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Episode 54 David Buller In the winter of 2001, Professor David Buller was found murdered in his office at the University of Toronto. With no potential suspects and zero DNA evidence at the scene, Professor Buller's case quickly went cold. For over 20 years, his family has hoped for answers, but none have surfaced yet.  If you have information about the murder of David Buller, please contact Toronto police at 416-808-7400 To learn more about David Buller's life, visit this website. To check out David's art, visit this website.    To listen to every episode of Campus Killings ad-free and get other benefits, simply  visit our channel page on Apple Podcasts to get started with an AbJack Insider subscription.    To advertise on this podcast please email: ad-sales@libsyn.com    Or go to our site.     For news, information, and updates about Campus Killings, or to contact the show, visit our website Follow Campus Killings on Social Media; Twitter & Facebook  Campus Killings is hosted by Dr. Meghan Sacks and Dr. Amy Shlosberg. Research and Writing by Abagail Belcastro Produced by Mike Morford of AbJack Entertainment Be sure to listen to Amy and Meghan's other podcasts: Women and Crime & Direct Appeal

In this episode of Welcome to Cloudlandia, we reflect on how places, people, and experiences shape our perspectives. The conversation begins with casual observations, from warm weather making transitions easier to memorable encounters like “Spam Man,” a mysterious figure spotted at the Hazleton Hotel. We also explore the impact of changing landscapes, both physical and cultural. From real estate in Toronto to how cities evolve, we discuss how development can shape or diminish the character of a place. This leads to a broader conversation about timeless architecture, like Toronto's Harris Filtration Plant, and how thoughtful design contributes to a city's identity. Technology's role in daily life also comes up, especially how smartphones dominate attention. A simple observation of people walking through Yorkville reveals how deeply connected we are to our screens, often at the expense of real-world engagement. We contrast this with the idea that some things, like human connection and cooperation, remain unchanged even as technology advances. The discussion closes with thoughts on long-term impact—what lasts and fades over time. Whether it's historic buildings, enduring habits, or fundamental human behaviors, the conversation emphasizes that while trends come and go, specific principles and ways of thinking remain relevant across generations. SHOW HIGHLIGHTS In Phoenix, during a rooftop party, we witnessed a surprise appearance of a SpaceX rocket, which sparked our discussion on extraordinary events blending with everyday life. We explored the curious case of "Spam man," a local legend in Hazleton, whose mysterious persona intrigued us as much as any UFO sighting. We shared our fascination with the dynamic real estate landscape in Hazleton, discussing new constructions and their impact on scenic views. Our conversation touched on unique weather patterns at the beaches near the lake, emphasizing the influence of water temperatures on seasonal climate variations. We delved into the topic of warmer winters, reflecting on how both humans and nature adapt to milder temperatures, particularly during February 2024. Our discussion included insights from Morgan Housel's book, which inspired our reflections on nature's resilience and adaptation over millions of years. We highlighted local activities like windsurfing and kite skiing, noting the favorable wind conditions at the beaches, a rarity in Canada's cold-weather climate. Links: WelcomeToCloudlandia.com StrategicCoach.com DeanJackson.com ListingAgentLifestyle.com TRANSCRIPT (AI transcript provided as supporting material and may contain errors) Dean: Mr Sullivan. Dan: Mr Jackson. I hope you behaved when you were out of my sight. Dean: I did. I'll have to tell you something. I can't tell you how much I appreciate the arrangement of this warm weather. For me, it's made the transition much more palatable warm weather. Dan: for me it's made the transition much more palatable. Dean: I mean our backstage team is really getting good at this sort of thing, and you know when we were in. Dan: we were in Phoenix a couple of weeks ago and we had a rooftop party and right in the middle of the party we arranged for Elon Musk to send one of his rockets out. Dean: I saw that a satellite launch yeah. Dan: Yeah, can you imagine that guy and how busy he is? But just you know, just to handle our request he just ended up with, yeah, must be some money involved with that. Dean: Well, that's what happens, Dan. We have a positive attitude on the new budget. Dan: Yeah, and you think in terms of unique ability, collaboration, you know, breakthroughs free zone you know, all that stuff, it's all. Dean: it's the future. Dan: Yeah. So good Well he sent the rocket up and they're rescuing the astronauts today. Dean: Oh, is that right? How long has it been now since they've been? Dan: It's been a long time seven, eight months, I think, Uh-huh, yeah and Boeing couldn't get them down. Boeing sent them up, but they couldn't get them down. You know, which is only half the job, really. Dean: That was in the Seinfeld episode about taking the reservation and holding the reservation. Yeah. They can take the reservation. They just can't hold the reservation yeah. Dan: It's like back really the integral part. Back during the moonshot, they thought that the Russians were going to be first to the moon. Kennedy made his famous speech. You know we're going to put a man on and they thought the Russians, right off the bat, would beat him, because Kennedy said we'll bring him back safely and the Russians didn't include that in their prediction. That's funny. Dean: We had that. We're all abuzz with excitement over here at the Hazleton. There's a funny thing that happened. It started last summer that Chad Jenkins Krista Smith-Klein is that her name yeah, yeah. So we were sitting in the lobby one night at the Hazleton here and this guy came down from the residences into the lobby. It was talking to the concierge but he had this Einstein-like hair and blue spam t-shirts that's, you know, like the can spam thing on it and pink, pink shorts and he was, you know, talking to the concierge. And then he went. Then he went back upstairs and this left such an impression on us that we have been, you know, lovingly referring to him as Spam man since the summer, and we've been every time here on alert, on watch, because we have to meet and get to know Spam man, because there's got to be a story behind a guy like that in a place like this. And so this morning I had coffee with Chad and then Chad was going to get a massage and as he walked into the spa he saw Spamman and he met him and he took a picture, a selfie, with him and texted it. But I haven't that. His massage was at 10 o'clock, so all I have is the picture and the fact that he met Spamman, but I haven't that. His massage was at 10 o'clock, so all I have is the picture and the fact that he met Spam man, but I don't have the story yet. But it's just fascinating to me that this. I want to hear the story and know this guy now. I often wonder how funny that would appear to him. That made such an impression on us last summer that every time we've been at the Hazleton we've been sitting in the lobby on Spam man. Watch, so funny. I'll tell you the story tomorrow. I'll get to the bottom of it. Dan: It's almost like UFO watchers. They think they saw it once and they keep going back to the same place you know hoping that'll happen again, yeah. Dean: Is there a? Dan: spot. Is there a spot at the Hazleton? Dean: There is yeah. Dan: Oh, I didn't know that. Dean: So there's some eclectic people that live here, like seeing just the regulars or whatever that I see coming in and out of the of the residence because it shares. Dan: There's a lot, you know, yeah that's a that's pretty expensive real estate. Actually, the hazelton, yeah for sure, especially if you get the rooftop one, although they've destroyed I I think you were telling me they've destroyed the value of the rooftop because now they're building 40-story buildings to block off the view. Dean: I mean that's crazy. Right Right next door. Yeah, yeah, but there you go. How are things in the beaches as well? Dan: Yeah. You know it's interesting because we're so close to the lake it's cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter, you know. Dean: Oh, okay. Dan: You know, because controlled by water temperatures. Dean: Water temperatures. Dan: Yes, exactly, I mean even you know, even if it's cold, you know the water temperature is maybe 65, 66. Dean: Fahrenheit, you know it's not frigid. Dan: It's not frigid. Dean: They have wintertime plungers down here people who go in you know during the winter yeah, but this is that you and babs aren't members of the polar bear club that would not be us um but anyway, uh, they do a lot of uh windsurfing. Dan: There's at the far end of our beach going uh towards the city. They have really great wind conditions there. You see the kite skiers. They have kites and they go in the air. It's quite a known spot here. I mean, canada doesn't have too much of this because we're such a cold-weather country. There isn't the water, it's pretty cold even during the summertime yeah exactly yeah, but the lake doesn't freeze, that's oh, it does, it does yeah, yeah we've had, we've had winters, where it goes out, you know, goes out a quarter mile it'll be. Dean: I didn't realize that Wow. Dan: Yeah, yeah, yeah, but not this winter. It never froze over this winter, but we have, you know, within the last two or three winters, we've had ice on the. We've had ice, you know, for part of the winter. Dean: It's funny to me, dan, to see this. Like you know, it's going gonna be 59 degrees today, so, yeah, it's funny to me to see people you know out wearing shorts and like, but it must be like a, you know, a heat wave. Compared to what? You had in the first half of march here, right, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah, so that's good. Dan: Yeah, last February not this past month, but February of 2024, we had 10 days in February where it was over 70. Dean: And. Dan: I often wonder if the trees get pulled, the plants get pulled. Dean: It triggers them to like hey, oh my. Dan: God. But apparently temperature is just one of the factors that govern their behavior. The other one is the angle of the light. Dean: And that doesn't change the angle of the sunlight. Dan: Yeah, so they. You know I mean things work themselves out over millions of years. So you know there's, you know they probably have all sorts of indicators and you have 10 boxes to check and if only one of them is checked, that doesn't, it doesn't fool them. You know they have a lot of things that I sent you and I don't know if we ever discussed it or you picked it up after I recommended it was Morgan Housel, famous ever. Dean: Did you like that? Did you like that? Dan: book. I did, I loved. It was Morgan Housel famous ever. Did you like that? Did you like that book? Dean: I did, I loved it. I mean it was really like, and I think ever you know, very, very interesting to me because of what I've been doing, you know the last little while, as I described, reading back over you know 29 years of journals, picking random things and seeing so much of what, so much of what, the themes that go that time feels the last. You know 30 years has gone by so fast that I, when I'm reading in that journal, I can remember exactly like where I was and I can remember the time because I would date and place them each journal entry. So I know where I was when I'm writing them. But I thought that was a really, I thought it was a really interesting book. What stood out for you from? Dan: Yeah, I think the biggest thing is that really great things take a long time to create. Dean: Yeah. Dan: Because they have to be tested against all sorts of changing conditions and if they get stronger, it's like you know they're going to last for a long time. Dean: And. Dan: I'm struck by it because the book, the little book that I'm writing for the quarter, is called the Bill of Rights Economy and the Bill of Rights really started with the United States. It was December 15th 1791. So that's when, I think, washington was just inaugurated at that time as the first president. But, how durable they are, and you can read the newspaper every day of things going on in Washington and you can just check off the first 10 amendments. This is a Fifth Amendment issue. This is a second amendment you know and everything like that, and it's just how much they created such a durable framework for a country. They were about 3 million people at that time and now there are 300 and whatever probably upwards of 350 million. And basically, the country runs essentially according to those first 10 amendments and then the articles which say how the machinery of government actually operates. And it's by far the longest continuous governing system in the world. That's really interesting. But that's why you know I really like things that you know, that you know that have stood the test of time. I like having my life based on things that have stood the test of time. And then I've got, you know, I've got some really good habits which I've developed over the last 50 years of coaching. Got, you know, I've got some really good habits which I've developed over the last 50 years of coaching and you know they work. You know I don't fool around with things that work. Yeah Well, I want to bring in something. I really am more and more struck how there's a word that's used in the high technology field because I was just at Abundance 360. And it's the word disruption and it's seen as a good thing, and I don't see disruption as good. I don't really see it as a good thing. I see it as something that might happen as a result of a new thing, but I don't think the disruption is a good thing. Dean: Yeah, it feels like it's not. It seems like the opposite of collaboration. Yeah, it really is. It feels like the negative. You know the I forget who said it, but you know the two ways they have the biggest building. Dan: I really mean Chucky movie. Dean: Yeah, there was somebody said the two ways to have the biggest building in town, the tallest building is to build the tallest building or to tear down all the other buildings that are taller than yours, and that's what disruption feels like to see in the real estate industry is always one that is, you know, set up as the big fat cat ready for disruption. And people have tried and tried to disrupt the real estate industry and, you know, I came away from the first, the first abundance 360, realizing that, you know, perhaps the thing that same makes real estate possible is that you can't digitize the last hundred feet of a real estate transaction. You know, and I think that there are certain industries, certain things that we are, that there's a human element to things. Dan: That is very yeah, yeah, I mean, it's really interesting just to switch on to that subject. On the real, estate. If you take Silicon Valley, Hollywood and Wall Street, who are the richest people in the area Silicon? Dean: Valley. Dan: Hollywood and Wall Street. Who are the richest people in the area? Dean: Silicon Valley Hollywood and Wall Street. Dan: Who are the real money makers? Dean: Yeah, Wall Street. Dan: No, the real estate developers. Dean: Oh, I see, oh, the real estate developers. Oh yeah, yeah, that's true, right, that's true. Dan: I don't care what you've invented or what your activity is. I'll tell you the people who really make the money are the people who are into real estate. Dean: Yeah, you can't digitize it, that's for sure. Dan: Well, I think the answer is in the word. It's real. Dean: What was that site, dan, that you were talking about? That was is it real? Or is it Bach or whatever? Or is it Guy or whatever? What was? Or is it AI or Bach? Dan: Well, no, I was. Yeah, I was watching. It was a little, you know, it was on YouTube and it was Bach versus AI. Dean: So what they've? Dan: done. You know you can identify the. You know the building components that Bach uses to you know to write his music and then you know you can take it apart and you know you can say do a little bit of this, do a little bit of this, do a little bit of this. And then what they have? They play two pieces. They play an actual piece by Bach and then they play another piece which is Bach-like you know, and there were six of them. And there was a of them and there was a host on the show and he's a musician, and whether he was responding realistically or whether he was sort of faking it, he would say boy, I can't really tell that one, but I guessed on all six of them and I guessed I guessed right. Dean: I know there was just something about the real Bach and I think I think it was emotional more than you know that could be the mirror neurons that you know you can sense the transfer of emotion through that music, you know. Dan: Yeah, and I listen to Bach a lot I still get surprised by something he's got these amazing chord changes you know, and what he does. And my sense is, as we enter more and more into the AI world, our you know, our perceptions and our sensitivities are going to heighten to say is that the real deal or not? Dean: you know yeah sensitivities are going to heighten to say is that the real deal or not? You know, and yeah, that's what you know, jerry Spence, I think I mentioned. Dan: Jerry Spence about that that Jerry Spence said. Dean: our psychic tentacles are in the background measuring everything for authenticity, and they can detect the thin clank of the counterfeit. Yeah, and I think that's no matter what. You can always tell exactly. I mean, you can tell the things that are digitized. It's getting more and more realistic, though, in terms of the voice things for AI. I'm seeing more and more of those voice caller showing up in my news feed, and we were talking about Chris Johnson. Chris Johnson, yeah, yeah, chris Johnson. Dan: This is really good because he's really fine-tuned it to. First of all, it's a constantly changing voice. That's the one thing I noticed. The second version, first version, not so much, but I've heard two versions of the caller. And what I noticed is, almost every time she talks, there's a little bit of difference to the tone. There's a little bit, you know, and she's in a conversation. Dean: Is it mirroring kind of thing, Like is it adapting to the voice on the other end? Dan: Yeah, I think there's. I certainly think there's some of that. And that is part of what we check out as being legitimate or not, because you know that it wouldn't be the same, because there's meaning. You know meaning different meaning, different voice, if you're talking to an actual individual who's not you know, who's not real monotonic. But yeah, the big thing about this is that I think we get smarter. I was talking, we were on a trip to Israel and we were talking in this one kibbutz up near the Sea of Galilee and these people had been in and then they were forced out. In 2005, I think it was, the Israeli government decided to give the Gaza territory back to the Palestinians. But it was announced about six months before it happened and things changed right away. The danger kicked up. There was violence and you know, kicked up. And I was talking to them. You know how can you send your kids out? You know, just out on their own. And they said, oh, first thing that they learned. You know he said three, four or five years old. They can spot danger in people. You know, if they see someone, they can spot danger with it. And I said boy oh boy, you know, it just shows you the, under certain conditions, people's awareness and their alertness kicks up enormously. They can take things into account that you went here in Toronto, for example. You know, you know, you know that's wild. Dean: Yeah, this whole, I mean, I think in Toronto. Dan: The only thing you'd really notice is who's offering the biggest pizza at the lowest price. Dean: Oh, that's so funny. There's some qualitative element around that too. It's so funny. You think about the things that are. I definitely see this Cloudlandia-enhan. You know that's really what the main thing is, but you think about how much of what's going on. We're definitely living in Cloudlandia. I sat last night, dan, I was in the lobby and I was writing in my journal, and I just went outside for a little bit and I sat on one of the benches in the in front of the park. Oh yeah, in front of the hotel and it was a beautiful night. Dan: Like I mean temperature was? Dean: yeah, it was beautiful. So I'm sitting out there, you know, on a Saturday night in Yorkville and I'm looking at March. I'm just yeah, I'm just watching, and I left my phone. I'm making a real concerted effort to detach from my oxygen tank as much as I can. Right, and my call, that's what I've been calling my iPhone right, because we are definitely connected to it. And I just sat there without my phone and I was watching people, like head up, looking and observing, and I got to. I just thought to myself I'm going to count, I'm going to, I'm going to observe the next 50 people that walk by and I'm going to see how many of them are glued to their phone and how many have no visible phone in sight, and so do you. Dan: What was it? Nine out of 10? Dean: Yeah, it wasn't even that. Yeah, that's exactly what it was. It was 46, but it wasn't even 10. Yeah, it was real. That's exactly what it was. It was 46. Dan: It wasn't even 10%, it was 19. It wasn't even no, it was 19 out of 20. Dean: Yeah, I mean, isn't that something, dan? Like it was and I'm talking like some of them were just like, literally, you know, immersed in their phone, but their body was walking, yeah, and the others, but their body was walking. But it's interesting too. Dan: If you had encountered me. I think my phone is at home and I know it's not charged up. Dean: Yeah, it's really something, dan, that was an eye-opener to me. It's really something, dan, that was an eye-opener to me, and the interesting thing was that the four that weren't on the phone were couples, so there were two people, but of the individuals, it was 100% of. The individuals walking were attached to their phones. Dan: Yeah. Dean: And I think that's where we're at right now. Dan: No, yeah, I don't know, it's just that. Dean: No, I'm saying that's observation. Dan: It's like Well, that's where we are, in Yorkville, in front of Okay, right, right, right yeah. No, it's just that I find Yorkville is a peculiarly Are you saying it's an outlier? It's not so much of an outlier but it's probably the least connected group of people in Toronto would be in Yorkville because they'd be out for the. They don't live there. You know most don't live there, they're and they're somewhere. There's probably the highest level of strangers you know, on any given night in toronto would probably be in yorkville I think it's sort of outliers sort of situation. I mean, I mean, if you came to the beaches on a yeah last night, the vast majority of people would be chatting with each other and talking with each other. They would be on their phones. I think think it's just a. It's probably the most what I would call cosmopolitan part of Toronto, in other words it's the part of Toronto that has the least to do with Toronto. Dean: Okay. Dan: It's trying to be New York, yorkville is trying to be. Dean: New York. Dan: Yeah, it's the Toronto Life magazine version of Toronto. Dean: Yeah, you idealize the avatar of Toronto, right yeah? Dan: In Toronto Life. They always say Toronto is a world-class city and I said no. I said, london's a world-class city. Dean: New. Dan: York is a world-class city. Tokyo is a world-class city. You know how, you know they're a world class city. Dean: They don't have to call themselves a world class city. Dan: They don't call themselves a world class city. They just are If you say you're a world class city. It's proof that you're not a world class city. Dean: That's funny. Yeah, I'll tell you what I think. I've told you what really brought that home for me was at the Four Seasons in London at Trinity Square, and Qatar TV and all these Arab the Emirates TV, all these things, just to see how many other cultures there are in the world. I mean, london is definitely a global crossroads, for sure. Dan: Yeah yeah. And that's what makes something the center, and that is made up of a thousand different little non-reproducible vectors. You know just, you know, just, you know. It's just that's why I like London so much. I just like London. It's just a great wandering city. You just come out of the hotel, walk out in any direction. Guarantee you, in seven minutes you're lost you have the foggiest idea where you are and you're seeing something new that you'd never seen before. And it's 25, the year 1625. Dean: I remember you and I walking through London 10 years ago, wandering through for a long time and coming to one of these great bookstores. You know, yeah, but you're right, like the winding in some of the back streets, and that was a great time. Yeah, you can't really wander and wander and wander. Dan: Yeah, it was a city designed by cows on the way home, right, exactly. Yeah, you can't really wander and wander and wander. Dean: Yeah, it was a city designed by cows on the way home, Right exactly. Dan: Yeah, it's really interesting. You know, that brings up a subject why virtual reality hasn't taken off, and I've been thinking about that because the buzz, you know how long ago was it? You would say seven years ago, seven, eight years ago everything's going to be virtual reality. Would that be about right? Oh, yeah, yeah. Dean: That was when virtual reality was in the lead. Remember then the goggles, the Oculus, yeah, yeah, that was what, yeah, pre-covid, so probably seven years ago 17, 17. And it's kind of disappeared, hasn't it compared to you know? Dan: why it doesn't have enough variety in it. And this relates back to the beginning of our conversation today. How do you know whether it's fake or not and we were talking on the subject of London that on any block, what's on that block was created by 10,000 different people over 500 years and there's just a minute kind of uniqueness about so much of what goes on there when you have the virtual reality. Let's say they create a London scene, but it'll be maybe a team of five people who put it together. And it's got a sameness to it. It's got, you know, oh definitely. Dean: That's where you see in the architecture like I don't. You know, one of the things I always look forward to is on the journey from here to strategic coach. So tomorrow, when we ride down University through Queen's Park and the old University of Toronto and all those old buildings there that are just so beautiful Stone buildings the architecture is stunning. Nobody's building anything like that now. No, like none of the buildings that you see have any soul or are going to be remembered well and they're not designed. Dan: They're not really designed to last more than 50 years. I have a architect. Well, you know richard hamlin he says that those, the newest skyscrapers you see in Toronto, isn't designed to last more than 50 years. You know, and, and you know, it's all utilitarian, everything is utilitarian, but there's no emphasis on beauty, you know. There's no emphasis on attractiveness. There's a few but not many. Attractiveness there's a few but not many. And, as a matter of fact, my favorite building in Toronto is about six blocks further down the lake from us, right here. It's called the Harris Filtration Plant. Dean: Oh yeah, we've walked by there, right at the end of the building. Dan: Built in 19, I think they finished in 1936. Dean: Yeah. Dan: And it's just an amazing building. I mean it's on three levels, they have three different buildings and it goes up a hill and it's where the water. You know, at that time it was all the water in Toronto that came out of the lake and they have 17 different process. You know the steps. And you go in there and there's no humans in there, it's all machinery. You can just hear the buzz and that's the water being filtered. It's about a quarter of the city now comes through that building. But it's just an absolutely gorgeous building and they spared no cost on it. And the man who built it, harris, he was the city manager. They had a position back there. It was city manager and it was basically the bureaucrat who got things done, and he also built the bridge across the Down Valley on Bloor. Dean: Yeah, beautiful bridge Right. Dan: He built that bridge and he was uneducated. He had no education, had no training, but he was just a go-getter. He was also in charge of the water system and the transportation system. And you know he put in the first streetcars and everything like that, probably the greatest bureaucrat toronto ever had, you know in the history of toronto this is the finest what year is that building from? yeah, the filtration plant was started in 29 and it was finished in 36 and wow they yeah, they had to rip out a whole section. It was actually partially woods, partially, I think, you know they had everything there, but they decided that would be the best place to bring it in there. Dean: You know it's got a lot more than 100 years. Dan: Yeah, but it's the finest building it's it's rated as one of the top 10 government buildings in north america yeah, it's beautiful. Dean: And that bridge I mean that bridge in the Don Valley is beautiful too. Dan: Yeah, it was really interesting. He put the bridge in and the bridge was put in probably in the 30s too. I mean that was vital because the valley really kept one part of Toronto apart from the other part of Toronto. It was hard to get from one part of Toronto apart from the other part of Toronto. You know, it's hard to get from one part of Toronto to the next. And so they put that bridge in, and that was about in the 30s and then in the no, I think it was in the 20s, they put that in 1920, so 100 years. And in the 1950s they decided to put in their first subway system. So they had Yonge Street and so Yonge Street north, and then they had Buller and Danforth. So they budgeted that they were going to really have to retrofit the bridge. And when they got it and they took all the dimensions, he had already anticipated that they were going to put a subway in. So it was all correct. And so anyway, he saw he had 30 or 40 years that they were going to put up. They would have to put a subway in. So it was all correct and yeah and so anyway he saw I had 30 or 40 years that they were going to put up. They would have to put, they're going to put the subway and it had to go through the bridge and so so they didn't have to retrofit it at all. Yeah, pretty cool. Dean: What do you think we're doing now? That's going to be remembered in 100 years or it's going to be impacted in 100 years? Dan: Well, we're not going backwards with technology, so any technology we have today we'll have 100 years from now. So you know, I mean I think the you know. Well, you just asked a question that explains why I'm not in the stock market. Dean: Exactly. Warren Buffett can't predict what's going to happen. We can't even tell what's going to change in the next five years. Dan: I don't know what's going to happen next year. I don't know what's going to happen next year. Dean: Isn't it interesting? I think a lot of the things that we're at could see, see the path to improvement or expansion, like when the railroad came in. You know it's interesting that you could see that that was we. You know, part of it was, you know, filling the territory, connecting the territory with all the, with all this stuff, and you could see that happening. But even now, you know, this is why warren buffett, you know, again with the, probably one of the largest owners of railroad things in the states, him, yeah, and because that's not changed in 200, yeah, or whatever, 150 years anyway, yeah, yeah, yeah, most of the country probably, you know, 150 years at least. Yeah, and so all of that, all those things, and even in the first half of the 1900s, you know all the big change stuff, yeah, yeah. Dan: Yeah. Dean: So it's funny because it's like I can't even see what categories are the biggest. Dan: Well, I think they'll be more intangibles than tangibles. For example, I think all my tools work 100 years from now. Yeah, I think all my thinking tools work 100 years from now. Dean: Well, because our brains will still be the same in 100 years. Yeah, all that interaction, right, the human behavior stuff. Dan: yeah, yeah yeah I don't think human behavior, um I think it's really durable you know, and that it's very interesting, um, and there was a phrase being used at Abundance that was used about four or five times during the two days that we were becoming godlike, and I said, no, I don't think so. Dean: I guess are they saying in that we can do things because of technology, we can do things. Dan: And I said nah, it's just the next. It's just the next new thing. You know that we've created, but human nature is, you know, there's a scientist, Joe Henrich, and a really bright guy. He's written a book you might be interested in. It's called the Secret of Our Success. And he was just exploring why humans, of all the species on the planet, became the dominant species. And you wouldn't have predicted it. Because we're not very fast, we're not very strong, we don't climb particularly well, we don't swim particularly well, we can't fly and everything like that. So you know, compared with a lot of the other species. But he said that somewhere along the line he buys into the normal thing that we came from ape-like species before we were human. But he says at one point there was a crossover and that one ape was looking at another ape. And he says he does things differently than I. I do. If I can work out a deal with him, he can do this while I'm doing that and we're twice as well. Dean: I was calling that. Dan: I've been calling that the cooperation game but that's really and that's playing that and we're the only species that can continually invent new ways to do that, and I mean every most. You know higher level. And mammals anyway can cooperate. You know they cooperate with each other. They know a friend from anatomy and they know how to get together. But they don't know too much more at the end of their life than they knew at the beginning of their life. You know in other words. They pretty well had it down by the time they were one year old and they didn't invent new ways of cooperating really. But humans do this on a daily basis. Humans will invent new ways of cooperating from morning till night. And he says that's the reason we just have this infinite ability to cooperate in new ways. And he says that's the reason we just have this infinite ability to cooperate in new ways. And he says that's why we're the top species. The other thing is we're the only species that take care of other species. We're the only species that study and document other species. We're the only species that actually create new species. You know put this together with that and we get something. Yeah, yeah and so, so, so, anyway, and so that's where you begin the. You know if you're talking about sameness. What do we know 100 years from now? Dean: What we know over the 100 years is that humans will have found almost countless new ways to cooperate with each other yeah, I think that that's, and but the access to right, the access to, that's why I think these, the access to capabilities, as a, you know, commodity I'm not saying commodity in a, you know, I'm not trying to like lower the status of ability, but to emphasize the tradability of it. You know that it's something that is a known quantity you know yeah. Dan: But my sense is that the relative comparison, that one person, let's say you take 10 people. Let's take 100 people that the percentage of them that could cooperate with each other at high levels, I believe isn't any different in 2024 than it was in 1924. If you take 100 people. Some have very high levels to cooperate with each other and they do, and the vast majority of them very limited amount to cooperate with each other, but are you talking about. Dean: That comes down, then, to the ability to be versus capability. That they have the capability. Dan: Yeah, they have the capability, but they don't individually have the ability. Dean: Right. Dan: Yeah, and I don't think the percentage changes. Dean: Yeah, that's why this whole, that's why we're I think you know, the environment that we're creating in FreeZone is an ecosystem of people who are, who get this. Dan: Yeah, well, I don't think they, yeah, I don't think they became collaborative because they were in free zone. I think they were collaborative, looking for a better place to do it. Dean: Yes, yeah, it's almost like it's almost so, just with the technologies. Now, the one thing that has improved so much is the ability to seamlessly integrate with other people, with other collaborators. Dan: Yeah, now you're talking about the piano, you're not talking about the musicians, that's exactly right, but I think there really was something to that right. It's a good distinction. Dean: It's a really good distinction that you've created. Yeah, I should say yesterday at lunch you and I were talking about that I don't know that we've talked about it on the podcast here the difference, the distinction that we've discovered between capability and ability. And so I was looking at, in that, the capability column of the VCR formula, vision, capability, reach that in the capability column I was realizing the distinction between the base of something and the example that I gave was if you have a piano or a certain piece of equipment or a computer or a camera or whatever it is. We have a piano, you have the capability to be a concert pianist, but without the ability to do it. You know that. You're that that's the difference, and I think that everybody has access to the capabilities and who, not how, brings us in to contact with the who's right, who are masters at the capabilities? Dan: Yeah, you're talking about in. You know the sort of society that we live in. Yes, Because you know there's you know there's, you know easily, probably 15% of the world that doesn't have access to electricity. Dean: Yes exactly. Dan: I mean, they don't have the capability, you know, they just don't have yeah, yeah and yeah, it's a very, very unequal world, but I think there's a real breakthrough thinking that you're doing here. The fact that there's capability says nothing about an individual's ability. Dean: Right, that's exactly it. Yeah, and I think this is a very important idea, but I'm not going to write a book on it. Oh, my goodness, this is example, a right, I had the capability, with the idea of the capability and ability. Yeah, yeah, I didn't have the ability. Yeah, I've heard, do you know, the comedian Ron White? Dan: Yeah, I have the capability to write a book and I have the ability to write a book, but I'm not going to do either. Dean: So he talked about getting arrested outside of a bar and he said I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability that's pretty funny, right. But yeah, this is really like it's exciting. It's exciting times right now. I mean it really is exciting times to even projecting for the next, the next 30 years. I think I see that the through line, you know, is that you know that a brunch at the four seasons is going to be an appealing thing 30 years from now, as it is now and was 30 years ago, or three line stuff, or yeah, or some such hotel in toronto yes exactly right. Dan: Right, it may not be. Yeah, I think the four seasons, I think is pretty durable. And the reason is they don't own any of their property. Dean: You know and I think that's. Dan: They have 130 hotels now. I'm quite friendly with the general manager of the Nashville Four Seasons because we're there every quarter Four Seasons because we're there every quarter and you know it's difficult being one of their managers. I think because you have two bosses, you have the Four. Seasons organization but you also have the investor, who owns the property, and so they don't own any of their own property. That's all owned by investors. Dean: Right. Dan: Yeah. Dean: So go ahead. When was the previous? I know it's not the original, but when was the one on Yorkville here Yorkville and Avenue? When was that built? Was that in the 70s or the 60s? Dan: Well, it was a Hyatt. It was a Hyatt Hotel. Dean: Oh, it was, they took it over. Dan: Yeah, and it was a big jump for them and that was, you know, I think it was in the 60s, probably I don't know when they started exactly I'll have to look that up, but they were at a certain point they hit financial difficulties because there's been ups and downs in the economy and they overreach sometimes, and the big heavy load was the fact that they own the real estate. So they sold all the real estate and that bailed them out. Real estate and that bailed them out. And then from that point forward, they were just a system that you competed for. If you were deciding to build a luxury hotel, you had to compete to see if the Four Seasons would be interested in coming in and managing it. Okay, so they. It's a unique process. Basically, it's a unique process that they have. Dean: Yeah. Dan: It's got a huge brand value worldwide. You're a somebody as a city. If the Four Seasons come to your city, I think you're right. Ottawa used to have one. It doesn't have one now. Vancouver used to have one. It doesn't have one now. I think, calgary had one. Calgary doesn't Because now Vancouver used to have one, doesn't have one now I think Calgary had one. Calgary doesn't Because it was a Canadian hotel to start with. Dean: Yeah. Dan: And Belleville had one at one time. Dean: Oh, really yeah. Dan: I'm one of the few people who have stayed at the Belleville Four Seasons. Dean: Hotel the Belleville Four Seasons. Dan: Yeah, of all the people you know, dean dean, I may be the only person you know who stayed at the belleville four seasons now, what they did is they had a partnership with bell canada. Bell canada created the training center in belleville oh and uh, and they did a deal four seasons would go into it with them. So they took over a motel and they turned it into Four Seasons, so they used it as their training center. Okay, so you know, it was trainees serving trainees, as it turned out. Dean: I forget who I was talking to, but we were kind of saying it would be a really interesting experience to take over the top two floors of the hotel beside the Chicago Strategic Coach, there the Holiday Inn or whatever that is. Take over the top two floors and turn those into a because you've got enough traffic. That could be a neat experience, yeah. Dan: It wouldn't be us. Dean: Oh well, I need somebody. You know that could be a an interesting. I think if that was an option there would be. Dan: Probably work better for us to have a floor of one of the hotels. Dean: That's what I meant. Yeah, a floor of the the top two floors of the hotel there to get. Yeah, there's two of them. That's what I meant. Yeah, a floor of the top two floors of the hotel there to get. Dan: Yeah, there's two of them. There's two of them. Dean: Oh, yeah, yeah. Dan: There's the Sheraton, and what's Sinesta? Sinesta, right the. Dean: Sinesta is the one I'm thinking of. Dan: That's the closest one right, the one Scott Harry carries in the Right, right right. There you carries in them, right, yeah, well, it's an interesting, but it is what it is and we're, yeah, but we have almost one whole floor now and I mean those are that's a big building. It's got really a lot of square footage in the building. That's what. Is it cb re? Is it cb? You do know the nationwide. Dean: Oh yeah. Dan: Coldwood Banker. Oh yeah, yeah, coldwood Banker, that's who our landlord is. And they're good they're actually good, but they've gone through about three owners since we've been there. We've been there, 25 years, 26. This is our 26th year. Yeah, and generally speaking they've been good landlords that we've had. Yeah, it's well kept up. They have instant response when you have a maintenance problem and everything. I think they're really good. Dean: Yeah, well, I'm going to have to come and see it. Maybe when the fall happens, maybe between the good months, the fall or something, I might come and take a look. Dan: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Dean: Well, I'm excited and take a look yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Well. Dan: I've been there. Yeah, we have our workshop. We have our workshop tomorrow here and then we go to Chicago and we have another one on Thursday and then the second Chicago workshop for the quarter is in the first week of April. Oh, wow, yeah, yeah, and this is working out. We'll probably be a year away, maybe a year and a half away, from having a fourth date during the quarter. Oh, wow. Dean: Yeah. Dan: Do we? Dean: have any new people for FreeZone Small? Dan: Don't know Okay. Dean: No one is back. Dan: Yeah, yeah, I don't really know, I don't really know, I think we added 30 last year or so it's. The numbers are going up. Yes, that's great. Yeah, I think we're about 120 total right now. That's awesome. That's awesome. Yeah, yeah, it's fun, though. It's nice people. Dean: Yeah, it's nice to see it all. It's nice to see it all growing. Very cool, all right well, enjoy yourself. Yes, you too and I will see you. Tonight at five. That's right, all right, I'll be there. Dan: Thanks Dan. Dean: Okay.

Westport residents have been berating their council over a plan to move the flood-prone town. Draft master planning began in 2023 on a proposal to move to Government-owned Pamu-Landcorp farmland southwest of the current settlement. Buller Councillors yesterday voted to continue to the third stage. Mayor Jamie Cleine told Kerre Woodham that step enables more conversations. He says the plan has never been to just pick up and move Westport, it will be an inter-generational process. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This episode of CAA Conversations reprises themes from "Acts of Care," a CAA 112th Annual Conference panel (2024) sponsored by the Women's Caucus for Art. Moderated by Rachel Epp Buller, the discussion brings together four artists and art historians to consider how caring gestures and labors take shape across activist, academic, curatorial, and performance contexts.  Rachel Epp Buller is an artist, art historian, professor, and gallery director at Bethel College. Her books include Reconciling Art and Mothering and Inappropriate Bodies: Art, Design, and Maternity (edited with Charles Reeve). Her current research addresses listening as an artistic method. She is a two-time Fulbright Scholar and the CAA liaison to the Women's Caucus for Art.  Mya Dosch is Associate Professor of Art of the Americas at California State University, Sacramento. Their research focuses on art and urban space in Mexico City, from monuments to protest interventions, with a secondary research interest in art history pedagogy. Their work has appeared in Future Anterior, Sculpture Journal, and the edited volumes Teachable Monuments and Imágenes en colectivo. Elena Marchevska is Professor of Performance Studies at London South Bank University. Elena is a practitioner-researcher writing on issues of belonging, displacement, the border, and intergenerational trauma. Her artistic work explores borders and stories that emerge from living in transition. Gloria Dai is an independent curator, art critic, and graduate student in the Arts Management and Art History programs at George Mason University. Her professional work at GMU focuses on building the community through arts and culture activities and organizing educational programs. Recently, she curated the exhibit A Path to Healing & Transformation at the National Veterans Art Museum and co-curated RE(FORM)ER at Fenwick Gallery, George Mason University. Deirdre Donoghue is a visual and performance artist, practicing birth doula, and Research Associate at the Faculty of Arts at KU Leuven University in Antwerp, Belgium. Her work centers on issues of relationality and the aesthetics of care from feminist, decolonial, and posthumanist perspectives. In her artistic practice, she works across disciplines to design encounters that facilitate the production of new knowledge systems.

Do you think of resilience as an academic endeavor? Or maybe it's more of a practical response to mitigating risks. Well, this week's guest says that it's both of those things and more – stating it's also a moral and ethical duty. Hello everyone, and welcome to episode 171 of the Resilient Journey podcast, presented by Anesis Consulting Group! This week we're looking at Disaster Science, Multi-Hazard Risk Management and Resilience as we're joined by PhD Researcher, Stephanie Buller. After giving some background about disaster science, Stephanie provides insights on how we can influence resilience. She emphasizes no matter a citizen's color, creed or religion – we all deserve to be protected from a disaster. She doesn't believe there are ‘hard to reach groups', just groups we are not trying hard enough to reach. She talks about how competing priorities influence our overall readiness.     Be sure to follow The Resilient Journey!  We sure do appreciate it! Want to learn more about Mark? Click here or on LinkedIn or Twitter. Special thanks to Bensound for the music.

Ralph welcomes Deepa Padmanabha, senior legal advisor to Greenpeace USA, to discuss that organization's looming trial against Energy Transfer Partners (builder of the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock) that threatens the constitutionally protected First Amendment right of citizens and citizen groups to protest. Plus, Josh Paul, former State Department employee, who resigned in protest over the Biden Administration's policy of sending weapons to support Israel's genocide in Gaza, returns to tell us about an organization he co-founded called “A New Policy,” which as the name suggests envisions an American policy toward the Middle East more in line with the “foundational principles of liberty, equality, democracy, and human rights; advancing American interests abroad; and protecting American freedoms at home.”Deepa Padmanabha is Senior Legal Advisor at Greenpeace USA, where she works closely with environmental activists seeking to exercise their First Amendment rights to promote systemic change. In September 2022, she testified before the House Committee on Oversight and Reform on Greenpeace USA's experience with legal attacks from extractive industries and the importance of federal anti-SLAPP legislation. And her work has focused on defending Greenpeace entities in the US against two SLAPP lawsuits attempting to silence the organization's advocacy work.This was not a Greenpeace campaign—and that was very intentional. And so our very limited involvement was solidarity with the Indigenous tribes, the Indigenous water protectors that were carrying this fight…Personally, I don't think that Energy Transfer likes the optics of going after Indigenous people. I think that it's much easier to go after the “Big Greens”, the “agitators”, things like that—and they probably would be dealing with a much more difficult PR campaign if they went after members of tribes.Deepa PadmanabhaBack in 2016 and 2017, when the original civil RICO cases were filed against the Greenpeace entities (all of these fights started out as RICO), many groups across issue areas were deeply concerned that this would be the new tactic used to go to attack labor, to attack human rights, to attack every kind of organization imaginable. And so what we did at that time (Greenpeace USA was a part of it as well as other groups) is we've created a coalition called Protect the Protest. Protect the Protest is a coalition of organizations to provide support for individuals who are threatened with SLAPPs, who receive cease-and-desist letters, who might want help either finding a lawyer or communication support. Because we know that the individuals bringing these lawsuits want the fights to happen in silence. So a big part of the work that needs to be done—and that we do—is to bring attention to them.Deepa PadmanabhaPast SLAPP lawsuits by corporations intended to wear down the citizen groups, cost them all kinds of legal fees. There have been SLAPP lawsuits for citizen groups just having a news conference or citizen groups being part of a town meeting. Or in the case of Oprah Winfrey, who was sued by at Texas meat company because she had a critic of the meat industry on her show that reached millions of people. That case was settled. So, this is the furthest extension of suppression of free speech by these artificial entities called corporations.Ralph NaderJosh Paul is co-founder (with Tariq Habash) of A New Policy, which seeks to transform U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. He resigned from the State Department in October 2023 due to his disagreement with the Biden Administration's decision to rush lethal military assistance to Israel in the context of its war on Gaza. He had previously spent over 11 years working as a Director in the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, which is responsible for U.S. defense diplomacy, security assistance, and arms transfers. He previously worked on security sector reform in both Iraq and the West Bank, with additional roles in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, U.S. Army Staff, and as a Military Legislative Assistant for a Member of the U.S. House Armed Services Committee.I think that the time for quitting in protest over Gaza, unfortunately, in many ways, is greatly behind us. I think there will be a significant number of State Department officials who will be leaving in the coming days, weeks, and months. And this is a result of a push from the Trump administration to gut America's diplomatic corps, much as they did at the start of the previous Trump administration, but even more so this time around. What I'm hearing from former colleagues in the State Department is a sense of immense despair as they see freezes being placed on U.S. foreign assistance programs—including programs that do an immense amount of good around the world—and just a concern about the overall and impending collapse of American diplomacy.Josh PaulWe have to acknowledge the precedent set by President Biden. Not only in his unconditional support for Israel and its attacks on Gaza, its violations of international humanitarian law, but also in President Biden and Secretary Blinken's willingness to set aside U.S. laws when it came to, in particular, security assistance and arms transfers in order to continue that support. That is a precedent that I think all Americans should be concerned about regardless of their thoughts on the conflict itself.Josh PaulI would say that what we face in America is a problem set that runs much deeper than any change in administration, than any political party. There is an entrenched dynamic within American politics—an entrenched set of both political and economic incentives across our electoral system—that are maintaining U.S. unconditional support for Israel, regardless of what the American people might want.Josh PaulNews 1/31/251. Our top stories this week have to do with the betrayal of the so-called “Make America Healthy Again” or “MAHA” movement. First up, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – President Trump's nominee to lead the Department of Health of Human Services – found himself in the hot seat Wednesday as his confirmation hearings began. Kennedy, who is facing opposition both from Democrats who regard his anti-vaccine rhetoric as dangerous and Republicans who view him as too liberal, struggled to answer basic questions during these hearings. Perhaps most distressingly, he shilled for the disastrous Medicare privatization scheme known as “Medicare Advantage,” at one point saying that he himself is on a Medicare Advantage plan and that “more people would rather be on Medicare Advantage.” Kennedy went on to say most Americans would prefer to be on private insurance. As Matt Stoller of the American Economic Liberties Project writes, this is “basically Cato [Institute] style libertarianism.”2. Meanwhile, the Trump Administration is signaling they intend to scrap a proposed EPA rule to ban “forever chemicals” from Americans' drinking water, per the Spokesman-Review out of Spokane, Washington. Per this piece, “perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, abbreviated PFAS, are a set of man-made chemicals used in thousands of products over the decades. High levels of them have…been linked to cancers, heart disease, high cholesterol, thyroid disease, low birth weight and other diseases.” Shelving PFAS regulation was high on the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 wish list, though the Trump team had previously sent mixed messages on the topic. Trump's pick to oversee regulation of dangerous chemicals is Nancy Beck, a longtime executive at the American Chemistry Council.3. As if those betrayals weren't enough, Trump has also selected Ms. Kailee Buller as the Chief of Staff for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. For the past year, Buller has served as president & CEO of the National Oilseed Processors Association. More simply put, she is the top seed oil lobbyist in the nation. This is perhaps the most illustrative example of the MAHA bait and switch. Not only is the Trump administration spitting in the face of their own supporters and doing the opposite of what they promised in terms of cracking down on ultra-processed, unhealthy food – they are doing so in an openly and brazenly corrupt manner. Under Trump, regulatory agencies are on the auction block and will be sold to the highest bidder.4. In more health news, legendary investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has come out with a new story – and it's a doozy. According to Hersh's sources, the Trump administration mishandled the COVID-19 pandemic long before the public knew anything about the virus. He writes “I learned this week that a US intelligence asset at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China, where the Covid virus was first observed…provided early warning of a laboratory accident at Wuhan that led to a series of infections that was quickly spreading and initially seemed immune to treatment.” Hersh continues “early studies dealing with how to mitigate the oncoming plague, based on information from the Chinese health ministry about the lethal new virus, were completed late in 2019 by experts from America's National Institutes of Health and other research agencies.” Yet, “Despite their warnings, a series of preventative actions were not taken until the United States was flooded with cases of the virus.” Most damningly, Hersh's sources claim that “All of these studies…have been expunged from the official internal records in Washington, including any mention of the CIA's source inside the Chinese laboratory.” If true, this would be among the most catastrophic cases of indecision – and most sweeping coverup – in modern American history. Watch this space.5. Meanwhile, in more foreign affairs news, Progressive International reports that “For the first time in history,” Members of the United States Congress have joined with Members of Mexico's Cámara de Diputados to “oppose the escalating threats of U.S. military action against Mexico” and call to “strengthen the bonds of solidarity between our peoples.” This move of course comes amid ever-rising tensions between the United States and our southern neighbor, particularly as the GOP has in recent years taken up the idea of a full-blown invasion of Mexico. This letter was signed by many prominent U.S. progressives, including Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Summer Lee, AOC, Greg Casar and Raul Grijalva, as well as 23 Mexican deputies. One can only hope that this show of internationalism helps forestall further escalation with Mexico.6. Turning to the issue of corruption, former New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez was sentenced to 11 years in prison for his role in a bribery scheme that included him acting as an unregistered agent of the Egyptian government, per the DOJ. Until 2024, Menendez had served as the Chairman or Ranking Member of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee – an ideal perch for a crooked politician. During sentencing, Menendez broke down and weepily begged the judge for leniency. Yet, almost immediately after the sentence was handed down, Menendez changed his tune and started sucking up to Trump in a transparent attempt to secure a pardon. Axios reports Menendez said “President Trump was right…This process is political, and it's corrupted to the core. I hope President Trump cleans up the cesspool and restores the integrity to the system.” Unfortunately, Trump's fragile ego makes him particularly susceptible to just this sort of appeal, so it would be no surprise if he does grant some form of clemency to the disgraced Senator.7. Likewise, New York City Mayor Eric Adams appears to feel the walls closing in with regard to his corrupt dealings with his Turkish benefactors. And just like Menendez, Adams' strategy appears to be to ingratiate himself with Trump world. On January 23rd, the New York Daily News reported that Adams had pledged to avoid publicly criticizing Trump. Adams has previously called Trump a “white supremacist.” Adams' simpering seems to having the intended effect. On January 29th, the New York Times reported “Senior Justice Department officials under President Trump have held discussions with federal prosecutors in Manhattan about the possibility of dropping their corruption case,” against Adams. This story notes that “The defense team is led by Alex Spiro, who is also the personal lawyer for Elon Musk.”8. Our final three stories this week have to do with organized labor. First, Bloomberg labor reporter Josh Eidelson reports Trump has ousted National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo. This alone is a tragedy; Abruzzo has been nothing short of a crusader on behalf of organized labor during her tenure. Yet, more troubling news quickly followed: Trump has unlawfully sacked Gwynne Wilcox a Democratic member of the labor board with no just cause. As Eidelson notes, the law forbids “firing board members absent neglect or malfeasance.” Wilcox was the first ever Black member of the NLRB and her unlawful removal gives Trump a working majority at the board. Expect to see a rapid slew of anti-worker decisions in the coming days.9. In some good news, independent journalist Ken Klippenstein reports that union collective bargaining agreements have successfully “thwart[ed]…Trump's return to work order.” Instead, the administration has been forced to issue a new order, stating “Supervisors should not begin discussions around the return to in-person work with bargaining unit employees until HHS fulfills its collective bargaining obligations.” In other words, even while every supposed legal guardrail, institutional norm, and political force of gravity wilts before Trump's onslaught, what is the one bulwark that still stands strong, protecting everyday working people? Their union.10. Our final story is a simple one. Jacobin labor journalist Alex Press reports that in Philadelphia, the first Whole Foods grocery store has voted to unionize. The nearly-300 workers at the store voted to affiliate with United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1176. Whole Foods was sold to Amazon in 2017 and since then the e-tail giant has vigorously staved off unionization. Could this be the first crack in the dam? Only time will tell.This has been Francesco DeSantis, with In Case You Haven't Heard. Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe

Die Themen dieser Folge: - Leipzig verspielt den Sieg - RB am Abgrund? - BVB-Krise immer schlimmer - Wir haben ChatGPT gefragt: Wer könnte Sahin ersetzen? - Manchester, Marmoush, Mathys? - Stuttgart back in action

In this episode we welcome Michelle Lokot, an esteemed researcher and practitioner, to explore the coloniality of gender and how it intersects with monitoring and evaluation (M&E) in humanitarian contexts. Michelle shares practical tools for fostering decolonial approaches to M&E, drawing on her extensive experience in feminist research, GBV, and qualitative methods. As Co-Director of the Health in Humanitarian Crises Centre at LSHTM, Michelle brings unique insights into the power hierarchies shaping gender, forced migration, and humanitarian aid. With years of frontline experience in Jordan, Nigeria, and Burundi, and collaborations with agencies like UNICEF and IRC, Michelle's expertise will challenge and inspire your perspective on humanitarian work. The link to the transcript is hereSources: Gani, J.K & Khan, R.M,  Positionality Statements as a Function of Coloniality: Interrogating Reflexive MethodologiesLokot, M., Pichon, M., Kalichman, B., Nardella, S., Falconer, J., Kyegombe, N., & Buller, A. M.,  Decolonising the field of violence against women and girls: A scoping review and recommendations for research and programming.Lokot, M., Reflecting on Race, Gender and Age in Humanitarian-Led Research: Going Beyond Institutional to Individual Positionality.Lokot, M.,  Whose Voices? Whose Knowledge? A Feminist Analysis of the Value of Key Informant Interviews.Meger, S, The Fetishization of Sexual Violence in International Security.Zreik, T., El Masri, R., Chaar, S., Ali, R., Meksassi, B., Elias, J., & Lokot, M., Collaborative Coding in Multi-National Teams: Benefits, Challenges and Experiences Promoting Equitable Research.

Situated on the scenic west coast of the South Island is Buller, full of walks from inland at the Buller Gorge and old coal mine sites, to along the coastline passing countless beaches and estuaries. Buller Mayor Jamie Cleine joins with how the year has been for Buller. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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A plan to relocate the flood-prone West Coast town of Westport is being considered. Westport has been repeatedly inundated by flooding - with disasters escalating further in recent years. Buller mayor Jamie Cleine says this will be a gradual process, and other ideas to keep the town safe have been considered. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This Pink Cloud S5E45- DJ Kelly Reverb (RSPS), Chad LeMans & Tony D sit down w/ Ryan Mccartor and talk about his privileged, unchecked, upbringing. From smoking w/ weed at 12 years old to hydrocodone and everything else by 16. Sharing pills with your Mom, getting robbed at gun point, having one lung... This is definitely an EPIC recovery journey!!! CHECK OUT- Shelia Williamson's book (Two Calls) and speaking inquires ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.twocalls.org/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - t shirts available at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.djkellyreverb.com/shop⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠#ferrisbuellersdayoff #discipline #hydrocodone #drugabuseawareness #recoverypodcast --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thispinkcloud/support

Die "Weißen Riesen" (Hochhäuser) in Duisburg-Homberg wurden von einem riesigen Aufgebot an Buller... ach Polizei kontrolliert und die Trefferquote war bei sage und schreibe knapp über einen Prozent. Ein Erfolg oder doch gottlos Peinlich? Wir reden außerdem in dieser Folge über Kindheit. Bei uns ist ja bekanntlich das Thema Kindheit und Hochhäuser ja auch nicht weit auseinander. Danke für eure Spenden und euren Support! Dies könnt ihr nach wie vor über PayPal: brennpunkt47@gmail.com DANKE! Zu den Veranstaltungen: Abdis Solo in Willich und alle anderen Termine über Homepage: www.abdulkaderchahin.de oder: https://tickets.vibus.de/Shop/-/Willich/Robert-Schuman-Europaschule/Aula/Abdul_Kader_Chahin/-/00100244000000/VstDetails.aspx?VstKey=10024400000377000 DING DONG DUISBURG: https://www.reservix.de/tickets-lesebuehne-ding-dong-duisburg-in-duisburg-bora-am-21-11-2024/e2316363

Click here to send me a text message ...The Indigenous culture that European colonizers encountered here in the New World, and then so brutally suppressed, is the very repository of wisdom we now need. Elizabeth Buller Page knows this personally. Deep into a midlife descent, Liz turned to her family's Indigenous roots to discover not only the healing she sought but the path she'd lost. ResourcesThe book on Cree history and culture that Liz can't be without: The Plains Cree: An Ethnographic, Historical, and Comparative Study by David Mandelbaum; University of Regina Press, 1940 & 1978 (revised)The Calgary Gallery that features Liz's art: https://moonstonecreation.ca/elizabeth-buller-page-1/Personal LinksMy web site (where you can sign up for my blog): https://www.brianepearson.caMy email address: mysticcaveman53@gmail.comSeries Music Credit"Into the Mystic" by Van Morrison, performed by Colin James, from the album, Limelight, 2005; licensed under SOCAN 2022

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Sermon preached on Romans 8:12-17 by Brandon Buller on October 13, 2024.

With Canadian thanksgiving just past and the United States election around the corner, some people are psyching themselves up for the awkward conversations that can come up. Sometimes this means talking about difficult topics. Bumping elbows with people who have conflicting worldviews. Maybe it involves passing gravy to an uncle that likes to play contrarian.  In this episode, we're taking questions from listeners. Jessica Stoltzfus Buller, a facilitator, trainer, mediator and peacebuilder joins us to talk about how to navigate conversations with more curiosity and compassion. Full transcript and show notes available here.

A road test of how people feel about New Zealand's health system is about to get underway. Patient Voice Aotearoa chairman Malcolm Mulholland is driving around the country urging people to sign a declaration the health system is in crisis and calling on the government to urgently address it. Buller residents signed the declaration at protest march last week. It's against a back drop of doctor shortages, blow outs in wait times for cancer treatment, specialist appointments and elective surgeries, controversaries over drug funding and now Dunedin Hospital budget trims. A road test of how people feel about New Zealand's health system is about to get underway, Malcolm Mulholland from Patient Patient Voice Aotearoa spoke to Lisa Owen.

Why stop emitting when we can just plant a bunch of trees?BONUS EPISODES available on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/deniersplaybook) SOCIALS & MORE (https://linktr.ee/deniersplaybook) CREDITS Created by: Rollie Williams, Nicole Conlan & Ben BoultHosts: Rollie Williams & Nicole ConlanExecutive Producer: Ben Boult Post-production: Jubilaria Media Researchers: Carly Rizzuto, Canute Haroldson & James Crugnale Art: Jordan Doll Music: Tony Domenick Special thanks: The Civil Liberties Defense Center, Shelley Vinyard & The National Resources Defense Council, Angeline Robertson & Stand.EarthSOURCESMrBeast. (2019). Planting 20,000,000 Trees, My Biggest Project Ever! YouTube.Charmin. (2022, January 31). Protect Grow Restore | Charmin® Loves Trees. YouTube.CNBC Television. (2020, January 21). Watch President Donald Trump's full speech at the Davos World Economic Forum. YouTube.Carrington, D. (2019, July 4). Tree planting “has mind-blowing potential” to tackle climate crisis. 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Can a career ever truly be fulfilling without constant growth? Join us on Dental Practice Heroes as we sit down with the insightful Dr. Justin Buller, an accomplished dentist and multi-practice owner, to uncover the profound realizations he's had throughout his journey. Dr. Buller unveils the importance of perpetual progress and sheds light on the idea that there is no ultimate finish line. This episode is packed with wisdom on how to find joy in the everyday challenges of problem-solving and helping others, all while maintaining a harmonious balance between work, health, and family life.Text us your feedback!the DPH Hero Collective will teach you how to work less days, make more money, and achieve the life/work balance you've always wanted by giving you a scaleble business, instead of a job.You will get: ✓Comprehensive Training to level up your team and practice✓Live Monthly Webinars to make sure you are moving forward✓Live Question and Answer Sessions to get you help when you need it✓A Community of practice owners to support and cheer you on✓System and Protocol Documents to Edit, to standardize your operations And Remember, we are actual dentists! At DPH, we don't coach you on anything we haven't personally accomplished ourselves. Visit www.dentalpracticeheroes.com to Learn more.

Vi sänder från Nämdöskärgården utanför Stockholm som föreslås bli Sveriges nästa nationalpark. Och tar reda på varför sjögrodor skjuts i Tyresö. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radio Play. Nämdöskärgården med tusentals kobbar och skär och vatten föreslås bli Sveriges första marina nationalpark i Östersjön. Hela 97 procent av ytan är vatten, med grunda vikar, fjärdar och öppet hav. Det är ett sammanhängande oexploaterat område som är tänkt att representera Stockholms skärgård som landets nästa nationalpark, nummer 31. Vi tar reda på vad som gör området unikt med hjälp av marinbiologerna Carolina Enhus och Cin Tiberi Ljungqvist som kan livet under ytan. Projektledare Elin Deremar från Länsstyrelsen i Stockholm berättar om planerna på en nationalpark och vad det kan innebära för naturen. Fältreporter Lisa Henkow sänder direkt från Bullerö och vattnen däromkring.Under sommaren har 60 sjögrodor skjutits i Tyresö utanför Stockholm. Sjögrodan är en främmande art och ses som ett hot mot den biologiska mångfalden. Naturmorgons Karin Gyllenklev följer med på grodjakt, och tar hjälp av biologen Claes Andrén för att lära känna arten.Hur mycket bullrar det i naturen? Vi pratar med akustikern Mikael Ögren som kartlagt ljudnivåerna i Sveriges naturområden.Förr växte det fullt med blåmusslor på klipporna i Bohuslän. Nu verkar de föredra pontoner och bryggor. Varför är det så, och hur ser läget ut just nu? Blåmussleforskaren Mats Lindegart på Tjärnö marina laboratorium berättar.I veckans kråkvinkel funderar Mats Ottosson över varför suget ut till bärmarkerna blir starkare för varje höst. Kanske kan det ha något med hans pappa att göra.Programledare är Jenny Berntson Djurvall.I direktsändningen nämndes felaktigt två öar som inte är tänkta att ingå i Nämdöskärgårdens nationalpark, vi har rättat till felet i det ljud som finns för lyssning i efterhand.

On this episode of Appointed, Senator Pate speaks with The Honourable Marion Buller, Chancellor of the University of Victoria and former Chief Commissioner of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, and the first Indigenous woman appointed as a judge in British Columbia.The two discuss the connections between poverty, violence against Indigenous women and girls, the mass incarceration and institutionalization of Indigenous women, and the overarching violence of colonialism. Chancellor Buller's years of experience on the bench and as chief commissioner provide invaluable perspective vis-a-vis how to address miscarriages of justice experienced by Indigenous women, including via the Calls for Justice of the MMIWG, the proposed Miscarriage of Justice Reviews Act (Bill C-40), the Senator's report on the Miscarriages of Justices Experienced by 12 Indigenous Women, and Bills C-223 & S-233, both aimed at introducing a framework for a Guaranteed Livable Basic Income in Canada.MMIWG Call for Justice 4.5 directs the government to implement a Guaranteed Livable Basic Income, and 5.14 requires the federal and provincial governments to collaborate on a thorough evaluation of the impact that mandatory minimum sentences have on the over-incarceration of Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA+ People. Given the manner in which MMPs have contributed to the mass incarceration of racialized people, especially Indigenous women, like the TRC, the MMIWG expected the government to follow through on its commitment to repeal mandatory minimum penalties. Chancellor Buller and Senator Pate speak to the intersections of their work and respective struggles to achieve equality and justice.Content Warning: this episode mentions violence against women, rape, and murder.Episode Citations:Reclaiming Power and Place: The Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls  can be read online hereInjustices and Miscarriages of Justice Experienced by 12 Indigenous Women report can be read online hereBill C-40: An Act to amend the Criminal Code, to make consequential amendments to other Acts and to repeal a regulation (miscarriage of justice reviews) can be found hereBill S-233, An Act to develop a national framework for a guaranteed livable basic income can be found hereBill C-223,  An Act to develop a national framework for a guaranteed livable basic income can be found here

Signs of stabilization and potential growth are sprouting in the global real estate market. As economic conditions remain resilient, certain areas within the sector look more promising than others. Joining the show today to discuss the sectors in which he is seeing demand, and the strategies he implements to enhance portfolio resilience is Fidelity Global Real Estate Fund portfolio manager Steve Buller. Steve highlights that recent interest rate reductions have positively impacted real estate performance, especially when compared to broader global equity markets. He notes a significant shift towards income-oriented and defensive real estate sectors, like data centers and industrial properties, due to consistent demand and limited new supply. Going in-depth on data centers, he explains the "land-grab" effect they are experiencing due to the explosive growth in AI and cloud computing. He also discusses the evolving office market, explaining what the trend of companies reducing their office space due to remote work could mean for the future of the sector, particularly the potential of repurposing office buildings for other uses. Steve also touches on Hong Kong's market, the healthcare real estate sector, and the complex relationship between real estate and bonds.   Recorded on August 26, 2024.   For a fourth year in a row, FidelityConnects by Fidelity Investments Canada was ranked #1 podcast by Canadian financial advisors in the 2024 Environics' Advisor Digital Experience Study.

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09 Amantes y vicios ocultos Para este capítulo utilizaremos casi en exclusiva el muy desconocido libro del biógrafo de Blasco Ibáñez, León Roca, que tiene un librito titulado “Los amores de Blasco Ibáñez”. También hemos tomado buena nota de lo que un director de cine como Berlanga nos muestra sin mostrar, desvelando entre bromas las cosas serias que no se pueden contar. En la miniserie de dos capítulos “Blasco Ibáñez. La Novela de su vida”, el director valenciano narra la vida de Blasco en tono de comedia de aventuras y hace desfilar a celebridades del arte y la política en un “totum revolutum” sin orden ni concierto que a un nivel profano solo pretende entretener y a un nivel más profundo descorre el velo al igual que pretendemos nosotros con esta obra. Para el conocedor de la vida de Blasco Ibáñez observará que se toma bastantes licencias con el fin de conseguir una versión más cinematográfica de ciertos sucesos adaptándolos además a su peculiar estilo repleto de humor negro y sátira, es un maestro de la tragicomedia. Berlanga nos muestra abiertamente la hipocresía de Blasco en muchas partes de la serie, cuando se cambia de primera a tercera clase en el tren que le lleva a un pequeño pueblo donde da un discurso a la carrera llevándose a un bebe, criticando duramente a los pobres que observan el duelo con el teniente Alestuei o con su presencia junto al rey Alfonso XIII en casa de Sorolla o la presencia en su casa de Mentón de Jaime de Borbón el aspirante al trono. Tal como observamos en el metraje de la película de Kubrick Eyes Wide Shut, en los dos episodios sobre Blasco no hay nada dejado al azar. La primera parte dura 1:22:51 y la segunda 1:22:15. Ese número maestro, el 22 que cantaba el dúo sacapuntas, y ese 51, 15 nos muestra la imagen invertida de como ve un iniciado a otro iniciado. Asimismo si analizamos los nombres de los archivos veremos como el primer capítulo es un 666 63 38 y el segundo un 666 63 36 donde volvemos a tener la imagen reflejada en el espejo. O sea, el primer capítulo es un 666 9 11, el famosísimo 9 11 y el segundo un 666 9 9. Y es que el 9 es importante dentro del ocultismo, como nos muestra el director cuando Blasco logra paralizar el ajusticiamiento de Rafael Sanchez metiendo esa escena con 9 sillas vacías. Desde muy pequeño el señor Ibáñez tenia gusto por las relaciones con el sexo opuesto y el mismo en mas de una ocasión comentaba que cuando estaba en el instituto podia llegar a tener hasta seis novietas a la vez como se relata en el libro de Enrique González Fiol “Domadores del éxito”. Dice León Roca en “Los amores de Blasco Ibáñez”: “El niño comenzó a ir a las Escuelas Pías, pero lo expulsaron al poco tiempo. Era díscolo, revoltoso y no se adaptaba al duro trato de los castigos ni a las interminables horas de reclusión. De los escolapios pasó al Colegio Valentino, en la plaza de la Pelota, donde había de encontrarse con el hijo de don Teodoro Llorente…el poeta más importante de la Renaixença valenciana. …No es un niño obediente. Jamás lo será. Tiene, si se quiere, el mismo carácter de su madre. Es autoritario. Le gusta mandar. Y más, que le obedezcan. No admite objeciones ni disculpas.” “Es en 1885, cuando era estudiante universitario, que tiene lugar la publicación de la novela corta titulada «Carmen». Carmen se llamaba la protagonista de la novela y Carmen se llamó la persona real que Blasco Ibáñez amaba. Esos ojos verdes, resumen y compendio, para Blasco Ibáñez, de la más alta belleza amorosa, que va repitiendo a lo largo de los personajes femeninos que viven en sus novelas, como homenaje, tal vez, o como tributo de admiración a la belleza de aquella mujer a la que amó. Algunas noches, cuando dispone de tiempo libre, acude a un café cantante que ha abierto sus puertas en la calle Don Juan de Austria, aledaño del Barrio de Pescadores, de innoble fama. Es un salón amplio, de techo alto, con una columna salomónica en el centro, donde notables cupletistas, cantaores y bellas bailarinas proporcionan un espectáculo que las personas respetables de la ciudad, consideran un atentado a la moral.” Siendo todavía estudiante universitario entra en el «Correo de Valencia», diario vespertino fundado y dirigido por don Manuel Torres Orive y comienza a publicar en folletín sus primeras novelas: «Leyendas y fantasías», «Caerse del cielo»,«El Conde Garci-Femández», «El adiós de Schubert», «Por la Patria!», «Romeu el guerrillero» y «Mademoiselle Norma». Sigue contándonos León Roca sobre esta última novela: “Teodoro Llorente, con visión clara de las tendencias literarias, hace el examen de la novela: «Pinta la pasión ciega y momentánea de un pobre muchacho, músico de un café cantante, tan corto de genio como flaco de bolsillo, por una descocada cantadora de "couplets"; historia vulgar, vulgarisima y aún algo grosera; pero tan real en el fondo y tan natural en su desarrollo artístico, que resulta perfectamente impregnada de ese "calor de humanidad" que ahora se busca en la novela.» Don Teodoro Llorente, con una sagacidad que rebasa toda intuición literaria, dice con la sinceridad que le caracteriza: «Parece que todo lo que cuenta "lo haya vivido" el autor.» Nunca como en esta ocasión estuvo Llorente tan acertado en su juicio. Ni fue tan exacto su vaticinio al decir: «Aplicando la observación que revela esta obrita, a tipos y costumbres más decorosas que las de aquella actriz de lupanar y sus sensuales admiradores, es seguro que Blasco ha de producir novelas exquisitas, que satisfagan a los más exigentes y sean leídas por todos con igual regodeo.» La novela fue un intento para captar la realidad. Y la realidad era la que el autor tenía en tomo suyo. El amor de un violinista por una actriz de cabaret, es el tema básico. Pero la esencia del relato no está, precisamente, en esa relación amorosa entre un pobre y tímido músico y una voluble y desenvuelta actriz. Lo verdaderamente importante para conocer la vida amorosa de Blasco Ibáñez está en la figura de doña Luisa «la tía» del violinista con quien vive. Esa sombra, al parecer sin importancia, que sirve de soporte a la narración, esa sombra que pasa sirviendo de trágico fondo a la novela y que el autor hace morir de pulmonía, tras haber esperado en el balcón, inútilmente la llegada del sobrino, esa tía cuyo parentesco Blasco Ibáñez no ha sabido, o no ha podido ocultar si la asociamos al primer relato de su juventud «Carmen» tendremos la solución completa que resolverá el misterioso hechizo de la mujer de los ojos verdes.” Durante el homenaje de 1921 cuando Blasco Ibáñez se dirige al público que le rodea, confiesa que se encuentra emocionado, como nunca lo ha estado, al encontrarse rodeado de amigos y de cierta persona de ojos verdes que le recuerda los tiempos de su juventud. (video BLASCO llegada a Valencia 15 mayo 1921 copia.mp4) «Doña Luisa», el personaje de «Mademoiselle Norma» es la tía Carmen. Una de sus primeras relaciones y que más le marcaron fue por tanto con una mujer bastante mayor que él. León Roca no sabe fijar con exactitud la fecha en que Blasco conoció a su primera mujer: “Si no fue concretamente en el Ateneo, el encuentro y conocimiento debió ocurrir en la Pascua de 1886, cuando Blasco Ibáñez, llevado por sus amigos José M. de la Torre y Sanmartín y Aguirre a una alquería en las inmediaciones de la avenida del Puerto, vio a María por primera vez.” Al año siguiente pública en el Almanaque de Las Provincias una poesía titulada «A María». (video Berlanga cap 1 31:47 a 32:18 poesía Maria.mp4) Rafael Altamira, estrechamente vinculado a los proyectos de la Institución Libre de Enseñanza de la que ya hemos hablado describe a la novia de Blasco: «Era alta, de formas elegantes y finas, blanca, sonrosada la cara, de facciones muy correctas aunque aniñadas aún; los ojos negros, hermosos, de mirada profunda pero inocente; el cabello negro y descuidadamente rizado por delante; la boca pequeñisima, era de labios rojos, muy rojos.» Nosotros, desde luego viendo las escasísimas fotografías de la mujer de Blasco no podemos asegurar muy acertadas dichas palabras, sino más bien comentar la poca femineidad que observamos en Maria. La Maria que nos muestra Berlanga en la serie se parece como un plátano a una piña a la mujer de rasgos andróginos que compartió su vida con Blasco. Llama poderosamente la atención además, que en varias cartas que podemos ver de Blasco a su mujer en el portal cervantesvirtual.com se dirije a ella con el sustantivo “nenín”. En esta segunda carta además de encontrarnos también el “nenín” y llamarla feita, miente descaradamente sobre la vida que lleva en París y sobre la atención que le brindará a ella una vez vuelva a Valencia para casarse: “¡Tengo unas ganas de verte! Cuando te vea, nenín mío, te tengo que dar un abrazo bien apretado. ¡Si supieras cuando tú te vas qué solo me quedo! Me paseo solo por las calles y cuando llega la noche después de cenar (que siempre es allá a las ocho) me voy hasta las 10 a la juventud donde hablo de política con los que allí están. Y... nada más. Esta es mi vida; aburriéndome de lo lindo y pensando siempre en ti, feíta mía. De seguro que tú no harás otro tanto y que no te acordarás tanto de mí. Yo te cuento lo que hago porque tú me dices que te gusta saber todo lo que me pasa. Cuando seamos casaditos no nos separaremos nunca y entonces seremos muy felices y no tendremos que escribirnos ni tan siquiera llamarnos de lejos porque siempre estaremos juntitos e iremos juntitos a todas partes.” Tres años más tarde Blasco tuvo que huir a París porque el fiscal llegó le pedía más de setenta años de presidio, entre otras cosas por hablar mal del ministro Romero Robledo lo cual me recuerda a mi propia situación. Podemos leer de boca del propio Blasco en “Confesiones, 1911- Parte II” en una entrevista de Enrique González Fiol: “¿Qué edad tenía usted, entonces? 22 años. Me fui á vivir al barrio Latino. En París, escribiendo para los editores, ganaba unos 500 francos al mes. Allí era un personaje: un exilé… Gastaba melenas, vestía pantalón á cuadros, chalina flotante, y sombrero de copa de alas planas, como un personaje de Mürger. Primero vivió en la rué des Ecoles, al lado de la Sorbona. Después se mudó á la plaza del Panteón, al Hotel des grands hommes, llamado así porque estaba en frente del Panteón de los grandes hombres de Francia. Allí fué el grande hombre número 80 y tantos. D. Nicolás Estévanez, cuando iba á verle, preguntaba por el grande hombre número 80 y tantos. Su cuarto estaba muy alto. Desde él se dominaba todo París.” Entre los enterrados en el Panteón se encuentran Voltaire, Rousseau, Victor Hugo, Émile Zola. Leon Roca nos describe su estancia en París: “La circunstancia de que fuese París el lugar determinado y concreto del exilio, hace pensar si no obedecía su estancia en Francia a un plan ya elaborado de antemano. Además, los padres de Blasco, que siempre han visto las andanzas del joven por el camino de la política, con mucha prevención, y como una inclinación que les llena de pesadumbre, se avienen a remitirle todos los meses 100 francos, cantidad fabulosa para un bohemio avecindado en el Barrio Latino y, más concretamente, en un hotel denominado «Des Grands Hommes». Su estancia en la capital de Francia quedó reflejada magistralmente en sus crónicas que envía, puntualmente cada 15 días, a «El Correo de Valencia». Éstas, reunidas, formarían más tarde, el libro titulado Paris. (Impresiones de un emigrado)».” Seiscientos francos de 1889 equivalían a 2.400 pesetas de la época y eso era un dineral entonces y ahora. González Fiol nos sigue contando: “En París, según cuentan, hizo vida bohemia. Completa. Al hijo de D. Nicolás Estévanez, hoy notabilísimo ingeniero naval en Cherburgo, y a él, que fueron grandes amigos, les dio la ventolera por echárselas de valientes. Creían que, por el checho de llevar capa y de ser españoles, tenían derecho a meterse en todo lo que no les importaba y los demás el deber de tenerles miedo. ¡Esta fanfarronería les costó cada paliza!... Cuéntase que una noche, a la puerta del café rumano de la rué de Saint Michel, había una muchacha, que no la dejaban entrar creo que porque era muy escandalosa. D. Quijote encarnó en ellos, y la entraron a pesar de las protestas de los camareros, y desafiaron á éstos, y al dueño y á los parroquianos, y pegaron... y les pegaron de firme... A Blasco le dieron no sé con qué, pero cosa contundente debió ser, porque tuvo que andar de medio lado no sé cuánto tiempo. Otro de los sitios donde él era muy popular por la vida de polichinela que llevaba, era el baile de Buller, famoso por celebrarse allí los bailes de las Cuatro Artes. Allí tenía fama de terco. Se cuenta que, una noche, se empeñó en saltar a la tribuna por fuera y se agarró á la barandilla y la rompió. La guardia republicana le detuvo y, al igual que por otras tremolinas que armaba, le llevó a Ia Comisaria. Allí el comisario, que como es sabido, suele ser personaje, ex-diputado ó cosa por el estilo, le hablaba particularmente y le reprochaba aquella vida de Guiñol que estaba llevando, y que convenía según él, perfectamente para estudiantes, pero no para un hombre político, para un exilé como él, que precisamente por estar desterrado y por profesar ideas republicanas estaba más obligado que otros á respetar la libertad y los derechos de todos... Pero para él, el mismo efecto que las coplas de Calaínos. Seguía de noche haciendo esta vida.” En la página 373 de «La araña negra», el mismo Blasco dice: «Por las noches, después de cenar... iban a la Opera o se metían en el Bullier, el tradicional lugar de borrascosa alegría del Barrio Latino, y allí veían brillar el can-can por todo lo alto y convidaban a cerveza a unas cuantas señoritas.» Sigue León Roca describiendo su vida en París: “Tampoco silencia la amistad que tuvo con Sara «famosa modelo, de la que han escrito luego algunos libros». «De dia trabajaba muchísimo, de noche. seguía haciendo la vida bohemia. Un libro, confiesa, que está escribiendo: «La Historia de la Revolución Española». Era una obra enorme, por lo larga. Se vendía por entregas, y tuvo un éxito mayor que todas las publicaciones de entonces. El editor, de Barcelona, ganó «más de cincuenta mil duros. De estos me dió seis mil en los dos años que me costó de escribir».” Las 2400 pesetas que amasaba al mes, sumadas a las 1250 de ese libro por entregas, nos indican que con 3650 pesetas mensuales, Blasco bien podría considerarse millonario. Sin embargo, el dinero que llega fácilmente también se va con la misma rapidez. Además, debemos añadir a esto las ganancias obtenidas por escribir novelas picarescas, como se denominaba antiguamente a este subgénero literario, o pornográficas, como se las llama hoy en día. Leon Roca nos lo cuenta en “Los amores de Blasco Ibáñez”: “Este es un hecho que ningún biógrafo de Blasco Ibáñez ha querido abordar, temiendo, sin duda, que la personalidad literaria del novelista se hundiese, socavada y derribada por la maledicencia. El silencio de todos, más que un respetuoso silencio para no denigrar, parece haber sido la confabulación de la hipocresía. Es cierto que Blasco Ibáñez escribió tres o cuatro novelitas estando en París. Las escribió para un editor de Castellón. Y un ejemplar manuscrito bellamente encuadernado, circuló por Valencia alrededor de los años 60. Es cierto también que el novelista jamás habló de ello. Pero los críticos franceses y algunos profesores de literatura de aquel país se han interesado por esta creación ocasional… No obstante, puedo afirmar que, durante una conversación con don Sigfrido Blasco-Ibáñez, el hijo menor del novelista, este admitió la existencia de las novelitas pornográficas de su padre y nos indicó un título: «Modas de París».” Blasco escribía sus crónicas donde hablaba del máximo exiliado español de esa época don Manuel Ruiz Zorrilla, los revolucionarios chilenos de la “Estrella de Chile” o sobre “las hijas de la noche” donde evidentemente hablaba de la prostitución que invadía las primeras horas de la noche parisina. Como dice León Roca: “La escuela sensual de París, es para el futuro novelista, el coliseo, la universidad, el ágora donde toda experiencia tiene su manifestación y donde todo escrúpulo es ahogado por un minuto de placer.” En esa época Blasco también empieza a frecuentar la noche madrileña mientras le dedica cartas de amor a la que sería su mujer tres años más tarde como vemos en esta Carta de Vicente Blasco Ibáñez a María Blasco del Cacho escrita en Madrid el 12 de febrero de 1889: “Mi adorada Marujita: Ayer te remití un telegrama dándote cuenta de que había llegado a aquí sin novedad y me equivoqué al darte las señas de donde vivo pues estoy en la calle del Arenal número 8 piso pral., casa de huéspedes y no en el número 10 como te dije. Anoche fue el meeting y yo me llevé la palma de la oratoria pues mi discurso fue el más enérgico y entusiasta. Todos los párrafos me los interrumpieron con aplausos y el discurso fue una continua ovación. Nada más te puedo contar de aquí pues hasta este momento nada he hecho. No he visto todavía a Paco ni he empezado los estudios en la Biblioteca Nacional pues no he tenido tiempo más que para visitar a Pi y Margall y demás federales de esta. Ya te escribiré más despacio cuando tenga otras cosas que contarte. Tengo un cuarto muy bonito y muy bien alfombrado y no puedo quejarme del trato que me dan. Adiós nena mía. Aquí no hago más que acordarme de ti y tengo ganas de ir a esa solo por verte a pesar del poco tiempo que hace nos hemos separado y que a mí me parece un siglo. Sabes te quiere como nadie en el mundo tu Vicente”. A los 24 años y con una novia, Blasco conoció en 1891 a una de sus amantes más significativas, quien sería fuente de inspiración para una de sus mejores novelas, "Entre naranjos". Esta obra, influenciada por la riada de Alcira de 1897, finalmente se publicaría en 1900. La cantante de ópera rusa Nadina Buliccioff fue abordada por nuestro escritor en 1891 cuando ella tenía 33 años, 9 años los separaban. Apenas 5 años antes había conocido a la que después sería su mujer Maria Blasco. El propio Blasco se refirió años más tarde a sus amoríos con la Buliccioff en una contestación que hizo desde su periódico al periódico el Regional que era un diario carlista cuando estos publicaron la preciosa novelita histórica titulada "La tiple rusa o los amores de Blasco con la Buliccioff” diciendo así: “Ustedes conocen un Blasco Ibáñez de costumbres tranquilas, que vive en una modestia rayana en pobreza, que apenas sale de casa, que pasa el dia y la noche trabajando con la pluma, que es su único medio de subsistencia, rodeado de su mujer y sus hijos; que apenas se le ve en teatros y cafés, y que a los treinta años aparece gordinflón y desaliñado como un viejo; ¿no es verdad? Pues no se fíen ustedes. Ese individuo es un pillo de mala vida, un crapuloso, un libertino: una especie de Tenorio, y si alguien sonríe con expresión de duda, lea la siguiente terminación del anuncio del número único.” Resulta hasta cómico leer en El Imparcial del 29 de julio de 1884 en su sección de espectáculos como tras enumerar a los cantantes de ópera que iban a actuar en el Teatro Real de Madrid durante la temporada nos pongan un anuncio de “no mas callos” y después uno de preservativos contra el cólera. Apostilla León Roca: “Cuesta creer que a tan sólo quince días para su boda, celebrada el 18 de noviembre de 1891, Blasco viviese aquella pasión con la tiple rusa. Pero también es evidente que, si no fue entonces, no pudo ser nunca.” En la trama de la novela que más tarde escribiría Blasco,“Entre naranjos”, destaca una madre autoritaria, doña Bernarda, que nos recuerda a la madre de Blasco y que nos habla del problema real de los Blasco ante el enredo amoroso de su hijo a pocos días de casarse. Y es que la soprano rusa dio un concierto el 14 de noviembre a escasos días de la boda donde al parecer uno de los poemas anónimos que se repartieron entre el público pertenecía a Blasco, aunque este detalle nunca lo sabremos con seguridad. Continúa el biógrafo de Blasco diciendo en el capítulo titulado “los amores atribuidos”: “En Blasco Ibáñez se da la coquetería de querer ser, o de aparentar ser, un padre de familia amante de su hogar, de sus hijos y de la vida hogareña. Esta pretensión, por muy deseable que sea, no responde a la vida real que lleva, porque sus luchas políticas reducen sus horas de estancia en el hogar. También su condición de periodista y de director de un periódico, que ha de luchar contra la ineficacia de la gente, hace que su vida con la familia se reduzca a la mínima expresión. Sus veladas pasadas junto a la máquina que imprime el periódico, que se prolongan hasta las cuatro de la noche o las seis de la madrugada, anulan por completo la intimidad hogareña. Hay que admitir, por tanto, a un Blasco Ibáñez dominado por la pasión del trabajo y absorbido por el interés que en él despierta la política. Doña María, la esposa, debió soportar y acostumbrarse a las intemperancias de conducta que imponía una reunión de delegados políticos o una junta que era preciso presidir en el partido. También debió acostumbrarse a la total ausencia de atención cuando le absorbía algún problema de índole literario o novelístico. Hubo también de acostumbrarse doña María a las continuas denuncias del periódico, a la presencia, casi diaria, del Juzgado y agentes de la autoridad que secuestraban la edición y se llevaban detenido al director. Estos avatares del hombre de acción, unido a sus infidelidades conyugales, debieron quebrantar la unidad matrimonial. Pero lo que parece que colmó la paciencia de María, fue las relaciones que tuvo con la condesa de Pardo Bazán, al parecer, no simplemente literarias.” Pero antes de que hablarnos sobre la relación del escritor con la famosa escritora gallega nos describe otros cuatro amoríos empezando por una tal Cora que firma una dedicatoria en una de las fotografías encontradas entre los papeles del novelista. El propio Blasco nos habla de Cora en una de sus novelas: “Por dos meses fué el amante de Cora, una muchacha popular en los entresuelos de Fornos; una gallega alta, esbelta y fuerte (¡ay, como la otra!), que había pasado algunos meses en París, y al volver de allá, con el pelo teñido de rubio, recogiéndose el vestido con la misma gracia que si hiciera el trottoir en los bulevares, mezclando con dulzura en la conversación palabras francesas, llamando mon cher a todo el mundo y dándoselas de entendida en la organización de una cena, brillaba como una gran cocota entre las amigas.” Francisco de Cossio nos cuenta en su libro “Impresiones” la “poca vergüenza” que se gastaba el escritor para con las mujeres y mucho más si eran jóvenes y guapas: “Decide que vayamos a Prunier. Desde allí vamos Blasco, Cossio y Jean Cassou, al Café de los Italianos. A las doce y media marchamos a lo largo de los bulevares, hasta el Faubourg Montmartre. Al pasar por el bulevar de los Italianos, una muchachita rubia y de ojos verdes mira a Blasco, y él la detiene: -¿Tú no me conoces? -No-contesta ella, con un rostro inocente e inexpresivo. Estás hablando dice Cassou, con uno de los hombres más famosos de nuestro tiempo. Con monsieur Blasco Ibáñez. ¿No has leído ninguna novela suya? La muchacha no se molesta en recordar. Dice que no ha leído ninguna novela suya, y que nunca ha oído hablar de tal señor. Pues entonces, si eres novelista podrías hacer una buena novela de mi vida. ¿Y cuál es tu vida? -pregunta el novelista. -Me llamo Georgette, ahí tienes el argumento.” En manos del editor Sempere cayó una carta devuelta por el servicio de correos donde Blasco se dirigía a una corista de un barracón de la feria de Navidad de Valencia. Uno de esos barracones donde las coristas vestían frívolamente y bailaban al estilo francés. La carta empezaba con un “querida chatita”. A estos escarceos esporádicos hay que unir los más habituales como por ejemplo el de la carnicera cercana al diario El Pueblo. Blasco solía escribir de noche y terminar la edición del periódico a altas horas de la madrugada, León Roca nos describe estos paseos: “Y dos o tres horas después, cansado, abandonaba la escritura y salía a la calle. En algunas ocasiones, su andadura no era larga. Se dirigía, paso a paso, a una cercana carnicería cuya dueña, la señora Vicenta, le recibía con evidentes muestras de satisfacción. Era proverbial que la señora Vicenta le preparaba un copioso desayuno que el escritor aceptaba con agrado. El esposo de la señora Vicenta, que era matarife y, por tanto, tenía su trabajo en el matadero, salía de la casa con las primeras luces del día, lo que le permitía al escritor disfrutar de una tranquilidad complaciente.” El propio Blasco lo contaba así: “Porque no hay mayor aventura para un político que la de escaparse de sus obligaciones y marchar a la conquista de una mujer. No hay aventura más alucinante que la de saberse director de un periódico, pasar toda la noche en vela, vigilante por la marcha del diario y saber que hay una mujer que le espera, a hurtadillas, burlando todas las normas establecidas por la sociedad y tratando las cuestiones amorosas con el más hermético de los silencios”. Dicha relación extramatrimonial nunca salió a la luz pero León Roca nos cuenta varios indicios para poder afirmar que las relaciones tuvieron que ser íntimas y completas. El primer indicio surge del mismo autor, quien, al publicar en 1901 «Sónnica, la cortesana» en la contracubierta del libro, aparece mencionada, como futura novela, la titulada «La señora Vicenta». Pero el segundo indicio es un testimonio directo del investigador que ocurrió hacia el año 1967. “Iba yo acompañado por un amigo, cuando se acercó un señor que se puso a hablar con mi acompañante. Al enterarse de que íbamos a publicar la biografía, se volvió hacia mí y me dijo: «¿Usted sabe que yo soy hijo de Blasco Ibáñez?». Había tal orgullo y sinceridad en sus palabras que lo creí. Era hijo de «la señora Vicenta».” ……………………………………………………………………………………… Enlaces citados en el podcast: Bibliografia completa https://www.cervantesvirtual.com/portales/vicente_blasco_ibanez/su_obra_bibliografia/ Cronología de Vicente Blasco Ibáñez https://www.cervantesvirtual.com/portales/vicente_blasco_ibanez/autor_cronologia/#anyo_1900 Cronologia literaria Blasco Ibáñez https://anyblascoibanez.gva.es/va/cronologia-literaria Time line de su vida https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/vicente-blasco-ibanez-5ac50faf-ff35-40dd-be42-708435362932 Galeria de imágenes https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cervantesvirtual.com%2Fimages%2Fportales%2Fvicente_blasco_ibanez%2Fgraf%2Fcronologia%2F03_cro_blasco_ibanez_retrato_1018_s.jpg&tbnid=s0ix0VfxLAJ4aM&vet=12ahUKEwi45LKn8vr-AhVYmycCHf1fDVMQMygkegUIARDGAQ..i&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cervantesvirtual.com%2Fportales%2Fvicente_blasco_ibanez%2Fautor_cronologia%2F&docid=rpcl3y5OiYotjM&w=301&h=450&q=Mar%C3%ADa%20Blasco%20blasco%20iba%C3%B1ez&hl=es&client=firefox-b-d&ved=2ahUKEwi45LKn8vr-AhVYmycCHf1fDVMQMygkegUIARDGAQ …….. Capitulo 9 Blasco Ibáñez (Miniserie de TV) https://www.filmaffinity.com/es/film328686.html Blasco Ibañez. La Novela de su vida https://berlangafilmmuseum.com/filmografia/blasco-ibanez-la-novela-de-su-vida/ La novela de su vida Película de Berlanga.Parte 1 https://www.rtve.es/play/videos/blasco-ibanez-la-novela-de-su-vida/parte-1/6666338/ La novela de su vida Película de Berlanga.Parte 2 https://www.rtve.es/play/videos/blasco-ibanez-la-novela-de-su-vida/parte-2/6666336/ OSCURO OCULTISMO EN HIPERCUBOS, HEXÁGONOS Y OCTÁGONOS https://tecnicopreocupado.com/2017/05/04/oscuro-ocultismo-en-hipercubos-hexagonos-y-octagonos/ Entrevista a Leon Roca http://elargonautavalenciano.blogspot.com/2019/07/con-leon-roca.html Enrique González Fiol “Domadores del éxito”. León Roca “Los amores de Blasco Ibáñez” Manuel Torres i Orive https://www.enciclopedia.cat/gran-enciclopedia-catalana/manuel-torres-i-orive Carta de Vicente Blasco Ibáñez a María Blasco del Cacho escrita en Madrid el 12 de febrero de 1889 https://www.cervantesvirtual.com/obra-visor/carta-de-vicente-blasco-ibanez-a-maria-blasco-del-cacho-madrid-12-de-febrero-de-1889--784985/html/2ce3c4bf-0864-4699-accf-68a37a464bc9_2.html#I_0_ Carta de Vicente Blasco Ibáñez a María Blasco del Cacho Madrid, 11 de octubre de 1887 https://www.cervantesvirtual.com/obra-visor/carta-de-vicente-blasco-ibanez-a-maria-blasco-del-cacho-madrid-11-octubre-1887-783447/html/e37bee02-76a8-4b17-a25c-cb265b9c7a03_2.html#I_0_ Carta de Vicente Blasco Ibáñez a María Blasco del Cacho.Valencia, 27 de septiembre de 1888 https://www.cervantesvirtual.com/obra-visor/carta-de-vicente-blasco-ibanez-a-maria-blasco-del-cacho-valencia-27-de-septiembre-de-1888-784505/html/e447ac0a-2f05-4804-925f-f1382f6d8b3b_2.html#fol_1_1 Listado de cartas a María: https://www.cervantesvirtual.com/buscador/?q=Carta+de+Vicente+Blasco+Ib%C3%A1%C3%B1ez+a+Mar%C3%ADa+Blasco+del+Cacho+ Confesiones, 1911- Parte II http://elargonautavalenciano.blogspot.com/search/label/A%C3%B1o%201911 Leon roca “Los amores de Blasco Ibáñez” https://www.amazon.es/Amores-blasco-iba%C3%B1ez-Jose-Luis/dp/8460427099 Nadina_Bulicioff https://www.wikiwand.com/ca/Nadina_Bulicioff El Imparcial 29/7/1884 sección de espectáculos https://hemerotecadigital.bne.es/hd/viewer?oid=0000618442&page=3 La Francmasonería en Chile: De sus orígenes hasta su institucionalización https://dialnet.unirioja.es/descarga/articulo/3268626.pdf

GUEST OVERVIEW: The GrassRoots TruthCast, created by former Escambia County Florida Commissioner Gene Valentino, is a weekly broadcast from Pensacola, Florida.    Gene, an investment entrepreneur and avid pilot, is a founding member of VeriJet charter aviation and serves on the company's Board of Directors. When he's not in studio, Gene can usually be found in the skies over the Gulf of Mexico piloting his ICON A5.   GUEST OVERVIEW: Louis Buller Gohmert Jr.is an American attorney, politician, and former judge who was the U.S. representative from Texas's 1st congressional district from 2005 to 2023. Gohmert is a Republican and was part of the Tea Party movement. In January 2015, he unsuccessfully challenged John Boehner for Speaker of the House of Representatives In November 2021, he announced his candidacy in the 2022 Texas Attorney General election. He failed to advance to the Republican primary runoff, finishing fourth with 17% of the vote.   GUEST OVERVIEW: Dr. John R. Lott, Jr., is an economist and a world-recognized expert on guns and crime and also founder of The Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC).  During the Trump administration, he served as the Senior Advisor for Research and Statistics in the Office of Justice Programs and then the Office of Legal Policy in the U.S. Department of Justice.

Buller Health's acute stabilisation unit, also known as the hospital, will shut from 5.30pm tonight to 8.30am tomorrow morning, because of staff illness. It's at least the fourth time this month the hospital has had to close. Buller District Mayor Jamie Kleine speaks to Susana Lei'ataua.

From Dreams to Leadership: A Journey of Passion and Resilience Ann Buller, President Emeritus of Centennial College, is a visionary leader renowned for embedding equity and social justice principles into the college's programs and operations. Assuming the presidency in 2004, Ann spearheaded various innovative mentoring and outreach initiatives that transformed Centennial into a beacon of inclusive and responsive education. Her leadership catalyzed major transformative changes, particularly in the areas of leadership development and global citizenship education. Under her guidance, Centennial's internationalization efforts received numerous accolades, and she introduced award-winning programs supporting underrepresented students, including those from underserved neighbourhoods, students with learning disabilities, and first-generation college students. Ann Buller's impact extends beyond Centennial College through her work as a keynote speaker and faculty member at the National Executive Leadership Institute. She has served as the Board Chair of the Canadian Bureau for International Education and Colleges and Institutes Canada and sits on several influential boards. Her contributions to postsecondary education have been recognized with prestigious awards such as the World Federation of Colleges and Polytechnics Leadership Award and the Top 100 Most Powerful Women Award. Ann's dedication to education and social inclusion recently earned her the Order of Canada, highlighting her lifelong commitment to improving lives through learning. She holds a diploma in Public Relations from Humber College, a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from York University, and a Master of Arts in Education from Central Michigan University. The Women Leadership Nation Breaking Barriers Podcast is committed to helping women break barriers through the power of storytelling, self-awareness, and knowledge sharing. We started this podcast as a platform for women to share their journeys, experiences, and insights so that we can learn and grow from one another. We hope you enjoyed this episode and would love for you to subscribe to our podcast! Also, we hope you will follow us on our journey thru Instagram at @LadouceurJennifer!  Thanks for listening and welcome to the Women Leadership Nation community!  Let's Break Barriers Together! www.WomenLeadershipNation.com

Preached by Brandon Buller On June 23, 2024 Over Romans 8:28-30

Severe rain, wind and snowfall will affect parts of the country today. Heavy rain warnings have been in place overnight for Fiordland, the Otago headwaters, Westland, and Mount Taranki, while watches were in place for Canterbury and Buller. A strong wind warning was in place for Wellington, and road snowfall warnings were in place for Lindis Pass, the Crown Ranges, and Milford Road. Metservice meteorologist John Law spoke to Corin Dann

Tommy Berry joined RSN on Friday as he heads to Eagle Farm with a good book of rides tomorrow. He's aboard one of the leading chances, Mare Of Mt Buller in the Oaks and second favourite Opal Ridge in the Moreton Cup. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ngày 8/6 tới đây ra mắt chính thức Mùa Tuyết năm 2024 tại Núi Buller, Vitoria, vào đúng dịp cuối tuần dài mừng Sinh nhật Nhà vua.

MI5 is one of the world's most famous institutions; Baroness Eliza Manningham-Buller, Former Director General, shares what she's learned during a distinguished career in counterterrorism, leading teams through some of the darkest moments in modern history. This special episode is part of Pull up a Chair's ‘Insights' series, featuring bite-sized perspectives and advice from the podcast's second round of guests.

This week's Open Mic guest is Kailee Tkacz Buller, President and CEO of the National Oilseed Processors Association. The nation's oilseed processing industry has rapidly been expanding capacity to meet growing demand for their products. Many new plants have been built, others are under construction and additional processing capacity could be added pending public policy decisions. Buller says renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel hold tremendous opportunities for further oilseed industry expansion. Buller hopes 40Z tax credit rules will include more acceptable climate smart production practices and less bundling. NOPA opposes policies that place caps on vegetable oil capacity and encourage imports of used cooking oil from foreign countries.

Episode 09:  Life in the ICU - Leslie Buller-Hayes, ICU Nurse, Death Doula, Stonehedge Transitions   Leslie Buller-Hayes is an ICU Nurse and end of life doula who is fueled by a commitment to fostering open, authentic conversations, providing compassionate support, and guiding others towards embracing the natural cycle of life with dignity and peace. In this episode Leslie shares her experiences in the ICU and what happens for families when their loved one is in ICU.  She focuses on the impact when there has been no advance care planning, or no conversations about what matters most to the patient; as well as how some key intentional actions of ICU staff can help make this traumatic situation just a bit easier for families.    Leslie also talks about how ICU staff also suffer in these experiences and how she takes solace in her involvement in The Three Wishes Project.  A project intended to bring back the human aspects of these experiences, and acknowledges for families that their person mattered, and they are not alone in their loss, while also helping ICU staff in navigating the grief that comes from working in such an intense and emotional critical care environment.    Leslie undoubtedly believes that given our death is more certain than our next birthday, we all need to have a solid plan in place.  Leslie IS making a difference for individuals and families and does whatever she can to help us all appreciate the importance of planning and preparation.  Her real-life experiences illustrate why this is so important for all of us.    ABOUT LESLIE BULLER-HAYES:  Leslie Buller-Hayes is the founder and owner of StoneHedge Transitions: End of Life Doula Services, a compassionate initiative aimed at providing support and guidance to individuals and families navigating all aspects of the often-tumultuous journey of end-of-life.   She is also a seasoned Registered Nurse (RN) with over three decades of experience, primarily specializing in Critical Care. Her dedication to patient care and her understanding of the complexities of health in times of critical illness have been the cornerstone of her remarkable career.   Leslie is an advocate for redefining societal attitudes towards death and dying. Recognizing the importance of education and open dialogue, she actively engages in promoting awareness and understanding surrounding end-of-life experiences. As a death educator and change agent, Leslie strives to challenge misconceptions and foster a culture of acceptance and empowerment in facing life's most profound inevitability.   Leslie is on a mission to transform the narrative surrounding dying and death. Through her multi-faceted roles as a healthcare professional, entrepreneur, advocate, learner, and educator, she continues to inspire positive change, leaving an indelible mark on the lives she touches.     Links to be shared:   http://www.stonehedgetransitions.ca/   https://www.facebook.com/StonehedgeTransitions   https://3wishesproject.com/    LEARN ABOUT DEATH DOULA NETWORK INTERNATIONAL  Contact us at admin@ddnint.com for any feedback or suggestions on podcast guests or topics.    Music provided by Dee Flat and the Benz, used with permission.   

Westport News' reporter Ellen Curnow on flood protection for Westport, while the town's air services are threatened. And as the Buller economy outpaces national growth the town's council has a new chief executive.

Subscriber-only episodeIn this episode we meet Maria Baker, the founder of Nobody's Princess, a size and shape inclusive brand of ski and snowboard pants for women. Maria started snowboarding with friends about 9 years ago (at age 30) and instantly fell in love with being on the snow. Right away, Maria struggled to find snow pants that fit her properly. She kept ripping them, squeezing into pants that did not fit well and felt uncomfortable.  When covid impacted Maria's job in travel, she saw it was the right time to launch Nobody's Princess. After some researching and networking Maria used indigogo and kickstarter to launch her snow pants. Nobody's Princess snow pants have sizing that includes different lengths (short, regular, tall) in sizes 2-20.  The snow pants come in a variety of fun colors like aqua, violet and raspberry.We loved learning about how Maria sourced real life women from her local Facebook group to model her pants.Maria also tells us about the ski resorts in Australia, including Buller and Thredbo and her favorite apres ski snacks.Keep up with the Latest from Nobody's Princess:Website: https://nobodysprincess.com.auInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/nobodysprincessapparelFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/nobodysprincessapparelResources:Buller Ski Resort (Australia) Thredbo Ski Resort Perisher Ski ResortKeep up with the Latest from the Ski Moms!Website: www.skimomsfun.comSki Moms Discount Page: https://skimomsfun.com/discountsSki Moms Ski Rental HomesJoin the 10,000+ Ski Moms Facebook GroupInstagram: https://instagram.com/skimomsfun Send us an email and let us know what guests and topics you'd like to hear next! Sarah@skimomsfun.comNicole@skimomsfun.com

Become a Premium Subscriber and Support the Ski Moms for $3/monthIn this episode we meet Maria Baker, the founder of Nobody's Princess, a size and shape inclusive brand of ski and snowboard pants for women. Maria started snowboarding with friends about 9 years ago (at age 30) and instantly fell in love with being on the snow. Right away, Maria struggled to find snow pants that fit her properly. She kept ripping them, squeezing into pants that did not fit well and felt uncomfortable.  When covid impacted Maria's job in travel, she saw it was the right time to launch Nobody's Princess. After some researching and networking Maria used indigogo and kickstarter to launch her snow pants. Nobody's Princess snow pants have sizing that includes different lengths (short, regular, tall) in sizes 2-20.  The snow pants come in a variety of fun colors like aqua, violet and raspberry.We loved learning about how Maria sourced real life women from her local Facebook group to model her pants.Maria also tells us about the ski resorts in Australia, including Buller and Thredbo and her favorite apres ski snacks.Keep up with the Latest from Nobody's Princess:Website: https://nobodysprincess.com.auInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/nobodysprincessapparelFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/nobodysprincessapparelResources:Buller Ski Resort (Australia) Thredbo Ski Resort Perisher Ski ResortColorful Skida accessories are there to make ski mom life more fun. Save 20% off your order with CODE SKIMOMS20 at checkout at Skida.com Crafted from 100% premium merino wool, Iksplor isn't just for winter; they're perfect for protecting your little ones with UPF 50 coverage during summer hikes and camping trips. Ski Moms members enjoy an exclusive 10% off with code: SKIMOM. Head to Iksplor.com Hearty, yummy and perfect for wintery nights in. This digital cookbook brings the very best easy and delicious recipes for you and your family. All recipes were developed by ski moms. 36 tried and true ski mom recipes. Shop the Ski Moms Cookbook here.Support the showKeep up with the Latest from the Ski Moms!Website: www.skimomsfun.comSki Moms Discount Page: https://skimomsfun.com/discountsSki Moms Ski Rental HomesJoin the 10,000+ Ski Moms Facebook GroupInstagram: https://instagram.com/skimomsfun Send us an email and let us know what guests and topics you'd like to hear next! Sarah@skimomsfun.comNicole@skimomsfun.com

Shane Mize is the Director of Parks and Recreation in the city of Pflugerville, Texas, where he resides with his wife and children. Tom Venniro is the 10-year Director of Parks and Recreation in Hilton-Parma, New York, where he resides with his wife Melissa, son Jack, and daughter Amelia. Jay Tryon is a 17-year park and recreation professional who loves to improve communities and their quality of life. He currently resides in Charlotte, North Carolina, with his wife and children.

Three Waters will be repealed by the end of next week, keeping water assets in councils' hands. Local Government minister Simeon Brown says new legislation is coming, which will allow councils to deliver water infrastructure with more financial sustainability. But Buller mayor Jamie Cleine says the move will cause problems for districts like his. Cleine spoke to Corin Dann.

Buller District residents were warned a couple of months ago that they could be facing an astronomical rates increase, Westport News reporter Ellen Curnow says that's now been pared back a bit and universal bin collection will be included.

In the latest episode of ‘Pull up a Chair' series two, Bina Mehta speaks with Baroness Eliza Manningham-Buller, Former Director General of MI5. In their conversation, Bina and Eliza explore the changing face of leadership, and the lessons Eliza has learned during an established career in one of the world's most famous institutions. Join the conversation on sustainable growth!

 In the final episode of Season 4, Hollie is joined by Brianna Buller. Brianna earned her B.A. in History at FHSU and went on to a M.A. in Public History at Royal Holloway in London. The two discuss her time at both universities, her Threads of Herstory Project, and adventures in Europe. 

Debz Shakti Buller is a Quantum Hypnotherapist, PSI-Professional, Medium, Channeler and Wellness Educator assisting groups/individuals in reaching for the stars. An associate producer of "Alien Abduction: Answers," she worked closely with our good friend and filmmaker, as well as cancer survivor, John Yost. Tonight Debz will tell us about her life's work and update us on John's condition. Welcome to episode 131 of, "What In The...? Podcast!" --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/what-in-the-podcast/message

Francesco Erioldi era allenatore federale di sci in Italia e ha ottenuto un “Global Talent visa” grazie alla sua esperienza come allenatore della nazionale australiana di snowboard dal 2003 al 2019.

This podcast hit paid subscribers' inboxes on July 19. It dropped for free subscribers on July 22. To receive future pods as soon as they're live, and to support independent ski journalism, please consider an upgrade to a paid subscription. You can also subscribe for free below:WhoRicardo Margulis, General Manager of Valle Nevado, ChileRecorded onJuly 3, 2023About Valle NevadoClick here for a mountain stats overviewOwned by: Majority owned by Mountain Capital PartnersLocated in: Lo Barnechea, ChileYear founded: 1988Pass affiliations:Base elevation: 9,383 feetSummit elevation: 12,041 feetVertical drop: 2,658 feetSkiable acres: 2,200 lift-served (20,000-plus additional acres served by helicopter)Trails: 44Average annual snowfall: 276 inchesLift fleet: 16 lifts (1 gondola, 1 high-speed quad, 1 fixed quad, 1 triple, 2 doubles, 1 T-bar, 6 J-bars, 3 carpets)Why I interviewed himThe Storm is firmly anchored in North America. Built on 4 a.m. alarms and winding explorations of the Whites and the Greens and the Adirondacks and the Catskills and the Poconos and the Berkshires. Flights west to the Rockies and the Wasatch and the Sierras. Born on bumps rising from the Midwest flats.That domain will always be the core of this thing. Two years ago, I blew out of the Northeast to expand coverage to the entire United States. This year, I began folding in Canada. I can't go any farther. I don't know how many ski areas there are on planet Earth, but an educated guess is a minimum of 10,000, with more than half of those being in Europe. If I live to be 1,000 I might get there. But I won't so I need to fence the yard.However. Just because I live in and focus on North America does not mean my interests stop at the oceans. The world's vast and varied ski cultures are worth considering, as outlets to disrupt our biases, as wells of supreme adventure, and as crucial links in the story of skiing, which fuels the evolution of our domestic obsession in crucial, often unseen ways.But I have to pick my spots. This podcast is built less on novelty than on perspective and completeness. There are only so many far-flung spotlights that my listeners will tolerate, just as there are only so many episodes on ropetow bumps or the Midwest or even mighty New England that they can handle (this rule does not apply to the West). So where, in this whole wild world of endless skiing and endless snow, do I focus?My first entry in this very occasional international series landed almost two years ago, when I hosted the longtime general manager of Mt. Buller, Australia on the podcast. Why Mt. Buller? Well, frankly, they reached out to me and asked. But the ski area also hangs onto a strong North American connection: it is a longtime Ikon and Mountain Collective partner. If my readers are planning a Southern Hemisphere run over our summer, they likely scan the Epic and Ikon rosters before they do anything else.Enter: Valle Nevado. It is the only South American option for skiers clutching a North American ski pass. Vail's Epic Pass, believe it or not, gives you nothing in Argentina or Chile – the only serious ski destinations on the continent. But Ikon, Mountain Collective, and, now, Mountain Capital Partners' Power Pass all give you between two and seven days at the Chilean resort.Not that skiers don't have other options. Lift tickets to Las Leñas, Argentina's second-largest ski area, are just $66. Catedral Alta Patagonia, the nation's largest, sells a ticket for a pricier but still reasonable $108. El Colorado, right next door to – and connected with – Valle Nevado sells a daily lift ticket for around $73. Unlike large parts of U.S. American skiing, you can still ramble without a pass through the Andes (though I expect both Vail and Alterra to eventually acquire or partner with more ski areas throughout the continent).But “free” lift tickets are a powerful draw, even for many travelers with the means to voyage to South America for a ski trip. And a lot of North Americans are going to end up at Valle Nevado for as long as it retains its trio of U.S.-based pass memberships. It's a place that, when I'm considering what matters to my readers and my listeners, fits right in.What we talked aboutA strange snowstorm to start the Chilean ski season; the best time of year to ski Chile; target closing dates; “in 2020, Chile was closed”; the first normal summer for international visitors since 2019; the Valle Nevado origin story; enter Mountain Capital Partners; the MCP way; MCP's investment priorities; the prevalence of surface lifts at Valle Nevado (and South America in general); why Valle Nevado would rather install a new lift in a new place than upgrade a surface lift to a chairlift; where the resort could potentially expand; the resort's massive heliski operation; 7,000 feet of vert!; a ski circus at the top of the Andes; how you can ski La Parva and El Colorado if you're a Valle Nevado hotel guest, or if you show up with an Ikon, Mountain Collective, or Power Pass; why Valle Nevado joined so many U.S.-based megapasses; whether Valle Nevado will renew with Ikon and Mountain Collective when its contracts expire; Valle Nevado's evolving position on the Power Pass; staying at the village; why international visitors shouldn't rent a car; the wild, 8,000-foot-elevation access road up from Santiago; why the road is safer than it looks; and snowmaking past, present, and future.Why I thought that now was a good time for this interviewIn January, Mountain Capital Partners, the under-the-radar but aggressive Southwest operator that is rapidly growing its U.S. portfolio, announced its intention to acquire a majority stake in Valle Nevado. They closed on the deal in April. It was the first acquisition of a South American ski resort by a North American ski company (at least that I'm aware of; I'm sure there's some newspaper clipping from 1946 about the eccentric Hayward “Skip” McSteeljaw, owner of Mt. Buckaroo, New York cowboying a remote Argentinian peak at which to pass his summers).This was a big deal. By beating Vail and Alterra to the continent, MCP signaled that the company intends to compete at an international scale. Prior to this purchase, MCP ran one of the most important regional ski passes in the United States. But no one seriously considered it a competitor to the Epic or Ikon passes outside of its immediate markets. Perhaps they still don't, but perception matters. And by reaching outside of its Southwest home turf with a crown-jewel purchase that trumps its current alphas – Arizona Snowbowl and Purgatory – in international prestige, MCP has evolved from a slick local operator to an ambitious and aggressive growth machine that could be a serious contender when and if North America's remaining megaresorts – Jackson Hole, Telluride, Taos, Alta, Whitefish, etc. – hit the market.MCP also introduced a unique problem to the rapidly evolving U.S. megapass market: what happens when a small conglomerate with its own multi-mountain pass purchases an Ikon Pass partner? Ikon has so far tolerated some crossover with competing passes – all but four of Mountain Collective's partners (Sugar Bowl, Grand Targhee, Le Massif, and Marmot Basin), are also on the Ikon Pass. Aspen's four mountains have their own pass, as do Boyne's three New England Ikon Pass partners: Loon, Sunday River, and Sugarloaf. Alterra surely loses some market share to Mountain Collective, but the pass is run out of Aspen, which partly owns Alterra.The Power Pass presents a different test case: will Alterra tolerate internal competition from a regional pass that competes directly with Ikon in the Southwest? The answer, for now, seems to be “probably.” Valle Nevado's contract with the Ikon Pass lasts through 2025. Alterra and Mountain Collective both gave the resort permission to join the Power Pass, Margulis said, starting with the current ski season. Alterra either doesn't view the Power Pass as a serious threat yet, or is not eager to let go of its only South American resort partner. For North American skiers, a trip to Chile – which sits in the Eastern timezone – is a lot easier logistically and financially than a run to New Zealand or Australia, which are so remote that it's already February 2029 there.The other side of this question is just as interesting: will rowdy and rabidly independent MCP have any interest in retaining Ikon or Mountain Collective membership? A big part of the company's identity, after all, is not being Vail or Alterra, or even Boyne or Powdr Corp. How do they take Alterra's money without compromising some of their double-bird-to-the-system rep? It probably depends on how big the check is. Margulis tells us in the podcast that Alterra transferred around $300,000 into Valle Nevado's bank account last year. If each Ikon redemption equaled $50 (an estimate based on nothing, I'll admit), that would equal 6,000 visitors. Not a lot in the context of how many Ikon Passes Alterra sells each year (which is probably approaching or past 1 million, a number that's based on deep sources), but a substantial bonus for a resort that's seated at the end of the earth. MCP is unlikely to replace that number with Power Pass visits, so what to do?I get into all this with Margulis in the podcast. He is a thoughtful, diplomatic leader, and he endorses all parties without committing to any of them. But one thing is clear: the pass roulette playing out in the Andes over the next few years is a wargames scenario likely to repeat at one or more key North American resorts over the coming decade. This is World War Skiing, the First Battle. There will be alliances, betrayals, surprises, surrenders. As usual, America is right in the middle, and it's too soon to tell if that's good or bad for everyone involved.What I got wrongI noted that Valle Nevado was on its “fifth season” as an Ikon Pass and Mountain Collective partner. The ski area actually joined Mountain Collective following its 2014 ski season, making 2023 the ninth season of membership on that coalition. The resort joined Ikon in November 2018, making 2023 the fifth numerical summer for Ikon Pass holders, though the third or fourth in practice. Chile was closed to international visitors for the 2020 and '21 ski seasons, and the resort did not open at all in 2020, meaning that, practically speaking, this is the third year that most Ikon Pass holders could really use their pass at Valle Nevado.Why you should ski Valle NevadoUntil you've seen it, you can't possibly understand the drama. Imagine if the Rockies mainlined ‘roids like a 1990s baseball slugger. Or got really pissed off and went Incredible Hulk. Or they went U.S. American homeowner and built an extra vertical wing atop their peaks. As I wrote when MCP announced the Valle Nevado acquisition in January:Colorad-Bro can be an insecure animal. One of his favorite pastimes is telling people from other states that they don't have real mountains. Just hills in Vermont, he'll say. We have mountains in Colorado, he says proudly. As though he chiseled them himself from the Earth's crust.I wonder what Colorad-Bro does when he meets someone from Chile or Argentina, both of which sprawl from the peak of Aconcagua. At 22,838 feet, it's 8,399 feet taller than Mount Elbert, the highest peak in Colorado. That's like stacking Copper and A-Basin and Keystone on top of Elbert – and still looking 140 feet up to the top. This must make Colorad-Bro sad.Valle Nevado doesn't reach those heights, but with a base at 9,383 feet, it sits higher than most North American ski areas. The terrain is entirely above treeline, enormous and exposed, a snow basket at the top of the world.Admittedly, Valle Nevado's lift-served numbers are modest compared to the North American skyscrapers: 2,200 acres and 2,658 vertical feet. That's about the size of Discovery, Montana or Kirkwood. And above-treeline skiing always feels smaller to me. This may seem paradoxical, as no trees equals more terrain, but one glade run at a small ski area like Berkshire East can feel larger than a whole open bowl, as each line feels distinct in a way that un-treed skiing never can.Valle Nevado, however, must be considered in this context of its interconnected neighbors: 1,100-acre El Colorado and 988-acre La Parva. They cannot be skied on one lift ticket, but maintained and signed trails run between both resorts and Valle Nevado. That gives skiers 4,288 acres to play in – more than Mammoth (3,500 acres), Northstar (3,170 acres), or Winter Pak (3,081 acres), and roughly the size of Mt. Bachelor. If you're really balling, the heli runs – some up to 7,000 vertical feet – are right there too.And then there's all the rest of it: Chile, vino, Santiago, that surreal road up from the flats, the passport stamp, winter-in-summer, the food, the parties, the international stir. Oh and this:Podcast NotesOn Mountain Capital PartnersMountain Capital Partners has been the fastest-growing U.S. ski conglomerate over the past year, adding three new ski areas: Willamette Pass, Oregon (as operator); Valle Nevado; and Lee Canyon, Nevada. Here's how the company's current roster stacks up:The company has basically guaranteed that it's not finished empire-building – April's Lee Canyon announcement noted that “future resort investments are being explored and will be announced at a later date.” Untethered by the attributes that define Vail and Alterra's purchases – either a mega-mega or big-city-adjacent – MCP could land its ship just about anywhere.On the Power PassMCP has collected all of those resorts on its Power Pass, an outstanding product that, like Ikon and Epic, also delivers days at non-owned resorts:Sadly, the Power Pass site has no mention of days at Copper Mountain, which last season was included on the top-tier pass.On La ParvaBase elevation: 8,704 feetSummit elevation: 11,722 feetVertical drop: 3,022 feetSkiable acres: 988Trails: 40 (18% expert, 43% advanced, 20% intermediate, 20% beginner)Average annual snowfall: 118 inchesLift fleet: 15 lifts (2 quads, 2 triples, 1 double, 10 surface lifts)On El ColoradoBase elevation: 7,972 feetSummit elevation: 10,935 feetVertical drop: 2,963 feetSkiable acres: 1,100Trails: 98 (34% expert, 32% advanced, 17% intermediate, 17% beginner)Average annual snowfall: N/ALift fleet: 19 lifts (3 triples, 1 double, 15 surface lifts)On Les ArcsMargulis mentions Valle Nevado's connection to Les Arcs, France. This doesn't have much to do with the actual story, but I thought we would all appreciate looking at this trailmap:Les Arcs is actually four interconnected ski areas. Here are the combined stats, in case you're wondering:Base elevation: 3,937 feetSummit elevation: 10,583 feetVertical drop: 6,646 feetSkiable acres: Who knows. Euros measure their resorts in kilometers of slopes, and Les Arcs covers 425 “KMs,” whatever that meansLift fleet: 52 lifts (8 “gondolas etc.”, 27 chairlifts, 17 surface lifts)On that wild access roadIf I rode up from Santiago to the ski resorts floating on the western edge of the Andes mountains today, I would come away with videos and photos of the wild endless switchbacks. But the last time I ascended the route – from a Santiago ski shop to El Colorado – was in 2005, before the Pet Rectangle redefined and ruined our collective lives. So all I have are my memories: a suicidal minibus driver charging uphill with little regard for life or the consequences of high-speed mountainside collisions. No guardrails. Passing on blind curves. Like we were filming some South American Bourne movie. But we weren't. We were just going skiing. Dear Lord.Margulis tells me the highway is much safer now, and who knows if I'm even remembering it correctly, as I'd spent the previous two days in a borderline hallucinatory state brought on by Argentinian lettuce. It was a weird week.The Storm explores the world of lift-served skiing year-round. Join us.The Storm publishes year-round, and guarantees 100 articles per year. This is article 62/100 in 2023, and number 448 since launching on Oct. 13, 2019. Want to send feedback? Reply to this email and I will answer (unless you sound insane, or, more likely, I just get busy). You can also email skiing@substack.com. 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There are a lot of funny and strange characters on HBO's Succession. But there might not be any of them that are funnier and stranger than Connor Roy. He's the oldest of the Roy children on the show. Half brother to the three younger ones. Connor Roy is played by Alan Ruck, and he's so great at it. Alan is bizarre when the scene calls for it, but behind the bluster, there's a vulnerability and insecurity. It makes Connor, weirdly, one of the most relatable characters on Succession. Alan Ruck joins Bullseye to chat about Succession and what it's been like playing the character of Connor Roy on the show. He also talks about his years in musical theater, and opens up about the time he spent out of work as an actor and how it led to him eventually getting sober.

It's an EmMajority Report Thursday! She hosts Adrienne Buller, Senior Fellow at Common Wealth, to discuss her recent book The Value of a Whale: On the Illusions of Green Capitalism. Then, in a pre-taped conversation, Emma sits down with Mark Himmelstein and Marshawn Brewer of the bargaining committee for Fordham University graduate students, to discuss their recent organizing efforts and yesterday's walkout from classes. First, Emma runs through updates on Manchin's future, Disney's lawsuit against DeSantis, Tucker's firing, Montana's fascist GOP ousting Zooey Zephyr, Schumer's meeting with Elon Musk, and Trump's myriad legal battles, before diving into Tucker Carlson's weak debut post-Fox. Adrienne Buller then dives right into her recent piece on green capitalism, first exploring how the title parodies an IMF article evaluating the capital worth of whales to the global economy, and parsing through neoliberalism's emphasis on financialization and market-driven solutions. Next, Buller steps back to assess green capitalism as a whole, understanding its recognition of the climate crisis as progress while still recognizing how it seeks to exploit said crisis, walking through the myriad “green” tactics, like carbon pricing/capture and ESG, and exploring how they work to incentivize rather than regulate, thus providing more than enough loopholes for capitalists to offshore and offset exploitation. Wrapping up, Adrienne and Emma look to Biden's IRA as a perfect example of green capitalism's market-based solutions, the importance of grounding solutions in justice, and why social justice can't prioritize profitability. Then, Emma is joined by Mark Himmelsbach and Marshawn Brewer as they walk through the impetus for the unionization of Fordham's graduate students, from the University's failure to respond to COVID to New York's growing cost-of-living crisis, and explore what its like to battle against an institution that refuses to recognize you, much less your struggles. Wrapping up, they dive into the union's recent walkout, where the union's hopes lay, and how those of us outside of the union can help. And in the Fun Half: Emma is joined by Matt Binder as they tackle Bernie's Biden endorsement, watch Crowder get eviscerated by an up-and-coming Amy Schumer, and Wayne from Iowa holds Emma accountable for her child-labor-phobic comments. They also tackle Dwayne Wade's recent comments on Florida's growing fascism, Nico from San Francisco helps the crew parse through SF's anti-homeless fury, and Ron Johnson doesn't give a sh*t about your crops. Marjorie Taylor Greene capitalizes on her committee seats with some staunch homophobia, and Robert from Georgia dives into the Tucker Carlson firing, plus, your calls and IMs! Check out Adrienne's book here: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526162632/ Learn more about the Fordham grad students efforts here: https://www.thecity.nyc/2023/4/25/23698405/fordham-graduate-students-walk-out-demand-better-contract Become a member at JoinTheMajorityReport.com: https://fans.fm/majority/join Subscribe to the ESVN YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/esvnshow Subscribe to the AMQuickie newsletter here: https://am-quickie.ghost.io/ Join the Majority Report Discord! http://majoritydiscord.com/ Get all your MR merch at our store: https://shop.majorityreportradio.com/ Get the free Majority Report App!: http://majority.fm/app Follow the Majority Report crew on Twitter: @SamSeder @EmmaVigeland @MattBinder @MattLech @BF1nn @BradKAlsop Check out Matt's show, Left Reckoning, on Youtube, and subscribe on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/leftreckoning Subscribe to Brandon's show The Discourse on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/ExpandTheDiscourse Subscribe to Discourse Blog, a newsletter and website for progressive essays and related fun partly run by AM Quickie writer Jack Crosbie. https://discourseblog.com/ Check out Matt Binder's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/mattbinder Check out Ava Raiza's music here! https://avaraiza.bandcamp.com/ The Majority Report with Sam Seder - https://majorityreportradio.com/