Clashing with police and shopping malls today's demonstrations come as Leader Kerry lamb is in Beijing she is to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping tomorrow President Trump tweeted overnight about New Jersey Congressman Jeff Andrew he is a freshman Democrat from New Jersey who is believed to be planning to switch parties and become a Republican as the House moves to hold a vote this week on whether to impeach the president Fandor was among the House Democrats who represent districts Trump carried in 2016 in New Jersey last night family members remembered one of the people killed in an attack on a kosher market last Tuesday N.P.R.'s Jeff Brady reports Douglas Rodriguez was an employee at the store during the memorial service a staff person for Senator Bob Menendez gave Douglas Rodriguez's wife a folded u.s. 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A new study in Canada's shows that 14000 Canadians have died from opioids in the past 4 years Dan carpetbagger reports that experts say many of the decks were caused by illegal drugs contaminated with toxic substances in addition to the thousands of deaths the study found that 17000 people were sent to the hospital for opioid related poisoning the numbers come from a national advisory committee that studying the epidemic of opioid overdoses across the country Canada's chief public health officer says fentanyl and other synthetic opioids continue to be the major cause and she and others say it's a complex problem that will need time to turn around experts say that can only come from societal changes that include more harm reduction measures and easing barriers to treatment for those suffering from substance abuse the worst affected areas are in Western Canada with Ontario also seeing an increase in opioid related deaths for n.p.r. News I'm Dan Karp in shock in Toronto you know this you quarterback Joe Burrows this year's Heisman trophy winner or a one college football's most prestigious award in record setting fashion last night winning the vote in a landslide and he was a motional when he accepted the trophy just grateful for the opportunity in the bus and to be here and there's there's 3 other options except for me you know they had incredible seasons as well and I'm just so grateful that you know I had for my journey so great for my journey and and everyone is helping along the way transferred to Ellis you from Ohio State he broke out this year becoming the 1st Ellis you player to take home the Heisman and 16 years on trial Snyder n.p.r. News support for n.p.r. Comes from Abscam celebrating 75 years of supporting libraries their communities and the role librarians play in making a difference learn more about ab Sco at absolute 0 dot com and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation at r.w.j. Yaffa dot org. 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News and The Good morning the moment is arriving this week on Wednesday lawmakers will have to put their vote where their speeches have been the full House will cast their ballots for or against impeaching President Trump on Wednesday and that vote is expected to go along party lines with the Democrats in the majority President Trump will be impeached and after that a trial in the Senate to consider whether Trump should be removed from office but Senate Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told Fox News's Sean Hannity that there is quote 0 chance the Senate will vote to convict the President so is this all a foregone conclusion and P.R.'s national political correspondent Mara Liasson will have the answer for us this morning Hi Mara Hi Lou All right no quote no cliffhanger that's the question do we already know what's going to happen well we know that the House will vote to impeach the Democrats do have the votes the vote in the Judiciary Committee was strictly along party lines 23 to 17 we don't expect any Republicans to vote yes on the House floor but we do expect a handful of Democrats to vote No he just don't know how many of them are right so take us through the next steps what exactly does a Senate impeachment trial look like well despite the fact that the president has said he wanted witnesses he wants a kind of spectacular trial he once called the Bidens he seems to now be accepting the will of the Senate Republicans who want a short trial with potentially no outside witnesses at all because they know that if Republicans did try to get the Bidens as witnesses Democrats would insist on having witnesses like Mick Mulvaney and Mike bump aoe and John Bolton the bill that the White House prevented from testify they don't want to do there right it's a double edged sword or in the words of Mitch McConnell calling witnesses quote mutually assured destruction and even Lindsey Graham who's one of the president's most ardent defenders said let's just deep 6 this thing as fast as we can. Deep 6 this thing as fast as we can how long do you think this is going to last that I think it will last about 2 weeks that's what I'm hearing from people I talk to on both sides of the aisle Republicans can't just dismiss this the minute it comes over there they have to show the public they're serious about this process but it seems like Mitch McConnell has decided that for his incumbent Republicans who are up for reelection in 2020 a long trial is not a good thing I want to take us back for a moment to last week when we saw Democrats and Republicans really going at each other for hours and hours in the last hearing it seems like Democrats and Republicans are living in these different universes if you were watching this as a viewer you're just getting this completely different narratives What struck you about what you heard Well what struck me we already knew the basic contours of both sides arguments Democrats say the president abused his power by simply asking a foreign government to open an investigation into one of his top 2020 rivals that's interference in an American election. But the 2nd article of impeachment he obstructed Congress by across the board refusing to honor subpoenas for witnesses and documents Republicans which was more interesting to me seemed to be moving away from the yes he might have asked but it doesn't rise to the level of impeachment because there was no quid pro quo that the aide finally went to he never asked which is amazing because on the south lawn back in October when he was asked exactly what he wanted Ukraine to do he said this they should investigate the by by the way likewise China just started investigation instead of by because what happened to China is just about as bad as what happened with. With Ukraine so he did it in plain sight in front of the cameras but now Republicans some of them are saying he didn't do it and some Republicans are even going so far as to say it's Ok to ask foreign governments to interfere that is definitely a change in tune n.p.r. National political correspondent Mara Liasson who will be looking at impeachment all next week thanks so much thank you today is the last day of open enrollment for 2020 under the Affordable Care Act also known as Obamacare it's help provide health care coverage for millions of Americans Republicans have long been trying to weaken Obamacare both in and out of court and for a check up on the health of the law itself we're joined now by Mary Agnes Carey of Kaiser Health News Hi Thanks for having me so remind us who this deadline effects it affects everyone who's currently enrolled in the Affordable Care Act It affects people who have been thinking about it perhaps want to check it out and they can start at Health Care dot gov if they want to take a look and what have you seen during open enrollment this time around when it comes to how many people are signing up overall it's down about 6 percent at this point however the number of people who are coming back and actively renewing that number has been increasing particularly in. Last week snapshot of numbers as well as new people coming into the exchange so the thought is there's always a last minute rush the race has been every single year that that will perhaps accelerate enrollment or at least keep it stable where it has been and we have to remember if you are currently enrolled in Affordable Care Act plan and you do nothing you'll be automatically reenrolled What are the possible reasons though that the overall enrollment was down from last chance there could be a lot of factors that have been ongoing for the last couple years big drop in advertising from the federal government that has been down 90 percent the navigator's the assisters this is the on the ground one on one help that has dropped there certainly have been a lot of concern a lot of talk from President Trump and Republicans opponents of the health care law that it's a failure that it doesn't work people may simply be confused about it that could certainly be part of it but another factor is for people who don't get a subsidy that some of the cash assistance polishes only fordable Care Act have been on affordable and might continue to be so for them so there's a variety of factors if you will involved in that as you mentioned the Republicans have repeatedly tried to weaken the Asean among other things they've eliminated the individual mandate that required everyone to have health insurance or pay a penalty the top administration expanded access to these short term plans right there sort of the best comprehensive right don't give you a lot of coverage they don't have to be as comprehensive as the right and it's allowed states to require Medicaid beneficiaries to prove that they either work or go to school I imagine that those. I imagine that all this has had quite a significant effect on on the bomb care so I think they can I want to for example the work requirements have been somewhat of an issue they've been challenged in court and so on but in Arkansas for example 18000 people lost their health insurance under the work requirements and part of the thought was people didn't know about it the information campaign wasn't out there. State officials are trying to correct that but the thing to note is that most Medicaid beneficiaries live in a home where people work and something like 6 out of 10 Medicaid beneficiaries already have a job so the whole issue of work requirements has been debated whether is it really worth the investment financially states are making because many of these folks are already working and then there's of course been this concern for quite some time about the number of insurers per state a number of places were down to just one or 2 available providers and those numbers have gone up haven't they they have gone up while the average premium has dropped about 4 percent for 2020 nearly 7 in 10 people will have access to at least 3 marketplace plans and that's up from 6 in 10 a year ago so insurers who may have left the marketplace because of all the term or whether it was the drop in the advertising or the outreach or the government stopped spending money on these cars sharing subsidies to help beneficiaries some of the lower income ones with out of pocket costs that basically insurers who may have stepped out have now stepped back and they've seen it's a profit making enterprise they can do well in the Affordable Care Act marketplace and they've come back and so the number of options available has they are increasing for 2020 What would you say the health is of the Right now I think it is resilient I mean you've still got about 20000000 people that have received coverage either through the Affordable Care Act exchanges or through the Medicaid expansion So you mentioned earlier the political fire the dozens of attempts by Republicans in the House to repeal all or part of the Affordable Care Act it's failure to for Republicans to repeal in the Senate after all of this the law is still there and is still standing and polls show that most people actually support Obamacare now right it has grown my polling colleagues of the Kaiser Family Foundation have found that the favorable rating if you will has clicked up it's at about 52 percent of the unfavorable about 41 percent and that is a change from prior years that's Mary Agnes Carey of Kaiser Health News thanks so much thank you. 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Mr Gandhi not he is the gallery employee who Aidid the painting titled portrait of a lady after the workers brought it to him the colors were unmistakable the 1st time I think they were joking but in reality they see little of that and I see immediately the color of the draft of the woman and after that we call the police and that's where the painting is now with the police as they try to figure out how it ended up in the hidden panel and experts verify its authenticity for. That moment of realization that he was looking at the stolen Clint will not quickly fade I was. So much and so exciting I think I never forget these particular experiences. More Americans have died from. Overdoses than. She will always be the shadow in the room the thing. On. It's very difficult to look back on a decade of one of the most devastating public health crises of our time. The talks in Madrid have gone to a close with a compromise deal that calls for greater ambition in cutting greenhouse gases but puts off regulation of global carbon markets until next year a strong earthquake has jolted the southern Philippines u.s. Geological Survey says it had a magnitude of 6.8 buildings are reported damaged and power has been cut a series of quakes has struck the region since October and a New Zealand searchers return to White Island today but have yet to find the remains of the last 2 victims of Monday's volcanic eruption authorities this weekend confirmed the death of a 16th victim about 20 people remain hospitalized. N.p.r. News from Washington. Support for n.p.r. 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News I'm little Garcia Navarro e-mails from Steven Miller indicate he harbored racist and Islamophobia Now the woman he was writing to says he helped radicalize her as a white supremacist Miller worked in the Senate at the time for Jeff Sessions he's now a senior advisor to President Trump Katie McHugh works for Breitbart she was fired in 2017 after racist tweets Kim She joins us now on the line Welcome thank you thank you for having me I'm going to start with a pointed question about your motives because people may wonder you have tweeted things in the past that were racist things that got you fired from an already far right website you told c.n.n. You don't have a full time job or consistent lodging is this a bid to regain respectability by taking aim at someone who many people deeply dislike you know my personal life is simply of my concern why I will say is that I believe there are what happened to me these e-mails must be made you know public the public needs to see full and complete transparency and I do not do this for you know money at all receive no money I sacrificed a great deal to make sure that these were carefully vetted and they weren't going to work as ations that would simply pull one or 2 things or could say I gave in to the Southern Poverty Law Center especially the reporter Mike was in Hayden because I believe he's the best report in the country to carefully go through them and understand that there is a higher network and structure of white nationalism that has infiltrated conservatism and furthermore is now in control of the White House. Well let's dig into that last month when we 1st learned the contents of these e-mails you gave to the Southern Poverty Law Center. And these e-mails which Miller has not disavowed we saw hostility to immigrants from both Miller and yourself. And now you see I say something of course he did not disavow them because they are authentic you can't deny their authenticity The only thing they can do is the like and I am appalled that they would say that is an anti-Semitic attack that actually breaks my heart that you're referring to the White House's response to this saying that the fact of accusing Steven Miller or releasing these e-mails is based on the fact that he's Jewish and. This is an anti-Semitic attack that is a start and your background you know where you came from doesn't matter if your actions were this is a person who believes and discredited race science and eugenics. And how you propose to her people actually people of color especially Muslims What did you understand his role to be at Breitbart it's there that we see in these e-mails Steven Miller suggesting stories to you. Some of the things he pointed you to are from white power groups he approvingly quoted an infamous White Power Book the camp of the Saints even though I was the editorial director of the political section of my partner explain how that worked exactly he would suggest something and then use to him and how you would do it to him by. The Washington political editor 3 partners in her on June 25th. It was understood that I would take direction from him and this is why he's working in the Senate for Jeff Sessions Yes yes it's absurd to be like a small Harris's office was you know writing off as you know c.n.n. And saying This isn't from us and they will publish it under a like you know news desk c.n.n. . While the owner of the court incredible violation of journalistic ethics. Breitbart who is called you a liar said that you were fired for many things that weren't just that tweet but we also know the steep and headed Breitbart when you were there called it a platform for the all right and there's a lot of reporting that show that there was a political strategy behind the stories Breitbart chose and the Banon chosen who they targeted did you have a sense of that while you were there did everyone understand what they were a part of yes and I was being fired from Breitbart was one of the things ever have me I'm certainly not a disgruntled employee there are actually many like I am not a conservative but there are many very good conservatives working for that website and I wish they would walk away. This is just about morality and about like voting by your conscience but when you did Steve did you understand that you were part of a sort of political agenda I understand of time I was very young. And this is my 2nd job 10 months out of college. Or 23 I'm not saying that to myself I'm saying that this is going to happen to more young people. We see now how the air in especially Facebook and Twitter are engines for radicalization Why do you think this ideology is getting so much traction here right now you say that you're actually wanting to speak out so that people can be alerted to how this has infiltrated so many parts of our life what do you thoughts on that why is this happening and how is it happening that's a good question and I apologize if my answers and precise but I feel that people who are isolated in the Internet has access into tiny little compartments all along . And so people staring at their computer all day and this happened to me too because I was a journalist I was a researcher and this happens to Facebook moderators as well you keep using this content they in a day out and change you because the child is sizing and trauma rewires the brain and when I receive a miller was e-mailing me nonstop calling me nonstop not on felt like Frequently we were in frequent contact. That's being pumped into your brain and it changes you and what I suggest to people this is do something like I did which is say this I'm going to become a waitress I'm going to talk to real people was it a hard journey when you looked at certain movies you wrote and said yes escaping the old right is like escaping a cult and the thing about cults is that all your personal connections are in that . You have to rip the roots out one by one and you have to a lot of people outside the cult say I need help and you have to be humble enough you to humble yourself and admit that you need help. That's Katie McHugh she was an editor for Breitbart thank you very much thank you and we'll note that we reached out for comment to the White House Miller himself and Breitbart and that we have not heard back. In Martin Scorsese's new film The Irishman we are 1st introduced to Robert De Niro as an old man in a nursing home but just a few minutes later he's dropped a good 30 to 40 years alongside actor Joe Pesci when they meet up over a broken down truck at a gas station. Funny it's stops and starts a pilot says fame give me a hand it's this latter transformation we want to talk about today of Deniro and Pepsi and Al Pacino 2 who plays murder teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa and the Irishman new technology has developed to de age the Septa Najarian actors on screen and we're joined now by the man who headed the team that did it battle Hellman is an Oscar nominated visual effects supervisor at Industrial Light and Magic the studio founded by George Lucas and he joins us now from member station k.q.e.d. In San Francisco hi there. I'm great this is an extraordinary bit of technology and you know we've gotten so used to seeing actors maybe younger on screen but with makeup and c.g.i. Can you explain for the layperson what you did. Main reason the difference is that we did not use any markers actors face the c.g.i. Green dots right markers. And I was explicit requests from Bob the neuro and Marty Scorsese so he e-mailed me this script over and. I read. Your script. If you read it right away you know you don't just leave it in your inbox now as I read it over night in the morning I said you know I'm in. Man and. He's you know be careful what you wish for because Dinerral is going to want to worry markers on his face helmet cam with cameras in front of them and this is how Usually this is done right was c.g.i. Right yeah if you think about 4 years ago everybody was doing the. And England myself and the way it works is with cameras Yeah so we had to develop itself where 1st of all if you know how markers in your face then we need to work with whatever is left and whatever is left is basically lighting and textures of the actor who was in for on the camera not to do that we came up with a rig that has 3 cameras and then the self or takes a look at all that information and make sense out of that and he creates a 3 d. Feature or whatever is in front of him I mean there are limits to the technology there right the younger Robert Deniro the Irishman does not look like the younger dineros a good fellow as his face is white and right I think that has a lot to do with the design of the characters you see Martin Scorsese didn't want to rewind 30 years and see Jimmy come way from good fellows and he wanted to design a kind of jury that was a younger version of Frank Sharon and when you see him 1st on the screen you can say oh wow he has a look like deer hunter you know honoring backseat driver he looks like the character that he's being portray Frank Sharon. Obviously when you're trying a new technology and you're doing it on such a marquee film I mean must've been pretty nerve racking I mean his show was going to work. Yes. I can I can I did well the thing about it is I've been in Ireland for 24 years and been doing visual effects of 30 and I remember talking to I don't know if you know Dennis Mirren but he has a Oscars and visual effects and he self is right next to mine and I am and he's been a great mentor and so I brought descript to him and I said looking out of what we got you know not just making Robert De Niro not the Chino and Joe Pitts you know 30 years younger and for 3 and a half hours he says don't do it. And so I said Well do you remember when you did Jurassic Park and he just got quiet consent and you're right we should do this. What was the hardest thing. Well I mean we knew now that the whole purpose of doing this was to get the technology a way from the actor's natural thing you know markers if you know how markers in every one of your pores and your imperfections and your you know skin becomes a marker so now it's then you have thousands of markers so now you start getting things that you couldn't get before like mouth every time we say if I want to make consonant everything reverberates and you can't really tell what it is but if you don't have it you feel you do feeling differences between you know a smile and a wince it's very very small and how Bob Noura goes from his smiled into the frown is what makes him who he is so the behavior a likeness of him has to be called by the computer or else he doesn't look like himself. And what you just driving is a technology that's only going to get better and better which I think brings up some ethical issues because as the technology gets more seamless and commonplace and those likenesses that you just described get more subtle could we end up doing away with the actual act altogether I mean could it come to a point where a studio owns the digital image of an actor and just uses that instead of the real thing I don't think that gives the performance has to come from somewhere and that has to be the actor and so just think about what it will take for a computer to do with Robert De Niro does he need to train the computer and write to do those kinds of things and basically if you think about the behavior likeness of somebody how do you become yourself you become yourself by living you know by having a bunch of experiences and then you also have all the connections I mean your face they way you smile all the cultural things that you live so if you want to computer to act like road mirror you need to train. The computer I'm like Robert De Niro and then you spend a lifetime basically draining the computer and for that he imagines well does use Robert the mayor and you know that one hour Robert Deniro be living forever because I also read a criticism is that if actors are made for every young it just keeps the studios using their bankable stars over and over again and perhaps sort of impeding the way for the next Robert De Niro. I think you have to be careful which you could do because just because you could then does it mean that you should do a number one the other thing about it is that you have to be careful about why you're doing what you're doing and whether your service in the story or not and now I understand that the actors need these troops you know that they're looking for and more than willing to give it to them because you know why because that means that their performances are going to be worried visual effects artist Helmand thank you so much thank you. You're listening to Weekend Edition from n.p.r. News. Pete mair of South Bend Indiana is near or at the top of a crowded Democratic presidential primary race in New Hampshire and Iowa he's also increasingly clashing with another candidate Senator Elizabeth Warren here is Anthony Brooks on how the 2 are competing for the same pool of voters both candidates are attracting white highly educated voters in predominantly white New Hampshire and Iowa so it's not surprising they're taking shots at each other unlike Warren Buffett a judge is a moderate instead of Medicare for all he favors a public option and says Warren and Bernie Sanders for that matter are too far to the left to bring the country together we can do big things without detonating the kind of divisiveness that we already see happening among the polarized American people are you saying people like Warren and sanders are detonating that device Well we certainly see that risk in the approach to health care this kind of my way or the highway idea Warren who has 4 sworn big donors has been hitting back criticizing Buddha judge for holding closed door fundraisers he needs to make clear who's raising money for him and he should open up the doors so that anyone particularly the press can come in and hear exactly what's being said to the Earlier this week buthe judge announced that he will open his fundraisers to the press but a judge is openly gay a veteran and a Rhodes Scholar at a recent appearance at New England College in Henniker New Hampshire he said he's the best equipped to lead a post Trump America the challenge will be to implement big enough bold enough ideas to meet that moment and to figure out a way to do it they can unify a dangerously divided American people it's a message that impresses Democrat Maryland I like that he's smart that he's well spoken he's quick on his feet that he speaks 7 languages that's really impressive you know if we have a president that doesn't even speak one you know our president's being choked out by foreign leaders and. A day later as fresh snow blanketed the state Warren was in a bowling alley in Peterborough touting her many plans including a wealth tax on multimillionaires to pay for a series of programs to help working Americans and when you see a government that works great for those with money and it's not working for much of anyone else that is corruption pure and simple and we need to call it out for what it is Molly McDowell who lives close by says Warren is the best candidate to take on truck and I think she could wipe the floor with him in a debate I think she is brilliant she has great plans and I find her very inspiring and down to earth is there a 2nd choice he'd pull out this past week from w.b. You are found in the lead in New Hampshire with war in the former front runner in 4th place behind Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders Leslie ring a voter from both New Hampshire says she loves everything about me except I am not sure she's electable bring says Warren might be too divisive some She's backing buthe Cheche Steve who conducted that w.v.u. Our poll says Warren's 20 trillion dollar Medicare for all plan might have something to do with her decline it was sort of about the time that she rolled out the Medicare for all plan and some detail that her momentum seemed to fade a little bit but because Ellis poll found the 4 front runners are within just a few points of each other and that one in 5 Democratic primary voters in New Hampshire is still undecided so this race is far from settled for n.p.r. News I'm Anthony Brooks. And this is n.p.r. News. More Americans have died from. 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Or or call 187261918 special envoy for North Korea Stephen began is in Seoul he arrived there today the day after North Korea claimed to have successfully performed another test said its long range rocket site the 2nd in a week beacon is to meet with South Korea's president and other government officials president trying to eat it overnight about New Jersey Congressman Jeff and drew up Andrew a freshman Democrat from New Jersey he's believed to be planning to switch parties as the House moves to hold a vote this week on whether to impeach the president and Ellis you quarterback Joe Burrows this year's Heisman trophy winner Boro one college football's most prestigious honor and record setting fashion last night winning the vote in a landslide. N.p.r. News from Washington. Support for n.p.r. 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Joining us is Will Shortz he's puzzle editor of The New York Times and Weekend Edition's puzzle master Hi Will Hey there Lou So what was last week's challenge Yes It came from listener Dominic tell vakeel of Chicago I said name a food in 2 words total of 11 letters some of these letters appear more than once the food has 7 different letters in its name and I said you can rearrange the 7 letters to identify the form in which this food is typically served what food is it well the food is cream cheese and you do that operation it's served in a shmear we received just $148.00 correct responses it was a tough one this week but the winner is Elizabeth Ault of adverse New York welcome thank you how did you figure it out well I do a look at playing puzzle and I had just taken some clues from that and then I was just sitting thinking about breakfast and all of a sudden cream can just came and I just went from there so how long have you been playing I've been listening and playing and the mid ninety's that I've only started entering once you get it on line all right are you ready to play. I think you are I'm just I have a good feeling about this I'm trying to just go with this and have sat exam or you go I will take it away all right listen birth I'm going to give you 4 words 3 of them have something in common I'll tell you what that something in common is you tell me which word is the odd one out all right number one and compound words that become new words when their sides are switched Ok and your words are bankroll. Bookwork downturn overhang said he flipped it down to hang over hang or downright right. Royal Bank. And which one is not a word at a bank roll because there is no such thing as a roll bank at least as far as I know here's your next one words that name countries if you change a letter Ok and your words are child or fiance that's f.i.a. n C e mother. Spawn s p a w.n. Ok child with the Chile that's correct finance would be France That's right yeah fiance becomes France right so you're between mother and spawn. Ok. Spawn would be Spain right and so the answer is you mother mother is right good. Here's an excellent Ok urges containing a I become new words if the a and I are reversed and here are the words dairy d a I r y plaint p l a I n.t. Strain and you last one astray all dairy plaint strain and trail Ok I'm thinking that strain of the mind that is true because you get diary pliant in trial Good one good at and here's your last one words that rhyme with names of domestic fowl and your words are bacon. Juice perky Ficken words that rhyme with names of domestic file. Boy this I will need help with No I think you can do it what about can you think of a file that rhymes with thicken chicken There you go now you're between bacon juice and perky turkey that's it now you're between bacon and juice. I don't know what bird when you go down there we go. Oh I just know that because we have enough Canadian geese around here. I could so the answer of course was bacon good how do you feel. Really Yeah but this was good I'm so glad for playing our puzzle today you'll get a Weekend Edition lapel pin as well as puzzle books and games you can read all about it at npr dot org slash puzzle and Lizbeth what member station you listen to that b.b.s. How. That's Lizabeth all of Amhurst New York thanks so much for playing the puzzle thank you so much All right Will what's next week's challenge Yes This week's challenge comes from listener Andrew Chaikin of San Francisco write down 8 different letters of the alphabet add an apostrophe then write the same 8 letters in a different order with proper spacing you now have a forward phrase meaning took a risk what is it so again 8 different letters of the alphabet add an apostrophe write the same 8 letters in a different order and with proper spacing you now have a forward phrase meaning took a risk What phrase is it when you have the answer go to our website N.P.R.'s org puzzle And click on the Submit Your Answer link remember just one entry per person please our deadline for entries is Thursday December 19th at 3 pm Eastern include a phone number where we can be cheered about that time and if you're the winner we'll give you a call and you'll get to play on the air with the puzzle editor of The New York Times and Weekend Edition's very own puzzle master Will Shortz thanks so much Well thanks Lou. Buenas hair is a children's book by poet and author all of Sr. Who very patiently explained how to pronounce the title but no no no you break it down and vote no no no and then you say it fast it's a word that comes from Jamaica where all of Sr was born it's sort of gone out of fashion but I'm trying to bring it back because it is so evocative and so lovely and I find children love to learn to pronounce it it's just a word that suggests something lovely something beautiful something Warren something wonderful So if you are telling your book No no no that's that's a great compliment all of Sr says Boo No no no hair is a story about something that nearly everyone can relate to it's really a book that is teaching a young girl to love her hair all of us I think everyone has is discontented with hair at some stage in our lives so this is really to teach her to love her south to love her hair of course she wants straight hair this is a blacker Oh and her mother convinces her that she has the greatest hair in the art it's been no no no it's because you can do anything you want to with it we've been asking authors and illustrators how they work together or separately to bring stories to life this was seniors 2nd children's book after and I carries water with Illustrator Laura James I've had dreadlocks now for both and I know long time over 30 years so you know actually when I got the stars I got there a story you know like oh do we knew her story I don't know but that very day I saw on the news there was some controversy about a teacher in Florida you know cutting some child's hair you know I think the child had dreadlocks and you know I was like oh my goodness this is still a thing you know. In my days you'd have to get your hair straightened which it always struck me as such a Dartmouth thing and it is a political issue you know I don't know why people seem to take objection to a lot of other people's hair and hair status which is quite ridiculous so I just thought I wanted to address it for children in a fun kind of way there are lots of lovely were ads and arrives and rhythms and of course there are Laura's absolutely stunning illustrations for this book my people are from Mt Gox are we like color down there I like to have you know very saturated blues and reds and oranges and yellows out of the book is very colorful So basically I got the poem from the publisher there really were that many were friends and I was like Ok so it's about hair you know whereas this girl sorry I had to sort of put her in different situations so she's in the museum She's at the library She's at the farmer's market you know she's basically going around the city with different hairdos normally the 0 author of a children's story book has nothing to do with Illustrator you know the illustrators chosen by the publisher my publisher has been good about letting me see the illustrations after they are down because it's important culturally that the visual images are all is so satisfactory but I've been so absolutely delighted to be able to work with Laura the illustrations are part of why children love these books so much it's I'm I'm giving them the words and Laurie's given them these really beautiful colorful images I like the last 2nd to last page of been a new scare when she was given a list of all different kinds of hair we did a presentation with children at schools and the children really loved to. You know say all the words in the rhyming words and of course you know the blue noose hair. Took us about 10 minutes to get that down but you know they were fascinated by this blueness hair I want them to walk away with something with feeling positive above out themselves you know having a good body image feeling a migrant my hair regardless of what kind of hair you have it's been no no no it's fantastic it's wonderful and also I think find themselves in the pictures you know . They are in the pictures they are there that was illustrator Laura James an author all of Sr talking about their latest children's book. Hair Yeah. Just like a Jamaican. When Felix Contreras joins us here on Weekend Edition it is to share new music cuts you probably haven't heard often by up and coming artists he hosts n.p.r. Music's all Latino podcast Well this week we are not looking forward we're looking back it's just that time of year Felix welcome good morning good morning what trends in Latin music stood out for you this year we've been doing this podcast for overnight just about 9 and a half years and there's always a recurring conversation of just what is Latin music had that conversation here before for example is there any similarity between this all female mariachi Florida Daytona watching. This all female she kind of punk band from San Antonio. A little jolt for your Sunday Morning Coffee this is the core members used to be in a band called Girl in a coma so they've been doing punk for a long time and I remember reading somewhere online to somebody said there's nothing more punk than being female and Latina in the u.s. To marry this is their 2nd album is called No novelties and it's produced by Alice bag who was a pioneering Latina punk in the eighty's in l.a. . Is there anything that connects lord of that along with faith would we consider both Latin music that's one of the questions that we grapple with and that's what I want to do this week because instead of labeling or categorization I want to show how diverse and cross cultural The music was this year it's really interesting that you say this because musically this conversation is actually reflected in what's happening in the conversation about Latinos across the country right that we're not one thing and what is it that binds us everything from voting to food products to marketing everything yeah actually absolutely right you know I have talked about Latin urban music before was that a new year and lists Ok there are some very innovative musicians in designer that. Is now a worldwide phenomenon and it's represented on our n.p.r. Year end music list lots of stuff but I want to play a song from John or that was one of the most impactful songs of the year it's called. And it requires a bit of a set up during the height of the massive demonstrations in Puerto Rico over the summer the movement to oust the embattled Puerto Rican governor Ricardo Rowsley your lead an urban superstar bad bunny the rapper known as a resident there who was with his younger sister who goes by they released a no hold and no language barred attack on grossly you're going to play a short clip because we can't play much more because the language is so strong check this out. Foodie ahead only go by feel good. Right that's great firy is the only party that unites us it's part of his very literate history as being just one of the voices of the demonstrations he was on the front lines along with that during this whole summer thing and that song is is particularly powerful. Anything this year that you loved and came out of left field anything really surprising the experimental and creative outer edges of music. Ok I want to play something from a guy from Ecuador His name is Nicola Cruz and he mixes folkloric and electronic and he put out a beautifully stunning album that defies labeling the album is called. This track is called. So we talk every month Felix and the conversation is always loaded with lots of music and lots of artists and every week you at all at the publisher playlists with at least 5 new song. All year long how do you keep up I mean how do you remember what stood out that's a lot if I'm lucky I hear something that is so good I almost immediately know it will be a favor for you lucky this year Yup Check this out. I do this is West African vocalist and she released a tribute album called It's an amazing loving tribute to everyone's favorite Cuban the queen of. What won me over is how. Her musicians and her Rangers Africanized which already has African roots right of course this track. Is performed in what is known as a 6. 20. 6 That is a direct reference to that West African roots of its where salsa came from so they're basically taking Salsa back to Africa and the attire album music genius reexamination of the legacy of this was the most amazing fun thing I heard it's one that has hosts the let you know podcast from n.p.r. Music you can find his picks and more than 20 here and listen at n.p.r. Music. Thank you. This is Weekend Edition from n.p.r. News I'm. Support for n.p.r. Comes from this station and from Capital One committed to reimagining banking offering savings and checking accounts that can be opened from anywhere Capital One what's in your wallet Capital One and a from the y.m.c.a. a Nonprofit working to fill gaps and bridge divides in 10000 u.s. Communities details about the impact of donations are available at y.m.c.a. Dot net slash giving the why for a better us and from Americans for the Arts. 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