as hester did when she continuing the letter a.ter's label, hawthorne wrote promising to give her the ability to see into people's hearts, exposing the outward guise of purity. because everyone has some kind of secret her label convey to others not only that should be sympathetic to them, as if the eight was an ancient degree in clinical psychology but also she was more similar to them than different. >> wow that's just gorgeous. what i want you to guide the viewer, listeners through is how the lessons baked into that famous passage and that story everyone knows, how to flow through the life are living now? there is still at sigma. their stigmas following slowly but surely. there is in a way a great participatory engagement we are all a part of here. i have ptsd, not somebody said look i know ptsd is, it's often very serious and you don't have that. yes we get that. everyone knows the context now. it almost frees people to say you are all part of really one thing. >> this is a tough thing. when you hear a good story about somebody

commissioner hester peirce madam commissioner, thank you for your time.ggestions, policy suggestions headed the s.e.c.'s way lately i'm told you are open-minded to many of them can you give us a sense as to how you are thinking about settlement cycles, margin requirements, investor protection, and whether or not you see any of those particularly as low-hanging fruit? >> sure. well, i think as an initial matter it's important to remember that the markets worked extraordinarily well under extreme volatility and high trading volumes. so that's a positive for the plumbing piece of it we don't want to do anything to make that not work as well we need to be careful no matter what we do a lot of people have been talking about shortening the settlement cycle, and i think there is a lot to argue in favor of that, but we also have to be careful to look at what the cost and benefits are of the move there may be lower hanging fruit in the form of just trying to clean up and make more technologically advanced some of the back end process that goes on once a trade is c

growth of the main character sinclair sinclair by the way is actually a thinly disguised version of hesterimself is david leavitt's in a moral quandary himself. being good is a nice idea right so why is being bad just so much more fun. author how man has this book damien deals with the big questions of good and evil right and wrong the main character sinclair grows up in a religious family where everyone does the right thing but he is the black sheep as a child and a teenager sinclair is torn up by guilt guilt over his lies and later his sexual desires he wants to be good but he doesn't believe he can be enter damian another young student with an otherworldly presence and ideas that turn sinclair's moralist christian upbringing upside down. he had said that the god we worship represented only arbitrarily sectioned off half of the world the official primitive world the world of light but we should worship the whole world so either we needed a god who was also the devil or we needed to establish the devil services along with the church services that honor god when how man has a rope to me on

in southern yang go on me in law's largest city during violence between the police and he coopers hester's the police have been firing live rounds tear gas and water cannon as they try to end weeks of demonstrations against the military coup tony chang is covering this from bangkok one a male protester was shot in the side in think on your own in the south of yangon on earlier today his death was confirmed by the local hospital there and this seems part of a wider crackdown that is happening all across yangon in fact all across the country there are more than a 1000 marching in downtown young gone mainly engineers they've been joined with railway workers at the moment they haven't been challenge by police but up and they down near the university there have been there the police have been pushing down hard with tear gas fired rubber bullets and we understand live fire as well. the u.s. has approved the johnson and johnson vaccine it's the country's 3rd and its 1st single dose $4000000.00 doses are ready to be shipped it's around 66 percent effective at preventing illness and 100 percent eff

>>don't expect to see kids back in the playground anytime soon here at hester another elementary schools and eventually middle and high schools in the san jose unified school district. short of a state mandate or new legislation the south bay's largest school district is sticking with the reopening plan based on 2 criteria says the district's jennifer matter we have agreement currently with our labor camps to open santa clara county is in the orange tier. >>and or when all of our teachers have had the opportunity to receive the full covid-19 vaccine lacking both criteria for now the district announced wednesday that teachers have agreed to support limited in person cohorts similar to a program already under way in the campbell union school district which permits small groups of students with an adult in the room to help with distance learning most of our sons are doing well. we do have some students that distance learning is just not really working for them and so we want to be able to provide better support for those students which we plan to do in person fueling the push to reopen scho

>>don't expect to see kids back in the playground anytime soon here at hester another elementary schools and eventually middle and high schools in the san jose unified school district. short of a state mandate or new legislation the south bay's largest school district is sticking with the reopening plan based on 2 criteria says the district's jennifer matter of we have agreement currently with our labor camps to open santa clara county is in the orange tier. >>and or when all of our teachers have had the opportunity to receive the full covid-19 vaccine lacking both criteria for now the district announced wednesday that teachers have agreed to support limited in person cohorts similar to a program already under way in the campbell union school district which permits small groups of students with an adult in the room to help with distance learning most of our sons are doing well. we do have some students that distance learning is just not really working for them. >>and so we want to be able to provide better support for those students which we plan to do in person fueling the push to reope

and hester a school could be back as soon as monday next week there's also moot when it comes to hairdressers which is good news for the likes of myself we've started to look a little shaky during this lockdown from the 1st of march headdresses will be able to reopen with some caveats in place there will be certain hygiene requirements masks having to be worn these type of things and limits on the number of people in shops now what did come out as well is an all important figure this is 35 per 'd 100000 that's where it has to get 35 tases per 100000 of population if the week long indices the 7 day indices gets to that point then we could see museums galleries of the establishment opening up including non-essential retail what is not on that list is restaurants and bars for in-house dining they will remain closed certainly until the current lockdown as it set out on the 7th of march angle of merkel despite watch as she was accused of has conceded quite a bit of ground here the last time she did that was back in the autumn of last year and it was followed by a spike in coronavirus cases there w

hester piercer commissioner at the u.s. securities and exchange commission mentioned the urgent need for clear kept cryptocurrency regulations amid the adoption of digital assets by leading companies like tesla and mastercard that clarity actually coming. i think it is coming and the question is going to be what does it consist of i mean isn't there absolutely needs to be clarity from the f.c.c. on crypto but i would say more than the f.c.c. there needs to be clarity from the i.r.s. on crypto that's a very big deal as well right now you have a lot of investors who are coming in and the question the surrounds big surrounds every crypto currency every digital currency is a question of is it currency the i.r.s. says it's not currency right now iris believes that if you get paid for instance that say that you know your boss over there at r t america says brett we're going to start paying you in because which by the way would be great if you want to do that but if he were to say to you or us are paying you a bit coin right the i

months against government reforms of the agricultural sector police in haiti have fought reports hester is demanding the resignation of president john l. movies officers fired tear gas and rubber bullets at demonstrators who threw rocks and set fire to vehicles always has been in a power struggle with his opponents who say his term ended a week ago but the president says he still has a year left in office. and this would have been the long weekend that brazil holds its annual carneval the festival which normally brings in millions of tourists was canceled because of the global pandemic but as monaco yannick have reports from rio de janeiro some brazilians are trying to keep the spirit of celebration alive. the bright orange jumper long wooden legs the rhythm the new some class that has it all and nobody to dance with. the thought boy scouts that i'm going to kind of all kill me if i'm totally in favor of the government's decision to cancel carney val mass gatherings in a pandemic are deadly but i found a safe way to spread joy during these gloomy time. it just takes a long morning walk

>>don't expect to see kids back in the playground anytime soon here at hester another elementary schools and eventually middle and high schools in the san jose unified school district. short of a state mandate or new legislation the south bay's largest school district is sticking with the reopening plan based on 2 criteria says the district's jennifer matter we have agreement currently with our labor camps to open santa clara county is in the orange tier. >>and or when all of our teachers have had the opportunity to receive the full covid-19 vaccine lacking both criteria for now the district announced wednesday that teachers have agreed to support limited in person cohorts similar to a program already under way in the campbell union school district which permits small groups of students with an adult in the room to help with distance learning most of our sons are doing well. we do have some students that distance learning is just not really working for them and so we want to be able to provide better support for those students which we plan to do in person fueling the push to reopen scho

they threw flares at the prosecutor's office and demanded judges reconsider said hester nichols case who was convicted this week for the 2015 kidnapping of a politician but his supporters say he was targeted for his anti corruption campaign. thousands of protesters in the french overseas region of martinique have called on judges not to throw out a long delayed case on pesticide poisoning couric own protocol rather was used for decades on the caribbean island even after it was banned on the french mainland being blamed for high levels of cancer reports like. marching on an island they say has been poisoned by pesticides thousands demand justice for a crime they say is 2 decades in the making some of it is it it is absolutely necessary to be here today to fight the criminals those who have polluted martinique those who are destroying us those who have already deported our ancestors who in slaved our ancestors who today want to poison us want to see us disappear enough is enough now nearly all adults living on martinique and neighboring guadalupe have traces of code to clone in their b

best execution hester pierce, one of the republican commissioners, she was on our air today, melissa,c she said commission-free trading was a net positive for retail investors because of the best execution requirement. so melissa, the key to this whole thing obviously is not examining payment for order flow, it's making sure there's really best execution going on and if that happens, by and large the system seems to work pretty well. but monitor the best execution that's the key >> and actually the number of trades, bob, as you know, off exchange have hit a record particularly as this whole retail trading boom has crescendoed in the month of january. i think it was a record for off-exchange volume for retail trades >> 48% is now off exchange and most of that is because of the increase in retail trading it's not dark pool trading it's retail traders. and those retail trades are not reported on the exchanges. so they're reported -- it's called an off-exchange tape. it's because of the retailers. >> on the flip side of things, though, bob, for a citadel securities, for instance, is it va

democrat senator joe mansion hester and a wrench in the democrats plan of the relief package. he does not approve of raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. of that could make it difficult for senate leaders schumer to push through the relief package on a straight partyline vote. is joe mansion now the most powerful senator of them all? we will discuss. today, big show, moments from now dave-- dave portnoy, he lost $700,000 in the robinhood debacle. what is he doing now? call and breyer is on the show, he was jeff bezos right-hand man and he has insight into the man who built a $200 billion fortune. wednesday, february 3, "varney & co." is about to begin. ♪♪ stuart: they have it, six avenue, they have cleared the streets. virtually no traffic or people. it is cold in new york city. i'm going to show you a tweet from barstool sports dave portnoy's and it's receiving a great deal of buzz. i have officially sold all my mean stocks, i lost 700,000-dollar -ish , flag and company stole it from me and should be in jail. dave portnoy joins us now at the top of the show. dave,