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To illegal border crossing in Vermont New Hampshire New York Post will explore how New England's history is uniquely rooted in the shipping issue although they weren't naturally Mariners the original New Englanders turn to the one place that offered them opportunities which was of course true shipping and to fishing but what does the future hold for ne ports and the iconic New England brand l.l. Beam is finding unlikely success because of the booming outdoors trend in Japan the trend to grow and l.l. Bean and other clothing companies took advantage its next. Line from n.p.r. News in Washington I'm Lakshmi saying President Donald Trumps pulling the plug on his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il in June 12th in Singapore after days of suggesting to reporters at the meeting was still an in the u.s. Was ready today Trump announced that he changed his mind citing Pyongyang's recent open hostility N.P.R.'s Michele Kelemen says Secretary of State might pump aoe appear before a Senate panel today and he began with testimony reading a letter the White House sent to the camera there was one interesting thing that he did say when questioned by senators about what went wrong here he said that over the past several days he's been trying to do what Kim Jong un and he agreed to and that was to put these preparation teams together and he says that they received no response to our inquiries from the North Koreans in the past few days on this there seems to be broken down channel of back channel communication here that's N.P.R.'s Michele Kelemen reporting the president is granting a full pardon posthumously to boxing legend Jack Johnson in 1913 the country's 1st black heavyweight champion was convicted by an all white jury of immorality because of his personal relationships with white women they say violated the Mann Act and he had a conviction that occurred during a period of tremendous racial tension in the United States more than a century ago. Johnson served 10 months in federal prison for what many view as a racially motivated injustice he was treated very rough very tough. The president was joined by a boxer Lennox Lewis an actor Sylvester Stallone known for his famous boxing character Rocky Balboa in the movies Republican Senator John McCain and Democratic former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid also champion Johnson's case for years well the president is weighing new protections. For domestic automakers saying American auto workers have waited long enough N.P.R.'s Scott Horsley reports Trump has directed his commerce secretary to study tariffs or other limits on imported cars and car parts Trump has long complained that other countries impose higher tariffs on American cars than the u.s. Levies on foreign models in a statement Wednesday trumps that the domestic auto industry is quote critical to our strength as a nation Trump is asking commerce secretary Wilbur Ross to consider tariffs or other protectionist measures using the same national security authority he used to support tariffs on imported steel and aluminum if that case is any guide action on auto imports could be many months away if it happens at all the threat of terrorists could also be a useful bargaining chip for the administration as it tries to go see a new trade agreements with Canada Mexico Japan and the European Union Scott Horsley n.p.r. News Washington this is n.p.r. . In Germany a World War 2 era bomb has partially exploded in the city of Dresden during an attempt to diffuse it as meaning reports a fire that caused by or that was caused by the blast is still burning in downtown dressed in the 550 pound British aerial Boehm from the 2nd World War partly exploded last night as a disposal unit attempted to access the fuse nobody has been hugged but police warn there could be further blasts and that the situation remains extremely dangerous authorities had already evacuated more than 8700 people from an area near drest and main train station currently it is not clear how long it will take to put out the fire and 30 defuse the bomb more than 70 years after the end of the war unexploded ordnance is found regularly in German cities and has read that a bomb disposal operation involves an accident for n.p.r. News as mean of course and then. Federal investigators are out with their preliminary findings on the uber self driving vehicle they killed an Arizona pedestrian in March they say emergency braking maneuvers were not enabled while the s.u.v. Was under computer control it spotted the woman 6 seconds before impact however classified her as an unknown object and then a vehicle and then a bicycle before it finally identified her as a person 1.3 seconds before it struck and killed her. Turning to Wall Street the Dow Jones Industrial Average is down 90 points at 24706 I'm Lakshmi saying n.p.r. News support for n.p.r. Comes from n.p.r. Stations other contributors include Farmers Insurance committed to helping people understand the ins and outs of insurance so they can prepare for life's ups and downs coverage options and more information can be found at a farmer's dot com and the and he Casey Foundation. Support comes from Mattituck museum on the green Waterbury presents for humanity to conclude out of featuring Puerto Rican art on view through June 17th more information at Matt museum dot org. Coming up is next with John Dankosky. Next is powered by the New England news collaborative a public media companies coming together to tell the story of a changing rates with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. You hear a lot of news about the nation's southern border but what about security on New England's border with Canada some people believe that when it comes to border security the nation should focus on the potential for terrorists to enter the u.s. From the north more mad along reports on the potential security threats along the northern border customs and border protection pilot care hard Perry flies along the northern border where Vermont New Hampshire and New York meet Canada he flies an infrared camera quip Cessna on patrols that can last up to 4 hours when people ask him about his work and he always has to explain it's the northern border when you ask the average American citizen about the border what do you know about the border they immediately go to the southern border they don't even think about our border with Canada before his northern deployment Kerry flew borderland missions in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas a mix of river Bramble thicket and border towns so he knows both borders well and says You also have to look north have a large population centers within a 100 miles of the border you have to run till you have montréal where these organizations may be operating if you're going to address terrorism in Northern border is is where to look Kerry was in the air in 2014 when word came about an act of terrorism that change can. And with it a review of terrorism threats in Canada and security on its border. He sees. The Canadian soldier has died after being run down by a car driven by a suspected Islamic militant 1st a soldier was murdered in a deliberate hit and run near Montreal the same wakin ISIS supporter killed a soldier at Canada's war memorial He then entered Canada's parliament where he was shot dead in his cockpit Gary Hart Perry holdin the signal from an am radio as I'm flying I'm looking over Nyssa curd just a few miles from were from where we were I was horrified I was like good grief in Canada you know there are about 16000 Border Patrol agents on the Mexico border there are about 2000 on the Canada border which is twice as long as Mexico's The u.s. Attorney for the District of Vermont Christina Nolan says she has concerns about the northern border one of the 1st things that naturally comes to mind is what we know to be certain radicalized populations in in Montreal and other parts of Canada and Nolan recently met with Canadian prosecutors they indicated to me they had a healthy docket of cases pending that involved homegrown radicals who were attempting to travel overseas and fight for ISIS in response Canada has made preemptive arrests in the past 3 years at least 10 students have been arrested before leaving Montreal allegedly to join ISIS and alleged ISIS cell was uncovered in Ottawa in 2015 and in another case a coed born Canadian has pleaded guilty to plotting attacks for ISIS in New York in November Canada's minister of Public Safety Ralph Goodale revealed the number of people who have come back from places like Afghanistan the number of returning these known to the government of Canada is in the order of of 60 Canada's intelligence service also says it knows of 180 people with ties to Canada engaged in terrorism activity abroad with about half believed to be in Syria or Iraq we overemphasize security on the southern border. And we don't emphasize enough security on the northern border that security specialist Howard Campbell at the University of Texas at El Paso across the Rio Grande from waters Mexico his book drug war zone looks at trafficking in both cities of Homeland Security is really concerned with security and the biggest security threat is terrorism we should be more worried about the Canadian border than the Mexican border President Trump portrayed a southern border that's under siege he stated that drugs and undocumented migrants are pouring into the country he's made that assertion even as the administration's latest to test 6 for April show illegal border crossings held steady last month and that illegal crossings are in line with historical trends in El Paso how would Campbell says people arrested crossing in from Mexico may be committing an illegal act but he says they typically pose no threat of terrorism because Mexican and Central American migrant workers are not a terrorist threat to the United States Canada's 2018 budget includes $173000000.00 for greater security along the u.s. Border intelligence sharing between the u.s. And Canada is robust with a longer tradition of mutual trust than between the u.s. And Mexico and that could mean u.s. Law enforcement's presence on the northern border might continue to be dwarfed by what Washington has committed to the south you're listening to next I'm John Dankosky and that was reporter more math along on the u.s. Border with Canada border patrol agents arrested 20 people for entering the country illegally in Vermont New Hampshire New York in just one weekend in April helping people cross the border illegally or human smuggling is something people take for granted along the southern border but it's also part of life on the northern border where human smugglers and law enforcement are playing a cat and mouse game here's Lauren again Richard Ross is the agent in charge of the u.s. Border patrol station in Newport he's a native Vermonter who worked previously in border land Texas Russ says the volumes may be smaller and often the profiles different but he says human smuggling from Canada on the northern border is. Constant It absolutely is sophisticated and organized Ross runs one of 8 stations in the Border Patrol's Swanton sector the sector covers Vermont and parts of New Hampshire and New York there's boundless tree cover rivers and large lakes like Champlain and then from a dog with shoreline in both countries if you have that type of transnational criminal organization this area is very appealing in October 3 people were charged in federal court with allegedly orchestrating a 15 person human smuggling attempt that used a Vermont motel as a way station in November 2 American seen circling an area near the border were charged with smuggling to Mexicans then in February and twice in March Border Patrol agents intercepted similar smuggling attempts we have had 2 groups that happen to be Romanian drive vehicles 2 of the 3 cases unfolded beside the Haskell Free Library an opera house in Derby Line Vermont which bases then said go back outside the library a street with a simple marker and some flower pots marks the border there's just enough room for a car to squeeze between the marker and the state of Vermont so they came right up here over the sidewalk came out here took a left and Interstate 91 is about a minute away last year agents in the Swanton sector arrested 165 people trying to enter the u.s. Illegally that's a 22 percent decline over 2016 when 214 people were caught but Border Patrol intelligence agent Rob Vandross says business is still good for human smugglers we've seen that these organizations can sometimes charge individuals anywhere from 2 to even a prince of $2530000.00 the cost in Mexico between $3.80 Dando says human smuggling needs accomplices on both sides they will usually recruit drivers and folk eyes will there be any u.s. And Canada usually both countries to actually do the physical smuggling themselves agent Ross says. They also use Scouts we'd be foolish to think that we were running our operations and they were running any against us to see where they could cross and when they could cross Canada is trying to better track who comes in and out of the country and it's working with the us to do so Canada has begun sharing data with the u.s. On American citizens who cross into Canada legislation in Canada would also establish exit controls without them the government says it has no reliable way of knowing if visitors ever leave the country David Berger's a Canadian immigration lawyer who served for 16 years in Canada's parliament he says people will swipe their passport as they exit Canada we will have a record of when they leave the country we've never had that before and we will share that information with preserve the United States after the presidential election of November 26th seen a number of people began entering Canada illegally from the u.s. Back in Vermont Border Patrol Agent in Charge Richard Ross says agents are expecting a boomerang and some of those folks have realized that they're not going to be allowed to stay in Canada so we are seeing some of that traffic come back to us Canada's announced that it will allow a 1000000 migrants into the country between now and 2020 not all will end up staying permanently those who guard the northern border say that almost certainly means some of them will take their chances with human smugglers to try and enter the u.s. For the New England news collaborative model on. Earlier this month the Vermont Supreme Court overturned the conviction of a man who pleaded guilty to leading coup Klux Klan fliers at the homes of 2 women of color the court said the state didn't prove that the action met the threshold of quote threatening behavior as Liam elder corners of Vermont Public Radio reports this decision highlights the 10. Around protecting speech even when it's potentially threatening more harmful in $2152.00 women one African-American and one who identifies herself as Mexican found the Flyers at their homes none of their white neighbors had gotten them the flyer showed a robot Klansmen holding a burning cross and the phrase join the Klan and save our land police arrested and charged William shank with 2 counts of disorderly conduct he pleaded guilty but the Supreme Court overturned his conviction that doesn't sit right with Barry Jones a spokesperson for black labs matter of greater Burlington do they have to tie the note to a rock and throw it through their window and then throw Molotov cocktail at it like How obvious does a threat have to be to be taken seriously particularly if it's seen as if it's threats against people of color in its decision the court said prosecutors didn't prove that Shanks actions went far enough under Vermont's disorderly conduct statute to be a threat Jared carders an assistant professor at Vermont Law School Carter said the state had to prove that Shanks actions leaving the Flyers constituted an immediate threat to the 2 women and that since the activities here were primarily speech they deliberately have some fliers fliers but speech Nonetheless the state as a matter of fact in the matter of law could not meet its burden of proof the state argued that given the K.K.K.'s history of violence and because the individuals who got the Flyers were people of color Shanks conviction should stand the p.r. Couldn't reach the 2 women who received the fliers but according to court records both said the incident scared them one said based on the history of the k.k.k. She feared for her safety Jones with black lives matter of greater Burlington says the court's decision ignores the k.k.k. Has extensive history of violence and intimidation and so if we can't look at why supremacist terrorists speech in that context then what we're doing is. Actually reinforcing an appalling way supremacist violence but the American Civil Liberties Union Number Mont says it's a matter of protecting all free speech staff attorney Jay Diaz says in this case the speech isn't a threat you know we have a croup doing things like this and people are afraid how do we reconcile that with our longstanding traditions of free political speech the group filed a brief supporting the dismissal of Shanks' charges and Diaz says the k.k.k. Is a hate organization and the a.c.l.u. Condemns its actions however we want to be careful not to allow the criminalization of speech that gets too political issues our country has a long history of criminalizing political speech for organizations that we support such as the end of and many others so we want to be very careful with that because the 1st Amendment in the end protects everybody protecting free speech and protecting individuals is difficult for courts says law professor Jared Carter the robot Supreme Court has decided to deal with this case or simply interpret it in the statute rather than reaching the bigger questions How far can we limit speech is this particular activity by Mr Shank constitutionally protected or not Carter says those questions are left for another day for New England news collaborative I'm Liam elder Conner's in Arlington Massachusetts the community is still healing after officials found anti-gay and anti-Semitic graffiti at the high school earlier this month while the incident came as a shock to many there this type of vandalism is becoming more common in schools across Massachusetts Kerry young from w b u r z edified desk reports that this trend has prompted administrators from Arlington High School to explore new ways to handle and prevent these crimes when graffiti and other vandalism was 1st discovered at Arlington High School it didn't take long for news to spread my friend told me about it this is a Livia why. She's a senior at Arlington High It was scary as a young member of the Jewish community to hear that there had been a swastika painted on my school Weiss didn't see the images firsthand but she says she didn't have to rely on the rumor mill at school for long our principal sent out a pretty long email to all of the students about what had happened in the past schools may have quietly cleaned up the graffiti so as not to draw attention to the incident but that's changing Robert trust and the regional director of the Anti-Defamation League says schools are opting for more transparency and quick communication with the community when they see hate more and more people are recognizing it as something that needs to be dealt with promptly and in an upfront manner trust and says part of that has to do with the fact that administrators are seeing hate more in schools in 2017 the Anti-Defamation League counted about 90 anti-Semitic incidents in Massachusetts schools up from about 50 in 2016 state data on hate crimes tells a similar story in 2016 about 18 percent of all hate crimes occurred in schools an increase from about 12 percent from the year before education is the best prevention tool that we have trust and says a growing number of districts are integrating anti-bias curriculum into their classes organizations like the Anti-Defamation League and the n.w. C.p.e. Are partnering with schools to develop and implement these programs and according to trust in these services are in high demand in the course of a 2 year period were adding over 50 schools to our program which is this a significant increase but it's also really a reflection of what is happening out there in the communities this is something that we're growing within the district in a very formal way Sarah Hearn is the superintendent of the Franklin public schools in 2017 alone she says the district saw 3 incidents of racist vandal. On school grounds we've had a couple swastika located in our bathroom as well as a few stick on playground structures or on sidewalks displayed in chalk Ahern says the middle school grades have already launched an anti-bias curriculum instead of relying solely on teachers though the program has students leave conversations and develop inclusive environments school leaders are now hoping to expand the program into the High School System racy this type of anti-bias work and r. And diverse culture as being very intricately connected to developing social and emotional skills that will leave students more prepared to go out into the world of work and future education Weiss says the money will be donated to the friends of Arlington High School Fund where she hopes it will be used for efforts that promote healing instead of for the division for the New England news collaborative I'm Kerry young since Kerry's report Arlington High School identified 14 students who are accused of writing a swastika in anti-gay slurs on the school and the high schools offering a way for them to avoid criminal charges by enrolling in a program called restorative justice in consultation with human rights organizations students will be offered the chance to take part in a program that will give them the opportunity to meet with victims of vandalism and discuss ideas about possible restitution coming up the history in the future of the shipping industry knowing what its next. Galveston County's chief medical examiner can't stop thinking about what she saw inside the high school after last week's shooting in Texas painted murals on the walls and floor projects that the children completed there's nowhere in my brain that had associated those things with a crime scene the toll school shootings take on medical examiners this afternoon on All Things Considered from n.p.r. News. Some today at 4 support comes from the Connecticut Humane Society. I'm Ray Suarez with N.P.R.'s On point behind the news there are real people with something to say we bring them to you round table conversations with women truckers kind of ranchers families in the thick of the opioid crisis honest straight talk from the heart it's fresh perspective you won't hear anywhere else join us for the next on point. Tomorrow morning at 10. 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So it's not surprising that the hundreds of cancellations this year have led to public outcry from residents and workers stranded with no alternative transportation the dispute between frustrated writers and Steamship Authority management came to a head of a public meeting in Martha's Vineyard earlier this month with the authorities board moving to hire an outside firm to audit its entire operation. Simone Rios sent us this report from the Island shortly after that meeting. Walter Gillette runs an installation company based in Bourne he travels from the mainland to Martha's Vineyard twice a week to deliver supplies and overseas workers in all the 30 years he's been making the trip drill that says he's never seen this kind of scheduling mess we were doing a job last month and we couldn't get guys over here and then we couldn't get guys off the island at the end of the day so it was it was a nightmare mechanical problems have caused 549 cancellations this year alone on the line between Woods Hole and Martha's Vineyard that compares to just 26 cancellations all of last year for people who depend on the ferry for work that can translate into losses to let says his workers punch in on the mainland and only punch out when they return so every hour of delay is another hour of pay he says that's cost this company about $1000.00 but unlike a lot of people on the Vineyard Drolet says he still has faith in the Steamship Authority which operates the ferry I think it's a fluke I think that they probably are very concerned about how things have gone because generally they do a great job people who are good people and they try to get you on a boat that sentiment is far from universal these days as daylight and a colleague were waiting in their work van for the ferry back to the mainland roughly 200 Vineyard residents are making their way to the monthly board meeting of the Steamship Authority the meeting was originally scheduled to be held in Nantucket a public pressure on the Vineyard drove the board to meet here instead and. Face an angry public demanding a top to bottom audit of the agency Steamship Authority General Manager Robert Davis opened the meeting with an apology on the general manager I'm responsible for making sure that the services that you depend upon the island residents the local merchants the commuters the ship is an island visitors come to rely on every day. You know it's embarrassing every year in this position where we were unable to do that the notion of the ferry as a lifeline came up countless times during last night's meeting. Here's Jeanne Rogers a Vineyard Haven 3 times forced to pay for hotel rooms been forced to leave my car 3 separate times in Palmer because I couldn't get my car back on the boat and get the kids back to school and me back to work the next day this is our lifeline we need this fixed so whatever you people have to do you need to delegate well some Islander sees the opportunity to vent about the inconveniences brought to their lives others talked about the deeper significance of ferry service to the island economy Peter workman of Oak Bluffs is a commissioner at the airport we have 700000 gallons of fuel that we get every single year the majority that's during season that comes over and $88.00 trucks and if those trucks are delivered and we can't fly if we can't fly your impact becomes our impact a recent poll by the Martha's Vineyard Gazette found that 65 percent of year round Vineyard residents think ferry service is worse now than it was a year ago and 77 percent believe the Steamship Authority should be subjected to an independent audit many at the meeting were upset that the board had rejected an earlier proposal to do so but Board members say they had to reject it because it named one company to do the audit instead of putting it out to bid last night the proposal was revamped and brought again by Mark Hanover the Martha's Vineyard representative on the board I know what we need and I know what I want and. That is a complete review of the entire city I'm sure the Ori the operational discipline the i.t. The public communications management structure and our fleet maintenance. This time handovers plan was to solicit proposals in an open process now the board was United will take a roll call vote drones are. Ready I'm hearing and and over. And thanks for. Joining me. Next it'll be up to the steamship authority to request proposals for an audit that could be approved that it's next monthly meeting for the New England news collaborative I'm Seimone Rios on Martha's Vineyard every beach community has a story about a ship wreck a boat that didn't make it to port the stories mostly exist as folklore not as current events but in 2015 a giant container ship sank on a routine route between Florida and Puerto Rico during Hurricane hockey 33 Mariners died in that wreck 8 of whom were from New England. Boston based journalist Rachel Slade digs into the causes of this wreck as well as the history and future of the global shipping industry in her new book into the raging sea 33 Mariners one mega storm and the sinking of elf Our Oh Rachel Slade welcome to next thanks for joining us thank you so much so what's at the root of this whenever a a ship goes straight into a hurricane you can imagine a lot of reasons why maybe some sort of failure of communication some sort of breakdown or or as you chronicle a lot of pressures to get this cargo from one place to the other what are the main causes of why this happened when I started writing this book I thought of the working title as how many mistakes does it take to sink a ship and the answer is almost countless But there are a few major factors here one of them yes absolutely it was there was pressure on this captain he had recently been passed over for promotion he felt his job slipping away from him that was one thing that was on him and the other problem was the forecasting of this hurricane this particular hurricane ended up being one of the anomalies for the National Hurricane Center and in fact their forecasts were historically off for this particular storm they thought that it would cut north as most of our storms do in the Atlantic and this one didn't it defied their predictions it went south west it continued going south west of moved very slowly in fact it really lumbered it was moving at about 4 knots for days and it just sat there feasting off of the very warm waters of the Atlantic and usually waters of the Atlantic that time of year maybe you can give us an overview of just how big and how important the shipping industry is to United States right now so we think of the Internet as connecting us all that's only partly true. In fact the backbone of the global economy is shipping and it's not just American shipping it's global shipping 90 percent it's estimated of everything that we touch from the clothes on our backs to the parts in our car to the phone in your pocket 90 percent of everything that we own spent some time on a container ship so you can just imagine how important shipping is and when you think about what happened to Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria when the ships were having trouble getting through and they were having trouble then on the island distributing goods once they landed in Port even now you can see when when logistics are down chaos can ensue. I want to go back to the early days of New England and its role in the shipping industry you write that New Englanders were global citizens Southern planters waited for the world to come to them we think about the early American colonies being split between the north and the south and all of the stuff that the South had to offer the world cotton and tobacco but you're right that New Englanders had little to sell but an intrepid spirit I love that idea to tell us more about that. I don't know how the southern Southerners feel about this but I know I'm talking to friends here so. Yeah that the South was really not terribly interested in logistics but man the northerners really were I mean when we 1st arrived here when when those folks who did 1st arrived here you know we didn't really have Arab oil soil or the soil wasn't that great the winters were very harsh and so although they weren't naturally Mariners the original New Englanders turn to the one place that offered them opportunity which was of course through shipping and through fishing so that's why we developed this huge whaling industry for Stan and took it then Martha's Vineyard and New Bedford but we also became the world's shippers Now what was great about being in. Englund shipper before these Dabbous men of the United States was that they could kind of go rogue you know they were they were nominally citizens of Britain but we were so far away that they felt like they could open up new trade routes and not to worry too much about the crown catching up to them and so actually a lot of the big families 1st were known in Salem New report and Boston for sailing around South America up along the Pacific Northwest taking up furs from the Native Americans there and then trading in Canton and other places in Asia those are routes that that nobody else had really invested in before the colonists please put their sails to the wind in their really shaped all that history that you just laid out really shaped What's New England Massachusetts Maine Connecticut and Rhode Island what what these places actually looked like there was there was more of a global flavor there were more products and more people coming from all over the world that the shipping industry I assume ritual really really shaped what our entire region is like absolutely I think they were if you will more sophisticated than the other folks down the coast I also I'm fascinated by the idea that there is tremendous amount of social mobility in that model because you know there was no standardized investment system and so essentially communities would invest in these ships and originally no matter who you were whether you were their cabin boy or the captain you had a certain cut of the profits of the ship so everybody was invested and that meant that if you had a lucrative run you could in theory move up the chain move up the commanding ladder and eventually have your own ship and we see that over and over again folks. In Maine starting out just you know as as a deck hand 12 years old and then 40 years later retiring as a captain with an enormous house and a large family and lots of money in the bank and sometimes they became very politically powerful as well I want to spin this forward too to the modern shipping industry and talk a bit about some of the pressures facing it you already talked about one the storm the top down the all thorough is one of a series of stronger than normal hurricanes that have hit the Atlantic Ocean over the course of the last several years it's caused an enormous amount of damage on the land and as we've seen also at sea climate change is in part the cause of this I'm wondering how the shipping industry is adapting to the the problems of climate change right now what I'd like to stress here is that of course the oceans have always has this morning cycle throughout the summer the ocean the Atlantic collects heat from the sun that heat is the fuel for hurricanes tropical low will come down over the warm waters and then you know start sucking up the heat and becoming a cyclon and either dissipating or growing stronger into stronger and stronger hurricane which is what's important to understand here is that now we don't just have a warm layer of water in the Atlantic we have a very deep hot layer so that means that when the tropical low begins to form and when the cycling begins to form it has a much deeper source of fuel and Joaquin fed off of that depth of heat and that's why it moves so slowly and did not pull north as expected it just sat there and sat there and sat there because there was so much depth that even as it churned up the oceans it wasn't getting cooler it wasn't getting cooler it was continuing. To feed off of the depth of the heat as much as climate change introduces uncertainty and problems for the shipping industry there's potentially an opportunity opening up because of the melting of Arctic ice is is there a chance that we've created more shipping lanes that might New England ports in the near future so this is an absolutely huge story the ice is melting and you know that you can look at it any a number of ways I mean it's certainly a sign of of climate change but in the next 10 years it's predicted that we will actually have regular container ship routes from Asia to Europe cutting across the across the Arctic and that is actually shooting would take only about $22.00 days to get a cargo ship from Japan to Europe that's that's that's at least a week less than what it takes right now I predict that this is going to have an enormous impact on New England because if the if this becomes a truly viable route which I assume eventually it will if the ice continues to melt as it is an important one is going to start to look a lot like l.a. Does now so right now of course ships come to l.a. L.a. Is an enormous port I mean just it is the largest port in America but they're coming to l.a. And then they're redistributing cargo putting them on smaller ships or now sometimes even bigger ships coming through Panama Canal coming up to New York and Savannah and Houston and all those places so l.a. Is just a major feed report for all of America are all of distribution from Asia imagine now that the ships are no longer taking that route in or instead taking the northern route will Portland Maine or Portsmouth New Hampshire become the next l.a. Port and what would it take for those cities to actually become that Los Angeles. Aside from the fact that it's located in such a place that it could be that feeder port it's also a gigantic American city these these little New England towns are well they're mid-size cities but they're not l.a. How do you get a Portsmouth a report and 2 to become that obviously would take an enormous investment on obviously shippers size but also the cities of federal government I mean around the world especially in Asia countries subsidize their shipping industry they understand the importance of shipping for their own economies we do much less of that we have the Jones Act which is more protectionist legislation but we don't actually subsidize financially shipping in the same way if the United States decided that this was an opportunity or even if the region decided that this was an opportunity you could certainly term one of these areas into a major port city in very little time it doesn't take a lot you just need a lot of asphalt and you need to get your cranes in place you know you need these huge cranes you need to dredge but it really doesn't take a lot people are doing this round the world constantly now and then the next part of course is logistics on land and I would assume that we would have to beef up our highway system but also our rail system right now of course most of our stuff almost everything in the you know in line comes from New York and that gets mostly trucked up now imagine everything's going the other way fixing up these cities to become gigantic ports may be one thing but actually getting our roads and bridges fixed sounds like something that might be entirely different and to forget I'm not saying that this is a good idea I'm saying it might be inevitable at some point with all the research that you've done into this world of shipping and of course the story of of these people who died tragically on the ship do you think differently about the stuff that you use and where it comes from Oh absolutely Now I have. Of an understanding that people pack these boxes and then they pack these containers and then the containers have to get on the ships and then the ships have to get to here and you know just handlings loading and unloading and packing and unpacking I mean it takes a tremendous amount of work and in fact when we look at the prices of things for example a bottle of Evian water or you know a t. Shirt made in say you know Vietnam what's what we might not be comprehending is that the real cost oftentimes isn't the transportation is in getting that thing there and if the subsidies for the other countries were to end would it change the import export landscape of America would we then peek in to see the pricing of imported goods rise because in fact logistics is so expensive both environmentally and obviously from a labor and infrastructure standpoint the book is called into the raging sea 33 Mariners one mega storm and the sinking of far and the authors Rachel Slade Rachel thank you so much for joining us I really appreciate it it's been a pleasure thank you for coming out how did l.l. Bean the iconic New England brand become big business in Japan it's next. 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For years hours of video taped interviews with survivors of the Holocaust sat packed away in a closet in Brookline Massachusetts now as Connecticut Public Radio's Patrick scale tells us a filmmaker recently rescued those old tapes weaving the dozens of interviews together into a living memorial for survivors Harvey Brockman says he knew the Holocaust tapes would change his life and that scared him I was afraid of what I might hear I was afraid I couldn't do it Bronfman is the director and producer of the film Soul witness the Brookline Holocaust witness project these people went through great pains to tell the stories. And most of them had never told these stories to even their own family members Robin is talking about dozens of hours of interviews recorded in the 1990 s. With Holocaust survivors living in Brookline the original idea was to edit the interviews down but for the town it was a big and expensive task some of the wrong recordings were sent to an archive at Yale University others wanted to storage where they sat for over 20 years until Lloyd Gela new the town's chief diversity officer started going through the old stockpile he soon learned the tapes were interviews with Holocaust survivors and like oh my God this is like this has been sitting in my closet why haven't we done anything with it so Joan who got in touch with the Bronfman who cleaned the tapes up digitized them and eventually spent hours watching and editing the interviews the stories are gut wrenching like Reno turnoffs a survivor of Auschwitz who recalls the last time her mother and brother spoke she says the Nazis were choosing numbers for people who they would kill my mother I asked my brother they take down your number and my brother did not answer at all and he was 9 years old at the time and he just sort of on his piece of bread that he got so my mother over the fence and he said you take it I want need it anymore Cheryl left means Father Henry is also in the film welcome and says she watched some of his Holocaust testimony years ago when Henry taped his interview but she couldn't get through it it tore my heart apart in this interview Henry left and recalls a final conversation with his father shortly before he was murdered remember. The blast Shivraj you know. I would be really you. Obviously you Cheryl left man's father did survive emigrating to Massachusetts and eventually becoming an engineer often says for her father the Brooklyn interviews have filled that final father son promise that he would live to tell the story of what happened in the Holocaust as well as to their families so I think he would be tremendously proud of filmmaker Harvey Broadbent says the hours of interviews reveal survivors detailing not just a historical legacy but an emotional one they wanted us to know about the people they lost the they wanted us to know that they loved. They don't know why they would be only ones that survived it's still hard to talk about but survivors did talk about it some telling their stories near the end of their lives building a living memorial Brabant hopes will preserve these voices for years to come for the New England news collaborative I'm Patrick's Day One Harvard. In Hartford Puerto Rican families displaced by Hurricane Maria are adjusting to their new city some haven't had a chance to visit the local landmarks so recently a group of evacuees was invited on a private tour of the home of one of Harvard's most famous residents Connecticut Public Radio's Vanessa dilatory takes us to the Mark Twain House and Museum. The pen name Mark Twain which he learned while he was on the riverboat So we're in the Mark Twain House in the Tour Guide shows a black and white photo of one of Mark Twain's young daughters soon everyone notices that Clara Clements looks a lot like a 5 year old on the tour better she's a Puerto Rican evacuee there's Clara I laugh whenever I let him you know but yes I start right away but. Yeah the 5 year old is a student at Sanchez Elementary School in Hartford she came to this national landmark on a Saturday morning with her mom and other families from Puerto Rico plus some translators from the Hartford schools they climbed the stairs of this old house built an $874.00. And learned that the famous man who used to live here had affection for their island then love to go down here and look at it and this is where it all is I'm having. This field trip was months in the making are for Superintendent Leslie tours or remembers talking to some of the evacuees and to say. Amber It was just a few months after Hurricane Maria ripped through Puerto Rico the damage forcing out thousands of us citizens who ended up in places like Harvard where they were wondering you know how how am I going to get to know the community you know I don't feel like I belong I don't feel like I will ever be a lawyer the superintendent asked if they've gone to any of the museums in Hartford and they said no so this topic brings up some memories for tours of bridges because she visited the Mark Twain House as a kid around 1905 she was 9 years old a new Harvard having just arrived from Puerto Rico is great its way Burns Elementary. First field trip 1st field trip ever ever burns elementary school are just a mile or so away from the Mark Twain House both of these schools received a big influx of evacuees after the hurricane last fall so the superintendent says why not invite the displaced families out burns and Sanchez to his vintage Hartford Place the former home of Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain the guy who wrote classics like Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn this is the daily this is where Syria or Maher wrote his most famous books that's Grace blender she works for the Mark Twain House blender explains as Sam Clemens struggled with the direction of his life when he was younger before he became a well known author such as school employees Sally Vasquez is translating for the group and he hated that. You didn't. Know he really needed to be a game going to want to ask is a translator but it becomes clear that some of the children have learned enough English to translate to so when he's older he becomes a riverboat pilot when that kind of c.e.o. And I don't believe I take a look there will be. After checking out the kitchen the family step outside of the Marmora Alice is one of the parents displaced from Puerto Rico she says the 144 year old house seems like a nice place to live we get on the bad. But the home is so big she says it be hard to clean it. Jani also offers her opinion she's the little girl who bears a striking resemblance to Claire Clements bearing me. She say he's beautiful. As it turns out the field trip was also an opportunity to network the museum says it's looking for a bilingual 12 bags for the New England News Club. In the United States l.l. Beans sales have been largely stagnant but that's not the case in Japan where the store has found some unlikely success Laurie Allegro from the Bangor Daily News decided to explore why the outdoor store is becoming so popular in Japan in a recent article and she joins us now Morey welcome to next thanks for being here thank you for having me before we start you've actually spent some time in Japan so you know what you're talking about well I was stationed there that 1st overseas correspondent for 5 years so you know a little bit about the culture and you know what some of the trends are that the people might be picking up on least those trends coming from America it's a lot of what I enjoyed about being there watching the trends so talk about l.l. Bean and why you think it's seeing so much success in Japan right now oh there's been a push by the Japanese government to get the workers to take some time off and spend time with their families and do things to so this whole outdoor trend has been going on for maybe since 9902 and initially it took some unusual forms for example when I was there I would see people driving around central Tokyo with surfboards on their car with no intention of using them in the water but it was an outdoor trended to find out the so the trends as it continued to grow and el . Albina and other clothing companies took advantage of Japanese people wanting to be outside and wanting to be dressed appropriately but help me understand is most of the trend about people wanting to appear as though they're about to spend time outside or people actually wanting to go hike out more wilderness it's now moved into people hiking into the wilderness a lot of it's to find peace away from the city but also to be dressed fashionably and to be dressed to protect yourself against the weather it has turned into a very active outdoor scene of both individuals groups of people and families so what does a store in Japan look like compared to the Albion store that you find there in Maine they are smaller on average maybe a 3rd of the size and they are very much curated so only specific products that sell well will be handled in a store you won't see the variety that you see here I'm wondering if l.l. Bean can learn something for the American market from the success that it's had in Japan I think they're already starting to do that they are opening 5 new stores in the u.s. This year that are smaller stores much smaller than their usual size here and they are very much curated for the type of individuals in those areas that would be buying there is there a sense that it will be in is going to expand internationally even more seeing the success that they have in Japan is there a market in China or elsewhere in Asia for their products they've actually retrenched from China they did have some it was over 30 stores it might have been close to 50 but they were very small they were within a department store for example and that model isn't working very well it was expensive so they've decided to really focus on Japan more so than anywhere else outside the country they have a catalog business in Canada but Japan is really the big opportunity that they. Told me they say Lori Vologda is an economy and business reporter at the Bangor Daily News you can find a recent article about l.l. Bean in Japan on next New England dot org Thanks so much Lorie appreciate it thank you. Producer of next is Katie the last production help this week from Lily Tyson alley Oshinsky our digital producer is Parlow Smith here our theme music is by composer Todd Merrill You can hear more of his music at Tod Merrill Doc Our thanks also to Goodbye blue moon for song New England the New England news collaborative is funded in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting with support from Douglas Stone and Mary Schwab stone through the Smart family foundation of New York and the Melville Charitable Trust get scoured by w.b. Boston from on public radio New Hampshire Public Radio Maine Public Radio Rhode Island Public Radio w s h u Public Radio New England Public Radio and Connecticut publicly. 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