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WTOP
"spring festival" Discussed on WTOP
". D.C. residents say nova drivers are the worst. Nova driver say Maryland drivers are the worst and Maryland drivers say D.C. drivers are the worst. Washington Post transportation before to Michael laris says people were also asked, where's the best shopping? A lot of people pointed to Northern Virginia because Tyson's the history of Tyson's enticing two and the sort of high end dropping that's available there. Most people said D.C. has the best restaurant. Kyle Cooper, WTO news. As the 2023 Maryland General Assembly session draws down to a close, the house has passed a bill that regulates how the recreational cannabis industry will operate in the state starting this summer, just days before adjournment of the session, the house debated on final details for the use and sale of recreational cannabis in Maryland, which starts July 1st. The bill requires dispensaries, keep us certain amount of products specifically for their medical users and to prioritize their customers. The bill also regulates how close dispensaries can be to schools, playgrounds, parks, and other dispensaries. The recreational users will also be taxed 9% at the register, the bill is now headed to governor Wes Morris desk, who is expected to sign it. We're hearing from the top prosecutor in Maryland following a pair of rulings from federal judges on abortion access. In the wake of both rulings, Maryland's attorney general says marylanders need to know that access to mifepristone remains intact for the time being. Anthony Brown not wasting any time issuing a statement where he calls the decision from the federal judge in Texas and attack on reproductive freedom. He went on to say that the abortion medicine has helped ease access for decades to abortion services critical to the health and safety of individuals across the state and the country. Attorney general Brown says that Marilyn will continue working to protect access in every individual's right to choose. And Kramer, WTO news. Want to enjoy the beautiful spring weather over the next few weeks on a farm full of flowers that you can bring home. There's a spring festival just an hour outside of town. I've never seen this many flowers in one place. When you get here to burnside farms and oaksville, Virginia, you get a basket and get to pick from millions of tulips and daffodils across 20 acres. There are over 200 varieties and you can tell as you walk along beautiful blooms of light purple, red and yellow sunburst, and even a few hot pink tulips, spot one you like, you just pull it up and take it home. Each ticket to the farm comes with 5 flowers and it's only a buck extra per tulip. Don't worry, you'll leave with a couple of extra dozen, just like I did. The festival of spring at burnside farms wraps up in the last week of April for ticket
WTOP
"spring festival" Discussed on WTOP
". D.C. residents say nova drivers are the worst. Nova drivers say Maryland drivers are the worst and Maryland drivers say D.C. drivers are the worst. Washington Post transportation before to Michael laris says people were also asked, where's the best shopping? A lot of people pointed to Northern Virginia because Tyson's the history of Tyson's enticing two and the sort of high end dropping that's available there. Most people said D.C. has the best restaurant. Kyle Cooper, WTO news. We're hearing from the top prosecutor in Maryland following a pair of rulings from federal judges on abortion access. In the wake of both rulings, Maryland's attorney general says marylanders need to know that access to mifepristone remains intact for the time being. Anthony Brown not wasting any time issuing a statement where he calls the decision from the federal judge in Texas and attack on reproductive freedom. He went on to say that the abortion medicine has helped ease access for decades to abortion services critical to the health and safety of individuals across the state and the country. Attorney general Brown says that Marilyn will continue working to protect access in every individual's right to choose and Kramer, WTO news. Want to enjoy the beautiful spring weather over the next few weeks on a farm full of flowers that you can bring home. There's a spring festival just an hour outside of town. I've never seen this many flowers in one place. When you get here to burnside farms and oaksville, Virginia, you get a basket and get to pick from millions of tulips and daffodils across 20 acres. There are over 200 varieties and you can tell as you walk along beautiful blooms of light purple, red and yellow sunburst, and even a few hot pink tulips, spot one you like, you just pull it up and take it home. Each ticket to the farm comes with 5 flowers and it's only a buck extra per tulip. Don't worry, you'll leave with a couple of extra dozen, just like I did. The festival of spring at burnside farms wraps up in the last week of April, for ticket
AP News
"spring festival" Discussed on AP News
" On this week's AP religion roundup. It will soon be time to pay Caesar to visit Rome's Pantheon, a Hong Kong ritual wax away troubles and a Zoroastrian holiday causes some to hit the streets as others hit their pocketbooks. Tourists in Rome checking out the Pantheon will soon pay €5 for admission. Proceeds will be split between the culture ministry and the Roman Catholic Church, tourists at the site were divided over the new fee. I wasn't really expensive to stay here so I think it's a very nice building and for us to visit for free is wonderful. We are fully understand that it's necessary maybe to pay, you know, for the securing of the value, what is possible to say inside. The Pantheon was built as a Roman temple more than 2000 years ago. It was transformed into a church 14th century ago, and mass is regularly celebrated there. For people holding a grudge in Hong Kong, one way to release their anger is to take part in a villain hitting ritual. Edison Chan says he hopes the ritual will help cut out gossip and keep bad people away from him. Ritual practitioners, mostly older women, use a shoe to bash an image of the person who was the target of their customer's anger. One practitioner says many of her customers are people who have trouble at work or feel like they're being unfairly treated. She says she helps them by symbolically whacking the bad people away for a fee of 50 Hong Kong dollars. The ritual includes blessings from Hong Kong's goddess of the sea, as well as divine beings related to Buddhism. The markets in Iraq's Kurdish region are busy, as people prepare for the spring festival of Nauru. The Persian new year, the holiday dates back to at least 1700 BCE, and incorporates ancient Zoroastrian traditions. This year, however, now ruz coincides with the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. Shopper delga is having the two holidays at the same time creates a bit of a financial burden. In Iran, a fyre festival related to the holiday spark protests. Demonstrators chanted against the country's ruling clerics and hurled firecrackers at security forces. Hardliners have long condemned the fyre festival as an Islamic. I'm Walter ratliff.
AP News Radio
It will soon be time to render unto Caesar to visit Rome's pantheon, a Hong Kong ritual whacks away troubles, and a Zoroastrian holiday cause some to hit the streets as others hit their pocket books.
"On this week's AP religion roundup. It will soon be time to pay Caesar to visit Rome's Pantheon, a Hong Kong ritual wax away troubles and a Zoroastrian holiday causes some to hit the streets as others hit their pocketbooks. Tourists in Rome checking out the Pantheon will soon pay €5 for admission. Proceeds will be split between the culture ministry and the Roman Catholic Church, tourists at the site were divided over the new fee. I wasn't really expensive to stay here so I think it's a very nice building and for us to visit for free is wonderful. We are fully understand that it's necessary maybe to pay, you know, for the securing of the value, what is possible to say inside. The Pantheon was built as a Roman temple more than 2000 years ago. It was transformed into a church 14th century ago, and mass is regularly celebrated there. For people holding a grudge in Hong Kong, one way to release their anger is to take part in a villain hitting ritual. Edison Chan says he hopes the ritual will help cut out gossip and keep bad people away from him. Ritual practitioners, mostly older women, use a shoe to bash an image of the person who was the target of their customer's anger. One practitioner says many of her customers are people who have trouble at work or feel like they're being unfairly treated. She says she helps them by symbolically whacking the bad people away for a fee of 50 Hong Kong dollars. The ritual includes blessings from Hong Kong's goddess of the sea, as well as divine beings related to Buddhism. The markets in Iraq's Kurdish region are busy, as people prepare for the spring festival of Nauru. The Persian new year, the holiday dates back to at least 1700 BCE, and incorporates ancient Zoroastrian traditions. This year, however, now ruz coincides with the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. Shopper delga is having the two holidays at the same time creates a bit of a financial burden. In Iran, a fyre festival related to the holiday spark protests. Demonstrators chanted against the country's ruling clerics and hurled firecrackers at security forces. Hardliners have long condemned the fyre festival as an Islamic. I'm Walter ratliff.
Bob and Sheri
"spring festival" Discussed on Bob and Sheri
"You know what? If you were raised by a she wolf, even your she wolf mother would give you some crap about having to pick you up after 10 o'clock on middle school madness. Oh, yeah. Oh my God. I've stayed up this late and you're covered in goat blood. Exactly. I know. Yeah. So here's a fun little fact. There's a famous sum ancient Roman historian named plutarch, who wrote the life of Julius Caesar. And part of how Julius Caesar and Mark Antony got so much beef between them. It wasn't just, you know, the whole Cleopatra thing. There's a lot of beef between Caesar and Mark Antony. And it was because during one of these crazy goat sacrificing naked men chasing women, lupercalia feasts, Mark Antony approached Julius Caesar and offered him the gift of a golden crown and Caesar rejected the gift and that was a dis and there we have the very beginnings of the kind of beef that brings down empires. I mean, if somebody offered me a golden crown, I would have taken it. I would have taken a Burger King crown with the old station we lived in. That's our pissy Caesar was. He was like, I'd like a golden crown, but not from your foul hands. Guys hate that. They really hate that. So that's very interesting. So be glad that this Valentine's Day, the only thing required of you is flour and chocolates. I don't need you to sacrifice a goat, take off your clothes, smear yourself with blood, chase your wife around with a strip of leather. For any man that thinks flowers is a lot, folks, it used to be a lot more is what we're seeing. We're so lucky. We're so lucky. There you go. Happy lupercalia, everyone. It's bob and sherry. Leave us a talk. Talk back with the free bob and cherry app. Can I give the folks a little behind the scenes look at the bob and sherry show here, very briefly, sherry. Sure. We work. We work with somebody wonderful program directors around the country, and they will send us a little promo ads. They want us to do, like if they have, oh, I don't know a spring festival or something. You know, we'll announce, hey, the spring festival is coming up. Don't forget to make plans to know that sort of thing. So somebody sent us a request and they said, this is for a promotion that's coming up. It's a train ride in the Woods or something like that. Could you get the two of them to do it? Not just sherry or not just bob. Could you get the two of them? And I'd like to that phrase. The two of them, do you think that we've been recently? That's been used a lot. Do you really think so? Yeah. The tour. Those two and we should have named our company those two. Those two and the two of them. The two of them, especially. When people refer to you as those two and the two of them? Yeah. It's usually not in a good way. You know who I bet. I know who used to call us that all the time. You know that sales person, the woman. I bet she referred to us as the two of them. You know, why was she doing that? We are so nice. We're so nice. To each other. Maybe this is what it's called. That's what's always confused us. We're like, we are delightful to each other. Now we're delightful to most people. Come on now. Come on now. We are. Not to them, though. Well, that's where those two. That were the two of them. Yeah, well, we had names for them too. So we would tell you the names we had for them, but we can't. Oh, you can't. No, that's right. That's right. So I'm okay with that. I just really, I feel terrible that we didn't call when we were doing CDs, one of the CDs, the two of them. Would have been perfect. It would have been you're right. We missed an opportunity there. We did. Well, you know what? I want to make a note. Right now. Good. That's great. It's bob and sherry. The two of them. Skip the trip to the grocery store and spend more time doing the things you love. With chef crafted recipes, delivered to your door from HelloFresh. And now you can upgrade to organic chicken or organic ground beef on select meals. Sign up today for 65% off plus free shipping with code bob and sherry 65 at HelloFresh dot com slash bob and sherry's 65. That's code bob and sherry 65 at HelloFresh dot com slash bob and sherry's 65. The bob and sharing bald is brought to you by O'Reilly auto parts your professional parts people. Now, let's open up the bobbin sherry, archive vault. So sherry was looking at
WTOP
"spring festival" Discussed on WTOP
"Com for rules. This is WTO news. And one 52 recent data shows more than 300 people a day are dying of COVID. Most of them are older people. More than 300 people a day are still dying of COVID infection, the most recent data indicate and the majority of them are older people. Sean Lang, a geriatrics expert at Johns Hopkins, says his recent study looking at how older people respond to vaccination, demonstrates some good news. By the time we run our COVID vaccination study, we recruited 82 people into the study, the average age is 84, 85. The young state was like 75, but the oldest one is 99 years old. Those people are already in our infrared immunization study. So we do have a broad sample before the vaccine was given. We measured four different parameters of the antibody response. All those older individuals you mount a very robust antibody response by all four measures. Lang says the issue really is how long this response lasts necessitating boosters. At Johns Hopkins, I'm Elizabeth Tracy. We have long heard that eating fish is good for your health. Now researchers are saying not so fast. Fish caught in some ponds, lakes and streams could be hazardous to your health. A study published in environmental research has found that locally caught freshwater fish, including catfish perch and small mouth bass, across the nation, are contaminated with so called forever chemicals. These are manufactured chemicals used in things like food packaging and waterproof fabrics. They're called forever chemicals because of their persistence in both the environment and the body. The researchers say identifying and eliminating sources of human exposure to forever chemicals is a public health priority. Particularly on WTO P news. Researchers say potential effects include an increased risk of cancer, high cholesterol, thyroid disease, and reproductive and developmental problems. The 23 year old man is dead after apparently being shot in northeast, police say it happened in the 4000 block of Minnesota avenue on Thursday evening. Keyshawn Cornish of lanham was found suffering from gunshot wounds, his body taken to the office of the chief medical examiner. D.C. police are offering a reward of up to $25,000 to anyone who provides information that leads to an arrest and conviction in this case, you can find more details at WTO P dot com. The lunar new year or spring festival is one of the most important and most celebrated holidays in China and parts of Asia in the D.C. region will be celebrating it in many ways. The annual lunar new year parade tomorrow will fill the streets of D.C.'s Chinatown neighborhood with
AP News Radio
Lunar New Year rush starts in China after virus rules lifted
"The relaxation of COVID-19 restrictions has let loose a wave of pent up travel desire, particularly around China's most important time for family gatherings, referred to as the spring festival. The Chinese government expects over 2.1 billion journeys to be made during a 40 day travel period around New Year's Day, which falls on Sunday. Beijing hairdresser Wang laudan tells the AP now restrictions are lifted, she's more relaxed and taking a train back home to heilongjiang province, many countries have imposed testing requirements on travelers from China to the foreign ministry has protested and warriors remain about the spread of the virus since containment measures were lifted. I'm Charles De Ledesma
Science Friction
"spring festival" Discussed on Science Friction
"You're listening to science friction, I'm Elizabeth coalesce. Today, the pursuit of COVID zero, a dream once shared by many countries, including Australia, of course, but one that's becoming increasingly difficult in the face of a new more contagious variant and COVID fatigue. One major holdout still pursuing elimination is China. Although the country will have to deal with considerable challenges in the coming weeks. The timing is not good. The spring festival overlaps with the Winter Olympics. During the spring festival, many travel to visit family in the weeks before and after the lunar new year. Associate professor Xi chin tells me this is especially concerning, given that some recent data suggests around 50 million older adults in China remain unvaccinated. So those are the high risk people. And most of them, if you break down the data, it shows that they live in countryside. So through the spring festival, the virus transmission could be brought by their kids by their family members. So this high mobility, high transmission, we are bringing virus to every corner of the country. So that's very worrisome. Also worrisome is the challenge of hosting a Winter Olympics, which began with an opening ceremony at Beijing's bird's nest stadium on Friday night. In the weeks leading up to the games, organizers made a last minute decision to cancel ticket sales to the public, and this year, the Olympics will be functioning inside what authorities are calling a closed loop. So yeah, it's the biggest test in a way for China to see whether or not you can withstand omnikron. Everybody, whether they're athletes or coaches or journalists, they enter China through this isolated bubble system. The bust to hotels or to the athletes village in the case of the Olympians themselves. Just incredibly restricted in what you can do. You're not allowed to go around Beijing and hang out at Tiananmen Square and take photos and it's not like that. There's no walking down the street for a snack at night. No, it's really controlled. In the Olympics hour, for example, you could probably walk around a bit. But the whole thing has been rigidly controlled. It's a big quarantine bubble. There's going to be a bit of COVID in that double. But once the Olympics is said and done, local Beijing is who are involved, for example, the ABC has a cameraman in Beijing. He's a local. And once he finishes filming the Olympics, he will spend 21 days in hotel quarantine in Beijing before he's allowed to return. And he's never even left the city. China's sup methods have been effective. But scientific truths remain a huge population with no natural immunity to the virus. Little understanding of the efficacy of its vaccines, and virtually no experience of learning to live with COVID. She Chen says it means that China could find itself a victim of its own success. Yeah, that's my concern. Once this is a success story, it may not mean this is forever success. China has been largely maintained. Zero COVID. That's a good thing, but also a parasite means that they do not have real data to reopen. They need a real transmission data hospitalization data and the test data to make decisions how to reopen how much cost they can be out once they reopen. But you know that there is almost no environment for virus transmission in China. So all the data come from outside. So I think without knowing those.
KOMO
"spring festival" Discussed on KOMO
"Of it out to Seattle's foremost families saving them from bankruptcy Bluenose Seattle disapproved of madam Liu perhaps that's why she was largely forgotten after her death in 1903 But the new crocodile has not forgotten Lu Celebrated because of the line of work that she was in She wanted to name our lower level bar after her Nicky Barron says madam Lewis the croc's new 350 capacity second stage will celebrate the legacy of Seattle's Gritty entrepreneurial spirit and especially female empowerment And our spring festival Which is our all female forward music festival That'll be overtaking the whole building In the meantime madam Lewis is now hosting everything from special dance nights to all ages punk shows I've been around since the old days corwin hake como news Your money at 20 and 50 past the hour on como news Sponsored by propel insurance Stocks ended a bottle of the week on another down note with a sell off in the technology sector taking center stage that owned us just lost 60 points The S&P 500 fell 38 and the tech heavy NASDAQ composite tumbled 296 or 1.9% One stock that did very well Zillow Late yesterday the Seattle based online real estate company announced a new share buyback program and said it has sold or is in the process of selling more than half the homes it purchased in a home buying spree earlier this year which led the company to end its offers business Zillow shares rallied 11% today A report says Ford of his nearing a deal to acquire healthcare software maker probation medical for about $1.4 billion from its private equity owner citing people familiar with the matter Bloomberg says Everett based Fortive could announce the transaction within days That's your money now I'm Jim cesco komo news The Biden administration says the U.S. government will require private health insurers to reimburse their customers for over the counter at home coronavirus tests in addition to making 50 million tests available for free through the royal clinics and health centers more vaccines will be available at pharmacies as well to help fight the new fast spreading amaron variant New data released by the CDC is now showing nearly one in 40 U.S. children are affected by autism Data collected from the 2018 shows that 2.3% of 8 year old children fall on the autism spectrum compared to the previous data that put the figure close to 1.9% The CDC explained the higher rates of diagnosis are believed to be the result of improvements in identifying the disorder in children A recent study says mercury led another pollutants may be affecting the ratio of boys to girls born every year Areas with higher mercury exposure see a slightly higher ratio of boys and areas with more lead in the soil a higher proportion of girls Health updates Scott Pringle NBC News radio The scientists are scrambling to discover the potential dangers of the recently discovered a Macron buried as more reported cases continue to pop up nationwide ABC News medical contributor and president of the Robert wood Johnson foundation doctor Richard besser explains why all Macron is turning so many heads while other variants like the lambda and mu went under the radar Concern was if this variant is so different from the variants that have been around before maybe our vaccines won't be as effective Right Maybe the monoclonal antibodies that are a therapy for this won't be as effective And until we answer that question we should be really careful Como traffic from the duben law group traffic center in ever the earlier crash on Rucker avenue at 37th street has been cleared away I'm still seeing a bit of slowing but traffic is moving.
Talk 1260 KTRC
"spring festival" Discussed on Talk 1260 KTRC
"It's the Saturday after Thanksgiving is that when we do it usually juice Lee, we usually hold our fundraiser Thanksgiving weekend. So, yes, So the weekend and Thanksgiving is usually on Thursdays. And so we usually have our fundraiser and we wanna show our appreciation to La Fonda Hotel and Jennifer Wise Kimble for a supporting our organization with many other supporters we have throughout Santa Fe. But yes, so hopefully we will have our fundraiser on Thanksgiving weekend at the La Fonda Hotel. Yes, Everything has to keep going in the right direction in terms of covert right so we can all get together again. Do you all have any life performances actually special right now, police, or have you not been able to do that because of the situation? You know, we're starting to do that right now we have. We're doing every other sad, sad Friday. Oh ho Santa Fe, and that's five. So and then I think we're going to do the Spring Festival. I think it's called the Spring Festival at last gallon marinas, and I think that's the weekend of June six, and then we always have a group that goes to the sound of a plaza Saturdays and Sunday. From about 3 to 5 to and so you're going to start up again. So when will you start about Plaza? They've already started. Oh, really? Oh, Grace, and you could go to the plaza today or tomorrow and and see the Lightning Boy Foundation dancers that's excellent to know usually are usually there on the weekends Saturdays. Exactly. Yeah, Yeah, yeah. Yeah. So that'll be so exciting to go down. I mean, I haven't really gotten out that much that I don't know that that many other people have either. But as we start to you could go down and see the Lightning Boy Foundation dancers at the Santa Fe Plaza and then in 2022. There's going to be the first annual Dakota Lawrence Memorial Hoop dance. And when did you say what month did you say You're planning that for 2022 stupid? No, probably be in August of 2022 again. It is the first annual Dakota Durant's youth hoop dance competition. That's great, That's great. And then that's going to be accompanied by an exhibition at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture That's going to be about the hoop dance. So who will you have? Will you have some curator is from the museum helping people understand all the things about the hoop dance? Yes, We're planning the exhibit part of the portion of the event with the Museum of Indian Arts and culture. And we hope to get some of our elders from some of the pueblos to talk about the origin and history and meaning of the group dances well, so we're hopefully planning to have a speakers for him. That we can, uh, invite some of our elders to talk about the hoop dance and its origin and its background and another thing I wanted to mention is that we're very proud of our youth group dancers. This year, the herd museum. Hoop dance contest was held virtually and our youth group dancers and many of our instructors placed in many of the top positions for 1st, 2nd and 3rd. And in the youth division. I think we want across the board are dancers from the Lightning Boy Foundation swept the youth division for the second row. Wow, Sex That's excellent. Well, I want to say congratulations again to the Lightning Boy Foundation and thank you so much. Alicia roast Dr Rivera and Stiegler grants for being here And we really look forward to seeing the dancers, the hoop dancers off the plaza and the best of luck to you all with everything you're planning. Thank you so much. Jennifer, you you're listening to coffee culture back in just a few minutes. We'll be right back to coffee.
Random Top Five
"spring festival" Discussed on Random Top Five
"I don't know the texture was A little bit weird and it was too salty so maybe it was prepared. Better next time Again i did have it on a cruise but it was. It was a fancy dish. I think definitely i mean. I'm pretty sure that must be a reason why the french love it so much. I'm very showed that they really got it. Nailed down how to prepare it to taste so all the french a hearing this. We're not mocking as cargo. We're just that you really do know how to prepare them. Well compared to problem. Yes in if i ever do go to france and i have a i try the snail. And it's not good. I will let you know okay. I'm coming back on. Nominates retract this statement but until then this is pending the snail opinion. Okay anyway. that's my number one what's What's your number one. The the ultimate Weird food in china so it might not be the absolutely weirdest thing that you think about but the story behind. This is quite fun so when we went to our trip for the spring festival because one thing that is very common during the spring festival because the children get a lot of time off from school and a lot of people take holidays from work they like to travel and my host family. They travelled for a month so we were a month away from beijing and we were in a city called sonya which is the second most south city that you have in china so it's very tropical. It's one islands actually very nice even in february and we went there in sort of like a holiday apartment and because it was so close to the sea automatically. You would eat more seafood than you would in beijing so they prepared like all sorts of stuff. Different different fish different. Like crab style things different lobster so it was very fencing and one day i went into the kitchen off the holiday apartment and i saw something weird standing in the glass..
Thoroughbred Racing Radio Network
"spring festival" Discussed on Thoroughbred Racing Radio Network
"Moment. I i'm definitely happy and everyone's reasonably satisfied to accept the sincerity of golden apology. But it doesn't unfortunately less than the impact of this and the impact is being as being extraordinarily sizable. And you and i have had a ten gentle discussion going back Spring two years ago. And you were. You were exceedingly eloquent as usual about The you know the the condemnation of of the sport Juxtaposed pita with You know the here that we were dealing with at the time In particular involving santa anita you juxtaposed it with the critique of the grand national and cheltenham just ahead. you know there's already an acute focus on on chasing and particularly the grand national where there is a propensity for horses to you. Know to be injured fatally injured. This just feels like Amunition and for those that are already predisposed to thinking a certain way about the sport. I think you know. I think those two major spring festival has only served to heighten the unease surrounding out on judgment. Obvious shouldn't be affected by five. And the articles striking regulatory made the point that investigation whilst they and all parties will be keen to expedite the as much as they possibly. Can you know they cannot. They cannot expedite their their investigation. And extraordinarily on the basis of cheltenham and an entry around the corner but clearly of heightens the the focus on those events and it increases the young diety of the of the relevant authorities to that end. The transitional authority have.
KCRW
"spring festival" Discussed on KCRW
"Many restrictions when they want to donate blood and plasma. Now, some are arguing those restrictions are based on stigma rather than science. You're that story tomorrow afternoon by asking your smart speaker to play NPR or your station by name. You're listening to all things considered. Lunar New Year begins later this week. Usually the holiday involves huge festivities with fireworks, dancing and family reunions. But as the pandemic continues, the celebration will look and feel different this new year. Wyoming Public Radio's nine a row reports. The Lunar New Year is all about removing the old and welcoming the new for Ling Lee, who is a master student from China, studying at the University of Wyoming. Well, I were child. My parents always prepare me the new closest on the New Year's day for the elders, people will give the Children Rather pocket. You know, that is the home Bo in Chinese, those red pockets or envelopes filled with money called lucky money. This tradition is about passing on blessings for the rest of the year and also on the New Year's Eve. Everybody was watching the TV show off the Spring Festival in China because the Lunar New Year occurs during the academic year for international students, it's often celebrated with their friends rather than families. That's a Facebook video of a previous year's celebration showing a line of University of Wyoming students rehearsing the traditional lion dance for the final performance. That celebration is usually hosted on campus by the Chinese Students Association, The group's former president, Joo Shin thinks it helps a lot. Because although I cannot reunite with my family, I can rely with students and professors here. We can meet a lot of Chinese people here. We share the same feeling. So that makes us less homesick. That homesickness was especially acute during the Trump administration since the China US relationship turns bad You will be more difficult to get visa traveling back to the United States, and this pandemic just made things worse. Shin says. This past year has also been hard in part because From called the Corona virus, the Chinese virus, So those air like some of the new bears, we got to do. An Ellen is a first generation Chinese American living in Detroit, Michigan. She and her parents run a restaurant there. Because her parents are scared of the virus and growing anti Chinese sentiment. It's Lynn, who now does all the tasks for the family's business that require going out like buying ingredients in restaurant supplies, because not that scared of people like if you do something to me like I can call the cops. I can talk back to you as it's harder for my parents, because English isn't their first language or like they're not really comfortable with it. That's why the Lunar New Year is really special for the family because It's a space where they can be themselves. It's also about putting bad times behind them. Anna says Many people spent much of the year of the rat 2020 in hiding, willing floor for 2021 much hopeful and really hope people get their vaccines. I'm hoping everybody gets their turn soon, according to the lunar calendar. This coming year is the year of the ox. The Chinese Zodiac describes the ox as strong, reliable and diligent, former Chinese Student association President Joo Shin says His attributes make him hopeful for the coming year. Chinese New Year is opportunity for me to think about my like my New Year player. What I want to achieve next year and hopefully make the year of the ox better than the one just ending for NPR News. I'm nine around in Laramie. This is all things considered from NPR news. There are.
KCRW
"spring festival" Discussed on KCRW
"Along with two partners, announced that it intends to start shipping nearly 90 Million Cove in 19 vaccine doses two countries in Africa this month. Dr Catherine O'Brien has a good view of the whole landscape of vaccines from her post at the W. H O headquarters That's in Geneva, she says, a wrinkle and all this vaccine planning Is the variant strains of the cove in 19 virus that have been cropping up. There are two concerns. One is the speed with which vaccines can get out. Assuming that those vaccines remain effective against the variants, and again, we're watching that really carefully. The second. Is that not just speed. But are these vaccines still effective against the variance? Give us a sense of the need in Africa in particular. Where will this supply go? And what's been the state of play on the continent so far? Pandemic really moves around. We see different countries having surges of cases at different times, and, of course, with surges of cases and transmission come surges of deaths in the aftermath of those cases. The idea that we're pursuing the world is pursuing is not to try and move the vaccine into one country or another country at preference because of the experience that they're having right now in terms of transmission. Given that this is moving in different waves through different countries, those people who are at highest need and highest risk need to be vaccinated in every country. Let's talk about supply where to supply need to increase most urgently. At this point, we have only one low income country that has even begun. Tol distribute vaccine and that's the country of Guinea with a very small number of doses. We're in a situation where we have 108 million doses of vaccine that have been distributed worldwide. But 75% of those doses have gone to just 10 countries. And that means that there are many, many, many countries that either have very small numbers of doses or no doses at all, but given the difficulty of access for poor nations. Does that become all theoretical like if you can't even get the basic vaccine out. How are you able to get a grip on the spread? Well, I really want to sort of correct the idea that poor countries can't get the vaccine. First of all we've been doing and supporting countries to introduce new vaccines for decades. Frankly, low income countries have a very strong experience of rolling out vaccines. What they really need right now is they need the supply, so the country's air ready? Is there a country that is doing this well or poised to do it? Well, that you think could be a model. That's an interesting question, because we're working really carefully with countries that air in this first wave of deployment toe, understand what lessons they're learning. About how to do this and how to do it. Well, we certainly have been having conversations with the UK with Israel. We've learned some innovative things already. You know, we've heard about trying to get six doses out of the five servile and how that can be done, which actually stretches supply. There have been ideas around giving one dose and waiting up to six weeks in recommendations in some countries longer, so that the current supply can be stretched to get at least more people with one does in while we wait for additional supply to get that second dose in what are you going to be looking for? In the next couple of days and weeks? Where you going to be watching for that? We should also be watching for to understand how distribution is going What we're going to be doing is really focusing on getting started with vaccination in every country. We have a goal of in the 1st 100 days of 2021 getting vaccine into every country so that those highest priority groups can start to be vaccinated our eyes on the ball for those things, and that's what we're driving for in February and early March, Dr Catheter Brian Thank you so much for your time. Thank you out of his pleasure. Lunar New Year in China. There's one of the few times when millions of people go home and see family last February Cove. It cut many of those trips short. So many in China, including NPR's Beijing correspondent Emily Fang, We're hoping this year would be different. Well, it's not transient or Spring Festival is the weeks long celebration for Lunar New Year, which is usually in February. It was a month once filled with firecrackers in travel people made some three billion trips during 2019 Spring Festival of vast human migration that nearly paralyzed China's transportation systems. The last Lunar New Year, when the Corona virus pandemic exploded in China. What was curious to me was the quiet more than a billion people just stayed home, and this year is likely to be more of the same. My local produce market is usually empty by late January. Fruit sellers and tofu makers having left Beijing well in advance. Not this year, Government sponsored surveys show about 3/4 of Chinese citizens will not travel home. Yeah, A steady stream of customers keeps this temperature monitor the market entrance. Beeping laval phone everywhere in the countryside of sealed off, explains my local butcher who goes by so mama or panda. Beijing wants anyone traveling to rule areas to do a covert test when they returned to a city plus to a seven day quarantine. China's villages are also on overdrive. Many have gone into semi lockdowns already, so pandas Native village and Jiangsu Province wouldn't even let him in. Panda is a stocky, unsentimental man, but he listens to his grandparent's, but we don't like the way you e don't want to create any trouble for the country. If you're found to have covered, then your entire life is over. My grandparent's told me best not to leave Beijing so he, like many of China's migrant workers are staying put. All these restrictions come after about 2000 new covert cases in January for China, it was the highest number of daily new cases in 10 months. It's now trying to prevent a super spreading spring festival at all costs. And the costs are high from migrant workers like sisters. When my local fruit seller, she is one of the 300 million or so migrant workers who work in big cities far away from their home towns in L. A. Last year, we were home for only three days before hurrying back to Beijing. We're still trying to decide whether we go home this year home in Shandong Province, where she's left her middle school age daughter Normally, spring festival is the one time they all get to be home together. Community Channel five In normal times, she could come to Beijing on her school breaks. Not this year. We have video chat. I suppose she calls me every day. What else can you do Call between making a living and going home. Most workers are choosing the former, like Joseph, also a Beijing restaurant worker from Sichuan Province. She feigns toughness because she's 19 and working in one of China's biggest cities for the first time. In life, You know shareholders. When I first got to Beijing last year, I did miss home a little, but that homesickness went away. But that facade soon. Kratz due home shopping. Of course, Deep down. I still want to go home. New Year's best spend at home instead of in a far away place. I sympathize with her. I, too am spending another new year away from family. At least Joe and I have her health. Our jobs. Maybe next year, we'll get to be with loved ones to Emily Fang. NPR NEWS Beijing Yeah. You're.
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"Of China's migrant workers are staying put. All these restrictions come after about 2000 new covert cases in January for China, it was the highest number of daily new cases in 10 months. It's now trying to prevent a super spreading spring festival at all costs. And the costs are high from migrant workers like Sister swim my local fruit seller. She is one of the 300 Million or so migrant workers who work in big cities far away from their home towns. You know quite well. Last year, we were home for only three days before hurrying back to Beijing. We're still trying to decide whether we go home this year Home and Shandong Province, where she's left her middle school age daughter. Normally, spring festival is the one time they all get to be home together. Community telethon In normal times, She could come to Beijing on her school breaks. Not this year. We have video chat. I suppose she calls me every day. What else can you do? Carpentry, making a living and going home. Most workers are choosing the former, like Joseph, also a Beijing restaurant worker from Sichuan Province. She feigns toughness because she's 19 and working in one of China's biggest cities for the first time. Life pinochle hydration. When I first got to Beijing last year, I did miss home a little, but that homesickness went away. But that facade soon Kratz due home. Of course, Deep down. I still want to go home. The New year's best spend at home instead of in a far away place. I sympathize with her. I, too, AM spending another new year away from family, At least Joe and I have her health, our jobs. Maybe next year, we'll get to be with loved ones to Emily Fang. NPR NEWS Beijing Mm. You're listening to all things considered from NPR news. Turkey is seeing some of its biggest student protest in years. The unrest started when the Turkish government imposed its choice for who should run one of the country's premier universities, breaking a long tradition of independence. Scores of people have now been arrested and the protests continue, with authorities worried the unrest could spread. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports, Both students and faculty opposed the move. University is named Bolas Aja, which is Turkish for the Bosphorous straight. It's been one of the city's elite university since its founding as an American school in the 18 sixties. For the past 50 years, it's been a Turkish State University. Schools leaders have always been chosen by internal election until now, president rigid type. Erdogan's government announced in January that it was installing Mellie Boulud, a local official from Erdogan's ruling AK Party to head the university..
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"Yesterday, the World Health Organization along with two partners, announced that it intends to start shipping nearly not a start Shipping nearly 90 Million Cove in 19 vaccine doses two countries in Africa this month. Dr Catherine O'Brien has a good view of the whole landscape of vaccines from her post at the W. H O headquarters That's in Geneva, she says, a wrinkle and all this vaccine planning Is the variant strains of the cove in 19 virus that have been cropping up. There are two concerns. One is the speed with which vaccines can get out. Assuming that those vaccines remain effective against the variants, and again, we're watching that really carefully. The second. Is that not just speed. But are these vaccines still effective against the variance? Give us a sense of the need in Africa in particular. Where will this supply go? And what's been the state of play on the continent so far? Pandemic really moves around. We see different countries having surges of cases at different times, and, of course, with surges of cases and transmission come surges of deaths in the aftermath of those cases. The idea that we're pursuing the world is pursuing is not to try and move the vaccine into one country or another country at preference because of the experience that they're having right now in terms of transmission. Given that this is moving in different waves through different countries, those people who are at highest need and highest risk need to be vaccinated in every country. Let's talk about supply where to supply need to increase most urgently. At this point, we have only one low income country that has even begun. Tol distribute vaccine and that's the country of Guinea with a very small number of doses. We're in a situation where we have 108 million doses of vaccine that have been distributed worldwide. But 75% of those doses have gone to just 10 countries, and that means that there are many, many, many countries that either have very small numbers of doses or no doses at all. But given the difficulty of access for poor nations, does that become all theoretical like if you can't even get the basic vaccine out? How are you able to get a grip on the spread? Well, I really want to sort of correct the idea that poor countries can't get the vaccine. First of all we've been doing and supporting countries to introduce new vaccines for decades. Frankly, low income countries have a very strong experience of rolling out vaccines. What they really need right now is they need the supply, so the country's air ready? Is there a country that is doing this well or poised to do it? Well, that you think could be a model. That's an interesting question, because we're working really carefully with countries that air in this first wave of deployment toe, understand what lessons they're learning. About how to do this and how to do it. Well, we certainly have been having conversations with the UK with Israel. We've learned some innovative things already. You know, we've heard about trying to get six doses out of the five servile and how that can be done, which actually stretches supply. There have been ideas around giving one dose and waiting up to six weeks in recommendations in some countries longer, so that the current supply can be stretched to get at least more people with one does in while we wait for additional supply to get that second dose in what are you going to be looking for? In the next couple of days and weeks? Where you going to be watching for that? We should also be watching for to understand how distribution is going What we're gonna be doing is really focusing on getting started with vaccination in every country. We have a goal of in the 1st 100 days of 2021 getting vaccine into every country so that those highest priority groups can start to be vaccinated our eyes on the ball for those things, and that's what we're driving for in February and early March, Dr Catherine Ryan, thank you so much for your time. Thank you out of his pleasure. Lunar New Year in China. There's one of the few times when millions of people go home and see family last February Cove. It cut many of those trips short. So many in China, including NPR's Beijing correspondent Emily Fang, We're hoping this year would be different. Well, it's not transient or Spring Festival is the weeks long celebration for Lunar New Year, which is usually in February. It was a month once filled with firecrackers in travel people made some three billion trips during 2019 Spring Festival of vast human migration that nearly paralyzed China's transportation systems. The last Lunar New Year, when the Corona virus pandemic exploded in China. What was curious to me was the quiet more than a billion people just stayed home, and this year is likely to be more of the same. My local produce market is usually empty by late January, the fruit sellers and tofu makers having left Beijing well in advance. Not this year, Government sponsored surveys show about 3/4 of Chinese citizens will not travel home. A steady stream of customers keeps this temperature monitor the market entrance. Beeping lava home everywhere in the countryside of sealed off, explains my local butcher, who goes by so mama or panda. Beijing wants anyone traveling to rule areas to do a covert test when they returned to a city plus to a seven day quarantine. China's villages are also on overdrive. Many have gone into semi lockdowns already, so pandas Native village and Jiangsu Province wouldn't even let him in. Panda is a stocky, unsentimental man, but he listens to his grandparent's. But what we don't know where e don't want to create any trouble for the country. If you're found to have covered, then your entire life is over. My grandparent's told me best not to leave Beijing so he, like many of China's migrant workers are staying put. All these restrictions come after about 2000 new covert cases in January for China, it was the highest number of daily new cases in 10 months. It's now trying to prevent a super spreading spring festival at all costs. And the costs are high from migrant workers like sisters when my local fruit seller She is one of the 300 million or so migrant workers who work in big cities far away from their home towns you nailed. Last year.
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"Along with two partners, announced that it intends to start shipping nearly 90 Million Cove in 19 vaccine doses two countries in Africa this month. Dr Catherine O'Brien has a good view of the whole landscape of vaccines from her post at the W. H O headquarters That's in Geneva, she says, a wrinkle and all this vaccine planning Is the variant strains of the cove in 19 virus that have been cropping up. There are two concerns. One is the speed with which vaccines can get out. Assuming that those vaccines remain effective against the variants, and again, we're watching that really carefully. The second. Is that not just speed. But are these vaccines still effective against the variance? Give us a sense of the need in Africa in particular. Where will this supply go? And what's been the state of play on the continent so far? Pandemic really moves around. We see different countries having surges of cases at different times, and, of course, with surges of cases and transmission come surges of deaths in the aftermath of those cases. The idea that we're pursuing the world is pursuing is not to try and move the vaccine into one country or another country at preference because of the experience that they're having right now in terms of transmission. Given that this is moving in different waves through different countries, those people who are at highest need and highest risk need to be vaccinated in every country. Let's talk about supply where to supply need to increase most urgently. At this point, we have only one low income country that has even begun Todos tribute vaccine and that's the country of Guinea with a very small number of doses. We're in a situation where we have 108 million doses of vaccine that have been distributed worldwide. But 75% of those doses have gone to just 10 countries, and that means that there are many, many, many countries that either have very small numbers of doses or no doses at all. But given the difficulty of access for poor nations, does that become all theoretical like if you can't even get the basic vaccine out? How are you able to get a grip on the spread? Well, I really want to sort of correct the idea that poor countries can't get the vaccine. First of all we've been doing and supporting countries to introduce new vaccines for decades. Frankly, low income countries have a very strong experience of rolling out vaccines. What they really need right now is they need the supply, so the country's air ready? Is there a country that is doing this well or poised to do it? Well, that you think could be a model. That's an interesting question, because we're working really carefully with countries that air in this first wave of deployment toe, understand what lessons they're learning. About how to do this and how to do it. Well, we certainly have been having conversations with the UK with Israel. We've learned some innovative things already. You know, we've heard about trying to get six doses out of the five servile and how that can be done, which actually stretches supply. There have been ideas around giving one dose and waiting up to six weeks in recommendations in some countries longer so that the current supply can be stretched to get at least more people with one does in while we wait for additional supply to get that second dose in What are you going to be looking for? In the next couple of days and weeks where you going to be watching for that? We should also be watching for to understand how distribution is going. What we're going to be doing is really focusing on getting started with vaccination in every country. We have a goal of in the 1st 100 days of 2021 getting vaccine into every country so that those highest priority groups can start to be vaccinated our eyes on the ball for those things. And that's what we're driving for in February and early March, Dr Catherine O'Brien, Thank you so much for your time. Thank you, Audie. His pleasure. Lunar New Year in China. There's one of the few times when millions of people go home and see family last February Cove. It cut many of those trips short. So many in China, including NPR's Beijing correspondent Emily Fang, We're hoping this year would be different. Well, it's not Cinzia or Spring Festival is the weeks long celebration for Lunar New Year, which is usually in February. It was a month once filled with firecrackers in travel people made some three billion trips during 2019 Spring Festival of vast human migration that nearly paralyzed China's transportation systems. The last Lunar New Year, when the Corona virus pandemic exploded in China. What was curious to me was the quiet more than a billion people just stayed home, and this year is likely to be more of the same. My local produce market is usually empty by late January, fruit sellers and tofu makers having left Beijing well in advance..
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"O. I've had diarrhea all day. Oh, that's no blind us The molasses of the back of the back seat. Yeah, it would be nice is if to hear a story about molasses. Well, that's good news, Chris, because I have just the story for you. Well, that's good, because we're the history boys. I'm Chris Way. Yeah, Tyler Tyler's here and And Duke Duke. Yeah, I guess I could be Duke. Now. Duke Duke Sanchez. I am Jerry Nash. And Zach, of course, is on audio obvious via satellite in this remote bunker. Several stories underneath the crust of the United States that, Yeah, safe from molasses. Certainly safer. Mommy wants If it did happen to get molasses down there. You're not getting it out, though. You know You're not gonna pump that stuff. You just gotta you're gonna have to abandon the bunker. We'll find a new bunker. It's a sweet, sticky grave. Luckily, we built that separate Molasses tunnel for him to escape out of in the case that molasses pours down into the bunker. We got a new grave sign form and everything. This is in case of molasses. Leave here. Yeah, I didn't even know about the molasses flood of the time. Barely know anything about it now. Well, there you good. I didn't do the research. I know Jerry. Tell us a story about molasses. I'm glad I'm glad you want to hear now. Well, you know, not many people are familiar with the great Boston molasses flood of 1919 the fatally tragic events that happened 100 years ago. Every time I learned, the more I learn about this The more I'm like, like it's like they're like we're trying to tell you. It's tragic. It's not hilarious. It does. It's not something that was like made up for, like an old timey cartoon. But then, in my research, I heard that one of its nicknames is legitimately. The great molasses occur. Degree. You kidding? The great Boston molasses occur of 1919 non scaling them, Olympia that zah Primary source. They did not call it the molasses occur. They called the molasses. Really, I would have if I was, I think, 2020. What is it? Uh, 117 people injured 21 dead. That's um Alaska if you ask me That's something I did not mention citations. Bada Bing. Bada boom. All right. I'm not gonna check those. It was not in dark tide, which is a fantastic book. It was in the Boston molasses disaster causes. Of the molasses tank explosion. Spoiler alert by Eric Hendrickson. There you go. Not not our primaries release control in this episode, I think worth shouting out anyway. Yeah, this a giant Tank that stored a lot of molasses basically burst in Boston's North End neighborhood on January 15th 1919. Destroyed completely destroyed the neighborhood. It's I literally think of the time they said. There goes the neighborhood and they invented friend acting on just a little bit. And back Then they everyone talked with like the old timey voice. Oh, no. There goes. There goes my molasses Morning do the Charleston and it's done. Yeah, the last This is all over May raspberries, my sweet boys driving them. Alas, again, Who's gonna run the factory when I get too old, huh? Just to give a little bit of perspective. And I have big the molasses tank. What we're gonna talk about Not there yet. We're not there. We're not there yet. First I wanna talk about it too much research. Did you say too much research? Wanna flex? So can't you be more like me? No research. I feel like there's a happy middle. There is there is A couple of things about molasses before we get to the actual tank. Here we go, 00 boy. My last. This is a non Newtonian substance, meaning that force has to be applied to it in order for it to move like it's not water like It doesn't just run everywhere. It's like toothpaste er, ketchup like you have to, like, Hit the bottle for the ketchup. Kind. Viscosity. Yeah. Famously high for Scott said, Yes, indeed. So considering this physical property, molasses will be far more deadly than just a giant wave of water and swimming in it is Impossible. Not with that attitude. You matter if it was a non Euclidean liquid, that would be well, that would be even worse. Pretty cool. So not only is molasses used for like syrups and sweeteners. It is used for booze and barbecue sauce. Ammunition. All hell Yeah. Well, mate. Well, it's Maine. Thing that people used for was distilling it down into alcohol and the alcohol instead of making room out of it, they would make munitions or fuel and in this case That's what they're doing. There were distilling it down and making using it from munitions well, and a couple other things is it is a diabetic sweetener. You can add it to things if you are diabetic, and it won't in fact one affect your insulin levels. True, it's 100%. True. It's all that was amazing High in potassium, and I think it's high and something else. Probably deliciousness and sweet. It is not delicious. I mean, disgusting. What about like molasses, guys? Your opinion? Gross. And also I mean, you had some tomatoes to it. Bernard Sauce, That's all I care. I mean, Barn ingredient barbecue sauce. So that's what we're talking about. Love gingerbread. No, thank you. But it was a great Boston barbecue sauce followed me. Delicious. E So good. Everybody be like dipping the ribs in it. Shut the window. My son was crushed under 35 Mile an hour wave of barbecue sauce, but it's so delicious, but it didnt funeral. He tasted delicious way. We're not joking about about the heroism. I'm joking about the fictional victims of the barbecue university, Gil. It was a rough year for Northern folks. Yes, it was. It was pretty bad. So during this time, prohibition had not taken effect just yet. At the time the tank was built. We're just entering World War one, and they kind of rushed building it. Because of the war and munitions. Yeah, well, there was like a big tanker of molasses coming in, like, Gotta build it. You've got to get it done, You know, to get this tanker in here and so they cut a lot of corners. They use this tank toe for munitions. Yes, yes, This is the main use for the molasses in this tank was to distill down into alcohol for munitions. I do like that. At this point in time, the United States wasn't involved in World War one. No, no. No way had declared war when this is 1915 when the tank was built, okay, and they rushed it to toe build up munitions and whatnot for the for the war effort. Crunch existed even back then fortunes were made on molasses. Like what a sweet way to make a buck. Gentleman. Just gonna Robin Baron. Oh, there is the molasses barrel. We'll talk about that. He was alone in a column of a barren like a fedora. And he's like you understand? When you run the molasses game, there's only one way to go. That's the last run in town, you know? Oh, yeah. So the United States industrial alcohol Company or U. S. A, as it was known, was the alcohol distilling company that owned this tank. The company that had the actual tank there was under the umbrella of the U. S. A. A was the purity distilling company, and that's the one that was in Boston and, Yeah, they looked after the tank and pumping, pumping it full of molasses and then taking a pipeline straight from the tank to the factory That was nearby. So I was like it was a good place to build it because the factory was right there, So you didn't really have to transport it, right? That's what they wanted it right there. You know those long molasses pipelines, right? The thing was, though, is where they built. It is there was in a very congested poor neighborhood at the time in Boston. Where a lot of Italian immigrants lived. A lot of Jewish immigrants lived and it was very working class area. Everybody knew everybody. Neighbors cared about each other over there, so This was this was a tight knit poor community that this was every every spring. They have the Spring Festival underneath the molasses of that they'd like maple dishes of that ribbons around. It blesses that's the mask out of the city. Look at it shining and proud. It's just full of old. It's like I mean, it's like concentrated sweet, old timey glasses. Yeah, and people would straight up. Just eat molasses back then they rose, molest kids. The molasses tank that they did build was a 50 ft high. 90 ft in diameter. And could hold an astonishing 2.3 Million gallons of molasses. A couple gallons that's £24 Million of molasses. Sweet Black Gold. Texas tea, Uh, Texas Tea Is that tea party that's oil. Yeah, you know, potato potato was clear. Molasses. The superior class is clear. Molasses is what's called First Molasses is keep listening. You can hear the rest of this podcast and all of its episodes and discovered thousands of others. All available to you for free right now by downloading the I heart radio app number one for podcasts. Our.
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"O have a diarrhea all day. Oh, that's no blind us The molasses of the back of the back soon. Yeah, you know, it would be nice is if to hear a story about molasses. Well, that's good news, Chris, because I have just the story for you. Well, that's good, because we're the history boys. I'm Chris. Wait, Uh, Tyler Tyler's here and And Duke Duke. Yeah, I guess I could be Duke. Now. Duke Sanchez. I am Jerry Nash. And Zach, of course, is on audio obvious via satellite in this remote bunker. Several stories underneath the crust of the United States that Yeah, safe from molasses certainly say from what he wants. If it did happen to get molasses down there. You're not getting it out, though. Yeah. You're not gonna pump that stuff. You just gotta you're gonna have to abandon the bunker Exact. We'll find a new bunker. It's a sweet, sticky grave. Luckily, we built that separate Molasses tunnel for him to escape out of in the case that molasses pours down into the bunker We got in the grave sign form and everything. This is in case of molasses Leave here and I didn't even know about the molasses flood of the time. Barely know anything about it now. Well, there you good. I didn't do the research. I know Jerry. Tell us a story about molasses. I'm glad I'm glad you want to hear now. You know, not many people are familiar with the great Boston molasses flood of 1919 the fatally tragic events that happened 100 years ago. Every time I learned, the more I learn about this The more I'm like, like it's like they're like we're trying to tell you. It's tragic. It's not hilarious. It does. It's not something that was like made up for, like an old timey cartoon. But then, in my research, I heard that one of its nicknames is legitimately. The great molasses occur. They are You kidding? The great Boston molasses occur of 1919 nineties, calling them a Wikipedia. That zit primary source. They did not call it. The molasses occur. They called the molasses. Really? I would have if I was I think. 2020. What is it? Uh 117 people injured 21 dead. That's um Alaska if you ask me. That's something I did not patient citations. Bada Bing. Bada boom. All right. I'm not gonna check those sites. It was not in dark tide, which is a fantastic book. It was in the Boston molasses disaster causes. Of the molasses tank explosion. Spoiler alert. By Eric Heinrichs in There you go. Not not our primary, surly reason you're in this episode I think worth shouting out anyway. Yeah, this a giant Tank. The stored a lot of molasses basically burst in Boston's North End neighborhood on January 15th 1919. Destroyed completely destroyed the neighborhood. It's I literally think of the time, they said. There goes the neighborhood and then invented product on just a little bit. And back Then they everyone talked with like the old timey voice. Oh, no. There goes. There goes my molasses Morning. Do the Charleston and it's done. Yeah. Well on the last. This is all over May raspberries, my sweet boys driving less again. Who's gonna run the factory when I get too old, huh? Just to give a little bit of perspective and have big the molasses tank. What we're gonna talk about Not there yet, but we're not there. We're not there yet. First. I wanna talk about it too much. Too much research. I want a flex off. Can't you be more like me? No research. I feel like there's a happy middle. There is there is A couple of things about molasses before we get to the actual tank. Here we go. Oh ho ho Boy. Molasses is a non Newtonian substance, meaning that force has to be applied to it in order for it to move like it's not water like It doesn't just run everywhere. It's like toothpaste er, ketchup like you have to, like, Hit the bottle for the ketchup. Kind. Viscosity. Yeah. Famously high. Frisk us. Yes, indeed. So considering this physical property, molasses would be far more deadly than just a giant wave of water and swimming in it is Impossible. Not with that attitude. You matter if it was a non Euclidean liquid, that would be well, that would be even worse would be pretty cool. So not only is molasses is used for, like syrups and sweeteners. It is used for booze and barbecue sauce. Ammunition. All hell. Yeah. Well, mate. Well, it's Maine. Thing that people used it for was distilling it down into alcohol and the alcohol instead of making room out of it, they would make munitions or fuel And in this case, that's what they're doing. There were distilling it down and making using it from munitions well, and a couple other things is it is a diabetic sweetener. You can add it to things if you are diabetic, and it won't in fact won't affect your insulin levels. True, it's 100%. True. It's all that was amazing. High in potassium. And I think it's high and something else. Probably deliciousness. It's sweet. It is not delicious. I mean, it's disgusting. What about like molasses? That's your opinion? Gross. And also, I mean, you had some tomatoes to its burger sauce. That's all I care. I mean, Barb ingredients. Just barbecue sauce. I know that's what we're talking about A little gingerbread. No, thank you. But it was a great Boston barbecue sauce. Fun. Would that be delicious? E So good. Everybody be like dipping the ribs in it. Shut the window. My son was crushed under 35 Mile an hour wave of barbecue sauce, but it's so delicious, but it didnt funeral. He tasted delicious way. We're not joking about about the heroism. I'm joking about the fictional victims of the barbecue Never to kill. It was a rough year for Northern books. Yes, it was pretty bad. So during this time, prohibition had not taken effect just yet. At the time the tank was built. We're just entering World War one, and they kind of rushed building it. Because of the war and the nation's. Yeah, well, there was like a big tanker of molasses coming in, like, Gotta build it. You've got to get it done, You know, to get this tanker in here and so they cut a lot of corners. They use this tank toe for munitions. Yes, yes, This is the main use for The molasses in this tank was to distill down into alcohol for munitions. I do like that. At this point in time, the United States wasn't involved in World War one. No, no. No way had declared war when this is 1915 when the tank was built, okay, and they rushed it to T O build up munitions and whatnot for the for the war effort. Crunch existed even back then fortunes were made on molasses like was, but a sweet way to make a buck gentleman. Just gonna be Robin Baron. Oh, there is a molasses very well. We'll talk about that you were so late is calling a fedora, and he's like you understand. When you run the molasses game, there's only one way to go. That's the molasses. Yeah, he's run in town, you know? Oh, yeah. So the United States industrial alcohol Company or U. S a. As it was known, was the alcohol distilling company that owned this tank. The company that had the actual tank there was under the umbrella of the U. S. A. A was the purity distilling company, and that's the one that was in Boston and, Yeah, they looked after the tank and pumping, pumping it full of molasses and then taking a pipeline straight from the tank to the factory That was nearby. So I was like it was a good place to build it because the factory was right there, So you didn't really have to transport it, right? That's what they wanted it right there. Now. Those long molasses pipelines, right? The thing was, though, is where they built. It is there was in a very congested poor neighborhood at the time in Boston. Where a lot of Italian immigrants lived. A lot of Jewish immigrants lived and it was a very working class area. Everybody knew everybody. Neighbors cared about each other over there, so This was this was a tight knit poor community that this was every every spring that have the Spring Festival underneath the molasses of that they'd like maple dishes of that ribbons around it glasses. That's the mascot of the city. Look at it shining and proud. It's just full of old. It's like I mean, it's like concentrated sweet old timey. Yeah, glasses. Yeah, and people would straight up. Just eat molasses back then they rose molest kids. The molasses tank that they did build was a 50 ft high. 90 ft in diameter. And could hold an astonishing 2.3 Million gallons of molasses. A couple gallons that's £24 Million of molasses. Sweet Black Gold. Texas tea, Uh, Texas Tea Is that tea party that's oil. Yes, you know, potato potato was clear. Molasses..
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Swedish city using chicken manure to deter crowds from park
"Authorities in the Swedish city of long have been concerned that people will still come together for the annual spring festival so what did they do in the past thirty years many years thirty thousand people have gathered in stats park okay so they don't want that happening here is what they did so what they did they chose to spread a ton of chicken manure throughout the park and the mayor explained the decision on Facebook sitting in a parked it stinks of chicken manure is not a pleasant experience on the other hand it is good for the lawn as chicken manure contains a lot of phosphorus and nitrogen so that we will have a really nice city park for the summer season
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Viral hit: the costs of Chinas lockdown
"The corona virus continues to spread around the world and has now been found in every mainland province. China infections have been found in at least fifteen eighteen other countries in all. They're already more cases than there. Were in the two thousand. Two outbreak of the related SARS virus international responses are wrapping up this morning. Russia's prime minister said the country would be closing its border with China authorities in Australia and Britain have quarantined returning travellers to British Airways and other airlines have canceled flights altogether into and out of China. Today the World Health Organization will meet to discuss whether the outbreak constitutes a global health. Emergency in any case. It's certainly a national one. So I am in China We have had thirty eight more deaths today So we're now two hundred seventy the dead. David Rennie is our Beijing bureau chief and has been visiting villages on the edge of WHO bay the province. which is the epicenter of the outbreak? We have seven thousand dozens seven hundred cases worldwide which almost all of them are here in China they are also being found now. In more than a dozen countries mostly people people traveling from China while sick and turning up in those countries we have evacuation flights going on. We've had the French due to leave today. The Americans left recently recently the Japanese. There's a problem with the fight for British nationals in the epicenter city of Wuhan where the Chinese are playing very hardball as far as we can telling if say the wife of a British businessman also has a Chinese nationality with a child has both nationals. Not letting them leave. Because China in some ways seems to feel he is one of the artery evacuating foreigners as if they can't be trusted to look after them and so the the entire province of who bay is essentially on lockdown. What does is that actually look like on the ground? It's very strange. This is kind of the Chinese Christmas. It's still lunar New Year Villages should be full of people back home from the cities to see their families. I should kids everywhere because school is out. But it's supposed to be a ghost town as you start driving even to ask down away from the WHO bay border. Each village on the roads down has has blocked the entrances with kind of pause model concrete. Pipes there are people guarding villages. Telling people to stay out when you get close to the border there. Police checkpoints are medics six in protection. Suits mosques goggles taking. Everyone's temperature and that's a pretty tense. Because if you're running a fever any reason at all then you could be stuck in two weeks according to you in the nearest Chinese hospital and so how are the people in those border areas dealing with it. How are they feeling about this? Strange situation well. Although from the outside this kind of massive quarantine which is now basically trapped tens of millions of Chinese people in their own homes from the outside that looks draconian and slightly scary strangely. Strange when you're on the ground actually the idea that they can do something anything to keep themselves safe by shutting foreigners out of the village or keeping their kids locked up inside is almost a source of comfort Kmart so one of the strangest place I went was the very last village are before you get the WHO bay border. It's a pretty scruffy village. It's just off the laws motorway exit and they have about two hundred people who have come home for Spring Festival from the city of Wuhan. Outbreak is at its most intense and so they have all been placed on lockdown at home. There are signs in the street saying they may not go out. They can't see relatives. They can't visit friends. I met about Mr Deng. He's a farmer a wheat farmer Vondra show in town and he has two little grandkids and they were kind of peeking their heads out of the front door of his scruffy farmhouse. But he would not let them on the street even though they should be out playing because it's the biggest holiday of the year and he said that you know of course fools. Everyone is worried because from that place you can even into Hubay so the idea is just across the horizon. Has everyone very image. So it's only in an authoritarian country like Mike Chinaware. That kind of lockdown can be done but I mean by the way you described it. It sounds as if it's working with the public. It has the kind of caution that is the suits this situation. So it's It gives people comfort. So He's supposed to the party secretary of the Village Way g he writes the border. The borough who you know. He has the comfort of of paperwork. which if you're a bureaucrat is is what you want? So he has been gene quarantining everyone in the village who came from the city of Wuhan. They're having the temperature taken twice a day. They reported that back up. The next level of government. There's notices. He's on every shop front telling people don't go out. Don't see strangers keep outside as a way so that is the comfort and there's a medical reason that if you stop what people having lots of contact you avoid big crowds that can at least delay the peak of an epidemic which gives you know the people developing vaccines somewhere in a laboratory far away a bit more time but I think you will see outside. Experts say this kind of really blunderbuss lock. Everyone in the whole area in their houses. Approach isn't isn't how you basically stop these things that actually in richer western countries the approach is much more targeted. You literally try and find the people who are infected and then you have these disease disease detectives who try and track everyone that they have met and that is how you stop an infection. That problem with is really tra- coenen approaches. That you frightened people who who might not want to get put an clinic. You flight frighten them and they go into hiding in one of the big promises announced this shutdown says you've ruined city eleven million people but then there was a bit of a delay and so perhaps a million people just disappeared between the announcement and the lockdown. And that's not what you want and so all told how. How prepared would you say the Chinese authorities were for this et relative to for instance the the SARS outbreak in two thousand two? So that's a very low all because back in two thousand to two thousand three when we had this other new virus saws. China spent several months just basically lying through its teeth and denying that this was a problem at all and that led to really hundreds of avoidable. Deaths it was a really disgraceful time. When you had doctors tried to tell the truth getting punished getting getting silenced? China clearly is trying to behave very differently. This time. They've identified the virus they are dealing with the international health organizations like the. Who but there are still question marks about why it took several weeks for the authorities in the main epicentres Wuhan to admit that there was human to human transmission mission. There was a real shortage of testing kits so I think that the verdict is still out on whether China should be praised or criticized for where is handling as well either way the the effect of essentially shutting down entire cities provinces scaring people into their homes even far from the epicenter. That's got ought to have huge effects on on the economy. Certainly the numbers are really really dramatic. I mean basically I mean this is for example. You can go buy sector-by-sector all all major. Tourist sites are closed at the busiest time of the year. This should be the biggest time of the year. For box office takings in cinemas eleven thousand cinemas in China are closed should be a time for massive sporting events. I mean it's like Thanksgiving or Christmas in America. That's this time of year everything's closed and so you're seeing economic predictions that the next GP numbers could see two percent. Growth is one of the numbers. We've seen thrown out there now. We haven't seen two percent growth in China since at the time of chairman mouse. You know they've been doing six seven percent growth in recent times so that'd be an extraordinary hit. Now that all depends really does of does. Does this knock. You know the the global economy six. It really depends how long this outbreak loss so remember that outbreak of Saws Two thousand to two thousand and three which killed nearly eight hundred people. People there was a very very shop. Hit the China's economy but it bounced back because it didn't last that long and then there was a lot of delayed spending and and on a consumption kicked back up this time round of the Chinese economy is a huge amount. Bigger this time round Chinese consumers Chinese tourists wrists a much more important. factor in global economic growth. So there's a lot of people who if China just disappears from global global economic growth this year people in a lot of countries against take a
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Coronavirus Death Toll Climbs in China, and a Lockdown Widens
"Occur the death toll continues to climb as more cases of the coronavirus are being detected in China specifically the area in and around Hon correspondent David cold call over in Beijing reports will run a city of eleven million people sees life they're grounding to a stop on city officials declared partial lockdown on Thursday all public transportation including airports highways and train stations halted service out of the city and within the city public transportation shut down instead of coming together for the spring festival public gatherings are canceled residents are urged to keep to their homes and to wear protective