this is jeffrey brace her uncle and his son jeffrey brace. her uncle jeffrey is that we know that the original progenitor. was six foot three. and so her uncle i think looks a lot like the original jeffrey brace most likely worked lit looked and one of the most spiritual powerful moments in my life was when i met him after the book came out and they invited me and when we shook hands on honestly felt like a bolt of lightning coming through. so that is the end of what i could i honestly i started i was 60 pages and tried to cut it down, but i could talk to you easily for hours because there's so much i want everybody to know about this story. but thank you so much for listening. so rhonda brace is going to join me and scott for conversation with you all. gray car feel like i have to let that story sort of. rest for a minute rest indeed i think we're on okay. awesome. awesome. i first can i say something first? i am certainly like to thank kari so much it is because of her that we have our history. she spent a lot of time a lot of hours and she

jeffrey s. brace moved to springfield massachusetts where his descendants still live including rhonda. this is his grave stone in vermont. peter brace fought for the union during the civil war in the first black regiment, the massachusetts 54th. he survived the war and lived until 1913. wyron brace was named after his african great grandfather whryn and married ellen day, a woman who loved to garden. after they divorced, ellen day married the youngest brace brother, ethan and the man on the right there, dick francis is a descendant of ellen day who he remembered and from whom he inherited his love of gardening. so on the left is tina st. francis brace from the st. francis band of abunakees married to jim brace, like the age of rhonda and i, so the braces intermarried with abunakees probably for 200 years. this is a photo from the 1970s, a portrait of the brace family that is still in st. albans. jim who i just mentioned is the second from the left on the top, but you can see, well i don't know i

jeffrey: unexpected?cause these are critically acclaimed books and they're loved by so many people and they tell very powerful and engaging stories that should be told. jeffrey: have you noticed themes in the books that are being questioned? >> yeah, most of the books we read have women or women of color or people who don't have heterosexual relations or are just not white, raight people as the main characters. >> we ha noticed that is a really common theme. jeffrey: on this day, members were reading "in the dream house," a memoir by carmen maria machado, about an abusive same-sex relationship. the book was widely praised and on many best of the year lists for 2019. but some parents focused concern on a few brief but graphic scenes. and last year it was one of 11 oks and graphic novels removed from classroom libraries and english class "book clubs", where no specific book is required, but students choose from lists of about 15 books to read and discuss. nine of the eleven remain available in school librar

jeffrey: a famed nashville club where musicians come to perform and be seen. for the first time. >> this is the real “i'm here” moment, you know? and when you make a transition from being in service to someone else's dream to daring to ask people to come and supporyour own dream, that's a very big psychological transition. jeffrey: soon after, she was working with dan auerbach, guitarist for the rock band the black keys, and a nashville-based producer. ♪ together, they recordethe 2019 album, “walk through fire,” which got yola four grammy nominations, including best new artist. “stand for myself,” their latest collaboration, received two more nominations. finally, she says, overcoming in-your-face biases along the way, serious business which she, characteristically, describes with humor. >> sometimes people would speak on some imaginary producer that they had in their mind. and i go, i'm sorry, that's me. and they'd be like, oh, oh, oh. [fake crying] [laughter] why? but you're a woman and you're black. why? you know. jeffrey: but bigames in a wide range of mus

jeffrey: a fragmented world. jennifer: right.ce, which is very much what online experience often is. imagine trying to tell that story, you know, conventionally. my last novel was a historical novel. i told it in a very straightforward way, it couldn't have lived in a form like this. but one way to keep things fresh and to keep myself doing things i haven't done before iso try to use new ways of doing them, because that will require that i tell a story i've nev told. i just love being near the water . jeffrey: on one of her favorite walks, along the east river, she said that while ideas get her going, it's the characters who take over,eginning in this case with bix, a world-famous social media entrepreneu dreaming up the next big thing. chapter by chapter, we meet others embracing or alienated by this new world. are you a techie yourself? i mean, is thiyour world? jennifer: no. [laughter] i'm a late and incompetent adopter. jeffrey: but somehow that made you want to explore it in a way. jennifer: well, i'm interested in it becaus

jeffrey brown has a look for our arts and culture series, canvas.d signs of destruction, homes, roads, whole cities, efforts to protect important monuments and artworks, and a less obvious, different kinds of risks to the digital world. quinn dombrowski is a digital humanities specialist at stanford university. quinn: we often don't think about it, but the internet ultimately comes down to physical things. web sites live on servers. and servers are physical things that can be destroyed, just like anything else. and, these days, servers capture so much of modern life. jeffrey: anna kijas is head of thlilly music library at tufts university. anna: i became concerned that, if the physical artifacts, manuscripts, books, scores, were destroyed or damaged during the invasion, that there wouldn't be anything left, if no one was interested or willing to secure and preserve the digital content. jeffrey: kijas and dombrowski are founding members of saving ukrainian cultural heritage online, or sucho, focusing on the country's digital imprint, now at risk from

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of course, his ultimate downfall was his relationship with convicted pedophile jeffrey epstein. this portion of the book is fascinating because you have your own history with jeffrey epstein. as editor in chief on the daily beast, you published a series of articles about jeffrey epstein. and jeffrey epstein even came to your office and threatened you personally before he then turned around and invited you to a dinner with none other than prince andrew. >> mm-hmm. >> how do you reflec on prince andrew a that royal-epstein connection n? >> well, unfortunately, andrew, he's really reprehensible. it's hard to have anything but contempt, actually, for andrew. i mean, i somehow do feel a bit sorry for him, simply because he's a peon of small intellect and major status. so that's a bad combination. and he was always, you know, an oaf, frankly, treated his staff poorly, you know, threw his weight around. and then, of course, he always felt he didn't have enough money to live the way that he wanted to live, which led him into the company of people who want to be around royalty. inevitabl

judy: and thank you, jeffrey brown.n the pbs newshour online, the irs is working through a backlog of millions of tax returns from last year. on top of that, the pandemic has created complications for this tax season. we talk with tax experts about what you should keep in mind this year. you can read more at pbs.org/newshour. that is the newshour for tonight. i am judy woodruff. join us online and again here tomorrow evening for all of us here at the pbs newshour, thank. please stay safe. . and we will see you soon. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by -- [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy.] >>> hello, everyone. welcome to "amanpour & co." from iv. here's what's coming up. a brutal russian missile strike kills dozensf mostly women and children waiting to evacuate at a train station. we get an eyewitness report. and with eurean commission president ursula von der leyen meeting with present zelenskyy, i asked her, what

tomiko: well, i wouldn't say shocked or surprised me, jeffrey.ity of enslaved people being on campus, feeding our students, serving harvard presidents is quite remarkable. jeffrey: what was an important theme for you that came from this report? tomiko: sure. well, i'm a historian, a legal historian of the civil rights movement. and it was important to me and the committee to lift up the history of resistance to inequality that is personified by graduates of harvard, such as w.e.b. du bois, who founded -- helped to found the niagara movement and the naacp, and, of course, was a towering intellectual figure. and another i might cite is charles hamilton houston, who was known as the man who kille jim crow because of his civil rights lawyering that laid the groundwork for brown vs. board of education. those figures are vitally important to understand as representatives of harvard as well. jeffrey: this new fund of $100 million, it's a lot of money, but what exactly is it for? what do you see it doing? tomiko: sure. it is a significant financial commi

it's an honor to be here with joris and jeffrey. so on with the show. >> thank, you hugh. >> and bud, how about you. you have all of these images of baekeland behind you there. >> right, coming live from the studios of, the edit room where all things bakelite was put together really. i am thrilled to be here. actually, more than you know, my daughter, when she was in high school, received an award for writing which she received at the mark twain house. and i was so jealous, i have been ever since, but now i have something to brag about, being here with you folks here. it was really john mayer who got me interested in this whole subject. he and my brother, craig and i, have been calling for a long time working on each other's projects. and when he came to us to help with that production, especially craig who edited the film, we certainly recognized this great story. and john is a master storyteller so we are easily on board with that. and of course in the process, i met hugh and what i was impressed with was hugh's sincerity and his

jeffrey: thank you very much.mna: a new exhibit in new bedford, massachusetts, at the whaling museum is connecting today's environmental conditions to our historical and literary past. painter christopher volpe has created works that take on an apocalyptic tone, pointing to today's reliance on fossil fuel, the modern-day whale oil. special correspondent jared bowen of gbh boston reports as part of our arts and culture series, canvas. jared: the cobblestone streets stillinvite clatter. lamps continue to light the way, and clapboard buildings beckon as they always have. this is the new bedford from whence hermann melville launched moby dick. >> it's a new england tale. he talks about the damp, drizzly november of his soul. there's always been a darker side to american art and literature, particularly in new england. jared: people still gather here every year in person or virtually for a reading of the novel. this year actor sam waterston was ishmael. >> y, upon your first voyage as a passenger, did you feel yourself

um, can i i sort of like to get your take something jeffrey? i thought it was also interesting to note that it was the the use and application of bakelite that informed and evolved the actual meaning of the word plastic. and you you talk about in your book the etymology of the word, which i thought was fascinating going way back to the greeks and how it's changed through the through the years to our modern meeting and interpretation of it, but i mean bacon. as i understand it didn't really. he didn't really know how to describe what he had them that well he at that time you didn't call it plastic as such because there was it was generally plastic side of at a more general meeting. it was it was later as the uses and and variants of the of the of the plastic material um kind of informed it and evolved its meaning um is you think that's true and and and it so it gave rise to a a more specific name like bake a light. i think that's a really good point. in fact yours referred earlier to all the new plastics that came in primarily at the end of the

jeffrey: a couple of things. in terms of the directional part of our strategy, the front end of shorter maturities certainly looks much more attractive coming out of this environment. the curve flattening you talked about. that is about restoring the cushion to fixed income investing in where you see that the strongest across the fixed income landscape? that is an aspect of our investing we think is an opportunity going forward with their is more cushion from further increase in interest rates. our toolkit is the directional view that i described but also looking at things that take out direction and look at the cross-section of investing. what you are seeing is a lot more opportunities to invest in dispersion, both reinvesting on the equity side and the fixed income side. from there you are seeing more alpha opportunities. it is a shift in your portfolio, where are you getting returns from? a little less on directionality. directionality is impossible to forecast, but the dispersion in the cross-section has incr

it looked -- >> well, the quote that you -- sorry, jeffrey. i was just -- >> go ahead, please. >> i wanted to honor the quote that you gave. i think it came from katerina posch, who was the professor at pratt that hugh and john interviewed. and she is a professor of design there and knows a great deal of history of design. and during that section of the film, the film displays some incredible examples of the beauty and the uniqueness of bakelite, including a radio nurse that -- those who have seen the film know what i'm talking about. or if you remember this from the '40s. it was the first monitor for babies and it was designed by nagucci and it had an amazing design to it. in fact, it looked like a head and it had a japanese warrior type of grill work to it. but it was sleek and beautiful. she talks long about that. and we have a film, a separate film about her lecture on bakelite design, which is worth checking out on the all things bakelite website. >> yeah. but the thing is that what happened after world war ii is that many of the new plas

listen to what jeffreys wrote about.he situation before ukraine can only be resolved by a peace agreement. the spirit of the vector strategy of the united states aimed at helping ukraine in the fight against the russian invasion through the imposition of tough sanctions and the supply of the ukrainian armed forces with modern weapons is likely to endure failure requires a peace agreement that can be reached in the near future. however, to achieve peace, the united states. nato will have to compromise that washington has so far rejected america's weapons-based approach and sanctions may sound convincing in the echo chamber of american public opinion, but it doesn't work on the world stage. this approach has little support outside the us and europe and may eventually face backlash inside the west dmitry well, in fact, this confirms what e you are talking about, how do you think the administration understands this, but someone understands someone, i understand, and someone has russophobia, as it were, causes night blindness

so this is mostly a propaganda play, jeffrey? >> i think the timing of this is very much about coercive threats to the west. putin is known for this. the more that he's losing in ukraine, the more we're going to see in kind of escalated rhetoric. so the timing of this, certainly his statement about giving his adversaries pause to think is certainly very intentional. >> jeffrey edmonds, mark herltling, thank you both. >>> the u.s. has unveiled its latest round of sanctions against russia. we'll tell you who is targeted this time. >>> and new details tied to the fatal shooting on the "rust" movie set. new mexico officials found that the crew, quote, willfully violated safety rules. we'll explain. u're supposed to ! ugh! i mean is it the cartridges? i don't know! magenta! magenta! do you suffer from cartridge conniptions? be conniption-free, thanks t to the cartridge-free epson ecotank printer. big ink tanks, a ridiculous amount of ink! and a set of replacement bottles are equal to about 80 cartridges. it's a perfect cure for... i t

according to jeffrey super and b. p has a say and what will be researched exxonmobil said at funds, universities to promote green technologies. and shell tells us that wants to help solve the serious climate challenge. why is this a problem? i mean, if they use their money for doing some research for good, what was the book when the very people, the very institutions they're supposed to be solving the climate crisis, a fundamentally reliant on the industry that has the most to lose from their work. that's a pretty big conflict of interest. jeffrey supers thinks that the many millions are intended to influence students, teachers, and scientists. this strategy come straight out of the playbook. the a p i. strategy paper also states informing teachers and students about uncertainties in climate change will erect a barrier against efforts to impose kyoto like measures a measure put in place to limit the emissions of c o 2. and that's why in the medical research community, there are a stablished practices there established

this is a perfectly legal, common practice many prestigious universities. jeffrey superman is a ph. d. student will join him at a film, screening in $21700.00 bill for kennedy center announced a screening of a film time during normal, essentially, until it tells the audience about how for the foreseeable future, we're going to be relying on fossil fuels, how renewables of way off in the distance, not right now, not really reliable. and frankly promoting hoss truth at best about inevitability of continued fossil fuel usage grants or writes, well with your susan's, if you has the permit your home. surely this is a reasonable film until we dug just a little bit beneath the surface the academic talking heads, the ones that were present to this professors, universities, without exception actually will have deep ties to the oil and gas industry from consultancy relationships to running sensors, reliance, and fossil fuel funding to literally being on the boards of natural gas companies. and the producer of the film was show oil company, the director of the film. he was a vp of oil and gas

and jeffrey miller made up a cd or staff did. and i included a rack and are under the oh, with the permission of the commander their general sanchez event can rent training sessions for the interrogators and the stafford upgrade person, or he transmitted the guantanamo techniques to the abil gradstaff. basically, the restraints were removed and they were told to get results. the thing that became so clear is that what united states was doing was not a secret. it was hidden in plain sight. it wasn't really until the photographs from abu ghraib were released, which were just, you know, the tip of the iceberg of what was actually happening. that people in this country began actually talking about it what we didn't know was exactly the right thing to do. and i had to recommend all over yeah, exactly the right. same course of action that we did exactly with ferris in the mall. not all of them i can differently whether one is 1600 of them. we've only seen up in about 20 maybe 30 is 1600 and they, they the, the worst ones are, are the o

i want to bring in jeffrey toobin. this seems to fit into a pattern.uments down the toilet or borrowing the cell phones of aides and so on. how significant might this be what this diarist is saying? >> well, it's all, as you patte. the key issue as an investigative matter is that the january 6th committee and, as far as i know, the justice department, does not yet have an insider who can explain what was really going on with all of this. all of this is why were documents apparently hidden? why were the records not kept correctly at the white house? all of that is suspicious, but until you have an insider, until you have a modern day equivalent of a john dean who can say look, we knew that what we were doing was wrong. it's all just suggestive and it's very hard to prove anything untoward what was going on. >> and i doubt very much that jared kushner is the john dean in all of this, but just a few moments ago, we were talking with congresswoman zo lofgren of the january 6th committee and she was talking about commissioner's testimony before the committe

jeffrey: for margaret renkl, loving nature doesn't require trips to exotic locales.outside nashville will do very well. she calls herself a backyard naturalist. what does that mean? >> paying attention to the world that you live in. nature will, at the risk of sounding like jurassic park, it will find a way. if we give it half a chance. jeffery: paying attention and writing it down in the form of one short essay at a time. many are collected in the recent book “graceland, at last: notes on hope and heartache from the american south." it was honored with the 2022 pen america award for the art of the essay. >> i want to make other people fall in love with what i love. we don't work to preserve what we don't care about. we work to preserve what we're in love with. jeffery: her first book, “late migrations: a natural history of love and loss,” is a love letter to her family and to the natural world that has always captivated her, from early childhood in rural alabama, grade school years in birmingham, college at auburn and grad school at the university of south carolina,