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You're going to let me stand here for-- There you are.The Balkans are rough going.
And instead of accepting this, the colonists, in fact, balked.They balked rather radically, in fact.And Rhode Island was one the first places is to basically say, enough is enough.
And he just did that in two or three passes at it, and we were done.Where I balk more at the idea that sit back, plug into the matrix like a copper top,
And yet, it is a fairly unfamiliar question.People do tend to balk at this question.So the way I'm going to do this is I'm going to frame the question and then pause for challenges, kick the tires on this thing, really
But it didn't stop us, because then we just went around.And my colleague Josh Balk and Paul Shapiro started talking to the big food sellers in the United Statesand said, hey, we've got a majority of people who care about these issues.
And so yes, I think that ultimately, for all that we talk about the problems of the filibuster or gerrymandering or money in politics or, you know, themedia is balkanized or what have you, social media, you name, ultimately the— The change that has driven our politics to be so vitriolicis one that centers on how we live our everyday lives.
My practice has involved defending people accused of war crimes, both committed in the Second World Warand in the Balkans conflict.I think it was in 1991 that Parliament in this country passed the War Crimes Act.
And I described the question to him.And he balked in a telling way.He said, it sounds like you've got way too much time on your hands.
And so management is about arranging and telling, while leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.And as Klaus Balkenhol, Olympic champion said, "there is a difference between being a leader and being a boss.Both are based on authority.
And then I would read about it for realsies.But this balkanization of the news media has left us without the traditional gatekeepers and checks and balances.People get their news from all different sources.
Mercy Corps works-- not only do we work in each of the places where refugees are coming from currently, but we're also working in Turkey, and Greece,and in the Balkans, and in all the places where refugees are passing through.We have great people on the ground, that's true.
East West Institute Connor developed and managed a wide variety of projects focusing on issues such as peace andReconciliation in the Balkans Community Development in central eastern Europe and harmonizing anti-trafficking policy at the highest levels of government inthe European Union and the former former Yugoslavia Connor left ewi in 2004 to
Now, why do we have the imagination to perceive and foresee and look out and see an evolution in things like computers and online and virtual reality but we don't have the imaginationacross the Balkans and all across eastern Europe and the woman who was running it decided
Israeli food is full of sun and spice and freshness and excitement, and it's also just chock full of ethnic influences from the Arab Palestinian kitchens,from North Africa and Spain and the Balkans and South Africa and Ethiopia-- everywhere.So when you come to Israel and eat, you're basically eating food from all over the world that's being put together in sort of unique ways.
and water. So many kids are dying of easily treatable infections from just poor hygiene.I went volunteering in the Balkans.
You get serious about climate, pretty soon, you're really interested in campaign finance reform.Then you're interested in reforming the Balkanization of media.Then you're interested in voting rights.
And the way that the neighborhoods were Balkanized, practically, you know that they were just such unique and dangerous places to be.
pretty popular place uh now Gordon balker the guy from that Ad Agency that
And I think even the human imagination balks at unbounded systems.
who wasn't there was Max balkus the senator from Montana and he wrote me a nice letter
Yeah, I often balk at the term authenticity or authentic, because it's hard to define what that truly is
And my colleague, Josh Balk is here.
Welcome to "Talks at Google." I'm Kevin Balk.
any offense of any kind.And the same thing really happened in the Balkans War, which was a truly terrible conflict involving, as it did,genocide on a pretty terrifying scale.
So they brought with them this dough to the Balkans, where they settled.
I'm sure you appreciate that science is a very Balkanized field, that people think they know what they need to know.
saved for their honeymoon and went to the Balkans I was 23 years old at the time
It goes on then to a substantial section reporting on the Balkan Wars of the early 90's.
was counterproductive. I was also-- I would balk halfway down the diving board.
I was for 17 years a war correspondent in Africa and the Balkans.
They maintained an imperial presence from Albania, the Balkans, all the way down to parts of Yemen.
Maybe not. Society is becoming more balkanized.
would make bourekas, which are this Balkan pastry that come all the way from medieval Spain through the Ottoman Empire to Israel.
Like the states, or the Balkans, or other places that have somewhat arbitrary lines.
So the danger at the moment in that area is we're going to get Balkanized standards.
India-- major yogurt territory-- the Middle East, the Balkans, Greece, and Turkey.
died in Yugoslavia-- which the Europeans explained as they always explain the Balkans, it's not really Europe.
dish from his book, and I was balking at the fact that it required peeling cherry tomatoes.
when the war, when the Balkan war ended, there were only 300,000 veterans. The ruling party had been adding names to the list of whoever they wanted to do a favor for and so they
any kind of change inside countries whether it's in in the Balkans or the
But what you're doing at Hampton Creek, and what Beyond Meet is doing and Impossible Foods, and also what Modern Meadow is doing in terms of cell culturemeat, I talk about this chapter where I feature you and Josh Balk and others.And the title of this chapter is called "The chicken or the egg, or neither?" And I start off with this quote from Winston Churchill, 1931,
And it is. These are all companies that my colleague Josh Balk has negotiated with, and his colleagues
that they burn the chariots of the Sun with fire and by the way you know when people kind of balk at the idea that
If you're looking at something from Israel, the first two elements of the date are going to be swapped.And mostly in Israel, they have roots in the Balkan kitchen, all those countries--
If you're looking at something from Israel, the first two elements of the date are going to be swapped.And they really carry on the tradition of bouzouki music, which is Balkan music and all of this kind of food.
and water. So many kids are dying of easily treatable infections from just poor hygiene.I realized there was an opportunity to volunteer and give my business skills to build capacity and help small businesses in the Balkans just after the Kosovo crisis.
The idea that-- I hate this term, but-- the balkanization of the internet.
it's like all the best musicians I've ever heard seem to be from the Balkans.
But the Germans didn't know whether it was going to be Greece or Sardinia or the Balkans or Sicily.
And we had to make the journey to Greece, and then take the Balkan route to try to go to Sweden.
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