"I never could have done any of this without the help of my parents who are here today," Rand Paul said i
It's no secret that the Korean entertainment industry's prime export — K-pop — is now a global phenomenon. But for what's considered a largely Asian hit-making machine, it's Americans who are often headlining the groups.
How did things come to be this way? To talk about it, we found a pioneer of the cross-over gambit, Jae Chong, in a basement studio in Seoul, or more specifically, a neighborhood you probably know of...
"It's in Gangnam," Chong says with a laugh.
Chong is an Asian superproducer. You can liken him to the Asian Dr. Luke, or Pharrell, since Chong was once an artist, too. These days, he's all about the pan-Asian group, Aziatix, which he founded a few years back.
But that's not his only claim to fame. He's written and produced hit singles for Mando-Pop supernovas like Coco Lee and A-mei, and several K-Pop stars who are household names in Asia, like Kim Gun Mo, and JYJ.
While his success is all over the Asian charts, his passport says U.S.A. Born and raised in Los Angeles, he, like so many American-born Koreans ... made it big in the Asian pop industry partly because of his American-ness.
"There's something about kids that grew up in the states. They have a certain kind of swagger and certain kind of things that you can't just learn," he says.
Chong moved to Korea in 1992, at age 19, to form one of the first Asian-hip-hop boy bands — SOLID. In the band, he used his Korean name, Jung Jae Yoon.
"At the time, there was practically nothing here, in terms of hip-hop or rap or anything like that. We used to dress funny, too. Like baggy pants, like really funky hairstyles and stuff and taxi drivers wouldn't stop for us," Chong recalls. "We don't know where our real home is you know? When I'm in the U.S. I feel like I'm an outsider, and here in Korea I'm sort of an outsider."
But once his group produced hits, the migration of American talent to Korea caught on. These days you'll find an American-born artist in most K-pop groups.
Chong says appearing Asian and having the swagger of an American is certainly helpful, but the draw for young Asian-American artists is just flat out economics. The Asian music industry is just more open to Asian-looking talent than the industry in the U-S.
"Aside from all the discrimination they get in the US entertainment industry," Chong says, "They feel like, okay, maybe I'll have a better chance out here, where I'm actually accepted a little more."
Now, a Korean entertainment industry that was nascent 20 years ago is more like a machine, with training camps, managers, marketers and more. It's a key cultural export for a relatively small country.
"It's grown, it's grown, it's grown. It's a huge amount of growth," says Mark Russell, the Seoul-based author of Pop Goes Korea, which analyzes the rise of K-pop over the last few decades.
"Even before Gangnam Style, I was running into Kpop in random parts around the world. When I was living in Spain, I was surprised how often I would hear kpop on the radio or on the music video channels there," Russell says.
As a result, the Asian-Americans who felt that outsiderness on both sides of the Pacific now have a home in the fast-flattening global economy. Artists and producers like Jae Chong are using it to their advantage. His group, Aziatix, is big all over the Asian continent. Not just in Korea.
"My thing is always trying to take K-pop to a global forum," Chong says.
They don't have to be of a single place. Why bother, when they can chase world music domination?
Jae Chong curated a list of his favorite songs that he's produced for Asian stars over the years. You can find it on our East Asia Tumblr, Elise Goes East. Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.
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https://www.wnyc.org/story/meet-the-accidental-activists-of-the-supreme-courts-same-sex-marriage-case/ 2017-12-10T09:36:07-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/at-50-yearsold-the-challenge-to-keep-up-with-moores-law/ 2017-12-06T13:42:43-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/cuban-dissidents-castro-supporters-throw-fists-at-americas-summit/ 2017-1207T17:08:00-04:56 never 0.5 https://soundcloud.com/frannieandali/hank-shocklee 2017-09-19T15:49:25-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/of-fruit-hats-and-happy-tropics-a-renaissancefor-carmen-miranda/ 2017-12-09T23:33:07-04:56 never 0.5 Of Fruit Hats And 'Happy Tropics,' A Renaissance For Carmen MirandaKnown for her outrageous costumes and beautiful voice, Brazilian performer Carmen Miranda was the highest-earning woman in Hollywood in the 1940s.
In the signature number in the 1943 extravaganza The Gang's All Here, Miranda — a massive turban festooned with fake fruit atop her head — sings "The Lady In The Tutti Frutti Hat" as a huge cast of scantily clad women waves around giant bananas.
It's completely over the top, and makes you feel like you've been immersed in a massive, warbling fruit salad.
But her success in the U.S. didn't translate back home, where she was rejected for being a sellout.
Now, her supporters hope that she will be given much greater recognition in Brazil, starting with a permanent exhibition at a lavish new museum in her home city of Rio de Janeiro, which is set to open later this year.
Success In U.S. Eclipsed Success At Home
There was a lot more to "The Lady in the Tutti Frutti Hat" than papier-mâché produce.
"The Brazilians don't know Carmen Miranda as they should," says Heloísa Seixas, who with her daughter, Julia Romeu, wrote a children's biography of Miranda.
Named Maria do Carmo Miranda da Cunha when she was born in Portugal, she immigrated to Brazil with her family when she was a child.
Before she became a star on Broadway and Hollywood, Miranda was big in Brazil. Her rise coincided with the beginning of the country's music industry.
"She was the most successful Brazilian singer in Brazil for 10 years before she ever went to America ... and so she was very important to Brazilian music, to Brazilian radio," says Romeu. In fact, during that period, Miranda cut more records than anyone else.
She was singing at the casino in the neighborhood of Urca when an American producer saw her and whisked her to Broadway and then Hollywood.
In Brazil, instead of celebrating her success, the exact opposite happened: People jeered at her, and said she was a sellout.
"When she came back (to Brazil) the next year, she had a very bad experience at the Casino da Urca. She really was very upset and she cried. She stopped the show," recounts Seixas.
Putting Brazil On The Map
After that experience, Miranda didn't come back to Brazil for 14 years. But she got the last word: She recorded a song about the incident, "They Say I Came Back Americanized."
The lyrics are both arch and sweet: "How could I have come back Americanized?" she asks. "I always say 'te amo' and never 'I love you.'"
It was a huge hit at the time.
Miranda always argued that she was Brazilian at heart. In an interview in London in 1948 she talked about the cultural roots of all that fruit.
"In Brazil in Bahia, the girls carry the basket with the fruits on her head, and they have big bracelets and big necklaces and they sell fruits in the streets and I take it from the girls," Miranda explained.
And she used that image to make herself into a big business, constantly touring and putting on shows in casinos and clubs.
For the American audience of the day, she put Brazil on the map.
"It was through her music and her person that Americans discovered what Rio de Janeiro was, what Brazil was, how Brazilians behaved," says César Balbi, the director of the now-closed Carmen Miranda Museum in Rio.
Celebrated In A New Museum Exhibit
Balbi is speaking in the building that housed Miranda's collection after her death in 1955. It's a small, ugly concrete bunker next to an expressway. It's not easily visible — the antithesis of the woman herself.
Balbi takes me into the back room where her things are kept in storage.
And lined up on a shelf are the famous turbans, some with cherries, some with pineapples, some with small umbrellas. Miranda actually made some of them herself: She had learned millinery working in a hatmakers' shop in her youth.
Now her belongings are in the process of being packed up and shipped to their new location – the Museum of Image and Sound smack dab on the main drag in Copacabana.
"This museum was the wrong place for her," Balbi says. "Now we are going to a bigger space."
It will be at the heart of a large museum that will highlight Brazil's various musical traditions. The emphasis will be on Miranda's music, housed in a part of the museum that focuses on a genre called "Happy Tropics."
Seixas, the author, predicts that the new permanent exhibition will be a huge success.
"Carmen Miranda will be the anchor of the new museum," Seixas says. "She will finally have the important space that she always deserved in Rio and in Brazil." Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.
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Since it was posted to YouTube last year, a video by the women's health company Hello Flo has been viewed more than 30 million times. Unlike common ad trends that skirt around the female topic, it takes a more conscious, humorous approach:
"First Jenny got it. Then stupid Vicky got it. And I tried everything to get my period. Nothing. So, I faked it," says a preteen featured in the ad.
I'm watching with Willa Peltzer, who's 12, and her mother, who both laugh at the ad.
And it turns out, what was once awkward or even shameful is now an ordinary topic of conversation.
"When I got my period, I was definitely comfortable talking about it with my friends and my mom and my sister," Peltzer says.
So for her, she says, "It's not surprising that it could be turned into something funny because it's already something that I'm comfortable with."
Once upon a time — not so long ago — ads for pads and tampons showed images of women in gauzy garments, doing yoga on the beach. Manufacturers left it to mothers and big sisters to give young women "the talk."
But being a young person today is different from even a short time ago. Many 12-year-olds now carry smartphones. They use social media like Snapchat and Tumblr. And brands increasingly see them as a distinct consumer group.
Today, these brands speak to girls directly.
Allison Koller is with CBX, a branding agency that works with Kotex. There, she shows me, "This is the war room for Kotex."
The Kotex "war room" is not much bigger than a closet. Koller is showing me a stack of U by Kotex Tween boxes, containing pads and liners specifically for young women. First thing you notice? The boxes are not eggshell or lavender. They're black.
"Right," Koller says. "The black box makes a huge impression at shelf just because it's so unexpected."
Koller says this approach felt radical, even risky, when the first boxes started showing up in stores in 2010. But the first run sold out in two weeks.
Girls are of course not the only young consumers. Tween boys tend to buy a lot of sneakers and video games.
But there's something special about young women, says Emily Long. She's with the Learning About Multimedia Project, a group that teaches kids to think critically about advertising. Long says underwear, menstrual pads and makeup are the kinds of products that companies can sell to women for decades.
"I see them trying to set up a customer from a young age who's going to stay with them for the long haul," she says.
One trend that troubles Long is ads that reference a kind of soft-focus feminism. Dove has a selfie campaign for teens. Last year, the underwear brand Aerie loudly proclaimed that it had stopped doing post-production on its photography. One ad read: "The girl in this photo has not been retouched. The real you is sexy."
"It's still a construction," Long says. "They're still creating a shot ... putting them in costumes and lighting and makeup. Just because they're not going back over it later on with something like Photoshop doesn't mean that it hasn't been manipulated."
Aerie declined to give an interview.
The models in these ads are clearly older than 12. Aerie says it targets females 15 and older. Its close rival, Pink by Victoria's Secret, says it's for college-age women. But Willa Peltzer, our 12-year-old in Brooklyn, has shopped at both places.
"At 11, other girls my age were shopping there too," she says. "I think that they might not know it, but I think that they target all girls."
Oh, but the companies do know it. One 2013 study put the spending power of kids ages 9 to 13 at $200 billion.
Win a loyal fan today, and she could be a customer for many years to come.
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The memoir, by Alison Bechdel, takes its title from her family's sardonic nickname for their business — a funeral home. It delves into the mystery around her father's suicide, which took place around 1980. Bechdel, then a student at Oberlin College, had just come out to her parents as a lesbian — and learned her father was a deeply closeted gay man.
Bechdel agrees that the book is not exactly the most obvious source material for a musical.
"I thought it was crazy," she tells NPR about her reaction when the idea was first broached. "I didn't know how it was even possible."
But composer Jeanine Tesori, best known for writing the music for Caroline, Or Change and Shrek The Musical immediately responded to the story about an artistic but repressed and unhappy family.
"I knew that it was a singing piece," she said during an interview in her Manhattan office. "You could just hear it. All of the songs — they sing their desires and what's being held back."
Far more challenging Tesori says, was figuring out how to tell Bechdel's story without using her cartoons, which the creative team tried hard to incorporate in earlier versions.
"Oh my god, we had so many songs about her drawing, remember?" she says. "I mean, we had songs and songs and songs."
Tesori's talking to her collaborator, Lisa Kron, a playwright and longtime member of the downtown theater collective the Five Lesbian Brothers. Kron spent decades writing plays about lesbians back when they were practically invisible in popular culture — let alone on Broadway. It took Tesori and Kron seven years to create Fun Home the musical, but Kron thinks the timing ended up being perfect when the show opened off Broadway a year and a half ago.
"There was a critical mass of images of lesbians in the culture," she says. "So this could move forward in this way, that the audience would have the scaffolding that they could place this in.
That scaffolding allows for a show tune based on a moment when the main character realizes her sexual difference. Alison Bechdel, only about nine years old, is with her dad in a diner, when she notices a butch delivery woman, and is transfixed by everything about her. The song is called "Ring of Keys."
While writing the lyrics, Lisa Kron resisted cultural assumptions about masculine woman as unattractive or as punchlines. She found language that told a different truth. The 11-yearold who sings it became the youngest Obie winner in off-Broadway history. Sydney Lucas originated the role of "Small Alison" off-Broadway when she was only nine.
"Lesbian woman have come to see the show and say they remember that in their childhoods," Lucas says in her dressing room, referring to that moment of epiphany. "It's cool."
Lucas is one of three actors who play Bechdel at various points in her life. It's a cultural watershed for Broadway to feature a lesbian main character, says Lisa Kron, partly because musicals bring an unequaled sense of romance and empathy to their protagonists.
"There is nothing that gets in your bloodstream like that thing," she says. "So to have not just a lesbian but a butch lesbian be that person? That is a big moment."
The real Alison Bechdel is having quite a moment herself. In the past few years, Swedish movie theaters adopted a ratings system based on what's become known as " the Bechdel test." (That's when a movie features more than one female character ... and they talk to each other ... about something other than a man.) The book Fun Home has become required reading on many college campuses. And recently, Bechdel won both a Guggenheim Fellowship and a MacArthur "genius grant."
"My life is so crazy lately," Bechdel confesses.
Just a decade ago, Bechdel was best known for a beloved but relatively obscure cartoon series called Dykes to Watch Out For that ran in gay and alternative newspapers for decades. Like Bechdel, Lisa Kron created lesbian-themed work back when it was — by definition — marginal. Now that it's on Broadway and bestseller lists, she believes mainstream lesbian artists face a new challenge.
"We need to pay attention and think who else is out there that we have not seen yet," she says. "Who doesn't feel fully human in the culture. Because there are lots of other people who haven't gotten to this point yet." Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.
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https://www.wnyc.org/story/to-escape-military-service-thousands-of-young-eritreans-flee-to-europe/ 2017-12-09T20:06:53-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/late-chicago-chef-sought-to-open-a-new-page-in-gastronomy/ 2017-12-08T17:05:21-04:56 never 0.5 Late Chicago Chef Sought To Open 'A New Page In Gastronomy'The culinary world lost a visionary this week. Homaru Cantu, a specialist in the avant-garde approach to cooking known as molecular gastronomy, died Tuesday in Chicago at the age of 38. The Cook County Medical Examiner ruled Cantu's death a suicide.
Every visit to Cantu's flagship restaurant, Michelin-starred Moto, was a trip down the rabbit hole.
"He was one of those people who you expected sparks to be flying out of their heads because they're so full of ideas," says Monica Eng, who covers the food scene in Chicago for member station WBEZ.
"He would make menus that you could eat, that tasted like filet mignon. He could take wine and turn it into a powder. He could take fruit and carbonate it and turn it into a handheld juice box," Eng says. "He was famous for having a polymer box at the table with a fish in it that would be cooking right in front of your eyes."
Cantu's scientific approach to cooking started quite traditionally — as an apprentice to the father of the American tasting menu, Charlie Trotter.
And right beside Cantu was Graham Elliot, who would later become a judge on Fox TV's MasterChef.
"We actually started work at Charlie Trotter's together, probably a week apart from each other, back in January of 1999," Elliot recalls.
In the foxhole of that demanding kitchen, Elliot and Cantu became close friends. They both ran their own restaurants later, but while Elliot remained classical, Cantu went postmodern.
Elliot loved it.
"He was showing me materials that NASA used to coat the outside of the Space Shuttle, which allowed it to heat to a billion degrees, and, 'What if we made a pan like that? Imagine the sear we would get on a piece of meat!' "
Elliot says that Cantu's ideas began to turn from creative cooking into creative problem solving for issues like world hunger — something Cantu addressed in a TEDx talk in 2011.
"If you look at developing countries and things like that, if you could just open up maybe two or three ingredients that are hyper-local, so we don't have to distribute products, you're knocking down food miles," Cantu told the crowd. "You're just opening up this whole new world."
Cantu's interest in helping people avoid processed sugar sparked his work with something called the "miracle berry," a berry from West Africa that makes sour things like lemons taste sweet, Eng explains. Eating the berry before tasting sour foods is often referred to as "flavor tripping."
"He saw this as a way to get those who crave sweet flavors to eat less sugar. He also saw it as a way to make food more attractive to chemo patients who are having a hard time eating," Eng says. "He really thought it was going to be the key to helping solve some of the biggest public health problems in the United States."
In his 2011 TEDx talk, Cantu shared some of his ideas about the potential uses of the miracle berry.
"There's food on the sidewalk, OK? We don't think of it as food because it tastes bad, [but] it has nutritional value. I was out in my back yard one day, and I popped a miracle berry, and then I just started eating blades of grass.
"And I isolated 13 different types of grass. Kentucky Bluegrass actually tastes like basil when you're flavor-tripping," Cantu said. "And so, let's just stop and think about it: hyper-local cuisine would be just that: you walk out your door, and you don't look at it as weeds; it's now a new page in gastronomy."
Elliot says there "no other chef anywhere is thinking about those same kind of things."
Elliot is among in the culinary world now mourning Cantu's loss and trying to make sense of his decision to end his life.
There's no way to know what motivated Cantu, but he was under a lot of pressure. Eng says Cantu was in the process of opening new establishments around Chicago. In addition, she says, "he also had this lawsuit that had recently been introduced from a former investor hanging over him."
The suit alleged that Cantu had funneled money from the successful Moto restaurant to prop up his other ventures, including personal projects.
Elliot hopes the world can focus less on that, and more on Cantu's spirit — and how he wanted the next generation of cooks to be inspired by his legacy.
"It's one thing just to cook in the restaurant and excite 50 guests a night, but how do we do it for, you know, 5 billion people the world over?" Elliot says. "To limit it just to cooking in a restaurant isn't enough. And I think that's gonna be the big message." Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.
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2015-04-14T09:45:56-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/am-i-going-to-make-this-or-not--one-americans-escape-from-yemen/ 2015-0415T16:48:11-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/blackwater-guards-were-not-wellliked-even-by-other-americans-in-iraq--but-they-faced-real-dangers/ 2015-04-20T15:52:44-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/cbc-tries-to-close-the-book-on-sexual-harassment-and-start-anew-with-q/ 2015-04-22T14:48:17-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/a-century-after-itsfirstever-use-the-original-chemical-weapon-has-made-a-comeback/ 2015-04-28T16:43:51-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/why-you-wont-see-ho-chi-minh-city-appear-in-thisnewspaper-in-california/ 2015-05-01T07:52:32-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/nepals-quake-preparations-not-enough-despite-20-years-of-warnings/ 2015-04-30T18:47:48-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/images-from-nepal-show-a-people-that-are-hurting/ 2015-05-01T17:50:08-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/the-baltimore-orioles-are-just-the-latest-teamto-play-in-an-empty-stadium/ 2015-05-04T13:48:43-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/looking-at-the-vietnam-wars-aftermath-through-the-eyes-of-a-communist-spy/ 2015-0505T15:48:23-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/five-things-the-international-community-shouldnt-do-after-a-disaster/ 2015-05-05T17:41:35-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/pope-francis-is-making-waves-on-the-issue-of-global-climate-change/ 2015-05-07T13:48:48-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/president-obama-to-visiteverglades-national-park-on-earth-day/ 2017-12-10T02:55:33-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/can-a-person-with-dementia-consent-to-sex/ 2017-12-08T17:07:06-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/in-syria-there-is-no-black-and-white-says-this-syrian-filmmaker/ 2015-04-29T11:53:59-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/argentine-president-cristinafern%C3%A1ndez-may-have-dodged-criminal-charges-but-the-conspiracy-theories-continue/ 2015-04-29T15:51:34-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/this-nicaraguan-woman-answerssexism-with-spraypaint/ 2015-05-07T14:50:12-04:56 never 0.5 http://songexploder.libsyn.com/toro-y-moi-half-dome 2017-09-19T15:54:09-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/thomasmcguane-reads-david-means/ 2015-10-19T09:45:18-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/get-them-to-the-er/ 2017-12-07T17:02:09-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/april-marksthe-centennial-of-armenian-genocide/ 2017-12-10T19:38:01-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/bipartisan-measure-would-protect-juveniles-in-the-justice-system/ 2017-12-09T23:37:0304:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/comedy-central-backs-new-daily-show-host-despite-insensitive-tweets/ 2017-12-10T02:43:04-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/15-percentnj-11th-graders-opted-out-parcc-tests/ 2015-04-16T10:48:40-04:56 never 0.5 https://media.wnyc.org/i/620/413/l/80/1/Education_Fertig-14.jpg http://www.wnyc.org/articles/longestshortesttime 201712-18T13:46:19-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/when-breadwinner-makes-dough/ 2015-04-09T20:46:17-04:56 never 0.5 https://media.wnyc.org/i/720/430/h/80/1/ingredients-tattoohero-2_1.jpg http://www.wnyc.org/articles/wobegon 2017-09-19T15:58:51-04:56 never 0.5 http://prairiehome.org/shows/april-25-2015/ 2016-12-07T13:32:51-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/a-year-after-deadly-ferry-disaster-s-koreans-still-awaiting-answers/ 2017-12-06T17:09:04-04:56 never 0.5 A Year After Ferry Disaster, South Koreans Await AnswersAs South Korea marks the first anniversary of one of its worst maritime disasters — the sinking of the Sewol ferry — many family members are still pushing for answers about what went wrong and why so many lives were lost. The capsizing of the Sewol on April 16 last year killed 304 people. Most of them were students from one high school.
It's not hard to spot grieving parents in Seoul's central square: Their heads are freshly shaved. It's an Asian tradition showing determination, and the families have done it as part of their ongoing protest of the government response to the tragedy.
For weeks, they have marched, rallied and occupied Seoul's Gwanghwamun Square, the symbolic center of the city, pressing for the full and independent investigation South Korean President Park Geun-hye promised in the days after the ship went down. A year later, the investigation hasn't started, and the ferry still sits at the bottom of the ocean.
"What is the government trying to do? I don't know what they're trying to do. All I can see is they're trying to hide," says Jeong Jung-im.
This time last year, Jeong was sending the youngest of her two daughters, 16-year-old Kim Min-jun, on the Sewol for a school trip. A day and a half later, she and her husband learned the news that still haunts her. Kim was one of the more than 200 high school students who would never come home.
"I can at least cry ... I have tears in my eyes," Jeong says. "But my husband, he can't even cry. The anger just piles up inside him."
The captain of the ferry is serving jail time for negligence in abandoning the ship, and some incremental changes have been made since the disaster. Regulators tightened oversight of cargo loads, for instance, since prosecutors found the ferry capsized partly because it carried twice the legal limit of cargo on its final voyage.
But parents want an outside look at why rescue efforts took so long, what mistakes were made at official levels, and how lax enforcement might have played a role.
"Accidents like this keep happening and will keep happening," says Ryu Sang-il, a professor of public safety at Dong-eui University in Busan.
In South Korea, he says, high-speed economic growth trumps all other priorities. So a year later, it's hard to tell how much safety has really improved.
And now, a bitter political back-and-forth has stymied efforts to heal the wounds.
On one side are the Koreans who want more answers from the country's leadership.
On the other side are people like Jang Gi-chong. He leads counter-protesters who show up in the same public square as parents, saying families are holding back the country and should go home. He and other counter-protesters oppose further investigation, saying the prosecution of the ship's captain and focusing blame on the ferry company owners is enough.
"This problem, the Sewol incident, is definitely not an accident caused by government. To hold the government accountable for this? That's wrong," he says.
Then there are the loved ones who have only one demand — closure. Nine victims — one just 6 years old — are still missing, their bodies never recovered. Lee Keum-hui's daughter is one of them.
"When I think of my daughter, my heart breaks, because I think of how scared she must have been, how she must have cried out for me," Lee said, in an emotional news conference in Seoul.
She and other family members of the missing say they're not pressing for reform, they just want the ship to be towed out of the water.
"All I'm thinking about is I have to get her back. I know she's inside the Sewol ferry. So all I feel now is despair," Lee said.
President Park said last week she'd consider raising the Sewol, but set no date for a decision. The price tag for ship recovery — an estimated $110 million — is clearly divisive, as well. There's also no start date for the outside investigation parents have pressed for, leaving those seeking answers struggling to move on.
Hae Ryun Kang contributed to this story. Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEEouK5Y8CI https://www.wnyc.org/story/when-the-world-bank-does-more-harm-than-good/ 2017-12-06T17:10:35-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/what-does-it-take-to-feel-secure/ 2017-12-06T17:10:38-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/remembering-the-oklahoma-city-bombing-20-years-later/ 2017-1206T17:11:09-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/dwight-yoakams-second-hand-heart-is-first-class/ 2017-12-06T17:13:20-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/comcast-drops-45billion-bid-for-time-warner-cable/ 2017-12-06T17:14:23-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/as-californias-economy-reels-from-drought-at-least-one-industry-is-doing-fine/ 2017-1206T17:14:48-04:56 never 0.5 http://www.spreaker.com/user/oregonpublicbroadcasting/state-of-wonder-apr-25-2015-grimm-etsy-p 2017-09-19T15:56:35-04:56 never 0.5 http://www.spreaker.com/user/oregonpublicbroadcasting/state-of-wonder-apr-18-2015-playa-summer 2017-09-19T15:56:35-04:56 never 0.5 http://www.spreaker.com/user/oregonpublicbroadcasting/state-of-wonder-apr-11-2015-sleater-kinn 2017-09-19T15:56:35-04:56 never 0.5 http://www.spreaker.com/user/oregonpublicbroadcasting/state-of-wonder-apr-4-2015-damien-rice-p 2017-09-19T15:56:35-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.npr.org/rss/089b71c0-90cb-4553-b10ad6ac6a72b4e9 2017-11-27T11:43:22-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.npr.org/rss/a8a81afb-6c62-4d94-9f9a-1bbe0d0eaf40 2017-11-27T11:43:21-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.npr.org/rss/993d743c0367-4205-9e36-839dfb46b68b 2017-11-27T11:43:21-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.acast.com/ft-world-weekly/010a3d88-18fa-46b3-b13e-24708409e5e7 2016-12-15T17:44:24-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.acast.com/ft-world-weekly/iran-and-saudi-arabia-wage-proxy-war-in-yemen 2016-12-15T17:44:24-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.acast.com/ft-world-weekly/obama-s-rapprochementwith-cuba-how-far-can-it-go- 2016-12-15T17:44:23-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.acast.com/ft-world-weekly/europe-s-mediterranean-migrant-crisis 2016-12-15T17:44:23-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.acast.com/ft-world-weekly/obama-seeks-to-cement-japan-ties 2016-12-15T17:44:22-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.acast.com/ft-lucy-kellaway/d681998b-c711-4d2e-af69-74f5a1852eaf 2016-12-15T17:41:41-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.acast.com/ft-lucy-kellaway/companies-have-their-recruitment-process-upside-down 2016-12-15T17:41:40-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.acast.com/ft-lucy-kellaway/a-30-year-work-anniversary-is-a-freak-event-to-be-cheered 2016-12-15T17:41:40-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.acast.com/ft-lucy-kellaway/the-mystery-ofbillionaires-long-marriages 2016-12-15T17:41:39-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/new-years-resolution-meet-team-tumor/ 2015-05-04T22:01:26-04:56 never 0.5 https://media.wnyc.org/i/624/376/c/80/1/TUMOR_MAIN_1.jpg https://www.wnyc.org/story/sideshow-how-to-throw-perfect-game-thrones-brunch/ 2015-04-16T15:43:18-04:56 never 0.5 https://media.wnyc.org/i/1860/1116/c/80/1/MAIN_PANCAKE_1.jpg https://www.wnyc.org/story/how-bessie-smith-ushered-in-the-jazz-age/ 2017-12-08T20:30:38-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.acast.com/ft-world-weekly/europe-s-mediterranean-migrant-crisis 2017-12-18T13:48:19-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.acast.com/ft-world-weekly/obama-s-rapprochement-with-cubahow-far-can-it-go- 2017-12-18T13:48:19-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/strongwoman-shoulders-the-weight-of-a-male-dominated-sport/ 2017-12-10T19:37:37-04:56 never 0.5 Strongwoman Shoulders The Weight Of A Male-Dominated SportIt's just two days before the 2015 Arnold Strongman Classic, an international competition for strongmen and strongwomen in Columbus, Ohio, and Brittany Diamond is worried.
As a relative newcomer to the sport, the 22-year-old from Boston has never even seen the 100-pound dumbbell she'll soon be asked to lift and press with just one arm.
"Instead of it being filled with a solid weight, it's almost like sand, where it's a little tippy and uneven. So just because I haven't ever tried that, I am a little bit nervous," she says.
In the sport of strongman, athletes drag trucks, carry heavy objects and lift huge dumbbells over their heads. And strongmen are known for their size. The sport's most famous star, Halfthor Bjornsson, is 6 feet 9 inches tall, 400 pounds, and plays a character named "The Mountain" on HBO's Game of Thrones. Diamond is 5 feet 7 inches, 165 pounds, and doesn't look like someone who lifts cars for fun.
"Especially, I'll get a lot of comments like, 'How do you do that? You're wearing all pink and you're so tiny,' and stuff like that. So it's really cool just to say you can do it," she says.
The men get the bulk of the attention, but the women's side of the sport is growing rapidly. And Diamond is trying to challenge common stereotypes of what makes a woman strong.
She likes to intimidate her competition by wearing pink. She describes herself as "very girly." But for all the pride Diamond takes in her appearance, she says her favorite thing about being a strongwoman is that looks don't matter.
"I'm not a bodybuilder. That is the completely opposite. You know, my sport has nothing to do with aesthetics, which is why I love it, which is another reason why I think it's empowering," she says.
It's competition time. Named after Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Arnold Sports Festival hosts 18,000 athletes in 50 sports, from powerlifting to hula-hooping.
First up for the middleweight strongwomen is that dreaded 100-pound dumbbell. Diamond was hoping to clear the weight just once, but she lifts it overhead five times.
"I just try to, like, close my eyes and picture it going well for me ... and it did," she says.
During the second event, Diamond slips and drops her 450-pound weight for a two-second penalty. She's happier with the results of the third challenge, even though her hands start to bleed and she loses a shoe. The fourth and final event of the day is a 375-pound deadlift. She's attempted this weight in training, but she's never before succeeded.
With her friends from back home cheering her on, Diamond clears the weight four times. It's more than she could have hoped for.
"I'm gonna go cry, I'm just so happy, I can't even talk," she says. "I feel like I'm going to die."
Diamond was hoping to place in the top four and qualify for the finals. But she's thrilled with seventh place — and proud to be a strongwoman who cries.
"It's incredibly emotional for men and women," she says. "You know, when you put that much time and effort and dedication into something, and you really give it your all, certainly you're going to get emotional. If you didn't then I don't think you're giving the sport your all."
Diamond hopes to win the Arnold someday. But her bigger goal is to help grow her sport.
Strongmen can rise up the ranks and compete as professionals, but there's not yet a professional class for women. Copyright 2015 WBUR. To see more, visit http://www.wbur.org.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bkg2_sZXMGk https://www.wnyc.org/story/will-a-transplanted-hand-feel-like-his-own-surgery-raises-questions/ 2017-12-10T09:26:36-04:56 never 0.5 http://www.splendidtable.org/episode/555 2016-0219T13:44:02-04:56 never 0.5 http://www.splendidtable.org/episode/579 2016-02-19T13:44:01-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/after-nigerias-election-a-call-for-unity/ 2017-1209T23:23:57-04:56 never 0.5 http://www.splendidtable.org/episode/556 2016-02-19T13:44:01-04:56 never 0.5 http://www.splendidtable.org/episode/580 2016-02-19T13:44:01-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/great-american-songbook-live-may/ 2015-04-29T17:44:39-04:56 never 0.5 https://media.wnyc.org/i/1000/667/l/80/1/shutterstock_124052566.jpg https://www.wnyc.org/story/nickelodeon-sitcom-make-it-pop-highlights-impact-of-korean-pop-music/ 2017-12-09T09:42:43-04:56 never 0.5 How The South Korean Government Made K-pop A ThingNickelodeon's new show Make It Pop is a musical sitcom that features three boarding school teens who start a band called XOIQ. Its plot might seem twee, but the network touts it as something a little more unique: It's a "music sitcom with a K-pop twist and EDM beats," starring three Asian-American actresses — including Korean-American singer Megan Lee, who spent more than a year working with a Korean record label after she was discovered on YouTube.
(Nickelodeon denied requests to interview the show's producers, one of whom is Nick Cannon.)
With its "saccharine energy" and mix of EDM music, it's only loosely based on K-pop's style, the New York Times' John Caramanica writes.
"It's almost amazing that it's not genuine K-pop," Euny Hong, the author of The Birth Of Korean Cool, tells me. The typical K-pop sounds have techno beats and are often accompanied by futuristic videos in which the band members — sometimes an enormous gaggle of women or men — dance in perfect sync.
Like in this video for the song "I Am The Best," by the band 2NE1.
"Clearly, the marketing people at Nickelodeon said, 'We need to tap into this audience,' " she says, referring to K-pop's rapidly growing audience in the United States. Back in 2012, K-pop became a noted force in 2012 when the rapper Psy's video and song "Gangnam Style" went viral.
But Hong says Psy isn't much like the other successful K-pop stars: he's short, overweight and traffics in irony. And that irony, Hong points out in her book, signaled South Korea's "final stage in its modern evolution." As in, it helped put South Korea on the map, which you can see in the U.S. in various ways: The annual K-pop convention in Los Angeles draws in more than 40,000 participants, with similar events in other cities drawing in crowds. And over the past couple of years, groups like Crayon Pop and the Wonder Girls opened for artists like Lady Gaga and the Jonas Brothers.
"It's like a commando strike on popular culture when you create a new K-pop band," Jeff Yang, cultural entrepreneur and a columnist for the Wall Street Journal, says. "The emphasis really is in developing a unique persona for each of the band members but then ultimately assembling them into a highly engineered and incredibly harmonized set of individuals."
And just like these perfect performances, the rise of K-pop wasn't an accident.
In the late '90s, when Asia went through a huge financial crisis, South Korea's leaders decided to use music to improve its image and build its cultural influence. So the country's government poured millions of dollars into forming a Ministry of Culture with a specific department devoted to K-pop.
"It turns out that the Korean government treats its K-pop industry the way that the American government treats its automobile and banking industry, meaning that these are industries that have to be protected," Hong says.
This included doing things like building massive, multimillion dollar concert auditoriums, refining hologram technology, and even helping regulate noeraebangs — karaoke bars — to protect the interests of K-pop stars.
"They wanted Korea of the 21st century to be like America of the 20th century where America was just considered so universally cool that anything made in America would automatically be bought."
And while Nickelodeon's Make It Pop may be a sign of that buy-in, Hong says its music and dancing are not quite as polished as authentic K-pop. But Yang still believes Make It Pop can make it big, especially with a generation of tweens that's racially diverse and globally connected.
"It'll be interesting to see whether this connects with them. If it does, I think, after this — the flood." Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7_lSP8Vc3o https://www.wnyc.org/story/energy-secretary-iran-deal-blocks-all-paths-toward-nuclear-bomb/ 2017-12-06T20:18:39-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/matamoros-becomes-ground-zero-as-drug-war-shifts-on-mexican-border/ 2017-12-06T20:18:45-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/rand-paul-jumps-intopresidential-race-tv-ads-already-try-to-discredit-him/ 2017-12-06T20:22:58-04:56 never 0.5 TV Ads Financed With Secret Money Attack Paul On Day 1 Of Presidential BidWelcome to the 2016 presidential campaign. Republican Rand Paul officially entered the race Tuesday, and was greeted with a TV ad calling him "wrong and dangerous" on Iran. The money behind the ad is secret.
It was just a month ago that Sen. Paul (R-Ky.) joined 46 other Senate Republicans in signing a letter to leaders of the Islamic Republic. The letter threatened tougher treatment than Iran might get from President Obama, in negotiations on a nuclear-arms control agreement.
Paul's signature aside, TV audiences in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada on Tuesday began seeing the ad attacking him. It says, "Rand Paul supports Obama's negotiations with Iran. And he doesn't understand the threat." The punchline: "Rand Paul is wrong, and dangerous. Tell him stop siding with Obama, because even one Iranian bomb would be a disaster." The final image is a mushroom cloud.
The ad comes from the Foundation for a Secure and Prosperous America, or FSPA, which is a 501(c)(4) secret money group founded in 2007. It has run attack ads in past campaigns, but apparently never on this scale. It doesn't have to disclose its donors.
Its press secretary declined an interview request.
Secret money groups are proliferating in American election campaigns. FSPA said it's spending $1 million to air the ad in the first four states on the Republican primary calendar.
There are two noteworthy things about the ad. It comes as a surprise assault on an emerging candidate, and it accuses him of betraying American interests.
You could say Rand Paul got swift-boated, just like John Kerry.
Kerry was about to accept the Democratic nomination in 2004, when Swift Boat Veterans For Truth challenged his Vietnam War record, which he had seen as a strength. In the ad, one veteran from Kerry's unit said: "He dishonored his country. He most certainly did." Another veteran said: "I served with John Kerry. John Kerry cannot be trusted."
An architect of the Swift Boat ads, consultant Rick Reed, is now FSPA's president.
The Paul campaign struck back, calling the attacks false and labeling the group as part of the "Washington machine" that Paul opposes. The campaign said Paul in fact wants a deal that ends Iran's nuclear ambitions, and he wants it to face votes in Congress.
Erika Franklin Fowler is a director of the Wesleyan Media Project, a college consortium that tracks political advertising. "When a candidate airs an attack, they obviously suffer some backlash," she said in an interview. "When an interest group does it, it's harder for anyone to hold the group accountable in the same way."
She said it's a sign of what we'll see this spring and summer, "which is one, a lot of interest groups getting involved early, also a lot of negativity. We shouldn't expect that to go away in any way, shape or form. And you can bet there are a number of candidates that will face some opposition as they enter."
There's no sign of which candidate the Foundation for a Secure and Prosperous America might support. Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.
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The crack apparently comes from a bubble forming in the fluid within the joint when the bones separate, according to a study published Wednesday. It's like a tiny air bag inflating.
The findings confirm the original theory about knuckle-cracking, which was first proposed in 1947 but challenged in the 1970s.
According to Greg Kawchuk, a professor of rehabilitation medicine at the University of Alberta, that second group of scientists came along and said, " 'No, no, no — wait! We think what's happening is, the gas bubble forms but then it subsequently collapses. That's what makes the big sound.' "
While many people accepted the bubble-bursting theory, no one was sure. So Kawchuk and a team of scientists figured out a little test, enlisting the help of a pal who is really good at cracking his knuckles.
"We called our colleague the 'Wayne Gretzky of finger-cracking,' " Kawchuck says. "He can make this happen in all 10 of his fingers."
They asked the volunteer to put his hand inside a special type of MRI scanner, and made a movie of the inside of his knuckles as they pulled on the end of each finger to make it crack.
"We've been calling it the 'Pull My Finger Study,' " Kawchuk says.
What they saw was clear: The cracking sound comes when a bubble forms between the bones of the knuckle joint — not when it collapses.
"Our jaws hit floor," he says. "This is the exact answer. It feels pretty great."
Other researchers praised the study, which appears in the online journal PLOS ONE.
"This is the first time we're actually seeing what's going on inside the joint when a knuckle is being cracked," says Dr. Kevin deWeber, who studies sports medicine in Vancouver, Wash. "It's really exciting."
DeWeber says the discovery also reinforces previous research that challenged a common misconception about knuckle-cracking — that it causes arthritis.
"It's mostly an urban myth ... perpetuated by mothers who are sick of hearing their kids crack their knuckles," deWeber says. He thinks cracking knuckles might actually be good for the joints — sort of a massage of the cartilage.
"This study helps us understand the biomechanics of the knuckle-cracking event," deWeber says. "We are reassured that nothing harmful is happening inside. And ... maybe something helpful is happening." Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.
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2017-12-08T06:47:06-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/fort-hood-purple-heart-ceremonyhonors-survivors-of-2009-shooting/ 2017-12-08T06:44:39-04:56 never 0.5 https://fugitivewaves.prx.org/20-the-birth-of-rice-a-roni-the-san-francisco-italian-armenian-treat/ 2017-11-27T11:44:3304:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/transgender-man-leads-mens-health-cover-model-contest/ 2017-12-07T17:12:33-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/omalley-americaseconomy-needs-sensible-rebalancing-not-pitchforks/ 2017-12-10T09:36:20-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/president-obama-praises-tentative-iranian-nuclear-deal/ 2017-1209T19:57:43-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/how-almonds-became-a-scapegoat-for-californias-drought/ 2017-12-09T20:04:07-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/is-thedelivery-economy-bad-for-the-planet/ 2015-08-12T15:49:05-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/peter-thiel-on-luck-and-billionaires/ 2015-08-12T15:49:08-04:56 never 0.5 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0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/politics-in-the-news_33/ 2017-12-09T23:31:42-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/clone-drama-orphan-black-returns-as-complex-and-complicated-as-ever/ 2017-12-09T23:30:39-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/police-departments-plagued-by-recruiting-challenges/ 2017-12-09T23:36:19-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/irsbudget-cuts-make-for-nightmarish-filing-season/ 2017-12-06T13:39:40-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/hacked-touchscreen-voting-machine-raises-questions-about-election-security/ 2017-12-07T17:11:07-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/movie-review-child-44/ 2017-12-07T17:12:07-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/tyson-foods-to-stop-giving-chickenshuman-used-antibiotics/ 2017-12-09T23:36:29-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/in-texas-questions-about-prosecuting-truancy/ 2017-12-09T23:35:51-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/to-alleviate-confusion-la-officials-give-color-coded-parking-signs-a-try/ 2017-12-09T23:21:33-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/fast-track-trade-authoritydebate-puts-presidential-candidates-on-the-spot/ 2017-12-06T13:44:32-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/experts-divided-over-irans-cyberactivity-since-start-of-nuclear-talks/ 2017-1209T23:29:49-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/obama-compares-iran-deal-to-a-house-under-contract-awaiting-appraisal/ 2017-12-07T17:03:31-04:56 never 0.5 Obama Compares Iran Deal To A House Under Contract, Awaiting AppraisalI've rarely seen President Obama speak in such definite terms on a thorny issue as he did yesterday about the nuclear agreement with Iran.
In our interview at the White House, he did not describe the deal as half a loaf. He cast it as a rock-solid plan that was designed for every eventuality. He said it would limit Iran's nuclear program, leaving no room to evade inspections and the threat of new sanctions.
In 2010 we spoke with Obama after he agreed to extend tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans. At that time, we passed on a listener's question: How would keeping tax rates for the wealthy at the same rate create one single job?
"It doesn't," Obama said back then. "I'm still opposed to it." But he had to sign it as part of a larger bill to extend middle-class tax breaks and unemployment benefits.
Yesterday, Obama did not describe the Iran agreement as a tough compromise. "This deal," he said, "is the right thing to do for the United States, for our allies in the region and for world peace."
There is, of course, the problem that the deal isn't done. Last week's framework left many blanks to fill in by a June 30 deadline. "It's sort of like you've signed a contract to purchase a home but you've still got the appraisal, the inspector, got to make sure there isn't some kind of environmental disaster on the land," he said.
Not only that, the president must deal with a Congress that is eager to attend the home inspection.
What follows are some of our questions and the president's answers. (There's a full transcript, and you can also find articles on Obama and his critics — among them Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Republican presidential contenders.)
Do you believe that Iran's government is a government that is capable of changing its ways?
Let me flip the question, Steve. I would argue that this deal is the right thing to do for the United States, for our allies in the region, and for world peace regardless of the nature of the Iranian regime. This is a good deal if you think that Iran is implacably opposed to the United States and the West and our values. ... You have them rolling back a number of pathways that they currently have available to break out and get a nuclear weapon. You have assurances that their stockpile of highly enriched uranium remains in a place where they cannot create a nuclear weapon. ... And so, I'm not trying to avoid your question. I think that there are different trends inside of Iran. I think there are hard-liners inside of Iran that think it is the right thing to do to oppose us, to seek to destroy Israel, to cause havoc in places like Syria or Yemen or Lebanon. And then I think there are others inside of Iran who think that this is counterproductive. And it is possible that if we sign this nuclear deal, we strengthen the hand of those more moderate forces inside of Iran. But the key point I want to make is, the deal is not dependent on anticipating those changes. If they don't change at all, we're still better off having the deal.
Obviously, the trade-off for the concessions on the nuclear program is a lifting of many sanctions against Iran.
Yes.
This is widely anticipated to cause a lot of economic growth in Iran ... How, if at all, can you prevent Iran from using its new wealth over the next several years to support Bashar Al Assad of Syria, to support Hezbollah, adventures in Yemen or elsewhere?
Those are relevant issues ... [but] they're not going to be able to suddenly access all the funding that has been frozen all these years Their economy has been severely weakened. It would slowly and gradually improve. But a lot of that would have to be devoted at improving the lives of the people inside of Iran. And they have cordoned off and been willing to finance their war operations even in the midst of sanctions. I mean, there's been no lessening of their support of Hezbollah or Assad during the course of the last four, five years at a time when their economy has been doing terribly. ... If in fact they're engaged in international business, and there are foreign investors, and their economy becomes more integrated with the world economy, then in many ways it makes it even harder for them to engage in behaviors that are contrary to international norms.
You raise a valuable point when you say that if Iranians are doing more business with the world there will be Iranian business people who do not want sanctions to snap back, and you have insisted that in the U.S. version of this agreement that sanctions would snap back if Iran violates them. But if there is a disagreement about whether Iran violated them, aren't you going to face the same problem? There will be American business people and European business people who will be doing business with Iran, who will be making a lot of money, who will be very reluctant to have that happen.
Well, that was true when we first imposed the sanctions. But the fact of the matter is that we have been able to build an international consensus that Iran building a nuclear weapon would be extraordinarily dangerous to the region and the world.
And you can do that again?
And we're absolutely convinced that we can do it again.
Obama's hope is that the United States won't have to do it all over again. The U.S. is seeking to make it easy for economic sanctions to "snap back" into place if Iran is found violating the limits on its nuclear program.
The trouble is that those sanctions were imposed by many countries and by the United Nations Security Council, where a single nation's veto can block enforcement.
"We're not," Obama said, "going to make this subject to the typical Security Council where one country can hold out and you can't get this done."
But the president added, "The devil's in the details." And the enforcement mechanism has yet to be worked out — one of many parts of this agreement that was left for a final round of negotiations with Iran and other powers. Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.
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To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kqx-oIgvUiA https://www.wnyc.org/story/driver-safety-tip-dont-smoke-around-gunpowder/ 2017-12-09T13:02:40-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/romes-plan-for-prostitutes-upsets-sex-workers-and-the-catholic-chuch/ 2017-12-10T02:50:00-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/anti-test-opt-out-movementmakes-a-wave-in-new-york-state/ 2017-12-09T13:05:15-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/busy-chef-strives-for-balanced-mix-of-home-life-culinary-ambitions/ 2017-12-08T10:12:3204:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/bruce-jenners-long-history-of-clearing-hurdles/ 2017-12-08T10:25:28-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/nj-exxon-settlement-some-say-prooffalls-short-of-stronger-case/ 2017-12-09T12:57:38-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/a-decade-after-blowing-the-whistle-on-the-fbi-vindication/ 2017-12-09T03:10:57-04:56 never 0.5 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201711-27T11:45:42-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/9-months-pregnant-an-african-woman-risks-it-all-and-heads-to-europe/ 2017-12-09T03:14:42-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/understanding-the-forces-at-play-in-yemen/ 2017-12-08T10:11:56-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/doctors-make-house-calls-on-tablets-carried-by-houstonfirefighters/ 2017-12-08T13:40:52-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/drop-in-home-chefs-may-be-an-alternative-to-assisted-living/ 2017-12-09T16:37:54-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/man-who-shot-reagan-seeks-release-from-mental-hospital/ 2017-12-06T20:32:12-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/afghan-political-cartoonist-argues-hisdrawings-should-be-more-critical/ 2017-12-07T10:11:32-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/framework-nuclear-deal-could-be-good-news-for-irans-oil-sector/ 2017-12-08T13:39:49-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/from-harpies-to-heroines-how-shakespeares-women-evolved/ 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https://www.wnyc.org/story/pbsto-review-genealogy-show-after-it-ignores-afflecks-slave-owning-ancestor/ 2017-12-08T13:47:28-04:56 never 0.5 Ben Affleck (Kinda) Apologizes For Asking PBS Program To Hide SlaveOwning AncestorOn Tuesday evening, the the Oscar-winning actor Ben Affleck released a statement on his Facebook page in which he (sorta) apologized for requesting that the revelation that he had a slave-owning ancestor be removed from an episode of the PBS genealogy series, Finding Your Roots.
"After an exhaustive search of my ancestry for 'Finding Your Roots,' it was discovered that one of my distant relatives was an owner of slaves," Affleck wrote on his Facebook wall. "I didn't want any television show about my family to include a guy who owned slaves. I was embarrassed. The very thought left a bad taste in my mouth."
He went on:
I regret my initial thoughts that the issue of slavery not be included in the story. We deserve neither credit nor blame for our ancestors and the degree of interest in this story suggests that we are, as a nation, still grappling with the terrible legacy of slavery. It is an examination well worth continuing.
In the comments to his Facebook post, Affleck went on to say that Henry Louis "Skip" Gates, the Harvard historian and host of Finding Your Roots, decided to omit the bit about Affleck's slave-owning ancestor because there wasn't a lot of information about that person. In a statement, Gates maintained that "we focused on what we felt were the most interesting aspects of [Affleck's ancestry]" — which included an ancestor who fought alongside George Washington and another great-great-great grandfather who was an occultist, in addition to Affleck's mother."
But the email exchanges about the issue — which first came to light over the weekend when WikiLeaks released thousands of hacked Sony emails — tell a different version of Gates' thinking.
In one of the email exchanges first highlighted by the New York Post, Gates asked Michael Lynton, the head of Sony Pictures, about how to handle a request from an unnamed celebrity who wanted to have a slave owner in his family's history excised from the program.
"[C]onfidentially, for the first time, one of our guests has asked us to edit out something about one of his ancestors--the fact that he owned slaves," Gates wrote. "We've never had anyone ever try to censor or edit what we found. He's a megastar. What do we do?"
Lynton responded that he thought Gates should take the information out the segment, and — as if tempting the fates — worried about the potential fallout should the decision to acquiesce ever become public. "[T]hen it is tricky because it may get out that you made the change and it comes down to editorial integrity," Lynton wrote.
The omission of Affleck's slave-owning forebear is particularly glaring considering the thrust of the Finding Your Roots episode that featured him. It was titled "Roots of Freedom," and in that same installment, former NAACP chief Ben Jealous breaks down in tears when he learned that his ancestor — a free man of color — had become a slave owner himself. That ancestor purchased his own wife and children as slaves in order to keep the family together.
In other Finding Your Roots episodes, guests including documentarian Ken Burns, actor Kevin Bacon, and CNN's Anderson Cooper have all discussed slave-owners in their family histories.
Affleck isn't the only one under scrutiny over the decision to excise the segment about his ancestor. PBS released a statement yesterday declaring that the network and WNET, the member station that produces Finding Your Roots, were conducting an internal review into the process that led to the decision to edit out Affleck's ancestor.
Unsurprisingly, this hullaballoo has kicked up a larger conversation about what it means to grapple with our country's history of slavery. We'll have more on that conversation in a later post. Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-WtVYtJYYM https://www.wnyc.org/story/little-simz-keeps-her-eye-on-the-throne/ 2017-12-07T10:02:29-04:56 never 0.5 Little Simz Keeps Her Eye On The ThroneSimbi Ajikawo knew she wanted to rap by the age of 9. Not just rap, but be heard. Since 2010, the English musician and actress better known as Little Simz has been prolific with her work, with seven mixtapes to her name. She caught the attention of Jay-Z, who premiered Blank Canvas on his site, and counts J. Cole and Kendrick Lamar among her fans. She's currently working on a concept album about fame, with plans to release it sometime this year.
The role of the music industry plays a big role in the currently unsigned 21-year-old's music. Her lyrics often refer to her constant effort to break away from the preconceived image of what it means to be a young female artist performing in hip-hop. Here, Little Simz talks about coming up against that industry — "Someone else will come up, do exactly what I'm doing and they will get praise" — and discusses why people relate to her music. You can hear the radio version at the audio link and read more of their conversation below.
In "Mandarin Oranges, Part 2," you say, "What do you know about trying to follow a dream at 9?" So you pretty much knew what you wanted to do, early on?
I definitely knew what I wanted to do so early on. I was always just an ambitious kid from early. I always knew that I had a purpose and I was destined for something big, great. I now just continue that I've been through a lot in this, in trying to pursue this dream. And it's not easy, especially being a young female in this business. It's difficult.
Tell me why.
It's hard, because you don't know. You're only good for a girl. You're not taken serious. You'll never be in the same category or match up to what the guys are doing. It's a male-dominated industry. "You wanna rap? I don't think so." And even if you did, they'll put you straight in a box. This is as far as you're gonna go. "You wanna crack America? I don't think so." You know.
Slowly but surely, I'm breaking barriers and breaking rules and doing things — not the traditional route, like, I'm still unsigned. People that are doing what I'm doing are normally signed and they deal. They have an album in the works, but I'm doing things a little left, a little different.
What do you do to get in the right mindset?
To get myself in the right mindset I think it's just, well, for sure the people around me help. Being grounded, staying humble. Well, appreciating what I have as opposed to what I don't or what I want and just working hard and never getting complacent or feeling like I've done enough and I can relax now. Always doing more than the bare minimum I think has helped me, and just knowing that I have a purpose. I've seen it when I go to shows and people approach me after and say, "Please, don't ever stop. You're a voice for our generation; we need people like you." So I feel it, and it's being said to me, so that is like a reassurance that I must continue. That's the type of mindset I try to keep.
Tell me how you write. Do you have a space? Or what do you do when you write?
So when I write, I normally write anywhere that I can feel at peace, so if it's in my bedroom, if it's at the park, if it's by a lake somewhere, wherever I feel calm is where I like to write. Sometimes, I even find it difficult writing in the studio because there can be a lot of distraction, a lot of things going on, and I don't feel like... Sometimes it doesn't really help my creative process. Sometimes it does; it just depends on the day. So, yeah, anywhere that I feel at peace or I feel comfortable.
All my previous projects that I've released have been written and recorded in my bedroom, so I pretty much found my comfort zone. But now, obviously I'm on the road quite a lot, and so I'm away from home and I have to find new ways of finding peace and being able to write and feel comfortable. I mean, right now we're in Austin and this is not my home, so it's hard for me to feel at home. But I just think it's a mind thing, and I have to get myself into a place where I feel comfortable in order to write. I don't ever like to force things. I feel like it should happen organically and it should be natural.
Is there a verse that you feel proud of that you wrote?
Favorite verse of mine, it probably is not out yet.
OK, think of something from the past that you wrote.
I have this one song called "No Introduction." It was on my previous EP; it's called Age 101: Drop 3000. It's the first song. It's not a verse; it's more of like a whole song of me just rapping. And it's just, I don't know man, when I was in that space and just writing that song, it touched home a lot. I touched upon subjects that I had never opened up [about] to someone in person.
Music is like therapy, you know; it's my escape. It's my way for me to express my feelings and my thoughts. And so in that song, I remember as I was writing I was like, "Give them everything, talk about what you feel." I talk about my dad, I talk about how I feel like the industry treats me; how the industry may have changed me or molded me. I just touch upon loads of different subjects, so I feel like that's my favorite song to date.
I wanted to talk to you about the song "Devour." I love that you say, "The best way around is to sing my songs / The best way around the world." When you say "around," what do you mean?
Okay, so the lyrics are: "Many many men will attempt to devour my throne / I empower my own; I'm just trying to be the best me / But in gold they will shower my clone / What the f--- going on."
Basically, I'm just trying to be the best version of myself. But that's not good enough, because someone else will come up, do exactly what I'm doing and they will get praise, so in gold they will shower my clone, is what I'm saying — even though I'm just trying to be the best version of myself.
You use the men as a metaphor for people.
For generalizing everyone. But it can be a play on words, seeing as this is a male-dominated industry and I'm saying, "Devour my throne." I like to refer to myself as king sometimes, not as queen. That's a conscious decision, because I feel like women are just equally as powerful.
And the clone would be a guy who would sing similar to you, but it's because he's a guy.
Yeah, exactly, exactly, that's spot on.
I know it's very hard to ask someone, "Where do you see yourself in the future?" But 10 years from now, where do you see yourself?
Ten years from now, I'll be 31. So I probably will have entered parenthood, maybe. But I would definitely have my career on point. I would be on the verge to building my school and giving back. I would have probably put out four albums, signed an artist to my label Age 101. I see myself in a happy place; I see myself being content and just trying to continue to be a good person.
Why do you think your songs resonate with people?
I think my message comes through because I just say what I feel, and I just say what I go through. I don't sugarcoat anything. And people relate to it because they can either relate to my story or they see themselves in me.
Sometimes, I look into the audience and I see people singing my lyrics like they wrote it. They're so passionate — you can just tell it means something to them — and sometimes I'll be like, "I don't understand. How come you feel like this? I know I feel like this, but it's crazy that you feel the same." When I meet them after the shows, I look at them and it's just like, wow, you just don't know who's listening to you. You just don't know who's going through what you're going through. And that makes me feel — that's fulfilling for me to know, like when I'm writing stuff that is upsetting or hurtful, it's like I'm not the only one experiencing it. And someone's gonna hear it and appreciate it and feel that they're not the only one experiencing this.
What do you have coming up?
I currently just announced a world tour, so I'll be traveling. You can say the world, but more Europe. And getting ready to release my album, is what I'm most excited about. It's a concept album, which I feel that hasn't been done in a while. It explores — the one topic it explores is fame. So I know my life is headed in many directions. It's scary. Am I excited? Am I fearful? Do I want that lifestyle? How does that affect the person, or not the person, but maybe the people around that person? So that album I'm very excited about.
Do you have a name?
Yeah, but I'm sworn to secrecy by myself. Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.
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At the same time, a new book about the Clinton foundation is generating the kind of headlines and news coverage no presidential candidate wants to see.
"Bill Clinton Cashed In When Hillary Clinton Became Secretary of State," was how ABC News put it, referring to the former president's speaking fees shooting up after his wife joined the Obama administration.
"Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation as Russians Pressed for Control of Uranium Company," was from The New York Times.
The story also dominated cable news.
"She's now saying that they won't take foreign donations if she becomes president," said Jo Becker, the co-author of The New York Times piece, on NPR's All Things Considered Thursday. "But what the story really underscores are the special challenges when you have a foundation that's raising money from foreign interests, that couldn't contribute to an American political campaign, by the way, but can contribute to these kinds of foundations."
The Clinton campaign declined to comment, but a campaign spokesman published a five-point rebuttal to the Times article, which was based, in part, on the forthcoming book, Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich, which is due out May 5. The spokesman, Brian Fallon, charges that the facts in the Times' own reporting undermine the innuendo in the piece.
"Ironically, buried within the story is original reporting that debunks the allegation that then-Secretary Clinton played any role in the review of the sale," Fallon writes, adding, "The facts drawn from the Times' own reporting undermine the innuendo in the Times story about Hillary Clinton's role in this matter."
Earlier this week, Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta offered a own pre-buttal to the book in an interview with Al Hunt on PBS's Charlie Rose show.
"It's a book that's written by a former Bush operative, who's a reporter for that august news institution Breitbart.com — or has been in the past," Podesta said of the book's author, Peter Schweizer, who worked for former President George W. Bush and was a foreign policy adviser to Sarah Palin in 2011.
That is classic political rapid response — question the source, blame the opposition.
Schweizer also wrote the book on Congress and insider trading that helped lead to the STOCK Act of 2012, Throw Them All Out: How Politicians and Their Friends Get Rich off Insider Stock Tips, Land Deals, and Cronyism That Would Send the Rest of Us to Prison.
Schweizer also tells Bloomberg's Josh Green he is coming out with a similar book on Jeb Bush's finances to be published this summer.
Podesta, though, not only questions the author's motives, but, more importantly, his conclusions.
"He's cherry-picked information that's been disclosed and woven a bunch of conspiracy theories about it," Podesta said on PBS. "The facts, there's nothing new about. The conspiracy theories, I guess we'll get to judge when we read the book."
For Clinton, this is hardly a new experience. She and her husband have been at the middle of so many political firestorms over the years it's almost hard to keep track. On the Today Show in 1998, Clinton famously dismissed the attacks and accusations.
"The great story here for anybody willing to find it, and write about it and explain it is this vast right-wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband since the day that he announced for president," she said.
As for the Benghazi committee, Trey Gowdy, the South Carolina Republican who heads it, seems to be trying hard to avoid having his effort portrayed as a partisan witch hunt. He insisted Wednesday that he wasn't slow-walking the investigation to overlap with the presidential campaign season.
"I want it done before 2016," he said on Fox, adding, "We're trying to accelerate it, but I've got to have the documents."
In a letter to Clinton's lawyer, Gowdy said he wants the former secretary of state to testify the week of May 18, which happens to be right around the time when Clinton's campaign has said she is going to make that bigger "kickoff" speech for her campaign.
That Benghazi committee hearing will deal mostly with her use of a private e-mail server for public business. Gowdy released 136 likely questions; eight of them are about Benghazi.
Once Gowdy is satisfied he has all the documents, he plans to call a second hearing where the committee can ask Clinton about the terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya.
That means while Clinton tries to campaign for one job on Pennsylvania Avenue, she is going to be facing questions from the other side for quite some time. Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLYxZNSaXOU https://www.wnyc.org/story/female-parliamentarians-urge-washington-to-return-attention-to-libya/ 2017-12-08T03:16:28-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/thoughts-can-fuel-some-deadly-brain-cancers/ 2017-12-07T13:49:22-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/meet-the-capital-dames-civil-war-washingtons-secretpower-brokers/ 2017-12-07T13:42:53-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/book-review-jo-nesbo-blood-on-snow/ 2017-12-10T09:22:44-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/california-cities-struggle-to-meet-water-conservation-targets/ 2017-12-09T06:31:10-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/deputy-secretary-of-state-blinkenweighs-in-on-iran-nuclear-agreement/ 2017-12-09T06:16:56-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/in-nepal-aftershocks-keep-people-fearful/ 2017-12-07T13:51:42-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/cdc-blue-bell-listeria-outbreak-started-in-2010/ 2017-12-08T17:07:09-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/house-judiciary-committee-passes-bill-to-limit-nsaspying/ 2017-12-07T13:53:01-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/marco-rubio-expected-to-announce-presidential-bid/ 2017-12-07T13:44:28-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/new-york-mayor-announces-plan-to-reduce-rikers-island-jail-population/ 2017-12-08T17:03:19-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/european-union-accusesgoogle-of-abusing-its-market-dominance/ 2017-12-08T17:04:09-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/the-all-work-no-play-culture-of-south-korean-education/ 2017-12-08T17:04:12-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/farmers-trade-association-debate-merits-of-organic-marketing-fund/ 2017-12-10T09:23:10-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/senate-deal-on-humantrafficking-bill-ends-gridlock-on-lynch-vote/ 2017-12-10T09:36:43-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/ukulele-orchestra-tries-to-break-record/ 2017-12-08T03:21:18-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/comptons-cowboys-keep-the-old-west-alive-and-kids-off-the-streets/ 2017-12-08T03:30:00-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/looting-and-rioting-firstresponders-remember-1968/ 2017-12-10T09:41:18-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/saudi-king-salman-reshuffles-line-of-succession/ 2017-12-09T20:11:02-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/they-speak-hebrew-and-keep-kosher-the-left-behind-ethiopian-jews/ 2017-12-09T06:27:03-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/baptist-pastor-religious-libertylaw-permits-denial-of-some-services/ 2017-12-10T09:26:13-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/anti-isis-fighters-come-together-to-retake-iraqi-city-of-tikrit/ 2017-12-08T16:57:30-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/european-union-charges-google-with-antitrust-violations/ 2017-12-09T20:04:04-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/superpacs-are-back-and-they-aremore-powerful-than-ever/ 2017-12-08T17:02:48-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/sentencing-begins-for-atlanta-teachers-convicted-in-cheating-scandal/ 2017-12-09T20:03:15-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/california-governor-announces-first-ever-mandatory-water-restrictions/ 2017-12-09T06:21:36-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/report-on-retractedrolling-stone-rape-story-cites-systematic-failing/ 2017-12-10T09:27:20-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/critics-lash-out-at-chinese-scientists-who-edited-dna-in-human-embryos/ 2017-1209T06:30:10-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/amid-seattles-affluence-homelessness-also-flourishes/ 2017-12-06T23:39:39-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/isis-booted-fromlist-of-pacific-hurricane-names/ 2017-12-10T23:10:26-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/with-discounts-for-healthy-behavior-john-hancock-courts-privacy-concerns/ 2017-1208T03:14:36-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/blackwater-case-raised-many-new-legal-issues/ 2017-12-10T09:33:37-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/bill-arhos-austin-citylimits-founder-dies-at-80/ 2017-12-08T17:04:56-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/40-years-after-the-vietnam-war-families-still-search-for-answers/ 2017-12-06T23:53:51-04:56 never 0.5 40 Years After The Vietnam War, Families Still Search For AnswersNPR — along with seven public radio stations around the country — is chronicling the lives of America's troops where they live. We're calling the project "Back at Base." This is the third of four reports this week about the National Guard. A version of this story has appeared on KPBS.org.
It's been more than four decades since Elaine Zimmer Davis got the knock on her door that no Marine wife wants to hear.
"And I didn't want to open it because I knew, I knew what was coming," she says.
Her husband's F-4 Phantom plane had been shot down over a remote mountainside in Vietnam. It was August 29, 1969. Witnesses described a fiery crash. The 25 year-old Marine pilot was "killed in action, no body recovered," they told her.
"Later, members of his squadron came to see me," she says. "They said, 'Elaine, we could have put him MIA. We didn't want you to be waiting years for him to come back.'"
Capt. Jerry Zimmer was later reclassified to MIA: missing in action.
"If they did not come home, they then became MIAs," Elaine explains.
She says she spent years wondering if he might still be alive.
"I thought, 'He's out there.' But inside I think there was sort of that push-pull, feeling that he couldn't have survived," she says.
Jerry Zimmer's unknown fate is shared with 1,600 other Vietnam service members who remain unaccounted for. The U.S. government set up a command after the war ended to investigate MIA cases. They've recovered the remains of 900 service members. Jerry's case was unsolved and stamped "no further pursuit."
Back in the states, life went on for Elaine and their 2-year-old son, Craig. They moved across the country from Rhode Island to Tustin, Calif. It's where she met Ron Davis, a Marine helicopter pilot just back from Vietnam.
"We met sort of accidentally. And within the next year we were married," she says.
Over the years she had another son. She also completed college and enjoyed being a wife and stay at home mom. The family eventually settled in San Diego.
But Elaine says a part of her remained unsettled. After accompanying her husband on a business trip to Vietnam in 2004, she began a quest to bring Jerry's remains home.
Researching and writing about Jerry's case became her full-time job.
"Maybe if I can bring home his remains – no matter when – I can feel like I did something for him," she says.
The family took multiple trips to Vietnam to search for evidence. They interviewed locals and documented their findings to present to the U.S. government.
Ron Davis is a former FBI agent who is using his investigation skills to try to find Jerry's remains.
"I'm a Marine and he's a Marine and just from the pure brotherhood of Marines I'm very pleased to be assisting," he says.
The government has reopened the case. Elaine says another excavation of the crash site is planned. Results could come this year.
"Right now, there is a small portion that they have nailed down as where remains — perhaps with his body in portions of the aircraft – where they slid down the mountain," she says.
Mountaineers will be required to search the 80-degree cliff. If remains are found, they will be sent to the Air Force for review and analysis, she says.
"I think having his remains come back and he's here," says Jerry's son Craig, now 47. "I think that would do a lot for our family."
He says his mom's search for closure has been an opening for him to learn more about his father.
"My mom pulled out this chest of letters, of mementos of all kinds of things that were 40 years in the past and the thing that was the most awe-inspiring was she had these tapes," he says.
"So it's daddy telling you goodbye for now, Craigy. And just behave yourself and I'll be seeing you pretty soon, Craigy," Jerry says in one of those tapes.
Craig says his father is a hard person to live up to.
"He was a farmer, small town. He got into an Ivy League university, he became a naval aviator with the Marine Corps, he was a father, a husband, a son" Craig says. "he's somebody that I hold in a regard, and I think it's a big part of who I am and who I try to be with my children as well."
Forty years after the Vietnam War concluded on April 30, 1975, Elaine says it may finally end for her.
"Maybe now he'll come home," she says.
Jerry's remains, if found, will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery. Copyright 2015 KPBS-FM. To see more, visit http://www.kpbs.org.
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"That's the way I kind of envisioned it: There are all these separate tales from this world," Schneider says. "But they overlap and they tangle. And they collide sometimes."
For Strange Trails, Schneider creates a dark, apocalyptic world, filled with people rising from the dead and howling through the dark. At the audio link, Schneider tells NPR's Melissa Block about the leather-jacketed greaser gang in "The World Ender," a song brought to life in a comic book that accompanies the album.
There's also Buck Vernon, a "washed-up rockabilly country singer," who narrates "Fool For Love," and Frankie Lou, a "lounge singer who performs at this club called George's Place," who sings "Love Like Ghosts." Lord Huron even throws a party for the end of the world in "Until The Night Turns," written from the perspective of Johnny, a member of the greaser gang. Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Rdiy9IzATQ https://www.wnyc.org/story/fact-check-is-the-clinton-foundation-the-most-transparent/ 2017-12-10T13:09:35-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/kirk-franklin-on-trap-gospel-and-taking-heat-from-the-church/ 2017-12-10T13:09:19-04:56 never 0.5 Kirk Franklin On 'Trap Gospel' And Taking Heat From The ChurchIf you're into the gospel music scene, you know Erica Campbell as half of the duo Mary Mary. Last month she released a solo album called Help 2.0. There's one track, "I Luh God," that has made Campbell take some heat for venturing into a branch of Southern hip-hop known as "trap gospel." It resembles secular club music a little too closely for gospel purists.
The controversy around the song is similar to that experienced by another gospel artist who stirred the pot in the '90s — Kirk Franklin. He shook up the gospel scene with hits like "Stomp" and got strong reactions to his style of music.
"It's very hard when you hear churches talk about you," Franklin says. "And some people start to question your heart, and when some people start to question your motives, it could be very hard for you because you're in your early 20s and you don't really understand what all the fuss is about, because you're doing just what's real to you."
Hear more about Franklin's experience with backlash in the church at the audio link with NPR's Arun Ruth. Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.
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Although he caucuses with the Democrats in the Senate, he's not a registered Democrat — he's actually the longest-serving independent in congressional history. (There's no rule, by the way, barring candidates who are not registered Democrats from running in the Democratic primary.)
Sanders is one of those politicians known by only one name — everyone in the Capitol knows who "Bernie" is. He's a fiery, left-wing voice who calls himself a democratic socialist. And he's never lost his Brooklyn accent or his absent-minded professor look.
Here are three reasons why Sanders' candidacy could actually help the Clinton campaign:
1. Progressives now have a champion
OK, he's not Elizabeth Warren. But the left-wing base of the Democratic Party has been hungering for an alternative to Clinton and now they have one. HRC herself welcomed him into the race by tweeting: "I agree with Bernie. Focus must be on helping America's middle class."
Sanders will force her to focus on issues important to the progressive base of the party, like climate change, campaign finance reform and income inequality. All of which she has already been talking about. But the contrast with Sanders may help her find that sweet spot between the left wing of the party and the center of American politics a little faster. She's a progressive who says "the deck is stacked in favor of those at the top," she supports a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United, and she wants an "end to the era of mass incarceration." But, in comparison to Sanders, it's clear she's no socialist.
2. All candidates need a sparring partner
Clinton can't stand on the debate stage alone. Having challengers will help her sharpen her message and her skills, which are rusty from being out of the arena for eight years. And the sparring will not be lethal because Sanders has said that although he thinks questions of Clinton's ethics are "fair game," he will not air any negative ads against her. Sanders will be joined by other Clinton challengers. Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley is expected to join the race; so is former Democratic Sen. Jim Webb and the former Republican senator and Democratic governor of Rhode Island Lincoln Chafee.
3. He can't beat her
Sanders is a long shot. So are the other three potential Democratic candidates. But they're all serious, substantive challengers. All of them are current or former governors or senators — there's not a talk show host or a House member in the bunch. Democratic activists all over the country have been saying they want a real debate, not a coronation. And now they have one. Even though HRC's position as the leader of the Democratic pack hasn't changed, a multicandidate race could make the eventual nominee a much stronger general election candidate. Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.
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never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/this-young-yemeni-american-is-on-a-quest-to-bring-coffee-from-the-landof-mocha-to-the-world/ 2015-04-15T14:48:33-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/the-sonified-self--transforming->Hubble Space Telescope in person.From inside his orbiting space shuttle, the telescope first appeared on the horizon as a star, says Massimino, who was an astronaut on the final mission to service the space telescope in 2009.
"It keeps getting bigger and bigger, and then eventually it starts looking like a telescope," he says.
Up close, the Hubble looked as good as the day it was launched into orbit, Massimo says. "I remember thinking, 'Wow, this thing's shiny!' "
But the space telescope is no spring chicken. It was launched 25 years ago today, just months after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Over the years, astronauts have fixed a faulty mirror, replaced its solar panels, computers and batteries. On Massimino's mission, new cameras and scientific instruments were added to give the Hubble telescope the latest technology.
"We got it all done," he says. But he adds jokingly, "We don't warranty any of the labor."
Keeping Watch
With the space shuttle retired, astronauts won't be visiting Hubble again. Keeping the telescope running from earth is the job of a team at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. The scientists and engineers work in a long room that looks like any office, except that the wall at one end has an animated map with a cartoon Hubble floating over the landscape.
Hubble has put several billion miles on its odometer, and, as with any high-mileage vehicle, things go wrong. An onboard computer froze in October of last year, briefly shutting down the whole telescope. But today, it's running smoothly. And that's good news, says Jennifer Wiseman, Hubble's senior scientist.
"We're doing everything from looking at objects in the Solar System — trying to understand, for example, Jupiter — to looking at things far beyond our solar system," Wiseman says. "We're even studying some of the most distant galaxies ever detected."
The telescope is in more popular than ever, Wiseman says. This year, astronomers have written more than a thousand proposals for how to use Hubble. That demand is partly because of upgrades done by astronauts like Massimino. But the main appeal is its location.
"You'll only hear an astronomer say this, but the air that we breathe — it sucks," says Jason Kalirai, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute, which manages Hubble's many projects. "It makes our images blurry."
Staring at space from Earth, Kalirai says, is kind of like looking up from the bottom of a swimming pool. Everything shimmers.
"This is actually why we put telescopes on top of mountains," he says. "It's not to get closer to the stars; it's to get above the Earth's atmosphere."
But not even a mountain's peak can compete with Hubble's crystal-clear images.
Free For All
Another reason Hubble continues to loom large in the public mind is that NASA has made its images free to the public.
"Hubble has flattened the world for astronomy and for the public when it comes to science," says Matt Mountain, president of the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy. "Everybody feels that they can understand what Hubble is doing by logging onto the website and downloading a picture."
If you've seen a picture of space recently, chances are it came from Hubble.
The list of what astronomers have learned from all those images is long and diverse. Hubble has helped them study planets beyond our solar system. It's watched stars as they die, and spied a comet smashing into Jupiter. It's even probed a mysterious force some call "dark energy" that appears to be pushing the Universe apart.
But for Kalirai, there is one image that really changed everything. In December of 1995, the telescope stared for 10 days at a tiny patch of apparently empty sky. The image it produced, called the Deep Field, revealed more than a thousand undiscovered galaxies. It made researchers realize that earth is even smaller than we thought.
Earth's Not So Special
"We're basically sitting on a rock orbiting a star, and that star is one of a hundred billion in our galaxy," Kalirai says. "But the deep field tells us that galaxy is one galaxy out of a hundred billion in the universe."
"I think Hubble's contribution is that we're not very special," he says.
That may sound like a bummer, but Kalirai doesn't see it that way. "I think it's exciting," he says. "It gives us a lot more to learn about. ... If we're not very special, you can continue to ask that question: 'What's next?' "
Kalirai is lead scientist on an even bigger telescope — the James Web Space Telescope, which will launch in 2018.
As for what's next for the Hubble, that's uncertain. At some point it will stop working. But researchers hope that day is still many years away. Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.
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https://www.wnyc.org/story/residents-disappointed-at-howrioters-tore-up-baltimore/ 2017-12-10T09:40:23-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/obama-confident-in-asia-trade-pact-but-track-record-for-deals-is-spotty/ 2017-12-10T19:50:13-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/boxing-fans-shift-focus-to-small-men-big-money/ 2017-12-06T13:47:13-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/2-dachau-survivors-reflect-on-nazigermanys-first-concentration-camp/ 2017-12-10T02:59:03-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/graphic-novel-about-holocaust-maus-banned-in-russia-for-its-cover/ 2017-12-09T03:16:3204:56 never 0.5 https://www.acast.com/internetexplorer/japanese-pigeon-dating-simulators-period-forums-and-cyber-goths-oh-my- 2017-11-27T11:44:16-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/europe-may-be-on-sale-but-the-ticket-to-get-there-isnt/ 2017-12-08T00:05:30-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/baltimore-officials-face-criticism-for-slowresponse-to-riots/ 2017-12-09T03:16:35-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/why-russian-american-jews-are-ballroom-dance-leaders/ 2017-12-07T03:18:34-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/vatican-hosts-climate-change-conference-ahead-of-papal-encyclical/ 2017-12-10T09:40:13-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/union-head-presses-candidatesclinton-on-trade/ 2017-12-08T03:29:01-04:56 never 0.5 Union Head Presses Candidates, Clinton, On TradeDon't expect labor support to get fired up for a candidate who hedges their bets. That was the message from AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka for 2016 presidential candidates. Translation: Hillary Clinton.
"Candidates can't hedge their bets any longer and expect workers to rush to the polls in excitement, to run out and door knock and phone bank and leaflet only to have their candidate of choice turn a back towards the policies," Trumka said in a speech at the labor federation's headquarters in Washington.
Trumka never named Clinton, but the Democratic frontrunner has done exactly what Trumka is warning against on trade — hedge.
As secretary of state, Clinton called the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which is being hotly debated now in Congress, the "gold standard" of trade agreements. But, now that she's running for president, she has backed away from that.
"Any trade deal has to produce jobs and raise wages and increase prosperity and protect our security," Clinton said in Concord, N.H., last week while touring a community college that focuses on technical skills. "We have to do our part in making sure we have the capabilities and the skills to be competitive."
Clinton is the only announced Democratic presidential candidate to this point, and she is far ahead in the polls. Independent Bernie Sanders, a self-declared socialist is set to announce his candidacy Thursday, Vermont Public Radio reports. Martin O'Malley, the former governor of Maryland, has indicated he is also likely to run and will announce his decision by the end of May.
O'Malley, who is trying to position himself to Clinton's left, didn't mince words during an event at Harvard earlier this month. He cut a web video off of what he said on trade.
"I'm for trade," he said. "And I'm for good trade deals, but I'm against bad trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership."
Trumka talked of the income inequality and noted that CEO pay has skyrocketed over the last four decades while the wages of average Americans have gone the other way.
"We want action," Trumka said. "We want big ideas, and we want structural change. We want 'Raising Wages.'"
And he said labor won't accept "half measures."
"Workers have swallowed the politics of hedged bets for almost two generations," said Trumka, who has seen labor membership decline in the past generation. "We've waited for the scraps that remain after the pollsters shape the politics. Those days are over. America doesn't need relentlessly cautious half-measures." Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih5_fvX6FpU https://www.wnyc.org/story/director-julie-taymor-steers-a-grounded-portrait-of-a-drone-pilot/ 2017-12-06T20:34:43-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/a-rural-police-chief-asks-citizens-to-help-pick-up-used-syringes/ 2017-12-10T09:40:16-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/earthquake-in-nepal-sheds-light-onits-volatile-political-history/ 2017-12-08T23:49:47-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/police-union-president-officers-arent-perfect-but-deserve-due-process/ 2017-12-07T06:39:07-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/nfl-announces-it-will-forgo-its-tax-exempt-status/ 2017-12-07T13:51:58-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/ashleys-war-details-vital-work-of-femalesoldiers-in-afghanistan/ 2017-12-08T13:50:21-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/nepali-students-in-boston-channel-their-grief-into-fundraising-efforts-for-earthquake-relief/ 2015-0501T17:50:07-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/new-to-america-this-young-vietnamese-refugee-wanted-to-erase-his-past/ 2015-05-01T17:50:06-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/nepal-earthquake-victims-are-desperate-for-aid/ 2017-12-09T03:16:51-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/the-moth-radio-hour-parties-plans-and-police/ 201506-02T16:41:39-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/report-to-aid-combat-russia-wages-cyberwar-against-ukraine/ 2017-12-10T09:40:26-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/for-aresume-type-font-matters/ 2017-12-09T23:36:26-04:56 never 0.5 http://feeds.99percentinvisible.org/~r/99percentinvisible/~3/94l0tf7p-NA/ 2017-11-27T11:43:56-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/sideshow-saved-by-the-bell-hooks/ 2015-04-28T15:59:29-04:56 never 0.5 https://media.wnyc.org/i/620/372/c/80/1/Bell_1_MAIN.jpg https://www.wnyc.org/story/indonesia-notifies-convicted-drug-dealers-of-imminent-execution/ 2017-12-07T10:13:21-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/congress-may-be-forced-tointervene-again-on-mammogram-recommendations/ 2017-12-10T23:13:41-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/colorado-state-patrol-nabs-literary-litterbug/ 2017-12-08T06:52:44-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/addressing-student-behavior-restorative-justice-circle/ 2015-04-26T15:24:36-04:56 never 0.5 https://media.wnyc.org/i/1860/1238/c/80/1/IMG_4756.JPG https://www.wnyc.org/story/south-africas-xenophobic-attacks-vile-says-zulu-king-accused-of-inciting-them/ 2017-12-10T23:13:07-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/oklahoma-now-hasmore-earthquakes-than-california/ 2017-12-08T10:27:01-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/maltas-coast-guard-rescues-migrants-and-feels-the-strain/ 2017-12-07T06:38:01-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/it-crackles-with-life-beauty-pill-returns/ 2017-12-09T16:37:18-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/how-will-off-the-field-issues-affect-jameis-winstons-nflprospects/ 2017-12-10T23:12:51-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/behind-the-scenes-at-eric-holders-last-day-at-the-justice-department/ 2017-12-07T06:38:28-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/from-alabama-to-isis/ 2017-12-10T02:58:13-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/the-armenian-diaspora-remembers-and-mourns/ 2017-12-09T06:31:41-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/turkeys-armenian-artists-honor-their-communitys-past/ 2017-12-08T10:27:17-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/whats-that-smell-the-beautiful-treethats-causing-quite-a-stink/ 2017-12-10T09:39:18-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/native-american-actors-walk-off-set-of-adam-sandler-movie/ 2017-12-07T06:37:42-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/hostage-deaths-call-us-drone-program-into-question/ 2017-12-09T23:34:42-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/413-cooking-lesson-the-secrets-of-cookingbrilliant-chinese-food-at-home-with-fuchsia-dunlop/ 2017-11-27T11:42:17-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/leonard-lopate-weekend-elizabeth-warren-tim-gunn-skylight-broadway/ 2015-04-03T16:57:36-04:56 never 0.5 https://media.wnyc.org/i/1231/1860/l/80/1/Elizabeth_Warren_credit_Kelly_Campbell.jpg https://www.wnyc.org/story/lgbt-activists-push-states-to-expandanti-discrimination-laws/ 2017-12-07T03:17:21-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/keith-murdoch-father-of-media-baron-disclosed-disaster-at-gallipoli/ 2017-12-08T17:08:34-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/dont-take-his-stapler-paper-clip-authors-passion-for-office-supplies/ 2017-12-09T06:31:07-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/heres-where-to-go-if-youwant-to-fart-in-someones-general-direction/ 2015-04-30T16:48:48-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/destroying-smugglers-boats-wont-fix-the-mediterranean-refugee-crisis-this-man-says/ 2015-04-30T17:42:40-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/ed-miliband-is-the-uks-wouldbe-leader-and--a-sex-god/ 2015-04-30T17:42:39-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/twoyears-after-it-collapsed-rana-plaza-is-still-haunted-by-the-smell-of-death/ 2015-04-30T17:42:39-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/finding-the-courage-to-write-about-cowardice/ 2015-0430T14:49:19-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/how-do-you-help-your-town-dig-out-from-a-disaster/ 2017-12-10T06:20:07-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/how-didabraham-maslow-change-psychology/ 2017-12-08T23:44:52-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/deception-and-suspense-by-the-sea-in-the-iranian-mystery-about-elly/ 2017-1210T06:20:01-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/pope-and-mussolini-tells-the-secret-history-of-fascism-and-the-church_1/ 2017-12-07T10:12:21-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/cleveland-police-officer-on-trial-in-deaths-of-2-unarmed-black-suspects/ 2017-12-09T16:36:12-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/as-governors-eye-the-whitehouse-home-takes-a-back-seat/ 2017-12-09T23:33:47-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/tales-of-environmental-activism/ 2017-12-07T10:12:08-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/comcast-calls-off-merger-with-time-warner/ 2017-12-08T17:08:16-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/european-leaders-pledge-to-do-more-to-help-migrantsmediterranean-crossing/ 2017-12-10T06:19:45-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/aid-workers-hear-migrants-firsthand-accounts-of-shipwrecks/ 2017-12-07T17:14:53-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/the-plot-of-the-black-netflixs-first-movie-is-as-provocative-as-its-stars/ 2017-12-10T06:19:48-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/us-drone-strike-kills-2-alqaida-hostages-including-an-american/ 2017-12-08T10:26:01-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/lost-siblings-find-each-other-on-dating-app/ 2017-12-09T03:15:17-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/after-5-month-delay-senate-confirms-loretta-lynch-for-attorney-general/ 2017-12-10T02:56:42-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/small-south-carolinanewspaper-takes-home-top-pulitzer-prize/ 2017-12-08T23:46:20-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/christian-slater-leads-underground-hacker-army-mr-robot/ 2015-04-28T19:00:53-04:56 never 0.5 https://media.wnyc.org/i/1615/1860/l/80/1/slater.jpg https://www.wnyc.org/story/increased-l-subway-service/ 2015-04-24T15:03:02-04:56 never 0.5 https://media.wnyc.org/i/1500/1125/h/80/1/bedford_1.JPG https://www.wnyc.org/story/why-dont-ants-need-a-leader/ 2017-12-06T23:52:03-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/authorscriticize-pen-americas-decision-to-honor-charlie-hebdo-survivors/ 2017-12-08T23:49:16-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/how-can-kids-help-parents-manage-their-family/ 2017-1208T03:26:58-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/why-are-social-causes-easy-to-launch-but-hard-to-win/ 2017-12-08T00:04:11-04:56 never 0.5 http://www.wnyc.org/articles/politicalgab 2017-12-18T13:42:57-04:56 never 0.5 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https://www.wnyc.org/story/couples-counseling-catches-on-withtech-co-founders/ 2017-12-08T20:29:37-04:56 never 0.5 http://www.onbeing.org/program/margaretwertheim-the-grandeur-and-limits-of-science/7472 2017-12-10T23:11:26-04:56 never 0.5 http://www.onbeing.org/program/margaretwertheim-the-grandeur-and-limits-of-science/7472 2017-12-09T09:47:48-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.npr.org/rss/0ae0de66-4c00-46b4-94ecdc5d9ffe4a5c 2017-12-18T13:42:09-04:56 never 0.5 https://hbr.org/ideacast/2015/04/brian-grazer-on-the-power-of-curiosity.html 2017-11-27T11:45:42-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/saudi-bombing-in-yemen-has-led-to-new-gains-for-al-qaida/ 2017-12-08T20:29:40-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.acast.com/ft-big-read/shrink-and-simplify 2017-0416T22:20:41-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/lightning-fill-in-the-blank_57/ 2017-12-08T03:23:36-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/lhc-which-confirmed-the-higgs-goesback-online-after-2-year-hiatus/ 2017-12-10T12:55:51-04:56 never 0.5 Large Hadron Collider Goes Back Online After 2-Year HiatusThe Large Hadron Collider — the giant particle accelerator in Switzerland that confirmed the Higgs boson — is back online after two years and ready to ramp up to twice its previous proton-smashing energy.
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, live blogged the restart here. The LHC was shut down to consolidate some 10,000 electrical interconnections between magnets, add protection systems, improve cryogenics, vacuums and electronics and boost the (proton) beam energy from 6.5 TeV (tera electron Volts) per beam to 13 TeV.
"After two years of effort, the LHC is in great shape," CERN Director for Accelerators and Technology, Frédérick Bordry, says. "But the most important step is still to come when we increase the energy of the beams to new record levels."
The increase to 13 TeV could start in early June, the lab says.
The CERN Press Office says in a statement that: "The Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism, dark matter, antimatter and quark-gluon plasma are all on the menu for LHC season 2. After the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012 by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations, physicists will be putting the Standard Model of particle physics to its most stringent test yet, searching for new physics beyond this well-established theory describing particles and their interactions." Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.
https://twitter.com/CERN/statuses/584663847568543745 https://www.wnyc.org/story/ballerina-misty-copeland-gets-quizzed-on-morris-dancing_1/ 2017-12-10T19:42:11-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/limericks_57/ 2017-12-08T03:23:3904:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/us-counterterrorism-operations-kill-2-hostages-of-al-qaida/ 2017-12-10T13:07:59-04:56 never 0.5 http://www.npr.org/rss/993d743c-0367-4205-9e36839dfb46b68b 2016-12-07T12:50:10-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/initially-incorrect/ 2017-12-10T02:56:48-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/remember-me/ 2017-1207T20:46:35-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/secret-papers-reveal-islamic-states-structure/ 2017-12-09T13:06:27-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/un-representative-blamessyrias-civil-war-for-massive-migration-crisis/ 2017-12-08T10:25:31-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/migrants-to-spain-say-human-traffickers-are-the-scariest-part/ 2017-12-10T13:07:3204:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/early-breakfast-club-script-found-at-chicago-high-school/ 2017-12-10T06:19:20-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/mexican-girl-reunitedwith-her-parents-after-a-case-of-mistaken-identity/ 2017-12-08T20:29:19-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/guest-picks-mary-norris/ 2015-04-10T16:26:40-04:56 never 0.5 https://media.wnyc.org/i/500/748/h/80/1/MN-lo.jpg http://songexploder.libsyn.com/my-morning-jacket-spring-among-the-living 2017-09-19T15:54:09-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/why-do-mosquitoes-like-to-bite-you-best-its-in-your-genes/ 2017-12-08T23:47:34-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/the-nearly-lost-story-of-cambodian-rockn-roll/ 2017-12-10T06:19:11-04:56 never 0.5 The Nearly Lost Story Of Cambodian Rock 'N' RollThe tragic story of Cambodia in the '60s and '70s is well-known: It became engulfed in the Vietnam War, then more than a million Cambodians died under the Khmer Rouge regime. Doctors, lawyers, teachers — educated people — were targeted in the communist takeover. So were artists and singers.
A new film documents the vibrant pop music scene that existed before the Khmer Rogue. Don't Think I've Forgotten: Cambodia's Lost Rock And Roll, which took director John Pirozzi 10 years to make, opens this week in New York.
One of the artists included in the film, Sinn Sisamouth, still is considered the greatest Cambodian singer of all time, an artist who embraced and adapted Western styles for Cambodian audiences.
"I think he was actually both Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra," Pirozzi tells NPR's Robert Siegel.
During the 20 years when pop music exploded in Cambodia, the musicians incorporated influences from around the world. They would imitate what we would call surf rock. There's also a very surprising Afro-Cuban music trend that started to blend in, and even covers of Western artists like Santana. The sounds from other countries were constantly changing Cambodian music.
One of the most fascinating things Pirozzi discovered while making the film was the very short lag time between music coming out of the West and the Cambodian musicians' ability to pick up on it.
"I think," Pirozzi says, "Western music for Cambodians was something that goes back to pre-rock 'n' roll. I mean, there were dance halls in Phnom Penh, and big band music and crooners were very popular in the '50s. People like Perry Como, Pat Boone, Frank Sinatra were getting into Cambodia through the elite, through the wealthy Cambodians who were being educated in France and coming back with records."
Initially, urban elites only had access to the '60s discotheque scenes shown in the film. But as American GIs began broadcasting close to Cambodia, Western music opened up to more and more people. By the time the '70s came around, right before the Khmer Rouge came into power, it was more accessible for Cambodians.
The rise of the Khmer Rouge spelled the end of the booming pop scene. Foreign sounds were banned and only traditional music was allowed. The capital city of Cambodia, Phnom Penh, was emptied out.
"I think most of the famous singers — like Sinn Sisamouth, Ros Serey Sothea — were so high profile, it was impossible for them to hide their identities," Pirozzi says. "But the backing musicians — the drummers, the guitar players, the bass players — they weren't as well known, so they could pretty much see what was happening and were able to hide their identities, some of them.
"You had to really pick up on the situation quickly, and understand you had to hide your identity or else you could potentially be a target."
Sieng Vanthy is one of the few famous musicians who managed to survive.
"I told them I was a banana seller," she says in the film. "If I told them I was a singer, I would have been killed."
"When we interviewed her," Pirozzi says, "no one had really asked her about this time in her life for a long time, and you have to remember these people had their identities stripped from them. They had to start whole new lives, even after the Khmer Rouge, coming back to a city that was completely destroyed, a country that was completely destroyed.
"So conducting the interviews and asking people to access this time was a very intense process."
When Pirozzi started the film, he was told by many people that he wouldn't find anything in terms of photographs and archival footage — but a lot of the music was still out there.
"People held onto it, people hid it, people saved it," he says. "There's so many people who came to me when they found out about the film who had little pieces to the puzzle — who had songs, who had photos, who had maybe a little bit of footage. And so the film sort of came together in a very communal way, with people who really cared about the music and cared about the country." Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ipq4FefX5Ps https://www.wnyc.org/story/buzz-over-bee-health-new-pesticide-studies-rev-up-controversy/ 2017-12-08T23:47:28-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/migrants-fleeing-violence-dock-at-sicilian-port-of-augusta/ 2017-12-09T20:07:36-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/why-many-doctors-dont-follow-bestpractices/ 2017-12-07T06:36:00-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/civilians-condemn-airstrikes-for-creating-humanitarian-crisis-in-yemen/ 2017-12-07T20:45:34-04:56 never 0.5 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thetruthapm/~3/qOqTEGp8Uk0/217145 2017-12-18T13:46:32-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/04222015--marketplace--cyber-security/ 2015-0520T19:41:34-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/young-black-man-in-baltimore-dies-1-week-after-a-police-confrontation/ 2017-12-07T20:45:41-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.npr.org/rss/e84cdc78b47fbd74a828e1b6e8c769f4 2017-12-07T07:57:07-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/its-better-to-be-in-the-company-of-seven-devils-than-onepoliceman/ 2015-04-27T17:49:07-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/israels-first-arab-newscaster-has-a-message-this-is-not-your-country-this-is-our-country/ 2015-04-28T09:49:18-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/water-advocate-swims-part-gowanus-canal-promises-second-attempt/ 2015-04-22T18:32:49-04:56 never 0.5 https://media.wnyc.org/i/1500/900/c/80/1/_ILE6898.jpg https://www.wnyc.org/story/national-guard-members-struggle-to-keep-civilian-careers/ 2017-12-06T13:44:42-04:56 never 0.5 National Guard Members Struggle To Keep Civilian CareersNPR — along with seven public radio stations around the country — is chronicling the lives of America's troops where they live. We're calling the project "Back at Base." This is the third of four reports this week about the National Guard. A version of this story has appeared on KPBS.org.
Soldiers in the National Guard live in two worlds: They can be sent to war in a crisis, but they have to support themselves and their families with civilian jobs.
In San Diego, Christopher Avila, 23, has been in the guard for three years. His commitment to the guard is one weekend a month and two weeks of training in the summer. But he says that's seldom how it works out in practice.
"On paper they say one weekend a month, which is what you tell your employers," he says. "And sometimes the employer will have trouble with even one weekend a month. That's because it's like, 'Hey, I have to work around scheduling, we have to shift that weekend around, just so you can have the day off.' "
Weekends often can turn into four days, Avila says — and because he's an IT specialist, he often gets called up for extra training on new technology. He had a job with a civilian company where he was able to use his IT skills, but he got called to do guard training two weekends in a row — and then, there was another commitment.
"Then I had to go for two weeks for training in Fort Hood for some new stuff my unit was getting, and when I came back, they came to the conclusion they had to let me go because I wasn't meeting their quota," Avila says. "Companies have to find a way around letting people go sometimes, so they don't get in trouble."
Companies that hire people in the National Guard can't legally fire them for fulfilling their guard commitment, but Avila says others in his unit also have found themselves out of a job after going on one too many military training sessions.
Avila found another job — at T-Shirt Mart — using his graphic design skills. One of his managers, Arthur Nava, says they're willing to work around Avila's training schedule.
"I'd say at least 30 to 40 percent of our customers are military here in San Diego," Nava says. "We do have a good understanding of what it means to be in the military, and we try to help those people out as much as we can."
For those in the National Guard, it's more difficult than if you're a veteran to get hired — veterans don't have to ask for the time off active guardsmen do, and employers earn federal tax credits by hiring them, unlike members of the National Guard who have not been deployed. And deployments for two-week trainings or state emergencies typically addressed by the guard — such as a wildfire — don't count.
Also, guard members who have been on active duty for less than three years only get partial post-Sept. 11 benefits. Some states, including California, will provide some extra educational benefits to guardsmen.
Avila says he hopes to be deployed to Iraq in October; if he serves a year, he can qualify for 60 percent of the post-9/11 benefits. That could lead to a better-paying job in IT, but he would still need to find an employer who was willing to let him go on frequent trainings and be ready to serve if there's a state-level crisis.
Trying To Build A Career
Finding a job is hard enough, but building a career is even more difficult for people serving in the guard.
Rida Sihab Mansor, 32, is a staff sergeant who's served eight years as a linguist and translator for the Army National Guard. He deployed for one year of combat duty in Iraq which earned him the decorations on his dress uniform.
"I've got 13 medals," he says. "This is my bronze star. That's the highest. This is my Army achievement ribbon, anti-terrorism, and this is the National Guard one."
Because Mansour served as a full-time recruiter for two years, as well as being deployed, he qualified for the GI Bill and is finishing a degree in security management. But that has not been enough to get his foot on the career ladder.
"I've applied everywhere, and I've got a pretty good resume," he says. "I've even applied to a couple of security companies and I've seen them hire the guy next to me who didn't even know how to fill out an application. They didn't hire me. And I'm going for a bachelor's degree within that field."
When asked if he thinks his commitment to the guard is what's making it so difficult to build a career, he says: "I didn't at first, but I'm positive it does right now."
Mansour earns a little money — about $100 a day — serving on the honor guard at military funerals. He says he enjoys the days when he can put on the uniform and serve.
"I love it," he says. "I'm very proud of being part of that team. It's a really beautiful ceremony, and we train to be perfect at it."
Mansour will soon have a degree in security management, and his deployment history qualifies him as a vet. He bought a condo — taking advantage of a VA loan — but now he has a mortgage to pay, so he still needs to find a career with an employer who is willing to let him go on frequent training and be ready to serve if there's a state-level crisis, or a federal deployment.
Mansour plans to stay in the guard for 20 years, earning retirement benefits. At least that's something, he says, even if the civilian world doesn't offer him any security. Copyright 2015 KPBS-FM. To see more, visit http://www.kpbs.org.
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"I think Passion Pit's always been considered this project that is kind of melodramatic and deals with these very heavy issues with really happy music," Angelakos says. "So there's a juxtaposition."
Angelakos has bipolar disorder — it's a condition he used to hide. But three years ago, after the release of his second album, his mental illness became hard to control. So he decided to stop hiding it.
"I just didn't believe in lying about cancellations," he says. "And I remember having to cancel a number of shows because I was hospitalized for I think about the fourth time. And I was like, 'This is what I deal with, and you can't lie.'"
Today, Angelakos says he's better — and that his wife is a big part of the reason why. He dedicated the first song on Kindred to her.
"'Lifted Up' is a song about my wife just coming to me at a point in my life where I really was pretty lost," he says. "I was pretty dark. She's been one of the most amazing people, as a friend, as a partner in life."
Angelakos met his wife in school, and after a few years worked up the courage to talk to her. "We just kind of hit it off, and she's always been very, very understanding of everything that I go through," he says.
He says many of Passion Pit's songs about his relationship have been skewed by difficult points in his mental health.
"But instead of just apologizing, I wanted to express some type of gratitude," Angelakos says. "Because that was really what I was also feeling, and I never really showed that side. I'm at a point where I'm still alive, so I've gone through quite a bit.
"I'm so lucky and I'm healthy, so I can actually talk about more relatable, even more mundane subjects," he says. "That is such a fantastic luxury for me at this point." Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.
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This time around, the musicians of Alabama Shakes match Howard's intensity and actually push things higher. Much of their new album, Sound & Color, lives in the same vintage thrift store as Alabama Shakes' debut. But there are unexpected swerves, like the highly addictive "Don't Wanna Fight."
We've all seen how too much effusive praise from tastemakers can curse a young band. Somehow, with this followup, Alabama Shakes escaped that fate. The group grew in every way, took bold leaps and made a record that seems destined to be ubiquitous all summer long. Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.
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2017-12-06T17:11:06-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/gop-presidential-hopefulsconverge-in-new-hampshire/ 2017-12-08T20:27:00-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/suicide-blast-kills-more-than-30-in-afghanistan/ 2017-12-07T13:46:53-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/rules-for-no-fly-list-disclosures-get-an-update/ 2017-12-09T06:28:39-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/alabama-shakes-on-not-keeping-things-safe/ 2017-1206T23:49:21-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/who-leader-says-end-of-ebola-outbreak-is-near-but-hard-work-remains/ 2017-12-09T13:04:19-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/1516-fiddletown-or-bust/ 2015-05-02T13:41:30-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/bluff-the-listener_62/ 2017-12-08T17:05:24-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/panel-round-two_57/ 2017-12-10T06:17:37-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/public-shaming-on-social-media/ 2015-05-01T20:46:52-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/the-aleppo-codex/ 2015-05-01T20:46:52-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/dangerous-idea-universal-recess/ 2015-05-01T20:46:52-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/star-wars-fans-gear-up-for-new-film-at-convention/ 2017-12-09T20:04:59-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/book-review-rachel-kushner-the-strange-case-ofrachel-k/ 2017-12-10T02:53:43-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/actors-equity-minimum-wage-proposal-could-threaten-las-small-theaters/ 2017-12-08T10:22:49-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/412-pig-tales-a-true-story-of-smart-pigs-dumb-farmers-and-the-american-pork-industry/ 2017-11-27T11:42:17-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/the-chinesewent-wild-for-american-pecans--which-may-be-bad-news-for-wild-pecan-trees/ 2015-04-22T16:48:38-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/foreigners-in-south-africa-arm-themselves-tofend-off-antiimmigrant-riots/ 2015-04-22T15:50:21-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/whos-responsible-for-the-flood-of-migrants-arriving-on-the-shores-of-italy/ 2015-04-22T16:48:3804:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/new-study-looks-911-health-effects-ems-workers/ 2017-08-08T16:43:33-04:56 never 0.5 https://media.wnyc.org/i/1500/1125/c/80/1/photo_721.JPG https://www.wnyc.org/story/03f676d64a0ec61cca55710e/ 2017-12-11T13:07:23-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/greeces-economy-remains-embroiled-in-turmoil/ 2017-1207T17:12:04-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/vatican-ends-battle-with-us-nuns/ 2017-12-08T03:23:04-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/technology-our-friend-or-foe/ 201504-17T13:31:42-04:56 never 0.5 https://media.wnyc.org/i/680/478/c/80/1/oscarisaac.jpeg https://www.wnyc.org/story/as-joan-jett-is-inducted-women-still-scarce-at-rock-hall/ 2017-12-10T02:53:5504:56 never 0.5 As Joan Jett Is Inducted, Women Still Scarce At Rock HallOf the 726 artists inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame since the ceremony began in 1986, only 65 have been women. But on Saturday night in Cleveland, Joan Jett will be inducted along with The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Lou Reed, Bill Withers, Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble and Green Day. They each represent a different era in rock's history — from the mid-'60s to the mid-'90s.
At the audio link, hear from women in music — including The Velvet Underground drummer Moe Tucker, The Pretenders lead singer Chrissie Hynde, Chaka Khan and more — who describe the challenges they faced entering the industry. Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RAQXg0IdfI https://www.wnyc.org/story/how-does-war-teach-soldiers-about-love/ 2017-12-10T06:17:24-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/whatdefines-a-persons-sense-of-self/ 2017-12-10T02:54:01-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/why-do-we-need-sleep/ 2017-12-09T23:30:30-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/what-makes-a-life-worth-living/ 2017-12-09T20:05:22-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/senators-let-it-go-ringtone-disrupts-committee-hearing/ 2017-1208T03:23:01-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/e-cigarettes-grow-in-popularity-among-teen-students-survey-says/ 2017-12-09T06:28:02-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/india-china-seek-to-capitalize-on-nepals-water-wealth/ 2017-12-09T03:12:22-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/golden-states-stephen-curry-perfects-3pointers/ 2017-12-09T23:30:33-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/producers/ 2015-04-17T10:43:47-04:56 never 0.5 https://media.wnyc.org/i/550/369/c/80/photologue/photos/bluevalentine_.jpg https://www.wnyc.org/story/sideshow-instrumental-hits-illustrations-sizzler-promo-puppet-win-internet-this-week/ 2015-04-17T09:35:36-04:56 never 0.5 https://media.wnyc.org/i/620/372/c/80/1/video-sizzler-main-5x3.jpg http://www.onbeing.org/program/future-marriage-david-blankenhorn-and-jonathan-rauch/4883 2017-12-09T03:19:31-04:56 never 0.5 http://www.onbeing.org/program/future-marriage-david-blankenhorn-and-jonathan-rauch/4883 2017-12-10T13:17:42-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/family-of-unaccountedfor-uss-oklahoma-sailor-wouldnt-let-him-go/ 2017-12-10T02:53:05-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/iraqs-leader-finds-friends-in-washington-but-faces-battles-at-home/ 2017-1210T09:34:20-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/some-patients-lack-contraceptive-coverage-under-health-law-study-finds/ 2017-12-10T16:27:33-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/diego-garcia-islanders-displaced-in-uk-failure-hope-to-return-home/ 2017-12-08T23:44:04-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/thousands-flee-after-antiimmigrant-violence-strikes-south-africa/ 2017-12-10T13:03:30-04:56 never 0.5 https://hbr.org/ideacast/2015/04/the-condensed-may-2015-issue.html 2017-11-27T11:45:42-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/three-days-testing-test-stamina/ 2015-04-18T16:14:57-04:56 never 0.5 https://media.wnyc.org/i/1024/682/c/80/photologue/photos/student-sharpening-pencils.jpg https://www.wnyc.org/story/california-cities-struggle-to-enforce-mandatory-water-restrictions/ 2017-12-07T10:08:57-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/congress-repeals-medicare-doc-fixlaw-ending-annual-scramble/ 2017-12-09T23:29:52-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/deep-sea-robot-salvages-sunken-british-treasure-from-a-record-depth/ 2015-04-21T16:49:52-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/these-women-show-what-it-looks-like-to-survive-ebola-in-liberia/ 2015-04-16T17:47:19-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/the-long-laboredprocess-behind-mark-ronsons-uptown-funk/ 2017-12-06T17:09:07-04:56 never 0.5 The Long, Labored Process Behind Mark Ronson's 'Uptown Funk'When singer Bruno Mars and producer Mark Ronson first landed on the instrumental track and a few lines of what would become the hit song "Uptown Funk," Ronson says the room was filled with electricity.
"There's nothing more exciting than that period of the song, because the potential is unlimited," Ronson tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross.
But then the process turned long and labored for the cowriters. Mars, Ronson and Jeff Bhasker would meet up in Los Angeles or London or Memphis and work on it, but the energy wasn't the same.
"You can never get that spirit back," Ronson says. "You try to write another verse, and it seems forced, because the first one was so natural."
In fact, there was a moment where Ronson says they thought, "Maybe this song wasn't meant to be." But Ronson, who also plays guitar in the song, says he knew there was potential, so he kept fighting for it.
"I'd wait maybe a month until everyone's nerves cooled down and be like, 'Hey, can we get back in and try to work on that song again?'" he says. "Eventually, we did get it."
The song, on the album Uptown Special, just ended its 14-week run at the top of the Billboard Hot 100. Ronson has put out four albums under his own name, and they all feature other artists singing the songs he co-wrote and produced.
Ronson has also had a hand in other hits: He produced some of Amy Winehouse's 2006 album Back To Black, including the songs "Rehab" and "You Know I'm No Good."
Ronson recalls the first time he met Winehouse, who died in 2011.
"She came to my studio one day. I was on ... Mercer and Canal in downtown New York. We hung out, talked about music," he says. "She was so magnetic, and just her energy — I just instantly liked her and I wanted to impress her, basically. I wanted to have a piece of music that would make her be like, 'Wow, I want to work with this guy.'"
Ronson grew up in the music world. His stepfather Mick Jones co-founded the band Foreigner, and wrote its hit "I Want To Know What Love Is" for Ronson's mother.
Ronson was born in London, but his family moved to New York when he was 8. He says he was allowed to hang out in the studio with Foreigner, and that sometimes Jones would bounce ideas off of him. Jones would come home the same time Ronson was leaving for school.
"He'd play me the most recent mix of songs in the studio and ask for my input," Ronson says. "And I don't remember any of this happening, but he'd always tell me that I'd be like, in my little English schoolboy voice, 'Well, I remember the bass was turned up slightly more on the mix from last week, and I thought that was good.' ... I was kind of destined to probably be a studio rat."
Interview Highlights
On creating 'Uptown Funk'
I think that where it came from and the initial birth of it — it did come out of a jam at Bruno's studio. He was playing drums and Jeff Bhasker, who coproduced the record — that's who's on synths — and I was playing bass, and I think that that spirit, or at least the raucousness, of maybe that is in there. And then, yeah, like, along the way you finetune it because you're thinking, "We need to turn this into a song."
Bruno, I think, is probably one of the greatest hook writers of... certainly anyone I've ever worked with, if not this current generation of pop artists. Also, when you're doing something that doesn't sound like anything else on the radio at the time, you almost need to like, iron-clad it, to make sure it gets through.
You have to put these hooks in it. You've got to make sure you've got all that ear candy in it to get it through the gate.
On how stressful it was to come up with his guitar part for the song
One of the last things to happen was to get my guitar part, and I guess just the pressure of knowing that I still had to come up with something, to basically [do] my end of the deal. ... Bruno had done this great vocal, Jeff had all these great synth parts. And while we were doing the guitars, I had done 50, 60 takes of it, and I couldn't get a part that I liked.
And we went out for lunch, and I sort of — I guess the pressure of this song and the guitar part — I fainted in the restaurant. And let's just say I redecorated the walls in the bathroom of this nice restaurant and had to be carried out. ... And, luckily, I went to Toronto two days later, because that's where Bruno happened to be on tour ... and I got it there. It just became easy. Maybe it was just psychological, getting out of home, whatever it was.
On meeting Amy Winehouse
Her first record had come out, and I just remember really liking this one song off it called "In My Bed" and being a little bit enamored. [She's] this young Jewish girl from North London — and I'm the same thing, from a Jewish family in North London. [She has] this incredible voice, so I said, "Yeah, I'll meet her."
To be honest, it wasn't like I was some big shot. At that point, I was meeting with anybody who might want to work on music, because you never know where chemistry is going to come, or your break, or whatever it is.
On getting the retro-soul band The Dap-Kings to play on Winehouse's album
I had started to use Dave Guy, the trumpet player, an incredible musician. I had started to work with him a little bit because I was making these demos of cover versions I did for my second album, Version. But I was doing all the tracks, and then we'd work out the horn arrangements together. So he came into the studio one day, and they had just cut a cover of "Signed, Sealed, Delivered" for something with Sharon Jones, and I just was blown away by how they got that [sound]. I mean, it was just so much the real deal.
And at the time, Amy and I were working on demos for Back To Black, and I was probably using whatever computer trick I could. They have plug-ins for your computer that make things sound old or whatever it is, and I played Amy this recording of Sharon Jones. And I said, "How good is this? We should get these guys to play these demos." And she's like, "Yeah, yeah." She would say, "It's the nuts" if she thought something was really good — it was "the nuts." So she said it was "the nuts" and we got the whole band, not just the horn section.
On writing 'Rehab' with Winehouse
She wrote "Back To Black" and "Rehab" while we were there in the studio, in like kind of a matter of hours. So when she was telling me this story about rehab — we were actually walking down the street and she was saying, "There was this time a couple of years ago, and I was in this dark place, and my family came over and some friends, and they tried to make me go to rehab, and I was like, 'No, no, no.'" And she put up her hand, and I just thought, "That's such a catchy turn of phrase, and should we go back — and do you want to try to write a song with that?" Because it just instantly sounded like a hook to me. I remember it so well. She was telling me this really deep story, and I'm kind of like, "Is it gross?" — all I can hear is a big pop hook in there.
On starting his career in music by DJing at clubs in New York
I started off DJing when I was 16. And I had two turntables and a handful of records, maybe 10 records, and I'd buy two copies of the same record, so I could practice scratching them and bringing the breaks back by emulating my favorite DJs on the radio, which were Stretch Armstrong and Funkmaster Flex, Red Alert. I would listen to their routines and try and copy in my best way what they were doing, because I didn't really know anyone else who was a DJ, who could teach me or show me the stuff. And like anything in the beginning, you just play wherever you can. Someone's doing a gig, they've got 20 bucks, you're there with your whole speaker system and turntables. ... You love this stuff so much, you just can't wait to get out and do it, and you're just like, "Any way that I can get discovered." And then after a couple years of playing in clubs in downtown New York, people like Puffy and Guru and Premiere from Gang Starr and Biggie and Jay-Z and all these heroes of mine suddenly [started] coming into these places where I'm DJing, and it was a thrill. And if you do a good job, there's the chance they might remember who you are, and that happened with Puffy. And he started to book me for other gigs and later with Jay-Z, as well, so that's how I started to make my name. Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPf0YbXqDm0 https://www.wnyc.org/story/get-look/ 2015-04-17T21:45:12-04:56 never 0.5 https://media.wnyc.org/i/365/365/c/80/photologue/photos/greatgatsby-movie-image-carey-mulligan-leonardo-dicaprio-600x400.jpg https://www.wnyc.org/story/in-record-drought-calif-course-ethically-keeps-greens-green/ 2017-12-09T23:29:37-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/will-desalination-plants-cure-calif-drought-issues-or-enable-more-growth/ 2017-12-06T23:48:09-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/critics-oppose-attempts-tomake-bible-tennessees-state-book/ 2017-12-10T23:07:18-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/south-koreans-mark-ferry-disaster-anniversary/ 2017-12-09T06:26:42-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/an-american-journalist-explains-why-he-had-to-flee-iraq/ 2017-12-08T23:43:42-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/bombing-survivors-face-a-world-that-stillfeels-out-of-control/ 2017-12-10T19:44:21-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/bostonians-mark-2nd-anniversary-of-marathon-bombing/ 2017-12-08T23:43:27-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/former-nfl-player-aaron-hernandez-sentenced-to-life-in-prison/ 2017-12-10T16:27:08-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/rambo-the-octopus-shoots-photos-oftourists-at-new-zealand-aquarium/ 2017-12-08T17:03:51-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/real-world-math-a-bit-of-trig-and-hay-for-the-horses/ 2017-12-10T13:02:58-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/chicago-area-dog-flu-outbreak-rises-to-over-1000-cases/ 2017-12-10T16:27:05-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/hundreds-of-african-migrants-feared-deadafter-boat-capsizes-in-mediterranean/ 2017-12-07T17:10:57-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/washington-supreme-court-to-review-changes-to-farm-worker-rest-breaks/ 2017-1206T13:40:03-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/president-obama-to-remove-cuba-from-state-sponsored-terrorism-list/ 2017-12-08T10:22:04-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/chess-grandmaster-caught-in-high-tech-cheating-scheme/ 2017-12-09T23:29:30-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/online-crafts-marketplace-etsy-prepares-forpublic-offering/ 2017-12-08T06:46:43-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/review-razia-akory/ 2017-12-08T17:03:54-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/even-after-a-century-thearmenian-genocide-is-a-cornerstone-of-armenian-identity/ 2015-04-20T18:41:52-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/a-recently-completed-bergenbelsen-documentary-shows-the-nazispaths-to-persecution/ 2015-04-21T10:51:37-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/some-of-pearl-harbors-unknown-victims-will-get-a-second-chance-at-identification/ 2015-04-21T16:49:5304:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/in-finlands-open-prisons-inmates-have-the-keys/ 2015-04-21T16:49:53-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/voices-on-opt-out-loud-strong/ 2015-04-16T08:04:44-04:56 never 0.5 https://media.wnyc.org/i/1860/1240/l/80/1/testing_1.jpg https://www.wnyc.org/story/obama-iranian-backed-fighters-must-respect-iraqs-sovereignty/ 2017-1206T20:28:57-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/obama-senate-compromise-gives-congress-a-say-on-iran-nuclear-deal/ 2017-12-09T13:03:14-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/latest-protests-keep-attention-on-police-killings-of-unarmed-minorities/ 2017-12-08T06:46:53-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/clinton-tours-iowa-beginsoutlining-4-pillars-of-her-campaign/ 2017-12-10T16:27:18-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/historian-john-wilkes-booth-not-a-deranged-lone-madman/ 2017-12-09T06:26:45-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/fun-with-physics-finding-the-speed-of-light-with-peeps/ 2017-12-06T23:48:15-04:56 never 0.5 Fun With Physics: Finding The Speed Of Light With PeepsCopyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwREvdUWSKE https://www.wnyc.org/story/from-horses-to-high-rises-an-insider-unmasks-chinas-economic-rise/ 2017-12-08T20:25:36-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/as-american-sports-skew-more-armcentric-throwing-injuries-rise/ 2017-12-07T20:42:34-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/sc-teens-promprosal-required-anairplane/ 2017-12-09T09:43:57-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.acast.com/internetexplorer/messing-with-brands-and-peeing-in-strangers-homes 2017-11-27T11:44:16-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/emperors-new-onesie/ 2015-04-14T16:02:04-04:56 never 0.5 https://media.wnyc.org/i/720/430/h/80/1/emperor-screenshot-hero_1.jpg http://feeds.99percentinvisible.org/~r/99percentinvisible/~3/Viz4DPkD7pk/ 2017-11-27T11:43:56-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/presidential-candidates-move-away-from-publicfinancing/ 2017-12-09T23:29:05-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/letters-russian-memes-abraham-lincoln-assassination-anniversary/ 2017-12-08T03:21:11-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/chicago-offers-reparations-package-to-police-torture-victims/ 2017-12-07T23:58:55-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/aid-workers-face-challenges-in-yemenas-humanitarian-crisis-continues/ 2017-12-06T23:47:37-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/presidential-campaign-logos-reach-new-level-of-sophistication/ 2017-12-08T06:46:02-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/tulsa-reserve-cop-turns-himself-in-after-accidentally-killing-unarmed-suspect/ 2017-12-09T09:43:10-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/game-ofthrones-fans-develop-formula-to-determine-who-might-survive-series/ 2017-12-08T17:02:42-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/nigerians-voted-for-change-but-that-doesnt-mean-theirnew-leader-will-bring-back-their-girls/ 2015-04-20T14:48:17-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/this-map-shows-the-locations-where-bombs-fell-on-london-during-world-war-ii/ 2015-0420T16:42:42-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/a-marine-pilot-breaks-the-gender-barrier-in-one-of-the-worlds-most-elite-squadrons/ 2015-04-20T15:52:44-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/offer-letters-kindergarten-go-out/ 2015-04-14T21:50:31-04:56 never 0.5 https://media.wnyc.org/i/1024/683/l/80/1/kinder.jpg https://www.wnyc.org/story/campaignersrefuse-to-let-kidnapped-nigerian-girls-be-forgotten/ 2017-12-10T16:26:34-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/the-mountain-goats-john-darnielle-finds-refuge-in-the-ring/ 2017-1206T20:28:20-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/republicans-are-making-foreign-policy-the-obamacare-of-the-2016-election/ 2017-12-10T13:02:28-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/why-some-doctors-are-hesitant-to-screen-smokers-for-lung-cancer/ 2017-12-08T10:21:15-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/take-it-from-david-brooks-careersuccess-doesnt-make-you-happy/ 2017-12-06T23:47:00-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.acast.com/ft-lucy-kellaway/companies-have-their-recruitment-process-upside-down 2017-11-27T11:46:4804:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/ijeoma-oluo--april-salazar-storyslam-favorites/ 2015-05-07T15:41:43-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/prosecutors-patz-case-prepare-deliverclosing-argument/ 2015-04-14T12:15:04-04:56 never 0.5 https://media.wnyc.org/i/1000/667/c/80/1/Etan_flyer.jpg https://www.wnyc.org/story/revisiting-the-night-abraham-lincoln-was-shot-150years-ago/ 2017-12-08T03:21:21-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/shepard-fairey-street-art-takes-center-stage-miami-ballet/ 2015-04-14T07:56:28-04:56 never 0.5 https://media.wnyc.org/i/620/372/c/80/1/FaireyMiami_620.jpg https://www.wnyc.org/story/discovery-gives-new-ending-to-a-death-at-the-civil-wars-close/ 2017-12-07T10:06:28-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/at-800-and-aging-well-the-magna-carta-is-still-a-big-draw/ 2017-12-07T10:06:51-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/jordan-spieths-masters-win-signifiesbright-future-for-american-golf/ 2017-12-09T09:42:49-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/after-years-of-gop-support-cuban-americans-become-more-democratic/ 2017-12-08T13:42:4104:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/after-low-key-announcement-hillary-clinton-heads-to-iowa/ 2017-12-09T09:42:52-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/senators-try-to-reviseno-child-left-behind-a-few-years-behind/ 2017-12-10T02:51:50-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/clinton-announcement-video-alludes-to-unfairness-of-american-life/ 2017-1207T10:06:57-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/gunter-grass-who-confronted-germanys-past-as-well-as-his-own-dies-at-87/ 2017-12-10T16:26:16-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/curtain-call/ 2015-04-15T10:56:15-04:56 never 0.5 https://media.wnyc.org/i/1860/1729/c/80/1/Billie_Final.png https://www.wnyc.org/story/dont-call-it-comeback/ 201504-14T17:31:45-04:56 never 0.5 https://media.wnyc.org/i/1628/1860/l/80/1/91139868_1.jpg https://www.wnyc.org/story/facing-international-condemnation-china-releases-five-detained-femaleactivists/ 2015-04-17T17:48:13-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/this-seattle-boy-was-just-six-when-he-was-asked-to-protect-an-undocumented-family/ 2015-04-17T16:49:30-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/hillary-clinton-polarizing-or-misunderstood-jumps-into-race-for-president/ 2017-12-06T17:07:18-04:56 never 0.5 Hillary Clinton, Polarizing Or Misunderstood, Jumps Into Race For PresidentHillary Clinton officially launched the campaign everyone has been expecting for months — years, really. She's running for president and to finally break open that glass ceiling she famously said her last campaign put "18 million cracks" in.
Clinton kicked off the announcement on Twitter and in an email to supporters, shortly before releasing a video on YouTube and Facebook as well as a revamped HillaryClinton.com website.
This will be Clinton's second run at the White House, though this time she enters the Democratic primary with an even clearer path than when she was the favorite in 2007. She's also the biggest target.
Clinton, 67, has described herself as the "most famous person you don't really know." And as she launches into her second presidential campaign, she'll be reintroducing herself to voters who largely think they have her figured out.
Almost since the moment Clinton burst on the national scene in 1992, she has been polarizing, and, she would argue, misunderstood. Take the offhand comment she made while campaigning for her husband that set off a firestorm. back then.
"You know, I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession, which I was in before my husband was in public life," she said, initially not realizing what a storm it would soon create.
When Hillary Rodham married Bill Clinton, she was arguably the more accomplished of the pair. She graduated at the top of her class at Yale Law, ahead of Bill. And the whole time he was governor of Arkansas, she made more money than he did as the first female partner at the leading law firm in Arkansas. And so, Hillary Clinton often struggled with the expectations of a first lady.
"I'm trying to find my way through it and trying to figure out how best to be true to myself and how to fulfill my responsibilities to my husband and my daughter and the country," she said in a 1994 press conference.
After the health care reform effort she headed up failed, Clinton receded into a less public role. She also spent much of her husband's presidency battling scandals, from Whitewater to "travelgate" and eventually the Monica Lewinsky affair.
Hillary Clinton chalked it all up to "the vast right-wing conspiracy."
Emerging As Her Own Woman
Of course, it's well-known now that President Bill Clinton did have sexual relations with that woman. But Hillary Clinton's marriage and career didn't end there.
In some ways, that's where her time began.
Just as the Senate was acquitting her husband of impeachment charges, Clinton was making the first moves to run for a seat in that very chamber. There was a vacancy in New York.
It was considered completely audacious. No American first lady had ever run for national office before. And Clinton had never lived in New York.
"I'm going to be listening very hard, and I'm going to be learning a lot," she said at the start of a New York listening tour in 1999. "I'm going to be looking for ways to work together with people to help figure out how to meet those challenges."
She visited small towns, sat down with people, answered a lot of questions and, in the process, won New Yorkers over. It's a model not lost on her campaign team today.
Once in the Senate, Clinton was known as a workhorse, rather than a show horse. She proved skilled at working across party lines to get things done.
When she ran for president the first time, Clinton entered the Democratic primary as the front-runner. But the insurgent candidacy of Barack Obama became a tidal wave. He ran on change. Clinton and her vote in favor of the Iraq War suddenly seemed like more of the past.
When all was said and done, rather than return to the Senate, Clinton became President Obama's secretary of state, surprising some after their bitter and contentious battle for the nomination.
But the move helped mend fences with Obama's base and burnish her foreign-policy credentials. She traveled hundreds of thousands of miles, more than any other American secretary of state in history. She visited 112 countries and saw her approval ratings skyrocket. But Clinton's legacy at the State Department is less well defined, leaving after four years with a well of goodwill but no major diplomatic breakthroughs.
"I think we have set the table for a lot of the difficult issues to be dealt with," she said in a 2013 interview with NPR. "There's nothing fast or easy about diplomacy."
As she begins this run for president, Clinton's poll numbers have come down, and she remains dogged by two scandals from her time as secretary of state — the terrorist attack on the diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya, and her use of a private email account for official business.
Clinton is as close as a candidate can come to being an incumbent, without actually being one. But she doesn't intend to act that way, taking nothing for granted with an early campaign strategy that will be short on soaring speeches and long on living rooms.
In this latest incarnation, Clinton is a grandmother. And despite an early campaign intent on taking it slow, Clinton wrote in the newly revised epilogue of her memoir that being a grandmother "has spurred me to speed up."
How she handles it all — and how she's perceived in the process — will prove whether she can punch her way through that ceiling and into the White House. Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uY7gLZDmn4 https://fugitivewaves.prx.org/19-america-eats-a-hidden-archive/ 2017-11-27T11:44:33-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/freshair-remembers-historian-stanley-kutler/ 2017-12-07T06:30:58-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/how-young-people-went-underground-during-the-70s-days-of-rage/ 2017-1209T06:25:42-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/21-year-old-jordan-spieth-wins-masters-golf-tournament/ 2017-12-09T13:02:13-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/before-thensa-the-dea-used-phone-records-to-track-drug-cartels/ 2017-12-06T13:38:24-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/armenian-genocide-remarks-by-pope-francis-spark-row-with-turkey/ 201712-08T03:20:53-04:56 never 0.5 http://www.npr.org/rss/82b0107c-6443-4469-89d0-92b54f59a4a7 2016-09-28T14:45:34-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/indicator-tree-helps-parkservice-determine-cherry-blossoms-peak-bloom/ 2017-12-10T02:52:00-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/police-in-rural-washington-state-find-stolen-cabin/ 2017-12-08T17:02:45-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/nhl-aims-to-include-more-minority-players-to-expand-fan-base/ 2017-12-09T23:28:43-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/the-hidden-cost-ofmammograms-more-testing-and-overtreatment/ 2017-12-07T06:31:24-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/council-renews-call-1000-more-nypd/ 2015-04-13T07:55:41-04:56 never 0.5 https://media.wnyc.org/i/1444/964/l/80/1/IMG_0178.JPG https://www.wnyc.org/story/karen-haglof-no-wave-guitarist-turned-doctor-relaunches-music-career/ 2017-12-10T09:32:12-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/a-dark-funny-and-vietnamese-look-at-the-vietnam-war/ 2017-12-10T13:00:49-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/in-snowy-egret-a-fierce-new-band-takesflight/ 2017-12-09T13:01:05-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/as-scott-family-reels-from-police-shooting-hundreds-turn-out-for-funeral/ 2017-12-08T13:41:51-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/new-start-nuke-deal-with-russia-may-be-aging-but-its-not-over/ 2017-12-10T16:25:07-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/know-that-thx-sound-before-moviesthats-actually-20000-lines-of-code/ 2017-12-10T16:25:04-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/we-quiz-novelist-amy-tan-on-tanning-techniques_1/ 2017-12-07T03:10:58-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/skier-mikaela-shiffrin-gets-quizzed-on-downhill-cheese-races_1/ 2017-12-07T03:10:55-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/just-how-heavy-was-that-armor/ 2015-04-23T12:46:35-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/george-r-r-martin-tells-us-why-were-addicted-to-historical-fantasy/ 2015-04-23T12:46:34-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/was-abe-lincoln-racist/ 2015-04-24T13:41:56-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/geoffrey-chaucer-detective/ 2015-04-22T11:48:20-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/a-political-science-professor-explains-the-danger-of-confusing-acceptance-with-equality/ 2015-04-22T11:48:21-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/get-yourmedieval-on/ 2015-04-22T11:48:20-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/334r-an-insiders-tour-of-julia-childs-kitchen/ 2017-11-27T11:42:17-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/week-in-politics-hillary-clintons-upcoming-announcement-rand-pauls-remarks/ 2017-12-06T13:37:16-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/book-review-williamshakespeares-the-phantom-of-menace/ 2017-12-09T13:00:36-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/magic-mirror-at-the-store-should-this-top-go-in-my-drawer/ 2017-12-09T16:28:57-04:56 never 0.5 Magic Mirror, At The Store, Should This Top Go In My Drawer?Spring: the time of year many people find themselves twirling in front of mirrors, trying on prom dresses, tuxedos or wedding gowns. Wouldn't it be nice to know how an outfit really looks from the back, instead of craning your neck, hoping to see what others see?
A new innovation from Silicon Valley company Memomi might make that easier. Memomi is trying to reinvent the standard mirror by turning it into a screen with a camera on top.
The Memory Mirror is sort of like a full-size mirror, but instead of glass, there's a brushed, stainless steel frame. Memomi has partnered with high-end retailer Neiman Marcus to test the digital mirror in stores.
"If you put the camera on top of a screen, you will look totally distorted," says Memomi's CEO, Salvador Vilcovsky. "But what we are doing, we are correcting the perspective in real time. And it looks like actually the camera is behind the screen."
This setup, and a built-in recorder, solves problems retailers have struggled with forever, as Scott Emmons, who runs the Neiman Marcus Innovation Lab, explains.
"If I want to see what I look like from the back, I have to turn my head and see if I can twist my neck around enough to see what I'm looking at."
He says the mirror solves that problem by recording an eight-second video.
"The idea is, you would do a twirl," Emmons says. "Then you can play that video back as many times as you'd like and really see how the outfit looks on you,"
So far, the Dallas-based retailer has three digital mirrors in use in its women's departments.
At the store in Willow Bend, Texas, Laurie Schneider is taking a turn in front of the Memory Mirror. Earlier, she registered on the store's iPad, added her personal ID, and now she is checking out her video, of a dress she's tried on for her son's wedding.
"I like seeing the pictures because I like the visual. I like that a lot," she says. "And I do think that me being able to see the back, rather than from the crick of my neck — it shows all the way around."
And there's another thing that 360 view tells her, she says. "Told me that I have some back fat," she says and laughs. "So to me, this is awesome."
Neiman's Emmons says if Schneider wanted to, she could have tried on several outfits and recorded them all.
"It also allows you to do a split screen," he says. "You can look at your live image on one side, and you can look at one of the prerecorded videos on the other side, and compare them."
Neither Neiman Marcus nor Memomi's Vilcovsky would say how much the mirrors cost. Emmons says the innovation has been big so far and that he expects other retailers to latch on to the technology. Copyright 2015 KERA Unlimited. To see more, visit http://www.kera.org/.
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0.5 https://www.acast.com/ft-world-weekly/iran-and-saudi-arabia-wage-proxy-war-in-yemen 2017-12-18T13:48:19-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/wayfair-ceo-its-annoying-that-investors-short-our-stock/ 2017-12-07T20:39:43-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.acast.com/ft-big-read/art-market-laid-bare 2017-0416T22:20:41-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/grandparent-movie->a framework deal struck by Iran and world powers that would curb parts of Iran's nuclear program in exchange for the loosening of some international sanctions.Israel has vehemently opposed such a deal and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been publicly critical of the parameters set by the agreement, saying they would "threaten the survival of Israel."
On Friday, Netanyahu insisted that any final agreement with Iran had to include "clear and unambiguous Iranian commitment of Israel's right to exist."
In his interview with Steve, Obama dismissed Netanyahu's demand.
"The notion that we would condition Iran not getting nuclear weapons in a verifiable deal on Iran recognizing Israel is really akin to saying that we won't sign a deal unless the nature of the Iranian regime completely transforms," Obama said. "And that is, I think, a fundamental misjudgment. I want to return to this point: We want Iran not to have nuclear weapons precisely because we can't bank on the nature of the regime changing. That's exactly why we don't want to have nuclear weapons. If suddenly Iran transformed itself to Germany or Sweden or France then there would be a different set of conversations about their nuclear infrastructure."
More of Steve's interview with President Obama will air Tuesday on Morning Edition. Click here to find your local NPR member station. Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.
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The series' stunts have gotten progressively more spectacular — from fairly straightforward street racing to cars dragging a bank vault through the streets, then a tank bulldozing through a freeway full of vehicles, and now — in Furious 7 — cars dropping from a plane 10,000 feet in the air.
The films avoid using CGI for the bulk of such scenes — which means someone has to figure out the actual logistics behind tossing cars out of a flying airplane.
Meet Jack Gill. He's been a stunt driver on Dukes of Hazzard, Knight Rider and many other iconic action films. For Furious 7, he was a stunt coordinator and second unit director.
When NPR's Arun Rath was talking to Gill about how these scenes are set up, Rath had to ask: "When you're going to work and your job that day is you're going to be dropping a bunch of cars out of a C-130, do you stop to think, 'Man, my life is awesome'?"
"When you're first putting it together, you're thinking of all the things that can go wrong," Gill said. "That's the issue you're always dealing with.
"When it's over, yeah, it's a great feeling."
He told Rath about the anxiety behind the adrenaline.
Interview Highlights
On deciding to actually drop cars out of a C-130 transport plane
We talked about it for a long time before we actually went out there and decided to pull the trigger, because trying to get this many cars out of the plane together — and they all had to fall in succession right one right after another — if one falls a little faster than the other, you've got problems. So, you know, there was a rehearsal period of about two weeks where all we did was just drop cars about of C-130s with parachutes so we could figure out how we're going to do this.
On the anxiety and pressure of planning these stunts
One of the things that happened on one of the C-130 drops was we had a fuel leak in the right wing, and all of a sudden we hear from the pilot, saying, "Hey, I'm showing fuel dropping out of this thing. Do you guys see anything?"
And we looked over and it was running down the side of the aircraft, and — "Launch the cars. Launch the cars. Launch the cars. Get them all out. Get all the [camera] operators out." It was kinda scary there for a while. And we landed and we fixed the fuel problem, but things like that can go wrong. You just got to know what to do.
On whether he's ever refused to film a stunt because it's too dangerous
Sure, that happens, but usually in the same vein, after you've said that, you'll say, "Move the camera over 20 feet and I can get you the same angle that you'd like but without really hitting this guy."
But you never do come up and say, "No, we can't do it, and that's just the end of it," because that's just not the way the Fast and Furious franchise works.
On the injuries he sustained as a stunt car driver
I've broken my back twice. My neck once. I've got a 6-inch titanium plate in my neck with six screws on it, and I've broke 23 bones. Punctured my lungs. Broken my shoulders. Cut a finger off — had to have it sewn back on.
But I've got to say: I feel fine. I don't walk funny. I mean, when it rains, yeah, I hurt a little bit more than most people. But if you talk to a stunt person who says they've never been injured, then they're not really a stunt person, because you are putting your life on the line on a lot of situations. And some of them, the ones that usually bite you are the ones that you don't think are dangerous, because you think, "I've done this a thousand times." And treated it as if it's a nothing thing.
On what big stunts are next for the Fast and Furious franchise
I don't think we'll ever run out of ideas, 'cause we've got some pretty wild ones. But I'm not really gonna tell the audience what we have until they see it on screen. Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.
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Their iconic orange roofs were fixtures of the American highway, beckoning hungry motorists to come and dine at HoJo's, as they were affectionately called. The ultra-dapper Don Draper dines at one location in an episode of Mad Men. At one point, the chain even sold a line of frozen foods.
Now, almost all of the restaurants are gone. One of the three last surviving Howard Johnson's eateries closed its doors yesterday in Lake Placid, N.Y.
The restaurant was going nuts Tuesday as locals crowded in to get a last taste of fried clams or the "wonderful world of 28 flavors" of ice cream that HoJo's ads once boasted.
The Lake Placid HoJo's had been running since April 1956. It stayed strong even as the national brand faltered in the 1980s, falling behind as competition grew, and as other chains introduced fresher, more appealing menus.
The current owner, Ron Butler, worked here for more than a half-century. He had been keeping the Lake Placid HoJo's alive with long hours and help from his sons, Mike and Patrick. "We were here every day, and we took care of business and this was our life," Butler says. "We didn't have another life, right?"
"No," Mike replies with a laugh.
Mike Butler started working in the kitchen when he was 5 years old. "I'd stand on the milk crates and butter the roll pans and get a quarter or something," he recalls.
Long after the national brand faded, Lake Placid's Howard Johnson's was a place you could bring a hockey team or a big family on a budget. On this last day, two gray-haired businessmen, Robi Politi and Wayne Feinberg, sit at the lunch counter eating clams. They say they came here as boys, then brought their own kids.
"It's a landmark — everyone has good memories," Politi says.
Feinberg adds, "I remember coming to the Friday night fish fry with my parents many, many times when I was little."
The Butlers say they loved being part of the brand and part of this chapter of American life. But after 58 years, they're ready to step away from the restaurant business. It's a tough industry, with long hours and few vacations.
With the closure of this Howard Johnson's restaurant, there are just two of the eateries left in the whole country — one in Lake George, N.Y., and another in Bangor, Maine.
A version of this story first ran on North Country Public Radio. Copyright 2015 North Country Public Radio. To see more, visit http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/.
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When he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005, Sledge told the audience about having been born in tiny Leighton, Ala., in 1940, and about growing up working in the cotton fields.
"[I was] 10 years old, singing my songs in the fields, picking and chopping cotton. And my boss man tells me one day, he said, 'Perce?' He said, 'That voice that you use comin' out of your throat, the whole world is gonna hear one day.' "
Later, as a hospital orderly, Sledge continued singing for his patients, who made the same prediction. On weekends, he sang with a group called the Esquires Combo. One night in 1966, he was performing at an Elks Club, where DJ and record producer Quinn Ivy happened to be in the audience. Sledge told NPR in 2004 that he hummed a melody for Ivy, who told him to go home and turn it into a song.
"So I went home and stayed home for two or three weeks," Sledge said, "and came back and he asked me, he said, 'Percy, have you come up with any lyrics on "Why'd You Leave Me Baby"?'
"I said, 'No, Quinn, you know how it is, when a man loves a woman, he can't think anyway.'
"So he said, 'That's it. If you could write lyrics around that title, I think you'd have a smash.' And that's how it began."
Sledge recorded his song in 1966 at the Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, giving songwriting credit to his organist and bassist. The song shot to the top of the pop and R&B charts and, over the years, became an iconic soul anthem. "When A Man Loves A Woman" has been used in countless film soundtracks and commercials, inspired a film by the same name and earned Michael Bolton a Grammy for his cover years later. It was Sledge's most well-known song. But he did have others, like 1968's "Take Time To Know Her," which put him in the Top 20 again.
Sledge's ballads had a lot of country music in them. It was the kind of music he'd heard growing up, and he mixed it with blues and soul.
"Guys like me and Ray Charles, when we was coming up through our days, country music and soul music was just a very thin line between the two," he said.
Sledge continued to make albums, and was performing until just a few years ago — always including his signature song. Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYb84BDMbi0 https://www.wnyc.org/story/system-of-a-down-armenias-favorite-sons-on-facing-history/ 2017-12-10T09:35:41-04:56 never 0.5 System Of A Down, Armenia's Favorite Sons, On Facing HistoryHere's a quotation about prison overcrowding: "All research and successful drug policies show that treatment should be increased and law enforcement decreased, while abolishing mandatory minimum sentences." That's not from some stodgy think tank. That's metal.
Those lyrics from "Prison Song" foreshadow a politically active future for System of a Down, the progressive metal band that broke out big with its 2001 sophomore album, Toxicity. The four Armenian-Americans from Los Angeles established a massive presence in modern rock over the first half of the 2000s. This year, they've embarked on a special tour called "Wake Up The Souls," which will end Thursday with their firstever performance together in Armenia — part of a global effort to draw attention to the Armenian genocide, which reaches its centennial anniversary this month. (Turkey denies that the mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks were a genocide).
Serj Tankian, the group's lead singer and songwriter, grew up intimately aware of the genocide: All four of his grandparents were survivors, and he heard their firsthand stories while they were alive. Tankian joined NPR's Arun Rath to talk about how that century-old event has rippled into his own life and music, if not quite into common knowledge and conversation. Hear the radio version at the audio link, and read more of the interview below.
Arun Rath: Tell us about your family history in Armenia — when your family left, and your connection with the history that we're talking about, the genocide of 100 years ago.
Serj Tankian: My grandfather on my mom's side survived through orphanages. He lost the majority of his family in the pogroms, and so he ended up in an American orphanage in Greece, and then in Lebanon. My grandmother on my mom's side, and her grandmother, were saved by a Turkish mayor, who put his life on the line — because at the time, it was taboo to try to save the Christian population being massacred, and people would actually go to jail or worse. My other grandparents were saved because there was this railway being built by a German railway company between Turkey and Baghdad, which was also part of the Ottoman Empire at the time. And so they worked on the railway, and that's how they were able to survive.
So, these incredible, colorful, but tragic stories that we've kind of grown up with — this is very important to us. Some people call it political; sure, there's many political aspects to it. But because all four members of the band are Armenian-American, it's personal.
We had Armenian-American pianist Tigran Hamasyan on the show not too long ago for his new album, and he was talking about one of the effects of the diaspora: After the genocide, you had survivors from all over the country leaving it and settling in these very small areas. Musical cultures from all across the country could be sort of compressed into one space.
True, and because of the dispersion of the Armenian race, we have all these different flavors from around the world. Tigran's a great friend of mine, actually — we did this record Jazz-Iz-Christ together that we put out in 2012. He's a phenomenal, phenomenal jazz pianist and artist.
You've played in Armenia on your own, but this will be System of Down's first time. Do you know how the music is received there?
People are really, really excited. System of a Down is probably the biggest band that can play in Armenia, because not only are there musical fans there, but a lot of people have been fans of the kind of political work the band has done, or work having to do with awareness of the genocide. So we have a huge following there.
Have you always worn your politics on your sleeve as a band, or is this just one issue where you have to?
System's music's been very diverse thematically — I mean we have songs about stream-of-consciousness, funky funny stuff, love and all sorts of different things — but politics has always been a part of what we do. Sometimes we deliver it in a kind of nonchalant and easy-to-digest, palatable way, especially at shows, but there are times where we are very direct. A song like "Prison Song," that's very direct: I mean, you look at the lyrics, it's basically writing a piece, a small mini-haiku article, if you will. And that's cool — being able to fit information like that, that you really want to get out, into song format and having people remember it and recite it back to you. It's very interesting, because people rarely recite articles back to you.
I hope this isn't a silly question, but you've played all across Europe, and I know that they like rock 'n' roll in Turkey. Have you or the band ever played in Turkey?
We have not. We actually tried to set up a show for this tour in Turkey through a promoter that our agent worked with, and we were told that because we're System of a Down, we're going to need special permission from the prime minister's office. We should have just said we were Metallica. We waited for at least a month or two, if I'm remembering correctly, and we never heard back anything.
It doesn't seem like the government of Turkey has come close to acknowledging the genocide. I don't think the current government is much different. Do you think that's ever going to happen?
I think it will eventually happen, yes. But you're right, the current Erdoğan government has not come close to recognizing the genocide — not just not come close, but spends millions of dollars a year with K Street lobbying firms in the U.S. and many different parliaments around the world to try to spread its disinformation and say it was wartime and things happen, everyone died, that kind of stuff.
When you talk about a genocide, when you talk about a holocaust, using a world war as a pretext is offensive above everything else. So they've been doing that, setting up university chairs in different universities, encouraging scholars to write disinformation, working with think tanks in Washington, D.C. to try to not just have great relations between the U.S. and Turkey, but also dissuade the U.S. Congress from passing a U.S. Armenian genocide resolution, et cetera. We'd be happy if they stopped with the disinformation before accepting it, even one step at a time.
But it is going to happen. There actually is a resolution in the Turkish Parliament brought up by a minor Kurdish party that tries to have Parliament recognize all past crimes, including the Armenian genocide specifically, and asks the president of Turkey within a year's time to come to Parliament and apologize for those crimes. Now, that's probably not going to pass, given the fact that Erdoğan's government's in pretty full control of Parliament, but those are hopeful signs. And there is a strong civil society developing in Turkey that are recognizing the genocide, that are pushing the envelope, that are putting themselves in the way of harm and prison. You can go to jail for using the word "genocide" in Turkey.
And the word itself was coined in reference to the Armenian genocide.
Absolutely. Raphael Lemkin, a Polish-Jewish lawyer, coined the term "genocide" in the 1930s, looking back at what happened to the Armenians during World War I and seeing what Hitler was about to do in Europe during World War II.
So yeah, it's quite interesting seeing that movement. There is a movement of not just recognition of the genocide, but of democratizing Turkey — real democratization, not on paper. Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.
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never 0.5 http://www.npr.org/rss/fbc7bce4-6fb2-4cc2-a23b-059ca0e55f1f 2016-12-07T12:50:12-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/city-races-fill-potholes/ 2015-04-08T07:45:35-04:56 never 0.5 https://media.wnyc.org/i/1500/1000/l/80/1/FRESHLY-FILLED-POTHOLE-1.jpg https://www.wnyc.org/story/tracing-the-outlines-of-the-iran-deal/ 2015-05-07T15:42:31-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/nyc-families-get-word-eligibility-gifted-classes/ 2015-04-06T17:43:29-04:56 never 0.5 https://media.wnyc.org/i/640/427/h/80/1/school_grade.JPG https://www.wnyc.org/story/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-mad-men/ 2017-04-16T22:22:51-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/coy-presidential-candidate-chris-christie-will-travel-newhampshire/ 2015-04-06T20:41:13-04:56 never 0.5 https://media.wnyc.org/i/1860/1241/l/80/1/456034810.jpg https://www.wnyc.org/story/official-details-released-exxon-settlement-new-jersey/ 201504-07T05:12:34-04:56 never 0.5 https://media.wnyc.org/i/1500/999/l/80/1/BAYWAY-REFINERY-IN-LINDEN-NJ.jpg https://www.wnyc.org/story/snowden-guerrila-artists-sometimesammunition-information/ 2015-04-06T22:56:53-04:56 never 0.5 https://media.wnyc.org/i/1280/800/c/80/1/snowdenbust-apr6-5531.jpg https://media.wnyc.org/i/1280/800/c/80/1/snowdenbust-apr65531.jpg Guerrila Artists: Snowden Was Not the Only HeroSeveral artists have taken responsibility for erecting a bust of Edward Snowden in Brooklyn's Fort Greene Park. The guerilla art has been taken down by the Parks Department and the NYPD is investigating.
The short-lived statue was placed on top of a pillar memorializing the Revolutionary War. One of the artists, who asked to remain anonymous so that he wouldn't be arrested, told WNYC it was worth the risk to pose questions about what it means to be a revolutionary:
"Who tells me who my heroes are? It's one thing to carry a musket or a gun or be behind the cannon to fight for American ideals, but sometimes ammunition is information."
Here's a Q & A with two of the men who say they came up with the idea to install a 100-pound, plaster likeness of Snowden—known for leaking National Security Agency documents that showed the agency was spying on Americans. It took them a year, start-to-finish—six months for the sculpting alone.
How did you get the idea to erect this bust?
Artist #1: "We both had the opinion—hey, here’s a guy who’s been getting short-shrift. We both read Glenn Greewald’s book and both saw "Citizenfour" and felt like there’s a story not getting out to the mass populace here. We would speak to friends and family members who didn’t even know who Edward Snowden was—we thought that was disappointing.
"Once we found the site in Fort Greene Park–it really started to take steam and we felt like, OK, we have to do this. We felt like it added a much more important message…that we were connecting his actions to the actions of people who were fighting for these same, very American ideals for over 200 years."
Artist #2: "By no means did we think that Snowden was the only hero in this endeavor. There are others—some very well known, others not. Anyone who is trying to expose these truths we feel should be lauded as a hero and instead they’ve been painted as anti-heroes in the mass-media for the most part."
How much did it cost?
Artist #1: "It took several thousand on each of our parts; the artist also donated his time. He didn’t really charge. We were mainly paying for materials and other essentials. At one time he had quoted that if we were paying for a commissioned piece like this it would have cost about $30,000."
How important was the guerrilla-art aspect?
Artist #2: "We were cognizant this would be a project that would last much longer on the internet than the statue would and clearly that has come to pass."
Do you think Snowden would be amused?
Artist #2: "This isn’t just really just about Snowden—that’s why the placement is so important. It’s about the tradition of fighting for a certain set of ideals and Snowden is one of the most visible ones. But we hope he would understand that it isn’t lost on us that hero worship is not the goal here…it’s about what he has uncovered."
What did you want people to come away with when they saw the statue?
Artist #2:"It’s so larger-than-life; it makes you kind of smile…some people. We certainly think that lowers people’s defenses so that they can process a point of view they may not be willing to otherwise.
"Through unexpected actions and theatrics you can get people to be open to a message, discussion, or a different way of thinking—other than just giving them a straight news story. We certainly didn’t work with the sculptor to cast a comical image… we also wanted to raise questions we just don’t think are being asked…like who are my heroes?"
Are you worried about getting caught?
Artist #1:"We’d like not to be in trouble…we really saw this from the get-go as a gift to the city and worked very hard and had a lot of discussions so it would be stable and wouldn't potentially hurt somebody, but also not be so impossible to remove and not do any damage to the current monument. So we went to great lengths to make sure that that was the case. We used a water-soluble adhesive."
What’s next, should we expect to see other Snowdens around the city?
Artist #1: "It’s been made pretty clear that the authorities are not thrilled. Our goal is not to upset people; we will not be doing that again— but a mold has been made…and a 3D rendering…maybe there would be a situation where everyone could have a small mold on their desk to remind them about these things and sacrifices people have made for this country."
This interview has been edited and condensed.
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2015-05-01T20:46:53-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/novelist-judith-claire-mitchell-the-100th-anniversary-of-the-armenian-genocide/ 2015-05-01T20:46:53-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/the-upside-ofshame-promoting-positive-change/ 2015-04-30T19:41:38-04:56 never 0.5 https://www.wnyc.org/story/harvey-weinstein-conversation/ 2015-04-20T12:32:38-04:56 never 0.5 https://media.wnyc.org/i/1176/1860/l/80/1/harvey.jpg https://www.wnyc.org/story/stringer-city-shelters-harming-animals/ 2017-08-08T16:43:33-04:56 never 0.5 https://media.wnyc.org/i/1860/1046/l/80/1/scott-stringer-dog.jpg https://www.wnyc.org/story/amy-schumer-not-trainwreck/ 2015-04-20T12:31:59-04:56 never 0.5 https://media.wnyc.org/i/1380/1860/l/80/1/amyschumer_1.jpg https://www.wnyc.org/story/cuomo-is-first-governor-visit-cuba-relations-thaw/ 2015-04-20T07:48:52-04:56 never 0.5 https://media.wnyc.org/i/1500/998/l/80/1/cuomo_smart_schools_getty.jpg 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There's nothing like a good, old-fashioned musical done well. And that's what director Bartlett Sher has given us: a "King and I" that maintains the sweep and romance of the original Rodgers and Hammerstein show while toning down the more problematic parts.
Admittedly, even the original production was more forward-thinking than one might have expected from a musical that premiered on Broadway in 1951. In a time when the East was seen as exotic and women were still considered less than equal to men, Oscar Hammerstein II's book and lyrics presented the court of Siam as a place where people from foreign cultures could meet with open minds and at least one woman — the British schoolteacher Anna (Kelli O'Hara) — was respected for her intelligence.
You likely know the story, which is based on a novelization of a true tale. Anna is hired in 1862 by the King of Siam for his many, many children (and many wives). In so doing, she brings a Western perspective about the role of women and the evils of slavery.
O'Hara, with her soaring, fluid voice, both deepens and strengthens Anna. In her hands, this is a principled woman whose romantic core is tempered by her practicality and "scientific mind." She is never intimidated by the King (Ken Wantanabe). Instead, she stands her ground: she wants a house of her own, she wants to teach the children and she wants to help lovers Tuptim (Ahsley Park) and Lun Tha (Conrad Ricamora) find ways to meet.
Under Sherr's direction, this story is one of two equal cultures meeting, instead of a Western culture instructing a naive Eastern one. Indeed, the Siamese women's sari-like dress seems much more practical and modern to our current eyes than does the gigantic hoop skirt Anna wears.
But more than that, this "King and I" is simply delightful. Wantanabe has big shoes to fill — Yul Brynner owned this part. His words aren't always clear when he sings, but he is a charismatic King, and he and O'Hara have real chemistry.
Anna's really the star of this show. And with O'Hara, a cast of 51, a gaggle of sparkling children and a boat that sails out over the orchestra, this musical makes for (to borrow from another show) an enchanted evening.
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