Transcripts for KPRG 89.3 FM [KPRG 89.3 Public Radio Guam] KPRG 89.3 FM [KPRG 89.3 Public Radio Guam] 20181227 140000

Rockery made an unannounced visit to u.s. Troops Yesterday N.P.R.'s Tamara Keith traveled with the president while it all aside to Air Base President Trump defended his decision to pull all u.s. Troops out of Syria saying the ISIS caliphate is nearly eliminated intrinsic he has no plans to withdraw the troops currently stationed in Iraq are the facts we could use this is based if we want to do something serious I will say this if. You take I just think if we see something happening with places that we don't like we can hit them still fast and so hard during that visit troubling met with senior military leaders and came out saying together they developed a great plan for victory that victory would be over is a clear and trumped declined to give any further details about the plan to break even n.p.r. News on Air Force One and defense secretary Jim Matheson almost he was resigning a day after Trump said he was withdrawing u.s. Forces from Syria he may have peace is an individual who have an area from an xterm a government official and having that is off our hands and family members waiting for them and other country and they're waiting for their crime according to the Justice Department's contingency plan immigrants who have been detained will have their cases processed as of last month there were more than 800000 cases pending in the country $65.00 immigration courts for n.p.r. News and Charles Lane a powerful winter storm is dumping a foot of snow in the northern plains states as the South is getting drenched in heavy rain with the threat of tornadoes all that's impacting travel National Weather Service meteorologist wild an auto if you have to travel Eve you'll even have travel plans you know the pair to. Exercise college and. This on a day nearly 3000000 air passengers are expected to fly coming home from holiday celebrations as the storm marches east airlines are delaying or canceling flights and many are also waiting change fees for passengers less than a half hour to the opening bell on Wall Street and u.s. Futures contracts are trading lower all 3 major indices down about one and a half percent you're listening to n.p.r. News from Washington health experts say 2018 has been a record year for outbreaks of the Gola the disease began spreading in the eastern region of Democratic Republic of Congo during the summer the number of confirmed cases in that country now tops $500.00 N.P.R.'s Mary has more this outbreak was the 1st ever to erupt in a conflict zone it's in a part of the d.r. See where multiple armed groups often attack the government and civilians and where many communities mistrust officials including health workers that's made it hard for Ebola responders to do their work but the outbreak is still nowhere near the world's worst the 2014 to 2016 West Africa epidemic that infected more than 28000 people and officials say the d.n.c. Has been spared that level of severity because of another 1st this year officials have been able to give a new vaccine to an unprecedented $50000.00 plus people read Eisenman n.p.r. News. In Tunisia protesters and police clashed for a 3rd day after a journalist set himself on fire and died to denounce the economic problems in that country the country's National Guard officials say protests place and 6 towns and that 14 people were arrested last night that's in addition to 18 arrests that happened yesterday a similar self-immolation lead to nationwide protests the product on Tunisia's long term authoritarian president in 2011 Kriol futures are trading lower at this hour down 1.4 percent to $45.55 a barrel I'm Janine Herbst n.p.r. News in Washington support for n.p.r. Comes from n.p.r. Stations other contributors include American universities Co Grad School of Business commits a business being a force for meaningful change through graduate and undergraduate degrees mission driven curriculum and a hands on approach more at Kogarah dot American guy edu. This is Morning Edition from n.p.r. News I'm David Greene and I know well King good morning President Trump is back in the us this morning after a surprise visit to Iraq where he addressed u.s. Troops it's because of your sacrifice that America's families can celebrate in safety and peace and we're doing great back at home right now the u.s. Still has some 5000 troops in Iraq they're stationed there to help Iraqi forces stabilize the country after its years long battle against ISIS there's been a lot of movement in the past few weeks when it comes to America's presence in the Middle East and with us to discuss this is Corey Shockey She served on President George w. Bush's National Security Council and has also held policy roles in the Pentagon and at the State Department Good morning Michelle good morning so President Trump was supposed to meet Iraq's prime minister while he was there but that meeting was canceled and the specifics of exactly why it was canceled seemed to differ depending on who you ask is it significant that President Trump did not meet with Iraqi leaders yet actually is because the erratic nature of President chimes decision to write off our involvement in Syria has made the Afghan government and the Iraqi government incredibly nervous because their rationale the president uses could apply equally to Iraq and to Afghanistan and that the decision was made with no consultation with allies has everybody jittery So you really missed an opportunity to explain to the government of Iraq what our plans are and why they can rely on us despite that decision about Syria maybe calm some people down during the visit the president talked about ISIS and he said quote We've not to them out and he again rear reiterated that it is time for the u.s. To get out of Syria do you think that's the right strategy. No I don't for several reasons 1st because the president now owns the consequences of writing the stock so if I say should reemerge which it has tended to do in Iraq and Syria and elsewhere when you don't as synced in the stabilization and improvements in governance and you know the president's going to those consequences the 2nd reason it's a bad idea is that the president said that we are suckers to help countries stabilize themselves after a civil war and after conflict George Marshall would be turning over in his grave to hear that that really is a refutation of what as bad a successful American strategy for the last 7 years and the 3rd thing that's wrong with the president's approach to writing off Syria is you would think listening to him that we were the only country in volved in trying to defeat ISIS when in fact there are a coalition of $74.00 countries contributing in one way or another and the president in no way acknowledged or appreciate at the contributions that others are making to share their support and to fight alongside us all 3 of those are really big strategic errors the big question when we learned that the president had gone to Iraq was was he going to make an announcement and say the u.s. Is going to pull its troops out of Iraq as well he did not say that he says he wants to keep them there what are those troops in Iraq doing and what do you think the president's calculus is in Iraq. American troops in Iraq alongside our NATO allies and other countries are helping to train and support Iraqi troops who are fighting ISIS stabilizing the country at establishing the rule of law helping assist N.G.O.s and other reconstruction efforts in places where ISIS ravaged the country and in northern Iraq and the Kurdish areas President Tom's decision to write off Kurdish militia who have and helping fight ISIS alongside us is really destabilizing and not just in Syria but also in the domestic politics and Turkey and in the domestic politics in Iraq President transfer announcement that you know Turkey said they're going to take care of this is a not reassuring prospect for Kurds in Turkey in Syria in northern Iraq or in Iran who have their own internal conflicts at the same time Isis is severely weakened but they are still active and the group claimed responsibility for a car bomb attack in northern Iraq on Christmas Day Do you think there's a risk that ISIS will regroup if the u.s. Military doesn't have a presence in the region or has less of a presence in the region. Yes I do We saw that happen with head and Iraq wayside happen with the rise of ISIS in Iraq and in Syria so the lesson of the last 17 years ought to leave if you do not help improve the rule of law governance and security in countries that have been ravaged by terrorism or civil war you are allowing their regrouping planning and carrying out of additional violence by those groups now this is all happening while the president's secretary of defense Jim Mattis is resigning he'll be out in a couple of days here's what the president had to say about the search for a replacement for Mattis everybody wants that position everybody everybody so many people want to be. Exactly. Right Ok so let me put that question the president poses to you who wouldn't want to be secretary of defense. Well Jim Mattis 7 demo you know. I think one of the reasons that the president is trying to put so much topspin on the ball and suggest that everyone is clamoring into his administration is that his personnel choices on his policy choices over the last 2 years have driven out or forced out and people who are voices of sensibility and restraint and surrounded the president by people who will echo that and she her his reckless choices and if you just look at the way the president yesterday talking to American troops in Iraq violated standing norms of civil military discourse by having a political rally talking about blaming the Democrats for the shutdown that's a very bad way to politicize the role of the American military Shockey deputy director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies thank you so much You're welcome. 2 months ago today a gunman opened fire at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 11 worshippers were killed in that attack the gunman is now facing $29.00 federal charges he allegedly chose the synagogue as a target because it supported a program sponsored by a Jewish a group to resettle refugees in America N.P.R.'s Jerome psychologically visited another congregation in Falls Church Virginia which sponsors a Muslim refugee from Iraq temple wrote of Shalom is one of dozens of Jewish congregations across the country that have been helping to resettle refugees 3 years ago its members agreed to sponsor a single mother who fled northern Iraq with her children and was originally brought to America by a Christian charity till Co asks not to be identified by her full name because she fears for her safety she says that back in Iraq she didn't know much about Jews Iraq to believe that whatever actually little I've heard was all connected to the misuse clearly their use of just for no reason other than they are bad their religion they are not helpful and then she met the Jews who had volunteered to help her begin a new life in America than in the Selma Denman I was just taken for a 2nd I was like wow like the way to greeted me with the love and the respect the way they just embrace me and it was so unexpected that it wiped away all her preconceptions I mentioned didn't mean anything and I realized it was on my I don't know what it said about Jews. Over the holidays till go got together with congregation members who helped to rent an apartment get a green card and find a job for Jews across America volunteering in this way it's about following the injunction in the Torah to love the stranger as yourself certainly no one at road of Shalom. Thought of it as controversial let alone dangerous but then on October 27th a gunman walked into the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh and killed 11 people that congregation supported the Jewish a group Pius which resettles people fleeing Syria and other trouble spots and the shooting suspect said that's why he targeted the synagogue that statement really hurts volunteer Susan Levy because that's exactly the kind of work that we've been doing in the 1st we help Muslims because we help those who need help and that's really what it is matter what background they come with everybody that comes from New York it serves the same opportunities that are in Sisters had Levy says America welcomes her own grandmother when she fled programs in Russia so she helped Tilke o. Get settled here by accompanying her to job interviews and a background in h.r. So I knew the language was the volunteers cheering on telcos children at a game or not so long ago helping them with their homework 15 year old Yahia says it made all the difference at school when we came here 1st automats month made a bet and they hand us now we have a on mat and probably some adult someone who helped the family with school paperwork is Helene letter to her aiding the stranger is a fundamental part of being Jewish and no antisemitic attack can change that that is who we are and so they can hate us for that if they want and it's who we are after the synagogue helped Tilke own her family settle in Northern Virginia letter says Muslims from a local mosque were introduced to the refugee family and after the Pittsburg shooting members of that same mosque came to a vigil here at Temple road of Shalom to stand with Jews against anti-Semitism to the volunteers that gesture was a blessing brought forth by this congregations effort to love the stranger as yourself Jerome Socolovsky. N.p.r. News. This is n.p.r. News the of. On the next fresh air Ok so growing up with a little bit scary weird we continue our holiday week series of favorite interviews of the year with Bo Burnham who made the film 8th grade about a girl with social anxiety who makes You Tube videos about how to be confident Burnham became a You Tube sensation when he was a teenager join us. For the some. Support for n.p.r. Comes from this station and from visiting angels professional caregivers assisting adults at home in bathing dressing meals and light housework nationwide visiting angels America's Choice in senior home care learn more at 180-365-4189 from I drive maker of remote p.c. Providing real time remote access to P.C.'s Macs and servers from anywhere for use when telecommuting or for remote management learn more at remote p.c. Dot com slash n.p.r. And from Tire Rack with more than 500 tire models from 22 manufacturers and online tools for finding tires based on vehicle needs budget and brand Direct dot com helping drivers find deliver install. This is Morning Edition from n.p.r. News I'm David Greene and I'm Noel King good morning 2018 was a big year for political nonfiction exposé from prominent journalists and tell alls from former administration officials many of them had dramatic titles like fear fire and fury and unhinged I'm joined now by N.P.R.'s senior editor correspondent Ron Elving and political reporter Daniel Kurtz Lavan Hey guys good interview with you it was a year in which it felt like there was a lot of political nonfiction but not just that that everybody was reading it starting with Michael Wolff fire and fury all the way back in January was this year unusual or did it just seem that way I would say it was unusual and mostly because there are so many people leaving the White House so quickly so that just within the 1st 2 years a record number of people have left from the president's inner circle from the cabinet from the advisers at the highest level in the White House and several of them have written books and I would add here it might be a quantity vs quality thing also I mean if you look back yes there were some books already out in 2012 years into the Obama administration talking about analyzing Obama's rise to the presidency so it's not unusual for books to be out now analyzing a presidency but the tone of these books you had books that with these apocalyptic looking covers you know Trump against a red background with titles like fire and fury and fear and also not only that but idea books about authoritarianism books like how democracies die the people versus democracy I mean the tone was very scary and a lot of these books let's go through some of the highlights one of the big ones this year was higher loyalty by former f.b.i. Director James Comey Ron you reported on that book you reviewed that book for n.p.r. What stood out to you some of the comparisons that he makes to the earlier parts of his career when he prosecuted Mafia families and the code of silence that they had and the sort of generalized family based criminal enterprise that's a shocking come. Harrison to make in the spring of 2018 Now it may not seem quite as shocking at this stage but at the time that he was using that kind of language that really stood out there were also a significant number of tell alls from people close to the president some former White House staffers published notable books runways one was your favorite which one was the most notable Michael was not really a staffer I mean he was really a fly on the wall reporter who was allowed to hang out in the White House inexplicably for a long period of time and write a book and that really set the tone for the book because it came out fast he knew exactly what he was doing he got it out really quickly so that when a rough some out of Gauld who had also had a brief period on staff in the White House came out with a similar book it didn't have nearly the same sort of impact but I think really the book that made the biggest difference in reporting on the inside of the White House was not written by a White House insider but by someone to whom many of those insiders had spoken and that was Bob Woodward tell us about here Bob Woodward had already had 18 other books many of which were number one New York Times bestsellers but the one that everybody remembers is all the president's men and that was about Watergate back in the 1970 s. People have studied it in school and he's still doing it in much the same way he was doing then giving people anonymously getting people to really download the stuff that they know and he has apparently done that with most of the important people who have already left the White House including at least one chief of staff and a strategic adviser and a lot of other people with very high titles and we don't know for certain who said exactly what because that's not Bob Woodward style he writes the book as though he knows everything and you have to divine who told him what but but this book has perhaps more impact than any he has written since Watergate because he takes on the president so directly and the things that he says about him would really have to be described as a form of indictment. You know you reviewed Michelle Obama's memoir becoming There were some things that really stood out to you in that book right so it's not a bullet. Where the point is getting juicy tidbits this is not a tell all in the sense of Michelle Obama coming out of the White House and giving you the hot gossip on what everything that was happening in the Obama White House at all it's about Michelle Obama's life starting as a child growing up on the South Side of Chicago and going up through adulthood through her marriage to Barack Obama and beyond one thing that I learned from you in an interview that you did on Morning Edition about this book is that the Obama's went to marriage counseling I had not been aware of that that was a real jaw dropper for me you know they go to couples counseling they go through I.V.'s to conceive their 2 daughters and it's not the book is super explicit about all of the troubles they had in their marriage but you get a sense of this is this marriage that we all watched in the White House and that a lot of people in mired was certainly not without its problems one Ken Starr also had a book published this year it didn't make a big splash you pretty much have to explain to people now who can star was or it is Ken Starr was the president of Baylor most recently but before that he also was the prosecutor the independent counsel if you will who went after Bill Clinton in the middle ninety's and produced a report that resulted in Clinton's impeachment can stars more or less maintained his silence ever since and now that Hillary Clinton's campaign is over and apparently the Clintons are no longer politically viable he felt it was Ok to come out with his book it's called contempt and that's his way of referring to the way that the Clintons handled many things including the law in his view it could also be a title for his own feelings towards the Clintons which are extremely hostile particularly towards Hillary Clinton. Of all the political books you read this year which one was the best written I've been telling my friends that one of the best books I read in 2018 is the 1st half of Michelle Obama's book which is not which is not to denigrate the 2nd half exactly right the 1st half of it when she's talking about her childhood when she's talking about growing up when you talk about meeting Barack Obama there are some beautifully written deeply felt deeply thought out. Passages in there about marriage about growing up about eventually becoming a mother that absolutely struck me as just gorgeous when she gets in the White House with her husband the SEALs kind of go up and becomes a little bit more of a political book but that 1st part of the book absolutely had some incredible sections on it from what do you think probably the best written book that I've read in the past year is John McCain's last entry in his long series of memoir so this one's called the restless way and it was written with Mark Salter who was a long time collaborator with John McCain wrote a number of speeches for him collaborated with him on his books and Salter is particularly a poetic writer more of a literary writer than I suspect the senator would be on his own and probably more than any of the people who wrote books under their own name this year N.P.R.'s Ron Elving and Kirk Levin thanks you guys thank you thank you. This is n.p.r. News when Pope Francis was elected many Catholics hoped he would be a reformer now many of those same Catholics are disappointed Francis isn't Live from n.p.r. News in Washington I'm Dave Mattingly Congress appears no closer to ending a partial shutdown of the federal government it's now in its 6th day no votes are expected when the Senate reconvenes today President Trump wants Congress to approve $5000000000.00 for a wall along the Us Mexico border the House did so before Christmas early this morning President Trump arrived in Washington following an unannounced trip to Iraq that's where he met for about 3 hours with u.s. Troops at an air base there California's open ended retention of d.n.a. Samples as facing a legal challenge here's N.P.R.'s Martin cost if you're arrested on a felony charge in California the police can take your d.n.a. Along with your fingerprints and mug shot if you're not convicted you can ask to have your d.n.a. Expunged but almost nobody ever makes the effort that leaves the state and federal government with hundreds of thousands of extra d.n.a. Records Jennifer Lynch of the Electronic Frontier Foundation says that puts you at risk of mistaken identity the d.n.a. Databases are searched every single day by law enforcement agencies across the country and what we have seen is that people have been arrested for crimes they haven't committed based on d.n.a. Evidence her organization is helping to sue California to do what some other states already do expunge d.n.a. Automatically Martin costy n.p.r. News this is n.p.r. News from Washington. In Indonesia there were fears of another volcanic eruption less than a week after one triggered a tsunami that killed at least 430 people more than 150 others are still missing in northeast Africa protesters are on the streets in parts of Sudan demanding the ouster of a political regime that's been in power for almost 30 years clashes with government security forces have left more than 30 people dead that's according to human rights groups N.P.R.'s later Peralta is following developments from Nairobi across the country we've seen reports that protesters have attacked the government buildings and one thing to remember is that popular protest movements have brought down 2 governments in Sudan once in 1964 and again in 1985 a group of journalists in Sudan is on strike in support of the protests retailers are busy this week dealing with returns of holiday gifts one research firm estimates 20 to 30 percent of online purchases will be sent back Here's N.P.R.'s David Schaper one reason returns are so costly is that the e retail supply chain into zines shipped things out not take them back so returns could sit for a long time before they might be resold the other reason is that so much of the stuff that we buy online is sent back as much as half of all clothing shoes outerwear and other apparel that is bought from Amazon and other retailers and getting returned I'm Dave Mattingly n.p.r. News in Washington. Support for n.p.r. Comes from this station and from Babel a European made language learning program Babel teaches practical conversation in Italian Russians Swedish and other languages available in the app store or online and be a b b e l dot com and from at last a collaboration software company powering teams around the world committed to providing the tools and practices to help teams plan track build and work better together more at last c.n.n. Dot com. This is Morning Edition from n.p.r. News I'm Noel King and I'm David Greene This is what the past week has sounded like across the northeast African country of Sudan. Protesters have been on the streets by the thousands demanding the ouster of an almost 3 decade old regime and the government has responded with violence human rights groups say at least 37 people have been killed N.P.R.'s itor Peralta has been following the story from his post in Nairobi hater Hey David So let's start with why people are in the streets in Sudan this has to do with food right it does it started over the price of bread the government decided to end subsidies and the price of bread tripled overnight but this really speaks to the huge economic problems faced by Sudan and this is a country that is still reeling from the loss of most of its oil revenue when South Sudan became independent so the country has seen inflation go through the roof up people can't get cash they make hours worth of lines for $20.00 and then they get to the stores and the shelves are bare but look today I was talking to one elder who is a protester in the capital Khartoum who only wanted his 1st name used because he's afraid of the government and here's what he told me it's not about economics it's about they are not going to improve their country it's I am 25 years old I can now see my my and my future here inside this country so life is hard is what he's saying that he feels like the government does have the resources and they're just misusing it they're looking out for themselves he says so President Omar al Bashir has to go and I just listen to that I mean it's a young voice we have heard from so many countries and in the world some of demanding more of their government and you have Omar al Bashir in power for as we said some 30 years a strong man I mean could this be the end of his rule there let me let me play you something that will explain a lot. So that's what people across Sudan are chanting and it translates roughly to the people demand the fall of the regime and if you remember that was a hugely popular chant during the Arab spring here and the Sudanese they took to the streets back then too and since 2011 people have taken to the streets and every single time the security forces have managed to tamp these protests down analysts I've spoken to say this is a bit different there's a lot more people on the streets and this seems like an emboldened protest movement across the country we've seen reports that protestors have attacked government buildings and one more thing that's good to remember is that popular protest movements have brought down 2 governments in Sudan once in 1964 and again in 1985 but it aside sending police out on the streets and causing people to die and be injured as the government actually said anything about trying to improve people's lives so President tomorrow Bashir delivered a speech a few days ago but he blamed everyone else he said that the protests were. Part of agents and mercenaries and infiltrators who are just trying to exploit these economic hardships we've also seen some reports that the troops who have been sent to deal with protesters have instead sided with them so that's something really important to watch but the military has officially issued a statement that they are 100 percent with President Al This year later thanks a lot thank you David That's N.P.R.'s Peter Peralta in Nairobi. All right now a story about the science and the politics of climate change the planet has been warming for decades 2018 is on track to be one of the hottest years on record this year we also saw a bunch of new and more precise predictions from scientists about what climate change is doing to the weather the Trump administration questions that science N.P.R.'s Christopher Joyce has the story so are we stuck with climate change you could ask the president as reporters from Xers on h.b.o. Did is near climate change will it go back like this I mean will it change back probably that's what I think you could ask the senator about climate change as a reporter did to Republican Ted Cruz from Texas when he was campaigning this fall well listen of course the climate is changing the climate has been changing from the dawn of time the climate will change as long as once we have a planet earth or you could ask actual climate scientists what they think like Martin hurling who was attending the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in December we're not seeing cycles we're not seeing things that are going to revert back what about that idea that the climate is always changing Here's climate scientist Stephanie herring the current change that we're experiencing now is particularly alarming and that is because in the history of human civilization the climate has never changed this rapidly hurling and Herring work for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration it was a big year for no other federal agencies that do science the government issued a national climate assessment that said climate change is real humans are causing it and it's worse than ever earlier this year the highly regarded Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change came to a similar conclusion if the earth warms up another half a degree Fahrenheit which is very likely the world's weather will change drastically in fact it's already changing there was yet another study about extreme weather in 2017 lots of huge rain storms around the world for exam. Well and some very wet hurricanes Martin hurling says it's all about warmer oceans to have more water vapor neither Cintra delivering heavier rain when it rains the physics of what's driving it heavier rains even when it's not a hurricane are virtually the same in many locations the physics isn't complicated just heat water in a pot on your stove and watch as it evaporates and rises it will come back down again just ask people who lived through hurricanes in Houston and Florida are part of Rico the last 2 years have seen abnormally strong hurricane seasons in the Atlantic the extreme weather report comes annually from the American Meteorological Society scientists again politicians it's all about so called attribution science that Germany when a big storm or fire or heat wave is normal or pumped up by a warmer climate Erling says the science has improved and if through feeling just what a warmer world means with 7 years of these reports we're seeing more and more evidence building that heat waves are not only happening more often here magnitudes is off the charts scientists have also attributed bigger fires to climate change physics again hotter drier air turns vegetation into tender the stronger link between climate and weather makes it harder to question that the climate is changing and it has people worried that they may be held liable if they don't plan for that attorney Lynn Dean Patton's clients who are example people who build things you need to go in as a practicing architect or engineer and plan for a different environment especially for a long lived assets things like roads buildings homes that's where this type of information that Activision science is generating is informing decision taking so that you won't get sued for failing to build for a warmer world patent who's with the firm earth and water Law Group is also getting calls about climate liability from another group of worried people politicians Christopher Joyce n.p.r. News. This is n.p.r. News. I'm Jeremy Hobson u.s. Customs and Border Protection has ordered medical checks on all children in its custody after the 2nd death of an immigrant child in the agency's care this month that comes amid a government shutdown and budget battle over funding for a wall along the Mexican border immigration in the spotlight once again that's next time on your. Good morning I'm David Greene after a pitcher Brady singer signed with the Kansas City Royals he wrote his parents a letter this holiday because the video of them reading it. And loved the mountains of Kansas City Star reports singer used his $4000000.00 signing bonus to thank mom and dad for their support and all the travel the games unbeaten all concluded that he also wanted to know how you're going to swallow. What you're listening to Morning Edition support for n.p.r. Comes from this station and from Focus Features presenting Mary Queen of Scots a rebellious young queen stops at nothing to reclaim her throne sorceror Ronan and Margot Robbie star as warring Queens now playing in theaters everywhere and from visiting angels professional caregivers assisting adults in bathing dressing meals and light housework nationwide visiting angels America's Choice and senior home care office locations are visiting Angels dot com. It's Morning Edition from n.p.r. News good morning I'm David Greene and I'm no well King walking around the campus of the University of Southern Indiana and you may notice a very small house it's part of an experiment to create houses of 600 square feet that can be built in days these little homes could offer housing alternatives for elderly people Isaiah Seibert of member station and I am in Evansville has a story this small 600 square foot modular house is called Minka the name is derived from a simple and functional style of Japanese home Bill Thomas is a geriatrician by training but today he's overseeing the construction of one of the 1st major prototypes on this university campus in southwestern Indiana with his elderly patients in mind this is the make a revolution. Were 1st family putting the final touches on the foundation no one will live in this prototype house it's being built for research but housing officials from Loveland Colorado a town about 50 miles north of Denver have different plans for me to houses I'm really interested in observing the actual construction method because it is different than what we are used to see McClure is director of real estate development Michael Loveland Housing Authority it's projects are normally stick built with everything constructed on site but meet the houses or modular parts of the house like floor boxes and wall panels are built in a factory and shipped to the site as for construction think Lego's next summer Loveland will great ground on its own make the houses there initially Building 9 to house senior citizens the fact they want to do this type of housing is to build on Rilya because that's the name that that right now Valerie Jarrett Henry is a North Carolina based housing consultant who works with builders to construct accessible homes and is a big fan of modular houses Well the idea of modular homes for the elderly isn't unique it's used for a whole community is intriguing each house costs about $75000.00 to build and they're constructed quickly. Very quickly well stick built homes can take months to construct you can build a house in just a few days jerk Henry thinks this project can help raise awareness about alternatives to the single family home she notice of your lack of knowledge about housing options in this country people often choose houses for themselves based on what they've grown up in but what people know and what people actually need can be very different and that's part of the idea behind the house if you have a small high tech compact livable house and you have good neighbors close by you can maintain your independence for a lot longer if you're living alone in a house at the end of a cul de sac think a developer Bill Thomas sees them as an alternative to assisted living or nursing homes for millions of seniors Thomas says an accessible house that works for the elderly can also be perfect for a young 20 something and that's why one of the 1st is on a university campus the House has already caught the attention of students who. Thomas is in talks with the university about building a whole community of houses near campus he wants to create a small neighborhood students who want an alternative to dorm life living next door to people in the surrounding community his goal is to provide. Generations closer together one tiny house at a time for n.p.r. News I'm. Still in the Ana. And if you want to touch with us we're all on Twitter you can find me at. Rachel Martin. Want to find out more about the rest of our team. And click on the. It's Morning Edition from n.p.r. News I'm Noel King and I'm David Greene I was on assignment in San Francisco recently and it involved some food taster I said this is Chef greatest creation as a little bit of culture butter and she saw her grandmother's recipe and I was crazy about the reaction is it's actually the one in a finite across all 3 restaurants so it's a kind of dark ranch and it's really across all of those restaurants are owned by Dominic Crossan who wasn't surprised at all when I told her all the good that Threadless I love for you when it's like on the train still and it's like sure there was a luxury of us that you feel connected to depress and make the bread I was chatting with the French born chef shortly after she got some news her restaurant I'll tell you a crown was given 3 stars by the Michelin Guide that is seen by some as the highest honor in the colony world and what's more of all the chefs in the u.s. To get 3 stars from Michelin domany Crown is the 1st woman we were not seeking it we don't see the thing is why do we do with it that matters you know it doesn't mean that we have better than others but she does think this gives her a better platform now to inspire women in an industry largely dominated by men dominate Krenz says she has seen slow progress making kitchens more diverse and building respect for women there she's made her own way up in the San Francisco restaurant scene since moving here from France in her twenty's when I started to working in the kitchen there's not a lot of women that were working and I didn't try to pay attention to that but I knew it was just something that I had to work harder and others and I was at the peak on some time but I'm a very strong person nobody touch me I think it's only. Did you face people who thought you were moving quickly because your own. Yeah there's one guy I remember him another station name was very short I called him the 20 on. Was a fellow a fellow Yeah what did you tell him you know I've never been that received when you won but I looked at him in any size and I said listen you didn't think anything of me but what I'm going to show you is what I can do and you know they're happy that I don't really care I think their shape his happiness so that's what drives me here I need to place my shift but I'm also kidding myself and that's it you have to talk like this you can like islands I think they want you to like fight a fight with words given all of this work you've been doing in trying to use this platform I want to read you something that I know you've heard before and that just it just caught my eye I had to read it a few times that there was Michael Bowers the long time restaurant critic for the same school Chronicle he said about your she has been successful because she does have talent and she has worked hard but let's be honest also because she has enormous charisma she's beautiful and has that French accent Yeah I would have to think about that I didn't like it but I have to tell you that Mr Bower came to me and told me that what was said in the news paper was thinking out of context and I did listen to him and when I realised that I got moment which I think he should have never said that so you know I think sometimes you have to be very careful when you used the word as usual and it's because you assume are saying that about me it's a little bit degrading duties and yes of the beholder but if that's to not be a factor on anything. And yes I mean Kerry smile when he carries my eyes like I'm trying to be genuine every time I speak oh I'm not there and maybe you call it's kind of This Is Who I Am He's a little I mean he also said about you she cooks the way men are cooking. There yet explain what was taken out of context Well I think what he was trying to say you know I mean the feel that I'm in and also the start of the restaurant that I'm doing to show he was actually quite easily be different than a casual restaurant and you was perhaps you want to this to be a compliment but I'm not saying what you say was right I'm just trying to like be not like racy for about it like I think what I want to say from this is that words matters and the consequences can be hurtful to others the fact that we're even talking about this and so the words and you know what does that say about that we have a long history of this moment we still have a lot of work to be done and your platform in this moment like the me too movement and a lot of things that women have been through do you feel like whatever role you can play has become even more important absurdly You know I thing I mean I am just a little fish in the ceiling you know but I do understand that everything that I do could have a little impact I mean I had I had shewn many men chefs that I would send me. E-mails and they have said to me you know we have never met but I have to tell you that I'm not proud about the way they have been treating people not just women but a lot of people in my life and you have inspired me to be a better person I hope you can give me some advice these are I was able to have so yeah if you can I write in my industry you might give me some advice and yeah that's that's a powerful I truly believe that some people go through life and they've been taught not the right way or that conscientious them I mean there have been chefs in this country who have been accused of having a culture of harassment in their kitchens and women who have worked for them who've said they've been abused and I just wonder like when those accusations come out. I mean you seem to have a level of patience and an open door I mean there's some people say Get that guy out of the industry like I don't know not everyone yeah so so I will not give them a pass I'm giving the past to people that haven't you know done anything violent specious issue of violence they have no place to be in and then you Sweeney where you supposed to bring people together so who gets the 2nd Chance who decides. For me it's people that perhaps that worked in that I'm here on man and understand that they were perhaps fine or but they realize they should have to speak up. Because when you look at the world we are all complicit. Domany cran is chef owner of I'll tell you a crane and other restaurants in San Francisco she recently got 3 stars from the prestigious Michelin Guide This is Morning Edition from n.p.r. News I'm David Greene and I'm no well King. And. I'm sure the plan. Of the. Winter. You are listening to public radio from Guam quickly p.r.g. Leading 9.3 f.m. I got you our studios are located on the campus of University of qualm and willing . To. Let you know. A little. You're listening to all the f.a. I'm Calero in for Tallia looking back at some of our favorite sessions of 28 team one of my personal favorites Moby. Moby sold over 20000000 albums one of a handful of electronic musicians to do so and in the ninety's went from basement conk shows to d.j. New York night clubs to being one of the biggest pop stars in the world if only for a moment. He's also the type of guy to embrace who is antithetical to rock star behavior today a diminutive soft spoken sober league and there was a very different side of Moby as he explains in his memoir halfway through the book I go from being a sober Christian to being a drunk degenerate and so it's called porcelain because I also did spend quite a lot of time and bracing bathroom new things made out of forceful and Moby today on the World Cafe one of the most interesting things my parents told me about their vacation to Jamaica was hearing some of the steel drummer players playing not an original song from Jamaica but covering this Los Angeles band. James says always great on the steel drums Jane's Addiction is on the World Cafe.

Related Keywords

Radio Program ,Npr Programs ,Illinois Lawyers ,Harvard Law School Alumni ,Columbia University Alumni ,Culture ,Personhood ,American Journalists ,American Politicians ,Climate Change ,Economic Problems ,Abuse ,Law ,Geography Of Iraq ,Writers From Chicago Illinois ,County Seats In California ,Obama Family ,Barack Obama ,American Legal Scholars ,American Nobel Laureates ,Politicians From Chicago Illinois ,Republic Of Ireland Association Footballers ,Legal Terms ,Economics ,Human Rights Abuses ,Texas Republicans ,American Memoirists ,Radio Kprg 89 3 Fm ,Stream Only ,Radio ,Radioprograms ,