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DIVORCING PATRIARCHY
175 Years Ago, Five Women Brewed the Women's Movement
"175 years ago last month, five women or four Quakers and a Calvinist Presbyterian had tea together. They talked and sipped tea. Then they talked some more and sipped more tea. The hot topic was their freedom from the absolute social, economic, and political iron cage of the patriarchy the good women found themselves in. This urgent dialogue arose contemporaneously with the emerging global theories of German sociologist, historian, jurist, and political economist, Maximilian Karl Emil Weber, and what would later become a body of work on theories of rationalization and the question of individual freedom in an increasingly rational society. And as the good women came upon the bottom of the final pot of tea, the pitch of the dialogue led to a resolution. The good women would establish a public convention of women and men to address the serious matter of inequality women faced around the world and around the country. They knew that their first step would be to gather a critical mass. Inside of two weeks, the good women took out advertisements in the local newspaper inviting the public to assemble to discuss and debate the social, civil, and religious condition of women. And then they held a two -day convention to take up the issues concerning women's rights. This moment borne the formal genesis of the women's rights movement in the United States. On Wednesday, July 19, 1848, in Seneca Falls, New York, much was discussed the first day among the female -only invited audience. The critical mass of good women met in the morning and again in the afternoon. Through a democratic voting process, they accomplished an agreement, draft, and revision of the document Elizabeth Cady Stanton authored called the Declaration of Sentiments, modeled after the Constitution of the United States. They held a spirited debate on the propriety of men as signatories of the Declaration, and they formally debated and adopted the following resolutions. Here is a close paraphrase of the 11 resolutions. Where the great precept of nature is conceded to be that man should pursue his own true and substantial happiness, Blackstone and his commentaries remarks that this law of nature, being coval with mankind and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It's binding all over the globe in all countries and at all times. No human laws are of any validity if it's contrary to this, and such of them as are valid derive all of their force and all of their validity and all of their authority immediately and immediately from this original. Therefore, we resolve that such laws as conflict in any way with the true and substantial happiness of women are contrary to the great precept of nature and of no validity, for this is superior in obligation to any other. We also resolve that all laws which prevent women from occupying such a station in society as her conscious shall dictate or which places her in a position inferior to man are contrary to the great precept of nature and therefore of no force or authority. We resolve that woman is man's equal and tended to be so by the creator and the highest good of the race demands that she should be recognized as such. We resolve that the women of this country ought to be enlightened in regard to the laws under which they live that they may no longer publish their degradation by declaring themselves satisfied with their present position, not their ignorance by asserting that they have all the rights they want. We resolve that in as much as man while claiming for himself intellectual superiority does accord to women moral superiority, it is preeminently his duty to encourage her to speak and teach as she has an opportunity in all religious assemblies. We resolve that the same amount of virtue delicacy and refinement of behavior that is required of women in the social state should also be required of man and the same transgressions should be visited with equal severity on both man and woman. We resolve that woman has too long rested satisfied and the circumscribed limits which corrupt customs and a perverted application of the scriptures have marked out for her and that it is time she should move into the enlarged sphere which her great creator has assigned her. We resolve that it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise. We resolve that the equality of human rights results necessarily from the fact of the identity of the race and capabilities and responsibilities. And we resolve that being invested by the creator with the same capabilities and the same consciousness of responsibility for their exercise, it is demonstrably the right and duty of woman equally with man to promote every righteous cause by every righteous means and especially in regard to the great subjects of morals and religion. It is self -evidently her right to participate with her brother in teaching them both in private and in public by writing and by speaking by any instrumentalities proper to be used and in any assemblies proper to be held and this being a self -evident truth growing out of the divinely implanted principles of human nature any custom or authority adverse to it whether modern or wearing the hoary sanction of antiquity is to be regarded as self -evident falsehood and at war with the interests of mankind.
AP News Radio
Earthquake in Ecuador kills at least 4, causes wide damage
"A strong earthquake has struck Ecuador's second largest city with death reported as panicked residents ran into the streets. The U.S. geological survey reported the quakers being 6.7 on the Richter scale in the country's coastal guaiac region. The epicenter was about 50 miles south of the heavily populated city of guayaquil, which holds over 3 million people, Ecuador's presidents, tweeted the message to all citizens to remain calm, cracked buildings and collapsed walls have already been reported in guayaquil. The earthquake was also felt in northern Peru. I'm Karen Chammas
¿Dice Así? Podcast
"quakers" Discussed on ¿Dice Así? Podcast
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Bloomberg Radio New York
"quakers" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"The median path So if you do the math you know I think what we're going to probably need to move some of those meetings Master joined St. Louis fed president Jim bullard in calling for Quaker tightening Bullard tells Bloomberg faster is better when it comes to rate hikes What you have to do is move the policy rate up discreetly a fair amount not to be too disruptive but I think 50 basis point moves are definitely be in the mix And then get to a level that we can be neutral And then from there we can decide if we want to be restrictive in put further downward pressure on inflation And Jim bullard's reiterating his call for interest rates to go above 3% this year Stay tuned for more from the fed today We'll speak live with San Francisco president Mary Daly That's coming up at 1130 a.m. Wall Street time on Bloomberg radio and television Nathan the prospect of higher rates taking a toll on the bond market the Bloomberg global aggregate index The benchmark for government and corporate death total returns has fallen 11% from its high in January last year That's the biggest decline from a peak in data stretching back to 1990 It equates to a drop in the index market value of about $2.6 trillion When it comes to stocks John now is not the time to buy That's according to Muhammad el Arian the Bloomberg opinion columnist and chief economic adviser at Allianz says investors need to pair their holdings If I'm investing over the next 12 months horizon I would reduce equities at this point I would take some money off the table I think the market is giving you a wonderful opportunity to come out Muhammad Al Arian says equity markets have yet to factor in what's to come for the economy And speaking of the economy we have fresh data on wages this morning a new study shows a lot of Americans are still seeing pay below $15 an hour Bloomberg's Anita young joins us live with details Good morning Rene Good morning John a report from oxfam America finds one in three U.S. workers is still making less than $15 an hour And the share of women and people of color earning that amount is even greater The report helps quantify how Americans could be impacted by the raise the wage act which would set a $15 federal minimum wage The legislation is still pending in Congress While 25% of men earn less than $15 an hour the figure is 40% for women and 50% for women who are working of color Live in New York I'm raining a young Bloomberg day break All right we need to thanks very much and ahead of the cash over on Wall Street futures this morning They're lower than our futures down 42 points That's the decline of about a tenth of a percent S&P E mini futures 6 points lower and the NASDAQ futures right now They are down 20 points You're listening to Bloomberg daybreak.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
It's Called the Heartbeat Bill for a Reason
"I know you're not allowed to tell the truth. Become the gov assault left but y you hear reporter talk about heartbe which means when heartbeats detected in mommy's belly from the little baby at about six weeks you're right you know that. The news rooms so the quaker ordered my opinion or order to say the anti abortion bill or the abortion. It's not called that. Call the heartbeat bill. For a reason it scares the heck out of this people. Want to kill the unborn. Use the word heartbeat. They they're like a heartbeat. Yeah it really is. That's why it's great to be down here in the great state of texas.
Encyclopedia Womannica
Influential Educators: Abolitionist Prudence Crandall
"Was born on september third. Eighteen three in rhode island booth of her parents. Pardon and esther were farmers. Imprudence was young. Her family relocated to canterbury connecticut. There prudence studied arithmetic. Latin and science topics not normally taught to girls at the time. But prudence is family was quaker. Quakers believe in equal opportunity for education in eighteen. Thirty one. prudence opened her own private school for girls. The canterbury female boarding school. The school served the wealthiest canterbury families and was a source of great pride in the community. It was ranked as one of the best schools in connecticut with the curriculum that rivaled even the most elite all boys schools but prudence is school was not entirely equal. All of her students were white to encourage prudence to take a more aggressive stance. Prudence is black housekeeper. Marsha davis began strategically leaving copies of the abolitionist newspaper. The liberator in places where she knew prudence would find them. The liberator promoted the need for immediate abolition as opposed to a gradual abolition. That was more commonly supported by the new england. Delete sarah harris who came from a prominent black family in the area was the first to actively approach prudence about integrating school. Sara was eager to continue her own education so that she could become a teacher for other black children and in eighteen thirty. Two prudence enrolled sarah in the canterbury boarding school. The decision was met with outrage white. Parents demanded that prudence expel sarah when she refused. They withdrew their daughters from the school realizing that she'd need to find new sources of tuition. Prudence went to speak with william lloyd garrison. The outspoken white abolitionist publisher of the liberator prudence and william discussed the possibility of converting the canterbury school into a school entirely for black girls. William connected prudence with money of the most prominent black families in new england and in eighteen thirty three the school reopened with a new mission to educate quote young ladies and little misses of color. The class consisted of twenty four students and the curriculum remained identical to that of the original. Can't school
Encyclopedia Womannica
Influential Educators: Fanny Jackson Coppin
"Jackson coppin was born in eighteen. Thirty seven in washington. Dc she was born into an enslaved household fannies grandfather had managed to save up and by the freedom of four out of his six children. Fanny's mother was not among them as fanny recalls. in her autobiography. It was on account of her birth that her grandfather refused to buy her mother's freedom. So fanny remained enslaved until the age of twelve when her aunt bought her freedom for one hundred. Twenty five dollars after that fanny was sent off to new bedford. Massachusetts to live with the different ant by the age of fourteen fanny was fully supporting herself. As a paid servant in rhode island. She worked for author. George henry calvert household for six years during her time. They're fading used the money she earned to pay for tutoring and leader public schooling. It was at the rhode island state. Normal school where fanny. I realized her love for teaching and for making education accessible for all black people in eighteen. Sixty fanny enrolled in oberlin. College in ohio oberlin's courses were rigorous and it was the first college that accepted both black and women students while studying at oberlin. Fanny broke several glass ceilings. She was selected to join the highly coveted. Young ladies literary society. Fanny was the first black person chosen as a student teacher. She used this role to organize evening. Classes for newly freed people in her last year of college. Fanny was scouted by the institute for colored youth and philadelphia. The school was run by quakers who were in search of an african american woman who could teach greek latin and arithmetic officials at oberlin. Immediately new fanny would be perfect for the role. Fanny was an excellent teacher within a year. She was promoted to principal of the women's part of the school. Four years after that van became principal of the entire institute her position as such was extremely radical for the
National Secular Society Podcast
"quakers" Discussed on National Secular Society Podcast
"I thought guest is dr. Tony meacham electric coventry university whose research interests include comparative constitutional and the different ways. In which different states treats religion. He was previously civil seventeen australia working. In the areas of social security in higher education. it will be providing objective academic perspective on the place of religion. Tony meacham welcome to the podcast. Thank you very much appreciate. You have me on both festival. What motivated you to write your article. The conversation about Basically i came across the united in the newspaper highlighting that there was a documentary called testify and that was screening in the united states. Todd heard of the pets affair in general saints as pickle. Have and i was intrigued about it. Saying i'm interested in concentration lawrence specifically Secularism in the states relationship to religion. Not so we'll twice having look at. What the documentary olivet saying. What was the vegas documentary. And so on so there are a number of points in that duck. I found well. For example they were showing how was being traded around the world that's different states like new zealand. The united states countries in europe and they were the past affair with saying if we're a recognized religion than we should be getting benefits tax breaks of the things that Organized religion only get you so for example. Simple things like if you have a religious headdress than there. Exemptions have getting driver's license four people who have of a recognized religion to have religious headdress. So the way have went to. We should get that exemption in the why not so. They tried to talk. What are the parameters for that exemption will broadly have defining religion through the definition of a hindrance at the point so it making was simply sign If you're saying not a religion proof we are not give us the the parameters by which you defined religion would find what is a religion so i thought it electorally. That's an interesting argument. Had the desert because in centuries past its phillies today's mice countries you've only had one dominant religion and when you said religion what you were talking about. Was that religion in the united states for example early as you were talking bad had christianity in particular protestantism. So the two were interchangeable terms in walden times. However it's been interesting to see. The state tried to determine things that require a definition of religion but having a definition that is all incumbency that covers every particular perspective said so his the the idea of the need to define religion really been forced upon states over the centuries by the emergence of new religions. Well it stopped metro force. I guess Religion has always had a place in communities and with that his head a particular So for example. If you look at the charities act the united kingdom it toys dane accepted that religion has a charitable purpose that the educate people fade them. They do good things so in centuries past when you head in the charities act that the charities act will allow a charity to be registered for the purposes of advancement of religion in the term religion was understood. And you didn't have to work from that. You distributed Way the local branch of the dominant religion we obviously have a charitable purpose Charity full education. Whatever has now been submitted to you in so this should be no difficulty in recognizing replication. But in recent years defining religion has been more problematical. How is religion currently defined in english the pence iced definitions of anything Usually i need to find legislation for the purposes of that legislation for the purposes of just one pace legislation. You might have a dif- nation that doesn't match with others signing Said that the charities act which defines has religion for the purposes of of charitable Would include the advancement of religion than we've got the equality act twenty ten Making religion belief that protected characteristic. And then we've got the human rights act will so to these three have different definitions of relational have different definitions being developed with them. Well i do like lawyer hit but the the pins if you take the charities act it says some religion includes a religion which involves belief in more than one god and a religion which does not involve belief in god which is terribly clear. It still seems to understand what religion is so much of the discussion on nath the charity. Exactly the definition to the courts which doesn't help. Because if you really haven't got any sort of parameters for the courts than the courts really at to make stuff head of whole cloth. If looking at employing the tribunals i've looked at belief in spiritualism psychic powers anti fox hunting beliefs the virtues of public service broadcasting humanism but at the same time they said a Police conspiracy theories and that probably should be for red remembrance day. Not religiously points for example. You get if you're the religious viewpoint that says they should not be like the quake. Quakers tend to have philosophical viewpoint. That says well. It should be self-evident. War is a silly thing. Then is that philosophical viewpoint to adjust individual opinion The fact that's i'm the quakers pacifists should the fact that that debt pacifism is connected with their religion give that beliefs a protected status which wouldn't do if The people who pacifist but nonreligious us vests attorney meacham. Thank you very much thank you. This episode was produced by the national secular society. All rights reserved the views expressed by contributors. Do not necessarily represent those of the ss. You can access the shirt nights. And subscribe information for this and all episodes at secularism dot org to a to k ford slash podcast. The feedback comments and suggestions. Please email podcast at secularism dot org dot uk. If you enjoyed this episode please subscribe and leave a positive review wherever you can. Thanks for listening. And i hope you join us next time..
Made of Mettle
"quakers" Discussed on Made of Mettle
"I wanted to give a huge super shoutout to my official very first supporter on by me. A coffee david. David bought not just one but two books. He also left some really nice feedback which absolutely made me blush into europe. Thank you so much david for the books and support. I am so happy that you love the show. And i am so grateful to come together with you every week. Thank you david now. Let's get right into it honestly. It was so fun rediscovering. This person as i hadn't done this level of extensive research on their history since high school which was a long time ago in a galaxy. Far far away guys just to be clear so today. I'll be talking about someone who was simply. Put a maverick and a trailblazer. This person was born into a world where they were immediately marginalized and disadvantaged by the majority imprisoned by laws rules and expectations that simply did not fit their ideals or allow them any independent agency. A person who decided that instead of accepting the unacceptable they were going to make it their life's mission to enact lasting impactful change on this world radical change that would benefit an open doors. Once closed for hundreds of years to millions of people change. That would be felt in realized for years to come all originating from the bravery of just one person today we will be discussing the radical the rebel the revolutionary susan b. anthony foo susan brownell. Anthony was born on february fifteenth eighteen twenty in adams massachusetts. Susan was the second of seven siblings. So this next bit about susan's upbringing with something that i always found infinitely interesting. And that is that. Susan was raised in a household that practiced a form of quaker beliefs. Susan's father was a quaker. And although he himself did not believe in all the ideals and felt some of the rules to be prohibitive he encouraged his children to become independent and value morality above all else which encompassed a large portion of the quaker ideals. The quakers will one of the first religious groups to publicly in wholeheartedly denounce slavery.
Now & Then
Benjamin Franklin Sends a Message to France With His Outfit
"Is sent during the revolution he sent in seventeen seventy six to try and get french aid for the revolution which was desperately needed so he sent with a commission and before when he had got to francis he'd been there before he had dressed as a french gentleman. He writes to friend actually a female friend and says they basically in six days in france or quote him here my taylor and peru ta had transforming into a frenchman. Only what a figure. I make in a little bag and with naked ears. They told me. I was become twenty years. Younger look very gallant. So he's made into a frenchman. But now seventeen seventy six heat goes back at. Something is very different. He's dresses himself deliberately very different to send a message as he says later in a letter actually to another woman friend which is i was gonna say slip in those in there. I just noticed for the first time. He dresses in very plain clothes. Which i suppose would have been typical of a quaker in the period. He just has his own hair down street. And he's wearing a very prominent for hat which i'll bet a lot of people listening have probably in one way or another seen that image because becomes so famous and franklin wrote think how this must appear among the powdered heads of paris. I wish every gentleman and lady in france would only be so obliging is to follow my fashion cone. Their own heads as i do mine. Dismiss their frontiers. There again. kind of hairdresser and pay me half the money. They paid to them so he comes there. As the sort of plane dressed person no frill to his hair and this big for cap on his head and the french obviously notice it. It's meant to be noticed. And they say things like you. The contrast the contrast between as one noble onlooker in france puts it the contrast between the luxury of our capital of the elegance of our fashions the magnificence of versailles and the still brilliant remains of the monarchic bride of louis the fourteenth and the almost rustic apparel the powdered hair. The plane but firm demeanor the free and direct language of the
Cueca Apertada
"quakers" Discussed on Cueca Apertada
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Not Another Horror Podcast
"quakers" Discussed on Not Another Horror Podcast
"September two thousand. Heather viscerally grew up in maui speeches in hawaii. She was described by everyone that knew her. As a woman of contrast she was unapologetically fashionable. Classy yet she couldn't keep from stopping to help perfect strangers. She was always bringing home. Strays often ended up staying with her family for weeks at a time. She loved people. That's what everyone says. She was brought up by her grandparents. Who had been raised as quakers pennsylvania. She had a lightness of being new york. Musician botha's jerrell said if heather was part of a group outgassing at the clubs. He knew that night would be fantastic. He remembered that another one. Her friends said about her once you met her. You couldn't help falling in love with their heather had enrolled this fall for her senior year of undergraduate classes in human development at the contra costa satellite campus of california state university. She planned to work is a counselor or social worker. Heather spent eight years before she moved to california. Working and taking classes. Part time in maui can be college on the island where she grew up. Tap mccall history and math in the early nineteen eighties at malley. St anthony school is small. School of about three hundred students remembers her as a rebellious girl. Who had a question for everything
A New Direction
Culture Myths and a New Science of Culture Dr. David White - burst 04
"At the top. Okay david. Help me out here wool. You mean culture doesn't are you saying culture doesn't start at the top so the prevailing wisdom is that the leader says the culture right. This has been true. And it's the most complicated mantha one eyed about the most inc to Because it's the one that's most pervasive is most entrenched in our in our society and for good reason right. I go into a lot of his historical lot of it. Is this country. America founded on this sort of faith of the individual of pia rugged individualist myth right Quaker cavernous Protestant settlers from europe in england. Who came over in the seventeenth century. You know believed firmly in the in the power of the individual leader to make change happen. All that carried forward into our society today The problem is that there is almost zero evidence in anthropology and other related social sciences. That supports the idea. The leaders somehow set culture create culture cultures. Form perfectly well without leaders. Any group tasked with any any task though cultural form generally speaking of the former around the task. The the the thing that you're doing now i as i get into in the book. The this myth about leadership came became super prominent in the late seventies early eighties. Because corollary to that. I mean along What was going on that time. Is that Folks in the business schools were discovering researching that this idea that basically humans in organizations are unmotivated people. Basically don't need you know need to be directed and manipulated in cajole to work to get work. Done that idea which had been around. Since you started the twentieth century was debunked in the late late sixties early seventies mid seventy s by researchers at mit and other universities in the idea the new idea of management. Was that essentially. If you could unlock the human potential of the individual you know and let them flourish in organization. Great things will come. You don't need to sort of manipulating coercing control and direct people to do work because people actually need their creativity unleashed so that was the famous so-called theory of motivation of organizations talk. The douglas mcgregor stuff like three x three x theory. Why right was the was the whole idea. So theory why. When theory y became the de facto new way of thinking about management in organizations culture became the convenient vehicle to enable theory y so in other words if you just let if you just create the right culture in the organization good things will happen and that's the simplest way of saying the most most predominant Myth that has lived with us to this day. That if you just make make the right. Climate make the right environment. Good things will happen in the organization. A very compelling myth. It's very well intended and got a lot of. There's a lot of good to there's no question there is. it doesn't support it right so huge you list five problems with why this myth that culture starts at the top is an issue problem. You leaders of overestimate thrown influence problem. Too complex change is not happy through individual influence problem. Three for leaders beliefs take hold in the organization. They have to be there to begin with and four cultures not the summer personalities and problem five language alone does not change culture and your research the research that well not just your research with research. That's been done here in cognitive anthropology has kind of blown open this idea that you know as leaders. We probably don't have nearly as much influence as we think we do. When it comes to culture because culture is going to exist with the leader. That i am i in that well said Because i think i think i consult businesses to and every because we need to change your culture. You change you your culture your culture you. You didn't create it. It happened right. It's kind of an organic thing. Isn't it in reality. Well as i as. I write about the book. It culture is as we'd like to say culture follows task right. The common way of thinking about it is that castles culture might just set. The culture in the task will actually goes the other way around what you do. This is the cognitive science of culture in on the brain. What you do shape how you think and to some extent you know. We talked about this cognitive science and culture being kind of academic kind of newfangled but in some ways. It's incredibly intuitive. You know this is culture shapes how you think so.
Harvard Classics
"quakers" Discussed on Harvard Classics
"They had refused when offered by king. James it was then. The quake has began to enjoy by virtue of the rules. The several privilege they possess at this time penn having at laws to seeing quaker ism firmly establishing his native country when back to pennsylvania his own people and the americans received him with tears of joy esto. He had being a father who was returned to visit his children. All the laws had been religiously observed in his absence a- circumstance in which no legislator had ever been happy but himself after having resided some years in pennsylvania. He left it but with great reluctance in order to return to england there to sundays. It some matters in favor of the commerce of pennsylvania but he never saw it again. He dying in roskam in barsha in seventeen eighteen. I am not able to guess. What fade quakers and they have in america but i perceive it dwindles away. Daily in england in all countries where liberty of conscience is allowed. The established religion will at laws to swallow up all the rest quake because are disqualified from being members of parliament nor can they enjoy any post or preferment because an oath must always be taken on these occasions and they never swear they are therefore reduce the to necessity or subsisting upon traffic. Their children whom the industry of their parents has enriched autism Enjoying on us of wearing buttons and the ruffles and quiet ashamed of being called quakers. They became converts to the church of england merely to be inefficient..
Harvard Classics
"quakers" Discussed on Harvard Classics
"William mounted that he could not do these things for conscience sake which exasperated his father to such a degree that he turned him out of doors. Yum penn gave god. Thanks for permitting him to suffer so early in his course after which he went into the city where he held forth at night a great number of converts the church of england clergy found their congregations window away daily and the pen being young handsome and graceful stature the court as well as the city ladies flocked very devoutly to his meeting the patriarch george folks hearing of his great repetition came to london though. The journey was very long shula to see and converse with him both resolved to go omissions into foreign countries and accordingly they embarked for holland after having left labor's sufficient to take care of the london. Lynn yod their labors were crowned with success in arms data but a circumstance which reflected the greatest all known them and at the same time put their humidity to the greatest trial was the reception. They met with from elizabeth. The princess piloting out to judge the first of great britain lady conspicuous for her genius and knowledge and to who they're caught had dedicated his philosophical romance. She was stand retired to the hague where she received these friends for so the quakers were at that time code in holland. This princess had several conferences with them in her palace and she had lost entertained too so favorable and opinion of quaker ism that they confessed she was not far from the kingdom of heaven the friends so the likewise good seed in germany but reaped very little fruit for the mode of seeing and hearing was not approved of in a country where a man is perpetually obliged to employ titles of highness and excellency. William penn returned soon to england upon hearing of his father's sickness in order to see him before he died. The vice admiral was reconciled to his son and though of a different persuasion embraced him tenderly. William made a fruitless exotic asian to his father not to receive the sacrament but to die a quaker and good old man in treated his son william to wear patterns on his sleeves and a crepe hat band in his beaver. But all to no purpose william penn inherited very large possessions part of which consisted in crown debts due to the vice admiral for some. He's advanced for the ceasar. This no money were at that time. More insecure than those only from the king pan was obliged to go more than once and the and thou king charles and his ministers in order to recover the debt and that lost instead of specie. The government invested him with the right and sovereignity of approving 's of america to south of maryland thus was a quaker To sobering power pens set sail for his new dominance with two ships freighted with quake us who followed his fortune. The country was then code. Pennsylvania from william penn who founded philadelphia. Now the most a flourishing city that contrary the first step he took was to enter into an alliance with his neighbors..
Harvard Classics
"quakers" Discussed on Harvard Classics
"Dedicating me of per spirited and adversity thou novas to what it is to be banished the native contrary to be over rude as well as to rule and sit upon the throne and being oppressed thou has to reason to know how painful the oppressor is both to called and a man if after all these warnings and advertisements thou dost not turn onto the lord. With oh i heart but forget him who remember the in distress and give up thyself to follow lust and vanity. Sure a great will be thi- condemnation against a witch snare as well as the temptation of those that may or do feed the prompt the two evil the most excellent and prevalent remedy will be to apply thyself to that light of christ which shyness in thi- conscience which neither can nor will flatter the nor suffered the to be at ease in things but dolph. And we'll do plainly and faithfully with the as those that. I'll follow us off. Have plainly done thy faithful friend and subject robert barkley a more surprising circumstances that this epistle written by a private man of no figure was so happy in its effects as to put a stop to persecution letter. Four on the quakers about this. Time arose the illustrates william penn who established the power of the quakers in america and would have made them up here then ribaud in the eyes of the europeans where it possible for mankind to respect virtue when reviewed in a ridiculous light. He was the only son vice. Admiral penn favorite of the duke of york. Afterwards king james. To second william penn at twenty years of age happening to meet with a quaker in coke whom he had known at oxford. This man made a proper light of him. And william being a sprightly youth and naturally eloquent having a winning aspect. He soon gained over some office. Intimates carried matters so far that he formed by insensible degrees society of young quakers who met at his house so that he was ahead of a sect when little above twenty the returned after his leaving cork to vice admiral his father instead of falling upon his knees to ask his blessing. He went up to him with his hat home and said friend. I'm very glad to see the in good health. The vice admiral imagined his son to be crazy but soon finding he was turned quaker. He employed all the methods that prudence could suggest to engage him to behave an actor like other people. The youth made no other answer to his father than by exhorting him to turn quaker oats at laws as father confined himself to the single request namely that he should wait upon the king and dukes fuel with his hat under his arm and should not be and though them.
Harvard Classics
"quakers" Discussed on Harvard Classics
"The quakers. Such was the substance of the conversation ahead with this very single person. But i was greatly surprised to see him come the sunday following and take me with him to the quaker meeting. There are several of these in london but that which he carried me to stands near the famous pillar called the monument the brethren were already assembled at my entering it with my guide. There might be about four hundred man and three hundred women in the meeting. The women hit their faces behind their fence and a man were covered with the broadbrimmed hats or seated. Silence was universal. I've parts through them but did not perceive so much as one liftoff is to look at me. This silence lasted a quarter of an hour when it lost one of them rose up took off his hat and often making a variety of rye faces and groaning in a most lamentable mena he partly from his nose in partly from his mouth throughout strange confused a jumble of words borrowed as he imagined from the gospel which neither himself nor any of his heroes understood when this distorted a had ended his beautiful soliloquy and then the stupid but greatly edified congregation were separated. I asked my friend how it was possible for the judicious hot off the assembly to suffer such a babbling. We all blige d- says he to suffer it because no one knows win. A man rises up to hold forth whether he will be moved by the spirit ovalles fully in this doubt and uncertainty. We listen patiently to everyone way. Even allow a women to hold forth two or three of these often inspired at one at the same time and it is then that a most charming noise is heard. In the lord's house you have then no priests said to him. No friend replies to quaker to all great happiness then opening one of the friends books as he quoted. He read the following words in an emphatic tongue. God forbid we should presume to ordain anyone to receive the holy spirit. On the lord's stay to the produce of the rest of the brethren. Thanks to the almighty we are the only people upon those that have no priests good is the dow deprive us of so happy distinction. Why should we abandon now. Babe to mercenary nurse is when we ourselves have milk enough for it. These mercenary creatures would soon domini in our houses and destroy both the mother and the baby. God has said freely. You have received freely give showy after these words cheapen as it were the gospel sale the holy ghost and may prevent assembly of christianism nia shop of trade us. We don't pay a set of man closed in black to assist the poor to bury dead to preach to the brethren. These officers are or of to tender a nature for us ever to entrust them.
Harvard Classics
"quakers" Discussed on Harvard Classics
"We the though a king with the same freedom as we do abaga and salute no person we only nothing to mankind but charity and to the laws respect and obedience. Our perot is also somewhat different from that of others. This huge that it may be a perpetual warning to us not to imitate them others were the badges synagogues so several dignities and we'd those christian humidity we fly from all assemblies or pleasure from diversion of every kind and from places where gaming is practiced and indeed case would be very deplorable. Should we feel with such liberties as those are have mentioned the hall which ought to be the habitation of god. We never swear not. Meaning a court of justice being of opinion that the most holy name of gold ought not to be prostituted in the miserable contests between man and a man when we all to to appear before a magistrate upon other people's account for lawsuits are unknown on the friends. We give evidence to the truth by sealing it with all day on day and the judges believe us on all bear automation while. It's the so many other christians for swear themselves on the whole gospels whenever war of fighting any case but it is not that we are afraid for so far from shuddering at thoughts of death we on the contrary blessed the moment which unites us with the being of beings but the reason of our not using the outwards sword is that we are neither wolfs tigers no massifs chiefs but man in christians i will gold who has commanded us to love our enemies and to suffer without re pining would certainly not permit us to cross the seas merely because murderers cloth in scarlet and wearing caps two foot high in this the citizens by the noise made with two little sticks on asking extended and when after victories gained the whole city of london nissen ruminated when skies ablaze with fireworks and a noise is heard in. Yeah thanksgiving's of bales of organs off the canon. We grown in silence and are deeply affected with sadness of spirit and broken nisus of hot for the sad havoc which is the occasion of those public rejoicing. 's.
Harvard Classics
"quakers" Discussed on Harvard Classics
"He sick him size to he decided Timothy and the other disciples likewise circumcised all who were willing to submit to that call new ordinance but all thou is to added he note the owner to so said. I well friend continues to quaker thou out a- krisztian without being circumcised on one without being baptized. thus did this highest man make a wrong but very suspicious application of four five texts of scripture which seemed to favor a the tenants of his sect but at the same time forgot to in cna and hundred texts which made directly against them. I had more sense than to context with him. Since there is no possibility of convincing enthusiast. a man should never pretended to inform a lover of his mistresses forts. No more than one. Who is at law of the badness of course nor attempt to wing over a fanatic by strengthening reasoning accordingly. A waved subject. Well said i to him. What sort of a communion have you we have no like that thaw two atom onus replied he how no communion said i only that spiritual one replied he of hot he then begin again to throw out. He's of scripture and preached a most eloquent ceremony again is to that ordinance. He harangued in tom as though he had been inspired to prove that the sacraments were merely of human invention and that the word sacrament was not wants mentioned in the gospel. Excuse said he mike neurons for. I have not employed one hundredth part all the arguments which might be brought to prove the truth of our religion. But these falvo self myers to peruse index position of faith written by robert barkley. It is one of the best pieces that ever was paying the by man. And as all adverse sary's confessed to be of dangerous tendency. the arguments in it must necessarily be very convincing. I promise the to peruse this piece and my quaker imagined he had already made a convertible me afterwards gave me an accounting few words of some singularities which make this sect contempt. Fathers confess said he that it was very difficult for the to refrain from laughter. When all said all the civilities without uncovering my head and at the same time said the and thou to the however thou appears to me to well read not to know that in christ time no nation was so ridiculous as to put the parole for the singular august seeda himself was spoken to in such phrases as these are love. The i beseech the i thank the but he did not allow any person to call him domain sir. It was not as many ages off to that man would have the word you as though they were double instead of thou including speaking to them and usurped flattering titles overlordship of eminence and of holiness. Which meal worms bestow on other worms. Spy assuring them that they are with a most profound respect editing famous falsehood their most obedient humble servants it is to secure selves more strongly from such a shameless traffic of lies and flattery that.
Harvard Classics
"quakers" Discussed on Harvard Classics
"Zones said i to him he will not krisztian s- then fragment replies the old man in a softer tunnel voice swin out. We are christians and endeavor ought to be good christians but we are not of opinion. That the sprinkling water on the child's head makes him a christian heavens say 'i shocks at is simply not you have then forgot. That christ was baptized by sun-jong friend. Replies the mild quaker once again swear not christ. Indeed was baptized by john. But he himself never baptized at anyone. We are disciples of christ not of john. I pitied very much. The sincerity of my worthy quaker and was absolutely for forcing him to get himself christened. Were that ohio replied. He very gravely we would submit chair for baptism. Purely in compliance with thy weakness who we don't condemn any person who uses it. But then we think that those who profess a religion of sioux holy so spiritual nature as that of christ ought to abstain to the ultimo most of their power from the jewish ceremonies. Oh unaccountable said. I won't baptism a jewish ceremony. Yes my friend said he. So truly jewish that a great many juice used the baptism of john to this day looking to the authors and thou wilt find that john only revived this practice and that it had been used abide hebrews long before his time in like manner as the mohammed dumbs imitated ishmaelites in their pure maids to mccaw jesus indeed submitted to the baptism of john as he had suffered himself to be second sized. Circumcision and washing with water ought to be abolished by the baptism of christ that baptism of the spirit that pollution of the so which is the salvation of mankind thus the foreign said i indeed baptize you with water onto repentance. But he that come. After me is mightier. Deny who's shoes. I am not worthy to bear. He shall baptize you with the holy ghost and with fire likewise poll. The great oppose of the gentiles writes as follows to the corinthians cries to send me not to baptize but to preach the gospel. Any indeed poll never baptized the two persons with water and that's very much again is his inclinations..
Harvard Classics
"quakers" Discussed on Harvard Classics
"Letter one on the quakers i was of opinion that doctrine and history of so extraordinary people were worth the attention of the curious to acquaint myself with them. I made a visit to one of the most eminent quakers in england who often having traded thirty years had the wisdom to prescribe limits to his fortune and his desires and was settled in litto solitude. Not far from london being coming to it. I perceived a small but regularly built house. Vaseline eat but without the lease the pombal furniture the quake a who owned it was a hell ruddy complexioned old man who had never been afflicted with sickness because he had always been insensible to passions and a perfect stranger to intemperance. I never in my life saw a more noble or a more engaging us back to than his he was dressed like those office position in plain coat without pleads in sites or buttons on the pockets and sleeves and ahead on a beaver the prince of which will result all like those of our clergy. He did not uncover himself went up here and advanced towards me without one stooping his body but there appeared more politeness in the open humane air off his continents of drawing one leg behind the other and taking two from the head which is made to cover it friend says he me i perceive thou all stranger but if i can do anything for the only told me sir said to him bending forward in advancing as is usual with us one leg towards him. I flatter myself that might just a curiosity will not give you the least offense and that you do me the honor to inform me of the particulars of your religion. The people of the country replied quaker ought to fool off that boast and compliments. But i never yet met with one of them who had so much curiosity as thyself coming. Let us i took. It still continued to make some very unseasonable ceremonies. it's not being easy to. Disengage oneself at once from habits. We have been long used to and all of the taking part in a frugal meal which began and ended with a prayer to god. I began to question. mike courteous. Host opened with that. Which good catholics have more than one s- made to huguenots. My dear sir said i. Will you have a baptized. Never wars replied a quaker no any of my brethren.
The Mason Minute
Best Or Worst (MM #3620)
"The with kevin mason. Can anyone explain why we're also attracted to anything online. That says here's the best of or here's the worst of i'm guilty of it too. The other day. I found myself reading an article and i don't know why did i clicked on an article. That was telling me the worst oatmeal eat. I guess had to click on it to see if my basic quaker oats the kind. I've been eating for okay. Fifty plus years pretty much. The only kind of oatmeal. I eat if it was on the list. When you know it wasn't it was all those prepackaged. The instant oatmeal the ones that have stuff in it. Like the maple syrup in the brown sugar in the cinnamon and all the fake preservatives. That are bad for you again. I'm just talking oatmeal. So of course there are other things. What's the worst cars ever made. What's the best cars ever made a stupid stuff. I found myself reading when i have time online. I fall into the trap and all a lot of other people do too because see them posted on their facebook. Page of all these best of and worst of lists there's something that we're attracted to in being the best and the worst in all honesty. I don't quite know why.
The Mason Minute
Best Or Worst (MM #3620)
"The with kevin mason. Can anyone explain why we're also attracted to anything online. That says here's the best of or here's the worst of i'm guilty of it too. The other day. I found myself reading an article and i don't know why did i clicked on an article. That was telling me the worst oatmeal eat. I guess had to click on it to see if my basic quaker oats the kind. I've been eating for okay. Fifty plus years pretty much. The only kind of oatmeal. I eat if it was on the list. When you know it wasn't it was all those prepackaged. The instant oatmeal the ones that have stuff in it. Like the maple syrup in the brown sugar in the cinnamon and all the fake preservatives. That are bad for you again. I'm just talking oatmeal. So of course there are other things. What's the worst cars ever made. What's the best cars ever made a stupid stuff. I found myself reading when i have time online. I fall into the trap and all a lot of other people do too because see them posted on their facebook. Page of all these best of and worst of lists there's something that we're attracted to in being the best and the worst in all honesty. I don't quite know why.
The Mason Minute
Best Or Worst (MM #3620)
"The with kevin mason. Can anyone explain why we're also attracted to anything online. That says here's the best of or here's the worst of i'm guilty of it too. The other day. I found myself reading an article and i don't know why did i clicked on an article. That was telling me the worst oatmeal eat. I guess had to click on it to see if my basic quaker oats the kind. I've been eating for okay. Fifty plus years pretty much. The only kind of oatmeal. I eat if it was on the list. When you know it wasn't it was all those prepackaged. The instant oatmeal the ones that have stuff in it. Like the maple syrup in the brown sugar in the cinnamon and all the fake preservatives. That are bad for you again. I'm just talking oatmeal. So of course there are other things. What's the worst cars ever made. What's the best cars ever made a stupid stuff. I found myself reading when i have time online. I fall into the trap and all a lot of other people do too because see them posted on their facebook. Page of all these best of and worst of lists there's something that we're attracted to in being the best and the worst in all honesty. I don't quite know why.
Bloomberg Law
Aunt Jemima Has a New Name: Pearl Milling
"Quaker Oats is rebranding its controversial aunt Jemima products. Pepsico announced today that all answer mama products will be replaced with the Pearl Milling company. Name and logo. The products. New packaging will have the photo of Aunt Jemima replaced by 1/19 Century Watermill. I'm Brian
Esports Network Podcast
"quakers" Discussed on Esports Network Podcast
"Fire at freeflyer is actually one of my favorite games to focus out of the Esports gaming world right now due to its massive success primarily in Brazil, which also makes it a natural choice for football partnership home considering Brazil's love of football going back decades and this partnership centered around operation quota, which debuted in December and allowed players of free fire to play em as Cristiano Ronaldo the which is pretty cool deal Matt. How did that deal come about? What was the process like to bring one of the biggest names in the world? It's Sports in other entertainment and so like Liberty into a mobile Battle Royale greater freefire. Yeah, it was it was a really exciting project to work with the guys on Thursday from the whole kind of ideation and blueprint of the idea through to the the integration and Page the final execution both in terms of the in-game integration and and the marketing around the partnership I think life to start at the beginning. I set up sport Quake fifteen years ago, and I had a background in media and Thursdays soccer or football a depending on what we're calling it today, and I'd worked at a number of large advertising agencies and then moved into sport media page. With Sky Sports is the Premier League host broadcaster and then spent four years as commercial director at Tottenham Hotspur, which is one of the big three London football franchises wage. And when I set up sport quake in that time over the. I view is very much that we're in a world where they, you know Sports Media Tech and gaming increasingly are coming more and more together and we're seeing lots of really really interesting collaborations as a result of that and primarily right. It's about bringing these two different audiences together to create more impact and awareness. And so as you and and your listeners, no doubt will be aware or if not, you know free fire, which is owned. No, Karina which is part of the C group. We've worked with the c group to some time and we've worked with an e-commerce business they have which is very strong in Southeast Asia that offers a service similar to Amazon in those markets and see is actually the best performing Chef globally over the last twelve months. I think it's kind of five EXT over the last twelve months and is within that organization as the e-commerce business Sharpie. It has to read free flight and we're done some work with with Sharpie with Ronaldo in the fall of 2018 and it performed extraordinarily well and through that and then relationships with out throughout the group the guys that Greener thoughts. It could be something here to do something with him as well. But with their own sort of twist and that was really where the kind of Genesis of the idea came from to bring his audience and IP together with With Their audience and they obviously are the the number one game. If not, the number one guy one of the the very top games in the world. I mean, I think they have something like two hundred and fifty million downloads and a hundred million daily sneezes and and Ronaldo himself in terms of his social media following putting aside what he delivers through the TV platform around baseball games. He his social media follow me is is the biggest in the world or anyone right? So he's got over for bigger than the cardassians bigger than J Lo and a dog Oh force and he's got something like four hundred and fifty million plus followers. And so the idea was to bring these two giants together in Partnership. Absolutely. I pulled up the list of the most played mobile games by player count and you said four hundred fifty billion. That's exactly what grade at last reported. According wage is article it August 2019, but they were one of the most downloaded mobile games in the world in 2019 to your point and have driven just a pretty insane bout of viewership at my favorite example of just sort of how big Great a free-fire is is the Esports organization loud gave a down in Brazil. They launched in I think mid June 2018 and have crossed their one point seven billion views on their YouTube channel for comparison the FaZe Clan account, which has been running for ten years now and has numerous viral videos is that just over what billion views so two years loud gaming which focuses almost entirely a great a free fire has completely surpassed FaZe Clan's called Dead output. Yeah, really quickly that just kind of gives you an idea of hey, this is how popular this game is. And and I think really where their their their view was listen, and as the market leader, we really want to lead and and and set the agenda and you know clearly we have as you just said large choice, you know of of of of gamers in terms of you know, everything from Hardcore to get real Gamers, but there's something really exciting here that we think we could do to Delight. Both are are cool gaming fans while also bringing in even more mainstream players to the game and also just kind of Setting the agenda for the industry in terms of you know, this is how you do these collaborations. Absolutely, that's really crucial to and let's talk a little bit about that collaboration. We you mentioned how everything is coming together and free fire it off is actually representation of just how far Tech has advanced recently. What do you think about what mobile games were even four or five years ago to the point that there now seems reals which is the most server intensive Gabe that you could a badge it with 100. I'm not sure how many people actually drop into free-fire but you know, the typical number is 100 people dropping in at the same time as to do that auto mobile photo, but will technology and something that old he became possible in the last few years. And now you also see at the same time the ability to bring Cristiano Ronaldo into the game and that's something that you know, we've seen with games like FIFA in the past where they model people they model real athletes in those situations, but there's something different to bring home. Into a battle royale, I'd have the play a character this case kro. Do what had to happen on the back end to make this a reality. Was there any hesitation for any of the parties about potential free Christian although into a game like free fire? Yeah, so so obviously we've worked with Ronaldo and his people a number of times before the great relationship with them. And as I say, he had worked with us before with their e-commerce business shopping and so there was a relationship with the group home and we obviously talked him through the the opportunity. We Karina and very much felt that the worst some things to be aware of around the table game it was but that if we executed it in in the right way that it could be really amazing. And so, you know and and back to your point about the the quality of of tech and delivery nowadays, you know and and huge shout-out to to Garena, you know, they they they pull together this amazing kind of personality and character both conceptually and also graphically off and it was developed in conjunction with Cristiano and his team as well in terms of the various things that he could do and so forth and so, you know the exit the idea Asian execution that have been phenomenal when as you say that, you know, we wouldn't be able to do that if if take wasn't where it where it is where is today off? But yes, it's it's really it's really amazing and the thing that's so you
NewsRadio WIOD
"quakers" Discussed on NewsRadio WIOD
"I tell you, this guy is this guy's fascinating Figured Rustin, Hey, wrote poetry played football. He was raised by his grandparent's the ninth of 12 Children. You believe that? Um, he was a member of the end of the Deep and W E B. Du Bois and James Weldon Johnson were frequent guests at his house. And when he was growing up, these things all made it impact, he said later. My activism did not spring from being black. The racial injustice that it was present in the country during my youth was a challenge to my belief in the oneness. Of the human family. This is what the left is leaving out now the oneness of the human family. They leave it out in their expectations for co vid. They just think they have to force everybody to do it. Instead of making a good case to the American people, and the American people will do it because we're not bad people. We don't want to kill each other. There are some dopes out there that might do this or that. But for the most part, we are one family. Throughout college. He was arrested over and over again. He did sit ins and marches and one for the communist and one for the Quakers. 1941 he met President Roosevelt in the Oval Office. Um, a politely yet confidently. Ruskin told Roosevelt that if he didn't desegregate the military, Ruskin would lead a march on the capital. And that's when we got executive order 880 to the Fair Employment Act banning discrimination in the military. By the way we didn't have. We didn't have segregation in the military. Until Woodrow Wilson Woodrow Wilson. Resegregated the military and then it took this guy meeting with FDR to say can we can Can you please stop this? He also led a movement to desegregate interstate bus travel. 1942 he got on a bus in Louisville headed for Nashville. He talked about what it was like he said I was I was going by the second seat to go to the rear and a white child reach out for the ring of my necktie. And pulled it. And his mother said, Don't touch him and word. He's thought about that the whole time. And here is this child that was innocent and didn't have any of that hatred. And was being taught that hatred. And probably was taught that blacks like to sit in the back of the bus. And he had bothered him just outside of Nashville. Police stopped the bus. He was arrested, beaten and hold to the police station but not charged with anything. But why did they stop it? Because he sat right behind the white person. He didn't go to the back of the bus. He wanted that kid to know. We don't like sitting in the back and we're not different than you. This is way way. This is 19. What is in 1942? This is way before anybody else. He grew to dislike antiwar activism. Especially the kind and Vietnam war. He was repulsed by activists who cheered for America's defeat. He was deeply disturbed by the prospect of Vietnam's people coming under the the thumb of a totalitarian regime. He said. The Soviet model, the Chinese model or wrong He said. The people on my side who are willing to work with Communists and Maoists, in the name of peace are politically naive at best. Where is this guy now? Where is this guy? Now? I disagree with a lot of what he believes. On a lot of what he believed he still believes in America. He had reason not to. Still believes in America can really look at the situation and go. No, these are bad guys doesn't believe in violence believes in freedom. It's a It's amazing. He was the chief organizer of the march on Washington for jobs and Freedom, and that's the I have a dream speech. Shortly after four young black girls were killed in a bombing of the Baptist Recherche in Birmingham. Reminder of what happens when you peacefully speak out. It's usually met with extreme violence. But his I have a dream speech change things. And the bombing was followed by the Civil Rights Act of 1954. He saw the rise of the black power movement, not a fan. He disliked identity politics founded, counterintuitive, divisive, alienated, is anyone On the left listening to him. It's alienating and divisive. He came to despise communism and you know he became You know, he's he's not a guy that the left light. They scrubbed him largely from the civil rights movement. 1987. He was rushed to the emergency room of Lennox Hill Hospital complaining of abdominal pain. The next day, he went into cardiac arrest and died. It's on Lee in the last 15 years since Obama that they've re introduced him to the American people. But they re introduced him as just an icon of the LGBT movement,.
WGN Radio
"quakers" Discussed on WGN Radio
"The one and only Bill Cunningham. Billy coming in the Great American in about 30 minutes we have in Ohio Congressman Brad Winston phone. He signed the makers brief and he's gonna have a big decision to make the next heir to whether to object. The reading out and acceptance of the electors of several states, specifically Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan. And then we'll see what happens. Let's go to the calls. About 30. About an hour from now, with Wayne Allyn Root, many others. Let's go to Joe in the great state of Georgia and Jo and Georgia. Welcome to the Bill Cunningham Show and Joe, How are you? Mad Is Hell right now, But first, I want a big shout out to Justin Feels and all House statement Buckeyes for a great performance, but mine are noticed side Fuck. I said that about the Buckeyes in the Browns, and if somebody would One thing about the Buckeyes. They're the greatest college football program with all respect Alabama in the world, But the Browns have not been to the playoffs in like 18 years and Justin Field. I mean, that guy if he plays like that against Alabama About what a week from Monday. He's got one hell of a shot. Yeah, it's gonna be that something really to see. But I'm not a little of what? I've got him here in Georgia. And it appears to me that the Dixie Mafia that was alive and little in the seventies, sixties and seventies as research staff, and there's just a whole lot richer and more distinguished and they're more the league right now, but there are no paid off and by the Chinese governor kill Could have put this election off into February. He was begged bag too many times. Brothers murder is so corrupt. He don't say I slept that night. I really know there's pictures of most of those men with Chinese officials last year when they accepted the Dominion voting machines at the very last minute, Right before our primary. We could video and trying to, uh, precinct workers on how to conduct the primary. And they had to have Dominion staff. They ran all primary and so spilled over into November. The whole thing is corrupt, with tapes of shredding violence and stapes of Riga Group singing ballots through the machine. Very important. Sometimes it's just so much evidence. But every time I call him I Elected senators and House of representatives, which I'll be moved. How about a trial? There's proof there's proof of the trial and what the president said yesterday with the Washington and Lever in the Washington Post with the talking secretary state. He went over page after page of evidence. And if there's evidence, how about having a trial T R I A L Try now may take a few weeks or a few months, but damage Oh, we got to get this right. We're about to elect someone like Joe Biden, who's mentally disintegrating wrong, and virtually every issue lies continually, and his recent but largely suppress evidence proves he's a spectacularly corrupt American politician button paid for by the Communist Red Chinese. And the argument is what we don't have the time to have a trial. Don't let people tell you. There's no evidence evidence is produced at a trial. What's wrong with the trial? Well, little right now. Oh, we'll send it had investigative subcommittee on Wednesday. Thursday of last week and computer science guy. His name is Pulitzer. Um, I don't know if he's pitched it walking the heat, too. He was testifying that the pristine cap weighted voting in this team and tapped into the voting machines in Fulton County. Are wary of the in there Those chains you're not supposed to be Internet about having ever that available. But here's Ping captain was communicating back and think what's with those early voting machines, Million machines? And he said, So this election is blocked out already because we're in it right. They're communicating back and forth. Joe, if we don't get it right in 2020. It won't be a Republican elected for the rest of the century, because it is at the rate we're going. We're going to have liberal leftist Democratic politicians taken over and I know the trains on the track. But if some injustices occurring, I will fight like a warrior Poet for principles I consider dear and elections that are free and fair. And only legal votes are counted is something that must happen, Joe. Thank you for your call. It's move on now with Scott in Pennsylvania. Home of the Quakers and the Nittany Lions. Scott, Welcome to the Bill Cunningham Show and Scott, please go ahead. What if something? Go ahead, Scotty to turn off the radio in the background there. Scott, are you with me now? He's gone. I just go toe. Is it Scott Disco V in Florida? Predictions for 2021? How do you say your first name? Hello, Scott. Scott. Go ahead. Scott. You're on there. Scott. Go ahead. Thank thank you, mister, are coming him out. Happy New Year. I'd like to say, I ever think predictions. First. I want to say that this election is a fraud. John Donald Trump won And if anyone, you know this this fight and belongs in a nursing home, I really believe that But I want to say this. If this election does not go by to Donald John Trump. There's gonna be a civil war in this country. And I mean that because you've got those 80 million voters 75 anything voters and voted for Donald John Trump. You're not going to take this sitting down and they're not going to tolerate this fraud. So that's the first prediction is going to be a big, big chaos. Big upheaval. The second thing is, you know, we're in a depression. I've got this gonna be at least 100 million unemployed. Uh, before this year results, uh, and the U. S government's gonna have a revolution. I don't think I don't see bite and handling these problems. I don't see that up to the job of handling these problems. Also, I'm very worried about the U. S dollar. I see a meltdown of the U. S solid because of hyperinflation. And we could go by the way of the 19 twenties Weimar Germany or understanding that point about money because from 17 88 until 2000 and one The total accumulated American debt. A total was $4.5 trillion from 17 88 until 2000 and one lots of stuff happened right well from 2000 and one, Bush doubled the national debt to about nine trillion and then Obama doubled it to about 18, or 19, trillion And right now we're bump bumping up against $30 trillion and the Democrats want to spend more. The fact that matter is we're gonna have gwil whale barrels of cash in order to buy a jug of milk. It's gonna be somehow the American economic system is being trashed by the leftist and we've never selected anyone. Scott like Joe Biden. I'd like to get heaven I Q test. I'd like to ask the guys some questions. He starts talking. He can't name the governor of Michigan. He doesn't know who the governor of California is. He doesn't know who they who. The mayor of Chicago. Is that why one of the events he stumbles and stammers. He makes no sense. He's mentally challenged, and he's physically not in Not in bad shape. He's in horrible shape. And that means the 25th amendment is in play in several times finds, already called Kamila Harris, president elect, He doesn't know what job is running for he thought is running for the Senate. He's also depressed to look at. You Can't tell me that almost 80 million people more than 80 Million people voted for Joe Biden. I don't believe it. He had no excitement. He had no campaign of He had a drive in movie campaign against the most exciting candidate in my lifetime. And if I'm gonna get screwed, blue, tattooed and barbecued by this what I want to do is go down fighting like crazy for what's right. Rather than capitulating to this massive fraud that in my opinion took place. Do I have evidence of it? Yes, it though. I am proof what happened? Well, I want a trial. I strongly suspect there were cops and thousands of illegal votes cast in the important states. And the way to prove that is not with a column is not with a radio talk show host is not with Wayne Allyn Root, Not with Bill Cunningham. Not with the great Rush Limbaugh all the way to prove it is to have a trial in which real life people get on the witness chair there. Cross examine That determination is made. This evidence is everywhere. But the left is easy in this country, which is corrupt, does not want to do anything in their power to find out what the truth is. The home mark of the media establishment in this country.
Asian America: The Ken Fong Podcast
Interview With Dr Bradley Onishi
"I listen to several podcasts. Every week and it is especially a thrill. When i can bring onto host of one of the podcasts that i listen to on a regular basis because i feel like i know this person already but we've never had a conversation in this case. It's actor bradley. She he's the associate professor of religion at skidmore college. Which i look where that was bred as like you must be snowed in spirit man. I'm here in southern california for california boy whose deaths from maui. This is not my native environment so well a little bit of your background. You actually went to zoos. The pacific university. Which is right down the road from where i live where you got your be in philosophy and always wonder you know when a undergraduate majors flossy where they planning to end up. You ended up getting a master's in philosophical theology at oxford. And then you did. Some time in france doing postgraduate work in philosophy. And then finally you finish up at the university of california. Santa barbara doing your piece de and religious studies. I just want. It's tell my listeners. If you ever enjoy some of the conversations i get into on this podcast. With my guest that crosses over into this post evangelical political sort of realm. The person feeding me. Most of my information is now my guest on the show. That's kind now thank you. That's flattering thank you can. Let's start with your story. Because i think what set you up. Not just as an academic to have such a substantive take on what's been going on during the trump years before trump years where we're going to go after the trump years is also not just rooted in your research but it's it's based in your own life so tell us a little bit about that. Yeah i let me just say thank you for that flattering introduction and just. It's it's an honor to be here. So i've been looking forward to this for a long time and i'm really grateful so you know for me i. I grew up in north orange county. My father's japanese-american my mother's white woman from tennessee. And they met in the middle He's from hawaii and we grew up. Your belinda placentia fullerton area. I did not grow up religious. My dad was was culturally. Buddhist is what i would say he. He mowed the lawn. At the buddhist temple on maui in inkatha louis he. He went to japanese school there. But when i was thirteen and ask them about what it meant to be a buddhist to give me a book and i read it and i thought after i read it he would discuss it and i realized later. He gave it to me because he didn't know anything that was in it. He just didn't want to have me ask questions about what it meant to be a buddhist at fourteen. I had a very extreme conversion at a evangelical mega church and a conversion meant that i went from the kid who was hanging out with other teenagers behind the movie theater. Smoking and drinking and doing that kind of stuff to within months standing in front of the movie theater asking people if they knew my savior the lord. Jesus christ and if they knew where their so would be return ity. Tell us a little bit about how that dramatic conversion took place. I was invited to wednesday night. Bible study at rose drive friends church. rose drive is part of that network of quaker churches that richard nixon grew up in so i i was invited to that church by a girlfriend and i thought you know i'm fourteen. There's not a lot of ways to see your girlfriend on a with night off to pragmatist and there's no way mom can say no to this. If i want to go to church she's gonna say yes. So let's do it. This is a great plan She dumped me very quickly but that youth group became my second home. I found there what you would find in the ninety s at youth groups all over the place. Young cool hip leaders. They had tattoos. They played the guitar. We have a lot of fun games. The bible messages weren't boring and all of a sudden the existential angst. I had about the meaning of life and the depression that i faced throughout my entire childhood. I found answers found solutions to my condition. In jesus in god and so a very quickly i went from a kid probably hanging around folks who are going down the wrong direction drugs and alcohol and other stuff too when my mom asked me what i wanted for christmas on my When i was sixteen. I asked her how much she was gonna spend. She told me i said mom. I want you to give me that money. And i'm going to buy as many pamphlets and tracts and bibles as i can for people in nepal and i'm going to send them there because that's what's important and that's why how we should be using our money. Now i gotta ask you bread. Did your parents on the one hand. I'm sure they're going well. This is nice. He's not hanging around with those bad people anymore. The water bozos right. Okay right these these these yoga right but but at the same time is dislike. Did our son just joined a cult. So it's exactly what you said. For mom. there was times. I think she was relieved. But you know when your son is saying. Hey i don't buy me letterman's jacket for the basketball team. Send the money to nepal for bibles. I think she kinda wish. I was back to the guy getting caught with the kid. Smoking pot again. I mean she was kind of like. This is a little extreme. It was a lot harder for my dad. My dad's japanese-american guy. He grew up in the cradle of asian american. You know Communities on maui. His life was in the buddhist temple even though he he really didn't wasn't a practicing buddhist so for me to join a mega church especially church. That was ninety percent. White was really hard for him and it took a lot of convincing to let me go to the wednesday night. Bible study or the retreat or the youth group party or whatever.
Your Brain on Facts
Never Surrender, with Garbled Twistory
"Into Slavery Gabriel Prosser grew to be a strapping young man trained as a blacksmith and learned to read he his brothers and his wife hatched a plan to not only a free themselves from bondage, but all enslaved people in Virginia their plan was to gather more men take over the capitol of Richmond and kill all the white people with the exception of methodists Quakers and the French processor. Would then rule the New Kingdom of Virginia. The plan didn't work. My name's Moxi and this is your brain on facts. Why didn't they Rebel this is a question that should have occurred to every American schoolchild when studying the Civil War and slavery. Why didn't they Rebel the truth of the matter is they did more than one third of the population in the south in the eighteenth Century or enslaved people in the 1943 Book American negro slave revolts historian Herbert aptheker estimated. There were over 250 rebellions of enslaved people in the US between 1619 and 1865 some historians put that number over 300. So rebellion was a lot more common than we were led to believe and even if enslaved people weren't taking apart in an armed Uprising many would fight back in small ways painting food work slowdowns feigning injury. Damaging equipment and so forth the new world had slave rebellions basically as long as there were people enslaved. They're the first documented Rebellion taking place on San Domingo on Christmas Day 1522 some rebellions managed to make it into the history books and pop culture like the seizure of the Amistad when a boat full of kidnapped Africans over through their captors and took control of the ship to both win their freedom and be memorialized in a film by Steven Spielberg. The first recorded slave revolt in the United States happened an hour down the road from me in Gloucester Virginia in 1663. White indentured servants included enslaved Africans in their plan to do away with their master and be free another servant betrayed them and was rewarded with his freedom. It would be nearly twenty-five years as far as we know off. Before the first all black slave revolt which again took place in Virginia. The largest slave rebellion outside the United States was the successful Insurrection of black slaves that overthrew French rule and abolished slavery in Saint domingue establishing the agenda nation of Haiti that proved unequivocally that the enslaved could defeat their captors and live free that precedent frightened and slavers on the mainland suck slave owners actively repressed any sign of rebellion laws dictating when where and how slaves could congregate were enacted to prevent Insurrection and quavo light paranoia. It's the same reason the enslaved were forbidden from learning to read or write words spread ideas and your captives May develop repetto Mania wage medical condition and let this make you grateful your doctor actually had to go to school the mental illness that caused black slaves to want to run away. Yeah, that's what these folks told themselves in case you thought the narrative myth of the happy slave was a recent invention. With Plantation populations under tight control Insurrection would tend to come from the cities or parts of the country where there were lots of small farms rather than one big one. We don't have time today to talk about all three hundred rebellions. We'll just hit on some of the ones that are most likely to make you ask why you're high school history textbook included between zero and one slave rebellion. Well at the same time definitely mentioning white John Brown at Harpers Ferry. Records are a bit spotty for our first subject the Stono Rebellion in South Carolina in 1793. History is colored both by the mouth of the teller and the ear of The Listener with their preconceptions, and we only have one firsthand contemporary account. Early on a late-summer Sunday morning 20 enslaved people gathered near the Stono River Why Sunday morning a recently passed law required all woke up men to carry firearms with them to church on Sunday. So the rebels made their move when the men and at least some of the guns would be elsewhere.
True Crime Brewery
The "Dungeons & Dragons" Murder
"A North Carolina suburb in the early morning of July twenty fifth nineteen eighty-eight. On evonne, Stein awoke to an intruder at her bedside holding a knife and club. Bunny was severely beaten and stabbed, but she somehow managed to stay alive and call for help after the intruder left Leith was not selected. However, he was stabbed and bludgeoned to death when investigators learned that his estate was worth over two million dollars naturally his wife and stepchildren became suspects. Yeah. The amount I've heard varying stories on the amount, but it was around two million dollars. So a considerable amount of money especially in the nineteen eighties her was. The von Stein family lived in the small town of Washington North Carolina. And the rest of the state calls this town little Washington to differentiate it from Washington DC in Washington state. But I guess the people who live there like to call it the original Washington because it is the first town to be named after George Washington. That's an interesting tidbit for you. Can we fact check that I have done that but if we WANNA double check for me so it was the first town as we now yet. Okay. So. Whether you call it little Washington or original Washington the town was virtually destroyed in eighteen, sixty four, and then again in nineteen hundred by some devastating fires, a few homes survived and it was rebuilt and it became a farming and fishing community. So with a population of just over ten thousand pretty small. It's known as a sleepy town, but actually a pretty good place to raise your family low crime. I would imagine ten thousand is Pretty small but not too bad. So yeah probably be a nice place to raise a kid. Yeah, I. Think so. So, lease was born in Queens New York in nineteen forty six to parents who both came from well off German families who it is still a baby. The family moved to North Carolina his father Howard was a graduate of Brown University and he'd been a professional saxophone player before fighting in world. War? Two. After. The war. The Big Band era who is starting to be on its way out? And it was getting hard to find work as a saxophonist. So at this point, he had a wife and a baby boy to support so. Howard decided he needed to find a steady job. He ended up taking one offered by his brother-in-law as a laundry equipment salesman. He and I think he was successful at that. But maybe not at his happiest, right because he was an artist and musician. But he was successful. CONC- that whoever you're good at what you do that you're just not totally in it. Exactly. So lead Smart Marie does it on him she spoiled him and gave him pretty much anything he wanted. But you know he remained respectful and loving and had a good work ethic. By, the time he was in high school, the camel city laundry and cleaners had become one of the most successful laundries in the whole country. and lead stand Howard had become part owner and they were employing over one hundred people. But you know. Lee. had no interest in the laundry business and his dad totally understood that. So li-the never took a part time job that his father offered him at the laundry. He had decided on another career you're lethal is accepted into the school of Engineering at North Carolina State University. He. Was Successful for the first two years. But then in the junior year kind of his motivation and slacked off. He got into partying pretty heavily and he flunked out in nineteen, sixty seven. Now, the problem with this or this time is that the Vietnam War was going on. So guess what happened Oh Leaf He's drafted. Yeah. His parents were pretty frantic and worried about this as you can imagine or you're their only son, their only child. So he was twenty one years old by this time, and fortunately for him, his two years of college helped him get assigned to clerical work. So instead of being sent off to fight a war, he was stationed in office in Germany. Of course, he knew some German. So that came in handy to after his discharge from the army in nineteen seventy lethal returned home and enrolled at Guilford College in Greensboro as a business major. Gilford was a small quaker college. So some faculty and students held weekly silent vigils against the Vietnam War on the federal courthouse lawn. And Leaf was agreeing with them. He didn't think this war should be going on. Your a lot of this at that time didn't think that was a good idea. Shabby. That were absolutely it was the movement. So. Although he had been conservative for most of his life leaked did get some strong opinions against the war and he let his hair grow out to his shoulder started wearing blue jeans and he got a pair of those small round wire rimmed glasses that John
On Being with Krista Tippett
Arlie Hochschild with Krista Tippett
"High is at Arley. Yes Hi Krista yes good to meet. Thank you so much for doing this and I. so apologize for the delay as we had in this totally unusual and I think it happened twice with you I. Really Apologize. No problem but but what we need to talk about has not. diminished. So here we are. We have construction going on here in our in our studio and so like coming in. itself is very quiet, but there's just hammering as I walk in. For an audio yeah program. So good. Are you? Are they going to I mean I don't hear it so. Where where are you? Right now. Are, you talking to me? Yes. Yeah. I'm in North Gate Hall, which is in. The basement of the journalism department at UC Berkeley Okay Okay Yeah Berkeley. Three blocks from our home. Oh, what a what a wonderful place to live. I think we're pretty good here. I. Don't like to. I. Don't want to start talking about anything substantive until we're really doing it. So yeah, I. Think we're fine. Good and where you KRISTA. Minneapolis. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. It's you'll. You'll understand this I grew up in Oklahoma and kind of went far far far far far away and And that's become more important to me in these recent years that you know that he and and then our studios in Minneapolis has been for a long time and. I've thought across the years about how the show might have been served by being on one of the coasts and. And in these last few years since two thousand sixteen. I'm I'm so glad we're in the middle of the country you know. It's Really important in life giving. So. Good Yeah So, you were the child of a Foreign Service officer. So you sound like you grew up all over the world. Well. Yes to to some degree. Yeah. Starting at age twelve. Yeah it was pivotal. Father was ambassador us. Ambassador to New Zealand. Ghana and Tunisia. Yeah we don't need to go into his rank spread. Yeah. But did you live where those places you lived in I lived in Israel? And from aged twelve to fourteen, very pivotal experience. And then New Zealand Wellington New Zealand. The university. there Victoria University so in New Zealand and then my folks were in Ghana and I spent a summer. Ana But by then I was in college and then they weren't Tunisia and I. Actually spent five months a doing a study on the emancipation of Tunisia and girls so. These French questionnaires. Second Year of Grad School at Berkeley. So. yes. So I was very. Fortunate, really to get to experience all that. Yeah. Yeah was there a religious or spiritual background to your childhood in your family or in those places? Yeah. Yeah. I would say there there was And So. Are we starting your going? Yeah. All right okay. yeah my parents were very religious, unitarian? And So religious in the sense of it being a very important thing to go to church on Sunday and. My brother and I would. Kind of. Wrestle with each other and tickle. In the back seat of her whole sudden Hudson in Silver Spring Maryland and And Go. Drive to all souls UNITARIAN church in Washington DC very important to my father especially and I didn't feel particularly religious. At that point and. But if I look back on it what. the influence of that was is that. There's An important part of one's self to express and to learn to develop and that. For. UNITARIAN inside the message I took away is that it's very big world and we have to learn to. get to know and. Empathize with. People in radically different cultures and that that's a good thing to live in a big world. I think by the time I was. Sixteen. I had that message, but I felt something missing. And I got interested in quakers who? Be Much. More. Okay Gang. So what are we going to do about it? You know view terriers were very talky. Talkers talk talk of the thinkers looked like they were kind of. interesting. They were doers, and so I would say. That that. Connection for me. when I was in high school very informal I didn't become a former quaker anything. But It led me to volunteer on weekends when I was in high school At something we called Neighbourhood House on tenth and L.. Street. was in the middle of the. the back area of Washington
MarketFoolery
The Obviously-Going-To-Die Stocks
"We're going to start with the stock of the day. Don't call it a comeback bed bath and beyond has been here for years. It's just all that time someone else was running the company but now that Mark Trittin has been in the Corner Office for about a year. We're seeing days like today second quarter profits came in exponentially higher than expected. Same store sales were positive for the first time in four years. The stock is up more than thirty percent this morning. I'm assuming at least part of what we're seeing with the stock is some shortsellers saying that's it. I. Think. I'm. Probably. Bed, bath, and congratulations to march written and Beth by best buy bed bath and beyond. For this quarter, March, written formerly of target, of course, and a few other places before that, I think Nordstrom's and I believe. He had a stint at Nike to could be misquoting. This bed bath and beyond is in a group of companies retailers that I like to call the obvious obviously going to die crowd. And the funny thing about companies that are obviously going to die when they get the right mix of management decision making and in some help from the environment and you know just a little bit of because no one's more aware of a company's struggles at least no one should be more aware of a company struggles then the people inside the company. And that's when you plan your strategy. What are our tools? How can we navigate our way through whatever we found ourselves in business is not easy and certainly for this group retailers that I'm Gonna I'm GONNA hold up. Bed Bath and beyond as one Chris. But you know how about Game Stop Game Stop. The seller of video game systems and Software that of course is going to be the next blockbuster. Right if they writing that headline since two thousand and nine, how `Bout Michael's the craft store everybody knows I. Y has an Amazon run over. And the granddaddy of all of these. Companies that are obviously going to fail. They're obviously going to be taken bricks and mortar is dead is best buy which just before the podcast we were talking about how? How many listeners? Realize, that best buy has been at ten bagger over the past decade they went through some struggles they brought in new management. WHO had a plan? and. I'm sure they were mocked and I'm sure people were skeptical and they executed on that plan and best buy, which was a sub twelve dollar stock in. Two Thousand Ten two thousand eleven is today roughly one hundred twenty dollars stock. And so when you see. I'm a kick myself a little bit on dust by iron best buy bed bath and beyond his too many bees. Bed Bath and beyond. I actually did a little bit of work about a year ago as I was discussing with one of our with one of our foolish coworkers. About this basket of Taylor's who are sure to die. And we had this one. We had game stop we have Michael on the docket and I went through you know what this company's history of cash flow was and what they've done with it and how they've raise capital, and this is before Mr Trenton came on but I. It laid the groundwork for someone with. A better vision to come in and knocked the ball out of the park which you've seen today and and best bed bath, and beyond is as we speak it's now a six th bagger since March of this year and so in the a roughly a year ago when I did my work because I was vigorously debating co I pointed out that in the previous six years here was bed bath and beyond had produced four point two, billion dollars in free cash flow. They had also issued one point five billion dollars in debt and debated smart about the debt because the debts. Basically staggered I think is a ten twenty and thirty years. and. They have to pay it back anytime soon, and they had gone on a massive buyback program. They've they've retired a ton of their shares. Now. Slowly melting ice cube no one's going to want to own this business what have you. But at the time the stock was about ten eleven dollars the company is training but four times enterprise value of free cash flow. that. That is rock bottom fools that is something that is going to go away. That's what the market is telling you. Flash, forward, to today and oh positive cops. Oh. We have a plant. They've they've suspended their dividend they've they've halted their. They've halted their. They suspended the dividend halted their share buyback plan I believe in. April. But with this. With this. report, they have generated a ton of cash flow. They've deployed it smartly they took down some temporary which they had out as part of the PARCO vid. They have bought back twenty percent of that long dated not in any danger to come calling debt they bought that back at a discount. Which is brilliant. They. So they're down to their down net debt down by about thirty percent from where they started the year. They have a store optimization program, which is something that a lot of these retailers the slowly melting ice cube crowd will call them. They are reducing their store count 'cause they don't need it because they can move to ECOMMERCE, which they've done a little bit they can move to. The geography is able he served by less stores and you see a lot of. Traffic that previously went through one store transitions to another and. They are steal a Ron grosses them here they are firing on all cylinders and I'm not sure. Anyone. Thought is coming. I am I am both thrilled that they are doing this they're having success because everyone loves a comeback. I'm less thrilled that you own it and I don't. But. That's mainly because I had this in my hand a year ago Chris and I'm holding it up. The skull of York. And and I'm looking at it and I didn't at least put a little field position because as I said, at the time training for four times free cash flow that is close to no-brainer territory for me. So two other quick data points before we go to our next story. Not. Surprisingly digital sales of big driver this quarter. That goes hand in hand with the store closures so Another smart move by Trittin and his team. And also Happy to see that they're you know suspending the dividend that they're. Suspending the sticking with the we're not going to buy back shares. I'm also happy to see they're not offering guidance. Their New Orleans. No need to at this point. Let's move on the third quarter sales, for Pepsi, grew five percent and. Kind of like we saw three months ago snacks and some of the beverages particularly the Seltzer. Part of their portfolio helping to make up for the fact that somebody restaurants are closed. So many sports and entertainment venues are closed and. That's that's the stock is basically flat and this kind of flat for all of twenty twenty but. Nice to see that the the salty snack part of the business is making up for the sort of the tried and true Pepsi part of the business. Gilead household particularly the soon to be sixteen year. Old Member of the Gillies household has been doing his part to. To to help with the salty snacks portion and shareholders. Thank him. Yeah I was GONNA? Say. You know dude. There are other food groups other than Doritos. Look it was a perfectly acceptable boring quarter from a perfectly acceptable boring company and and I think you know Chris but maybe some of the listeners not know. For, me to call a company perfectly boring from for me. That's a compliment because I like businesses that are boring. Not Terribly exciting person myself I enjoy. Investments in companies that just actually do what we expect them to do, and essentially just get it done quarter after quarter. Pepsi is not GonNa. You know if you'RE LOOKING FOR PEPSI TO BE A. Ten bagger. You know anytime soon like the aforementioned by we mentioned earlier. That's not gonNA happen. They are just a steady bedrock performer for your portfolio and we all need a few of those. So we can go after the more exciting things in our portfolio. Yes. So it was it was A. It was a boring it was a boring quarter but boring is nice because boring boring says, oh, we end up four four plus percent on. Organic revenue growth total revenue growth went up five plus percent. EPS Is up ten percent year-over-year just for the quarter. It's still down for year to date, but of course, Mindy Stan why because the previous quarter? Cova. no-one no-one was new what was going on? So we kind forgive that. They are they're pointing towards the full year. They did give guidance their point point to a full year of approximately four percent revenue growth approximately five fifty core earnings. Stocks at about one hundred, forty bucks. So it's not cheap. But it's not terribly expensive, and again, this is one of those widows and orphans stocks. You can buy put it away and we'll see you when you retire. Hugh Johnston, who's the CFO at Pepsi? Granular on CNBC this morning talking about because when you think about all of the food and beverages they have across their portfolio he got granular talking about the new cheetos macaroni and cheese saying you know they're trying to keep up with demand as a fan of both cheetahs and macaroni and cheese I haven't tried it yet but I can see why it's popular. Any. Do they give any color on the? Two. Portals that they were direct to consumer sites that they launched earlier this year snacks dot com and Pantry shop dot com. Sadly, Chris they did not at least in the conference call or the press the presser maybe in the ten Q I haven't read the ten q yet obviously but. Yeah no snacks dot com I can confirm both of those sites are open and accepting offers as of this moment. SNACKS DOT COM and Pantry shop I think is an interesting one because they are. You know you are buying your you're you're buying all of your Pepsi Slash quaker products. Simultaneously in in in the various groups. So if you want your everyday Pantry, you want to get your your oatmeal and your healthy. Your healthy Chia bars and your rice cakes do people still eat rice cakes and if so why? You can get all those delivered at the same time or your snack package your breakfast package You know it's it's interesting to to have it delivered. I I'M NOT A. I I'm one of the three people in North America is still doing own grocery shopping. So I'm probably target here but I know a lot about the people how to use it and I think probably if I let my as I mentioned a sixteen year old note that this thing existed. It might be his only source of nourishment. So yeah, don't don't. On, the first time I went to that website I kind of went crazy to the point where in the box showed up to two days later even my kids were just like. This is a lot of snacks and was like, yeah I may have ordered too many but but I regret nothing. Playboy. Enterprises is returning to the public markets after nearly a decade and because I was are out of fashion, playboy is going to be doing this through a speck. Mountain Crest acquisition is a current special purpose acquisition company that is going to be taking playboy public through a reverse merger and wants to deal is done that company where the ticker is MC. ABC? Is. The playboy name and the ticker symbol P L B Y? I guess I, I saw this story and I thought, okay I'd that's one way for playboy, which is a private company and has been since twenty eleven. I. Guess That's one way to raise money. I, I, I'm hard pressed though to think that. The second round of playboy being a public company is going to go any better for the company and for investors than it did the first time around. That was my initial take as well, and you say it's one way to raise money I'd say it's one way for insiders to cash out. Tomato Tomato. The more I think about this though. I could be spectacularly wrong and it wouldn't be the first time. This might be quite this might be interesting I can see. I can see a number of thing, and I just find this interesting from a number of re. I as you point out. Yes, playboy. Is private the SPEC the Special Purpose Acquisition Company Mountain Crest Acquisition, company. It's out there. Now it's got. It's a walking wallet got a bunch of cash their stocks over ten dollars specs go at ten bucks. There's nothing you can. You can go buy today Chris if you want. And You can just sit there and wait until the transaction is completed in q one. If. You WANNA own playboy. So, playboy today is not playboy of the past for thing, magazines have died. So, there are no issues of the iconic famous magazine. These no regularly published issues and I believe they went to quarterly publishing versus. Monthly publishing before that. So what playboy is trying to be or this new iteration trying to be a licensing company and they're calling it across four major categories they're saying sexual wellness, which I'm just going to skip to the next one, which is style and apparel which is. Apparel. and accessories for men and women globally gaming and lifestyle also digital gaming hospitality and spirits. So you can get yourself some playboy-branded Bourbon. And beauty and grooming, which is fragrance skin care grooming cosmetics for men and women. Okay. That sounds interesting. They're not a publishing company more avoiding that and I guess they have a bunch of online stuff as well which. Tell people they can go look on their spare time but. They are calling themselves a streamlined high growth business. The company has four hundred million in cash flow contract through the next eighteen years. and has products available for sale and in ten thousand major retail stores. In the US, this is a brandon company. Now, now, what you think of the brand and what you associate with the brand, the iconic a bunny ears brand, of course. Is Is. is going to be probably a nuanced and varied. I can understand why some people. Would not want to do with this brand I completely understand that is not. Bend the most shall we say progressive brand in history? It has fostered some. Attitudes, particularly women that. I think it's fair to say some would find distasteful and I I completely understand why? And for those people, they're just not going to be shareholders and that's that's fine. But what I find interesting about this if this, if the licensing deal and we have, we've already had a certain dry run of this in. Do you know the magazine Maxim? It was. So it's a men's lifestyle magazine, girly pictures, and whatever it was bought by an entity called big holdings. I'm going to say eight nine years ago. With the goal of they went into change it from the the lad magazine into more of a lifestyle brand licensing deal what playboys doing. Now. I mentioned earlier it's important to have You know leaders businesses, you respect and trust big lorry holdings is not one of those businesses but I do know that they even though they're circulation sales are down significantly there they have turned that profitable on a small scale with the licensing strategy. I suspect the playboy will do a better job. And It will depend on the valuation coming out but you know when analogy I might throw up as. As a comparison is. Franchising businesses in the in the restaurant space. So a restaurant brands international, which owns importance and Burger King. Dunkin brands, which of course owns your beloved Dunkin donuts. Those are those are check cashing businesses, they they sell the franchise to a Franchisee. And then take tax six percent of their gross sales and royalties every month plus x percent for advertising they sell you a system and so those are very asset light cash-rich capital Genita- businesses. And part of me wonders here it's obviously not the same as selling. Coffee and whatever. But part of me wonders if that is what this business will look like, and if they are truly in the growth business and the cash generation business, this might be an interesting opportunity. And you just hit on what I think is the most interesting thing to watch. Once it becomes a public entity again, the high growth aspect of this because now we're going to see Now, we're GONNA see through quarterly reports. Okay. Are you growing? Because that's one of those things where we investors and the market in general get to decide what we consider to be high growth And I again I had I had your initial take which was. Oh please. Like if it didn't work the first time. It's going to work less well this time. The more I read about like. I'M GONNA keep an eye on this. Curiosity. Jim Gillies always talking to you. Thanks for being here.
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Elizabeth Fry, The Prison Angel
"Hello from Wonder Media Network. I'm Jenny Kaplan and this is encyclopedia Monica. Today's activist was a major proponent of prison reform in Britain. She's known as the Angel of prisons. Let's talk about Elizabeth Fry. Elizabeth Gurney was born in Norwich Norfolk in seventeen eighty to a wealthy quaker family. Her Father John was a successful banker and her mother Catherine was a member of the family that founded Barclays Bank which still operates is one of the largest banks in the world. Elizabeth was the odd one out amongst her siblings. She experienced mood swings and had difficulty learning which biographers attribute to her dyslexia. Elizabeth once said I was thought and called very stupid and obstinate I certainly did not like learning nor did I believe attend my lessons when Elizabeth was twelve years old her mother passed away and Elizabeth was left to care for her younger sisters and brothers. Eighteen hundred at the age of twenty. Elizabeth Mary Joseph Fry London banker and quaker together. They had many children most sources say eleven, five sons and six daughters though some sources suggest that had even more kids. Elizabeth was an observant quaker and frequently worshipped at the Friends Meeting House. It was there the she heard Williams savory preach about the importance of altruism and philanthropy. His words inspired Elizabeth to help those in need. In eighteen thirteen elizabeth visited newgate prison, which was notorious for its filthy state and its dismal treatment of its prisoners. Elizabeth was appalled to see such harsh conditions. Women and children were tightly packed in small spaces with little room to wash themselves or cleaned their clothes, and while many of the newgate prisoners had committed severe crimes, some of them had not. And others hadn't even received a trial. Elizabeth was determined to act the next day she returned to the prison with fresh loaves of bread and clean clothes, but she had sewn herself. She distributed them to the prisoners and encourage them to keep their cells clean and find ways to be hygienic in the oppressive environment. Elizabeth didn't come back to newgate until eighteen sixteen due to financial difficulties within her family. But upon her return, she dove back into the Work Elizabeth educated the children of Newgate who were imprisoned with their parents teaching them practical skills like reading and selling. In eighteen seventeen, Elizabeth founded the Association for the improvement of female prisoners along with twelve other women she worked to advance prison reform and to provide female prisoners with education and tools for employment Elizabeth fought for the idea that prison should be based round rehabilitation rather than punishment she wrote it must indeed be acknowledged that many of our own penal provisions as they produced no effect appear to have no other end the punishment of the guilty. Eighteen nineteen Elizabeth wrote prisons and Scotland in the north of England and encouraged her society friends to visit newgate themselves. At. That time Britain was in the practice of sending prisoners to penal colonies in. North. America Australia and India. At newgate. Prisoners en route to be transferred to convict ships, rebound by chains and unable to move around and tiny carts people in the streets pelted them with garbage. Elizabeth convinced the governor of new gate to carry the women enclosed carriages rather than open ones and to ensure that all the women and children had enough food to eat on their voyage. Elizabeth also gave the prisoner sewing tools, bibles and other necessities to accompany them on their long journeys. With the help of her efforts, the act of transporting criminals so far away lands was prohibited in eighteen, thirty seven. Prior to that change in policy Elizabeth visited every convict ship bound for Australia for more than twenty five years. Throughout the eighteen twenties, Elizabeth inspected prison conditions and continued to advocate for the rights of prisoners. She presented her findings to the House of Commons committee in doing. So she became the first woman to present evidence to parliament. Elizabeth's ideas influenced the eighteen twenty three jails act which introduced a series of prison
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