Le Show; 2022-11-20

Here it is from deep inside your audio device of choice. Well ladies and gentlemen, this is something I'm proud to introduce as this week's show, emphasis on this week's. If you were listening to some of our stations last week, you didn't hear last week's show, you heard the previous week's show, the week before last. It was a technical error springing from the show headquarters, so don't blame your local station. I love the fact that this show is still on the radio and that you're listening in many cases to a radio station and if it ever happened, it shouldn't ever happen again. The offending person's hands have been amputated, but if it were to happen again for any reason that you seem to think that I'm repeating myself a lot from the previous week, you can always find the current weeks

show at harryshare.com. But one way or another, thanks for listening. Now, relatively new feature of the program, recently released to a waiting audience, foot completely in mouth. Now sometimes these will reflect just a fact that a person has misspoken and that's, you know, it's amusing, but it's more amusing to me when the evidence points to the fact that the person actually thinks what they're saying is true. You tell me. Governor of Texas called. Great gentleman just got reelected and he said to me, I'd like to talk to you for a second. He said, you've done something that nobody else has done.

You've won every single area along the border, the longest since reconstruction. I said reconstruction. I guess you call that the Civil War. That's what I call it. Yeah, that's what we call the Civil War down here is reconstruction. I have a suggestion, a lot of people around the country are proposing something they'd like to see, which is a new Civil War. And I personally not in favor of that, but if it were to happen, let's keep reconstruction going for an extra couple of decades next time. Hello, welcome to the show. If you took your love somewhere else, I wouldn't know what it meant to be love to death.

You make me feel like I never felt you. Since it's so good, I have to holler for help, but you didn't have to speak like you did, but you did, but you did. And I thank you. You didn't have to hold me like you did, but you did, but you did. And I thank you every day for something new. You're pulling out your bag and you're fine to do. You've got to try new things too. You've done some off, you can keep up with me, you didn't have to shake me like you did, but you did, but you did. And I thank you. You didn't have to make it like you did, but you did, but you did. And I thank you all my life. I've been so changed without your love, baby, just a try and shake.

And now I know what the fellow's talking about when they say that they'll be adjourned. I want to thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, baby, you're good, thank you, thank you, thank you. You didn't have to love me like you did, but you did, but you did. And I thank you. You didn't have to hold me like you did, but you did. And I thank you, thank you, thank you, baby, you're good. You didn't have to make me, you're good, thank you, baby, you're good, thank you, thank you, baby, you're good. From New Orleans, Louisiana, home of New Orleans, Louisiana, I'm Harry Scher, welcome you to this edition of the show and now.

New is a smart one. It's a smart one. It's a smart one. It's a smart one. It's a smart one. It's a smart one. It's a smart one. It's a smart one. It's a smart one. It's a smart one. Smart one. Smart one. I'm sure you've been keeping up with the sad, sad story of FTX, a crypto exchange, so-called, which in recent markets, recent memory, like a couple weeks ago, was supposedly worth $32 billion, and is today worth a scratch on the soul of your shoe. Now, the repercussions of that crash are spreading throughout crypto land, an imaginary place, of course, which some people believe in. Now, a Brisbane-based, that's Brisbane, Australia, not the other Brisbane.

A Brisbane-based crypto exchange has suspended withdrawals. You can't get your money out of them. They're citing spillover from the collapse of FTX, the one that collapsed over here, a couple weeks ago, due to the impact of FTX Australia's administration, that's their word for bankruptcy. We're not able to operate business as usual and suspend it all deposits and withdrawals until further notice. The company is called Digital Surge. That sounds like fun, doesn't it? Our current priority is to protect and support you, our users, and keep you informed as the situation develops. Not to get you your money back. No, just... In an email, the customer's exchange said it does hold some limited exposure to FTX. That's a finance speak for. Our money is deep in that hole, and was, quote, working hard to understand the situation. Is it related to our users?

Unquote. We're cool. You may not be. It's the translation for that. It's going to provide a further announcement on the situation within 14 days. Well, don't hurry. Digital Surge says it offers a fast and easy way for Australians to exchange cryptocurrency. It has 22 employees. So you... They can't fire anybody. You can't do like Elon. The FTX was the number three crypto exchange globally. You could have up to... Up to 1 million individual creditors. It's a long line. Somebody bring them coffee. Thousands of smartphone applications in Google and Apple's online stores, both the Apple Store and the Google Store, contain computer code developed by a technology company, push-wush, not kidding. It presents itself as based in the United States.

But according to Reuters, it's actually Russian. Push-wush. Doesn't sound American. Does it? Well, it sounds crypto. They like those new words. Centers for disease control and prevention. The US main agency for fighting major health threats says it's been deceived into believing push-wush was based in Washington. After learning about its Russian roots from Reuters, it removed push-wush software from seven apps that face you and me, the public, citing security concerns. The US Army said it had removed an app containing push-wush code earlier this year because of the same concerns. The app was used by soldiers at one of the country's main combat training bases. According to documents publicly filed in Russia and reviewed by Reuters, push-wush is headquartered in the Siberian town of Novosibirsk. It's registered as a software company that also carries out data processing.

Employees about 40 people. So it's bigger than the company in Australia. It had reported revenue of $2.4 million last year. Push-wush is registered to pay taxes in Russia. In Russia, taxes pay you. On social media and in US regulatory filings, however, presents itself as a US company based at various times in California, Maryland, and Washington according to Reuters. It provides code and data processing software support, enabling developers to profile the online activity smart phone app users and send tailor-made push notifications. From push-wush servers, hence the push and push notifications would be the push and push-wush. We don't know where the Wush comes from. On its website, it says it does not collect sensitive information.

Reuters found no evidence that they mishandled user data. It is known, however, that Russian authorities have at times compelled local companies to hand over user data to domestic security agencies. The founder of push-wush, Mark Konyev, hmm, sounds American to me, told Reuters a couple months ago the company had not tried to mask its Russian origins. It says, Max Konyev, quote, I am proud to be Russian and I would never hide this. Unquote, push-wush published a blog post after the Russian, sorry, if the Reuters article appeared, says, saying, saying push-wush is incorporated under the state laws of Delaware, never owned by any company registered in Russia. It used to outsource development parts of the product to the Russian company in Novosibirsk.

However, in February, push-wush incorporated the American company, terminated that contract. Reuters asked push-wush to provide evidence for its assertions. The news agency's requests went unanswered. Konyev said the company has no connection with the Russian government of any kind, stores its data in the United States and Germany, but cybersecurity experts said storing data overseas would not prevent Russian intelligence agencies from compelling a Russian firm to seed access to that data. It's another reason to worry about Russia. Back to crypto, so-called currency, we know it's crypto, not sure about the currency. Somewhere between 73 and 81% of buyers of Bitcoin at retail, you know, like at your drugstore, are likely be running negative on their investment.

That's research published this week by the Bank of International Settlements. Oh, to live in one of those. Bitcoin they bought is now worth less. Bitcoin is doing it down 73% in the past year. Up 155% in the past five years. Well, hold on, they're coming. The Switzerland-based bank for other central banks wanted to understand why retail investors continued to participate in cryptocurrency exchanges to trade stuff like Bitcoin. It's a mystery, according to the register of the British tech journal. Given the fact, people don't generally use Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies to make payments, to measure value or to finance real world investments. Meaning it's something to gamble with. Well, you know, it's an investment in the bank published its findings in a working paper called crypto trading and Bitcoin prices.

It's simple enough. So, you know, if you want to do that with your money, just send it to me. I'll make sure it's in crypto. The lending arm of another crypto investment bank, Genesis Global Training. That sounds big. That sounds old. It's temporarily suspending redemptions and new loan originations, also in the wake of FTX's collapse, the CEO. Derr-Islam told customers on a call this week. The unit known as Genesis Global Capital had 2.8 billion in total active loans as of the end of third quarter of this year. Corner of the company. Islam told the participants on the call Genesis is exploring solutions for his lending unit, including finding a source of fresh liquidity. That means where's the money?

Said Genesis intends to detail its plan to clients next week. That's according to CoinDesk, a supposedly journalistic enterprise also owned by Genesis Global. How convenient. And another crypto outfit. It is a smart world, isn't it? BlockFi, a lending platform, is considering filing for chapter 11, and preparing for job cuts in the wake of the collapse of closely linked crypto exchange FTX. Well, they're all closely linked. They're all run by a couple of 30-year-olds with weird haircuts. The Wall Street Journal reported on the potential backrumsy filing. BlockFi also had talks with another cryptocurrency company, Binance, Buy, Nance, about possible financial help.

BlockFi paused customer withdrawals last Thursday night. It'll keep withdrawals paused, meaning you can't get your money out, acknowledging it had significant exposure to FTX that limited its ability to opt-out operate as usual. We do have significant exposure to FTX and associated corporate entities, they say. BlockFi accepted a $400 million line of credit from FTX over the summer, sought the line of credit after facing its own struggles as the crypto market tanked, following the demise of two other crypto outfits Luna and USD. BlockFi employees were one of the seriousness of the company's current situation.

Does Elon Musk do that for all the companies that he knows? Guys, get hardcore or get out. Layoffs are not explicitly mentioned at BlockFi, however, yet company had voluntary biodes in July still has employees. You know what I think, ladies and gentlemen? I think it's a smart smart smart smart smart world. And now... News of the Olympic moments. Produced by Jim Ebersol, Jr. No, the third.

That Ebersol family always baffles me. The Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Moscow mascots have been revealed as two frigian caps, decked out in France's national colors. The two characters who are to be known as the Olympic and Paralympic fridges... I guess that's how it's from. Have the Golden Paris 2024 logos across their chests? They have chests. They're caps but they have chests. And are described as having mischievous and expressive eyes. The mascots were revealed this week in Paris. The Paris 2024 President Tony Estongue said we chose an ideal rather than an animal. We chose the fridging cap because it's a very strong symbol for the French Republic. The two mascots share a motto.

Alone we go faster but together we go farther, further. And the Olympic fridge is described as a tactician with a calculating brain. So they've humanized them. The Paralympic fridges is up a spontaneous and full of energy and enthusiasm. It's just caps, ladies and gentlemen. Fridges, yeah. The first officially recognized mascot for Olympics summer was Walde, a multi-colored dox one for the 1972 Munich Games. The games are not remembered for the dox one. Sometimes mascots are big business, although not always a sure bet in 2012 disappointing sales of the official London mascots. When Locke and Mandeville led to the toy manufacturers shares tumbling. Even though French toy makers got the contract, the Paris Olympics committee said just 8% of the mascots will be made in France.

From Chinese produced materials, the remainder will be made in China. The Ethic Business Owners Association denounced an insult to all French companies, saying there's still time to produce the toys at home, i.e. France. It's a structural problem due to the fact that for years, France has lost its factories. Said government spokesman Oliver Vidal. Climate activists also contrasted the pollution that will be generated from shipping the toys to France, with the government's pledge to take stronger action against global warming. The Paris Games organizers defend the fact that the toy replicas are almost all made in China. Quote, like the great majority of toys sold in France.

Why should the Olympics be any different? Just because they're a movement? Hey, we all need one. Every day! Not a lot of news about microplastics this week. Oddly. But there is this. Now comes evidence that so-called microplastics pervade the cleanest waterways in Pennsylvania. Those designated by the state as having the highest environmental quality.

And the least residue from Dr. Oz. No, they didn't say that. A newly released study by the nonprofit Penn Environment found that of the 50 streams studied in the last six months from a year ago to six months ago all contained microplastics. The most common kind found in every water sample were fibers such as those from synthetic fleece and fishing line. 84% contained plastic fragments. The same proportion contained plastic film. Like shopping bags. And food wrappers. A fourth type. Plastic beads used in cosmetics and personal care products was found only 2% of the samples. That's because they've... As far as we know, started taking those plastic beads out of cosmetics. So that's working.

At least. But that's about it. And now. News of the godly. A 456-page report from the Maryland Attorney General's Office identifies 158 Catholic priests, accused of sexual abuse, including 43 that were never publicly named by the Archbishop of Baltimore, or Baltimore. There's a lot of ways to pronounce the names of cities in the United States, isn't there? You've noticed that, I'm sure. This is part of a four-year investigation into the history of child sexual abuse. By members of the clergy, the investigation also identified more than 600 victims of sexual abuse, according to a new court filing. The report itself, along with the names of the priests, is not yet public. The Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office disclosed some details in a court fighting this filing this week.

It requested permission to release information that the Archdiocese provided in response to a grand jury subpoena. So one thing you can say as the Archdiocese is more law abiding than the former president, in terms of abiding or responding to grand jury subpoenas. They are secret, a grand jury, a record secret under Marilyn Law, but can be released with a judge's permission. The filing provides some details of what the report will contain. It alleges that Archdiocese failed to report many allegations of sexual abuse to conduct adequate investigations, to remove abusers from ministry, or to restrict their access to children. What do we tell the children? The Attorney General's investigation uncovered pervasive sexual abuse amongst the priesthood and repeated failures by the Archdiocese to protect the children of Baltimore. Said the office.

Time and again, the Archdiocese chose the abuser over the abused, the powerful over the weak, the adult over the child. Hundreds of Marylanders, that's what they're called, have suffered mentally and physically for decades because of the Archdiocese decisions. Now is the time for reckoning continues the filing, publicly airing the transgressions of the church, is critical to holding people in institutions accountable, and improving the way sexual abuse allegations are handled going forward. Well, there's another way of handling them, punish the people who commit them. That would be, that would be good. Don't you think? I wasn't asking you. News of the godly. And now, news of our friendly animal. Clean, safe, too cheap to meet, safe, cheap, too cheap to meet, safe, too safe to meet, safe, too safe to meet, safe, too safe to meet. Well, let's go to Tokyo, shall we?

All the hip nuclear news is happening over in Japan recently. The head of a task force from the International Atomic Energy Agency said this week, it's examining whether Japan's planned release into the sea of treated radioactive water from the wrecked FUC plant. We've talked about that planned release of radioactive water, whether it meets international standards. They were international standards, but the decision on whether to go ahead with the plan is up to the Japanese government. Not the IAEA. The head of the Department of Nuclear Safety at the IAEA said his team has no power to decide whether Japan should suspend the release of radioactive water, even if it does not fully follow international safety standards. And the planned operator TEPCO announced that plan to put some Tritium, including water into the ocean last year. IAEA is cooperating with Japan's government to increase the safety and transparency of the water release.

I like my water transparent. I got to say the guy from IAEA says the independent evaluation of the plan will provide confidence to the society, Japanese society, neighbors, other member states, unquote, to 16 member team, including experts from nine countries, including China and South Korea. They're in Japan to study the water discharge plan for the second time. The plan has been fiercely opposed by fishermen, local residents, and Japan neighbors, including China and South Korea. FUC residents worry the reputation of their agricultural and fishing products will be further damaged. Most of the radioactivity is removed from the water. Can't get the Tritium out. Scientists say the impact of long-term low-dose exposure to Tritium and other radio-nucleids on the environment and humans is still unknown. And if the release plan should be delayed until they say how Tritium affects humans, it does that more turns out when it's consumed in fish.

And, Dateline Washington, the U.S. Department of Energy rejected Holtec International's application to receive funding. Holtec does remediation and supervises the decommission of nuclear plants. They wanted to get funding to reopen a nuclear plant in Michigan, the Palisades nuclear plant. Holtec bought it in May to decommission it, and it struggled to compete with natural gas-fired plants and renewable energy. On a cost basis, it was looking to reopen it with funding from the feds. Quote, we fully understand what we were attempting to do restarting a shuttered nuclear plant would be both a challenge and a first for the nuclear industry. Said a spokesman for Holtec.

A nonpartisan research group said in September the plant's closure was likely to be permanent. The plant was out of nuclear fuel, faced a control rod drive seal issue that would need to be fixed, and likely needed a new company to operate it. And a buyer for the power it generates. Aside from that, Mrs. Lincoln, it's good to go. Clean, cheap, too safe to meet her. Our friend, the owner. I met a guy who I'm walking down the street. I met a guy who I'm walking down the street. He looked at me.

I looked at him. He took my hand. He held my hand. He was a real gun guy. I love him, did I do? Yes, he is real cool. Real cool. Real cool. He's real cool. He's a real gun guy. I love him, did I do? He was a technique that simply took me out of his work. He simply took, I just woke up. He filled my heart with joy and cheer. He told me the things that I learned to heal. He is a real cool guy and I love him, did I do? Yes, he is real cool. He is a real cool guy and I love him, did I do? He is a general, he is great, he is all the world to me.

He is a general, he is great, he is all the world to me. He knows what to do when I am feeling blue. He grabs me and whispers, baby there is no one else but you. He is a real cool guy and I love him, did I do? Yes, he is real cool. Real cool. Real cool, he is real cool. He is a real con guy and I love him, did I do? Real cool. Real cool.

Real cool. Real cool. Sometimes he looks me with his line of jive. Sometimes he looks me with his line of jive. When he goes away. Way for the day. When he'll come back. And on the unpack. The glove I have for the real gun. Down on my head. He is real cool. Real cool. Real cool. He is real cool. His real gun guy and love him. Debut. Yes, he is real cool. Real cool. He is real gun guy and love him. Debut. From New Orleans. This is the show. Sometimes I work myself with my line of jive. But now.

We've got the ultra modern neck. The getting oil from the deepest crack. So give the boys just a bit of slack. And see how hearty what the crack. Two significant earthquakes went a week. In northeast British Columbia. We're probably triggered by fracking. According to preliminary information from federal scientists. And these would be Canadian federal scientists. Back on November 11th earthquake candidate. Reported a 4.7 magnitude quake. Following four days later by a 4.6. Magnitude quake. Just about half a mile away from the first event. Quote, there's an active hydraulic fracking operation nearby. Says a research scientist with a geological survey of Canada.

The likelihood he says of these two events being induced by industry is very high. According to the BC British Columbia Oil and Gas Commission. That's the energy regulator for British Columbia. Hence the name. Fracking there takes place deeper underground. And it does another areas of the world. Sometimes as much as two and a half miles beneath the surface. All of the drilling in the formation near St. John British Columbia. Has or will eventually involve fracking operations. Vast majority don't trigger earthquakes. The practice has been linked to most of the larger seismic events in Alberta. And northeastern British Columbia over the past decade. Same is true for Texas, Pennsylvania. What else is fracking going on? Both events were determined to be related to oil and gas activity involving active. Fracturing operations said the oil and gas commission.

Not large enough to damage critical infrastructure or affect local communities. But significantly larger and closer together than other quakes triggered by fracking in the region. Quote word essentially reaching the upper limit of magnitude. What we've observed over the past decade. In Western Canada. Says a spokesman for the regulator. To have two bigger events occurring within a week in the same area. He says. Is telling us something? Unquote. Are we listening? I ask. After 20 years. One more after the adoption of fracking began to supercharge US production of oil and gas. There's growing evidence of a correlation between the industry's activities and an array of health problems ranging from childhood cancer. And the premier jerked death of elderly people. Ow! To respiratory issues and endocrine disruption. The oil and gas industry.

This is from Yale Environment 360. The oil and gas industry insists its processes are safe regulators have set rules designed to prevent the contamination of air in water by fracking. Advocates for stricter limits on the practice or even outright ban. Point to an increasing number of studies suggesting that fracking poses a threat to public health. A paper by the Yale School of Public Health this year showed that children living near Pennsylvania wells that use fracking are two to three times more likely to contract a form of childhood leukemia than their peers who live farther away. That followed a Harvard study earlier this year that found elderly people living near or downwind from gas pads. Minor, I think, little tight. Have a higher risk of premature death than seniors who don't live in that proximity. What the frack?

Ladies and gentlemen, I have a theory that certain kinds of fame are more ephemeral than others. I'm particularly thinking of the fame that accrues to people who are on radio or television every day or night. There was a guy I think he set the record and I think the record stands for being on radio and television the most hours every week. He was on radio network radio when that existed. I think three hours a day, five days a week, and on network television three nights a week for an hour each. Lot of a lot of airtime. And yet within and this was for years and yet within a couple of years of his retirement. His name was rarely spoken and if you did speak it, you had to explain to people who that had been. His name was Arthur Godfrey.

And the same thing is true of the guys who've been on late nights every night. They seem to fade into a golden cloud, shall we say, not really name top of mind very soon after they stopped being on TV. The latest example of that phenomenon of the ubiquity of a certain kind of fame leading to almost immediate obscurity comes from the political world. I don't know whether you knew this or not but Sarah Palin ran for the only house seat in Alaska House of Representatives following the death of Don Young Republican who represented Alaska for years. There was a special election in late August and then there was a regular election election.

In this very month, she lost them both. The last results I saw from the most recent general election was that the Democrat who was victorious had 45% of the vote and Sarah Palin had 25% of the vote. Remember her? Instantly, she's a celebrity free from her governors, yo, to be the new face of the GOP becoming a national joke.

14 years later, Palin is failing in her run for a seat in the house. No longer queen of Alaska, just some empty place. Suddenly, she's an obscurity. We distantly remember her name. Now she's going back to a silhouette to bask in her absence of fame. Now Sarah Palin is bailing on the party that gave her renown, attacking the forces of darkitude that relentlessly pulls her down.

She won't be known to bomb austerity or coin in search of a toss. She used to be defined as one of a kind, but it's a Trump-y approach to loss. Despite federal efforts to curb inappropriate medication use in the nursing home setting, that's a setting of nursing homes, national entities say the overall use of psychotropic drugs in the space remained high and unchanged for the last decade or so report released this week by the Department of Health and Human Services Inspector General delved into the continuing use of psychotropic drugs in nursing homes only.

She has skilled nursing facility operator associations, meanwhile argue such findings don't tell the whole story and the medication reduction needs to continue throughout the industry. The report found about 80% of nursing home residents between 2011 and 2019 were prescribed a psychotropic drug, including antipsychotics, which these centers for Medicare and Medicaid services has actively been trying to mitigate. To mitigate, well, they're crazy. Clearly, CMS has for the past decade monitored antipsychotics as part of its national partnership to improve dementia care in nursing homes. Didn't know that existed. Efforts dovetail with the Biden administration's wider efforts to reduce inappropriate medications in nursing homes and behavioral health updates made to the requirements of participation in Medicare and Medicaid.

Maybe not in Medicaid Medicare advantage called your name for information. I'd been aware of the work that CMS was doing to reduce the use of antipsychotics. I was very surprised to see the overall use of psychotropic drugs remained the same from 2011 to 2019 said a team leader at HHS. If you're looking at it from that lens, there was no movement on that needle. No movement on that needle, I guess means the needle didn't move. CMS defined psychotropic drugs as any drug that affects brain activities associated with mental processes and behavior. Some facilities may have avoided federal monitoring of antipsychotics by indicating residents were diagnosed with schizophrenia. These residents, it turns out, had no prior history of that mental health disorder.

There was a 194% increase in the number of residents reported as having schizophrenia between 2015 and 2019. They didn't have corresponding diagnoses in Medicare claims data, according to the Inspector General. In other words, researchers from the Inspector General saw 6400 residents reported schizophrenic in 2015, 19,000 just four years later. That one was shocking. It put a global national figure on something we heard anecdotally said the regional inspector general for the office of evaluation and inspections in Kansas City, where everything is up to date. News of Inspector General is general. Copyrighted feature of this program and now the apologies of the week. What you're just schizophrenic, that's all.

It didn't know that existed. After days of public outrage online, Hawaii Island resident Travis upright apologized for a viral video of himself urinating on monochia, a mountain sacred to Native Americans. He posted three apologies on his Instagram page, one with a caption that read in part, I'm so sorry to all of you, I was so arrogant and I just didn't get it. I'm beginning to and I humbly ask for your forgiveness. I said in Hawaii Island resident and native Hawaiian activist Alfonso. This is very disrespectful to Ina, land and to the cultural practices of native Hawaiians here, myself included. The video shows upright, relieving himself high in the summit, and then gesturing it on Saturday after he finishes quote, it was just a sense of entitlement and privilege.

It almost says, I don't care about my choices, my actions here and I'm going to do whatever I'm going to do, I'm going to do whatever I want, said the native Hawaiian. Deadline Houston, Texas. It was an emotional moment of the Harris County courthouse this week when a judge formally dismissed a drug charge that landed a man in jail for six years after he was convicted based on false testimony. The video from the Houston Chronicles showed the judge coming down from the bench to apologize to Frederick Jeffrey quote, I'm so sorry this happened to you. He said as he embraced Jeffrey, thank you sir. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison for possessing a controlled substance. His conviction, conviction came under scrutiny after it was learned that one of the officers implicated in a notorious raid handled his case at Criminal Appeals Court rule that his conviction should be overturned. Jeffrey was released from prison in September. His freedom finally became official this week during his official declaration of innocence in the courthouse.

He had been in jail for six years quote, when I was speaking with him, I met him before he when he was released and I apologize then and I apologize now said the judge. Even though it was not my fault, I felt as a judge had needed to be said, it's just one of those deals. It wasn't planned. It was just spur of the moment actions unquote. Jeffrey did not say as the judge approached him. Here come the judge. His conviction was based on the false testimony of a former Houston police officer who claimed he was tied to drugs in a case from 2018. Key piece of evidence in the case was a cell phone the officer claimed belonged to Jeffrey, but investigators with the DA's office found body camera footage where a co-defendant said the phone belonged to him, not Jeffrey. The headline new town borough, Pennsylvania, the president of the council rock school board publicly apologized for comments he made about girls and math during a recent education committee meeting.

Ed Solomon's apology came at the end of the school board meeting and after about half a dozen students and residents expressed disappointment remarks he made an October meeting called for an apology during a discussion about lagging test scores, the impact of COVID and student learning and how to bridge the learning gap Solomon has heard saying. Statistically, we say that the ladies have a harder time with math. Throw that into the scenario. You don't like math. He said of young men. Comments didn't sit well with female math students and parents who took offense at his words, demanded that he apologize, several called for his resignation, labeling comments, misogynistic and degrading. Solomon, the father of two daughters, said he met with two students and their parents to discuss the impact of his words. I felt all three of my kids. I told tell all of my three kids that everything is a learning experience when you make a mistake. My goal is to make this better. My goal is to fight for every kid in council rock my apologies to anybody who I hurt. Think he means whom? Please accept them. I will work harder for the words that matter and I will work harder for these kids.

Please accept my apology from the bottom of my heart. It means a lot to me. And to my board members, if you were offended as well, I'm sorry. Unquote, I think he means to my fellow board members. I'll rewrite his apology and get back to you. Data line Netherlands, Netherlands, Colorado. I'm going to say I'm going to start by saying I'm the last week I messed up. I was converting files to put in the election results and I converted all fine. Then in my haste to wrap it up and send it to the press. I left out one of the files, making it seem like that part of the election had not been decided. But it fact it was complete. And while we had the winners on the front page, we didn't have them on the official list inside because part of it was missing. So this week I have included the complete list on page five. My apologies to anyone that felt left out last week. I will do better every week. That is my goal last week. I did not accomplish my goal. I said a member of the committee counting the votes in Netterlander. Sorry, Netterland, Colorado.

Also in Colorado, Colorado springs district superintendent Michael Gaal. He showed an apology to families and staff after he decided not to delay school star times. Despite inclement weather. Many other districts in the area had two-hour delays or closed entirely on Friday, citing the cold weather and icy road conditions. But hey, they're in Colorado. And American legions posts around the nation used November 11th to honor veterans. In Hood River, Oregon, members of the American Legion post-22 used veterans data to apologize and try to bring about healing in its community. Members of post-22 gathered with the community to note discriminatory actions against Japanese American World War II veterans decades ago apologizing for those actions and honoring the descendants of those who were discriminated against. And that should do it. The apologies of the week ladies and gentlemen. A copyrighted feature of this broadcast.

And finally, one more microplastics item. A study of microplastics pollution in Monterey Bay, California has found widespread occurrence of the little critters in the seawater and in the digestive tracks of anchovies.

And common murs, they are diving seabirds that feed on anchovies. So, I blame the anchovies. Ladies and gentlemen, that's going to do it for this week's edition of the show. Back next week at the same time over these radio stations. Bless you radio stations. And whenever you want it on your audio device of choice. And it would be if, just like if anchovies didn't eat those microplastics, if you'd agree with me, to join with me then. All righty, thank you very much. A tip of the show shoppo to the San Diego desk to Pam Holstead and to Garrett Pittman, here at WWW I know, for help with today's broadcast.

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