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Bloomberg Radio New York
"queens university" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"The managing director and head of global credit at Carlisle the private credit and investing giant with over $300 billion in assets under management as head of the global credit desk at Carlisle Mark oversees $73 billion in assets under management previously he led the Canada pension plan investment boards global private investment group and prior to that he was at Barclays where he was managing director and co head of leveraged finance Mark Jenkins welcome to Bloomberg Barry thanks for having me I appreciate it I'm excited about this This is an area that I don't think people understand or hear enough about It's usually all day long equities and I'm excited to talk a little bit About the various types of credit you manage but before we do that let's get into your background a little bit You attended queens university in Canada where you earned a commerce degree How does that translate into an interest in credit and investing Yeah sure Barry I think when I grew up I grew up in a town called osh we just outside of Toronto And growing up I didn't really have any influences that were in the business side And so as I was kind of progressing through my childhood and through high school I sort of was very interested in commerce and how that works So my first job really was working at a corner store where I used to stack what we would affectionately call Canada pop bottles but you could also do bottles I did that If you're in Minnesota you might call them pop bottles as well And I used to sweep out the parking lot as well That was sort of my first job at 13 and I was very interested in how that gentleman ran that store And my brother in law actually ran a small lumber yard in town that I worked at as well And so I was very very interested in how businesses worked How that operationally worked not just the actual element of working at them And so I kind of looked at people who had progressed into business and most of them in Canada at least had commerce degrees So that's how I went to queen's commerce And you come out of school you end up at Goldman Sachs pretty early in your career right Yeah actually I took a bit of a short stop first So back in the day when I was sort of again trying to explore how to get into business I noticed a lot of chief financial officers in Canada had a CPA or back then a CA And so I actually spent two years at Cooper's and lie brand working on my CA and Kennedy you have to intern at an accounting firm So I worked there in corporate audit and business investigations which basically back in 1989 90 did a lot of the bankruptcies in real estate So in fact one of my early experiences was working on the Olympia New York bankruptcy with the reichman brothers So I have to imagine that's a useful set of skills to have when you're trying to decide hey am I going to see a return of capital as well as return on capital for this particular credit Yeah it's certainly taught me how to understand how you're going to get your capital back if you will I think that I think by early formative years in terms of business was one of skepticism because 89 90 was at least in Canada was going through large recession predominantly in real estate Had overextended itself building out and canary wharf at the time I recall cross collateralization I was kept from all the banks of course which was part of what we discovered And I think my formative year was started with a lot of skepticism which probably led me into credit as a result So from Cooper's and libraries and accounting how do you make your way to fixed income and Goldman Yeah sure Well I realized that the accounting profession probably long-term wasn't going to be for me And most people would move on to something different I had some friends who worked over a Goldman Sachs which frankly I didn't know a lot about at the time I walked across the street in Toronto ended up working to their initially in controllers But eventually worked my way into being a credit analyst there And very shortly thereafter I moved down to New York and spent actually most of my career in New York working for Goldman And always on the credit side So when I was doing my research into your background you have family members who are investment investors and pensioners into the Canadian pension plan how did that police teachers pensioners things like that Did that impact how you thought about doing your job For sure for sure I think that the greatest takeaway for me and I take that to my job today is know who you work for And for me I have a 91 year old mother and she would say to me every week when I talk to her how are we doing Because it's her money right And so my mother my brothers are about 18 years old as me so they take the Canadian pension plan right now as well And my sister So they're all beneficiaries of that And on top of that my brother and my other brother they're both one was a teacher one was a policeman so they also benefit from the Ontario municipal employee retirement plan and Ontario teachers pension plans So they're all beneficiaries of these large pension plans in Canada And I think what it really did is made it real It made it real for me in terms of the money that I was investing the sacred trust were literally 19 million people are giving you money to invest on their behalf is a sacred trust And so I used to say to the team at CPP IB that that's a special place to be and that has a higher duty of care in my mind because think about if you lose $20 million that's like the entire city of peterborough contributing to CPP for a year So that really puts things in perspective And I've taken that with me now because now I work on behalf of many beneficiaries And fiduciary is across the globe And I still think it's a sacred trust And it's a privilege to manage money Quite fascinating Coming up we continue our conversation with Mark Jenkins head of global credit at Carlisle discussing the state of credit today You're.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"queens university" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"The managing director and head of global credit at Carlisle the private credit and investing giant with over $300 billion in assets under management as head of the global credit desk at Carlisle Mark oversees $73 billion in assets under management previously he led the Canada pension plan investment boards global private investment group and prior to that he was at Barclays where he was managing director and co head of leverage finance Mark Jenkins welcome to Bloomberg Barry thanks for having me I appreciate it I'm excited about this This is an area that I don't think people understand or hear enough about It's usually all day long equities And I'm excited to talk a little bit About the various types of credit you manage but before we do that let's get into your background a little bit You attended queens university in Canada where you earned a commerce degree How does that translate into an interest in credit and investing Yeah sure Barry I think when I grew up I grew up in a town called osh with just outside of Toronto And growing up I didn't really have any influences that were in the business side And so as I was kind of progressing through my childhood and through high school I sort of was very interested in commerce and how that works So my first job really was working at a corner store where I used to stack what we would affectionately call Canada pop bottles but you could also do bottles I did that If you're in Minnesota you might call them pop bottles as well And I used to sweep out the parking lot as well That was sort of my first job at 13 and I was very interested in how that gentleman ran that store And my brother in law actually ran a small lumber yard in town that I worked out as well And so I was very very interested in how businesses worked How that operationally worked not just the actual element of working at them And so I kind of looked at people who had progressed into business and most of them in Canada at least had commerce degrees So that's how I went to queen's commerce And you come out of school you end up at Goldman Sachs pretty early in your career right Yeah actually I took a bit of a short stop first So back in the day when I was sort of again trying to explore how to get into business I noticed a lot of chief financial officers in Canada had a CPA or back then as CA And so I actually spent two years at Cooper's and lie brand working on my CA and Kennedy have to intern at an accounting firm So I worked there in corporate audit and business investigations which basically back in 1989 90 did a lot of the bankruptcies in real estate So in fact one of my early experiences was working on the Olympian York bankruptcy with the reichman brothers So I have to imagine that's a useful set of skills to have when you're trying to decide hey am I going to see a return of capital as well as return on capital for this particular credit Yeah it's certainly taught me how to understand how you're going to get your capital back if you will I think that I think by early formative years in terms of business was one of skepticism because 89 90 was at least in Canada was going through large recession predominantly in real estate Had overextended itself building out in canary wharf at the time I recall cross collateralization I was kept from all the banks of course which was part of what we discovered And I think my formative year was started with a lot of skepticism which probably led me into credit as a result So from Cooper's and library and accounting how do you make your way to fixed income and Goldman Yeah sure Well I realized that the accounting profession probably long-term wasn't going to be for me And most people would move on to something different I had some friends who worked over at Goldman Sachs which frankly I didn't know a lot about at the time I walked across the street in Toronto ended up working to their initially in controllers But eventually worked my way into being a credit analyst there And very shortly thereafter I moved down to New York and spent actually most of my career in New York working for Goldman And always on the credit side So when I was doing my research into your background you have family members who are investment investors and pensioners into the Canadian pension plan how did that police teachers pensioners things like that Yeah Did that impact how you thought about doing your job For sure for sure I think that the greatest takeaway for me and I take that to my job today is know who you work for And for me I have a 91 year old mother and she would say to me every week when I talk to her how are we doing Because it's her money right And so my mother my brothers are about 18 years old as me so they take the Canadian pension plan right now as well and my sister So they're all beneficiaries of that And on top of that my brother and my other brother they're both were one was a teacher one was a policeman so they also benefit from the Ontario municipal employees retirement plan and Ontario teachers pension plans So they're all beneficiaries of these large pension plans in Canada And I think what it really did is made it real It made it real for me in terms of the money that I was investing the sacred trust were literally 19 million people are giving you money to invest on their behalf is a sacred trust And so I used to say to the team at CPP IB that that's a special place to be and it has a higher duty of care in my mind because think about if you lose $20 million that's like the entire city of peterborough contributing to CPP for a year So that really puts things in perspective And I've taken that with me now because now I work on behalf of many beneficiaries And fiduciary is across the globe And I still think it's a sacred trust And it's a privilege to manage money Quite fascinating Coming up we continue our conversation with Mark Jenkins head of global credit at Carlisle discussing the state of credit today You're listening to masters in business with Barry red holtz on Bloomberg radio.
Kottke Ride Home
"queens university" Discussed on Kottke Ride Home
"Trip adviser, don't go to the restaurant's website, just come to Google, always come to Google, then they win. And so Larry Page's admission that I'm feeling lucky was in part to get people thinking they should go to Google before ever going straight to any other site's homepage first has become pretty close to reality for many users. And that's what makes me think that to the extent that anyone is actually using the feature still, it could be losing them more of their own money now. I'm feeling lucky, even though you start at Google, is the quickest way off of Google. A standard Google search these days is more likely to keep you on Google with their cards offering blurbs from Wikipedia, the ability to scroll through the cast of a movie that you're watching, and then all the other movies that one actor has been in, then maybe you click the tab to see where to stream one of their other movies later, or upcoming showtimes of it in your area. Then you look at restaurants nearby the movie theater, reading reviews, looking at photos of their interior checking their COVID policies and getting directions all without ever leaving Google. If you'd used, I'm feeling lucky to search the actor in the movie you were watching, you'd probably just go straight to their IMDb page and maybe go down a similar rabbit hole of film trivia on IMDb, but none of that would have been on Google. But more so than whether or not anyone still uses this button or whether or not Google earns or loses any money on it. I'm more interested in what all of those changes to Google due to us. Williams references a 2008 research paper from education librarians at queens university in Canada about what they dubbed the I'm feeling lucky syndrome. And I want to quote what Willem said about it. But as I do, think more about what I just said about how Google has changed since 2008 about the knowledge graph and quick answers..
Another Mother Runner
"queens university" Discussed on Another Mother Runner
"Your spirits, your spirituality, and like I said, people come to it for different reasons. But I think it's beneficial in just every which way. Nice. So on a scale of one to ten, meaning like nothing special to a ten, highly, highly recommend, so one's nothing. Ten is awesome. Rate the Coney Island polar plunge is a way to ring in the new year, Jane. Oh, I think we're way beyond a ten. I think maybe on its own. Ten times ten. It's the best thing. It's the best thing in the world. Awesome. Well, thank you for joining us. Yeah, I was to say, I think you've convinced me. It's on my bucket list for sure. I just have to make it up to New York. And I need to do this because I'm not a cold water person. But you've convinced me, Jody. I'm not Jodie's our next person. Hey names. Well, that'll give that, that's a little hint to who's coming up next. Right? Yeah, exactly. Thank you. All right, we can clap for a second here, so Alex can edit this. Jane, thank you. That was great. You were great. And so fun and good luck with it this year. I hope it continues to go. It sounds amazing. Yeah, Jane, if I do come up, I'll let you know, and we can meet in person. Maybe next year. Yeah. Thank you again. Bye bye. Next up, we've got Jodie Snowden, who works as a donor relations professional at queens university and lives with her two teenage daughters in Kingston, Ontario. Jody and her girls have done the 5 K resolution resolution run on New Year's Day together since 2013. So this is going to be their 9th year doing it together impressive. Welcome, Jody. Thanks for having me. I'm so excited to be here. So, Jodie, tell us about the resolution run. We imagine it was a local race, but it looks like it might be a Canada wide event. Yeah, it is. So it's local to me, but there's multi cities across Canada that participate in this resolution run 5 K and depending on the city in some it runs on New Year's Eve and in some it runs on New Year's Day for us. It's always been New Year's Day at 12 noon. New Year's Day 12. So that's as warm as Canada gets, right? Because I'd high in the sky. Exactly. Well, so let's go back to pre COVID before we talk about the years that have been virtual. When the three of you ran it in person, were your girls always game for the 5 K because they were young then. I mean, you know, I know my kids would not be like EPA, let's go do a 5 K mom, you know, on this holiday. So how did you get them excited for it or were they just naturally excited for it because their moms are runner? Yeah, they are so young when we started doing this that I asked them the other day if they remember a New Year's Day where we didn't do this and neither one of them could remember one. So they were keen. They were excited..
Game of Crimes
"queens university" Discussed on Game of Crimes
"Can i phone a friend i can. Oh hey Give you teach at other places as well besides mohawk college right. I teach at queens university which is in kingston ontario which is about halfway from toronto. Montreal i know all your listeners. Holy the geographies. All over the place. But i teach organized crime at at kingston university as well. Which i mean. That's just i love mohawk. That's my base but to teach actual course and be part of organized. Crime program Man i'll tell you it's like i my wife always says don't get steve going on organized crime. He could talk for weeks man. It's like and now. I'm doing it as as a living and i'm like i'm pinching myself like this. Have you ever had a student in your course by the first name a dawn how do you look at it. Don corleone i come to you. I question for you here. We go then. There's another university speak at two right. There is actually yeah university of golf humber. Just teaching course there this term in forensics. And it's really cool. I was never a homicide detective but we have. What's called a murder te team. It's almost like the bringing in outside people. It murders a major incident response team and one of my things. Outside of informants in organized crime was i loved interviewing people. It doesn't matter if they shoplifted something. Like everyone has a story to tell. And i i really loved being a part of that so this forensics course is a lot about their second year students. A lot of them are either going into law school or in policing so we talked about like one thing. That wasn't around. When we're all in policing this genetic genealogy how they're even solving million. I just signing up for course. I'm a member of the international homicide investigators association that e mail just came out today. They've got a four part series being taught on the usa. Familial dna that's very cool and interviewing the there's a true art i if you're going to be successful and glean all that information you've got to win the the the person over believe it or not. I mean you know worn about not do but It's been a long time since i did that. But it is truly an art. It really is it just it. There's something about the process because a lot of times the person sitting across from you hate your guts and you have to just like undercover work. It's it's a lot of acting to lot of rapport building. You have to build up their confidence and trust and just quicks. I know when. I was in professional standards. We would field complaints from people about the police. And i would bring them in to interview them to see. Okay is this. Legitimate isn't a frivolous complaint. And when they would find out. I was from a sergeant from the same agency that they're complaining about david half the time david would go completely off the rails on me and it would sometimes take me two hours to reel them back in. And it's like building that bridge backup with that not only communication but then trust them report and it was like you literally would have to start from ground zero to get them back on the same page to our events them i would tell you what. Get them back your lot. You got a lot more patients than i'd go unfounded. Hey pacino you're in trouble when you're sitting there talking to you know steve murph pulls out a ginger ale and says hey. I'm not a snitch..
Insight Out with Billy Samoa
"queens university" Discussed on Insight Out with Billy Samoa
"That's what he was born. His dad wasn't very present in his childhood. it's very abusive and his mother was a model. She was a supermodel. And that's how they they connected and how alanis was born and to be honest he didn't have that gray of childhood. Most of his time was spent reading books with his brother. Kimball oblivion another siblings. Well and yeah. He would just spend a lot of time reading books. He wasn't very extroverted. He realized around the age of five or six in the stories that he tells that he was very different than most of the kids in the playground because he always was thinking about. New ideas are crazy and everyone thought he was just nuts. Like what is alon thinking. What is this kid doing. And he realized that a very young age that he was very different than most human beings but he kept following the curiosity. And let's skip a little bit ahead. When he was ten eleven he started reading. These isaac asimov's books on science fiction. Isaac asimov's one the best science fiction writers of all time thinks stephen king but first sci-fi and he read those books because he was really socially secluded talk to that many people and through those books he got super passionate about space space travel and he was at that age actually that he realized he wanted to go to space and to go to mars. Someday that's actually where he developed the first idea for that when he was around twelve years old and then after when he was around. Fifteen to seventeen. Don't quote me on the exact age. He left his family to go to canada to city a queens university while places in canada to study to get a degree and then he moved to the states and had the idea for zip to where zip to this was in the mid nineties during the dot com reis and zip to at this point. He was around seventeen nineteen years old and he started out with his brother. Kimball at the idea behind. Sip two was. How do we reinvent the way that we think about the financial business from a transaction perspective. So he's sort of coating a lot of finance tools for for different companies or create. See i believe. And i don't know the exact details soup to but basically what happened is they sold to compact. And that's what is i. Exit was at the age of twenty two. Twenty one. And i think zip to was had to do with regional components. I don't know the entire story. So maybe we'll probably get our get our facts straight a little bit on that. Because i know like god obviously we pay pal. That was more of the financial side so go ahead. Yeah i got it. Thanks for that so just regard. What is it earlier. So essentially what. What i was referring to just a bit earlier was when he started people before that with zip to it was essentially a company that provided licenses to newspapers for online city guides software dots would it was and he started with this started. The company with his brother kimball and he started getting local businesses to create presence in newspapers online city guides and whatnot. And that's what ended up selling to compact those a fascinating idea. I think of it like a pre yelp. Yep yeah and that's i mean it's because it was so early on before we had all the things that we now take for granted he was frankly on the cutting edge helping as you put local businesses. Which is why zip zip code almost like in different regions giving them a little bit more visibility and clearly that was successful but that was just the beginning th all of these things are like stepping stones so the next stepping stone was pay pal pretty big stepping stone. How did you get involved with pay pal absolutely so the other toy. No one adventure before we get into people is remembered. That end game is mars from the beginning but it is end. Game is mars foot l..
The Last American Vagabond
"queens university" Discussed on The Last American Vagabond
"Gamble is to gamble away from the vaccine and away from potential harm now jessica rose in her first paper show that the nonfatal reactions tend to be cardiac cardi cardiovascular neurologic immunologic the occur quickly after the shot at tight temper relationship with rose. She's a really tight tight epidemiologist but virologists. She's made the case that we've completely fulfilled. The bradford hill criteria for causality. We have a dangerous mechanisms of action. We have a tight temporary relationship. We have internal consistency between death and the nonfatal events. We have external consistency because this is seen in the system the system and in the u. Dra you as the ama system. We've basically got it. We have fulfilled hills tenants of causality. The vaccine is causing these events. Myocarditis paradise official fda warnings. We are at astronomical numbers of hospitalizations er visits etc. We're at shockingly twenty. Six thousand americans now permanently disabled after the vaccine the is telling us permanently disabled who answers for that. That's more than a war. That's more than iraq war. These are permanently disabled americans so death and disability. It's clear are coming after these vaccines in this strongly temporary related i mean temporally related. It's like shotgun is a shotgun. We have two separate announces one by rose one by mclaughlin independent analysis. Us spares data fifty percent of these deaths occur within forty eight hours fifty percent eighty percent within a week. It's a no wonder people are protesting wonder to take a vaccine. People are saying. I see this on the internet. I could die. Employees are saying. I don't wanna take the vaccine. Because i could die. Not that i'm anti vans. Just i don't want to die. Isn't that okay that i don't wanna die wonder. There's tension i mean. Come on think about it. We have twenty million kids to college every year. They take them an ngo cocco vaccine. You haven't seen any protests over the minko vaccine. I'm a doctor. I take hepatitis b. influenza vaccine. Have you seen people protesting over the hepatitis. b. vaccine outside house with no covert vaccine protests. Of course 'cause people know that this is an unbelievable shotgun risk mclachlan queens university in london analyzed. The data eighty six percent of the deaths was separate independent adjudicators. It has no other explanation. It was the maxine and on two occasions now our. Cdc has said three occasions now. I believe is march june. September our. Cdc in no announcement on their website has said. Cdc and fda doctors have reviewed all the deaths and none are related to the vaccine not including the ones that happened the vaccine center and they're doing cpr right. They're not related to the vaccine. Welcome to the daily wrath book a concise show dedicated to bring you.
On Being with Krista Tippett
"queens university" Discussed on On Being with Krista Tippett
"Of being at peace. And we have a lot to learn from them. I want to read a little something you wrote about cornmeal, was begun by reverend ray Davy, together with some students from queens university in Belfast in 1965. These were the days before the troubles broke out, but the days when troubles were brewing. There was a need for a place of friendship. I love this. A soft place for hard conversations. A meeting place where hostilities could be explored within the context of hospitality. Okay, so here's my adapted question. I came up with. And I don't know if I want to start with Marilyn I'll just start with you. Did you think about this moment we inhabit? I wonder if there's something in the spiritual background of your life, your childhood or your vocational life, however you would define spiritual, something in the spiritual background of your life that is really especially present to you right now. And that may mean troubling you, motivating you nourishing you. I'm not sure the moment we inhabit now is very fraught. And I suppose the teaching, the learning of my background, that's most present to me now is the historical memory of where we came from what our ancestors survived how in African American culture there is a hope of fierce hope that sustained people in spite of everything and I don't know, I've told students often over the years that just touching that history just imagining how people went on is a source of strength is but I just finished reading very powerful novel about refugees. In the present moment and reading their experiences, reminded me very much of the experiences of the middle passage and those earliest days of slavery and of Jim Crow and made me realize how hard it must have been in the past and how hard it must be now for many people to hold on to the, that resilience of, I guess, I hope is the only word I can. I can come up with how hard it is to hold hope. Because the forces of the world seem to be intent on destroying our grasp on un hope. So I guess that's the truest thing I can say about my own experience. Thank you. There's two things that come to my mind. The first is so when I got to primary school, I didn't know that I spoke two languages. And the teacher was introducing us to speaking Irish as if that was new for us all. And the teacher said a few words and said, no, you won't have understood what I've said, but I'm going to teach how to speak Irish. And I felt like something was wrong, because I understood perfectly, what she just said. Because I spoke two languages, two tongues in my mouth without realizing it. And what that strikes me I continually refer back to the realization for me that my first instinct was to think, oh, I'm wrong. Because the teacher said that I trusted authority. I'm a good Catholic. And so I've been spending my life trying to become a bad Catholic. Because I had an innate trust of authority and when the teacher said, no, you won't understand what I've just said. I thought, okay, that has to be true. And what that teaches me is that it's important to listen to the intuition. Because we might know more than we know we know. And that's I think that's a deep trusting relationship we have to have with ourselves. And the second thing that strikes me in terms of the spiritual background of my childhood is the stations of the cross. In Catholic and episcopal churches, you'll find 14 images from the time that Jesus of Nazareth was condemned to death to the time that his corpse was laid in the tomb. And there are just 14 stopping points and for ten years, I did the stations every day, and what that teaches me is that even the most depraved story of abduction and torture and murder by the state can be treated with dignity when we allow ourselves to approach the narrative of that place as an act of protest. And to find ways within which we can turn to the worst kinds of stories and to mine them for a practice that brings hope. Whatever. And what I like about the stages of the cross is that they don't say over then there's the 15th one where it's all lovely. Fantastic. In the traditional understanding there isn't a 15th station. The idea is to find hope in the practice of what was seemed to be the worst. And it is the worst. There's no pretense that abduction and torture and murder are anything other than abduction torture and murder. However, there is the understanding that within it, we can discover some kind of hope, the hope of protest, the hope of truth telling the hope of generosity, the hope of gesture, even in those places. Yeah, that really takes me to a place I think we should just start, which is, you know, one of the there's this idea out there now, we're rediscovering the power of story. Let's just say that. Like all over the place in every discipline. And that's wonderful because we forgotten the power of story. But then there's a way that that gets trivialized, right? And like, you know, we're in podcasting. Storytelling. Storytelling storytelling. But we were romanticized and simplified storytelling too. I wanted to read something you wrote. I think our said to you, I think you said this at a TEDx. In Ireland. These are the kinds of things we need for the tired spaces of our world. This is the way we need to move forward in a world that is so interested in being comforted by the damp blanket of bad stories. We need stories of belonging that move us towards each other, not from each other. Ways of being human that open up the possibilities of being alive together. Ways of navigating our differences that deepen our curiosity that deepen our friendship that deepen our capacity to disagree, that deepen the argument of being alive. This is what we need. This is what will save us. This is the work of peace. This is the work of imagination. Said that there's an Irish phrase, valuing story. What is that? Is that one way to get at this conversation I want to have about? Yeah, well, in I should say a massive horror in scale, and that means to put respect value substance. And so it's a deeply engaged project and so to find a way to put mass respect on the story requires a really muscular engagement with it. And that, I mean, in poetry, there's this idea. And all literature of kill your darlings. You know, if you think that is the killer line in the middle of it, a wise practice is to go, well, let me take it out. Even as a practice, what will happen if I begin the poem somewhere else if I start somewhere else? And I think in our stories of nationality and belonging, that's so important. Because we can have ways within which we say this story of my people is the following. And that can become an idol, religion has taught us that over centuries. And it isn't to say that you have to totally reject it, but that it's good to practice beginning in a different place because it might open us up to something that even surprises us. I love the radio for all of my life. I've always had the radio one and one of the things you'll notice these days is you might have this people phone in. Something has happened and they'll say, let's listen to our audience now and people fall in or we've got two people on here and they're going to talk about something. And sometimes the way it's set up, you can go, I could write the script right now. And this is utterly predictable. And it's painful because people aren't speaking about trivial things. People are speaking about things that matter and things that will hurt people and cause and increase in threat for particular individuals. And yet we treated with such lazy language. That's the damp blanket of storytelling as far as I'm concerned. Sorry, stories without the rigor that there's totally. And I like the idea of how could we be surprised?.
Immigrants of Toronto
"queens university" Discussed on Immigrants of Toronto
"You're listening to the immigrants of toronto. Podcast my guest. Today is moussa fat and sorry stuff up stuff. I think skirted anyway go. Oh sure i'm pronouncing that was perfect. Stop stop okay. So we're going to show so happy to be here excited for the podcast upper to share my experience. Welcome to the immigrants of toronto. Podcast aiming to open people's minds through real stories of immigration and now your host oscar seni- mustapha again. Welcome to the show very excited to have you here and more excited. I was able to pronounce your name properly the second time. But why don't we start the conversation by telling the audience. Who are you yet for sure. It's a my name is mustafa. I was born in karachi pakistan and i lived there for the longest time and then i moved to guida two years ago to pursue a master's degree in business. And that's when. I fulfilled my dream of finally coming to toronto. The canadian and lived in toronto for a bit but then because my masters was in queens university angling ston in monsters of innovation and entrepreneurship. So i've moved to kingston which is just doing a half a two yard strife east of grinder. And that's what i've been and all my plans of moving back have been kinda both point because the hand by i will return to grow into one day that that's interesting so so can ask you why. How was your life backing in pakistan in. Maybe why did you decide to move. Yeah definitely so. My family got the immigration. Enjoying fifteen and we came here. We lived in mississauga in the pta. And we we went back after a few months and read after that. My family did not pursue earning but iowa starting at that time. I complete my bachelor's and once complete my bachelor's then i really wanted to have better prospects of my life seer branka future Diamond karachi things weren't looking at right. It was very difficult to get a job. The jaws aren't being high enough. It was too much do requirement than the way less reward and dying. I wanted to come back to guide. it a dry the canadian life year and few things once. I graduated island. New england after my graduation wants us saw life were different matured. What currently it was different for me and you know like we don't have the apple store. Bogus stein and apple is one of my favorite brand. That and everything was on google mazarine. I rarely use google maps back home. Even though i love my life by on but for me to progress and you know be competing with all the other people from around the world. I wanted to stop everything. I once i went to you. I decide. laughter moved agana. Enter dern and start my life. And i think as soon as you start traveling going to new countries and you start understanding that the life is different. Just go a few miles from a few miles when be a couple of thousand miles away and then you find that things are completely different. Why white canada and not england. You're you're saying like england was kind of your trigger but then then you ended up here. What happened. I mean if i had the option our definitely have left to live in england to tell me the score every single day that wants a minus died of london. He's died of life for there is all that life can afford announced while that's actually rented for two three weeks of that but my dad always wanted me and my family to live in canada and he apply for immigration douglas. A long long time but once we had the residency. I knew things would be wasting. But if i go to Guida dumai monsters here at the local student and lots of benefits with that. So you said you you moved here three years ago so so the i'm assuming the goal basically what you're saying it was to move here and study your masters at queens university so you're going farther away from toronto so while i was biased on easter research everyday about guida up like to three knows your rice in queens well and i want to do this program at york but before i could get the admission to york and rice and once i got the admission at queens university my family member than my cousins. All of them who've lived in gathered. They just stop right there. Because it's like a rape prestigious. The ray historian you love it over there and any bush Gts that you know. I going to queen's university. Gabriel was pretty amazed. Family didn't give me any other option. You can go to kingston. Do your masters and you can always during dude roy to and dry the life in kingston because a dying my father game to canada and he said you know you are living array similar life that you were living in by stein all your friends of bogus. Tiny in mississauga. You got the blink cricket at walmart parking lot together. She shut get as having bikes on food. Everything is the same. You're just living in a cd with more laws and rules. But houston living the same life. And i want you to live with a canadian city. Live like a canadian. Over here and mississauga dialect. They were few days in mississauga. Would i didn't even speak english every place. Iran do were doing the a bit of fun job being i could get by once he saw dicing. You're definitely going to kingston. Yeah yeah. I think one of the things that you want to do as an immigrant is kind of like blend into the culture and if you don't speak the language it's hard to blend because you go back to comfort zones. I go this. I speak the languages that i already know and already mastered so. Why take the effort definitely. So you moved to kingston for your your masters or did you move later. Yes still. I moved to kingston or my master's degree and i never had planned or imagine that our to be here but instant So the funny thing was that i used to live in that growing from mississauga area. I ring to new york for one weekend. And once i came to new york mind took me after. Like a day to kingston and once he would meal on lifting stint West of downtown. And he's like this is it. This is dollars are used to like dog buildings. I minimal research fucking sin at that time especially came from new york at night but once i came here started living here. It was community over here. That kind of binded me year. Wanting i like about kingston. Is that the downtown university and the league and residential. It's all fifteen minute. Walk them so we. It was already a li like once. We were done with glosses. All of us to walk together to our separate won't buy reach to stop by as some borrow bubbling. Some restaurant in reach really there was a skunk community. Feeling over there. And i used to tell this to my friends in him in york in these to stay wants to glosses over. One person's going to scarborough was going to miss asada. It's everyone had the tournament adjoining left out. Tailgate is like denmark. Vote and i know where everybody lists by mental board One thing. I did that. I really liked about kingston. Yeah i've been living there a few times same thing like i like that..
Inside Europe
"queens university" Discussed on Inside Europe
"Accords can't be trusted and that again armed. Struggle is their best option to effectively. We're going back in time. You know stops the hard border. It gives some republicans contemporary justification. For you know it's not just ideological saying this is an abstract anymore. Look with dole's pope's along not border. This is differentiating. What they see as does part of ireland from the rest of under boom as ominous as that is donnelly underscores. It's a minority position on the republican side. And of course a hypothetical for the moment but there's another minority in play here remember. The majority of citizens in northern ireland did not want brexit preferring to keep their status in the eu. So there are signs. Even some former staunch unionists are reconsidering their traditional opposition to a united ireland. At this point the only conceivable option for remaining in the u. and there are those hoping to capitalize on that possible change in attitude among the most prominent the new lord mayor of belfast. john finucane. who's warning everyone involved to watch their words. There's responsibility on all of those. Who are part of this discussion to be mindful of their rhetoric. Ns because i think some political discourse around brexit in particular ryan. The problems that are fears as a result of brexit hasn't been helpful on new day. Brexit doesn't automatically mean that unification will happen. But what i do think is that means that the conversation hoste happen because the conversation has already started not just from people within the north but people all over the island of ireland uncertainty within europe as well because they they look at that possible solution to a problem for those who carry european identity but realize that those rights will be given open the event of day. Brexit finucane's a member of xinfang which has been advocating a border pool hoping for reunification for years already but the prospect of violence is something finucane doesn't take lightly and not just because of his current role is lord mayor. He was just nine years old when pro. British gunman killed his father. Prominent human rights lawyer in front of the family also wounding. His mother finucane hopes. A methodical approach can preserve the fragile peace in northern ireland. What we need to do is we need to prepare. We need to research on be able to be in a position to answer people's questions this isn't going to be about. We have an a flag in front of people visas or panting ally on the side of the ball on asking people to vote for something. When they the wall of the circumstances on brexit i think is a referendum that was disastrous in a sense. That people probably didn't understand exactly what they were voting for or certainly hideout with transpired over three years and i think that's primarily the reason why we're in the mass that we're in so i think all of the all of the questions that people have arrived. Pensions education health system. What their rates would be. What the ship of what division of would look like. I think that those need to be answered on the other side of the fence so to speak. There's still a lot of concern about that prospect over in the protestant neighborhood of shankill road. I meet billy. Hutchinson a belfast city council member from the progressive unionist party people are entitled to vote for for a united under remain part of britain. There's going to be a very large majority who are against whatever. The komo's violence majority of learn is very very dangerous. And i say that in a sense that you think could happen. Hutchinson knows a thing or two about getting caught up in a violent mindset. He served sixteen years in prison for the murder of two catholics. During the troubles. I took a decision at the time. The you don't say this as an exclusive to as a reason. When i watch people been pissed being blown up and children's limbs being put into the plastic bag by paramedics. I felt that the british were up to appear. Hutchinson was among the protestants who voted against brexit. That doesn't mean he'd vote for a united ireland but whereas he wants picked up weapons to prevent it. Hutchinson does now disavow violence as a mean to achieve a political goal. He's just worried about those. Who haven't what i'm concerned about is The people try to use result from brexit or result from the border patrol as an excuse to start another war but things have changed since those bloody days of terror and that could point to a change in the appetite for unification for the youth of northern ireland troubles. These days most likely means difficulty finding job. Add to that changing demographics. Protestants are losing their majority ireland at the same time however the elitist surveys show that most northern ireland residents want to remain in the uk for now but no deal will hit northern ireland hard economically. And that says queens university professor colin harvey is perhaps the biggest reason to start the debate about unification now in earnest. The british government has behaved recklessly and irresponsibly in relation to this region for some time many of us have spent their entire lives and the sense trying to hold things together here but the debate is happening. And i think. I'm just a boring person in the room. The academic thing rather than just pretended as preparedness plan. Let's of the academic studies that's of the forums to. Let's make sure people know what they're voting for. If we ever do these things so harvey is even daringly suggesting publicly that the border pull scheduled for the twenty second of may twenty twenty three. That's twenty five years after the good friday agreement. Creating the conditions for such a vote was approved. Teri schultz d-w belfast keith. Walker in bomb were starting with northern ireland. This half hour on. David hunter is news. Editor at radio in belfast. Just how fragile is the peace in northern ireland at the moment day was. It's always kind of in the forefront of people's minds. um to be honest keith. then i think pieces fragile It's also very cherished but it needs protecting An suppose.
The Times: Daily news from the L.A. Times
"queens university" Discussed on The Times: Daily news from the L.A. Times
"Howard. University used to have a golf program started back in nineteen forties a men's and women's team but the program had to disband in nineteen seventy-three just not enough funds. In two thousand eighteen student otis ferguson. The fourth started a club team at howard. An unofficial squad now. The program has a foundation upon which to build something. Big samuel per year is now head coach for howard golf. He previously coached at michigan state. Stanford and queens university of charlotte. One of his players as everett widened. Junior who also joins us coach everett. Welcome to the times. Hello how're you. Doing we gotta start with how each of you got into golf and why you continue in this sport so ever you go first. How'd you get into golf. I actually got into golf and middle school. My eighth grade year. One of my friends took me out to the course. He told me. Start playing golf..
Set Lusting Bruce: The Springsteen Podcast
"queens university" Discussed on Set Lusting Bruce: The Springsteen Podcast
"I think i've always wanted to josh late. It's it's all bite relationships and it's all bite belding those relationships with the students with the kids on trying to get them to see something exciting and just seeing that light bulb moment of something clicking as just the reason that you totally hello everyone and welcome to a new episode of set. Lusting bruce your podcast. All about bruce springsteen his music and mostly is fans. I am your host jesse jackson and we are doing another time. He y me episode where it is my morning and it is my guest afternoon. Lee forbes's joining me. But he is logged in via his wife's Of account so. I'm going to try very hard not to call him. Hannah as we are talking lee. Welcome to the welcome. You the show thank you. Jessie delays here. And i have been cold much worse things probably on my team. So if he told me it's totally fine. Well with my voice. I am called. Ma'am all the time on the phone. He think i'm always on in fact. I can very easily call into a company i hope. No one's listening and pretend to be my wife. Hi this is linda and you know well. That's great well lee. Tell so about yourself who I from northern ireland's. I'm thirty years old and high school. English teacher I suppose if we wanna take it right bike. I grew up in a small rural village. when i mean sort of rural village in small community i mean there was like one primary school to show church a pub on that was the height of it as and jesse So very much of small rural community on just working class people my on your elementary school. Like how many people may have been in your class. Oh like we would have had maybe twenty twenty five most young and that was sort of even people not just from the village about people coming in as an i think minds was sort of almost like a bumper year grip in terms of big numbers. So yeah quite small. And that respects My mum had been like a chinese care assistant so she had for a number of years Might odd was just sort of a builder. Lieber has and And they you know certainly wanted the best for me in terms of application and stuff like that From thanks they stay together until i was h seven and then they separated but i still had A really close relationship with my dad and would see him weekly and things on. What have you So i stayed in skill until i was eating then. I went to study at the at queens university in belfast account. So belfast is a bite a nar from where i live I'm neuen a a timeline. As or the town of korean Enunciates an art from belfast or Half an hour from like the giant's causeway that people might know of as one of the seven wonders of the world. And so on. So i went there and i studied english and theology. One had finished in that. I did my teaching course. The dan certified me as being able to teach. and so. I've been doing that night. For seven years. why teaching..
Strength To Be Human --Global Arts & Affairs Podcast, Hosted by Mark Antony Rossi
"queens university" Discussed on Strength To Be Human --Global Arts & Affairs Podcast, Hosted by Mark Antony Rossi
"We've lost eighteen months that we had with him. When aaron was diagnosed he was forty and he had been working at university And he had been in a position. The position was called sustainability manager of queens university. And so he what his role was was as. We are also aware of environmental issues. Positions have been coming up within all organizations about how we can better serve the environment from a sustainability perspective in every organization. And so he when he applied for this job and he had been in the job for about ten years when he applied for the job he had been working as a manager within physical. Plant at queen's supervising a teen and he was becoming quite passionate about the environment and environmental issues and so in this job opened up even though he did not have the educational background because he did not have a degree in environmental studies. They the team saw that he had a real passion for for this. And aaron also was an incredibly incredibly I wanna say charismatic. But then that's too strong. People were drawn to aaron and he never recognized that in himself that when he got up and spoke the room would would be quiet..
The Current
"queens university" Discussed on The Current
"Your best friends. So join me alina mood. And a panel of the smartest culture. Critics that i know as we dissect the discourse but also have a great time doing it. So what's next for cuba it's government. It's people joining us to discuss that. Mark entwistle served as canada's ambassador to cuba from nineteen ninety-three to nineteen ninety-seven karen. Bensky is a professor in the global development and history department at queens university and organiz academic exchanges between canada and cuba. Good morning to you both. Good morning karen. Let me start with you I thought it powerful statement from tanya where she said canadians. The idea of cuba denied the eleventh of july put. Put these protests into perspective for this. Is this a significant tipping point for two. Yeah i think it is a tremendously significant moment. I don't think you ever was a paradise. I don't think it was considered a paradise but it certainly for many canadians is considered a a kind of a tourist fantasy. And you know tourism is about fantasy at the boat removing from reality as folk going somewhere and and relaxing easy to do that on a beach and this clearly gives canadians who were looking at this. A huge and important other perspective on on on people's lives in cuba. This comes on the heels of of some really severe Repressive economically repressive policies initiated by the trump government. That that haven't you know haven't been undone. So it's things are really really tough there and i agree with Tonya the response of of the current government in cuba's and you know get out of the way. The revolutionaries are taking over the streets. That is really frightening. Call as well. There's no space for for common ground for dialogue for a peaceful solutions. Marquee where you were an ambassador a very you know Momentous time in cuba's history with the fall of the soviet union how do you compare the these protests dan to to what's happening now well i i wouldn't get overly carried away. I think the i agree completely that they are Important they're important for a number and differentiated from the past number of reasons number one. It's across the country. There tend to be spontaneous. They're not led by of intellectual or culturally leads And for the first time they're calling for on the streets the Removal of the government. And that's very that's very different Kind of narrative in cuba were seeing But you know. I think it's really a what we are. Seeing though is a reflection of the fact that the cuban people are also. You know absolutely exhausted. So this is know kind of an eruption of of fatigue.
The Current
"queens university" Discussed on The Current
"Joe and beheira and marshall. Pots were forced to leave their ranch near kamloops due to the sparks lake. Fire it it was like being in a movie. Hey really surreal. The shock of the whole thing was how fast it moves and moves so fast and it's such a large fire in british columbia. Now it's just crazy enormous now and those firefighters. They work so hard it's hot. it's so hot right now. And i can't imagine what it's like them in their gear out by the fire in skeet. It's really scary We know where the fire is. And where Speculating that in order for it to get where it is now. It had to go right through our property but we don't know if that's the case it was just too dangerous. We had to just make sure the cattle got out and turn around and get out there. There's no going back now until until it's completely died down but we do know that Some other ranchers have taken our cattle out and are hurting down. The their stakes. Yeah we're just actually starting to accept the awhile we. We have a long journey ahead of us right. Yeah it's really tough. We're bouncing back and forth from positive. We can move forward to sad. Everything's gone it's just back and forth so i think i think we'll we'll have a better idea once we actually can get back in and see for sure. What's what's left ed. Strategic has been listening in to our conversation. He's a fellow at the institute for energy and environmental policy at queens university and the author of firestorm. How wildfire will shape our future. He's currently at work on a new book about wildfires. At good morning to you. Good morning what went through your mind when you heard about these events in bc. I there were these heat. Records temperatures close to fifty degrees. Then this evacuation than this fire. Which if you you know. Listen to what gordon's describing you see those photos..
The Last American Vagabond
"queens university" Discussed on The Last American Vagabond
"It says when the condition now is present as a mystery she wonders if this knowledge had been forgotten. Well that's very kind of you or maybe ignored for very clear reasons but to her. She's baffled we all know this. It's there we all saw. So she's saying. I just forgot this information. I'll let you decide now. It's is deana. Virus caused low levels of platelets in mice. Now it says in the neighboring country of candidate professor ma ma ottoman often has been thinking about the same things. Here's another person who's also going. We knew this off. Man is a professor at queens university. An expert in all things blood related so you know not your typical anti-science conspiracy theorist right. Blending the clotting bleeding and clotting being her specialties so she has a right to speak on these things in the nineties. Using dna virus for gene therapy was considered the next big thing. But then you buy probably heard about this case an eighteen year old jesse gelsinger died in nineteen ninety nine now. I'm not going to go over now. But it's interesting case. Where where the kid you know was experimental. They offer to this treatment because he was struggling with what he was already dealing with. And they said it's you know it's just pure mental but you want to try. You thought it was going to be great. And he came in tried it and he died and then all of a sudden it was like whoa wait a minute. This is back when a used seemingly care about something like that right now but today if we over shore he died from what he had. We don't know keep using it. That would happen today but then they pump the breaks up one. 'cause we're reported case right so there's the you know the ultimately you could probably prove this case. My point is that they posit right then. It just shows you the weird difference of what's happening today but it says during a clinical trial using you know virus factory deliver.
Science Facts & Fallacies
Nature Makes GMO Fish
"Skeptical of aqua bounties fast-growing salmon while nature makes genetically modified fish to next up. Why the effort to find a quote biological basis for being transgender is misguided and harmful and finally cure for sickle cell diseases inches closer with the launch of a major gene. Therapy trial very exciting stuff. But first up kevin. Let's talk about Natural gm fish apparently. Yeah this is really cool and this is a report that came out in. Cbc news which is canadian broadcasting company usually not writing very favorable things about genetic engineering because this isn't genetic engineering unless it's genetic engineering that nature did so the story goes back to a couple of researchers at queens university. A lorry graham and peter davies found this evidence a while ago now that there was this antifreeze gene that helped the rainbow smelt live through freezing temperatures so super cooling fish and some other organisms can endure temperatures below freezing because of a mechanisms that keep their cells from forming ice crystals. What interesting stuff going on there and if you think about it. These are cold-blooded so when it gets below freezing you have the risk of freezing so years ago. Probably a decade and a half. I guess they found this evidence that there was A this gene that that didn't seem to make a whole lot of sense that that it that it looked like a in so we go over now to herring and smelt How was this hearing. Gene ending up and smelt the last time that they were related was by extremely distant ancestor. They said by the article article here. Two hundred and fifty million years ago so that was like the carbon difference period so these two individual lineages of fish split off pretty early a back before dinosaurs or you know and so this really cool so well same time as early dinosaurs.
Toronto Real Estate Unfiltered
"queens university" Discussed on Toronto Real Estate Unfiltered
"Real estate pod show dot com. I hope to become the eel and musk of the housing problem that we have in canada. And here's why. I want to say it that way obviously. Ilan has taken on a number of massive massive issues from starting his career which by the way included a stop at queens university here in kingston canada. So i've got a really good feeling. Some of that started right here in my backyard so alone. If you're listening would love to have you on the show and talk about the canadian origins of your current success level. And i know you're not too impressed by based on your tweets But it's pretty impressive. So how i wanna become the elon. Musk of housing. Why i want to do what. I steer as this pandemic was starting..
Forum
Canada surpasses 15000 deaths related to COVID-19 with 37 new deaths in Quebec
"Has now surpassed 15,000 covert 19 related deaths. The latest numbers were announced as vaccines began to slowly roll out and some provinces imposed tighter health measures. Dan Carp in check reports. The grim milestone was reached after Quebec reported 37 deaths on Monday, pushing the national total past 15,000. Alberta. Officials also say more than 100 people have died in their province over the holidays. Health experts say the death toll is a reminder of just how serious the corona viruses Dr Gerald Evans and infectious disease expert at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, says Canada is seeing the large numbers of deaths from the virus that are being seen around the world. And Evans says the statistics should be a wake up call to anyone who believes the dangers of covert 19 are overhyped. Several provinces, including Quebec and Ontario, the country's two most populous have imposed tougher restrictions and lockdowns over the holiday period.
The BreakPoint Podcast
Born This Way Is Old Science
"The confirmation hearings for Judge Amy, CONYBEARE IT Senator Maisy. Hirano of Hawaii expressed outrage and shock that the nominee would use the term sexual preference instead of sexual orientation sexual preference announced senator. TORONTO. Is An offensive and outdated term used by anti lgbtq activists to suggest that sexual orientation is a choice. It is not after the Exchange Merriam Webster which apparently like most Americans had not gotten that Nemo with these new linguistic absolutes quickly changed the definition of sexual preference in its online dictionary. To, indicate that this wording is now offensive who knew we'll beyond the orwellianism of the literally changing the dictionary to support a political climb. It seems that Senator Hirano is the one who's actually behind the Times on this whole sexual orientation versus Sexual Preference Issue According to Dr Glenn Stanton, and then outstanding new article at public discourse. Judge Barrett's terminology is actually more in line with the latest thinking of leading gender scholars for example, Professor Sorry Van Anders at candidates Queens University has stated that. Quote sexual orientation as a term is increasingly seen as regressive because it belongs to the bio centralist project translating to English. What she saying is that the word orientation suggests that sexuality is hard wired and according to Professor Anders that's just not the consensus anymore among her peers though the whole born this way claim was once a very useful slogan to advance gay rights it no longer serves the goals of the LGBTQ. Movement years ago for instance, two scholars at Ucla question the concept of. Sexual. Orientation especially for women to instead that women's sexuality and Orientation Fluid Changeable over time and variable across social context other social scientists that Glenn Stanton quotes in his public discourse Article Call For a paradigm shift in how female sexuality is studied and described, and there've been plenty of surveys indicate that most self identified lesbians will have relationships with men. At some point. There's also a more obvious problem with the idea of a fixed orientation that's found in the very initials of the acronym especially the. Be The queue of lgbtq as political commentator Douglas Murray who identifies as gay by the way rights bisexuals continued to be viewed as some kind of betrayal from within the gay community gay men tend to believe that men who claim to be by are in fact, gays in some form of denial yet according to a pew research report from last summer bisexuals account for almost half of all LGBTQ adult in the US in fact, the authors of a new book published by Harvard University Press. Think. That male bisexuals are those who call themselves mostly straight vastly outnumber exclusively gay men. Thus they conclude the old system of gay straight or BI has as stanton puts, it outgrown its usefulness and even bigger challenge in the B. to the born. This way dogma is the T- gay rights and gay marriage were sold to us. The premise that homosexuality is hard wired maybe even genetic like race but anyone claiming transgender as an identity does. So in spite of physical and genetic realities not because. Of them and the CUE which usually stands for questioning well, that continues to evolve in both meaning and practice to include more and more sexual preferences as an identity. Well, one wonders whether Senator Horon would feel compelled to lecture the various social scientists that Glenn Stanton sites. In this article my suspicion is she wouldn't in fact, my suspicion is that Senate Arana was fed this talking point by an aide who's checking twitter and saw it as an opportunity to tar and feather judge Barrett as. A big what's ultimately revealed by her political posturing awoke language policing however is crucially important for all of us to now that phrases such a sexual orientation or sexual preference or whatever. The latest nomenclature are terms made up not to describe reality but to advance the idea that has revolutionized. So much of our culture on politics that sexual attraction and urge define and determine who we are. That's the idea we can never embrace even if we're facing outrage from a senator
Short Wave
An Interstellar Wanderer Is Coming Our Way
"This Sunday December eighth in interstellar traveler an an object from outside our solar system known as the comment too I bere- sof will make its closest approach to the sun it's only the second interstellar object we've ever ever detected hence to I and the comment was discovered by a man in Crimea named Gennady Borisov. Now gedney's actually discovered several comets already. I hit seven discovers the comments and then back in August just around sunrise. He was looking through his telescope peering into space and just lost in the corner of his field of view. I looped moving object a little different direction from their Ossa Asteroids. At first he thought it was just a regular smuggler comment from inside our solar system. But it wasn't Gennady Borisov had discovered covered in interstellar comet is new and have your name. The Hubble telescope even published an image with his name on it I happen Kabul's dilatot take images this and I see on the four My name but sometimes fame can be exhausting after discolors hours I have many many telephone many video TV comment and I have one. I want to rest. Defendant hugging get some well earned rest. We'll get the low down onto I- Barista from a shell bannister. She's a planetary astronomer at Queen's University Belfast.
BBC World Service
Narcissism can lower stress levels and reduce chances of depression
"A new study says narcissists online you can be happier than most people are less likely to suffer from stress despite many people find them inferior aching researchers at queen's university in Belfast Northern Ireland found that even though no system might be bad for society it seems to be beneficial for the nicest themselves the researchers say now schism seems to have protective qualities which make narcissists less vulnerable to being stressed or depressed
Monocle 24: The Globalist
U.S.-Taliban Peace Deal Appears Within Reach
"Are the united states and the insurgent group the taliban on the verge of of striking a peace deal to end afghanistan's eighteen year long war both sides are locked in a ninth round of talks in the tari capital doha and so far the signs look promising taliban delegates say they're still negotiating the mechanism of the u._s. Troop withdrawal from afghanistan at the same time. The insurgents need to assure america that the afghan territories under their control will not be used for attacks against the u._s. and its allies in the future. I'm joined by michael semple his professor at the institute shoot for global peace security and justice at queen's university belfast. He's also a former e._u. Official in afghanistan michael a very good day to you. It's it's good news. This is happening but presumably it should be treated with a degree of cautious optimism. Yes you really cannot over overestimate the extent to which the whole of honest down is looking towards these negotiations and hoping that they eighteen years or even forty years war is about to end but nothing's final until its final and they're quite a few hurdles to overcome one of which of course is as the mechanism to get american troops out of afghanistan and also the responsibility on the part of the insurgents to make sure that america and indeed itself a allies are not likely to be attacked in the future. There are some fundamental questions here that haven't released transparently being unserved. I heard that <hes> the taliban have been telling their supporters that they show are about to sign a deal for the unconditional time. I'm limited withdrawal of u._s. Troops <hes> while the u._s. is being giving reassurances to the afghan government that <hes> they stand ready to support court they sh- <hes> the afghan government forces ensuring that <hes> they're not overrun by the taliban. I mean that's that's fundamentally to the negotiations. They <hes> so far progress in these negotiations have seen <hes> achieved basically by the u._s. making concessions. I'm persuading the taliban to stay on board. One of the issues that the taliban <hes> have been holding out for is a massive prisoner release. He's <hes> sometimes you know. There's a lot of unhelpful leaking going on. Sometimes they show the thousand prisoners from time to say oh. We're going to get a five five thousand thousand prisoners out and i think many of the <hes> the people in afghanistan and the kabul comfortable sitting asking <hes> what concessions of the telecom lawmakers to deserve of this kind of present sesame the perception that that the traffic seems to be flowing in one direction but what's also interesting about these talks is that they involve the town of the taliban and the united states and the afghan government itself isn't sitting around the table so that does appear to be an extraordinary omission and is it one that perhaps is slow things down <hes> this is about the design of
BBC Newshour
Afghanistan, Two Days And Eighteen Years discussed on BBC Newshour
"We are going to start today the with Afghanistan events to bring an end to nearly eighteen years of conflict there are negotiations going on right now in kata for the last two days days of being between the Taliban and Afghan politicians not exactly the government the Taliban refuses to talk directly to them but officials none the less all sat down in the same room and the mood seems to be optimistic both sides are reporting progress there is a huge amount resting on the out come first and foremost people's lives just over three thousand eight hundred civilians were killed in Afghanistan last year many of them children the Taliban control more territory than ever and there's the question of American troops nine thousand at the moment but president trump wants to bring many of them hi one is to to someone with long experience of Afghanistan and the Taliban Michael Semple who Sir professor at the George Mitchell institute for global peace security and justice part of at queen's university Belfast welcome to knees Michael M. how much have the two sides move forward to think they haven't really move forward on this obstante is what they've done is they've they've stopped together on they've they've covered psalms of common ground and the the real test lies ahead isn't that is the time and sincere about wanting these talks to succeed wanting an end to the conflict you think well they certainly gone along with this sort of process of orchestrated talks so fat they are cooperating at but they haven't made any big compromises yet on the real question is will the Taliban be prepares to to compromise on big issues like stopping the fighting calling a cease fire so as to get to that which they desire which is a U. S. I. withdrawal I'm the in the declaration that came out of the these last two days of talks about a commitment from the Taliban not to attack places where there might be lots of civilians hospitals and schools and so on I mean that that sounds like progress well I think that the the declaration was carefully crafted to act cover things which were rather unobjectionable it would be difficult for anybody to argue in favor all of attacking schools or hospitals are public buildings out so of course in terms of the atmospherics it's very good to have this kind of decoration but if yesterday you dos the Taliban do you do this sort of thing they would probably have told you no we wouldn't dream of doing it anyway there was something else that came out of it to the side here of institutionalizing Islam of can you just explain that for us what does that mean exactly yes I think it is also the pattern all of going for a common ground at many in the Taliban say that they are fighting to establish an Islamic system enough on the stand but then when you talk to many of the people in Kabul even in the Afghan government they say well you know we are in favor of an Islamic system and we've already got one so you know Islamic system in general terms is the kind of thing that nobody off on some kind of forced to be against you later on you get into the detail all of okay whose Islamic system we often talk about the Taliban as this one entity how United on day behind this process on one level the Taliban are remarkable for having avoided any major splits and of having maintained a ostensibly unified movement which recognize one single leader and no one set of officials and commanders on one level it is a single for movement however when you open the cover and look inside of course you find that there are many different factions often operating at at cross purposes and with rather different views about the the road ahead on this kind of internal Taliban politics may become all the more important in the in the weeks ahead when we see if the Taliban are prepared to compromise for the sake of achieving a U. S. withdrawal or not yes I want to ask you about that in the moment but all that those within the movement to failed that this may point to negotiating because to all intents and purposes the Taliban has been very successful recently yes and we see this playing out I I I I have talked with people in the the Taliban movement who believe that they've essentially won the war that the cat and the U. S. will be obliged to withdraw its troops whether there is a peace agreement or not and that soon after the that that U. S. troop withdrawal the Taliban will succeed in toppling the Afghan government not we are whether you and I believe that or not is a distance out a different question but there are people inside the Taliban who do for I believe that and they are not in favor of any kind of a political compromise or we king on their weakening of their jihadi stunts does that mean then that the Taliban and to some extent a summer of playing a much longer game than the U. S. is the U.
Curiosity Daily
How Narcissism Can Help Boost Your Success
"Narcissism isn't just a psychological condition. It's a personality trait all of us have some degree of narcissism. And it turns out that you can actually use that to your advantage. Get ready to have your narcissists stereotype shattered and find out what you could actually learn from people who know how to harness their intern are cyst, according to a September twenty eighteen study from Queen's University, Belfast narcissists are likely to have a trait that's been closely linked to professional and academic success mental toughness. In a nutshell mental toughness is the mind's ability to hold onto its sense of self and self worth when things aren't going. So great the Boston like your idea. No worries. He'll love the next one. And who cares? What he thinks. Anyway, you're obviously a genius. It's easy to see narcissists slipping into that pattern and thinking, and it's just as easy to see how that kind of thinking could be a major benefit to a person's career to be clear. The study didn't look at people with narcissistic personality disorder. It just looked at participants with high but normal narcissism scores, and that was where they found the people with the highest mental toughness. Now, we're not saying that narcissism is a good thing or that you should try to, cultivate, it like it's a skill. I also can't emphasize enough that a clinical diagnosis of narcissistic personality disorder is a real thing that can cause lots of complications in your life. Even if you're not a clinical narcissist narcissism is part of the so called dark triad of personality traits for a reason along with psychopathy and Maquiavelian ISM. You probably don't. I wanna take on more narcissism than you naturally to. But if you regularly doubt yourself, it might not hurt to observe how the more self-centered people in your life think and borrow a little bit of that attitude at work.
Tolbert and Lund
Terence Corcoran: Regulators get drunk on junk science to stop you from drinking
"That light drinkers have the lowest risk npr's alison aubrey reports researchers studied about one hundred thousand people who lived in a bunch of us cities including birmingham boulder la in pittsburgh they were in their mid fifties too early seventies when the study began and all completed surveys about their alcohol consumption researchers tracked their health for about nine years and found that the more a person drank the higher the risk of cancer and cancer related death andrew kunsman of queen's university belfast in ireland is the study author and we definitely think it gives the bigger picture about what's going on so how much is too much this study suggests that light drinkers have the lowest combined risk of cancer and premature death even lower than people who never drink though it's not clear why in in this study light drinking was defined as one to five drinks per week that seems to reassure light during this study suggests that cancer risk starts to increase when people drink more than a drink a day but the increase is modest moderate drinkers in.