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WPR to simplify networks for news, music fans
MADISON – Following two years of analysis, audience research and planning, Wisconsin Public Radio is reorganizing its statewide service to help listeners more easily find and enjoy news and music on the radio and on wpr.org.
Beginning May 20, WPR’s two current networks – NPR News & Music and The Ideas Network – will become WPR News and WPR Music. The Ideas Network name will be retired and its…
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Wisconsin Public Radio Should Get A Second Opinion
Wisconsin Public Radio Should Get A Second Opinion
Yesterday afternoon WPR’s Central Time host Rob Ferrett interviewed Dr. Marty Makary from Johns Hopkins. I wrote about Makary last week in a post titled ” Anatomy of A Major Bungle “. In that post I noted how Makary had predicted last February that the U.S would reach herd immunity by April, and in May, writing in the New York Post, Makary made the bold claim that “there will be little to no…
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Listen: A Bureaucratic Shuffle for Hospital COVID Data Julie Rovner, KHN’s chief Washington correspondent, on Wednesday joined Rob Ferrett, host of “Central Time” on Wisconsin Public Radio, to discuss the Trump administration’s announcement that hospital data on coronavirus cases will no longer be routed to the Centers for Disease and Control and Prevention and instead will go to the Department of Health and Human Services.
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The Uploaded (Ferrett Steinmetz)
4 stars
In the near future, the elderly have moved online and now live within the computer network. But that doesn’t stop them interfering in the lives of the living, whose sole real purpose now is to maintain the vast servers which support digital Heaven. For one orphan that just isn’t enough – he wants more for himself and his sister than a life slaving away for the dead. It turns out that he’s not the only one who wants to reset the world…
‘The Uploaded’ is a dark book. I’m going to give you that warning for free now.
If said warning doesn’t put you off then please continue…
Amichai is an Upterlife orphan, a teenager whose parents died in one of the horrific genetically modified plagues that are accidentally set loose on the living world every now and then, and ‘ascended’ to a digital existence. Freed from the chains of reality, pain and suffering, they’ve all but forgotten that they left two children behind, spending their days fighting dragons with their pain receptors turned off and sipping piña coladas alongside an artificial sunset.
Amichai is left in the physical world, full of bleak crumbling sky scrapers, questionable protein sludge and glistening servers, whose upkeep is all that he’s considered good for. A trickster at heart and someone who is just terrible at following rules, Amichai lives under the constant burden of the shrive, a ‘save point’ where his memories and experiences are periodically uploaded to the servers and judged by the living dead. Tip too far into ‘criminal’ and he will not be allowed to enter the upterlife, instead dying a horrifying ‘meat death’, his existence erased.
Following the effects of the Bubbler Plague, which annihilated much of the living population, kids like Amichai are a dying breed, both needed and treated with disdain by their ‘ancestors’. Amichai would probably care less if it wasn’t for the existence of his sister, a survivor of the plague, no longer considered fit to wear the badge of the LifeGuard, the proxy officers by which the dead ‘police’ the living. Surviving ‘robbed’ her of the chance to ascend to the servers early, instead forcing her to take on menial work in microchip factories until the end of her natural lifespan.
Life on Earth is hopelessly grim with some foregoing the promise of a digital afterlife altogether, instead choosing ‘meat death’ and the dream of Heaven, trashing the servers that they consider ungodly. Caught between the dead, who do not value his existence and the ‘NeoChristians’ who wish to rob him of his digital future, Amichai is in a bit of a bind. All he knows for sure is that, life cannot continue this way.
Something has to change.
This was a very clever book. It’s been a while since I’ve had a book make me think so much. It’s also a strangely apt book for our current political situation, with the older generations entangling our futures in the chains of their poorly thought out decisions.
It’s definitely more about the concept than the characters. The worldbuilding is astounding, every little detail meticulously thought out for maximum weight and horror. Although the story is very different, I got a real ‘Fallout’ vibe from the book. It’s a bleak horrible world, with people banding together the best they can just to deal with the hideousness of their lives. A dangerous job is no longer considered something worth avoiding, but something that could potentially lead to a quicker upload to the Upterlife.
It’s not a book for the faint hearted, it is relentlessly dark and relentlessly hopeless. I’d also put a big warning on the book for anyone who’s currently having suicidal thoughts. Although the book is, obviously, NOT advocating suicide, the way that characters talk about death and how much they are looking forward to it could be seriously triggering for some readers!
In the afterword, Steinmetz speaks about the fact that he’s been writing this book for years. You can really see it in the story through the attention to detail and the planning of each of the twists and turns. It’s a story that I really enjoyed just letting it take me where it went. I stopped guessing what Amichai would do next, instead accepting that I would probably just be wrong.
In comparison with the world, the characters are a little bit forgettable. I don’t think that’s necessarily a flaw, it’s definitely a story more about deeds than the people behind them, but I found myself forgetting some of the side characters names or losing track of their relevance to the story. Amichai is, however, a great lead. When I was reading, the image in my head was Robert Sheehan as Nathan in ‘Misfits’, irreverent, extraverted, but, under it all, caring and more than a little afraid.
It’s a book that makes you feel a little hollow inside. You’d like to think that those living a digital existence wouldn’t forget the needs of those that they leave behind, but you also know that it’s entirely likely. The dead in this world have the ultimate privilege, they do not fear for anything, not hunger, poverty or pain, for they have already triumphed humanity’s greatest fear, death itself.
So, all in all, a great standalone with exceptional world building. Books like this are why I read science fiction: huge ethical questions, dark not entirely unfamiliar worlds and massive concepts. A great book, and definitely one that will have me searching out Steinmetz’s back catalogue.
(Also, look at this stunning cover…)
Many thanks to @angryrobotbooks for a copy in return for an honest review!
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Listen: A Bureaucratic Shuffle for Hospital COVID Data
Julie Rovner, KHN’s chief Washington correspondent, on Wednesday joined Rob Ferrett, host of “Central Time” on Wisconsin Public Radio, to discuss the Trump administration’s announcement that hospital data on coronavirus cases will no longer be routed to the Centers for Disease and Control and Prevention and instead will go to the Department of Health and Human Services.
Some critics have suggested this could allow officials to politicize the reports and may make it more difficult for independent researchers to get access to the data. You can hear the conversation here.
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Listen: A Bureaucratic Shuffle for Hospital COVID Data
Julie Rovner, KHN’s chief Washington correspondent, on Wednesday joined Rob Ferrett, host of “Central Time” on Wisconsin Public Radio, to discuss the Trump administration’s announcement that hospital data on coronavirus cases will no longer be routed to the Centers for Disease and Control and Prevention and instead will go to the Department of Health and Human Services.
Some critics have suggested this could allow officials to politicize the reports and may make it more difficult for independent researchers to get access to the data. You can hear the conversation here.
Listen: A Bureaucratic Shuffle for Hospital COVID Data published first on https://smartdrinkingweb.weebly.com/
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Listen: A Bureaucratic Shuffle for Hospital COVID Data
Julie Rovner, KHN’s chief Washington correspondent, on Wednesday joined Rob Ferrett, host of “Central Time” on Wisconsin Public Radio, to discuss the Trump administration’s announcement that hospital data on coronavirus cases will no longer be routed to the Centers for Disease and Control and Prevention and instead will go to the Department of Health and Human Services.
Some critics have suggested this could allow officials to politicize the reports and may make it more difficult for independent researchers to get access to the data. You can hear the conversation here.
from Updates By Dina https://khn.org/news/listen-a-bureaucratic-shuffle-for-hospital-covid-data/
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RT @InnovateEconomy: LISTEN: @LettieriDC will join @WPR's Rob Ferrett on @CentralTimeWPR to discuss EIG's latest report, "From Managing Decline to Building the Future: Could a Heartland Visa Help Struggling Regions?" 📻 LIVE at 5:30pm ET/4:30pm CT: https://t.co/bV7vRXg6p6
LISTEN: @LettieriDC will join @WPR's Rob Ferrett on @CentralTimeWPR to discuss EIG's latest report, "From Managing Decline to Building the Future: Could a Heartland Visa Help Struggling Regions?"
📻 LIVE at 5:30pm ET/4:30pm CT: https://t.co/bV7vRXg6p6
— Economic Innovation (@InnovateEconomy) April 19, 2019
via Twitter https://twitter.com/Novogradac
April 19, 2019 at 01:17PM
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Police Encounters: "Someone Has to Be the Adult"
Police Encounters: “Someone Has to Be the Adult”
“Citizens have a right to expect their police will practice unconditional respect toward them — no matter what has happened…”
“In these kind of incidents, someone has to be the adult…”
“When police disrespect citizens, Sandra Bland incidents happen…”
In the wake of the Sandra Bland arrest and death in jail, and high-profile police shootings, I believe police departments today rely too much…
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‘Wisconsin Today’ premieres Monday on WPR
By Mallory Cheng– Wisconsin Public Radio
A new talk show will start airing on WPR News stations on Monday, May 20.
“Wisconsin Today” will air every weekday at 9 a.m. and 7 p.m. The show goes beyond the daily headlines to provide a space for in-depth conversations about what matters to our state.
The show’s hosts Rob Ferrett and Kate Archer Kent joined “Morning Edition” host Alex Crowe to…
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WPR and CBC Radio to host two-nation town hall
Show airs July 15.
Wisconsin Public Radio and Canada’s CBC Radio will host a live, cross-border call-in show about tariffs from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. July 15.
CBC Radio One’s Cross Country Checkup will broadcast live from WPR’s Madison studios where co-hosts Duncan McCue (CBC) and Rob Ferrett (WPR) will take calls from across Canada and the United States. Canadian and American callers can weigh in and hash out their…
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Listen: How Vaping Regulations Are Playing Out In The States
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KHN Midwest correspondent Lauren Weber joined Wisconsin Public Radio’s Rob Ferrett on “Central Time” to discuss what’s happening on vaping in the states amid concerns about a vaping lung illness.
Weber has written about how Wisconsin health officials were among the first to pinpoint the rise in lung illness cases. She has also reported on how the crackdown on vaping has politicized vapers around the nation who are fighting bans on vaping products.
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Listen: How Vaping Regulations Are Playing Out In The States
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KHN Midwest correspondent Lauren Weber joined Wisconsin Public Radio’s Rob Ferrett on “Central Time” to discuss what’s happening on vaping in the states amid concerns about a vaping lung illness.
Weber has written about how Wisconsin health officials were among the first to pinpoint the rise in lung illness cases. She has also reported on how the crackdown on vaping has politicized vapers around the nation who are fighting bans on vaping products.
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Listen: How Vaping Regulations Are Playing Out In The States
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KHN Midwest correspondent Lauren Weber joined Wisconsin Public Radio’s Rob Ferrett on “Central Time” to discuss what’s happening on vaping in the states amid concerns about a vaping lung illness.
Weber has written about how Wisconsin health officials were among the first to pinpoint the rise in lung illness cases. She has also reported on how the crackdown on vaping has politicized vapers around the nation who are fighting bans on vaping products.
from Updates By Dina https://khn.org/news/listen-how-vaping-regulations-are-playing-out-in-the-states/
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