Improved safety going forward that's drawing applause from p.g. Many critics like former California utility regulator Loretta Lynn the governor smartly put safety 1st where's the deal made safety an afterthought Newsome also said he expects a complete overhaul of p. Genies board p.g. And e. Responded by insisting its bankruptcy plan is the best way forward for all involved but will have to come up with a new plan now for n.p.r. News I'm Lily Jamali. Support for n.p.r. Comes from n.p.r. Stations other contributors include Simon and Schuster presenting the book I soon had cast from Micro the way I heard it share stories about people from Mel Brooks to John Wayne along with tales from Mike's own life the way I heard it is available now where books are sold miles and dried today but rain will hit by tomorrow night will give you details coming up in our forecast from key u.a.r. News roughly 700000 customers of Entergy Arkansas can expect their electric bills to go up at the start of the new year the company announced yesterday bills for average households consuming 1000 kilowatt hours of power per month can expect their bills to go up by about $15.00 Casey kerchief Inc with Entergy Arkansas says that's because the company will no longer credit customers for tax dollars they had already paid when federal tax cuts were passed we had already collected that tax money from the customers so that was because we weren't going to be taxed on that anymore we took the money that we had already collected and credit it back to the customers so it wasn't a tax cut necessarily. That we initiated to continue it was actually returning money that we had collected an advance of pain the federal taxes the Federal tax cuts and Jobs Act The Lowered the federal tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent as a result Entergy Arkansas returned roughly $233000000.00 in accumulated deferred taxes to residential customers over a span of 21 months the man who executed a Fayetteville police officer sitting in his patrol vehicle last Saturday apparently had greater carnage on his mind when he was gunned down by fellow officers in an alley the Washington County Sheriff's Office yesterday released videos and more details about the shooting and Attorney General Leslie Rutledge spoke about it on the Fox News Channel this morning this individual like. Needed this evil act came to commit that act and to harm others it is being revealed that yes he shot off her car 10 times in the head execution style but he had on his person almost Nonny rounds of ammunition he had $99.00 bullets and he had already fired 16 and he was aiming to carry those out somewhere else there was a large festival in the area so whether he was not directed at civilians or other law enforcement officers this individual was disturbed the report yesterday from the state medical examiner said any of the 10 bullets that struck 27 year old Officer Stephen car would have killed him 35 year old London Phillips was chased by other officers and shot dead the Bentonville Police Department released the name of the officer who shot and killed a 17 year old suspected of robbery Officer Joseph Browne patchy fog before 10 otherwise mostly sunny high near 55 Currently we have 43 degrees with a few clouds and David Wallace Ok u.a.r. News this is Weekend Edition from n.p.r. News I'm Scott Simon the u.s. Congress is on the verge of just a 3rd presidential of teach men in American history President Trump is accused of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress the full House is expected to vote Wednesday Ron Elving n.p.r. Senior Washington editor correspondent joins us Ron thanks so much for being with us on a historic week good to be with you Scott a few days before the actual vote but looking back on the impeachment inquiry What facts and moment stands out stand out to you perhaps none from the grim hours of this past week the trench warfare we saw injure in Adler's committee but there were shining moments that came earlier in the House Intelligence Committee hearings when lifetime public servants such as Fiona Hill and ambassadors Taylor and you've been a bitch stepped up but their careers on the line and said this president had done something beyond the pale and when Ambassador Gordon son said yes there was a quid pro quo. And everyone was in the loop those salient moments of testimony are what's driving this process president maybe impeach just as he runs for reelection hasn't happened before how do you see this breaking as a campaign issue for both parties him a no surprise he's got to hear that the president sees it as one more big boost for himself another log on the grievance fire inside some of his supporters we saw quite a few moments like that in the 1st campaign when what seemed like crippling stories for Trump just gave him a leg up on his rivals and that might happen again but in this case Democrats said they had no choice in the end they did have a choice after the most report and they chose not to pursue impeachment but once the whistle blower blew once the Democrats knew what Trump had done regarding Ukraine that was the final breach in the dam the challenge that could not be ignored. Let's look across the way voters in the u.k. Gave Boris Johnson's Conservative Party a historic majority some people see implications for us elections to you. How lonely Would I be if I didn't the almost too obvious message is that a lurch to the left along the lines of the Labor party's platform this fall the program of its socialist leader Jeremy Corben would be disastrous for the Democrats in the us but progressives are already pushing back on that Scott and they can draw significant distinctions between the British crisis and our own differences between Corben in the socialist Bernie Sanders or between Corbett and some of the other Democrats and yes those distinctions matter but we're going to hear a lot about this when the candidates to debate again Thursday night in Los Angeles are trying to feel the need to ask this question before the end of the year because there's been a lot of questions throughout the year and the Democratic primaries about the candidates he's of Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders is one too moderate is the other too radical Are they both too old a lot of business has been thrown at both of them and at the end of the year they are now. Amber won a number 2 in the polls Joe Biden winning more support than any other candidate from African-Americans Bernie Sanders from young voters after all that's been thrown at them Why are they still still strong Yeah how about that maybe it is Keyes or she maybe these guys are like comfort food in a crisis or a Chicken Soup for the political soul you know we had so much talk about this huge field all the gender and racial diversity and now here we are with 2 old white guys plus one white woman who's 70 and a white guy who's $37.00 and never won a statewide race but who knows maybe someone else will still emerge it's not even 2020 yet it's going to be going to be quite a year thanks very much N.P.R.'s senior Washington editor and correspondent Ron Elving thanks so much thank you Scott. In Iran a hike in gas prices last month led to paralyzing strikes and the government responded with a violent crackdown schall leading many people to flee the country N.P.R.'s Peter Kenyon met with Iranian Sunni stone bowl where they can speak more freely about the situation at home. Under recent afternoon Istanbul's Taksim Square was swarming with visitors including the running family's happy to be away from the pressures and hardships of life at home some agree to speak with a reporter but only a family names are abused Ellie is one of several Iranians I met who says his family isn't just visiting they're moving here he says he was back in Tehran last week and found people searching for family and friends missing since the crackdown that Amnesty International says killed more than $200.00 people the government disputes the figure but offers none of its own news but has his small dog strains it is nation barks at passers by Alley says no one thinks officials have the public's welfare in mind as the norm by giving them a set amount of grants as he says no they don't care for people's livelihood all they care about is Hezbollah and spreading Shia Islam in Iraq they don't care about their own citizens which forces people to find a way to escape he says when his wife went to war university to get her transcript in preparation for leaving they told her 160 people had been in to do the same thing that day alone another Iranian bonus says of course people blame their government for the problems but although u.s. Officials have been vocal in condemning the crackdown recently Mona says to many in Iran Washington was slow to react as the crackdown unfolded the Ngata just on a hunch that as he cast a bit later with media pressure on President Trump finally shared a short tweet but lack of support from the u.s. Made people angry on social media you see a lot of comments like we are alone we can only count on ourselves here are a tall man in a red sweatshirt says he's constantly hearing from people back in Iran the want to get out is he did how many home you done or how many Any everyone is it's not just the middle class or even the. Richer without hope now because no investments are coming in to the cafe only answer people with bullets torture prison and lives holy and sorry professor of Iranian history at St Andrews University in Scotland says the government is realizing too late that his overall economic strategy which largely relies on Europe to keep the economy afloat won't work in the face of heavy American sanctions Looking ahead he says discontent could erupt as Iran prepares for parliamentary elections early next year Ansari can already see the government moving to tamp down interest in the elections instead of calling for a large turnout as it normally does but of course to maximize time and generate interest risks having crowds on the street and you don't want crowds on the street if they're not going to behave this is the problem they have. Back in central Istanbul I spoke with novae who worked in the family tourism business back in Tehran before they all left for turkey this year he's 30 in as a young Iranian He waves away the idea that government leaders might learn from the recent protests the worst in Iran since the green movement of 2009 now been awesome and social and the that's one of us that's been misreading the situation is that they only see us as thugs who are supported by the us they don't consider us people from the start of the revolution their main slogan was down with the USA and that is still it is not whatever goes wrong in the country how can they blame it on the u.s. Now they've says the only lesson the government learns from public demonstrations is how to crush them more effectively now he and his family are among the Iranians trying to start over in a new country trying to build the kind of life they found impossible in Iraq Peter Kenyon n.p.r. News Istanbul. 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A woman lived in her car in front of our apartment building for a couple of weeks her family brought down some food clothing and a blanket but the woman hesitated to open her door when we knocked and smiled after all who are we why should she trust us we did not call police or a city agency to say there's a woman living in a car on our street I've reported stories where I spent the night in city homeless shelters they can feel crowded and unsafe and have little privacy I can see why someone would choose to stay on the street or in their car neighbors told us that city social workers came to speak with the woman in the car in days later the woman was gone we hope she'd been brought someplace safe a few days after that my wife saw a city worker hook up the woman's car to be towed he said he didn't know where the woman in the car had been taken it was a different department but that she could replay Mhor car after she paid several $1000.00 in fines my wife pointed out that the woman and probably taken shelter in her car because she couldn't afford to pay for a place to live much less any penalties to recover her car the city worker was courteous and seemed concerned but he emphatically explained he was just there to tow the car. A report this week from the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty says more and more American cities large and small are passing laws that make it illegal to sleep outside on the street in a park or in your own car the Housing Department says homelessness is dropped over the past decade but the number of homeless people don't have anywhere to stay is beginning to grow and become more visible in high tech headquarter cities like Seattle or San Francisco Housing costs keep rising there are many people who work and have families then still wind up living in their cars they drive to work or look for work but don't earn enough to afford a place to live I understand that cities don't want encampments in their neighborhoods they want public spaces to be open and safe but passing laws to make it illegal to sleep outside or in your car doesn't resolve the problems of people who have no place to live it just relocates them. In a season that exalts a family that 2000 years ago couldn't find room at the end. And you're listening to n.p.r. News and the program is Weekend Edition and just a 2nd we'll go through our forecast for this weekend support for a Our comes from the looneys a wine shop with a so only a curated selection of wines spirits and beers a loony's one and liquor makes in-store shopping personalized and West Little Rock and online shopping streamlined Haddo looneys dot com. Well mild and dry today but rain will hit by tomorrow night mostly sunny today high near 55 to 9 slow 39 under mostly cloudy skies then a 30 percent chance of rain tomorrow after about one in the afternoon cloudy with a high near 54 chance of rain before 7 and then a chance of showers and thunderstorms between about 7 and 1 am Monday morning showers will be likely with possibly a thunderstorm after 1 am mostly cloudy low around $49.00 showers likely again on Monday. I'm trial Snyder with these headlines President Trump is traveling to Philadelphia today for the annual Army Navy football game trip follows the Supreme Court's decision to hear arguments in 3 cases over the president's financial records are separate from the impeachment proceedings against him China's top diplomat says the Phase one trade agreement with the u.s. Will provide stability however he said today there are still many issues that need to be addressed yesterday the trouble ministration drop plans to impose do terrorists that have been set to take effect tomorrow in California Governor Gavin Newsom is rejecting the bankruptcy reorganization plan submitted by p.g. And even included a multi-billion dollar settlement with wildfires survivors he sent a letter to the company saying the plan fails to improve safety. 100 miles night or n.p.r. 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News I'm Scott Simon Boris Johnson's conservatives resoundingly won this week's British elections they are bound to complete Britain's withdrawal from the European Union and soon but a lot of Britons were delighted by the display of democracy working Jenny Russell is a British political columnist and joins us now from London thanks very much for being with us good to be with these cuts you called there's the dejection election why because everyone is totally fed up with the politics of this in Britain it's 3 and a half years since the referendum the country split more or less $5050.00 on whether to leave the European Union and it's turned out to be such a complicated business nobody understands the details of it only don't people just wanted this problem to be fixed although the countries don't entirely divided over what they want from it and they were faced with 2 candidates who are the most unappealing options in a generation facing the country you had a lying bullying blustering chance on one side that supposed Johnson and the other side you had children because in his wooden and sanctimonious in this promising people he kind of socialist paradise that could somehow be accomplished with only a few tax rises and people who frankly had very little faith in either of them but they liked bars Johnson slightly more because he promised an end to this black cloud of bricks that that's been hanging over people's award for years let me ask this from the distance of across the Atlantic with some admiration but how did this nation so admired for its parliamentary democracy wind up with what so many Britons consider to be dispiriting choices Well that's a very interesting question and I think the answer is that Britain like America has been faced with huge questions about how do we all live our lives how do you grow the economy and what should our future be and do we like having immigration and how much is our culture being disrupted really. Questions and an awful lot of people in this country have Livingstone's been absolutely frozen for the past 10 years have since the financial crash everyone's looking for an aren't so 2 how do they make their lives better and when Bracks it came along as a suggestion is shall we just leave the European Union perhaps all our problems lie with the fact that we are like to Europe half the country believe that and the British politics has been absolutely Riven because there isn't a good answer to this question so that 2 prime ministers before this one have been defeated by the issue of bricks that they couldn't deliver it they couldn't deliver what the nation wanted so we lost 1st Prime Minister Cameron and then Prime Minister may and all kinds of good people who have deserted the field because the problems seem to huge and the electorate want simple answers. So does the selection mean Britain's great national drama is over or is it just starting I mean my Great Britain wind up being smaller Britain I'm afraid the big national drama is turning into a big national disaster it's highly probable that we'll end up with a shrunken Britain we've turned out not to be an election that in some full of sort of cautious moderate purposeful wisdom we've turned out to be as riven and angry with one another and as confused and with as much a tendency to blame everybody else in the country as everybody else it's highly probable that in a few years time Northern Ireland could decide to join with the rest of our land because they're already being divided from the rest United Kingdom by the decisions taken back sit and the Scots where the Scots National Party have just won a huge sweeping victory across Scotland are already saying they want to referendum because they would like to leave the rest of the United Kingdom and join the European Union independently. So wish one can read then they shouldn't so any Scot is not cheery Jenny Russell writes for The Times of London also contributes to the New York Times thanks very much for being with us thank you very much. National parks are called one of America's best ideas but it's been a long time since there's been a new Yellowstone or you Samedi that got one Silicon Valley business veteran on a mission he's trying to build a new kind of national park in Montana's Great Plains he wants it to be free to the public and funded by some of the richest people on earth but as Nate hedgy of member station k.u.n.c. Our reports there's some opposition to the American Prairie Reserve. The northern Great Plains are green from a recent thunderstorm dozens of big black cows are lining up near Lecter fence on the sea lazy j. Ranch. Rancher Conny French is trying to help her animals cross into a new pastor I'm going to go pull that orange posts French reminds me of someone's artsy garden loving grandmother curly gray hair a big broad sun hat and the deeply tanned face of a person who spends every day outdoors as she's moving the cattle something suddenly makes her stop and here it. Will just turn it over carefully get a coil the rattle snakes it's to the creeps doesn't it yeah it definitely gives you agree it's just it's just rattlesnakes biting black flies the hordes of mosquitoes that hatch Every summer the prairie's of northeastern Montana can be downright nasty to live in but French love the challenge it's a self-sufficiency maybe feeling like I can handle whatever gets thrown at me everything she says except for a project that will turn this corner of cattle country into a 3200000 acre wildlife sanctuary for them to be successful in their goals we can't be here and that's not Ok with us it's called American Prairie reserve its organizers are purchasing ranches phasing out the cattle and replacing them with wild bison those private lands and then stitched together with vast tracts of neighboring federally own lands the goal is to create one giant really wild and prairie Xan Garrity is the x. Silicon Valley entrepreneur who founded this project 18 years ago when it's complete it'll be roughly a 1000000 acres larger than Yellowstone 4 times the size of Yosemite National Park about 5000 square miles which equates to about Africa Serengeti Garrity is standing in some of these reserves own lands he says all this will eventually be part of the largest wildlife sanctuary in the lower $48.00 a place where all the animals that used to live in the Great Plains before ranchers arrived could roam once again. Wolves grizzly bears and thousands of genetically pure bison Garrity points to an empty Valley cut through by the wide muddy Missouri River over here would be some help over here would be nice and low on the river banks would be a mama grizzly if there was 2 or 3 little cubs walk along in the not there so far donors have helped purchase nearly 30 ranches but they need at least another 50 Garrity understands this idea isn't popular with locals folks who want to go to town and with a megaphone walk down main street and say oh great we are it's a good ways to be drummed out of the village but as Garrity sees it this is one of the last intact grassland ecosystems in the world and he wants to fully restore it before it disappears to work on something pour your heart into it and arrange it like a giant work of art and the public by and large would appreciate and realize it would last far far beyond my lifetime. But just like a dream come true but guarantees dream is an affront to many of the ranchers that live out here driving around you see signs everywhere saying save the cowboy stop the American Prairie reserve there are many arguments against the project some bordering on the crazy like this is a cunning plot by the United Nations to clear everyone from the Great Plains but the most common argument boils down to this God gave people this land so it can be worked so we can produce food or fuel from it branch or Kani French is rooted in this Christian notion of stewarding the land and she will never sell hers to the reserve we are the best hope to keep this land here I really feel like like ranchers phase land steward's are the best option she notes local ranchers efforts have even been recognized by national conservation groups but as land prices get more expensive and ranchers struggle to find family members to take over their spreads when they die their control over north eastern Montana is weakening and that's a big reason why American Prairie is here there's a lot of land for sale and as the nation shifts away. From its ranching and farming roots wild places like north eastern Montana are becoming destination spots for hunters hikers and campers but French says there's a big difference so then you're a tourist you're visitor you're an observer when you actually live there you are involved in the day to day life it's not just your animals but the land around you still some locals like American Prairie plans to build a massive Wildlife Reserve here they say it will help diversify the economy and give north eastern Montana a booster shot of tourism and then there are the tribes and the Nakota and the army and they are the people who lived on this land before the ranchers arrived. At a powwow in the nearby Fort Belknap Indian reservation Kenneth Tuffy Helgason says the reserves goal of bringing back thousands of wild bison to the plains will help restore a crucial part of his tribe the culture he's Nicko to and sums it up best with a saying his grandfather told the Buffalo to the it is the symbol of God and he says when white settlers in the u.s. Government you eradicated bison from the plains more than a century ago they knew if they took away our main food source our main symbol that we would be we would be rendered to literally nothing but now that symbol of God is coming back to the plains in a big way American Perris wild herd of bison will be the largest in North America there are already more than $800.00 on the land and unlike traditional national parks in this reserve people could hunt those animals including the tribes the land will still be owned by white people whoever Helgason says that doesn't bother him because land is never really owned There's one song that our people sing and it says my friend don't be foolish The only thing that lives forever is. We can fight over land we can fight over dirt we can fight over all these things but really all you ever have is what's on your shoe. And that will follow. Of with that Helgason shakes my hand and walks back to the Powell American Perris mission to save the last grasslands in the world comes with casualties whether that's good or bad depends on your story and your relationship with a slant for n.p.r. News I'm 8 hedgy in Malta Montana has story was supported by the Pulitzer Center and comes to us from the Mountain West news bureau a public radio collaborative. The new movie bombshell stars Charlie's Theron and Nicole Kidman is the women of Fox News who brought down Roger Ailes their film depicts the late cable news chief as a sexual harasser you know. Pull your dress up and let me see your legs for the film The Oscar winning costume designer Colleen Atwood recreated the style of the network's news women N.P.R.'s Mandalit del Barco reports pretty blonde wearing form fitting sleeveless dresses and high heels that's the on air Fox News Look says Colleen Atwood there's a sort of classic good girl thing but a little bit naughty it's really about in that aesthetic sense what looks good to man on those kind of women nothing to do with the journalism nothing to do with the journal to transform into real life news anchor making Kelly actress Charlie's Theron wore small prosthetics on her eyelids Atwood dressed her and sculpted silhouettes I think in a nutshell it's that she's it's a very fit dress with the waist just kind of teasing above the knee without being too far above the knee giving a lot of leg in the movie Kelly takes the audience on a tour of the Fox News building including the bustling wardrobe room where women suit up with Spanx padded bras and super high heels she explains Roger Ailes and most in having us on air talent sit at sea through tables. Early on I realized for a network to stay on 24 hours a day you need something to hold an audience joining me to discuss the current law is that something I have or dislikes there's a reason for clear desks. And you want a shorter Gretsch that would says Ailes wanted that look on Fox and have the cameras fixate on female physiques as he says it's a visual medium he wanted pretty girls with pretty legs and good bodies around and it was an obvious thing I don't think he was alone in that but he definitely said it out loud to get that look just right Atwood studied old news footage from Fox and she people watched outside the network's midtown Manhattan studios she says she also patted the outfit that actress Nicole Kidman more to resemble a more well I'm sure a sort of Midwestern body that Gretchen Carlson was known for creating this sort of the Middle America kind of beauty queen feeling for her that I wanted in her costumes networks and politics aside at which says she prefers the look of c.n.n. Scris poor she looks real to me she looks like a real woman journalist like if she's out in the field and she's in in a Muslim country she has her head covered it respectfully feel jacket and if she's in the news room she has on a nice looking dress but it isn't skin tight with high heels what journalists are saying calling that would suggest should trump whatever they're wearing Mandalit del Barco n.p.r. News. You're listening to Weekend Edition from n.p.r. News. Why did dinosaurs disappear meteors climate catastrophe What about lice this week a team of paleontologist published an article saying that some dinosaurs had lice I miss that part of Jurassic Park we're joined now by Chung Kong she He's a researcher at Capital Normal University in Beijing and a volunteer researcher at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington d.c. He led the team and joins us now from w.b. Geo in Newark thanks so much for being with us thank you so how did you find out dinosaurs had lice Well we try very hard all them in the u.s. These nice are very small we're talking about polling 15 meanies for 2250000 meters they are so small they cannot be preserved in the compression Faso that's it rock type of fossils but in ember thing is the end but preserve even such a small insects and finery we are the 1st time people funked and to report it like insects in amber or in the early Cretaceous was that widespread lice among dinosaurs we suspect e.t.s. We only fund these 2 specimens from the Faso preservation but we work we say Feather Thanassis or expert and we show him the Emperor feather and he comes out to study and then he found all these are 2 feathers found 2 different feathered dinosaurs and not of course we also know they're nice they will go to other that hosts Dyke fun the parents go to the young ones and try to pop again him self's saw that at that time I think they are mini physic dinosaurs having their dice and these only feather Diana. Shores Oh yes and of course dinosaurs weren't in a good position to shampoo their feathers where they are and that's correct yes and also if we do get a structure of these nice night insects they may have missed the body structure crime on the feather and prevent to be removed by a host Yuck I gather you've done research on other insects that were bounded on dinosaurs right yes we contacted for the studies and these freeze compared to today these free so much worse much more nasty to freeze at the time it's about to send he needs her over 2.5 centimeter roll that's a big flea Yes and also the free they have the the sword right most part assault like mouth part on a flea Yes And then you word they use that to cuss through the thick skin of the host and they stop the brought from the dinosaur so a Compared to that and they're nice chewing on Feather it's much my editor Wow Yes I'd say so it was a tough world wasn't it yes it was a tough war but today it is also a very tough war that's very true Chung kongsi thank you very much for speaking with us about dinosaur lice it's been an education and even a pleasure thank you sir thank you. 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In Phoenix fear of looking weak prevent many officers from dealing with serious mental health issues a common theme emerges as Dr Shannon Hendrickson flips through a box of plaques and commendations awarded to her husband Jonathan Rookie Of The Month supervisor of the month correctional officer of the year which she was particularly proud of the couple met while working in an Indiana prison before moving to Arizona several years ago Shannon is a psychologist who now serves as the clinical director at the Arizona Department of Juvenile corrections she says Jonathan was often asked to deal with dangerous situations on the job because he was good under pressure he had a way with inmates he was very good at deescalating some pretty violent or potentially violent situations but frequent exposure to the daily trauma of prison life took a toll I knew it was bad I knew he had a lot to work through I knew there were a lot of things he didn't tell me she said he started seeing a therapist but after 8 months Jonathan cancelled his appointments and then a month later he died by suicide suicide is common among correctional officers a 2800 study by u.c. Berkeley revealed many correctional officers don't get help more than 7 in 10 respondents said they hadn't told anyone about their suicidal thoughts Clinton Roberts thinks that's partly because other people simply can't relate to what correctional officers go through you will see things most normal people will never see in their life in his 15 years as a correctional officer Robert says he's witnessed countless acts of brutality stabbings assaults and his own close call several years ago I turn around and there were 6 inmates that got behind me that I didn't see it behind me. Yeah I could feel my heart drop and my stomach another officer had his back but it still haunts him already know I have p.t.s.d. Because I continuously was having dreams I was getting stabbed Roberts has refused counseling from Sirte or the critical incident response team a group of a.t.c. Employees specially trained in helping staff through traumatic events it's common for correctional officers to downplay traumas they experience on the job because they want to keep the respect of their colleagues to Clewer is the executive director of the Arizona police association people don't get help because there's certain fears that now my going to be viewed is weak and my going to be viewed as unable to perform my job he says the nature of the job requires an assertive domineering personality corrections officers are expected to be in control and in charge in resolve problems we're not expected to have problems that was a significant piece for us and saying hey this happens this happens to our most respected of peers and we're going to talk about it Kelly Rath is an administrator with the Oregon Department of Corrections which has been studying correctional officer mental health since 2012 she says they encourage the department's leadership to speak out about their own mental health challenges they also offer a 10 week program that teaches ways to cope there's a lot of effort going on to change cultures so that there it's normative to to seek help Shannon Hendrickson is devoted to changing things in Arizona she says that starts by a knowledge in the problem but there's a problem in the industry that there is a problem with the culture and she says the solution is promoting an environment where officers like Jonathan will feel safe asking for help for n.p.r. 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Could the Chattanooga Lookouts soon be out of business the Billings Mustangs Missoula paddle heads in Lexington legends They're among 42 minor league baseball teams that could lose their major league affiliation under a proposal made this week by Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred and minor league executives say this could shut the doors of many small town stadiums Ryan Curry's president of the Daytona Tortugas of the Florida State League a class a team of the Cincinnati Reds Mr Kerr thanks for being with us absolutely Thanks for having me on here today what could this plan do to the tour to get him in the proposal right now calls for elimination of the Tortugas as well as another 41 communities from throughout the United States so yes it's somewhat concerning right now somewhat going to I'll bet and you play in in a ballpark that's a real place in baseball history don't you yeah it is and we actually play it at Jackie Robinson ball park we've actually had professional baseball in Daytona Beach for about 100 years and Jackie broke the color barrier in 1946 at the same playing field that we actually play on these days and I was really a shock. Major League Baseball says that the current arrangement is expensive and with modern analytics they can develop more promising prospects for the majors from from a smaller talent pool in the minors and pay players more and it's a business but do you think it is and I think it's difficult for us to speculate in terms of of what Major League Baseball's you know core reasons are for this contraction plan but when you look at it and you think about growing the game of baseball there's nothing that can grow the game of baseball more organically than minor league baseball we expose the next generation of fans throughout the country minor league baseball has the opportunity to expose about 81 percent of the country within our $160.00 markets and when you remove 25 percent of those markets you start to remove some of your fans and not all fans have the opportunity whether that's financially or geographically to enjoy the game of baseball and I think that's what Minor League Baseball does and it provides a great way to connect fans at a next generation and you have a counterproposal Major League Baseball's I wouldn't say we have a count of the Pozo we definitely would like to see all 160 teams continue to operate as minor league affiliates I think we'd also like to address some of the concerns that they have teams have expanded and have moved to different areas they've created some alignment issues in terms of travel and I also think player facilities are definitely a real concern but I think Major League Baseball needs to provide us with an updated list of what this facility standards are and then give teams the opportunity to get their facilities up to standard if there are some deficiencies and I wonder Mr Kerr if this proposal could pitch minor league teams that are on the chopping block against each other I mean do you does it put you in the position of saying hey you know this is a good market here in Daytona but I'm sure glad I don't own the team in Billings. It would seem that might be Major League Baseball's goal is to try and separate $160.00 teams I can say after being in San Diego at the Winter Meetings this past week that I've never felt more united with with the other 159 clubs and the goal for minor league baseball has always been to view all 160 as one we stand alongside not just the 41 other communities that are on this chopping block but with the other 159 teams and communities just like ours that have great stories that are constantly be doing good for the community so we're encouraged President of The Clash. Thanks so much for being with us absolutely Thanks for having me. There is another American who once got a great big old bear from a Russian leader. Than Cliburn curly headed Texas kid who won the international competition in 1958 the height of the Cold War was hugged by Nikita Krushchev unheralded like Elvis Presley when he got back home to America classical music figures were one stars in America pursued recognize gossiped about people at popular and cultural impact on America Jonathan Rosenberg a professor of history at Hunter College has a new book Dangerous melodies classical music in America and the great war through the Cold War He joins us now our studios thanks so much for being with us it's a great pleasure to be here help us understand Van Cliburn popularity at the height of the Cold War Well that's that's how the book begins he won the competition in the spring of 1958 the Tchaikovsky competition when he came back Cliburn mania swept the country people were deeply interested in everything about him they wanted to read about him there was a ticker tape parade in New York 100000 delirious New Yorkers watch the parade snake its way up Broadway Cliburn was in the back of an open car waving to people blowing kisses and this was seen as a victory for the American system in some sense the idea that Van Cliburn an American could go over and defeat the Russians among others in classical music which was not seen as something that the United States particularly excelled at that he could go over there and win this competition and receive praise in fact from Russians while he was there suggested to people that perhaps the United States was not comprised of bunch of materialists and barbarians because in many circles that was how we were seen Cliburn seemed to put the. Let me ask you about a another period yes. United States entered World War One in 1917 and across the country. There were calls for the music of recurred Strauss and other great German composers not to be played what happened there was throughout the country tremendous anti German sentiment classical music was swept up in this anti German sentiment quite quite distressingly I might add the Metropolitan Opera Company for example banned all German opera starting in the 191718 season the music of living German composers was banned in most places in the United States including the music of record Strauss and musicians in the orchestra also lost their jobs this happened across the country obviously that it manifested itself in different ways but the world of classical music in the United States East Midwest and West was affected adversely by this. Let me ask about another period sure. I sure can 80 conducting Beethoven's there is. Let me get you to tell us about the concert he conducted in April of 1933 and the significance Toscanini and a number of other musicians in the United States sent a cable to Adolf Hitler basically saying that it was Hitler all to stop the depredations against musicians in Nazi Germany I mean to be playing there were Jewish musicians. I cannot exceed not exclusively so there were some who were not who. Not Jewish musicians. But they were in the eyes of the Nazi regime transgressors and Toscanini was asked to become part of this effort and he said absolutely I will I will certainly do that and it was seen as quite an important event in the United States at the time another period I want to ask you about. The McCarthy era in the United States and story I'm afraid I didn't know. About a composer who in many minds is is the author of the quintessential irreplaceable American music. Course that's Aaron Copeland's 1000 for her lovely lovely to listen to. It was struck from the play list if I might call it that of quite Eisenhower's inaugural concert that is correct I think and Illinois Congressman I write about this in the book he said he was your man by the name of Busby came to understand or was given to understand that that Aaron Copeland's political sentiments were let us say questionable this congressman made quite a fuss about it and in fact the piece was taken off as you said the play list for the inaugural it was taken off Copeland was exercised about it others were as well then there was worse to come for Copeland which we might discuss He was called before Joseph McCarthy Senate committee he was being Terra gated if you will by a car fee and Roy Cohen The larger point is that he was a person who as you said earlier represented in his music America's highest patriotic aspirations and nevertheless he was drawn into the toxic quality of the McCarthy era being called before that committee and after that in fact. So he was banned from performing and he suffered I find it astonishing that Aaron Copeland lost gigs he did eventually he sort of returned to favor as it were and but it was on the the next and not that's right but it was but it was a it was a grim period for many including Copeland Hugh you reflect toward the end of this book on the fact that classical The classical music audience in America yes is smaller than it once was what do the classical music might do now for American culture if. If more people just picked up to happen Well I'd like to think that in a in a culture that is often distracted that is seems at times to be spinning madly out of control that it allows people the opportunity to appreciate music that was produced in another era which can be I find uplifting and you know quite frankly to me it would be desirable if people were open to listening to it because I think it can be really rather enriching to sit down and listen to a symphony or a string quartet I think that would be nice if classical music could yet again become something that people are willing to devote at least a little bit of time to Jonathan Rosenberg his book Dangerous melodies classical music in America from the Great War through the Cold War Thank you very much for being with us pleasure. This is Weekend Edition from n.p.r. News I'm Scott Simon. Support for n.p.r. 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