Season there was strong growth in the service sector However there's also jobs growth in education and health care construction and in leisure and hospitality a steep slide on Wall Street with all the major stock market indices down well over 2 percent after disappointing results from device maker Apple set off a wave of selling the Dow was down $660.00 points today you're listening to n.p.r. . Saudi state media is reporting the suspects in the killing of journalists. 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News this is All Things Considered I'm Mary Louise Kelly And I'm Audie Cornish today on Capitol Hill history was made again the honorable Nancy Pelosi of the state of California having received a majority of the votes cast is duly elected speaker of the House of Representatives was the 1st woman ever elected speaker of the House in 2007 ri took the gavel today and see Pelosi is the 1st speaker since Sam Rayburn in the 1950 s. To get a 2nd chance to rewrite her final chapter in politics n.p.r. Congressional correspondent Susan Davis has this report on what Palosi plans to do with that power it was a familiar scene on the House floor today when Nancy Pelosi invited all the children in the chamber to surround her as she gaveled in the new Democratic majority I now call the house. To order on the have of all of America's children. That. It was exactly the same way Palosi 1st enter the speakership nearly a decade ago a lot has changed in American politics since then but Palosi has remained a constant as is her ability to get the votes she needs to win 15 House Democrats voted against Palosi for speaker but many of her previous detractors like Massachusetts Democratic Congressman Seth Moulton voted for her he now sounds like this but there's a time for Captain and there's a time to play on the same team playing the same team. In her address to the house outlined a legislative agenda that makes clear Republicans are no longer in charge here Democrats will prioritize bills to combat climate change and hence background checks for gun purchases protect rights and create a path to citizenship for people brought to the u.s. Illegally as children are common cause to find and forge a way forward for our country let us stand for the people to promote liberty and justice for all with Republicans still in control of the Senate and President Trump in the White House Divided government is unlikely to see those bills signed into law where Palosi will be a critical player is overseeing dozens of oversight investigations the Democrats have planned into the trumpet ministration as well as how the House will respond to the Eventually conclusion of the special counsel investigation led by Robert Mueller into Russian interference in the 2016 election plus he has been reluctant to engage on questions about possible impeachment proceedings which he has not ruled it out here she is on N.B.C.'s Today Show this morning. In the same interview she became the highest ranking lawmaker today to openly side with legal scholars who have questioned the. Action that a sitting president cannot be indicted. In recent weeks Pelosi has helped question doubts about her political instincts and grip on power sometimes by accident she displayed an unflappable reserve in front of President Trump when he decided to broadcast a White House meeting with her and Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer's you can hear the president please don't characterize this strike that I think it was real as the leader of the House Democrats who just wanted to get a free lunch and it's 78 years old she proves she can still resonate culturally when her rust colored Max Marcos became a fashion moment and a political mean in one accidental stroke polyphony told Elle magazine this week she was just cold and needed a coat Democrats like New York congressman Hakeem Jeffries spoke passionately about polo she's returned to power today Nancy Pelosi is just getting started. Her final chapter also won't last long in order to secure the votes for Speaker Pelosi cut a deal with a group of Democrats who want to impose term limits on party leaders it would give her at most 4 years left to serve as speaker Pelosi says she'll honor the terms even if the caucus ultimately rejects it Susan Davis n.p.r. News the Capitol it's probably fair to say that ending the shutdown now in its 13th day will be priority number one for the new speaker of the House also probably fair to say that the Republican freedom caucus has very different ideas for how to do that than Nancy Pelosi does Florida Congressman Ted Yoho is a member of the Freedom caucus he joins me now from Capitol Hill Congressman welcome. Hey hello Mary Louise are you I am very well thank you and thanks for joining us so Democrats control the House now as you well know so let's start with what they have put on the table a spending bill that would fund most of the government through September a separate measure that would fund the Department of Homeland Security told next month so basically buying a few weeks for you in Congress and the president to keep debating the border wall but meanwhile allowing the government to reopen Why is that not a good idea. You know right now close to 75 percent of the government's already open and funded this is a small portion 24 percent in that is d.h.l. Thousands and thousands of people not getting a paycheck and not doing their jobs. Well. They have over 50000 people but only 6000 I think are 9000 have and they've been deemed non-essential the goal is to get the government open and running but this goes back to the previous discussion that the president had and we had on border security this is something that the American people want is border security you know too much emphasis is being put on the wall versus border security and we need to focus on what we're trying to do is keep this country safe but if I may say it's the president sure that the emphasis on border security and specifically on the wall so why not he wants to talk about that and and let that let everybody go back to work in the meantime. Well you're going to see that happen but there will be an agreement will have to be made on some kind of funding for border security she has dug in and said no money for the wall and I think that's you know you can't go forward if you're going to be that. Adamant and not moving forward you know the American people want border security that when we pull people across the border Republicans and Democrats one of the biggest issue that comes up is security for their families and so this is something we want to make sure we do and this is something that Miss plough seein the Democratic Party is using for a partisan issue we want border security is because it's national security and a wall would be a portion of that but it doesn't have to be all for a wall so they need to come to the table and you know determine what they're going to do you're saying everybody wants a border security I think safe to say nobody wants to see this partial shutdown last forever which means somebody is going to have to give a little here right what are you prepared to give a little and so when Miss Pelosi says that she's not giving any for the you know border right said and I would love to put this question to Nancy Pelosi and she's welcome to I want to go any time but let me ask you from from where you sit what are you prepared to give to move this along. Well I would be willing and we've made this public is you know the president's put out there he wants $5000000000.00 for border security whether it's a wall and he and he has said the wall but he also says whatever you want to call it we need border security and so I think you'll see something between $22.00 and a half to $5000000000.00 for some kind of package that will go to border security and let the people in control at v.h.s. The border security people Customs Border Patrol determine the best way to utilize that money so that this nation is protected how many more times are we going to see a case Steinle ear of the officer that just got shot by the guy that had been coming came into this country illegally twice and was in a sanctuary city as city how many more times are we going to allow that to happen to an American citizen Congressman let me ask you this in the moments that we have left I keep circling back to this point but it's a big one we're talking about real people here with mortgages and car payments and child care expenses and what I don't hear any time we interview a lawmaker is that there's an end in sight are you prepared to tell those people this could go on for weeks. Now because I don't think we'll go on that long I think you'll see something come up here in the next couple days I would be surprised if it went beyond this weekend but again they have to be willing to agree and I think this is something we all agree on right we need border security and if we can agree on that we can move forward Florida congressman and House Freedom Caucus member Ted Yoho thanks so much for your time yes ma'am you have a great day you too. China has landed a spacecraft on the side of the moon that's never seen from Earth and N.P.R.'s Nell Greenfieldboyce reports it's part of a methodical plan that China has laid out for space exploration the moon is a bright familiar face in the sky the moon also has another side but don't call it the dark side of the Pink Floyd thing it has nothing to do with geologic reality David Crane is a lunar geologist with the u.s. Are a Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston he says. The moon's far side is sometimes dark and sometimes lit by the sun just like its near side the only thing that distinguishes the far side of it is the part of the moon that we cannot see on the surface of the earth that's why it was a total mystery into 1959 when a Soviet spacecraft flew by and snapped the 1st fuzzy image flybys have pretty much been it in till now no probe ventured to its surface we have had 27 successful missions to the surface of the moon or your side and 0 to move the 1st 5 so it really represents unexplored territory state owns Chinese television reported that the Chuang if for spacecraft touched down at 10 26 am Beijing time the China global television network broadcast remarks by we are in the chief designer of the lunar exploration project. Council it is of human nature to explore unknown places in the world that's why we chose to go to the far side of the moon among all the choices we have even if it means we will face more challenges being on the other side of the moon is challenging for communications so China had to add a satellite to relay messages back to Earth the lander also has a rover to explore what scientists say is a more primitive ancient surface than the near side because it hasn't been flooded by lava eruptions Joan Johnson Freese is a space policy analyst at the Naval War College she says China is closely following plans that it previously set out for space it's pursuing this robotic moon program as well as a human exploration program that's building a large space station and it's highly probable that we know in the next 3 to 5 years when both of these programs are completed that they will combine the technologies and announced a human program to the moon President Trump has directed NASA to work towards returning astronauts to the moon no one has been there since $1000.00. 72 l. 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Reports from the rising cost of production to the imposition of foreign terrorists and falling prices for commodities like corn wheat and soybeans 2018 held many challenges for Colorado agriculture according to the 200-1000 Colorado business economic outlook for income for local farmers appears to have fallen by 23 percent that's lower than the national average and the lowest income in 16 years the report expect farmer income to strengthen slightly in 200-1000 over the course of 2018 nearly all of Colorado's 64 counties or designated as drought disaster sites by the u.s.d.a. The signing of the $2800.00 farm bill by President Trump is expected to boost the outlook for farmers in the coming year the bill ensures funding for crucial safety net programs like crop insurance for High Plains Public Radio I mean he hastily. 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News this is All Things Considered I'm Mary Louise Kelly And I'm Audie Cornish the end of an era is approaching in California Governor Jerry Brown leaves office next week from member station k.q.e.d. In San Francisco Scott Shafer reports that brown successor Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom will take over with a very different style and priorities in January of 2004 Gavin Newsome had been mayor of San Francisco for less than a month when he traveled to Washington d.c. Let's assume you're the president of the United States are you some was sitting at the Capitol listening to President George w. Bush deliver his State of the Union speech when he was struck by this passage near the end our nation must defend the sanctity of marriage. To same return to San Francisco vowing to do something in response and it was the way the people that I met after the speech referred to quote unquote the homo sexual agenda and it just sheared in my mind a need to do something and you know what and then a week or 2 later it manifested I give you this ring he ended up making a bold some would say reckless decision like allowing any couple to marry including 2 men or 2 women in February of 2004 hundreds of couples from all over the state and nation lined up to get married the gay marriage issue put new some on the national radar to both admirers and critics the California Supreme Court eventually ruled that preventing same sex couples from marrying violated the state constitution at city hall that day knew some took a victory lap with language that came back to haunt him but away as California goes so goes the rest of the race was a navigable just doors wide open now it's going to happen why they don't like it or not that phrase whether you like it or not was seen by many as arrogant and disrespectful but by raising the issue in 2004 Newsome helped pave the way for a u.s. Supreme Court decision more than a decade later league. Same sex marriage nationwide Joy's new stat was new sims policy director when he was mayor I think he's a risk taker and I think he's a true kind of intellectual believer in the notion that you can fail fast as long as you're moving forward Newsom's pension for taking risks may have its roots in his childhood he was not a particularly good student and he was eventually diagnosed with dyslexia today he says figuring out how to compensate for that learning disability was a gift nothing was wrote nothing was linear and it allowed me to think outside the box in 2010 new son was elected lieutenant governor in what is usually a do nothing job new Some kept his profile high for example by laying the groundwork for a statewide ballot measure legalizing the recreational use of marijuana I think you have a new Some has demonstrated a really deep understanding of where the site Geist is going technology forecaster Paul Saffo spends a lot of time at Stanford University thinking about California's future he sees Newsome as fitting in well with the attitude of innovators in Silicon Valley and he says Newsome seems to share what he calls their disrespect for authority the entrepreneurs creed as it has always he is here to ask for forgiveness and to ask for permission that tendency in new Some was not always appreciated after his 1st marriage fell apart he had an affair with a top aides wife some felt they often seem bored being mayor spending too much time thinking about his political future including an aborted run for governor a decade ago I am relieved that he didn't become governor earlier Paul Saffo says new sums 8 years watching political master Jerry Brown will give him a better sense of when to lead and when to follow He's had a couple of runs at that and I suspect going into this governorship he's going to understand that time in better than ever at age 51 Gavin Newsome is 30 years younger than outgoing Governor Jerry Brown and totally different in style and temperament former California. Governor Gray Davis says that's appropriate so this transition is really a passing of the torch not just from one governor to another but from one generation to another so it's great that they have different styles and it's almost by necessity you have to govern for the times Jerry Brown is leaving the state flush with cash including a rainy day fund of $14000000000.00 His parting piece of advice for new Some don't screw it up for n.p.r. News I'm Scott Shafer in San Francisco. The u.s. Men's national soccer team is in rebuilding mode after failing even to qualify to play in the World Cup last summer but there is one very bright spot in American soccer 20 year old Christian Polish 2nd yesterday polish it became the most expensive u.s. Soccer player ever after it was announced that come August he'll move to one of the biggest teams in England Chelsea Football Club now just how much is Chelsea going to pay for his services that would be a tidy $73000000.00 for some perspective on this move let's bring in n.b.c. Sports commentator and former u.s. Soccer player Kyle Martino Welcome thank you thanks for having me so how big a deal is this for u.s. Soccer you know why big you I was and I probably you put it in good context just by listing the facts spending $73000000.00 on a player is not unusual for a club that size it's not even unusual to spend it on a 20 year old but to spend it on a 20 year old American is incredibly unusual and it makes that the largest and most exciting signing in the u.s. Soccer history a little bit of background on Paula sic he is from Pennsylvania originally he's been captain of the u.s. Men's team at one point I want to draw attention to which is that he is not moving to Chelsea from an American team he was already playing in Europe and I'm going to sleep in Germany is that the past that promising American players still have to take it is it tends to be in the past not only for American players sometimes you need a stepping stone approach and you need to climb the ladder so to speak and for Christian politike that meant going from youth teams here with youth national team and youth club teams in the states to the use team Bruce you Dortmund and Germany and climbing into the 1st team there that's a rare occurrence and he accomplished that and at the full international level with u.s. Men's national team what do. You think Is he the real deal I'm remembering a dozen or so years ago when a teenager named Freddy Adu was supposed to be the next the future of u.s. Soccer and he ended up bouncing from team to team to team and off and on the bench you know there are myriad differences in terms of the comparison Freddy Adu the hype was based off of success at a youth level so the excitement and propelling him into the national and international conversation about females and stars was premature and that he had proven himself on the full professional platform Christian Politico has done that Christian Polish sic is who we think he is and I think he will succeed at Chelsea but whether or not it's there or not this kid is the real deal for sure and what's in it for Chelsea for their 73000000 bucks when they're getting a promising young player as you describe but this also presumably makes business sense for them it makes a lot of business sense he immediately can help make the squad stronger on the field now off the field this is where the money really makes sense because Christian prolific is a already household name over here in the States we have an enormous sports landscape with many fans having their allegiance up for grabs or maybe not even soccer fans wholeheartedly yet Chelsea now have an enormous asset that will immediately whether it's through jersey sales or people watching their team will see a return on investment before even kicks the ball at the ends up being successful on the field it will compound and be an incredibly shrewd and solid investment that's former midfielder for the u.s. 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News in Culver City California I'm to Wayne Brown one of the 1st prisoners to be released under a new federal criminal justice reform laws a Tennessee man convicted twice for the same crack offense from member station w p l n who Martinelli reports Matthew Charles served to thank its behind bars for selling crack before a federal judge released him in 2016 citing good behavior that prosecutors successfully argued last May that Charles was released in error so he was ordered back to prison for another decade the 1st step back to open a new avenue for his freedom one of his attorneys Shawn Hopwood says Charles is the 1st prisoner to be released because of it we use map you story. On why the 1st step back home or why bomb of the. Lead to go under. Them under. Hopwood notes it's unclear how the new law will affect other crack offenders for n.p.r. News I'm going to have the martini in Nashville financial markets took a nosedive again today after tech giant Apple announced it expects lower revenue from lagging i Phone sales during the holidays Apple blames part of the decline on weaker demand in China the disappointing results sent to shutter through the stock market reinforcing investor fears that the world's 2nd largest economy is in trouble Zachery care about contributing editor for Wired says the long term impact on the market is uncertain people may want to know this means that the trade war is deeply and that your American company isn't hurting the Chinese economy and it's clearly impacting American companies that it's clearly somewhat dented Chinese economic activity over the past month but beyond that it's just too soon to tell stocks finished lower across the board on Wall Street after news from Apple the Dow dropped $660.00 points down about 3 percent The tech heavy Nasdaq lost $202.00 points down 3 percent the s. And p. Was down 2 and a half percent you're listening to n.p.r. . The world's largest beverage company Coca-Cola has finalized its purchase of close to coffee a major international coffee chain as Emma hurt tells us from member station w.a.v. Either this is a major step in coax evolution the Atlanta beverage giant built its success on different kinds of fizzy sugar water but that's been quickly changing says Bill Chappell a consumer and retail analyst at Sun Trust historically they've obviously been focused on brand Coca-Cola Coke Diet Coke and indeed juices got into waters of the Sania and smart water but they've never really had a big way coffee brand Coke has been chasing consumers changing tastes as us soda sales continue to fall and coke c.e.o. James Quincey has called Coffee one of the strongest growing categories in the world also notable coke will own store fronts for the 1st time Costa has 4000 international locations its 2nd to Starbucks which has 24000 for n.p.r. 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This is All Things Considered from n.p.r. News I'm Mary Louise Kelly And I'm Audie Cornish politicians continue their standoff on border while funding and caught up in the shutdown historic agreements between the u.s. And Native American tribes treaty signed generations ago guarantee federal funds for health care and education in those communities with the shutdown that money is stopped payment is tribal chairman of the Seuss Amory tribe of Chippewa Indians their tribal lands are on Michigan's Upper Peninsula Welcome to the program thank you for having me so to start give us some examples of where this money is typically used what areas of life are going to be affected so the largest portion I would say would be Indian Health Service We're a self governance tribe so we get to operate our own programs and services and health from the funding that we receive we receive $30000000.00 a year we recapture about 10000000 dollars additional in insurances and 3rd party revenue other areas that will be affected our child care food distribution we have a general assistance program for people who are looking for work in this helps to pay their rent heating assistance is another area head start in education all of those areas are going to be ill affected if the shutdown continues past the couple of weeks have you been getting phone calls or have you been swapping e-mails with people at other tribes and communities saying hey we're starting to panic Yes So while my tribe has taken some measures to be able to withstand a shorter term government shutdown and we're talking maybe up to 2 weeks maybe 3 weeks we can survive under that before we have to make drastic cuts but I have talked with some members of my tribe that are health directors under I in different communities across the country and they're already working on furloughs some layoffs that have already occurred and also some are working without pay what does that mean in the long term I mean this is not your 1st shutdown so what happens after these things occur so in 2013 when they go. From a shutdown we lost $1000000.00 in federal revenue that we never recovered we also lost medical providers because they didn't realize their employment was predicated or dependent upon federal dollars Damien doctors nurses Yes we lost one doctor a nurse practitioner and 4 other staff and it's difficult because it has a compound in effect because it's very difficult to recruit and retain medical staff as it is in rural communities this makes it even more difficult if they think that the funding for their positions is precarious I think people forget the extent of this relationship between people on native lands and the us and these treaties can you kind of remind people what that relationship is how it came to be absolutely so across the country for the 573 tribes about 500000000 acres of land was traded between tribes and the federal government in exchange for health education and social welfare into perpetuity and in Michigan the 5 tribes that signed the 836 treaty of which my tribe was a party we seeded 14000000 acres and so we just expect the federal government to fulfill their treaty and trust responsibility in the follow through a government is only as good as its word and some people will ask why do we follow these antiquated treaty documents and my response is that they are older but the Constitution is older and if we follow and honor our Constitution we need to also honor the treaties what do you want to say to the president and to Congress about this ongoing shutdown Well I think that a lot of the blame lies in one camp rather than both camps the president has really backed himself into a corner and sometimes they say that an animal is most vicious when cornered but if we're going to survive as a country our president has to figure out how to compromise and say for the good of the country we will move forward on border security and the wall does not have to be part of that he's trying to stay good to his. Ace and his campaign promise for this wall but we need to compromise in order to move past this issue Erin payment is tribal chairperson of the Sioux St Marie tribe of chip away Indians thank you so much for speaking with us Absolutely thank you for a government shutdown began with the president's demand for more border security money ironically the shutdown is now taking a growing toll on immigration enforcement one casualty even that's a federal program that's supposed to prevent immigrants from working illegally N.P.R.'s Joel Rose reports say you're an employer and you want to be sure that new employee you want to hire is eligible to work in the u.s. Right now you are out of luck the government run system is down the website warns that Eve Ariff I is quote currently unavailable due to a lapse in government appropriations at 1st people thought it was a day or 2 or 3 now or in 2 weeks Julie Pace is an attorney specializing in employment and immigration law in Phoenix employers can get in big trouble for knowingly hiring undocumented workers and Arizona is one of several states where they are required to use Eve Ariff I The longer the shutdown lasts the more pace is fielding panicked calls and e-mails from employers so now the calls are we've got on board these people so we're just going to move forward can we do that pay says Some employers will probably go ahead and hire people anyway others will wait until the shutdown is over and some may even speed up hiring to get people through the process while you verify is down it is an irony that the government shutdowns over the wall when we have an electronic wall for a verify that should be being used that the government has not funded the evil outage is just one way the government shutdown now in its 13th day is taking a toll on the u.s. Immigration system Border Patrol agents are working but they won't get paid until the shutdown ends so are tens of thousands of other immigration agents in the Department of Homeland Security Tony Riordan is the head of the National Treasury Employees Union which represents about. $30000.00 Customs and Border Protection officers they are angry they are scared they are doing the work of this country not knowing whether they're going to be able to put food on the table the morale is as low as I have ever seen and it's thousands of workers who are considered non-essential have been furloughed that means many immigration courts are closed some immigration judges are working without pay but they're only hearing cases where the immigrant is in detention Heena Rora is an immigration lawyer in Queens New York people are totally confused about what to do about showing up or not showing up Aurora says some of her clients waited years for hearings in the backlog immigration courts but when their day came the hearings weren't held because of the shutdown and we don't know why it's going to be rescheduled for it could be rescheduled for next month it could be rescheduled for next year or even a couple of years later so we have no idea. Sucks for that and it sucks for me also because like you know I have no work this week still immigration hardliners think the president should not back down from his demand for a border wall now Mark Krikorian is the executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies which favors lower levels of immigration he's also a big fan of events I he'd like the program to be mandatory all over the country but it has to be shut down for a few weeks to make a point Krikorian says so be it would come forth in that but it's just part of a larger problem of playing trippin over parts of the government when there are disputes like this over policy the White House is supposed to meet with congressional Democrats again tomorrow Krikorian and other observers don't see an end to the stalemate anytime soon Joel Rose n.p.r. News. Tomorrow on Morning Edition at Russia's spy efforts have gotten more attention in Washington and other countries and butt. The u.s. Is trying to. Weaken our turn into. 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As a child on my family's farm I often wild away entire morning stock in a mother cat until she led me to her hidden litter of newborn kittens or burrowing into my mother's lie like bushes in pursuit of a baby Cottontail of an afternoon I might circle the pasture rattling a grain bucket intil in utter triumph I managed to slip a rope around one of my horses necks or I would sit in a low place in the farmyard where after a recent rain the earth had dried and shrunk into a jigsaw puzzle of thin cracked Clay I would remove the pieces and drag my fingers through the smooth silk Binny on spring evenings I would stand at the yard fence breathing the sweet scent of green wheat and watching stars blink on one by one just as my father had predicted when I hit my teen years I went from chasing horses to chasing boys shortly after I graduated from high school one of those boys asked me to marry him we took off for San Francisco without a backward glance. It probably doesn't surprise you to learn that 8 years later the boy and I were divorced in May surprise you however to learn that the only cure I could find for the loneliness that set in after the divorce was to leave the city and go camping in the Mojave Desert there I could be outside again surrounded by immensity but also held in the physical embrace of the earth itself I dragged my toes through warm sand immersed myself in whatever clear water I could find whether in a stock tank or Mountain Spring rolled down Dune faces and took deep grateful breaths of sage scented air for the 1st time since childhood nature ignited my curiosity and fired my drive only now the field of exploration was much larger than a quarter mile radius around my family's farmstead knoll what I wondered lay beyond that mountain after following a jeep trail for hours across ravines and over rocky summits discovering water trickling out from a granite wall to form a pool among marsh grasses excited me as much as finding a litter of tiny kittens hidden among grain bags in a musty barn loft had excited me as a child the sight of soft pink sand dunes that aroused as much tenderness in me as when I was a child holding a trembling bunny in my trembling hands in this way I discovered the joys and sorrows of physical experience outdoors it was good to be in my body again I've been living in my head for far too long in my lucky farm childhood I didn't play with plastic toys or watch that much t.v. Instead I had many primal unfiltered experiences with the elemental things of the earth Dark Stars grass for I've described those experiences here because since then on the plains as in so many other places the earth has. Suffered at the hands of humans how can we not feel in our own flesh the damage done to the places we bonded with physically as children it is true sensory experience in childhood that our most fierce loyalties are for. Bear is the author of one degree West. For links to her books and other essays visit Julian bear dot com at this Earth is a production of High Plains Public Radio written boys. And produced by. More episodes can be found online dot org It's 648 Central time this is High Plains Public Radio in touch with the world home on the high plains a flea and you've been listening to our afternoon newsmagazine All Things Considered coming up area News My name is Lewis Kaplan I primarily listen. Get information keep up to date on what's going. To vote sides of the. And regional news the federal government continues to be shut down due to a standoff over Donald Trump's wishes to build a wall along the u.s. Border with Mexico and the shutdown is beginning to affect plains states in unexpected ways thousands of federal employees have stopped working while sow's of others are working without pay at least temporarily in some parts of Texas u.s. Department of Agriculture offices have closed their doors due to lack of funding the u.s.d.a. Says it plans to quote shutter every local and State Farm Service Center across the u.s. The impasse could make things difficult for farmers and ranchers hoping to access the $12000000000.00 set aside for producers hurt by federal tariffs the u.s.d.a. 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News it's All Things Considered I'm Audie Cornish and I'm Mary Louise Kelly in some ways 2018 appeared to be a banner year for Leading Women in Hollywood both blockbusters and Oscar bait saw their share of strong female characters on the screen but it is a different story for women behind the camera N.P.R.'s commande wire explains take a look at Summer 2800 biggest films women play military heroes like deny gorilla and Black Panther take into they give approval to continue to consider morning. Superheroes like eventually Lily and Ant-Man in the Watts. You don't have much time . And fast talking thieves like this one played by Sandra Bullock and oceans they go home get your affairs in order because tomorrow we begin pulling off one of the biggest story heists in history now look at who's making these films especially the directors the Center for the study of women in television and film at San Diego State University look at the $250.00 top grossing films in the u.s. Last year and what they found looked a lot like years past. Women made up just 8 percent of the directors the numbers are higher when it comes to producers and editors more around 20 percent and the numbers haven't changed much for a while they've been stagnant for over a decade so this year's No surprise right that's been with the Silverstein she did not work on the report but as founder of another group called Women and Hollywood it's overseen has long fought see greater representation in the industry studies have shown that the more women you have behind the camera in positions the more inclusive your film is so if you want to have an inclusive set the thing you do is hire a woman director a study released just last month shows that when a woman stars in a film it does better at the box office worldwide and says the same success can be achieved behind the camera if only women get the chance really what this is is about access to opportunities and access to capital women have to be able to operate at the highest levels of the business and that has been an area that has been very cut off for women and also people of color the number of women and director and producer roles is a bit higher in television and the conversation around inclusion has certainly picked up in the last couple of years but as the study's author Martha laws and points out conversation is not the same as action in a statement to n.p.r. She said the situation is quote unlikely to be remedied by the voluntary efforts of a few individuals or a single studio instead she says what is needed is the will to change and an industry wide effort to see it through college why are n.p.r. News New York in case you didn't know bad bunny is not a new cartoon character he's a young Puerto Rican rapper who skyrocketed to international fame online now he's released his debut album N.P.R.'s Jasmine gars has this profile before beneath on when you met at the Miss Ocasio became a star he was just a kid growing up in Puerto Rico whose mom would blast and romantic Latin. Ballads on weekends so on. Sundays and Saturdays when it was time to clean the house when I heard those records I knew I would have to at least mop the floor something he says afterwards he locked himself in his bedroom and listen to island rappers a Yankee. And the Godfather. Described class clown that Bunny got his moniker from the time he was forced to wear a bunny rabbit costume and was pretty angry about it the name stuck. In the last year or so. With ease into the English language market guest starring on tracks by such rappers as became a notch and here he is on card his hit song I like it. Real. Bad funny did this on his own he started posting music on Sound Cloud singing pretty much only in Spanish he now has billions of hits on You Tube and several Grammy nominations. A music editor at an online Latin culture magazine says it's a testament to changing u.s. Demographics demographically the country is Latino and people are no longer like we don't understand what that is we don't understand that this is like in the Latino world there is no longer that barrier that bunny success rests on more than his music in a world of macho rapper caricature as he boasts about stealing your girl while rocking a gender bending style nail polish flamboyant colorful jackets and get upset would make David Bowie tipped his fedora in admiration. Darwin may well. I can simply tell you that since I was a kid I didn't like to look like anyone else. And he doesn't quite like anyone else either his debut full length album. Stays true to his trap music groups. His loaded nasty drawl his rhythmic. Spanish dance over them as in the song. But there's also plenty of experimentation on the album folks your guitar shiny and with out of the influence of his childhood. Forced to listen to his mother's romantic music. But. Only my own is a ballad of Independence the accompanying music video is part of a campaign against domestic violence it features a battered woman singing. I am not yours I am no one's I am only my own don't call me baby because you already know I'm not here for you not even a little i will mean I'm going to. Go. I don't know I always like to create things that get attention it used to be a problem when I wasn't there. And it's now I can do whatever I want and people have to accept it this from a musician who is able to skip categories with so much ease because he belongs to not Jasmine gars n.p.r. News New York. Don't go a little earlier. Than the one on Monday. You're listening to All Things Considered from n.p.r. News support for n.p.r. 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