there was a need in saint augustine for food. upon augustine relied exported food. wasas ordered and -- it sandy. y needed a reliable source of food. there were croplands around the site is far efficiency. the bread basket of the early: neil effort. it was important from that standpoint and also it was a fortified outpost halfway area.n one end of the it pray that security link as well in the feeling effort of the spanish to secure their order land. of this establishment site in this village, they continued on until it was burned 17 -- 1704. of there was anticipation it might be attacked by a column of native american allies of the ingush and a few english militia. in order to prevent the site from falling into the hands of [inaudible]is others burnt this mission to the ground. is thecular plaza here center. all the buildings around this plaza. there is -- the three main ingredients of the life of the .illage the catholicaza is church and the religious complex. the reason this pot was organized. here they are facing off each other, door-to-door. at the same time to

he stopped first in jacksonville and insane augustine. -- and in saint augustine.e built a home for himself and he built a home for his partner. they remained partners for a few years and then had their differences in edison bought his partner some. two mirror image homes. his interest in plants began when he first arrived here. he was looking for a plant filament that could be used in the lightbulb and that was bamboo. we have several dozen varieties of bamboo on the property now. he loved palm trees. .e have 100 variety of palms he brought the royal palm to fort myers. the reason why this land was so important was that it cost the u.s. government to come forward with what was called the patent law. if you invented something with plants and it was a process that was worthy of patenting, it was issued. until that time, the process in this country had been for mechanical devices, machinery , and it was not until the that the whole new emerged.ant scientists the process was very critical in america. was veryindustry interesting because it was the beginning of the mac

augustine." >> frontlinis made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. and by the corporation for public broadcasting. major support for frontliis provided by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. more information is available at macfound.org. additional support is provided by the park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the ford foundation, working with visionaries on the front lines of social change worldwide. at fordfoundation.org. the wyncote foundation. and by the frontline journalism fund, with major support from jon and jo ann hagler. >> michelle was the youngest of all of us-- of six-- and she was the one that we always looked out for. she was an amazing athlete. she loved to swim. she could climb a tree faster than anybody. michelle was very fun-loving. she was very outgoing. >> i mean, michelle just embraced life. >> she loved being a

augustine. he has the best insight about what's going on with our screens. which are unbelievably addictive, right? our friends are there. there are these bright jewel-colored things they fit into our pockets. they're accessible in two seconds. and when the person we're talking to is boring we've got this whole world right here. it's a dire temptation. and i give in to it way too often. i'm going to get the augustine quote totally wrong but he says look what the world does. it puts these temptations in front of us all the time. our job as -- to use your words from last night, as more mature, more reflective or deeper people, is to be aware of that. and then to fight that battle against ourselves to try to become a better or more reflective person. in part by not -- not reaching for the darn phone every five seconds. i still like the phone. i still want it. but we need to be able to have a real conversation. >> you think it cuts our attention span? >> yeah, probably. but i have trouble believing that we could design any technology better at rotting our brains

and augustine's specifically refers that we don't need to ask the questions like the greek would ask the source of the storm or why do we have the tide. there was a sense of 22 get away from the out worldliness from their spiritual world. >> host: roughly what timeframe are we talking about? >> this curiosity starts in the fourth century and continues all the way through even the religious people recognize the do something bold this is natural to human beings says to the forces to the 16th century. >> host: who was alexander humboldt? >> a fascinating man. he is a german who becomes financially independent when his mother dies and then it is like now like to be as curious as i want it to spend five years most and northern south america and it is fascinating by nature and by climate in the of magnetism coming down with the equipment all these things as which he can measure the tide the water how it changes to be interested how plant life changes he is the world's first ecologist he was interested to show the unity and diversity and how is affected by climate and natural forces. and th

augustine at the time in the empire was collapsing and the church to a scene as the safe place with a sense the jobs of the human being was to understand what god wanted of them and not be invested in the world around them but also of the sense specifically refers to the greeks we don't need to ask these questions like what is the source of the storms and why we have tides there was a sense to get away from the worldliness to concentrate on the spiritual well-being. >> host: what time frame are we talking about with your book? >> i talk about curiosity it starts in the fourth century and continues all the way through even religious people recognize they're doing something bold but that this is natural so from the fourth century to the 16th. but alexander humboldt's is fascinating. he is chairman who becomes financially independent and his mother dies thank you sucked his job and it is like saying now i can be as curious as i want and he travels to america and spends five years and is fascinated by nature by the unity the climate and is just burgeoned down with the equipment and all th

from augustine through the 16th century, catholics and protestants preached to you or not to be curious about god's creation. there was an adult to re-to ask about tides or shapes of the earth. so this is a question to me. how did they break through this? my hunch was that it was columbus. not the discoveries, but what they brought back. all of the flamboyant birds, weird animals, stories of exotic people. of course they brought some back. this is so fascinating people had to break through the prohibition against curiosity and from that time on they become curious about the natural world and the relation of these weird new things to the old things. so they have never looked at the natural objects around them before, but now they had this question of comparison. so that was my question was how to curiosity free itself from the church? when i finished the story, i really had done with the subtitle said. i'd really shown how the new discoveries have led to the scientific imagination, which changed european society from the isolated rigid cultural system to the one we know as expansive and

augustine grass over 50 years ago. and for the first time this winter, i experienced winter kill of my st. augustine grass. now, i don't know what's going on. but the fact of the matter is i can play anecdotes all day. i'll just say that somehow the cold and the ice and the winter got to my st. augustine hasn't happened in 50 years on magnolia drive. i don't know what that proves, except that we can give anecdotes that don't have really much to do with science. let's talk about these -- the migration of the ducks, mr. ashe. it's my understanding that because of the increased demand for corn used in ethanol production, we're seeing a reduction of available breeding grounds in the midwest wetlands and grassland for ducks in mississippi and louisiana flyways. so don't you think that there is an impact caused by the renewable fuel standards on

augustine-quoting lawman who navigates a demi-monde gun with perversion and bloodshed. damaged but following a unerring moral compass, robicheaux is burke's modern-day knight-errant. >> actually, his character is based one, on the everyman character in the medieval morality and religious dramas. but also primarily i see his antecedent as the good knight in chaucer's canterbury tales. it's a great character, the good knight, chivalric figure who is always the peacemaker in the story, the pilgrimage. >> reporter: that pilgrimage toward redemption, says burke, is what defines good literature. >> as far as redemption is concerned, i'm speaking as an artist. i believe the central theme in all of occidental literature is about the search for salvation. it is the basic theme of western literature, and that's what we all end up painting, acting out in dramas, or writing about. >> missy gets the last one because you were a slowpoke. all right, come here. >> reporter: robicheaux has brought burke fame and fortune -- two horses on 120 acres nestled in a towering, tree-lined valley

soldiers remove a motorbike from what he said was and hamas tunnel the augustine from israel's foreign ministry told me joshie the operation is the only option left for israel under the threat of militants. this is a terror game is a shame that we're fighting terrorism is a sham that's one to bring destruction i want to remind you that even today we have a humanitarian ceasefire for quite a few hours while the well the people in hamas kept on shooting at us just today twenty three rockets when we let the passages be opened in order to bring in more than one hundred trucks and a lot of assistance to the people in gaza because we see them as hostages the disagreement here was not about him us it was about civilians innocent civilians they're being killed here yes and unfortunately the hamas uses these people as human shields you know a war it is or on a number of occasions about you know were civilian objects are located in this specifically this particular school why is it that israel has not heeded that you know and also said that they found missiles into one risk pools they went out a

while amnesty international says reporters should not be taken hostage his colleagues from the rian augustine news agency have launched a twitter campaign with a hash tag free angela it was reportedly detained by ukraine security services but that's something kiev denies and it's all the first time a journalist covering the conflict in east ukraine has gone missing last month the ground philips from britain who was working for a team when he was seized by ukraine's security forces before releasing philips he also denied detaining him. baghdad is bracing for a possible coup prime minister nouri al maliki has refused to step down after being denied a third term by parliament the country's u.s. backed president has already named a new premier about maliki's forces are reportedly taking up positions across baghdad. now when the market took up the premier's post in two thousand and six he was checked and approved by the cia he positioned himself as a close friend of washington's always eager to shake hands with george w. bush and in december two thousand and six he signed saddam hussein's death wa

augustine, florida. >> caller: i had a comment about the negative feedback we get from congress and senators mccain on whatever the president does. he is aware of the, you know, the intelligence that is coming from those areas probably more than those two senators and what frustrates me is like a few weeks ago when the president was rescuing the people from the mountain and they came out and said you should not reveal your strategy. and now they turned it around this weekend and are demanding he lay out this policy for them. ... . it's just kind of silly how the politics are in this. now is the time as a cup tremendous we need to stand together and not attack our own president. especially after he's been threatened directly by the enemy. it seems that these guys are acti acting treasonist to me. i just wish we had more solidarity. next is a viewer from texas. good morning. as the president weighs options against isis, what should he do? caller, you're on the air. caller: thank you. thank you for >> caller: thank you. thank you for taking my call. it's been amazing that -- [inaudible] for tho

augustine. he's got the best insight about what's going on with our screens, which are unbelievably addictive, right? our friends are there. there are these bright jewel colored things. they're accessible in two seconds. when the people we talk about is boring, we've got this whole world right here. it's a dire temptation and i give into it way, way too often. i'm going to get the augustin quote wrong but he said look what the world does is put these temptations in frontal of us all the time. our job to use your words from last night, as more mature and more reflective for deeper people is to be aware of that and to try to become a better or more reflective person in part, by not reaching for the darn phone every five seconds. i still like the phone. i still want it. but we need to be able to have a real conversation. >> do you think it cuts our attention span? >> yeah, probably. but i have probably believing that we could design any technology better at rotting our brains than network televisio

would like to note we have been joined by augustine who is the foreign minister of liberia. usnk you for being with today. most daunting the these can country vs. faced. today more than 1500 cases have been reported including over 900 total deaths. although the affected countries are home to many heroic and dedicated health workers the rapid spread of the disease reflects the lack of capacity, particularly in the throw epicenter countries liberia, and see raria leone. providing frontline medical care to patients is hard-pressed to continue to provide care in all affected regions. compounding the issue, affected lack ofons understanding of virus and wide it is spread mistrust of andthcare providers treatment methods have further efforts.response in significant proportions of the affected regions local tradition such as public funerals and cultural mourning customs including preparing teased forbore riyal have contributed to the and led localss to block access to patients and ons some aces led to attacks health care work hes. in one such incident in liberia, have begunprovider

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augustine. story far fetched and anyone ought to question the testimony of an aspiring easton ellis. what's your response? >> i find that utterly ridiculous. i stand by 100% everything that i represent in the book. these are true events that happened -- >> corroborated by other people? >> they've been corroborated. done extensive fact check, so did "rolling stone" magazine. i had people present for 95% of all the hazing who read the book. read hundreds of pages and confirmed everything in its totality. i stand 100% behind my word. this is a true book. i can understand that people, you know, can have an extreme and often visceral reaction, but it's the truth. we have to, you know, deal with that truth. >> for people who don't know greek culture well, are certain people targeted for this kind of hazing? >> well, you know, i would only speak about my experience, but, you know, obviously it's a choice to enter the greek system. i think that we need to talk about the kind of -- the structure of it, t

i am especially happy the subject sent you back to augustine. fantastic. many people in the audience will return and read it for the first time. i wanted to defend a little bit the subject of the channel because i think the administration, the president has addressed this in various nterviews. i believe i made this case from the same stage a couple of times in the past. the case i will make is i think the way the president understand the on the mental issue is not mad, i think it is very sound. the way i will lay it out is the islamic republic of iran while extremely problematic and we regress against the support for terrorist activities, they are nonetheless a state. finally military operations if necessary. faces or organization like isis are somewhat of a state now, becoming more and more of the state. hese organizations are not states, they are not capital. i believe the administration perceives these organizations are a bigger concern, and there are fewer resources or instruments to deal with that. that's why i think there actually has been a real cho

. >> that was the ceo of michel and augustin. the new food brand to watch.>> he says a lot of great things. he is talking about the fact that we need change in france, yet he is moving to the united states because that is where they love entrepreneurs. i guess that is part of the problem as well, that there are better environments elsewhere and he is off. i don't think we get enough french entrepreneurs and hoodies -- in hoodies on this program. we need more. thank you. avivll take you to tel where this ceo is talking about his company, the ipo, and how he plans to stay ahead of the curve as well. ♪ >> welcome back. you are watching "the pulse." let's take you back. we just heard the ceo of the french food brand michel and a ugustine. here is the take from another ceo and france. -- in france. >> they said it. spending an incredible amount on social spending, the number of regulations, we cannot go further. away to inverse the trend we have been surfing on for years and years. we are not going to discuss topic by topic, issue by issue, reform by reform. to s

this is in augustine county north, coming from the ap in deerfield virginia.eep you posted on what you learned about the crash. eric: out west, california drivers may have to dig deeper into their wallet thanks to a new gas tax. live with the details in l.a. reporter: eric, $4.09 not enou enough. the price increase calls for a state law to reduce pollution, higher prices or consumption, cleaner air, not happier drive drivers. >> i think it is terrible, the economy with jobs and everything is crazy. reporter: $0.68 per gallon, they pay the second highest gas tax. in january it goes up again. >> gas prices go up, my social income goes down. reporter: who is to blame, the middle east, wall street? it is the state imposing a tax on oil refiners as part of the climate change law. the cost ultimately paid for by consumers. >> that equates to 12 to $0.15 per gallon depending on the price of carbon credits. posted rice so we could be looking at 50-$0.60 even a dollar per gallon. >> supporters say it will help the environment in the long run. >> we will tackle 40% of t

augustine cartmell is were the largest volume of cars trades hands ever in the world.his year was especially important with sales of the ferrari gto we had that set a world record for the most viable car ever offered at auction -- valuable car ever offered at auction. >> what is it about the ferrari 250? >> it is a spectacular machine. they made only 36 of them with the three liter engine. they had prolific race history, every single one of them did incredible things. they just combined the incredible beauty of ferrari road car with the racecar. it is one of those things where it is a purposely designed machine to race and win races. as a result of the way it came out, it looks stunning. >> absolutely gorgeous. and for 1954 as well, it's just shockingly beautiful. >> it was more toward the early 1960's. they made them from 1961-1964 they made the 250 gto model. it was part of the 250 series they started making in the early 1950's and continued nearly to the mid-1960's producing that model with a three liter v12, refining it a lot or the way. this is the perfect car to

john young in saint augustin florida. this is two hours. so, i mean as a kind of overview just to refresh everyone's memory here, we started with an overview of the history of it. rwanda. this tension was precipitated by the withdrawal of the colonial powers in the 1950s and 1960s such that there was tension for the next 20 and 30 years erupting into violence. becoming pretty severe starting in 1990 with the invasion of uganda of the rwanda patriotic front. this violence escalated through the early 1990s. there were preprisal killings i r rwanda. that brings us to our topic of genocide and the u.s. and international response to the genocide. we will talk tonight about the kind of narrative of the genocide itself. what happened between late 1993 and the middle of 1994. the genocide itself taking place over 100 days between april 6, 1994 and mid-july -- early to mird july of 1994. we do this through a number of books that our students have been exposed to. maybe we should talk about them. so we have sam ana powers, a problem from hell which i

i would like to note we have en joined by augustine fullhahn, who is the foreign minister of liberia. thank you for being with us today. this is one of the most daunting diseases this country has faced. today more than 1500 cases have been reported including over 900 otal deaths. although the affected countries are home to many heroic and dedicated health workers, the rapid spread of the disease reflects the lack of national capacity, particularly in the three epicenter countries of liberia, and sierra leone. providing frontline medical care to patients is hard-pressed to ontinue to provide care in all ffected regions. the n.g.o. community has played a consultant role by providing frontline medical care to patients and hard-pressed to continue to provide care in all affected regions. compounding the problem, the patients' lack of understanding of the virus and widespread mistrust of health care providers and treatment methods have furlingt -- further hampered response efforts. in significant proportions of the affected regions local tradition such as public funerals and cultural mourn

i am especially happy the subject sent you back to augustine. fantastic. in the audience will return and read it for the first time. little bit defend a the subject of the channel because i think the administration, the president has addressed this in various interviews. i believe i made this case from the same stage a couple of times in the past. the case i will make is i think the way the president understand the on the mental issue is not mad, i think it is very sound. the way i will lay it out is the islamic republic of iran while extremely problematic and we regress against the support for terrorist activities, they are nonetheless a state. finally military operations if necessary. isis or organization like are somewhat of a state now, becoming more and more of the state. organizations are not states, they are not capital. i believe the administration perceives these organizations are a bigger concern, and there are fewer resources or instruments to deal with that. i think there has been a real choice. i do not believe the administration or president

thomas and saint augustin roman catholic saints on the same principle so now we have in the united states of america people that reject the principle that is a very profound thing. it's not just rejecting our own tradition. it's rejecting the tradition that goes right back to the pre- christian times and i would argue it is just simply true so we are turning our back on the truth. we turn our back on the national law. we are turning our back on the truth. >> host: one must call from scranton pennsylvania. >> caller: hello. first thing i want to say is i apologize for backing us up here a little bit but i've been trying to get through for a while so i'm on the other subject of missouri but it kind of blends in with a few of the things you were just saying. every time something happens in this country they examine the bullet and we completely forget about the finger that squeezed the trigger. we can't get to the root of the problem if we claim racism on every single situation that takes place in this country. i'm so tired of hearing what we are focusing on the wrong things is what we are do

i would like to note that we have been joined by augustine, who is the foreign minister of liberia. thank you for being with us today. minister. now i would like to yield. >> thank you very much, chairman. for the chance to testify before you on this very important topic. in evolving ebola crisis guinea, sierra leone, and now nigeria, is one of the most daunting challenges those countries and the region have faced in decades. 1600 suspectedn and confirmed cases of ebola have been confirmed, including over 900 total debts. although the although these countries are home to dedicated health workers, the lack of the spread of disease reflects the lack of capacity in the three epicenter countries of liberia, guinea, and sierra leone. the ngo community which has played a significant role in the response effort by providing front-line medical care to patients is hard-pressed to continue to provide care in all affected regions. compounding the issue, affected populations'lack of understanding of the virus and widespread this trust of providers and treatment methods have further hampered res

i want to note that we have been joined by augustine, the foreign minister of liberia. thank you for being with us today. and now i'd like to yield to ambassador williams. >> thank you very much, chairman smith, ranking member bass, chairman wolf, and members of this committee. for the chance to testify before you on this very important topic. e evolving ebola crisis in guinea, liberia, sierra leon and now nige is one of the most -- nigeria is one of the most downtowning challenges. to date more than 1,600 suspected and confirmed cases of ebola have been reported, including over 900 total deaths. although these affected countries are home to many heroic and dedicated health workers, the rapid spread of the disease reflects the lack of national capacity. particularly in the three epicenter countries of liberia, guinea and sierra leon. to limit the spread of the disease and to treat patients. the n.g.o. community, providing frontline medical care to patients, is hard pressed to continue to provide care in all affected regions. compounding the issue, affected populations l

let's try chuck, saint augustine, florida. are you there?aller: we have are the republicans say strategy like strategy. they had bin laden trapped three times and could not decide whether to give or not, so they let him go. as i recall, the original 9/11 terrorists were tried in the united states, in central florida. it is time that we took care of the home front and the rest of the world. we can't even tell you who are friends are. that's all. host: antonio is waiting to check in. hello, antonio. caller: hello, good morning, everybody. i think we go too far, like the gentleman said before me. i think this country is a beautiful country, the best in the world, but my grandmother never went to the school in italy years ago. she used to tell me that you can take a picture with one hand. you've got to stop going around the world. we have so many enemies around the world. i think that this country is at 51 years. i did my duty. i love this country. i love this country. god bless america. the people of the united states are sure to wake up to wha

genocide taught by john young in saint augustin florida. this is two