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Into America
"over one hundred fifty years" Discussed on Into America
"Year following nine eleven kevin maynard was grieving the loss of his brother. He traveled to colorado springs to attend a memorial service for fallen firefighters and he met someone from the houston fire department. We had a conversation because he thought it was a firefighter. In new york of the t shirt. I don't and i told him no. I work in houston hughes. Hey viral medicine. Hand in he kenner. He's took my numbers. I'm gonna send you application but you meet people in. Okay yeah we say this to you in the actually did he actually call me. And he's pushing me to do it. Kevin hadn't thought about firefighting awhile at this point at had been nearly a decade since the firefighting test back in new york. But this guy. He just wasn't taking no for an answer. I wasn't he persistent and i didn't wanna be for lack of ungrateful so that application and take the test and i thought the process was like in new york where you actually waited five years to get on us out big in five years. Forget me and i just moved home and life but the houston fire department. Didn't forget him. Kevin received a phone call asking him to come down to the department to take a physical test. It was nothing like the process back in new york a couple of months after the exam he was asked to come take a final class in september. I got on september date. Hide is september eleventh two thousand and two. We just happen to be that. Yeah just happened to be desks crazy so when you were going through the process for as you did like automobile rooted his guy you end up getting in the process affairs. But how much was your brother planning your mind when you were walking through. The steps played on my phone because i hate it. I didn't want any guys in my cabinet. Class to know in exciting with the pressure and at a different treatments. I went to the cabinet. I think when i get to almost end of it when it really hit me that i am actually do what he did and so. I got emotionally on the last day. Kevin didn't tell us fellow classmates about his brother and his personal connection to nine eleven but they were twins and one of his classmates saw a picture of keith. On one of those memorials for the fallen firefighters pretty soon. They figured it out on their graduation. We went to ceremony and the chiefs at hates somebody wanting to speak to you so i thought i got in trouble ready for an i ready. Yeah just graduated but then apparently the guys that woke my brother from new york came down a few of his brothers fellow. Firefighters had surprised. Kevin flew down for his graduation and when they got to my name it stopped name was going on and then these guys came. They actually call you up to pin number badge on you. You know sense. I mean kevin has now been with houston fire for over eighteen years. He's currently lieutenant in a majority black firehouse and as he's moved up the ladder. He's thought of his brother. Every step of the way so many times a fire truck. And i've i've gone to a point where he hasn't gotten to have gotten promoted and he didn't get a chance to get promoted. It's like you you continuing where he left us effort that way when actually okay i can. I'm picking up from where he left some. I need to do this any to do that. During kevin's time in the department houston fire has hovered between fifteen and seventeen percent black in a city with a similar black population to new york city about twenty five percent so houston is still lagging representation. But it's not nearly as drastic as in new york. Where after nine. Eleven paul washington kept working to carry on the legacy of his father and brothers at the boca society for most of the fire departments history. We will maybe three percent of the new york city fire department and this is a history that stretches back over one hundred fifty years getting more black firefighters into the department had always been a priority of the vulcans. Mike their work recruiting keith and kevin but the numbers were not going up. Captain washington saw several trapdoors that the fda wi with putting in front of black applicants. One of them was the medical exam. You've passed the test. You come down and take a medical exam. They listen to you hot. They check you long. They take blood tests and all of that whites were failing that test. At about twelve percent blacks would fail that test at thirty two percent. Thirty two percent blacks coming through for the medical exam would be denied the job because of some sort of medical problem. That's ridiculous and that problem had been going on for one. Hundred years was an easy way to kind of just like cut. Somebody's applicant saying. Hey they fail the medical. That's right now. What you feel medical. You're out you can't you can't come on a job. And that was brought through. Fire departments attention to fire department. Didn't do anything about it. They just blow us off. Basically this was the same medical exam. That almost kept keith. Main art off the job. The voca society also took issue with the written exam. Well we said all along was the written test doesn't say if you're going to be a good firefighter or bad firefighter. If you get a ninety nine on that written test or you get a ninety five when the god denied the nine is not the same. He's going to be better at putting out a fight in the guy with the ninety five. Everybody agrees to that. But still if you got if you've got a ninety five hundred tests you're not getting a job you know. Blacks tend to not as good on a test for various reasons. But none of those reasons had to do with how good firefighter. You'll going to be remember. This entrance exam also loom large keith. And his brother kevin even though they both scored well that one point difference between ninety eight and ninety seven with the difference between keith. Getting the job and kevin having to wait and see. So why are we using test. Why use that. Let's come up with a test that's going to be a better indicator of how good firefighter you're going to be and we'll do just fine when you look back. Anything about the fire department in the city. Fighting you guys. Did they say like you know what we have a problem and we need to get better. Or they said oh. There's no problem here. we'll just handle it ourselves. What was the stance of the city and the fire department. I mean we brought these issues today. Attention and they just would either. Just blow us off. Basically you know sometimes. They admitted that he in fact the test did ban. No correlation to how. Good a firefighter. You were gonna be sometime. They did admit that there are other reasons why you know the year they should recruit more but they never did they never did you know we had to force them. To do. Legal action became a necessary part of the book of society strategy for inclusion in nineteen ninety. Nine we really started legal action against the fire department. You know i've filed an eeoc grievance with the federal government which turned into the justice department investigation fire department. The justice department found mary in the book of society. Grievances in two thousand seven. The doj sued the new york city fire department for discrimination. The voca society. Join that lawsuit and won. We won the lawsuit based on the written test. The entrance exam. We knew we were going to win. It was has now. We were going to win. And why does city battles us and wanted to bring. The court was beyond me. You know mayor bloomberg at the time he says. Oh no no judge is going to tell me what to do. You're going to lose his lawsuit in the judge is going to tell you exactly what to do in two thousand nine. Federal judge nicholas g. Guerrillas ruled against the f. d. n. y. Claiming the entrance exams were discriminatory. He found that approximately one thousand black and hispanic applicants would have been considered for appointment. If the city had used a fair test. He wrote when an employment test is not adequately related to the job for which tests and when the test adversely affects minority groups. We may not fall back on the notion. that better test takers. Make better employees. The following year. That same judge found that not only did the city discriminate but they had done so intentionally. That ruling was later overturned on appeal but for the f. d. n. y. The damage.
Monocle 24: The Globalist
"over one hundred fifty years" Discussed on Monocle 24: The Globalist
"Forgotten parts of indian society have been able to come in regardless of caste or religion and now perhaps gender have been able to make a name for themselves and become part of the growing india story Also just wanna say that. There's a decision to grant permanent commission to win an officers from majority of the branches of the indian government. The indian army as well so both of those moves are sort of defining. The indian army's knew what they're trying to pitch without a agenda neutral approach. It's it's good news. It's baby steps but it's really good news and of course these five women are over. The moon lindy Backlash against criticism against indian cuisine in the washington post. What's this row will about. Oh my this is this. This is a good one challenge. We say a bit spicy. So there's an an american actor and producer mindy calling and of course everyone knows the model and television post problem a lakshmi. Well they come out and they are very upset about an american columnist from the washington post. Who's whilst watching lyrically about all the wonderful things in the has come up with from not being able to be the creator of of shoots and ladders and the concept of zero and shampoo and modern day nonviolent political resistance and and cataract surgery kashmiri. Us people are and yet then he said the only however india's the only ethnic cuisine in the world insanely based entirely on one spiced. Well now i have to say something as an american here. We have something in america called curry powder and it has this misnomer. Curry is just one spice. A powder and anybody who knows anything about indian cuisine knows that is wrong in fact nobody in india knows what curry powder is because a curry is a mix of many different spices and each curry. Just kind of like you know your your mom meatloaf or a good spaghetti bowl. Anees is different from every single family so to say that a curry has just one spice is ignorant or the backlashes. I think he's being called racist and a bit shortsighted And and so. There's a big firestorm happening on twitter and instagram as the backlash sort of saying you know. What are you on about and now in india. Everybody's sort of news because nobody's really heard of curry powder didn't cricket. Thank you so much for joining us on the line. Listening to the globalist monocle twenty. Four ups is a global financial services firm with over one hundred fifty years of heritage built on the unique dedication of all people we bring fresh thinking and perspective to are. We know that it takes a marriage of intelligence and heart to create lasting value for all clients. It's about having the right ideas of course but also about how they one of.
Ultimate Guide to Partnering™
"over one hundred fifty years" Discussed on Ultimate Guide to Partnering™
"About this race between the hyper scholars. And so it's top of mind for me. What are you seeing. An howard things shaping. Up from your perspective sure vince. That's a great question. You know. I think over the last few years i've seen everyone. These big tech companies accelerate and intensify their involvement in and their investment in their partner ecosystems. I think they realize on the one hand right if the cloud lives up to its promise than this world class technology is going to be available to companies of every size. You don't just have to be a fortune. Five hundred company be able to afford this world class technology. So they're going to reach more people. Those people are going to have higher levels of expectations. They're gonna wanna move faster they gotta be more Specific on like that A scaling issue that the tech companies themselves couldn't handle so the partner ecosystems. I think have stepped in beautifully here and they are doing work on a number of levels. Right vince. they become a force multiplier reaching more customers with more specialized perspectives and more unique solutions. And they also. I think bring a sense of Right you know. The the cloud technology is sort of removed from customers which i think a lot of customers are happy about. But they don't want to feel like they're out somewhere on an island right so departments by that close up expertise the innovation. You know wherever it's necessary the hand holding but more importantly that ability to help those customers continued to adapt continue to innovate. Continue to reimagined. What could happen so it's been fantastic. I think for not just microsoft and all of those big vendors neon and in fact you just had a recent posts on lincoln It was posted. It was an article about deutsche bank and the work in the innovative work. They've been doing around google's cloud. Can you comment on that our listeners. Absolutely yeah you know. Deutsche bank has been around for over one hundred fifty years vance and they like so many big financial institutions. They became really good at what they had done for a long time. And they believed in this sort of business strategy. That i think now is outmoded. Right was that of moats. If i just sort of build. These moats around me. you know. Nobody's going to be able to attack and that's just gonna silly these because one of the great benefits cloud is it puts the power again. This world class technology that used to be available only to the biggest and wealthiest companies in the world. Now it's available to entrepreneurs small businesses disruptive startups and so forth..
Monocle 24: The Globalist
"over one hundred fifty years" Discussed on Monocle 24: The Globalist
"It's tech industry but rather it wants to make its tech industry comply with government priorities kind of at any cost so we all remember and dvd ridesharing company that you know launched its ipo in the us and days after it was pulled from the chinese app store and there are many stories like this. So i read about and group financial Who was punished by the government because they made it too easy for young people to take out loans. Beijing feared that this would lead to increasing social discontent. If these young people can actually afford you know to launch their own. Projects launched on small businesses. That's potentially dangerous. Crackdown on online education. Apparently interestingly jeopardizing their a one child policy because now education too expensive and people want who have fewer and fewer kids again but so it it really shows this kind of two sided approach so on the one hand you know. Beijing tries to be an example really you know. The first emerging economy to launch a card market contributing to you know mitigating climate change really progressive. And then kind of you know through the back door day regulate their big tech industry and away that you know they just achieve more and more control over society and and they get through with this because every now and then they offer kind of jerry to the international community and the international community community takes it voluntarily you know praising beijing for its progressive approach to climate change and then through the back door you know on these other actions take our you know receive less criticism and and and less under stage. Let's talk about jeff bezos. And he came back down from space. I'm sort of half interested in jeff bezos. I'm more interested in the amazing amazing lady who in her eighties has become the oldest woman space. I fully agree with you when you saw. How how she can have when the capture Touched earth again in house. You jumped out of the out of the out of the window. They're you know spreading her arms and smiling across her face. I think that was that was well deserved and that was a good pr stunt. I must say i'm so. She's eighty two now. The answer said writes. She's been trained as an astronaut by by nasa but it was never allowed to fly. And now you know in a kind of also interesting. Twist of history. Almost i would say you know. She was trained by the public space agency. Now she's able to fly with the private space agency so to say so have basis. I think that's a nice story question here as for me and i don't really know the answer. The question is why are these people actually all trying to fly to space so you know elon musk's doing jeff basis is doing and so one is kind of the probably the race of the egos right they wanna to be there. First and there is a quote by jeff bases into into ends it's s which is actually made me laugh so he just said it's the only option to invest my wealth so he's worth about two hundred two hundred and eleven billion dollars. I read and i mean that's kind of a sad sign you know. If that's the only thing he can come up with to spend his money so yeah and then you know there might be. We might even get some insight so the ufo reports have been released in the us. Right so maybe jeff says is going to solve that puzzle and and and you know find some other. People are not tour like a circulating around around planet earth. I wonder whether it's singled tahiti syndrome. Which i think. I think is when you have everything. And they've got nothing left to achieve so you just you get quite sad so i wonder where we're going to have to call it like space syndrome instead flooring egli thank you so much for joining underlying from do i toss ninety nine zero. You're listening to the globalist. Ups is a global financial services firm with over one hundred fifty years of heritage built on the unique dedication of all people..
The Nicole Sandler Show
"over one hundred fifty years" Discussed on The Nicole Sandler Show
"That's bs right. That's not happening. What is happening is google is stealing abdal. Oh yeah fred. Like they're they're just they're pocketing really high commissions using these ad markets. You know this this has come up in in some of the litigation against google. They run these ad markets where they are the sell side by side. So it's like imagine if nasdaq was run by one of the companies listed on nasdaq and it's set the terms for buying and selling shares and one of the things that did was actually like mediate between all the companies that do stuff to say was run by like an isp and if you wanted to be a high tech company you had to make the i. s. p. happy in order to buy and sell shares right like a marketplace where where the marketplace maker participates in the marketplace is like a football game where the referee is on one of the teams. They swear blind that their calls will be fair and we can see from. The evidence of the calls aren't fair right like google and facebook at one point explicitly colluded to rig these markets that also came out and some his antitrust litigation. And so if we want to make these systems fairer than we have to cut their their supply lines. We have to give them less money to lobby. We have to give them less power over our lives. One of the ways we do that is by peeling off their users into rival services. That aren't interested in commodifying us. That aren't as kind of empirical in the way that they relate to the supply chains that they're part of that don't have the market or the political power to abuse the other people in the chain including customers and suppliers and that don't have the clout with lawmakers that these big firms have that you know like facebook can pay the former deputy prime minister of of the united kingdom four million a year to traipse around the world. Explain that facebook good for democracy. We need to cut their supply lines. They can't afford to do that anymore when they can't afford to do that anymore. It's going to be harder for them to secure the special privileges that they have going to be harder for them to resist more meaningful action like breakup Wine unwinding their elicit mergers blocking their anti competitive conduct. And so on. It's it's the it's the end of the threat that we can pull on. That could unravel the whole sweater. Wow no you're right and so with. This is a huge undertaking. Do as joe biden. Put it to increase competition and stop the monopolistic tendencies and practices. And you said if. I read you correctly that you gotta start with tech that. That's where this has to start. Is that because it's the tentacles reach everywhere. It's i mean it's a couple of reasons so one is that like the only way like chicken. Farmers are going to organize to resist purdue and the other big chicken meat packers is over the internet. Right like there. At farms at the end of lonely country roads right the only way people who are angry about pharmaceuticals or trucking labor arrangements the logistics industry so dirty. An ugly right now. It's a basically makes uber looked like a good labor mark truckers on the road. Need the internet organiz. You know teamster saw labor activism right so we need the internet. We need the internet. Because these companies are transnational so we need to make solidarity and other territories with with other people you know and and learn from them and and work with them collaboratively but then there's like a technical reason that we need to start with tekere that starting with tech makes sense. Which is that tech. Has this interoperability stuff. Like it's it's hard to make physical stuff inter operate like sometimes it's easy like you know. Nike can't force you to use official nike shoelace. You can just put a piece of string in that right but like railroads. It's a lot harder hundred and fifty years ago in australia. They laid six different gauges of rail one state because everybody wanted their own standard. A piece of rolling stock across the canal right. It's tried three hundred designs over one hundred fifty years to try and fix what they call the multi gauge muddle and the only answer is like tearing up thousands of kilometers of railtrack laying new track. That's not a problem with tech right. If this were like six different word processor formats you. Just get some programmers to work on a for a couple of months and they just like make importers for all of them. It'd be fine so we can like. Facebook has its own gauge. Rail and twitter has its own gauge rail. And you know. Youtube comments have their own gauge rail and lincoln communities have their own gauge rail and if they were physically like steel laid across the australian outback we would be so screwed but because they're purely digital we can like we can do something intermediate we can do something that gives us relief right now and that will make those services far better suited to be the substrate for an activist moment that attacks monopolization in every domain and you mentioned biden's e. Oh yeah one of the things about that executive order. That super exciting is that it's not just about tech now. Explicitly makes the connection to like farm on trucking all kinds of industries. Everything and this is where i was going to segue to next so you start with tech and the and the the bills that work. That had the markup. Last week we're mostly dealing with tech but then biden goes into this long seventy two different provisions in this executive order everything from banning non compete agreements. Which i love because being in radio i've been subject to them for years allowing the importation of canadian drugs. He has a the the formation of a public option included in there. And another thing right to repair honestly. This was an issue. I wasn't even aware of before. But it has impacted me when it comes to like a cell phone that if you take your cell phone to somebody an independent repair shop. They're going to say well. Your warranty is void. You have to bring it to us to fix it. But it's bigger and agriculture whereas a caterpillar says a tractor. Who was it here. It's dear dear dear although they're all terrible but deer as the worst year is like the arch nemesis here. So dear says you're not allowed to fix your own tractor you farmer who's worked on your own equipment forever like since the first origin the first farm in neolithic times so so that's a provision they have that you can't work on your own tractor because it will void the warranty you have to bring it to us and joe biden saying hell. No you have the right to repair your own stuff. This is bid. yeah. I mean we're parachutes to repair is depending on who you ask. And how you count between one and five percent of the us gdp When you if you Landfill like a ton of e waste you create like two jobs and if you recycle it you create like fifteen jobs and if you repair it you create one hundred and fifty jobs. And they're middle-class. Good sniffle jobs in your community of people. Send their phones to china to get them fixed. They certainly not on their cars to china to get them fixed. So these are local businesses that allow people who don't have a four year degree. Who can who can learn repair. You know out of high school so our it allows them to create good stable middle-class jobs. It's a it's a path into the middle class like we had after the new deal and they do an end. Those jobs aren't jobs like coal mining which are destroying the world Their jobs that are saving the world that divert conflict minerals An e waste from the waste stream and that Keep plastics out of our landfills in our oceans..
Democracy Now! Audio
"over one hundred fifty years" Discussed on Democracy Now! Audio
"Exactly. David castillo is bent for having me. This -nificant of the murder is is huge right. This is the first case since the coup d'etat. That has been brought to justice. That has been hurt publicly. Not just by endurance but by the international community and it's also a testament to the rescind organizing against the coup that coping has led that better had led right And france the the senate organization on the have lead against the coup government and particularly wonderland under so it gives us a glimmer of hope bed at the time of sentencing in a month or so we might see some real justice in that sentence itself. So an also. There's a little hope that the family will brought to justice as well as they are the owners of this our corporation so we'll see if they'll face their death in court so this is the first time in twelve years that we seen any kind of justice on buddha's and you know the attorney said this yesterday in the press conference. The court had all the evidence they needed to try this case in may of twenty sixteen three months after the murder of bertha cassidy's but it took them almost five years to bring mr justice and was really due to that organizing on the ground that mobilize international community including actors from hollywood and other famous people. Speaking out about this internationally. So you know my props to cocaine and organizing on the ground. Well professor professor jabor wanted to ask you. You mentioned the family. Most people here in the united states have never heard of it. Could you talk about the family's role with desa and what links them what evidence links them possibly a to involvement in the killing of picasso and also the other elite families of honduras they fared since two thousand nine cool so the elite families. Someone who'd as you know. Think that thorough so like a salvador what am are small countries. there's maybe twenty twenty two families and endurance who own the country basically They have corporations they. The -cation miami. Their sons and daughters study in the united states. Right they live this very posh life and they were definitely opposed to Miscellaneous government and honduras in two thousand and nine. Potentially joining the pink tide was known back then and they were know concerned right about on dude as potentially becoming a socialist country and so these families includes with the nationalist party. Some of them were from the liberal party executed the coup the time so the attala family That alyssa black family is one of these families. many of these arabic families came to honduras in the early nineteen hundreds In have now become part of the and you know they own the supper and it hit because they They hired know former army. Military trained folks like a steel mahia. Right david casteel who graduated from west point in two thousand and four and a specialist and intelligence and counter intelligence what the case demonstrated was this really sinister way which betta cassius was being followed in you know he pretended to be friends with her called her all the time to kind of connect with her and then at other times threatened her. And so you know. Better setted many times to Some of her allies. Who ended up testifying in this case that you know this guy is is following me and tracking me and this guy is going to try and kill me and in terms of the us role in honduras. Since the coup clearly cool occurred against melts of celaya during the The obama administration with hillary clinton as secretary of state. And what's been the role of the united states. Since then i like to think about the united states on and this is what i do in my book by looking back over one hundred fifty years of us involvement in honduras and in the region of central america. I'd like to think of the united states. Never leaving on dudas you know the cold war Sort of ended with a peace accords. If some people say you know Honduras has always been a geopolitical area for the united states and certainly in two thousand and nine when nelson silence was allied with or chavis. And you know supporting cuba entering the s if you will remember that conversation You know this was very threatening to hillary. Clinton hillary clinton who is a disciple of kissing her who many people credit with the dirty war in south america right so so there was all these sort of cold war people within the democratic party that executed the coup time to the nine. Of course the obama administration refused to call it a coup. If you will remember your reporting role in that moment was really key because you know it was only independent media that was calling the coup into an nine a coup d'etat effectively and it wasn't until two thousand and eleven weekly wikileaks. Sort of released cables from the us embassy in honduras at the time of the coup that the administration had to admit it was they called it a diplomatic coup but honduran people knew that it was a violent coup a coup that you know over two thousand people were killed a over four thousand people civil rights violated at the time You know and then you had the death of of the key. Kronos transform transforming activists of the day of the coup soviet woody or and many many more since then and better gossip as was someone that you know called out the hillary clinton and the obama administration constantly and tried to let us know right that that this is a historic role that under us that served the united states in on dude house right. That buddhist was geopolitical and she used to say on. New dance is a laboratory for what the us wants to do in other countries. Not just in. Latin america and affectively. We've seen that since they're so The the role in in in the us and the recent critical is because it has been a role of extractivism of racial capitalism. If you look at the history of the united for company right one hundred years free work on were given land for free. There were concessions of land in the north coast. That then they sold when they left on dudas just after hurricane mitch When they began to sell pieces of that land to national growers and other latin american growers from brazil or nicaragua. And what's interesting about. This is that when kamala harris decides to come to what the my line talk about migration the companies that should bring with one of them is nestle corporation which we know is just as problematic because the united for company in other parts of africa and asia right so that the us state department has had an extractive role a role that has never been about respecting the sovereignty of under or other central american nations. And and this is more of the same right. We're seeing more of the same. So when i say i'd credit this win. To bean and local organizers. Look it's really important. Because it shows agent and see and determinism and and despite against all odds i mean most of those people working on the bertha custody case have protective orders because they have received death threats or this. They received death threats for the work that they do and the attorneys the family and we should mention another big news coming in honduras inter-american court of human rights declared that the state was responsible for killing the trans woman vacate hernandez's who you mentioned professor portfolio That happened the night of the two thousand nine coup and go back to our coverage democracy now dot org when one who also work with the new york daily news and daily news board meeting questioned hillary clinton about her support of the coup We're gonna end. With the words of tacoma days herself she was assassinated a year after she won the goldman environmental prize for her work protecting indigenous communities and for her environmental justice campaign against that massive dam on the stay sacred guac car gave river. This is berto speaking in two thousand fifteen in with rascals yoenis our world views we are beings who come from near from the water and from corn the link people are in sestriere guardians of the rivers in turn protected by the spirits of young girls who teach us that giving our lives in various ways so they use for the protection of the rivers is giving our lives for the well-being in coping of humanity and of this planet the great environmentalist. Burt cassidy's receiving goldman environmental prize. In two thousand fifteen in two thousand sixteen she was assassinated in her own home in last month's honduras this weekend monday David castillo was one of those found guilty of her murder. We want also thanks. The partido the honduran scholar and associate professor pitzer college author of the new book roots of resistance the story of gender race and labor on the north coast of doris. When we come back we air the explosive video from greenpeace of exxon lobbyists speaking in their own words about the oil giants secretive efforts to block climate action on capitol hill and what senators and congress members. They've captured stay with us up in contra.
Monocle 24: The Globalist
"over one hundred fifty years" Discussed on Monocle 24: The Globalist
"Virus and it's really rubbing off where it comes to corporate sponsorship because now they're considering whether it's even beneficial for them to have the olympics logo included in their advertising and sponsorship of the games so you can see how far the olympic flame his full and i guess or how d met that torch that normally shines bright has has ended the because the olympics are not popular in japan will ever although this fifty report does say that opposition has fallen from around eighty percent to sixty two percent which i mean. That's that's a significant drop j. Sixty two percent of you community against you hosting the olympics. It's not really one you'd be wanting to be the government over saying this at this time in world history. Is it not really book. Thank you so much for joining us. On the globalist ups is a global financial services firm with over one hundred fifty years of heritage built on the unique dedication of all people. We bring fresh thinking an perspective to are. We know that it takes a marriage of intelligence and heart to create lasting value for all clients. It's about having the right ideas of course but also about having one of the most accomplished systems and unrivaled network of global experts. That's why at. Ubs we pride ourselves on thinking smarter make a real difference tune into the bulletin with ubs every weekend for the latest insights and opinions from ubs all around the world. Let's talk climate and energy news bloomberg's at roti accurate. Welcome back to the program. Good morning good money at right less. Talk about this ban by the united kingdom to ban. Heller halogen light bulbs from september. What we sometimes think of climate change as a problem where we have to reduce emissions Turns out in some cases you have to ban items so We know that. Led lights are some of the most efficient lighting there is in the market In fact it is so efficient that the government now things that sales have not caught up enough that it has to ban what are old lighting technology. Such as halogen bulbs are later in twenty twenty. Three they will also Band fluorescent lights. And now we are causing the bands. Come through other areas. We know that the uk has Is bill de banning sales of new patrol cars in twenty thirty or twenty. Thirty two And that's going to happen in some other countries as well And i think we will see more of that just to be able to bring mission style. I mean abandoned. We mean that. Someone's gonna come around to my house and shout at me if i still have them in my house or is this a ban on the sale of some because it's pretty hard to get hold of a halogen bulb now. Yes it is a ban on sale so no pupil not gonna come to your house and steal them from you but It is a ban on sale. I mean we will see something Similar in boilers being new boilers being banned are or at least incentives being given to replace boilers in homes because he wanted to move away from gassed either electric or addition speaking of people making a very public show to To say that they are going green. Let's move to hyandi. Every car maker on. Earth is pushing towards a greener agenda. It's the the drive to create an electric cars that are affordable effective and more importantly lovely to drive is huge as a result he and is being accused of Trying to overstate. Just how efficient. It's it's curry's i i wonder whether it's because it just wants to get into the market as quickly as it can one. This specific is it hyundai seeing in an ad that they are hydrogen fuel cell car a cleans air as it goes. Turns out with hydrogen fuel cell. Cars are zero carbon in that they don't produce carbon dioxide read. The fuel is being burned in the car but they are not Free of appalachian because Doesn't just come from the exhaust pipe but also from the rubber hitting the road even many have electric cars the battery electric or hydrogen. They're still going to produce air pollution and the advertising authority in the uk has said you cannot greenwash by using this line. So what can hand. I do know given the fact that this is. It has made this overstatement. Well it walk back on saying that it is purifying air. It can still say that The car doesn't produce emissions of carbon emissions. And that's perfectly a valid argument for why you should be advertising hydrogen cars features. But you can't say that has no air pollution accent seeing company's not necessarily greenwash their credentials but try to push their credentials as much as they can. They can in order to make themselves marketable when it comes to cause especially a lot because what we are seeing is it's not just a push from governments that want a car companies to set climate targets and deliver on emission reduction but also consumers are very keen on buying cars that are greener cleaner better For the environment but also better for driving And so we're seeing a lot of car companies. I mean the pivot in the car industry is now well underway. Words away from at roland. Diesel and electric or hydrogen accent. Thank you so much for joining us on monocle. Twenty four you're listening to the globalist for the time is seven fifty two here in london returned finally to venezuela this year themes of diversity and climate change dominating. The city's architecture been over at. The italian pavilion is on the theme of resilience. The artist and nikola as has teamed up with environmental organization poly for the oceans. It's helping to pioneer.
Monocle 24: The Globalist
"over one hundred fifty years" Discussed on Monocle 24: The Globalist
"An invoice attached for monocle twenty four. I'm andrew seven seven here in london. Let's continue now. Today's newspapers joining me. Is ruth michelson. Gentlest longtime correspondent now based in istanbul Russa very good morning. Good morning. And i think there's a one store in the front page of lots and lots of newspapers right across the world which is a huge change of the guard in israel that is true. It might be the end of netanyahu. After twelve years of hymns prime minister An icee might because there's still a little way to go as we're seeing in some of the coverage as you. It's actually quite hard to find stories. That are not this one in News about the middle east at the moment. So for example we have some Coverage in arts which talks about how this is a moment of firsts. This is the first time for example. That ultraorthodox jewish parties are not part of the ruling coalition They do point out that As they say well advocates have religious pluralism and freedom might feel hot and about the liberal coalition of the new government. They probably shouldn't get the hoops up too high. That is unlikely to be civil marriage They also point out in some analysis. That netanyahu's the one that made this possible by allowing his his enemies to unite against him. How much is the refocus. On netanyahu in the coverage will as opposed to the fact that you say this. This grouping together of eight separate coalition partners is not going to be the easiest of unions. Well i mean there's there's two elements to this so this agreement on the coalition needs to be approved still by the knesset so there are still plenty of opportunities as is very Aptly described in some of the coverage. I think particularly in the washington post where they talk about. How netanyahu and his party still have a chance to thwart this coalition building By bringing or convincing some of the members from the amino polity are that's enough taliban policy who set to be new the latest prime minister to dropout but netanyahu certainly has a way of kind of inserting his his quote trump like into the coverage. So there's plenty of coverage of him talking about how result is the fraud of the century. this is in Reuters where they talk about. How much for threat. He'll be as an opposition leader and he is also apparently decried what he says is the creation of a dangerous and left wing government. One thing that A lot of coverage is is is sort of coming together on is the fact that this is a very very unstable situation that the very very unusual coalition finds itself in the new york. Times is covering what the palestinians feel about. What's happening here at slightly so know pretty. Unfortunately rare coverage of what palestinians feel about this given that they will of course be affected by this you coalition but without the ability to vote on it for many of them so there's a quote from the former head of the palestinian stock exchange in their coverage. And they say look there's differences nuances but all mainstream israeli parties slight exceptions on the extreme left shed pretty much the same ideology so therefore whoever is in charge it doesn't make any difference. Let's move on to another story a report released by the world bank which paints a devastating pitcher. What's happening with the economy in lebanon. Absolutely i think it's also worth pointing out As we look into this coverage that it's very rare through the world bank to publish such direct criticism and they said that basically the financial and economic crisis that lebanon is facing is likely one of the worst. The world has seen in over one hundred fifty years so for example. We're seeing some coverage of this in bloomberg who citing the associated press And they say they wrote back saying that this is likely to rank in the top ten possibly talk three of the most severe crises globally since the mid nineteenth century the report pulls no punches coverage given announces area today. But what is there any suggestion as to what can be done because the reasons that have been rolled out. Aw reasons that we have all heard before. Aren't they absolutely. I mean i think part of the problem is that we're still seeing the repetition of the same problems in lebanon. Even though the situation is getting worse so we're seeing that coverage for example in in. Ap where they talk about how The result of this has been Yet again the lebanese president. Alan and the prime minister designate. That saad hariri stay put trading bulbs earlier this week accusing one another of obstruction negligence and insolence. But at the same time as this is happening there were lebanese people As their reporting lining up in front of atm machines. Trying to get money out of the banks desperately because those rules have been changed again as the economy is getting worse and there have also been protesters blocking the main roads in beirut and around the capital Protesting essentially The what they say is the constant humiliation of lebanese. Fill their cause with fuel. The increasing power cuts search for medicine and also to deal with the indecision and the intransigence of their leaders. Let's move onto the final story. Helping over the border to syria where the president bashar al assad was rather unsurprisingly reelected with an unsurprising of ninety five point nine nine percent of the vote in his favor What has been the international coverage of that. Well naturally a lot of the coverage has focused on the fact that if you have an election result with someone wins with ninety five point one nine percent. You can't really regard that as being a free and fair election. But we're seeing coverage essentially. What now for syria and what now in particular for the assad regime which seems intent on staying in power so there's some coverage of foreign policy which says you know until a few years ago. Assad still persona non grata in the arab world but now he is being well. They say almost entirely rehabilitated Talking about potential returns to the arab league things like this And there's some coverage in a long usual which is a french language newspaper in lebanon With talks about certain. Eu countries notably greece and cyprus repeating embassies in damascus but also contains a quote from an e representative saying you know all lying on normalization with the syrian regime is the same And this doesn't mean that there's going to be A deeper numerous ation of relations between the european union And damascus is just a question that people grown weary of this of this war this lasted a decade and have therefore accepted that this is just going to have to continue. That's possible but it's also that the assad regime to some extent his with its partners in iran and russia created facts on the ground That essentially a lot of international partners have been unable or unwilling to deal with. I mean there's also coverage looking For example at the other side from the associated press looking at children who've been chapped at the al hawl camp which is filled with a former members of isis When some cases current members of isis in the of syria and there's also issues around european countries being unwilling to accept people accept their own nationals have been held in that camp for years. So there are you know there's some Just not wanting to deal with it. From international partners ruth michelson. Thank you as of a for joining us on the globalist. U bs is a global financial services firm with over one hundred fifty years of heritage built on the unique dedication of.
The Higherside Chats
"over one hundred fifty years" Discussed on The Higherside Chats
"Another day another deep dive into the things. They don't want us to know and the list is long. We've heard many researchers tell stories of suppress technologies. That defy the carefully crafted scientific box. They want us to stay inside of in the realms of anti gravity free energy and medical devices that sound like miracle cures we heard about new models. They never taught us in school with things like ether. Physics exotic properties of electricity and water plasma dynamics in oregon energy and we know the forgotten history of alternative fuels like hemp alcohol and even water before the oil only oligarchy. Made sure they got a decades long monopoly on us. The only approved option and something that has been mentioned by many previous guests when it comes to this sort of thing is what's most well known as brown's gas named after your brown who dedicated a lot of his life to it in the nineteen seventies. It is a substance which has gone by many names as various people have stumbled across it or attempted to brand and monetize it but beyond the labels and names. What we're talking about is a process that can be done to water to create a cold negatively charged electrically expanded plasma form of it today. The man behind the wheel is the researcher and inventor. George wiseman who has been working with brown's gas since the nineteen eighties and has found practical applications for it. That range from increased fuel efficiency. Powering flame torches that are cool to the touch and cleaning up nuclear waste to grow in bigger plants increasing the life expand of pretty much anything and supercharging our immune systems in a way that seems to make dozens of conditions. Just melt away. Georgia's been an inventor most of his life at a lot of his work on things. From brown's gas to free energy and fuel saving technology can be found on his website. Eagle dash research dot com. And i am site to get into it. The great browns gas guru electrically expanded water expert and inventor extraordinaire. George wiseman welcome to the higher side. Oh my goodness what it introduction. And i'm hardly knowing what to say after all that you just pretty much synopsys most of my life. Well it is really an honor and pleasure. And i find the stuff to be super fascinating. Your work has been mentioned here many times. And i'm looking forward to talking to the man himself i've heard so many of your interviews and it is hard for them to not all start to sound the same when there's so much fundamental education to do on what the stuff really is. I tried to get us a little further downfield with that intro and the basics on the history of brown's gas in the technical definition but just to make sure everyone is on board and the interest of no child left behind. What more would you say. About what brown's gas is beyond that simple definition of being and electron dense plasma state of water. Okay we can get into my history a little bit because your introduction mentioned suppression sure and. I have a couple of stories about that but to answer your question. Specifically browns gas is the entire mixture of gases that evolves or is generated in electrolysers specifically designed to make browns gas michael faraday over one hundred fifty years over one hundred seventy years ago now developed electrolyte where disabuse trinity to split water into hydrogen oxygen. And because of the way that they did it traditionally all of those decades decades they separated the hydrogen into one stream and the oxygen out into another stream with a membrane between in all science classes. My own science class. Everybody does this to get pure. Hydrogen and pure hydrogen is very very good. There's a lot of good uses for it. but back in the early nineteen sixties. A fellow named william rhodes who was literally rocket. Scientists had over one hundred patents to his name and was an adviser to nasa up until he was ninety five years old and then is dementia caught up with him and he died within a few years after that i met him personally. He's an amazing man and his research and mind. our research vials were virtually identical. It was astonishing. He and i made a copy files but what happened was he called it. A single ducted gase. He developed for a particular application that he was involved in. He developed a electrolysers that did not have a membrane in the middle so the hydrogen and oxygen all came out the same host. It turns out that there was an additional gas made that he wasn't aware of at the time and i so wish he was still alive because he'd be fascinated with this. Then we call the electrical expanded water. So essentially you could think of the electrolysers. It has a positive and a negative plate. They call it an cathode and it builds an electron bridge across in the solution. The middle the catalytic solution in the middle and because the way. This bridge works with the onions and kachins. It actually stops electricity into water so at water molecule actually soaps up electrons like a sponge soaps of water until it becomes an electrically expanded form of water that is not water vapor or steam it will not condense if you cool it it stable but it's a plasma former water you've got or states of matter you've got your solid liquid your gas and your plasma and plasma is a gas it has extra is ionized in this case a negatively charged ones. It has extra electrons. So brown's gas is a mixture of six different constituents measured with spectra graphic analysis. We've discovered this Normal hydrogen h two your normal oxygen two and then you have water vapor which any mixture of water would have some some h. two o. that is water vapor and then you have the weirdnesses once you have age which is simply hydrogen that is not die atomic hydrogen which is not supposed supposed to exist and you have oh again oxygen comic oxygen which is not supposed to exist in a stable state and then you have this electrically expanded water which in our localize it takes up about thirty to forty percent of the gas so they six different constituents all come out the same hose and so essentially. That's what we call. Browns guests browse gases easiest mixture. That's generated in electrolysers specifically designed not to separate the gases doesn't have a memory. So that's my answer to that question Right on yes. It gets pretty technical. But i think that should make sense to everybody and you'd mention the magic word suppression. Because i've heard you give interviews on a lot of biohacking and alternative health types of shows. And the way i get into these kind of fields is by being interested in suppression alternative history corruption corporate malfeasance. If they're trying to keep something out of the culture usually for the sake of prophets album interested in that kind of thing. And so i ended up having to take a crash course in pretty advanced science that scientists are baffled by it. Seems most of the time. But you said maybe there are some stories of suppression and and trouble in your history. And when i asked the audience for questions that seemed to be one of the big things they were curious about to. What.
History That Doesn't Suck
"over one hundred fifty years" Discussed on History That Doesn't Suck
"Quite the attitude we wanna go with. Wow okay okay very cool. So if i could shift us more here. The nineteenth century train now my my listeners have heard not just about the transplant. Neil railroad by this point. But they've also heard about gunslingers. Train robberies is so they've heard a lot about red lanterns signaling and whether or not. That's a real red lantern. Or if it's a bandit they've heard mention of a fireman which i explained at least one time it gets a little repetitive. If every single time on these stories comes up. I'm re explaining what everyone does takes away from the narrative you know so. Could you walk us through that. You've got the engineer. There's the firemen. Wha- all makes this train you know makes it go. How how's this thing work. So our locomotives are we have the jupiter and the number one nineteen their replicas of the two that were here on may tenth eighteen sixty nine their american four four zero style. Locomotives so the first four is for the four. Guiding wheels the second fours for the four driving wheels and then both of these locomotives lack trailing wheels. So that's where you get four okay. The both companies used lots and lots of four zero four six zero locomotives if you look at their rosters for what they had and use at the time. Those are the workhorses of their companies. And that's because they're kind of jack of all trades a can pull a fair low they can go decent speed. They have good range. They're able to use those locomotives fairly efficiently. So with our locomotives. They have three sections starting in the back so If you can imagine yourself in the cab of the locomotive on the floor of the cab is a hatch that opens up into the fire box. And that is if you think of. A movie were Firemen shoveling coal or throwing would into the locomotive. That's what he's doing. He's opening up that hatch. That fire box and throwing colin would to get the fire going so you have the fire box. It's creating lots of heat and lots of smoke and then next up is going to be the boiler which is eight hundred gallons of water and to get the heat and the smoke from the fire box through the boiler into the third section. Which is the smoke box. It's going to go through the boiler tubes so there's one hundred sixty six boiler tubes inside of our boiler there about two inches in diameter and That heat and smoke is just going to go through the tubes into the smoke box and then the smoke box on top of it has the smoke stack and the smoke is going to go out that smoke stack the pressure that builds up in the boiler is eventually going to accumulate in the steam. Dome which is the big brass dome on the back of the locomotive the steam dome most people realize it has the whistle in it because that is where the sounds coming from it also has a throttle On western right. It also has throttle in it that the engineer controls and he controls how much steam goes through the system. Kind of regulates the pressure the pressure that goes along the top of the locomotive to an internal pipe. You can't see called the dry pipe. And then it drops down to the two cylinders that are in the front of the locomotive before it hits the cylinders. There's a box on top of those cylinders called the steam chest and it looks like a big brass box but inside as a slide valve in slides back and forth in. It'll put pressure on either side of that cylinder so put pressure on one side of the cylinder in moves a piston in that cylinder back or forward. And then vince that pressure into the smoke box. And out the smokestack. It'll then put pressure on the other side of the cylinder pushed the cylinder the opposite direction. In as you're moving that piston back and forth moving the drivers which are attached the drive wheels. And that's how the look motive is going to be moving forward. Okay the other cool thing with it is Since smoke and heat don't want to go horizontal they wanna vertical or the smoke wants to move vertically by visiting the pressure from the cylinders to the smoke box. You're creating a positive pressure in there and then it's gonna out the smoke stack and create a negative pressure inside the smoke box which is going to pull that smoke in the heat through the boiler into the smoke box so essentially you're able to stoke the fire box running the locomotive so bare minimum. You probably do need to people to run this thing. You'll have the engineer. Who essentially the driver and the firemen who is not in charge of putting fires out and he's more interested in starting fires. It's kind of a different different saft of our idea of firemen today and then he's the one operating the boiler he's making sure the boiler has the pressure in the steam to meet the demands of the engineer. And the locomotive. Well let me love one more at least one more question here lucas. So my listeners are interested in history. That's not hard sell for them but big question here. Why should people care about the transcontinental railroad about you know the the golden spike. If i- magin you have to get someone who asks you this sort of thing right. It's the dour family member that's been dragged on vacation to this location and you can see the withdraw on their faces. Their smartphone doesn't really work that well out here and we can't go through social media so they're actually stuck listening. How do you articulate that to somebody to kind of point out that this is actually pretty awesome stuff. My favorite way to explain this to the layperson to the average visitor is to talk in terms at the understand and so everybody understands time and money before the completion of the transcontinental railroad. It took about four maybe as much as six months to get from one side of the country to the other. And you're looking at a cost of one thousand twelve hundred dollars to do that. After they completed the railroad into be clear nineteenth century. Yes currency yes so. Put that in in twenty-first-century dollars and that's that's There's a reason why you're selling the farm and moving out west. It's a mortgage. Yeah you gotta so the tire farm and everything you own except for wagon right. But then after they completed the railroad. You're looking at a transit time of around ten days to get from coast to coast and the cost is initially going to be a little over one hundred sixty dollars in face the option of six months and twelve hundred dollars or ten days and one hundred and sixty dollars ahead. Most people agree. Wow that really opened things up for very quickly okay. That's pretty interesting as well all right. Well lucas anything else. You think that we haven't covered or discussed about whether it's the locomotive. the site. the union pacific the central pacific. Anything else you think. People just definitely need to now. it's It's kind of interesting to note how in we're happy national park site like i get two cards. Well let's see low flight ninety three okay all right point taken lesson there but anyway i get to come to work and i get to have a party. That's over one hundred fifty years old. And that's what i tell people about. Is i get to tell people about this event that we all came together we did. We had this just a very very american moment where we have a lot of teamwork We have a huge engineering project. People thought was impossible..
Bay Curious
What Would Happen If Chabot Dam in the East Bay Hills Broke Open?
"What would happen if chicago damn cracked open an empty the lake behind it onto neighborhoods in san leandro and east oakland. It's an alarming thought. We asked cake. Ud's dan bricky. Who's reported on safety issues at california's oroville dam to find the answer. Holly and vickers kings question is a really good one because it reminds us that all dams pose risks of some kind given the nature of the job they perform holding back huge volumes of water they can turn from placid lake into deadly torrent. If unleashed all at once. They deserve very close attention. When that attention lapses catastrophes can do happen in late may eighteen eighty nine flood. Water overflowed badly maintained private dam in western pennsylvania. Triggering its collapse. A wall of water race down the valley below a century later. Historian david mccullough said. The johnstown flood was so vividly alive in the local consciousness. I grew up in western pennsylvania. I'd heard about the johnstown flood my whole life as children. We used to shout run for the hills. The damas busted little knowing what real terror is in those words. The flood wiped entire towns off the map and killed twenty. Two hundred people in california owns its own special chapter in the history of dam disasters with a tragedy that unfolded more than ninety years ago in a remote canyon fifty miles north of downtown los angeles from the day. The saint francis dam opened in one thousand nine hundred twenty six. It leaked the folks in the farm. Towns downstream used to joke. They'd see you later if the damn don't break on march twelfth nine hundred twenty eight. The saint francis damn disintegrated just hours after it was pronounced sound by los angeles water. Chief william mulholland who had designed and built the two year old structure when the massive concrete dam broke apart water raised more than fifty miles to the pacific ocean killing about four hundred fifty people along the way but those events one hundred thirty years ago in johnstown ninety some years ago in los angeles county sound like ancient history much more recently california. Got a lesson in how dangerous and costly failure of even part of a major dam can be failure ambiance spillway structure results in an uncontrolled. Lisa flood waters from link oroville and eating evacuation from the low twenty. Seventeen collapse the spillway at oroville dam in the northern sierra foothills one hundred thirty miles northeast of san francisco touched off a series of events that lead local officials to order one hundred eighty eight thousand people to flee their homes. This is not a drill. Repeat this is not a drill. Spill ways are crucial to preventing overtopping. That's what happens. When a reservoir rises over the top of the dam and simply spills over a spillway is like an emergency valve. Damn managers can open to safely release water from a reservoir bills over the top but back in february twenty seventeen oroville dam spillway began to disintegrate just as a series of winter storms dumped huge amounts of rain across northern california without a fully functioning. Spillway lake oroville rose rapidly water poured over a hillside that was supposed to serve as an emergency spillway. That emergency spillway began to fail to leading to the mass evacuation. In the aftermath investigators found the emergency spillway was ill conceived and the main spillway was badly designed poorly built and inadequately maintained. So how is should bowe damn different from all those bad dams and what does east bay mud have to say about. Chaba cracking open and unleashing catastrophe on the east bay. Simple answer to that question is that the dam would never crack open. That's jimmy yolly east bay mud director of engineering and chief damn safety officer he oversees the district twenty six times including chabad. Damn the reality is that the dams are designed such that. They don't just crack open. You will see signs of a failure if one is to occur and The dan's designs with monitoring equipment to make sure that you can see that happening if it was a east bay mud confidence that a dam built within a quarter mile of a dangerous fault will stand up to violent shaking. Let's take a look at how the dam was first built. Nearly one hundred fifty years ago and how it's been maintained since
THE NEWS with Anthony Davis
One shot dead as Trump incites a riot, storming the Capitol building
"Wednesday. There was no precedent for a president inciting citizens to storm the capital. And it's been more than one hundred fifty years dating back to the civil war since a large group of lawmakers gave comfort to an insurrection but all that changed after president. Donald trump invited his diehard fans to washington filled their heads with lies that he had been cheated out of the election. And that vice president. Mike pence could overturn the result unilaterally and pointed a mom of them in the direction of congress. What ensued was one of the ugliest days for democracy in living. Memory trump has spent weeks whipping up his supporters with false allegations of fraud in the november third election culminating in a coal to march to the building that represents us democracy trump who has refused to concede that he lost a democratic president. Elect joe biden had urged his supporters multiple times to come to washington for a rally on wednesday the day the us house of representatives and senate was scheduled to set the results of the electoral college. They turned out in the thousands to hear the president say they should march on the capitol building to express their anger at the voting process and to pressure their elected officials to reject the results. We're going to walk down to the capital and we're going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women. Trump told the crowd standing behind safety. Glass the white house as a backdrop speaking what is likely to be his last rally. As the sitting. President trump exhorted his supporters to fight. We will never give up. We will never concede trum said about fifty minutes into the speech. Some of his supporters waving trump flags began heading toward capitol hill. Where unprecedented mayhem ensued. Protested slipped easily through barricades with police filmed allowing protesters through storms the building and entered lawmakers chambers. The certification process was stopped and vice president. Mike pence and members of congress were evacuated lawmakers and staff members. Were hiding under tables hunkered in lockdowns saying prayers and seeing the fruits of the country's divisions up close and violent guns withdrawn a woman. A fourteen year veteran of the us air force was shot and killed trump flag hung on the capital. The graceful rotunda reeked of tear-gas glass shattered the pro-trump mall took over the presiding officers chair in the senate. They mocked its leaders posing for photos in the office of nancy pelosi one with his feet propped on her desk. Another sitting in the same seat. Vice president mike pence that occupied only moments before during the proceedings to certify the electoral college vote on wednesday hallowed spaces of american democracy one after another yielded to the occupation of congress. This began as a day of reckoning for president. Donald trump's few tall attempt to cling to power as congress took up the certificates in process of joe biden's victory it devolved into scenes of fear and agony. That left a prime ritual. American democracy in tatters. If you don't fight like hell you're not going to have a country anymore. Trump said let the weak ones get out. This is a time for strength. He announced his lawyer rudy. Giuliani said to the crowd. Let's have trial by combat. Trump told his morning crowd that he would go with them to the capital. But he didn't instead. He sent them off with incendiary rhetoric and watch the coup in delight on television from the protection of the white house as night fell. A capital officials said the building had been cleared but outside some way from the grounds scores of protesters remained including members of militia and far right groups as criticism mounted that he'd incited a riot. Trump was urged to say more by a trump loyalist house. Republican leader kevin mccarthy and some of the advises who remain in the white house for he's dwindling days in office. Eventually trump posted a recorded video on twitter. I know you'll hurt. We had an election that was stolen from us. It was a landslide. Election trump said repeating familiar falsehoods. But you have to go home now. He said shortly after posting the video received a twitter warning before the company locked. Trump's account altogether trump's failure to rein in his supporters stood in sharp contrast to his attitude last summer when he threatened arrests in the use of force to break up protests against racial inequality. When black lives matter protesters would tear teargassed and disappeared from the streets by unmarked police in rented vehicles.
Unexplained
A Man of Wealth of Taste
"The quest for immortality the urge to escape the inevitability of death has long been a preoccupation for us as evidenced by the ancient sumerian poem the epic of gilgamesh the oldest example of written literature known today in the poem written sometime around eighteen hundred bc in mesopotamia. The titular gilgamesh part hero part. Arrogant demi-god undertakes nordic Mission to find the secret to immortality ought to being confronted by the inevitability of his own death though we might not be demigods like gilgamesh his desperate refusal to accept the inevitability of his fate is a deeply human one and something that many of us can sympathize with whether we elect to place our hopes in the promises of religious teachers or in the invention and imagination of our leading bio gerontologist those that studied the mechanics of aging throughout many of us. Who haven't contemplated the possibility of existing forever in one form or another however although some of those may want for it being mortal israeli portrayed as something desirable and at the very least. There's something that can only be achieved at a great cost from the burdens of connor macleod in his pursuit to become the only remaining highlander to the pitiful efforts of melmeth the wanderer to convince another soul to take on his pact with the devil in return for another one hundred fifty years of life. In fact we take great pains to dissuade ourselves from wanting it. Perhaps this is simply to provide some comfort in the face of such a futile desire. But it doesn't stop us trying back in october this year. A team led by tel aviv. University professor shy f ratty published the results of an extraordinary study in the journal aging study to determine the effect of pure oxygen on the aging process involved placing thirty five adults over the age of sixty four in a hyperbaric chamber and giving them pure oxygen for ninety minutes a day five days a week over the course of three months through this process of frats team found they were able to successfully limit the build-up of senescent cells in the body cells. The today's to the point where they can no longer replicate leaving the body. Susceptible to many age related diseases incredibly not only to this delay the aging process but actually reversed it. Aubrey de grey. One of the best known by. Oh gerontologist has long insisted that medical technology will one day allow us to control the aging process. Even making the stunning claim this back. Two thousand and eight that the first person who lives to one thousand years old is already alive today through some however who'd say that this person isn't just a live right now but they've already lived to be a thousand years old. You're listening to unexplained. And i'm richard mclean smith. It was sometime in the seventeen. Seventies that counted adema marie-antoinette's personal attendant. I met him for her. It was his is most stood out. They were like nothing. She never seen before his teeth to were immaculate and all the more noticeable for being framed by such a thick head of luxury jet black hair and his clothes were simple they were nonetheless made from the finest materials decorated with the most exquisite jewellery. It wasn't a period. She assumed would be accompanied by a certain steely if not arrogant countenance however when she finally plucked up courage to approach one afternoon at the court though was penetrating so too. Was it soft and inviting despite everything countess. It heard about the man. It was quite something to see him. Finally in the flesh looking no more than forty five years old and yet it was back in seventeen forty three over thirty years previously. The first appeared mysteriously one day at the palace of versailles home to king of france. Louis the fifteenth looking exactly the same age
60-Second Science
Zebra Coloration Messes With Fly Eyes
"Everyone loves zebras. No doubt it's a natty stripes but recent research into why. The stripes exist indicates that the markings maybe something of a mixed blessing for the zebras. The them new research adds to evidence against old ideas somehow stripes cool them down or confuse predators such as lions confusing. Lions will be nice for them but the good news is that a group of researches have additional evidence in support of a hypothesis. They proposed in two thousand fourteen. Stripes seem to confuse biting flies causing them to overfly or crash into the zebras. The study is in the journal. Proceedings of the royal society be various. Ideas have been tossed around in the last one hundred fifty years about the african at quit stripes. This debate goes right back to the birth of evolution darwinian. What is exchanging letters on the subject. Martino a biologist who studies animal vision the university of bristol and lead author of the study. How'd is colleagues sorta mechanism for how stripes 'cause insect confusion the began with domestic horses in great britain. The cover the horse is we've rugs featuring an array of designs from single colored black or grey to check patents and of cools zebra stripes. The research is then recorded videos of horse flies trying to get it. The horses detail of what these zapper starts with doing to host size as they were flying coming into land we found who spicer flying much faster as they came to land on strikes patents than they were when he landed on gray black faster and more emphatically the flies made successful landings much less frequently on the horses in stripes then on the solids but as more recent what also applies to chant seems something about black my patents as really confusing size. One assumption was a stripes affect the flies optic flow their prices known as the aperture affect. That's a fake creates a vision illusion akin to a barber shops poll and juicing distortion and causing flies to misjudge landings upon stripes surfaces but crediting the aperture effects ability to discombobulated biting flies appears to be flawed because the researchers found that check surfaces were just as effective a repenting flies as we're stripes once we lost the aperture effect is a possible explanation for house zebra charts affect your within the tend to other suggestions they might be some other kind of illusion softening in the eyes of these flies and it could also be the strike saw disrupting the so the search pattern these need to try and find undertaking more experience. Now trying find out which is the case. Whatever the resort evolution had a good reason to make abors a horse of a different color.
Israel Story
Unpacking Israeli History
"Back in twenty seventeen, the New York Times published an article about Amadeo Garcia Garcia. The. Last Living Speaker of the top story. Once, spoken for centuries by thousands of members of an Amazon tribe Madeo, the sole survivor, and the last person on earth to know the language his tried which had lived uncontactable for centuries along Amazon River in Peru slowly died out due to the weapons diseases brought to them from intruders when Avodados brother passed away his last remaining relative the missionary asked Amodio how he felt. Adele responded in the broken Spanish that he had. The only way he had to communicate with outside world he said. It's now over for us. Why? Dale no longer has some to speak to and when you have no one else to speak to, you will lose your language. That's why was over for Amodio. Losing a language is like losing an identity, a culture history. I don't mean to sound over dramatic here but losing a language is really losing oneself. Looking back at the history of the Jewish people that Jews faced a very similar problem. And the reality today is that over the last one, hundred, fifty years, a modern miracle took place for almost two thousand years Hebrew the language of the Torah the Bible and so much Jewish literature you know the prayers was mostly reserved for the ritual. And now. Jews. Over the world's beekeeper, a language that was essentially dead as a spoken language. Something like this has never happened in history of language. The. Fact that the majority of Jews around the world speak Hebrew today is not something to take for granted. There are approximately fourteen point, seven, million Jews in the world and six point seven, million of them live in Israel where Hebrew is the national language. And many hundreds of thousands outside of Israel, speak language as well learning it in. Jewish. Day schools and summer camps or at home. Short. The Bible prayers and religious texts were written and read in Hebrew. Literally nobody spoke in daily life for like almost two thousand years. So How'd an almost extinct biblical language reemerge as spoken language in the span of only a few decades? Was Zionism that deserves the credit Certain. Figure named Elliot's Ben Yehuda. And what is it always obvious that Hebrew would be the national language of the Jewish state. Let's jump back in time to learn about the history of the Hebrew language details about the spoken language of Hebrew in ancient times are not perfect. Here's what we know. In the Bible the Jews otherwise as Hebrews spoken ancient Biblical version of. Biblical Hebrew was the spoken language of the Jews for over a thousand years. But one of the Romans destroyed the second Jewish Temple in seventy CE HEBREW AGAIN. To die. Out.
This Morning with Gordon Deal
Protesters in England topple statue of slave trader into harbor
"In the UK a statue of slave trader Edward Colston was torn down and thrown into Bristol harbour by protesters the bronze statue was erected in eighteen ninety five more than one hundred fifty years after Colson's death in eighty eight years after Britain abolished the slave trade Colson played a key role in the royal African company of seventeenth century slave trader responsible for transporting around eighty thousand indentured people to the
Sci-Fi Talk Byte
Byte The Elder Sign Podcast
"Glenn Written Brandon Buddha host. The elder signed podcast. Who came up with the idea of doing this type of podcast? Well that's a fantastic question. And I. I think that answer might change depending on on on the setting but I think like like so many good ideas this one was was born in a bar and I think we dared to to do it and and no one blinked and so so the show is show is now happening and I urge everybody to listen to the first introductory episodes really explains what you guys. You're going to be covering and you talk about the new weird Gr- you guys talk about it at length and have a great definition and I just hope people listened to that but what I really found interesting was talking about the twenties and thirties and HP lovecraft and so many great authors Robert Howard got their start writing for essentially what was called. I guess the old pulp magazines talk about that. That was probably the beginnings of of horror and science fiction. Maybe starting to get a foothold. The little bit yeah. A lot of these guys were just writing for money. They wrote a draft and mailed it out and hope to cop published then could buy can a can of meat in love grass case or whenever they needed to live on they were writing to live and they invented a lot of tropes that we now associate with weird fiction and horror and science fiction and it was all kind of one thing. It was just coming out of these magazines. That were that. Were just on racks. That people bought read on the train and so many of these writers. Just that's what they had. That's what they did. Lovecraft is notorious for kind of living a poppers life and mailing out these stories one after the other just writing prolifically and it was a kind of lifestyle and it was the big form of entertainment for a lot of people in the in the nineteen twenties and Nineteen Thirties. He I mean what lovecraft did you know really inspired so many authors after them and even screenwriters and directors frankly they they just took up the mantle that he started came up with so much interesting stuff and developed his own mythology to that we all know in love so yeah he was he was great. I gotta ask you guys about the The selection of the different stories that you cover and we'll go into some details but you have you know stories from Robert Block where it is or the moon remorse of course lovecraft and even a know Howard of course and and even some Some more recent writers as well talk about the selection process. Because there's a lot to choose from. Yeah we're really intent on covering the whole gamut of of Weird Fiction really broadly conceived of really from the beginning of modern literature modern publishing around the eighteen hundred or so up until today and one of our real interests is in charting the way that a different people in different societies and different ages and also around the globe have responded to the the tensions and even the the traumas of their historical contexts by writing weird fiction or horror fiction or science fiction to to be airing out the things about their own world their rapidly changing world many cases that they find unsettling and to do this as kind of a real comparison that I think will will really shed a lot of light on the way that this fiction can actually be used to tell us things about their societies and by contrast in people from one hundred fifty years ago with people who are writing today and the interim period and all the way in between I think will really shed some light on that.
All Things Considered
TripAdvisor suspends comments on Ilkeston's famous 'NatWest hole'
"Whole not everyone appreciated the joke this week trip advisor had enough now if you look at the entry for the hole in the wall you'll see this disclaimer quote because of an influx of review submissions that do not describe a first hand experience we have temporarily suspended publishing new reviews for this listing and Paul Miller says that's a shame evidently tripadvisor took exception to the shop the late for what they don't what if a laughing stock and they don't want tripadvisor they made a laughing stock off but Miller says there is a real reason to visit L. custom a one hundred fifty year old railway viaduct he invites visitors to come
The Book Review
'Dark Towers' Chases Scandal-Ridden Institution Deutsche Bank
"David ensor joins us now. His new book is called Dark Towers. Deutsche Bank Donald Trump an epic tale of destruction it debuts this week at number two on the New York Times bestseller list and I also have to disclose that. David is my cousin in law and he eats all the pie Thanksgiving about his nonetheless. Welcome here on the PODCAST. Lobo I didn't know what you're going to get that person quickly. Yeah important. Why people to know Dave? Thanks for being here. That's revenue so we're not GonNa talk about that crime. We're GONNA talk about some other ones. This is a book about deutchebanks. Started off with reporting that you did beginning around two thousand fourteen. I was in London working at the time of the Wall Street Journal and I'd already been kind of obsessing about Deutsche Bank. Ps This is you know. One of the biggest banks in the world one of the most troubled institutions and involved is either at or near the center of just about every financial scandal under the Sun and then in January twenty fourteen one of the most senior executives at the bank and kind of the right hand man to the CEO at the time was found hanging in his apartment in lended. Who is he his name is? Bill Broke Smith and he was a guy who had worked at the bank on and off for almost twenty years and he had he was an expert in risk management in an expert in derivatives and he but more important he was the guy who turned to as kind of the ethical compass of the bank he was. He was known informally as the conscience of the place. He was someone who could say no. He was pretty conservative and he was not quite as hungry for short-term profits as most of his colleagues were and it's something that happened at the bank immediately precede his suicide and did he leave a suicide note like do. We know that this was tied to his work. Well I mean it's really hard and I think probably dangerous to try to make in light statement about why someone does something like this but he did leave a bunch of suicide notes including one to with his longtime colleague onto Jane who at the time was the CO CEO of the Bank. And so one thing that became clear over the years a report and I did and working to talk to his many friends and family members and former colleagues as I could was that. There's no doubt that at the time of his death. Deutsche Bank was very much on his mind in someone he knew his on his mind in a not in a good way he was very upset about some of the things that had transpired while he was there are before we get into some of the things that that he personally saw during the I guess the Early Twenty First Century you say that as of two thousand fourteen it was well established that Deutsche Bank was kind of troubled scandal-ridden institution I mean. How far does that date back? Well the bank is one hundred fifty years old this year. Happy Birthday Deutsche Bank and for the first several decades of its existence. This is just a pretty provincial. German and European lender helping big industrial companies like Siemens spread their wings internationally. But when the Nazis came to power in Germany in the thirties Deutsche Bank became a central part of their attempt to take over the world and this is not attempt to take the Nazi attempted takeover. Was that different from what other German banking institutions did. At the time Deutsche Bank was by far the biggest German bank. A lot of German companies to survive did what it took to arrive in that area which was helping the Nazis. But there's been an attempt by the bank and some historians I think in recent decades to kind of sanitize that basic fact by saying well. Everyone was doing it and that was just the way the world works and we can look back at this period now and say that Deutsche Bank was party to genocide. Wow most people who don't work in finance and don't report on finance look at these banks. They all kind of seem interchangeable and interchangeably bad. That every one of them or many of them have had one terrible scandal or another or many in recent years is a bank especially at I mean. Is there something about its culture? There are a lot of things that make it a specially bad. I mean first of all wallets true that just about every bank under the Sun has been attached to one or more financial scandals over the years. Don't you think really has been involved in a disproportionate number and it's faced disproportionate penalties. As a result of that you can look at that in terms of the number of criminal charges. The bank has faced around the world or the amount in fines that it's racked up the to me. The better measure of its destructive capacity is the havoc wreaked around the world. And you can really look in. Probably almost every continent of the world in see some major in pretty pretty bad scandal to the bank was involved with the cause real harm whether it's destroying companies or really messing up economies or being involved in major bribery or corruption scandals laundering money violating sanctions. Deutsche Bank is blamed by the families of some American soldiers for their deaths in Iraq because the bank was illegally funding Iranian terrorists. So you can say that about some things but you can't say about every bank that every single scandal comes right back to their doorstep in that unfortunately is the case. Allow the time with deutchebanks one of the things that differentiates Deutsche Bank for many other banks is that there is no villain at the top. They have no. Ceo Unlike many other banks is that part of the problem that there isn't one person who has held accountable. Well it actually used to be that way these days for the past fifteen years or so they have had a CEO. In fact you can trace the banks last series of problems going back to the mid two thousand to the decision to place increasing power in this unitary see It's gotten worse when they've had someone. Yeah although it got worse under Joe Ackerman who is the longtime CEO from two thousand to two thousand twelve. And he was the one who converted the organizational structure of the bank from being this kind of collaborative committee led approach to being one where there's an American style. Ceo At the top of the bank and Ackerman very shortly upon arriving as CEO of the bank made a very fateful decision which was that he decided that within a very short period of time a couple of years deutchebanks prophets needed to go up about five hundred percent and looking backwards. It doesn't seem that surprise and the consequences that followed that at the time. This marked a really transformational change within the bank. And it went from being an institution that looked around and kind of saw itself as serving multiple constituencies whether shareholders or customers employees or the communities. In which an operator and it went from doing that to having a single minded focus and obsession on maximising short-term profits basically consequences. Be Damned and when you talk about the recent crimes of DEUTCHEBANKS and we're not even getting to Donald Trump who is in your subtitle him later. Did most of those things manipulating markets helping terrorists regimes defrauding regulators. Did most of this take place during that two thousand and two to two thousand twelve period when he was the CEO will the got started. Then and that was Ackerman's decision to prioritize short-term profits above all else was the catalyst for all sorts of bad behavior within the bank and it wasn't just the people were rushing to make money at any cost and although they were doing that it was also that the bank at that moment because it was so obsessed with meeting quarterly profit targets. It stopped investing in things that cost money. For example they stop investing in technology. And so the banks internal computer systems became just this. Archaic jumbled mess and that sounds kind of technical and maybe not that important but the reality is immense that Deutsche Bank. If you if you were asked to say Deutsche Bank what how much money have you lent to say Russia? There's no easy way to answer that you can just type it into a computer. None of these computer systems are talking to each other. And that's a pretty scary thing for bank. And they also completely failed to invest in compliance an anti money laundering staff. And because those are things that cost money they're not going to produce revenue and in fact they they do the opposite prison revenue. They take away revenue as their job. If they're doing it properly is to say no to potentially problematic and potentially very lucrative transactions this focus on quarterly profits and profit above all else. Is that very different from what other banks were doing. During this period Deutsche Bank went from
AP News Radio
Madoff seeks prison release, citing terminal kidney failure
"Hi Mike Rossio reporting Bernie made off is seeking a release from prison for medical reasons Bernard made off the disgraced investment adviser serving a one hundred fifty year prison sentence for orchestrating an epic Ponzi scheme is asking to be released from prison due to serious medical conditions and attorney filed court papers Wednesday saying the eighty one year old made off has end stage kidney disease and other chronic serious medical conditions and has less than eighteen months to live prosecutors are expected to file a motion in response to the request made off pleaded guilty in two thousand nine to eleven federal counts for defrauding thousands of clients of billions of dollars over decades
The Paul Finebaum Show
Proposed federal law seeks to limit skyrocketing salaries of college coaches
"Well anyway. I I call one of your stories. He's just week. We're talking about salaries and congress trying to put a cap on things and you. Did I think a an amazing. I don't know how you doug all this up. A deep dive live into the evolution of coaching salaries. Take us through that process. Yeah I one of the one of the most interesting thing about college. Football is how in twenty twenty I guess in our in our myopic nature point twenty we think that we all have these like little arguments novel discussion Russia. We've been doing this thing for one hundred fifty years at this point in time there are quite a bit of things that just are not new and some of that is complaining about too many bowl games but another one of those things is talking about how coaching salaries are way too high. I mean it's it's it has quite literally almost almost always been like this. I mean Amos Alonzo Stagg at Chicago making six thousand dollars in eighteen eighteen ninety two now I went back and use the consumer price report and price some of these salaries out in you know twenty eighteen at the time buying power. And you know. That's six thousand dollars. Amazon does stag was making then was worth like a hundred and sixty thousand dollars back in eighteen. Ninety two there has always been this separation between what highly paid college. Football coaches made Versus what the Common Man Colombian mix. You know I'll I'll bring it to your audience and hit them home like bear Bryant when he's doing. Brian show that that famous Sunday highlight show That that became formative so formative for a lot of Alabama fans. He wasn't doing that just out of the good report he was because he was getting paid there Bryan getting in pay. That's why I thought he. I thought you said he was a benevolent. So I believe you remember this because you weren't born but he also had to Eat the potato chips and drink cocoa which by the way had bourbon in it. Yes absolutely I mean like bear. Bryant was Bear Bryant was cheering the back right now. Yeah so I find it amazing we we. We had a professor on earlier who who was very much a part of the Donna? Shalala Team Wanting to limit coaching Ching salaries so When did they make the big turn? When did they start going? I mean as as some of the critics say out of control to me. It really doesn't matter what any of these guys make but TAKE A. When was the big turn? I think they really and truly exploded in the nineteen eighties because in the nineteen eighties. That's when that Supreme Court hate happened with like Georgia Oklahoma and you know they got. TV rights You know they divorced the TV rights from the NCAA and schools colleges then became able to go. She ate television rights As entertaining defended themselves. Obviously than we get into the CFO era and BCS. And what we have now where the SEC. Disperse what was it. Six hundred and fifty some odd the million dollars yesterday give or take a few million yeah To all fourteen member schools. I mean look. The bedrock of this cannot be overstated. The bedrock bedrock of this is this when you as an Athletic Department at Florida Alabama at Lsu is Florida state when you do not have to pay your labor force when you do not have to compensate you or athletes. That money has to go somewhere now. That money goes to beyond coaching salaries. I mean that's the facilities race that is everything. Everything that makes these college will programs at opulent as they can be obviously a really really big part of the PIE now. Is Coaching salaries. Now Coaching coaching salaries the early eighties. That's stuff starts to get reported. That's my really really starts coming into Coming into the sport in a way that it had really really before that By the time you get through the mid nineties Florida's paying Steve Spurrier the one of the first billion dollar contracts so that he doesn't jump to the NFL at that time honestly the NFL itself explodes. You've got that competition. So it's it's the competition that that spurs in any industry the street Salaries and money and will lose those things but the early eighties. I think is where we can really pinpoint when college athletics kind of started growing up from a from a fiscal standpoint talking to Richard Johnson from a better society in now we all know what is going on. I'm interested where were you. Were you sit on this. Because the the so called Donna. Shalala proposal We heard Professor Ridpath on this would would curtail a lot of things I find find. It somewhat amusing chancellors and presidents at Private Schools More so than public schools making. I'm five six million dollars a year We have an offensive and defensive coordinator is making major seven figure salaries I know is a highly paid journalists. Where we're we're are you on what Shola is is attempting to to do at least down one lane in Congress right. I think you have a good point. the the facilities boom and the salary boom of coaches collect directors and the things that we coach Sports Mirror. That of what we see on the institutional side at a lot of these verses and I think that is one thing thing that really gets lost you know like you said like g Foreign President of like West Virginia. Like these guys make guys and girls make six figures seven figures. There is a lot of money in higher education in the United States at the highest levels. college athletics is it is not an outlander But like studies have shown time and time again going back thirty forty fifty years that when your football all team is good when your basketball team is good It becomes you know they always say that is the front porch of the university. Admissions skyrocket when athletics. Do well and that is. Why a lot of these University of course than anything else I think? Put Up with and we'll pay out the nose for Nick Sabin or Jim Harbaugh or a Davos. We or whatever I think the dirty secret is is the weight from Ro a lot of these endowments in some of these very popular. Schools would shrink a lot more than people wanNA realize. No I mean just look around. I mean boone pickens. She died recently. I mean the the amount of money that he put into Oklahoma state and I don't I don't mean to disparage Oklahoma state in stillwater Oklahoma. Oh my been there. And if you haven't Richard Make sure that you put that on your bucket list. Wouldn't it wouldn't have had that type of money And and a lot of these Jerry Jones. He's given to the University of Arkansas. You can go down the list And I mean and it's because of one thing we're trying to win in in in college football or basketball depending on on on where you live and what part of the country you're in. Yeah absolutely I saw a stew. MANDL's works in the for pretty athletic. He He has a college pat column and somebody asked him Ten million dollars. What would you do with it to build a staff? And I look the question and I was like look man if you WANNA compete with Alabama Lsu Clemson Oklahoma Ohio state. You need more your salary. You Pool has to be bigger than ten million dollars. I mean on on its face. You'RE GONNA have to pay a coach at that level. Five five and a half six six billion dollars. You'RE GONNA have to pay your coordinators eight hundred nine hundred thousand dollars because Dave Aranda was was pulling such a salaried Lsu a few atmosphere necessarily because he was such town defensive coordinator which he is but it was because one opinions coordinator so that the only job job they'll leave for is a G. Five or or power five kids coaching job. It's got bulletproof coordinators. I WANNA lose them. I don't want to take collateral. If they leave me they gotta take step up so okay. You're paying both your coordinators Like one point eight billion dollars between the two. That's like eight million dollars. Just gone to the head coach in coordinators. Now you're in another like five million dollars higher director staff your eight assistant coaches which is all right. That's your ten assistant coaches You want to compete with Georgia Alabama. All right we'll have a party because you have to fill out the rest of those staffs with analysts. We assist tense You know you gotTa have a staff of three saw guys kind of the shadow. Coaching staff that that Alabama kind of those famous or infamous. No matter how how are depending on which by the fence you went on but You know it takes money to keep up with the Joneses and it takes a lot of line really want we national championship. Always great to have you on Richard other than chicken. What's the what's the second most favorite food that you'll be serving the super bowl party Sunday lady a friend is bringing some guacamole? She'll be homemade guacamole. I'm not a big block fan but you know you know how this you gotta try say like it. So that'll that'll it'll be my My side dish. I cannot wait I if I'm in the neighborhood I'll just drop Bil- bring some bring bring a some some fruit cake leftover from Christmas. I couldn't give away Gringa fruitcake. Brings some cold ones man. I'll have seat for you right on the couch next to meatball. Thank you great. Great to talk to you again come back soon. Have you
WTOP 24 Hour News
Average normal body temperature isn't 98.6 anymore, and it's getting lower, research shows
"For centuries ninety eight point six degrees Fahrenheit was said to be the average normal body temperature turns out though that number is too high the ninety eight point six number was arrived at one hundred fifty years ago in a new study researchers from Stanford University argued the number was correct at the time but is no longer accurate because the human body has changed a person's normal body temperature can vary by gender size age even time of day and how it's taken so what the new magic number researchers say the average normal human body temperature is now closer to ninety seven point five degrees so that's scientifically proves that we
The Frame
Director Greta Gerwig on 'Little Women' and Louisa May Alcott
"Start with a new film that opens this Christmas Day. It's an adaptation of Louisa May alcott novel Little Women and it is a lovely little gift of a movie yourself theory someday. So you'll need me. You'll wish you have behaved better. Thank you so much for your employment and your many kindnesses I intend to make my own way in the world. No no one makes their own way. Not really we civil woman. You'll need to marry. Well you are not married. Because I'm rich wjr. The film is from writer director. Greta GERWIG stars. Sir Sha Ronin. She played the lead in Greenwich Direct. To`real debut lady bird and the rest of the march sisters are played played by Emma Watson Elisa scanlon and Florence pugh Laura dern plays their mom and Meryl Streep is they're wealthy aunt March gerwig has been thinking about little the women for a very long time well before she even found out that producer Amy Pascal was developing a new adaptation of the novel. Here's Greta Gerwig little women and has been a book that I have loved my whole life in a very deep way to the point. Where my memories? And the memories of the March sisters were intertwined in that way that I think books of your youth can means something even beyond being books because th- they they're the they become part of your family I think that's that's the magic of Reading when you're a child is the the distinction between fiction and reality is thin for you or it. It was for me anyway But I hadn't read it since I was about fourteen or fifteen and then I read it in my early thirties when I turned thirty and I All this stuff came out at me in the book that I it not. When I was a child I can passion get so savage could hurt anyone and I enjoyed it? You remind me of myself never angry. I'm angry nearly every damn I li- reading as an adult. I heard all of these different things. I saw it as much touch spike easier and sadder and stranger and almost more triumphant in a certain way and also just is this kind of being aware of an author was another layer of it for me that Joe both wants to be an author but then Louisa as author and so even though Joe March march by the end of the book says she stops her ink well and stops writing and gets married and has children opens a school Louisa though wrote and she wrote that book and we know what. Because there's the book you know. I just sort of had an idol saw about well if I made this. I'd want to center center on this. I'd WanNa Center on all these themes that I felt I hadn't really seen yet about it which was ambition and money money and women an art and I heard in passing my agent said at a dinner. Oh they're interested making little women again again and I was like what I have to go. I have to talk to them. I have an idea and I hadn't made anything at that point. But he got me a meaning and I I went and I talked talk to them and I told them some version of what I wanted to do and And I said I want to direct it and they wanNA write in Iraq and I hadn't had nothing to really show that I could do that so but they very luckily hired me to write it. And then I wrote my draft in in two thousand fifteen two thousand sixteen and then I went away and I may lady bird and then by the time I was finishing that up they said well what what do you think about making little women and I thought I said well I knew you'd ask. I'm ready but it was a it was one one of those for two. It's turns events. I want to ask about that perspective that you had a reading the book as an adult versus as a young woman woman sure and the perspective you have as somebody who is a creative person gas writing movies and making movies because so much of the movie and certainly in the book as well is about the challenges of being a creative person and how you value your own art how you compromise with people who are financing it and how you find your voice even in those parameters that's right now there's a you you picked up all the cards I put down. No it's a it's funny. It's that the opening scene between Joe March and her publisher Mr Dash would which the majority of it is actually word for word from the book when she says took care to have a few of my sinners repent and he says people want to be amused not preach that morals. Don't sell nowadays. That could be me talking to a studio head about something. I WANNA do But it was. It was all there for me to be discovered. I didn't invent it like like I said that. That scene is a scene from the book but it felt too so relevant to right now and then beyond that when when I was researching Louisa Mail Cart and it became clear that that who Lewis male caught was was equally the subjects that I was interested in and then you learn about her life. Is You know unlike Joe. She never got married. She never had children and but she kept writing and she did keep her copyright copyright of little women which is a you know huge thing that she did and I mean there are so many things about her life and what she did. It felt eerily familiar and I think even even in the fact that Her publisher sure and even herself but her publisher truly didn't know what a hit he had. And I find that happens all the time that there's a constant underestimating of audiences that are not the same audience of the people who are in charge of publishing or whatever that may be the the first half of little win because it is really to books as written ends so group. The curtain falls upon big. Joe Beth and amy whether it ever arises again depends upon the reception given to the first act of the domestic drama called little women death. It's almost like she's saying I've got a a sequel but I hope people by the I know she's She's a business lady no she and and and it it. It's worth saying that the the initial printing sold out in two weeks and it has not been out of print for one hundred fifty years in one thousand nine hundred four. There was a story. Little women leads poll novel level rated ahead of Bible for influence on high school pupils. Yeah that's nice. I mean I mean it's just nice for her and it raises his other question like what people take away from the book because you can interpret it in very different ways. I'm going to give you two prominent women who have thoughts. That's about it. The first is Gloria Steinem. WHO said in Nineteen ninety-two? Where else could we read about an all female group who discussed work art and all the great questions or found girls who wanted to be women and not vice versa? Oh that's beautiful found girls that wanted to be women not the versa. And here's the author meal Paalea who says the whole thing is like a horror movie. I know I think if you have an idea in your head of the it can be of little women. It's usually from the first book. It's the kind of Christmas to Christmas structure. And the you know the second half of the book Louis Male jokes. She should've called the wedding marches. Because they all got married and truly British version is called good wise exactly zoo you know. It was in this to book structure which is part of why I is structured the film I did starting with them as adults Because I wanted to start with the second half but I also think there's two books embedded in it because if you you just read the book on its face value with this. Kind of pre Victorian morality of Domesticity in virtue tied to femininity communitty. And all of these kind of tidy bows put on each chapter. Then I think you miss what's really roiling roiling underneath and if you read it that way of course Camille Paglia is completely right. It is something that would be a horror show if that is all you're seeing but I'd the way I look at it is if you can take the ending of the book where she felt she must marry Joe off to someone because that's what the readers demanded and she made this economic decision. That's what she would do Because she had so books then if you if you read everything through the Lens of will she had to make it all kind of tidy for the time time then if you take away the tidiness what's left is a whole bunch of am Bishen and mess and anger and lust and craziness and things things that don't fit neatly into any box. And so what I wanted to do was not update the text. The text doesn't need updating. I wanted to take away the constraints constraints of the time in some ways. Because that's what was interesting to me and even in those constraints. Louisa really did do her best to try. I to imagine what what would in a gala -tarian marriage look like. What would something that was? Not Essentially INDENTURED SERVITUDE BE As a marriage and I feel that you know Gloria Steinem being one of them with a Simone Tip Avar Patti Smith Orlando Toronto or J. K. Rowling rallying. There's a long list of women for whom this book meant very specific freedom an ambition and what I wanted to do was make a film film that was in the tradition of why that inspired them. Because it's there's gotta be a reason more than she got married to Professor Bear Sogo to see you. Thanks for coming as really
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