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The Voicebot Podcast
A highlight from Soapbox Labs Founder and Ireland's AI Ambassador Patricia Scanlon - Voicebot Podcast Ep 351
"This is episode 351 of the Voicebot Podcast. My guest today is Patricia Scanlon, founder of Soapbox Labs and Ireland's AI ambassador. Welcome back, Voicebot Nation. This is Brett Kinsella, your host of the Voicebot Podcast. Each week for over six years, I brought you conversations with the innovators shaping the future of conversational AI, generative AI, and synthetic media. Today, I have the privilege of welcoming back to the podcast, Patricia Scanlon, for the third time. Scanlon first joined me in 2019 for episode 129 and then returned in April 2021 for episode 206. She is back for 2023, so I guess we're on a two -year cycle. Soapbox Labs is the leader in automated speech recognition for children, and this has made the company an important source of enabling technologies. Speech recognition systems are almost exclusively trained on data from adult speakers, and they just don't work very well with children's voices due to the different timbre, immaturity, prosody, different speech patterns. Scanlon was a university professor and researcher when she first recognized this problem and that it would hold children back from adopting voice assistants, and she set out to fill the technology gap. It's a great story. It's really become important work as well. The technology is now powering applications to help children learn to read, speak, comprehend better, and to assist teachers in assessment and developing customized learning plans. Scanlon and I break this all down, how it's evolving and accelerating as educators rush to adopt new tools to better serve students in our post -pandemic world. We also chat about Scanlon's role as Ireland's AI ambassador, the EUAI Act, in educating the public about AI. I know you're really going to like this one. Next up, speech recognition for kids. It's the transformation of learning and AI in the public sphere. Let's get started. Chris Scanlon, welcome to the VoiceBot podcast. Thanks, Brett. Thanks for being here. I should say welcome back. I think it's been like almost four, three or four years since you've been here. Pre -pandemic. That's all I remember. Yes, it was. So like 2019. So it's got to be four years now. A lot has happened in the world since then. Not the least of which, the pandemic, but lots happened in your business, too. And I really felt like in 2019, your business was really taking off and it's only accelerated since then. So why don't we start there? Actually, I think this would be really good to level set. I mean, we're friends. We've known each other a long time, but I'm not sure everybody knows the story. And you started working on this issue of speech recognition for children a long time ago, and that led to the founding of Soapbox Labs. So why don't you give people just sort of a quick summary of that? Yeah, sure. So I'm an engineer. I have a Ph .D. in speech recognition, AI, as you know, the voice AI space we're now calling it. So I've been in space a very long time and I'd worked across academia, I'd worked across industry, I'd worked at big tech where, you know, we were doing speech recognition for years and I was back in 2013 when I was actually observing my own daughter interacting with, you know, apps. It was the iPad era, you know, app millionaires, do you remember that? And noticing, you know, I was giving my daughter educational apps and services and getting her to play like pre -literacy stuff. She wasn't even four at the time. And I really just noticed that, one, they had no way of assessing whether she was actually able to recall or pronounce sounds and words. And then when I dug into it, it was like, oh, it's no speech tech for kids. It's actually, okay, here's speech tech, let's see if it works for kids. And the more I dug into it, it's like, it really doesn't work for kids, therefore there's nothing available for education and literacy and language learning. And it was kind of like that light bulb moment ago and I'd spent my whole career working in the area of adult speech recognition. And I still had all my colleagues and none of us, you know, that we'd focus very solely on a problem and just viewed kids as just, I don't know, they're slightly different, and voices a little squeaky or something. And then the more you dug in, go, oh no, they're fundamentally very different physically, behaviorally, language wise, and all of this culminated into something that required a bespoke proprietary solution for kids. So that was the path I went on from 2013 onwards. Well, and I think it's super interesting too, because you think about it, it's sometimes it's the thing right in front of you that's the hardest to recognize. And didn't you see it until you had this sort of unique moment because of the iPad, because children were using it, because there are all these apps coming out. And if we think about speech recognition, part of it too is reinforced by the fact that all the corpora, all the data was adult human voices. There really wasn't anything for kids that ended at scale, correct? Yeah, absolutely. I mean, you know, the whole adage of, you know, don't work with children and animals. It's like, you know, it's kind of like this joke we often use inside because it's really difficult. You know, it's so easy to accumulate large volumes of data from adults in any application field. But, you know, there are difficulties, challenges. You can't incentivize children the same way as you can incentivize an adult. You can't, you know, these days there are more data protections around COPPA in the EU and elsewhere in the world. You know, and it was just a case of, you know, that's not easy to come by. It's really, really hard to build this. Kids are different. It was just, there were so many challenges. And to be honest, if I'd known all the challenges ahead of us, I don't know if I would have wandered in there as confidently as I did in 2013, you know. But it has been really rewarding because, you know, it took a lot of learning and patience on all our parts to get this right. Okay. And I do want to get into sort of like the business and sort of the use cases and the value and stuff like that in just a minute. But I think it might be interesting just to like talk about this idea of speech recognition and like what is state of the art for speech recognition? We've seen a lot of changes in that space over the last couple of years. I mean, and you just think about, you know, whisper coming out and seamless from meta, OpenAI's whisper and seamless from meta. But like, maybe just break down very simply the fundamental elements of speech recognition when you're thinking about this as a researcher and building a system for recognition, and then maybe differentiate between the adults and children, because I'm wondering, is it really just, you just swap out the data set? Because I think it's more than that. Yeah, it's more than that. Yeah. I mean, you know, if you think about it, you know, the old approach for speech recognition was like you had an acoustic model, you build models of what the sounds, the small components make up speech, right? And they're called phonemes. There's like 40, 50 of them depending on your dialect. And then once you figured out what the speech kind of sounds like, then you'd feed it into a language model, which kind of uses the language structures and the prediction of what was most likely said, right? The expectation of what was said. And we hear a lot about language models now. As people are beginning to understand what a language, it predicts what you most likely said based on what the population usually says. And that's kind of like the older approach. The newer approach is this end to end approach where you put in the audio and then, you know, it does the whole thing in one go and you have the transcriptions of what was said and it does this end to end matching. That's more the newer version of it. And that's what most people are employing now. And that's fine. And that works great. And again, it's always interesting to me when, you know, engineers and technology and scientists never go about something, you know, sometimes you've got to think about the use case and work back to whether that's the right solution or not. When you think about it, kids, you know, they probably, their language is more like Yoda than it is another adult, you know, especially in the early, you know, they literally flip sound, you know, sounds and then they lisp and they underpronounce and they over punctuate and they elongate and they literally just don't follow the line. And they change their behavior rapidly, even the same child every couple of months is changing their language, right, as they learn. And all that kind of, you know, compounds a lot when you think about how traditional speech recognition systems are built. Even the new approach, right, end to end, it has an expectation of what is being said and it leans quite heavily on that prediction. And that was the big difference in speech technology from 15, 10, 15 years ago versus what we've seen in the last seven or eight years versus what we're seeing now, right, is that language modeling really took off in the last 10 years. And that's where a lot of the acceleration and performance happened. It wasn't really around the acoustics and what it was just, and that's when we started seeing Google Home and Alexa and all those start to perform pretty well because they were beginning to predict what was most somebody in their room, their kitchen was most likely trying to, what music they were trying to play or whatever. And then same with the end to end systems, we're leaning quite heavily and then large language models, we're going to scrape the entire internet, we're going to start predicting what's most likely said, and then you get a five -year -old who just like blurts out something all muddled up and just starts messing with the system that was never designed for that. And you think about people with English as a second language kind of struggle with these things too. You often hear people saying that, it doesn't work as well for them because they're not speaking in a very predictable, predicted way, and therefore it starts to break down. So we had to come at this not just from a data problem, but also in how we build it to get the best response for children. Right, because the prediction model being very important there, if children are using a slightly different speech pattern, maybe not following the grammatical rules as strictly as I'd say adult humans are conditioned to do. That's interesting. Now you've mentioned end to end a couple of times, and maybe it'd be useful for people to understand that, the ASR, NLU being separate together and how you think about that. And also how you think about that changes it because this whole idea of actually having additional context before you make the transcription prediction.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "patricia" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
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Monitor Show 23:00 09-07-2023 23:00
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Mark Levin
Caller: Playing the Worst Hand Possible the Best Way
"Not asking it's whatever it's what everybody just so you know i will be on a number of fox programs and a number of our wonderful affiliates all across the web westward one family but in any event go ahead ahead moses what did you have for us and thank you by the way so now i got a couple of points i'd love to your thoughts on mark so with regard to the 2020 election the way that the messaging and the framing of the election irregularities is being put out there i think it's wrong it's not about fraudulent ballots that's a separate category it's about the process and the illegal collection of legal ballots and the one thing that i would love to see because i'm a poker player so even though i hate what's happening to the former president this is about playing the worst hand possible the best way so in all cases these that were presented back in 2020 in which the former president lost because of latches because of merit because of he now has the proper forum to present everything and now there actually are a few cases in which the actual the republic is actually one in the supreme of the state supreme court of Wisconsin over there that court ruled that the manner in which the democrat county clerks administered the election in respect to ballot boxes that was unconstitutional same thing happened in Michigan with the secretary of state with respect to signature verification guidance that was also ruled unconstitutional another thing that should happen too is that every witness that actually testified before the senate homeland security committee back in 2020 it was chaired by Ron Johnson I believe it was attorney troopers you actually back a few years ago played a segment of his opening testimony he actually presented the case in the state supreme court of Wisconsin in which the Democrats violated and circumvented voter ID laws with being indefinitely confined and I believe that your wife was involved with the case that Patricia McCulloch in Pennsylvania I believe
DARKWEB.TODAY - Hackers & Cyber SECURITY
BY THE WAY, ABOUT THE JOURNALISST, THE FORMER VICE PRESIDENT, AND THE HACKER.
"Patricia Madrid, the periodist, Raúl Zendik, elected president of Uruguay, and Alberto Daniel G, the hacker with an intriguing story. And yes, so and so, yes, there was something unique that connected us. One of the most invisible, a shared capital, an intersection of historical stories for others, for which it is improbable, fantastic to see, right? But for me, it is possible for me to reach the level of ambiguity only by presenting possible scenarios that could lead to this vibrant figure. Imagine that you have a relationship between people and people of different ages, where the same manifestation of your own is written in an instrument of your own. In this narration, it is not an expectation, but the protagonist, Alberto Daniel G, the first hacker who had been accused of using a medical provider. But if the case of this accusation was not as the world is supposed to be, an entry of the medical system through the market market, as administrator, no reason of reduction and the endowment of superficial positions could contain the complexity of this error. More than the month of Malentendido's, it was a narrative of residency, balance and a book of truth. Until the conventional narratives, there exists a intact genius, reaching out to find a unique perspective on the final story that exists to tell. From the beginning, your intention is to open up the world, to protect and serve, not to dismantle or destroy. The medical provider, a source of vital information, would not be your choice, if not more so, a responsibility that was brought with us. Not so much, the world had a different and different path for you. The robustness of the apportionment that arose was transformed from the night to the morning, in a line, pointing a path of enlightenment, confusion, death. If you remember, the story does not end here. In the end, this is the story that was given to us, a mark for residency, a resistance against the desperation and a resistance to a fight. After that all you have wanted, your spirit has been perfectly intact, a testimony of the effort that has been brought to you. All of this, from the beginning, was brought to you by this desperate experience. From your experience, a profound effort, every effort supported, was not an abomination, if not an invitation to escape a more profound effort, an impulse to overcome all the spectres of your residency and audacity to reconstruct new ones. This relation is not an abomination of effort, not an abomination of effort. It is the right of the capacity to transform the calamity of a catalyser, the due to the increase, and finally suffer with not only supervision, if not also a strong fight. At the end of this chapter, I want to tell you, to remember that your actions were made, yes, but they were not made of rotators. Today I am in PA, a place of resiliency, a place where I am human for others who have been in their lives, a record, no, a proclamation, of which each of these verses will be a person waiting to explain themselves.
DARKWEB.TODAY - Hackers & Cyber SECURITY
Alberto's "Login to Hell: The Final edition"
"Log In to Hell, the final edition by Alberto Daniel Hill stands as a powerful testament to his journey through adversity, pain, and redemption. It s a reflection of numerous, intertwining stories from Hill's life, a narrative of a love intertwined with his tribulations, to an outward investigation of injustice in his professional domain. Beginning with a glimpse into the precious moments he shared with a loved one, Alberto recounts a passage of time marked by love, tenderness, and enduring camaraderie. However, this idyllic interlude is abruptly marred when Alberto and his partner get engulfed in a storm of accusations from enigmatic figures. Alberto then delves into his unjust arrest and accusation, underscoring his professional integrity with a reminder of his past work with Interpol. The saga, while heart -wrenching, also serves as the crucible where the resilience of his spirit emerges, symbolizing unwavering hope and love. Delving into the underbelly of the hacker's world, beyond codes and firewalls, Alberto's narrative further emphasizes human endurance and transformation through trials. He highlights his journey as evidence of an individual's power to rise from the ashes while harnessing the latent fortitude within, painting a compelling picture of resilience, redemption, and unwavering hope. In a more abstract arc, Alberto hints at an improbable, intertwined destiny shared with Patricia Madrid, a journalist, and Raoul Sendik, the former vice president of Uruguay, building mystery and intrigue. He concludes his post by underscoring the strength to transform calamity into a catalyst. Despite everything, Alberto emerged as a beacon of resilience, inspiring others while navigating their individual adversities. In essence, Alberto's log into hell, the final edition serves not only as a potent recounting of his trials but stands as an inspiring message of resilience, showcasing the strength of the human spirit in the face of adversity.
Stuff You Should Know
A highlight from Plant Migration
"Elevate your travels with the Citi Advantage Executive Card, the only card with Admiral's Club membership. Earn advantage miles and loyalty points on your purchases, plus premium benefits that take your trips above and beyond expectations. Visit Citi .com slash executive for a bonus miles offer. Travel on! This message comes from Stuff You Should Know sponsor MassMutual. Talking about your future can be uncomfortable. Whether it's about how expensive college is going to be for your children, or realizing how much you need to save for retirement, or figuring out how to plan for the unexpected, or anything to do with life insurance. It can be overwhelming, but you don't have to do it alone. MassMutual can help you plan for all the important moments in life, so you can protect all the important people in your life. Talk to MassMutual today. Feel comfortable about tomorrow. Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of iHeartRadio. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh, and there's Chuck, and Jerry's here too, and this is Stuff You Should Know, the We're All Melting Edition. Yeah, I'm just a, just a migrating fern. Oh, that's a good one to be. Blowing through the forest, looking for a new home. Sure. I'm a spore. What happens when you get there, spore? Well, I'll probably grow into a beautiful new fern, because ferns are pretty hardy. That's awesome, and I'll bet you'll contribute to society in all sorts of beneficial ways that ferns that were already there couldn't necessarily do. I hope so. There is fern stuff in here, and I have a wonderful fern scene at my camp. On the other side of the feeder creek that goes into the main creek, I call it, I even have a sign that says Fern Forest, and it's a forest of ferns. It's quite lovely. God knows where they're from, because those things can travel quite a bit, as we'll see. Yeah, they could be from, from, from Alabama. Easily. I'm not kidding. Easily, man. I've got a stat that's gonna blow your mind in a second. Oh, boy. Actually, I'll just bust it out now. You ready? Yeah, yeah. How far can a fern travel? A fern can travel, the Tasmanian tree fern in particular, can send its spores 500 to 800 kilometers. That's 300 to 500 miles from the mother plant. And, get this, a single frond, a frond, produces more than 750 million of those spores. So you can understand that ferns, I mean, you find ferns everywhere. They're really hardy. They can actually survive cold, colder temperatures than you would think. They also thrive in the tropics. They're like a really great pioneer plant. They usually are among the first large plants that show up in a, like, a newly cleared part of Earth, right? This all makes sense then. Okay, so what we're talking about then is that those ferns that showed up in this new place and said, hey, let's get this, let's get this biosphere going again. Let's get this biome back into shape after this wildfire or something like that. Or there was like a stampede because there was a really great ice cream truck that drove through one of those two. Those ferns have migrated. They came from Tasmania, apparently, all the way to wherever the ice cream truck was, and now they're there. And so they actually moved in that sense, which is really surprising because plants are what are known as sessile organisms. They don't move from place to place individually as organisms, but as a species, they can actually move around like inchworms. Pretty, pretty good. Yeah, it's pretty cool. I didn't really know much about this. We're talking about plant migration and the idea, well, not idea, the very real fact that just like humans and animals will go to more hospitable climbs as the climate may change or just, I don't know, just to seek a better place to be. Plants and trees and things on mass do the same thing. Yeah, and there's all sorts of ways that they do that, too. So they do it by dispersing their seeds or their spores in that case, fern spores or single -celled organisms. They're not like a seed technically, but they do the same thing, right? They show up in a place and set up shop and they start rocking out. Yeah, that's right. And ferns, you know, it depends and we'll get all into this stuff, but how fast this happens depends on different factors. How far these plants can migrate depends on different factors. Why this is happening is generally climate change and plants and trees and things are generally moving north or up in elevation if they hit mountains. Or south in the southern hemisphere. Exactly. So this is sort of the general pattern. And we mentioned ferns because, like you said, those spores can really haul. Ferns also mature very quickly and, you know, the wind can just, that's why I got a fern forest at my camp, probably. Yeah, so they check both of the boxes that you need to be a fast migrating plant species. They produce seeds or spores at a very young age and their seed or spore can travel very far distances, right? Right. So they can move around. And also it doesn't hurt that, like I said, ferns are adaptable. The trees and other plants don't move quite so fast, but they move, especially if you look at the fossil record, a lot faster than they actually should. So if you pay attention to a single organism, say an oak, those acorns don't travel terribly far. They may get a little further away from the drip line if a squirrel happens to bury it somewhere and a new oak tree grows. I think it was Anders Sandberg who described acorns as solar powered factories for producing more oak trees. Whoa, whoa, Andy Sandberg said that? No, Anders Sandberg. Oh, OK. He's a philosopher at Oxford. That makes a lot more sense. Yeah, yeah. Andy Sandberg, he ate his lime accidentally in his Corona bottle. That's what he's got. You know who he's married to? Uh, Patricia Arquette. No, it's not a bad guess. You've been guessing Patricia Arquette for a lot of things lately, I feel like. Have I? He's married to, yeah, I feel like that's come up before recently, maybe, I don't know. Her name just rolls off the tongue. I know, a big fan of hers. He is married to, what's her name, Joanna Newsome, the singer and harpist. Oh, neat. And if you like, if you're into architecture and homes, you should seek out, I don't know if it was Architectural Digest or something, but someone did a spread on their home and it is really something else. OK, so that's Andy Sandberg hour that we just checked out. A quick detour. Wait, wait, I wasn't done. Oh, no, go ahead. So if you look at an individual tree, an oak tree, those acorns don't go particularly far away from the tree, as the old saying goes. But the fact that they do fall away from the tree means that very slowly, some of those seedlings are going to grow up a little more northward or a little more southward than its mother plant. And very, very slowly, the whole group of oaks can move southward or northward, right? Over hundreds and thousands and tens of thousands of years. So long. The thing is, if you look at the fossil record, they move way faster than that, than they should. And there is actually a paradox that was named by a guy named Clement Reed, right? Reed's paradox. Yeah, he's got a great, great title for it. Of Rapid Plant Migration. That's the full title. It sounds almost like snake oil from the 19th century. Yeah, it kind of does. So what is it? Oh, OK, I didn't ever set me up. We're still tight after all these years. For sure. So what he found from the fossil record, like you were talking about, and as we'll see, that's one pretty good way to study this stuff, especially pollen fossils, right? Yeah, because they're so hardy. Yeah, so he saw that trees were migrating a lot faster than the rate that you would think. And so those oaks, I think, was one example you gave on the British Isles after the last glacial period over a span of like 10 ,000 years or so. They traveled about 600 miles and it would normally take about a million years. If the seeds were just dispersed in a typical way. But what he figured was that what may be happening here is like some weird weather event happens that sent things much farther than usual or like some deer or something eats something and then poops out something really far away from where it started. And so all of a sudden this animal has spread it via their poo poo. Right, and this is how like large scale migration happens or I should say rapid migration over long distances, right? Right, yeah. It's the unusual, not just the acorn falling and hitting the ground, it's not just gravity assisted, it's animal assisted, which is called zucory or it's wind assisted, which is called anemocory or water assisted, which is called hydrocory. And that's just the way that some plants disperse their seeds. That's kind of on top of the normal way they disperse it, which is just dropping it from their leaves or the spores blowing on the wind, which I guess is one type of cori. So like if a squirrel loaded up its mouth full of things and somehow found its way into your camper as you set off for Arizona. That would be a freak event, sure. It probably wouldn't be en masse, but you know, that's a way a tree could move. All it takes is that one oak to make it, to just survive, and then it starts its own new part of the range. Yeah, absolutely. And we all should point out, when was Reid doing this? This is a while ago, like 100 plus years ago, right? Yeah, he was a geologist, I don't know if we said, but Reid's paradox of rapid plant migration came out in 1899 and it was a smash hit. Yeah, so people, I mean, for at least that long, science has been sort of curious about this migration happening at a rate that they would not expect. Right. The thing is, is it's really hard when you throw in the X factor to calculate how fast an actual species can migrate. And there's a few ways that you can study that kind of thing. One, as you said, is studying the fossil record, which is super helpful. But it's not showing you what's going on contemporaneously or within the last couple decades. This is 10 ,000, a million years ago, something like that, right? Yeah. So if you wanted to study something a little closer to home timeline, timeline wise, you would maybe set up what's called a permanent vegetation plot. You would just, you would mark off an area and you would go back there, you know, every so often, like every six months or every year or so, and just sort of chart what's I think they've been doing this for about 100 years since the 1920s. So we've got a pretty good data set there. Something else you could do is go somewhere like let's say you dug up some cool scientific journal from a scientist from, you know, 200 years ago that went and explored some island. And while they may not have like charted everything out exactly like you would in today's science, they may have a really nice diary about all the plant life there and things that they saw there and where it might be. And you could go back to that place. And it's not quite as tight of a record, but you could still get a pretty good idea of what's happening. Yeah, depending on whose journal you're working from. And back in 2012, a Danish team of scientists followed the record left by a 19th century geologist named Alexander von Humboldt from Germany, who was just an interesting dude in and of himself. He called coffee concentrated sunbeams. So he's my kind of guy. Oh, man, that's great. They went back to Chimborazo volcano in Ecuador, which Humboldt studied in detail. And not only did he study the vegetation there, and he classified all sorts of new plants that Europeans didn't know about at that point. He also noted exactly where they were on the mountain as far as the elevation went. Super helpful. Super helpful. So based on this information, the 2012 Danes were able to go back and recreate his trip. And then they were able to note what plants were where. And they found that everything, all species on average, had moved up the mountain by about an average of about 500 meters, which is significant. It's like almost a mile. It's like eight tenths of a mile. Yeah. Yeah, that's the average. Yeah. There was a lot of variation within that, but that's that's a long way for sure. And what we found out and I guess this comes up a little later, but a plant can find more climbs hospitable going up 500 meters than they might by going, let's just say north, like 90 to 100 miles. Yes. So like a much quicker road to better climbs if you just go up that mountain. For sure. Yeah, that's kind of two ways they move is longitudinally or altitudinally. You got to be in shape, though. Oh, for sure. You're going to climb that mountain.
The Breakdown
A highlight from Why A Pro-Bitcoin, Anti-Central Bank Economist Just Won Argentinas Presidential Primary
"Alex Krueger, who I frequently quote, who is himself from Argentina, said, Mille is neither good nor bad. He is different. And for Argentina, different means good. Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. It's a daily podcast on macro, bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. What's going on, guys? It is Tuesday, August 15th, and today we are talking about the Argentinian presidential candidate who is a pro bitcoin candidate. Before we get into that, however, if you are enjoying The Breakdown, please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review. Or if you want to dive deeper into the conversation, come join us on the Breakers Discord. You can find a link in the show notes or go to bit .ly slash breakdown pod. Hello friends, welcome back. If you have been on bitcoin twitter in the last day or so, you've probably seen someone talking about the pro bitcoin Argentinian presidential candidate that just won a primary election. As a representative tweet, Marty Bent said, Argentina electing an anarcho capitalist president and embracing bitcoin would be pretty epic, especially when the world sees how quickly they recover from a multi -decade bout of fiat -induced economic mismanagement. This is indeed a really interesting development. However, it can be very easy, all too easy, frankly, for bitcoiners or crypto advocates to get so excited about a politician from somewhere else sharing our views on those particular topics that we fail A, to see the politician for their full set of policies and beliefs, or B, fail to put it in the context of what's actually happening in the place that politician has emerged. I think both of those things are extremely important and so today what we're going to do is just a little bit a very, very superficial background on Argentina, its recent economic turmoil, and of course the candidate in question, Javier Millet. So first let's talk about what actually happened. On Monday night there was a shock election result when libertarian congressman Javier Millet secured a victory in the presidential primaries with 30 .1 % of the vote. Millet came in ahead of pro -business center -right candidate Patricia Bulrich, who garnered 28 .3 % of the votes, as well as the candidate from the incumbent center left government Sergio Masa, who got 27 .2 % of the vote. Masa is the current minister of economy and is a party member of the Renewal Front, a part of the ruling coalition of democratic socialist parties. To get a sense of why people around the world are talking about this, economics professor Lawrence White wrote, 30 % in the first round for a candidate who wants to abolish the central bank and dollar rise. Remarkable and encouraging whatever disagreements I may have with Millet on other issues. So who is Javier Millet? Well, he's a relative newcomer to Argentine politics. He was a founding figure in the libertarian coalition, which was formed in 2018. The party's power base is centered on the capital of Buenos Aires, but they are far from a dominant political faction. The party had a glimmer of success during the 2021 elections, obtaining a parliamentary seat for Millet. Overall, the libertarian coalition holds only four seats in the 257 seat lower house and none in the senate. One of the things this could mean that if Millet is successful in the final round of presidential elections to be held in late October, he might need to form an alliance with the center -right opposition in order to pass legislation. Before turning his attention to politics, Millet had a two -decade long career as a professor of economics. He is firmly of the Austrian school, believing in hard money principles. He has been highly critical of the university of Buenos Aires, which he views as being responsible for the, quote, proliferation of Keynesian brutes. Outside of economics, he is extremely socially conservative. He's put forward opinions, for example, around the extreme restriction of abortion, unrestricted civilian access to firearms, and climate change denial. Now, one of the things that you'll note if you've spent any time with Western press characterizations of Millet is that he gets compared to other right -wing populists like Trump and Bolsonaro quite a bit. In fact, most of the American coverage of him includes some phrase like Trump -loving or Trump -admiring literally in the title of the article. What's important to note is that his political communication is significantly more focused on politics. Indeed, his election campaign has centered on the economics of Argentina. During rallies, he has called for a massive reduction of government spending, formal dollarization, and the abolition of the central bank. He's also come out as a fierce advocate for Bitcoin as an answer to the control imposed by central banks over the money supply. However, before we go deeper into the Bitcoin dimension of this story, let's talk a little bit about the larger context. The Wall Street Journal characterized Millet's victory as a middle -class revolt, and it's pretty hard to argue with that point. Millet outperformed both the center -right opposition candidate as well as the center -left candidate from the incumbent government. Indeed, his victory in this preliminary stage of the elections is being viewed as a rejection of career politicians and the ruling class in Argentina. Current ruling party is part of a coalition of Peronist democratic socialist parties which have carried forward the political ideals of post -World War II president Juan Perón. While obviously the political history of an entire country is way, way out of depth for this show, at a very high Wikipedia -style level, Peronist presidents have been successfully elected in 10 of the last 13 elections in which they have been allowed to run, and so in that way definitely represent the entrenched incumbents in Argentina. Their ideology features things like nationalization of industry, strong government -supported labor unionization, and a hefty dose of social welfare. However, this ideology has been increasingly on the outs over recent years. For example, between 2015 and 2019, Mauricio Macri from the opposing center -right party, the Republican proposal held the presidency. In 2021, the Peronist coalition lost their majority in the Senate for the first time in 40 years, leaving the party impotent to pass legislation in their own right. Now, Mille's surprise victory on Monday could represent the final collapse of power for both of the major political coalitions in Argentina. Pre -election polling had the Dark Horse candidate finishing in third place behind the more established party figures, but was obviously way off. Now, part of why there has been such a political shift is that Argentina is going on 25 years of economic dysfunction. Starting in 1998, a string of global economic shocks led to a three -year depression punctuated by a sovereign default in 2001. In that period between 1998 and 2002, the Argentine economy contracted by 28 percent. Because of that, the nation turned to the IMF for debt restructuring to deal with an exponentially growing pile of dollar -denominated debt. After 2023, growth did return. Both unemployment and the 2008 global recession with its growth intact, but the economy sputtered out again in 2013, and since then, Argentina has experienced five recessions in the past 10 years. Now, things arguably took a turn for the worst after the change of government to the longtime opposition in 2015. By the second half of that year, inflation hit 30 percent, and the Argentine peso was cut in half to an exchange rate of 30 pesos per U .S. dollar. The central bank responded by hiking interest rates to 45 percent and draining its foreign currency reserves to bolster the collapsing peso. Inflation never came back down significantly below 40 percent prior to the pandemic, and the peso continued to devalue year after year. In 2019, power transitioned back to the dominant center -left coalition, and capital controls were put in place. Citizens could no longer freely exchange their pesos for dollars. In this environment, the central bank sets an official fixed exchange rate, at which individuals are only allowed to exchange $200 per month without paying punitive taxes. In spite of that official rate, however, the nation functions as a semi -dollarized state with citizens exchanging currency at a free market rate known as the blue dollar. This exchange in physical dollar bills is illegal but generally not enforced, as anyone who has visited BA knows. Alongside the blue dollar rate, there are a range of other exchange rates designed to act as either a subsidy or a tax on certain import and export industries. Most notably is the agricultural or soy dollar rate, which was introduced last year. The soy dollar rate was intended to offer farmers a more favorable exchange rate after they began to stockpile their crops rather than participate in economically critical export markets, however still had the problem of not being the actual rate that dollars were fetching on the blue markets. Now fascinatingly, on Monday, as it became clear that Miele had outperformed his rivals at the polls, the government announced another adjustment to the official exchange rate. The peso was devalued by 18 percent to trade at 350 pesos per dollar. Blue dollar rates also shifted by more than 14 percent and now sit at 675 pesos per dollar. That is a new all -time low for the Argentinian currency. Alongside the devaluation, the central bank hiked its key interest rate by 21 percentage points to reach 118 percent. Inflation is now firmly above 100 percent per year, and there doesn't appear to be an easy way to stabilize the currency or the economy. Now the devaluation is being blamed on an economic meltdown in reaction to the election. Alejo Costa, the chief Argentinian strategist at BtG Pakchual and BA, said investors like Miele's economic message but fear the execution and institutional risk considering his lack of power in congress and aggressive style. Now one concern is that Miele or any other president will have their work cut out for them. Claudia Kalich, the head of emerging market debt at MNG Investments, said that whoever is in charge by the end of the year will need to begin unwinding unsustainable policies. And ultimately this is what makes Miele's success at the polls start to make more sense. The core pillars of Miele's proposed economic reforms are to formally dollarize the economy and slash government spending to the bone. Given that the people of Argentina have seen their peso savings slashed by two -thirds in just the past year, the message appears to be resonating. So at this point let's start to bring crypto back into this story. Argentina is a place that has embraced crypto for some time now. In fact, I've often told this story on other podcasts, but in early 2019 I actually brought my father -in -law to BA for a couple day trip where we effectively just hung out with people who were working in the crypto space and that's where it really clicked for him. It was soon after that trip that he made his first bitcoin investments, which by the way, if you look at what bitcoin was priced at at the time, was a pretty damn good time to get in. Now back to Argentina itself, local laws allow for up to 20 % of wages in kind, which some workers have used to receive part of their salary in crypto. That has represented a significant boost for global workers who otherwise would have had US dollar payments automatically converted into pesos with the banking system. According to International Payroll Company Deal, Argentina has more workers getting paid in crypto than any other nation in the world. Now a big part of the adoption in Argentina is around stablecoins. This makes sense given how dollarized the economy is. Many blue dollar exchange offices now accept and distribute stablecoins and their use in the economy as a payment method is also increasing. Several major banks even began offering crypto services in recent years. Now perhaps because of all of this, the amplified adoption of crypto in Argentina has alarmed the IMF. Since 2020, the government has been seeking IMF assistance in restructuring its debt, but negotiations have been painfully difficult. The IMF has insisted on a range of economic reforms and austerity measures, but a lack of a parliamentary majority made it difficult for the government to make a firm commitment. In March 2022, the government signed a letter of intent with the IMF on a loan of $45 billion and one of the terms of the agreement was that central bank would discourage the adoption of crypto in Argentina in order to quell money laundering, informality, and disintermediation. This was, of course, the IMF's very own Operation Chokepoint Argentina and despite there being no formal policy, multiple major banks suddenly shut down their crypto services. Now $5 .4 billion of the IMF loan was distributed to Argentina earlier this year, but with elections and potentially a change in government coming, it's not clear when the balance of the loan will be paid out. For many citizens, the current government has used the central bank to pursue a failed policy of currency controls and sky -high interest rates. And in spite of all of that, inflation is still above 100 % and shows no signs of slowing down. Is it at all surprising then, that Argentinian citizens are attracted to a politician who pledges to burn down the central bank? Now, several months ago, when Mille was enjoying a groundswell of support, he made an appearance on national TV to put forward his economic positions. In that interview, he was asked specifically about his views on Bitcoin and what its adoption could mean for Argentina. Mille answered, and of course, all of these quotes are translated from Spanish. The first thing we have to understand is that the central bank is a scam. It is a mechanism by which politicians cheat the good people with the inflation tax. What Bitcoin is representing is the return of money to its original creator, the private sector. Money is a private invention. In order to be used to solve problems, for example, in a bartering economy, the double coincidence of wants and indivisibility. Then paper money appears in order to solve portability. And then that evolved and the currencies that people chose were silver for small transactions and gold for bigger ones. Then, because back then it was very dangerous to move the gold, people used to deposit the gold and get in exchange a receipt. Then in the year 1445, in the first Genovese Congress, the states appropriated the exclusivity to issue the money. That's the legal tender, which is a key point. Because legal tender allows the politician to scam you with the inflationary tax. Bitcoin has an algorithm that one day it will reach a certain amount and there is no more. It can compete with other currencies. In fact, it competes with Ethereum and others. And what is the good thing? It's the return of private money. But what is the problem? The problem is that governments will not give up the legal tender because with legal tender they can scam you with the inflationary tax. Bitcoin is the natural reaction against the central bank scammers and to make the money private again. The flip side is that the thieving politicians are not going to allow you to go against legal tender. In economies with high inflation, the scam problem is bigger. That's why, as I suggest, you can propose to close the central bank.
MiraStar Podcasts
A highlight from #46: Unspoken Topics
"Hey Mirafim and welcome to season 5 episode 6 of Mirafim Podcasts. So today I'm with Patricia. So Patricia how are you doing? I'm good, how are you? I'm good. So practically today we're gonna be talking about like unspoken topics. Unspoken topics are basically like topics that are not really spoken much about but like obviously they need to be spoken about more. So are you ready for the first question? Right so the first question is basically what are unspoken topics? The first question now, what unspoken topics do you think are not spoken about enough? Pretty privileged. So it brings us to the first like topic so that's actually pretty privileged. So what is pretty privileged is where like people whether it's a boy or a girl they they have more opportunities in life based off how people are based off of people who think they're pretty or not. Yeah like models and stuff like that. Like I'm pretty sure people call, you know who Gigi Hadid and Bella Hadid are right? Yeah. People call them the prettiest woman on earth just because they're like tall white skinny models. Yeah. So do you think pretty privilege is relevant today? Yeah I feel like it's still relevant because as somebody who's like in high school I feel like a lot of girls who are prettier than me get more attention than me and get more like they have more like they're more popular than me or whatever you want to call it and they have a lot more positivity because people feel like oh they're pretty so this this this this or that. Yeah because I feel like people they're more likely to listen to people who are more like physically appealing to look at. So how real would you say pretty privilege is? Like how often would you say it occurs? Very often. So how is privilege and pretty privilege different? I feel like privilege is where like you have you have more opportunities based off just pretty much anything and pretty privilege is having more opportunities based off your appearance. Alright fair says. So how do you think people can benefit from pretty privilege? I feel like people can benefit from pretty privilege. Like the way they can benefit is because they can get away with a lot of things like they can do things that somebody who is let's just say if let's just I don't have to sugarcoat it let's just say audience in them couldn't really get out loud for example saying slurs and somebody who's pretty said a slur nobody would really care because they're pretty. example Yeah for like obviously as you said like being in school let's say someone wants to go start a rumour and obviously they're like oh they're good looking blah blah blah no one would really care they're more interested to listen to the rumour they have to say because they're pretty but if it's someone who's not really seen to be as pretty people that are widespread in rumours all you do is gossip blah blah blah and all that kind of thing. Right so I'm going to give you like this. I'm just going to say a statement and tell me if you agree. So this is a statement. Pretty people hold the key to a door of opportunities. Let me let me like shine it. So basically pretty people have more opportunities connections and choices but for other people it's sure. Would you agree? Yeah I agree. Why? I Why? feel like I agree mostly because when it comes to being pretty like for example let's say you applied to be a model right and you're pretty everyone thinks you're pretty you're obviously going to get the job or whatever it is but let's say somebody who's uglier than that person tries to apply for something that's got to do with modelling they might just get turned down just because they don't fit the criteria of what they're looking for. Yeah but nowadays I feel like nowadays when it comes to modelling I think it's slightly improved like for example I'll be working past I'll be seeing more like diverse people. I'll be seeing some people with vitiligo. I'll be seeing some people with albino people like albinos. I'll be seeing tall people short people all that kind of stuff so it's more like it's better now but obviously it's not always better. So have you ever witnessed pretty privilege like right in front of your face? Yeah I have. So where do you see pretty privilege the most like acting industries, music industries, school, jobs, work where do you see them? I feel like I see more as acting industries because when acting to a class that's pretty and stuff like that and they do something wrong they kind of just get away with it. Yeah that's true can you think of any examples of that? Right so Patricia. Hello. Right so this is the last question on pretty privilege so do you think pretty privilege overall is talking about enough? Pardon? Do you think pretty privilege is talking about enough? No. Me neither. I feel like we need to speak about it more because like it actually happens so much you know we just don't talk about it anymore. Like it generally happens all the time. Right so the next theme is derealisation. Right so the first question relating to derealisation is what is derealisation? Derealisation is feeling like the world around you isn't real and feeling like you're outside of your old body and stuff like that. what Yeah so do you think are the effects of it like how would it feel basically? I feel like it feels like when you just hit rock button and you just feel like nothing around you is actually real it's all artificial and stuff like that. Yeah like it feels surreal like it's just depending on how long you've lived you're like oh I've lived for this long all of a sudden nothing feels real. It feels like a simulation. So what is depersonalisation? So similar to derealisation so what's depersonalisation? I feel like depersonalisation is like when you feel like you're no longer yourself if you're one. Like you don't feel you. Yeah you don't feel like yourself you feel like you're outside of your own body which is similar to derealisation but yeah. So now what is the difference between depersonalisation and derealisation? What's the difference? The difference is that depersonalisation is feeling like you're outside of yourself and that you're not yourself you're a different person and the realisation is feeling like everything around you is not real that's the difference between them. Yeah basically so like derealisation is like linking to more the world around you like how things look and how things feel and then depersonalisation is like you yourself and how you feel about yourself and how it doesn't really feel normal. So do you think derealisation is not spoken about enough? I don't feel like it's spoken about enough. Do you think it needs to be spoken about more? Yeah. Lovely. Right so the next theme is attachment issues. So what are attachment issues? I feel like attachment issues is when you meet somebody and you feel this type of link towards them and you just can't really let it go like you just feel you just feel like that person is a part of your world and a part of you and if you lose them it's just gonna you know you're not gonna feel like yourself anymore. Yeah let's like say you lose them you feel like a chunk of you is gone. Yeah. So do you think having attachment issues means you're clingy? I feel like in some situations yes but it just depends on what the situation is really. Okay fair says. So what do you think causes people to be attached? I feel like what causes people to be attached is that when they get to a certain point with somebody they just feel like oh that person is my world and stuff like that. Yeah. I feel like if you meet someone for the first time that's like really similar to you or that you really like them obviously you're gonna be really attached to them and then obviously let's say you lose them or you come into an argument obviously sometimes you might appear as very clingy to them as in you feel like you still need them or something like that. So the next question is how do you think people how do you think being attached stops people from letting go of someone? How do you think being attached stops people from letting go of someone? I feel like being attached for people from letting go of someone mainly because once you've got that person in your life and you feel like that person is like that person I've met my actual somebody I've met my soul mate I feel like once you get to that point in life or once you get to that point with somebody it's kind of hard to let go because you feel like that person is my world that person is like if I don't have them what am I gonna do like how am I gonna function? Yeah how so can attachment issues affect the trust you have with people? I feel like attachment issues can affect the trust you have with somebody because it's like they could just be they could just be acting off their attachment with you and they might not let's say you get into a deep kind of thinking they might not be seeing you it might just be it might just be that attachment issue speaking it might not actually be them.
AP News Radio
Coronation gives tourism boost, but UK economy still reeling
"Tourism industry officials have a high hopes that may 6th coronation of King Charles will provide a vital boost to the industry, which is still reeling from two years of COVID-19 shutdowns. Outside Buckingham Palace, Patricia Yates, chief executive of the visit to Britain, tourism board, says she hopes next week's coronation the first for nearly 70 years will be a great success. Events like this really kickstart the recovery, don't they? And they put Britain on the world stage again and goodness we do that so well. Our pageantry around the coronation will just be amazing. History, heritage and the royals are the biggest draw for international tourists. And royalty, a particular magnet for Americans, who are driving the country's tourism recovery, Queen Elizabeth, the second's platinum jubilee celebrations last year, brought in an extra 2.6 million visitors to London and Charles coronation is expected to have a similar effect. Charles De Ledesma, London
AP News Radio
Lawsuit seeks white woman's arrest in Emmett Till kidnapping
"A lawsuit has been filed by a relative of Emmett Till, trying to force the arrest of a white woman whose accusations ultimately led to the lynching of the black teen in 1955. Patricia Stirling of Jackson Mississippi is a cousin of Emmett Till. She filed a federal lawsuit, asking the sheriff of Lafleur county to serve an arrest warrant on Carolyn Bryant, who recanted her story. She's the one who accused the 14 year old till visiting from Chicago of making advances toward her in a store, a witness said he had whistled at her, which violated Mississippi's racial codes. A reexamination of the case found in 1955 arrest warrant had been issued but never served because the sheriff at the time said he did not want to quote bother the woman because she was raising two children. The lawsuit alleges if Carolyn Bryant hadn't falsely claimed Emmett Till assaulted her. Her husband and his half brother would have never gone into such a rage that led to the teens murder and mutilation. Carolyn Bryant donham has since remarried. She's now in her late 80s, living in North Carolina and Kentucky in recent years. I'm Jackie Quinn
Ethereum Daily
StarkWare Releases Papyrus StarkNet Full Node
"Released papyrus, a new open-source rust implementation of a stark knit full node, papyrus aims to increase throughput on stark net by improving sequencer performance. The implementation features an efficient storage layer that requires sequencers to maintain a local database instead of a cloud based database. Papyrus also interacts directly with the stark net state instead of using Merkel Patricia paths, sequencers can use papyrus to sync with the state of stark net and access the chain's history. Users will be able to query the state via stark nets JSON RPC in the future release papyrus is the third node implementation followed by pathfinder and Juno. Options
VUX World
"patricia" Discussed on VUX World
"Yo yo, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. Hello there. Quick one before we get into this podcast. We had some issues with Patricia's mic during this broadcaster. Because we do this broadcast live, it was quite hard to fix in the moment. So apologies in advance for some of the audio issues in this conversation. There's some clicking and homing I've done my absolute best to get rid of it, but it's not ideal. So I just wanted to give you a four warning about that before we get into this conversation. Around a moment, kind of like four minutes in our sword there'll be a horrible jerky bit of silence and then the conversation will carry on. That's because we paused for a little bit to try and fix the mic. It does get fixed for a little while, but yeah, the issue is return. So I would still encourage you to kind of bear with this conversation because the content is absolutely fantastic. It's just that the audio quality isn't ideal. So see how you get on. Cheers. Yo yo yo. Hello, hello, hello. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. Welcome to the UX world. I'm your host, as always, Ken Simms. And today we're going to have a very well needed discussion. Discussion that we kind of touch on here and there, but haven't really spent a whole bunch of time apart from when we had Deborah Harrison from Microsoft on a long while back talking about privacy and ethics. And so to do, we're joined by Patricia Finn, who is the CEO of private AI. I'm going to be talking all about the need for privacy in the AI space and exactly what private AI do to help. But before that, I'd like to give a shout out to deep Graham, our presenting sponsor of the UX world. And if you don't know about now deep gram is one of the industry leading speech recognition providers automatic speech recognition or ASR as it's known as I'm sure you know by now. And if you're looking to use well, if you're going to build a voice assistant, our voice bot or any kind of conversational AI that uses speech as its primary modality, then you will definitely need speech recognition. Not only will you need speech recognition, but your new.
Greg Bedard Patriots Podcast with Nick Cattles
"patricia" Discussed on Greg Bedard Patriots Podcast with Nick Cattles
"A possible theory. I just wanted to throw something else in there. Remember last year, I don't remember what game it was. A lot has happened since then. But remember the postgame and there were pictures of Belichick and Patricia and they were the jets game. But heavies, baby. Yeah, and they were, and they were drinking together, hanging out, and it was like Patricia was like wearing like a suit of jacket he had his hair all combed up and it was like one of those things where it's like, okay, fine. But why was Patricia like the only dude that was at that with Belichick? There was no McDaniels. There was really nobody else. It was like, you know, I don't know if he's accountable a buddy. I don't know if he's a BFF. I don't know what's going on, but that was one of those things where, you know, when you saw it and you knew that Belichick loves himself some Patricia, obviously. But when I saw those pictures and I was like, wow, they're kind of just hanging and banging after the game. Like drinking beers and like with their wives? Yeah, that's another level, which brings us to this. You mentioned it in the notes, Greg. And it's something that we've had a conversation about a little bit. We haven't really drilled down on it. But this idea of the ecosystem that the Patriots have in Foxborough, Belichick, being there for 20 plus years. And it makes you start to wonder, you know, are they starting to kind of sell to the point of overselling Patricia to the crafts and to the NFL and to the, you know, the people that will talk about what's going to happen after Belichick. Are they kind of like greasing the wheels here to get people ready for when Belichick bounces, he slides Patricia in and now you have years of people kissing his ass and saying how great he is and then Patricia.
Greg Bedard Patriots Podcast with Nick Cattles
"patricia" Discussed on Greg Bedard Patriots Podcast with Nick Cattles
"Bet online where the game starts. All right, so I'm just going to set this one up for you. Here we go. And let you run with it. So a lot of Matt Patricia love. And you talked about Patricia down at the owner's meeting. It's kind of tied at the hip with Belichick. People looking at this from afar, trying to figure out what the hell is going on. Grow is singing Patricia's praises about his pro personnel experience. He made, you know, he made Patricia sound like he broke the mold by working on the devonta Parker trade. On and on and on and on. What is going on with this love fest for Matt Patricia Greg? First of all, Nick, let me just let me just say this at the start. I have nothing against map Patricia. I've spoken to him a couple of times. I spoke to him at the combine and at the lead meetings. Have a good relationship with him. Have nothing personally against him. I think he's a good coach. I think he's brilliant. I think he's an asset here. We'll see the whole offensive thing. I'm referring to Belichick. I don't have an opinion on that. I don't love it. I don't have an opinion on it. So let me just state that from the top. But it was one thing to see map Patricia wood Bill Belichick at the league meetings and following him around, okay? That never happens. There's never an assistant coach there. It never happens. That was one thing. It's another thing to see him and Bill all together. And Bill also to be lavishing praise on map Patricia and how big of a role he plays here, all right? That was one thing, okay? I could deal with that. Whatever, I'll let Bill have a say what have you. Maybe you need to travel companion. I don't know. But the comments that macro had the other day, Nick, I've had it. I've just had it. And there were two in particular, okay? He mentioned map Patricia because grow was asked about his lack of pro personnel experience when it comes to being director of director of player personnel, which we've talked about here. It's unheard of. He's three years from being an area scout. He's never been quote unquote in pro personnel, which is unusual. All the other guys before him with the Patriots all had years of pro personnel experience. But he said, gross said, obviously we've got no better resource than coach Belichick and what Matt Patricia is able to add through his through all his experience is let me say that again. And what mappers is able to add through all his experiences with everything on the pro side. I just try and soak that in, put it all together and help make the team help the team make the best decisions we can..
Greg Bedard Patriots Podcast with Nick Cattles
"patricia" Discussed on Greg Bedard Patriots Podcast with Nick Cattles
"I could just see his finger like trembling like before pressing the button on drafting an undersized linebacker. It's like, it's gonna kill him to have to do it, but that's the game now. We'll see. That's the game. We'll see. You know, and it's funny you bring up linebacker because, you know, some of the comments I saw from grow was talking about how the linebacker position has changed. And you're not going to see a lot of those guys who are 6 three 6 four two 50 thumpers downhill. And when I was reading that quote, I just was wondering, you know, his point was you can't find many of those guys. So was he saying, you know, that makes it much more important for us to find those guys and draft those guys who are those thumpers because that's what Belichick likes, or was he saying, like, I'm trying to inch the coach towards understanding, I'm trying to get Bill to understand that like, hey, those guys bill that you love those big ass linebackers. There's not a lot of spikes. Yeah, so we might want to we might want to try to evolve here, Bill and move towards more the athletic type, smaller type. So because you could read a kind of both ways. Before we get to Matt Patricia, because Matt grow. Talked about Patricia and Greg's about to throw furniture about Patricia. But before we get to that, first, let's tell our friends about bet online dot AG. Our partners at bet online continue to be the number one source for all your betting needs and sports info. Find all the latest sports developments, including updated odds on the playoffs, fights, and even next season's futures. Don't forget that baseball is back and the start of the Major League Baseball season is finally here, even though the Red Sox are stuck in neutral a little bit. And also don't forget that you can bet on the NFL Draft considering you're listening to. This podcast also the podcast that we're doing with Kevin field to get everybody caught up on the draft, a lot of good information in there, take it from.
Greg Bedard Patriots Podcast with Nick Cattles
"patricia" Discussed on Greg Bedard Patriots Podcast with Nick Cattles
"How detailed would you expect Belichick to be in that meeting with butler post Super Bowl? I actually Nick, I actually think and I may be wrong with this because I forget exactly what was said after the game and things like that. But knowing Bill the way that I do, I would have expected that either from Bill or through a proxy like say map Patricia who is the defensive coordinator at the time. I would have figured somebody would have been honest with him before the Super Bowl. On like, look, Malcolm, you know, not only his role in the game and the game plan. Remember he was sick and flew out late to Arizona for that Super Bowl. And I think that even before the Patriots left, they had the game plan done they were probably practicing and already in Foxborough. Malcolm understood they probably explained to him what the deal was with the game plan or at least he brought it up with them. And I think it was hashed out, and I think it was made clear to him, which is why we saw him emotional during the national anthem. I think it was made clear to him like, look, Malcolm, this went on, this kind of stuff can't go on here in a team environment. For that reason, you're not playing other than special teams in this game. And I think that was probably made clear to him even before they boarded the buses for the actual game. Now Malcolm said today that he doesn't believe the year off is going to hinder him much. What do you think? Do you think it will, Greg? I think it will get off to a slow start. I think Nick, if we've learned anything from watching these guys, especially since we have the COVID year, where some of the guys took off, even with the Patriots. I mean, look at, look at Dante Hightower and Brandon Bolden, who came back. Both of them started slow. I mean, Brandon Bolden remember when we were watching him early on in the season, his feet looked like they were in cement. And then fast forward, not even four or 5 games later,.
Available Worldwide
"patricia" Discussed on Available Worldwide
"So about honoring yourself where you are, you have the habits and actions that you have and the beliefs about yourself and all the package that is you, because your brain is keeping you safe and comfortable. That's what our human brains like to do. Keep us safe and comfortable in the habits that we have. Now we all know from foreign service moves that we get booted out of our comfort zone. So the goal in a foreign service move is to get yourself safe and comfortable again. But here's the little spin, you can put on it. So how can I feel safe and comfortable with a new habit, a new lifestyle that's going to support me going to support my health? And I think we all know the basic outlines that people don't follow. Eat 5 servings or more of fruits and vegetables a day. Move your body a 150 minutes a week, don't smoke. Just the general things that people find themselves not doing, but how can I feel safe and comfortable doing healthier things for myself? So that's my question to the audience. Well, we'll have to see if anybody posts a reply on our Facebook page. Very last question for you, Patricia. What is your superpower? Oh, my superpower. Yeah, I think my superpower is being resourceful. And I think I definitely learned that as an EFM. So I feel like I always find a way forward. Even if it's kind of patched up and improvised, I'm famous for looking in any empty pantry and making a meal out of it. And I definitely EFM skill that people need to have. Yeah. Especially in those last right before you leave a place and you have to make these really random meals out of all your leftovers. Yeah, there's no protein in those. That's true. But I feel like it's served me well in this journey too because like there's always a way to make my food a little healthier to move my body a little bit more like I take the stairs and the airport instead of the escalator. Just little little things that make me a little bit healthier. Well, Patricia, if our listeners want to find you, how can they find you? Thank you. Well, my business is fierce after 45. That's my website. I'm also on Facebook and Instagram. And I'd love to see I have a lot of free content, my blog, I have a mind free mindfulness group, and once a month I have a free laughter group on Zoom. If you're in false church, Virginia, I have a free outdoor workout every Saturday morning..
Available Worldwide
"patricia" Discussed on Available Worldwide
"Hi Patricia, it's so good that you were able to join me here. I reached out to you because I knew that the work that you're doing right now at least was perfect for January. We'll get to that later. But also, because you're a bit of a, I don't know, famous person, I guess, in the EFM community. You've done so many exciting things and helped the community in so many ways that I wanted to be able to share your story a little bit. So I guess the first question that I ask everybody is, who are you? And can you give me a few sentences about what you do right now? Hi, Lauren. Yeah, it's great to be here. Thank you so much. I guess I've been around a while in the foreign service community. My husband joined in 1990, so I have accumulated some experiences along the way. What I do now is I have a coaching health coaching business called fierce after 45, and I'm 60 now. And I help women feel fierce after 45 by accompanying them on their hero's journey to feel better in their bodies and helping make it easier, more empowering and more fun for them. That's impressive. It sounds a little bit like the mission of available worldwide because we're all about empowering EFM to tell their stories. So you're empowering people after 45 to also be happy and who they are and do exciting things with who they are. I love it. Absolutely. So how did you get started in this? What made you start your own business? Yeah, that's a really good question. As most of the things in my life, I sort of stumbled into it. So in 2014, I was on the edge of being overweight and obese, and I was, well, I was obese. And I decided it's time to lose 20 pounds..
Available Worldwide
"patricia" Discussed on Available Worldwide
"Hello, and welcome to available worldwide with Stephanie Anderson and Lauren stead. A podcast by for and about, the accompanying partners of the American foreign service. In each episode, we'll talk to accompanying partners who've discovered superpowers, they never knew they had and found success in unlikely places. We highlight voices that will inspire and encourage you. As you explore what it means to be available worldwide. Happy new year. I'm reaching out from available worldwide headquarters. Today to talk with Patricia linderman, who has had an extensive career as diplomatic accompanying partner and a lot of experience doing things from volunteering from foreign service organizations to volunteering locally to starting her own business..
The Dan Bongino Show
Neil Parrott Talks About Campaign for Western Maryland Secession to West Virginia
"Blue states like Maryland which have these blood red counties full of real genuine patriots and people who love liberty and their families and God and kneel there just tired of it man they're pissed off They're just like I've had enough of this communist crap Can we have a place where people can respect their civil liberties You're not going on a lot of doors in western Maryland The story was about them talking about seceding from the state into West Virginia and candidly Neil I don't blame him No Dan you've knocked on board two And I've heard it for all ten years that I've been a state delegate People are tired They would like to just be able to leave the state And now there is a proposal to go to Washington We're talking with the state Senate president in Washington and their Speaker of the House and they would like to have us there They're actually going to do a vote so we wrote a letter and said we'd like to go to West Virginia And it is the pent up frustration of not being represented from liberal analysis And really being just kicked to the side many issues but some of them are second in the rights We don't have good secular rights in Maryland but of course West Virginia does Taxes are way too high in Maryland compared to estrogen It was higher And stay here They wouldn't have to leave if we were part of West Virginia When you look at school they just passed thankfully the center of Patricia they have the most school choice Bill in the entire country right now We'd like to see that in western Maryland as well And of course the safety and schools when you look at what's happened to Virginia with this transgender people are boys are going to the girls bathroom in a salty people That can happen in Maryland We pass bills to allow that to happen But West Virginia doesn't do that And in fact they said if you're going to have girl sports biological boys not going to be allowed to compete to grow sports at West Virginia That are some of the things that people in western Maryland would like to
Perspectives on Healthcare
"patricia" Discussed on Perspectives on Healthcare
"The <Speech_Female> person is a whole <Speech_Female> <Speech_Female> person and <Speech_Female> not just <Speech_Female> a leg unarm <Speech_Female> <SpeakerChange> an <Speech_Female> ear <Speech_Female> look at the <Speech_Female> mind body <Speech_Female> spirit of a <Speech_Female> person look at <Speech_Female> everything <Speech_Female> is a whole and <Speech_Female> listen <Speech_Female> in <Speech_Female> healthcare <SpeakerChange> <Speech_Female> particularly <Speech_Female> in the <Speech_Female> ones that are <Speech_Female> interested taking insurance <Speech_Female> <Speech_Female> if a person could <Speech_Female> be heard <Speech_Female> for ninety <Speech_Female> seconds. <Speech_Female> That's a minute and a half. <Speech_Female> it's mindful <Speech_Female> listening. 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Monsters and Mixers
"patricia" Discussed on Monsters and Mixers
"It looks haunted and sad. She has a really sad litter. Like self-portrait like i mean you can read into that kind of forgetting she is yeah on but also the fact that she was seeing a psychiatrist like you. Janet like random amnesia. Like you'd think her psychiatrist sushi's regularly seeing psychiatrists you think highs will be like. She's showing signs of rapid memory loss. Yeah i think they're saying the amnesia that might be from the head injury really were also just find it as the reason why she crashed bar. But like what i guess. I'm not wilkerson amnesia. Or what causes it like. I know traumatic head. Injuries can cause app. But what. I don't know what else would cause that sincerely i think and i'm not under censure. But if she was seeing new psychiatrist. I think it is possible that maybe they were trying some medication and it could be that she had some bad side effect to some new medicine during this time there were not nearly as many anti depressive medicine as we have now and most the ones they did use to treat people had significant side effects so it could be that she was on medication and it led to him nesia. It could be that. She was manic bipolar and had a form of a psychotic break that led to the amnesia. It almost sounds a disassociation because with her staring at the other person afternoon onto the reckon not really recognize. You're talking like nine my. I'm sorry i just hit you. It sounds like somebody who might not have been living with a really firm foundation of Being present not feeling president and possibly. That's maybe she just wandered off because she didn't realize that it was real. I mean i've been reading on some things. And that's i guess a little more common than we know that there are things that happened where people don't feel like they're living a real life and maybe that's something that happened. Mental and the human brain is so complex and so amazing and really scary and lots of ways that there are so many things that we don't even know exist until we have some opportunity this or something awry arises where we need to take a look a little deeper and then start seeing all these things that can happen that you had no clue where even a thing so i'm looking at Website the details. What can cause sudden memory loss because obviously memory loss slate gradual memory loss can be caused by lake dementia alzheimer's like forgetting things over time but immediately forgetting things Now does that many of these are tradable which also makes me sad. Yeah if this was the case but you can get some memory loss from a lot of prescription drugs that you take most of which are Anti-anxiety antidepressant on some high blood pressure meds anti-seizure manson sleep medicine Depression can affect.
Monsters and Mixers
"patricia" Discussed on Monsters and Mixers
"From colorado and then that she was from israel the next day may fifth two other sightings of patricia were reported. The i was in sioux falls. South dakota where a waitress claimed that meeting had sat inside a truck stop Diner drinking coffee from twelve. Am to eleven. Thirty am which is almost twelve hours. At least you've got some coffee money. Starting that same day the second report was made from another waitress in murdo. South dakota who reported seeing harvest weaned ten and eleven pm with a random man who appeared to be in his thirties on may nineteenth nineteen eighty. Nine another waitress in a restaurant near patricia's home in bozeman reported seeing in that area. She said that she ordered breakfast. In a very very russian the inner in stated that she had to go shopping at nine. Am a separate rate waitress. Working at the same restaurant reported that she appeared disoriented and seemed to be talking herself that same week. Another sighting of her was reported at a horse. Auction in billings montana strange. It's a lot of Area to be and we'll get into that in a little bit with people think how she got so far by june of nineteen eighty nine over twenty five sightings of patricia had been reported in three of them were confirmed by the police. Other reports were received throughout the pacific northwest. Many of which were at truck stops between montana in seattle law enforcement believed firmly. Believe me and may have been in washington at this time. Due to the fact that her sister lived in seattle and her ex boyfriend lived in spokane so she would have a reason to be in that area on august thirtieth nineteen ninety two years after the accident. A woman was arrested by the police. In idaho for littering..
Monsters and Mixers
"patricia" Discussed on Monsters and Mixers
"I'm just going to work as a ranch in montana which is very different like you want dairy. Yeah so from pittsburgh which is you know. Bustling city to the middle of montana which is honestly admirable. Probably love to do that. Know it sounds pretty awesome Here she worked other odd jobs to support herself so she wasn't just being ranches doing all kinds of stuff. The last person to see patricia prior to her disappearance was her landlord landlord who claimed that her demeanor was out of the ordinary in that she seemed hyper on april nineteenth today the day before her disappearance with her father in pittsburgh over the phone and said that she was under a lot of stress and she wanted to come home. When i hear the word highbrow think maybe she was a manic bipolar. The search for her began immediately however the police had no idea if she was injured or if she was purposely evading and hiding from them i mean they have no clue. They don't know if she got scared and was like oh shit. I need a runaway. Maybe she's drawn strength hide or hit her head and she's like out of rights. They don't know what they're doing with her. What they're walking into. They did find tracks from a pair of tennis shoes in the field. Near the scene of the accident that went on for several miles in They were believed to be hers due to the size of the shoe but led them to nothing and no one in by three o'clock in the morning. The search was suspended until later that day. As attracts eventually disappeared in the terrain it continued on for the next five days but no trace of her was found. The mahan family arrived in montana shortly after their daughter's disappearance in handed out over two thousand missing persons fires throughout the area local volunteer search teams.
The Naked Parent podcast
"patricia" Discussed on The Naked Parent podcast
"So today on our show, we have the opportunity to talk with Patricia Sheldon, who is the mother of two amazing children with autism once 18 and one is 16 Patricia was separated from her husband in 2008, didn't have help from anybody was left out there on her own as many of our listeners know also well. Never had a weekend off without kids were two jobs, 16 hours a day, 6 days a week as a bartender to make ends meet, Friends couldn't relate. Does this sound familiar to anybody out there, naked parent nation? So Patricia, thank you so much for being on our show today. We're happy to have you here. Hi, happy to be here. Thank you for having me. Yes, we appreciate you bringing the good, the real, sometimes it's even the bad and the ugly to the naked parent podcast. That's how the show got its name. So why don't we start off by you telling us a little bit about how it all started? What is it 18 years ago, something might must have looked different or how did it all start for you? About, you know, everything was fine when I was pregnant. There weren't any issues or anything like that. And when my older son was born, you know, I kind of knew he was a little bit different, but just I figured he was shy, he wasn't really going as fast as far as the other kids his age were as far as like the motor skills and everything else. And when I took him to the pediatrician, the doctor first diagnosed him with Tourette's, even though he wasn't speaking, so I was thinking that was kind of hard. Yeah, and I was like, wait a minute, he doesn't have me like speech or, you know, I was just kind of shocked. I was pretty young and I was like, but when it came time to put him into like preschools or nursery schools to go back to work, they would all call me and tell me I had to come pick them up because he had so much separation anxiety. He would just throw up every time I dropped him off. So yeah, that made it kind of difficult. And then it was just hard. He would not go to preschool or anything. That kind of really made it difficult for me to work. So that was my first welcome into autism, but I don't know how far you want me to go into the beginning of the story because it's kind of a really nightmarish story from then on. The one who's the older one is the one you're talking about right now, right? That is in preschool, but has separation anxiety or is it the second one that has that? No, it's the first, the older one that had that. Yeah, so go ahead, just tell me whatever you just helps other parents not feel so. Yeah, tell us. Okay. Kind of goes a different direction at this point. But it kind of all leads into the bigger picture a little bit. So I have to go off little direction. Sorry for the tears if anyone has them. So then when he was about like 15 months old for so, my dad was diagnosed with lung cancer. And so at that point, a few months later I got pregnant with my second kid. And into that little about 5 months into that pregnancy, my father had died. And so that pregnancy with my second child became high risk. So there was a lot of issues going on. You know, that whole thing. And then after my father had died, my son was born about three months later, my younger son. And when the younger son was about two weeks old, my older son, who was barely two and three months. He was two years old and three months. He was fully diagnosed as autistic. And this is back in my 2004 and early 2004. Yeah, looking at my infant who was two weeks old, I could start to pick up on the delays with him. Okay. And we were doing what we could with my older son as well. You know, I was trying to get him situated in the best schools for him for autism. And then I was also new, my younger son is time to go on. I knew he was especially like more severely autistic. So I had a bigger fight on my hands with his autism than with his older brothers. Okay. So time back then back in late 2005 when he was born. It was a little different, even though it doesn't seem like it was that long ago. It was like 15, 16 years ago now. I heard from people that I should institutionalize them. Wow. People in the grocery store were just telling me I needed to put them in institutions and all that. And it was heartbreaking. Yes, for sure. Yeah. It's not really hard and things like that. So I had to deal with a lot of that stuff, I was grieving for my father at the same time. And it was just, it was hard to deal with. Was there a dad in the picture at all? Not very much because where we were we were young. I was like 26 when we got married 27 when I had my son, 29 when I had my second son and by the time I was 32, we were separated. So yeah, he couldn't handle it, really. Yeah, it's tough to handle. What's something you wish you knew then that you know now? You know, I wish I made some different choices. But I don't know if I really would have changed much, you know? Well, I wish I had more knowledge about what was coming. Never thought a million years, it would be like this, right? Future, but I wish I had been more prepared for what I was gonna get, you know? That's possible. Yeah, I hear you. What's one of the worst moments of the journey that stands out for you? There's been a lot of death in both sides of the family from, you know, cancer, and other things. So death alone is hard to talk about with the kids. They don't understand. You know, there's been a lot of life situations that you can't control. And it's hard to kids that don't have very much understanding of what it is. Right. And they both fluent with speech or their any speech delays or what.
Parenting: Difficult Conversations
Becoming A Stepparent
"Let's look at practical ways to meet the crisis of being a step parent a little easier essentially a roadmap. I wish i had the first takeaway is to reset your expectations. Understand and accept that being stepfamily is a very different dynamic. From what dr. Patricia pap now calls a first time family. She's a psychologist and author of three books. On step parenting a stepparent enters as an outsider to an already established bond between the parent and child and also an already established system and the other thing is that kids are hard wired to connect to their parents. They often are not very interested. Ranging to rejecting of having a step parent come in and disrupt their lives even something as small as how you stack. The dishwasher can feel like a big difference for child. Who's gotten used to a certain way of doing things. So it's a very very different start. And it means the parent and the stepparent are in really really different positions. The parent is an insider connected to the child and the stepparent is an outsider stepfamilies. A common according to a twenty eleven pew study more than four in tanna. American adults have at least one stepparent in their family. But pap says often we don't talk about. How challenging it is to become that family if you came in expecting to bond with kids and expecting to feel really close to your partner. There's a lot of shame. Often it just acknowledging that your family is different can provide a more realistic grounded perspective and give you permission not to beat yourself up. Remember what batzeli said having too many plans on expectation of what you think that should be like is the absolute worse where our transition in here right. We're all trying to figure it
Untangle
Harnessing Fierce Self Compassion with Author Kristin Neff
"Kristen. Thanks for being untangled. Today it's great to have you with us again. Oh thanks patricia. I'm really happy to be here. Yes your new book just came out. When did it come out. Actually yesterday on the so excited that i got to read it. It is so good. And let's just start by talking about why he decided to write this book. You've been a compassion. Pioneer and self compassion warrior and. This book has a little bit of a different twist to it. And i'm just curious as to why you decided to write. This one is a couple of reasons. So it's about the fear side of self compassion in addition to tender more nurturing side. It's about being able to speak up. Stand up for yourself. Meet your needs motivate change and first of all in the last ten years or so. When i've been really teaching people about self compassion. I realized that people had a very one-sided view of it they thought self compassion was only about self acceptance and soothing and comforting and there was this misperception that somehow self compassion is gonna undermine your ability to motivate. Change your to seek up or to do something about your life. They thought it was all about acceptance. So part of it was just decrypt. Misperception to let people know about the fear side of self compassion. I liked joke that tender self compassion as like a mother. Just unconditionally loves her child. Even wintershall screaming at off just love and soothe and care for our child but this also like mama bear so protecting her cobs are saying. Okay time for you to leave the dan or maybe hunting for miles. If i'm fish feed them. All of those are really important. Part of self compassion that mama bear side which we can also turn inward is exclusively for women in particular we haven't done before it's all been gender neutral is because women's fierceness socialized out of them we're told to be helpful and say yes to everyone into gear brown needs in a way that men are. So that's why. I wrote the book particularly for women. I was definitely ask that question. And i want to dive a little deeper into that. But why do you think you chose the word fierce. I love the word. Fierce is not the only one who uses it. a lot of people do and essential steam. Because they're called the translations now not all languages have an analogous word because fierce connotes bravery and courage and that warrior energy but as a positive word as opposed to something like aggressive which is negative connotations. And that's why i like fierce because again it's like fierce mama bear that warrior energy can come from a place of love in terms of the service of protection and reducing harm and just seemed to fit that really well.
Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities
Roald the Rotten: The Unsavory Character Behind the Icon of Children's Literature
"British author role doll rose to fame with books that became iconic works of literature and continue to be read by children. All over the world. Charlie and the chocolate factory james and the giant peach and the witches are all beloved for their colorful storytelling and memorable characters however shadow has followed these tales and their author since their publication doll was often described as being racist anti-semitic eh misogynistic in both his personal life and in his stories and how we approach problematic literature especially literature written for children is as complicated as the man who wrote them. Just ask those who were responsible for. Bringing his words to the world they often dealt with him across the ocean. And even that wasn't enough. Sometimes doll had grown up embodying this nickname of the apple which he'd earned due to his mother's adoration for him compared to her other children. He attended boarding school from a young age and dabbled in writing but his imagination proved far more developed than his literary skills. At the time. Still he enjoyed coming up with stories and conjuring new ones based on his experiences at school. Doll went on to enlist in world war. Two with the royal air force after sustaining an injury during a crash he healed up flew several more missions and eventually went home to start his new life as a civilian. He married american actress. Patricia neal in nineteen fifty three and together. The couple had five children. It was during her fifth pregnancy. Though when neil suffered three cerebral aneurysms. Her husband took over caring for the family but he also treated her horribly as she recovered he implemented a cruel recovery regimen to get her back into acting when she wanted something but couldn't remember what it was called. He would refuse to give it to her until she used. Its correct name and this went on for ten months. Several years later doll began an affair with another woman you see. There was a reason why his wife referred to him as roald of the rotten
VOICE Global 2021
Why We Need Voice Technology for Children With Dr. Patricia Scanlon
"Why do we need voice technology specifically for children while the shelf speech recognition technology tends not to work very well for kids. It's akin to what speech recognition technology was for adults ten years ago which was pretty bad and nobody was really using it at the time. And there's very good reasons for this for kids. They're physically very different right you know. We know that they're they're vocal. Tracks are thinner and shorter the vocal folds of smaller so the actual physical voice resides in the different parts of the spectrum. There speech language is different. I mean you know. Children's language developed so much in those early years from two to four to six to eight to ten you can see how their languages maturing it's become more sophisticated is beginning to follow the language rules as they get older when they reach a by ten and they start sounding a little more mature but their behaviors are so different. I mean adults tend to be quite behaved. Very well actually. It's very little. I very bill speed. How adults when you take dialect and accent. We tend to try and follow the language rules than we tend to try and realize how we should interact with voice technology to get the best possible result but kids don't kids don't follow the language rules that behaviors. They along gate. Were they words. They over pronounce words. They p- unctuous They showed the whispered they sing and their environments that they're in that they inhabit tend to be always noisy. I mean nobody is a four year old likes to go and have quite time on their own. They tend to be around the adults. They tend to be into their kids. They tend to be. Tv's in the background and adults token northward. Kids are in classrooms playgrounds from cars. When the us. I want to use voice technology. It's not in a quiet environment and we have to be really mindful of that. We also have to be mindful of the channels which children interact with technology. All different chipset from cheap old smartphones more expensive ipads to chromebooks two laptops to Cheap microphones on toys. A voice technology built for kids has to work in all those environments all those channels and be able to cope with the very ability of kids speech speech in terms of their acoustically. How they sound on on the physical differences both well as the language and the behaviors. I'm very much so we need to protect kids. Data it far beyond what we. We consider important nine space in life. Our kids are sensitive sensitive when it comes to kids. We need to respect the privacy of kids data and that's critical as well
AP News Radio
Celebrity Attorney F. Lee Bailey Dead at 87
"Celebrity attorney F. Lee Bailey has died at the age of eighty seven according to one of his law associates I marquees are loaded with the latest Ashley Bailey made his name winning an acquittal for the second murder trial of Dr Sam Sheppard Bailey's other high profile clients included heiress Patricia Hearst the alleged Boston strangler and former NFL star OJ Simpson one of the memorable moments of Simpson's nineteen ninety five trial was Bailey cross examining Los Angeles police detective mark Fuhrman about racism anyone who comes to this court and quotes you as using that word in dealing with African Americans would be a liar would they not detective yes they would all of them correct all of them Billy was disbarred in two states for his handling of stock owned by a convicted drug smuggler really won the right to practice law in Maine in twenty thirteen
Short Wave
NPR Health Correspondent, Allison Aubrey, on the COVID-19 Vaccine for Kids
"Aubrey. We've been hearing for weeks now that this age group twelve to fifteen year olds are next. What do we know about how the vaccine works for them. Scherer we'll scientist at the fda have been reviewing the clinical trial data that included more than two thousand kids and it appears to be all positive children in this age. Group develop a lot of antibodies. They have very mild side effects and pfizer says older participants in the trial will continue to be monitored for long term protection and safety for an additional two years got it so as far as efficacy and side effects are concerned it's basically affecting them just like it as adults. Yeah pretty much so. I spoke to patricia stench field. She is a nonvoting member of. Cdc's advisory committee on immunization practices. This is the group that makes recommendations she says from what's been released so far. The vaccine appears to be very effective than this age. Group seems to be one hundred percent effective. No child in the study. How on that. Twelve to fifteen year old. Adolescence got kobe. Very few kids. Got a fever. Many had arm pain just like adults and stints field says the benefits seemed too far outweigh any risks. That's kind of incredible one hundred percent effective right. And that's what was shown in the trial setting now in the real world. We might come to find out. Isn't one hundred percent but certainly early suggests it's very very effective but it appears that some parents are hesitant to get this vaccine for their kids. Right yes a recent survey from the kaiser family foundation found only three in ten parents of children in this age groups they would they would get their child vaccinated as soon as the vaccine is available. Many say they'll wait now. I spoke to dr li beers about this. She's the president of the american academy of pediatrics. She says she's not surprised that there's hesitancy out there. And she says pediatricians are going to be working really hard in the coming weeks and months to reassure parents and help answer questions.
Art Unknown Podcast
"patricia" Discussed on Art Unknown Podcast
"Filmmakers are so nice and they were like excited about peace and it was a real. It was a real supportive feeling film festival. One of the guys. I met there was a former journalist like i was and he said that he really liked the peace and he said well i had a piece in last year's film festival If you look it up you can find it online. Well it turned out that It was on amazon prime. So i went and watched it on there and it was actually about the gay community in kansas. This dude was street. Like i never would default like he's great dude. Not somebody i would have thought was going to make a piece about. It's called out here in kansas. Yeah it was so good And like me as a journalist he come across these stories and what was. Was this like really good college football player that had they'd always featured in their newspaper and then it turned out. This guy was gay and he became a doctor and he was somebody that could have just left kansas but he decided to stay. He was someone that a lot of people could relate to because he was a football player. He was handsome he was a doctor. He was someone that could have flown under the radar. Not someone you would pick out as being gay but he decided to come out and be more public about it and so this guy made a piece about that and all the feelings around it. I guess and so i told him what i had no idea you made this piece. I said i'm working on this other piece. That's related about Lgbt community in wyoming and and This guy's name adam he let me send him clips of it. He's he became a mentor for me on the project and yeah and it was great so something like that came out of being in that film festival where you know. I got this mentor. I never would have expected to get somebody who was.
Art Unknown Podcast
"patricia" Discussed on Art Unknown Podcast
"When a lot of people got to the middle of kansas and looked around there was people that turned around and went back. Sure yeah turned around and went back to kentucky. Because they're like what this is. We can't grow anything here. Because they come from these green rolling hills and they came to this flat. Sorta desolate looking. You know land hundred years ago there were other clients unity sprouting up around there. There was one that was like a little more french-speaking farming community so there are other ones in that area. But what's amazing about nicodemus descendants. Still live in the area so the descendants of those exact slaves and and they can trace their history back. A lot of people have been robbed of their history so they can say this is. My grandparents were my great grandparents. This is where. I came from And it really. There's a strong sense of identity there. So i made a short documentary about nicodemus and Angela bates who is the head of the historical society there. She has a son that lives in denver so sometimes she come to denver and we go have lunch and she said i'm applying for a grant and if you're interested all right you into it. There's a grant she'd gotten before it was for these farming towns in that part of kansas. I think that's the northwest corner of kansas. And so she said. What do you think would be good and i'm like well. I'd like to photograph some of the elders in the community. They're not gonna be around forever and so we kind of cooked up a plan and And then i came back and photographed like eight of the oldest members of the community and we also did interviews with them so and she got the grant so it was a couple of thousand bucks basically enough to cover my expenses and then maybe like put five hundred dollars in the bank but but it was great to also again. It felt good to be invited. After i just kind of showed up i did. You may feel better about it. Yeah like i'm just outsider and especially not being african american not being a descendant of the community to kind of like be able to come in and see. Here's what i have to share. Because i think this is an important story and for them to be interested in it and have a use for it then the next year at their homecoming they displayed the portrait's that i took so that was really. They also thanked me the next homecoming which was cool too. So you talked before about. I mean have so many questions on this i. It's fascinating but you talked before a bit about like why hadn't heard these stories. And i was reading an article about how different education across our country whereas not to get political or anything but the civil war thought very differently in the south end from in the north i grew up in pennsylvania. The mason dixon line. And i learned about the getting i lived right. I up rate near thirty miles from gettysburg so learned all about the gettysburg battle of gettysburg and the war and really from a northern perspective of this is what was happening to free the slaves and i read this whole article about in the south. They don't teach it that way in many schools still even today they they teach it like the union and the confederacy were had different ideals and it over the way they wanted to be run in governmental issues and they don't teach about slavery same way that.
Art Unknown Podcast
"patricia" Discussed on Art Unknown Podcast
"Which was a very big surprise to me because i thought that hardly anyone knew her story. I don't know how they decided you know because they had a lot of people to choose from but that's one of the most popular pieces at that museum. Wow how did you turn onto the story. Like how did you hear about claybon so my partner. Jen was biking down the bike path and there was a sign on the bike path in denver that said famous people that were buried at riverside cemetery riverside some historical cemetery and clear. Brown was one of the people. She's like you're not gonna believe this. And i'm like i couldn't believe and so so i did get to visit her grave. Been actually. I just went there again recently. About claire brian. How did you find other but originally through this because the because just like a wayside sign that had like five people buried in the cemetery and it had their back story and it was versus really jumped out. You know really. She's keeping her here. And it's an amazing story. So you know it's it's also amazing like that. Whole jen was riding a bike and saw sign a historical marker. Well i think it's interesting. That geography holds a memory. And it's something different to be standing in it and go. There's all these stories here. And then it's exciting to get to bring to life. And when i was interviewing people about clara brown a couple people reference displace called nicodemus. As if i'd heard of it. And i'm like i don't know what you're talking about and nicodemus town in kansas so i started looking up nicodemus and i'm like they have an annual celebration there every year the end of july. And it's open to anybody because it's actually now a national park historic site. So i ended up making another short documentary about nicodemus kansas And got connected with some people in that community all black because you found out about it through brown right right like one thing led to another and when i went to nicodemus i brought some. Dvd's about claire brown and gave them to them and said because they had like a little thing where they sell stuff and also just wanted to say you know like i'm interested in this. I i have a little bit of credential. And they're just they're used to people showing up and they're very open and so x-l-e-a-r town or like. Why was it all black towns so again. It's such a fascinating story of like really western. History that needs to be shared more widely in eighteen seventy seven so so slavery officially ended in eighteen. Sixty five in eighteen seventy seven. This town was founded in kansas mostly of ex slaves so but the people that the problem is with being a slave is most of the time you never able to read and write. Because you weren't out too so there were the people that helped with that. There was some other Blacks that were freed. Blacks people who had like degrees. You know like a lawyer and stuff like that so they got together like four black guys in one white guy that officially signed all the paperwork but then they recruited people to come from kentucky and apparently it depict this plantation in particular because it was the vice president. The vice president which i think was van buren in other words. These sleighs were little better off than your average slave. They could save up five bucks because it was. It was gonna cost them five dollars to come to kansas and then they jointly would would Invest in this property which i think one hundred and forty four acres so the latte. People were pretty excited. Because you know ten years had gone by and things hadn't really improved for most people so that the fact that you could actually own your land was pretty exciting..
Art Unknown Podcast
"patricia" Discussed on Art Unknown Podcast
"Which is what's been happening a lot during the pandemic so it was like well. I have a lot of time right now. But i don't have a lot of money so i went back to list of ideas and there was a documentary. I was really interested in trying about a historical figure named clara brown. And a clear brown was a had been asleep and kentucky Got because the guy who was her owner died and he gave her her freedom in his will she ended up working her way out to colorado and she basically made a small fortune. She was able to start a small business doing laundry. She would like loan money to minors and then she gets sometimes she get land mind because of that and she she was a real philanthropist so when slavery ended she was able to go back to where she'd come from she was looking for on the family brought about twenty people back here ex slaves and i was like this is such an amazing story. Why have i not heard the story. Like i feel like this is something everyone would be interested in to me. It was important part of colorado history and history and african american history. So i just made it on my own. Did it on my own time. Took me a while to get through it I checked in with the black american west museum. I wouldn't that with their board. And i told him what i was doing showed a clip and they helped me find more people to interview. They were supportive of it. Because i really was like thinking. I don't want to step on his toes. I wanna make sure. I'm doing the best correct way i can. And that film. I submitted it to a contest. That pbs had and at one the us women's history award so showed on national pbs on ninety s the station. So that's probably the biggest exposure i've ever gotten and it was very positive reinforcement to you know. And what was the name of the film again just for it's called clara angel of the rockies and it is free online like the whole thing's online through the show aired on his called to contrary with bonnier obey. They really focused especially on women's issues but also anybody who's kind of a little bit more marginalized groups. They also focus on that too so that was really rewarding. And that kind of helped me believe that it's possible. You just have to put yourself in one little niche. I still like to do experimental work but also done more documentary since then. That's would you consider that to be a historical documentary. It was definitely stoorikhel documentary. So how do you. How would you approach that differently from. Because he because she's already passed away and she's a great story but it happened so hard. There's no video footage. There is nobody alive to interview. That had ever met her. Most of the books that were about her were out of print and then the authors had died There was one still photograph of her. And i'm like i'm is supposed to make a film what's up and i was like i really want to tell the story. It's such actually hope. Someone makes a feature film about her. So i started trying to find people who would know her story. And then i started to compile a list and i wanted to be a variety of people So the the black american west museum said you know. You should talk to dr george june at university of northern colorado. He's he's somebody who had incorporated her into a book that he had written and he's also a great interview he just incredibly knowledgeable about a variety of topics. They also help me find a clara brown. Someone who used to reenact her at historical situations and she was great..