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Welcome to the latest episode of Lunch with Shelley with today's special guest, Ambassador Audra Plepyte, the Lithuanian Ambassador to the United States of America and to the United Mexican States. As a career diplomat with over 30 years of experience, Ambassador Plepyte has held numerous positions within the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs dealing with bilateral and multilateral issues, heading the European Union Department, the Personnel Department, and the International Missions and Conflict Prevention Division. She has also served as Lithuania's ambassador to Spain and the World Tourism Organization, and is now the first female Ambassador of Lithuania to the U.S.Throughout our discussion, we talk about growing up in Vilnius under Soviet control, the importance of freedom and the beacon of hope that the United States played during those years, how modern and welcoming Lithuania is with a very happy young population, music, history, and of course food and lunch!We're dining at the lovely and historic Lithuanian Embassy in Washington DC, which is celebrating its 100th year of being in this exact location, so join us over salmon, bagels, Lithuanian cheeses, and amazing desserts for a very delightful and enlightening lunch! Check us out at www.lunchwithshelley.com or wherever you get your favorite podcast, and as always and in the meantime, Peace Love and Lunch!

The independent Mexican competition law regulator, COFECE, has been abolished and absorbed into the Ministry of Economics. What does this mean for merger control and competition law enforcement in Mexico? Lucia Ojeda Cárdenas, lawyer at SAI Law & Economics in Mexico City, joins Matthew Hall and Subrata Bhattacharjee to discuss this dramatic reform to the Constitution of Mexico. Listen to this episode to learn more about the timing of the changes, the structure of the new agency and implications for Mexican and foreign companies operating in the country. With special guest: Lucia Ojeda Cárdenas, partner, SAI Law & Economics  Related Links: SAI memo November 2024, Bill to eliminate various autonomous constitutional agencies, including COFECE COFECE press release November 2024, Position regarding the approval of the reform on organic simplification COFECE position paper regarding the reform COFECE position paper regarding the transition to the new competition authority IFT position paper regarding the reform  IFT position paper regarding the budget assigned by Congress  Congress of the Union, Decree whereby various provisions of the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States are reformed, added, and repealed, in organic simplification matters Hosted by: Matthew Hall, McGuireWoods London LLP and Subrata Bhattacharjee, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

Overview In the last episode we looked at how JSON data is structured and saw how jq could be used to format and print this type of data. In this episode we'll visit a few of the options to the jq command and then start on the filters written in the jq language. Options used by jq In general the jq command is invoked thus: jq [options...] filter [files...] It can be given data in files or sent to it via the STDIN (standard in) channel. We saw data being sent this way in the last episode, having been downloaded by curl. There are many options to the command, and these are listed in the manual page and in the online manual. We will look at a few of them here: --help or -h Output the jq help and exit with zero. -f filename or --from-file filename Read filter from the file rather than from a command line, like awk´s -f option. You can also use ´#´ to make comments in the file. --compact-output or -c By default, jq pretty-prints JSON output. Using this option will result in more compact output by instead putting each JSON object on a single line. --color-output or -C and --monochrome-output or -M By default, jq outputs colored JSON if writing to a terminal. You can force it to produce color even if writing to a pipe or a file using -C, and disable color with -M. --tab Use a tab for each indentation level instead of two spaces. --indent n Use the given number of spaces (no more than 7) for indentation. Notes The -C option is useful when printing output to the less command with the colours that jq normally generates. Use this: jq -C '.' file.json | less -R The -R option to less allows colour escape sequences to pass through. Do not do what I did recently. Accidentally leaving the -C option on the command caused formatted.json to contain all the escape codes used to colour the output: $ jq -C '.' file.json > formatted.json This is why jq normally only generates coloured output when writing to the terminal. Filters in jq As we saw in the last episode JSON can contain arrays and objects. Arrays are enclosed in square brackets and their elements can be any of the data types we saw last time. So, arrays of arrays, arrays of objects, and arrays of both of these are all possible. Objects contain collections of keyed items where the keys are strings of various types and the values they are associated with can be any of the data types. JSON Examples Simple arrays: [1,2,3] [1,2,3,[4,5,6]] ["Hacker","Public","Radio"] ["Sunday","Monday","Tuesday","Wednesday","Thursday","Friday","Saturday"] Simple object: { "name": "Hacker Public Radio", "type": "podcast"} This more complex object was generated by the Random User Generator API. It is a subset of what can be obtained from this site. { "gender": "female", "name": { "title": "Mrs", "first": "Jenny", "last": "Silva" }, "dob": { "date": "1950-01-03T21:38:19.583Z", "age": 74 }, "nat": "GB" } This one comes from the file countries.json from the Github project mledoze/countries. It is a subset of the entry for Mexico. { "name": { "common": "Mexico", "official": "United Mexican States", "native": { "spa": { "official": "Estados Unidos Mexicanos", "common": "México" } } }, "capital": [ "Mexico City" ], "borders": [ "BLZ", "GTM", "USA" ] } Identity filter This is the simplest filter which we already encountered in episode 1: '.'. It takes its input and produces the same value as output. Since the default action is to pretty-print the output it formats the data: $ echo '["Hacker","Public","Radio"]' | jq . [ "Hacker", "Public", "Radio" ] Notice that the filter is not enclosed in quotes in this example. This is usually fine for the simplest filters which don't contain any characters which are of significance to the shell. It's probably a good idea to always use (single) quotes however. There may be considerations regarding how jq handles numbers. Consult the jq documentation for details. Object Identifier-Index filter This form of filter refers to object keys. A particular key is usually referenced with a full-stop followed by the name of the key. In the HPR statistics data there is a top-level key "hosts" which refers to the number of currently registered hosts. This can be obtained thus (assuming the JSON is in the file stats.json): $ jq '.hosts' stats.json 357 The statistics file contains a key 'stats_generated' which marks a Unix time value (seconds since the Unix Epoch 1970-01-01). This can be decoded on the command line like this: $ date -d "@$(jq '.stats_generated' stats.json)" +'%F %T' 2024-04-18 15:30:07 Here the '-d' option to date provides the date to print, and if it begins with a '@' character it's interpreted as seconds since the Epoch. Note that the result is in my local time zone which is currently UTC + 0100 (aka BST). Using object keys in this way only works if the keys contain only ASCII characters and underscores and don't start with a digit. To use other characters it's necessary to enclose the key in double quotes or square brackets and double quotes. So, assuming the key we used earlier had been altered to 'stats-generated' we could use either of these expressions: ."stats-generated" .["stats-generated"] Of course, the .[] form is valid in all contexts. Here represents a JSON string in double quotes. The jq documentation refers to this as an Object Index. What if you want the next_free value discussed in the last episode (number of shows until the next free slot)? Just typing the following will not work: $ jq '.next_free' stats.json null This is showing that there is no key next_free at the top level of the object, the key we want is in the object with the key slot. If you request the slot key this will happen: $ jq '.slot' stats.json { "next_free": 8, "no_media": 0 } Here an object has been returned, but we actually want the value within it, as we know. This is where we can chain filters like this: $ jq '.slot | .next_free' stats.json 8 The pipe symbol causes the result of the first filter to be passed to the second filter. Note that the pipe here is not the same as the Unix pipe, although it looks the same There is a shorthand way of doing this "chaining": $ jq '.slot.next_free' stats.json 8 This is a bit like a file system path, and makes the extraction of desired data easier to visualise and therefore quite straightforward, I think. Array index filter We have seen the object index filter .[] where represents a key in the object we are working with. It makes sense for array indexing to be .[] where represents an integer starting at zero, or a negative integer. The meaning of the negative number is to count backwards from the last element of the array (which is -1). So, some examples might be: $ echo '["Sunday","Monday","Tuesday","Wednesday","Thursday","Friday","Saturday"]' | jq '.[1]' "Monday" $ echo '["Sun","Mon","Tue","Wed","Thu","Fri","Sat"]' | jq '.[-1]' "Sat" $ echo '[1, 2, 3, [4, 5, 6]]' | jq '.[-1]' [ 4, 5, 6 ] We will look at more of the basic filters in the next episode. Links jq: GitHub page Downloading jq The jq manual Wikipedia page about the jq programming language Test data sources: Random User Generator API Github project mledoze/countries

In this episode, Calvin Mulindwa talks about the Strategic Trade and Investment Partnership that is currently being negotiated between Kenya and the United States. This episode focuses on the digital trade particular chapter of the S.T.I.P.Resources:Digital Trade and the S.T.I.P blog post - The US-Kenya FTA Insights  (theuskenyaftainsights.org)Agreement between the United States of America, Mexico and Canada Text - Agreement between the United States of America, the United Mexican States, and Canada 7/1/20 Text | United States Trade Representative (ustr.gov)Digital Trade chapter of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership Text - 14.-Electronic-Commerce-Chapter.pdf (mfat.govt.nz)This episode was edited by Tevin SudiMusic: Intro/Outro -  https://pixabay.com/music/id-102694/

"Education is an opportunity for self-reflection, a beautiful time to look inwards and ask 'Who am I? Why am I here? Do I really want to be here?' Those answers for me have been, 'yes, I really want to do this. I want to effect change in this world in a positive way.'"Dr. Raul Dominguez was recently accepted as a Fellow for the Cleveland Institute of Music's inaugural Future of Music Faculty Fellowship, sponsored by the Sphinx Organization. He is also the founder of the Choral Conductors Colloquium which provides its 900+ subscribers with opportunities to learn from choral music's finest conductors; subscribers are made up of choral musicians representing every continent (except Antarctica) and 54 different countries. Next fall, Raul will continue his role as the Associate Artistic Director of the Denver Gay Men's Chorus and serve as the Director of Choral Activities at Regis University in Denver, CO. His primary research focus is the choral music of the United Mexican States.   He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in Choral Conducting and Literature from the University of Colorado Boulder (CU), where he studied with Dr. Gregory Gentry, and a Master of Music degree in Choral Conducting from Ithaca College, where he studied with Dr. Janet Galván. Prior to Ithaca, he was the Choir Director at Clear Lake HS in his hometown of Houston, TX, for four years. He earned Bachelor of Music degrees in Vocal Performance and Music Education from Oklahoma City University, where he studied with Dr. Randi Von Ellefson and Judith Willoughby.To get in touch with Raul, you can find him on Instagram (@raulconducts) or visit raulconducts.com.Email choirfampodcast@gmail.com to contact our hosts.Podcast music from Podcast.coPhoto in episode artwork by Trace Hudson from Pexels

President Biden Hosts The Right Honorable Justin Trudeau, P.C., M.P., Prime Minister of Canada, and His Excellency Andrés Manuel López Obrador, President of the United Mexican States, for the North American Leaders' Summit (NALS)Prime Minister Justin Trudeau takes part in a question-and-answer session hosted by the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. Former United States Ambassador to Canada David Jacobson moderates the session, which is followed by a panel discussion with the prime minister and his ministers Chrystia Freeland (finance), Mary Ng (international trade) and Marco Mendicino (public safety). Trudeau is in Washington, D.C., ahead of a meeting with the American and Mexican presidents for the North American Leaders' Summit.

Back after my vacation last week, capped off with a busy and breathtaking trip to New Mexico for my son Eli's 13th birthday, I want to talk about comments made by President Joe Biden last week concerning the 2nd Amendment. For those unfamiliar, you can listen to his remarks for yourself here. Needless to say, I remain unconvinced. And vaguely threatening to use F-15's and nuclear weapons against proponents and advocates of the 2nd Amendment as an anti-tyranny protection is itself a good argument for why we should not allow the 2nd Amendment to be infringed upon. In other news, a bi-partisan resolution in the U.S. Congress condemns a century of Maoist CCP oppression of the Chinese people. And isn't it an odd sight to see our lawmakers condemn a century of atrocities committed by communists in China while at the same time listening to ascendant radical Leftism threaten Americans who want to keep and bear arms and remain free? I definitely think so. But let me end off with a word of encouragement. Rights that are God-given can only be opposed by men. They cannot be taken away unless we surrender them. And if my trip to New Mexico with my son Eli underscored anything for me, it is that regimes change, but culture endures. New Mexico was once Nuevo Mexico. And before it was a part of the United States, it was a province of what is now the United Mexican States. And before Mexico was an independent nation, it belonged to Spain. And before that, it was the ancient land of various tribes of indigenous Puebloan, Apache, and Chacoan peoples. My point being that all of those cultures still live in to varying extents today. Regimes come and go. Illegitimate presidents and governments rise and fall. But if we maintain a culture of celebrating, affirming, and defending what is good and true according to God, our heritage and posterity will endure. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/garrett-ashley-mullet/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/garrett-ashley-mullet/support

The Trump administration renegotiated NAFTA and the 116th Congress passed those changes in order to make the USMCA into law. In this episode, international trade expert Lori Wallach, the Director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, joins Jen to explain the differences between NAFTA and the USMCA. What you hear may surprise you. Please Support Congressional Dish – Quick Links Click here to contribute monthly or a lump sum via PayPal Click here to support Congressional Dish for each episode via Patreon Send Zelle payments to: Donation@congressionaldish.com Send Venmo payments to: @Jennifer-Briney Send Cash App payments to: $CongressionalDish or Donation@congressionaldish.com Use your bank’s online bill pay function to mail contributions to: 5753 Hwy 85 North, Number 4576, Crestview, FL 32536 Please make checks payable to Congressional Dish Thank you for supporting truly independent media! Recommended Congressional Dish Episodes CD96: Fast Tracking Fast Track (Trade Promotion Authority CD102: The World Trade Organization: COOL? CD052: The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Bills Bill: H.R.5430 - United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement Implementation Act Congress.gov, January 16, 2020 About Lori Wallach Lori Wallach, Linked In Lori Wallach, Director, Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch, Public Citizen About Us, Public Citizen About Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch (GTW), Public Citizen Public Citizen, Influence Watch Global Trade Watch, Facebook Global Trade Watch, Twitter Lori Wallach, Twitter Global Trade Watch, Instagram Articles/Documents Article: Labelling debate returns to U.S. By Barbara Duckworth, The Western Producer, February 13, 2020 Article: The US Drops ISDS By Lori Wallach, The Globalist, January 24, 2020 Article: Lawmakers try to resurrect country-of-origin labeling for beef and pork By Cathy Siegner, FoodDive, November 5, 2019 Article: Background on the Epic WTO Tuna Dolphin Fight Public Citizen Article: COOL for beef, pork on US Senate’s plate By Erica Shaffer, Meat + Poultry, November 4, 2019 Article: When Pharma Needs a Friend: Conservative House Democrats Move to Protect Drug Company Profits by David Dayen, The American Prospect, October 31, 2019 Article: While USMCA stalls, lobbying kicks into high gear by Raymond Arke, OpenSecrets.org, May 8, 2019 Article: Mexico loses 10-year WTO battle over U.S. tuna labeling by Tom Miles, Reuters, December 14, 2018 Article: The Little-Known Trade Adviser Who Wields Enormous Power in Washington by Ana Swanson, The New York Times, March 9, 2018 Document: The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) By M. Angeles Villarreal and Ian F. Fergusson, Congressional Research Service, May 24, 2017 Article: Trump's trade pick sails through hearing but faces procedural hangup By Victoria Guida, POLITICO, March 14, 2017 Article: India, US lock horns over intellectual property at WTO By Amiti Sen, New Scientist, November 11, 2016 Document: Country-of-Origin Labeling for Foods and the WTO Trade Dispute on Meat Labeling By Joel L. Greene, Congressional Research Service, December 8, 2015 Article: India surveys aftermath of new patent law By Padma Tata, New Scientist, March 29, 2005 Additional Resources Vote Results: On Passage of the Bill (H.R. 5430 United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement Implementation Act) United States Senate, January 16, 2020 Vote Results: United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement Implementation Act, FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 701 House of Representatives Clerk, December 19, 2019 Trade Agreement: Agreement between the United States of America, the United Mexican States, and Canada 12/13/19 Text Office of the United States Trade Representative, December 13, 2019 Cover Art Design by Only Child Imaginations Music Presented in This Episode Intro & Exit: Tired of Being Lied To by David Ippolito (found on Music Alley by mevio)

H.R. 4920 – Department of Veterans Affairs Contracting Preference Consistency Act (Rep. Takano – Veterans’ Affairs)  To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for an exception to certain small business contracting requirements applicable to the Department of Veterans Affairs procurement of certain goods and services covered under the Ability One program, Agreed to by voice vote H.R. 4183 – Identifying Barriers and Best Practices Study Act (Rep. Khanna – Veterans’ Affairs)  o direct the Comptroller General of the United States to conduct a study on disability and pension benefits provided to members of the National Guard and members of reserve components of the Armed Forces by the Department of Veterans Affairs  Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 408 – 1 (Roll no. 685) H.R. 3530 – Improving Confidence in Veterans’ Care Act (Rep. Cloud – Veterans’ Affairs)  to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to enforce the licensure requirement for medical providers of the Department of Veterans Affairs.  Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 409 – 1 (Roll no. 686). H.R. 2726 – Banning Smoking on Amtrak Act of 2019 (Rep. Norton – Transportation and Infrastructure)  to prohibit smoking on Amtrak trains  Agreed to by voice vote H.R. 2548 – HELP ACT, as amended (Rep. Fletcher – Transportation and Infrastructure)  To modify eligibility requirements for certain hazard mitigation assistance programs,  Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 409 – 7 (Roll no. 688) H.R. 4719 – FISH SAFE Act, as amended (Rep. Golden – Transportation and Infrastructure)  To amend the Federal share of the fishing safety standards grants  Agreed to by voice vote.(text H.R. 3362 – Small Airport Mothers’ Room Act of 2019, as amended (Rep. Miller – Transportation and Infrastructure)  to require small hub airports to construct areas for nursing mothers  Agreed to by voice vote. H.R. 4998 – Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Act of 2019, as amended (Rep. Pallone – Energy and Commerce)  To prohibit certain Federal subsidies from being used to purchase communications equipment or services posing national security risks, to provide for the establishment of a reimbursement program for the replacement of communications equipment or services posing such risks,   Agreed to by voice vote H.R. 4779 – To extend Undertaking Spam, Spyware, And Fraud Enforcement With Enforcers beyond Borders Act of 2006 (Rep. McMorris Rodgers – Energy and Commerce)  To extend the Undertaking Spam, Spyware, And Fraud Enforcement With Enforcers beyond Borders Act of 2006  Agreed to by voice vote. H.R. 4229 – Broadband DATA Act (Rep. Loebsack – Energy and Commerce)  To require the Federal Communications Commission to issue rules relating to the collection of data with respect to the availability of broadband services,   Agreed to by voice vote. H.R. 4227 – MAPS Act (Rep. McEachin – Energy and Commerce) to prohibit the submission to the Federal Communications Commission of broadband internet access service coverage information or data for the purposes of compiling an inaccurate broadband coverage map.  agreed to by voice vote H.R. 2647 – SOFFA, as amended (Rep. Matsui – Energy and Commerce)  This bill adopts the California flammability standard as the federal standard for upholstered furniture. To meet the standard, the upholstered furniture must past a specific test of the materials’ ability to resist smoldering when a heat source is applied. agreed to by voice vote H.R. 3172 – Safe Sleep for Babies Act of 2019, as amended (Rep. Cardenas – Energy and Commerce)  This bill makes it unlawful to manufacture, sell, or distribute inclined sleepers for infants. Specifically, inclined sleepers for infants are those designed for an infant up to one year old and have an inclined sleep surface of greater than 10 degrees.  Agreed to by voice vote. H.R. 150 – GREAT Act, as amended (Rep. Foxx – Oversight and Reform)  This bill requires the Office of Management and Budget, jointly with the executive department that issues the most federal grant awards, to (1) establish government-wide data standards for information reported by grant recipients, (2) issue guidance directing federal agencies to apply those standards, and (3) require the publication of recipient-reported data collected from all agencies on a single public website.  Agreed to by voice vote. S. 216 – Spokane Tribe of Indians of the Spokane Reservation Equitable Compensation Act (Sen. Cantwell – Natural Resources)  This bill requires the Bonneville Power Administration to make specified settlement payments to the Spokane Tribe in relation to the construction and operation of the Grand Coulee Dam. Agreed to by voice vote. H.R. 722 – Miracle Mountain Designation Act (Rep. Curtis – Natural Resources)  This bill designates a specified mountain near Elk Ridge City in Utah as “Miracle Mountain.”  Agreed to by voice vote. S. 50 – Columbia River In-Lieu and Treaty Fishing Access Sites Improvement Act (Sen. Merkley – Natural Resources)  This bill authorizes the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) to assess sanitation and safety conditions on land set aside to provide Columbia River Treaty tribes access to traditional fishing grounds. The bill applies to land held by the United States for the benefit of the Nez Perce Tribe, the Confederated Tribes of Umatilla Indian Reservation, the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon, and the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation.  Agreed to by voice vote. H.R. 453 – Eastern Band of Cherokee Historic Lands Reacquisition Act (Rep. Fleischmann – Natural Resources)  This bill takes specified lands and easements in Monroe County, Tennessee, into trust for the use and benefit of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. These lands include the Sequoyah Museum, the Chota Memorial, the Tanasi Memorial, and land to provide support for these properties and cultural programs.  Agreed to by voice vote. H.Res. 755 – Impeaching Donald John Trump, President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors (Rep. Nadler – Judiciary) (Subject to a Rule)  This resolution impeaches President Donald J. Trump for high crimes and misdemeanors. The resolution sets forth two articles of impeachment of the President: (1) abuse of power by soliciting the interference of Ukraine in the 2020 U.S. presidential election, and (2) obstruction of Congress by directing defiance of certain subpoenas issued by the House of Representatives.  On agreeing to Article I of the resolution Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 230 – 197, 1 Present (Roll no. 695).—–On agreeing to Article II of the resolution Agreed to by recorded vote: 229 – 198, 1 Present (Roll no. 696). H.R. 5430 – United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement Implementation Act (Rep. Hoyer – Ways and Means)  To implement the Agreement between the United States of America, the United Mexican States, and Canada attached as an Annex to the Protocol Replacing the North American Free Trade Agreement. On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 385 – 41 (Roll no. 701). H.R. 5377 – Restoring Tax Fairness for States and Localities Act (Rep. Suozzi – Ways and Means) (Subject to a Rule)  This bill increases the tax deduction for state and local taxes in 2019 to $20,000 for persons filing a joint tax return. It eliminates the current $10,000 cap on the deduction in 2020 and 2021. The bill increases the top marginal income tax rate to 39.6% beginning in 2020, and reduces the dollar amount at which the increased tax rate begins.  On passage Passed by recorded vote: 218 – 206 (Roll no. 700). Support the show.

With the passage of the Secure Fence Act in 2006, the U.S. Congress authorized funding for what has become the largest domestic construction project in twenty-first century America. The result? Approximately 700 miles of fencing, barricades, and walls comprised of newly built and repurposed materials, strategically placed along the 1,954-mile international border between the United Mexican States and the United States of America. At an initial cost of $3.4 billion, the most current estimates predict that the expense of maintaining the existing wall will exceed $49 billion by 2032. Envisioned solely as a piece of security infrastructure—with minimal input from architects and designers—the existing barrier has also levied a heavy toll on the lives of individuals, communities, municipalities, and the surrounding environment. In Borderwall as Architecture: A Manifesto for the U.S.-Mexico Boundary (UC Press, 2017), Professor Ronald Rael proposes a series of architectural designs that advocate for the transformation of the existing 700-mile-wall into a piece of civic infrastructure that makes positive contributions to the social, cultural, and ecological landscapes of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. As both a muse and act of political protest, Rael's designs challenge us to question the efficacy of the current barrier, while simultaneously stoking our imagination concerning its future. David-James Gonzales (DJ) is Assistant Professor of History at Brigham Young University. He is a historian of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, the development of multi-ethnic/racial cities, and the evolution of Latina/o identity and politics. His research centers on the relationship between Latina/o politics and the metropolitan development of Orange County, CA throughout the 20th century. You may follow him on Twitter @djgonzoPhD. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With the passage of the Secure Fence Act in 2006, the U.S. Congress authorized funding for what has become the largest domestic construction project in twenty-first century America. The result? Approximately 700 miles of fencing, barricades, and walls comprised of newly built and repurposed materials, strategically placed along the 1,954-mile international border between the United Mexican States and the United States of America. At an initial cost of $3.4 billion, the most current estimates predict that the expense of maintaining the existing wall will exceed $49 billion by 2032. Envisioned solely as a piece of security infrastructure—with minimal input from architects and designers—the existing barrier has also levied a heavy toll on the lives of individuals, communities, municipalities, and the surrounding environment. In Borderwall as Architecture: A Manifesto for the U.S.-Mexico Boundary (UC Press, 2017), Professor Ronald Rael proposes a series of architectural designs that advocate for the transformation of the existing 700-mile-wall into a piece of civic infrastructure that makes positive contributions to the social, cultural, and ecological landscapes of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. As both a muse and act of political protest, Rael’s designs challenge us to question the efficacy of the current barrier, while simultaneously stoking our imagination concerning its future. David-James Gonzales (DJ) is Assistant Professor of History at Brigham Young University. He is a historian of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, the development of multi-ethnic/racial cities, and the evolution of Latina/o identity and politics. His research centers on the relationship between Latina/o politics and the metropolitan development of Orange County, CA throughout the 20th century. You may follow him on Twitter @djgonzoPhD. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With the passage of the Secure Fence Act in 2006, the U.S. Congress authorized funding for what has become the largest domestic construction project in twenty-first century America. The result? Approximately 700 miles of fencing, barricades, and walls comprised of newly built and repurposed materials, strategically placed along the 1,954-mile international border between the United Mexican States and the United States of America. At an initial cost of $3.4 billion, the most current estimates predict that the expense of maintaining the existing wall will exceed $49 billion by 2032. Envisioned solely as a piece of security infrastructure—with minimal input from architects and designers—the existing barrier has also levied a heavy toll on the lives of individuals, communities, municipalities, and the surrounding environment. In Borderwall as Architecture: A Manifesto for the U.S.-Mexico Boundary (UC Press, 2017), Professor Ronald Rael proposes a series of architectural designs that advocate for the transformation of the existing 700-mile-wall into a piece of civic infrastructure that makes positive contributions to the social, cultural, and ecological landscapes of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. As both a muse and act of political protest, Rael’s designs challenge us to question the efficacy of the current barrier, while simultaneously stoking our imagination concerning its future. David-James Gonzales (DJ) is Assistant Professor of History at Brigham Young University. He is a historian of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, the development of multi-ethnic/racial cities, and the evolution of Latina/o identity and politics. His research centers on the relationship between Latina/o politics and the metropolitan development of Orange County, CA throughout the 20th century. You may follow him on Twitter @djgonzoPhD. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With the passage of the Secure Fence Act in 2006, the U.S. Congress authorized funding for what has become the largest domestic construction project in twenty-first century America. The result? Approximately 700 miles of fencing, barricades, and walls comprised of newly built and repurposed materials, strategically placed along the 1,954-mile international border between the United Mexican States and the United States of America. At an initial cost of $3.4 billion, the most current estimates predict that the expense of maintaining the existing wall will exceed $49 billion by 2032. Envisioned solely as a piece of security infrastructure—with minimal input from architects and designers—the existing barrier has also levied a heavy toll on the lives of individuals, communities, municipalities, and the surrounding environment. In Borderwall as Architecture: A Manifesto for the U.S.-Mexico Boundary (UC Press, 2017), Professor Ronald Rael proposes a series of architectural designs that advocate for the transformation of the existing 700-mile-wall into a piece of civic infrastructure that makes positive contributions to the social, cultural, and ecological landscapes of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. As both a muse and act of political protest, Rael’s designs challenge us to question the efficacy of the current barrier, while simultaneously stoking our imagination concerning its future. David-James Gonzales (DJ) is Assistant Professor of History at Brigham Young University. He is a historian of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, the development of multi-ethnic/racial cities, and the evolution of Latina/o identity and politics. His research centers on the relationship between Latina/o politics and the metropolitan development of Orange County, CA throughout the 20th century. You may follow him on Twitter @djgonzoPhD. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With the passage of the Secure Fence Act in 2006, the U.S. Congress authorized funding for what has become the largest domestic construction project in twenty-first century America. The result? Approximately 700 miles of fencing, barricades, and walls comprised of newly built and repurposed materials, strategically placed along the 1,954-mile international border between the United Mexican States and the United States of America. At an initial cost of $3.4 billion, the most current estimates predict that the expense of maintaining the existing wall will exceed $49 billion by 2032. Envisioned solely as a piece of security infrastructure—with minimal input from architects and designers—the existing barrier has also levied a heavy toll on the lives of individuals, communities, municipalities, and the surrounding environment. In Borderwall as Architecture: A Manifesto for the U.S.-Mexico Boundary (UC Press, 2017), Professor Ronald Rael proposes a series of architectural designs that advocate for the transformation of the existing 700-mile-wall into a piece of civic infrastructure that makes positive contributions to the social, cultural, and ecological landscapes of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. As both a muse and act of political protest, Rael’s designs challenge us to question the efficacy of the current barrier, while simultaneously stoking our imagination concerning its future. David-James Gonzales (DJ) is Assistant Professor of History at Brigham Young University. He is a historian of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, the development of multi-ethnic/racial cities, and the evolution of Latina/o identity and politics. His research centers on the relationship between Latina/o politics and the metropolitan development of Orange County, CA throughout the 20th century. You may follow him on Twitter @djgonzoPhD. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With the passage of the Secure Fence Act in 2006, the U.S. Congress authorized funding for what has become the largest domestic construction project in twenty-first century America. The result? Approximately 700 miles of fencing, barricades, and walls comprised of newly built and repurposed materials, strategically placed along the 1,954-mile international border between the United Mexican States and the United States of America. At an initial cost of $3.4 billion, the most current estimates predict that the expense of maintaining the existing wall will exceed $49 billion by 2032. Envisioned solely as a piece of security infrastructure—with minimal input from architects and designers—the existing barrier has also levied a heavy toll on the lives of individuals, communities, municipalities, and the surrounding environment. In Borderwall as Architecture: A Manifesto for the U.S.-Mexico Boundary (UC Press, 2017), Professor Ronald Rael proposes a series of architectural designs that advocate for the transformation of the existing 700-mile-wall into a piece of civic infrastructure that makes positive contributions to the social, cultural, and ecological landscapes of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. As both a muse and act of political protest, Rael’s designs challenge us to question the efficacy of the current barrier, while simultaneously stoking our imagination concerning its future. David-James Gonzales (DJ) is Assistant Professor of History at Brigham Young University. He is a historian of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, the development of multi-ethnic/racial cities, and the evolution of Latina/o identity and politics. His research centers on the relationship between Latina/o politics and the metropolitan development of Orange County, CA throughout the 20th century. You may follow him on Twitter @djgonzoPhD. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Part historical account, part theoretical appraisal, and part design manifesto, Borderwall as Architecture is reminiscent of Rem Koolhaas’ Delirious New York in its sweeping assessment of both the sociocultural peculiarities and outlandish possibilities represented by a prominent structural element."—Blaine Brownell, Architect Magazine Borderwall as Architecture is an artistic and intellectual hand grenade of a book, and a timely re-examination of what the physical barrier that divides the United States of America from the United Mexican States is and could be. It is both a protest against the wall and a projection about its future. Through a series of propositions suggesting that the nearly seven hundred miles of wall is an opportunity for economic and social development along the border that encourages its conceptual and physical dismantling, the book takes readers on a journey along a wall that cuts through a “third nation”—the Divided States of America. On the way the transformative effects of the wall on people, animals, and the natural and built landscape are exposed and interrogated through the story of people who, on both sides of the border, transform the wall, challenging its existence in remarkably creative ways. Coupled with these real-life accounts are counterproposals for the wall, created by Rael’s studio, that reimagine, hyperbolize, or question the wall and its construction, cost, performance, and meaning. Rael proposes that despite the intended use of the wall, which is to keep people out and away, the wall is instead an attractor, engaging both sides in a common dialogue. Included is a collection of reflections on the wall and its consequences by leading experts Michael Dear, Norma Iglesias-Prieto, Marcello Di Cintio, and Teddy Cruz. Ronald Rael is Associate Professor in the departments of Architecture and Art Practice at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Earth Architecture, a history of building with earth in the modern era that exemplifies new, creative uses of the oldest building material on the planet. The Museum of Modern Art and the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum have recognized his work, and in 2014 his creative practice, Rael San Fratello, was named an Emerging Voice by the Architectural League of New York.

[Show Notes Link]Direct Download Link | | Direct download link Rolling out a little later than what has been normal. Life has picked up a little bit, so I haven’t had time until today to get something out. This episode includes some discussion about the weather in Vancouver, drivers in the lower mainland, and some listener feedback. Just doing my best to give you more insight on what it’s like to be a boy from Iowa, living in the land of Canada. Links and name drops: – CTV: Vancouver sees record rainy days in January – Globeandmail.com: Witness the wetness of January – CBC British Columbia: Rainy, rainy January sets record – Wiki: 2006 Mexican Elections, Politics of Mexico, Federal Government of the United Mexican States Music artists for this episode: – Matthew Good – while we were hunting rabbits – Mates of State – girls singing – 3 Blind Mice – emily has compassion fatigue – Longwave – wake me when it’s over Please send an email or audio comment to radiozoom [at] gmail [dot] com. Also, send your mp3’s of music you’d like to see played on my podcast to the same address. 40:31 minutesSubscribe: RSS Podcast Feed Subscribe on iTunes © Copyright Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0), RadioZoom (John Bollwitt)