How we overcome these restrictions. Tom has pointed out, representative waters pointed out, the fact that when these restrictions are in place they are significant for people. And the fact that we have communities that fight hard to overcome those restrictions does not make them right, or correct. And so, i think we have to continue as representative waters has stated and tom has stated and everyone here needs to understand, to fight against these restrictions, understand exactly what they are, which are efforts to take away the right to vote, restrict the right to vote from people, minorities, young people, you know, the idea that many of these i. D. , voter i. D. Laws do not allow you to use your college i. D. , in texas, right, you can use gun, firearm owners card but can not use the college i. D. As your voter i. D. And, how can that possibly be if your objective is to do anything other than limit young peoples right to vote . And how, how can that be right in the country we live i
To create the perfect helmet. When the issue began to percolate in the early 90s in the nfl the nfl formed a committee to address this problem, the medical committee when it became quite suspect raid one of the things the committee did was suggest to people in this world that they were going to create the perfect helmet. They said we have all the money in the world. We will throw money into the problem and fix up the neuroscientists are expert in the field knew that was not the answer. They home it is good against protecting against skull fractures but could do nothing at this point to protect the brain which rattles around in fluid and hits the skull anytime it shot stop shorter said. To believe it could pave its way out of the problem with the super helmet is naive and to this day i dont know anybody who believes theres a home it out there that has solved this issue. While certainly you have had rydell suggesting data, that could reduce concussions by 31 but the ftc raise questions a
Much stronger position on tackles. There are strict rules about tackles that prevent a lot of injuries, particularly at the international level. Also, the absence of helmets , ironically, might be a cause cause for fewer concussions. Could you please talk about the difference between rugby union and American Union and american football, whether or not you have looked at that . And if you have not looked at that, take a look at the new Zealand Rugby union seem and maybe open up a dialogue with the National Rugby team to see whether or not you could learn something from new zealand and maybe they could play more games of the year. Thank you very much. Its interesting. I have heard from a number of folks. This issue is raised repeatedly. The biggest. Is the one you hit on about helmets, the absence certainly changes the way players tackle in the game. We we address this in the book. In many ways, the helmet has made the concussion issue worse. It is overpriced piece of plastic that has em
It alters the course of a nation. I read that 17 or 18 years after it was written when i started researching the book at a founded chilling because thats precisely what happened. That moment, that theyve altered the course, altered israels trajectory. When you talk with israel being a small country, is mrs. Rabin still alive . Did she ever connect with simek spent she died about five years after the assassination and did not connect with the amir family. But also did not she felt, this is largely true of the rabin family, that while amir was the shooter, was the gunman, there was a Broader Campaign of incitement against rabin in the years leading up to the assassination by the right and the extreme right especially. People refer to rabin regularly as a murderer in the street protests, and held up signs of rabin dressed in a not the uniform in one instance. Nazi. For the family to cope with not just amir but a larger segment of the right wing that was against the israeli leader. Amirs f
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