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Asian and European markets are nosediving for a third straight day as Donald Trump doubles down on tariffs. Weighing further on investors, China is the first to pull the trigger on reciprocal tariffs. For the Europeans, is it best to wait and let the markets temper Trump's zeal for trade barriers? Or does retribution require nerves of steel? Last week, France and Germany called on the European Union to hit the US where it hurts: its tech sector.But just as the Covid pandemic made Europe realise how overdependent it is on Chinese manufactured goods and medicines, is the Old Continent just now waking up to the reality that in an increasingly demonetised world, the US controls both the software and the financing of our daily transactions? Produced by Rebecca Gnignati, Ilayda Habip and Oihana Almandoz.
If Europeans didn't get the memo in Munich, when JD Vance preferred a meeting with the pro-Putin far-right leader Alice Weidel to one with Germany's chancellor Olaf Scholz, then they're cordially invited to read what he says in private about an Old Continent populated by "freeloaders". If Signalgate's still not enough, then how about a sitting US vice president announcing an uninvited visit to Greenland? A "very aggressive" posture, says Denmark's prime minister. But what can Mette Frederiksen do when her country buys most of its military hardware from the US and hosts a US Air Force base in Greenland? The Danish leader is representing one of over 30 NATO countries present in Paris for a "coalition of the willing" summit on Ukraine. But those 32 nations do not include the United States.Co-hosts France and the UK know they can't deploy peacekeepers over the heads of a reluctant Trump administration.So what's the workaround? And with Washington now repeating what sounds like Kremlin talking points, how grave a danger is there not just for Ukraine, but for all of Europe? Is the EU overreacting when it advises its citizens to stockpile three days of food and essentials just in case?
Over the past few months and years, across Europe, far-right parties have gained electoral support. From recent elections in Italy and Sweden, to France, Germany, Spain, Poland or Hungary: a conservative wind appears to blow over the Old Continent. One narrative all these far-right political forces have in common is a return to traditional gender norms. But why are these narratives so successful? And what does this tell us about the relationship between younger generations, social class and conservative world-views?Join us on our journey through the events that shape the European continent and the European Union.Production: EuropodFollow us on:LinkedInInstagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode #19 (English). Guest: MC Dave Mailman : Master of the - Boardsports - Community Ex-Marketing Director Quiksilver Europe, ex-President Association of Surfing Professionals Europe, Journalist, Speaker, Voice Over Artist, Consultant Basically everyone in the Action Sports industry knows Dave Mailman. And that's no surprise: for over 20 years, he was the voice behind the biggest surfing and snowboarding events across the Old Continent and has commented hundreds of heats on the beach or on webcasts. Be that as it may, few actually know Dave's story in detail. It's the story of a young Californian with a passion for skateboarding and surfing, who took French lesson in high school. He then came to spend a summer on the Basque coast…but basically never left. It was the heyday of surfing, skateboarding and snowboarding and Dave was lucky enough to witness the founding moments of this movement. Having mastered the languages of both Tom Curren and Serge Vitelli, he penned articles in the snowboard magazine OnBoard. After a quick passage with Arnette, Dave arrived at Quiksilver to take over as Head of marketing for Europe. Dave tells us about this blossoming time when ideas (shootings, trips, events) overruled budgets. He is namely to thank for the now iconic Bowlriders contest in Marseille. He'll tell us all about how came about and his memories of that project. It will also give us a chance to hear how « The Mountain and the Wave » was able to infiltrate the core skate market, the missing puzzle piece in their catalog. For this 19th episode, Dave will also discuss the various subsequent steps of his career: 4 years as President of the ASP Europe, his work on the Freeride World Tour, the Verbier Extreme and even various editorial projects he's worked on since then (including podcasts!). Among many other subjects. A fascinating new episode on the history of our Action Sports industry, seen through the lens the most American of our European key players. Enjoy the ride. Recorded in the MACS premises in St Vincent de Tyrosse on January 25th 2024. Editorial production: EuroSIMA Animation: Romain Ferrand / Rémi Chaussemiche Technical production: Fred de Bailliencourt Photos: Stéphane Robin /// Français (Episode en anglais) Tout le monde - ou presque - connaît Dave Mailman dans le milieu européen de l'Action Sports. Et pour cause : il est depuis plus de 20 ans la voix de certains des plus gros événements surf et snowboard du Vieux-Continent. En revanche, peu de monde connaît sans doute en détail l'histoire de Dave. Celle d'un jeune californien venu passer un été sur la Côte Basque dans les années 90 et n'en est pour ainsi dire jamais reparti. L'époque coïncidait avec le boom du surf, du skate et du snowboard, et Dave se fera le témoin privilégié de moments fondateurs de ce mouvement. Maîtrisant la langue de Tom Curren comme celle de Serge Vitelli, il nourrit d'abord les pages du mag européen de snow OnBoard, puis - après un bref passage chez Arnette - débarque chez Quiksilver dont il prendra la direction marketing Europe. Dave raconte cette époque où les idées (shootings, trips, événements) primaient sur les budgets. C'est notamment à lui que l'on doit le mythique contest Bowlriders de Marseille dont il nous raconte les origines et partage ses souvenirs. Dave raconte également la suite : la présidence de l'ASP Europe pendant 4 ans, le Freeride World Tour, le Verbier Extreme et les divers projets éditoriaux menés depuis. Parmi plein d'autres choses. Un épisode passionnant sur l'histoire de notre industrie des sports de glisse, vue par le prisme du plus Américain de ses acteurs européens. Retrouvez nos podcasts sur Insideurosima.com et sur Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube et Deezer.
Episode #17 (English). Recorded in the MACS premises in St Vincent de Tyrosse on January 25th 2024. (French version below) Guest : Reid Pinder (Billabong Europe, Sunday Collab, ALT MLK) (Podcast en anglais) - They say travel shapes one's youth, but it can also shape one's destiny and Reid Pinder is the perfect example of that. In the late 80's, Europe was supposed to be no more than a passing trip in the life of a certain young Australian surferfrom the Sunshine Coast. That was until a serendipitous encounter with Derek O'Neill on a ferry changed everything. Derek was getting ready to launch Billabong Europe, given the potential of the budding surfing industry on the Old Continent, and he invited Reid to join the adventure. Having arrived in Hossegor in the snowy winter of 1991, Reid had a hard time believing an Australian surfwear brand could make it there...but that would come to change. Nearly 30 years later, 20 of which were spent at the head of Billabong Europe, Reid took the time to dive into the past with us: from the very beginnings and how the company was built, to the healthy competitive spirit of the time, to managing the frantic growth of Billabong but also everything about handling teams and events, he covers it all. He also took the time to discuss the group's ambitious acquisitions strategy, the development of the snow range as well as the women's division. The second chapter of his career is just as interesting. Reid tells us about is current adventures in entrepreneurship with Sunday Collab and Alt Mlk, two successful businesses that have blossomed thanksto hisflair, hissense of business but also his natural ability to surround himself with the right people in markets that are both so far away from the surfing industry, and yet so close as well. This new episode draws the portrait of a key player in the European surfing industry, who has contributed to laying the foundations of our industry from Hossegor to Mundaka, including Ericeira. An instructive, inspiring and fascinating episode. Enjoy the ride. Editorial production: EUROSIMA Animation: Romain Ferrand / Rémi Chaussemiche Technical production: Fred de Bailliencourt Photos: Stéphane Robin /// Français (Podcast en anglais) - Les voyages forment la jeunesse, ils peuvent aussi forger des destins. L'histoire de Reid Pinder en est un bon exemple. L'Europe n'était à la fin des années 80 qu'une étape dans la vie du surfeur australien originaire de la Sunshine Coast. Jusqu'à une rencontre aussi fortuite que providentielle avec Derek O'Neill dans un ferry. L'objectif de ce dernier : lancer la structure Billabong Europe, fort du potentiel de la surf-industry qui vit ses premières heures sur le Vieux-Continent. Il propose à Reid de se joindre à lui dans l'aventure. En débarquant à Hossegor sous la neige durant l'hiver 1991, Reid a pourtant du mal à croire au succès d'une marque de surfwear australienne. Avant de vite se raviser. Près de 30 ans plus tard, dont 20 passés à la tête de la division européenne de Billabong, Reid revient sur cette épopée : les débuts, la structuration de la société, la concurrence saine avec les autres marques, la gestion de la croissance vertigineuse de Billabong ou encore du team et des évènements. Il revient aussi en détail sur l'ambitieuse stratégie d'acquisition du groupe, le déploiement de la gamme snow ou encore la division Womens etc. La suite de sa carrière est tout aussi intéressante. Reid raconte notamment ses aventures entrepreneuriales actuelles à travers Sunday Collab et Alt Mlk. Des succès une nouvelle fois liés à son flair, son sens du business et à sa capacité à bien s'entourer, sur ces marchés à la fois éloignés et proches du monde de la glisse. Un nouvel épisode qui dresse le portrait d'un personnage clé de la surf-industry européenne, dont il a contribué à bâtir les fondations entre Hossegor, Mundaka et Ericeira. Instructif, inspirant et passionnant. Bonne écoute.
The new season of "Echoes of History" features Ubisoft's new game: "Skull and Bones.Is it possible to be a military man and outlaw at the same time? Well, it's all a matter of perspective. A strategic prodigy of the Maratha Empire in India, Kanhoji Angria was appointed admiral before he turned 30. Unbeatable at sea, he attacked the ships of East India Companies, which enriched Europe at the expense of local populations. Although he was an admiral, on the Old Continent, the name Kanhoji Angria is synonymous with pirate. The greatest Indian pirate in history to challenge former European colonial powers...An original Ubisoft series produced by Paradiso MediaIf you liked this podcast please subscribe, rate and review. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.Hosted by: Michelle RodriguezWritten by: Gaspard WallutHistorical advisor: Philippe HrodejProduced by: Morgan Jaffe, Axelle Gobert, Clément LesaffreProduction assistants: Sofia Martins, Brendan Galbreath, Aimie FaconnierMixing and editing: Adrien Le BlondOriginal music: David SpinelliPre-existing music: CézameIllustration: Gilles FeuermannInternational coordination: Martin StahlUbisoft credits: Etienne Bouvier (executive producer), Julien Fabre (executive producer), Lionel Hiller, Alicia Dib, Thomas Soulé, Valentin Hopfner Sebastien Ratto, Jérôme Lambert, Carole Weissenbacher, Justine Villeneuve & Ubisoft Singapore teamsParadiso Media credits: Emi Norris (executive producer), Lorenzo Benedetti (executive producer), Benoit Dunaigre (executive producer), Louis Daboussy (executive producer)Special thanks to Molly O'Keefe Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Date: June 21, 2023Name of podcast: Backstage Pass RadioEpisode title and number: S4: E18 - Zak Perry - Waking Up The VulturesArtist Bio -Zak Perry is an author, composer, guitarist, and performer from Texas based in North of France, where he registered his 13th album « Waking Up The Vultures ».Native from Missouri, Zak Perry was heading for a beautiful professional golfing career but music came through. He first lived in New York where he could launch his music before going to Austin. Over there he met success and has obtained music awards, especially for his song Mama, on the Dogwood album. His hits were also broadcasted many times on Fox News and climbed in the Texan Top 40.Upon this success, Zak Perry feels like a troubadour singer. Galveston, his American living town, is also the place where he met his French manager, Fabrice Cat. A relationship was born from this beautiful meeting and Zak decided to live in a second-french-home in Preux-au-Sart, a village that inspired him to write the eponym song, in the « Live Session In France » album.Then, Zak Perry launches many tours in France and the Netherlands, winning the loyalty of his audience. He played also in Belgium, in the Blue Sphere in Cork, and in the Trabendo and Raismes Fest. His single « Do Me Like That » was played on Classic 21, a rock Belgian radio.A veteran of the American independent music scene for over 35 years, Zak lives with a genuine intensity rarely seen. With his diverse experiences, boundless curiosity, and quest for the continued development of his craft, it is a fully formed musical and human experience that he offers to the Old Continent with The Beautiful Things.He defines his style as “a cocktail of rock, country, blues and Gospel” and was compared to The Allman Brothers Band and Soundgarden bands. His references come from the heart of purely American sounds, from Neil Young to Led Zeppelin, while Ray Charles is one of his writing models. His compositions and his very revealing interpretation of this Texan music are rooted in a precise set of instruments and rhythms.Sponsor Link:WWW.ECOTRIC.COMBackstage Pass Radio Social Media Handles:Facebook - @backstagepassradiopodcast @randyhulseymusicInstagram - @Backstagepassradio @randyhulseymusicTwitter - @backstagepassPC @rhulseymusicWebsite - backstagepassradio.com and randyhulsey.comArtist Media Handles:Website - www.zak-perry.comCall to actionWe ask our listeners to like, share, and subscribe to the show and the artist's social media pages. This enables us to continue pushing great content to the consumer. Thank you for being a part of Backstage Pass RadioYour Host,Randy Hulsey
It's now official! Three years after its first stint, the NBA is back in Paris. The six-time champion Chicago Bulls and the three-time champion Detroit Pistons will face each other on Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023. On this occasion, we wanted to spotlight an episode recorded almost two years ago with Bastien Lacheny, Associate Vice President Media Distribution EMEA. We discussed the international footprint of the league but also its main challenges and objectives in Europe. In this highlight, Bastien focuses on the NBA media rights strategy in Europe as well as the different relations that link up the American League and the Old Continent. If you had good time listening this episode, do not hesitate to support us: 1. By subscribing, it's just a small click 2. By putting 5 stars on Apple Podcast to help us spread it. Finally, if you want to know more about LaSource's activity, a small tour on our website and/or on our Linkedin page never hurts: https://www.lasource.io and/or on our Linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/joinlasource/ LeCorner is a podcast dedicated to sports and digital. Every two weeks, we have the pleasure to receive a distinguished guest from the sports industry to talk to us about digital, innovation and strategic development.
Friends of the Rosary: We celebrate today Our Lady of the Rosary, a feast instituted by Pope St. Pius V to honor the Blessed Mother in thanksgiving for the naval victory over the Turks at the battle of Lepanto on October 7, 1571. The Islamic forces were about to conquer Europe imposing their ideology. Many Europeans recited the Rosary asking for protection to the Most Holy Mary. The Old Continent was saved from darkness. It was the largest miracle of the Rosary shown in human history. Ave Maria! Jesus, I Trust In You! Our Lady of the Rosary, Pray for Us! + Mikel A. | RosaryNetwork.com, New York • October 7, 2021, Today's Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET
Over the past few months and years, across Europe, far-right parties have gained electoral support. From recent elections in Italy and Sweden, to France, Germany, Spain, Poland or Hungary: a conservative wind appears to blow over the Old Continent. One narrative all these far-right political forces have in common is a return to traditional gender norms. But why are these narratives so successful? And what does this tell us about the relationship between younger generations, social class and conservative world-views? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Zomergeesten aflevering 5 (Boze Geesten Podcast #51) Gast: Timon Dias Camera: Thomas de Boer Audio nabewerking: Jasper Cremers Mecenas Patreon: Josha Sietsma Speciale Dank: Valentijn Benard Steun Zomergeesten / Boze Geesten Podcast
Speedinvest was among the first European early-stage VC firms when its founders started to take Silicon Valley's getting-hands-dirty practices from their own entrepreneurs' journey to the Old Continent, said investor Andreas Schwarzenbrunner.Vienna-headquartered Speedinvest has invested in some 250 companies, including 20 investments in climate tech startups. The firm manages assets of about half a billion euros.**A few key takeaways from Andreas Schwarzenbrunner:**"I think there's a gap between the software digital-focused climate tech companies versus ones that are really into more development of new ideas, R&D, infrastructure, and hardware."**"I think there the investor scene needs to adapt because if you're serious about climate tech, and if you are serious about decarbonization, and reducing emissions, the investor scene, including us, has to realize that there is no way around hardware.At the end of the day, if you really look at the hard problems in climate tech, there are so many things that can't be solved otherwise. It's about reducing emissions when you use concrete and steel; it's about new ways of electrified mobility and charging infrastructure.If you look at energy storage and hydrogen solutions, there's no way around building the storage facilities and all those things. Investors need to adapt and realize that if you're serious about it, you have to tackle these problems."**"We also see that this climate tech is basically a maturing asset class ... you can see the rise of investors in climate tech, money that goes into that space. And for us, we also want to double down on this, and we want to continue to invest and even invest more in climate tech companies over the years to come."**
BIOGRAPHYOriginally from St. Charles, Missouri, and the son of a musical family (both his mother and father were singers and songwriters), Zak Perry was curiously destined not to become a musician. Instead he was to become a professional golfer. This did not sit well with the young man, however, “I knew deep down that this was not the direction I wanted to take. That's when I decided I wanted to set up a band. It was certainly a form of rebellion,” Zak recalled to the Texas based www.galvestonislandguide.com website.During his tenure in New York, Zak made several fateful encounters including Tim Beattie of The Four Horsemen and Marry Me Jane and guitarist Tony Saracene. However, there was one chance meeting that would solidify the next piece of the musical foundation that Zak had been trying to construct since he wrote his first song at the age of 13; in 1997 Zak met guitarist Vern Vennard. Vern, who's most recent gig at that point had been as a guitar tech for Marry Me Jane recalls, “Tim and Zak were part of a songwriters circle gig at the Bitter End in New York City. I was just hanging out cuz I knew so many of the cats that were playing that night. I was hanging backstage and he came up to me and said that he had a small mid-western tour coming up and would I be interested in going with him. Except, I thought he wanted me to be a guitar tech!”Vern realized that Zak actually wanted him in the band when, just before leaving, he turned to Vern and asked, “you play slide, right?”So began the journey that took Zak and Vern from NYC to Memphis, TN and then to St. Louis, MO where they meet the next person to become a loyal musical companion: Drummer Jason Charron. With a revolving cast of bass players in tow, the core trio leaves the Midwest for the musical Mecca of Austin, TX, where, in 2000, they form the combo Ma Driver. Soon after adding the fourth key player, Scott “Sting” Ray on bass Zak re-christened the group, The Zak Perry Band, further defining his true musical signature.Since 2016, Zak Perry has been performing regularly for his European audiences. To date, he has engaged in five tours, either with the band or as an acoustic duo with Vern, in France, Belgium and the Netherlands. The very first acoustic duo tour in 2016 was documented by the live album “Unplugged In Belgium” , which received a rave review in Blues Magazine NL.Stimulated by the warm European welcome, Zak and the band ensconced to their home studio in 2017 to record “Marrow”, the first release featuring the band's brand new name of Zak Perry & The Beautiful Things. A name change that is significant in that it reflects the beautiful adventures that Zak and the band have come to know with his European audience. This veteran of the American independent scene now claims to be deeply attached to the Old Continent, a fact illustrated by adding to the Beautiful Things French musicians Julien Mahieux on drums and Guillaume Maillard on bass and by Zak now considering the North of France as his new home; shown by a brand new song, “Preux-Au-Sart”, written about the northern village in France the band uses as their European base of operations.In fact, several brand new songs will accompany “Preux-Au-Sart” on the release of the band's next album: “Live In France” from Yokatta Records, which is available April 2019. Although it is the eleventh release of his career it is the first that Zak has recorded outside the United States.And so, it is to the growing audience on the European side of the Atlantic that the band now turns their attention on continuing the musical journey of Zak Perry & The Beautiful Things. Don't Miss It!
In the summer of 1941, as Italy warred its way to a series of territorial annexations in east Africa and the Mediterranean, a little-known anti-fascist activist by the name of Altiero Spinelli languished in prison, his restless mind fantasizing about Europe's postbellum future. Named the Ventotene Manifesto after the island where Spinelli was jailed, the resulting document would become the blueprint of the European Federalist Movement (EFM) founded two years later, a call for the nations of the Old Continent to forfeit their sovereignty and give way to a European federation under socialist principles. 80 years into the integration project that Spinelli helped spearhead, has the EU lived up to the hopes and expectations of its progressive cheerleaders? Undoubtedly yes, argues historian Konrad H. Jarausch, Lurcy Ann Professor of European Civilization at the University of North Carolina. In Embattled Europe: A Progressive Alternative (2021), Professor Jarausch remarks that Europe has become something of a dirty word for right-wing populists on both sides of the Atlantic, which he views as a testament of the bloc's success in building a mixed model of laissez-faire capitalism buffered by a strong safety net. Similarly, in The Primacy of Politics (2006), Professor Sheri Berman of Columbia's Barnard College described European-style social democracy as the end-stage solution to the central challenge of modern politics, that of reconciling a free enterprise economy with a democratic polity. Professors Jarausch and Berman join us on the podcast this week to discuss Europe's complex place betwixt social democracy and neoliberalism. As always, rate and review Uncommon Decency on Apple Podcasts, and send us your comments or questions at @UnDecencyPod or undecencypod@gmail.com. Please consider supporting the show through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/undecencypod.
Exactly a year ago, in November 2020, an old conflict on the south-western edge of Europe burst back into flames. After almost 30 years of ceasefire, the pro-independence Polisario Front and Morocco went back to battle stations in Western Sahara. European states have so far taken a timid stance in response, preferring not to involve themselves in another intractable conflict. Nonetheless, the new focus on Western Sahara is unsettling many relationships, particularly with Morocco. For its part, the Kingdom has taken a hardline response to even the most limited of criticisms: Rabat's ambassador to Germany was even recalled after a public spat in May. A recent verdict from the European Court of Justice excluding Sahrawi goods and fish from a trade deal risks further ratcheting up tensions. So, how will conflict in Western Sahara affect Europe's relations with Morocco? This week, Hugh Pope is joined by Intissar Fakir, Director of the Middle East Institute's North Africa and Sahel Program, and Riccardo Fabiani, Crisis Group's Senior Analyst for North Africa. They discuss Morocco's successful hardball strategy, the Polisario's desperate gambit, Rabat's troubled alliance with Spain and France, and the ramifications of the Trump administration's recognition of Moroccan sovereignty. They ask whether Europe's arms-length stance is another example of regional powers flexing ever-growing influence at the expense of the “big players” in the Old Continent's capitals.For more information explore Crisis Group's work on Europe, Morocco, and Western Sahara, by checking out the regional pages on the left hand side of our website. Make sure to take a look at our recent. report ‘Relaunching Negotiations'. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Will our physical identification documents, such as identity cards or passports, soon be a thing of the past in Europe? In this episode of TechTalk, we talk with Serge Hanssens about the opportunities and challenges for developing a viable and solid digital identity ecosystem in the Old Continent and how such a system would work in practice.
[Comment: Way of St. James] Friends of the Rosary: An important part of our faith is the tradition and the magisterium of the universal church — open to everyone, not only to Catholics. We all are branches of the mystical body of Jesus Christ, and we grow in Him. In Europe, the Old Continent, a great demonstration of fervor, repentance, charity, and culture is the Camino de Santiago, known in English as the Way of St. James. Europe — including the ancestors of Americans — was formed by heading into the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, in the Northwest of Spain, where Saint James the Apostle is buried. The Way of St. James became a major pilgrimage route of medieval Christianity from the 10th century onwards. Today, The Camino attracts over 200,000 pilgrims each year. Today, we are going to march several kilometers of The Way while we pray together the Holy Rosary. From the entrance in Pamplona to the way out of the city, we follow the route of the scallop shell, the ubiquitous sight along the Camino that serves as a guide for pilgrims. Ave Maria! Jesus, I Trust In You! + Mikel A. | TheRosaryNetwork.org, New York _ Watch this Podcast in Video and/or attend the community-driven daily prayer every day at 7:30 pm ET on YouTube.com/TheRosaryNetwork
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Ladies and gents, we've made it to the most important moment of the entire footballing season: the last weekend of football before the Euros! Sit down, relax, and tune in: there is a whole lot to discuss!This week, Tommi and Ruairi will be taking a look at the Coppa Italia and Coupe de France finals, this midweek action in the Premier League and, of course, everything you need to know going into this last weekend of league football in Italy, England, France, Spain and Germany. Will Atlético beat result-hungry Real Valladolid and win La Liga? Can Lille crown their incredible season with their fourth ever Ligue 1 title? This, and much more, will be discussed in our Euroreview. As for the Weekly Topic, after a beautiful dive into the Championship last week, it's time to do the same, but this time in Italy, as our friend Luca joins us to share all of his Serie B knowledge with you beautiful listeners. From the standout players and teams this past season all the way to the playoff final, get ready to get a thorough insight into one of the world's most underrated leagues. And finally, you already know what time it is: it's Ruairi's turn to take on the quiz and try to answer to seven questions in one minute. This week's topic: South Americans in the Premier League. Will you manage to get all of them?(02:55) EUROREVIEW - As PSG and Juventus win their respective domestic cups, it's time to buckle our seatbelts and get ready for a crazy, crazy weekend: relegations, UCL spots, title winners... it's safe to say there is a whole lot at stake in only ninety minutes of football! Hop onto the blimp to find out which results will cause a wave of contrasting feelings throughout the Old Continent.(76:00) WEEKLY TOPIC - This week around, we are joined by Tommi's old time friend Luca, a true connoisseur of Italy's lower leagues and namely Serie B. In this extensive chat we'll try to raise some interest around what might as well be one of the most overlooked leagues in the world, analysing the latest season, the best and worst teams, the surprise packages and, of course, the promoted teams that are ready to take on the Serie A giants next season...(136:30) - ONE MINUTE TO KICKOFF: QUIZ! - Sit down, close your eyes and channel your inner Footballpedia: it's time to play!
US-European relations expert Scott Cullinane shares his thoughts on the differences between the Trump and the Biden administrations, the new president's first international trip leading to the Old Continent, and why Hungary is one of the major policy questions the current US administration will have to tackle in the coming years.
Today's episode of the Building Bridges podcast is my conversation with Tyler Cowen, an economist, director of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, blogger at Marginal Revolution, and host of the podcast Conversations with Tyler.I first met Tyler back in 2019 when my colleague Zineb Mekouar and I spent a few days in Washington, DC to promote my book Hedge and to connect with John Dearie's Center for American Entrepreneurship. We had lunch with Tyler and his colleague and co-author Alex Tabarrok in a Chinese restaurant near George Mason University. Most of our conversation that day was about exchanging ideas and impressions about the relative situation of America, Europe, and the rest of the world.Since then I've kept reading everything I could find about the political situation in the US, the state of the transatlantic relationship, and recently how COVID-19 was impacting the distribution of power and wealth across the world. Then last year, I realized something: Americans are, by far, the most inspiring contributors to this conversation—yet alas they're mostly speaking about America, leaving the rest of the world untouched, uncommented on, almost undocumented!In this context, how about launching a podcast series in which I'd interview American thinkers, but having them focus the conversation on Europe?Fast forward to today: my 2020 idea has morphed into the Building Bridges podcast which I'm co-hosting with my wife Laetitia Vitaud. The value proposition of our podcast is to provide a platform for anyone who has interesting ideas to share with our vast community of “unapologetic globalists” (to quote my recent guest Chris Schroeder).Not everyone that's part of this roster has much to say about Europe. But whenever I catch one who does, I make sure to focus our conversation on that very subject—and I must say Tyler is one of our recent guests who has the most to say and to share about the Old Continent!And so if you're interested in Europe, economics, libertarianism, or the prospects of various other regions in the world, I urge you to give my conversation with Tyler a listen. Here's what you'll hear:What Tyler likes and dislikes about Europe, and the various countries he's lived in or traveled to here (which is most of them!).Why he thinks Europe is one of the least fragmented regions in the world—which is the exact opposite of how I view Europe!Why Americans should be present and invest in India if they want to retain some influence in the future.What advice he would give to young Europeans and young Americans who want to prepare themselves for our coming world.Why he expects Europe to remain a wealthy and prosperous region, despite, well, everything. And many, many more interesting topics and ideas.This podcast and the related article were originally published at Around Europe w/ Tyler Cowen. Lobbying. Startups Across Borders. Biden's Global Tax Reform. as part of my newsletter European Straits (which is about the Entrepreneurial Age, viewed from Europe).Follow Building Bridges on Twitter! You can listen to all our podcasts on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.Also Building Bridges is part of a network of Substack newsletters, which you may want to discover: there's Laetitia Vitaud's Laetitia@Work (about the future of work, with a feminist perspective), and my own European Straits (about the Entrepreneurial Age, viewed from Europe).(Credit: Franz Liszt, Angelus ! Prière Aux Anges Gardiens—extrait du disque Miroirs de Jonas Vitaud, NoMadMusic.) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit buildingbridges.substack.com
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Topic: Dark hair was common among Vikings, genetic study confirms They may have had a reputation for trade, braids and fearsome raids, but the Vikings were far from a single group of flaxen-haired, sea-faring Scandinavians. A genetic study of Viking-age human remains has not only confirmed that Vikings from different parts of Scandinavia set sail for different parts of the world, but has revealed that dark hair was more common among Vikings than Danes today. 維京人或許以貿易、髮辮，以及讓人聞風喪膽的燒殺擄掠聞名，但是他們並非全部來自單一群體，不只是一群亞麻色頭髮、經年航海的斯堪地那維亞人。近日一項維京時代人類遺骸的基因研究，證實維京人從斯堪地那維亞半島的不同地區揚帆航向世界各地，更透露維京人頭髮多為深色，跟今日的丹麥人相比更為普遍。 What's more, while some were born Vikings, others adopted the culture — or perhaps had it thrust upon them. “Vikings were not restricted to blond Scandinavians,” said Eske Willerslev, a co-author of the research from the University of Cambridge and the University of Copenhagen. 更重要的是，儘管有些北歐人天生就是維京人，其他族群也會吸收維京文化──或是可能被迫接受。該研究由英國劍橋大學和丹麥哥本哈根大學合作，共同作者之一艾斯克‧威勒斯列夫指出：「維京人並非僅限於金髮碧眼的斯堪地那維亞人。」 Writing in the journal Nature, Willerslev and colleagues report how they sequenced the genomes of 442 humans who lived across Europe between about 2,400BC and 1,600AD, with the majority from the Viking age — a period that stretched from around 750AD to 1050AD. The study also drew on existing data from more than 1,000 ancient individuals from non-Viking times, and 3,855 people living today. 在這篇刊登於《自然》期刊的研究中，威勒斯列夫和他的同事闡述他們如何定序四百四十二人的基因體。這些研究對象來自歐洲各地，大約生活在西元前兩千四百年到西元一千六百年間，其中大多數人屬於維京時代──也就是橫跨西元七百五十年到一千零五十年之間的時期。該研究也運用現有的基因資料，其中包括超過一千名並非生活在維京時代的古老人類，以及三千八百五十五名現代人。 Among their results the team found that from the iron age, southern European genes entered Denmark and then spread north, while — to a lesser extent — genes from Asia entered Sweden. “Vikings are, genetically, not purely Scandinavian,” said Willerslev. However, the team found Viking age Scandinavians were not a uniform population, but clustered into three main groups — a finding that suggests Vikings from different parts of Scandinavia did not mix very much. 在他們的研究結果中，團隊發現南歐的基因在鐵器時代進入丹麥，而後往北傳播，也有少部分來自亞洲的基因進入瑞典。威勒斯列夫指出：「維京人，從基因上來說，並非純然是斯堪地那維亞人。」另外，團隊發現維京時代的斯堪地那維亞人並非種族齊一的人口，而是由三個主要族群組成──這項發現顯示：來自斯堪地那維亞不同地區的維京人並未充分融合。 The team found these groups roughly map on to present-day Scandinavian countries, although Vikings from south-west Sweden were genetically similar to their peers in Denmark. Genetic diversity was greatest in coastal regions. Further analysis confirmed the long-standing view that most Vikings in England came from Denmark, as reflected in place names and historical records, while the Baltic region was dominated by Swedish Vikings, and Vikings from Norway ventured to Ireland, Iceland, Greenland and the Isle of Man. 團隊表示，這些族群的分布範圍大約和今日的北歐三國疆界疊合，不過瑞典西南部的維京人在基因上和丹麥維京人較為相近。基因多樣性則在沿岸地區最為顯著。進一步的分析更證實一項存在已久的學界看法：英國大多數的維京人來自丹麥，正如同地名和歷史紀錄反映出的情況，而巴爾幹地區是由瑞典維京人統治，至於挪威的維京人則冒險前往愛爾蘭、冰島、格陵蘭以及今日的英屬曼島。 However, the team says remains from Russia revealed some Vikings from Denmark also travelled east. The study also revealed raids were likely a local affair: the team found four brothers and another relative died in Salme, Estonia, in about 750AD, in what is thought could have been a raid, with others in the party likely to have been from the same part of Sweden. 不過，團隊指出，來自俄國的遺骸顯示，丹麥的維京人也曾往東方旅行。研究也透露維京人的劫掠可能只是「地方事件」：團隊發現，有四名兄弟和一名親戚，大約在西元七百五十年死於愛沙尼亞的薩爾梅，看起來是一場劫掠的結果，其他參與者可能也來自瑞典的同一個地區。 In addition, the team found two individuals from Orkney, who were buried with Viking swords, had no Scandinavian genetic ancestry. “[Being a Viking] is not a pure ethnic phenomenon, it is a lifestyle that you can adopt whether you are non-Scandinavian or Scandinavian,” said Willerslev, adding that genetic influences from abroad both before and during the Viking age might help explain why genetic variants for dark hair were relatively common among Vikings. 此外，團隊還發現兩名奧克尼群島的個體，遺骸旁有維京劍陪葬，但是這兩人沒有斯堪地那維亞的基因世系。「（身為維京人）並不是單純的人種學現象，無論你是不是斯堪地那維亞人，都可以採取這種生活方式，」威勒斯列夫補充表示，來自國外、在維京時代之前，以及該時代期間的基因影響，也許可以解釋為什麼深色頭髮的基因變異在維京人當中相對普遍。 Steve Ashby, an expert in Viking-age archaeology from the University of York, said the study confirmed what had been suspected about movement and trade in the Viking age, but also brought fresh detail. “The evidence for gene flow with southern Europe and Asia is striking, and sits well with recent research that argues for large-scale connectivity in this period,” he said. “[The study] also provides new information about levels of contact and isolation within Scandinavia itself, and offers an interesting insight into the composition of raiding parties.” 英國約克大學的維京時代考古學專家史蒂夫‧阿什比指出，這項研究證實了先前科學家對於維京時代遷徙和貿易活動的猜測，並且帶來新的細節。「（維京人與）南歐以及亞洲基因流動的證據相當驚人，也吻合近年研究主張這段時期大規模的人類交流情況。」阿什比表示：「（這項研究）傳達新的資訊，透露斯堪地那維亞半島內部交流和隔離的程度，並且提供有趣的見解，讓我們一窺強盜集團的組成。」 Source article: https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/lang/archives/2020/09/27/2003744127 Next Article Topic: In Norway, Electric and Hybrid Cars Outsell Conventional Models Sales of electric and hybrid cars in Norway outpaced those running on fossil fuels last year, cementing the country's position as a global leader in the push to restrict vehicle emissions. Norway, a major oil exporter, would seem an unlikely champion of newer, cleaner-running vehicles. But the country offers generous incentives that make electric cars cheaper to buy, and provides additional benefits once the vehicles are on the road. 去年，挪威的電動車和油電混合車的銷量超越使用化石燃料的汽車，奠定了挪威推動車輛減排全球領導者的地位。 挪威是個石油出口大國，似乎不太會是更新型態、更乾淨車輛的倡導國。然而挪威卻提供大方的獎勵，讓消費者購買電動車時價格更親民，車輛一旦上路，還有額外的好康。 Countries around the world have ramped up their promotion of hybrid and electric cars. As China tries to improve air quality and dominate new vehicle technology, the government there wants 1 in 5 cars sold to run on alternative fuels by 2025. France and Britain plan to end the sale of gasoline- and diesel-powered cars by 2040. Norway is ahead of the rest of the world. About 52 percent of the new cars sold in the country last year ran on new forms of fuel, according the data released by Norway's Road Traffic Advisory Board, OFV. The share of diesel cars, which were once considered more environmentally friendly but are now in the spotlight for their noxious emissions, fell sharply. 世界各國紛紛對電動車和油電車的推廣加大力度。在中國試圖改善空氣品質，主宰新型車輛技術之際，政府希望2025年前當地售出的汽車有五分之一使用替代燃料。法國和英國計畫在2040年前停售汽、柴油車輛。 挪威目前在世上居於最領先地位。根據挪威道路交通諮詢委員會（OFV）發布的資料，去年該國銷售的新車，約52％使用新型燃料。柴油車的占比劇降。柴油車一度被認為更環保，如今卻因排放有害氣體而成眾矢之的。 “This trend will only increase,” Oyvind Solberg Thorsen, OFV's director, said in a statement. “This is good for both road safety and the environment.” Although electric vehicles make up just a small portion of the global market now, automakers — including those, like Tesla, that produce only electric models, and giants like Volkswagen — have bet billions of dollars that such vehicles will soon be as cheap and ubiquitous as conventional cars. Investments in charging stations and other technology connected to electric vehicles are also increasing. OFV執行長歐文德．梭伯格．索爾森發表聲明說：「這種趨勢只會加快。這對道路安全和環境有好處。」 儘管電動車現今僅占全球市場的一小部分，汽車製造商─包括像特斯拉那種只生產電動車的，以及像福斯汽車這樣的巨擘，都已在這種汽車賭上數十億美元，認為它很快就會和傳統汽車一樣便宜以及無所不在。和電動車相關的充電站以及其他技術的投資也日益增多。 General Motors and Ford Motor have said they will shift their focus to electric models, while carmakers like Volvo have moved to phase out the internal combustion engine entirely. Joining the fray are entrepreneurs like James Dyson who have their own plans to build electric vehicles. As the market grows, makers of electric cars are facing difficulties. Tesla has lagged in its production of the Model 3, its first mass-market offering. And a slump in overall car sales in the United States could put a crimp in the expansion of electric vehicles. Norway, which wants to phase out diesel and gasoline cars by 2025, offers a counterexample. The country's embrace of electric cars has been hastened by hefty government subsidies and tax breaks that make the technology more affordable. 通用汽車和福特汽車都已表示，他們將把重點轉向電動車，而像富豪汽車這些汽車製造商則開始逐步徹底淘汰內燃機汽車。加入戰局的還有像詹姆斯．戴森這樣的企業家，他們也各有打造電動車的計畫。 隨市場增長，電動車製造商也面臨困境。特斯拉的第一個大眾市場車款特斯拉三型電動車的生產進度落後。美國整體汽車銷量下滑，也可能成為電動車擴張的一道障礙。 冀望2025年前逐步淘汰柴油和汽油車的挪威，則是一個反例。 這個國家擁抱電動車的速度，因政府提供大量補貼和減稅而加快，政府的政策讓這項技術變得更買得起。 Source:https://paper.udn.com/udnpaper/POH0067/323758/web/ Next Article Topic: Babies wanted: Nordic countries crying for kids "Norway needs more children! I don't think I need to tell anyone how this is done," Norway's Prime Minister Erna Solberg said cheekily, but she was raising a real concern. 「挪威需要更多小孩！我想我不用告訴所有人該怎麼做吧？」儘管挪威總理索柏格語帶戲謔，卻點出嚴重的問題。 The Nordic countries were long a bastion of strong fertility rates on an Old Continent that is rapidly getting older. But they are now experiencing a decline that threatens their welfare model, which is funded by taxpayers. 在快速高齡化的「舊大陸」（歐洲），北歐國家向來是高生育率的堡壘，但如今也面臨生育率下滑的問題，對透過全民納稅來維繫的社會福利制度構成威脅。 In Norway, Finland and Iceland, birth rates dropped to historic lows in 2017, with 1.49 to 1.71 children born per woman. Just a few years earlier, their birth rates hovered close to the 2.1 level required for their populations to remain stable. 在挪威、芬蘭及冰島，生育率在2017年降至歷史新低，平均每位女性生育1.49至1.71名兒女。再早幾年，這三國的生育率還徘徊在接近維持人口穩定所需的2.1人。 The Nordic region boasts a wealth of family-friendly initiatives, such as flexible working hours, a vast network of affordable daycares and generous parental leave systems. 北歐地區以擁有充裕的家庭友善計畫而自豪，像是彈性工時、範圍廣泛且索價低廉的日間照護網絡，以及慷慨的育嬰假機制。 When all that is still not enough to encourage people to have more children, immigration can be a lifeline － or a threat, depending on the point of view. 要是這些仍不足以鼓勵民眾多多生養小孩，移民可以是一線生機，但也可能是威脅，端看以什麼觀點視之。 Source article: https://features.ltn.com.tw/english/article/paper/1285655 每日英語跟讀Podcast，就在http://www.15mins.today/daily-shadowing 每週Vocab精選詞彙Podcast，就在https://www.15mins.today/vocab 每週In-TENSE文法練習Podcast，就在https://www.15mins.today/in-tense
GBP/USD struggled to preserve early gains to levels just above the 1.3700 mark. Sustained USD buying turned out to be a key factor that prompted fresh selling. The set-up favours bearish traders amid tensions over COVID-19 vaccine supplies. EUR/USD faces extra selling pressure near the 1.1800 level. The upside momentum in the pair follows the persistent USD strength. German Consumer Confidence improved to -6.2 in April. EUR/USD loses ground for the third session in a row and accelerates the breakdown of the key 200-day SMA (1.1854), all collaborating further with the ongoing bearish note around the single currency. The pair keeps the negative note unchanged, as investors exacerbate the outflows from the shared currency in response to fresh/tighter lockdown restrictions in the Old Continent amidst rising speculations that another wave of the pandemic could be shaping up. The dollar index was up 0.2% at 92.712, just below a four-month high of 92.692 reached overnight. USD/JPY was up 0.3% at 109.07, GBP/USD was down 0.1% at 1.3672, while the risk-sensitive AUD/USD was flat at 0.7583.
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Today on ST'Kevin and Duane look at results and title races across the Old Continent and look at today's games in the Champions League.A great show as always, check it out!Become a VIP and get access to exclusive content on top of supporting independent journalism.http://patreon.com/sportspodcastingnetworkThe world of football with a soccer perspective, this is Soccer Today! on the Sports Podcasting NetworkLIVE at 11 am E / 8 am P Monday to Friday on Twitter/Periscope @SoccerTodaySPNHosted by Duane Rollins @24thminute and Kevin Laramée @kevlarameehttps://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/soccer-today!-on-spn-radio/id1123104604?mt=2https://sportspodcastingnetwork.com/
Today on ST'Kevin and Duane look at results and title races across the Old Continent and look at today's games in the Champions League.A great show as always, check it out!Become a VIP and get access to exclusive content on top of supporting independent journalism.http://patreon.com/sportspodcastingnetworkThe world of football with a soccer perspective, this is Soccer Today! on the Sports Podcasting NetworkLIVE at 11 am E / 8 am P Monday to Friday on Twitter/Periscope @SoccerTodaySPNHosted by Duane Rollins @24thminute and Kevin Laramée @kevlarameehttps://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/soccer-today!-on-spn-radio/id1123104604?mt=2https://sportspodcastingnetwork.com/
Today on ST'Kevin and Duane look at results and title races across the Old Continent and look at today's games in the Champions League.A great show as always, check it out!Become a VIP and get access to exclusive content on top of supporting independent journalism.http://patreon.com/sportspodcastingnetworkThe world of football with a soccer perspective, this is Soccer Today! on the Sports Podcasting NetworkLIVE at 11 am E / 8 am P Monday to Friday on Twitter/Periscope @SoccerTodaySPNHosted by Duane Rollins @24thminute and Kevin Laramée @kevlarameehttps://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/soccer-today!-on-spn-radio/id1123104604?mt=2https://sportspodcastingnetwork.com/
Today on ST'Kevin and Duane look at results and title races across the Old Continent and look at today's games in the Champions League.A great show as always, check it out!Become a VIP and get access to exclusive content on top of supporting independent journalism.http://patreon.com/sportspodcastingnetworkThe world of football with a soccer perspective, this is Soccer Today! on the Sports Podcasting NetworkLIVE at 11 am E / 8 am P Monday to Friday on Twitter/Periscope @SoccerTodaySPNHosted by Duane Rollins @24thminute and Kevin Laramée @kevlarameehttps://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/soccer-today!-on-spn-radio/id1123104604?mt=2https://sportspodcastingnetwork.com/
Today on ST'Kevin and Duane look at results and title races across the Old Continent and look at today's games in the Champions League.A great show as always, check it out!Become a VIP and get access to exclusive content on top of supporting independent journalism.http://patreon.com/sportspodcastingnetworkThe world of football with a soccer perspective, this is Soccer Today! on the Sports Podcasting NetworkLIVE at 11 am E / 8 am P Monday to Friday on Twitter/Periscope @SoccerTodaySPNHosted by Duane Rollins @24thminute and Kevin Laramée @kevlarameehttps://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/soccer-today!-on-spn-radio/id1123104604?mt=2https://sportspodcastingnetwork.com/
Today on ST'Kevin and Duane look at results and title races across the Old Continent and look at today's games in the Champions League.A great show as always, check it out!Become a VIP and get access to exclusive content on top of supporting independent journalism.http://patreon.com/sportspodcastingnetworkThe world of football with a soccer perspective, this is Soccer Today! on the Sports Podcasting NetworkLIVE at 11 am E / 8 am P Monday to Friday on Twitter/Periscope @SoccerTodaySPNHosted by Duane Rollins @24thminute and Kevin Laramée @kevlarameehttps://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/soccer-today!-on-spn-radio/id1123104604?mt=2https://sportspodcastingnetwork.com/
Today on ST'Kevin and Duane look at results and title races across the Old Continent and look at today's games in the Champions League.A great show as always, check it out!Become a VIP and get access to exclusive content on top of supporting independent journalism.http://patreon.com/sportspodcastingnetworkThe world of football with a soccer perspective, this is Soccer Today! on the Sports Podcasting NetworkLIVE at 11 am E / 8 am P Monday to Friday on Twitter/Periscope @SoccerTodaySPNHosted by Duane Rollins @24thminute and Kevin Laramée @kevlarameehttps://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/soccer-today!-on-spn-radio/id1123104604?mt=2https://sportspodcastingnetwork.com/
Today on ST'Kevin and Duane look at results and title races across the Old Continent and look at today's games in the Champions League.A great show as always, check it out!Become a VIP and get access to exclusive content on top of supporting independent journalism.http://patreon.com/sportspodcastingnetworkThe world of football with a soccer perspective, this is Soccer Today! on the Sports Podcasting NetworkLIVE at 11 am E / 8 am P Monday to Friday on Twitter/Periscope @SoccerTodaySPNHosted by Duane Rollins @24thminute and Kevin Laramée @kevlarameehttps://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/soccer-today!-on-spn-radio/id1123104604?mt=2https://sportspodcastingnetwork.com/
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Today on ST,Kevin and Duane turn their attention to the Old Continent. They look at the Premier League table, at Lampard's terrible day at the office, about City, and are United for real?Plus, they talk Messi, Davies, and More.A great show as always, check it out!Become a VIP and get access to exclusive content on top of supporting independent journalism.http://patreon.com/sportspodcastingnetworkThe world of football with a soccer perspective, this is Soccer Today! on the Sports Podcasting NetworkLIVE at 11 am E / 8 am P Monday to Friday on Twitter/Periscope @SoccerTodaySPNHosted by Duane Rollins @24thminute and Kevin Laramée @kevlarameehttps://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/soccer-today!-on-spn-radio/id1123104604?mt=2https://sportspodcastingnetwork.com/
Today on ST,Kevin and Duane turn their attention to the Old Continent. They look at the Premier League table, at Lampard's terrible day at the office, about City, and are United for real?Plus, they talk Messi, Davies, and More.A great show as always, check it out!Become a VIP and get access to exclusive content on top of supporting independent journalism.http://patreon.com/sportspodcastingnetworkThe world of football with a soccer perspective, this is Soccer Today! on the Sports Podcasting NetworkLIVE at 11 am E / 8 am P Monday to Friday on Twitter/Periscope @SoccerTodaySPNHosted by Duane Rollins @24thminute and Kevin Laramée @kevlarameehttps://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/soccer-today!-on-spn-radio/id1123104604?mt=2https://sportspodcastingnetwork.com/
Today on ST,Kevin and Duane turn their attention to the Old Continent. They look at the Premier League table, at Lampard's terrible day at the office, about City, and are United for real?Plus, they talk Messi, Davies, and More.A great show as always, check it out!Become a VIP and get access to exclusive content on top of supporting independent journalism.http://patreon.com/sportspodcastingnetworkThe world of football with a soccer perspective, this is Soccer Today! on the Sports Podcasting NetworkLIVE at 11 am E / 8 am P Monday to Friday on Twitter/Periscope @SoccerTodaySPNHosted by Duane Rollins @24thminute and Kevin Laramée @kevlarameehttps://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/soccer-today!-on-spn-radio/id1123104604?mt=2https://sportspodcastingnetwork.com/
Today on ST,Kevin and Duane turn their attention to the Old Continent. They look at the Premier League table, at Lampard's terrible day at the office, about City, and are United for real?Plus, they talk Messi, Davies, and More.A great show as always, check it out!Become a VIP and get access to exclusive content on top of supporting independent journalism.http://patreon.com/sportspodcastingnetworkThe world of football with a soccer perspective, this is Soccer Today! on the Sports Podcasting NetworkLIVE at 11 am E / 8 am P Monday to Friday on Twitter/Periscope @SoccerTodaySPNHosted by Duane Rollins @24thminute and Kevin Laramée @kevlarameehttps://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/soccer-today!-on-spn-radio/id1123104604?mt=2https://sportspodcastingnetwork.com/
Today on ST,Kevin and Duane turn their attention to the Old Continent. They look at the Premier League table, at Lampard's terrible day at the office, about City, and are United for real?Plus, they talk Messi, Davies, and More.A great show as always, check it out!Become a VIP and get access to exclusive content on top of supporting independent journalism.http://patreon.com/sportspodcastingnetworkThe world of football with a soccer perspective, this is Soccer Today! on the Sports Podcasting NetworkLIVE at 11 am E / 8 am P Monday to Friday on Twitter/Periscope @SoccerTodaySPNHosted by Duane Rollins @24thminute and Kevin Laramée @kevlarameehttps://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/soccer-today!-on-spn-radio/id1123104604?mt=2https://sportspodcastingnetwork.com/
Today on ST,Kevin and Duane turn their attention to the Old Continent. They look at the Premier League table, at Lampard's terrible day at the office, about City, and are United for real?Plus, they talk Messi, Davies, and More.A great show as always, check it out!Become a VIP and get access to exclusive content on top of supporting independent journalism.http://patreon.com/sportspodcastingnetworkThe world of football with a soccer perspective, this is Soccer Today! on the Sports Podcasting NetworkLIVE at 11 am E / 8 am P Monday to Friday on Twitter/Periscope @SoccerTodaySPNHosted by Duane Rollins @24thminute and Kevin Laramée @kevlarameehttps://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/soccer-today!-on-spn-radio/id1123104604?mt=2https://sportspodcastingnetwork.com/
Today on ST,Kevin and Duane turn their attention to the Old Continent. They look at the Premier League table, at Lampard's terrible day at the office, about City, and are United for real?Plus, they talk Messi, Davies, and More.A great show as always, check it out!Become a VIP and get access to exclusive content on top of supporting independent journalism.http://patreon.com/sportspodcastingnetworkThe world of football with a soccer perspective, this is Soccer Today! on the Sports Podcasting NetworkLIVE at 11 am E / 8 am P Monday to Friday on Twitter/Periscope @SoccerTodaySPNHosted by Duane Rollins @24thminute and Kevin Laramée @kevlarameehttps://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/soccer-today!-on-spn-radio/id1123104604?mt=2https://sportspodcastingnetwork.com/
Today on ST,Kevin and Duane turn their attention to the Old Continent. They look at the Premier League table, at Lampard's terrible day at the office, about City, and are United for real?Plus, they talk Messi, Davies, and More.A great show as always, check it out!Become a VIP and get access to exclusive content on top of supporting independent journalism.http://patreon.com/sportspodcastingnetworkThe world of football with a soccer perspective, this is Soccer Today! on the Sports Podcasting NetworkLIVE at 11 am E / 8 am P Monday to Friday on Twitter/Periscope @SoccerTodaySPNHosted by Duane Rollins @24thminute and Kevin Laramée @kevlarameehttps://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/soccer-today!-on-spn-radio/id1123104604?mt=2https://sportspodcastingnetwork.com/
There is a revival of political activism across the Old Continent. In the last years, young Europeans have been calling on governments to defend democratic values, tackle climate change, better manage the integration of migrants in our society. Oftentimes, these young people are younger than the legal voting age and cannot cast a vote at the ballot box. Should the voting age be changed? A discussion with Gabi Schmidt Freie Wähler MP at the Bavarian Parliament, and Matthias Fack, the President of the Bavarian Youth Council (BJR). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Half the pod is soccer from Europe and some stories of mine. And the other half is the love/hate relationship I have with the Houston Dynamo. Simple and to the point. Find QuattroQuattroDos @QuattroQuattroDos on Instagram QuattroQuattroDos YouTube Find Cristian @Crisputallaz on Instagram & Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
NOW IN 22 DIFFERENT LANGUAGES. CLICK ON THE LOWER LEFT HAND CORNER “TRANSLATE” TAB TO FIND YOURS! By Jeff J. Brown Pictured above: the bitter truth for all Europeans is that their blue and gold flag is an hollow icon, since Uncle Sam has been controlling, abusing and exploiting the Old Continent, and ongoing, since...
Show #591 Good morning, good afternoon and good evening wherever you are in the world, welcome to EV News Daily for Wednesday 25th September 2019. It’s Martyn Lee here and I go through every EV story to save you time. Thank you to MYEV.com for helping make this show, they’ve built the first marketplace specifically for Electric Vehicles. It’s a totally free marketplace that simplifies the buying and selling process, and help you learn about EVs along the way too. NEW PORSCHE TAYCAN REVIEW "The Taycan not only spearheads Porsche’s electric vehicle strategy - the Taycan Cross Turismo will follow in 2020, before which the next Macan will go fully electric - but will also provide the platform for Audi Sport’s electric vehicle livelihood when the e-Tron GT debuts later this year." says Stuart Gallagher for evo.co.uk: "Porsche calls it a Performance Battery Plus with 93.4kWh, which doesn’t quite have the same ring to it as a Mezger flat-six. But this powerpack is connected to an electric motors on the front and rear axles, the former driven by a single speed transmission, the latter by an innovative two-speed unit." And here's something which I didn't read about in all the pre-press: "Simply wait for the batteries to reach operating temperature of around 50C (achieved after around 15-20 mins of regular driving), put your left foot on the brake, right foot on the throttle wait for launch control to engage and go for it. Up to ten consecutive times." They note all the usual other things like the 800 volt battery, 0-60 in 2.6, 0-100 in 6.3, the quarter mile in 10.8. 270kW charging, carbon ceramic brakes, rear axle steering. The final quote from evo sums up electric cars in general: "The way in which it delivers its power and torque is borderline undetectable, speed building with no real effort or input required from the driver." Oh, and they couldn't resist ending the article with the three words: "your move, Tesla". https://www.evo.co.uk/porsche/porsche-taycan/201782/new-porsche-taycan-review-stuttgart-puts-its-stamp-on-the-electric VOLVO XC40 ELECTRIC VERSION TEASED AHEAD OF OCTOBER REVEAL "[Volvo] have chosen the XC40 to become Volvo’s very first production EV. Announced in April and teased here ahead of its October full reveal" says motor1.com: "The Geely-owned marque says it will release more details about the pure electric crossover in the coming weeks, prior to a first public showing programmed for October 16. The XC40 sans a traditional engine will follow the recently launched plug-in hybrid model equipped with the T5 Twin Engine powertrain offering a combined 258 hp and 28.6 miles (46 kilometers) of electric range." https://www.motor1.com/news/372720/volvo-xc40-electric-teaser/ BMW X1 GETS PHEV VARIANT IN EUROPE, UP TO 35 MILES OF ELECTRIC RANGE "After introducing a plug-in hybrid version of its entry-level crossover for the Chinese market, BMW is now launching the model in Europe. The X1 xDrive25e is making its debut on the Old Continent, offering “a high level of driving pleasure and thrilling agility.” in our second MOtor1 article today: "Under the familiar skin of the X1 is a plug-in hybrid powertrain, which uses a 1.5-liter three-cylinder engine supported by an electric motor, specifically developed for this particular model. The gas unit generates 125 horsepower (92 kilowatts) and 162 pound-feet (220 Newton-meters) of torque, and is mated to a six-speed transmission channeling the power to the front wheels. What’s more important for a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle, on a single charge of the 9.7-kWh battery pack, the X1 xDrive 25e can travel up to 35 miles (57 kilometers)" https://www.motor1.com/news/372729/bmw-x1-xdrive25e-phev-unveiled/ NOW HIRING: TESLA SEEKS TALENT AHEAD OF CHINA MASS PRODUCTION "Tesla is on a hiring spree in China for first-line technicians, software engineers and marketing experts, as the electric carmaker gears toward mass production at its Gigafactory 3 in Shanghai by the year's end." reports Nikkei.com: "The company began its Shanghai hiring through its official WeChat account on Sept. 1 and updated its latest job listing Tuesday. The job post suggests the company is assembling a factory firmware team which will be department to develop programmable hardware that controls the production line." And then we got an ElonTweet: "Tesla is building a major engineering team in China, incl heavy focus on software/firmware for factory & car. This includes original engineering of new factory processes & cars, Great engineers will only join if original engineering is supported, not just localization" https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/Now-hiring-Tesla-seeks-talent-ahead-of-China-mass-production Nikkei continues: "The jobs listed on WeChat include first-line technicians, quality controllers, assembly experts and safety guards, among other factory operation roles. The company plans to interview candidates at an upcoming job fair on Thursday, signaling that mass production in Shanghai will begin soon." https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/Now-hiring-Tesla-seeks-talent-ahead-of-China-mass-production TESLA STARTS MONITORING DATA USE AHEAD OF STARTING TO CHARGE FOR CONNECTIVITY "Tesla is starting to monitor data usage in its vehicles, which has always been free, but the automaker is now planning to start to charge for connectivity." writes electrek today: "some owners are reporting that Tesla is starting to add a data usage counter in their vehicle (hat tip to Andrew)" who posted a pic which said 0 of 50GB used. https://electrek.co/2019/09/24/tesla-monitoring-data-charge-connectivity/ HYUNDAI MOTORSPORT BEGINS TESTING WITH ALL-ELECTRIC VELOSTER N ETCR Hyundai Motorsport have completed the first on-track running with the new Veloster N ETCR, the company’s first electric race car project. The brand new car completed two days at the Hungaroring near Budapest last weekend, completing the test trouble-free. The days at the circuit – already an established part of the FIA WTCR and TCR Europe calendars – allowed the engineers to learn more about the chassis balance on the technical circuit, and to begin to harness the power from the mid-mounted electric motor to maximize performance and efficiency. Using the expertise in Touring Car racing shown in both the championship winning i30 N TCR and Veloster N TCR, the aim is to produce a similarly strong all-round package for when the ETCR category begins racing next year. MOTORCYCLE ‘SPEED FREAK’ ZEF EISENBERG SMASHES ELECTRIC WORLD SPEED RECORD "MADMAX Team Rider Zef Eisenberg raced in to the record books at the weekend (21-22 September 2019) setting four new motorcycle records at the Straightliners ACU/FIM (Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme) World Speed Records event at Elvington, North Yorkshire on board the Nottingham University Isle of Man TT zero bike." says electric cars report: "International multiple ACU Motorbike speed record holder and self-proclaimed ‘Speed Freak’ Zef Eisenberg achieved four FIM World records for an electric motorbike (unfaired), with an ‘average kilometre’ speed of 185mph, and peak GPS speeds of 197mph. He victoriously secured the title for the fastest electric motorbike bike in the world (naked – no fairing)." https://electriccarsreport.com/2019/09/motorcycle-speed-freak-zef-eisenberg-smashes-electric-world-speed-record/ EXXONMOBIL CEO DISMISSES ELECTRIC VEHICLES: ‘WHAT’S THE POINT?’ "Exxon CEO Darren Woods recently expressed his doubts about the transportation sector’s transition to electric vehicles. In comments during the 2019 Oil and Gas Climate Initiative meet, the CEO extended a rather blunt dismissal of EVs, suggesting that the zero-emissions vehicles will serve little purpose if they remained charged by a coal-powered grid." reports Teslarati: "“What’s the point of having electric vehicles that will end up being charged by power generated from coal,” Woods said. In the United States alone, data from the US Energy Information Administration reveal that less than a third of the electricity generated in the country was powered by coal in 2018. This number will likely decrease in the near future as well, with clean energy initiatives such as residential solar and battery systems becoming more popular. " https://www.teslarati.com/exxonmobil-ceo-dismisses-evs-no-point/ QUESTION OF THE WEEK The MYEV.com Question Of The Week… What do you want to hear on this podcast? Only pure EVs? PHEV’s and Hybrids? Other vehicles like bikes, scooters, planes and boats? I want to say a heartfelt thank you to the 253 patrons of this podcast whose generosity means I get to keep making this show, which aims to entertain and inform thousands of listeners every day about a brighter future. 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We’re one year old this week! Tyler is finally back from the Old Continent and… The post WHINE & CHEESE 31: ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY! appeared first on Cinepunx.
We’re one year old this week! Tyler is finally back from the Old Continent and joins us for our anniversary episode where we talk about nothing in particular. We get right to the good stuff and start talking about our checking accounts. Mike gives us a road report from The Mahoning Valley Drive-In Theater where he watched Remote Control and Videodrome and hung out with some fellow Cinepunx. We educate the masses on Philly drink specials and launch into a long form version of what we’ve been watching lately. Following the break, we call Master Liam live ON AIR and discuss the future of emo and other music they are excited about. If you know anyone that can do a seance, hit up Mike and Joey about their Halloween cover show coming up on Oct 26th. Thanks for sticking with us for this long! Whine & Cheese: A Podcast About Whiny Records and Cheesy Movies began in Spring 2018. It is a love letter to all things whiny and cheesy from Rites of Spring to Hawthorne Heights, Varsity Blues to Fifty First Dates, and everything in between. Listen as the trio of Joey Breeding, Mike Paulshock, and Tyler Smith mix and match two of life’s great audio and visual pleasures. Twitter and Instagram. While you’re at it, email us with your pairing suggestions, questions, Weird Al parodies, and comments! As always, ratings & reviews go a long way and are appreciated. Thanks LVAC for the support! Art by Jon Weed (check him out, he rules!) The post WHINE & CHEESE 31: ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY! appeared first on Cinepunx.
Show #565 Good morning, good afternoon and good evening wherever you are in the world, welcome to EV News Daily for Thursday 29th August 2019. It’s Martyn Lee here and I go through every EV story to save you time. Thank you to MYEV.com for helping make this show, they’ve built the first marketplace specifically for Electric Vehicles. It’s a totally free marketplace that simplifies the buying and selling process, and help you learn about EVs along the way too. PORSCHE REVEALS 99X ELECTRIC 2019/20 FE CAR "Porsche has unveiled the 99X Electric ABB FIA Formula E car for its maiden season in the championship. The car was revealed by Porsche’s 2019/20 FE drivers Neel Jani and Andre Lotterer at the end of an interactive launch event hosted on livestream gaming platform Twitch that took place over four hours at the Porsche Digital GmbH premises in Ludwigsburg." reports Motorsport.com: "The 99X Electric features Porsche’s traditional motorsport colours of white, black and red. It is named in Porsche’s usual fashion – with the three digits representing Porsche’s racing cars and two-door road machines. Porsche has been gearing up for its FE debut – its first major international competition entry since it left the LMP1 class of the WEC at the end of 2017 – by working through its allotted 15 days of private FE manufacturer-allocated testing." https://www.motorsport.com/formula-e/news/porsche-reveals-99x-electric-car/4522789/ CHEVROLET BOLT EV TAX CREDIT TO BE FURTHER REDUCED IN OCTOBER "The federal electric vehicle tax incentive on the Chevrolet Bolt EV will be reduced from $3,750 to just $1,875 as of October 1st, 2019." says GMAuthority.com: "Late last year, General Motors announced that it had sold 200,000 vehicles eligible for the federal tax incentive program. Once a manufacturer reaches this milestone, customers no longer qualify for the full $7,500 federal tax credit, with the incentive reducing by 50 percent six months later and then down to 25 percent another six months after that. Not only will acting now allow you to capitalize on the higher $3,750 incentive instead of the smaller $1,875 one, there are also some steep discounts being offered on 2019 model year versions of the vehicle. Autoblog reports that Chevrolet Bolt EV buyers are seeing steep discounts of up to $9,000 this month, representing nearly a quarter of the car’s original MSRP. For 2020, the hatchback gets an EPA-certified driving range of 259 miles combined, representing an increase of 21 miles over the 2019 model year. That means the base Bolt EV has superior range to the base Tesla Model 3 and also matches the range of the well-received Hyundai Kona EV." http://gmauthority.com/blog/2019/08/chevrolet-bolt-ev-tax-credit-to-be-further-reduced-in-october/ TESLA JUICES EUROPEAN SUPERCHARGERS TO 150 KILOWATTS "European Tesla owners will spend a little less time at Supercharger stations the next time they top off the battery. After a Twitter user noted the charge rate, Tesla confirmed the upgrade with a retweet." reports Roadshow by CNET: "Most of the chargers across the Old Continent are now operating at 150 kW with a few in the United Kingdom at 130 kW. Here in the US, the V2-generation chargers operate at 120 kW. Tesla previously said this past March it would unlock 145 kW from US-based Superchargers in the weeks to come. It's unclear how many of the stations are running the boosted power, if any. The fact Europe's power boost is online may be a sign Tesla is readying the upgrade for the US, but we're also awaiting Tesla's V3 Supercharger stations. The next-generation chargers promise charging rates of 250 kW per car -- no need to split power with a car in the adjacent stall." https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/tesla-supercharger-europe-charging-time/ PRICES TO DROP ON THE VW E-GOLF "VW has lowered the price of the e-Golf in Germany. As electrive was able to find out, Volkswagen will be successively lowering the price of the e-Golf in other European countries as well, with the exact amount always depending on the respective market." says electrive: "In Germany, the electric city car now costs only 31,900 euros instead of 35,900 euros according to the configurator. The base price in Germany will thus fall by 4,000 euros." https://www.electrive.com/2019/08/29/prices-to-drop-on-the-vw-e-golf/ TESLA SHOWCASES FIRST MODEL 3 MADE IN CHINA "As rumored yesterday, Tesla really presented at the 2019 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai the first Model 3 produced at the Gigafactory 3. The Model 3 was accompanied at the stand by a Supercharging stall and Powerwall energy storage product." says InsideEVS. https://insideevs.com/news/367744/tesla-shows-first-model-3-made-china/ Tweets from @JayInShanghai Tesla's Booth at World Artificial Intelligence Conference (Shanghai, China). Showcasing Made in China @Tesla Model 3 and Supercharger Stall. Camouflage Model 3 parked outside Tesla Service Centre in Baoshan, Shanghai. Any idea why they put camouflage wrap on? Biggest news from Tesla China
According to a Gallup poll 3 out of 4 Finns are willing to fight for their country - the highest number in Europe. But what is it the Finns are ready to fight for? Who are they afraid of? And what makes a nation patriotic? We will try to outline that and more in today’s episode of The Old Continent, Finland: Unknown Soldiers and Well Known Patriots
The magnifying glasses of European Union has been hovering over Poland since the parliamentary election of March 2015 when far fight Law and Justice party won the elections. Three personas of Poland share not only the tribune, but influence and power at the backstage - President Andrzej Duda, the newly appointed Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, PiS party leader Jarosław Kaczyński - who is the real leader of Poland? Are they overpowered by a handful of influential priests of the Catholic Church after all? Episode 4 of the Old Continent sheds lights on the political environment and the games of power inside the Poland, trying to answer, what is most important today on the ground - Influence, Power, or the Church? A Planet Mundus production, produced at Studenterhus Aarhus
Episode 4 of the Old Continent Podcast will bring you to Poland and the crazy chaos its political arena became since 2015. One of the highlights of the episode - interview with Tadeusz Bartos and his take on the all-covering influence of the church in his country. Look out for the Episode 4 - Poland: Influence, Power and the Church - on air February 20!
Lithuania has the highest suicide rate in all of Europe. A combination of old legends, post-soviet blues and taboos have all contributed to the sad statistic. But things are changing, and hope is blooming. Episode 3 of the Old Continent shows how things are changing and how people are now 'Choosing Life in Lithuania'. A Planet Mundus production, produced at Studenterhus Aarhus
Sugarby Cat RamboThey line up before Laurana, forty baked-clay heads atop forty bodies built of metal cylinders. Every year she casts and fires new heads to replace those lost to weather, the wild, or simple erosion. She rarely replaces the metal bodies. They are scuffed and battered, over a century old.Every morning, the island sun beating down on her pale scalp, she stands on the maison's porch with the golems before her. Motionless. Expressionless.She chants. The music and the words fly into the clay heads and keep them thinking. The golems are faster just after they have been charged. They move more lightly, with more precision. With more joy. Without the daily chant they could go perhaps three days at most, depending on the heaviness of their labors.Full transcript appears under the cut.----more----[Intro music plays]Hello! Welcome to GlitterShip episode 13 for September 1st, 2015. This is your host Keffy, and I'm super excited to be sharing this story with you.We're back from our unfortunate hiatus, which was caused because it turns out that moving more than 3,000 miles away across the entire continent is a bit of an upheaval. But, I'm settling in over here in New York, now, and I'm a little more than a week into the first year of my five-in-theory-year program.Our story today is "Sugar" by Cat Rambo. Cat Rambo lives, writes, and teaches by the shores of an eagle-haunted lake in the Pacific Northwest. A prolific storywriter and Nebula and World Fantasy Award nominee, her publications include stories in Asimov's, Clarkesworld Magazine, and Tor.com. Her most recent book is Beasts of Tabat, Book 1 of the Tabat Quartet. She is the current President of SFWA (the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America). For more about her, as well as links to her fiction, see http://www.kittywumpus.netSugarby Cat RamboThey line up before Laurana, forty baked-clay heads atop forty bodies built of metal cylinders. Every year she casts and fires new heads to replace those lost to weather, the wild, or simple erosion. She rarely replaces the metal bodies. They are scuffed and battered, over a century old.Every morning, the island sun beating down on her pale scalp, she stands on the maison's porch with the golems before her. Motionless. Expressionless.She chants. The music and the words fly into the clay heads and keep them thinking. The golems are faster just after they have been charged. They move more lightly, with more precision. With more joy. Without the daily chant they could go perhaps three days at most, depending on the heaviness of their labors.This month is cane-planting season. She delegates the squads of laborers and sets some to carrying buckets from the spring to water the new cane shoots while others dig furrows. The roof needs reshingling, but it can wait until planting season is past. As the golems shuffle off, she pauses to water the flowering bushes along the front of the house. Placing her fingertips together, she conjures a tiny rain cloud, wringing moisture from the air. Warm drops collect on the leaves, rolling down to darken pink and gray bark to red and black.Inside the house is quiet. The three servants are in the kitchen, cooking breakfast and gossiping. She comes up to the doorway like a ghost, half fearing what she will hear. Nothing but small, inconsequential things. Jeanette says when she takes her freedom payment, she will ask for a barrel of rum, and go sell it in the street, three silver pieces a cup, over at Sant Tigres, the pirate city. She has a year to go in the sorceress' service. Daniel has been here a year and has four more to go. He is still getting used to the golems, still eyes them warily when he thinks no one can see him. He is thin and wiry, and his face is pockmarked and scarred by the Flame Plague. He was lucky to escape the Old Continent with his life. Lucky to live here now, and he knows it.Tante Isabelle has been with her since the woman was thirteen. Now she's eighty-five, frail as one of the butterflies that move through the bougainvillea. A black beak's snap, and the butterfly will be gone. She sits peeling cubes of ginger, which she will boil with sugar and lime juice to make sweet syrup that can flavor tea or conjured ice."If you sell rum, everyone will think you are selling what lies between your thighs as well!" she says, eying Jeanette.Jeanette shrugs and tosses her head. "Maybe I'd make even more that way!" she says, ignoring Daniel's blush.Tante Isabelle looks up to see Laurana standing there. The old woman's smile is sweet as sunshine, sweet as sugar. The sorceress stands in the doorway, and the three servants smile at her, as they always do, at their beautiful mistress. No thought ever crosses their minds of betraying or displeasing her. It never occurs to them to wonder why.Christina is a pirate. She wears bright calicos stolen from Indian traders and works on a ship that travels in lazy shark-like loops around the Lesser and Greater Southern Isles, looking for strays from the treasure fleet and Duchy merchants. The merchants, based in the southernmost New Continent port of Tabat, prey on the more impoverished colonies, taking their entire crops in return for food and tools. The treasure fleet is part of a vast corrupt network, fed by springs of gold. This is what Christina tells Laurana, how she justifies her profession of blood and watery death.When Christina comes to Sant Tigres, she goes to the inn and sends one of the pigeons the innkeeper keeps on the roof. It flies to Laurana's window. She leaves her maison and sails to the port in a small skiff, standing all the way from one island to the other, sea winds whipping around her. She focuses her will and asks the air sylphs, who she normally does not converse with, to bear her to her lover's scarlet and orange clad arms.Tiny golden hoops, each set with a charm created by Laurana, are set in Christina's right ear. One is a tiny glass fish, protection against drowning, and the other is a silver lightning bolt to ward off storms. Christina likes to order large meals when she comes ashore. Her crew hunts the unsettled islands and catches the wild cattle and hogs so abundant there to eke out their income. They sell the excess fat and hides to the smugglers that fill these islands. So she is not meat-starved now, but wants sugary treats, confections of butter and sweet, washed down with raw swallows of rum, here in harbor, where she can be safely drunk."Pretty farmer," she says now. She touches the sorceress's hair, which was black as Christina's once, but which has gone silver with age, despite her unlined skin and her clear, brilliant blue eyes."Pretty pirate," Laurana replies. She spends the evening buying drinks for Christina and her crew. The pirates count on her deep pockets, rich with gold from selling sugar. Sometimes they try to sell her things plundered on their travels, ritual components, scrolls or trinkets laden with spells. The only present Christina ever brought her was a waxed and knotted cord strung with knobby, pearly shells. It hangs on her bedchamber wall where the full moon's light can polish it each month.Laurana brings Christina presents: fresh strawberries and fuzzy nectarines from her greenhouse. In Sant Tigres, she trades sugar for bushels of chocolate beans and packets of spices. Someday, when circumstances have changed, she would like Christina to spend a day or two at the plantation. Jeannette would outdo herself with the meals, flakey pastries and flowers of spun sugar. It is time to send for a new cook, she thinks. It will take a few months to post the message and then for the new arrival to appear, and even more time for Jeannette to train her in the ways of the kitchen and how to tell the golems to fetch and carry.Someone leans forward to ask her a question. It is a new member of Christina's crew, curious about the rumors of her plantation."Human slaves are doomed to failure," she says. "Look what happened on Banbur – discontented servants burned the fields and overtook the town there, turning their masters and mistresses out into the underbrush or setting them to labor."And," she added. "Whites do badly in this climate. I can take care of myself and my household, but it is easier to not worry about my automatons growing ill or dying."Although they did die, after a fashion. They wore away, their features blurred with erosion. They cracked and crumbled – first the noses, then the lips and brows, their eyes becoming pitted shadows, their molded hair a mottling of cracks.Time to redecorate soon, she thought. She did it every few decades. She would send a letter and eventually a company representative would show up, consult with her, and then vanish back to Tabat, soon replaced by rolls of new wallpaper and carpets, crates of china and porcelain wash basins. She looks at Christina and pictures her against blue silk sheets, olive skin gleaming in candle glow.Later they fall into bed together and she stays there for two hours before she rises, despite her lover's muffled, sleepy protests, and takes her skiff back to her own island. Overhead the sky is a black bowl set with glittering layers of stars, grainy as sandstone and striated with light. Moonlight dapples the waves, so dark and impenetrable that they look like polished jet.At home, she goes upstairs. A passage cuts across the house, running north to south to take advantage of the trade wind, and open squares at the top of each room partition let the wind through. Britomart's is the northernmost room.The air smells of dawn and sugar. Sugar, sweet and translucent as Britomart's skin, the color of snow drifts, laid on cool white linen. The other woman's ivory hair, which matches Laurana's, is spread out across the pillow.Tonight her face is unmasked. Laurana does not flinch away from the pitted eyes, the face more eroded than any golem's. Outside in the courtyard, the black and white deathbirds hop up and down in the branches, making the crimson flowers shake in the early morning light."Pleasant trip?" Britomart says.Laurana's answer is noncommittal. Sometimes her old lover is kind, but she is prone to lashing out in sudden anger. Laurana does not blame her for that. Her death is proving neither painless nor particularly short, but it is coming, nonetheless. A month? A year? Longer? Laurana isn't sure. How long have they been locked in this conversation? It has been less than six months so far, she knows, but it seems like forever.She goes to her room. The bed is turned down and a hot brick has been slipped between the sheets to warm them. A bouquet of ginger sits on the table near the lamp, sending out its bold perfume.She lies in bed and fails to sleep. Britomart's face floats before her in the darkness. She is unsure if she is dreaming or really seeing it. She wonders if she remembers it as worse than it really is. But she doesn't.Two weeks later, the pigeon at her window.Christina has a bandage around her upper arm, nothing much, she says, carelessness in a battle. She pushes Laurana away, though apologetically. Rather than sleep together, they stay awake and talk. It is their first conversation of any length. Two hours after their first meeting, in the Sant Tigres market, they had fallen into bed together, four months ago."So she's sick, your friend?" Christina says."You were raised here in the islands," Laurana answers. "You don't know what it was like in the Old Country. In the space of three years, sorcerers destroyed two continents. Everyone decided to make their power play at once. They called dragons up out of the earth and set them killing. The Flame Plague moved from town to town. Entire villages went up like candles. Millions died, and the earth itself was charred and burned, magic stripped from it. Some fought with elementals, and others with summoned winds and fogs, but others with poisoned magic."She pours herself more wine. Christina's skin is paler than usual, but the lantern light in the room gleams on it as though it were flower petals."And you were here…" Christina prompts."I was here in the islands, preparing to go. I heard that Britomart had blundered into someone else's trap and was dying of it. I brought her down. The magic is clean here, and there are serendipities and artifacts. I hoped to heal her.""But that hasn't happened."The wine is mulled with cinnamon and clove and sugar that has not completely dissolved, a gritty sweet residue at the cup's bottom."No," she says. "That hasn't happened."Christina smuggles Laurana onto her ship while it's at harbor. She and three other sailors are supposed to be watching it. Laurana sits with them drinking shots of rum until the yellow moon swings itself up over the prow, its face broad and grinning as a baby's. It reminds her of Britomart and her tears well up. She savors the moment, for magic removes almost all capacity to weep.She nudges Christina and points to the distant reef. Out on the rocks, mermaids cluster, fishy eyes shining in the moonlight, fleshy gills pulsing like tidepool creatures shuttered close by the light. She kisses Christina as they watch.Eventually, the two climb into Christina's bunk for frantic, slippery, drunken lovemaking, careful of the still healing arm.She leaves in the small hours, past the stares of the mermaids. It is still planting season and the golems work and night.When she first came to the island she tried yellow-flowered sea-island cotton. Then indigo and ginger. With the arrival from the Wizard's College of Tabat of schematics for three-roller mills and copper furnace pots, sugar cane has become the crop of choice. Her workers perform the labor that must be undertaken day and night when the cane is ready to harvested and transmuted into sugar and molasses. She makes rum too, and ships barrels of it along with the molasses casks and thick cones of molded muscovado sugar to Sant Tigres, which consumes or trades all she can supply.Most sorcerers are not strong enough to animate so many golems. She has the largest plantation in this area. Others, though, have followed her lead, although on a smaller scale. It took decades for them to realize how steadily she was making money, despite the depredations of the Dutch merchants or the pirates they paid to disrupt the Aztec shipping trade.She had been to the Old Continent before all the trouble, two years learning science at a school, where she had met Britomart, who was an actual princess as well as a sorceress. She had been centuries old when she met Britomart but she had dared to hope that here was her soul mate, the person who would stay by her side over all the centuries to come. But in the end, she wanted to return to her island, full of new techniques and machineries that she thought would improve the yield. Rotating fields and planting those lying fallow with clover, to be plowed into the soil to enrich it for planting. Plans for a windmill to be built to the southeast, facing into the wind channeled through the mountains, with sails made of wooden frames tied with canvas. Lenses placed together that allowed one to observe the phases of heaven and the moons that surrounded other planets, and the accompanying elegant Copernican theories to explain their movements. She swore to Britomart that she would return by the next rainy season and she kept her promise.But by then, the trap had been sprung and Britomart had begun to rot away, victim of a magic left by a man who had died two weeks previously."You're ready to be rid of me," Britomart says."Of course not.""It's true, you are!"She goes about the room, conjuring breezes and positioning them to blow across the bed's expanse."You are," Britomart whispers. "I would be."Two breezes collide at the center of the bed. Britomart wants it cold, ever colder. It slows the decay, perhaps. Laurana isn't sure of that either.Outside she sees that the golems are nearly done with the south-east field. One more to go after that. She glances over the building, tallying up the things to be done. Roof. Trimming back the bushes. Exercising the horse she had thought Britomart would ride.Half a mile away is the beach shore. Her skiff is pulled up there, tied to a rock. Standing beside it, she can see the smudge of Sant Tigres on the horizon.She is so tired that she aches to her bones. Somewhere deep inside her, she is aware, there is an endless well of sorrow, but she is simply too weary to pay it any mind. It is one of the peculiarities of mages that they can compartmentalize themselves, and put away emotions to never be touched again.She does this now, rousing herself, and prepares to go on. She has a pact with the universe, which told her long ago when she became a sorceress: nothing will be asked that cannot be endured. So she soldiers on like her workers, marching through the days.She is still tired a week later."Go to her," Britomart says. "I don't care. You don't have much time with her.""I have even less with you," Laurana says, but Britomart still turns away.It is harvesting season’s end. Outside in the evening, some of the golems are in the boiling house, where three boilers sit over the furnace, cooking the sugar cane sap. The syrup passes from boiler to boiler until in the last it begins to crystallize into muscovado. Two golems pack it into clay sugar molds and set the molds in the distillery so the molasses will drain away.In the distillery, more golems walk across the mortar and cobble floor in which copper cauldrons are set for molasses collection, undulating channels feeding them the liquid. They mix cane juice into the brew before casking it. In a few months, it will be distilled into fiery, raw rum and sold to the taverns in the pirate city.She goes and fetches her notebook and sits in the room with Britomart, her pen scratching away to record the day's labors, the number of rows harvested, and making out a list of necessities for her next trip to Sant Tigres. She estimates two thousand pounds of sugar this year, three hundred casks of molasses, and another two hundred of rum. Recently she received word that the sorcerer Carnuba, whose plantation is three days south, renovated his sugar mill to process lime juice. Lime juice is an excellent scurvy preventative, and much in demand – she wonders how long it would take a newly planted grove to fruit. Her pen dances across the page, calculating raw material costs and the best forms of transportation."Is she pretty?" Britomart asks. Her face is still turned away.Laurana considers. "Yes," she says."As pretty as I was?" The anguish in the whisper forces Laurana put down her pen. She takes Britomart's hands in hers. They are untouched by the disease, the nails sleek and shiny and well-groomed. Hands like the necks of swans, or white doves arcing over the gleam of water."Never that pretty," she says.The next morning Laurana goes through the room, touching each charm to stillness until the lace curtains no longer flutter. Until there is no sound in the room except her own breathing and the warbling calls of the deathbirds clustering among the blossoms of the bougainvillea tree outside.She hears a fluttering from her room, a pigeon that has joined the dozen others on the windowsill, but she ignores it, as she ignored the earlier arrivals. She sits beside the bed, listening, listening. But the figure on the bed does not take another breath, no matter how long she listens.All through that day, the golems labor boiling sugar. Jeanette brings her lemonade and the new girl, Madeleine, has made biscuits. She drinks the sweet liquid and looks at the dusty wallpaper. The thought of changing it stuns her with the energy it would require. She will sit here, she thinks, until she dies, and dust will collect on her and the wallpaper alike.Still, when dinner-time comes she goes downstairs and under Tante Isabelle's watchful eye, she pushes some food around on her plate.Daniel cannot help but be a little thankful that Britomart is dead, she thinks. He was the one who emptied her chamber pot and endured her abuse when she set him to fetching and carrying. The thought makes her speak sharply to him as he serves the chowder the new girl has made. He looks bewildered by her tone and slinks away. She regrets the moment as soon as it is passed but has no reason for calling him back.Upstairs the ranks of the pigeons have swollen by two or three more. She lies on her bed, fully clothed, and stares at the ceiling.The next morning she takes two golems from their labors to carry Britomart's body for her. They dig the grave on a high slope of the mountain, overlooking the bay. It is a fine view, she thinks. One Britomart would have liked. When they have finished, she stands with her palms turned upwards to the sky, calling clouds to come seething on the wind. They collect, darkening like burning sugar. When they are at the perfect, furious boil, she brings lightning down from them to smash the stone that stands over the grave. She does it over and over again, carving Britomart's name in deep and angry, blackened letters.At home she goes to lie in bed again.One by one, the golems grind to a stop at their labors, and the sap boils over in thick black smoke. They stand wherever their energy gave out, but all manage in their last moments to bring their limbs in towards their torsos, standing like stalks of stillness.It may be the smoke that draws Christina. She arrives, knocks on the door, and comes inside, brushing past the servants. Without knowing the house, she manages to come upstairs and to Laurana's bedroom.Laurana does not move, does not look over at the door.Christina comes to the bed and lies down beside the sorceress. She looks around at the bedroom, at the string of shells hanging on the wall, but says nothing. She strokes Laurana's ivory hair with a soft hand until the tears begin.Outside the golems grind to life again as the rain starts. They collect the burned vats and trundle them away. They cask the most recent rum and set the casks on wooden racks to ferment. They put the plantation into order, and finish the last of their labors. Then as the light of day fades, muffled by the steady rain, they arrange themselves again, closing themselves away, readying for tomorrow.END"Sugar" was originally published in Fantasy Magazine in 2007.This recording is a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license which means you can share it with anyone you’d like, but please don’t change or sell it. Our theme is “Aurora Borealis” by Bird Creek, available through the Google Audio Library.Thanks for listening, and I'll have another story for you on September 8th.[Music plays out]
Summary of today's show: Just before Christmas every year, the Holy Father gives a kind of State of the Church address to the Roman Curia and this past year was no exception. Scot Landry, Fr. Chip Hines, and Domenico Bettinelli delve into Pope Benedict's address and his diagnosis in Europe and North America of faith fatigue as well as the cure: a faith that takes on new life, a joyful passion for faith. Listen to the show: Today's host(s): Scot Landry and Fr. Chip Hines Today's guest(s): Domenico Bettinelli of Pilot New Media Links from today's show: Today's topics: Pope Benedict on faith fatigue and the joy-filled Catholic 1st segment: Today we present the text of Pope Benedict's address to the Roman Curia at the end of last year, which will be the topic of discussion in this show. Dear Cardinals, Brother Bishops and Priests, Dear Brothers and Sisters, The occasion that brings us together today is always particularly moving. The holy feast of Christmas is almost upon us and it prompts the great family of the Roman Curia to come together for a gracious exchange of greetings, as we wish one another a joyful and spiritually fruitful celebration of this feast of the God who became flesh and established his dwelling in our midst (cf. Jn 1:14). For me, this is an occasion not only to offer you my personal good wishes, but also to express my gratitude and that of the Church to each one of you for your generous service; I ask you to convey this to all the co-workers of our extended family. I offer particular thanks to the Dean of the College, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, who has given voice to the sentiments of all present and of all who work in the various offices of the Curia and the Governorate, including those whose apostolate is carried out in the Pontifical Representations throughout the world. All of us are committed to spreading throughout the world the resounding message that the angels proclaimed that night in Bethlehem, “Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace to people of good will” (Lk 2:14), so as to bring joy and hope to our world. As this year draws to a close, Europe is undergoing an economic and financial crisis, which is ultimately based on the ethical crisis looming over the Old Continent. Even if such values as solidarity, commitment to one's neighbour and responsibility towards the poor and suffering are largely uncontroversial, still the motivation is often lacking for individuals and large sectors of society to practise renunciation and make sacrifices. Perception and will do not necessarily go hand in hand. In defending personal interests, the will obscures perception, and perception thus weakened is unable to stiffen the will. In this sense, some quite fundamental questions emerge from this crisis: where is the light that is capable of illuminating our perception not merely with general ideas, but with concrete imperatives? Where is the force that draws the will upwards? These are questions that must be answered by our proclamation of the Gospel, by the new evangelization, so that message may become event, so that proclamation may lead to life. The key theme of this year, and of the years ahead, is this: how do we proclaim the Gospel today? How can faith as a living force become a reality today? The ecclesial events of the outgoing year were all ultimately related to this theme. There were the journeys to Croatia, to the World Youth Day in Spain, to my home country of Germany, and finally to Africa – Benin – for the consignment of the Post-Synodal document on justice, peace and reconciliation, which should now lead to concrete results in the various local churches. Equally memorable were the journeys to Venice, to San Marino, to the Eucharistic Congress in Ancona, and to Calabria. And finally there was the important day of encounter in Assisi for religions and for people who in whatever way are searching for truth and peace, representing a new step forward in the pilgrimage towards truth and peace. The establishment of the Pontifical Council for the New Evangelization is at the same time a pointer towards next year's Synod on the same theme. The Year of Faith, commemorating the beginning of the Council fifty years ago, also belongs in this context. Each of these events had its own particular characteristics. In Germany, where the Reformation began, the ecumenical question, with all its trials and hopes, naturally assumed particular importance. Intimately linked to this, at the focal point of the debate, the question that arises repeatedly is this: what is reform of the Church? How does it take place? What are its paths and its goals? Not only faithful believers but also outside observers are noticing with concern that regular churchgoers are growing older all the time and that their number is constantly diminishing; that recruitment of priests is stagnating; that scepticism and unbelief are growing. What, then, are we to do? There are endless debates over what must be done in order to reverse the trend. There is no doubt that a variety of things need to be done. But action alone fails to resolve the matter. The essence of the crisis of the Church in Europe is the crisis of faith. If we find no answer to this, if faith does not take on new life, deep conviction and real strength from the encounter with Jesus Christ, then all other reforms will remain ineffective. On this point, the encounter with Africa's joyful passion for faith brought great encouragement. None of the faith fatigue that is so prevalent here, none of the oft-encountered sense of having had enough of Christianity was detectable there. Amid all the problems, sufferings and trials that Africa clearly experiences, one could still sense the people's joy in being Christian, buoyed up by inner happiness at knowing Christ and belonging to his Church. From this joy comes also the strength to serve Christ in hard-pressed situations of human suffering, the strength to put oneself at his disposal, without looking round for one's own advantage. Encountering this faith that is so ready to sacrifice and so full of happiness is a powerful remedy against fatigue with Christianity such as we are experiencing in Europe today. A further remedy against faith fatigue was the wonderful experience of World Youth Day in Madrid. This was new evangelization put into practice. Again and again at World Youth Days, a new, more youthful form of Christianity can be seen, something I would describe under five headings. Firstly, there is a new experience of catholicity, of the Church's universality. This is what struck the young people and all the participants quite directly: we come from every continent, but although we have never met one another, we know one another. We speak different languages, we have different ways of life and different cultural backgrounds, yet we are immediately united as one great family. Outward separation and difference is relativized. We are all moved by the one Lord Jesus Christ, in whom true humanity and at the same time the face of God himself is revealed to us. We pray in the same way. The same inner encounter with Jesus Christ has stamped us deep within with the same structure of intellect, will and heart. And finally, our common liturgy speaks to our hearts and unites us in a vast family. In this setting, to say that all humanity are brothers and sisters is not merely an idea: it becomes a real shared experience, generating joy. And so we have also understood quite concretely: despite all trials and times of darkness, it is a wonderful thing to belong to the worldwide Church, to the Catholic Church, that the Lord has given to us. From this derives a new way of living our humanity, our Christianity. For me, one of the most important experiences of those days was the meeting with the World Youth Day volunteers: about 20,000 young people, all of whom devoted weeks or months of their lives to working on the technical, organizational and material preparations for World Youth Day, and thus made it possible for the whole event to run smoothly. Those who give their time always give a part of their lives. At the end of the day, these young people were visibly and tangibly filled with a great sense of happiness: the time that they gave up had meaning; in giving of their time and labour, they had found time, they had found life. And here something fundamental became clear to me: these young people had given a part of their lives in faith, not because it was asked of them, not in order to attain Heaven, nor in order to escape the danger of Hell. They did not do it in order to find fulfilment. They were not looking round for themselves. There came into my mind the image of Lot's wife, who by looking round was turned into a pillar of salt. How often the life of Christians is determined by the fact that first and foremost they look out for themselves, they do good, so to speak, for themselves. And how great is the temptation of all people to be concerned primarily for themselves; to look round for themselves and in the process to become inwardly empty, to become “pillars of salt”. But here it was not a matter of seeking fulfilment or wanting to live one's life for oneself. These young people did good, even at a cost, even if it demanded sacrifice, simply because it is a wonderful thing to do good, to be there for others. All it needs is the courage to make the leap. Prior to all of this is the encounter with Jesus Christ, inflaming us with love for God and for others, and freeing us from seeking our own ego. In the words of a prayer attributed to Saint Francis Xavier: I do good, not that I may come to Heaven thereby and not because otherwise you could cast me into Hell. I do it because of you, my King and my Lord. I came across this same attitude in Africa too, for example among the Sisters of Mother Teresa, who devote themselves to abandoned, sick, poor and suffering children, without asking anything for themselves, thus becoming inwardly rich and free. This is the genuinely Christian attitude. Equally unforgettable for me was the encounter with handicapped young people in the Saint Joseph Centre in Madrid, where I encountered the same readiness to put oneself at the disposal of others – a readiness to give oneself that is ultimately derived from encounter with Christ, who gave himself for us. A third element, that has an increasingly natural and central place in World Youth Days and in the spirituality that arises from them, is adoration. I still look back to that unforgettable moment during my visit to the United Kingdom, when tens of thousands of predominantly young people in Hyde Park responded in eloquent silence to the Lord's sacramental presence, in adoration. The same thing happened again on a smaller scale in Zagreb and then again in Madrid, after the thunderstorm which almost ruined the whole night vigil through the failure of the microphones. God is indeed ever-present. But again, the physical presence of the risen Christ is something different, something new. The risen Lord enters into our midst. And then we can do no other than say, with Saint Thomas: my Lord and my God! Adoration is primarily an act of faith – the act of faith as such. God is not just some possible or impossible hypothesis concerning the origin of all things. He is present. And if he is present, then I bow down before him. Then my intellect and will and heart open up towards him and from him. In the risen Christ, the incarnate God is present, who suffered for us because he loves us. We enter this certainty of God's tangible love for us with love in our own hearts. This is adoration, and this then determines my life. Only thus can I celebrate the Eucharist correctly and receive the body of the Lord rightly. A further important element of the World Youth Days is the sacrament of Confession, which is increasingly coming to be seen as an integral part of the experience. Here we recognize that we need forgiveness over and over again, and that forgiveness brings responsibility. Openness to love is present in man, implanted in him by the Creator, together with the capacity to respond to God in faith. But also present, in consequence of man's sinful history (Church teaching speaks of original sin) is the tendency that is opposed to love – the tendency towards selfishness, towards becoming closed in on oneself, in fact towards evil. Again and again my soul is tarnished by this downward gravitational pull that is present within me. Therefore we need the humility that constantly asks God for forgiveness, that seeks purification and awakens in us the counterforce, the positive force of the Creator, to draw us upwards. Finally, I would like to speak of one last feature, not to be overlooked, of the spirituality of World Youth Days, namely joy. Where does it come from? How is it to be explained? Certainly, there are many factors at work here. But in my view, the crucial one is this certainty, based on faith: I am wanted; I have a task in history; I am accepted, I am loved. Josef Pieper, in his book on love, has shown that man can only accept himself if he is accepted by another. He needs the other's presence, saying to him, with more than words: it is good that you exist. Only from the You can the I come into itself. Only if it is accepted, can it accept itself. Those who are unloved cannot even love themselves. This sense of being accepted comes in the first instance from other human beings. But all human acceptance is fragile. Ultimately we need a sense of being accepted unconditionally. Only if God accepts me, and I become convinced of this, do I know definitively: it is good that I exist. It is good to be a human being. If ever man's sense of being accepted and loved by God is lost, then there is no longer any answer to the question whether to be a human being is good at all. Doubt concerning human existence becomes more and more insurmountable. Where doubt over God becomes prevalent, then doubt over humanity follows inevitably. We see today how widely this doubt is spreading. We see it in the joylessness, in the inner sadness, that can be read on so many human faces today. Only faith gives me the conviction: it is good that I exist. It is good to be a human being, even in hard times. Faith makes one happy from deep within. That is one of the wonderful experiences of World Youth Days. It would take too long now to go into detail concerning the encounter in Assisi, as the significance of the event would warrant. Let us simply thank God, that as representatives of the world's religions and as representatives of thinking in search of truth, we were able to meet that day in a climate of friendship and mutual respect, in love for the truth and in shared responsibility for peace. So let us hope that, from this encounter, a new willingness to serve peace, reconciliation and justice has emerged. As I conclude, I would like to thank all of you from my heart for shouldering the common mission that the Lord has given us as witnesses to his truth, and I wish all of you the joy that God wanted to bestow up 2nd segment: Now as we do every week at this time, we will consider the Mass readings for this Sunday, specifically the Gospel reading. Jesus summoned the Twelve and began to send them out two by two and gave them authority over unclean spirits. He instructed them to take nothing for the journey but a walking stick– no food, no sack, no money in their belts. They were, however, to wear sandals but not a second tunic. He said to them, “Wherever you enter a house, stay there until you leave. Whatever place does not welcome you or listen to you, leave there and shake the dust off your feet in testimony against them.” So they went off and preached repentance. The Twelve drove out many demons, and they anointed with oil many who were sick and cured them.
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