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The Passing Shot Tennis Podcast
"rotterdam" Discussed on The Passing Shot Tennis Podcast
"This week, we've got Marseille, and we've got Doha, which are both two 50 events, we've also got the 500 out in Rio and for the women, it's mostly the WTA 1000 in Dubai. There's also a two 50 out in Mexico that Merida open. But Andy Murray has already been providing entertainment and drama as usual. Funnily enough against Lorenzo sonic, who has spent more than one second on a tennis court because they actually played each other and was two and a half hour long match. Andy Murray saving three match points, Joel big Murray fans. Are we ever just going to get an unproblematic Andy Murray victory because it doesn't feel like we're going to get one any time soon? Yeah, I was curious to see how this was going to go because you got a wildcard had a very wild Australian open, very memorable Australian open, so it was keen to see him continue that form. Looks like he has been able to in the same Andy Murray vain that we know fighting to the bitter end. And it's also great to see Liam Brody as well come through qualifying. He's in the second round and we've got Murray versus zverev and we've got Liam broady, Daniel Medvedev. So I thought, yeah, that could be quite an interesting one. I mean, Daniel Medvedev, that's a Rotterdam Rotterdam to Doha rather than Rotterdam to maybe Marseille was a bit of an interesting one to me, but yeah, be curious to see how that goes. Probably more money in Doha, I would imagine. I mean, the field actually in Doha is pretty tasty, 'cause I was looking at it compared to the Rio open, which is a 500. I mean, the drawers in Doha and to be honest in Marseille, they are stronger than what has been served up in Rio if I'm gonna be honest. Yeah, often happens. A lot of players don't really want to go and play the clay court event salmon. It's hard to convince people I feel to go play that 500 if you haven't already played the build up two 50s out in South America. Yeah. I mean, I suppose all eyes really, especially on the women's side, the big event out in by the 1000 event. If you look at the first round drawers, I mean, it's like the semifinals finals of Grand Slam really start some of the match ups that you kind of got. It's such a stacked fill. But, you know, we were saying that about Doha last week and then look what happened. She on tech wins very comfortably. But Chris, do you have your eye on any particular match ups that are due to hopefully take place in Dubai. And any definitely more looking at the burrito open. Yeah, I'll throw you a bone up saying I'm very much looking forward to we've got some tasty section of the drawer there, which is Garcia, keys, and it's over and Azarenka. One of those is going through to make, I think that would only be a quarterfinal. So that does shows you how stacked that field is. And then if you look a bit further down in some of the less high profile tournaments, I'm obviously a Mexico. Where Joel and I, I think, will be glued to this. We've got his favorite magdalena don'tt is back in action as the number one seed. And my favorite Sloane Stephens, the number two seed, and also throw in an elysia parks. And I think that's Joel's dream tournament. I think we might be over in Mexico. And Chris parks and Stevens are playing with each other in the doubles. So everyone caught crying out right now. I'm gonna have to set an alarm on my phone for those matches. The meeting, the metaphorical meeting of two thirds of the tennis weekly podcast happening right now. They just need to Caroline Garcia down the other end. I think we would have booked a flight then. I'm pretty sure we would have booked it. We would have gone there for subway intermediate, yeah, definitely. We can expense it. No, we can't. Sorry. But yeah, on that note, I mean, we'll be back next week to talk about how Sloane Stephens got on in Merida. Doubles only. Doubles only, of course. I'm also curious to see if cam norrie is just going to play alcaraz again in the final of Rio and lose as has happened last week. I feel like that could be quite a likely outcome. But yeah, we'll be back next week to round up all of those events as usual. And we'll also catch up on how Joel enjoyed his pancakes and inside the crate work or not. I've got to go follow through now, haven't I? I'm going to go to the shops right now and get stocked up now. Yes. I hope you enjoyed our latest episode of the tennis week podcast. Remember to subscribe to us to stay up to date on all the action to come from the ATP and WTA tours. We're on Apple podcasts, Spotify, and every major podcasting platform out there. And if you like what you're hearing, and that means if you like the pancake chat, then make sure to leave us a rating and review on Apple podcasts or Spotify. You can also follow us on social media or email the show as well. 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The Passing Shot Tennis Podcast
"rotterdam" Discussed on The Passing Shot Tennis Podcast
"Rules in Rotterdam and awesome alcaraz lights up Buenos Aires. Kim Chris, today is the 20th of February and we are here to catch up on the week in tennis at tennis weekly headquarters, especially backed by our crowdfunders Alexandra mcclelland and Julie tharp. It's been another fascinating week on the ATP and WTA tours. We've had mayhem and destruction in Doha, courtesy of eager schwinn tech. Carlos alcaraz has returned after four months to the tour with a bang in Buenos Aires and Daniel Medvedev is back into the top ten with the title in Rotterdam and guys, I am very excited because all of this tennis has happened and it's pancake data more so I'm also really looking forward to that. Straight to the food. I love it. Straight towards coming up. Yeah, I know sod the tennis. Let's talk about pancakes. It's the most exciting day of the year, is it not? Especially if you're a fan of eggs, flour and Nutella. What do you prefer like are you like a crepe person or a buttermilk American style like a short stack pancakes? I normally go for the crepe style how to say. What is a galette? I believe it's made with buckwheat flour. Oh, a buckwheat pancake. No savory. You just made that up. No, I've got to go sweet, I think. Yeah, I'm very traditional like Nutella girl. I do like a lemon and sugar though. Lemon and sugars. Pretty damn good. Joel, what would you have for your not fried chicken on your pancake? No. Unsurprisingly, it is lemon sugar, which I feel is very basic. And very uninspiring. However, I was in this exact conversation with my friends yesterday and one person, I was speaking to said that they have a crepe wrapped around a pepper army stick. Wow. Is that everyone just went silent when that was sort of announced in the group? Oh,
Bloomberg Radio New York
"rotterdam" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Picked them up at sea to just having it packed in the containers, which means that the action is now on shore in the ports themselves and in warehouses. On the street level in cities like Rotterdam, the problem is that you have a lot of young people who are underemployed and to all of a sudden can be paid for one big mission where they get into a port and they get into a container and they somehow they grabbed the duffel bags full of cocaine and all in quotes all they need to do is get it from there into a car and off the grounds of the port and to a distribution center or warehouse where these drugs are being accumulated. So I spoke to the mayor of Rotterdam, Ahmed Abu Talib. And this was a real pain point for him. He has watched his city kind of transform as a cocaine trade has really kind of swept across Rotterdam. And one of the things that is really heartbreaking for him and also just very problematic in terms of solving is that there are so many young people who are at risk of being recruited by the drug traffickers to do these jobs. And they appear as kind of simple jobs, right? You might earn €10,000 to climb the fence of the shipyard, go in under the cover of night, sneak into or break into one of these containers that is known to be containing cocaine, snatch the bags out of there, the duffel bags of cocaine, and then jump the fence and run away and deliver the cocaine to the traffickers. That's just one job that you might be able to earn 10,000, 20,000, €30,000. And so the mayor feels really up against the traffickers and the organized crime groups in the sense that how can legitimate employers compete with those wages, that the traffickers are offering. So he described it really as kind of an undermining of civil society because it's not overt all the time. It's just kind of these subtle ways where the criminal organizations kind of undermine legitimate kind of trade and undermine the above board markets. And how that has a trickle down effect and kind of captures these young men or boys in some instances who then get really kind of lured into this trade. He actually told me kind of an interesting and a little bit of a chilling story about how the traffickers work and how they kind of get people to cooperate with them. And this was actually involving shipping company employees or port workers. So the way it might work is you work at say a dock and your job is to kind of make sure the containers kind of come in and come out on time. And somebody might approach you and say, hey, we have this side job for you. We just need you for €10,000 to look the other way. Just for 5 minutes, step away from your post for 5 minutes and we'll give you €10,000. And the guys like, I don't know if I really want to do that. It's a little risky, but he agrees. So he does the job. They say, okay, meet us at this restaurant afterwards and we're going to give you your payment. When he arrived to pick up his payment, sitting there is not only the traffickers who are going to pay him, but one or two other employees at the port, who now know that this individual has done something illegal. So in that very subtle way he is now captured by the organization because he has these other people and he's in on it and you can't kind of back out of that. And they're constantly being bombarded. They're traffickers that look for them on LinkedIn. They'll send them messages on LinkedIn and say, hey, do you want to earn a little money on the side? They are being hunted by these organized criminals trying to recruit them into the trade and it's a very tricky problem that the city and the
Bloomberg Radio New York
"rotterdam" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Of these things where it's like, it's right in front of you. That the piggybacking was happening. And it all sort of fit together and had this aha moment. Lauren, this coincidence of geography, let's cocaine, hitch a ride on fruit shipments to Europe. But you write that packing cocaine with fruit, gives the drug runners another advantage once the ship reaches port in Europe. Can you describe why that is? Yes, the resist increasing efficiency along this logistics supply chain along this cold chain. But the other really important factor here is that customs officials are under constant pressure to ensure that the supply chain moves quickly and smoothly and efficiently and to ensure that the amount of cargo that the cargo coming into their ports is not being held up unnecessarily. So customs officials are actually under a lot of pressure to rapidly push through the containers to make sure that they reach their ultimate destination. So what that means is that when you're shipping a product like fresh fruit, there is an even greater sense of urgency to ensure that the product is moves swiftly through customs and the traffickers know that because bananas can rot, shrimp can go bad. And so they realize that customs officials when they come across a container filled with perishable goods, there is a sense of urgency there that they're going to process it quickly, get it out of the shipyard into the market and that they're not going to detain that container unnecessarily. What's interesting is that there isn't a no tolerance zero tolerance view of this stuff getting through. That in the customs industry. And remember that customs was set up as an idea centuries ago as a way for countries to collect taxes. This is a revenue business. It's not necessarily a law enforcement business. And I went to a meeting of the world customs organization in maastricht and it was all about the technology that can be used to sort of tilt the balance of speeding things through versus catching the contraband. It was about the balance. It wasn't about making sure that nothing made it through. And part of what Lauren found in her reporting was like, it is the cost of doing business for the drug traffickers that they know some of it will get taken by the cops, but a lot will get through. Lauren duvernay's point, you write that authorities are seasoned more cocaine than ever before, but they can only inspect a small number of the thousands of containers that arrive each day, so a lot more is probably getting through. Is that right? Yeah, it's really surprising, actually, and it really just goes to show just the immense task that confronts. Customs officials, but globally, only 2% of containers are inspected by customs officials. So of the hundreds of millions of containers that are being shipped around the world going to ports, 2% or less are inspected or pulled out of the supply chain, the stream of commerce and inspected by customs officials. But in Northern Europe and in Antwerp and in Rotterdam, it's actually much less than 2%. It's around 1% between one to 2%. And that's partly a function of the just the sheer difficulty of doing this. They first have to target the containers and figure out where is the cocaine. It's this ultimate game of hide and seek because the traffickers are constantly shifting their methods, you know, once the law enforcement officials are kind of on to them, they come up with a new scheme to evade detection. And they've done this over and over and over again. So the police are always trying to kind of chase them, figure it out. But they're also the customs officials are trying to target which containers the cocaine might be in. So the mayor of Rotterdam, he is explained that he would like to see every single container from South America carrying fruit to be inspected by customs officials. And this was seen as kind of a radical proposal because what that means is that if you're a legitimate shipper of bananas from Colombia or Ecuador, you're going to automatically have your container pulled aside, pulled off the ship, pulled into the scanning facility and held for hours if not days. And meanwhile, your bananas might rot, your customers getting upset because they haven't received the product yet. And you may or may not find cocaine in that shipment. Vernon wants all that cocaine gets to shore. They have to get it off the ships and get it into the hands of the distributors. How do they get it from the port into the streets? Yeah, I mean, this is sort of an amazing part of going through the court records of the past decade and talking to experts with seeing how this has evolved. They've gone from a system where these container ships would start pulling up towards the port and somewhere in the North Sea, dumped bags, essentially duffle bags off the back of these big ships and be met by fishing boats that would pick them up at sea to just having it packed in the containers, which means that the action is now on shore in the ports themselves and in warehouses. On the
Bloomberg Radio New York
"rotterdam" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Them up at sea to just having it packed in the containers, which means that the action is now on shore in the ports themselves and in warehouses. On the street level in cities like Rotterdam, the problem is that you have a lot of young people who are underemployed and to all of a sudden can be paid for one big mission where they get into a port and they get into a container and they somehow they grabbed the duffle bags full of cocaine and all in quotes all they need to do is get it from there into a car and off the grounds of the port and to a distribution center or warehouse where these drugs are being accumulated. So I spoke to the mayor of Rotterdam, Ahmed abutaleb. And this was a real pain point for him. He has watched his city kind of transform as a cocaine trade has really kind of swept across Rotterdam. And one of the things that is really heartbreaking for him and also just very problematic in terms of solving is that there are so many young people who are at risk of being recruited by the drug traffickers to do these jobs. And they appear as kind of simple jobs, right? You might earn €10,000 to climb the fence of the shipyard. Go in under the cover of night, sneak into or break into one of these containers that is known to be containing cocaine. Snatch the bags out of there, the duffel bags of cocaine, and then jump the fence and run away and deliver the cocaine to the traffickers. That's just one job that you might be able to earn 10,000, 20,000, €30,000. And so the mayor feels really up against the traffickers and the organized crime groups in the sense that how can legitimate employers compete with those wages at the traffickers are offering. So he described it really as kind of an undermining of civil society because it's not overt all the time. It's just kind of these subtle ways where the criminal organizations kind of undermine legitimate kind of trade and undermine the above board markets. And how that has a trickle down effect and kind of captures these young men or boys in some instances who then get really kind of lured into this trade. He actually told me kind of an interesting and a little bit of a chilling story about how the traffickers work and how they kind of get people to cooperate with them. And this was actually involving shipping company employees or port workers. So the way it might work is you work at say a dock and your job is to kind of make sure the containers kind of come in come out on time. And somebody might approach you and say, hey, we have this side job for you. We just need you for €10,000 to look the other way. Just for 5 minutes, step away from your post for 5 minutes and we'll give you €10,000. And the guys like, I don't know if I really want to do that. It's a little risky, but he agrees. So he does the job. They say, okay, meet us at this restaurant afterwards and we're going to give you your payment. When he arrives to pick up his payment, sitting there is not only the traffickers who are going to pay him, but one or two other employees at the port who now know that this individual has done something illegal. So in that very subtle way he's now captured by the organization because he has these other people and he's in on it and you can't kind of back out of that. And they're constantly being bombarded. There are traffickers that look for them on LinkedIn. They'll send them messages on LinkedIn and say, hey, do you want to earn a little money on the side? They are being hunted by these organized criminals trying to recruit them into the trade and it's a very tricky problem that the
Bloomberg Radio New York
"rotterdam" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Of these things where it's like, it's right in front of you. That the piggybacking was happening. And it all sort of fit together and had this aha moment. Lauren, this coincidence of geography, let's cocaine, hitch a ride on fruit shipments to Europe, but you write that packing cocaine with fruit, gives the drug runners another advantage once the ship reaches port in Europe. Can you describe why that is? Yes, the resist increasing efficiency along this logistics supply chain along this cold chain. But the other really important factor here is that customs officials are under constant pressure to ensure that the supply chain moves quickly and smoothly and efficiently and to ensure that the amount of cargo that the cargo coming into their ports is not being held up unnecessarily. So customs officials are actually under a lot of pressure to rapidly push through the containers to make sure that they reach their ultimate destination. So what that means is that when you're shipping a product like fresh fruit, there's an even greater sense of urgency to ensure that the product is moves swiftly through customs and the traffickers know that because bananas can rot shrimp can go bad. And so they realize that customs officials when they come across a container filled with perishable goods, there is a sense of urgency there that they're going to process it quickly, get it out of the shipyard into the market and that they're not going to detain that container unnecessarily. What's interesting is that there isn't a no tolerance zero tolerance view of this stuff getting through. That in the customs industry. And remember to customs was set up as an idea. Centuries ago as a way for countries to collect taxes. This is a revenue business. It's not necessarily a law enforcement business. And I went to a meeting of the world customs organization and maastricht and it was all about the technology that can be used to sort of tilt the balance of speeding things through versus catching the contraband. It was about the balance. It wasn't about making sure that nothing made it through. And part of what Lauren found in her reporting was like, it is the cost of doing business for the drug traffickers that they know some of it will get taken by the cops, but a lot will get through. Lauren duvernay's point, you write that authorities are seasoned more cocaine than ever before, but they can only inspect a small number of the thousands of containers that arrive each day, so a lot more is probably getting through. Is that right? Yeah, it's really surprising, actually, and it really just goes to show just the immense task that confronts. Customs officials, but globally, only 2% of containers are inspected by customs officials. So of the hundreds of millions of containers that are being shipped around the world going to ports, 2% or less are inspected or pulled out of the supply chain, the stream of commerce and inspected by customs officials. But in Northern Europe and in Antwerp and in Rotterdam, it's actually much less than 2%. It's around 1% between one to 2%. And that's partly a function of the just the sheer difficulty of doing this. They first have to target the containers and figure out where is the cocaine. It's this ultimate game of hide and seek because the traffickers are constantly shifting their methods, you know, once the law enforcement officials are kind of on to them, they come up with a new scheme to evade detection. And they've done this over and over and over again. So the police are always trying to kind of chase them, figure it out. But they're also the customs officials are trying to target which containers the cocaine might be in. So the mayor of Rotterdam, he is explained that he would like to see every single container from South America carrying fruit to be inspected by customs officials. And this was seen as kind of a radical proposal because what that means is that if you're a legitimate shipper of bananas from Colombia or Ecuador, you're going to automatically have your container pulled aside, pulled off the ship, pulled into the scanning facility and held for hours if not days and meanwhile your bananas might rot, your customers getting upset because they haven't received the product yet. And you may or may not find cocaine in that shipment. Vernon once all that cocaine gets to shore, they have to get it off the ships and get it into the hands of the distributors. How do they get it from the port into the streets? Yeah, I mean, this is sort of an amazing part of going through the court records of the past decade and talking to experts with seeing how this has evolved. They've gone from a system where these container ships would start pulling up towards the port and somewhere in the North Sea, dump bags, essentially duffle bags off the back of these big ships and be met by fishing boats that have picked them up at sea to just having it packed in the containers, which means that the action is now on shore in the ports themselves and in warehouses. On the
Bloomberg Radio New York
"rotterdam" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Behind closed doors right now. The civil forfeiture case aspects of it are currently under seal. And then the penalty case that is before the customs and border protection authorities, these are traditionally non public proceedings. Where do you see this case ultimately going? And how long do you think it takes to resolve it one way or another? I mean, these types of cases can drag on for years, especially when there is so much at stake. It's clear that U.S. authorities are pursuing this investigation not only about the culpability and the responsibility of MSC and the forfeiture and the penalties, but there are also very interested in trying to figure out who is actually behind this massive cocaine smuggling ring. MSC could settle could result in a settlement. We just don't know exactly how it's going to unfold or how long it might endure. So MSC is still a huge company operating a lot of ships around the world. What are they doing now? I imagine they're under a lot of scrutiny. How are they making sure that they don't get caught with another ship in a port full of drugs? Absolutely. MSC is bending over backwards to portray themselves as a leader in anti smuggling efforts. And in fact, they've taken a lot of steps since the Diane to kind of change their ways or to take this threat of narco trafficking much more seriously. They've agreed to spend a $100 million on security upgrades on their ships and in their facilities. They've already spent $50 million just this year alone in all kinds of security upgrades, including putting live CCTV cameras on all of their ships so they can be monitored remotely Increasing technology on their containers, deploying something called smart containers, which allow companies to better track when a container is opened and say is it opened at sea, which would be a red flag. They have begun and really around the time the guyane had already started doing this, but using guards more often on some of their ships, particularly the ships that are transiting along South America and through the Panama Canal. Another step that they've taken is they have said that they're no longer going to use montenegrin crew on ships that sail to South America. Do we know whether the ball can cartel has kind of pulled back from putting cocaine on ships because they are at all concerned that they're going to get seas now? What we know is that the seizures of cocaine in ports in Europe, major sort of entryways Rotterdam and Antwerp continue to go up after the guy 2020 was again a record year 2021 with a record year. It may go down a little bit this year. It's a little unclear. But as long as the market there, the cartel is going to find ways to get cocaine into Europe. The Balkan cartel but also other major traffickers in Europe. Up next, more from today's episode with a big take, a daily podcast from Bloomberg and iHeart radio. I'm Wes Kosovo, and this is
Bloomberg Radio New York
"rotterdam" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Maybe we have 100 million chickens in Netherlands, and on top of that we have 11 million pigs and another 4 million cows. And that makes Netherlands the country and with the highest density of farm animals in the whole of Europe. And yeah, that creates all kinds of problems, including the nitrogen crisis we're discussing today. One risk is the amount of nitrogen that is emitted, but another risk is what we've seen with Corona when a lot of people and a lot of animals are together on the small piece of land, chances are that diseases are going to jump from animals to humans. So we have this situation where nitrogen, other pollutants, are building up the government is trying to meet climate pledges and looking to dairy farmers and other farmers to help with that by ordering them to reduce the emissions. Yeah, so what happened is this has been an issue for a couple of years in the Netherlands, but back in June, the government announced a target to reduce their nitrogen emittance. The target was to reduce it by 50% in 2030. When they presented this target, they also presented a map of the Netherlands and that map included the nature areas in the country and we have several and surrounding those nature areas often nitrogen had to be diminished by up to 90% and that basically means that all farms that operate there have to be closed down. So that map and that target of 50% costs a lot of commotion in the country. And since we have seen strikes from farmers for a couple of months now and they've been blocking the streets, they have been going to the house of the minister to protest their starting fires on the highway, that kind of stuff. But you can see why farmers would be so alarmed by this because they're essentially saying we're going to be putting a certain number of people out of business who may have been farming for generations, they prepare farmers at all for this or was this something that was announced out of the blue. There are two sides to the story like OS one side is that these farmers for years and especially also the big companies behind those farmers. They have been polluting Dutch nature and making money out of it and the other side of the story is that political parties that are still in power today in the Netherlands have told the farmers for years that if they scale up if they become bigger and if they invested in innovation, everything will be okay and everything will be fine. And yeah, just to dug the way it is the problem is just way more structural, politicians just haven't been brave enough to tell the honest story to the farmers. And nowadays they don't have a choice anymore and farmers betrayed. Can you describe some of the protests that happened over the summer? Because some of them were quite large and pretty dramatic. Yeah, so the thing is farmers, they have tractors. So if you have a tractor, you can do a lot of things. They drove the tractors to parliament. They use them to block the highway. They use them to go to the house of the minister and straight away when you have director you basically have a weapon. It's difficult for the police to do something about it when a road is blocked with tractors. And they have been doing this for the past months, even the cost minister of agriculture to step down. And we have a new one since a couple of weeks. And we also have a minister of nitrogen, the first one ever in the history of the Netherlands and I think the world to be honest. This is fascinating a minister of nitrogen. What does that person do? Yes so the Netherlands has, I think, is the first country in the world to have a ministry of nitrogen, her name is just Christiana from the ball and yeah, she basically is the minister of bad news because her only task is to make sure that the target of 50% reduction by 2030 that it's going to happen and that's a terrible terrible mission I guess because there's only bad news you can tell farmers because they have to close down their firms. They have to stop the business they have been running for several generations. What is it that the farmers are demanding? They see the government's solution as being pretty severe. What is it they're coming back with in demanding or asking for? The challenge of the government is to live up to their target and at the same time provide a future for farming in the Netherlands. And that is a big challenge because the only way to reach this target is for farmers to close down. Not all, of course, but a big portion will have to quit their business. And these farmers are requesting basically either come with a decent way to buy us out with a lot of money or give us other ways to continue our business, what we have been doing for generations. And give us a road map. What is allowed? What is possible? And that's also something that has been lacking up to this moment. It's unclear what farming is acceptable for the Netherlands within the targets they want to reach, basically. So they want clarity. If these farms are forced to shut down, if others have to cut their herds in half or more in order to meet the requirements and somehow still stay in business, where will the milk, the meat, the cheese, everything else that those firms are now producing come from because I guess the assumption is that the demand for those products isn't going to drop. They'll just have to come from someplace else. With farmers have been saying is that we're feeding the Netherlands. So what are you doing to us? That is true, but also another entirely true because think about 70% of what is produced in the Netherlands is for export and analysis the second biggest exporter in the world when it comes to agricultural products. If they will have to minimize their outputs, then someone else in the world has an opportunity to fill the gap basically. What would that mean for the economy of the Netherlands to lose those exports? It is actually a very interesting question because the strange thing is that we're the second biggest exporter of agriculture products in the world, but there's some important context there because if you look at how big part it is of the Dutch GDP is only 1.4% like it's not nothing but it's also not very it's also a major. One element is important here is that those numbers of exporting products are inflated a little bit because of what we call the Rotterdam effects in rod the damage to the Netherlands we have the port of Rotterdam which is the biggest of Europe and a lot of products that are produced in the heartlands of Europe are shipped to the rest of the world via roll today and often those products end up on the balance sheet of Dutch export. By the end, it's not that big of a deal for the Dax economy. It will hurt, but I don't think that will be the biggest problem.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"rotterdam" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"If they will have to minimize their output, then someone else in the world has an opportunity to fill the gap basically. What would that mean for the economy of the Netherlands to lose those exports? That's actually a very interesting question because the strange thing is that we're the second biggest exporter of agricultural products in the world, but there's some important context there because if you look at how big part it is of the GDP is only 1.4%, like it's not nothing, but it's also not very, it's not also a major. One element is important here is that those numbers of exporting products are inflated a little bit because of what we call the Rotterdam effect in road the damage to the Netherlands we have the port of Rotterdam, which is the biggest of Europe, and a lot of products that are produced in the heartlands of Europe are shipped to the rest of the world to fight. I wrote today and often those products end up on the balance sheet of Dutch export. By the end, it's not that big of a deal for the duchy economy. It will hurt, but I don't think that will be the biggest problem. One interesting thing about the Netherlands is how progressive a lot of the agriculture is. Enormous fields of greenhouses where lettuce, tomatoes, other things are grown, and yet we have on the other side, this traditional agriculture, which is very polluting. Is there conflict between those two different sort of visions of farming and agriculture in the country? This is an argument of the same forms and elements. They say Luke were the most enough to farmers in the world. Why if you're going to close down farms, why will you close down our farms? And I think if there is a future for the Dutch agriculture sector, it lies in the innovation. We have the university which is at the forefront of research when it comes to agriculture. So I think the net of those will still be able to make a lot of money with this innovation, but perhaps they shouldn't produce everything themselves in their own country. So tensions are really high still between farmers and the government. How do you see this playing out? What is the solution? Obviously some politicians are going to want to be responsive to farmers who vote. And yet they have to balance that against the requirements of climate change, where do you see this heading? In June, the target was presented of a 50% reduction by 2030 and only last week, the government presented a buyout plan. What does that mean? It means that as a farmer, you can say high government, please buy my farm. In a way to reach the target and not out details are known at the moment, but what it seems to be is that they're going to offer 120% of the current market value of their company of their lands. However, farmers responding to the bio plan are they signing up? Do you think that many of them will take this deal? Mixed signals from the farmers. Some are very happy. There is also quite some farmers that already wanted to create their business and they're just waiting for a good offer basically. But you also have those big farms which are just making lots of money producing their products and those are also the big polluters and if they continue their business they can make way more money than if they would sell it today. I think those are the essential farms are not that keen to go
hacker1337
"rotterdam" Discussed on hacker1337
"Flip it around and donate it. Right. So I think what if we're driving at something that makes sense is that if now if they're putting in more into that vat, then that's coming from the UBI and most likely is. But let's just say in the rare circumstance that they're not putting more into the vat than the UBI they're getting. Well, that means there are very productive member of society who doesn't consume much and maybe they're like producing really good stuff for people. For people is because you keep saying it's a value added tax, especially attacks. Or high for extravagant purchases above a certain amount of money. It's like a luxury tax for people who can afford to pay for expensive things. The beauty of it is that it's not like it doesn't, it's not punitive towards producing and creating and being productive. It's punitive towards the things that conservatives actually want things to be punitive towards, like just extravagant buying that you don't really need, you know? And you know, how many freaking conservatives have you heard on the radio being like, did you see that food stamp recipient like ordering the lobster from the grocery store? That's our tax dollars. Oh my God, he's ordering the lobster. You're like a fillet mignon with his food stamps, and then it's like, okay, well, what about like that yacht that Bezos? Did you say fillet mignon? Yeah. Say that again. Yeah. I just came from watching the minion movie. So you gotta. The fillet minions. Anyway. Ariel has a thing he does with ems and os. Moment, he says movement. He said. It's moment moment. Moment. Yeah, could you say in the you say in the movement? In the moment, yeah. That sounds like you're British. And in the moment that almost sound like British would be in the moment. For those food stamp lobster guys, but the guy who just built a yacht in Rotterdam that he can't even get out of the bridge, that's no big deal. Did you guys hear that? Jeff Bezos built this super, yeah, and he can't even leave because the city is the city to tear down the bridge and build it back up. Yeah, no, he's building this yacht and I don't know where somewhere in you. I think, yeah. Yeah, and it's in the bay and it's so big, there's this bridge. They can't get it out of the bay. And so you heard that so that he actually paid this. It's a historical monumental fail. Yeah. Yeah, no, but it's a historical monument and he's just like he offered him enough money and they're like, okay, we'll disassemble it so you can get the boat out at least 10 million. No, that's why that's why I said such an architectural fail. Historical preservation was tossed out the window because he offered them whatever. I heard that they refused. I thought they said I heard that they were going to do it. And then they said, yeah. Well, I think they're still refusing. I don't maybe there's some conflicting. Maybe something happened in the moment. Yeah. Him and that yacht is kind of like the Elon Musk like Twitter deal that. We may do it. We may not do it. It may go through. It may not go through. I'm still bitter about that. I'm still bitter about that. Yeah. Right. Yeah, it was ridiculous. It was like maybe, maybe not, maybe, maybe not, maybe, maybe not. It was like, so I said, is there still a chance that that might go through? I'm still hoping there's still a chance, right? He washed all those dang like liberal soy boys, like the Elon. No, I'm joking. Yeah. I think there's a chance. I think that there's like a puppetry happening that we're not totally aware of. No, it's just. I heard one rumor that they said, because there's so many accounts that are fake and that Twitter had not come clean with that. So he didn't want to buy something that didn't happen. So they said that maybe he's saber rattling to get them to so he doesn't have to pay the higher price, like it could get his to the point. Maybe that happens. He still does it. Maybe it's just trying to get a little price. I don't want to speculate anymore. It's just to a point where I'm just like, yeah, whatever. Them taking them, pursuing him in court over at least getting that one B, which they need, like the cancel fee. They have to, they have to go through litigation. Yeah. Just to get that. But apparently they have to also disclose their bot numbers like they have to hand over their audits basically. So it's like Elon is laughing at the end of the day about it because she asked him that or wanted that he wanted that up front, which is why he was kind of tiptoeing on it. And they were like, no, we're not going to give you that. And then he was like reneging on it. But now for them to just get that cancel B, the one B for cancellation, they have to disclose it. Well, that's the thing is running out aren't they suing him for not what she's saying. She's saying, so they can get a $1 billion from him from pulling out, but to do the right to produce something that would something that could hurt them. Yeah, they have to show their bot analysis. What shank of the, you know, what chunk of the usership is potentially not human is fake is generated, is totally bought. I want to know. There's a reason they don't want to disclose it up front. Right. I won't know now how much that yacht that Jeff Bezos created, like how much you paid for that. And then I'm going to check how much would the vat like tax that at just that curiosity. And also, can you be so rich and so dumb in the first place like not think through that like, oh, it can't get past that bridge. Like building yeah, well that's what happens when you are that rich and you have teams and teams and teams. That you rely on, you know? Eventually, there's going to be a crack. There's going to be a craft in the system because you just have such a vast network of different teams that you are relying on to look at that.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"rotterdam" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Standard deviations. So that soup of ratios is not as gloomy as it was a week ago. Not as gloomy, but still quite negative as it has been. Throughout the, I want to say the majority of the year, really, since I'm looking at this February, this is important when it comes to the effects it has and how much of it is actually doing the job for the fed to some extent can let's bring you back in here. This story about Euro dollar. There are calls out there that it could drop as low as 90. Can it drop further and how much of this is dependent on the gas flows to Europe? Of course I can. Markets can always go beyond what you think is rational. And I mean, not to my own horn here. But when I was I moved to Ireland in the year 2000. And I bought a house. I think in 2001. And I shipped some money over from the states to pay for it. And I think I paid like 84 for the year of 21 years ago. Wow. So given that given that I was once a purchaser, well below 90, I will say my personal experience is that yes. It can trade below 90. So are you telling me that the credit ought to be looking for the two bedroom on el de sute in Paris? Let's maybe start north side of Dublin. And then we'll work our way eastwards. How about that? But yeah, I mean, listen, I think it's fair to say that as long as there's this uncertainty in terms of Europe's energy supply. And if you look at sort of the pricing for natural gas for the winter, it's still very, very, very high. It isn't following at all, what's going on with say let's say crude oil. And that represents a massive terms of trade headwind. For Europe and it's entirely plausible that the currency keeps getting turf because there's no easy way out. There's no optimal path for the ECB to follow up. The Jack ray sub to try to put inflation down. A, that's not going to do anything for Russian gas supply and B it applies pressure to the periphery. If they kind of focus on the periphery, that was nothing we can do about gas supply, then they're still going to have this inflation problem. That radiates more broadly. And that lowers the level of the currency as well. What we would know in situation. What we see folks, there's commodity prices left, including Rotterdam Cole, gives no, it doesn't give anything back. Right now, either camera Cris, thank you so much greatly appreciate it. Red and green on the screen is a little better tape than it was two hours ago DXY that blended currency a one O 8 still is stunning. With our news
Bloomberg Radio New York
"rotterdam" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"This morning and then slowing economic growth that makes for a challenge for a lot of risk assets and makes them susceptible to some shocks here And we're certainly seeing that with our good friends at Facebook's slash meta With our news in New York Here's Michael barn Paul Tom thank you very much President Biden says U.S. Military forces in northwest Syria successfully undertook a counter terrorism operation and he says that the Islamic State leader was killed In a statement this morning president says the mission was to protect the American people and our allies and make the world a safer place The president will soon speak on that raid in a few minutes Russia said it was destructive for President Biden to move additional troops to Europe and station more along NATO's eastern Flank as the tension over Ukraine continues The secretary general of the NATO western military alliance Jens Stoltenberg expressed his concern over Russia's continuing military buildup around Ukraine with over 100,000 troops We are committed to finding a political solution to the crisis But we have to be prepared for the worst Meanwhile French president Macron will hold a third call with Vladimir Putin in less than a week The official opening ceremonies of the 2022 winter games takes place tomorrow in Beijing The president of the International Olympic Committee Thomas Bach Beijing will officially be the first city to host summer and winter editions of the Olympic Games The IOC's Thomas box says Beijing held the 2008 Summer Olympics Jeff Bezos massive news super young super young Is nearing completion But getting it to its owner will require taking out a bridge For the boat to reach the ocean it will have to pass through Rotterdam and navigate a landmark steel bridge known as the heft The Dutch lift bridge central span it can be raised more than a 130 feet into the air but that still not high enough to accommodate the odds three giant masks So do you have will be mantled He used his Thomas keen influence and Jeff Bezos is paying for it Yeah here's the thing Michael on this news story he can't land his helicopter on this yacht because there's the sales are too big So you know what he did He commissioned a second yacht to trail the main yacht so he can land his helicopter Just bringing that to you That's Tom Keating money I got a 12 foot Sunday And the kill thing he put in the sunfish is used I got it from the guy next door was out of his trash Anything that fits in my bathtub that's the best I can do The closest thing I get to seasickness is when I walk the martini across the room Can we talk Olympic hockey here now You know I'm loving it We say good morning to the Benny's family and I'm going to pronounce the names on Hang a Massachusetts University of Michigan Big Ten hockey How about from Hudson Florida Nathan Smith Minnesota statement Cato in the CC HA Oh there's a guy from Harvard You got to have one guy from Harvard Good morning to Nick a bruising Slate hill New York These are college kids It's like the old days Yeah this is the NHL's used to be You know in the days when a rusion was out there on the Russians looked like Well they bring in trachea I mean this is good By the way we were talking about this this morning You know they have already been some events before the opening ceremonies And my favorite is curling She always loved curling Radio radio ratings would be Failed Spartacus going what is our talking about Juke my eyes are failing me folks Come on so norwell Massachusetts Boston University This is like that's like Mike Hyman from another time and place would be you See this is why I think it would be fun to watch the Olympics I don't want to see the pros go out there I don't know what the road is going to do This is Putin playing left defense for Russia I mean this is fun This is what the game should be all about At 2 a.m. I don't know if I'll be a deadly but well I'm already getting up for work That's exciting You know I don't remember I remember exactly where I was 8 one in 1980 Sure Absolutely Where are we We say good morning to everyone At the mountain in killington.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"rotterdam" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"In Austria there was two nights of rioting in Rotterdam today you saw actually clashes between the police and Brussels And Fisher says Dutch police alone arrested scores of protesters over the weekend In the U.S. White House chief medical adviser doctor Anthony Fauci says he hopes a single booster shot against COVID is enough bud When we're boosting people what we're doing following them we're going to see what the durability of that protection is And as we always do you just follow and let the data guide your policy and let the data guide your recommendations And Fauci on ABC's this week heard here on Bloomberg radio China is downgrading its relationship with Lithuania that's up to Taiwan opened a diplomatic office in the Baltic nation China you may remember with drew its ambassador from the country over the summer after Lithuania agreed to Taiwan setting up a Taiwan representative Chinese tennis star Pong Shui telling the International Olympic Committee she saved that word coming in a 30 minute video call with them but the women's tennis association says it's not convinced pung is actually safe You remember she disappeared after saying she was sexually harassed by a former high level Communist Party official Global news 24 hours a day on aired on Bloomberg quick take power by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than a 120 countries in the news her mind to these Pellegrini This is Bloomberg Brian All right Denise thank you very much The time now is 37 minutes past Sarah we got a little extra time Every week you get some real surprises in the NFL and this week at least three big upsets Let's get to Pete Fox He's got all the NFL scores.
WBEZ Chicago
"rotterdam" Discussed on WBEZ Chicago
"Into so much from the book. This analogy of the math so much stuff, But I think we have to start by talking about misfits. A big theme of the lecture and the book is this idea of misfits and you define them in the book. How do you define misfits? Well in the book, and even now I define a misfit is someone who either feels ostracised by society because they don't Uh, fit into whatever ideals this society has established as normal, whether that be to do with gender, sexuality, size, hair color faith, but also misfit is someone who simply looks around the world and sees it in a way that's different. So perhaps You recognize that? Oh, there's this thing that's considered normal. And the fact that something is considered normal means other things that considered abnormal. If you're aware of that, then I consider you a bit of a misfit because I imagine you're not quite satisfied with that being the reality that we live in. Yeah, you know so much of the book deals with the way that creative fields Treat misfits. You know, T V movie art music. Whatever, all of these fields and it endeavours. They want the misfit. They want what the misfits can create. They want that different world view, But they don't know how to treat the misfits. Once they bring them in. They don't know how to care for them once they bring them in. And you talk about how you experienced this yourself, and you create this really vivid image of a ladder in the book, a ladder that the misfits are climbing, and it's not fun. And you wrote at one point in this stuck with me quote many of us in the entertainment industry in this world are on creaking ladders, climbing, surrounded by noise, stress and nothing real. Not even the latter itself. Wow. What do you mean by that? Wow. It's like I wonder whether it relates to something later in the book, which is about, um, on understanding that once you have your basic needs, met. Uh, food, shelter, water clothes. Some, you know people around you that love you that everything else is Is a bit of a game. Yeah. And sometimes you know where, where? Climbing this ladder, maybe to prove ourselves to the mainstream world to, uh, and respect to be Palatable and accepted in the eyes of why this society But that ladder and that race is not Is not necessarily necessary, really? Nonetheless. Yeah, we climb it. Yeah. Have you gotten off the ladder yourself? Honestly, I think I have no fear that Yeah. How'd you do it? Tell me your secret. I wonder whether I think I may destroy you may be destroyed my ladder. It's um I realized during the process of making, I may destroy you that Okay, So first I talk about being a writer. Got the This story for me is like God, and that relationship exists outside of whatever person is going to listen to your story. Whatever audience is going to watch it, whatever commissioner or producer is going to read it. The Process of finding this story is a very spiritual and individual journey. Um yeah, it nothing else. Matters. It's like that's your bread. That's your wine. That's your water. But also in terms of, uh, sharing. I suppose my pain in a lot of ways sharing that much pain. Was quite healing, and it means that you know, I've been so listened to and so care for, Um There isn't much of a need to prove myself in this way anymore. You know, one of the things that happens in the lecture. And in the book. Is this questioning of the entertainment industry of the TV industry of the creative fields? And at one point you write quote? Why are we platform ng misfits, heralding them as new slide rich successes. Whilst they balance on creaking ladders with little chance of social mobility. You're basically and and like you go on to kind of say, like, why do you bring in these misfits? And then don't care for them and then don't see what they need. And then don't make sure they're okay. Um that question I think is just as powerful Then as it is now, do you think the industry has begun to answer that question yet? Or fix it? Uh, no, I I actually don't. Um, I think that the industry is sort of hearing the question and discussing the question, but not necessarily doing much, too. So the problem, you know? Oh, produces Networks broadcast is They wonder why writers don't meet their deadlines and end up paying back their commissions and failing to deliver. But it's often because the writer is is paid so little that they have to take for writing jobs, and it's actually really quite impossible to deliver four things at a time. I just think if the if you show the writer that you care about their well being beyond the delivery of the script beyond the job that you care about the life of the writer, even that it might make their process of writing easier. It might leave them finishing a project with their mental health intact, and I don't think there's enough of that simply because of the writers I speak to, and the exercise speak to This isn't really happening. Yeah, Yeah, And this this thing that you describe in the book that I see happens so much, you know, a young creative of color. That someone sees their talent and says, Well, come in and make this stuff But then they don't tell you how to do it. So at one point you've been commissioned to make chewing gum A T V show. They say, Go ahead and write it. And then I think, Was it a friend of yours? It says Okay, Who's your script editor who's going to edit the script? And you realize they never gave you someone to turn your words really help you turn your words into a TV script because you don't know how to write a T V script. You hadn't ridden one before, and it took months for you to say to them. Maybe I should have a script editor. Like Wow, ambling in the dark. Yeah, And, you know, I think a lot of times when these industries taking misfits They mistake rock, charisma and talent. For distinct and explicit skills in a certain field, But those are two different things. I might have all the talent in the world. But if no one showed me how to actually write a screenplay in the format of a screenplay? I cannot do it. Yeah, And it doesn't. Uh, You know, I think some people think. Oh, but that talent is so original. If we, uh, show them methods and like, blah, blah, blah. It's gonna ruin the original. This is nonsense. You know, I remember Once being told when I wrote you and I'm dreams, the play, I performed it. I think this was in Rotterdam. Mhm and someone said. Don't read too many plays because it will take away from your talent. And I thought to myself goodness like Wow, What do you think This is like? No. No, no, that works correct, But I think there's a lot of that. I also think, um, right now, you know, there's a lot of, um black people who don't want to be writers, necessarily, but they want to be producers. They want to be line producers. They want to be, um, executive producers, and so they're brought on. You know to like shadows, someone but the person that shadowing doesn't quite let them in. So literally the person they're shadowing acts like a shadow and you can't see there's no transparency, So it's kind of like you brought these people here, but you're not showing them how you do it. It's the same thing that is happening, um across the field and You know, so far, the only way I can think of helping dissolve this is by talking about it and publishing things like them attacking lecture to try and Rinse the nonsense away..
X Factor Roping Podcast
"rotterdam" Discussed on X Factor Roping Podcast
"Your shoulders are forward. Your chest is back. And you're just sitting on your horse calmly waiting to go get. Would you think that's going to do to your confidence. Your mindset anytime. your mind is not occupied with something. Positive something negative will enter your mind right if you're sitting on your horse and you're still you're not doing anything. It's a breeding ground for negative thoughts to pop in so for myself. When i'm getting ready to go. I'm jumping up and down. I'm focused on the start. I focused on winning. I think about the crowd. you know. Harm my name saying good job. I think about doing an interview afterwards with the person. I think about my instagram post. You know after the fact. I'm thinking about how great i'm gonna tell everybody my horses. You know how awesome my horse did so on priming my mind for all these things that i wanna do before my competition. The number one thing that. I see rodeo. Athletes do is standstill. It's it's terrible. It's it's when your mind is empty. It's a breeding ground for negativities. Right what do you do with the negative thoughts. 'cause i i mean like visualizing especially let's say you're sodom near rotterdam you miss something happened. You mentioned individuals. Yes it does. That happen to you all the time i would he do. Yeah i kick ass no. I'm literally a serious like there's a couple of different visualizations. That do one is that my life is like an open book like i. I don't like i literally don't shelter like almost any part of my life like how. I am the stuff i put out there. That's literally me. I'm a little bit weird. I'm a little bit goofy. I love my family ever open. That's me in a nutshell and i envisioned. My life is an open book..
Monocle 24: The Foreign Desk
Eurovision Song Contest to Proceed With Limited Audience
"The eurovision song contest is primarily. And if we're honest correctly regarded as a ludicrous pageant of dreadful and or baffling pop music. But your revision also heaves with political and diplomatic subtext outside world cups and olympic games. There are few better opportunities than you. Revision for a nation to project itself. One hundred and eighty two million people watched the two thousand and nineteen contest. Many more besides would have seen highlights and lowlights in the social media fades and not only in the thirty nine countries which compete the cancellation of last year's revision song contest due to the covid. Nineteen pandemic prompted an amount of marymount of the every cloud slash silver lining variety. But it's back. This year's eurovision song contest takes place in rotterdam next saturday preceded by semifinals. This tuesday and thursday while this is first and foremost good news for fans of cheesy songs overwrought performances and hosts with suspiciously gleaming teeth reading leaden labor dialogue. Like someone is pointing a gun at them. It is also terrifically exciting for those who appreciate your revision as sort of annual soft power tournament. What are the do's and don'ts of making the most of the national branding possibilities of eurovision who is good at it and who isn't and we'll anybody ever vote for the again.
No Agenda
"rotterdam" Discussed on No Agenda
"This is no agenda and broadcasting live from opportunities thirty-three here in the frontier austin texas capital of the drone star state in the morning. everybody. I'm out curry man from northern silicon valley where everybody's concerned they're locking down norway. I'm john c. Divorced kills man. We are too tight for this market. Let me tell you yeah. so it's on. I'm giving the warning to all slaves of gitmo nation. Right now. it's on toilet. Paper will be in short supply once again. Yes yes yes. yes you think. The suez canal was nothing. It's just a joke or sees. The traffic jam in the is getting more expensive by the our ship. The size of the empire state building is blocking. The canal cost him the global shipping industry. Nearly ten billion dollars everyday satellite images. Show the container ship after it ran aground. It's wedged against the side of the canal. Blocking more than two hundred ships crews are trying to refloat the ship but that's proving to be harder than it could take weeks to finally move it the traffic jam. This canal could lead to another toilet paper shortage here in the us. A company that produces the wood needed for toilet. Paper warns a shortage of shipping containers. Could cause a delay in product shipments. This is abc news. So you never know if it's true or not but we do have producers in the business. We had them all over the show a year ago when we first started losing toilet paper to. We'll find out if that's true or not but i. I think that this is being so underplayed the suez canal thing. It may be the center of everything at the moment. My yeah Did you know that the number one disaster operation that fixes things like it's another one's yeah in those guys you know any of them friends. I know many of them. Yeah that's a huge industry. They they they're dredges and to In fact when we had you know it makes sense. I was at in rotterdam and got Went to the israel museum that shows those gates and how they work and all the rest of it the delta plan yes the hydraulic engineering. And all the stuff. They do in that country. Because that's what they do. A country is pretty good phenomenal. I don't think people even have a clue about how astonishing those engineers are while the dutch were also called in for the bp oil spill if you'll remember to to get the rig now to get whatever they could have the rig and to contain the oil they dredge and they dig canals and this ship was in fact destined for the port of rotterdam And they've been called in so they'll be working on it and all of this according to cnbc take that for what it's worth will drive up some other things. No exaggeration to say that this is a critical waterway. There's really no way to overstate. How important the suez canal wars have been fought over. This waterway hosts about three billion dollars in freight every single day about fifty shifts. Move through here and it's been forty eight hours since it's been blocked by this ship which is actually one of the largest container ships in the world and now just today. We've heard from the head of that. Japanese company that owns the ship. They're saying that there's gonna be a dutch and japanese salvage team is going to be appointed to work with local authorities to try to get this ship back on the move yesterday. We heard some rumblings that the ship had been partially refloated. it turns out. that's not the case at all. It's still very much blocking the suez canal. Now as far as markets are concerned the prevailing wind right. Now that's buffeting. Oil indices is still the corona virus. That hasn't changed the lack of demand for oil. Because shutdown lockdown throughout the world still means that the price of oil is going to be depressed little bit even though yesterday we saw the price go up just a little bit. It seems as though this hasn't yet really had an effect on oil prices at least on the global level that could change in the coming days once we hit the weekend one sixty comes clear if it becomes clear that this is not this is going to be lasting four days or weeks rather than ours we could actually start.
No Agenda
"rotterdam" Discussed on No Agenda
"This is no agenda and broadcasting live from opportunities thirty-three here in the frontier austin texas capital of the drone star state in the morning. everybody. I'm out curry man from northern silicon valley where everybody's concerned they're locking down norway. I'm john c. Divorced kills the mon- man. We are too tight for this market. Let me tell ya yeah. So it's on. I'm giving the warning to all slaves of gitmo nation. Right now. it's on toilet. Paper will be in short supply once again. Yes yes yes. yes you think. The suez canal was nothing. It's just a joke or sees. The traffic jam in the is getting more expensive by the our ship. The size of the empire state building is blocking. The canal cost him the global shipping industry. Nearly ten billion dollars everyday satellite images. Show the container ship after it ran aground. It's wedged against the side of the canal. Blocking more than two hundred ships crews are trying to refloat but that's proving to be harder than it could take weeks to finally move it. The traffic jam this canal could lead to another toilet paper shortage here in the us. A company that produces the wood needed for toilet. Paper warns a shortage of shipping containers. Could cause a delay in product shipments. This is abc news. So you never know if it's true or not but we do have producers in the business. We had them all over the show a year ago when we first started losing toilet paper to. We'll find out if that's true or not but i. I think that this is being so underplayed the suez canal thing. It may be the center of everything at the moment. My west yeah Did you know that the number one disaster operation that fixes things like it's another one's yeah those guys you know any of them friends. I know many of them. Yeah that's a huge industry. They they're dredges and to In fact when we had you know it makes sense. I was at in rotterdam and got Went to the israel museum that shows those gates and how they work and all the rest of it the delta plan yes the hydraulic engineering. And all the stuff. They do in that country. Because that's what they do. A country is pretty good phenomenal. I don't think people even have a clue about how astonishing those engineers are while the dutch were also called in for the bp oil spill if you'll remember to to get the rig now to get whatever they could have the rig and to contain the oil they dredge and they dig canals and this ship was in fact destined for the port of rotterdam And they've been called in so they'll be working on it and all of this according to cnbc take that for what it's worth will drive up some other things. No exaggeration to say that this is a critical waterway. There's really no way to overstate. How important the suez canal wars have been fought over. This waterway hosts about three billion dollars in freight every single day about fifty shifts. Move through here and it's been forty eight hours since it's been blocked by this ship which is actually one of the largest container ships in the world and now just today. We've heard from the head of that. Japanese company that owns the ship. They're saying that there's gonna be a dutch and japanese salvage team is going to be appointed to work with local authorities to try to get this ship back on the move yesterday. We heard some rumblings that the ship had been partially refloated. it turns out. that's not the case at all. It's still very much blocking the suez canal. Now as far as markets are concerned the prevailing wind right. Now that's buffeting. Oil indices is still the corona virus. That hasn't changed the lack of demand for oil. Because shutdown lockdown throughout the world still means that the price of oil is going to be depressed little bit even though yesterday we saw the price go up just a little bit. It seems as though this hasn't yet really had an effect on oil prices at least on the global level that could change in the coming days once we hit the weekend one sixty comes clear if it becomes clear that this is not this is going to be lasting four days or weeks rather than ours we could actually start.
Mike Gallagher
Germany finds huge cocaine shipment; Dutch discover 2nd one
"Customs authorities in Germany and Belgium of sees the record haul more than 23 tons of cocaine into raids this month in the German city of Hamburg. More than 16 tons of cocaine was concealed in tins of wall filler, which had entered Europe on a container ship from Paraguay. The rest was discovered in the Belgian port of Antwerp, hidden in a container filled with wood blocks from Panama. It follows one of the largest ever heroin seizures in Europe. Officials at the port of Rotterdam impounded more than 1.5 tons of the class a drug detected in a batch of Himalayan sea salt the BBC's Anna
America First with Sebastian Gorka
Dutch teacher goes into hiding after classroom cartoon mocking jihadists is deemed 'blasphemy' by Muslim schoolgirls and prompts online threats
"Another teacher in Europe has gone into hiding because of threats following the display of a political cartoon threats forced a teacher in the port city of Rotterdam to go into hiding after some students objected to a political cartoon displayed in his classroom. That's prime minister Mark Routes spoke Friday, hours after Rotterdam police said they arrested an 18 year old girl. But they say she's suspected of posting a message on social media that incited others to commit crimes directed at the school and teacher. Root says that teachers being threatened is absurd and we must not tolerated. The threat comes weeks after French teacher's Samwell Petit was beheaded outside his school in a Paris suburb. By a teenage refugee of Chen Arjun for showing caricatures of Mohammed Keith Peters reporting
Dan Proft
Dutch PM Rutte condemns threats to teacher over cartoon
"Another teacher in Europe has gone into hiding because of threats following the display of a political cartoon. We get the complete report from Keith Peters Threats forced a teacher in the port city of Rotterdam to go into hiding after some students objected to a political cartoon displayed in his classroom. Dutch prime minister Mark Routes spoke Friday, hours after Rotterdam police said they arrested an 18 year old girl. But they say she's suspected of posting a message on social media that incited others to commit crimes directed at the school and teacher. Root says that teachers being threatened is absurd and we must not tolerated. The threat comes weeks after French teacher's Samwell Petit was beheaded outside his school in a Paris suburb. By a teenage refugee of Chen Arjun for showing caricatures
Tim Conway Jr.
Derailed Dutch train saved by a whale's tail
"Has stopped a light rail train accident in the Netherlands from being worse than it was. There was no passengers on board the train when it crashed through a stop barrier in the city of Rotterdam. The front part of the train. And was caught by a sculpture of a whale's tail.
Mandy Connell
Whale Sculpture Stops Train From Plunge in the Netherlands
"Also have what is honestly. My favorite story of the year happened in Rotterdam. Ah Metro train driver lost his brakes. And barreled through the end of a barricade at the end of the train tracks that are elevated, but luckily for him, there was a giant whale sculpture right at the end, and so he basically got caught and held up by a giant whale tail. I love this story because it looks like it's straight out of like Superman. It's awesome.
Daily Sales Tips
Jeroen Corthout On Focusing on the Work to Make the Results Follow
"Common logic is you set a goal and then you work to ours at the reaches. That's how almost everyone managers salespeople all of us think successes made you visualize an ambitious yet achievable number as your goal, and then you start working hard to achieve its. Truth is humans don't work that way we not robles. We don't have infinite discipline and we often have to scramble very last minute to achieve the goal put forward at the start of the year because you know I've got in the way of our blands. But how then do we make things happen if setting goals doesn't work? How can we humans still achieve greatness? What should we focus our minds on instant? The answer is actually rather simple. It's the consistent effort to reach that goal. So little example if your sales target is one million per year than the bending on your business that might mean closing twenty four deals of forty two gay in the year, which amounts to two per month. Before divided by twelve to and if you're close rate is about percents than that means generating twenty new leads per month, which then if you look at it is about one for working day now, that's something much more danceable. We can commit to this start sounding much much easier. All we need to focus on in the morning actually is starting getting that one you lead in the pipeline and then worked the deals already in our biplane so that in about every two weeks, one of over deals in the biplane closed, this is the magic of folks in your daily sales practice on implant sales quarter Rotterdam and output level sales quota you're eyeing. We break down a big goal into an achievable goal to reach every day of every week so that we can do consistent efforts to crush darts, and this actually applies to everything we do in life if you want to run a marathon, then just go for run a few days per week and increase the amount of time you spent. If you want to read more books than just set aside a short moment everyday to read and read a bit longer. If you're enjoying its, you'll get their focused on building habits instead of visualizing lofty goals, control the inputs Rotterdam obsessing about the the. Or as the the door toys sat through the hair slow and steady wins the race
The Functional Tennis Podcast
Dan Kiernan interview
"Welcomed episode fifty six of the functional tennis podcast I'm Fabio. Malate your host this week. I speak Don Kiernan a former pro who sit up a great academy in Sodo Grand The in Spain this episode we split into two shows this week. We'll talk about how don got into tennis winning around the Wimbledon and his road to open the Soda Tennis Academy as well as an in depth. Look into life at the academy next week. Week we'll be back with Don. Thomas how used the covert pandemic as an opportunity grow worldwide, and we also took deeply mental health issues in tennis, it or podcast sponsors head on. If you're on twitter, please give us a follow over at Funk tennis. That's F.. U.. N. C. Tennis. We have restarted our twitter account on. Want to be more active over there, and it's a great way to connect witter listeners. Okay, that's get started. Hi Don Williams Functional Tennis Podcast Bobbio. Thanks. Thanks for having me. It's been a while I've been wanting to get you on. For various reasons, one being of no from Soda Tenths Academy Long Before I started functional tennis true. My pile and you're in another lsu alumni like yourself. James Clusky did a bit of training. What you over there at the lots right I mean not not going back. Somebody's Fabio but. Yet James would come out. You know every now and then and actually back in the day. Liam broady and I'm sure James Old. Thank me for this story. He actually beat tweeted a physical testing and he beat Liam broady in the sprints. And he's ever let Liam from at down. You know so the the good old days and Diaries players over the as well the connection speed strong I. Don't believe I don't believe Clusky WanNa Erase. We have a video someone. The archives I think it was potentially down to Liam Brody's lack of effort a little bit, but but hey, at the end of the day still. On the day And Liam GonNa have time for it ever. Since that's for sure, you find that you got to send that to me to. Also we have a top academies, a list on functional tennis and we just don't WanNa ride. A best top academies are Sotos entered. That will enter that list. When this podcast is live, you'll be on that list, so it's great to speak to the founder onto the main man who's who said up the academy, and that's why I want to this podcast as As well, we've done it with a few of their economies on. It's great, and it just gives listeners a better insight into the Academy Rotterdam. Some information you send me how far from the airport all that SORTA stuff so to speak and get your values on C.. Bit More in depth had the academy Ron's I I really appreciate that Fabio naught, and any you know any supports categories like ourselves can get from from platforms like yourself is is is massively appreciated. You know and. On. All questions on on any topic as honestly as possible. So anything you want to know about the academy we can, we can. We can get into the detail Shuba Great. That's fantastic and. Is a no German covert has been tougher. All academies coaches players for everybody every line of business, but I think you've handled it really well. You've been really progressive. and. You've been really busy I heard. You say you haven't been off. Have Not Day off and fourteen weeks like that since went is covert, really started and I want to hear more Beth data. What worked for you? What didn't work about you and how I fade? You'RE GONNA commander. This stronger than you did going into it, which is not the case for everybody, so be great to get some insight into that the obsolete. It's been a fina testing challenge. Challenge in time I think the everybody globally in offset it on a couple of our podcasts. It's almost that I think that's helped us all little bit that everybody's in the same boat you know. I think is been a there's been a connection that people have made through this pandemic and I always a big believer. The adversity says a lot you know, says a lot about tennis. Pledges says a lot about people I have to admit I had a brilliant. Brilliant team over the last few weeks you know. I sometimes get some of the praise for the initiatives, but there's a law. Grad people behind me that doing the work and work and extremely hard, while so feel very fortunate and feel feel very connected to my team and brought us closer together, and you know like like you said I. Hope a law because things will come out of this as well.
The Passing Shot Tennis Podcast
Fan Favourites
"Hello everybody happy while wherever you are on this glorious year revision we can came under your Eurovision Song contest fan you. I think you're even begin to it this year. Weren't you in in Rotterdam so? Have you been coping without the prospect of any sort of live dies than well getting Easter? Now Joel tennis being canceled Irvine being cancelled. Yeah I had tickets for the first time and it's law it was council but hopefully out next year and we had celebration on on the TV last night and had some Swedish food and some cocktails to kind of raise a bit of a glass to what what never happened. But but yeah I think I think you were watching us. Well Joe. You're right yes I was. I catch Lubbock came. I'm going to hold my hand up here. Johnny Logan he comes on the TV and have no idea who he is by turns out. He's he's pretty much the go of of the on contests Mariah a bit. Like the Federa of of your vision life. If you don't tennis you you at least know the name federal. Maybe Johnny Logan could could be a bit like that but yeah. I was quite surprised. You shouldn't you've never heard of him. He's one well three times twice as a singer songwriter. Say He is the kind of the winningest person in in your vision. I guess you could say but yeah maybe actually we can do a European podcast as well. But let's let's go to tennis because we're going to be looking at the Italian. Upn and top eight movements. The happened in rave the last few decades. And perhaps I should lead on this one job because I'm going start with a moment featuring the man himself rapper. One of surprise well yes and listeners. And said he'd rougher bear with us because we all see you're not the end of the alternative Casey's season I mean let's be honest because light Madrid. Rome is Dallas. Hi I think he's one like what nine titles zero something ludicrously say is as as hardly a surprise to kind of see him featured this list say yes came. More is was the first moment. We're WE'RE GONNA be reliving. Well I thought we have liquor two thousand five. Which was you know I play horses and really where he takes. The kind of took it by storm. He won the first time. Yeah his first of nine titles. I think back in five and so he came up against Korea. Who at the time I guess was probably the most to stop ish claycourter of over air or at least one of them very face competitor for sure but the final was another five-set Masters Final five-set thriller? It was over five hours long. Which if you think about now if they were doing that consistently Austin Final Monte Carlo Madrid. That would just be insane. I mean I actually am believe that they used to do this to be called with the but yeah it was. It was a real ding. Dong to one of the better word. Joe Six four three six six three full six and then rougher one at seven six on a law set tiebreak but think about this much. Rougher was a double breakdown and fifth say. Who's three lockdown Sakaria? Really could've gone on us up momentum going away and one but I think really is kind of weakest point throughout his whole career was was his mental strength and he kind of collapsed that combined with with. Rafa you know. Obviously he's attitude his diehard shoot. Never giving up. He was on like a sixteen match winning streak at this point and say obviously he. He had a lot of belief in his game. And but I think Korea would be very devastated after this loss at I think. Actually in his post-match she interceded say this was one of the hardest defeats of his career. I think it was interesting to is. I think Korea probably getting into this matching gains clay season. Yeah he's probably thinking. I'm beatable on clay call. There is no one else out there better than me and who comes along on the Dow eighteen year old teenage eh relatively unheard of and I think this match proved that even when Korea was playing his absolutely best tennis possible. That was someone else out there better than him and I think he was kind of disheartened by that and I think this much great show us. You said mentally he you know he wasn't as strong as some of his other competitors or I think when you're three love up Double in the fifth set us really should be closing that match out and he wasn't able to do that. I think that's one of the things we might associate with a player who you know as brilliant as he is in Korea kind of on the mental side of things. I don't think you could put him up there with the greats and I kind of look at this match. I look at the two thousand four French Open final as well where he Gaston Gaudio. In the final game was five sets but again crucially he was two sets up. He was six love. Six three up was unable to close out the the match. And you know he's probably one of these as you put in the category of greatest players never have one. Ud wonder if if he hit if he had won if he had won this final in in Rome beaten Dow that would have given him the confidence indicate and reinforce that belief that he was and he was at the time the best the best clay court player in the world. I think obviously that loss against scout and then going into this match against Rafeh just his. His mental side of things just wasn't subscription. A Rafeh had beaten him in the Monte Carlo. Final just a couple of weeks before this so again he knew he was up against and he kind of let it. Let it slip away to be honest with you and Yeah so I just thought you know. Obviously this was this was a great match and it was symbolic because again you have this is like the birth of of Raffarin. His kind of play. Call dominance in this. Totally kind of pulsing off of his. You know the best steak or two at the time we had people like Carlos Moya one Ferrara Cowdrey. Kara in a sort of all very good establish trae which just as soon as Raff kind of started working his magic. He'd I guess it kind of became almost impossible. Perhaps to argue against for being the best. Geico
BrainStuff
Are Some People Immune to Mosquitoes?
"And here in Georgia or getting our first mosquitoes of the year for me. That means I got a bunch of bytes when I ventured outside for a socially distant walk yesterday but are some people immune to mosquitoes brain stuff. It's Christian Sager. If you're like most people you hate mosquitoes. They're kind of the Andy Dick of the insect world annoying and in some cases dangerous. If we rate animals by the number of deaths they cause these little bloodsuckers top the charts by a wide margin and this is due to their transmission of malaria and other harmful diseases. And whether your next mosquito bite causes serious illness or intense frustration. We can all agree. Mosquitoes are just the worst. But are some people immune to mosquito bites I? Let's be clear mosquito. Bites aren't actually bites when a mosquito lands on you she uses her purpose it's a long double tube mouthpiece to Pierce your skin and get at the blood underneath and yes. That's a she every single mosquito that has ever been. You has been female. They bite you because they need a protein in your blood to develop their eggs when a mosquito uses her antenna to sense the warm blood beneath your skin and then pops her bosses in to tap your capillaries one of those tubes inject saliva. While the other one withdraws blood. The saliva contains enzymes that act as a Mild Painkiller and thins the blood to prevent. Clotting your body interprets these enzymes foreign invaders and produces histamine histamine binds to receptors in the bite area dilating local blood vessels this increased blood flow summons. More white blood cells. And when you get too much histamine the bite area can swell and redden creating what's called a wheel yeah wheel. That's the word of the day now. Each person will react to a bite. Differently and your allergies will vary so. What makes a mosquito choose a certain person? Well there are a number of factors one of the biggest being that there are more than three thousand known varieties of mosquitoes. And they're not all looking for the same thing for those that dig a nice sip of human blood smell body temperature. In genetics play huge roles. According to scientists at Rotterdam research each human body can produce anywhere from three hundred to four hundred distinct chemical odors. Some of which are bug magnets and others. They might be bug. Repellent research from a chemist named all. Rick Burke shows that mosquitoes are particularly fond of carbon dioxide. That's released from explanation and the skin and they also like lactic acid which present on our skin after exercise now drinking beer being pregnant and being a bigger person can all also make you more attractive to Mosquitos. Diet and blood type. Surprisingly don't seem to matter so much. Everybody has these yummy chemicals on their body. But it seems that the people mosquitoes avoid produce higher amounts of repellent chemicals Dr James Logan from Rotterdam set up a pretty weird experiment to see if he could find these all important. Repellent Chemicals is teams separated people into two groups MOSQUITO FAVORITES AND MOSQUITO MS. They put these folks in body size foil bags to collect their odors for two hours and they used a chromatograph to analyze the chemicals. They'd collected and hooked electrodes up to mosquito antenna to see what the bugs thought of each smell. They found about seven or eight made a difference. These odors were present insignificantly different quantities between those people who were attractive to Mosquitos and those who weren't their study published in the Journal of Medical. Entomology cited to chemicals as significantly repellent. One called six methyl five Heston to one which apparently smells of Nail Polish remover. And another called Jared Acetone which has a kind of floral odor as of this recording the race to use these and other chemicals as a new. Super Bug. Repellent is in full swing. So you probably know that. Bacteria is largely responsible for the various smells of the human body. Each human being is home to a unique mix of trillions of microbes. It's sort of like a fingerprint now. Our genes may play a large role. In determining what sort of microbial life forms we end up hosting in two thousand fifteen a team led by doctor. Manuela Fernandez grand untested the Herod ability of attractiveness to mosquitoes using twins. The twins would put a hand into either end of a sealed dome along with twenty female mosquitoes. Now don't worry. They weren't allowed to bite. Researchers gave each subject in attractiveness score compared to the other hand identical twins had consistently more similar scores compared to fraternal twins so genes do seem to play a role. This may be tough news for the twenty percent or so of people that mosquitoes find particularly attractive. If you're one of the local mosquitoes favorite dishes. Remember to keep some kind of bug repellent with you and to wear long sleeves and pants if the weather allows especially in areas of the world where these bugs carried diseases like malaria or dengue. And I suppose there's a little light at the end of this mosquito net tunnel here. Some people do have a chance of building up a tolerance after repeated mosquito bites but for others. The allergy just
Hugh Hewitt
Crew member of cruise ship with virus cases dies
"A crew member who became sick aboard the Holland America line's cruise ships and dam has died in Florida the Broward county medical examiner confirms the death of fifty year old women with dark tale of Indonesia we Darko tested positive for cold did nineteen raising the corona virus related death toll on the sand dam two four is that damage its sister ship the Rotterdam were stuck at sea for two weeks as both ships were denied ports in South America they were finally allowed to dock in Florida last
AP News Radio
Crew member of cruise ship with virus cases dies in Florida
"A crew member who became sick aboard the Holland America line's cruise ships and dam has died in Florida the Broward county medical examiner confirms the death of fifty year old women with dark tale of Indonesia we dart toe tested positive for coke did nineteen raising the corona virus related death toll on the sand dam two for the send them and its sister ship the Rotterdam were stuck at sea for two weeks as both ships were denied ports in South America they were finally allowed to dock in Florida last Friday I might cross your
AP News Radio
Crew member of cruise ship with virus cases dies in Florida
"A crew member who became sick aboard the Holland America line's cruise ships and dam has died in Florida the Broward county medical examiner confirms the death of fifty year old women with dark tale of Indonesia we dart toe tested positive for coke did nineteen raising the corona virus related death toll on the sand dam two for the send them and its sister ship the Rotterdam were stuck at sea for two weeks as both ships were denied ports in South America they were finally allowed to dock in Florida last Friday I might cross your
AP News Radio
Crew member of cruise ship with virus cases dies in Florida
"A crew member who became sick aboard the Holland America line's cruise ships and dam has died in Florida the Broward county medical examiner confirms the death of fifty year old women with dark tale of Indonesia we dart toe tested positive for coke did nineteen raising the corona virus related death toll on the sand dam two for the send them and its sister ship the Rotterdam were stuck at sea for two weeks as both ships were denied ports in South America they were finally allowed to dock in Florida last Friday I might cross your
AP News Radio
Crew member of cruise ship with virus cases dies in Florida
"A crew member who became sick aboard the Holland America line's cruise ships and dam has died in Florida the Broward county medical examiner confirms the death of fifty year old women with dark tale of Indonesia we dart toe tested positive for coke did nineteen raising the corona virus related death toll on the sand dam two for the send them and its sister ship the Rotterdam were stuck at sea for two weeks as both ships were denied ports in South America they were finally allowed to dock in Florida last Friday I might cross your
AP News Radio
Crew member of cruise ship with virus cases dies in Florida
"A crew member who became sick aboard the Holland America line's cruise ships and dam has died in Florida the Broward county medical examiner confirms the death of fifty year old women with dark tale of Indonesia we dart toe tested positive for coke did nineteen raising the corona virus related death toll on the sand dam two for the send them and its sister ship the Rotterdam were stuck at sea for two weeks as both ships were denied ports in South America they were finally allowed to dock in Florida last Friday I might cross your
WBZ Afternoon News
Cruise passengers to be flown home without quarantine, despite concerns
"More than a thousand cruise ship passengers planning to begin flying home from Florida today two ships folly were allowed to dock yesterday the Van Dam of the Rotterdam were held at sea because at least nine passengers are tested positive for culvert nineteen four others died all passengers being screened before they go into the airport health officials escorting them from the tarmac on two chartered
News and Perspective with Tom Hutyler
Cruise passengers to be flown home without quarantine, despite concerns
"In Florida passengers from two Holland America cruise ships carefully freed from their cabins after the removal of fourteen critically ill pet passengers who were taken to area hospitals the exodus from the sand dam in the Rotterdam expected to continue throughout the day with passengers boarding charter flights set to