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"Start the proverbial stream and here we are this is indeed yes yes yes as it is right now hello ladies and gentlemen boys and girls here we go welcome welcome welcome to VUX world I'm your host Kane Sims and I am with today Adam Odeski from Sensely. Adam hello. Hello Kane how are you? Good to connect. Good to connect long follower time first -time caller that's me to you not you to me I've been following you for a long time definitely definitely yeah it's I'm so glad that we can connect and definitely definitely appreciative of your of your time and we're gonna jump in in just one second but very firstly before we do that I just want to quickly give a shout out to everyone who's tuning in whether you're on the podcast whether you're on LinkedIn YouTube wherever you are we are doing webinar a on it's it's a fortnight it's probably two weeks away now depending on when you listen to this but it will be on the is it the 9th let me just double check my dates the 9th of November save the day 9th of November and what it is is we will be joined by wisdom we did a webinar with them previously we had a look at that tool we had a look at the conversational analytics components there this time we're going to be taking you through a framework for chatbot improvement and this is the whole kind of 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let's let's kick off let's kick off with with yourself first of all and we'll get into sense because I know since he's been around for a long time actually so tell you tell us tell us a bit about yourself and how you how you kind of got involved with essentially oh yeah sure so I've actually been in the avatar or the voice user interface world for a very long time my first job out of college was actually with the Oracle voice lab in Chicago where we were building enterprise this is back in 2001 I guess I'm trying to kind of figure out I'm getting old I feel pretty young feel like a kid still but I guess I'm pretty old now but back into back in the early 2000s I could say my first job out of college was with the Oracle voice lab and the goal of the Oracle voice lab was to build enterprise voice applications that would sit on top of the Oracle application server so things like email and calendar and files things like that sort of like what Siri does today or the Apple you know the smartphones do today we're building in voice with voice applications and the goal for establishing the Oracle voice lab and these applications was basically one executive at Oracle who wanted to listen to his email on his commute in Silicon Valley from like his his place in Santa Cruz up to Redwood City so he really wanted to like listen to his emails as he was driving he's like okay well let's let's establish this lab so we can build these voice applications like what I have to do for the day and my emails from the last night and my first sort of I guess claim to fame or one of actually the first applications that I wrote was voice access to email where it was based sort of a voice made a voicemail model and it's interesting with the voicemail model because back I guess voicemails you can just tap and listen to voicemails today but you know quite early before the way the way you would listen to voicemails is that it wouldn't go from the the latest voicemail that you have down to the earliest unread voicemail it would start at the earliest unread voicemail that you have and go up to the latest so more chronological order and so that was the pattern that we used for building voice access to email we wanted it to be just like voicemail and that was kind of a tricky algorithm to figure out which which of your emails is the most unread one you know the earliest unreading you have so I had to like build this application to sort of start with that earliest unread email and they had maybe other unread email scattered throughout your inbox but the earliest that was in chronological or in like pattern order that also follows other unread emails all the way up to the top and we use kind of a it was like a Genesis platform or the voice genie platform IVR platform at the time to to basically use voice XML right and I was a voice ex developer I started out as a voice XML developer to to build these to build these applications and besides email I built you know calendar and you can listen to like you you know the appointments so you have for the day and and you know in file so it's kind of an early version of a voice based assistant digital assistant you can you can compose new emails and you would use your voice to basically compose the email so we didn't have great speech -to -text technology back then so the the emails would come as with a voice with an audio attachment basically of your recording but we had you know a large grammar for and we had recognition to like basically say the name of the person that you're trying to email so that was kind of early experience one of the earliest they think experiences in building these kind of voice only IVR applications for enterprise right for personal information for information management that that employees could use whatever they were away from the phone so that was sort of the start of my career that's how I got into this space building these applications later on I actually worked on a real voicemail product that was based on email except the emails were actual kind of deemed as voicemails you can just listen to your voicemails that used email servers to basically be transferred around and later on I went after that I went to work for for tell me networks which was later acquired by Microsoft and there's another example of a similar thing though wasn't it an IVR based assistant that's right that's right and tell me networks had a very actually large enterprise business as well and this is where I got a chance to work with big companies building both inbound and outbound IVR applications for their customer service so we worked with you know companies like United Airlines and E trade a bunch of a bunch of these big names insurance companies like Humana etc and I always had a I had a kind of a niche for health care you know on the my family had a lot of kind of health care issues over the years my grandma especially had heart failure and it was interesting I was so experienced with these customer service IVR applications but if you look at you know the way doctors work the way hospitals work they hardly use any of these kind of technologies to communicate with their patients it was always difficult to get a hold of a doctor was difficult to book an appointment and especially people with chronic conditions you know they they hardly ever followed up and you know the way the better these conditions is for you to check like you check various vital signs like blood pressure and weight and you know other things like glucose levels if you're diabetic and I always like I wondered why is the healthcare industry so far behind you know travel and transportation for instance or insurance or you know hospitality and those are the industries I was mainly dealing at tell me and Microsoft and so that's kind of that itch became sort of a passion of mine to build something that was similar to what I was building in you know it tell me in it oracle but specifically focused on the healthcare industry to do these kind of IVR outbound follow -ups and you know conversations where somebody can report something new or report their symptoms and that's sort of the that led me to eventually start building out Sensly to focus on that part of the industry which I thought was very much underserved but at the same time the need was I thought higher than and you know both the social need and the financial need you know was it was higher than any other sort of enterprise applications I've ever worked on and that was sort of the focus that I started the path that I started going on which eventually led to creating Sensly and then here we are yeah here we are the rest is history so they say that's really interesting that the the stuff from from before they're kind of like the tell me stuff in that was that using like keyword recognition was there like it and it was that one of the first sort of like intent based NLU systems like what kind of stuff was that using and and how did that inform what you wanted to do when you started building Sensly yeah so back then tell me and a bunch of other companies in the space this is around you know 2005 2010 I would say that that period in time that was still heavily using voice XML as a language for creating these applications the way voice XML works it's very similar to HTML where you would specify these tags of prompts that you want the you know the voice bot or the IVR system to say and then you'd have these grant would call them grammars back then I haven't used that term I haven't heard that term now being used in a while but you would build grammars of the things that you wanted to recognize and now I guess these are called intense and the way you build grammars there's a bunch of these grammar specifications like GSR and and some other ones but they kind of involve both sort of specifying the kind of keywords right that you want the system the speech recognition system to to listen for and some of these can be very large you can have a very large data set of keywords and then you could also specify like slot fill so which which keywords or which words or which phrases I need to be assigned to a particular slot and that's kind of a definition of an intent right you have a bunch of these kind of phrases and patterns and there's a lot of these pattern matching type of scripting involved into figuring out like these particular patterns and these kind of patterned orders is what a person has to say in order to fill this particular slot and that's the intent definition I think is much more broad now and you can specify a lot more things you'd be able to specify before but you know the GSR and the other kind of grammar definitions that then we're pretty sophisticated the the the speech recognition systems obviously weren't as sophisticated because you didn't have this speech -to -text translation that you have now and the matching of the speech recognition system was specifically done on these grammars you have to pass it into the speech recognition system specifically what you're looking for and it'll tell you whether there's a match or not now what it does is obviously translated to text and then you can do a lot more more specific and more customized matching on that text to figure out exactly what you know what you're looking for what the intent should match to what do you think because that because voice XML not very many companies use voice XML anymore don't do they where our CTO Justin he was saying that there's a lot of functionality that voice XML had that now doesn't kind of exist like what was how is there anything from your perspective being lost in the kind of transition to that more sort of speech recognition translated to text pass it off to a to a you system and like is there yeah is there anything that you think it's been sort of lost there was any benefits to it over and above I think the specification of how you would listen for particular types of phrases or particular kinds of intentions was much kind of easier to imagine for a developer to kind of figure out like this these are the kinds of things that I'm I'm listening for but I don't think there's anything that's been lost specifically I think there's just more features that were more obvious that made people think about how to develop an application like the these grammar specifications so they'll turn out a lot like what exactly this is do I want from this and it's harder to do that now with just speech to text where you're getting like a text string the other thing that you know in text -to -speech you use SSML which is a markup language to specify like the prosody or how the language or how something is pronounced or how something is spoken and I see fewer and fewer companies and developers using the power of SSML to specify how to pronounce specific specific things they kind of rely on the text -to -speech engines to just give them what they want when they give it the text without thinking about how that text should be spoken but the SSML inside voice XML kind of provided sort of an obvious way and made the developer think or the designer think about specifically not just you know what what the text should be spoken according to design but how the text should be spoken what kind of tonality to use what kind of prosody to use where to put in the specific like excitement or emotional cues we do that quite a bit at Sensley because you know healthcare conversations by nature have to be empathetic or we want them to be as empathetic as possible to reassure patients or to reassure you know people that everything's gonna be okay and we use quite a bit of that's a smell in our work but I don't see a lot of designers well building voice applications do to these things today because I don't think a lot of them actually know that SS this even though you can and most text -to -speech engines you can embed us SSML inside the prompts but they're just not well known yeah I agree and then that's that's with a voice user interface all you have is what it sounds like so like this is ML is a crucial sort of design tool to make sure that you can create the experience in a way that people expect you know so I definitely agree yeah yeah there's such an underutilization of SSML I think the Alexa community that's when I first come across since it actually it was when I was kind of like you know really tracking the Alexa movement we were building out and designing Alexa skills and Google actions and stuff and that I think Amazon did a pretty decent enough job of kind of you know educating people about SSML but the the community now is there's people come from absolutely all over the place some people come for messaging now they're kind of doing voice some people come from the contact center kind of like getting into it that way and so I agree there's definitely a gap there in people's one maybe is understanding and to certainly usage of SSML and it doesn't make a huge difference and if you look at the rate then you know the ratings for how people have people complete conversations what people actually think of the of the you know that the voice bot those things really make a difference as far as like judgment as far as appreciation as far as empathy and connection I think those are important tools to build really high quality voice applications definitely so so so you you left what was then Microsoft then you you think you are you identified that there's a an opportunity in healthcare you had the idea for sense Lee where did that kind of begin it was 2013 so it was a while ago so what were the first kind of few years like of getting essentially going yeah so since Lee actually started in the orange voice lab or the orange the orange lab or is a large telecommunications company you may know based in France yeah in the UK as well used to be France telecom and so I worked at the local research lab here in San Francisco that's where I built the first prototype of the avatar having conversations with patients that was the original sort of goal of my project at that point in time avatars only existed on the web via Adobe Flash I remember that yeah it was important you know at that point there were no avatars for the mobile phone right down to the kind of for avatar creation tools so what I did was this is like the hack at the time I made Adobe Flash work on on the iPhone and was able to make it the avatar work on both Android and and the iPhone and the first sort of applications were kind of a symptom checking a symptom checking tool and that's when you know like I displayed this tool at like like an event one of the events here in San Francisco it was health 2 .0 and I got like a standing ovation based on this avatar that like this talking avatar nurse that that I built as a demo and orange got really excited and they allowed me to spin out the company and that's what became sense Lee and that's how since we started in 2013 he knows actually a spin -off from orange and the first application that we built was the symptom checking application that was able to essentially that we marketed it as a virtual nurse a virtual avatar nurse that you can get on your smartphone and you can tell it what your symptoms are and it would basically navigate and ask a few questions navigate you to the appropriate place for care for care and we we we started the company we joined a couple accelerators there was our initial kind of fundraising is that we got a couple hundred thousand dollars for from alchemist accelerator and a few investors and our first big client that we landed it was actually the NHS which you may be familiar with the National Health Center here in the UK oddly enough we're a u .s.
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"And ended up in the shoulder on a ditch. Your next traffic update is at 8 28 on the traffic leader case CVS. 60 forecasts now calling for some more rain, shower activity, thunderstorms for tonight with what was in the 40s. Rain for tomorrow highs in the 40s to the upper 50s with a more breezy conditions continuing. We could see some winds, 30 to 45 mph on Tuesday with Gus to 45 to 50 mph. So there will be a high wind warning that goes into effect tomorrow night at 11 and a flood watch as well for tomorrow night. For Tuesday, we'll see it very windy with rain and highs in the 50s, look for chance of rain on Wednesday with high staying in the 50s as well. We'll get into the low 60s on Thursday under partly sunny skies, Friday through Saturday should be cloudy with another chance of rain and highs in the 40s to the upper 50s rain likely next Sunday with highs in the upper 40s to the upper 50s. We have 54° of sour in Santa Rosa along with San Rafael. It is 56 at the Napa airport in Concord and Oakland and Redwood City and Livermore. It's 58 in San Jose, 50 7 in Hayward and in downtown San Francisco 55°. Traffic and weather together on the 8s on all news, one O 6 9 and a.m. 7 40 CBS. News time 8 20 has our news watch continues. At a conquer you wish you could trade in for a new electric vehicle. Jim Taylor reports, if you live in the San Joaquin valley, you may be eligible for a program that will let you do just that. First, we are talking about a region that does have some of the worst air pollution and poverty in the
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"This has to do with changing our mindset about water reinvention means that you absolutely need to think about what kind of futuristic solutions you need to have in place. That would take pressure off our existing system, she says. This reinvention could begin in our front yards. Research shows that getting rid of water guzzling moms can cut urban water use in half lawns should be banned. Every drop of water that's used to maintain that lawn can be a drop of water that can live in the reservoir. If this drought ends up being the tenure, droughts Agriculture could do the same and have a smaller economic impact than expected, says U C. Davis professor Jay Lund. That's because half of all irrigated farmland yields about 90% of the state's crops. That water largely comes from the states. 1500 reservoirs, But one says building more of them for water. Storage isn't a good option, either. We've done this 1500 times what do we have left expensive places that don't give you much water? He says the good options are conserving water, sinking water into aquifers and recycling water already in the system. My thinking is we should be doing 100% recycling. Arvind Akila directs engineering for the wastewater treatment agency. Silicon Valley clean water in Redwood City, he says. On a daily basis, the Bay Area is discharging hundreds of millions of gallons into the day. Apart from cost, Akila says the main issue around water recycling is public perception that it's dirty because it comes out of the human body. But he says recycled water is often cleaner than freshwater sources. It has gone through dinosaurs. It has gone through human bodies. That water is the same water. Whether it's recycling water or getting rid of lawns are both coming up with the right solutions is about ensuring a more resilient future as droughts worsen in a warming climate. I'm Ezra David Romero KQED news. There's about a week left to vote in a special election for state assembly in the East Bay voting ends next Tuesday. The 31st two Democrats Janani Ramachandran and Mia Bonta are vying to fill a seat last held by Brantas husband Rob, who is now the state attorney general. Joining me to discuss the final stretch of the campaign is KQED politics reporter Guy Marsa Roddy. So guy. What are the biggest differences between how these two candidates would represent the 18th Assembly district? Well, I think with Bonta you'd see the type of progressive legislators similar to her husband, Rob, who represented Oakland San Leandro Alameda, this district since 2012 and was really in line with the Democratic supermajority in Sacramento. Rama Chandran, I would say is more likely to push back against the Democratic status quo in some unorthodox way is an example of that is that she's called for significantly reforming the California Environmental Quality Act. This is a landmark environmental law but which critics say is a roadblock to development. Bonta says she opposes reforming this law and then a really fundamental difference of opinion between these two candidates is over the stadium development that the Oakland A's are proposing for Howard Terminal in Oakland. Ponta says she's for it, Rama Chandran says. It's a giveaway to a rich sports team. Let's talk about a couple controversies in the campaign. The two candidates debated live on KQED Forum last week, and things got pretty heated. Ramachandran attacked Banta about some of her supporters. What does she mean? Ramachandran really tried to make the case criticizing some of these independent expenditure groups also called super PACs. They are independent from the campaign. They have no spending limits, and they spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to support Bata. So we've seen money from unions from medical groups, most recently from the building Industry Association. And it's led Ramachandran to make this argument that she's running really against corporate greed. And she says Barter will be beholden to groups like these developers who are spending to support your campaign. And then Bonta shot back at Ramachandran for accepting the endorsement of the Alameda Citizens Task Force. What was that about? Rights. That's an advocacy group that Bonta is criticized for being a NIMBY organization for opposing new housing. They've opposed multi family housing and battled with supporters of strong rent control laws in Alameda, and Bonta says it's really hard to reconcile Rometsch. Hundreds promised to be a pro tenant candidate when she has a group like this behind her, okay, just over a week until voting ends. How do voters cast their ballots? Well, everyone in the 18th district. All voters got a ballot in the mail for this special election. They can send it back in the mail or through a Dropbox and Alameda County is also opening a few early voting locations starting this weekend, South Shore Center in Alameda, the East Mont. Mall in Oakland and the Veterans Memorial Building in San Leandro. KQED Politics reporter Guy Marzorati. Thank you. My pleasure. I'm Markle Maria.
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"And so I love that painting and what it means, and it really kind of details are struggle to obtain health care that we think Or we do deserve Is this getting enough attention now? I mean, this is something that's affected untold number of Americans. We don't know the exact number. I mean, is this undermining American national security so that there's two There's two great great points there. So let me let me start with. First of all the answer is yes. You know, I think people are worried about serving overseas. This is something that has to be tackled because this is really and You know, it's it's an invisible, invisible injury and people's families are getting hit by this, So you know, I haven't really talked about this ever in public until today, but there's also family members of officers who've been affected. Oversees. The family members are getting injured. Um, and so that's pretty insidious, but number two is Look, I have to give the Biden administration some credit here and in particular the new CIA director Bill Burns, who has taken an extraordinary interest in this issue. In my case, specifically, he's met with the victims. He has visited Walter Reed. So I think he is really dedicated to not only ensuring that CIA officers get health care but also But also find out who's responsible. But I don't think we're there yet. That was former CIA officer Mark Pauly Murat Polis. His new book is called Clarity in Crisis. Leadership Lessons from the CIA. A Big tech has a new top regulator in Washington, and it's one of the industry's fiercest critics. President Biden on Tuesday named Lina Khan, chairwoman of the Federal Trade Commission, shortly after her Senate confirmation. The announcement has put Silicon Valley on edge more from NPR's Bobby Allyn. Not long ago, 32 year old Lina Khan was an obscure academic in 2017. While still a student at Yale Law School. She wrote a paper about Amazon that quickly change that concept. Amazon's practices are predatory, and that the company got so big because U. S competition laws are broken. Some call that view hipster antitrust she challenged and orthodoxy with others built a new community that has changed the debate. That's Bilko Vasek. He's the former chair of the FTC, he says. Having someone like Con ready to review Silicon Valley's mergers, Privacy practices and control of markets is not good news for Big tech. They never saw this coming. I would guess that the level of anxiety within that community increased dramatically over the last 24 hours. Tech industry lobbyists say Khan will be bad for innovation and consumers Con is forging ahead At her April confirmation hearing, she pointed to one area of interest, big tax reliance on our data. I worry that in some cases, some of these companies may think it's just worth the cost of business to actually violate privacy laws. Vasic says. The biggest hurdle for cons agenda maybe surviving challenges in the courts. Bobby Allen. NPR NEWS SAN Francisco Let's NPR news. Sean McConnell takes us back to Redwood City now on KQED as the time approaches 7 43. Almost exactly after an hour exactly an hour after it happened, it's clear North.
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"And i think we're all going to come out of it much stronger in derek. What are some of the good things that can come out of all this you know. I think again for a long time. I've been part if the gentiles fan club because she articulates so much about the way. I feel about what libraries can do. What i think has been transformative about this past year. Plus is that. I think that libraries have recognized that we can make a difference in anything. That's facing our community. There are very few agencies that are equipped to deal with the effects of a racial equity reckoning a economic crisis a public health crisis all at the same time but these are all problems that we have tools to help our communities were through and these are all issues. That can be part of our purview. I think fit libraries can easily kind of put ourselves into boxes that there are specific things that we do obviously literacy and child development and school readiness. These are things. That are obvious. Nexus with the library and susan mentioned some of the work that was done in redwood city and other communities using the library as a central point for discussion of the housing crisis and how people can be brought together for solutions to address that issue that has plagued bay area for quite some time. So i mean for me. You know while i'm exhausted in some ways. I also feel energized by the realization that you know libraries don't have to just transform communities in kind of the narrow ways that we stereotypically thank god that libraries have the power to really contribute to whatever. Our communities are facing an susan. Turning to you. You've worked not only with our two wonderful subject matter experts today but libraries across the state. What are some of the good things that you could see coming out of. What looks to be darkness into the light thank you. I had high expectations for this conversation. And i love that. We've had a chance to hear. Have these leaders blend. Being accountable public agency with nimble caring people were constantly monitoring the pulse of the community. What it needs. And for me. What i hope comes out of cobras with derek. Said that we are not going to unseat the realities facing our communities. But i think libraries have a unique set of sight lines. Where these things come together not to overwhelm not to ask librarians to be superheroes that solve all but really to be those key. Collaborators that's both gender talked about what are those collaborations. What is that web of understanding who needs what end the supports in the ecosystem in the community including activating those community members. Who can be part of making things better in transformed so that people are not just a bucket of needs. They are part of the solution. So as the library helps. People grow in their own individual potential. I get so excited about the collective potential in. I think georgia series voices of community. You know let's do this positive what we just did today to reflect. Been working with libraries up and down the state on the library recovery dot org preparing to respond him recover together and we have some libraries in some public agencies. That are so busy. It's like will this be over soon. And it is the organizations that pause and reflect in figure out. Just what we were doing today. How can we leverage it. How were these disruptions positive. That is where we can accelerate that growth in that transformation so this series these leaders the whole thing to me addresses. it's not if but when that next disastrous coming but we can make the transformation happened in between his. Well thank you. That was great..
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"Himself over claims by a member of his own staff that covert dance and nursing homes were under reported Governor. Cuomo maintains there has been no hiding of numbers of covert deaths in state nursing home stay have always been fully reported. Cuomo says. Much of the confusion came and varying data point. That different groups wanted how many people died, who were in a nursing home, but then went to a hospital. How many people died, who were in the hospital but then went back to a nursing home. How do you count presumed covert deaths? Cuomo says those details relating getting out publicly, he says some hospitals and nursing homes did not perform well in disseminating the fax and it must be corrected. Colonel Scott Fox News. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the U. S. Is outraged by the rocket attack in Iraq that killed a civilian contractor. Uninjured. Eight others. America is listening. The Fonz knew From the Fox News Podcasts network, getting schooled with enemy, horny, said. I just think they looked at the list of the companies that were most have unleashed shorter and decided to go for those. It's so interesting that this all happened because of a Reddit forum. Also, it just shows the power of the Internet. Nowadays, you know, it's interesting to look at both sides of the story to. Obviously the red eaters really benefited off of this, But the hedge funds not so much subscribe and listen now by going to a fox news podcasts dot com. The Fox News broadcasts Networks. It's the Fox News rundown. Start your day With a contrast of perspectives. You won't hear anywhere else. A daily Morning podcast going far beyond the headlines tapping into the massive reporting resource is of Fox News to provide a full picture of the news of the day. I'm Dana Pary. No, I'm red Bear. I'm Jessica Tarlov. I'm Chris Wallace. And this is the Fox News. Run down, Listen and subscribe now by going up fox news podcasts dot com. Taking a look at KSFO Traffic bar continues with a track upgrade project between the Richmond and El Sereno del Norte stations. So there's bus service bridging those two stations and Bart is reminding passengers expect anywhere from 15 to 20 minute delays have a high wind advisory issued for 6 80 over the initial bridge and 5 80 over the ultimate past this evening. Elsewhere on 6 80. We have a two car accident in Walnut Creek. It's North bounded Olympic Boulevard, both cars off to the shoulder. But one of them is high centered on a guardrail. So a toll truck has been someone there and traffic control in San Jose on North bound six idiot Jackson Avenue small brushfire over on the shoulder. In Redwood City. There's a stall reported North bound one I won at Whipple that has the right lane blocked coming up a little later on this evening, we have Robert scheduled on one on one for the lower peninsula, as well as over the Golden Gate Bridge. Also some work slated for highway 17 through the Santa Cruz Mountains, 6 80 over the signal grade, as well as two spots on the Nimitz in Hayward and Oakland with KSFO traffic. I.
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"One minute We're gonna give it quick. Call them. We'll take calls for the final half hour. Scott, Utah, the 60 seconds of yours. You're on the clock. Go! Hello, Mr Hannity. GDP finest 3% 11,000 jobs lost on the pipeline. How many on the wall? Let's keep The track of how many jobs Joe Biden loses in his first year. In fact, his whole administration, it's a shock that he is not taking America into account. Thanks for taking my call. I think I think you are right. And remember, don't forget the side businesses. In other words, those businesses that support the energy sector jobs and the building of the wall jobs and the Anwar jobs and the other pipeline jobs that Joe said he's getting rid of. Great 0.809 41 Sean, our number. We're going to take your calls Final half hour straight to the phones as we continue. Oh, taking a look at KSFO Traffic San Jose on this sub found 87 connector Rampton north bound to 80. The solar vehicle crash vehicle plowed into some sand barrels. There's a brush fire on the left shoulder of the Blossom Hill Road off ramp from South and 11, also in San Jose, still saying some sluggish traffic in the Santa Cruz mountains this is due to an earlier stall. South on 17 from Alma College Road to he Bird Road, Redwood City. It's a vehicle fire. It is over to the shoulder South down 11 at Woodside Road, Palo Alto on north bound to 88 Page Mill Road on the on ramp that is closed until three as crews are busy repairing a guard rail slow moving traffic through San Francisco on the Skyway eastbound from one of one and then I'll take you to the entrance to the lower deck of the Bay Bridge and some better news in San Pablo. The Barrett Avenue on ramp to westbound 80 has been reopened. CHP has concluded their investigation of a fatal motorcycle crash with KS fo traffic. I'm Ted Thomas. Hello. Hello. Mrs Counts. It's the back Left tire of your RV calling wanted to give you a heads up that I'm gonna blow out on the highway later today. Wait, what it says here, I'm gonna burst in the middle of rush hour. Well, can we reschedule? Sorry our policy states that once were scheduled first. We have to. We really pride ourselves on our commitment to blow out RV owners can schedule when things go wrong on the road. That's why there's progressive, a leader, an RV insurance. You wanna text confirmation when I burst Think I noticed there's a casualty insurance company in affiliates. Hi, folks. I'm sure by now you've heard about Dr.
KNBR The Sports Leader
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"Super tested. He's been a Detroit I'm not. I am not joking about it because it's true. It's a it's a career. It's a I don't want to overstate it, but it's It is not a career enhancing place. Never greatest to ever do it stop their careers early because they were in Detroit and Barry Sanders and Megatron war, They said. I might want to remind you of Tampa, doesn't it, Steve? No much. No, it's what gets worse. It works. But it Zweig Matthew, in my mind showed just We all need to tip our cap. It we got is what he does anything else if you just retired today. Don't tell my cap for everybody. I would get my captain. That kid for what he's been through how he propped it up. How well unless he's been how much he's gotten done, and I always thought if he could get somewhere where he could be free Like the Trent Dilfer always said the day when he got sent to Seattle with Mike Coleman is like the skies parted with clouds went away and literally the sun shone down on the like I've never thought was possible in football. And that's what Matthew will happen. He'd be like I thought this is the truth. And it is the truth. So I don't want to overstate it. But all those things eyes and Greg Cosell 100% 33. Unless there's a shoulder I don't know about or a need that I don't know about or something else. That's kind of degrading quickly, the one allowing to play five or six or seven more years and get close to 40. Then that would that would change everything. But let's just say he's generally healthy. And can play you know, into 39 4 years old. There's no question he is. One of those handful of quarterbacks that is generational. And I would Matthew Stafford. I've you know, look, you you can go find when we talked about this before. I'm not changing my opinion. I mean, that's how I feel about him. Every week At the end of our conversation with Steve Young we with the help of Steve's and Barb's Foundation, the Forever Young Foundation highlight the Forever Young foundation hero of the week this week. It is Peninsula Family Service. Susan Houston and her team at Peninsula Family Service. Older adult program serves older adults throughout San Mateo County. Now, during the past months, they've collaborated with other nonprofit organizations to build robust covert response activities to promote older adults, Mental and physical well being. And helped them thrive with food and connection and transportation have gotten together with Fair oaks Adult activity Center to distribute, grab and go lunches to community members. They've gotten together where you see master gardeners, too. Help out with the garden that they've played it down in Redwood City for three months of WiFi and zoom training to help out adults in Redwood City that are older neighbor distribute detail tablets to them. So these folks, they're just trying to do everything in these times for our season. Citizens who might kind of get lost in the shuffle here is we Continue to deal with this pandemic. So we congratulate Peninsula Family service this week's forever Young foundation hero Heroes of the week. Thank you Stand, right. Yeah, right. No problem. Look, Colbert's been terrible Cove. It's terrible. Colbert has caused us great grief. There's no question about that. But one thing it has done positively, is it It has really enhanced all of our appreciation for people who are serving other humans. And with this this thing we do every week, and it does that, But But it I think forever. It's changed. How we look at Cell phone service and people out there doing good things for human beings. I think a lot of times we appreciate it, but it wasn't forefront our minds and l a sudden between you know, first responders and And people health care workers. They're putting themselves at risk and all the stuff. It really is like I've changed, and so I really do appreciate it. And it was fun. I fund young people's names, and anyway, every week, it's fun to just chat about 1st 2nd. You guys were great. We appreciate you doing, man. It's great. It's great. Well, so where do we go last week that we were 50 Mary? We want Theo 50 50. Yeah, but I mean, I was I was wrong on Green Bay. I should've given Tampa You know why I was mad at myself. Because Tampa's leading the NFL, Stephen takeaways and over the last couple games, they're they're averaging almost 2.5 takeaways per game. And that's like the one the takeaways in the NFL. That's extra possessions and that evens the playing field. I should've factored that in Yeah, and I and I factored in Erin's mobility and Tom's immobility and thought, I know I think, in the long run his mobility and 2021 is going to be the difference. But I didn't see that goofball stuff a day and a half and the group all formal. I just didn't see those turnovers, two turnovers and 36 seconds. That literally changes champs of games. If you take those goes away. You know, it's obviously different game. What you always is when you have to see two big screw ups. Those two have here. Here's the thing E said this dead two days ago, Larry, They lost the turnover battle. Green Bay won the battle. But what he was doing it when I told you that No, but that game was basically I thought kind of over at the half, and then also Tampa's defense kind of rose up in the second half. When when, when they got green Bay was coming back and suddenly jpp and Barrett just said, You know what? Now we're gonna put more heat. They stole a couple possessions there. What, late third quarter where it looked like Green Bay had a shot. Well, think about Larry. Think about this, You know, a guy that's been through the ups and downs of champion football. I thought three picks and do nothing while I got one completion of drunk and another. I mean, maybe two completions that mattered. Do nothing the second after three picks and have two completions that matter, and I go to the Super Bowl. Sweet. That's good, clean living right there. That's what that is, Man. You know Todd Bowles. Todd Bowles deserves a pat on the back, man. Now he had a tremendous game plan. You mean come come to three terrible balls..
860AM The Answer
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"Jack is back. China's highest profile entrepreneur has appeared in an online video is a parent's ending A 2.5 month absence from public view that prompted speculation about the future of the e commerce billionaire Jack Ma is the multi billionaire co founder of Alibaba, China and the world's biggest online retailer. He disappeared from public view after government regulators sensationally stopped a massive share issue. His finance company and group in the weeks before that, he'd provoked China's Communist Party authorities by saying they stifled innovation. He appeared by video link at an event for rural teacher's China has previously detained prominent executives here who's Cos it believes could pose a threat to stability. That's the BBC's robin branch. In the 52nd video. Omar made no mention of his recent disappearance. Breaking news and analysis town hall dot com. Stuck in Travis. We've got the answer. This'll report is sponsored by Audible, singular, continuing in Redwood City north, Wanna one just after Whipple. The two left lanes still shut down until further notice due to an earlier solo injury accident. CHP an emergency crews are on scene. In the meantime, still quite the back of extending just beyond would side road. South 8 80 out of San Lorenzo. Some heaviness from the welding continuing instructions down past Whipple. Favorites Toll Plaza metering lights are on, but it's packed up to about the 8 80 over crossing. Not that on the feeder freeways into the maze and what's your own bridge at the limit into San Francisco, where one on one and 2 80 continue at the speed limit? That's traffic. I'm Paul Maxwell Audible delivers the best audio entertainment All in one app. Choose a plan that's right for you and make it a year of audible originals. Best selling audio books, popular podcasts and more start listening free with a 30 Day trial at Audible. Everybody. We want to invite you to join Dennis Prager and Mike Gallagher for a travel opportunity. That may be the highlight of your year. We're headed back to Israel in October. 2021 for a 10 day stand with Israel. Tour of the key sites and best place is meant to give you an unprecedented view of the.
NewsRadio KFBK
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"We're working with other major league teams, as well as minor league teams to open up similar sites. As well all throughout the state of California. You should be seeing more of this. It's not exclusively what we're doing. It's just additive. The governor's saying the incoming Biden administration will help California roll out more vaccines faster and more efficiently. Seniors in the state are now eligible to get the Corona virus vaccine, and Adele Prato of Redwood City says she's looking forward to getting the shot. Nice bag from me because at my age It is very important to be free to move. Health officials say. Senior 65 older cannot schedule an appointment across the Bay Contra Costa County has been trying to get as many as 7000 people vaccinated today, as they have as many as 900,000 eligible for vaccination. Training is underway for California dentists to admit early covert administer the covert 19 vaccines. KFBK is Brody Fernandez tells us why The move comes as the state works to increase the number of people who get vaccinated by adding dentist to the list of healthcare providers who could give the shots. Enters a required to take a three hour self paced training course. After completing the training dentist get a sort of occasion to administer the covert 19 vaccine shots, however, won't be given in the dentist's office but rather at clinics or drive through vaccination sites. Rudy Fernandez News. 93.1 KFBK It's 5 34 on the kfbk. Afternoon News with Kitty O'Neil. Thank you, Joe Michael's In another sign of the Pandemic Times. Coca Cola won't be running a Super Bowl ad this year, saying that times are tough and tough choices have to be made about where they spend their money. Soda giant spent 10 million on ads during last year's big game. Pepsi is also said it won't be running ads for its flagship drink, but will spend money on commercials for other brands It owns. Like Mountain Dew. Let's get you caught up on this hour's top national stories. Now a news 93.1 chaos Federal.
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California Throws Open COVID Vaccines To Anyone 65 And Older
"California seniors are now eligible to get the Corona virus vaccine on Adele Prod O of Redwood City says she's looking forward to getting shot. Nice thanks from me, because at my age It is very important to be free to move. Health officials say. Seniors 65 older can now schedule an appointment across the Bay Contra Costa County has been trying to get as many as 7000 people vaccinated today is they have about 900,000 people eligible for
KNBR The Sports Leader
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"It's frustrating Watch because you know he's better. Just that's that's all and that, But let's be clear to people who might be thinking along the lines of what I'm about to say. I am not in. We're not by extension, blaming him for last night's law. No, no, no, it was a team wide. Uh, let's say not a focus defensive effort to start for the Warriors. And that is a bad way to start on the road against the Nuggets team that might be struggling now, but the sum of its parts they're good. What? Oh, break. Just singularly is just you know we can be better and it's just frustrating Tol watch so It's just one of those things. Where you Yeah, yeah. You think highly of him, And then you kind of see him play a certain way and you go. Oh, man, you could. You could do better than that. Chad Millman had a media for the action network. Joins us at the bottom of the hour as we will get into the divisional round of the NFL playoffs. It is the best weekend of football. You will get the entire season in these matchups. So the way they're looking right now. It promises to be the best football you'll get over a weekend. All season long You're listening to the Tok'ra Kruger and Brooke Show she JB JB on KNBR, 1045 and 68 ft towards leader. When the Children are nobody traffic dad ask accident in Hayward North 80 before 92. It's in the left lane. It is now stop and go from Alvarado, Niles, San Francisco. An accident on the fifth on ramp. Eastbound 80. A big rig is involved there. Stop and go on the eastbound Skyway And in Emeryville, a stall eastbound 80th Powell a big rig there in the number two lane crew on the scene. Stop and go from university Redwood City, a vehicle fire north bound to 88 Farm Hill. That's on the off ramp of fire unit is on scene with that. And in Pittsburgh. The accident westbound four after railroad is now cleared out of the lanes. The traffic is still recovering from Loveridge. Partly due to that accident on the fifth on ramp eastbound 80. It is slow hospital curb across eastbound skyway up to the lower deck of the Bay Bridge. Traffic and sponsored my Friedman's appliance. Friedman's appliance has been in the business of giving their customers the best of the best, no matter what with the top of the line selection of appliances and a team to answer.
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"Redwood City is go fund me will no longer allow people to fund raise for travel expenses used or potentially violent political events. Move coming after pro Trump protesters used the platform to rake in cash ahead of storm in the U. S. Capitol. A spokesperson says the company will also remove fundraisers for travel expenses for any future political events where there is a risk of violence by the attendees. Airbnb says it will also try to restrict rioters who stormed the capital from returning to Washington, D. C area for next week's presidential inauguration. The San Francisco based company says it will review all Washington area reservations. Anyone associated with a hate group will have their reservation canceled and will be banned from Airbnb. The company also says it's taking action against individuals involved in criminal activity at the capital, including permanently banning them from the platform. Meanwhile, the investigation into the riot at the Capitol last week continues Congresswoman Zoloft grin. Telling the KGO morning show with Nikki Maduro. She asked those in charge of the Capitol police were properly prepared beforehand. Told was not truthful as it turns out. I think it was a tremendous failure of leadership in the department. And as you know, the chief has resigned. The sergeant of arms of both the House and Senate have now resigned. Lofgren says the officers were not given the proper leadership of perform their duties with tremendous courage and bravery. Anyway. Multiple gorillas at the San Diego Zoo are now confirmed. Have Covad 19. We get more from ABC s Alex Stone. The infected gorillas are showing Cove. It 19 symptoms similar to what a human would show. San Diego Zoo executive Director Lisa Peterson says they're being cared for right now doing okay. They're they're experiencing some mild symptoms and.
KGO 810
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"FBI is warning of plans for armed protest in all 50 state capitals and in Washington leading up to President elect Joe Biden's inauguration, and internal FBI Bulletin warns the nationwide protests. May start later this week and extend through President elect Biden's January 20th inauguration. Ah, Governor Gavin Newsom says Sacramento will be ready The answer is pretty self evident for anyone who's been around the capital that everybody is on. I think high alert in terms of just making sure that everybody is safe protected People's free speech. Be advanced, but there's no violence. Governor Newsome says plans for security around the state capital are being handled by the CHP. Using the National Guard, he says, is always an option. Area. Authorities have resumed searching for a man swept out to sea after climbing down cliffs and getting trapped by high surf. A spokesman for the Golden Gate National Recreation Area does the man and two friends scrambled down the cliffs below Point Bonita Lighthouse area. The friends were also swept out to sue to see but got back to shore and called 911. Dangerous. High surf conditions across northern California over the weekend prompted some rescues. On Sunday, a dozen Children or rescued in the Santa Cruz harbor area and a Redwood City area woman is still missing after a large wave knocked her into the ocean. Several gorillas at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park have tested positive for the Corona virus, and what is believed to be the first known case is among such primates. The Parks executive director Lisa Peterson, telling The Associated Press today. A troop of eight guerrillas of the park is believed to have the virus and several have been coughing. It appears the infection Came from a member of the park's wildlife care team that also tested positive for the virus but has been asymptomatic. If you want to pick up track, you're one of millions of Americans who drive the most popular vehicle in the country. KGO intends Mark Nieto has that story. The truck is still King in America as five of the 10 best selling vehicles in the U. S in 2020 were pickups. Ford F Series truck retained its decades long dominance as the number one top seller for the 39th straight year and the top truck for the 44th consecutive year. Chevy Silverado was the number two seller in 2020, barely edging out the Dodge Ram pickup four through eight worst sedans and SUVs dominated by Toyota and Honda. And then another truck. The GMC Sierra came in at number nine, followed by the Toyota Tacoma rounding out the top 10..
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"Stretching beyond so far beyond to give vaccine to help get us out of this pandemic, listening to ABC News. Taking a look at KGO traffic or starting down in San Jose on the south bound 6 80 connect around to some found one on one about an accident involving a car that hit the shoulder. Looks like that car is facing sideways, blocking the right lane. Emergency crews are on the scene, and traffic is backed up from King Road. The Redwood City South bound 11 after Whipple and we got a two car crash blocking the right lane with seeds screen on the scene. If you're heading out towards half Moon Bay westbound 92, you'll see the brake lights just after up for Skyline Boulevard down to Digs Canyon Road. Leaving half Moon Bay on North found one that's stopping go from how we 92 caps Strong. A road in Pacifica South found one just a bit sluggish after the devil's slide tunnel to gray whale cold. With Katie. Oh, traffic. I'm Roy Cruise. The following show is paid for by three dimensional wealth. The views, opinions and beliefs, expressed her those of three dimensional wealth and don't necessarily reflect those of the staff management of cumulus media or other partners. Doug Andrew here you know, is a financial strategist and retirement planning specialist for more than 45 years. I finally have dedicated the last two years to writing the ultimate book, the Laser fund. How to diversify and create the foundation for a tax free retirement is my favorite vehicle, and we have collected over 200 pages of charts, graphs and illustrations to empower you. And if you're more right brain, you learn by stories. You flip the book over and you read it the other direction. It contains 62 stories of actual clients who've employed the laser fund, too. Diversify and save hundreds of thousands of dollars of unnecessary tax..
860AM The Answer
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"Just before the break. We were talking about the impact that covert 19 has had on the workplace business models. To be sure there are aspects of the economy. That have been hurt badly. Other aspects of the economy that have changed quite drastically and Charlie going. We had to interrupt you just before the break. There was a point that you wanted to make. Please, Charlie, pick it up from there. A lot of businesses are certainly able to function just fine The way it is now. They might not be talking to their friends and employees and so forth all the time. But What they're able to function at home or wherever they are. As long as I have a computer. Some businesses certainly can't do that if you're a restaurant or someplace where you have to be there. Other businesses are doing quite well with their executives at home, their sales people, whatever it might be. It's sort of working. You miss a lot of the socialization the business part of it. Seems to be functioning on a lot of places. Well, I think also Pat and Charlie, you might see an aspect where some businesses or not just functioning but beginning to thrive. It mean look, for example, and it pains people on the peninsula. Think of Oracle vacating those beautiful towers on redwood shores there in Redwood City, But they've come to the acknowledgment that this work at home thing is a really healthy model for our business, and we can relocate. The bulk of what we do to locations that are significantly cheaper in locations that have no state income tax. Even we can actually see a pretty significant increase in our profit margins because Colbert is forced us to do something that here too, for we might never have done and that is fundamentally revisit every aspect of how we do business. I think if we can just get all the Amazon drivers ready and willing to vaccinate the American public would be good to go by Valentine's Day. I think that's a great idea. Yeah, carry a big needle thing with them Walking. Let's not forget about the waiting of these indexes and The companies.
KQED Radio
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"News. From Teach me the news. I'm keep Wolf. The league's Tahoe region is a popular spot for winter vacationers. But with the stay at home order extending into January and coronavirus cases rising quickly across the state. Going up to the mountains looks a lot different this year. Hotels and lodging are closed and resorts are encouraging skiers to just come up for the day here to talk about the changes is John Slaughter, director of marketing for the Sugar Bowl resort. Hi. John has the snow up there? That's fantastic. We got some great snow over the Christmas holiday period. And then we're getting about a foot of snow tomorrow, and it's going to just really ramp up from there. Excellent. So if people are hoping to company up two Sugar bowl and see tomorrow, for instance, would not be possible. Yes, absolutely. We're open seven days a week. We just encourage our guests. And really I encourage your listeners. No matter what resort you're going to. Make sure to visit their website in their covert page and really just understand what to expect before you get there, because there's a lot of changes. It's not business as usual. What type of changes are are you guys seeing? Well, there's many things from, you know, Face covering is required and appropriate physical distance scene that you would expect, especially with storm's coming and something to keep in mind is indoor access is really limited. You're gonna be able to go inside and warm up, but only for a short period before you're gonna have to go back outside. And with all these precautions, and that with the state home ordering, please. What kinds of trips? Are you guys recommending? What would a safe Tahoe trip look like? Well, we're really seeing an expected in a lot of up and back straps. Our hotel is closed. So we're expecting guests that are just gonna be coming up for the day. Joy, the outdoors have a blast. I mean, the snow's great weather has been beautiful, but then you're going to stay together. And then you're gonna have to head back home after that. We do require that all guests buy their tickets online in advance, and we do that so that we can control how many people were in the resort at any given time. We are checking guests this They come into the parking lot, and if they don't have a confirmation they're being asked to leave and those out in back trips are in part because if people do come up to the area and stay overnight for a vacation They're violating that stay at home order, and I know Tahoe area officials wrote to Airbnb before Christmas, asking them to urge renters and vacationers to canceled overnight trips. And I'm wondering how this is impacting the resort. Sure, Well, we're seeing that absolutely, You know, we are a day resorts and generally our guests for coming up for the day and leaving Then we've had some guests that you know, are requesting a refund due to the state home order that went in place. So when we're allowing that, anybody that booked the trip prior to the tents, and then now they're looking to cancel that trip because they no longer have their hotel where accommodating that, so we're rolling with the punches up here trying to be as accommodating as we can, and we just expect our guests to adhere to the policies and when they are here Try to keep us safe and keep us open for the season and obviously was you're in a very difficult position. I mean, I've seen that some Tahoe residents are pleading for vacationers to stay home not come up at all, because No, there is possibility that regional hospitals are under equipped. If there's a large outbreak in the community, what do you think? Sugar bowls role in this is you know why have you considered shutting down? This season. Well, the way we look at it, outdoor recreation is permitted her the governor's policy and so we're part of outdoor recreation. We feel like skiing and snowboarding, so safe and healthy, outdoor alternative and we want to make sure that we're here to offer that. Beyond that we do have him several 100 employees, and so there's a delicate balance of that, and we want to make sure that we can keep those employees. Uh, working, and so we're trying to do that in this state this manners weekend. John Slaughter is the director of marketing for the Sugar Bowl resort in the Tahoe area. Thanks, John Legend. I'm Kate Wolf. Thank you. Read the news. Support comes from personal capital, offering professional grade financial tools and advice right from home personal capital dot com. I'm Maria Hinojosa. Next time on Latino USA Way celebrate the New year with some of our favorite musical pieces of 2020 with President Lee. People have to be unique. And have to be honest when there are just that's part of art and Jesse raids. Sometimes when you're singing the songs like a woman you're trying to heal, But then you keep opening on. That's next time on Latino USA. It starts about 20 minutes from now coming up at six o'clock 30% chance of rain after 1 A.m. cloudy skies with overnight lows in the forties and fifties. And tomorrow rainy with highs in the upper fifties should reach 57 tomorrow in Redwood City, 55 at the beach and half Moon Bay. Same for Sandra fell and tomorrow in San Francisco were expecting a 57 degree high. I'm Janine hurts with his.
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Oracle Moves Headquarters to Texas
"Moved its headquarters to Texas from its home state of California. More on that from Bloomberg's Charlie Pellet. Oracle says it will give employees more flexibility on where they do their jobs. In a regulatory filing, Oracle said the move to Austin from Redwood City quote means that many of our employees can choose their office location. As well as continued to work from home part time or all of the time. Charlie Pellet, Bloomberg Radio.
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Oracle Moves Headquarters to Austin, Texas
"Giant Oracle is changing its corporate headquarters from Redwood City, California to Austin. They're implementing a more flex. Civil employees work location policy. Tesla's CEO along Musk is moving to Austin. Musk says that he's maintaining some company operations in California but also has significant operations for Tesla and Space six in Texas. You
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Once Impossible, Engineered Burgers Catch On
"Business wars daily is brought to you by papal when it comes to growing your business. You need a partner you can trust for today and tomorrow and pay pal processes over ten million payments per day. That's experience you can rely on. Visit pay pal dot com slash growth to set up a free business account today. From wondering, I'm David Brown. And this is business wars daily. Happy Monday, everyone if you're like me, you may be feeling like you indulge just a little too much over the holiday weekend. And that it's time to return to some healthy eating, maybe even give up meat. That's true. You're hardly alone. Consumers have been snapping up new kind of plant based burger that not only tastes like ground beef. It looks and bleeds like it. It hasn't been available everywhere. But that's about to change in the process, creating what could be a well bloody rough war between rivals backed by some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley. So far impossible foods are Redwood City California start up as made it's impossible burger available only in restaurants from fat burger to white castle. But next year it's coming to grocery stores. The company announced this month that'll put impossible foods head to head with beyond meat who's plant based burger was the first to be sold. And supermarkets not next to the veggie burgers. But in the meat section ten days after impossible foods announced it supermarket intentions rival beyond meat said, it's planning to go public with the one hundred million dollars at hopes to raise a company will expand into restaurants. So what are these things exactly they're not veggie, burgers, like Boca, burgers, and MorningStar farms patties, which have been on shelves for years, rather, they're engineered from plant proteins and intended to look smell and sizzle just like meet the products, which in beyond case also include fo-, sausage, and chicken strips are designed to tempt omnivores not just vegetarians founders of both companies see their missions is feeding a world with nine billion people without harming animals or worsening climate change impossible food CEO Pat Brown molecular biologist has an even greater ambition. He wants to end the use of all animals in food production by twenty thirty five. The broader mission has captured the attention of social investors like Bill Gates who's invested in both companies on a more prosaic level. These burgers might just help with those early December diets that is before the Christmas Turkey and ham Tempus all over again. From wondering this business worse daily? Hey while you grabbing a quick snack. Take a second. Give us a five star rating on apple podcast, Google podcasts. Stitcher or your favorite listening? Apogee? Thanks. I'm David Brown. Be back with you tomorrow. Business wars daily is brought to you by pay pal when Zeke was a kid spending summers on his grandfather's farm. He knew he wanted to be part of bringing wholesome food to people. He started his artisanal Honey company be raw by creating a network of dozens of beekeepers across the country. When he got his Honey into high in national stores, he thought he'd made it, but when he saw his margins decreasing due to distributor fees and seasonal production. Made it difficult to meet retail demands Lee decided to take his products primarily online from the get-go. He featured pay pow prominently on his site because he knew it gave his customers confidence that he was a legitimate business with quality products over the past five years. Pay palace helped him convert more clicks into sales and expand his business. He's grown every year and added new items like t candles and beauty products. So when you're ready to grow your online business pay pal can help you turn shoppers into buyers. Visit pay pal dot com slash growth to set up a business account. You can sign up for free today. That's pay pal dot com slash growth.
San Francisco Chronicle Sports - Spoken Edition
Future of Football: Readers respond
"You're listening to the spoken edition of the San Francisco Chronicle. Future a football readers respond by Al Sarah Cevic in late October, the chronicle published a six part series examining the future of football. The premise was simple now that we know the sport can cause lasting brain damage. Driving some to suicide. What are we going to do about it a dedicated team of chronicle? Journalists spent months digging into the subject, you can read the whole thing at SF chronicle dot com slash future afoot ball in a letter to chronicle subscribers I encouraged response. What do you think should be done? What will the game look like in twenty years? Let me share a few of those voices. Thanks, your reflection is so important. I did love your projection that football would look like boxing. Why the continued ignorance with little effort to address the problem, Frederick e Hessler at San Francisco, all your main recommendations. Make logical sense. And are the right thing to do. I was lucky. I was too small for playing grade school football, my coach realized this I believe in I sat on the bench. My mother always feared I would get seriously injured with regard to parents and kids now ultimately people need to make their own decisions about what to do with regard to their children playing football. If flag football is an option that would be great. I believe sooner than later American football, as we know it won't be as popular. Instead people will migrate to lesser injury prone sports that are also rewarding for fans parents schools and students John Durham Napa. Everybody's jumping on the football is dangerous bandwagon. This story is long winded bull all major sports have physical contact soft. Wimps are ruining this country and turning our men into soft little pansies look at the average something male today. Weak wimps worrying about the. Next superhero or Star Wars movie, all this coddling and winding is pathetic name withheld. I'm sixty eight I played for four years in high school and a year of college. I never finished a season mostly knee injuries. But I broke my thumb in college in a way that required surgery. I also boxed in college. I attended a forty Niners Cam for high school students where a very aggressive game of quote unquote, touch resulted in a hit that caused me to lose vision in one eye for a few plays naturally. I stayed in the game. So far it hasn't caught up to me. Anyway, I think one partial solution is to make all the pads and helmets soft on both the inside and the outside. Also, I think many knee injuries could be eliminated. If there were no cleats Leif ODA grin Petaluma step one change, the channel the rest of it really won't matter so much Greg Tolman, Berkeley Ulta. Emmett frisbee all quarterbacks. No, linebackers, spike. Connor Redwood City. It would be interesting to know, whether rugby has the same level of problems with brain trauma as football rugby players wear. No helmets or padding. And there are strict rules about tackling. I suspect that the protective gear in football increases the incidence of brain trauma because it allows players to hit each other harder. It doesn't take a direct head impact or cause a concussion. The sudden acceleration from a hard hit can do it. Even if there's no head contact in rugby players are less inclined to use their bodies as weapons when tackling because it could cause injury to the tacklers. It's counter intuitive, but reducing the amount of protective gear in football could make it a safer sport. The culture of the sport has to change to players coaches fans broadcasters and reporters have to stop seeing a disabling hit as a good thing. Ng? Jeff Lichtman Elsa. Reto? Bravo end. This disgusting sport. There's five thousand four hundred seventy two more peaceful ways for young people to quote, unquote, build character, Chris Moffet, San Ramon great articles on the game of football. If you get a chance read some of the books or articles on John gangly Ardy, the Saint John's university division three coach whose philosophy on the game of football was so different than any coach. I've known even in the fifties and sixties no tackling in practice. No practice longer than ninety minutes. Water breaks it Sarah his philosophy worked. He one more football games. Four hundred eighty nine than any coach in NC double A history along with four national championships. I played for John in the sixties on one of his championship teams. We never had anyone hurt in practice except the occasional ankle sprain. We had a few transfers from schools like. The university of Minnesota where Murray Warmoth coached with the philosophy of making the practices tougher than the games kind of survival of the fittest code that was not unusual at that time football needs to change again. Thanks for the great articles Terry Underwood, according Madera, here's a modest proposal. Make everyone eligible why linemen are ineligible for passes. Always been a mystery to me this is somewhat more radical than the eight ten offense. I think that's what it was called that. The Piedmont high coaches developed and was voted down by the NF s but it would keep the nature of the game intact while changing dramatically if everyone is eligible the game will spread out, and there will be more of a premium on speed and agility, then raw size, power football will make less sense and just as the three point line and the warriors style has pretty much removed the power game from basketball, especially at the lower levels. There will be a shift toward more scoring. And use of the whole field. It's not a complete or perfect solution. Of course. But it moves the game away from one on one contact and towards skill and speed clay Callum, walnut creek, the late US Senator, gene. Mccarthy democrat Minnesota had a great line. He said football is like politics, you have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think it's important Eric mills Oakland, thanks to all of our readers who responded, interestingly, we didn't get much from people defending the sport as it stands. Maybe we're preaching to the choir here in the bay area. Maybe people are starting to see the truth.
Morning Edition
Trump threatens to cut aid to Honduras over migrants
"To stay in its customs union. But maize government says that's not a long term solution. There were reports the EU is with. Willing to extend the transition period by a year in exchange for British concessions on the border issue for NPR news. I'm Teri Schultz in Brussels on Wall Street, the Dow was down more than two hundred points. This is NPR from news. I'm Brian watt. The family of Redwood City man who died two weeks ago after a confrontation with San Mateo county sheriff's deputies. He's calling for video of the incident to be released cake. Alex Emslie reports deputies responded to a busy street in Millbrook on October third and approached a man who was dodging in and out of traffic, a deputy reports using a taser and dispatch audio and another deputy later says pepper spray was also used. Multiple tasers deployments. Oh, Kobe was later pronounced dead. His sister Abella Okabe says her family needs to see videos taken from sheriff's dashboard cameras. We will never get him back. And so we are just begging for the opportunity to be able to not have him murdered again by not knowing what happened to Kobe says her brother struggled with mental illness, but had been stable for about a decade San Mateo county's district. Attorney says he'll release the videos as soon as all witnesses have been interviewed.
Forum
U.S. deports accused former Nazi guard to Germany
"A former Nazi concentration camp guard was recently, discovered living in New York City he. Is now being deported from the United States that's according to US immigration and customs enforcement is I says the ninety five. Year old's name, is yucky Polly and he's been being sent to Germany the. White House commended the move this Morning NPR's Sarah McCarron has been following this and joins us down, the studio Sarah what, can you, tell us about this man Yawkey Polly well, he. Was born in what was then. Poland and what's now Ukraine and this is important, because, this was a long time ago and he's a man not quite without a country but that. No country has wanted to claim because of his involvement in, Nazi concentration camps in World War Two he worked in nineteen forty-three at. A German concentration camp in what was German occupied Poland. Later that same year thousands of. Jewish people were shot to death in. A mass execution at that camp, and, this man is not accused of participating directly in that event but he is accused of persecuting people at that camp. Preventing them from escaping and in so doing being responsible in part for those deaths how did he wind up, in New York City well he's been here for, a very long time he'd been living, in queens came to the US. After The war in nineteen forty-nine illegally the US government says they said he he lied in order to come. Here told immigration officials that he had worked in a factory and, on, a farm during the war became a naturalized? Citizen in? Nineteen, fifty seven and then as a result of. Investigations into Nazi war? Crimes was denaturalized in two thousand three ordered deported the next year and that appeal was denied in two thousand, five but he remained in the country right so why he was ordered to be deported. After the US government, found out who he actually was and then and then he stayed well it just comes down to the fact, that that these other countries didn't want to take him ambassador Richard Grenell the embassador. Germany says this came to the president's attention somehow President Trump made, it a priority made it very clear he wanted him, out and also there's been pressure from people in New York members of the New. York congressional delegation had called for his removal activists? In, New York had been calling for this for. Many years ambassador Grenell says, he brought this up repeatedly With the new German government with his. Counterparts there and decided to make a moral case they saw this as a moral obligation that they had not so much, a legal obligation this individual was not is not, a German citizen so the moral, obligation? Because this individual served it in the name of the former German government and so he is back in Germany they say he was taken. Out from his home in queens on a stretcher he's a very old man not clear exactly what, happens to. Him legally at this, point go through some kind of trials you could not entirely clear he, has a very old. Man but officials say. From the US government say this is part of the administration's effort to take immigration laws. Seriously something they've been emphasizing much more broadly and they're using this case certainly to
Dr. Drew
Cummins to recall 500,000 U.S. trucks over faulty emissions part
"Investigators continue to work this case, aggressively as he the public support by contacting the. Established tip lines if they have information related tamales disappearance officials say investigators have draw no conclusions. About what happened to Tibbets who did spend part of her childhood in Oakland the Environmental Protection Agency is announcing the recall of a half million trucks with. Faulty pollution control Does the agency says a defective. Part means pollution controls on the trucks engines wear out more quickly than. Allowed the recall affects twenty three twenty fifteen medium, and heavy trucks, with engines made by comments the says emissions testing by the agency and by California discover at the problem and bay area congresswoman Anna s shoe is hospitalized. Following hip replacement surgery her office is a, surgery, yesterday was successful and she is resting comfortably it's a, Koya hospital Redwood City as she says she's grateful. For the excellent care she is receiving and proud that the new hip is.