To be named next week thousands March for the 19th consecutive week of anti-government protests in Hong Kong N.P.R.'s Emily Fang reports a March in defiance of emergency powers invoked this month by the city's chief executive Kerry lamb. Protesters chanted Hong Kong resist while others smash Chinese state banks and a local government office some threw Molotov cocktails inside one metro station for the most part the protests Saturday were peaceful several marches sprang up across the city a tactic adopted by protesters so they can quietly return to their residential neighborhoods of Metro stations are shut down or riot police move in many demonstrators covered their faces to show their opposition to a ban on such facemasks that there was an act of using emergency powers just over a week ago more Wildcat protests are planned for Sunday Emily thing n.p.r. News Hong Kong and from Washington you're listening to n.p.r. News. Following an international outcry the video game company Blizzard says it is reducing the penalties for a player who spoke out in favor of democracy in Hong Kong N.P.R.'s teams to back reports of the company came under fire from gamers and politicians in a statement Friday Blizzard Entertainment president Jay Allen Brack said the company reacted too quickly when it suspended in East sports player for a year and made him forfeit his winnings. Chung who goes by blitz Chung lives in Hong Kong he called for the liberation of the territory in a post-game interview last weekend blizzard now says it will reinstate the players' winnings and reduce his suspension to 6 months the company says its business relationship with China had quote no influence on our decision but Blizzard said it does not want its broadcast to be a platform for divisive views Senators Ron Wyden and Marco Rubio had said Blizzard was stifling free speech to appease the Chinese government James to back n.p.r. News you like tricity is coming back on in northern California the utility p.g. Any says power has been restored to most of the nearly 2000000 customers who lost it after p.g. And e. Switched it off in an effort to prevent wildfires in Southern California flames on the outskirts of Los Angeles have died down but officials have yet to lift mandatory evacuation orders that forced hundreds of thousands from their homes rather tens of thousands from their homes actor Robert Forster is dead Forster's publicist is being quoted as saying he died of brain cancer he was 78 I'm trial Snyder n.p.r. News from Washington support for n.p.r. Comes from n.p.r. Stations other contributors include ab Sco building the next level of clinical decision support with the own new Dyna mad clinicians and health care providers use Dinah mater to leverage evidence based medicine for patient care learn more at Dinah mad dot com. Or are. Or are. More or. Less born. This is Weekend Edition from n.p.r. News I'm Scott Simon the u.s. Ambassador to Ukraine says he was pushed out at the behest of Rudy Giuliani while associates of Rudy Giuliani were arrested on their way out of the country and the president has decided to allow one u.s. Ally Turkey to move against another the Kurdish militia in Syria now the 2 are exchanging gunfire with u.s. Troops in the crossfire Ron Elving joins us now our senior Washington editor and correspondent Ron thanks so much for being with us good to be with you Scott More testimony in the House impeachment inquiry this week more course on Monday what have we learned so far we're learning there was a lot more behind that whistleblower complaint that kickstarted impeachment a lot more than just a singular film poem called Between 2 presidents we're seeing evidence of a concerted campaign to remake the politics of Ukraine not to serve long time u.s. Policy goals not to Sara Lee but to serve the goals of certain clients of your Would you Rudy Giuliani the man you mentioned who is of course the president's personal attorney now according to that testimony on Friday this would have included a sustained effort to remove the American ambassador to Ukraine remove on a bitch a career foreign service officer who had a record of fighting corruption in that country but who also had a record a refusing to cooperate with Rudy Giuliani and then and then arrest to arrest at Dulles Airport not far from Washington d.c. On Wednesday and a report now by the New York Times that Mr Giuliani is under investigation for his work in and around Ukraine this is separate from the house inquiry isn't it or is it yes it is now we have those indelible mug shots to hold in our minds and these arrests are quite separate as you say from the house inquiry but they are not unrelated this. Particular arrest is the work of the u.s. Attorney's office for the Southern District of New York these are Justice Department attorneys who have been tracking these 2 individuals suspected of violating campaign finance laws in the United States. They were as you say associates of Rudy Giuliani and they had had lunch with Giuliani at the Trumpet telling Washington just before heading to Dulles with tickets to flee the country now these are people born in the old Soviet Union and people who were traveling money as you say from Russia I wonder what they had for lunch and you know did it go down very well in any of that Speaker Pelosi reportedly favored an impeachment inquiry narrowly focused if I might put it this way on the allegation that Donald Trump withheld military aid to Ukraine until they gave him political ammo against Joe Biden is it possible to keep this inquiry quite so narrow now. It's hard to imagine that these connections are not going to be made at some point in this whole investigation and of course in what's going on in the committees in the Congress and particularly when we eventually get to the House Judiciary Committee now these associates of Rudy Giuliani have direct links to Russia and they are evidence of Russia's intense interest in everything that happens in Ukraine remember that too was part of the old Soviet Union and Russians have already seized a part of that country known as Crimea and they're infiltrating other parts as well along Ukraine's eastern border with Russia at a time when the president needs his Republican allies in the Senate should there be an impeachment why would he withdraw politically if nothing else u.s. Troops that kept Turkey from doing exactly what what's happening now going after Kurdish troops and civilians and that has earned stinging criticism from many Republicans beginning with Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell. This may be the hardest thing to understand Scott as you say this week was a time Donald Trump needed all of his party united behind him all of the choir on the same page of the hymn book but instead he had prompted the biggest blowback he's had yet from precisely the people he relies on the most so when it seems to make no sense from Trump's perspective the president explained that he had promised for a long time to end the u.s. Role in what he calls endless wars in the Middle East so why now who's timetable is this it's clear you know troops was it the Turkish president's timetable part of his campaign against the Kurds why would that make it the agenda of the u.s. President. It we do know that Russia would like to isolate Turkey from its NATO neighbors and allies just as it would like to weaken u.s. Support of Ukraine so all this does seem to be working rather well from the perspective of the president of that country. N.p.r. Senior Washington editor and correspondent Ron Elving Ron thanks so much for being with us thank you Scott Turkey says it is pressing on with its military incursion into Syria the Turkish foreign minister says it's trying to avoid endangering civilians wants to clear the area of Kurdish fighters who are Turkey's enemies but these fighters have been u.s. Partners in the fight against ISIS president try to move some troops away from the border leaving Kurdish forces exposed in Syrian civilians vulnerable N.P.R.'s Daniel Estrin met some of those people. Were at the Iraqi border crossing with Syria and there are dozens of Syrian Kurds here who said they were too scared to stay in their homes and they fled there's no matter how much this is very sad. Because of the bombings because of the fighting seemed like we couldn't sleep my children they were like freaking out so we have to stay it's getting dark and Syrians are standing at the Iraqi border crossing waiting to be allowed and they look at it from hours of waiting to cross the crowded border but they're the lucky ones with Iraqi residency papers who can process through they saw many hundreds more on the Syrian side of the border crossing not being allowed in we need a doctor Joffe our Sayed who fled his home in northeastern Syria the area is mostly governed by Kurdish authorities who call it a shot at his yesterday's morning dawned. On. Me in cause it was because of that I many Kurds say they feel betrayed by President Trump the u.s. Had partnered with Kurdish forces to end ISIS control of the territory but now Trump has withdrawn some u.s. Troops from the area leaving Kurdish forces to. Fend for themselves as Turkey leaves a ground and air offensive yesterday u.s. Officials said Turkish artillery fire landed close to a u.s. Military position on the border no one was hurt but the u.s. Pulled its troops out of yet another spot along the border Kurds have fled the area too like 27 year old 7 hours of dk she's been sending us whatsapp voice messages since the offensive began hi hello to you there. I was in the shelter for all of my neighbors and another one that they it was full of my uncles and cousins and. Aunts So I just we just hugged each other but one of her uncles is missing he's a Kurdish fighter and a father of 7 she hasn't heard from him since the fighting began so she went to the morgue. At the end of the night that wasn't for my disappeared uncle and I went to the fridge off the market for I couldn't phone them but there was a many martyrs fighters and civilians have been killed since the offensive began both Syrian and Turkish but there are conflicting reports on the numbers some international aid groups in northern Syria have fled the fighting themselves crossing into Iraq but not all Steve Mer of partners Relief and Development says his team is helping Syrian seeking shelter away from the front lines there distributing blankets mats and food for at least 2000 people at the moment and are prepared to increase the amount of aid that we're delivering Turkey says its aim is to create a buffer zone on its border where it could relocate millions of Syrian refugees who have been living in Turkey for years but Turkey's offensive is creating a new wave of Syrians uprooted from their homes the u.n. Says 100000 Syrians are on the move Daniel Estrin n.p.r. News near the rock Syrian border. Shame's harden one of the greatest players in basketball has the greatest beard in sports long wire in full and he wouldn't be allowed to keep his beard in the shin Jong region of China for more than a 1000000 Chinese weaker Muslims have been imprisoned in reeducation camps and abnormal beards are outlawed as a sign of dissidents it's not surprising that when Daryl Morey the general manager of Mr Harden's team the Houston Rockets tweeted an image with the words fight for freedom stand with Hong Kong Chinese state television stop broadcasting and streaming the rockets games and Chinese companies drop their sponsorships and it's not surprising n.b.a. Officials rushed to say they disagreed with the tweet the league may make more than 4000000000 dollars in China this year and James Harden who's joined n.b.a. Stars and speaking out against police brutality and other urgent issues in America apologize for Darrell Maurice tweet by saying you know we love China we love playing there they show us the most important love he may mean dollars and cents or 10 cent the Chinese company that beams the N.B.A.'s games to some $500000000.00 people that vast following has made James Harden another n.b.a. Greats not only famous in China but even richer with endorsement contracts most Americans buy products from China without much care about how Chinese companies can pay low wages for long hours and sometimes treacherous conditions we know China is no authority Arion country that censors its citizens jails dissidents and suppresses free speach. But the league's apologies for Darrell mores free speech in support of Hong Kong's protesters have shown Americans just how much of our own free speech u.s. Corporations are willing to surrender to keep doing business with China n.b.a. Players have made public stand to support the black lives matter movement and to cry police brutality 74 percent of the players in the n.b.a. Are African-American about 20 percent are from other countries the league has stood up for players and coaches who criticize u.s. Political figures and n.b.a. Commissioner Adam Silver has spoken proudly of what he calls their sense of an obligation social responsibility a desire to speak up. Protestors in Hong Kong and jailed dissidents all over China might tell the National Basketball Association how speaking up as cost them a lot more than money. Yes. And you're listening to n.p.r. News. Next time on The New Yorker Radio Hour our reporters just back from China explain the simmering crises in Hong Kong and Beijing there among the young this sense of nihilism this feeling that you that thinks Roland let the world see how the comments we can e-mails That's next on The New Yorker radio out. 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Where it's 19 minutes past 5 o'clock Good morning on trial Snyder with these headlines President Trump is back in Washington arriving overnight following his campaign rally in Louisiana where voters are going to the polls today Republicans are seeking to force Louisiana's Democratic governor John Bell Edwards into a November runoff election before the Louisiana rally President Trump announced of the resignation of acting homeland security secretary Kevin McAloon the president says he will announce a new acting secretary next week and in baseball the Washington Nationals have kicked off the race for the National League pennant with a victory they won the 1st game of the best of 7 series against the St Louis Cardinals the American League series begins today between the Houston Astros New York Yankees. Trial Snider n.p.r. News from Washington. Support for n.p.r. 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At the grand reopening of the Wynn Dixie supermarket last month a high school marching band paraded through the store businesses have been slow to reopen since Hurricane Michel in part because there aren't enough workers the chairman of the Bay County Commission Philip Griffith says it all stems from a shortage of affordable housing there was an article in today's paper regarding a new Dairy Queen that was going to have a grand opening and they're having to push it back simply because they can't find the help to open a Dairy Queen. In Panama City and surrounding communities crews are busy replacing roofs and working on new construction but the demand for contractors plus the electricians plumbers and other building trades far outstrips what's available Griffith says friends who are contractors have more work than they can handle one gentleman friend since he's a small time customer home builder and commercial business builder he might do 5 projects 67 projects a year he's got 25 on the books I have another friend who who might do 100125 projects a year who at one time had 300 on the books when Michael roared through Panama City with winds over 150 mph it ravaged public housing and aging apartment complexes that made up much of the area's affordable housing stock thousands were left homeless many left the area some moved into trailers and manufactured homes provided by theme. Well well well on the Bay County Fairgrounds Pasha Crawford is pregnant and has been living in a female mobile home since March your boyfriend and 5 children we have the 3 very different tables been through really that oh. Thank goodness this is staying alive I'm very thankful for it though they put in the bunk beds in there for our boy says they can stay here until April and maybe longer a female allows it she and her boyfriend have been looking at rental properties but she says they're expensive pressie it like a 3 bedroom is going to be at least $181900.00 a month plus he will have your water in your life that you got to pay on top of it it. Is stressful and the city manager in Panama City Mark McQueen agrees that affordable housing is the area's most acute need but he says there are signs of progress work is underway on several privately owned apartment complexes there were damaged and shut down after the storm most of those were insured so we're seeing that coming back online and in fact between now and February of next year of 2020 we're going to see about 85 percent of that housing stock back in inventory again while housing remains the major challenge Hurricane Michael exposed another problem that needs attention in Panama City it's aging infrastructure feces dirty water and bacteria enough raw sewage to fill over 4000 bathtubs now in Watts in by you the sense of August a series of breaks and pump failures have dumped more than 65000 gallons of sewage into waterways in Panama City trees uprooted in the storm and convoys of heavy debris field trucks have cracked decades old sewer pipes officials say replacing the system will take 10 years and cost at least $200000000.00 And at this point officials in Panama City and other communities hit by the storm are struggling just to balance their budgets in Panama City Hurricane Michael destroyed or damaged 85 percent of the structures MacQueen says substantially reducing their value on the tax rolls just in the historic downtown. Area that we're in right now the aggregate taxable values were reduced by over $800000000.00 just in this little neighborhood that we're in right now to compensate for the decline in values Panama City raise the property tax rate an unpopular move but one of several local communities to do so McQueen says the tax rate should come down over the next few years as homes are rebuilt and property values rebound he's more concerned about another consequence of the storm the area's population loss he believes 8 or $9000.00 people more than 25 percent of the city's residents left the area the queen says that will hurt in April when the once in a decade since this is conducted that 4 hour named storm called Hurricane Michel could have a 10 year punitive effect to the recovery of the city of animosity that's because the census is used to determine levels of state and federal grants funding that will be vital as Panama City and other Panhandle communities rebuild Greg Allen n.p.r. News Panama City Florida Washington d.c. Has joined hundreds of u.s. Cities in 7 states and replacing Columbus Day with a day to celebrate Native Americans of course Christopher Columbus was a talian and his day has had special resonance for a talian Americans. Joseph sure is with the John did Calandra tell get American Institute at Queens College in New York and he joins us from New York now Fessor Sure thanks so much for being with us it's a pleasure to be here what what did it mean for many Italian Americans to have Columbus Day stablish is a federal holiday back in the 1930 s. One has to remember that when. Arrived here in the late 880 s. In Mass we're talking about 4 and a half millions who come in immigrants who come between 190-1924 they encounter America that is xenophobia that is engaging in acts of violence against immigrants one has to remember the lynching in New Orleans of 11 a Talon Americans in 1901 so that Columbus becomes this figure that Italians latch onto as a way to get a full hold in this incredibly hostile environment that they find themselves in so what is the reaction been among many Italians American groups and Italian American families to the emphasis in recent years and seeing the racism and brutality and violence and Columbus's personal history there's an emotional bond to Columbus I've read poetry which has says you know when I look at the figure of Columbus and on the statue I don't see Columbus I see my grandfather I see the sort of workers' hands in his hands I see the visit his vision is and I see that of my grandfather so there's a really emotional bond there I should say that you know this is not an issue of talian Americans against Native Americans or Native Americans against attacking Americans it's not a versus It's not a war that's going up on these 2 groups and I think that's always important to keep in mind. And it calls for a land order Davinci day yet Diane De Primo wonderful poet out of San Francisco has a fabulous poem call whose day is it and which she lists a litany of possible alternatives everyone from Yogi Berra to Conny Francis or Frank Sinatra I'd be proud to tell our daughters when you've got Yogi Berra day off from school. Yes on I smiling because every year on Facebook I celebrate a different Italian American figure not an Italian figure but an Italian American figure you know I think a number of attacking Americans have made that understanding have made that switch that supporting Columbus and his quite frankly barbaric acts is not something that people want to associate themselves with and so you see it in a number of different ways I know on Staten Island this happened a few years ago where a telling Americans are opting for an Italian American Heritage Day and moving themselves away from the idea of a Columbus Day as a marker for Italian American identity Joseph sure of Queens College New York thanks so much for being with us thank you for having. Us authorities have launched a slew of investigations and warning against jewel from marketing to teens and claiming that he said arrests are safe but recently expanded overseas and into some lower income countries like the Philippines that don't have as many regulations. Health advocates there worry that Joel will make up for the clampdown on the u.s. By ramping up what they say are questionable practices N.P.R.'s numerate Eisenman reports Julie launched in the Philippines this past June Maria and Carney says overnight the product was popping up in shops all over the capital Manila exceedingly eerie and expect a mushroom limping as a doctor specializing in lung disease and director of a nonprofit that has helped push through rules preventing the marketing and sale of cigarettes to minors in the Philippines so she was horrified to see how visible jewels vaporizers Now are you can actually see them in any type scars at one of Manila's biggest convenience chains She says the new jewel displays are right at the entrance then there was the placement of a jewel promotional kiosk Yeah so it was very near Baskin Robbins you know ice cream and she says just like Baskin Robbins in its Philippine stores Jewel is offering an assortment of flavors made 3 or. More that seem tailor made to appeal to teens Shane McGill studies that back o. Industry for the market research firm euro monitor international He says when it comes to international expansion I think that's important parts of the business strategy for the company is already in 20 countries pretty much all of them wealthy but this spring jewel made its 1st foray into less well off Nations with its entry into not just the Philippines but Indonesia and McGill says Jewel has been laying the groundwork to launch and many more if you look at where the majority of tobacco Nixon consumption takes place globally it is in lower and middle income markets Miguel says for now most consumers in those less well off countries can't afford jewel products but he says Jewel has been banking on the possibility that eventually incomes in those countries will rise. Strategy was really built around making sure that the brand was in a position to access that sort of potential growth and with Jewel facing new scrutiny in the u.s. Olympian the health advocate from the Philippines worries that over the long term Jule end up shifting its focus to countries like hers already she says the company is behaving very differently in the Philippines compared to the u.s. They are making the beads. For instance in the u.s. The Food and Drug Administration is investigating whether jewels fruit and other non tobacco flavors constitute illegal marketing to kids and should be banned in response Jewel has already voluntarily pulled these flavors from u.s. Stores but not the ones in the Philippines and says in her country there's really not. A big effect from the. Peaks also issue the messages jewel puts out about the safety of its product Dr Albert Rizzo is chief medical officer with the American Lung Association he notes that they being involves chemicals some of these chemicals are carcinogens very. Regular cigarettes maybe lower and lower number but they thing is still a pretty new phenomenon so. Long term. This chemical would lead to that means under u.s. Law Jewel is prohibited from describing its product as safe or even saying it's safer than smoking last month the f.d.a. Warns jewel that some of its marketing does just that and the agency ordered jewel to stop immediately but the company faces no such constraints in the Philippines and says when her son approached a jewel kiosk in Manila the sales person told him that using Jewel is safer than smoking because it won't cause cancer and no mention was made of any risks from fading they're actually market the like it's not gonna cost any problems n.p.r. Asked officials at Jewel why the company's practices around safety messaging and flavors appear to be different in the 2 cars. Trees in a statement Joel officials noted that the company recently appointed a new c.e.o. And he said both he and quote the entire juleps leadership team is continuing a broad review of the company's practices and policies to ensure alignment with its aim of responsible leadership within the industry. On Weekend Edition Sunday conversation with a woman who was diagnosed with. Breast cancer in 2013. To talk about living and then living. That conversation Ronan Farrow on the allegations against Matt Lauer. On the season finale of. Your smart play n.p.r. Or your member station. And you're listening to Weekend Edition from n.p.r. News. Starting October 12th. We've seen details in the surfaces of only a few stars other than the sun stars are just so far away that most of them look like nothing more than pen points of light even to the biggest telescopes and most of the ones where we have seen details are either Giants or super giants one exception is out here one of the members of the bright Summer Triangle it's high in the south as darkness falls and drops down the western sky during the night Al tear is in the prime of life it's a couple of times wider and heavier than the Sun the oh so it's hotter and brighter than the sun out terror is only 17 light years away by astronomical standards that's just down the block that's allowed astronomers to measure its size and shape and to get a rough view of its surface they observed out terror with a set of small telescopes they were linked through a technique known as interferometry the combined telescope see more detail than a single giant telescope could reveal the interferometer confirmed estimates of the star size made with other techniques and they showed that the star is squished It's about 20 percent thicker through the equator than through the poles That's because the star rotates much faster than the Sun does which pushes gas at the equator outward finally the technique produced rough images about air showing big areas of light and dark on its surface details that have been seen on few other stars tomorrow stocking the full moon. And we have more sky watching tips and much more about the universe and start a magazine the tales that start a war for the McDonald Observatory I believe. Scorpio Jim this is this is the full supply and that's a really important question because in many places of the world it is dangerous to humans Lauren Esposito is the curator of the right knowledge at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco but if you think about a scorpion and what it's doing in its environment the 1st thing that it wants to do is survive and that means and so the singer usually produces venoms or toxins that are intended to subdue or kill their prey and other scorpion groups they also produce things that help keep them alive by defending them from predators and so that means that they're producing then gnomes that act on the nervous systems of the other predators like mammals Scorpions have a whole variety of potencies of their venom and here in the United States we don't have to worry scorpions that we have here for the most part feel worse like a wasp stain and in many cases don't feel like anything more than getting your thumb pricked with a thumb and other places of the world there's certainly a problem with scorpions for humans because there's ease of scorpions that are capable of killing an adult human here in the u.s. The only people that would need to worry about scorpions is in the case of one species which lives in Arizona and western New Mexico called the Arizona bark scorpion and that's Scorpion for an adult human or a healthy person feels like a bad wasp saying it's certainly not pleasant but for a young child or somebody with a compromised immune system it can always leads of complications that are unexpected and so it's always good. When you're living around the. School you 2 programs. This is the pulse of the planet you can listen to this in previous programs on our part. Every. Secret You know what makes each other that's rock. Trail hurt so much. On the let's not judgment. Snap Judgment you can hear this afternoon at 1 o'clock and right at 11 here on k.q.e.d. Public Radio. A female officer. On the Next Radio Lab things interesting a showdown between survival of the fittest. Not good enough and survival cloth easy shiny beautiful thing. Of the prettiest valving the males to please the female females choose beauty. That's on the next really allowed we bring your Radio Lab this afternoon at 2 o'clock and tomorrow morning at 3 am. I'm Joel Snyder with these headlines Japan is dealing with heavy rain and strong winds from a powerful typhoon the storm is being called the worst in 60 years made landfall today southwest of Tokyo one person is reported dead thousands of police and military troops are standing by for rescue operations more depositions are scheduled in the coming days as part of the impeachment inquiry into President Trump last night the former u.s. Ambassador to Ukraine Maria Vonn of edge left the capital after giving some 9 hours of closed door testimony to house investigators and Turkey is in the 4th day of its military offensive against Kurdish militias in northern Syria there are reports of clashes today around a key border town that Turkey's military sound now says it controls on trial Snyder n.p.r. News from Washington. Support for n.p.r. Comes from log me en featuring go to sponsor of the how I built this entrepreneurs summit this October in San Francisco go to unified communications and collaboration software brought together more at go to dot com American Jewish World Service working together for more than 30 years to build a more just and equitable world learn more at a j w s o r g and the listeners of k.q.e.d. This is Weekend Edition from n.p.r. News I'm Scott Simon the Dixie classic fair North Carolina wraps up tomorrow and it's the last year it will go by that name city officials in Winston Salem voted to rename the event. Because for some Dixie evokes images of slavery and segregation Carrie Brown's member station w. If t. D. Reports. The Southern team name has been part of the d.c. Classic fair since 1986 the grandstand near its end his is a popular spot for entertainment but this year it's getting even more attention you're going to have to paint the wall on the grandstand. It's a it's a classic fair it's been there forever people are taking selfies underneath a vintage looking sign nearby a souvenir booth only has a few items left Michael Gross all the way from New York just to say goodbye the name means like I walk I mean it's really heartbreaking and I mean I think back to like my mom picking me out for half days of school because we have a cookie competition we have to get through and we have to do it so I mean it is it almost brings a tear to my like thing and it's going to be different 1st broached British we at tennis and merchandise sales have been breaking records this year the city of Winston Salem took down a confederate statue in March and then moved to rename this event tensions ran high during a public meeting on the issue of thousands responded to a survey most people wanted to keep Take see in the fairs name but local resident Maya Gilliam says it needed a change that represents the Confederate flag it represents white supremacy in general the k.k.k. I think is important now that you know even though the world has grown we still need to make sure the difference temples change as well because they hold energy this which has been the talk of this year's fair even for Pastor Willie Hawkins he says the issue is complicated Hawkins is black and his people are going overboard if you're going to get rid of the name of the affair because it's Dixie The next thing you know get rid of the Dixie Cups and Dixie plates Mason Dixon line is part of history it has to stop somewhere Winston Salem isn't the only community dealing with this in Northern California the. Dicksee School District Board voted this year to change the name of the 150 year old school system the term Dixie is synonymous with describing the geographic area of the South it was used in a song by the Confederacy during the Civil War in the south the past is never Dad it's not even passed and how we. As and they evoke the past is constantly a challenge that southern folklorist Bill Ferris He says the word has evolved over time and communities should embrace these healthy conversations Joe Joe back at the Dixie classic fair Josh Rojas that I was with his 3 year old son he says visiting this place has been an annual tradition since he was a kid I'm going to miss it it's to be honest because it is what I grew up with on the discussion. And I feel like I can see both sides of things being a racial or not so but it did bother some people I don't want to be insensitive to the late people feel about things Hostetter says the change will be hard to get used to but he's looking forward to making new memories with his family but they fail because next year hasn't been decided for n.p.r. News I'm Carrie Brown in Winston Salem North Carolina Tim O'Brien became a father when he was 50. 2 boys to me and Ted as he writes in a letter to Timmy when he was just a year old when you begin to know me you will know an old man over the years Tim O'Brien has written occasional letters to Timmy and Tad about things they can carry through life if you please from their father the celebrated author of The Things They Carried the classic collection of short stories from the war in Vietnam and several award winning novels those letters have been brought together for a new book dads maybe book. To Mo Brian joins us now from the studios of k. U.t. In Austin thanks so much for being with us and I'm delighted thank you fact your son Ted gave you the title did me your dad he saw a stack of papers on my gas can he asked me Is this going to be a book and I said well sometimes books and up and trash cans and just aren't good enough and he said Well one of the book is good enough will it be a book and I said maybe and his eyes lit up and he said well you have to call it that you've got to call it your maybe luck. Now for the record you reveal yourself in this book as an ardent and devoted father but you had to be convinced to have a family didn't you know I did I think I feared fatherhood I had lived for 58 years that without children and I feared that I wouldn't be a good father that I wouldn't have the patience for it changing diapers and a bad limited bed time. And my wife and I we weren't married at the time we were talking about getting married nearly broke up over my reluctance to have children. Let me ask you about a section called row row which recaptures I think for many parents the sheer terror of their offsprings cry yeah I was afraid I was killing my own child he to me my older son cried from birth until. 5 months into life without ceasing and eventually the crying became an factious I cried and my wife cried. And one Sunday afternoon I found her crying right outside Timmy's bedroom. And without thinking about it at all just said we're get dressed we're going and we headed for an emergency room. And 7 or 8 hours later we emerge us 2 prescriptions of Xanax for Meredith and for me. And $101.00 of prowler sat for Timmy who was found to be suffering from a really severe case of acid reflux you wrote them a letter to which you try and tell them how it feels to be a veteran of the war in Vietnam and certainly the one hand you love and cherish those with whom you served on the other hand you hold nothing back about what you did there well yes I mean I love. And will love forever my fellow soldiers in Vietnam. And admire him however did advance under fire and under the most lethal circumstances and home relentlessly ordinary day were in doing self we were all kids 21 years old took up to 25 or so. And the other hand the whole my fellow veterans of that war hold views that I don't hold many of them would do it all again and I wouldn't yet when I encounter them or talks I give around the country I like Europe and it has to do with this sense of and during the un and durable together. That stays with me not only in my waking hours been a lot of times in my dream as. You write at one point I'm an old man now and when I put this period on the sentence I will be a minute or 2 older how many more sentences can there be. Will those sentences be better will they be wise or will they be more infused with feeling because of your children guiding dads maybe i'm Ok as I love inside of my other books don't have at least at night expand don't wisdom that I have from growing all does the wisdom of knowing God I don't know everything and that I am wrong as often as I am right. And in several chapters of the book I warn my kids of not absolutism and I can kill people and house. It's not a crime to use the word may be an answer not a Santa and it's not evil. That maybe this comes not just from Vietnam it comes from getting old. Tim O'Brien his book dads may be book thank you so much for being with us thank you Scott. Maricel Hernandez was a peppy Carlos Miguel and also remember as and Alex been done Yeah grew up in Los Angeles where they were surrounded by a swirl of musical influences they heard Mexican accordions and horns and mariachis infused those sounds with Boston over jazz pop even the Beatles Let me take you down. The group calls themselves the center Cecilia named after the Catholic saint of musicians the Grammy winners have a new self-titled album. Paris or Hernandez the vocalist and percussionist from areas joins us now from n.p.r. West thank you both very much for being with us thank you Hi Thank you for having us how did you find each other in that big urban swath of Los Angeles. Some of us knew each other since we were like teenagers I admit but I pick out a loss on all their St I was busking with the older musicians that my teachers lay learned all that beautiful traditional Mexican Latin American music and that they was busking with his little brother on the other side of the street and years later we decided to form a trio where we would play traditional Latin American music and then one day we here with my buddy also we decided to create a band called Les on the scene where we could make our own music write about our own experiences experiment with our influences. We were brought together by a common interest in music and you decided it sounds like to go. Rode together and try new things together yes we had already been working as musicians all over the city each one of us either playing in weddings or doing set in that the us or you know also the gays funk jazz were basically freelancing and music means so much to us and we wanted something that felt like it was important to us and to our city and the representatives you know I want to ask you about a song that's at the center of the shallop And let's hear a little bit of it 1st I've been thinking. I'm. Going to have a common experience that that led to this song I gathered and sure yes in a matter of like 12 months all soul Alec's and I lost our fathers at different times it was a very big big big blow to to the band and to us personally we were all very close to our fathers and I don't know if I could have if I could go through this you know without my bandmates I feel like this united us even more and we needed to write something and let out these feelings now of when someone loses someone and they're going through the process of separating of understanding of of learning how to love that person even though they're not there with you anymore you know. But. You know we we were family before like money so it says we were saying we always hang out together we always party and you know we love you know together when we're on tour but this is definitely something that you know it's kind of like you know kind of adult stuff man that you have to deal with and thankfully we have music and we have this. Thing to be able to pour our love and I thoughts and desperation our pain and all that into music. Talking about your families talking about your community has always been important to listen to Syria. I gather several of your loved ones are immigrants from Mexico . Hard not to be affected by the current political climate is not. Man so so very difficult you know from the beginning of the band we started off not with political intentions but with just of a strong faith in what we could accomplish with music and as time went by you know our band member at the Carlos was undocumented for pretty much 27 years of his life and so much of of our family history and lineage just has to do with immigration and coming to this country and what our experiences as being bicultural people and we chose to write a song called I said you know on 2013 it's a song of change your life because we chose to write about our story from our perspective what we live what we feel. Like you. Chose to humanize the experience of the immigrant and what happens through the process of deportations and separation of families and stuff like that and for us it's really important too to always reflect that and use a platform that we have to speak out on on issues and of course right now you know seeing all this all this hate all this ignorance. It bums me out you know and it makes me feel at times very angry and it makes me feel fearful and sometimes impotent but I refuse I refuse to let hate and ignorance control my life you know so I feel like unless something the senior We will always continue to to raise with pride our flag of love of where we come from of being Mexican American of being from Latin America and being born here in the United States and how beautiful that is not how beautiful diversity is and and whether people like it or not we are as American as apple pie and you know. That sounds like a wonderful combination has made it. So Hernandez has the vocalist your crush Mr close over Marius of the band listen to Cecilia their new self-titled album is released this coming Friday thank you both very much for being with us thank you so much for having us an honor. This is Weekend Edition from n.p.r. News. Charting music I'm Scott Simon. I. Support for n.p.r. 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I'm Stephen Dubner on the next Freakonomics radio everybody's always in search of great news but how about killing off the old ideas and stand in the way of progress this is an idea that makes no sense and the idea that I believe is ready to retire is I think an idea that is really bad but it's detrimental to the ideas whose time has come that's next time on Freakonomics Radio . Freakonomics Radio the stuff for noon at 3 o'clock am tomorrow morning at 4 am here on k.q.e.d. Anywise and his wife were black farmers from North Carolina. And he says a government agency discriminated against them for years and drove them off the only. Difficulty with a marshal service you don't actually know what's going on so I'm supposed to take my own life and just walk yes or unfortunately order from the court on the next reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting and p.r. And. Reveal here at this afternoon at 4 o'clock and overnight tomorrow morning at 1 am here on k.q.e.d. . This is k.q.e.d. 88.5 San Francisco k.q.e.d. I 89.3 North Highlands Sacramento and good morning it's 6 o'clock here listening to Weekend Edition. From n.p.r. News in Washington d.c. This is Weekend Edition. I'm Scott Simon as Turkish forces drive in in northern Syria Kurdish families of the United States are worried for their loved ones and angry over what they consider a betrayal. Now lives in San Diego because last 11000 people fighting ISIS lost their lives on the day or to protect humanity that story this hour also wildfires in Southern California Priyanka Chopra Jonas on her new film in Hindi about a couple who endure through loss and the return of Olive Kitteridge Elizabeth Strout tells us her most famous character just turned up one day with news stories 1st we have our newscast today is Saturday October 12th 2019. From n.p.r. News in Washington on trial Snider there are reports of fierce clashes in northeastern Syria today as Turkish forces continue their military offensive against Kurdish militias the B.B.C.'s Alan Johnston reports much of the fighting has been around a key border town reports from the front to say Russell and his come on the Turkish teary fire that insane columns of smoke rising into the air war planes have been circling and on the ground there's been the noise of intense gunfire the Turks say they've captured the town but the Kurds deny this a monitoring group says that altogether more than 120 combatants being killed since the offensive began on Wednesday 30 civilians have died and the 100000 forced to flee their homes President Trump says the u.s. And China have reach what he calls phase one of a trade agreement N.P.R.'s winter Johnston reports a specific So the deal are still being worked out speaking outside of the White House on Friday trying to outline the partial trade agreement after meeting with Chinese negotiators we have a great deal what papering it down all over the next 3 or 4 or 5 weeks hopefully they get it is a tremendous benefit to our farmers technology and many other things Trump says China will purchase between $40.00 to $50000000000.00 in u.s. Agricultural goods and that some technology transfer will be part of the deal the u.s. Has also agreed not to impose additional tariffs on Chinese goods that were set to take effect on Tuesday trade talks are expected to pick up again next month Windsor Johnston n.p.r. News Washington as an interim maybe you know.
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