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Renovate, rebuild or relocate: Virginia Beach seeks public input on City Hall - Duration: 2:42.WAVY NEWS APP.
(ANITA)
FOR THE FIRST TIME
TONIGHT, RESIDENTS IN
VIRGINIA BEACH SOUNDED
OFF ABOUT
THE FUTURE OF CITY HALL.
OFFICIALS SAY THE
BUILDING IS FAILING --
BUT THERE'S STILL DEBATE
ABOUT WHETHER TO
RENOVATE, REBUILD, OR
RELOCATE.
10 ON YOUR SIDE'S JOE
FISHER JOINS US LIVE --
WITH HOW PEOPLE ARE
REACTING TO THE
PROPOSALS. JOE.
(JOE) PERHAPS THE MOST
CONTROVERSIAL OF
THOSE OPTIONS IS MOVING
CITY HALL NINE MILES AWAY
TO TOWN CENTER.
IT'S ALSO THE MOST
EXPENSIVE OPTION -- BUT
THE CITY SAYS IT WOULD
MOVE CITY
SERVICES CLOSER TO MORE
PEOPLE.
FROM THE OUTSIDE, IT
LOOKS PRISTINE, BUT
OFFICIALS SAY BEYOND THE
WALLS OF THE 49-
YEAR-OLD CITY HALL IS
ASBESTOS, A FAILING
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM AND
DETEORATING
PUMPS AND PIPES. KATHY
SHANNON/VIRGINIA BEACH
"I DO NOT DOUBT THAT WE
NEED A NEW CITY HALL. WE
DO. BUT THE SMART WAY TO
DO THAT
WOULD BE TO BUILD ON LAND
WE ALREADY HAVE HERE."
KATHY SHANNON LIVES NEAR
TOWN CENTER AND IS AMONG
THE MAJORITY OF RESIDENTS
MONDAY NIGHT AGAINST CITY
HALL MOVING THERE.
MICKEY MOORE/VIRGINIA
BEACH
"THE TRAFFIC AND
CONGESTION AT TOWN CENTER
IS VERY DIFFICULT TO DEAL
WITH
AND I THINK IT WOULD BE
HARDER FOR THE CITIZENS."
THE MOVE TO TOWN CENTER
WOULD COST ABOUT $65
WOULD NEED TO BUILD A
PARKING
GARGAGE. THIS COUPLE
SAYS THE MOVE WOULD BE
GOOD FOR BUSINESS. GEORGE
NAJIM/VIRGINIA BEACH
"IT WOULD ALSO SPUR MORE
DEVELOPMENT BY ARMADA
HOFFLER WHO HAS DONE A
WONDERFUL JOB IN TOWN
CENTER." THE CITY COULD
ALSO DECIDE TO RENOVATE
AND EXPAND THE CURRENT
FACILITY OR BUILD A NEW,
THREE-STORY BUILDING
CLOSEBY. COUNCILMAN BOBBY
DYER -- AND OTHERS ON
COUNCIL -- HAVE EXPRESSED
THEIR INTEREST IN KEEPING
CITY HALL AT THE
MUNCIPAL COMPLEX IN
PRINCESS ANNE. BOBBY
DYER/VIRGINIA BEACH CITY
COUNCIL
"I STILL HAVE SOME MAJOR
RESERVATIONS ABOUT THE
TOWN CENTER OPTION.
PERSONALLY, I THINK IF IT
WERE OFF THE TABLE WE
COULD MAKE MAYBE A BETTER
DECISION
ABOUT WHAT WE WANT TO
DO." ABOUT 60 RESIDENTS
CAME WITH QUESTIONS
-- ONE URGING OFFICIALS
TO SPEND LESS ON
INFRASTRUCUTRE AND
MORE ON VIRTUAL SERVICES.
THE CITY SAYS NO MATTER
WHAT KIND --
THE NEED FOR A
REPLACEMENT IS URGENT.
TOM LEAHY/DEPUTY CITY
MANAGER
"IF SOMETHING ISN'T DONE
AT SOME POINT. THE
BUILDING WILL MAKE THE
DECISION FOR US.
IT'LL COME TO THE POINT
WHERE IT CAN'T FUNCTION."
(JOE) THE CITY SAYS ON
TOP OF THE REPAIRS -- THE
CITY SAYS THEY NEED ABOUT
DOUBLE THE SPACE THEY
HAVE NOW.
TONIGHT WAS THE FIRST OF
THREE PUBLIC MEETINGS.
THE NEXT ONE IS JULY 26TH
AT THE VIRGINIA BEACH
CONVENTION CENTER WITH
THE FINAL
MEETING ON AUGUST 23 AT
THE WESTIN IN TOWN
CENTER.
LIVE IN VIRGINIA BEACH -
JOE FISHER 10 ON YOUR
SIDE.
(ANITA) AND ON THE
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Geekria Headphones Stand: Useful or Useless? - Duration: 1:53.hi guys welcome back to another episode of Tech Sway with me Jay, today we're looking
at the acrylic omega headphones stand by Geekria so let's take a look at
what it's all about and roll the intro
now headphone stands are nothing new to a desk set up and they come in all
shapes, sizes and materials. This headphones stand in particular matches
my white desk setup that I've got they're incredibly easy to put a pair of
headphones on. At the same time they also look aesthetically pleasing
I mean don't you think? Now, it doesn't matter whether or not you want to put
one or even two headphones on it they'll fit well and they'll look good at the same
time as you can see. Now it also allows you to keep your desk tidy and organized
and I mean who wouldn't want that right? so let's take a closer look at the stand
now these are made from a high-grade acrylic with white gloss finish but also
available in other styles including a wood finish and also a black gloss
finish. They retail for around 16 pounds online and you'll actually find them
through Geekria's website and Amazon and the links to both of which will be
in the video description below for you all. Now, do headphone stands offer any
advantages? Well... not really except the obvious they'll keep you headphones off
the floor and make your desk look a little bit neater and they'll add something
a little bit different to your setup for me I've never used to like headphone
sounds at all but since I've actually started using one I've actually felt that
they've improved my desk organization and for that alone they get a big thumbs
up from me I mean what do you guys think of headphone stands do you love them
hate them let me know in the comments down below and until next time thanks
for watching guys and I'll see you in the next one.
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Do aliens or UFO exist ? Show me One! - Duration: 1:38.Well they don't exist and my evidence is no evidence of them existing, before you get
all defensive like most Alien fanatics do, just hear me out..
For argument sake, lets say they did exist, why is it that we always see a stupid looking
photo with a dot on it and not the actual thing?
We have great technology here on earth, they can't seem to capture one proper photo or
video.
100% of them are fake anyway.
Why is it that the Alien fanatics believe they do exist and try to believe so deeply?
I am really curious about that question, so please do explain.
For a second do you not think that this may be all some sort of "fun" the government created
for you people so they draw attention away on what they are really trying to do?
I can go on and on!
But it's just the same story over and over again with the fanatics.
For a time I use to believe too, honestly I did, and then this awesome feeling called
common sense kicked my head so I understood what I had to.
Tell me, do you have proof of Aliens's existing?
Show me one.
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The Secrets To Launching Your New or Current Business - Duration: 13:46.hey this is Lynette Bledsoe live coming to from LynetteBledsoe.net from
my home office here in San Antonio Texas and let's try this again
it seems like I was getting a phone call it was totally messing me up so I went
airplane mode on Facebook so forget that alright so today we're going to talk
about and I start again so today we're going to talk about launching or
relaunching your business so sorry if I lost connection with you guys but I'll
start from the very beginning so welcome back if you're joining me so anyway
alright so how do you launch your biz so how do you relaunch your business it
doesn't really matter if this is day one of your new business or this is day' or
this is year ten it doesn't really matter and again thank you guys for
joining me again alright so it doesn't really matter if this is day one or this
year thousand really doesn't matter you still do a 30-day launch for your
business any day any day of your business it really doesn't matter so
what I was sharing earlier was back in 1999 when my husband and I first got
into network marketing back in those days way back I feel like the senior
citizens the back in those days we actually had a launch our business by
doing home meetings so what we would do is get on the phone with as many people
as we can and say hey you know can you do us a favor can we just show you
something and see if we can help you it was actually a service company can we
just sit with you for 10-15 minutes and just show you just to see if this is a
fit for you we would make the appointment and honestly most of the
times when our friends and family set up those appointments with us they did it
as a courtesy they did it only to you know say yes and sit there and most of
the time they never really signed up with that service they actually just sat
there and are that launched as a courtesy so what do you do after that
you go through your friends and family and then you try to find other ways so
that you can in a sense launch your business so what we used to do and I
still laugh about this we used to go to because most of you guys know I'm from New York City
so we used to go to Manhattan mall and take a pen and paper and bother the
people at the mall as if they were there to listen
to what anything that we had to say they only there to go shopping but we were
determined and we will go there and you know go up to them and say hey we are
you looking for extra income or whatever this spiel was at that moment we
will go up to them and say hey how can we help you so in mind you people are in
the mall and this is something I would not suggest because most of the time
people are at the mall they're honestly going shopping they're honest I know for
me when someone approaches me when I'm focused on one thing I don't like to be
interrupted especially when I have my kids I don't have time I have to go back
to what I'm doing it's because I don't like to take that time away from my
children whenever we're focused on whatever were for right so that's my
opinion so we but we would do it we would go to
strangers while they were shopping so just a tidbit that's how we used to
launch our business that was back in 1999 so when my husband kind of
walked away from direct sales back in 2014 because we weren't really satisfied
with having a hundred percent of the business where we wanted it to work for
us so we kind of walked away from it you know did our did our own thing and what
I would suggest to everyone is make sure that you're happy with the time away
there's the way that you have to spend in your business because otherwise
you're used to spending a lot of time doing things unnecessarily so let's just
get back to launching the business right so for the last 30 days in a sense I've
been in launch mode right anybody that follows me on Facebook you probably have
a really simple Facebook I've been on facebook Messenger more than anything
else in the world I haven't even had time to post anything when I do I just
said I'm like oh shoot let me just write something real quick and there's get
back to work mode right so that's kind of what you want your launch the launch
of your business or the relaunch of your business to be you want to be where
you're so busy you have time to do anything that that's not going to pay
you that's not going to give you any and that's not going to help you at all so
let's just I'm going to go back to kind of what we were talking about before
right so when you're launching your business people don't care that you just
started in your company they don't really care about
that they're going to say hey congratulations but what people want to
know is what is that company going to do for them so and I gave some examples
I'll give it again because I deleted the last video I don't like when my videos
or myself I'm like a profession is that way so I'm just going to start that
again so let's just say if you're in a new company or let's just say if you've
been in your business for a while doesn't matter your friends
and family if you're launching a business and you're doing it from
Facebook or you're talking to somebody they want to know what that company or
that product or that service what can it do for exempt
I remember a few years ago I shared a testimony for my family and the
experience that they were able to receive from that service and
I had so many people say wow thank you so much for sharing that testimony
because I didn't know that that service could do all that for them right so
let's just say you're in and I'm going to use the example because people don't
buy products they don't care we can get products anywhere and just go to the
store if we're looking for a product they want to know what that product can
do for them right so if you're in a weight loss company you and maybe you're
just launching your business and you don't have any transformations or any
testimony to share from your experience you can share a testimony from someone
else who has used your product and say hey wow so excited I cannot wait to get
the results that you know Sheila got I see Sheila just joined
I said Sheila got in her business right so you can say hey Wow after she
finished using this at this system she was able to lose thirty pounds if she
was able to lose 40 pounds I can't wait to get started and guess what
and most of you probably seen it just what so many people are going to ask you
well what is she using and that gives you people who are actually interested
in your product or service or let's just say here in a skin care product and
again maybe you're in that skin care product
just started you can share testimonials what transformations other people who
have used that skincare product or maybe other customers who have used up
skincare product you can share the testimony except they've gotten from
using that skincare line and say wow you know so-and-so got that transformation I
cannot wait to see the same experience in my skin type so I can look
younger because I'm me I'm in my forties so I gotta get you know get that support -
so but you can share those experiences and say I can't wait to see or I can't
wait for my maybe you're too young for any anti-aging skincare line
you can say hey I cannot wait for my customers to get these same results and
then you can start sharing those testimonies I'm telling you guys
testimonies from your product or your service that's going to be the number
one key for you launching your business is sharing those kind of testimonies
because again I can show you guys every product that's in your back office you
can sit here and buy a box of every product in your company but no one's
going to care of what's in that company they want to know what that product or
that service does for them right that's okay
another thing lifestyle let's say if you have someone who approaches you or let's
say if you're looking at people to work with people want to know what that
business has been able to do for you if you're launching or relaunching or what
that business has been able to do for other people so for my husband and I one
of the biggest testimonies we used to share was my our home business was able
to move us from New York City all the way to Texas most people can't say that
they were able to financially secure themselves where they can move from
across the country to another totally different state they usually can't say
that but that's the testimony that you can share or let's say you haven't had a
big testimony or you can't share a big story like that you can say hey I know a
leader in my company who she was able to move her family from Texas here in New
York City just I'm sorry from York City to Texas just based on the
income that they're getting in my company and I'm so excited I cannot wait
to get to where they are so share testimonies like I said people don't
care about then what company or with or with it whatever they care about then
what what it's able to do for you so let's just say maybe it's the summer
time maybe you're able to pay for your your kids summer camp I know for my son
he's like a computer whiz he likes these computer techy things that are a couple
thousand dollars so they're not little like cheapy things he likes techie real
techy stuff so they cost a couple thousand dollars so what if I
want to share a testimony and say thank you for my business I was able to share
you know I was able to pay for my son for two weeks worth of his computer
coding program you can share things like that cuz people you know may be moving
from New York City to Texas esses it's a pretty crazy drastic move right that
people a lot of people may not relate to that but if you can say something like
you know I would be able to pay my my car bill I was able to pay for my to
summer camp whatever people relate to that stuff because that's relatable
new york city to texas and stuff like that it's outrageous
it's crazy outrageous but that it did work so alright so what is it let's get
back to business what are the three things that you can do to launch your
business and again if you're joining me live and you want to get these tips
there is a live webinar this Wednesday night you can head over to
LynetteBledsoe.net/WeeklyTraining they're going to be a live webinar but I
was just sharing with you guys what I've been doing for the last 30 days and if
you curious that what that business is you can hit a number one and I'll reach
out to you but anyway there's three things there's why why did you choose
your company what and Wow so you're going to do these in facebook
life and I know you're like oh my gosh she just had facebook lives I don't want
to go on video honestly it's not a big deal I asked like I'm talking to my
friend so if you see and I can screw up these videos obviously this is my second
video and this is the first one totally got messed up and I think the first one
was better than this one but we digress
so the why why did you choose your company what is three or five reasons in
that first video you want to do one of three or five three to five reasons why
you chose that company why did you choose it
whether it like me you kind of wanted a online business where you can just maybe
share a product or services on your phone and just keep it moving for the day so I
don't have to like sit there and waste time away from my kids run around the whole
city trying to do stuff but I can just share things and direct people in
different directions from my phone why was what was that one of your
reasons because you um whatever everyone has a different reason as to why they
stay started their company so I can't tell that for you you have to decide
what one of those three to five weeks and send the second one this is kind of
cool unboxing the product so do what when
that box comes with your with your new starter package or your new kit whatever
with what what's inside it and share your explore and say I'm so excited UPS
guy just dropped off my box I'm so excited to see here and share with
everyone what's inside what it could guess what people are going to be
curious what company is that with you wow it looks so professional what's
inside of it share that experience with people because they want to know and
then the third is the wow what have you gotten from your company was it a
transformation and weight loss maybe it was a transformation in your mind what
did you learn over the last couple weeks or or the last month what have you
learned for me I learned that maybe I need to turn off the messenger because
messenger is like way beyond what messenger is like way beyond too many
notifications but what have you learned in your launching of your business what
are things that you have spent where you maybe screw up what mistakes have you
made it honestly I mean everything is a learning process I made a mistake from
week one I made a mistake but you've learned from those experiences and you
keep it moving what have you shared maybe you did make some money maybe
you made a couple hundred dollars maybe you made a couple thousand dollars from
your launch share that with people and say wow if I did it I can show you how
to do it so with that being said I hope that remember I'll go back to the three
just in case of how to relaunch or launch your business you're going to do
the why the one and the Wow okay so I hope that really helped you guys again
if you want to join us on that live webinar it's LynetteBledsoe.net/WeeklyTraining
and I'll see you guys at the top hope that second video
helped you guys have a great day
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How to Pronounce Plural Nouns: S, Z, or IZ? - Duration: 9:03.Extra English Practice (mouse squeak)
Hey guys. Welcome back to Extra English Practice. (EEP!)
Today we're going to focus on pronunciation.
And we're going to look specifically at how to pronounce
the -s ending at the end of plural nouns.
There are three different ways it can be pronounced
because unfortunately in English, letters are pronounced different ways all the time.
It's true. Just to make it confusing.
So the three options are either
it would be pronounced /s/, /z/, or /iz/.
And how do we decide which one of those?
So you need to look at the word and think about the sound that comes
before the S, the plural ending. And think about the sound, not about the letter.
If the sound is a voiceless sound, if there's no vibration in your throat,
sounds like /k/, or /p/, or /t/, then the S sound, the plural sound, will be /s/.
if it's..if the final sound before the S is a voiced sound, so if your vocal chords are moving,
something like /b/, /m/, or /iy/ - any vowel sound, then the S will be pronounced like /z/.
But if the final sound before the S is a sibilant,
so that's something like an S: s, z, ch, j, sh, zh
If the word ends in one of those sounds, then the S sounds like /iz/
and it becomes another syllable. Do you want to explain more about syllables? Yeah.
You can refer to our previous syllable video, but just remember syllables are
the beats in word, right? So like my name Mi-sha has two syllables. Yeah.
The problem is with this S ending, if you add an extra syllable where there shouldn't be one,
it's going to be confusing and people might not understand. Right?
So I would say desks not desk-is. Yeah. Things like that.
And the only time you're adding another syllable with the plural ending
is when the sound before the S is s, z, ch, j, zh and... sh. Thanks.
Here are some examples. Snack ends with a /k/ sound,
so this is a voiceless sound. So the S is pronounced /s/ - snacks.
And hat..hat is also a voiceless sound. Hats.
And bug..bug ends in /g/, which is a voiced sound
so the S sounds like Z. Bugs.
And shoe - oo - all the vowel sounds are voiced
and so shoe plural will be shoeZ.
And the final category, watch..ch..ch is a sibilant
so this one we add a syllable: watch-es.
And the same with piece - a piece of pie.
One piece, two piec-es because piece ends in a sibilant.
Ok, so Larissa I -like normal- are going to give this a little practice.
We're going to go on a picnic. Let's go in a picnic! Who doesn't love a picnic? Exactly.
On a day like today. Yeah. So we're going to decide what we're going to bring along.
So I'm going to say something that I'm bringing, and then Larissa is going to
repeat what I said and add to the list. And we'll just go back and forth like this.
This is a memory game. Yeah. Let's see if we can do it. Ok.
So I'm going to bring to our picnic some oranges. Ok. On our picnic we'll have
oranges and grapes. Okay, we'll have oranges and grapes and carrots. Ok.
Oranges, grapes, carrots, and sandwiches. All right, we're going to bring oranges,
grapes, carrots, sandwiches, and ..um..drinks. I had to think about it.
Ok, on our picnic we will have oranges,... oranges, grapes, carrots,
yeah, sandwiches, unhuh, What'd you just say? Oh, drinks and pickles.
Oh, nice one. I love pickles. (I don't like pickles.) I bring them for you. Thank you, I appreciate it.
Okay, so on our picnic we're going to have oranges, grapes, carrots, uh...
sandwiches, drinks, pickles, and right? PickleZ. And I'm going to bring,
to make it easier for us, some dishes.
Dishes, oh thank you. Yeah, no problem.
Okay, this is getting long. It is getting long.
On our picnic, we will have (What did we start with?) oranges, grapes, carrots,
sandwiches, something.. drinks, pickles,
dishes and cups for the drinks. Well, I mean, it just make sense.
We can use our hands.
Ok, so we're going to bring oranges, grapes, and carrots, sandwiches, drinks,
pickles, dishes, cups and crackers.
Okay. Crackers. Can I do it? You can do it. Come on.
We're going on a picnic and we're bringing
oranges, grapes, carrots, sandwiches, drinks, pickles, pickles and
she's showing me..she's helping me here... dishes, cups, you just had one...I know and
I forgot it, too. Oh yeah, crackers, crackers and.. cookies. Oooo, I love it.
Nice addition. This might be the end but we'll see. So on our lovely picnic in the sun,
we're going to bring oranges, grapes, carrots, sandwiches, and drinks, yeah
pickles, yeah, dishes, yeah, cups, crackers, cookies, and spoons.
Spoons! Yeah, we might need something. Yes. You're good. I don't think I'm going to make it.
That was fast, too. Okay, okay, carrots..nope! Step one wrong. Oranges. There you go. You got it.
Oranges, grapes. I always want to go to pickles. Pickles is my go-to.
Because there so exciting. Oranges, grapes, drinks. No, carrots. Carrots. [talking over each other]
But it was a good try. It was a good try. Well, thank you.
And I practiced my S endings. That's right. So let's see, did we have any that had an
extra syllable? Sandwiches..sandwich, sandwich-es. Right? two syllables, three syllables.
Dish, dishes. mm-hmm. Anything else? Orange, yes that's two syllables; oranges, three syllables.
Maybe that was it. Dishes? Did we say that already? Yeah.
I think that may be it. And the other ones: grapes, grapes; one, one
Cracker, two syllables; crackers, two syllables.
Yes. Cookie, cookies. Mm-hmm.
All the words..all the endings..all the SOUNDS
except those sibilants (the s-kind of sounds) you don't add any syllables.
That's it. So remember that when you're talking about plural nouns and they have an S on the end.
Yep. All right. Play this game with your friends.
Let us know how it goes. Yes, how many things up can you get. We got to what, a dozen..less maybe.
Maybe less. I'm sure you can beat us.
We would have gone further if it weren't for me. I'm holding you back. I just wanna be free!
Anyway have fun guys, and we'll see you next time. See you.
Grapes, grapes; one, one. Crackers..sorry. Crackers, crackers. Same!
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IM GOING TO BE LATE ON THE REGULAR VIDEO TODAY
BECAUSE I HAVE TO TAKE GREG TO THE DOCTOR
HE IS SICK
DON'T KNOW WHATS WRONG WITH HIM BUT HE'S VERY WEAK
I BELIEVE HE IS GOING TO BE FINE
I DONT THINK ITS THAT SERIOUS
IT JUST SUCKS CAUSE I'M STRESSED OUT
AND I JUST WANTED TO GET A VIDEO OUT TO YOU
RIGHT NOW AND LET YOU GUYS KNOW WHAT WAS GOING ON
AND IM SICK TO ON TOP OF IT
NOW I'M DOUBLY SICK
IT'S OKAY BECAUSE STRESS IS GOOD FOR US EVERY ONCE IN A GOOD WHILE
I'M NOT USUALLY EVER STRESSED
BUT I AM TODAY
I WANT YOU GUYS TO CONTINUE TO ENJOY YOUR DAY
AND LOOK FOR THE REGULAR VIDEO A LITTLE LATER ON
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Bloodthirsty Koch Brothers Warn – Cut Our Taxes Or No More Campaign Money - Duration: 3:57.This past weekend, the Koch brothers hosted a donor retreat where at least 18 elected
officials also attended, where they met with wealthy Republican donors, talked policy,
and basically just mingled and had a great time with one another.
During this meeting, both the Koch brothers and several other wealthy donors issued a
warning to Republicans in the United States, "If you do not pass healthcare reform and
if you do not pass tax reform, we are going to close the piggy banks."
Specifically, one wealthy Republican donor from Dallas said that his Dallas piggy bank
is now closed until those two initiatives, those two pieces of legislation actually get
passed.
What's happening here is that these Republican donors are engaging in extortion, I mean textbook
definition of extortion at this point.
They're trying to get money in the form of tax breaks, and they're using coercive measures
threatening to remove funding for these Republicans in order to get it.
That, folks, is extortion, a federal crime.
That's how we get a lot of Mafia members put in prison, by charging them with extortion,
and that is exactly what these wealthy Republican donors are doing to members of the Republican
Party.
Now I have no sympathy for members of the Republican Party whatsoever, not even the
least little bit, but they are currently being held hostage by these wealthy donors.
They know that they have to go back to D.C. and pass healthcare reform only because it
cuts taxes on the wealthy.
They have to pass their so-called tax reform because it cuts taxes for the top one percent,
and that's what these wealthy donors want.
That is what they've been trying to get done for years but couldn't get it through
Obama, and now the Republicans control everything.
They're calling in the chips.
They're saying, "It's time for you to deliver for us because we have consistently delivered
for you."
That's what big money does to American politics.
These Republicans and even those who weren't in attendance, people like Paul Ryan, who
is completely beholden to the Koch brothers, they owe them everything and they will deliver
on everything that they can for these wealthy donors.
Those are the only people that they care about.
They do not care about their constituents.
They do not care about the environment, policy, healthcare, Medicaid, anything other than
cutting taxes for their wealthy donors because they know, and Republican donors proved it,
confirmed it this weekend, that if they don't do that, if they don't give these billionaires
more money, then their campaign funds are going to dry up.
Now a skilled lawyer could come in here, see what these people said at these meetings,
and absolutely move forward with extortion charges.
Unfortunately, our US Supreme Court says that political money is free speech, so it would
be a little difficult to actually get charges against these people for this.
But make no mistake, if this were any other situation, not politics, the men at that meeting
would absolutely be charged with extortion.
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Know or Go: Falling into Spring - Duration: 5:33.Would you like to hear about my vacation on Spring Break?
>> [APPLAUSE] >> I'll tell you tomorrow.
>> [LAUGH] >> Spring is beautiful but it's going to
feel like Fall in here because three of you are going to fall through a trap door.
That's right, it's time to play, know or go.
Twix bring out the contestants please.
>> [NOISE]
>> [APPLAUSE]
[MUSIC]
[SOUND] Hello ladies, how are you?
[INAUDIBLE] >> [INAUDIBLE]
>> Genie Sandoval, you live in San Diego?
>> Yes I do.
>> What do you do there?
>> I'm a teacher, second grade teacher.
>> That's adorable.
>> [APPLAUSE] >> How many people in your class?
Twenty-Three.
>> Twenty-Three?
>> Yes [LAUGH] [APPLAUSE] >> They are going to have so
much fun watching this.
>> [LAUGH] >> That is Great, and Bianca,
you live in Rancho Cucamonga,that's great because that is just fun to say.
Who wouldn't want to live there?
Cucamonga.
What do you do there?
>> [APPLAUSE] [LAUGH] >> I live there, but I I'm a student.
I go to Cal Poly Pomona, and I nanny.
>> That's it.
And a nanny?
>> Yeah. >> That's fantastic.
You could have said that first.
You looked like you didn't know what you did.
You're a nanny and you're in school.
>> And Sandra, you live in El Monte.
What do you do there?
>> I'm a stay at home mom of three and two step girls.
[SOUND] >> All right.
This will be fun.
>> [APPLAUSE] >> It's you know how it goes.
You just answer a question correctly and you stay up there.
If you don't you go down all right?
Yep okay it's probably all stuff about spring.
I'm not really sure but let's just say it is.
Okay, Jeanie, we're going first.
>> No. >> The Jewish holiday Passover usually
falls on the first fall moon after the northern hemisphere vernal equinox.
Name a famous Jewish person.
>> [LAUGH] >> What?
Jewish person.
>> Just name a famous Jewish person.
[MUSIC]
>> Seinfield, Seinfield.
[LAUGH] >> [APPLAUSE]
>> No.
Is that right [INAUDIBLE]?
>> Yes.
>> Okay.
>> [APPLAUSE] [LAUGH] >> All right,
Bianca on April 21st Queen Elizabeth will turn 90.
Who sings we are the champions?
Queen?
>> Yes.
All right Sandra.
If you're born in April, your birthstone is diamond.
What month was I born in?
>> January.
>> That's right.
>> Genie, this year tax day is on April 18.
Next year, how many children will Beyonce be able to write off as dependents?
>> Three, that's right.
>> [APPLAUSE] >> Bianca,
Good Friday is always before Easter.
Who stared in Good Will Hunting?
>> What?
A hunter, please Mom.
>> [LAUGH] >> [CROSSTALK]
>> As you go down,
>> No.
>> Jessie you can think about them.
It's Ben Affleck and- >> I love Ben.
>> Matt Daemon.
Bye. >> Aah!
>> [APPLAUSE] >> My god.
>> My god, my god.
I don't wanna get down.
>> Isn't that fun?
>> [LAUGH] >> No!
>> All right.
Earth Day is celebrated on April 22nd.
How many days does it take for the earth to circle the sun?
>> What?
For the earth to circle the sun?
>> Yeah.
>> A million.
>> [LAUGH] >> I hope you're not homeschooling.
>> [LAUGH] >> It's 365 days.
It takes a whole year.
Already ready?
[SOUND] >> My gosh!
>> All right >> My god.
>> Yeah, you just have to answer three in a row correct and you win.
>> Okay.
>> All right, the first Arbor Day was celebrated in April 1872.
What airy element do trees produce?
>> Fruits?
Roots?
>> No, an element, what element do trees produce?
Very important.
>> Chlorophyll?
>> Trees are very important.
Chlorophyl, air?
I can't remember.
I live.
>> Well, you're close with air.
>> Air?
>> Yeah, close with air.
>> Close with it.
Oxygen? >> That's right.
Yeah.
[APPLAUSE] >> That's why it
is very important that we have lots and lots of trees,
cuz they produce oxygen to make up for all of the other stuff in the air.
All right, Easter falls on April 16th this year.
We are currently in season 14 of my show.
What is 16 times 14?
>> I'm not good at math.
>> Yeah.
180?
>> No, that's so close though.
It's 224.
See you in a minute.
>> [APPLAUSE] >> That's how you play no or go.
[APPLAUSE] >> Hi.
>> Hi!
>> My God!
>> All right. All right.
[LAUGH] >> You're getting a 55-inch 4K
TCL Roku TV.
And so are you two.
>> [NOISE] >> All right, we'll be back.
[MUSIC]
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CRISPR's Gene Drive Could Revive Extinct Species–or Create New Ones | Jennifer Doudna - Duration: 5:39.Gene drives are ways that a gene editor can be used to spread a genetic trait through
a population quickly, and a research lab in California was recently able to use this kind
of strategy to spread a trait through a population of fruit flies in a laboratory setting very
quickly.
And I think what amazed many people—many scientists—was how efficient this was at
creating effectively a new strain of fruit flies that had a different genetic trait in
every individual.
I think that this potential to use that kind of spreading of a genetic trait is both exciting
in terms of controlling vectors that can spread disease, but it also makes a lot of people
nervous because of the potential to spread a trait that might become something that would
be deleterious somehow in the environment.
So for example, imagine that it were possible to spread a trait that wiped out mosquitoes
or created a population of insects that were somehow damaging in the environment.
I think that those are applications of this technology that are very important to discuss
and to think about before we sort of forge ahead and release animals like that into the
environment.
So for people that have seen Jurassic Park (or if you have kids like me you've seen it
many times) it's sort of a really interesting idea, sort of this was Michael Crichton's
idea in the book and in the movie, to think about being able to take bits and pieces of
DNA that come from extinct animals and somehow piece them back together perhaps using sequences
of DNA from existing animals to create genomes that would allow once-extinct animals to be
alive again—and could that really be done?
And I think that the CRISPR technology offers scientists a tool now where, at least in principle,
maybe not to the level that it was in the film Jurassic Park, but in principle could
allow introduction of new genes into existing genomes that would recreate animals that have
traits that have been lost by extinction.
And so a number of scientists have been thinking about this.
I think George Church is one of the prominent scientists who's been discussing this in the
context of de-extinction of woolly mammoths, could you actually take DNA that's been sequenced
from the remains of woolly mammoths and use elephant DNA to recreate these animals somehow?
And it's sort of a fascinating idea.
Now whether that would actually work—I think there's a lot of technical challenges to doing
that experiment, but could we do things like bringing back the carrier pigeon or animals
that might have gone extinct very recently where we have close genetic relatives that
we could actually study?
To me it's an interesting idea because of the potential for understanding genetic networks
and what genes are really doing, how they really give rise to certain traits.
I think one thing to appreciate is that in most cases the traits that we observe in animals
or in ourselves are coming from interactions of many, many genes.
It's not just one gene that gives rise to somebody's height or intelligence or anything
else, it's really a whole network of genes that are interacting.
And to start to understand that I think would be very exciting and potentially could be
done using this kind of strategy of introducing genes from extinct animals back into existing
animals.
And it's hard to say how soon that will be a reality, but I think the potential to learn
a lot about the genetics of living systems is exciting.
I think with any new technology people get excited and they see opportunities not only
for doing research in the case of this kind of science, but also for commercial use and
to make a profit.
And in the case of gene drive this is a tool that could really enable the creation of organisms
that might be commercially valuable, and yet one could also say well there needs to be
close supervision of that, close regulation of release of animals or organisms like that
that are engineered in such a fashion.
And I think with any new technology one always has to try to get the balance right.
On the one hand we of course want to see technologies and science in general being used to solve
real world problems, real human problems.
But on the other hand we want to ensure that progress is responsible progress, that we
are working together with the stakeholders to ensure that there's not an unintended or
even a negative intended consequence of the use of these technologies.
How to do that is a big challenge.
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President Donald Trump Claims Obama 'Colluded Or Obstructed' | Morning Joe | MSNBC - Duration: 7:06.POTENTIALLY GO AGAINST THE REGIME IN SYRIA.
>> PRESIDENT TRUMP NOW ACCUSING PRESIDENT OBAMA OF COLLUDING
WITH PRAUSH AND IS DEMANDING AN APOLOGY, THOUGH IT UNCLR FROM
WHOM. HE WROTE FROM TWITTER
YESTERDAY -- >> HE'S NOT WELL.
>> SAY THAT A LITTLE LOUD ARE AND WITH, QUITE FRANKLY,
CONCERN. THE REAL STORY IS THAT PRESIDENT
OBAMA DID NOTHING AFTER BEING INFORMED IN AUGUST ABOUT RUSSIAN
MEDDLING ADDING WITH FOUR MONTHS LOOKING AT A RUSSIA UNDER A
MAGNIFYING GLASS, THEY HAVE ZERO TAPES OF PEOPLE COLLUDING, NO
OBSTRUCTION, I SHOULD BE GIVEN AN APOLOGY.
THIS IS OUR PRESIDENT TWEETING YESTERDAY.
EARLIER HE TWEETED THE REASON THAT PRESIDENT OBAMA DID NOTHING
ABOUT RUSSIA AFTER BEING NOTIFIED BY THE CIA OF MEDDLING
IS THAT HE EXPECTED CLINTON WOULD WIN AND DID NOT WANT TO
ROCK THE BOAT. HE DIDN'T CHOKE OPINION HE
COLLUDED AND OBSTRUCT ND AND IT DID THE DEMS AND CROOKED
HILLARY, NO GOOD. THIS IS THE PRESIDENT.
AND AN OFF CAMERA, THAT'S JUST A QUESTION WITHIN ITSELF, AUDIO
ONLY NEWS BRIEF YESTERDAY. SAN SURPRISE ARE DEFENDED THE AL
GAG THAT HIS PREDECESSOR COLLUDED WITH RUSSIA.
>> WHAT EVIDENCE DOES HE HAVE -- >> THEY'VE WITHIN PLAYING THIS
CARD ABOUT TRUMP AND RUSSIA AND
ACORE IF THEY DOWNTACK ANY ACTION, DOES AT THAT MACK THIS
MANY COME MYSELF IT. >> WHY WAS THAT OFF CAMERA IN
WHY WOULD THE PRESS DO THAT? >> NBC KRISTEN WELKER PRESSED
SPICER, POINTING TO ONE OF HIS INFAMOUS COMMENTS FROM THE
CAMPAIGN TRAIL. >> THIS WAS PRESIDENT TRUMP ON
THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL, RUSSIA, IF YOU'RE LISTENING, I HOPE YOU'RE
ABLE TO FIND THE 30,000 E-MAILS THAT ARE MISSING.
I THINK YOU WILL PROBABLY BE REWARDED MIGHTILY BY OUR PRESS.
HOW CAN YOU ACCUSE PRESIDENT OBAMA OF OBSTRUCTING WHEN HE WAS
EGGING RUSSIA ON? >> HE WAS JOKING AT THE TIME.
>> AND LET SEE IF HE WAS JOKING. >> IT'S JUST A TOTAL DEFLECTION,
THIS WHOLE THING WITH RUSSIA. BY THE WAY, THEY HACKED.
THEY PROBABLY HAVE HER 33,000 E-MAILS.
I HOPE THEY DO. THEY PROBABLY HAVE HER 33,000
E-MAILS THAT SHE LOST AND DELETED.
BUS YOU'D SEE SOME BEAUTIES THERE.
SO LET'S SEE. IT WOULD BE INTERESTING TO SEE.
I WILL TELL YOU THIS, RUSSIA, IF YOU'RE LISTENING, I HOPE YOU'RE
ABLE TO FIND THE 30,000 E-MAILS THAT ARE MISSING.
I THINK YOU WILL PROBABLY BE REWARDED MIGHTILY BY OUR PRESS.
LET'S SEE IF THAT HAPPENS. >> DO YOU HAVE ANY QUALMS ABOUT
ASKING A FOREIGN GOVERNMENT, RUSSIA, CHINA, ANYBODY, TO
INTERFERE, TO HACK INTO A SYSTEM OF ANYBODY'S IN THIS
COUNTRY'S -- >> IT'S UP TO THE PRESIDENT --
>> NO, NO, YOU JUST CALLED FOR IT A MOMENT AGO, YOU SHOULD THE
RUSSIANS -- >> HE HAS NO RESPECT.
UP. >> SAID I WELCOME THEM TO FIND
THOSE 30,000 -- >> THEY PROBABLY HAVE THEM.
>> DOES THAT NOT GIVE YOU TOSS? >> NO, GIVES ME NO PAUSE.
HEY, YOU KNOW WHAT GIVES ME MORE PAUSE?
THAT A PERSON IN OUR GOVERNMENT, CROOKED HILLARY CLINTON --
>> I KNOW YOU WANT TO SAVE HER. THAT A PERSON IN OUR GOVERNMENT,
KATIE, WOULD DELETE OR GET RID OF 33,000 E-MAILS.
THAT GIVES ME A PROBLEM. AFTER SHE GETS A SUBPOENA.
THAT GIVES ME A PROBLEM. NOW, IF RUSSIA OR CHINA OR ANY
OTHER COUNTRY HAS THOSE E-MAILS, TO BE HONEST WITH YOU, I'D LOVE
TO SEE THEM. >> SHORTLY AFTER THAT PRESS
CONFERENCE, TRUMP TWEETED IN RUSSIA OR ANY OTHER COUNTRY OR
PERSON HAS HILLARY CLINTON'S 33,000 ILLEGALLY DELETED
E-MAILS, PERHAPS THEY SHOULD SHARE THEM WITH THE FBI.
>> WHERE DO WE BEGIN, WILLIE? AND SEAN SPICER SAYING HE WAS
JOKING. HE'S NOT JOKING.
THEY'RE ACCUSING BARACK OBAMA OF COLLUDING.
THIS GUY NOW UNDER INVESTIGATION BY BOB MUELLER HAS BROUGHT
EVERYTHING ON HIMSELF. AND THE DEEPER HE GETS IN IT,
THE MORE HE DIGS, THE MORE DESTRUCTIVE HE BECOMES TO
HIMSELF. >> WELL, THEY'RE ALL OVER THE
PLACE. HE IN PARTICULAR ARE ALL OVER
THE PLACE IN THEIR EXPLANATION FOR WHAT HAPPENED.
HE SAID MAYBE THEY MEDDLED, MAYBE IT'S CHINA.
AND THEN SEAN SPICER SAID I HAVEN'T SPOKEN TO THE PRESIDENT.
THEN IN THE TWEET ABOUT PRESIDENT OBAMA, WHILE HE
THOUGHT IMPLICATING PRESIDENT OBAMA ADMITTED THERE WAS
MEDDLING IN THE ELECTION. NOW HE'S SAYING IT'S PRESIDENT
OBAMA WHO WAS OBSTRUCTING AND COLLUDING.
THE STORY HAS TAKEN SO MANY TWISTS AND TURNS BUT HE'S GOING
OFF THAT "WASHINGTON POST" STORY OF LAST WEEK, WHICH SAID, AS WE
REPORTED ON THIS SHOW THROUGH "THE WASHINGTON POST" THAT THE
WHITE HOUSE, THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION SOFT PEDALLED
RUSSIA BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T WANT TO BE SEEN AS PUT THUMB ON THE
SCALE OF THAT CAMPAIGN THAT, ELECTION.
THAT'S THE MILEAGE PRESIDENT TRUMP THINKS HE'S GETTING OUT OF
THIS AND HE THINKS HE'S GOT THE WINNING ARGUMENT BASS OF THAT
PIECE IN THE "WASHINGTON POST." >> AND NOW SAYING BARACK OBAMA
COLLUDED. >> MIKE BARNICLE, WHAT'S GOING
ON IN. >> I DON'T WANT TO THROW THIS
THING OFF THE TROLLEY TRACKS BUT I THINK THE LARGER STORY HERE IS
IT INVOLVES RUSSIA AS WELL IS THE STATEMENT JEREMY BASH WAS
TALKING ABOUT AT THE TOP OF THE HOUR, BASICALLY HERE WE COME IN
SYRIA. I MEAN, TEMPTING RUSSIA IT DO
SOMETHING, TWO PLANES FLYING WITHIN 15, 20 FEET WITHIN ONE
ANOTHER, THIS IS DANGEROUS STUFF.
>> JEREMY? >> WELL, IT'S NOT UNHEARD OF TO
KIND OF ISSUE A WARNING LIKE THIS FROM THE WHITE HOUSE IN
CONJUNCTION WITH OTHER STATEMENTS FROM PRINCIPALS.
THE WAY THE PRESIDENT HAD AN EVENT IN ROSE GARDEN WITH THE
ENDIAN PRIME MINISTER. YOU PUT A TOPPER ON THE SPEECH
AND SAY THERE'S AN IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENT IN THE MIDDLE EAST,
I WANT TO AS COMMAND ARE IN CHIEF ADDRESS THE NATION,
ADDRESS THE WORLD AND TALK ABOUT THE SEVERITY OF THIS AND THEN
YOU LEAVE THE POLITICAL SNARK TO SEAN SPICER.
THEY HAVE THIS IN REVERSE.
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Is Brad Pitt Dating Elle Macpherson, Sienna Miller Or Neither? | Access Hollywood - Duration: 3:40.Brad's new loves or a double dose of fake news?
Welcome to " Access Hollywood ." Scott, our heat index
is reaching new highs with Hollywood's most eligible bachelor. Right.
Brad Pitt. Geez, two different tap lloyds have him with
two different women, but is any of it for real?
Brad and elle or Brad and sienna? According to the
Australian tabloid " New idea" Brad and elle Macpherson went
on a date in Hollywood weeks after her split from
her billionaire husband. The date description is pretty detailed. She
was touching his arm a lot and flicking her hair.
There was a lot of flirting going on. We'll call
this one wishful thinking. They would look great together but
fake news. Meanwhile, British tabloid " The sun" claims Brad
got codes we sienna Miller this week at the glastonbury
music festival. The description of their time together is equally
Ed. They were seen holding hands and stroking each other.
Two months ago sienna denied they were dating when the
rumor was first brought up. Like, I have crushes, and
like I am interested and I'm ready to flirt. I'm
also just trying to see if anybody will love like
the dorky version of me because I'm a massive dork.
Two weeks ago Katy Perry tolt Natalie she's tone to
love in her life when the time is right, and
now " The sun" is reporting she was holding hands
with Gwyneth's ex Chris martin at the glastonbury festival but
until we see photo evidence, fake news. Russell Crowe recently
dealt with fake news he was dating Terry Irwin and
now he's calling fowl on report from Australia's " Woman's
day" that has H dating 22- year- old actress fores
both were at a mummy premier last month, but Russell
just tweeted can you not stuff your bleep filled papers
about lies about relationships I've never been in? Ness that
in advance. Heidi, how are you and Vito doing, you
okay? A leather- clad Heidi Klum refused questions about these
two who kissed inside a taxi at 3: 30 A.
M. But Vito is calling this fake news. Vito tells
" People" the claims made are a misrepresentation of an
entirely innocent situation. There is nothing more to this than
I was simply saying good night to a family friend
and we went on our separate ways. Taraly Pinski married
sports producer in Charleston, south Carolina Saturday as soon in
this exclusive " People" photo. Erin Andrews got married the
same day to former hockey player jarred Staal and she
wore an off- the- shoulder Carolina Herrera gown with a
long veil. We've had fake news. Also now some confusing
news to set straight. You may have seen the post
by Khloe Kardashian with Tristan Thompson that says mom and
dad. It's a popular expression on social media. It Rd
the term king and queen. I was hoping there was
baby news. A lot of people were. She's had fertility
news that she talked about on the show. Do have
some baby news. We haven't seen images of Beyonce and
Jay Z's twins but you ran into Beyonce's mom this
weekend. Did she ou news? I did see miss Tina
at the event on Friday. She told me the family
is happy and healthy and didn't go into any more
detail. Hopefully
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Is Race Genetic or Socially Constructed? | Philip Kitcher - Duration: 6:11.So what should we make of the concept of race?
There are a lot of anthropologists who would say we should just throw this concept away
completely.
There's no basis for it.
And those people are responding to what many scholars call essentialist notions of race.
There's something about this particular group of people, perhaps about their anatomy
or their physiology or their brains or their genes or something like this, that differentiates
them from various other groups of people.
If there's one thing that we've learned from biological science and psychological
science over the last century it's that there's an enormous amount of variation
within the groups that we've traditionally thought of as races, far more than there is
between the groups we've traditionally thought of as races.
It turns out that if you look at things from a genetic point of view the certain kinds
of molecular sequences are more common in some groups than in other groups.
That's because during the course of human history these groups have been separated from
one another.
They haven't intermarried and that's given various chances for various kinds of genetic
material to become prevalent in some groups but not in others.
But the first thing to say about that is that these differences are trivial!
Largely trivial; there are some cases, such as well known diseases that tend to affect
some groups more than others, that is not trivial for the sufferers.
But by and large these differences are perfectly trivial.
Now about 15 years ago a tremendously brilliant study was done by researchers at Stanford
that actually divided the human population into groups that the researchers themselves
called interbreeding populations.
They didn't want to call them races but very quickly the popular press picked this
up and started referring to them as races.
So you might start out with the human population and ask the following question: on the basis
of biological evidence, gene frequencies, molecular frequencies of DNA sequences in
different populations, what would you get if you wanted to divide the population into
two?
Well you'd get actually Africans and most Asians, central and western Asia, and Europeans
as forming one group, and the rest of the human populations forming another group.
Now what would happen if you did it into three groups?
Well then you'd get the Africans separated out from the Eurasian population.
What would happen if you did it for four groups?
Five groups?
Six groups?
Seven groups?
Eight groups?
Nine groups?
The first five or so of these give you something like sort of standard racial groups with a
few odd little twists.
The sixth gives you—as there's sixth of these groups—gives you a tiny little population
that has been isolated because of mountain barriers in Asia.
Now those are genuine divisions that have come out of our human history and that are
still present in the DNA sequences of the genomes of various people.
But whether we want to draw any distinctions at all within the human population is completely
up to us.
Remember how I did this: I said 'If you want to divide the human population into two, to
three, to four, to five, to six, to seven, this biology will tell you how to make the
biologically significant decisions.'
But why should we want to do that?
Is there a point in doing that?
Well sometimes there is a point.
Sometimes there's a point in recognizing that certain people are more closely related
to other people, if you want to do medical transplantation, for example.
There is a point in saying, well what you need is somebody to give you a kidney who
comes from this particular group.
But there are other people who say this is just the sort of stuff that breeds discrimination
and prejudice as it has in the past, and there are yet other people who say precisely because
of that discrimination that we've had in the past it's important to acknowledge these
groups.
So I want to say there's a certain kind of biological phenomenon that stands behind
the historic process of dividing people into racial groups.
But actually these racial groups are constructed by us.
It's we who decide that we want to draw the lines and the basis on which we should
decide that is an ethical basis.
We should decide how we actually treat people most fairly.
So the issue is really not whether there are racial groups.
I mean we could think about racial groups as one, two, three, four, five, six, seven
and so on, in divisions in this initial human population.
But it's a question of what divisions, if any, are useful from the point of view of
justice and fairness.
And that I think is the right way to think about race.
So is it scientific?
Well there's sort of something scientific lurking in the background.
Is it socially constructed?
Yes, it's socially constructed.
And the social construction ought to proceed on the best ethical basis we can find.
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