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5000 questions survey series--part forty

LOTR The Two Towers

3801. Who is your favorite Lord of the Rings charater and why?

I’ve never seen LOTR or had the desire to see it. This isn’t a whole survey about it is it...

3802. In the Lord of the Rings...how do the characters go on when the forces against them are so powerful?

How can they go on when so many awful things have happened?

3803. What is it that makes middle earth worth saving?

3804. Is Frodo making a personal sacrifice by taking the ring to be destroyed?

3805. What would you do in Frodo's place?

3806. When you saw the two towers did you really want the Ents (Treebeard etc.)to get involved in the war?

3807. Why didn't Merry and Pippin just allow the Ents to take them home to the shire? 

What could two tiny hobbits do in a great war?

3808. Why did the elves go to Helm's Deep?

They had a dusty old alliance but they could have escaped and made a new and better life, without risking their lives.

3809. Who is the most heroic LOTR character and what makes them a hero?

3810. What characters in LOTR put their own interests before the interests of all?

What characters put the interests of all above their own interests?

3811. Aragorn left the elvish girl he loved. How could he leave someone he loved? Isn't love the highest thing that there is? What could he possibly have valued higher than love that he left her for? Do you agree with him?

3812. What LOTR character displays the most humanity?

3813. What did you notice that was different between the Two Towers book and movie?

3814. Why is Frodo so kind to Gollum?

3815. You are in Helm's Deep on the eve of battle. Do you put on a suit of armor and fight, or crawl into the caves and hope to be protected?

3816. What have you risked your life for?

What would you?

3817. With the constant threat of violence, war, nukes, terror, chemicle weapons, etc. aren't we all in a similar position to those in the Lord of the Rings?

3818. How can we go on when the evil in this world is so powerful? No one and nothing is more powerful than God and He will always prevail.

How can we go on when so many awful things have happened? A lot of bad has happened, but a lot of good has, too. 

3819. What is it that makes our Earth worth saving? Because there is good that exists. We’re only here but a short time. We need to do what we can while we’re here.

3820. Who's responsibility is it to save our world? Ours.

3821. Who was more technilogically advance in LOTR, the 'good guys' or the 'bad guys'?

3821. What was Tolkien saying by causeing the Ents (trees) to come together with the river (by breaking the dam) and over throw Sauromon?

3822. Should Wormtoung have been killed? Should Gollum? Why or why not?

3823. In the battlee for Middle Earth, which LOTR character would you most like to be like and why?

3824. Which character do you think you actually WOULD be the most like?

3825. What is the over all ___ that you took away with you from this movie?

**End LOTR**

3826. Why do most people associate being spiritual or connected to the world as being a hippy? *shrug*

3827. Why is passion and honest emotion equated with hallmark cards/ I didn’t know it was.

3828. What words set off alarms in your brain (for me it's anarchy, pagan, etc)? Uh, a lot do.

3829. Are you dancin in the dark? I’m not dancing at all.

3830. Name 2 things you have never done in public:

1. Went out naked.

2. Used the restroom.

3831. If you had to choose out of what you just named, which one WOULD you do in public? Neither!

3832. Challenge yourself. Do whatever it is in public. Absolutely not.

Why not?

What are you so terrified of?

3832. Is hell REALLY other people? Hell is a place.

3833. Or would it be more hellish to live totally without other people? I wouldn’t want to be alone and without my family. I don’t do well in crowds, and I’m not very social or outgoing, but I wouldn’t want to be completely alone. 

3834. Leggos or linkin logs? I’ve played with both cause my younger brother was a Lincoln Logs kid, but I was definitely a Legos kid.

3835. What books have you read more than once? I’ve actually never read a book more than once. I don’t know why.

3836. Do you get different things out of reading a book a second time a year or more after reading it the first time? Is it because you are a different person after time passes?

3837. The person who goes to ____ is not the same person who comes back. Fill in the blank with anything you think fits.

3838. Quick! Empty your brain here! I don’t really have anything in particular to say.

3839. What's the best movie soundtrack? There’s many, but I do really enjoy the Sweeney Todd soundtrack.

3840. Tissues with or without aloe? I’ve never used any with aloe, but that sounds nice.

3841. Are you on any medication? Yes.

3842. Does any part of your own body disgust you? All of it...

If yes, isn't that odd? What could have caused that feeling of disgust with your own body? I’m just a very self-conscious person with a lot of insecurities and imperfections.

3843. Want some popcorn? Nah.

3844. What if Atlas shrugged? What.

3845. Who has led the most interesting life?/ A lot of people have.

3846. What movies are comming out next year that you are looking forward to? I’m not sure about next year yet, but there’s a ton I want to see this year.

3847. If someone is half man and half dog is he his own best friend? Sure.

3848. Paper or plastic? Reusable bags.

3849. Why did things make sense in childhood, but they don't now? We didn’t really understand and we were naive. The good ol’ days.

3850. Is it crazy time? Yes.

3851. If there is a lotto with 50 numbers, and a player picks 6 numbers without repeating any, what are their chances of getting all 6 winning numbers? I don’t know, man.

3852. If there were no laws and no rules name 3 things you would do that you don't/wouldn't/can't do now? I don’t know. I feel like the things I want to do but don’t do aren’t because they’re illegal.

3853. It's a costume party. What will your costume be if the theme is:

the 70's? The typical hippie look.

80's? Side pony tail, neon colors. 

under the sea? Ariel.

3854. Have you ever wanted to release the lobsters from those tanks in restraunts and put them back in the sea? No.

3855. How funky is your chicken? Sigh.

How loose is your goose? ...

3856. What's your favorite animal out of these: emu, otter, duck billed platypus, moose, skunk? Otter.

3857. priest, rabbi, or other religios leader, a judge, or a sea captain to perform your wedding? Priest.

3858. Do you think that it's okay for people to write their own wedding vows? Yes?

3859. Rank these as places to be married. 1 = best.

Your House or Yard

The Beach: IF I ever got married, this is where I’d want it to be.

A Park

Disneyland

A Forest

A Catering Hall

Las Vegas

A church or temple

A Courthouse

On a Boat

On a Space Station

3860. The Earth is doomed. A giant asteroid is headed our way. It will decimate the planet in 3.2 days. You and your family own a space pod and you have room for 7 people from the list below. Everyone else dies. Who do you pick? Orlando Bloom, Justin Timberlake, Joan Jett, John Denver, Baby Eve (the first human clone), Jennifer Lopez, Johnny Depp, George W Bush, David Bowie, Charleton Heston, Ralph Nader, Moby, Jeff Bridges, Kelly Osbourne, Frank Zappa, Bill Clinton, Britney Spears, Osama Bin Laden, The Pope, Eminem, Madonna

3861. Rank the following dead people in order of who you would like to spend the day with. 1 = you'd like to hang out with them the most.

Joan of Arc

Groucho Marx

John Lennon

Joey Ramone

Anton Levay

Tupac

Jack Kerouac

Aaliyah

John F Kennedy

Lucielle Ball: I’d love to be able to hang out with her. I love Lucy!

Jim Morrison

3862. If you could grant immortality to one person you know (can't be yourself) who would you give it to? My brother.

3863. If you could grant immortality to one person who you do not know personally but know of (writer, politician, etc) who would you give it to? I don’t know.

3864. Name a person you love: My family.

Name a person you admire: My mom.

Name a friend: My mom.

Name a relative: My mom. haha. 

If you had to condemn one of them to death to save the lives of the others who would it be and why? No.

3865. Would you rather be one of Santa's elves or a dentist? One of Santa’s elves, definitely. How fun. I’d totally be like Buddy.

3866. When you first meet people what do you talk to them about? If I’m just meeting them then it’s awkward small talk.

3867. You have been invited to a party with any sports team in the world. Which one? I don’t care about sports.

3868. Finish the sentances.

In a world where:

He was:

She was:

Together, they were:

Why do so many movie trailers start off by saying 'In a world..'? Because it takes place in a world. Ha.

3869. Make up a superhero with really unhelpful powers: Destructo. He’s very destructive, which includes the destruction of good things.

3870. A couple of days ago this guy won 14 million dollars and tried to donate 1 million to the salvation army. The salvation army turned the money down saying they didn't want dirty gambling money. Did they do the right thing? I’ve heard a lot of bad things about the Salvation Army, so that’s kinda funny they’d act like they were all innocent.

3871. If you had a spare million for charity work who would you donate it to? Something for children.

3872. What's the craziest most shocking moment of rock and roll history that you can think of? Uhhh.

3873. Why is it that if a man kills another man in battle it's called heroic, but if he kills a man in the heat of passion, it's called murder?

3874. What kind of punishment do you feel the following crimes deserve:

premeditated murder?

date rape?

drug sales?

drug use?

burglery?

3875. If you could kiss anyone in the world on midnight at new year's eve, who would be the lucky one? Alexander Skarsgard. Not so lucky for him, but. haha.

3876. You have just taken two sexy people prisoner because they found your hide out and you think they are spies. What do youd do: kill them, hump them or have crumpets and tea? Wtf.

3877. What is your new year's resolution? I don’t make those anymore.

3878. Should the U.S. focus more on the threat from N. Korea or Iraq?

3879. Would you ever have plastic surgery? If it was for reconstructive purposes.

3880. How can George Bush be considered a Christian when he a war-monger and the ten comandments say do not kill?

3881. What is the most inetesting premise for a reality tv show that you can think of? I don’t know. I watch a lot of reality TV, though.

3882. Who is the Hollywood Star next to die of a drug overdose? Yikes, I don’t know. :/

3883. Do you find yourself caring a lot about online people, even if you haven't met or spoken to them off of the computer? Yeah.

3884. When you hear the song puff the magic dragon what do you think? Marijuana. 

3885. Let's give you a tarot reading. Go on, ask any question: No thanks.

first card: the reversed high preistess.

you may be expecting things to come too easily. You should be careful not to give up if they dont go your way. You're feeling a desire to escape, to withdraw into yourself. Shrug off your current lack of focus and work diligently to acheive the goals you want.

second card: the reversed hanged man.

You shouldnt be close-minded with your situation. There are many alternatives and possible solutions to your problems. Try something new.

The last card: Justice.

what goes around comes around. Seek advice on the matters at hand from elders. Do healthy things, spiritually and physically.

3886. What does 'boo' mean dn how did it become a slang word of affection? It comes from the French word, “beau.” Huh, interesting. 

3887. How often do you stretch? I stretch out my arms and fingers a lot.

3888. Have you ever wished that you didn't have to be yourself? Oh yes.

3889. Would you rather wear shoes full of earthworms or a hat full of spiders? jlaskdjkljdklsjflks

3890. What are some things that for most people go unsaid? How we really feel about our loved ones. We don’t tell them enough, maybe not at all.

3891. I said, 'Play me the best song in the world.' You put on: 3892. What happened last year that you would like to forget? Blah I don’t know. These past few years have been really hard.

3893. What are you not able to do alone? I wouldn’t survive long on my own.

3894. Do you feel more connected to earth air fire or water and why? Water I suppose since I love the beach. I’m a big scardy cat to get in the water, it’s a terrifying thought, but I love being near it and watch/listen to the waves crash in, smell that ocean air, and feel that ocean breeze. 3895. Which two words belong together and why: life, seawater, chocolate, blood, hair piece Life and blood. You need blood to live.

3896. If con is the opposite of pro, what's the opposite of progress? Uhh.

3897. Have you ever wanted to meet the inspectors with the numbers for names(i.e. inspected by 36)? Nah.

3898. Who is the most thought-provoking person you know, &why? Hmm. I don’t know.

3899. If you could change 1 thing you did in the last 24 hours, what would it be & why? I would have taken a longer nap.

3900. What is the most bizarre thing you've ever done? Who knows.

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5k Survey LXXV

3826. Why do most people associate being spiritual or connected to the world as being a hippy? >> Okay, so the first 25 questions in this section were all specifically about LOTR The Two Towers, for some reason? I’m not interested so I just skipped them entirely and am smushing the remaining 25 questions in this part into the other 50. Whatever. Anyway, because that’s the stereotype they’ve internalised, idk. Looking down on non-materialistic worldviews is a common modern pastime in the Western world, just in general. (Not that being a hippie is inherently a negative or stupid thing to be, but that’s definitely the sort of context this stereotype is going for.)

3827. Why is passion and honest emotion equated with hallmark cards? >> I feel like my answer to this would just be similar to my answer to the previous question. These ideas don’t necessarily have the same root, but they’re definitely related. 3828. What words set off alarms in your brain (for me it's anarchy, pagan, etc)? >> *blinks* Certainly not those words. Usually it’s words like, idk, “American values” and “lizard people”... 3829. Are you dancin in the dark? >> No. 3830. Name 2 things you have never done in public: >> I’ve never done the Charleston or the Riverdance in public.

3831. If you had to choose out of what you just named, which one WOULD you do in public? >> I don’t even know how to do those dances, which is part of the reason why I’ve never done them in public. 3832. Challenge yourself. Do whatever it is in public. Why not? What are you so terrified of? >> ... 3832. Is hell REALLY other people? >> The actual context of that quote is so much more interesting than seeing people using it as some kind of antisocial mantra. 3833. Or would it be more hellish to live totally without other people? >> We’re all aware that humans are social creatures, correct? Just making sure. 3834. Leggos or linkin logs? >> I had Lincoln Logs as a kid but not LEGO. 3835. What books have you read more than once? >> I’ve read The Fountainhead three times. 3836. Do you get different things out of reading a book a second time a year or more after reading it the first time? Is it because you are a different person after time passes? >> Yeah, I do, and yes, that’s why -- but first I have to convince myself to read a book more than once. My to-read list is so long all the time and then I learn about yet another interesting-sounding book and jump on that and the cycle never ends... it feels like a waste of time to go back and read books I’ve already read. Even though I know that’s not a logical way to think at all. 3837. The person who goes to ____ is not the same person who comes back. Fill in the blank with anything you think fits. >> Whatever. 3838. Quick! Empty your brain here! >> ... 3839. What's the best movie soundtrack? >> I’m partial to Clint Mansell soundtracks, personally. 3840. Tissues with or without aloe? >> I rarely even use tissues, but when I do, I’m not terribly precious about what kind they are. I just use whatever Sparrow bought. 3841. Are you on any medication? >> No. 3842. Does any part of your own body disgust you? If yes, isn't that odd? What could have caused that feeling of disgust with your own body? >> Having a body disgusts me, overall. Yeah, I’m not fond of the relationship I have with my body either, but it’d be one hell of an uphill battle to reprogram my brain to not think I’m gross. I’m doing my best, all right. 3843. Want some popcorn? >> No. 3844. What if Atlas shrugged? >> I imagine he’d do it in far less time than it takes to read that book. 3845. Who has led the most interesting life? >> ... 3846. What movies are comming out next year that you are looking forward to? >> Ha, what movies are coming out next year... that’s the question, innit. 3847. If someone is half man and half dog is he his own best friend? >> --- 3848. Paper or plastic? >> I usually get plastic bags. 3849. Why did things make sense in childhood, but they don't now? >> What things? 3850. Is it crazy time? >> --- 3851. If there is a lotto with 50 numbers, and a player picks 6 numbers without repeating any, what are their chances of getting all 6 winning numbers? >> I don’t know, dude.

3852. If there were no laws and no rules name 3 things you would do that you don't/wouldn't/can't do now? >> --- 3853. It's a costume party. What will your costume be if the theme is: the 70's? 80's? under the sea? 3854. Have you ever wanted to release the lobsters from those tanks in restraunts and put them back in the sea? >> Nope. 3855. How funky is your chicken? How loose is your goose? >> --- 3856. What's your favorite animal out of these: emu, otter, duck billed platypus, moose, skunk? >> Otter. 3857. priest, rabbi, or other religios leader, a judge, or a sea captain to perform your wedding? >> We had a nondenominational minister for ours. I’m sure we would have rather have gone with someone who wasn’t any flavour of Christian, but going through the French Quarter Wedding Chapel kind of was a path of least resistance. It’s hard to plan a wedding from a completely different part of the country than the place it’s being held, and the Chapel did a lot of the legwork for us. 3858. Do you think that it's okay for people to write their own wedding vows? >> What on earth would possess me to think otherwise? 3859. Rank these as places to be married. 1 = best. Your House or Yard The Beach A Park Disneyland A Forest A Catering Hall Las Vegas A church or temple A Courthouse On a Boat On a Space Station 3860. The Earth is doomed. A giant asteroid is headed our way. It will decimate the planet in 3.2 days. You and your family own a space pod and you have room for 7 people from the list below. Everyone else dies. Who do you pick? Orlando Bloom, Justin Timberlake, Joan Jett, John Denver Baby Eve (the first human clone), Jennifer Lopez, Johnny Depp, George W Bush, David Bowie, Charleton Heston, Ralph Nader, Moby, Jeff Bridges, Kelly Osbourne, Frank Zappa, Bill Clinton, Britney Spears, Osama Bin Laden The Pope, Eminem, Madonna >> *longsuffering sigh* 3861. Rank the following dead people in order of who you would like to spend the day with. 1 = you'd like to hang out with them the most. Joan of Arc Groucho Marx John Lennon Joey Ramone Anton Levay Tupac Jack Kerouac Aaliyah John F Kennedy Lucielle Ball Jim Morrison 3862. If you could grant immortality to one person you know (can't be yourself) who would you give it to? >> I don’t want to grant immortality to anyone. 3863. If you could grant immortality to one person who you do not know personally but know of (writer, politician, etc) who would you give it to? >> --- 3864. Name a person you love: Name a person you admire: Name a friend: Name a relative: If you had to condemn one of them to death to save the lives of the others who would it be and why? >> Just... not even going to touch this one. 3865. Would you rather be one of Santa's elves or a dentist? >> What... 3866. When you first meet people what do you talk to them about? >> There’s no one specific thing that I talk to people about... it’s obviously dependent on many factors (at least one of them having nothing to do with me). 3867. You have been invited to a party with any sports team in the world. Which one? >> No. 3868. Finish the sentances. In a world where: He was: She was: Together, they were: Why do so many movie trailers start off by saying 'In a world..'? >> I had a feeling this was about movie trailers, lol. I’m guessing it’s just convenient or something. (Also, that doesn’t happen much anymore. There’s a new set of trailer tropes now.) 3869. Make up a superhero with really unhelpful powers: >> --- 3870. A couple of days ago this guy won 14 million dollars and tried to donate 1 million to the salvation army. The salvation army turned the money down saying they didn't want dirty gambling money. Did they do the right thing? >> They did what was right from their point of view, which is a dogmatic conservative-Christian POV. 3871. If you had a spare million for charity work who would you donate it to? >> --- 3872. What's the craziest most shocking moment of rock and roll history that you can think of? >> --- 3873. Why is it that if a man kills another man in battle it's called heroic, but if he kills a man in the heat of passion, it's called murder? >> Perspective. 3874. What kind of punishment do you feel the following crimes deserve: premeditated murder? date rape? drug sales? drug use? burglery? 3875. If you could kiss anyone in the world on midnight at new year's eve, who would be the lucky one? >> ... 3876. You have just taken two sexy people prisoner because they found your hide out and you think they are spies. What do youd do: kill them, hump them or have crumpets and tea? >> What the fuck. 3877. What is your new year's resolution? >> --- 3878. Should the U.S. focus more on the threat from N. Korea or Iraq? >> --- 3879. Would you ever have plastic surgery? >> I don’t know, maybe. Mostly I just can’t afford shit like that, so the answer’s “no” by virtue of that alone. 3880. How can George Bush be considered a Christian when he a war-monger and the ten comandments say do not kill? >> Oh, you know. 3881. What is the most interesting premise for a reality tv show that you can think of? >> --- 3882. Who is the Hollywood Star next to die of a drug overdose? >> --- 3883. Do you find yourself caring a lot about online people, even if you haven't met or spoken to them off of the computer? >> Not... like, as a rule... 3884. When you hear the song puff the magic dragon what do you think? >> Weed, I guess. I don’t have any other associations with that song. 3885. Let's give you a tarot reading. Go on, ask any question: first card: the reversed high preistess. you may be expecting things to come too easily. You should be careful not to give up if they dont go your way. You're feeling a desire to escape, to withdraw into yourself. Shrug off your current lack of focus and work diligently to acheive the goals you want. second card: the reversed hanged man. You shouldnt be close-minded with your situation. There are many alternatives and possible solutions to your problems. Try something new. The last card: Justice. what goes around comes around. Seek advice on the matters at hand from elders. Do healthy things, spiritually and physically. 3886. What does 'boo' mean and how did it become a slang word of affection? >> www.dictionary.com 3887. How often do you stretch? >> Whenever I feel like it. I don’t schedule it or anything. 3888. Have you ever wished that you didn't have to be yourself? >> Yep. 3889. Would you rather wear shoes full of earthworms or a hat full of spiders? >> --- 3890. What are some things that for most people go unsaid? >> Bold of me to assume I know what most people are not saying out loud. Pretty sure mind-reading ain’t a thing. 3891. I said, 'Play me the best song in the world.' You put on: >> --- 3892. What happened last year that you would like to forget? >> --- 3893. What are you not able to do alone? >> Operate a seesaw. 3894. Do you feel more connected to earth air fire or water and why? >> Air, because I have a lot of it in my birth chart, I guess. Also, I just like space. (Both in the sense of “having physical space around me” and “outer space where all the stars and shit are”, although the latter isn’t air per se.) 3895. Which two words belong together and why: life, seawater, chocolate, blood, hair piece >> Depends on what you’re trying to reference, I guess. I can go with “life and chocolate” (obvious movie reference) or “blood and chocolate” (less obvious YA book/movie reference). 3896. If con is the opposite of pro, what's the opposite of progress? >> Yeah, we all know this joke. 3897. Have you ever wanted to meet the inspectors with the numbers for names(i.e. inspected by 36)? >> What? 3898. Who is the most thought-provoking person you know, &why? >> Me. I stay thinkin about myself.  3899. If you could change 1 thing you did in the last 24 hours, what would it be & why? >> Meh, nothing. 3900. What is the most bizarre thing you've ever done? >> I’m not sure.

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CNN 10 – March 8, 2017

March 8, 2017

A proposal to overhaul the U.S. health systems and the reactions to it are our first topics today on CNN 10. Then, we’re taking you to the Southern Hemisphere for a look at how a shabby stadium is emblematic of one nation’s slump. How chip cards can be hacked and how a museum can serve as a gym are two other topics on today’s display .

TRANSCRIPT

CARL AZUZ, CNN 10 ANCHOR: Hi. I’m Carl Azuz.

Leading off today’s news coverage on CNN 10, we’re explaining a project designed to overhaul the U.S. health systems. Republicans in the House of Representative have revealed their plan to cancellation and replace the Affordability Care Act, also known as Obamacare.

Former President Barack Obama signed it into rule in 2010. It was examined his biggest domestic accomplishment. It’s too controversial. On the plus back, it facilitated 20 million Americans gained health insurance coverage, contributing to more people having it than ever before. On the minus side, it costs more than the government expected and several insurance companies that were originally carried it have removed Obamacare coverage .

Congressional Republicans have been trying to repeal the existing legislation for years. Now, with their party in charge of Congress and the White House, they’ve exhausted a overture “ve called the” American Healthcare Act. The bill would eliminate the Obamacare requirement that Americans either get health insurance or is a fine of at least several hundred dollars for not having it. It would maintain some of the favourite parts of Obamacare. It would get rid of the governmental forces payments that helped people buy health insurance and replace those with the tax recognition and it was ultimately restructure Medicaid, a federal and commonwealth platform that leaves insurance to low income Americans.

Just as Obamacare is controversial, the American Care Act is too. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan says Obamacare is collapsing and that the said law would reduce costs and commit every American access to good, affordable health insurance .

Independent Senator Bernie Sanders has said provided with access doesn’t aim people are able to afford it. Some Republican reviewers say the programme doesn’t go far enough to eliminate Obamacare, and Democrats and some health insurance experts say the changes could introduce tens of millions of Americans at risk for losing their health insurance coverage, though Republicans say those who are currently enrolled “wouldve been” grandfathered in so they don’t .

The Trump administration calls the plan a work in progress. The bill will be debated and revised in the days ahead, as its Republican supporters try to push it through the House and Senate and on to President Trump’s desk .

( BEGIN VIDEO CLIP )

AZUZ( voice-over ): Ten-second trivia :

What is most important country in the Southern Hemisphere ?

Is it Argentina, Australia, Brazil or China ?

With an area of more than 3.2 million square miles, Brazil is the largest country south of the equator .

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AZUZ: Large-hearted country, big problems. Brazil has been going through the worst recession in the nation’s record. One explanation of a recession is when a country’s gross domestic product reduces for two quarterss, two three-month periods in a row.

Brazil’s economy has been flinching for eight quarterss in a row. This January, the nation’s unemployment rates thumped 12.6 percent, nearly 13 million people are out of work, a massive government bribery scandal factored in.

There are signs things are getting better. Foreign investment is back. Brazil’s stock market is up. Analysts say the recession could point this year.

But its external debt and dilapidation of one Brazilian landmark holds as an example of many Brazilian strives .

( BEGIN VIDEOTAPE )

SHASTA DARLINGTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT( voice-over ): A familiar fixture in Rio de Janeiro’s skyline, steeped in football history. Now, Maracana Stadium’s field returned brown with disuse. Windows have been crushed, televisions stolen. The accepts faded, with random openings where there should be accommodates .

( on camera ): Some tushes were taken out and put back in the wrong place, but even more staggering, about 7,000 sits were literally rent out and they haven’t genuinely put back. You can’t genuinely sell tickets here.

( voice-over ): When it was inaugurated in 1950, Maracana was the biggest stadium in the world .

The theatre of Brazil’s humiliating loss to Uruguay in the World Cup back then and of Pele’s 1,000 th purpose, Maracana became a national landmark.

It was virtually rebuilt for the 2014 World cup finals, a renovation that expenditure more than $500 million and catered a colorful backdrop to the contenders .

More redevelopments induced for the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2016 Summer Recreation. Six months later, that excitement a distant recall.

The fellowship that oversees Maracana says Olympic organizers left the stadium in a state of extreme dilapidation .

DAELCIO DE FREITAS, SPOKESMAN FOR MARACANA STADIUM( through translator ): After all the investments, it’s such a pity that this newly refurbished stadium wasn’t being maintained.”

DARLINGTON: They move us through the stadium to visualize the damage first handwriting.

( on camera ): Well, we now know at the least where some of those posteriors dissolved up .

( voice-over ): But the Rio 2016 Organizing Committee contends they offered to pay $130,000 for reparations when the handed the stadium back to the government of Rio de Janeiro — itself now completely broke .

Whoever is to blame, the sorry state of affairs raises questions about what kind of bequest the Olympic Games have left for Brazil .

Shasta Darlington, Rio de Janeiro .

( END VIDEOTAPE )

AZUZ: Microchip placards, charge card with tiny microchips have been increasingly used in the U.S. since 2015. The old-fashioned type of poster which utilized a magnetic strip was easier to hack and embezzle info from. The chip is supposed to cut down on credit card cases of fraud and it has to some extent.

But CNN’s Laurie Segall found out how it too can be hacked when she spoke with employees of a company that aims to protect people and organizations from digital misdemeanour .

( BEGIN VIDEOTAPE )

LAURIE SEGALL, CNN CORRESPONDENT( voice-over ): Chip placards, they take forever. On the bright side, they’re also more secure. They’re supposed to stop crooks from plagiarizing our info, but the very thing that attains them take longer are also welcome to stimulate them vulnerable .

On an old-fashioned charge card, the data that’s sent to the register is static. It never changes. On a chip placard the data is randomized, which entails it’s exclusively good for one busines. Normally, information that expires after exactly a instant “wouldve been” useless, but if intruders could plagiarize it and use it all before it switches again, they’re in business .

And brand-new experiment shows that might actually is the possibility as hackers can crack open a storage register and include something called a skimmer. Maybe they’re friends with the teller, maybe they own the supermarket themselves. Whatever the speciman, the hackers wait for you to insert your credit card, and then their hour embarks .

Here’s how it operates. During that hour, the hacked registry is plagiarizing all of your card’s information and wirelessly transmitting it to another design the hackers have set up elsewhere like a smartphone be prepared to make a mobile purchase, or in this case a hacked ATM that’s mystifying the data for your physical bank placard .

And —

( on camera ): First of all, wow. What did we just see? Can you illustrate what merely went down ?

TED BEARDSLEY, RAPID7, SENIOR SECURITY RESEARCH MANAGER: The data related to the card is get to submit to a design that’s inside this false front here, and then that is then in turn starting to punch in all the data, perforating in the PIN, wants to see you for $200, and thumping evacuation.

WESTON HECKER, RAPID 7, SENIOR SECURITY ENGINEER: There’s little basically robot mitts that is really putting the PIN multitudes in there .

SEGALL: You had to take over nearly two inventions to make this happen, right? So how likely is this to be widespread ?

BEARDSLEY: What we’re trying to do now is kind of contemplate these sorts of criticizes that we feel are going to be likely to happen once the U.S. moves over more completely to the chip and PIN standard. It’s not like criminal matters are going to throw up their hands and say, oh, you took away my magstripes, I’m out of the credit card fraud business .

So, I would expect to see some variation of this, maybe in two years hence. You know, you’re not going to see this today .

SEGALL: You have this skill that enables you to hacker an ATM and make money precisely kind of flow out .

Yet you want to use this knowledge for good. A lot of beings would want to take the money and move. So what is it about you that reaches you want to use this supremacy for good ?

HECKER: I like being ethical. Like, you know, like being able to go into society and, you know , not be scared that every knock on the door “re gonna be all” the police force in general .

BEARDSLEY: I adoration the internet and I am a big technophile. I want that stuff to keep working. And the only behavior that’s going to keep working is good guys are working at least at pace with the bad guys .

( END VIDEOTAPE )

AZUZ: On a day off, some tribes might go to a museum and then work out. Others might work out and then go to a museum. At New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, you can now do both at the same day — the museum exercising. It’s advertised as radical, the opportunity to connect with the art, while initiating person and thinker.

It’s too expensive. Seventy-five bucks for 45 instants, though, that does include a museum ticket. The morning exercising is sold out, which indicates that exhibiting fitness is a possibility merely a ticket.

Does it hoist working out to an skill figure? Maybe, if they’re plyomartrics, artrobics, powart lifting, museumba. Guess it depends on whether museum point to all of it .

I’m Carl Artzuz .

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CNN 10 – March 8, 2017

March 8, 2017

A proposal to overhaul the U.S. health systems and the reactions to it are our first topics today on CNN 10. Then, we’re taking you to the Southern Hemisphere for a look at how a shabby stadium is emblematic of one nation’s slump. How chip cards can be hacked and how a museum can serve as a gym are two other topics on today’s display .

TRANSCRIPT

CARL AZUZ, CNN 10 ANCHOR: Hi. I’m Carl Azuz.

Leading off today’s news coverage on CNN 10, we’re explaining a project designed to overhaul the U.S. health systems. Republicans in the House of Representative have revealed their plan to cancellation and replace the Affordability Care Act, also known as Obamacare.

Former President Barack Obama signed it into rule in 2010. It was examined his biggest domestic accomplishment. It’s too controversial. On the plus back, it facilitated 20 million Americans gained health insurance coverage, contributing to more people having it than ever before. On the minus side, it costs more than the government expected and several insurance companies that were originally carried it have removed Obamacare coverage .

Congressional Republicans have been trying to repeal the existing legislation for years. Now, with their party in charge of Congress and the White House, they’ve exhausted a overture “ve called the” American Healthcare Act. The bill would eliminate the Obamacare requirement that Americans either get health insurance or is a fine of at least several hundred dollars for not having it. It would maintain some of the favourite parts of Obamacare. It would get rid of the governmental forces payments that helped people buy health insurance and replace those with the tax recognition and it was ultimately restructure Medicaid, a federal and commonwealth platform that leaves insurance to low income Americans.

Just as Obamacare is controversial, the American Care Act is too. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan says Obamacare is collapsing and that the said law would reduce costs and commit every American access to good, affordable health insurance .

Independent Senator Bernie Sanders has said provided with access doesn’t aim people are able to afford it. Some Republican reviewers say the programme doesn’t go far enough to eliminate Obamacare, and Democrats and some health insurance experts say the changes could introduce tens of millions of Americans at risk for losing their health insurance coverage, though Republicans say those who are currently enrolled “wouldve been” grandfathered in so they don’t .

The Trump administration calls the plan a work in progress. The bill will be debated and revised in the days ahead, as its Republican supporters try to push it through the House and Senate and on to President Trump’s desk .

( BEGIN VIDEO CLIP )

AZUZ( voice-over ): Ten-second trivia :

What is most important country in the Southern Hemisphere ?

Is it Argentina, Australia, Brazil or China ?

With an area of more than 3.2 million square miles, Brazil is the largest country south of the equator .

( END VIDEO CLIP )

AZUZ: Large-hearted country, big problems. Brazil has been going through the worst recession in the nation’s record. One explanation of a recession is when a country’s gross domestic product reduces for two quarterss, two three-month periods in a row.

Brazil’s economy has been flinching for eight quarterss in a row. This January, the nation’s unemployment rates thumped 12.6 percent, nearly 13 million people are out of work, a massive government bribery scandal factored in.

There are signs things are getting better. Foreign investment is back. Brazil’s stock market is up. Analysts say the recession could point this year.

But its external debt and dilapidation of one Brazilian landmark holds as an example of many Brazilian strives .

( BEGIN VIDEOTAPE )

SHASTA DARLINGTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT( voice-over ): A familiar fixture in Rio de Janeiro’s skyline, steeped in football history. Now, Maracana Stadium’s field returned brown with disuse. Windows have been crushed, televisions stolen. The accepts faded, with random openings where there should be accommodates .

( on camera ): Some tushes were taken out and put back in the wrong place, but even more staggering, about 7,000 sits were literally rent out and they haven’t genuinely put back. You can’t genuinely sell tickets here.

( voice-over ): When it was inaugurated in 1950, Maracana was the biggest stadium in the world .

The theatre of Brazil’s humiliating loss to Uruguay in the World Cup back then and of Pele’s 1,000 th purpose, Maracana became a national landmark.

It was virtually rebuilt for the 2014 World cup finals, a renovation that expenditure more than $500 million and catered a colorful backdrop to the contenders .

More redevelopments induced for the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2016 Summer Recreation. Six months later, that excitement a distant recall.

The fellowship that oversees Maracana says Olympic organizers left the stadium in a state of extreme dilapidation .

DAELCIO DE FREITAS, SPOKESMAN FOR MARACANA STADIUM( through translator ): After all the investments, it’s such a pity that this newly refurbished stadium wasn’t being maintained.”

DARLINGTON: They move us through the stadium to visualize the damage first handwriting.

( on camera ): Well, we now know at the least where some of those posteriors dissolved up .

( voice-over ): But the Rio 2016 Organizing Committee contends they offered to pay $130,000 for reparations when the handed the stadium back to the government of Rio de Janeiro — itself now completely broke .

Whoever is to blame, the sorry state of affairs raises questions about what kind of bequest the Olympic Games have left for Brazil .

Shasta Darlington, Rio de Janeiro .

( END VIDEOTAPE )

AZUZ: Microchip placards, charge card with tiny microchips have been increasingly used in the U.S. since 2015. The old-fashioned type of poster which utilized a magnetic strip was easier to hack and embezzle info from. The chip is supposed to cut down on credit card cases of fraud and it has to some extent.

But CNN’s Laurie Segall found out how it too can be hacked when she spoke with employees of a company that aims to protect people and organizations from digital misdemeanour .

( BEGIN VIDEOTAPE )

LAURIE SEGALL, CNN CORRESPONDENT( voice-over ): Chip placards, they take forever. On the bright side, they’re also more secure. They’re supposed to stop crooks from plagiarizing our info, but the very thing that attains them take longer are also welcome to stimulate them vulnerable .

On an old-fashioned charge card, the data that’s sent to the register is static. It never changes. On a chip placard the data is randomized, which entails it’s exclusively good for one busines. Normally, information that expires after exactly a instant “wouldve been” useless, but if intruders could plagiarize it and use it all before it switches again, they’re in business .

And brand-new experiment shows that might actually is the possibility as hackers can crack open a storage register and include something called a skimmer. Maybe they’re friends with the teller, maybe they own the supermarket themselves. Whatever the speciman, the hackers wait for you to insert your credit card, and then their hour embarks .

Here’s how it operates. During that hour, the hacked registry is plagiarizing all of your card’s information and wirelessly transmitting it to another design the hackers have set up elsewhere like a smartphone be prepared to make a mobile purchase, or in this case a hacked ATM that’s mystifying the data for your physical bank placard .

And —

( on camera ): First of all, wow. What did we just see? Can you illustrate what merely went down ?

TED BEARDSLEY, RAPID7, SENIOR SECURITY RESEARCH MANAGER: The data related to the card is get to submit to a design that’s inside this false front here, and then that is then in turn starting to punch in all the data, perforating in the PIN, wants to see you for $200, and thumping evacuation.

WESTON HECKER, RAPID 7, SENIOR SECURITY ENGINEER: There’s little basically robot mitts that is really putting the PIN multitudes in there .

SEGALL: You had to take over nearly two inventions to make this happen, right? So how likely is this to be widespread ?

BEARDSLEY: What we’re trying to do now is kind of contemplate these sorts of criticizes that we feel are going to be likely to happen once the U.S. moves over more completely to the chip and PIN standard. It’s not like criminal matters are going to throw up their hands and say, oh, you took away my magstripes, I’m out of the credit card fraud business .

So, I would expect to see some variation of this, maybe in two years hence. You know, you’re not going to see this today .

SEGALL: You have this skill that enables you to hacker an ATM and make money precisely kind of flow out .

Yet you want to use this knowledge for good. A lot of beings would want to take the money and move. So what is it about you that reaches you want to use this supremacy for good ?

HECKER: I like being ethical. Like, you know, like being able to go into society and, you know , not be scared that every knock on the door “re gonna be all” the police force in general .

BEARDSLEY: I adoration the internet and I am a big technophile. I want that stuff to keep working. And the only behavior that’s going to keep working is good guys are working at least at pace with the bad guys .

( END VIDEOTAPE )

AZUZ: On a day off, some tribes might go to a museum and then work out. Others might work out and then go to a museum. At New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, you can now do both at the same day — the museum exercising. It’s advertised as radical, the opportunity to connect with the art, while initiating person and thinker.

It’s too expensive. Seventy-five bucks for 45 instants, though, that does include a museum ticket. The morning exercising is sold out, which indicates that exhibiting fitness is a possibility merely a ticket.

Does it hoist working out to an skill figure? Maybe, if they’re plyomartrics, artrobics, powart lifting, museumba. Guess it depends on whether museum point to all of it .

I’m Carl Artzuz .

Click here to retrieves the printable form of today’s CNN 10 transcript .

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