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Tina Turner, unstoppable superstar whose hits included 'What's Love Got to Do With It,' dead at 83
"Singer Tina Turner has died after a long illness at her home near Zürich Switzerland, according to her manager, Turner was 83. And marches are a letter with a look at her career. Tina Turner's life was a roller coaster, hit songs in the 1960s, leaving an abusive marriage, becoming a superstar in her 40s and having her life turned into a hit movie. She recorded songs like proud Mary, nutbush city limits, and river deep mountain high with her ex-husband, Ike Turner. Turner's first solo album flopped, then she released private dancer and her career was bigger than ever. Angela Bassett played her in the film what's love got to do with it. Turner said in a 1993 AP interview she instructed Bassett that the dancing should be energetic, not raunchy. Because she was a few times going to the front. No, no, no, no, no, not from the front. Always to decide
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UN's weather agency: 2022 was nasty, deadly, costly and hot
"If you think last year was a bad year for climate and weather, you'd be in line with United Nations scientists. 2022 was pummeled with killer floods droughts and heat waves around the world. According to the UN's world meteorological organization, global ocean heat and acidity levels hit record highs. Key glaciers used to track climate health shrank more than 51 inches last year, while all the snow melted on Switzerland's glaciers for the first time in history. 2022 was the 5th or 6th taught year ever recorded, depending on which measure is used. And the head of the UN climate agency says negative trends in weather patterns could continue through the 2060s because of pollution already released regardless of what future steps might be taken to reduce greenhouse gases. I'm Jackie Quinn.
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Credit Suisse investors sue after facing billions in losses
"A group of Credit Suisse investors have sued Swiss financial regulators after a government engineered takeover of the struggling bank by a rival UBS, left them with billions in losses. Lawyers say the investors are contesting an order by the Swiss financial market supervisory authority that wiped out about $17 billion in higher risk credits bonds as part of an emergency rescue last month. The deal prevented the downfall of Switzerland's second largest bank after its stock plunged and customers rushed to pull out their money, regulators have defended their decision, though, saying contracts for those higher risk bonds show that they can be written down in what they call a viability event. The investors suing hold about $5 billion in these bonds. I'm Charles De Ledesma
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Swiss lawmakers pick apart Credit Suisse woes ahead of deal
"Switzerland's parliament has opened a special session to scrutinize the state imposed takeover of Credit Suisse by rival UBS and possibly look at ways to avoid further financial blow ups. Lawmakers are expected to raise concerns about thousands of expected job cuts, discuss possible strengthening of bank laws and accountability for long troubled Credit Suisse, and look at state backed guarantees of over $100 billion aimed at holding the bank together until the mergers completed the debate could run for up to three days with expectations the lawmakers were in addition voice and need to iron out disagreements over the $3.25 billion fusion of the country's two banks, a thunderclap for a country that prides itself on finesse and ackermann in finance. I'm Charles De Ledesma
The Breakdown
Why We'll Remember This Banking Crisis As a Turning Point for Bitcoin
"Going to kick this off with another piece from Michael Casey from coin desk called this crisis will define the future of money. I think the title of the piece is pretty self explanatory, so let's dive in. Michael Wright's ten years ago, a strange new digital currency called Bitcoin caught my attention for the first time as its price surged during the Cyprus banking crisis. Local authorities had infuriated Cypriots by slapping a 10% tax on withdrawals, unwittingly encouraging some to warm to the idea of bankless digital money. I'm not alone in seeing parallels between the past week's events. Again, Bitcoin's prices rallied on speculation that stress among U.S. and European banks will open people's eyes to the leading cryptocurrency censorship resistant, intermediary free qualities. But if this is Bitcoin's cypress moment, the context is very different from 2013, with crypto now embedded in public consciousness, negatively mostly, the industry faces its biggest ever test, one that involves an intensified struggle with the financial establishment. The community now has a narrow opportunity to seize the day and define the future of money. Echoes of 2008, 2009. Recall that the Bitcoin blockchain was born out of the chaos of the 2008 2009 financial crisis, with Satoshi Nakamoto's immortal timestamp on January 3rd, 2009, inscribing a headline from that day's London times. Chancellor on the brink of second bailout for banks. That crisis highlighted how our dependence on banks to run the plumbing of our money and payments leaves the entire economy vulnerable to mismatches and banks investments in liabilities, which can undermine their ability to honor deposits, and it showed how the largest banks whose interwoven credit exposure create systemic risk exploited their too big to fail status. The idea that governments would always bail them out to protect the economy, to place asymmetric high return risky bets. It showed how Wall Street and other financial centers in effect hold our democracy's hostage. Now with the collapse of three high profile banks, hundreds of regional banks facing worrying outflows, the U.S. Federal Reserve creating a new backstop facility reportedly worth $2 trillion, and Switzerland's Central Bank bailing out credit suites to the tune of $54 billion, the echoes of that prior crisis are loud.
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UK central bank hikes rates like Fed amid financial turmoil
"Britain's Central Bank has hiked up interest rates once again to try to control rising inflation. The Bank of England decided to boost its key rates by a quarter percentage point to 4.25%. It is the 11th consecutive interest rate increase made by the UK's Central Bank despite concerns about the economic fallout from troubles in the global financial system. The decision by the bank's monetary policy committee came after the UK statistics agency reported a further rise in inflation to 10.4% in February before new inflation figures were released, many analysts expected the Bank of England to keep interest rates on hold after the collapse of two U.S. banks and troubles at Switzerland's Credit Suisse, Karen Chammas London
The Breakdown
Ram Ahluwalia Catches Us Up on Credit Suisse
"Where I want to start is sort of a little bit of a catch up on Credit Suisse. And so maybe first, we could talk a little bit about what happened over the last week. We're recording this on Monday. I think that's extremely important for people to know, because I think it'll come out on Wednesday and who knows what will transpire in the next 48 hours between them. But I think it would be really helpful to have sort of a short primer to help ground us in terms of understanding how much the things going on with Credit Suisse were credits we specific versus symptomatic of larger problems. And so maybe if we could kind of just start with, you know, what happened with Credit Suisse, you know, what the resolution was, and then maybe we can try to understand and piece through what the causality was. Sure thing. So let me frame it up. UBS and CS were the two top wealth managers in Switzerland, CES, sometime around September, October of last year, their share price took a dive as kind of floating around $3 or so. And the main issues there were around arca ghost, which was a hedge fund blew up that creditors had lending exposure to. And then also just a litany of issues around CS and compliance and open litigation around that. Now, fast forward to call it the last one or two weeks, CS started experiencing runs on the bank. They had deposit flight and the regulators were trying to broker some kind of transaction with UBS and CS was also in a parallel path looking to raise equity capital. So their largest shareholder, which is Saudi Arabia, declined to invest more than their 10% ownership interest in CS. They share that news, I believe it was Thursday of last week. And the reveal of that news caused further loss of confidence in CS and accelerator with the roles. So that was the principle event. That really accelerated the demise of CS. So what happened yesterday, there is an announcement that UBS will be acquiring select parts of credit Swiss.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Pat Boone Has Always Been a Beacon of Wholesomeness
"Fascinating that at that young age, you were presented as this image of a wholesomeness and already in the 50s. Look, this is just the way of the world. The dark side is always attractive. And people don't understand what they're getting into. You know, you kind of think like, wow, Elvis Presley, the idea that he died of a drug overdose bloated Iraq at age 42. It breaks your heart. How many of those people they trod that path? And they died so young whether they were talking to Jimi Hendrix or anybody, any name, you know, Jim Morrison. I mean, on and on and on and on and you represent it obviously something very, very different. And The Rolling Stones and even The Beatles, if they were experimenting with drugs, they were very wealthy, and they could go to Switzerland and then have their blood transfused. Yes, Keith Richards famously had to get a blood transfusion because he was so loaded up with drugs. He's like, not a problem. I'll just go to some clinic in Switzerland, and we'll take care of that. Yeah, but kids were dying by the thousands following examples with the drugs that they couldn't afford to have their blood transfused. And people weren't even making well, there was a connection, but I mean, you know, you couldn't blame them for just sinking in their songs and living their lives the way they wanted to. But the fallout from it was too bad. It was very unfortunate. And of course, here I was had four daughters living in Beverly Hills and going to church regularly and riding bestselling books of Christian principles. And yet having rock and roll records at the same time. And so I was okay.
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UBS to buy Credit Suisse for $3.2 billion to rein in turmoil
"A global financial disaster may have been averted with the news that banking giant UBS is buying Credit Suisse for $3.2 billion. With two U.S. banks failing and concerns over Credit Suisse on the verge. After its largest investor stepped away, the president of Switzerland announces an emergency deal for UBS to buy up its troubled rival. UBS CEO Tom Kelleher. We are committed to making this deal a great success. There are no options in this. This is absolutely essential to the financial structure of Switzerland. And at the risk of being somewhat global, I think, to global finance. In the U.S., members of Congress are looking for ways to shore up the banking industry. Senator Elizabeth Warren on NBC's meet the press. Says the guardrails put into place after the 2008 meltdown have been repeatedly weakened. She says bank executives took advantage of that. Loaded up on risk that boosted their short term profits. They gave themselves huge bonuses and salaries and exploded their banks. Calling for controls to be returned. I'm Jackie Quinn
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World shares up after First Republic aid spurs Wall St rally
"A group of banks of extended a lifeline to U.S. based first republic bank, offering reassurance to financial markets. Markets rallied on Wall Street and in Europe and Asia, after news at 11 big banks have offered a combined deposit of $30 billion to help troubled first republic bank. Markets gyrated this week after the collapse of Silicon Valley bank and investors were looking for other troubled banks amid concerns over the unintended toll that interest rate hikes are taking on financial institutions. Shares of Credit Suisse plunged after their biggest shareholder, the Saudi national bank, said it would not provide any more support, but rebounded after Switzerland's national bank offered $54 billion in liquidity, Stephen Ennis of SPI asset management says in a report, the market remains cautious, traders do not want to get overexcited, especially with investors still focusing on what can go wrong instead of what could go right. Treasury secretary Janet Yellen told a Senate committee Thursday that the U.S. banking system remains sound, yesterday the European Central Bank raised its key rate by half a percentage point that expectations on Wall Street are that this week's turmoil will push the U.S. Federal Reserve to cut its rate hike next week to a quarter of a percentage point. I am Jennifer King
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Freename Partners with Young Platform, a Leading European Exchange
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Majority of Retail Bitcoin Investors Likely Lost Money in Last 7 Years, Finds BIS Report
"11 a.m. Sunday, February 26th, 2023. Majority of retail Bitcoin investors likely lost money in last 7 years finds BIS report the bank for international settlements BIS has published its bulletin number 69, titled crypto shocks, and retail losses, which investigates the behavior of crypto investors and whether the sector has impacted broader financial markets. BIS was established in 1930 and is based in Basel, Switzerland its aims are to serve central banks in their pursuit.
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Nikki Haley Kicks Off Run for President
"Nikki Haley, let's go to cut number 15. I have devoted my life to this fight, and I'm just getting started. For a strong America. For a proud America, I am running for president of the United States of America. Now the most controversial thing Nikki Haley said was cut number 14. So let's hear from ambassador Haley on that. And the America I see, the permanent politician will finally retire. We'll have term limits for Congress. And mandatory metal competency tests for politicians over 75 years old. Mandatory competency tests for politicians over 75 years old. That's a thinly veiled shot. I would, my advice to every republic. I'm in Switzerland, as you know. I am not going to have a favorite in this race. I'm going to ask questions of them all. Ambassador Haley is welcome here every day, as is the former president as is Mike Pompeo, as is Mike Pence as his Tim Scott, as is everyone who is anyone who's going to run for president, and there are a lot of them. They're all welcome here, and I will ask them all pretty much the same question. I'm going to talk to them as I did with Peter Thiel about China and the media and how do we get the country going? What do we do about this drug addiction problem?
Liberty Station
Keith Rose on the Enmity in America
"I was thinking about the turmoil in our nation today, and it's really been heavy on my heart. I'm new rob says I was a fell away for a season. It was a really long season. Till I was 45. And I lived in my head. I've talked about it before. And I was trying to build a kingdom just not God's kind of my own. There's a lot of people are trying to do in America today. And they're trying to do it in Switzerland now, too. In Davos. But I wanted to understand from a biblical standpoint what's going on because I know I don't have all the answers. But what I look at is really complicated, God looks at and goes, it's ridiculously simple. And so I went to the Bible. I was reading one day in ephesians two, 14. And it says, for he himself is our piece. Who made both groups into one and broke down the barrier of the dividing wall. By abolishing in his flesh, the which is the law of commandments contained in ordinances so that in himself he might make the two into one new man, the establishing peace. And my reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross by having put to death. Again, the enmity in us. And I read that in something in my heart, the Holy Spirit hit me really hard. And I was so excited, but I had to figure out what enmity meant. I kind of knew what it meant, intuitively, but I really wanted to know the exact definition. So I looked it up. And tell me if this doesn't describe our nation today or what they're getting ready to deal with. It's a deep seated, often mutual hatred. Affiliate or state of hatred or animosity. The quality or state of being hostile or feeling a condition of antagonism ill will Discord. Man today is living in the enmity. In total Discord, we have one group against another group. We have one faction against another faction, our founding fathers warned us about this. But it's happening today in America. And so I wanted to understand what is the root cause because a lot of times we see content and we make a lot of judgments off that content, the Discord without the context. Why and how? What can we do about it?
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"switzerland" Discussed on Travel with Rick Steves
"Or not when you're in Santorini, you should be looking for acro teary. It's really great. Mark Adams is the author of meet me in Atlantis in which he tracks down clues left by Plato and a bevy of obsessive amateur investigators. Mark also writes about an eye opening 3000 mile trip along the Alaska marine highway in tip of the iceberg. His other titles include mister America and turn right at Machu Picchu. His website is Mark Adams books dot com. Okay, so Mark, we got Santorini, we got agadir and Morocco and by the way, when you think of those pillars of Hercules in the ancient mindset, the Mediterranean was the center of the world really, and then you got to The Rock of Gibraltar and from there you can see Morocco on the other side from Gibraltar and then that was sort of the end of the known world and anybody who goes beyond here. Dragons beware the dragons are out there. Neck blue ultra was supposedly written on a rocket at The Rock of Gibraltar, yeah. None further beyond. Oh my goodness. Okay, what about Malta? Because malt has all sorts of mystique about vanish population and ancient runs. If you bend them all to you know that it is this sort of weird mysterious place is a fortress an island fortress that was built by the knights of Malta sort of a mysterious group that goes back to the 16th century as sort of the guard for the Pope and had this private army on this island. And it also has these temples that go back four or 5000 years. These extraordinary buildings that are, it's like Stonehenge, but it underwent cell division. So it's like Stonehenge times four Stonehenge times 6. And like Stonehenge they line up with the solstices and lights shoots down passages and does crazy things like that. And this goes way back. It's the earliest known civilization in Mediterranean I believe. And that's amazing because this is a little island halfway between Sicily and Africa, right? Right. A very small island. And at least once in antiquity, the entire island was wiped out quite likely by some sort of earthquake and flood. So that would line up. Earthquake line up with Plato's story exactly. Okay, so agadir, I can buy a good deer. I could go to Santorini and think about Atlantis and I could also be fascinated by the connections with Malta. I don't get the southern Spain connection because it's not an island and why is southern Spain in the running for the location of Atlantis. The interesting thing is, the word Plato uses for island is nisos, like peloponnesos. It doesn't necessarily mean an island completely surrounded by water. It could mean like a Peninsula, it could be a piece of land that is mostly surrounded by water. Southern Spain in an area called donana national park, which is famous for bird watching. It floods half the year, so the birds come in there on their migration to Africa. It's quite beautiful. But it's filled with silt from the guadalquivir river. Under that silt, it's generally believed there may be a lost city called tartessus, which is mentioned by Aristotle, it's mentioned maybe in the Bible under a different name. Historians generally think that tarte's exists and that is the best location for it. Now if tartessus turns out to be the inspiration for Atlantis, if Atlantis is just her testis under another name, that would be the place. And I think that is, if not the most likely spot, it's certainly there's none better. I think when we consider all of this, it's really important to remember that from a 21st century perspective, it's hard for us to adequately appreciate how advanced civilizations were 1500 years before Christ. I mean, there was a lot going on that we just can't hardly fathom. Yeah, yeah. And a lot of it is underwater now because the water levels have continued to rise over the years. And a lot of what we just don't understand. It's like trying to look into a different dimension. In your book, Mark, I thought it was funny when you mentioned anyone with a dot EDU email, barely returns your questions because there's so many nut jobs looking for Atlantis. Did you gain any respect for these people that are dedicating so much energy to finding this city? And I did. I did, you know, and a lot of these people, I didn't talk to well, I did talk to some just flat out kooks. But the people I spoke to were just, you know, dedicated amateurs who really were interested this did all the reading. We're skeptical. And eventually, I did get some real experts to talk to me, you know? The people who were genuinely interested in finding out the truth. And, you know, secretly off the record, you know, there is interest as anybody else. But they can't come out and say it because they get out of the car. Exactly. They'll lose their government funding if they come out and start talking about Atlantis. But you get a couple of drinks into them and they're like, that's the trick to get an archeologist drunk and then you can talk about it. Exactly. And a century ago, there was this sort of passion, this mania for lost great cities. He had Troy gnosis, chichen itza, the kings and Luxor, El Dorado, Machu Picchu. You name it. So it does have a romantic allure to an archeologist, isn't it? Yeah, absolutely. And if anybody found Atlantis, I think the chances are slim that it's going to turn up in a form that could be recognized. But if they did find it, that would be the greatest archeological discovery of all time. That would be exciting. This is travel with Rick Steves. I'm talking with Mark Adams in his book is meet me in Atlantis. Mark, it's fascinating to me that the only real hard evidence we have of this is the Greek philosopher Plato writing a little bit about it in two different books. Is that what all these Atlanta artists are going by is simply the writings of Plato or is there any other ancient evidence? You know, there isn't much ancient evidence, which is why archeologists tend to center on the idea that Santorini may have inspired Atlantis because there's actual pottery there. There's actual geological evidence there. Everything else is speculation based on ancient oral histories that were eventually written down and things like that. Anyone who writes about Atlantis and there are all kinds of crazy ideas out there and half crazy ideas. It's all traced back to Plato. Plato is the only original source for any talk about Atlantis. You mentioned the dawn of song. The lyrics to that song, which are kind of weird. And Spacey. They all come out of a book written by a Minnesota congressman in the 1880s named ignatius Donnelly, who sort of cherry picked ancient history and, you know, weird pseudoscience theories and put together this 500 page book called Atlantis the anti diluvian world. And that's the book that gives us the idea that Atlantis was an island on the bottom of the ocean. Plato never says that, but Donnelly decided that the Azores were actually the tops of the mountains that had been the island of Atlantis. How he got
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"switzerland" Discussed on Travel with Rick Steves
"And that's a similar sort of style. It was perfect. This is travel with Rick Steves. We're talking with Susie Levine, she's a former U.S. ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein. She's joining us today on travel with Rick Steves to talk about her experience as a diplomat in the world's most famously neutral country. Susie, when you finally got over all of the welcome to the new ambassador in Sonya, sat down, what was expected of you from the people of Switzerland, what were they hoping to get out of their relationship with you? First and foremost, it's to steward the relationship and have a channel of conversation with the United States. You just now mention Swiss neutrality. When you're a little kid in the United States and you're having a game of dodgeball or something like that, right? You pick teams and you're on team a or you're on team B very few people get picked to be the referee. And so there's not actually a deep understanding of what neutrality means. And the service that they provide there is profound to our country. They are the Swiss are our protecting power in Iran at the time they were our protecting power with Cuba. And now they are protecting power with Syria. And what that means and the service that they provide, they are essentially functioning in keeping American citizens safe in those places. Where the United States doesn't have good relations. Exactly. Like when I went to Iran to film there. Yeah. We didn't deal directly with Iran. We dealt with Pakistan. Apparently because Pakistan had that relationship with Iran to deal with people Iran didn't want to deal directly with. There you go. And so if God forbid something had happened to you when you were there, it would have been the Swiss who would have been the liaison for the U.S. government to determine your whereabouts and what's happening and they provide that service and support for us today. And so in enemies on both sides of a conflict appreciate to have that neutral ground. Exactly. And so part of what I believe the Swiss wanted for me was the opportunity that helped the United States understand the value proposition of neutrality. Meaning how can people recognize that we aren't going to always agree with the Swiss? And that that's okay. And not just okay, but it's actually really important in order to validate their neutrality. And then in addition to that, to be able to identify ways for them to engage even when it doesn't make sense for them to engage from non neutral perspective. Let me give you an example. When the United States was in heavy battle against ISIS in Syria. Yes. They created a coalition against ISIS. The Swiss don't join coalitions. They're not in NATO, they're not in the EU. They don't join coalitions. They are a partner to NATO, but they are not in NATO. What we were able to do is to find a way for them to engage, but not militarily. They were able to fund the de mining of the towns that had been reclaimed as the United States and its coalition partners retook those so that Syrian citizens and civilians could safely reenter their hometowns like Raqqa. And so it was, how could I be a diplomat sort of bidirectionally? Is an analogy how the ACLU defends civil liberties sometimes even in a way that offend me. Because the ACL will stand up for something in a principled matter, even because they have something more fundamental they're protecting, which is civil liberties, but they're very, they need to validate their legitimacy for people on all sides of an issue. It is that is a really valid analogy where it may make some people uncomfortable. And that discomfort is something that is actually very important for the role that they play. So let's hear it for neutrality in the countries that annoy us because they're so darn neutral. Right. They provide a service. At the same time to their credit with regards to Ukraine and Russia, there are times when they're like, you know what? That is just not okay and is against the human rights and is against this principle. They are members of the UN. They were actually one of the more recent member joiners to the UN, and they are now sitting on the UN Security Council, which is very special. They just joined this year. This is good. And as you say, they earned their credibility because they are so. Neutral. Exactly. The other really unique aspect you talked about in your introduction, Switzerland's very unique political structure. Switzerland is a federal direct democracy. So here in the United States, there are 27 states that have some form of direct democracy that is referenda or initiatives, imagine that on a national level. And it doesn't actually take that much. It takes a 100,000 signatures to actually bring in initiative to a national vote. And they vote four times a year. So coming into my position, there had just been a situation where something that the government wanted was overturned through a referendum, and it was an important lesson of, wow, the people are really an important fourth pillar of government here and it's really important to build a relationship with the people of Switzerland. And so a large part of my effort was getting out and about and really getting to know people and connecting with them. So for example, I was invited to go do a tweet beer in court and grab bundan. I went and they were shocked. They're like, what? She's accepting our invitation to a tweet beer? What does a tweet beer? It is that on Twitter people would meet and identify a time and a place to go have a beer. And then go to that place. And the American ambassador shows up. There you go. This is travel with Rick Steves for talking with Suzy Levine if you're having a tweet beer. You can find Susie on Twitter by searching for Susie labine. That's spelled SU ZI LEV. Suzy is the former U.S. ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein serving under president Obama. She joins us today to talk about the importance of ambassadors and just what ambassadors do. Suzy, you mentioned a third or one way and two thirds are another way. Kind of alluding to this notion that I have that many ambassadors are just big donors and their chums of somebody who wins an election and they get sent to Norway because they always wanted to be the ambassador Norman. They don't even know anything about Norway, but they're just fancy people with fancy friends and yeah, you can have this ambassadorship. Other people are professional career diplomats that really know what's going on. I've had the great honor of having dinner with the ambassador and Bulgaria in a complicated corner of the world and man, oh man, I gained a respect for the importance of having people who really speak the language, have an empathy with the people have a long-standing connection with that culture so they can help out. What is your take on that balance between giving ambassadorships as presents, some ambassadors have a real agenda, some members don't even believe in the United Nations, depending on who the president is, how big of an issue is that I've had people say, Rick relax, but that's a certain amount of corruption, but there's these the staff is there that provides the consistency and the know how and ambassador can just be for fancy engagements in this kind of thing. What are your
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"switzerland" Discussed on Travel with Rick Steves
"Mark Adams reveals what he found looking for the legendary sunken city of Atlantis in just a bit. Up next, the former U.S. ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein tells us what she and her staff did to represent American interests in Europe. Its travel with Rick Steves. Switzerland is one of the best organized, most affluent and best educated corners of Europe. It's got a unique quality of life and a unique form of government. It's a country that's long intrigued me and today I'm joined by a former U.S. ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein, Suzy Levine, and she's going to join us today to get some of our questions answered. Susie, thanks for being with us. It's such an honor to be here, Rick. Thank you. I'm talking to a former ambassador. Am I supposed to say Susie or you know, I'll have them title ambassador until I die, but I'm always Suzy. Okay, but thank you for your service. And tell me, first of all, in a nutshell, what's the job description of an ambassador? The paramount duty of an ambassador really is to keep American citizens safe. That's if you do nothing else, the most important thing to do. The good news is in Switzerland, that's relatively easy, except for a lot of those real adventure travelers who are like, yes, let's go squirrel suit jumping. That's a little bit harder to keep them safe. You must get calls at the embassy of some American hot dog out there that did something really dangerous in regretted it. Well, sadly, some of the saddest calls were actually not from them regretting it much from their families because Switzerland is very permissive in what they allow and there were some of the most famous adventure travelers who unfortunately did perish while I was there. And we did need to work through those. I had a situation that would be a dimension of your work because you were serving in Switzerland. If somebody was serving in a different country, obviously they'd have a different kind of what's on the list to do today. Absolutely. So that's the paramount, duty, but I think about ambassadorships and our relationships with countries sort of three different levers. One is economic relationships. Now there is political relationships and another security relationships. And each country has each of those different elements dialed to different levels. And in Switzerland, the economic dial is really turned up high, our economic relationship is very, very strong, and we have a lot of economic ties, and our political insecurity dials are really more to third party countries. So how do we partner together to impact other countries and other parts of the world? And so the specifics that I focused on during my time there, first and foremost, American citizen services, but also our economic relationship, and then how do we collaborate together to make the world a better place? And in addition to that, we did a lot in terms of our shared values around diversity, equity and inclusion. And how to build tighter relationship between the United States and Switzerland and Liechtenstein in those dimensions as well. Wow. We've got a lot to talk about. Your story, how did you become ambassador to Switzerland? How long did you serve? And who were you serving under? Right. Well, I started my service in 2014 under president Obama, and I served until the end of his term 2017. And I came to it about a third of our ambassadors are non career ambassadors. Two thirds are career foreign service officers. And I had a long career in technology and in the nonprofit realm and also as a state home mom. I got on the radar of the Obama team being very involved in his election and then staying involved when he became president and doing a lot of outreach and engagement and when this opportunity came, his team asked me if I would serve and I was humbled and honored to do so. So do you remember what it was like on your first day you're ready to go, The Office is set up and here you are, representing the United States and our interests in the beautiful country of Switzerland. What was going through your mind? What did you aspire to accomplish? Oof. As ambassador, the moment that you set foot or set body in the country, you are on. So the minute I landed, I was on. I remember driving up to the residence and meeting the marines who were all lined up in their official posts to welcome me and to some of the key staff members. And it was surreal. It was unbelievable. Even at the airport, the airport experience was surreal. As ambassador, you're a four star general equivalent. And you are the highest ranking member of the U.S. government, always except for the president in the country. So there's a pecking order in the hierarchy of these rituals and formalities and so on in an ambassadors right there with the four star general. Correct. As such, given the role that the United States plays in Switzerland or in pretty much any country, you are quite the dignitary when you arrive. And so even the arrival process coming into the airport was pretty special in terms of being greeted at the point that when you go anywhere it's just like, ladies and gentlemen, the ambassador of the United States. It was wild. This kind of being taken down to the tarmac being scurried off in a vehicle to a special welcoming. So it was incredible and surreal. And we live in the Pacific Northwest here, Rick, right? It's very low key. We're fancy when our plaid matches our gore Tex, right? And so all of a sudden to be in this environment was incredibly humbling. And then in addition to that, Switzerland is very special in how low key and modest it is. So fancy and garish has no place there. No. But that must have been kind of refreshing for you because you're from the northwest,
The Eric Metaxas Show
Larry Taunton Reports From Poland on His W.E.F. Experience
"Our friend Larry, Taunton. Whom you know from this program, he is now in Poland. He was just in Davos, Switzerland with the Antichrist convention. Or whatever they call it, Larry, thank you so much for making the effort all the way from Poland to be on this program. Hey, great to be with you, brother. What part of Poland are you in, sir? I am in Warsaw, and I've been here with Ukrainian refugees almost exclusively women because of course the men were required to stay in fight. And just trying to get a look at what's going on there. And it's very interesting. Well, I want to talk to you of course about where you just were. You were at the world economic forum, I am, again, amazed that you made your way there, we've got a few minutes, tell us what did you see and hear, what are you thinking? Yeah, Eric, you know, you learn from experience that there are some things that you just can't deduce not being there. They're just certain experiences that you're going to get. Things you're going to understand by just having boots on the ground. And that's the way I felt about Davos by going there. I thought, you know, I'm probably going to get some insights here that I otherwise would not get. Now let's be clear, the World Economic Forum, there were over 50 heads of state at this particular gathering. There were more than a 115 billionaires, 600 plus a major CEOs in about 2700 attendees. And my approach here, rather than doing what in some ways you and people at home probably had a better idea of what was going on with the big picture than I did. You're in an individual session or something and you don't see the big picture of what's going on. But that stuff was being covered very well by other people. My approach was to try to get some idea of the people who are attending and the big ideas that are driving the forum. And of course, at bottom, it is utterly atheistic.
The Eric Metaxas Show
John Zmirak and Eric Reflect on Slavery and the Civil War
"Really understood that what the founders had done and what we had in this country was just so extraordinary that the only way that it could be destroyed would be from within, which is, of course, where the attacks have come from and where they're coming from today. So eventually you and I want to go through them because in the article you mentioned, go ahead. Yeah, okay. So yes, we had this system of government set up with a three branches struggle against each other and the federal government struggles against the state government. They're all intentioned together. It's this real Goldberg apparatus set up intentionally to restrict the power of the state over individual Americans and their families and their churches. A magnificent rare, almost unique historical creation. The only presidents are things like Switzerland. And immediately, of course, fallen human nature starts to chafe against it, corrupt elite start to try to frustrate and corrupt and pervert the system. But the slave power between 1830 and 1860 the slave owning elites of the south were the first, I think, arguably the first elite conspiracy to corrupt the political system. They used their power in the Senate to frustrate all progress in terms of settling the west unless they could spread slavery and spread slavery further and further west, even though slavery was meant to die out. It was supposed to die out Jefferson, Washington, all thought it was an institution that would wither away. The slave power, the wealthiest elites of the southern states who owned a vast plantations worked by slaves. They insisted on extending slavery further and further to the west. They wanted it in California. And as we saw during the Civil War, they wanted to capture Cuba and conquer Mexico and reintroduce slavery. They wanted to go down to Brazil. They wanted a huge slave empire. So we had those elites of the south basically fool the people of the southern states into seceding from the union, and we had a Civil War.
ACN Newswire
TVS Motor Companys Chairman Sir Ralf Speth conferred with University of Warwicks Honorary Doctorate
"12 p.m. Saturday January 21st, 2023. TVS motor company's chairman sir Ralph's Beth conferred with university of Warwick's honorary doctorate. Singapore, January 21st, 2023 ACN newswire sir Ralph speth, chairman of TVS motor company, has been conferred with an honorary doctorate in the field of science doctor of science, honoris kalsa from the university of Warwick, United Kingdom. The honorary degree was conferred by the university of Warwick Chancellor baroness Catherine Ashton of up Holland. TVS motor company post chairman sir Ralph speth conferred with university of Warwick apos honorary doctorate. Sir Ralph is accompanied by the university of Warwick Chancellor baroness Catherine Ashton of up Holland, who conferred the degree, sir Ralph is a fellow of the Royal Academy of engineering, and a fellow of the Royal Society. An honorary professor at Warwick manufacturing group WMG. He has been closely associated with WMG ever since obtaining his engineering doctorate in 2008, under the pioneering leadership of former WMG chairman, lord Botticelli. An outstanding engineer with a vast experience in the global automotive industry. Sir Ralph has held leadership roles with some of the renowned automotive and industrial giants such as Jaguar Land Rover, BMW, Ford, taught a motors, and the Linda group. He was appointed honorary knight commander of the British Empire in an additional night commander of the most excellent Order of the British Empire, commenting on the honor, Venice srinivasan, chairman emeritus, TVS motor company, said quote my heartiest congratulations to Ralph for this well deserved recognition. Over his distinguished career in automotive and industrials of more than four decades, he has built world class products and brands. He has been relentlessly working towards transforming the industry with his passion for technology and strive for excellence. This honor is a testament to his leadership, vision, and dedication to the industry, and we are privileged to have him lead TVS motor company in its transformational journey dot clothes, and venue, MD, TVS motor company, said quote sir Ralph's exemplary leadership skills, tremendous vision for the industry and descending approach towards technology make him unique. His energy and passion is inspiring. We are proud to have him amongst us we wish him many more accolades recognizing his immense contributions to the industry dot quote sir Ralph has a degree in engineering from the university of applied sciences rosenheim, Germany, and a doctorate of engineering and mechanical engineering and business administration at the university of Warwick. About TVS motor company TVS motor company is a reputed two and three Wheeler manufacturer globally, championing progress through sustainable mobility with four stadia off tart manufacturing facilities. In hoser, messieurs and in India and karawang in Indonesia. Rooted in our 100 year legacy of trust, value, and passion for customers in exactness. We take pride in making internationally aspirational products of the highest quality through innovative and sustainable processes. We are the only two Wheeler company to have received the prestigious stemming prize. Our products lead in their respective categories in the JD power IQS and appeal surveys. We have been ranked number one company in the JD power customer service satisfaction survey for consecutive four years. Our group company Norden motorcycles, based in the United Kingdom, is one of the most emotive motorcycle brands in the world. Our subsidiaries in the personal E mobility space, Swiss E mobility group a CMG and EGO movement have a leading position in the a bike market in Switzerland. TVS motor company endeavors to deliver the most superior customer experience across 80 countries in which we operate. For more information, please visit WWW dot TV's motor dot com. For more information, please contact Priyanka Kumar Priyanka dot Kumar TV's motor dot com copyright 2023 ACN newswire. All rights reserved. WWW dot ACN newswire dot com.
American Institute for Crypto Investors
Davos Just Validated Our Whole Crypto Investing Strategy
"11 a.m. Wednesday, January 18th, 2023. Davos, just validated our whole crypto investing strategy. Despite all the noise emanating from Davos, Switzerland, and the World Economic Forum, we've heard some extremely interesting announcements. It's actually a pretty powerful statement, but maybe not the statement the people hope made it probably intended. As reported by, read more the post Davos just validated our whole crypto investing strategy appeared first on American institute for crypto investors.
ESPN FC
"switzerland" Discussed on ESPN FC
"He said in the press conference, we're going to be the world champions, but he also said, we need a good Memphis Dubai in our first 11. A Memphis at the moment is not the Memphis he used to be for about two years ago or something. So that's really the main concern. It all comes down to the young inexperienced Cody gecko. That a big shoes to fill for him. Yeah, it's a lot of pressure. A lot of pressure coding. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. What about you, Sam? What do you think the biggest fear will be with this side? Do you think it could be the experience in this side against them? I think it's that K and I think, honestly, if you're an American fan, I think the biggest concern you have is Louis von hall. I think we saw in the first game of the group stage. You know, rob page, who is a manager who's a very good manager, but he's clearly not a manager with the same pedigree, was able to unlock the U.S. in the second half. And I think that that's the concern. And if for me, the U.S. comes out with incredible energy in the first half, they have been able to get on the front foot, but we've seen in the second half that both the opposing manager is able to make some adjustments and unlock them a little bit and the fatigue sets in when you're playing that kind of a high energy game to me, the biggest fear tomorrow is the second half. Maybe even the last 30 minutes, let's say, I can see a scenario where the U.S. is able to get out in front. It's able to play with energy is able to even impose itself a little bit on the game, but then I think there will come a point in the second half where they're going to suffer because the Dutch will be able to make adjustments. And unlock them the way that the Welsh were. And I think whether they're able to come through that phase successfully is going to dictate whether they're behind able to get into extra time or maybe even able to come away with a win. This came to me very quickly is about momentum. It's about the narrative and the journey of the entire 90 minutes because you know already Vincent has said it. Sam obviously reports in it about the eagerness, the energy of the U.S. M and T. It's not a cliche to say that because their average age is 25. They want to be willing to work in collectively. I talked to a few weeks ago. He talks about that. But then it's about not just the Netherlands meeting that energy, but at the same time understanding that there will be moments in the game where they will have their chances. The question will be, who will take theirs at exactly the time that you need it to? Okay, we're going to let these guys go. I know that Vincent's got to host the Netherlands version of SportsCenter ESPN fan Doug. Is that right? ESPN found out very well pronounced. We have here in the U.S.. Thank you so much for being with us and Sam. We'll let you go, but make sure you're going to tell the U.S. camp all the secrets about the penalty shootout and swapping the goalkeeper out as well. Absolutely. Thanks guys. Good to see you. Before we bring our next guest in Luisa, that's left a few things that are interesting for me. I feel as though when I heard the flu is not a serious and obviously a lot of people do use the word flu instead of a cold or sniffles which it does appear to be. I'm not saying that's what it is. That's what it would appear though. That's what I do when I try and pretend not to go to work. I just say I have the feeling. Yeah. The flu, as you the flu is something completely different, you know, you usually ask looking better if you have the flu, it doesn't sound like it is a flu outbreak. As we might have thought it was, but I then thought, oh dear then, then this could be not good for the U.S.. This Netherlands side of taking 7 from 9 points in those groups that are out there being scary girls. Anyway, Cody gap was looking like he is. But then hearing someone with the experience that Vincent does, not feel confident and even joking, we always see the Dutch as a confident team as a confident people. That made me think a little bit, you know. It did. It did. I don't know. I'm always feeling that the touch are very smart keeping their cards close to their chest. And they're even the fans, even the reporters, even the analysts. They don't want to give too much away. That's very American, I think. What me and you have lived here long enough to know that that grandiosity that confidence is part of what makes the U.S. M and T or anything the USW and T anybody feel great. I feel like the Dutch are being very reserved about it. And who is better at keeping their cards close to their chest and Louis van Hale. So I think that yes, a lot is going to be reliant on Cody cockpit. But I feel that this Dutch team is very smart. And they'll be ready for that energy against the Americans. We'll have to wait and see what happens then. Maybe the America should have said, now a politic isn't good at all and then just a big thing tomorrow. Exactly. We've got rob Dawson with us joining us because we've got a lot to talk about before we actually get to the brackets, which we've been given a clean slate. We've been allowed to do our brackets again now from the knockout Rowan's going forward. But first rob, welcome back into the show. We wanted to know a little bit about this beef in the South Korea Portugal game with Ronaldo, which has hit some of the headlines now.
ESPN FC
"switzerland" Discussed on ESPN FC
"ESPN daily Kay Marie and the group's done Brazil topping group G Switzerland will be the side following them through to the knockout rounds. Hey, Luis. The last ever 32 team World Cup is signing off with something that's never happened before in a 32 team World Cup, not a single side winning all of its games in the group stage. The last time that that happened was at USA 94, Cameroon beat Brazil. That means that Brazil actually conceded a goal, so we're continuing with the driver here. And what a game that was between Serbia and Switzerland finishing three two. Three, yeah, three, two. I'm forgetting myself here. Let's wrap it up, Ben, shall we? Which game do you want to start with? Oh, I don't know. Maybe the one that you just talked about? Three, two. Well, I don't even know the score of. I know, right? I mean, I guess we can go there. It was a complete back and forth. I've had high hopes for Switzerland during this entire tournament, but taking nothing away from Serbia. There's a lot in this matchup, by the way, from a social cultural perspective from a political perspective. So the high tensions were always going to be there. But I didn't expect it was going to be a 5 goal thriller I thought it was going to be one of those slow nails and maybe somebody gets a goal. At the end. But Switzerland deliver and I've been hiring them for a while. I think there are very well organized team. They have talent. I think brilliant and bolo is fantastic. But it's not just about him shakiri, of course. So there are good teams. So I'm expecting some good things here from Switzerland entering the knockout stages, but I love that stat. They're not one single team here. Was able to win all three matches. It says a lot. USA 94. Who won a USA 94 the whole thing? Who wouldn't USA 94 the whole thing? It was Brazil. And I think when we do our brackets, we run that. England I know. Let's not talk about that. But that's amazing. Let me tell you what we've got coming up. We're going to have a USA Netherlands preview. We'll get to Brazil, don't worry. We're going to speak to our colleagues in Qatar. We're going to speak to one of our colleagues from the Netherlands from ESPN, coming up just a little bit later. And then we're going to be bringing our updated brackets to you. Rob Johnson is going to be joining us to do that as well. Let's have a quick word on Brazil then before we look ahead here, Brazil's B team, LOL. I mean, come on, man. That could be anybody starting team. I know that this is not any news or anything, but when you actually just see it laid out, you're like, this is on fair. Yeah, it's really unfair. Gabriele Jesus, Gabriel Martinelli, Rodrigo, who's like one of the best Friends ridiculous. Hey, what are you saying? Hey, what do I always say? It's like, chicha, she's like, oh, my diamond shoes don't fit. My wallet's too small for my 50s. Like, I don't feel sorry for this Brazilian time. Like, the Brazil B team, like you said, could make it really far, but they did kind of seem a little bit relaxed. Today, not relax. I think that's not the right word. But a little bit of what Spain were going through yesterday as well. Just, you know, they knew that they got the job done. So it's really just about testing the legs and seeing what could come off. But hey, like you said, this Brazilian team is very deep. Yeah, I win for Cameroon nevertheless, and something else, just to add to the craziness. A booby cat score in the goal, then celebrating by taking his shirt off and getting sent off for it for a second yellow card. By the way, I hate that rule. Like let him take his shirt off. Who cares? If you take your shorts down, then maybe get a yellow, but it should, come on, it's ridiculous. Well, the rules are rules out. Anyway. As some Baden has been with the U.S. camp throughout the World Cup so far and that must be a great camp to be a part of right now. We're going to welcome him in because we need to know all the latest news ahead of this big game against the Netherlands and honestly, it is so exciting. There he is. Hello, Sam. His first what's up guys? What's up? Nice to be here. That's how busy he's been. Okay, so then before we hear from you, we know that you spoke to Christian Pulisic earlier today, so let's hear a little more from that interview. Can you describe those moments leading up to making contact with the ball was and then what happened afterwards? Yeah, I mean, great ball across from Weston and
The Crypto Overnighter
"switzerland" Discussed on The Crypto Overnighter
"Money laundering checks. Now last May, finma put out a proposal on how to tighten up their system against smurfing. Now, they're going to back off on that because they've been hearing some feedback from both the crypto companies and private citizens. There was some criticism that the rules weren't technology agnostic. And that all of those stores of consumer data would be big, fat, juicy targets for hackers. Now finma is holding fast. There have been calls to bump up their CHF 1000 limit up to 25,000. That said, they did concede that these new rules will only apply for anonymous transactions like through a crypto ATM. Ah, but Switzerland news does not stop there. Because their part of something called project Mariana, along with the nations of France and Singapore, project Mariana is being coordinated by the innovation hub of the bank for international settlements. And this project is to determine whether these newfangled DeFi protocols are a good match for replacing traditional ways of matching buyers and sellers of Fiat currency. Which seems feasible to me. DeFi has already done that. So for the bank of international settlements, they put out a statement on their website saying quote DeFi and its applications have the potential to become systemically important parts of the financial ecosystem. And that technology that they're looking to use here is the automatic market makers, right? AMMs. What automatic market makers do. It's a couple of things. They store liquidity, which is why they get hacked. And they also use algorithms to determine the price between two tokenized assets. That said, AMMs can become the basis for a new generation of financial infrastructure. Now this Mariana project with France Switzerland and Singapore is just the latest in a series of events that the BIS has put together. The idea is to take a look at the sovereign issued digital currencies like CDC's and see whether they have use in both financial markets between nations and consumer usage in a grocery store. And so this project is interesting to me. Because one study last December put out by the BIS called DeFi and illusion. Now this study said that centralized governance is inevitable. I think the real problem is they're not sure how to go about regulating DeFi. In the meantime, we were just talking about Singapore and let's stick with them for a bit here because Singapore has been busy lately. And if it seems like we've been talking about them a lot lately, well, we have. But there's a good reason for it. They are right in the middle of their FinTech expo. So we should be expecting lots of announcements like these. The first of these is really a pair of tests that are going to be carried out to test the usefulness of tokens in trade finance and wealth management. So two different projects. The first one is around trade finance. And it's being led by standard charter. The second one, concerning wealth management involves HSBC, market node and tamasa. Kai fare is the global head of trade and working capital at standard charter. They said quote by transforming trade assets into transferable instruments, we aim to improve the accessibility to an asset class, which has been largely the domain of banks with participation from a broader range of investors. He continued. Not only can we potentially narrow the 1.7 trillion global trade finance gap, this also offers investors the option to balance their portfolio with a digital token that has traceable intrinsic value. The Singaporean Central Bank announced their first trades using tokenized versions of the yen and the Singapore dollar. This was actually the start of a project meant to test something that we were just talking about. Using DeFi techniques but storing the financial activities on the blockchain rather than a third party. Which is how they do it in the wholesale funding market, which are used by banks to maintain liquidity. Han QI guan is the group head of strategy and planning at Singapore's DBS bank. He was just talking about how trad 5 banks can use DeFi principles. Quote, we wanted to show it was possible to tokenize government securities and cash within a DeFi liquidity pool. Then, using an AMM and solving for that with price oracles and market data streaming services from Bloomberg or Refinitiv, we wanted to create an institutional grade D 5 venue, which regulators would be comfortable with. In the meantime, Singapore has been looking at stablecoins, too. Which makes sense given how important the Staples are for DeFi. Singapore's Central Bank has green lit a couple of new players in the stablecoin space. Circle producer of the USD C stablecoin is one of those companies. Their major payments institution license allows them to offer cross border as well as domestic payment services. In addition, they can offer tokenized products. Dante deporte is circle's chief strategic officer. He said that this licenses important to the company because it allows them to quote demonstrate the potential of digital currencies and open payment systems. Whereas circle CEO Jeremy allaire said quote, we are honored to receive the in principle license and we look forward to more collaborations with MAS to support the thriving crypto and blockchain ecosystem, as well as the advancement of FinTech innovation in Singapore. Meanwhile, on the same day, paxos also got permission from the Central Bank to operate in Singapore. Now paxos is the issuer of the USD P stablecoin. And much like circle, they can now offer crypto products and services under the payments services act. The payment service act was first passed in 2019. And it allows the monetary authority to regulate payment systems and providers in the city state. This includes crypto companies. In an announcement, paxos said that their news license would let them offer digital asset products and services to companies headquartered in the area. Rich tau is the CEO of paxos Asia. He said quote, from the start, we've been committed to innovating within regulatory frameworks. We believe blockchain and digital assets will revolutionize finance for everyone around the world. But development of this technology must have clear oversight and consumer protections. This comes not too long after we reported here that Singapore's Central Bank was proposing new stablecoin rules, including reserve requirements and a ban on lending. These proposals are open to public comment through next month. And that's going to do it for us tonight. I want to thank you my listeners because when you stop listening, I will stop talking. We'll see you tomorrow night.
WBUR
"switzerland" Discussed on WBUR
"Have very serious impacts like on court verdicts and job interview success. That sounds extreme, but according to errors levon, Professor of sociolinguistics at the university of Bern in Switzerland, you are judged as soon as you open your mouth. Usually the first thing that people will assume based on your accent is the lasso where you're from. And then along with that, we also make assumptions based on these regional judgments about things like your social class, perhaps your education, sort of everything that fits together with our stereotypes and beliefs about different places. So there has been work in the United States and the way in which different foreign accented englishes are perceived and we find speakers of foreign accents are deemed as sounding less trustworthy as sounding less competent as sounding less intelligent, less able to do their job to teach a class. Which seems crazy right because if you're speaking English with a foreign accent, you can speak two languages ergo, you are better, that's how my brain works it out. Yeah, no, I agree. I absolutely agree. But I think people sort of believe mistakenly believe that if you're able to learn a language, then you should be able to learn it without an accent. And that's just a mistaken assumption. And there are consequences to that mistaken assumption, as we'll get on to. But you might be thinking, hey, this isn't really relevant to me. Everyone in my neighborhood sounds exactly like me. But there is one place you might regularly come across accents that are very different to your own. The telephone. We asked reporter shallow yadav to track down some of the people you may have spoken to
Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney
"switzerland" Discussed on Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney
"All right, before we get to this week's phantom franchise, we've been talking about the max we've been talking about the braves and trying to assess the national league yeast race going forward. So my question to you, the curveball that I warned you about ahead of time, do you believe in strength of schedule? Because on paper, it would seem like the mets have a big advantage over the braves in that regard. I do believe in strength of schedule, but there's a randomness that we can attach to the fact that only we've got a couple of weeks to go and anything can happen and you and I are old enough to remember the 78 Red Sox Yankees pennant race, one for the ages, and there were some curveballs within what happened then, you know? The Cleveland Indians, which were not a great team at the time, come in and they put a hurting on the Yankees, who were surging and all of a sudden the Red Sox scraped by they went a couple of games and things even out. So I think there is a little bit of chance left to this. But, you know, mets fans throwing the panic flag in New York. What do you think, buster? Yeah, I don't think Matt's fans are going to be really excited about strength of schedule, given that in recent days, it's been a nationals and the pirates. Yeah. And again, and you and I both know the mets fans are we talked about my great admiration for them because they're so devoted to their team. Their default position is panic. Let's face it. And Yankee fans are also feeling that as well, but the word panic, I think, is applicable here. Well, the DNA is very, very strong in both cases, and I grew up around here, and as I always say, met's going to met met fans going to met fans, you know, they think the worst hope for the best, but we saw what happened in 2006. I mean, it's happened before, but listen, this is as a neutral observer. Great mets team. Yeah, the braves are World Series champions, but I think it's going to be fun the next couple of weeks. But then again, I'm looking at it from this Switzerland like perspective. Right, exactly. Well, I said yesterday in the podcast, you know, the Met since June 1st had played on a hundred win pace, like they haven't blown it. The braves just have any big playing now in like a 117 win pace. And that's why what makes this race so fun down the stretch. And the fact that they play each other in the last week is going to be a lot of fun. I think that's our last Sunday Night broadcast. If I've heard correctly. All right, fan of franchise for this week. So buster, the Tampa Bay Rays plan to play part of their schedule in Montreal was shot down a little while ago, but it wasn't the first time that a team wanted to split their home between two cities. In 19 71, the Cleveland Indians were hurting. Plagued by low attendance and losing money. At the same time, New Orleans was constructing a state of the art don't stadium, which would become the Superdome, and they were looking to fill dates there once it was open. In August, 1971, the Cleveland plain dealer published a report stating that the Indians had entered into a deal to play 30 games a season in New Orleans. The agreement was to run for 20 years, starting in 1974. With 15 home games in New Orleans in April and May and the rest spread out later in the baseball calendar. The Indians were to have opened the season in Cleveland and would have played all weekend dates there as well. Indians owner Vernon steuer said, quote, I think this is a great idea for Cleveland. It will be the coming thing in baseball 50 home games is enough. It's cold as heck in Cleveland in April and May with a wind blowing off Lake Erie. American League team owners who would have had to approve the move met and expressed skepticism, Oakland owner Charlie Finley led the way, noting the fact that this deal would have resulted in the Indians controlling two cities, including New Orleans, which he may well have coveted for his own franchise. Other owners wondered why New Orleans was looking for what was described as, quote, partial membership. Stauffer, meanwhile, turned down an offer to sell the club to a local group. Led by Cleveland shipbuilder George M Steinbrenner and former tribe third baseman Al Rosen. A 30 member New Orleans delegation led by the governor of Louisiana descended upon the baseball winter meetings to pitch the plan, but AL owners continued to reserve judgment. Finally, in March 1972, stauffer reached a deal to sell the club to Cleveland Cavaliers owner Nick maletti. In April, he met with Superdome officials to tell them that the deal was off. Steinbrenner, meanwhile, purchased the New York Yankees the following year. And the Indians now guardians stayed put. But today buster, we salute the Cleveland slash New Orleans Indians and they are this week's phantom franchise. Yeah, is that all that information just classic 1970s where the owner had a problem with the plan was Charlie Finley. Oh, that's not the first time or nor the last. And the fact that in discussing all that, of course, the concept of the players union was completely irrelevant to the owners at that time. Sure, just have guys move every couple of days between Cleveland and New Orleans. I'm sure there are a lot of flights between the two cities and set up two different homes. And buster, again, researching this and thinking about the Montreal raised situation. I remember saying at the time that that news broke, there is no way that the PA is going to two different paying taxes in two different countries, families, having to move back and forth. People with kids in school, come on. Yeah, I agree. When that news broke, I had the exact same reaction and was like immediately. It was like reach out to her news editor saying, we need to couch this by saying the player association will never agree to this. No, no, I was going to say. And a potential expansion site off the table because of this as well. And the same thing clearly in New Orleans, which never wound up getting an MLB team, of course. That's exactly right. All right, let's get to this week's quiz. All right, everybody.
Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney
"switzerland" Discussed on Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney
"This lineup now with Harris hitting at the bottom, Bond Grissom still hitting, you know, what are they going to do when Ozzy albies comes back, but it's deep. There's not a soft spot in that lineup. Much more power one through 9 than the mets have. And that's looks like to me the difference maker right now. Yeah, Bond Grisham, his presence actually give the brave some great options is Ozzy comes back because, you know, Ozzy coming back from a broken foot, you know, they're confident that he potentially could be an option, but you know what? It's going to be a great competition from the braves perspective. And that's what I got back from Brian sicker last week when we met with him before that Sunday Night game. You know, in their outfield mix, they're going to play the hottest guys. When it comes to second base, they're going to play the guy who looks better when it comes to their rotation down the stretch. You know, Jay go to rizzi, Mike siroka. You know what? We'll just we'll just play the guy who's better right now. That is a great situation to be in as opposed to these teams who seem to be just dying for that one guy to return from the injured list. Yeah, the really interesting how they use Grisham, he was the minor league shortstop. He's been playing second base. I don't think he played any outfield in the miners, so I don't know if they'll give him some time out in the left field. Maybe he DH is a little bit. But look, having flexibility is always a good thing. And right now, the braves just look a little deeper than the mets. The mets, look, Edwin Diaz locked down closer. We know that atom motto vino has been pretty solid, but that rest of that bullpen, I don't have a lot of faith in that. That's always been my biggest concern about the mets, is the depth in their bullpen. I'm surprised they didn't do more at the trade deadline other than Michael givens who's really struggled since coming over. And now you're not going to get Max Scherzer innings, Taiwan walker struggled again last night, so the rotation isn't going super deep in the game so that bullpen for the mets really stressed out right now. Yeah, this race between the two teams will be a battle between the intangible and a tangible metric. The tangible metric being strength is scheduled. The intangible will be being momentum. Yes. The question of whether or not the momentum is a real thing in baseball. While we're talking so much about the braves and mets, we're not talking about the Phillies who've been playing well for a long time. Yeah, look, Bryce Harper has been back over a week now. I've always said this about the Phillies. I know Zach Wheeler, we gotta get him completely healthy. But if they make the playoffs with Aaron nola and Zach Wheeler, that's a pretty good one, two punch, you know, at a roll into October with, you know, reminds me a little bit of how Steven Strasburg and Max Scherzer carried the nationals back in 2019. Nola and Wheeler have that potential. The defense for the Phillies? Much improve buster with Bryson Scott at shortstop. They got rid of DD Gregorius, got rid of ota bell horror and center field. You know, look, you're corner outfielders with shorebird Castellanos. Not exactly gold glovers, but overall it's the best Phillies that look have looked on defense in years and I know that's not saying much, but I think that's been a key on why they played better the last three months. All right, I've held you off long enough. You haven't gotten a chance to talk about the Mariners. Who, and I haven't talked to you since they signed Julia Rodriguez. There must be enormous optimism among your friends or Mariners fans right now. Yeah, before we got on here, I was saying I'm getting a lot of text from my Mariner friends back in Seattle. Obviously, you had ichiro and Felix Hernandez, you know, that were the faces of the franchise for so long. But it was surrounded by losses after years and years of misery, but now you have a new face of the franchise. And he's going to be here for hopefully his entire career, and now you're winning buster. I don't know how they keep doing this. They don't score runs, but they don't give up any. They have that road trip to Cleveland and Detroit. They went 6 and O here's what the best way to sum up Seattle. The last game in Cleveland rain delay. So George Kirby had to come out after three innings. It went extra earnings. They used 9 relievers all 9 guys pitched out of the bullpen. But they're all good. They have 9 good relief pitchers. So Scott service, he just basically pitches three or four one day, the other three or four the next day keeps alternating them. And that bullpen really shuts down. The rotation has been really good Robbie ray after kind of scuffling a little bit the first few months has been a red hot Logan Gilbert didn't have his a stuff last night, but kept the White Sox off the board, pitched and good enough to get the win and give up no runs. They look pretty good right now. Yeah, and I tell you what, if they wind up being essentially the number one wild card, see, they have a chance to do that and to host a first round series. And I think that'll be a great atmosphere. I mean, we saw, you know, back in the 90s, what the kingdome would be for the Mariners, a real home field advantage. I think because it's been so long since they've been in the playoffs. That would be the case for the 2022 Mariners. Yeah, I don't know how many men are fans know that you got to get that top wild card to get a home playoff game. So yeah, Seattle, no doubt is going to press very hard for that top seed so they can get a home game and get the home series. Although buster, if you look at the way the AL playoffs might unfold, the advantage might be to get the third wildcard where you play the AL central winner and then you would line up against the Yankees where if you're the fourth seed, you play the number 5 team, but then you have to play the Astros. So you want that home series, but I think being the number 6 team in the AL actually is an advantage. All right, you and Jeff pass in today generate an article that's on ESPN dot com about players who graduated in the stardom in 2022 and example of that, Dylan cease of the Chicago White Sox. Who is your guy that you like to talk about when you talk about players graduating you start them in 22? Well, my guy really is the guy we were just talking about a little bit, Michael Harris, who, look, Julio Rodriguez, deservedly been getting all the attention, but look at the numbers, Michael Harris, higher OPS, Harris has defensive metrics just as good as Julio, Harris, I think is what 16 out of 17 stealing bases and remember, Michael Harris, like Julio, 21 years old, his play discipline needs a little improvement, Rodriguez, more raw power, but Michael Harris, this kid is going to be special. So I'm going to really enjoy watching these two young rookies battled out for best center Fielder in baseball over the next decade. Now, you know that you remember that Michael Harris, when he was coming out of high school, the question was whether or not he was going to be a pitcher or whether or not he was going to be a hitter. And I had a conversation recently with Dana Brown.
Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney
"switzerland" Discussed on Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney
"From sports radio 93.7, the fan and later O'Neal Cruz applied a coup de grace, which was unlike any that I've seen in a Taylor going to want to talk to you about this home run after we hear the sound. Three two pitch. High drive to right field watch this cruise missile out of here. Headed toward the river. Wine drive O'Neal Cruz. Headed toward the Allegheny. That's number 13. 8 two pirates. Yeah. Taylor, how about that home run? It was appropriately described as a line drive that went over the right field stands in landed in the Allegheny river. Normally, when you hit a ball on a river, whether it's in Cincinnati or you hit the ball in the water in San Francisco or you hit the ball of water in Pittsburgh, it's a towering shot. It's high parabola. That thing was crazy. A cruise missile, and did you see what he said afterward when someone asked him about it? He said, it's about time. Which I just absolutely loved. He's a beast. I love watching him. Yeah, we're going to be talking a lot about him going forward. And you wonder if the pirates at some point are going to be throwing a blank check at and try to keep them around in Pittsburgh. So the pirates beat the mets and buck showalter was asked about the mets recent offensive struggles. Like this team has been so consistent offensively for much of the year. What have you seen in these last 13 games that's been different? It's just been, you know, it's a period. It gets your attention because they've been so good for so long over a hundred and some odd games and so you always tip your hat to the opposition, but you know I've got some frustrating right now because they know they're capable of better. After the Matt's lost, their lead in the national league east cut to a half game, the braves played a West Coast game against the Oakland athletics and they took a big lead early. Bitch on the way
The Breakdown with NLW
"switzerland" Discussed on The Breakdown with NLW
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Going to a different dimension of a similar conversation, it was a little rougher for the quote unquote decentralized finance ecosystem this week. Many people have pointed out many parts of the Ethereum and DeFi ecosystem are, in fact, centralized. In particularly in fura, which is owned by consensus, which is a centralized company. It doesn't pretend to be anything different. However, the risk has always been that because that key infrastructure is run on centralized rails, those centralized companies may 1 day have to deplatform people from places that run afoul of the country in this case the U.S. that that infrastructure is regulated within. That happened this week we saw it with inferior meta mask and open sea. Users from places like Iran and Venezuela were deplatformed as part of standard policy according to these platforms. Now, we obviously can understand where those centralized platforms are coming from, but it comes to a shock as those who didn't imagine that they would be caught up in a sort of sanctions dragnet. It's a reminder that any ecosystem any protocol is only as decentralized as its least decentralized point of failure. And of course, there are lots of uses for DeFi as it's currently constructed that don't need that level of censorship resistance. But if you're in a place that the U.S. has deemed no bueno, you're kind of stuck right now. All right, next narrative Bitcoin as uncorrelated asset. This one always bobs in and out of the discussion, particularly around markets. And frankly, Bitcoin has been in one of its most correlated periods when it comes to equities. When markets discover that the fed was likely to start quantitative tightening in 2022, Bitcoin and crypto moved right alongside the rest of the market. I've given my standard spiel a bunch of times about why I think that Bitcoin acts as both risk on and risk off asset at the same time, and that what matters is really the duration in which someone is making a specific type of decision. Whatever the case last weekend and throughout most of the week, we saw a fairly significant decoupling between Bitcoin and crypto and equities. Was that driven by people actually trying to adopt this technology as a hedge against the sanctions and other economic volatility that was coming their way? Was that other people making a bet that that narrative would drive the price up in that context? Whatever the case we seem to be back in some sort of alignment as the weekends, but it's still going to be interesting to watch over the course of the next few weeks as this highly volatile situation in Russia and Ukraine continues to evolve. All right, a few more key economic narratives, dollar as neutral. Nope, that one has been firmly blown out of the water with these sanctions. In fact, tomorrow's long read Sunday is going to be all about whether we are headed into some sort of post dollar hegemony type of era. Next narrative inflation as transitory. That's an extra big nope from me dog. Now this one had already been pretty firmly slammed by the persistence of inflation and supply chain problems, but with this conflict, it's only going to get worse. And of course, really what the fed was always saying when they said inflation is transitory was that the reason for inflation had specific reasons that we could rationally point to that would work themselves out. Kinks in the economy, kings and supply chains coming out of pandemic shutdowns. Turns out it doesn't take all that much for those understandable and transitory factors to be stickier, thornier, more persistent than we imagined, and you throw a war that cuts a major supplier of everything from wheat to heavy metals to energy off from the rest of the world and inflation is going to get worse. But let's wrap with one that got a bunch of conversation in and around the larger discussions of Ukraine and Russia, and that's the idea of Bitcoin as legal tender. Obviously the grand example of this is El Salvador, and people have been wondering where the next places to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender might come from. There was a lot of chatter this week that lugano Switzerland looked like that next place. Alex gladstone tweeted Bitcoin and tether apparently to become legal tender and lugano Switzerland. Looking forward to learning more about the details implications and ripple effects of BTC becoming legal tender in a prominent city in the heart of Europe. Other people sort of lost their minds at this characterization. Sats tonight said, no, they are not. There's no actual legal tender law, but they are just promoting tether and Bitcoin and local businesses. I hate the reporting in this space. So what actually is going on? Well, basically the way that it's working is that Bitcoin tether and a city token that is pegged to Swiss francs will be able to use for everything from personal and corporate municipal taxes, public services, parking fines, dog taxes, sewage fees, market site fees, ID and passport issuance fees, naturalization fees, boat talking fees, garbage, access charges, cemetery taxes, basically all sorts of different things, plus they will be used by 200 plus businesses and shops. The initiative is called plan B and here's a quick thread from static on what it actually is going to consist of. The Swiss city of lugano's plan B is a bold initiative despite the many buzzwords. It makes Bitcoin tether in the city's loyalty token LVG a, quote, de facto legal tender, so not legal, so you can pay all taxes with these coins, but there's much more. Private businesses are encouraged to accept these coins on a voluntary basis as well. It's remarkable that lightning is mentioned explicitly. I think that's in line with Bitcoin's ethos, supporting voluntary adoption by removing technical and legal concerns. Lugano will also explore mining initiatives. Hello Arduino from tether has been, quote, discussing to find the right locations to install mining equipment and start mining Bitcoin with 100% green energy, mentioning that the rewards can be kept in the city's treasury. While this is very vague still, it's a welcome demonstration pushing back against the Bitcoin will boil the ocean's FUD. Palos has the goal is also to provide a positive effect on the power grid by using surplus energy, giving local power demand priority. Lugano is also building a startup hub at the city center, a prime location with high visibility. The city will provide 3 million plus USD direct investment into practical grassroots blockchain projects and to become the blockchain hub of Europe, there's up to 100 million USD available to encourage startups to relocate their headquarters, including employees to lugano. To provide specialists to emerging companies, the initiative includes 500 plus student grants across the city's three universities, a special curriculum for education in Bitcoin and decentralized technologies will be launched. And finally, there's the announcement of the modestly named Bitcoin world forum this fall. In the Palazzo de congressi in lugano. My takeaway, lugano, a beautiful city in the Italian speaking south of Switzerland embraces new technologies Bitcoin included. So just briefly to wrap this all up, this is not a legal tender law. But it is formal adoption by a city, which as static is points out might be more in line with Bitcoin ethos than it being mandated to be accepted as we're seeing in places like El Salvador. Whatever the case, the point is it's completely rad on its own terms. And to the extent that we can, we should stop overselling things that are already cool. Either way, I hope you guys are having a great weekend. I want to say thanks again to my sponsors. Next dot IO arculus FTX and coin telly, and thanks to you guys for listening. Until tomorrow be safe and take care of each other. Peace.
The Tennis Podcast
"switzerland" Discussed on The Tennis Podcast
"Well. I think I think it's going to come down to the doubles, and that is going to be brilliant because we've talked about over in Samsung, three from three this week. But then bang chicks and either gold your bitch or Titan, a great pair as well. But I'm just going to give the egg still to Switzerland because I do think Bangkok can be a difference makeup for them. Yeah, well you make a very good case. What do you think, David? I've put my neck out for Switzerland. Yeah, I think ultimately I agree with you on that. I do look at Samsung and think she could she could also she's capable of winning two rumbas if she plays like she did today. I wonder how much pavlichenko has got left. She's put so much in. Yeah. I think you're right. That was grueling today, demanding. She said she was struggling in that third set, all of her matches have been three sets. I think two of them over two and a half hours. I noticed she was exercising a little bit towards in and that match sort of leaning over on a thigh trying to get I wondered whether cramp was coming in or a little pool or something like that. But yeah, I'd probably go with Switzerland because of Benji. Yeah. But I hope you're right about it going to the doubles because that's still definitely for me about this whole format change is the standout thing for me in these times. I'd love having a deciding doubles point like that. And having quite a lot of them, because, you know, you only need a winner piece and off you go. You know, I think that's a real boon to the format. So I hope that happens. I hope it's a cracking day. I can't wait till tomorrow's podcast, because I want to listen to Billie Jean King talking to Matt. So that's got to happen tomorrow right here on the tennis podcast. So tell your Friends. Spread the word. And yeah, we'll be back again tomorrow. The final will be on the Billie Jean King cup Facebook page in the UK India and Russia. It's on tennis channel as well in the U.S. and you can also stream it via the Billie Jean King cup website. And yeah, we have Chris Albert Lee as our executive producer. Mercer is Matt's mascot, rogue is mine, Zeus is Catherine's. She's been presented tele again tonight. She's got a semifinals day coming up tomorrow. So we'll be talking about all of that on Monday with her. Have I forgotten anything else Matt? We have Samson and Chester for the week. Our mascot. Of course we do. Samson and Chester, I do apologize. Thank you for being our mascots this week. Your most marvelous. Have I forgotten anything else? I don't think so. No. Okay, well on that note. I'll wrap things up. We'll be back again tomorrow..
The Tennis Podcast
"switzerland" Discussed on The Tennis Podcast
"This sort of adrenaline rush that you get on core we see you on the sidelines really involved. Is that part of what you like about being captain? Absolutely. The second best thing after playing is being captain. I think playing is probably cooler. But you reach certain age where this comes been possible. And in a certain instinct you absolutely relive being a captain of a team. You know, you get into certain moods, even prior to the match and on and on and start breathing a certain way. I'm a big points and it's just a reminder that, you know, you compete it a long time ago as well. And what you liked about competition. I still like competition so to speak, but I'm not competitive in just about anything. So I get my competition out of those of competitions where the girls. Absolutely fascinating, Matt and I think Heinz is a commentator as well on TV. He likes to talk. He's a good talker. He's interesting to listen to. And that was a really interesting insight. And I've sort of, I've heard that sort of thing a little bit before from people like going in this event when he was being a Davis Cup captain, I think a stand in for a little while, and then in his early days of coaching when he was working with Marin Cilic and got him to the U.S. open or played a part in him getting to the U.S. open title win in 2014 about trying to compare the two, you know, comparing being on the court and being in the box, and he always used to say crack it's much harder being in the box because of your lack of control. I find that really hard to handle. But the disappear to be a very good vibe, doesn't there in that team in Switzerland's team and I was thinking back to when Ben chich lost that set the other day against San Angelique Kerber and she just sort of briefly lost her mind, you know, and stormed stormed off the corn and gun tart kind of just let that happen. And then, you know, they got back on the horse sort of thing, didn't they after that? But they're very interesting conversation there. Yeah, he's really interesting, I think the wider point of what athletes do after they retire is always an interesting conversation. I think you can't replicate those feelings, but you can maybe find things that come close and for him, this is as close as it gets. And I do think being on the court and being part of this team, maybe as opposed to coaching from the sidelines, you know, you really can influence things. And his presence is felt, which is why I asked him because I've been watching him on the sidelines, and he's it just seems to get it just right. You know, in terms of what that team needs, not too much encouragement, but just at the right time, he's there. He's pointing at them and saying, well done and everything. And I just have found him interesting in the press conferences a week as well. So I thought he would be a good talker on that. And the other point to make is when you're imagining Heinz Gunn heart speaking there, you've got to take into the fact that he's actually got his nails painted red, at this tournament. Which is a sort of little tradition that they've got going in the Swiss team. I think he's painting an extra nail for every match they win. Wow. And yeah, so he's in fact not just here. I believe all the staff, men and women have all got their nails painted, it's just a little inside thing that they've got going on. That I think all the teams have something to sort of keep them going and the Swiss is nail painting. I like that. That's great. Great, they're inside. Okay. Well, so one more day to go of the Billie Jean King cup finals and yeah, it's coming up tomorrow, Russia against Switzerland. You've already told us that Switzerland is going to win this whole thing Matt. Have you seen anything today? That has given you pause for thought that actually maybe that's not going to happen. No, I think, you know, Switzerland obviously had the easier tie today. So it's quite difficult to read in to how well they were playing, but I think it was impressive. I think what I liked was they'd had that emotional high against the Czech Republic. That was such a big deal winning that group. But they didn't allow themselves to get two euphoric and two caught up in it, then they came back today less than 24 hours later and just got the job done against Australia really efficiently. So they've saved some energy, Russia, I think Russia have had a really tough tire today. I think they're going to have the same task that the Swiss had today, not to get to euphoric from this brilliant victory over the USA. What I find fascinating about the matchup is that both teams have a really flexible path to victory, not to sound too much like John King on CNN when he's talking about the election map and have they need to win Michigan and Georgia while they stand no chance. Absolutely nothing wrong with sounding like John King. I think there's a bit of a Kindred spirit there. He is a legend. But, you know, I think Switzerland are probably more reliant on bang 6 than Russia are any one player. But I do think there's a plausible scenario in which Ben shakes loses her singles and Switzerland still win. You know, because Tycho was impressive today and Tycho and Bangkok have combined really well.
The Tennis Podcast
"switzerland" Discussed on The Tennis Podcast
"Shipping. So that's HelloFresh dot com slash 14 tennis with the code 14 tennis for up to 14 free meals. Switzerland have beaten Australia to zero. Now, along with my Sloane Stephens tweet, you may remember 24 hours ago I was saying how much I was looking forward to storm Sanders against Jill titman and really opening that hoping that happened, but at 6 love three love and for Jill taekman, I was rather less enthused and then suddenly storm whipped up a storm. And she made the come back to three all and she was whipping up a teammate and it was getting exciting and you got two lefties going at it. Hammer and tongue. It was a really good tussle for about 15 minutes. Wasn't it? Yeah, those were 15 great minutes. It was amazing what a release it seemed like for her to win a game. You know, I think she was then just suddenly able to actually focus on the task at hand in the match rather than worrying about winning a game. You know, because it's one of the things about tennis, isn't it? 6 love really is irrelevant. Because it's the same as 7 6 in terms of what you've got on the score, it's one set and you're just as far away from winning if it were 7 6 as if it's 6 love. But it's impossible I imagine or almost impossible to tell yourself that. And she was obviously really caught up in the fact that she had lost 9 games in a row. But when she did win, yeah, she whipped up the crowd, she laughed with her teammates and yeah, really started to play for 15 minutes and then I think overall there was a golfing class in this match. And storm Sanders wasn't able to step up the way she has done this week. And Joe titman, who came in for Victoria golubic as we thought she would based according to Einstein hart for a couple of reasons a match up reason, but also because of how tight and played in that doubles against the Czech Republic. You know, he was impressed with her and thought, yeah, she's handling the occasion. Let's get her into the singles. And ultimately, she was, she was far too good. Yeah. And then she got speak to Matt Robertson a press coverage. Let's have a listen to her that went. Looking more generally at your season. And in particular, your results on hardcourts, I think when you came onto the tour, you were known more as a clay quarter, just wondering what adjustments you've had to make to thrive on hard courts and how you feel it suits your game these days. Honestly, that's something that the press made up because I never felt like a only clay court player. Obviously, I moved well on click up. I moved well as we were on hardcore. So as well, if I look in my juniors career, I also had results on hardcore, as well as on clay court and anything. I think my game fits a bit everywhere, so I guess with the two tiers on clay, I just got this title. Let's say, okay, you're a clay court player, as well, maybe my style looks a little bit like that, but I mean, at the end of the day, we play Alan at 80% of the year in hardcore. So I knew I'm going to play good on hardcore and I always felt good because my game is not passive, so it's pretty aggressive whenever I can. I saw very good. So on click or you can imagine how that goes. It's not the same. I don't get my free points. Let's say the last game I did three aces on clay court obviously that would be more difficult. So that's you told maths. Yeah, do not tell tankman that she's a clay quarter. Wow. I like that though. I liked everything that I've seen about jail type and this week I've liked her behavior on the sidelines, how she involved and up for it. And then when she's got on the court, she has delivered big time and she just really is taking the moment and then there she was in the press conference, not afraid to sort of, you know, just put the record straight, you know, she answered the question in a detailed way. But yeah, she backs herself and she's a cracking player. Yeah, she really is, and she honestly is an example of how a player can be put in a box. And I've definitely been guilty of that with her. You know, she mentioned in that answer, the two clay court titles she won those who in 2019 and that was when I first heard of Tycho and when she first registered for me and when you see that success, come on one surface. I think, especially when it's clay, you can sometimes fall into the trap of thinking that they're only good on play. But yeah, I mean, after the press conference, I did have a more thorough look at her results. And yes, those were the standout results. Those ones on play. But, you know, she also was having wins on hardcore and sort of ever since the pandemic actually hardcore has been her surface if I'm in Lexington, I think semis in Dubai was at this year and then the final in Cincinnati as well where she beat well bang chicks for Osaka as well, loads of good players. And yeah, I definitely have taken field type men out of the clay court box and put her in. Well, all court, I think. So are you the Nick curios to deal Clinton's Pablo corina buster and Casper room? Well, I mean, when you say it like that, that is horrifying to think. I like to think I've never called a boring or less interesting than paint drying or whatever it was. Curios said about root. Yes. And incidentally, I've just watched Casper rude play a cracking match against Alexander zverev and push him close and show exactly what he's made of. I mean, he I really like watching Casper rude. But anyway, more of that on Monday when Catherine and I will get together to talk about the Paris tournament. The rest of that tie went straight forwardly in the direction of Switzerland, because Belinda benches just did what Bill in the bench hitch does in national team competitions and she absolutely took either time the animator part. I decided to have a little bit of a nap during the intermission between Sanders and and the bench and Tom the elevator match. I slightly missed my alarm and that match was over. So what happened? Well, I think it's a bad matchup for Tom yanovich. I don't think she does anything better than bang 6 really. They both want similar sorts of rallies, they both prefer their backends, but bang chicks is just better. And she was sort of able to maneuver Tom yano victory around the court with ease really I think what was most impressive was looked like she was on a mission, right from the start, three love up. But then she did get broken back, and it was three two, but she never let any sort of negative emotion, linger at all. She just reestablished her authority broke again and was just sort of away, really, and yeah, as you said, it was a typical Belinda bean chicks performance when she's in this mood. She's really, really good. He is really, really good. So that means we have Russia against Switzerland in the final tomorrow. And before we get on to talk about that, Matt was in the press conference with the Swiss team. And Heinz Gunther, the captain of the Swiss team was in there. And you may remember last year when we did our tennis relived show about Steffi Graf, a player that Heinz Gunn tuck coached for many, many years. He joined us. And he was a really interesting contributor to that show. And he was a very good player in his own right back in the day as well. And Matt's Matt spoke to Heinz to get a sense really, I think of what it's like doing his job. Let's have a little listen to that. Just a question about the role of a captain generally. I think sometimes for athletes when they retire, one of the hard things to discover is to replicate this sort of adrenaline rush that you get on core we see you on the sidelines really involved. Is that part of what you like about being captain? Absolutely. The second best thing after playing is being captain. I think playing is probably cooler. But you reach certain age where this comes been possible..
The Cities of Refuge Podcast
"switzerland" Discussed on The Cities of Refuge Podcast
"While people with swiss nationality have more of their access to participation which is also quite unique and leslie. Unfortunately i think that switzerland is a bit marginal in the sense that they have a certain distance from other european countries there but like a fortress geographically speaking with the farka speaking. Because i feel like there is not that much collaboration. International artworks and so the visibility of the actions of swiss cities is reduced in a european sutton. Thank you very much lay on italia both of you for these very very interesting comments on your research. Indeed pass your field work. There have also been developments about the re allocation of children from the maurya cams swiss cities. But unfortunately this is not something that the three of us have studied yet so if our audience if our listeners are interested in this topic we strongly advise you. We will also put a link in the description of this podcast to go and check out. How swiss cities have been standing up formally and collectively against the Their cantons governments saying that they should stay would really like to house children from.
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"Switzerland rejects astrazeneca cove corona virus vaccine citing lack of sufficient data to prove. Its effectiveness. oh here we go now. The swiss getting into it. Let's roll here folks. The the main medical regulator of switzerland has rejected the oxford astrazeneca hot corona virus or known as covax nineteen vaccine. According to the regulator there is a lack of available trial data to prove. The vaccine is safety us. Well you know folks. I've been saying this for almost a year. A little over since they've been rolling out with this crap. I've been saying it's not safe. But anyhow i digress. Let's go back with regard to astrazeneca vaccine. The data submitted an analyze so far are not yet sufficient to permit authorization. Said the swiss agency for therapeutic products are known as swiss medic and a statement released friday. Or excuse me wednesday february third to obtain information more information about safety efficiency quality data. Additional data from new studies are needed. Well there ego the human medic Human medicines human medicines expert committee and external and independent advisory panel that double checks swiss Meds find that on medicines for human new human use arrived at the same conclusion during a meeting on tuesday. The data concluded available. Do not point to a positive decision regarding the benefits and risks said the panel swiss medic concluded in its statement demanding more data to obtain To attain conclusive assessment the applicant will and among excuse me other things submit additional efficiency data that will have a phase three trial on the were underway and north and south america and those That have to be analyzed as soon as the results have been received a temporary according to the rolling procedure could be issued eta very short notice. Astra zeneca responded It will continue to share the data with swiss medic as it becomes available it will comply with every requirement to make sure it's vaccine is approved. Now astra zeneca has been granted a conditional marketing authorization or emergency use in close to fifty countries spanned four continents including most recently..