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challenge they called for more studies to determine if known term storage of c o two could be safe and effective scientists at the university of rice and harder and they studied. capturing c o two is just one possible solution the scientists have a plan but not burying carbon dioxide but they are finding a way to use it the technique. scientists in amsterdam are studying another solution to help reduce global c o two levels there innovating green manufacturing techniques of some common products like plastics that actually remove instead of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere during production currently the plastic manufacturing process emits huge amounts of carbon dioxide into the environment adding to the problem of climate change. but what if the new technology could produce the type of biodegradable plastic that could actually help reverse the greenhouse effect the possibility of this lies inside bacteria and ancient organism the first of three point five billion years ago which turns carbon dioxide into valuable organic compounds from which plastics can be made as a whole variety of organisms. like belongs to. the microo

was a lot of speculation about the long term effects of explosion or exposure to wireless technology so doc you stay with us and let's bring in dr mag harvest professor emeritus at trent university in canada she researches the biological effects of non ionizing frequencies and the electromagnetic spectrum electro smog as you've put it professor welcome to the discussion and in layman's terms what are the sorts of electromagnetic pollutants that surround us. well you can be living near cell towers for example or broadcast antennas if you're living near an airport you'll be exposed to radar which is a form of microwave radiation very often the most common sources and the highest exposure will be in their own homes from cordless phones using their cell phone why five for example smart meters and smart appliances can can be a potential source and so can baby monitors those are the key things that we're exposed to in our homes in the aggregate now lately u.s. diplomats have fled our embassy in havana suffering from what's. thought to be espionage related radiation bombarding the building but forty two years ago a book titled the zapping of america warned that we are already wading th

costs a challenge they called for more studies to determine if storage of c o two could be safe and effective scientists at the university of rice and harder and they studied. capturing c o two is just one possible solution but scientists have another plan but not burying carbon dioxide but they are finding a way to use it the technique has. scientists in amsterdam are studying another solution to help reduce global c o two levels they're innovating green manufacturing techniques of some common products like plastics that actually remove instead of add carbon dioxide from the atmosphere during production currently the plastic manufacturing process emits huge amounts of carbon dioxide into the environment adding to the problem of climate change. but what if the new technology could produce a type of biodegradable plastic that could actually help reverse the greenhouse effect the possibility of this lies inside bacteria an ancient organism the first of three point five billion years ago which turns carbon dioxide into valuable organic compounds from which plastics can be made as a whole variety of organisms that. are long

the lawsuit and criticism the school district is teaming up with the university of california santa barbara to evaluate the effectiveness its partnership with just communities. shannon: one of the men leading the lawsuit, treasurer of the republican party, great to have you with us tonight, interesting story. >> thank you for having me here. >> you say this is objectionable because it is teaching kids to hate america, indoctrinating them. what are you basing that on? >> they are teaching children to hate america, that america from the beginning has been nothing but a system of oppression from the very beginning and i'm offended because they use a scarce tax dollars to teach kids to hate each other and hate america. i've been and the impression we didn't have enough money to fix leaking roofs and put crayons in the classroom and now huge amounts of money every year to teach kids to hate america. i'm offended by that. shannon: there's a question about the material, the group said some of the materials that have been released may not be accurate. the school says we don't release third-party materials. trace referred to thi

researchers at the university of bristol say replacementjoints can remain effective, for up to 25 yearst surgery. 0ur health correspondent, jenny walrond, has more. 80—year—old wendy, 17 years on from a hip replacement, cycles more often than she drives. i was in intense pain, so it restricted everything i wanted to do. even cycling was getting quite difficult. and then i had the operation and i woke up and it was like a new person. it was magic. hip and knee replacements are two of the most common types of surgery. until now, doctors haven't been able to give patients accurate information about how long they will continue to work. but a study published in the lancet journal shows that manyjoint replacements last for 25 years. for knees, it's over 80%, and almost 60% of hip replacements, much longer than previously thought. having surgery a second time on a replacement is more expensive and less likely to be successful, so knowing that the joints will last longer could help both patients and surgeons to make more informed decisions. the main implication is that patients can go into thei

researchers at the university of bristol say replacementjoints can remain effective for up to 25 yearsen to carry out surgery. our health correspondent, jenny walrond, has more. 80—year—old wendy, 17 years on from a hip replacement, cycles more often than she drives. i was in intense pain, so it restricted everything i wanted to do. even cycling was getting quite difficult. and then i had the operation and i woke up and it was like a new person. it was magic. hip and knee replacements are two of the most common types of surgery. until now, doctors haven't been able to give patients accurate information about how long they will continue to work. but a study published in the lancet journal shows that manyjoint replacements last for 25 years. for knees, it's over 80%, and almost 60% of hip replacements, much longer than previously thought. having surgery a second time on a replacement is more expensive and less likely to be successful, so knowing that the joints will last longer could help both patients and surgeons to make more informed decisions. the main implication is that patients ca

, the santa barbara unified school district is teaming up with the university of california santa barbara to evaluate the effectivenessannon bream >> shannon: trace gallagher, thank you so much. joining us now, one of the men leading the lawsuit, the treasurer of the california republican party, greg. great to have you with us tonight. very interesting story. >> thank you, shannon, thank you for having me here. >> shannon: so you say that this is material that is objectionable because it's kind of teaching kids to hate america, it's indoctrinating them, what are you basing that on? >> i mean, there teaching children to hate america, their teaching that america from the beginning has been nothing but a system of oppression from the very beginning and i'm really offended because they are using are very scarce tax dollars to teach kids to hate each other and to hate america. i've been under the impression that we didn't have enough money to fix leaking roofs and to put crayons and pencils in the classroom. we come to find out there's been huge amount of money every year to teach kids to hate america, so i'm just greatly

researchers at the university of bristol, say replacementjoints can remain effective, for up to 25 yearsecide when to carry out surgery a record number of children are living in care in england — more than 75,000. but often the reasons for deciding to put a child in care aren't always clear, with family courtjudgments usually shrouded in secrecy. but thanks to a court of appeal decision today, we can now report on one distubing case. 0ur correspondent sanchia berg has been talking to a mother about her struggle, with the courts. taking a child away from their home and family into care is the most drastic step any court can take. it changes lives forever. 0ne mother almost lost her two—year—old daughter. two—year—old daughter for good. the case was based on what the court of appeal called the slimmest of evidence. we've had to protect her identity. i was shocked. i just didn't understand. it made me question the family law system, because what had happened, didn't justify putting her up for adoption. the little girl suffered from allergies and was prescribed an epipen. on two occasions, w

peter, professor emeritus at the university of maryland, concern about what effect this could have onould all those candidates know about what impact it might have? >> and make them look like they're taking lsd. in order to have a dream that big you got to be on drugs. the reality is there talking - the physics are impossible. let's back away. if they collected they will put a big emphasis again on green products the way barack obama did. they will boost the economy somewhat. if you spend more money the same thing if you build stadiums in all 32 nfl cities. you get more employment. but these investments will not work out. unlike the stadiums no one will show up. remember although solar panel deals that the president obama had going and the real projects? alexandria ocasio-cortez wants to get rid of airplanes. how will we get from new york to washington? how will she get to work? it will be . david: hard for the senators in hawaii. >> what will they do, cover the whole state of new jersey with solar panels? germany try to do this. with a 30 year type target and could not keep up or gen

researchers at the university of bristol say replacement joints can remain effective for up to 25 yearss and patients decide when to carry out surgery. 0ur health correspondent jenny walrond has more. 80—year—old wendy, 17 years on from a hip replacement, cycles more often than she drives. i was in intense pain, so it restricted everything i wanted to do, even cycling was getting quite difficult. and then i had the operation, and i woke up, and it was like a new person, it's magic. hip and knee replacements are two of the most common types of surgery. until now, doctors haven't been able to give patients accurate information about how long they will continue to work. but a study published in the lancetjournal shows that manyjoint replacements last for 25 years. for knees, it's over 80%, and almost 60% of hip replacements. much longer than previously thought. having surgery a second time on a replacement is more expensive and less likely to be successful, so knowing the joints will last longer could help both patients and surgeons to make more informed decisions. the main implication is

there's -- it takes about two years to start-up a new center, and new york university is doing a pilot study on the effects of nutrition on hospitalization, and it'll be interesting to watch, and ucla is doing a study on mental health. we had an update on the older californiians act, and cal state university bakersfield has identified a group of students who would like to help with updating that legislation. this'll be discussed at our meeting at the end of this month. they're discussing that point -- there was a post election update. there was discussion of a long-term care -- long-term support and services, just figuring out where it would fit in. and then also, again, the idea of a california master plan on ageing, and there's a 20-year history of trying to get something like that going, and respite care is one issue. and then, there is senior rally day is scheduled for may 7, 2019. i'll get more information the end of the month. and then, all of the area agencies gave their reports. so we meet again february 27 and 28, and on the 28, we'll be attending the c-4-a capital day, so i'll report on that at the

isaac no one survived the he is a venezuelan canadian professor at the university of ottawa all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciated let me go to alfred first in geneva and congratulate him on his report that he presented to the united nations i thought it was very enlightening i wish more people would read it particularly in the media and maybe in the american political class why does the united states feel it is it incumbent upon itself to fix the problems of venezuela no one denies venezuela has a lot of problems but why should an outside power like the united states that has a very checkered and i'm being very polite here checkered history and meddling in latin america so i mean why is the trump administration and of all people elliott abrams appointed to fix that.

isaac no one survived the he is a venezuelan canadian professor at the university of ottawa all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciated let me go to alfred first and in geneva and congratulate him on his report that he presented to the united nations about it was very enlightening i wish more people would read it particularly in the media and maybe in the american political class why does the united states feel it is it incumbent upon itself to fix the problems of venezuela no one denies venezuela has a lot of problems but why should an outside power like the united states that has a very checkered and i'm being very polite here checkered history in meddling in latin america so i mean why is the trump administration and of all people elliott abrams appointed to fix venezuela. well you know stephen cancer's book overthrow and william blow bloom's book. killing hope it is an american tradition to tell latin america to apply what we call the monro doctrine and we have a long history of pig send the iran contra affair nicaragua panama grenada haiti etc w

services, but the university was conscious throughout of the need to provide appropriate support to all those involved. so interesting, that statement, just in from warwick university, effectivelyirector of press was and that the director of press was and that investigations panel into the threats made online by the men, and also confirming that the woman who complained were questioned about the, quote, prior or existing relationships with the men involved. thank you very much, poonam. we can speak to tina and millie, both stu d e nts speak to tina and millie, both students at warwick, and also elliot mulligan, who is editor of warwick university's student newspaper, part of the team who first reported the facebook group chat details between the men, thank you very much for talking to us. i want to ask you about the revelations we have brought to our audience first this morning, tina and millie, as female undergraduates at warwick, how do you respond to the fact that the women who made a complaint to the fact that the women who made the complaint were questioned about their previous sexual relationships with the men who have made the online rape threats? well, ijust don't under

of sexual assault at duke university. they showed march 2017 watson was commenting on peer effects of his dizzy and telling contacts about rape march 19, 2017, she writes this is absolutely disgusting. this dude rape me. was it reported? is there something that could be said? meredith watson responded she did not report the fairfax assault because a year earlier when she accused duke basketball star corey maggette eat of rating her, watson claims duke university discouraged her from. it is reviewing policies at the time and corey maggette and the nba until 2013 and now works for fox sports denied the allegations. though fox sports is looking into the claims. meredith watson says when he assaulted her, one of the people she confided and was her friend justin fairfax. she claims fairfax told her the reason he assaulted her was he knew she would be too afraid to say anything. fairfax denies the allegation. during virginia 2017 election, watson wrote on facebook "of course, i want to say something. he shouldn't be running for office. i just don't know what i can do." advises watson to report anonymously to which watson says,

leaders of colleges and universities supported that. that state in effect until 1967. toparents had to go to be married as indians -- washington, d.c. to be married because it was illegal in virginia. extremelyw was racist. so, it leads up to the racial integrity act where the -- a pure descendent of pocahontas had an exception. if you had one 24th of the blood, that was ok. saves to bentas virginia indians as late as the 20th century. [laughter] pocahontas any other questions any other questions? got one in the back. thoughts on the situation in the potomac river, the capture, the kidnapping, whatever you want to call it -- why are your thoughts about they never retaliate? >> anybody? [laughter] >> i work with him, so i have a conflict of interest. [laughter] to couple to adjust things. by 1613, the english settlements were expanding rapidly up the james river. there really may have been -- beenin economic economic problems in powhatan-subject areas. bywas also a very old man that time. he died in 1618. he may have already been very, very sick by 1614 because he was i

done everything right in terms of getting university degrees, finishing their course and college but they still don't feel part of mainstream society. that has a knock on effectay to go. so it is not a one—size—fits—all but thaw is if every person gave an hour we can start doing something. ok, it is a small step. thank you can the government has cancelled a controversial agreement to provide extra ferries in case of a no—deal brexit. new allegations of sexual and racial harassment by former employees of the retail tycoon, sir philip green have been published in the telegraph — he denies any crime or misconduct. the number of young victims admitted to hospitals in england, has risen by more than 50% in 5 years. gnd airland beat gnd air land beat scotland 22 listen 13 at murrayfield, later wales face italy in rome. paul being ga sparkles for manchester united with two goals in their win over fulham. it takes them into the premier league's top four. —— pogba. and after being recalled to open for england keatonjennings is dismissed forjust eight, england now 44 for one in saint lucia. and there is a full sport bulletin on there is a full sport bulletin on the way

new research out of stanford and new york university takes a look at what happens when people step back from facebook for a month. the study, entitled the welfare effects wellbeing." earlier i spoke with jaron laniere, a computer scientist and silicon valley insider. he‘s also the author of 10 arguments for deleting your social media accounts right now. i began by asking what he made of the study. it appears to be well done study, and the results are consistent with other research, although they are so few new questions that have not been studied this formally before. the picture that has emerged is that when people leave social media as it is, meaning the existing social media companies like facebook, they experience benefits. a really interesting thing in this study is that their particular population found itself less well informed after they quit, but i would tribute that are not having ultimate skills were being informed. there are other studies showing people becoming that are informed after leaving the current social media environment. another wonderful thing about the study is they documented the positive effects which are intrinsic to the inte

new research out of stanford and new york university takes a look at what happens when people step back from facebook for a month. the study, entitled the welfare effects from the social networking site leads to lower online activity, reduced knowledge of current events and ‘small but significant improvements in wellbeing'. david ryan polgar is a tech ethicist and founder of all tech is human. hejoins me now. in some ways, we have often heard, quite recently actually, about the benefits of switching from facebook, is there anything in this study that surprised you? 0ther other parts surprised me. i was surprised that there was not a social media... if they eat did not go to other websites. they actually switched off, they spent more time with family and friends, and had those reported increases in happiness. what i found interesting was the reduced factual news knowledge but also reduced political polarisation. what do you think that that element of the study tells us? it shows that there is a potential positive to facebook, which are not view it in binary terms, as either good or bad, it obviously has positive parts of society, and i think a lot of pe

card that each of us carries on the house floor and the responsibility that you carry with that card. because this week, we will finally be voting on legislation for effective and universal background checks for all gun sales. this is legislation supported by both republicans an democrats in congress and supported by 97% of the american people. so our hearts go out to the family and friends of the victims left behind and now i ask that we pause for a moment of silence. the speaker pro tempore: all members will rise for a moment of silence. >> i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from georgia seek recognition? >> i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> mr. speaker, i rise today to honor sheriff mike yeager. sheriff yeager has dedicated 35 years in law enforcement to keeps his community safe and serving his neighbors both on and off the job. in fact, it would take far longer than i have here tonight to list all of the many organizations such as the georgia and national sheriff's association the union, the public

of scratches down here and my glasses flew, and is horrible. >> reporter: university says it has gotten so bad they are taking action, banning the use of electric scooters on campus. the new policy takes effect immediately, though the penalties will not. >> we will stop them and tell them here is the policy, we will give them a written warning. maybe in the future we will be giving out tickets but that is going to be way in the future. >> reporter: there are now eight drop zones around the perimeter of campus. students are supposed to leave the scooters there. those left on campus, especially those blocking doors or pathways are being confiscated. >> we are collecting them until behavior changes on scooter company's behalf. we will hold those back and at such a point in time when we see different behaviors, those will get release. >> reporter: san jose is already in talks with scooter companies. line has implemented alert. bird may do something similar. some students say they welcome the change. >> electric scooters would come up behind me and scare me and i would not be able to move as fast as the other kids, and now, i feel much more relieved. >> reporter: for those who have come to rely o

researchers at university of colorado, i represent, working hard to understand the health effects for using marijuana for parkinson and health effects. i understand this is before you were with the department of justice, the dea took step toward improving scientific research on marijuana, considered request in federal register for application for federally approved research grade marijuana, several institutions submitted application yet to receive a response, what is the status of those applications, if you might know and do you know if the department of justice and dea intend to support legitimate cannabis research to help protect our citizen? >> for three months i've been acting attorney general, this is issue i've been aware of and i've tried to get the expansion and application out. we have run into a very complicated matter regarding a treaty that we're trying to work around. we have international treaty obligations that may not allow the way marijuana has to be handled from research familiarity to researchers and grow facility to researchers. it is something i'm very aware of an

researchers at the university of colorado which i'm proud to represent are working hard to understand the health effects. in august of 2016, i understand this is before you were at the department of justice, the dea took a big step toward improving scientific researcher on marijuana in the federal register for applications to produce federally approved research grade marijuana, several institutions have submitted application that have yet to receive a response. what is the status of those applications if you might know and do you know if the department of justice and the dea intend to support legitimate cannabis research that could help protect the health and safety of our citizens? >> for the three months that i've been the acting attorney general this is an issue that i've been aware of and i've actually tried to get the expansion and the applications out. we have run into a very complicated matter regarding a treaty that we're trying to work around. we have some international treaty obligations that may not allow the way that marijuana has to be handled from the research facilities to the researchers

maybe the people who aren't true believers in single pair healthcare, it'so more of an effective branding to talk about universalsealthcare as opposed to a specifi policy proposal that's been written into legislative text. >> we have almost every candidate from congreie backing beanders plan, technically. do wew kno president if these people would actually enact htat? seems like it mot be their first choice. >> i think of the democratnd ates in a couple of buckets. you have the true believers, the bernie sanderses who sayll medicare for single payer is where we need to go and that's the bill we should be putting up in congress in 2021e if get control of the white house and the senate and the house, b there is another bucket of democrats who are a little more flexible, let's say. they've endorsed the bernie sanders bill. they say their goal is to get tr a medicare all system, but in the near term they will talk about shori up the affordable care act, tackling prescription drug prices, and they're willing to take incremental steps to get to a medicare for all s then you have a third bucket of democrats who don't wa

and the ripple effect of what could have been is streaming across the region and the world. >> christopher sabatini from columbia university thank you so much. >> thank you. >> sreenivasan: isis-controlled territory is shrinkisyria, and the u.s. president is declaring a military victory over the terrorist group. but there is another front growing in west africa. a group known as "iswap," the islamic state west africa province, is expanding itsrr ory in northeast nigeria and surrounding countries. i spoke with drew hinshaw, a repoer for the "wall street journal," who has been covering the rise of this new group. he joined us from warsaw, poland last weekend via skype. let's celk about thissis in westafer characters they call themselves i swap who are they. >> yeah, thanks for having me. i swap is a faction or one of the factions thatfor a bunh of reasons, one of which they felt overall far too little of the civilian population, torching villages, things we read about two years ago, turning young children into suici bombers, even isis thought that it was too little, that is isis anden they a series of letters to nie dperia t

for the estimates on the effective shutdown official statistics university of michigan survey. thank you for asking me to testify and i look forward to questions . >> thank you so much for being on time. i really appreciate it. now we will recognize -- >>> thank you for asking me to testify today. i look forward to speaking on behalf of the small and independent brewers of the impact a partial shut government shutdown. my name is bill butcher from alexandria virginia. we began operations in 2011. since then we have grown to have 56 employees. we grow at a variety of different eras in your own staples, seasonal beers as well as one offs. 2016 where her name small bury of the year and our beer have one local, national and international awards. i might all of you and your staff to come visit anytime and see how our brewery is run. we are committed to being a local independent brewery. for example we purchase close to 400,000 pounds of virginia grown wheat to use in our best- selling beer. we are proud of our work we use factory agriculture and retail. according to brewers associat

effective legislator. the legislation she is most proud of what's called the seek program seek education power and this provided resources for high school students going to the university of new york so they could attend college and get the resources needed to stay in college and graduate. that transformed the university of new york including her alma mater brooklyn college from being all white to resembling more of the diversity of new york city. it was a fantastic accomplishment. >> did she grow up in brooklyn? >> she spent seven formative years on the island of barbados and barbados i think really was transformative for her in many ways even though she was a young girl. she was raised mainly by her aunt and her grandmother, two stern but very loving and capable women. she also was in barbados at a moment where the struggle for independence begins, the struggle for labor rights begins, one of her uncles wrote for the black newspaper and i am convinced she had her racial and consciousness raised by those seven years in barbados. >> she took office 50 years ago in 1969 and was elected in 1968 . the civil rights movement was at its peak, the voting rights was signed int

of scratches down here and my glasses blue and it was horrible. >> university says it has gotten so bad they are taking action any the use of electric scooters on campus. the new policy takes effect immediately. the penalties won't. >> we will stop them and tell them that here is the policy. will give them a written warning. maybe in the future, we will be giving out tickets but that could be way in the future. >> there are now eight drop downs around the perimeter of campus. students are supposed to leave the students there. those left on campus especially those blocking boards or pathways are being confiscated. >> we are collecting them until behavior changes on scooter company's behalf. so we are going to holds those back and that such point in time we see different behaviors then maybe they will get release. >> san jose state is already in talks with the scooter companies. one is supplemented an alert that will sound if you sign on campus. bird will do something similar. >> electric scooters would come up behind me and scare me and i wouldn't be able to move as fast as the other kids. now i feel much relief. >> for those who have come to rely on these scooters, the new policy