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Step into a treasure trove of rare stories, photos, and audio clips as Bill Scherkenbach shares his decades with Dr. Deming. From boardrooms to sleigh rides, discover the moments, minds, and memories that shaped modern quality thinking, told by someone who lived it. A powerful blend of insight, humor, and history you won't want to miss. (You can see the slides from the podcast here.) TRANSCRIPT 0:00:02.4 Andrew Stotz: My name is Andrew Stotz, and I'll be your host as we dive deeper into the teachings of Dr. W. Edwards Deming. Today, I'm continuing my discussion with Bill Scherkenbach, a dedicated protégé of Dr. Deming since 1972. Bill met with Dr. Deming more than a thousand times and later led statistical methods and process improvement at Ford and GM at Deming's recommendation. He authored 'The Deming Route to Quality and Productivity' at Deming's behest and at 79 is still championing his mentor's message. Learn, have fun, and make a difference. Bill, take it away.   0:00:41.2 Bill Scherkenbach: Well, thank you. Thank you, Andrew. It's an honor to be asked back. Many places don't.   0:00:48.7 Andrew Stotz: I really enjoyed our first discussion, and particularly towards the end of it, it got a little personal and emotional, and I appreciate that you shared your journey. That was amazing.   0:01:00.9 Bill Scherkenbach: Thank you. Thank you. It is personal.   0:01:05.2 Andrew Stotz: Yeah.   0:01:05.4 Bill Scherkenbach: But today, along that wavelength, I brought some pictures or photos and letters and audios of my association with Dr. Deming. So, if you might bring them up, we can start the commenting.   0:01:27.9 Andrew Stotz: Wonderful. Well, hopefully you see a screen now up.   0:01:34.8 Bill Scherkenbach: Yes. Yep.   0:01:35.8 Andrew Stotz: Okay. And for the audience, just to let you know, for the listeners, we're going to show these and I'll try to explain a little bit about what we're talking about because you're not going to be able to see the pictures. But the first thing is the title is An Insider's View of Deming. Learn, have fun, make a difference. And we see a great picture on the left-hand side, and then I threw in a picture of a Lincoln Continental, which we're going to talk about later, which is kind of fun. But maybe you can take it from there, Bill.   0:02:07.2 Bill Scherkenbach: Yeah. Well, we can talk a little bit later on on that, but this is a picture of me and my wife, Mary Ellen, with Dr. Deming having fun. We were at a restaurant in Northville called Elizabeth's, and it's something that he enjoyed to do just about every evening.   0:02:31.3 Andrew Stotz: Great. Well, what a kickoff. So let's go to the next one. And you guys all look great in that photo.   0:02:38.2 Bill Scherkenbach: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. This is a letter that I received from Dr. Deming back in May of '85, auspicious because the letter dated 13 May, that's my birthday. But for those who cannot read it, should I read the letter for you?   0:03:05.2 Andrew Stotz: Either you or I can read it for you. You tell me.   0:03:08.3 Bill Scherkenbach: Okay. Well, yeah. Why don't you read it?   0:03:10.9 Andrew Stotz: Okay. So, the letter is addressed to a particular person. It says, this is written by Dr. Deming, this acknowledges your kind letter of the 29th April. He that depends solely on statistical process control will be out of a job in three years. The record is clear, the record is clean, no exceptions. A whole program of improvement of quality and productivity is necessary, and it requires that top management learn what their job is. No part of the program will by itself suffice. Your letter does not describe your program, hence comment is difficult. I am happy to learn that Bill Scherkenbach will work with you. His achievements are renowned. He is excelled by nobody. I am sure that you will follow his guidance, not only while he is there with you, but from that then on out. I send best wishes and remain yours sincerely, W. Edwards Deming.   0:04:19.2 Bill Scherkenbach: Yes. I did spend a week with this organization, and as Deming said, and in many, many cases, the local management or local part of the organization get very enthusiastic, but the top management did not buy in. And so very little happened there, unfortunately.   0:04:53.9 Andrew Stotz: Yeah. And I missed that the top right-hand corner in handwritten, it says Portland, 20 May 1985. Dear Bill, I neglected to hand this to you in San Francisco, W. E. D.   0:05:08.1 Bill Scherkenbach: Yeah. We went to, we. Dr. Deming and I were in San Francisco to meet with Shoichiro Toyoda and his wife. It was a social call. Shoichiro was in town. I don't know where his brother Tatsuro was. Tatsuro headed up NUMI, but Shoichiro was head of it all and was in the US. And wanted to just have a dinner with Dr. Deming. I'm embarrassingly cloudy. We met in a hotel and I can't tell you which one, but it was a nice, relaxing dinner. The English was a bit stilted, but Soichiro wanted to have a dinner with Dr. Deming and to express his appreciation.    0:06:31.3 Andrew Stotz: And he was a titan of industry at the time and in 1985 was really making a beachhead and a real expansion into the US market. Why did he want to meet with Dr. Deming? What was the connection there? Maybe for those that don't know.   0:06:55.2 Bill Scherkenbach: He was in town and Deming was nearby in town and just wanted to express his appreciation. I guess, Tatsuro, his brother wasn't there, and Tatsuro headed up NUMI, the partnership between GM and Toyota. But Shoichiro was there and just wanted to express appreciation.   0:07:35.1 Andrew Stotz: Great. Okay. So shall we continue on?   0:07:40.0 Bill Scherkenbach: Yeah. We have a Where is Quality Made? Famous talking from Dr. Deming, and hopefully the audio translates well.   0:07:55.3 Andrew Stotz: Yes, we'll see. Let's go.   0:07:59.5 Speaker 3: Where is quality made, Andrew, in the top management? The quality of the output of a company cannot be better unless quality is directed at the top. The people in the plant and in the service organization can only produce and test the design a product and service prescribed and designed by the management. Job security and job are dependent on management's foresight to design a product and service to entice customers and build a market.   0:08:31.6 Andrew Stotz: So where did that come from? And tell us more about that.   0:08:36.2 Bill Scherkenbach: Well, I'm not exactly sure which particular seminar or meeting that was, but over the years I have, have, we've made a number of audio recordings and videos of Dr. Deming in his meetings. And so we're looking to get them to the Deming Institute so they can process them and distribute.    0:09:11.8 Andrew Stotz: And why is this so important? He's talking about quality is made at the top where we can see many people think that quality is made by the worker. Do your best. Quality is your responsibility. Tell us more about why you wanted to talk about this.   0:09:32.9 Bill Scherkenbach: Well, it's a common, it's a common, very common mistake. He learned back in 1950, and I think I mentioned it in our first talk, that he gave a number of courses at Stanford during the war and people learned SPC. But when the war was over, over here, because management didn't buy in, nothing really happened. And he learned in his visit in 1950 when he was able, as we said, Mr. Koyanagi was able to get a meeting, a number of seminars done with top management in Japan after the war. And he thought that that, he saw that that actually did make a difference, that management was absolutely key. And in every one of his seminars, he would make, he would make  this point, that quality is made at the top.   0:10:54.0 Andrew Stotz: And what was interesting is that, of course, the Japanese senior management, were very receptive. It's many times the case that Deming may have interacted with some senior management at the top of a company, but they weren't receptive or willing to implement what he's talking about.   0:11:12.6 Bill Scherkenbach: Yeah. I think I mentioned last time that you need maybe a significant physical or logical or emotional event. And Ford lost a few billion dollars and was then looking, is there a better way? Japan lost a war, and the tradition over there is to perhaps listen to the conqueror. But MacArthur was very astute, my understanding, that you're not going to go in and replace the emperor and really mix the place up from what their culture is, which is very, very, very astute, in my opinion.   0:12:11.4 Andrew Stotz: Okay. So let's continue. And we see a document now up on the screen and a diagram. And maybe you can explain this one.   0:12:24.8 Bill Scherkenbach: Yeah. This is one of the foils, as he called them, that he wrote on his lantern, which is the overhead projector for all the young people. And making another very, very important point. And that is, he's quoting John Tukey, "the more you know what's wrong with a figure, the more useful it becomes." And he also, at various times, would, would, would talk about George Gallup. And Gallup was his friend. And George Gallup would say that unless you've gone through the slogging of collecting data, you shouldn't be too quickly using data or analyzing data. Because if you go to collect it, you know that some people just aren't there. And this is primarily survey stuff that Gallup was talking about. But Tukey was talking about anything. And Deming, along the way, with his learnings from Shewhart, what I've developed is based on Deming's questions come from theory, created a theory, question, data, action cycle, similar to a PDSA. And so that you need to know what the question was before you can use the data. And Dr. Deming's example was you can't use manganese dioxide for just anything. If it's really, really critical work, then you need to know what's in it that could contaminate it or interact with the other chemicals that you're trying to mix it with. Hugely important in chemistry, hugely important anywhere. And he talked, yes, we do have some audio from Dr. Deming talking about another analogy, on I can't even wash the table unless you tell me what you're going to use it for.   0:15:24.0 Andrew Stotz: I remember watching a video of this with him, with Robert Reich, I think it was, being interviewed. And it was such an impactful thing because I always thought you just tell people what to do and they go do it. And so let's listen to the audio. I'm going to play it now. One second.   0:15:42.6 Speaker 3: I can teach you how to wash a table, teach you how to rub, scrub, use brushes, rags. I'd be pretty good at it. But you know, I could not wash this table suppose you told me my job is to wash this table. I have no idea what you mean. There's no meaning to that. You must tell me what you're going to use the table for. I want to see a flow diagram, work moving. Here I am. My job is to wash this table. I do not understand what you mean. Wash this table. There's no meaning to that. I must know what you're going to use the table for, the next stage. What happened to the table, next stage, in the flow diagram? You want to put books on it? Well, it's clean enough for that now. To wash the table, I just go through it from just here, make a look at it. If I work a little, good enough. If I clean enough to eat off of it, well, it's good enough now. Or use it for an operating table? Oh, totally different now. Totally different. Now I scrub it with scalding water, top, bottom, legs, several times. I scrub the floor underneath for some radius. If I don't know the next stage, I cannot wash the table.   0:17:28.8 Andrew Stotz: Tell us your thoughts on that.   0:17:31.5 Bill Scherkenbach: Yep. Yep. Well, again, my theory, question, data, action cycle, if you're asking a question, you, you, if you can, and there are some confidential considerations, but if you can, you need to tell the people who are trying to answer the question what you're going to do with it. And so if you want the table washed, tell them you're going to just eat off of it or assemble microchips on it. If you, so that's the responsibility of the manager or anyone who is asking the question. So if you want to improve your questions, you got to go back up and think of, well, what's my underlying theory for the question? If this, then that, that prompts a question and the circle continues. And if you, the only reason to collect data is to take action. Both Eastern and Western philosophers absolutely have said that for centuries.   0:18:55.2 Andrew Stotz: Yeah. What's interesting, I didn't hear him say it in any other cases when he was talking about the next stage. I did hear him say before, like, what's it going to be used for? But you could hear when he's talking about the next stage, it's saying to me, that's saying the responsibility of management is looking at the overall system and communicating that and managing that, not trying to, you know, just give some blind instruction to one group, one team, one person without thinking about how it all interacts.   0:19:29.9 Bill Scherkenbach: Absolutely. Absolutely. But in the local aspect of, well, some question answers are not so local, but it's what the question asker's responsibility to let the people know what they're going to use the data for.   0:19:51.9 Andrew Stotz: Yep. Great lesson. All right. So now I've got a interesting picture up on the screen here. We have Dr. Deming and there's John Turkey, Tukey how do you say his last name?   0:20:05.6 Bill Scherkenbach: John Tukey, T-U-K-E-Y, yep. George Box and Sir David Cox. Anyone in the statistics arena knows them. We also had Stu Hunter and I believe John Hunter was there. They're not in the picture. I took the picture. But we were at Meadowbrook, which is, which is, on the old Dodge estate where Oakland University is near Detroit. And had a, we called the meeting to discuss the importance and the various perspectives of enumerative and analytic. Now, each of these men, Box, Tukey, and Cox, and all of them, all of us in the university, quite honestly, were brought up with enumerative methods. And so your standard distributional stuff and T-tests and whatever. And Deming and Tukey realized the importance of being able to not just take action on the sample, but the cause system, the system that caused the sample, or the process term, in process terms. So yeah, John Tukey was strangely enough, well, not strangely enough, but came up with a graphical method to look at data called the box and whiskers plot, with George Box standing next to him, but it's not that George didn't shave. But Tukey, very, very well known for graphical methods.   0:22:24.2 Bill Scherkenbach: George, well known for experimental methods. One of the Box, Hunter and Hunter book on statistical design of experiments is legendary. And Sir David Cox, logistic regression, which is hugely, strangely, well, not strangely enough, but huge nowadays, very important in AI, in how you would be looking to teach or have your model learn what it is that you would like them to learn to look for. So each of these gentlemen, very, very much a pinnacle of the statistical career. We were very, in a large company like Ford, we were very lucky to be able to make big meetings like this, or meetings with very influential people happen.   0:23:38.9 Andrew Stotz: Yeah. That's got to be amazing because I think when most of us listen to Dr. Deming and all that, we get a lot of what he says. But I would say that the statistical aspect and his depth of statistical knowledge is what many people, you know, it's hard for many Deming followers to deeply connect with that. And I think even myself, having, you know, read everything, listened to him, learned as much as I can, the best that I probably come up with is the idea that once I started understanding variation, one of the things I started realizing is that it's everywhere and it's in everything. And I didn't understand...   0:24:27.3 Bill Scherkenbach: Well, I still have the cartoon of a popcorn maker that was very surprised when he said, "They all popped at once." And his popcorn stand has blown up. So yeah, variation is everywhere, a lot or a little. And the thing is that you need to be able to take appropriate action. Sometime, I can remember, I can remember Bob Stemple asking me, "What did I think of the Shainin methods, Dorian Shainin, and technical approach?" And I wrote back to him and I said, "It's no better or worse than any of the other methods we don't use here at GM." The point is, all of these methods are better than Bop-A-Mole. And one of the things, well, one of the things that concerns me is that in these tool areas, and Deming's counsel to me long ago was he remembers the fights that the technical people, the statisticians in the quality profession, would have over which one is a tenth of a percent better or more effective doing this and that. And they would publicly argue, and Deming said, "Stop. It confuses management because they don't have a clue and they're staying away from all forms of quality." So, you, and I don't know the solution in this day and age where everyone is connected. But all of these methods have their strengths and weaknesses, but you have to have the savvy to figure out which one to use to help you improve. All of, each of these four were great teachers, and I have a comment from Dr. Deming on that.   0:27:11.7 Andrew Stotz: And just in wrapping this up, it's like, I think one of the things that you realize when you see this one and what you're talking about, what I realize is what a powerhouse Dr. Deming was in the area of statistics. And in some ways, it's kind of like seeing a rock star that you love to listen to and that rock star is great. And then one day on a Sunday, you go to the church and you see he's a reverend and a very solemn man who is a very, very devout devotee of Christianity and something. In some ways, that's the way I feel when I look at this, like, wow, just the roots of the depth of that is so fascinating.   0:28:03.2 Bill Scherkenbach: As you mentioned that, I'm thinking back, we were in Iowa and one of the professors there, and I forget his name, but you're right. Deming was held in awe and he was riding in the backseat. I'm driving and this professor is beside me and Dr. Deming said something and I said, how do you know? And the guy thought the world was going to come to an end that I dared ask the master, how did he know? Well, it, it, it ended up fine.   0:28:52.9 Andrew Stotz: That was the question he was trying to teach you to ask.   0:28:55.3 Bill Scherkenbach: Absolutely. You don't accept it at face value.   0:29:02.2 Andrew Stotz: So we got this other slide now. It says, what do you mean by a good teacher? Maybe you want to set this up and then I'll play the audio.   0:29:10.7 Bill Scherkenbach: Yeah. This was one of his favorite stories when he studied under Ronald Fisher, who is the big godfather of statistics, well, relatively modern stuff. So, Fisher was there at University College, as Deming will describe, and Deming wanted to know, and this is where a number of you will have recognized, he wanted to know what great minds were thinking about.   0:29:56.7 Andrew Stotz: All right. I'm going to play the clip right now.   0:30:00.2 Speaker 3: What do you mean by a good teacher? I taught with a man, head of a department. The whole 150 students spellbound him, teaching him what is wrong. And they loved it. What do you mean by a good teacher? Holding students spellbound around him. What do you mean teaching them something? I've had a number of great teachers. One was Professor Ronald Picker, University of London, University College I should say, part of the University of London. In London, 1936, no teaching could be worse. A lovable man, if you tried to work with him, could not read his writing, could stand in the way of it, room was dark and cold, he couldn't help the cold, maybe he could have put some light in the room, make mistakes, Professor Paul Ryder in the front row always helped him out. He'd come in with a piece of paper in his hand the ink not yet dry, talk about it. Wonder why the room was full of people from all over the world. I was one of them. Made a long trip, at my own expense, to learn, and we learned. We learned what that great mind was thinking about, what to him were great or important problems today.   0:31:45.9 Speaker 3: And we saw the methods that he used for solutions. We saw what this great mind was thinking about. His influence will be known the world over for a long, long time. He would rated zero by most people that rate teachers. Another teacher that I had was Ernest Crown at Yale, very poor teacher. We'd get together afterwards, some of us, and try to figure out what he was teaching us. He was not even charismatic the way Ronald Fisher was, but we learned. We learned what that great mind was thinking about, what he thought was the problem. We learned about perturbation. His work on lunar theory will be a classic for generations. We learned. Worst teacher there could be, but we learned.   0:32:49.0 Andrew Stotz: Wow. Tell us more about that.   0:32:53.6 Bill Scherkenbach: Well, he also had a similar story because, from great teachers at NYU, and that's where I first met him and learned from him. He was my teacher, but NYU had a, they had nominations for great teachers. And Deming was able to convince, and I forget who was the, Ernest Kurnow was the dean, and he convinced the dean to wait 10 years before you survey any of the students. And the question was, did any teacher you have really make a difference in your life? And he was able to get that done or get that process agreed to, and it was for the better because in, and I don't want to... I mean, every generation has said this new generation is going to hell in a handbasket, I mean, that for forever. That's nothing new. But what's popular, it's great to be entertained, and as he said, teaching what is wrong. And so did someone make a difference in your life? And not surprisingly, Deming was one of the people selected as a great teacher from NYU Graduate Business School.   0:35:15.4 Andrew Stotz: So that's your review after 50 years after the course, huh?   0:35:21.6 Bill Scherkenbach: Yeah.   0:35:24.5 Andrew Stotz: Yeah. And so the point is that, let's separate popularity from original thinking. And also he highlighted the idea that some teachers may not come across very organized, very polished. They may need assistance to help them clarify what they're trying to get across. But just because they're kind of a mess in that way, doesn't mean they're not thinking very deeply. In fact, it may be a sign that they're thinking very deeply about it.   0:36:01.9 Bill Scherkenbach: Yeah. Now, again, remember, and I know it's a broad brush, but Deming was eminently logical. Crosby would have loved it. Wine and cheese parties showed Juran more physical. And so I think Deming's preferences there, the key to his statement is teaching what was wrong. Some people get excited in class for a variety of reasons, but the key is what are you teaching? The method depends on the ability of the teacher to connect to the students and actually teach. So it gets you back to physical, logical, and emotional. But for Deming, Fisher struck a chord with him.   0:37:09.9 Andrew Stotz: Yeah. And I think for the listener, the viewer, think about some teacher that really made an impact on you. And it could be that there was a teacher that was able to connect with you emotionally.   0:37:25.2 Bill Scherkenbach: Absolutely.   0:37:26.7 Andrew Stotz: So there's different ways. But I think of Dr. Deming wasn't a teacher of mine in university, but at the age of 24 to learn from him was definitely a teacher that left me with the most to think about. And I would say there was one other teacher, a guy named Greg Florence that was at Long Beach City College who taught me argumentation and debate. And he also really encouraged me to join the debate team, which I really couldn't because I didn't have time because I didn't have money and I had to work. But he really saw something in me, and now I love to teach debate and helping young people construct arguments. And so for all of us, I think this idea of what do you mean by a good teacher is a great discussion. So, love it. Love it. Well, we got another picture now. Speaking of teaching, the City University of New York is in the backdrop. Maybe you can set this one up.   0:38:27.0 Bill Scherkenbach: Yeah. This was a one-day, maybe one and a half with some pre-work, but essentially a one-day meeting in New York that was able to gather some of the top educators in the US, the head of the schools in California. There were some folks from Chicago. We had, as I mentioned, Albert Shanker, who was head of the American Federation of Teachers, was sitting right beside me. Other teacher organizations and education organizations. And we got together for a very meaningful thing. We got together to try and determine what is the aim of education in America. And it turned out that everyone was looking for their mic time, and we couldn't even agree on an aim for education in America. And if you can't agree on an aim, your system is everyone doing their best, and it's all, there's not too much progress, except locally or suboptimally.   0:40:02.3 Andrew Stotz: Yeah. That's a good illustration of the concept of best efforts. Dr. Deming often talked about best efforts. And here you're saying, without an aim, everybody's going to just go in their own direction. And it reminds me of a story I tell people in relation to management, which was that I had a really great boss many years ago in the field of finance research in the stock market. He was very brilliant, and he hired really good analysts. I was surrounded by the best. But he never once really brought us together to say, this is our aim. And so what ended up happening was that each person did their best, which was very good as an individual, but as a group, we never were able to really make an impact. And I explain that to my students nowadays, that I believe it's because he didn't set an aim and bring us together for that.   0:41:09.1 Bill Scherkenbach: Now, one of the, I mean, one of the things Deming very predictably talked about, as I recall, is the grades and gold stars, which were part of his forces of destruction. And the education is the way we approach education here was part of that, even before people get to get beat further down by corporate and other organizational stuff. And the grading and gold stars, I don't know how much that was, that criticism was appreciated. But everyone had a chance to talk. And in my opinion, not too many people listened.   0:42:09.3 Andrew Stotz: Now, the next one is titled Mongolian Rat. What the heck, Bill?   0:42:17.1 Bill Scherkenbach: Well, this is part of teaching what good teaching would be. You've got to listen. It's one of my favorite stories of his.   0:42:30.3 Andrew Stotz: Well, let's roll the tape.   0:42:33.3 Speaker 3: I met a professor in New York. He was a surgeon, professor of surgery. He did gave out some marble, had plenty. One student in the class, he told them describe the surgical procedure on the jaw in which a certain breed of Mongolian wrap was very helpful. The rat, the flesh right down the bone cleaner than a surgeon could do it. Very important wrap. Describe it in details to the listeners and students. On examination, one, the question was to describe the surgical procedure by use of the Mongolian rat. Plenty of students gave him back the same marbles that he doled out. He described it in exactly the same words that he described it. He flunked them all, all the time. One of them said, my dear professor, I have searched the literature. I've inquired around in hospitals and other teachers, I can find no trace of any such procedure. I think that you were loading us. He laughed. He had to take a new examination. He gave them back the same marbles he doled out to them. He wanted to think.   0:43:55.0 Andrew Stotz: Marbles. I haven't heard that expression. Tell us a little bit more about what you want us to take from this.   0:44:02.6 Bill Scherkenbach: Well, I think it's pretty self-explanatory. His comment on education that teachers are handing out marbles and pieces of information, not necessarily knowledge, and the testing, you're expected to give them back what the teacher said instead of how can you process it and put it in the context of other things, as well as, I mean, maybe not in the early grades, but in the later ones, you need to be able to look at various perspectives to see who has this opinion and that opinion. And unfortunately, today, that discourse is nicely shut down.   0:45:07.3 Andrew Stotz: At first, when I heard him saying marbles, I thought he was kind of using marbles as a way of kind of saying pulling their legs, but now I understand that he was trying to say that he's giving something and then the students give it back.   0:45:24.1 Bill Scherkenbach: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.   0:45:26.0 Andrew Stotz: Okay. Mongolian rats.   0:45:31.0 Bill Scherkenbach: Yep. Yep. So we go from learning to having fun, and here's a picture of our statistical methods office at Ford.   0:45:48.1 Andrew Stotz: And you're sitting in a sleigh? Is that what's happening there?   0:45:50.0 Bill Scherkenbach: We're sitting in a sleigh, yes, at Greenfield Village, which is where the Henry Ford Museum is, and it happened to snow, so we've got the, we've got the horse-drawn sleigh, and I was listening to your first interview of me, and I want to deeply apologize. It's Harry Artinian, and so from the left, you've got Ed Baker and Bill Craft and Pete Jessup, Harry Artinian, Narendra Sheth, Dr. Deming, Debbie Rawlings, Ann Evans, my secretary, uh ooooh, and the gentleman who worked with Jim Bakken, and then me. So, we were working and decided to have a good lunch.   0:46:58.5 Andrew Stotz: And it's a horse-drawn sleigh. And I wasn't sure if you were pulling our leg here because you said, I'm second from the far right. First from the far right, to me, looks like the horse.   0:47:09.0 Bill Scherkenbach: Yes. That's the horse's ass. Yep.   0:47:14.6 Andrew Stotz: That's a big one.   0:47:16.1 Bill Scherkenbach: It is what it is.   0:47:18.7 Andrew Stotz: Yep. Okay. Next one. Who's Sylvester?   0:47:22.3 Bill Scherkenbach: Sylvester is my son's cat. And this is one of the times Dr. Deming was in my home. And he sat down in my office at my home. And Sylvester saw a good lap and he jumped up on it and took it. And as I said, I couldn't tell who was purring louder. They both were content.   0:47:52.7 Andrew Stotz: Yeah. That looks beautiful.   0:47:55.4 Bill Scherkenbach: Yeah. It was very, very peaceful. Another fun thing, after a long day of work at Ford, we would go to Luigi's restaurant in Dearborn. I think there was a Dearborn Marriott, a big hotel. I don't know if it's there now. But that's Larry Moore, director of quality, next to Dr. Deming and me. I had a mustache back then.   0:48:30.4 Andrew Stotz: Yes. And we all loved soft serve ice cream.   0:48:34.0 Bill Scherkenbach: Soft serve ice cream. Yep.   0:48:38.0 Andrew Stotz: Yep. All right. Star-Spangled Banner.   0:48:40.9 Bill Scherkenbach: Yep. Now we're at one of my earlier houses in Northville. And Dr. Deming had written a new tune for the Star-Spangled Banner because it was an old English drinking song, Anna, the what? The Anacrocronistic Society. And he thought it was just too bawdy. I mean, you're an unsingable, except if you're drinking. So he rewrote the music for the Star-Spangled Banner. I have a copy of it here. But he, my son Matthew, my oldest son Matthew, we had just gotten one of those first Macs from Apple, Macintosh. And it had a very elementary music thing. So he put the notes that Deming had handwritten. And we put it in there and it played the tune. And so Deming was playing on our piano the Star-Spangled Banner.   0:50:04.7 Andrew Stotz: So he had a musical talent.   0:50:10.8 Bill Scherkenbach: Oh, yeah. He was a very serious study of, a student of music. Very much so. He wrote a complete Mass. He was a high church Episcopalian. And he wrote a complete Mass of the Holy Spirit with all parts. So, very much a student of music.   0:50:41.8 Andrew Stotz: And how did his religious beliefs, like Episcopalian, as you mentioned, how did that come across? Was he a person who talked about that? Was he a person that didn't talk about that? Like, how did that come across?   0:50:59.2 Bill Scherkenbach: It was more of a private thing. But then again, on every one of his books, he would begin a chapter with some quotation from different books. And many of them were from the Bible. I can remember one time in London, I'm Catholic, and so we were celebrating the St. Peter and Paul that Sunday. But he was in London and he was at St. Paul's and they weren't giving Peter any traction. But he looked up and he said, yep, you're right. It was both of those saint days.   0:51:58.3 Andrew Stotz: All right. Next one, Drive Out Fear.   0:52:01.8 Bill Scherkenbach: Oh, yeah. This was Professor Arnold. And we were having lunch in the Ford dining room, one of the Ford dining rooms. And Dr. Deming wasn't too happy of what Professor Arnold was talking about. And Professor Arnold didn't look too happy either. So, I framed the picture and put Drive Out Fear underneath it and hung it in my office. And Deming came and looked at it and smiled.   0:52:46.5 Andrew Stotz: And what was the background on Professor Arnold? And in this case, did they have opposing views or was it a particular thing or what was it that was...   0:52:58.4 Bill Scherkenbach: I don't remember the particular conversation, but Professor Arnold was head of the statistics department at Oakland University. And Ford had an agreement with Oakland University that we established a master's degree in statistics, according to Dr. Deming's viewpoint on enumerative and analytic. And no, he was very, very capable gentleman. I mean, one of the things Dr. Deming mentioned to me is if the two of us agreed all the time, one of us is redundant. So there were always discussions. This is just a snapshot in time.   0:53:52.3 Andrew Stotz: I love that quote, that one of us is redundant. That's powerful, powerful.   0:53:59.4 Bill Scherkenbach: Absolutely. Yep. This is another having fun after learning in... There were a number of restaurants we went to. He particularly liked Elizabeth's,   0:54:16.1 Andrew Stotz: And how was their relationship? How did he treat your lovely wife?   0:54:22.5 Bill Scherkenbach: Oh, I mean, very lovingly. I mean, I don't know how to describe it, but one of the family.   0:54:36.2 Andrew Stotz: Yeah. He seemed from my observation, like a true gentleman.   0:54:42.5 Bill Scherkenbach: Absolutely. Absolutely.   0:54:46.0 Andrew Stotz: Well, here we come to the Lincoln that we started off with. This is a great picture too.   0:54:51.4 Bill Scherkenbach: Yeah. That's a picture I had. It wasn't a Hasselblad, but it was a two and a quarter frame. And I had black and white film in it, but this is one of a number of pictures I took of him at the Cosmos Club. I think it was a very good picture. And in any event, it was blending learning and having fun.   0:55:19.7 Andrew Stotz: Yeah. And the Cosmos Club was near his house?   0:55:22.5 Bill Scherkenbach: Yeah. Well, it was depending on who drove. I mean, it was just, it was down a few blocks and then a number of blocks on Massachusetts Avenue. I enjoyed the drive from his house because you'd pass the Naval Observatory, which for years was the home of the chief of naval operations here. But a few decades, a few, I don't know how long ago, the vice president pulled rank on him. And so the Naval Observatory, beautiful, beautiful old house. So, the vice president lives there now. And a lot of people think Massachusetts Avenue in that area is Embassy Row. So you're passing a number of embassies on the way. And the Cosmos Club, anyone can look up. I mean, it's by invitation, members only, and Nobel laureates and Pulitzer Prize winners and a very distinguished membership, let's say.   0:56:39.3 Andrew Stotz: Here was another one, Making a Difference with Don Peterson.   0:56:43.0 Bill Scherkenbach: Yep. Yep. We're, we're, this is one of the meetings we had with Don. And it wasn't this meeting, but we were in one of them. Okay. You have it on the right there. That we periodically would have, Dr. Deming and I would have breakfast with Jim Bakken in what was known as the Penthouse at Ford. There are 12 floors, and then there was the 13th and 14th, which were private quarters, essentially. And so we were having breakfast one morning and finishing breakfast, and I'm walking a little bit ahead, and I run ahead and press the elevator button to go down one floor, and the door opens, and there's Henry Ford II in cowboy belt buckle and boots, no hat. He's going to a board meeting, he says, and Jim shied away, said, "Oh, I'm sorry, Mr. Ford." He said, "Shut up, Jim, get in here." And so we got in the elevator, and it was the small elevator. And so we're back to back, belly to belly, and Jim introduces Dr. Deming to Mr. Ford, and Ford said, "I've heard of you, Dr. Deming. God, we really need your help." And Deming had the presence of saying, "I heard of you too, Mr. Ford." It was the longest one-floor elevator ride I've ever had in my life.   0:58:49.1 Andrew Stotz: That's fascinating. All right. Next one, talking with workers.   0:58:54.1 Bill Scherkenbach: Yep. Yep. He made it a point. And this is a fine line, because you want to be able to have workers say, how, how, are they able to take pride in their work? And are there any problems and all of that? But you don't want to be in a position of then going to management and telling them because of fear in the organization. So, Dr. Deming was very good at listening and getting people to talk about their jobs and their ability to take joy and, well, pride in their work. So we had many, many meetings, different places. And this next one is with the Ford Batavia plant, I think.   1:00:01.2 Andrew Stotz: Yep.   1:00:02.4 Bill Scherkenbach: Yeah. We're riding on the tractors and having a good time.   1:00:11.3 Andrew Stotz: Who's driving?   1:00:14.2 Bill Scherkenbach: The plant manager, Ron Kaseya, was driving.   1:00:16.9 Andrew Stotz: Okay.   1:00:17.9 Bill Scherkenbach: And so I absolutely do not recall what we were laughing at, but we were having a good time. And the Batavia transaxle plant, a number of people will recognize as where Ford, it really made the point that doing better than spec is really what the job is. And it's a very powerful video that's been out there and people would recognize it as well, because we were producing the exact same transaxle in Mazda. And Mazda was influenced a lot of by Genichi Taguchi and looked to reduce variation around the nominal and not just be happy that we made spec. And John Betty, who was head up of powertrain operations and then went to the Department of Defense as assistant secretary of defense for procurement, I think, because of the quality expertise. Betty is in the front of the video saying he's absolutely convinced that this is a superior way to look at manufacturing, to look at the management of any process. You want to get your customers to brag, not just not complain.   1:02:10.3 Andrew Stotz: Yeah. Courage.   1:02:11.8 Bill Scherkenbach: And all of this takes courage. And especially in his seminars in London say, the Brits had the advantage. You guys can take courage every day. We can't get that in the US anymore. Or it's very rare to be able to buy it here.   1:02:36.3 Andrew Stotz: For the listeners, there's a logo of the John Courage beer, premium beer.   1:02:45.7 Bill Scherkenbach: Yes. Yes. It's an amber pills.   1:02:49.8 Andrew Stotz: Okay.   1:02:52.4 Bill Scherkenbach: And last but not least, well, not last, but we're looking for, and I ran across this quote from Yogi Berra, and it's very applicable right now. And Yogi Berra said, I never said... Well, what did he say?   1:03:19.2 Andrew Stotz: Never said most of the things I said.   1:03:21.4 Bill Scherkenbach: Most of the things I could have said. I never said most of the things I said. Yeah. And every day online, I see people saying Dr. Deming said this, and he said that. And if he did, I've never heard him say it. And not that I've heard him say everything. But if he did say something like, if it's not measurable, you can't manage it. He would have followed it with, that's not right. The unknown and unknowable. And so you've got a lot of people misunderstanding what Dr. Deming said. And you've got to go with, I never said most of the things that I said.   1:04:24.0 Andrew Stotz: Well, that's the great thing about this discussion is that we're getting it from the horse's mouth, someone that was there listening and being a part of it.   1:04:32.1 Bill Scherkenbach: Well, I'm glad you saw the other end of the horse.   1:04:37.5 Andrew Stotz: Yeah. So, I'm going to close out this by just sharing a little personal connection. And that is, I'm showing a picture of me in my 1963 suicide door Lincoln Continental, which I owned for 10 years in beautiful Bangkok, Thailand. And much like being kind of wild taking a ride to the Cosmos Club with Dr. Deming driving his Lincoln Continental, you could imagine how odd it looked seeing this American guy driving this 1963 Lincoln Continental on the streets of Bangkok. But I just thought I would share that just to have some fun. So, yeah.   1:05:14.3 Bill Scherkenbach: That's beautiful. Absolutely. Yeah. I didn't think the streets were that wide.   1:05:22.1 Andrew Stotz: It gets stuck in traffic, that's for sure. But wow, there's so many things that we covered. I mean, I just really, really enjoyed that trip down memory lane. Is there anything you want to share to wrap it up?   1:05:36.1 Bill Scherkenbach: No. As I said, our last conversation, we've just scratched the surface. There's so much, so much more to talk about and preserve, I think.   1:05:48.9 Andrew Stotz: Yeah. Well, I really enjoyed it.   1:05:52.1 Bill Scherkenbach: I have done my best.   1:05:53.6 Andrew Stotz: Yes, you have. You have. I've enjoyed it, and I'm sure the listeners and the viewers will enjoy it too. So, on behalf of everyone at the Deming Institute, I just want to thank you for taking the time to pull that together and to walk us through it. And for listeners out there, remember to go to Deming.org to continue your journey. And of course, go to LinkedIn to find Bill and reach out and share your interpretations of what we went through. And maybe you have a story that you'd like to share also. So, this is your host, Andrew Stotz, and I'm going to leave you with one of my favorite quotes from Dr. Deming. And that is, “people are entitled to joy in work."

We all know the Covid Inquiry is looking at MIQ, amongst other things. And we all know that MIQ had noble aims and notable successes. But we also know the execution was far from perfect, and many people ended up feeling ostracized from the rest of New Zealand. The idea of the Inquiry is to find out what went wrong so we do better next time. And yesterday, Les Morgan, the Chief Operating Manager of Sudima Hotels, wrote an exceptional piece in the Herald on the rights and wrongs of MIQ and in the middle of his piece he took my heart away with a stunning piece of writing. He learnt at a 1pm briefing that his hotel had been requisitioned for an MIQ facility. Except no-one had told him and his team and their first refugees were expected that very day. He wrote this: "The hotel in question had been closed indefinitely, meaning staff had moved on and there were no consumables or PPE gear on site. "Once I had run the gauntlet of shock and bad language, our team swung into action and I am proud to say our local staff welcomed the first guests by 8pm the same day with full PPE equipment and comprehensive operational procedures. (The military and public health teams involved arrived on-site equally unprepared but also rallied.) "These were staff who had left the business earlier in lockdown but came back to bravely face an unknown health risk and the enormous task of recommissioning a hotel, all because they thought it was the right thing to do to help save the lives of fellow New Zealanders. They are all heroes, and they deserve to be properly recognised by the Government." Damn right. In London there is a Covid Memorial Wall on the banks of the Tames opposite the Houses of Parliament. It features over 240,000 individually hand-painted red hearts. Each heart represents a person in the UK who died with COVID-19 listed as a cause of death on their death certificate. It's all ages, but particularly the young and the old. We have nothing like that in New Zealand. This Inquiry will not give everybody want they want. It will prove MIQ to be neither right or wrong. But it will remind us that there are silent heroes in New Zealand who we have not thanked nearly enough. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Richie Allen with unique and often very funny analysis of the week's top news stories. On today's show: UNICEF accuses Israel of shooting children as they queue for food. The BBC's climate fear-porn just became even more hysterical, if you can believe it. In London, Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron thrash out a plan to tackle the small boats. Is there an agenda to destroy the hospitality industry? Richie thinks that there is and explains why. Plus much more. Support YOUR Richie Allen Show here:https://richieallen.co.uk/#support

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When Adrius stepped outside into the quiet night air, he wasn't expecting to see anything unusual. But there it was, hovering above the treetops. A large, matte black craft. It didn't move. It didn't make a sound. Its surface was smooth with brushed metal ridges, and on either side, two red lights glowed, stacked vertically like signals. Adrius had seen other things in the sky before. In London, three glowing orbs drifted through moonlit clouds that moved in unnatural patterns. A colleague later confirmed the same sighting. A few months after that, during lockdown, a craft appeared above Crystal Palace. It looked like two diamond-shaped pods connected by a shifting field of purple and gold lights. Others saw it too. In California, near Vandenberg, he caught sight of a smooth, featureless object during the day. It vanished without sound. Later that year, walking his dogs, he saw another object light up with a flash of blue plasma before disappearing.More information on this episode on the podcast website:https://ufochroniclespodcast.com/ep-340-the-silent-machine/Hidden Cults (Promo)It is a documentary-style podcast that digs deep into the world's most extreme, elusive, and explosive fringe groups. Listen on all podcast apps: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Q0kbgXrdzP0TvIk5xylx1Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hidden-cults/id1816362029If you enjoy this podcast, please support the show with a virtual coffee:https://ko-fi.com/ufochroniclespodcastFollow and Subscribe on X to get ad free episodesX: https://x.com/UFOchronpodcast/Want to share your encounter on the show?Email: UFOChronicles@gmail.comOr Fill out Guest Form:https://forms.gle/uGQ8PTVRkcjy4nxS7Podcast Merchandise:https://www.teepublic.com/user/ufo-chronicles-podcastHelp Support UFO CHRONICLES by becoming a Patron:https://patreon.com/UFOChroniclespodcastAll Links for Podcast:https://linktr.ee/UFOChroniclesPodcastThank you for listening!Like share and subscribe it really helps me when people share the show on social media, it means we can reach more people and more witnesses and without your amazing support, it wouldn't be possible.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ufo-chronicles-podcast--3395068/support.

When Adrius stepped outside into the quiet night air, he wasn't expecting to see anything unusual. But there it was, hovering above the treetops. A large, matte black craft. It didn't move. It didn't make a sound. Its surface was smooth with brushed metal ridges, and on either side, two red lights glowed, stacked vertically like signals. Adrius had seen other things in the sky before. In London, three glowing orbs drifted through moonlit clouds that moved in unnatural patterns. A colleague later confirmed the same sighting. A few months after that, during lockdown, a craft appeared above Crystal Palace. It looked like two diamond-shaped pods connected by a shifting field of purple and gold lights. Others saw it too. In California, near Vandenberg, he caught sight of a smooth, featureless object during the day. It vanished without sound. Later that year, walking his dogs, he saw another object light up with a flash of blue plasma before disappearing.More information on this episode on the podcast website:https://ufochroniclespodcast.com/ep-340-the-silent-machine/Hidden Cults (Promo)It is a documentary-style podcast that digs deep into the world's most extreme, elusive, and explosive fringe groups. Listen on all podcast apps: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Q0kbgXrdzP0TvIk5xylx1Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hidden-cults/id1816362029If you enjoy this podcast, please support the show with a virtual coffee:https://ko-fi.com/ufochroniclespodcastFollow and Subscribe on X to get ad free episodesX: https://x.com/UFOchronpodcast/Want to share your encounter on the show?Email: UFOChronicles@gmail.comOr Fill out Guest Form:https://forms.gle/uGQ8PTVRkcjy4nxS7Podcast Merchandise:https://www.teepublic.com/user/ufo-chronicles-podcastHelp Support UFO CHRONICLES by becoming a Patron:https://patreon.com/UFOChroniclespodcastAll Links for Podcast:https://linktr.ee/UFOChroniclesPodcastThank you for listening!Like share and subscribe it really helps me when people share the show on social media, it means we can reach more people and more witnesses and without your amazing support, it wouldn't be possible.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ufo-chronicles-podcast--3395068/support.

It's dangling from Hermès bags in Paris. It's selling out in seconds in Tokyo. In Bangkok, it's now a cultural ambassador—officially endorsed by the Tourism Authority of Thailand. Labubu, a snaggle-toothed, wild-eyed forest creature from Chinese toy brand Pop Mart, has gone from underground oddity to global fashion icon.在巴黎，它悬挂在爱马仕包包上；在东京，它几秒钟内就销售一空；在曼谷，它如今已成为泰国旅游局官方认可的文化大使。拉布布，这个来自中国玩具品牌泡泡玛特、牙齿参差不齐、眼神狂野的森林小动物，已从地下奇葩摇身一变，成为全球时尚偶像。In New York, fans are camping outside Pop Mart stores like they were heading to a concert. In London, collectors are clashing over the last blind box. And in Beijing, a human-sized Labubu recently fetched $150,000 at an auction. The brand's latest feat? A collaboration with Louis Vuitton—the plush gremlin turned luxury icon.在纽约，粉丝们在泡泡玛特门店外扎营，仿佛要去听演唱会一样。在伦敦，收藏家们正为最后一盒盲盒争相抢购。而在北京，一个真人大小的拉布布最近在拍卖会上拍出了15万美元的高价。而这一品牌的最新成就？与路易威登联名合作——这只毛绒小怪兽，摇身一变成了奢侈品界的新宠。All this for a toy with nine fangs, upright ears, bulging eyes, and a grin that teeters between creepy and charming. Half-imp, half-elf, Labubu looks like it crawled out of a fever dream. And yet, it's everywhere.所有这一切，都是为了一个长着九颗獠牙、直立的耳朵、凸起的眼睛、介于惊悚与可爱之间笑容的小玩偶。它像个半恶魔半精灵的存在，就像刚从狂热的梦境中爬出来一样。然而，它却无处不在。No one knows exactly why.没有人知道确切的原因。Maybe it's the low-odds, high-stakes thrill of the blind box—that dopamine hit of maybe. Maybe it's the "ugly-cute" aesthetic that Gen Z has fully embraced. Or maybe, in an era of algorithms and sameness, Labubu feels like a "rebellion": a weirdo you can hold in your hand.或许是盲盒那种低概率、高风险的刺激——那种“也许”带来的多巴胺冲击。或许是Z世代完全接受的“丑萌”审美。又或许，在这个充斥着算法和千篇一律的时代，拉布布感觉像是一种“叛逆”象征：一个可以握在手中的怪胎。What's clear is this: Labubu isn't just a toy. It's a statement. A personality. A plush projection of a generation that craves individuality, contradiction, and something that feels imperfectly real.可以肯定的是：拉布布不仅仅是一个玩具。它是一种宣言，一种个性，一个毛绒玩具的投射，它代表着渴望个性、矛盾和不完美真实感的一代人。And it's making waves far beyond China.而且，它正在中国以外的地方掀起波澜。In April, Pop Mart's app became the No.1 shopping app on the US App Store—the first Chinese toy brand ever to top the chart. Pop Mart's founder, Wang Ning, is now the richest man in Henan province, and his company is rewriting the playbook on cultural exports—one fang at a time.今年4月，泡泡玛特的应用程序成为美国App Store排名第一的购物应用程序——这是有史以来第一个登上榜首的中国玩具品牌。泡泡玛特的创始人王宁如今是河南省首富，他的公司正在改写文化输出的剧本——以“一颗獠牙”为步伐。Labubu's rise comes at a time when headlines are filled with tension: trade wars, tech bans, geopolitical friction. Chinese brands face growing skepticism abroad. But somehow, this eccentric yet endearing toy has slipped through the cracks—or rather, danced through them—offering something both unmistakably Chinese and universally appealing.拉布布的崛起正值新闻头条充斥着紧张气氛的时期：贸易战、科技禁令、地缘政治摩擦。中国品牌在海外面临越来越多的质疑。但不知何故，这个古怪又可爱的玩具却悄然闯入——或者更确切地说，巧妙地融入其中——带来了既具有鲜明中国特色又具有全球吸引力的产品。Because the truth is, young people everywhere—in Shanghai, Stockholm, or São Paulo—share something simple: a desire for joy, surprise, and self-expression. Labubu is just strange enough, just expressive enough, to tap into that.事实上，世界各地的年轻人——无论是在上海、斯德哥尔摩还是圣保罗——都有一个共同点：渴望快乐、惊喜和自我表达。拉布布恰好足够奇特，足够富有表现力，恰好能够满足这些需求。Labubu isn't saving the world. But it's reminding us that globalization isn't dead—it's just gotten a lot weirder. And a lot cuter.拉布布并没有拯救世界。但它提醒我们，全球化并没有终结——它只是变得更加奇特，也更加可爱。eccentric/ɪkˈsentrɪk/adj.古怪的，反常的endorse/ɪnˈdɔːrs/v.支持，背书；为……代言aesthetic/esˈθetɪk/n.审美，美学；adj.美学的，具有美感的projection/prəˈdʒekʃn/n.投射，体现，表达

ZERO TOLERANCE on Fare Dodgers – Robert Jenrick Is RIGHT | Jon Gaunt LIVE FareDodgers #ZeroTolerance #RobertJenrick #JonGauntShow It IS time for a crackdown on fare dodgers on the London Underground and beyond.  Robert Jenrick, Tory Shadow Minister for Justice, says yes — and I completely agree. In fact, I'd go even further. We need a “Zero Tolerance” policy like the one that cleaned up New York in the '90s. I met the man behind that success, Bill Bratton, and saw first hand how his Broken Windows policing transformed the NYC subway system. It worked there — and it can work here.  In London, 1 in 25 passengers are dodging fares. But it doesn't stop there. We're also seeing a rise in: • Vandalism  • Graffiti  • Bike theft  • Littering • Shoplifting  It's time for action, and it starts with a change in attitude — from the Mayor down. Are you listening, Sadiq Khan?

In London, Lou discovers the music of 'experimental folk artist' Sam Amidon triggering a discussion with Adelle about country music and 'Americana', a term that annoys Lou. He makes several attempts at playing Adelle a rootsy, new RAW Impressions theme song.Check out Sam Amidon:https://music.apple.com/us/album/salt-river/1771824054Join our Substack!Paid subscribers can hear a complete version of the new song: Angel In The Etherhttps://barlowfamilygeneral.substack.com/WATCH on LouTube:https://youtu.be/qarN9kiVhqM Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In London this week, the Aussie suffragist Nellie Martel explains to English women how they can win the vote, while back at home pioneering feminist Louisa Lawson's publication The Dawn teeters on the brink of closure. Plus: the first Empire Day; the final battles of the Russo-Japanese War mean a Nobel Peace Prize for Teddy Roosevelt; and in Sydney a ratcatching hero survives Bubonic Plague – again.Kathy Bowrey: "The threat posed by a woman inventor: law, labour and the subjugation of Louisa Lawson"https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14490854.2024.2331591For a free trial that will give you access to ad-free, early and bonus episodes:Patreon: patreon.com/forgottenaustraliaApple: apple.co/forgottenaustraliaCheck out my books:They'll Never Hold Me:https://www.booktopia.com.au/they-ll-never-hold-me-michael-adams/book/9781923046474.htmlThe Murder Squad:https://www.booktopia.com.au/the-murder-squad-michael-adams/book/9781923046504.htmlHanging Ned Kelly:https://www.booktopia.com.au/hanging-ned-kelly-michael-adams/book/9781922992185.htmlAustralia's Sweetheart:https://www.booktopia.com.au/australia-s-sweetheart-michael-adams/book/9780733640292.htmlEmail: forgottenaustraliapodcast@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We’re back for International Boys Day, and the chaos is very on brand. First up, a mum goes viral for making her son do 100 Dru Hill jumps as punishment—yes, actual dance punishment. Trump dropped into Qatar and made some weirdly passionate comments about marble and camels (as you do). In London, we got emotional over Margaret, who visits the Tube daily just to hear her late husband's voice on the "Mind the Gap" announcement. And finally, we unpack the wild story of a woman who was fired for being “too hot”—and yes, the Supreme Court backed it.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

And welcome back to the program. Well, president Trump signed an executive order today to lower pharmaceutical prices here in The United States. And, boy, that is welcome news because there's a lot about this that we don't know. Now we pay dramatically more here in this country than they do in other countries for the same pharmaceuticals. In fact, president Trump had an little bit of an anecdote about that today. I mean, I'll tell you a story. A friend of mine who's a a businessman, very, very, very top guy. Most of you would have heard of him. A highly neurotic, brilliant businessman, seriously overweight, and he takes the fat the fat shot drug. And he called me up, and he said, president. He calls me he used to call me Donald. Now he calls me president, so that's nice respect. But he's a rough guy, smart guy. Very successful, very rich. I wouldn't even know how we would know this, but because he's got comments. Said, president, could I ask you a question? What? I'm in London, and I just paid for this damn fat drug I take. I said, it's not working, they said. He said, I just paid $88, and in New York, I paid $1,300. What the hell is going on? Exactly. I love that. It's not working. That that's great. But we do we pay a lot more here than other countries do. Because you see and the big thing that they always talk about, oh, y'all, you know, we got research research and development, and we've got yada yada, and we've gotta pay for this and that, and we've gotta do well, why doesn't anybody else have to pay for it? Why isn't a a drug the same price in London as it is in The United States? Why isn't a a pharmaceutical the same price in Canada as it is here in The United States? Listen to what RFK Junior said. This is this is pretty darned amazing. It really is. Mister secretary, Trump says some prices will come down almost immediately. What is the timetable for these price cuts? Well, there's a series of escalating steps, but you know what? That that will bring them down to European levels. Right now, we spend we provide America provides 75% of the pharmaceutical revenues in the world, and we only have 4.2% of the world's population. Sure. We're paying in, in our country, the list price for Ozempic is $1,300 per dose. In London, it's $88. And Democratic and Republican politicians have been talking about for years, we gotta end these discrepancies. Nobody has had the courage to do it because of the power of the pharmaceutical lobby on Capitol Hill. K. The the and and answer your question, how soon will this happen, it it depends on how enthusiastically the drug companies cooperate. There are a series of escalating steps that we will take if they don't cooperate. But we're very you know, we've been meeting with the pharmaceutical companies. They admit that this is something that is should have ended a long time ago. And I think they're ready to figure out a way to get there. And they have advantages to this executive order, Stewart. Okay. Because we got rid of the PBMs. We got rid of the middlemen, and that's something that they've wanted themselves. Now here's the big question. Why aren't the Democrats celebrating this? I mean, after all, hey, then we just go back to Bernie Sanders. Back in 2016, Bernie Sanders ran on big pharma. Let's take a listen to what he said. Here we go. We pay in this country the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. Maybe, just maybe, it might be time for the United States Senate to stand up to the pharmaceutical industry and all of their lobbyists here and all of their campaign contributions and say we're gonna stand with the American people who are sick and tired of being ripped off by the drug companies. There there are many reasons why we pay such outrageous prices, but one reason is we continue passing laws written by the pharmaceutical industry and their lobbyists year after year after year. I believe that the American people should know that the pharmaceutical industr ...

And welcome back to the program. Well, president Trump signed an executive order today to lower pharmaceutical prices here in The United States. And, boy, that is welcome news because there's a lot about this that we don't know. Now we pay dramatically more here in this country than they do in other countries for the same pharmaceuticals. In fact, president Trump had an little bit of an anecdote about that today. I mean, I'll tell you a story. A friend of mine who's a a businessman, very, very, very top guy. Most of you would have heard of him. A highly neurotic, brilliant businessman, seriously overweight, and he takes the fat the fat shot drug. And he called me up, and he said, president. He calls me he used to call me Donald, now he calls me president. So that's nice respect, but he's a rough guy, smart guy, Very successful, very rich. I wouldn't even know how we would know this, but because he's got comments. So president, could I ask you a question? What? I'm in London, and I just paid for this damn fat drug I take. I said, it's not working, they said. He said, I just paid $88. And in New York, I paid $1,300. What the hell is going on? Exactly. I love that. It's not working. That that's great. But we do we pay a lot more here than other countries do. Because you see and the big thing that they always talk about, oh, you know, we got research and development, and we've got yada yada, and we've gotta pay for this and that, and we've gotta do well, why doesn't anybody else have to pay for it? Why isn't a a drug the same price in London as it is in The United States? Why isn't a a pharmaceutical the same price in Canada as it is here in The United States? Listen to what RFK Junior said. This is this is pretty darned amazing. It really is. Mister secretary, Trump says some prices will come down almost immediately. What is the timetable for these price cuts? Well, there's a series of escalating steps, but you know what? The that that will bring them down to European levels. Right now, we spend we provide America provides 75% of the pharmaceutical revenues in the world, and we only have 4.2% of the world's population. Sure. We're paying in, in our country, the list price for Ozempic is $1,300 per dose. In London, it's $88. And Democratic and Republican politicians have been talking about for years, we gotta end these discrepancies. Nobody has had the courage to do it because of the power of the pharmaceutical lobby on Capitol Hill. K. And and answer your question, how soon will this happen, it it depends on how enthusiastically the drug companies cooperate. There are a series of escalating steps that we will take if they don't cooperate. But we're very you know, we've been meeting with the pharmaceutical companies. They admit that this is something that is should have ended a long time ago, and I think they're ready to figure out a way to get there. And they have advantages in this executive order, Stuart. K. Because we got rid of the PBMs. We got rid of the middlemen, and that's something that they've wanted themselves. Now here's the big question. Why aren't the Democrats celebrating this? I mean, after all, hey, then we just go back to Bernie Sanders. Back in 2016, Bernie Sanders ran on big pharma. Let's take a listen to what he said. Here we go. We pay in this country the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. Maybe, just maybe, it might be time for the United States Senate to stand up to the pharmaceutical industry and all of their lobbyists here and all of their campaign contributions and say we're gonna stand with the American people who are sick and tired of being ripped off by the drug companies. There there are many reasons why we pay such outrageous prices, but one reason is we continue passing laws written by the pharmaceutical industry and their lobbyists year after year after year. I believe that the American people should know that the pharmaceutical industry has spent more than $3,000 ...

[2] ‘NUNTII IN LINGUA LATINA’ ‘IN LINGUA LATINA, ANGLICA ET ITALICA’ ‘*AUDIS’! Stai ascoltando 'Nuntii in lingua latina' in latino, inglese e italiano. HISPANIA. SPAIN. SPAGNA. TRANSLATIO A CASANDRA FREIRE VERSAM EST. • ‘ENERGIAE TOTUS LAPSUS’. // ‘DIE VIGINTI NOVEM MENSIS APRILIS’, ‘ELECTRICITATIS HISPANICAE *SOCIETAS (REE)’ ‘*RETTULIT’ [‘SEX TEMPORA MATUTINA’ ‘PROPE CENTUM CENTESIMAE PATRIAE OPES’ ‘*RESTITUTAM ESSE’], ‘SUBITO ENERGIAE TOTO LAPSO’ [‘*QUI’ ‘ANTE DUODECIM ET TRIGINTA TRES PRIDIE DIEI’ ‘*ACCIDERAT’]. // ‘INTERIM CAUSAE’ ‘*INVESTIGANTUR’. // ‘SOLUM’ ‘*NOTUM EST’ [‘QUINDECIM GIGAWATTS POTESTATIS SUBITO QUINQUE SECUNDIS ‘*EVANESCERE’]. SPAGNA. Il grande blackout. Il ventinove aprile l’azienda Red eléctrica española (Ree), a partecipazione statale, ha riferito che dalle sei del mattino è stato ripristinato quasi il cento per cento della fornitura di energia del paese dopo l’improvvisa interruzione generale alle dodici trentatré del giorno prima. Intanto è in corso un’indagine per scoprire le cause del blackout. L’unica certezza è che quindici gigawatt di potenza sono improvvisamente scomparsi dalla rete elettrica per cinque secondi (INTERNAZIONALE). SPAIN. The big blackout. On April 29, the state-owned “Red Eléctrica Española (Ree)” reported that as of 6 a.m. nearly one hundred percent of the country's power supply had been restored after the sudden general outage at 12:33 p.m. the day before. Meanwhile, an investigation is underway to find out the cause of the blackout. The only certainty is that 15 gigawatts of power suddenly disappeared from the power grid for five seconds (INTERNATIONAL). CANADA. CANADA. CANADA • LIBERALES IN REGIMINE MANENT. // ‘*FACTIO LIBERALIS CANADAE’ ‘EX CENTRO-SINISTRA’ ‘COMITIIS DUODETRICESIMO APRILIS MENSE HOC ANNO’ ‘*VICIT’ ET ‘MANDATUM QUARTUM’ ‘UNUM POST UNUM’ ‘*ACQUISIVIT’. I liberali restano al potere. “Alle elezioni legislative del ventotto aprile il Partito liberale canadese, di centrosinistra, ha ottenuto un quarto mandato di governo consecutivo, al termine di una campagna elettorale condizionata dalle minacce del presidente statunitense Donald Trump”, scrive il Toronto Star (INTERNAZIONALE). Liberals remain in power. “In the April 28 general election, the center-left Liberal Party of Canada won a fourth consecutive term of government at the end of an election campaign conditioned by threats from U.S. President Donald Trump,” writes the Toronto Star (INTERNATIONAL). [2] ‘NUNTII IN LINGUA LATINA’ ‘IN LINGUA LATINA, ANGLICA ET GALLICA’ ‘*AUDIS’! Vous écoutez ‘Nuntii in Lingua latina’ en latin, anglais et français. CIVITATIBUS FOEDERATAE AMERICAE. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. ÉTATS-UNIS TRANSLATIO A FERNANDA SOLÍS VERSAM EST. • ‘*TRUMP’ ‘THESAURUM’ ‘SUB MARI’ ‘*QUAERIT’. // ‘DIE VICESIMO CUARTO APRILIS MENSE’ ‘DONALDUS *TRUMP’ ‘LEGEM ORBIS TERRARUM’ ‘*NEGLEGIT’ ‘IUSSUM’ ‘AD MINERALIA OCEANI TERRARUM ORBIS EXHAURIENDA’ ‘*SUBSIGNAVIT’. // ‘EIUS *EST *SPES’ ‘CENTUM MILIA NEGOTIA’ ET ‘TRECENTA MILIARDA PECUNIARUM LABORUM PER ANNUM’ ‘CREARE’. // ‘*SCOPUS EIUS’ ‘*EST’ ‘QUAM PLURIMA MINERALIA SERVARE’ ‘SICUT COBALTUM, NICHELIUM, ALIAQUE’. ‘*TRUMP’ ‘DOMINIUM MINERALIUM CUPIENDORUM SINAE’ ‘COMPENSARE’ ‘*VULT’. Trump seeks 300 billion under the sea. On April 24, in defiance of international law, Donald Trump signed an executive order authorizing the exploitation of the seabed in international waters. He hopes this will generate 100,000 jobs and 300 billion in additional GDP. The aim is also to secure resources such as cobalt, nickel and rare earths, to counter China's domination of critical minerals. Trump cherche 300 milliards sous les mers. Au mépris du droit international, Donald Trump a signé, le 24 avril, un décret autorisant l’explotation manière des fonds marins dans les eaux internationals. Il espère ainsi generer 100 000 emplois et 300 milliards de PIB supplémentaires. L’objectif est aussi de sécuriser des ressources comme le cobalt, le nickel ou les terres rares, afin de contre la domination chinoise sur les minéraux critiques (L’EXPRESS). PAKISTANIA. PAKISTAN. PAKISTAN TRANSLATIO A SAID RAIMUNDO DELGADO VERSAM EST. • ‘*CACHEMIRA’ ‘TENSIONES’ ‘INTER INDIAM ET PAKISTANIAM’ ‘RURSUS’ ‘*GIGNIT’. // ‘*ATTENTATUM NON RECLAMATUM’ ‘DIE VICESIMO SECUNDO MENSIS APRILIS IN PAHALGAM’ ‘* FACTUM EST’. // ‘*QUOD’ ‘VIGINTI SEX MORTUOS’ ‘*RELIQUIT’. // ‘*NOVA DELHI ET ISLAMABAD’ ‘IACULA’ ‘POST ID EVENTUM, INTER SE’ ‘*COMMUTAVERUNT’. // ‘*GUBERNATIO NATIONALIS INDIORUM’ ‘SEQUENTES POENAS’ ‘*EXERCUIT’: [‘FOEDUS’ ‘DE DIVISIONE AQUARUM FLUMINIS INDICI’ ‘*SUSPENDIT’], [‘PRINCIPALE LIMINIS TERRESTRIS ‘*CLAUSIT’] ET [‘PLURES LEGATOS PAKISTANIANOS’ ‘*EXPELSIT’]. // ‘*GUBERNATIO PAKISTANIENSIS’ ‘SIMILIBUS POENIS PUNITIVIS’ ‘*RESPONDIT’. // ‘*HAE NATIONES’ ‘POTENTIAE NUCLEARES’ ‘AUSTRI ORIENTALIS ASIAE’ ‘*SUNT’. New escalation between India and Pakistan. Kashmir once again raises tensions between the region's two nuclear powers, India and Pakistan. Following an attack - for which no claim was made - that killed 26 people in Pahalgam on April 22, New Delhi and Islamabad exchanged fire. In retaliation, the ultranationalist Hindu government suspended a treaty on sharing the waters of the Indus, closed the main land border post and expelled several diplomats. Pakistan has also embarked on a spiral of similar punitive and retaliatory measures. Nouvelle escalade entre l’Inde et le Pakistan. Le Cachemire suscite à nouveau des tensions entre les deux puissances nucléaires de la région, l’Inde et le Pakistan. Après l’attaque -non revendiquée- ayant causé le 22 avril la mort de 26 personnes à Pahalgam, New Delhi et Islamabad ont échangé des tirs. En représailles, le gouvernement ultranationaliste hindou a suspendu un traité sur le partage des eaux de l’Indus, fermé le principal poste-frontière terrestre et expulsé plusieurs diplomates. Le Pakistan s’est lui aussi lancé dans u ne spirale de mesures punitives et de rétorsion similiares (L’EXPRESS). [2] ‘NUNTII IN LINGUA LATINA’ ‘IN LINGUA LATINA, ANGLICA ET GERMANICA ‘*AUDIS’! Sie hören Nuntii in Lingua latina auf Latein, English und Deutsch. CIVITATE VATICANA. VATICAN CITY. VATIKANSTADT. • ‘*CONCLAVE’ ‘PRO PAPAM ELIGENDO’ ‘SEPTIMO MAII MENSE’ ‘*INCIPIET’. VATICAN CITY. Conclave of cardinals to elect pope to start on 7 May. Roman Catholic cardinals will begin their secret conclave to elect the new leader of the global church on 7 May, the Vatican said on Monday (THE GUARDIAN WEEKLY). VATIKANSTADT. Konklave der Kardinäle zur Papstwahl beginnt am 7. Mai. Die römisch-katholischen Kardinäle werden ihr geheimes Konklave zur Wahl des neuen Oberhauptes der Weltkirche am 7. Mai beginnen, teilte der Vatikan am Montag mit. UCRAINA. UKRAINE. UKRAINE. • DE BELLI FACIE. // ‘*RUSSICI ET AMERICANI’ ‘IN MOSCOVIA’ ‘*NEGOTIANTUR’. // ‘*TRUMP ET ZELENS’KYJ’ ‘IN ROMA’ ‘*LOQUUNTUR’. // ‘DE PACE’ ‘IN LONDINO’ ‘*CONCIPIUNT’. // TAMEN, ‘*PYROBOLI’ ‘IN KIOVIA’ ‘*CADUUNT’. The face of war. Russians and Americans negotiate in Moscow. In Rome, at the Pope's funeral, Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky push their chairs together. In London, attempts are being made to design a peacekeeping force. And in Kiev? The bombs continue to fall. People continue to be killed. And others are injured, like this man who had his face torn apart in a Russian attack. His wounds - possibly caused by flying shards of glass - had to be treated with dozens of stitches. The past week has seen some of the most serious Russian attacks since the beginning of the war. Peace? Not to be seen in Ukraine. Gesicht des Krieges. In Moskau verhandeln Russen und Amerikaner. In Rom, beim Begräbnis des Papstes, schieben Donald Trump und Wolodymyr Selenskyj ihre Stühle zusammen. In London versucht man, eine Friedenstruppe zu entwerfen. Und in Kiew? Fallen weiter die Bomben. Werden weiter Menschen getötet. Und andere verletzt, wie dieser Mann, dem es bei einem russischen Angriff das Gesicht zerfetzt hat. Mit Dutzenden Stichen mussten seine Wunden – womöglich rühren sie von herumfliegenden Glassplittern – versorgt werden. Die vergangene Woche sah einige der schwersten russischen Attacken seit Beginn des Krieges. Frieden? Ist in der Ukraine nicht zu sehen (DER STERN). Equipo 2: 5. Jimena – Inglés. 6. Luis – latín. 7. Chiara – Chino 8. Nadia - español [2] ‘NUNTII IN LINGUA LATINA’ ‘IN LINGUA LATINA, ANGLICA ET HISPANICA’ ‘*AUDIS’! Estás escuchando ‘Nuntii in lingua latina’ en latín, inglés y en español. CIVITATIBUS FOEDERATAE AMERICAE. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. EN ESTADOS UNIDOS ‘DONALDUS *TRUMP’ ‘CENTUM DIES’ ‘IN MINISTERIO’ ‘EX SECUNDO MANDATO’ ‘*OPPLEVIT’. // ‘*PRAESES’ ‘*DIXIT’ [‘SENSUS COMUNIS REVOLUTIONEM’ INCEPISSE] ETIAM ‘*DIXIT’ [‘PERCONATIONUM INDICES’ ‘NUNTIOS FALSOS’ ‘*FUISSE’]. Trump 2: Judgment Day. Mr Trump marked the 100th day of his second term in office with a speech in Michigan. The president said he had sparked a ‘revolution of common sense’ and than opinion polls recording his waning popularity were ‘fake’ (THE ECONOMIST). Trump 2: el día del juicio final. Trump celebró el centenario de su segundo mandato con un discurso en Michigan. El presidente dijo que había desencadenado una «revolución del sentido común» y que los sondeos de opinión que registraban su menguante popularidad eran «falsos» (THE ECONOMIST). IRANIA. IRAN. EN IRÁN. SHAHID RAJAEE. DIRUPTIO CHEMICA FUIT. // ‘SALTEM SEPTUAGINTA *HOMINES’ ‘*MORTUI FUERUNT’ ET ‘PLUS QUAM MILLIA’ ‘*VULNERATI FUERUNT’ ‘DIRUPTIONE ET INCENDIO’ ‘IN SHAHID RAJAEE’. // ‘*INCENDIUM CHIMICUM’ ‘IN CISTERNIS’ ‘CAUSA PROBABILIS’ ‘*FUIT’. Shahid Rajaee. Chemical blast. At least 70 people have been killed and more than 1,000 injured by a huge explosion and its ensuing blaze at Sahid Rajaee -Iran’s largest shipping port- apparently triggered by containers of chemical catching fire (THE WEEK UK). Shahid Rajaee, Irán. Explosión química. Al menos 70 personas han muerto y más de 1.000 han resultado heridas por una enorme explosión y el consiguiente incendio en Sahid Rajaee -el mayor puerto de mercancías de Irán-, al parecer provocados por el incendio de contenedores de productos químicos (THE WEEK UK). [2] ‘NUNTII IN LINGUA LATINA’ ‘IN LINGUA LATINA, ANGLICA ET SINENSIS PINYIN’ ‘*AUDIS’! You're listening to ‘Nuntii in lingua latina’ in Latin, English and Chinese Pinyin. SINIS. CHINA. TRANSLATIO A CASANDRA FREIRE VERSAM EST. "EMERE IN SINIS" ‘*HOC’ ‘ALIUD FACTUM’ [ UT OECONOMIAM SINENSEM ‘*EXHIBERE’]. // ‘*“EMERE”’ ‘NOVUM SIGNUM RECENTIS ET APERTAE OECONOMIAE SINARUM’ ‘*FACTUM EST’. // ‘*OECONOMIA SINARUM’ ‘AB ALIENIS PERIEGESIBUS’ ‘*ADDUCTA EST’, ‘*QUAE’ ‘STUDIUM’ ‘IN URBIS PRODUCTOS, PROSPERA CONSILIA ET NOVAS RATIONES’ ‘*PORREXERANT’. "China Shopping" became another letter introducing China's economy. It has become a new symbol of China’s modern and open economy, driven by foreign tourists drawn to local products, favorable policies, and innovation. http://www.beijingreview.com.cn/ “zhōngguó gòu” chéngwéi jièshào zhōngguó jīngjì de lìng yìfēngxìn。 tā yǐchéngwéi zhōngguó xiàndài kāifàng jīngjì dexīn xiàngzhēng ， shòudào wàiguóyóukè de tuīdòng ， tāmen bèi dāng dìchǎnpǐn 、 yōuhuìzhèngcè hé chuàngxīn suǒ xīyǐn SINIS. TRANSLATIO A SAID RAIMUNDO DELGADO VERSAM EST. ‘*AETAS’ ‘AUTOMATUM IN CURA SENIORUM VERSATORUM’ ‘PROXIME’ ‘VENIRET’? // ‘*SINAE’ ‘NORMAS PRO HAC SPECIE AUTOMATUM’ ‘*STATUVERUNT’. // ‘*OBSTACULA TALIA’ TAMEN UT ‘SUMPTUS ALTOS ET TECHNOLOGIAM IMMATUREM’ ‘*SUPERANDA SUNT’. // [‘QUOD IN DOMOS INTRA TRIENNIUM INTROIBUNT’ ‘*DICITUR’]. SI NUNTII IN LINGUA LATINA TRADUCTOR ESSE VOLUERIS, QUAESO LITTERAM ELECTRONICAM AD lpesquera@up.edu.mx MITTAS’. If you would like to collaborate as a translator in Nuntii in Lingua Latina, please send an email to lpesquera@up.edu.mx

The Trump administration's "Liberation Day" saw baseline and reciprocal tariffs levied on over 50 different countries, with President Trump arguing this move will force other nations to the negotiating table to make trade fair again for our country. Now, reports are circulating that a number of those countries are in talks to make a trade deal with the U.S. FOX Business Host of Making Money Charles Payne joins the Rundown to discuss the complexity of these ongoing trade negotiations, American consumers' tendency towards buying cheap products from China, and the need for a bipartisan approach to reviving U.S. manufacturing. Europe is celebrating the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. In London, over a thousand British soldiers, along with troops from the United States and France, participated in a military parade, marking the start of several celebrations this week. President Donald Trump is also aiming to designate May 8th as Victory Day for World War II in the United States. Retired four-star General Jack Keane, who is the Chairman of the Institute for the Study of War and a senior strategic analyst for FOX News, will join to reflect on World War II and discuss the ongoing Russia-Ukraine War. Plus, commentary from FOX News contributor Joe Concha. Photo Credit: AP Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Trump administration's "Liberation Day" saw baseline and reciprocal tariffs levied on over 50 different countries, with President Trump arguing this move will force other nations to the negotiating table to make trade fair again for our country. Now, reports are circulating that a number of those countries are in talks to make a trade deal with the U.S. FOX Business Host of Making Money Charles Payne joins the Rundown to discuss the complexity of these ongoing trade negotiations, American consumers' tendency towards buying cheap products from China, and the need for a bipartisan approach to reviving U.S. manufacturing. Europe is celebrating the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. In London, over a thousand British soldiers, along with troops from the United States and France, participated in a military parade, marking the start of several celebrations this week. President Donald Trump is also aiming to designate May 8th as Victory Day for World War II in the United States. Retired four-star General Jack Keane, who is the Chairman of the Institute for the Study of War and a senior strategic analyst for FOX News, will join to reflect on World War II and discuss the ongoing Russia-Ukraine War. Plus, commentary from FOX News contributor Joe Concha. Photo Credit: AP Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Trump administration's "Liberation Day" saw baseline and reciprocal tariffs levied on over 50 different countries, with President Trump arguing this move will force other nations to the negotiating table to make trade fair again for our country. Now, reports are circulating that a number of those countries are in talks to make a trade deal with the U.S. FOX Business Host of Making Money Charles Payne joins the Rundown to discuss the complexity of these ongoing trade negotiations, American consumers' tendency towards buying cheap products from China, and the need for a bipartisan approach to reviving U.S. manufacturing. Europe is celebrating the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. In London, over a thousand British soldiers, along with troops from the United States and France, participated in a military parade, marking the start of several celebrations this week. President Donald Trump is also aiming to designate May 8th as Victory Day for World War II in the United States. Retired four-star General Jack Keane, who is the Chairman of the Institute for the Study of War and a senior strategic analyst for FOX News, will join to reflect on World War II and discuss the ongoing Russia-Ukraine War. Plus, commentary from FOX News contributor Joe Concha. Photo Credit: AP Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

I'm Bryan Kam. I endeavour daily to make philosophy accessible and relevant. To that end I write this newsletter and host a podcast called Clerestory. I'm also writing a book called Neither/Nor and I'm a founding member of Liminal Learning. In London, I host a book club, a writing group, and other events. My work looks at how abstract concepts relate to embodied life, and how to use this understanding to transform experience.Recently, I had a conversation with Haneen Khan, a sex coach and fellow thinker, about the relationship between abstract thinking and embodied experience. The Nature of Abstraction and ExperienceWe began by discussing the academic paper which Isabela Granic and I recently submitted, which describes my philosophy Neither/Nor. The paper and the forthcoming book focus on the relationship between experience and abstraction, or theory and practice. The paper critiques what we term “latent Platonism,” an unconscious tendency to prioritize abstract, theoretical constructs over direct, embodied experience. This can reveal itself in conversation, for example, when sharing about an uncomfortable experience can lead an interlocutor to leap to broad generalizations rather than discussing the experience itself.The Need for Balance and AwarenessThroughout our conversation, we emphasized the importance of balancing abstract reasoning with experiential knowledge. Haneen and I agree that awareness is key — awareness of when we're gravitating too heavily towards abstraction at the expense of our felt experiences (or, less frequently, vice versa).Haneen shared valuable insights from her coaching practice, emphasizing the power of grounding practices that help individuals reconnect with their bodies and emotions. This balance, or oscillation as we've termed it, is crucial for a holistic understanding of the self.Abstraction, while powerful, can become a tool of escapism or avoidance if unanchored by embodied awareness. Maintaining a strong connection to one's felt experience, on the other hand, can enrich not only personal wellbeing but also interpersonal interactions.Integration: A Path ForwardWe concluded by emphasizing integration — a synthesis of experiential and conceptual wisdom — as a winding path forward. This integration offers a potential solution to the pitfalls inherent in each mode of understanding when pursued in isolation. Concepts like Internal Family Systems Therapy illustrate such an integration, offering a framework where conceptual understanding aids emotional and physical awareness.I'd love to hear your thoughts and experiences on this topic: How do you navigate the balance between abstraction and experience in your daily life? Let me know in the comments.BryanP.S. If this conversation resonated with you, please share it with someone who might benefit from it. Please also like it, subscribe, or support me on Patreon or Ko-Fi!A photo, not by me, of the place where we recorded the podcast, including the “fake grass” I mention

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Ian and Hannah review the biggest new films and bingeable shows on UK streaming services for the week beginning Friday 2nd May 2025, including:Hoping to expose corruption, radical activists take 300 hostages at an energy company's annual gala in a high-rise building. Their cause soon gets hijacked by an extremist within their ranks who's ready to kill everyone. It's now up to a former soldier who works as a window cleaner to save the hostages trapped inside, including her younger brother. Former Jedi Daisy Ridley stars in high action movie Cleaner on NOW TV.The decades-long friendship between three married couples is tested when one divorces, complicating their tradition of quarterly weekend getaways in new Netflix comedy series The Four Seasons.In London, July 2005, police hunt a rogue terrorist cell responsible for the shooting of a Met Police officer. This is Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes on Disney Plus.TV presenter Katie Piper meets the inmates at notorious New Orleans Parish Prison, and delves into their cases to uncover what drove these women to commit the shocking crimes they've been accused of.Follow Bingewatch on all major podcast players for your weekly rundown of the best binge-worthy shows across Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+ and more.Remember to leave a 5 star review on Apple Podcasts, Podchaser and Goodpods AND you can now show your support and leave a tip for Ian and Hannah.You can also stay in touch with the team via Twitter AND if you like Bingewatch but you're looking for a specific review, check out BITESIZE BINGEWATCH, our sister show making it easier to get the bits you want!If you're a brand interested in sponsorship or collabs, email hello@podcastsbyliam.com and chat to us now!

Join us for a very special anniversary pod as Theo, Joe and Bobby take on Storey, Miller and Eamo!Featuring:Unhappy Hunting GroundsGo We CareerThe (Peter) Drury is out& Mutch more!Thanks to everyone for helping us get to 100 episodes (on the main feed tbf). We're very grateful for all the support vale to date and are only getting started!In London? Get yourself to our next pub quiz on Friday, May 2nd! Tickets: https://tinyurl.com/yb5wkyd7Fancy an extra pod a week? Sign up to our Patreon for a new ep every Friday morning! iOS users: please join via web and not the Patreon iOS app. Thanks to all our amazing Patreons for your support!https://www.patreon.com/c/CareerWeGoExtraTime Follow us on Blue Sky, X and Instagram: @careerwegopodJoin us on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/careerwego/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Emmy, Tony, and SAG Award nominee Norm Lewis joins The Art of Kindness with Robert Peterpaul to discuss leading a cast with kindness, the unique way advertising influenced his career, his new show Ceremonies in Dark Old Men and more. NORM LEWIS was recently seen onstage starring in the national tour of the Tony Award-winning production of A Soldier's Play and in Andrew Lloyd Webber's West End Concert of Love Never Dies. He starred in Spike Lee's critically acclaimed, "Da 5 Bloods," and in the groundbreaking FX series, Pose. Additionally, Mr. Lewis can be seen starring opposite Hilary Swank in the feature "The Good Mother," Amazon Prime's newest series, Swarm, and Hulu's, Up Here. He was also seen as 'Caiaphas' in the award-winning NBC television special, “Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert!,” alongside John Legend, Sara Bareilles, and Alice Cooper. Mr. Lewis returned to Broadway in the Fall of 2021, starring in Chicken and Biscuits at the Circle In The Square Theatre. He previously appeared in the Broadway revival of Once on This Island and as Sweeney Todd in the Off-Broadway production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street at the Barrow Street Theatre, receiving the AUDELCO Award for his performance. In May of 2014, he made history as The Phantom of the Opera's first African American Phantom on Broadway. He has been seen on PBS in the Live From Lincoln Center productions of Showboat with Vanessa Williams, Norm Lewis: Who Am I?, New Year's Eve: A Gershwin Celebration with Diane Reeves, as well as American Voices with Renée Fleming and the PBS Specials First You Dream – The Music of Kander & Ebb and Ella Wishes You A Swingin' Christmas. He can be seen recurring in the VH1 series, Daytime Divas, also alongside Vanessa Williams. His additional television credits include Women of The Movement, Law & Order, Dr. Death, Mrs. America, Better Things, The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Bull, Chicago Med, Gotham, The Blacklist, and Blue Bloods, as well as in his recurring role as Senator Edison Davis on the hit drama Scandal. Mr. Lewis is a proud, founding member of Black Theatre United, an organization which stands together to help protect Black people, Black talent and Black lives of all shapes and orientations in theatre and communities across the country. He received Tony, Drama Desk, Drama League, and Outer Critics Circle award nominations for his performance as Porgy in the Broadway production of The Gershwins' Porgy & Bess. Other Broadway credits include Sondheim on Sondheim, The Little Mermaid, Les Misérables, Chicago, Amour, The Wild Party, Side Show, Miss Saigon, and The Who's Tommy. In London's West End he has appeared as Javert in Les Misérables and Les Misérables: The 25th Anniversary Concert, which aired on PBS. Off-Broadway Mr. Lewis has performed in Dessa Rose (Drama Desk nomination, AUDELCO Award), Shakespeare in the Park's The Tempest, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Drama League nomination), Captains Courageous, and A New Brain. His regional credits include Porgy in The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess (A.R.T.), Ragtime, Dreamgirls (with Jennifer Holliday), First You Dream, Sweeney Todd, and The Fantasticks. His additional film credits include Christmas In Tune (starring opposite Reba McEntire), Magnum Opus, Winter's Tale, Sex and the City 2, Confidences, and Preaching to the Choir. Norm's albums "The Norm Lewis Christmas Album" & "This is The Life" can be found on Amazon.com as well as cdbaby.com. Ceremonies in Dark Old Men Tickets: https://www.thepeccadillo.com/ Follow Norm: @thenormlewis Follow us: @artofkindnesspod / @robpeterpaul youtube.com/@artofkindnesspodcast Support the show! (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/theaok) Got kindness tips or stories? Want to just say hi? Please email us: artofkindnesspodcast@gmail.com Music: "Awake" by Ricky Alvarez & "Sunshine" by Lemon Music Studio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In London hätte sich am Mittwoch eine hochrangige Ministerrunde treffen sollen, um über die Rahmenbedingunen für ein Ende des Kriegs in der Ukraine zu beraten. Weil US-Aussenminister Marco Rubio kurzfristig absagte, fand das Treffen auf niedrigerer Stufe statt. Alle Themen: (00:17) Intro und Schlagzeilen (04:52) Nachrichtenübersicht (01:34) Ukraine-Treffen in London: US-Aussenminister Rubio sagt ab (09:40) Nimmt das WEF Schaden wegen Untersuchung gegen Gründer Schwab? (14:00) Wer tritt die Nachfolge von Zürichs Stadtpräsidentin Mauch an? (18:48) Trumps Zoll-Politik könnte die Europadebatte verändern (24:45) Haiti steht vor dem totalen Chaos (31:30) Ruf nach Wehrpflicht in Deutschland wird lauter (37:31) Kehrt die Kinderlähmung zurück?

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In London hätte sich am Mittwoch eine hochrangige Ministerrunde treffen sollen, um über die Rahmenbedingunen für ein Ende des Kriegs in der Ukraine zu beraten. Weil US-Aussenminister Marco Rubio kurzfristig absagte, fand das Treffen auf niedrigerer Stufe statt. Ausserdem: Corine Mauch tritt bei den Wahlen 2026 nicht mehr für Zürcher Stadtpräsidium an. Am Mittwoch hat die SP bekannt gegeben, wen sie für die Nachfolge Mauchs ins Rennen schickt. Es sind Mandy Abou Shoak, eine junge Frau mit Migrationshintergrund und Raphael Golta, der als Kronfavorit gilt. Die Schweiz investiert viel in neue Freihandelsabkommen mit südostasiatischen Ländern wie Indonesien, Thailand, Malaysia oder Vietnam. Doch ein Blick in die Statistik zeigt: mit all diesen Ländern betreibt die Schweiz effektiv nur wenig Handel. Lohnen sich die Abkommen dennoch für die Schweiz?

Die Nachrichten am Morgen: Papst Franziskus wird im Petersdom im offenen Sarg aufgebahrt. In London finden Ukraine-Friedensgespräche statt. Die Frist zur Anfechtung des Ergebnisses der Bundestagswahl läuft ab. Und in Shanghai findet die größte Automesse der Welt statt.

In London on the banks of the Thames near the houses of parliament, there is an Egyptian obelisk, flanked by two enormous sphinxes. In Central Park in New York there is another, and both a covered in magnificent hieroglyphics.Did you know these are real and are called Cleopatra's Needles? They were transported from Egypt in the 1800s, with some saying the Needles were the most incredible white elephant gifts of all time. Listen to the history of these ancient objects read to you as bedtime story as you fall asleep tonight. Please leave a 5-star review & SUBSCRIBE on Apple and Spotify. Sleep Cove Premium Become a Premium Member for Bonus Episodes & Ad-Free listening: Visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.sleepcove.com/support⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and become a Premium Member. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Get Instant Access⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and sign up in two taps. The Sleep Cove Premium Feed includes: - Access to over 400 Ad-free Episodes - Regular Exclusive Bonus Episodes - A Back Catalogue of Dozens of Exclusive Episodes - Full Audiobooks like Alice in Wonderland - Your name read out on the Show - Our Love! Get your 7-day free trial:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://sleepcove.com/support⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ For Apple users, click the TRY FREE button for a 2-week free trial and become a Premium Member Today. Support our Sponsors: This episode of Sleep Cove is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠betterhelp.com/sleepcove ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠and get on your way to being your best self. Our Sister Shows: - Calm Cove - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://link.chtbl.com/bgSKfkbt⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠- Relaxing Music & Ambient Sounds - Mysteries at Midnight - Mystery Bedtime Stories - ⁠⁠⁠https://link.chtbl.com/skj6YFah⁠⁠⁠ - Let's Begin - Daytime Meditations with wake sections at the end - ⁠⁠⁠https://link.chtbl.com/Z--DgSH4 ⁠⁠⁠ - YouTube Bedtime Story Channel -⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠https://rb.gy/t7wyjk⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - YouTube Sleep Hypnosis & Meditation Channel - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClE6WJgPYRBtwVQ1qDBrbqw Connect: - Join the Newsletter for a Bonus Meditation -⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠https://www.sleepcove.com/bonus⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - Facebook:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://rb.gy/azpdrd⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - Instagram:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/sleep_cove/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - TikTok:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@sleepcovechris⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Recommended Products: Comfortable Sleep Headphones -⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.sleepcove.com/headphones⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ The Best Mattress from Puffy: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://sleepcove.com/puffy⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Our Sister Shows in more detail: Calm Cove is our music channel, where you can find Relaxing Music, White Noise and Nature Sounds - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://link.chtbl.com/bgSKfkbt⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Let's Begin is our brand new Day Meditation podcast. Start your day feeling relaxed and positive, or take some time out to unwind with these calming meditations with wakeners at the end so that you can continue your day. If you love our bedtime stories, check out Mysteries at Midnight, our brand-new podcast dedicated to the mystery stories our listeners love so much. Enjoy even more from Poirot, Sherlock and more classic mystery tales. _______________ All Content by Sleep Cove is for educational or entertainment purposes and does not provide or replace professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your medical professional before making any changes to your treatment and if in any doubt, contact your doctor. Please listen in a place where you can safely go to sleep. Sleep Cove is not responsible or liable for any loss, damage or injury arising from the use of this content. _________________ Sleep Cove content includes guided sleep meditations, sleep hypnosis (hypnotherapy), sleep stories (visualizations) and Bedtime Stories for adults and grown-ups, all designed to help you get a great night's sleep Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In bayerischen Kinos läuft diese Woche ein Dokumentarfilm an, der von einer Gemeinde erzählt, die dem Niedergang der Wirtshauskultur etwas entgegensetzen wollte. Christoph Leibold über "Fanni - Oder: Wie rettet man ein Wirtshaus?" / Roadkill á la carte: In London serviert ein Künstler Tiere, die im Straßenverkehr umgekommen sind: Eichhörnchen, Hund, Katze... Das sei gesund und antikommerziell. Franziska Hoppen war dabei / Ausflug nach Wien: Im Leopold Museum zeigt eine Ausstellung die Biedermeierzeit in neuem Licht. Von Florian Haas / Der Schweizer Literaturwissenschaftler und Schriftsteller Peter von Matt ist im Alter von 87 Jahren in Zürich gestorben. Ein Nachruf von Anita Westrup

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Bis 2055 dürfte die Wohnbevölkerung in der Schweiz laut Prognosen auf 10,5 Millionen Menschen anwachsen. Wachsen wird vor allem die Bevölkerungsgruppe im Rentenalter. Bei der Gruppe der Erwerbstätigen sieht es hingegen durchzogen aus. Weitere Themen: Nirgendwo in der Schweiz leben so viele Menschen im Pensionsalter wie im Tessin. Und das spüren vor allem die Jungen. So gibt es beispielsweise kaum Freiräume, wo sich Jugendliche ohne Konsumzwang treffen können. Der Verein Realta Giovanili will das ändern. In London beraten derzeit rund 20 Staaten über eine Lösung der Sudan-Krise. Aufgrund des tobenden Bürgerkriegs sind in dem Land nach wie vor Millionen Menschen auf der Flucht. Frauen und Kinder leiden in besonderem Masse. Was ist von der Konferenz in London zu erwarten?

Schienennetz der Bahn: Verfall vorerst gestoppt. In London ringen mehrere Länder um eine Lösung für den Sudan. Der Bundesrechnungshof moniert die Haushaltspläne der künftigen Regierung. Von Jutta Hammann.

It was a big week for true crime and the Red Scare. In Sydney, Roger Rogerson's future hero, Detective-Sergeant Ray ‘the Gunner' Kelly, was in court and explaining how and why he'd shot another criminal dead. In London, the cops caught serial killer John Christie, which meant they'd sent an innocent man to the gallows for two murders. In a weird coincidence, a similar failure of justice was about to play out in Adelaide, where serial monster John Balaban had already been set free by the courts to kill again. Meanwhile, the Red Scare was at fever pitch, with leftist Aussies protesting against the imminent execution in the US of convicted Soviet spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Also in the US under McCarthyism, academic freedom was under attack at Columbia University. But this wasn't nearly as racy as what McCarthy's attack dog Roy Cohn was doing, with President Trump's future hero making Australian headlines for his rabid anti-Commie tactics.For a free trial that will give you access to ad-free, early and bonus episodes:Patreon: patreon.com/forgottenaustraliaApple: apple.co/forgottenaustraliaCheck out my books:They'll Never Hold Me:https://www.booktopia.com.au/they-ll-never-hold-me-michael-adams/book/9781923046474.htmlThe Murder Squad:https://www.booktopia.com.au/the-murder-squad-michael-adams/book/9781923046504.htmlHanging Ned Kelly:https://www.booktopia.com.au/hanging-ned-kelly-michael-adams/book/9781922992185.htmlAustralia's Sweetheart:https://www.booktopia.com.au/australia-s-sweetheart-michael-adams/book/9780733640292.htmlEmail: forgottenaustraliapodcast@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Studies Show. Live. In London. With Jesse Singal. Talking about controversial science. Friday 9 May 2025. What more need we say? Well actually, we say a bit more in this brief podcast.Get your tickets HERE!Or go to bit.ly/tss_live.See you there! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.thestudiesshowpod.com/subscribe

On this week's Film Sack, In London, four very different people team up on a jewel heist, then try to double-cross one another for the loot, complicated by their efforts to fool the very proper barrister Archibald Leach. How does it all hold up? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this week's Film Sack, In London, four very different people team up on a jewel heist, then try to double-cross one another for the loot, complicated by their efforts to fool the very proper barrister Archibald Leach. How does it all hold up? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In London, chancellor Rachel Reeves has been announcing another round of public spending cuts. She's been delivering her Spring statement to the Commons and outlined what she called final adjustments to the benefits changes, which charities and health experts have warned could risk lives. For more, we talk to our London Correspondent Tommy Meskill.

Kapitän O'Brien lässt sich auf ein gefährliches Spiel ein. Auf einem Flug von Hongkong nach London schmuggelt er als Pilot Diamanten in seinem Gürtel. In London will er die Steine an Mittelsmänner verkaufen. Wem kann er trauen? Sein Copilot scheint nichts zu ahnen… Bastian Pastewka präsentiert: Blinde Diamanten Von John Tarrant Mit Herbert Fleischmann, Wolfgang Forester, Steffy Helmar, Edith Heerdegen u.a. Regie: Wolfram Rosemann WDR 1964 Podcast-Tipp: Per Anhalter ins All – SciFi-Hörspiel-Klassiker https://1.ard.de/peranhalterinsall Hinweis: Der Hintergrund des Bildes wurde mit Hilfe von KI erstellt.

This week's show features stories from Radio Deutsche-Welle, France 24, NHK Japan, and Radio Havana Cuba. http://youthspeaksout.net/swr250307.mp3 (29:00) From GERMANY- President Trump reinstated his belief that Greenland will be annexed by the US- there is an election over independence from Denmark next week, and Greenlanders do not want to be connected to the US. At an Egyptian summit Arab leaders endorsed a post-war redevelopment plan for Gaza. Israel has been blocking all aid from reaching Gaza since Sunday, leading to a return to starvation and more death. From FRANCE- First a press review on the Trump administration bypassing Congress to send $4 billion in weapons to Israel, including 35,000 2000 pound bombs- Israel is gearing up for a return to war in Syria. Then some American press on Trumps speech to Congress. Press reviews on the UK summit on Ukraine. From JAPAN- In Japan the price of rice has doubled in the past year leading to a government auction of stockpiles. European leaders are drafting a peace plan for Ukraine. NATO countries skipped an important UN Conference on the Treaty banning nuclear weapons. China is holding its annual Peoples Congress and they are hoping for another 5% increase in GDP despite the US doubling its tariff. From CUBA- Arab leaders endorsed the Egyptian plan for the reconstruction of Gaza, and this story has more details than the DW report I played earlier. In London activists have criticized the BBC for removing the Palestinian documentary that was just awarded an Academy Award. Available in 3 forms- (new) HIGHEST QUALITY (160kb)(33MB), broadcast quality (13MB), and quickdownload or streaming form (6MB) (28:59) Links at outfarpress.com/shortwave.shtml PODCAST!!!- https://feed.podbean.com/outFarpress/feed.xml (160kb Highest Quality) Website Page- < http://www.outfarpress.com/shortwave.shtml ¡FurthuR! Dan Roberts "We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy." -- Henry Miller Dan Roberts Shortwave Report- www.outfarpress.com YouthSpeaksOut!- www.youthspeaksout.net

In London, and towns like Oxford, the Protectorate saw the return of stability, economic change and a revived social scene - and the arrival of the Coffee house, and the penny university. Stability and old rythmns re-established themslves around the country, and royalists reacted in different ways. Some like the L'Estrange family in North Norfolk preserved the old ways and accepted the new, though rattled by the Decimation tax. Others found artistic responses - like Katherine Philips, Izaak Walton, and Margaret Cavendish Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

February 21, 1848. In London, a small publishing house releases the first edition of a book that will change the world: The Communist Manifesto.Support the show! Join Into History for ad-free listening and more.History Daily is a co-production of Airship and Noiser.Go to HistoryDaily.com for more history, daily.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In London, people are PAYING to get away from their phones for a few hours... what to know about these "offline" events.

Der 84-jährige Paul Willi blickt auf eine grosse Karriere zurück. Der einstige Herren- und Damen Coiffeur aus Biberist (SO) schaffte in Australien den Sprung zum angesehenen Fach-Experten für Haarpflegeprodukte des grössten Kosmetik-herstellers der Welt. Als gelernter Herren- und Damen Coiffeur wählte Paul Willi meist die schlechten Stelleninserate aus: «Ich hatte als junger Mann wenig Selbstvertrauen, so begann meine Karriere in einem kleinen Herrensalon in Bettlach.» Auf Drängen seiner Schwester und des Schwagers, besuchte er dann doch eine Coiffeur Fachschule in Luzern. Es war das Sprungbrett in die grosse Welt. 1968 reiste Paul Wili nach London, um in einem Herrensalon sein Können unter Beweis zu stellen: «Ich konnte kein Wort englisch und sagte dann immer «Long or Short Hair» zu den Kunden.» Paul Willi war fasziniert vom Londoner Lebensstil. Einmal begegnete er sogar den Beatles: «Sie liefen an mir vorbei!» In London lernte er später auch seine australische Frau Brenda kennen. Die beiden wanderten Anfang der 1970er Jahre nach Australien aus und gründeten eine Familie: «Die erste Zeit lebten wir in einem kleinen Haus mit Blechdach in Newcastle. Das war am Anfang ein Kulturschock.» Im Ort, fand Paul Willi Arbeit in einem kleinen Damensalon: «Als Mann war es damals schwierig in Australien eine Arbeit als Coiffeur zu finden. Zumal die Männer mehr verdienten als Frauen.» Ein Vertreter von Pflegeprodukten wurde auf den Schweizer aufmerksam und Paul Willi wurde schon bald ebenso Vertreter von Haarprodukten für einen der heute grössten Kosmetikkonzerne der Welt. Als Fachexperte machte er sich rasch einen Namen und war für ganz Australien verantwortlich. Bis zu seiner Pensionierung bereiste er mit seiner Familie die Welt: «Wir lebten in Neuseeland, Tahiti, in Bombay, Paris oder Wien.» Heute nimmt es Paul Willi gemütlich. Mit seiner Frau Brenda besitzen sie ein schmuckes Haus in Elanora an der Gold Coast von Queensland. «Elanora ist ein fantastischer Ort zum Leben» Das Haus von Paul und Brenda Willi liegt direkt an einem See: «Wir gehen oft mit dem Kajak raus, gehen regelmässig schwimmen und geniessen ein feines Frühstück auf der Veranda.» Im Herzen, sagt Paul Willi, sei er bis heute ein Schweizer: «Die Schweiz wird immer meine Heimat sein!» Regelmässig studiert er gar die Webcams: «Ob Zürich, St. Moritz oder Genf, ich weiss immer, wie die Stimmung in der Schweiz ist.»

Two centuries ago, London school reformer Joseph Lancaster swept into New York City to revolutionize its public schools. Pennsylvania and Massachusetts passed laws mandating Lancaster's methods, and cities such as Albany, Savannah, Detroit, and Baltimore soon followed. In Mr. Lancaster's System: The Failed Reform That Created America's Public Schools (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024), Adam Laats tells the story of how this abusive, scheming reformer fooled the world into believing his system could provide free high-quality education for poor children. The system never worked as promised, but thanks to real work done by students, teachers, and families, Lancaster's failed reforms eventually led to the creation of the modern public school system. Lancaster's idea was simple: instead of hiring expensive adult teachers, Lancasterian schools made children teach one another to read, write, and behave properly. America's city leaders poured the equivalent of millions of dollars into the scheme, built specialized school buildings featuring Lancaster's teaching machines, and offered him a huge salary. In London, where Lancaster opened his first school, the enthusiasm of city leaders was quickly and similarly followed by scandal and dismay. Lancaster borrowed money—even from the king of England—and spent it on fancy carriage rides and cases of champagne. Even worse, Lancaster proved to be a sexual predator. Kicked out of London, Lancaster brought his simplistic plan to the United States. His school model didn't work any better in US cities than it had in London, and Lancaster himself never changed his abusive ways. Mr. Lancaster's System details how American cities created their first public schools out of the wreckage of Lancasterian failure. In the end, the most important people in this story are not self-proclaimed geniuses like Lancaster or elites like New York's mayor De Witt Clinton, but rather the thousands of parents and children who forced urban public schools to assume their modern shape. Adam Laats is a professor of education and history at Binghamton University. He taught high school for many years in Milwaukee and is the author of The Other School Reformers and Fundamentalist U. Max Jacobs is a PhD student in education at Rutgers University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Two centuries ago, London school reformer Joseph Lancaster swept into New York City to revolutionize its public schools. Pennsylvania and Massachusetts passed laws mandating Lancaster's methods, and cities such as Albany, Savannah, Detroit, and Baltimore soon followed. In Mr. Lancaster's System: The Failed Reform That Created America's Public Schools (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024), Adam Laats tells the story of how this abusive, scheming reformer fooled the world into believing his system could provide free high-quality education for poor children. The system never worked as promised, but thanks to real work done by students, teachers, and families, Lancaster's failed reforms eventually led to the creation of the modern public school system. Lancaster's idea was simple: instead of hiring expensive adult teachers, Lancasterian schools made children teach one another to read, write, and behave properly. America's city leaders poured the equivalent of millions of dollars into the scheme, built specialized school buildings featuring Lancaster's teaching machines, and offered him a huge salary. In London, where Lancaster opened his first school, the enthusiasm of city leaders was quickly and similarly followed by scandal and dismay. Lancaster borrowed money—even from the king of England—and spent it on fancy carriage rides and cases of champagne. Even worse, Lancaster proved to be a sexual predator. Kicked out of London, Lancaster brought his simplistic plan to the United States. His school model didn't work any better in US cities than it had in London, and Lancaster himself never changed his abusive ways. Mr. Lancaster's System details how American cities created their first public schools out of the wreckage of Lancasterian failure. In the end, the most important people in this story are not self-proclaimed geniuses like Lancaster or elites like New York's mayor De Witt Clinton, but rather the thousands of parents and children who forced urban public schools to assume their modern shape. Adam Laats is a professor of education and history at Binghamton University. He taught high school for many years in Milwaukee and is the author of The Other School Reformers and Fundamentalist U. Max Jacobs is a PhD student in education at Rutgers University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

Two centuries ago, London school reformer Joseph Lancaster swept into New York City to revolutionize its public schools. Pennsylvania and Massachusetts passed laws mandating Lancaster's methods, and cities such as Albany, Savannah, Detroit, and Baltimore soon followed. In Mr. Lancaster's System: The Failed Reform That Created America's Public Schools (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024), Adam Laats tells the story of how this abusive, scheming reformer fooled the world into believing his system could provide free high-quality education for poor children. The system never worked as promised, but thanks to real work done by students, teachers, and families, Lancaster's failed reforms eventually led to the creation of the modern public school system. Lancaster's idea was simple: instead of hiring expensive adult teachers, Lancasterian schools made children teach one another to read, write, and behave properly. America's city leaders poured the equivalent of millions of dollars into the scheme, built specialized school buildings featuring Lancaster's teaching machines, and offered him a huge salary. In London, where Lancaster opened his first school, the enthusiasm of city leaders was quickly and similarly followed by scandal and dismay. Lancaster borrowed money—even from the king of England—and spent it on fancy carriage rides and cases of champagne. Even worse, Lancaster proved to be a sexual predator. Kicked out of London, Lancaster brought his simplistic plan to the United States. His school model didn't work any better in US cities than it had in London, and Lancaster himself never changed his abusive ways. Mr. Lancaster's System details how American cities created their first public schools out of the wreckage of Lancasterian failure. In the end, the most important people in this story are not self-proclaimed geniuses like Lancaster or elites like New York's mayor De Witt Clinton, but rather the thousands of parents and children who forced urban public schools to assume their modern shape. Adam Laats is a professor of education and history at Binghamton University. He taught high school for many years in Milwaukee and is the author of The Other School Reformers and Fundamentalist U. Max Jacobs is a PhD student in education at Rutgers University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

Two centuries ago, London school reformer Joseph Lancaster swept into New York City to revolutionize its public schools. Pennsylvania and Massachusetts passed laws mandating Lancaster's methods, and cities such as Albany, Savannah, Detroit, and Baltimore soon followed. In Mr. Lancaster's System: The Failed Reform That Created America's Public Schools (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024), Adam Laats tells the story of how this abusive, scheming reformer fooled the world into believing his system could provide free high-quality education for poor children. The system never worked as promised, but thanks to real work done by students, teachers, and families, Lancaster's failed reforms eventually led to the creation of the modern public school system. Lancaster's idea was simple: instead of hiring expensive adult teachers, Lancasterian schools made children teach one another to read, write, and behave properly. America's city leaders poured the equivalent of millions of dollars into the scheme, built specialized school buildings featuring Lancaster's teaching machines, and offered him a huge salary. In London, where Lancaster opened his first school, the enthusiasm of city leaders was quickly and similarly followed by scandal and dismay. Lancaster borrowed money—even from the king of England—and spent it on fancy carriage rides and cases of champagne. Even worse, Lancaster proved to be a sexual predator. Kicked out of London, Lancaster brought his simplistic plan to the United States. His school model didn't work any better in US cities than it had in London, and Lancaster himself never changed his abusive ways. Mr. Lancaster's System details how American cities created their first public schools out of the wreckage of Lancasterian failure. In the end, the most important people in this story are not self-proclaimed geniuses like Lancaster or elites like New York's mayor De Witt Clinton, but rather the thousands of parents and children who forced urban public schools to assume their modern shape. Adam Laats is a professor of education and history at Binghamton University. He taught high school for many years in Milwaukee and is the author of The Other School Reformers and Fundamentalist U. Max Jacobs is a PhD student in education at Rutgers University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/public-policy

Two centuries ago, London school reformer Joseph Lancaster swept into New York City to revolutionize its public schools. Pennsylvania and Massachusetts passed laws mandating Lancaster's methods, and cities such as Albany, Savannah, Detroit, and Baltimore soon followed. In Mr. Lancaster's System: The Failed Reform That Created America's Public Schools (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024), Adam Laats tells the story of how this abusive, scheming reformer fooled the world into believing his system could provide free high-quality education for poor children. The system never worked as promised, but thanks to real work done by students, teachers, and families, Lancaster's failed reforms eventually led to the creation of the modern public school system. Lancaster's idea was simple: instead of hiring expensive adult teachers, Lancasterian schools made children teach one another to read, write, and behave properly. America's city leaders poured the equivalent of millions of dollars into the scheme, built specialized school buildings featuring Lancaster's teaching machines, and offered him a huge salary. In London, where Lancaster opened his first school, the enthusiasm of city leaders was quickly and similarly followed by scandal and dismay. Lancaster borrowed money—even from the king of England—and spent it on fancy carriage rides and cases of champagne. Even worse, Lancaster proved to be a sexual predator. Kicked out of London, Lancaster brought his simplistic plan to the United States. His school model didn't work any better in US cities than it had in London, and Lancaster himself never changed his abusive ways. Mr. Lancaster's System details how American cities created their first public schools out of the wreckage of Lancasterian failure. In the end, the most important people in this story are not self-proclaimed geniuses like Lancaster or elites like New York's mayor De Witt Clinton, but rather the thousands of parents and children who forced urban public schools to assume their modern shape. Adam Laats is a professor of education and history at Binghamton University. He taught high school for many years in Milwaukee and is the author of The Other School Reformers and Fundamentalist U. Max Jacobs is a PhD student in education at Rutgers University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/education

“What are you going through?” This was one of the central animating questions in Simone Weil's thought that pushed her beyond philosophy into action. Weil believed that genuinely asking this question of the other, particularly the afflicted other, then truly listening and prayerfully attending, would move us toward an enactment of justice and love.Simone Weil believed that any suffering that can be ameliorated, should be.In this episode, Part 2 of our short series on How to Read Simone Weil, Cynthia Wallace (Associate Professor of English at St. Thomas More College at the University of Saskatchewan), and author of The Literary Afterlives of Simone Weil: Feminism, Justice, and the Challenge of Religion and Evan Rosa discuss the risky self-giving way of Simone Weil; her incredible literary influence, particularly on late 20th century feminist writers; the possibility of redemptive suffering; the morally complicated territory of self-sacrificial care and the way that has traditionally fallen to women and minorities; what it means to make room and practicing hospitality for the afflicted other; hunger; the beauty of vulnerability; and that grounding question for Simone Weil political ethics, “What are you going through?”We're in our second episode of a short series exploring How to Read Simone Weil. She's the author of Gravity and Grace, The Need for Roots, and Waiting for God—among many other essays, letters, and notes—and a deep and lasting influence that continues today.In this series, we're exploring Simone Weil the Mystic, Simone Weil the Activist, Simone Weil the Existentialist. And what we'll see is that so much of her spiritual, political, and philosophical life, are deeply unified in her way of being and living and dying.And on that note, before we go any further, I need to issue a correction from our previous episode in which I erroneously stated that Weil died in France. And I want to thank subscriber and listener Michael for writing and correcting me.Actually she died in England in 1943, having ambivalently fled France in 1942 when it was already under Nazi occupation—first to New York, then to London to work with the Free French movement and be closer to her home.And as I went back to fix my research, I began to realize just how important her place of death was. She died in a nursing home outside London. In Kent, Ashford to be precise. She had become very sick, and in August 1943 was moved to the Grosvenor Sanitorium.The manner and location of her death matter because it's arguable that her death by heart failure was not a self-starving suicide (as the coroner reported), but rather, her inability to eat was a complication rising from tuberculosis, combined with her practice of eating no more than the meager rations her fellow Frenchmen lived on under Nazi occupation.Her biographer Richard Rees wrote: "As for her death, whatever explanation one may give of it will amount in the end to saying that she died of love.In going back over the details of her death, I found a 1977 New York Times article by Elizabeth Hardwick, and I'll quote at length, as it offers a very fitting entry into this week's episode on her life of action, solidarity, and identification with and attention to the affliction of others.“Simone Weil, one of the most brilliant, and original minds of 20th century France, died at the age of 34 in a nursing home near London. The coroner issued a verdict of suicide, due to voluntary starvation—an action undertaken at least in part out of wish not to eat more than the rations given her compatriots in France under the German occupation. The year of her death was 1943.“The willed deprivation of her last period was not new; indeed refusal seems to have been a part of her character since infancy. What sets her apart from our current ascetics with their practice of transcendental meditation, diet, vegetarianism, ashram simplicities, yoga is that with them the deprivations and rigors‐are undergone for the pay‐off—for tranquility, for thinness, for the hope of a long life—or frequently, it seems, to fill the hole of emptiness so painful to the narcissist. With Simone Well it was entirely the opposite.“It was her wish, or her need, to undergo misery, affliction and deprivation because such had been the lot of mankind throughout history. Her wish was not to feel better, but to honor the sufferings of the lowest. Thus around 1935, when she was 25 years old, this woman of transcendent intellectual gifts and the widest learning, already very frail and suffering from severe headaches, was determined to undertake a year of work in a factory. The factories, the assembly lines, were then the modem equivalent of “slavery,” and she survived in her own words as “forever a slave.” What she went through at the factory “marked me in so lasting a manner that still today when any human being, whoever he may be and in whatever circumstances, speaks to me without brutality, I cannot help having the impression teat there must be a mistake....”[Her contemporary] “Simone de Beauvoir tells of meeting her when they were preparing for examinations to enter a prestigious private school. ‘She intrigued me because of her great reputation for intelligence and her bizarre outfits. ... A great famine had broken out in China, and I was told that when she heard the news she had wept. . . . I envied her for having a heart that could beat round the world.'“In London her health vanished, even though the great amount of writing she did right up to the time she went to the hospital must have come from those energies of the dying we do not understand—the energies of certain chosen dying ones, that is. Her behavior in the hospital, her refusal and by now her Inability to eat, vexed and bewildered the staff. Her sense of personal accountability to the world's suffering had reached farther than sense could follow.”Last week, we heard from Eric Springsted, one of the co-founders of the American Weil Society and author of Simone Weil for the Twenty-First Century.Next week, we'll explore Simone Weil the Existentialist—with philosopher Deborah Casewell, author of Monotheism & Existentialism and Co-Director of the Simone Weil Research Network in the UK.But this week we're looking at Simone Weil the Activist—her perspectives on redemptive suffering, her longing for justice, and her lasting influence on feminist writers. With me is Cynthia Wallace, associate professor of English at St. Thomas More College at the University of Saskatchewan, and author of The Literary Afterlives of Simone Weil: Feminism, Justice, and the Challenge of Religion.This is unique because it's learning how to read Simone Weil from some of her closest readers and those she influenced, including poets and writers such as Adrienne Rich, Denise Levertov, and Annie Dillard.About Cynthia WallaceCynthia Wallace is Associate Professor of English at St. Thomas More College at the University of Saskatchewan, and author of The Literary Afterlives of Simone Weil: Feminism, Justice, and the Challenge of Religion, as well as **Of Women Borne: A Literary Ethics of Suffering.About Simone WeilSimone Weil (1909–1943) was a French philosopher, mystic, and political activist. She's the author of Gravity and Grace, The Need for Roots, and Waiting for God—among many other essays, letters, and notes.Show NotesCynthia Wallace (Associate Professor of English at St. Thomas More College at the University of Saskatchewan), and author of The Literary Afterlives of Simone Weil: Feminism, Justice, and the Challenge of ReligionElizabeth Hardwick, “A woman of transcendent intellect who assumed the sufferings of humanity” (New York Times, Jan 23, 1977)Of Women Borne: A Literary Ethics of SufferingThe hard work of productive tensionSimone Weil on homework: “Reflections on the Right Use of School Studies with a View to the Love of God”Open, patient, receptive waiting in school studies — same skill as prayer“What are you going through?” Then you listen.Union organizerWaiting for God and Gravity & GraceVulnerability and tendernessJustice and Feminism, and “making room for the other”Denise Levertov's  ”Mass for the Day of St. Thomas Didymus”“Levertov wrote herself into Catholic conversion”“after pages and pages of struggle, she finally says: “So be it. Come rag of pungent quiverings,  dim star, let's try  if something human still can shield you, spark of remote light.”“And so she  argues that God isn't  particularly active in the world that we have, except for when we open ourselves to these chances of divine encounter.”“ Her imagination of God is different from how I think  a lot of contemporary Western   people think about an all powerful, all knowing God. Vae thinks about God as having done exactly what she's asking us to do, which is to make room for the other to exist in a way that requires us to give up power.”Exploiting self-emptying, particularly of women“Exposing the degree to which women have been disproportionately expected to sacrifice themselves.”Disproportionate self-sacrifice of women and in particular women of colorAdrienne Rich, Of Woman Borne: ethics that care for the otherThe distinction between suffering and afflictionAdrienne Rich's poem, “Hunger”Embodiment“ You have to follow both sides to the kind of limit of their capacity for thought, and then see what you find in that untidy both-and-ness.”Annie Dillard's expansive attentivenessPilgrim at Tinker Creek and attending to the world: “ to bear witness to the world in a way that tells the truth about what is brutal in the world, while also telling the truth about what is glorious  in the world.”“She's suspicious of our imaginations because she doesn't want us to distract  ourselves from contemplating the void.”Dillard, For the Time Being (1999) on natural evil and injusticeGoing from attention to creation“Reading writers writing about writing”Joan Didion: “I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means, what I want and what I fear.”Writing as both creation and discoveryFriendship and “ we let the other person be who they are instead of trying to make them who we want them to be.”The joy of creativity—pleasure and desire“ Simone Weil argues that suffering that can be ameliorated should be.”“ What is possible through shared practices of attention?”The beauty of vulnerability and the blossoms of fruit trees“What it takes for us to be fed”Need for ourselves, each other, and the divineProduction NotesThis podcast featured Cynthia WallaceEdited and Produced by Evan RosaHosted by Evan RosaProduction Assistance by Emily Brookfield, Liz Vukovic, and Kacie BarrettA Production of the Yale Center for Faith & Culture at Yale Divinity School https://faith.yale.edu/aboutSupport For the Life of the World podcast by giving to the Yale Center for Faith & Culture: https://faith.yale.edu/give

Cynthia Collier grew up in Salt Lake City in a family that enjoyed the performing arts. She studied philosophy, English, and music at Brigham Young University, and has taught music and theater in schools. Over the past 25 years she has been involved in writing and directing live productions for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, including Savior of the World at the Conference Center Theater in Salt Lake City, and the Nauvoo and British pageants in Nauvoo, Illinois. She has served in the Church as a teacher, in various music callings, and in presidencies in wards and stakes. She most recently served with her husband as a branch minister at the University of Utah and Huntsman Hospitals in Salt Lake City. She is married to Eric Collier and is a mother and grandmother. Amy Robinson graduated from Brigham Young University in Humanities and Modern dance, and was thrilled to be part of the BYU International Folk dance team and Modern Dance team. She believes her greatest educational opportunities came from touring with those companies to many amazing places including China, India, and Europe. This may be where she gained her nomadic spirit—she and her husband Nathan have moved 27 times in 20 years of marriage! In London, England, in 2013, Amy had the opportunity to create the choreography for the first British Pageant. It was a life-changing experience to see the miracles that came to the participants of that show and audience. In 2015, Amy enjoyed helping set the British pageant on the Nauvoo stage and returned to help family casts learn choreography for the pageants in 2022 and 2024. She considers it her dream job to "move with joy" with the casts in England and then Nauvoo. Amy has also been part of the Arts in Education program in Utah through Tanner Dance, teaching dancers of all ages in elementary schools, and teaches folk dance at American Heritage School in Salt Lake City. Amy and Nathan are the parents of six children and her greatest joy is time spent with them—dancing in the kitchen and singing in the car—and serving in the Church, especially with youth and children. Links Share your thoughts in the Leading Saints community Transcript coming soon Get 14-day access to the Core Leader Library Highlights Coming soon The award-winning Leading Saints Podcast is one of the top independent Latter-day Saints podcasts as part of nonprofit Leading Saints' mission to help Latter-day Saints be better prepared to lead. Learn more and listen to any of the past episodes for free at LeadingSaints.org. Past guests include Emily Belle Freeman, David Butler, Hank Smith, John Bytheway, Reyna and Elena Aburto, Liz Wiseman, Stephen M. R. Covey, Elder Alvin F. Meredith III, Julie Beck, Brad Wilcox, Jody Moore, Tony Overbay, John H. Groberg, Elaine Dalton, Tad R. Callister, Lynn G. Robbins, J. Devn Cornish, Bonnie Oscarson, Dennis B. Neuenschwander, Kirby Heyborne, Taysom Hill Anthony Sweat, John Hilton III, Barbara Morgan Gardner, Blair Hodges, Whitney Johnson, Ryan Gottfredson, Greg McKeown, Ganel-Lyn Condie, Michael Goodman, Wendy Ulrich, Richard Ostler, and many more in over 700 episodes. Discover podcasts, articles, virtual conferences, and live events related to callings such as the bishopric, Relief Society, elders quorum, Primary, youth leadership, stake leadership, ward mission, ward council, young adults, ministering, and teaching.

Cinematographer Alice Brooks, ASC was in post on In The Heights four years ago when director Jon M. Chu let her know their next project together was adapting the world-famous Broadway musical, Wicked. With such a huge fan base, Alice and Chu wanted to make sure they respected the musical, but they both wanted to find a dynamic, filmic way to approach the material. “John kept instilling in us, don't make the obvious choices,” Alice says. “We were all creating a world of Oz together that no one had ever seen before, that was magical and wondrous and a little bit different.” Alice chose to go back to the source material for inspiration- the Oz books by L. Frank Baum. “Every single paragraph has an incredibly rich color description. Beautiful, poetic, just the world of Oz in color. It's unbelievable. And color means something, color is symbolism in Oz. No color is arbitrary.” Alice embraced all the colors of the rainbow for Wicked. They chose the color palette of pink and green for Glinda (Ariana Grande) and Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo), with pink hued lighting to represent hope and connection between the two characters. In Wicked, good and evil are not as clearly defined as in typical fairy tales, since it's the origin story of how Elphaba becomes the wicked witch. Alice knew she could play with light and contrast between the two characters. Sunrise lighting would represent Glinda, while sunset and darkness represented Elphaba. Alice made notes in the script for time of day as references for each character. She worked closely with gaffer David Smith to create complex lighting cues throughout the film to match sunrise for Glinda and sunset and darkness for Elphaba. Early on, the production team discussed how to create the magical world of Oz without relying on bluescreens or virtual production. In London, they built real, massive, practical sets just like in old Hollywood movies. Alice remembers that Wicked used 17 sets that were 85 feet by 145 feet, with four huge backlots: Munchkinland, Shiz University, the train station, and Emerald City. Each was the size of four American football fields. “We had real tangible spaces to light and to create in,” she says. “And we didn't live in a blue screen world that so many movies do these days.” To create just the right green skin tone for actress Cynthia Erivo, Alice and makeup designer Frances Hannon did several makeup and lighting tests on different shades of green. It took a lot of trial and error to find the right shade of green- many hues simply looked like paint, or appeared grayish under the lights. As the DP, Alice also had to choose what lenses Wicked would use to capture both the scope and intimacy of the story. She worked with Dan Sasaski, Panavision's senior vice president of optical engineering and lens strategy, to create the Ultra Panatar II series of lenses for the film. For closeups, Alice chose a 65 mm lens for Cynthia Erivo and a 75mm lens for Ariana Grande because she found that a slightly different focal length for each actress worked best, due to the different shapes of their faces. Find Alice Brooks: Instagram @_alicebrooks_ Hear our previous interview with Alice Brooks on In the Heights. https://www.camnoir.com/ep130/ Wicked is currently in theaters. Sponsored by Hot Rod Cameras: https://hotrodcameras.com/ The Cinematography Podcast website: www.camnoir.com Facebook: @cinepod Instagram: @thecinepod Twitter: @ShortEndz