of this filthy Yaser 81. The next are 13. In two thirds of the senator's voting quorum being present, having voted in the affirmative. The bill on reconsideration is past the objections of the president of the United States, to the contrary, notwithstanding, a super majority was needed to override a presidential veto. That President is calling the vote, a disgraceful act of cowardice and total submission by weak people, too big tag. Meanwhile, one of the president's criticisms for the bill was his failure to limit social media companies that he claimed her biased against him during his reelection campaign. Nina, According to U. S. Military officials. Iran and its militias may be planning to act against a US embassy or military base in the region. A top Iranian commander is vowing revenge for the U. S air strike that killed General Qasem Soleimani. One year ago, CBS News Face the Nation moderator Margaret Brennan spoke with an American Princeton University scholar recently released from an Iranian prison. He said he was targeted because he's American. In December. 2019 President Trump's one Two jailed Iranian scientists for Shi'a, Do you think Iran got what it wanted? They didn't get everything they have hope for. They wanted the money. They told me they wanted the there frozen assets being released with them. She weigh one was in prison in Iran on fabricated charges of espionage. A new development in a case against the former officers accused of killing George Floyd. Details from CBS is Allison Keyes. The lawyers prosecuting the four officers charged in his killing by Minneapolis. Police are asking for a three month delay in the trial. Floyd is the black man who died after a white police officer knelt on his neck for more than eight minutes. Prosecutors say they need the delay because of the covert 19 pandemic and the amount of time it will take before enough people are vaccinated toe lower the health risks The trial had been set to begin March 8th for the four officers who have since been fired, charged in Floyd's death and May Allison Keyes. CBS News, a Christian medical ministry that came to New York City when I was the epicenter of the pandemic instead of field hospitals, is now setting up in a small city in North Carolina. Starr's set up tractor trailers, unloading medical supplies for an emergency treatment center and Linux or North Carolina in its population of about 20,000 says Laurie Eastern Caldwell, UNC health care Our entire I CEO. Is being used for covert patients. Heath Walker lives in Lynn or has there going on edge on it Makes me a little anxious, thinking that possibly the North could be the next epicenter are.