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Episode 744: Crazy Little Thing
October 9, 2015 May 1969, Violet Wellescrazy lady, knife, murder weaponsDanny Horn
"Wait for me, Quentin! I'm coming — to KILL you!"
Crazy Jenny has been in the attic and out of her mind for a couple of years now, and to be frank with you, she's sick of the whole experience. Her husband, the adorable antihero Quentin Collins, skipped town a couple years ago with his sister-in-law, Crazy Laura, and Jenny took it pretty hard. In fact, she's gone entirely loco, in that unspecified way that people on television always do, babbling maniacally and ready to kill at a moment's notice.
As it happens, Laura is also in a murderous mood, so she gets her new boyfriend, Groundskeeper Dirk, to let Jenny out of her cell, give her a knife, and point her in a Quentin-facing direction.
Obediently, Dirk supplies Jenny with a dagger that he's selected from the random assortment of murder weapons that the Collins family keeps in every room in the house. But then he hears the boss coming, so he bundles Jenny into the drawing room and closes the door, which is pretty insensitive considering how she's spent the last couple years.
Judith walks in and finds Dirk, who's desperately trying to look like someone who didn't just adopt a pet Tasmanian devil. She gives him a couple of cursory orders, but he's finding it hard to focus.
Judith's puzzled by Dirk's odd behavior, but the servants at Collinwood are always distracted by one thing or another. We never see most of the people on the payroll, but they probably each have their own weird schemes going on that we don't happen to see. I bet the cook is currently consulting her crystal ball to check on her late brother, the chauffeur, who's been reanimated with the spirit of the upstairs maid. Meanwhile, the gardener scuttles through the back passageway on all fours, desperate to escape from that dream, that terrible dream!
Meanwhile, Jenny's in the drawing room, expressing herself. Hearing Quentin's mocking laughter, she rushes around stabbing all the chairs, finishing off with the massacre of an innocent vase of flowers.
Now, just for the record, I'd like to point out that having your husband run off with somebody else does not typically bring on this level of murderous insanity. There needs to be some kind of pre-existing condition. If everybody got this crazy after a breakup, there wouldn't be a stick of furniture left in the world.
And honestly, Dirk should know better than to put Jenny in a room with all this innocent decor. That poor vase was probably three weeks from retirement.
Judith walks into the drawing room and there's Jenny, emitting a low, guttural chuckle like some unholy engine of war, and brandishing her dagger.
"Oh my God," Judith cries. "Jenny, put that knife down!"
"Put my KNIFE down?" Jenny cries, like Judith's never heard of the Second Amendment.
So she clobbers Judith over the head with a candlestick, which ticks off another box on the Clue murder weapons bingo card. Drifting off into the foyer, Jenny indulges in a little open-mic autobiographical storytelling.
"She lied to me," Jenny sighs. "But I lied to her too — about who I am!" She looks directly into the camera, and addresses the audience. "My father was a KING of India," she announces. "And my mother was a princess! And I am a princess! And when I raise my hand and say DIE, then of course, someone must DIE!"
I tell you what, Marie Wallace is value for money. She is an actress who leaves no stone unturned.
There's a story that Marie tells about her DS experience in The Dark Shadows Companion: "I thought my crazy Jenny characterization was so different than I am. I mean, I put little rollers in my hair, 'teased' it, wore false lashes on top and bottom, shadowed my face — I looked unbelievably weird. And one day I was walking on 42nd Street and someone said to me, 'Hey! You're crazy Jenny!' And I said, 'How did you know?' And she said, 'You look just like you do on television!'"
Jenny eventually drifts out of the house, still brandishing, and leaves the survivors to piece their shattered lives back together.
She decides to try her luck at the Old House, so she goes and knocks on the door. Barnabas answers the door and finds a knife-wielding psychopath, which is exactly the reason why you're supposed to ask who's there. I mean, imagine finding this level of mess on your porch. This is the kind of thing that could put you off entertaining for life.
He tells her that Quentin isn't there, and she snaps, "Don't lie to me!" He asks who's been lying to her, and she sputters, "Edward, and, and, and, and, and that cold one — Judith! — and sometimes Beth, but not so much. What's YOUR name?"
He tells her that he's Barnabas, and asks who she is. "Jenny," she answers, and his eyes light up, like there's anybody else this could possibly be. They clearly need some new photos for the wanted posters. You need to be able to see this coming.
He invites her to come in and look for Quentin, because if there was a sanity requirement for walking into the Old House, you could go a long time between visitors. She looks around and doesn't see Quentin, although she admits, "Sometimes he makes himself invisible." Barnabas just kind of takes this in stride.
Now, the great thing about including the unstable on your television show is that they can recap an entire backstory and still make it interesting, as long as they do it loud and in the wrong order. Barnabas gets all kinds of intel out of this scene.
For example: Quentin married her before he brought her home to meet the family, and the family disapproved because she was a singer. She had two children, a boy and a girl, and the family took the kids away, because they were afraid that she'd harm them.
The marvelous thing about this sequence is that Barnabas is not scared of Jenny at all; he seems to find the experience refreshing, just shooting the breeze with the undiagnosed. At one point, she pulls her knife and tries to stab him. He takes the knife away from her, throws it into the fire, and says, "You see? No more knife." He doesn't even break a sweat.
Barnabas brings Jenny upstairs to Josette's room, where he encourages her to comb her hair, wash her face and put on a pretty dress so that she'll be ready when Quentin comes. Then he walks out of the room and locks the door, satisfied with a job well done. Barnabas has great faith in the power of a makeover.
By the end of the episode, Quentin is at the door with a revolver, which means we've had three murder weapons from Clue in the same episode. Stay tuned for tomorrow's installment, which will feature a wrench, a rope and a lead pipe.
Tomorrow: Rendezvous at the OK Corral.
When Jenny asks Barnabas, "What's upstairs?" a boom mic comes into view at the top right.
Somebody coughs when Barnabas throws the knife into the fire.
Barnabas asks Jenny, "Don't you want to wash your face, and comb your hair, and put on a pretty dress, so that you can tell him and show him how beautiful you are?"
There's a studio light reflected in the mirror when Jenny checks herself out in Josette's room.
Dirk says, "Look, I don't understand any of this, and I think I ought to start looking for her." "You ought to stop looking for her?" Quentin replies. "When did you join the search party?"
While Barnabas writes his note for Magda, there's the sound of a zipper.
When Quentin starts up the stairs at the Old House, the camera swings a little too wide, and you can see the back of the set.
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19 thoughts on "Episode 744: Crazy Little Thing"
Jason B. ❤⌛ (@JasonXHowe) says:
I don't understand Barnabas' reaction to Jenny in this episode, but I love everything about it.
Given their love of keeping murder weapons all about the house, it's a wonder the family even survived into the 20th century!!
Saturnberry says:
I have several thoughts about Barnabas' reaction. The first thing that struck me is that he's being very validating with her, which is something she desperately needs. When she also tries to stab him, he takes the knife and throws it away, but returns to tell her he's not going to harm her – very validating stuff! She definitely calms down to some extent. It almost seemed like a kindness for Barnabas to do this for her. I really thought it was a great scene. Hopefully he won't have to kill her later. O,o
From a psychological point of view, I thought perhaps he kinda empathized with her state of absolute barmy-ness. He's been seeing all the crazy stuff too. This is just what happened to Jenny.
I love this actress! She is so much fun to watch. I was glad to see her return after being good ol', spooky Eve.
Tom Hartley says:
"We never see most of the people on the payroll, but they probably each have their own weird schemes going on that we don't happen to see. I bet the cook is currently consulting her crystal ball to check on her late brother, the chauffeur, who's been reanimated with the spriit of the upstairs maid. Meanwhile, the gardener scurries through the back passageways on all fours, desperate to escape from that dream, that terrible dream!"
Why can't I watch this show instead of Downtard Abbey?
"We know what we'll be having for dinner by which head the Cook has on in the morning."
Every photo of Marie Wallace here is priceless. The third one doesn't look so much like a photo from a horror TV show as a drawing from a horror comic. (For some reason I keep thinking of early ' 70s DC horror comics – even if I've never even known a whole lot of them – but some kind at any rate.)
Pedro Cabezuelo (@PCabezuelo) says:
She reminds me of Grace Zabriskie.
Arashi says:
If they're following the Jane Eyre storyline they borrowed from, then Jenny was slightly mad before she married Quentin and just got worse as time went on. There's no way just him leaving drove her this batshit crazy, obviously she had problems from the start.
Is it terrible that I love her in her insanity and get bored with her when she gets sympathetic? Love stories never work out on this show, get on with the murder!
I played one of the witches in a production of Macbeth a few years ago, on a pretty tight rehearsal schedule. The director said he wanted very distinct personalities for each of the witches, so I figured, "What the heck; I'm just going to do Crazy Jenny." It worked great, and the audience loved it. People would come up to me afterwards and see how much they liked my scary smile. I told Marie Wallace the story when I got to meet her at last year's Festival, and she seemed to get a real kick out of it.
This is true, Jenny is great fun.
antnysgang says:
I'm very late to the party and clearly in way over my head, but all of you are so very perceptive and entertaining. Mother of God, I cannot stop laughing. Best regards all
It must have taken a whole jar of Dippity Do to tame down Jenny's wild woman hair – I laughed out loud when Barnabas asked if she wanted to comb it – yeah, with a weed whacker.
So – Magda can read?
How does Barnabas know about Jenny's dolls, when he's only just met her, doesn't know that she's been staying at Collinwood, and only just then finds out about her two children?
And he doesn't even recognize her when she shows up at his front door with a knife. It must be one of those cases of television telepathy, where the characters know everything that the audience knows.
Barnabas found the heads of abandoned dolls in the attic room, where Rachel told him she was attacked. Jenny says she lives at Collinwood (he's never seen her), is clearly nuts, and very invested in her children, so it's only a short leap to "this is who was in the attic room, the dolls are her children". When he asks her if she means her dolls, I think he's watching for her reaction to see if his assumptions are true.
I don't know what Barnabas's endgame was here – maybe he's trying to get Jenny some help, maybe he thinks she'll be a useful bargaining chip against Quentin, maybe he's just hungry – but he's so gentle with her, it's really touching.
Then again, he shows her into Josette's room, which has been once again carefully restored with fresh sheets and a little display of century-old makeup around the mirror (unless he's restocked it, for personal reasons) so perhaps his motivation is the same as ever it was.
I do love how genuinely concerned he gets when she talks about killing Quentin, though. Just more fuel for the shipper's boiler.
"Marie Wallace is value for money." Damn straight!
The problem with having so many characters is that you have to keep at least half of them on ice, sometimes for weeks at a stretch. So people like Jenny, Evan, and even Angelique just get lost.
Barnabas's calm and solicitous attitude toward Jenny is perfectly understandable since he knows she can't hurt him and, knowing what an SOB Quentin is, he probably feels sorry for her.
Jenny totally is the look Kate Pierson (the B-52s) has when she's been on a bender all night and wakes up the next day.
Marie Wallace is awesome!
My favorite line was from Quentin to Judith when he wants to know how Jenny escaped: "What, did she leave by fasting and prayer?" He was misquoting Jesus from the New Testament, Matthew Chapter 17, verse 21 "Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting."
That was a great line! It caught me by surprise and I laughed out loud. I love Marie Wallace, she is just killing this.
Marsha Ventrella says:
I think Barnabas graduated from Junior Detective to hostage negotiator in this episode. I almost liked him for a minute.


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Dozens Dead and Thousands Hurt in Kazakhstan's Violence; Novak Djokovic's Family Reacts at Australia's Policies; President Biden Blames Former President Trump for January 6th Attack; Threats Posted Online Against Lawmakers; Growing Outcry Over Mishandling Of Xi'an Lockdown; WHO, No Increased Risk For Winter Olympics In Beijing; India Reports 117,000 New Daily Cases; France Softens COVID Testing Rules For Schools; Global COVID Cases Up 71 Percent In Week ending January 2; WHO Warns Against Underestimating Omicron's Impact; Chile To Offer Fourth Vaccine Dose To Immunocompromised; Freight Trains' Comeback; Rare Collision Of A Ship And A Submarine; Chinese Premier Calling For Tax Cuts To Boost Economy; Consumer Electronics Show. Aired 3-4a ET
LYNDA KINKADE, CNN ANCHOR (on camera): Hello. I'm Lynda Kinkade.
Ahead on CNN Newsroom, Russian troops now in Kazakhstan trying to put an end to violent protests that have left dozens dead and hundreds of people hurt.
Plus, the father of the world's top tennis players says his son is being persecuted for not being vaccinated. A look at what's next for Novak Djokovic as he awaits a hearing on his cancelled visa in Australia.
JOE BIDEN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: I did not seek this fight. Brought to this capitol one year ago today. But I will not shrink from it either.
KINKADE (on camera): U.S. President Joe Biden calls the capitol attack a dagger at democracies as he points the finger at Donald Trump on the anniversary of the insurrection.
UNKNOWN: Live from Atlanta, this is CNN Newsroom with Lynda Kinkade.
KINKADE: Hello. We begin in Kazakhstan where the country's president says constitutional order has been mainly restored in all regions. That's after massive anti-government protests swept through the nation this week, leaving dozens of people dead. That's according to state media. Meanwhile, the Russian-led military alliance is laying out the ground
rules for its deployment there. The group says its so-called peacekeeping mission will be sort and limited in scope. But the U.S. says the deployment is questionable since Kazakhstan has its own security forces. European Union and Britain are calling for calm.
NABILA MASSRALI, SPOKESPERSON, EUROPEAN COMMISSION (through translator): We condemn acts of violence, acts of vandalism and looting which have taken place in Almaty. And we regret any loss of life. The violence must stop!
LIZ TRUSS, BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY: We condemn the acts of violence and the destruction of property in Almaty. And we will be cooperating further with our allies on what further steps we should take.
KINKADE (on camera): Well, our Nina dos Santos is monitoring the developments in Kazakhstan and joins us now from London. Nina, Russian troops and other former Soviet troops, they have now arrived in the country at the request of the president who had resigned. But already this protest has turned deadly for both protesters and police.
NINA DOS SANTOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes, that's why President Tokayev there, very much taking aim at what he called international backed terrorists without being able to offer thus far any evidence that any of these people who have taken to the streets are actually backed by international groups.
A lot of people appeared to have taken to the streets basically because the cost of living has skyrocketed. There's a list of grievances that they have and they don't have a huge amount of other ways to protest apart from being on the streets because Kazakhstan is being described as an authoritarian regime, if you like, largely being controlled up until recently by one man, Nursultan Nazarbayev for decades since the fall of the USSR.
As you can see, from these pictures that we've been showing our viewers over the last week, things have been getting more and more difficult to watch. Buildings are on fire. Police and security forces having being killed, also many of dozens of protesters apparently having lost their lives.
The interior ministry figures cite at least 26 fatalities among the protesters, about a dozen police officers also losing their lives. But there are thousands more injured right across the country.
This is the 9th largest country in the world. It stretches right from the borders of caucuses all the way towards the Chinese borders which is closer to where Almaty, the former capital city is, which is been the epicenter of this type of violence.
And now we have the question mark of what exactly the role of these supposed peacekeeping forces coming from post-Soviet states, notably Russia. And also, another autocrat which is Belarus is going to be. There's big question marks among western watches of whether or not they will be staying for a long time, also what their exact mission is, and also how they're going to be restoring law and order.
We hear that supposedly law and order is being restored overnight and that the airport, for instance is being freed from the hands of protesters. But the question mark is, how long will they be there, what methods will they use to try and maintain law on order and further down the line will any of this have any effect on Kazakhs sovereignty.
Remember that this is a country that has huge oil and gas and other commodity assets. And all of this comes in the time when obviously Vladmir Putin the Russian president is very keen to reestablish Russian sphere of influence. We've seen that with the buildup of troops on Ukraine recently.
There's a major flash point for his talks the U.S. President Joe Biden. But now, obviously this problem in Kazakhstan raises more issues at another place, which is on the border with China. Which of course is a major geopolitical focal point for western powers as well. Lynda?
KINKADE: Yes. It certainly is. Nina is covering a lot of anguish there for us. Nina dos Santos in London, thanks very much.
With the Professional Tennis Players Association says it's been in contact with Novak Djokovic and verified his wellbeing. The world's number one tennis player was denied entry into Australia for allegedly not meeting vaccination requirements and he could be deported.
A court hearing has been set for Monday just one week before the Australian Open begins.
CNN's Phil Black reports.
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PHIL BLACK, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over): At a rally in Serbia's capital a huge crowd joined Novak Djokovic's family demanding freedom for a national hero
SRDJAN DJOKOVIC, NOVAK DJOKOVIC'S FATHER (through translator): They are holding him captive! Our Novak. Our pride. Novak is Serbia, and Serbia is Novak.
BLACK: His mother's emotions are more personal.
DIJANA DJOKOVIC, NOVAK DJOKOVIC'S MOTHER: I feel terrible since yesterday. The last 24 hours that they are keeping him as a prisoner. It's just not fair. It's not human. BLACK: This is the drab building in Melbourne, Australia where
Djokovic is now reportedly confined. A hotel, recently used to quarantine returning travelers now housing asylum seekers. And the world's number one tennis player.
D. DJOKOVIC: Terrible condition, it's just some small immigration hotel as we can -- if it's hotel at all with some bugs with -- it's so dirty and the food is so terrible.
BLACK: Outside that hotel, Melbourne Serbian community is rallying too. Furious at Djokovic's treatment.
UNKNOWN: Freedom for Djokovic today and forever!
BLACK: There is less concern for Djokovic from one of his greatest rivals. The 6th ranked Rafael Nadal.
RAFAEL NADAL, 20-TIME GRAND SLAM WINNER: If he wanted it, he will be playing here in Australia without a problem, no?
He went through another -- he makes his own decisions and everybody is free to take their own decisions but then there are some consequences.
BLACK: The consequences in this case could alter the future of world class tennis. Spain's Nadal, Djokovic, and the Swiss player Roger Federer have each won 20 Grand Slam tournaments. Federer isn't playing in the Australian Open. So, Djokovic is deported, that would leave Nadal with an easier run to potentially win his 21st title. Statistically becoming the greatest of all time.
Nadal, unlike Djokovic is open and proud of his vaccination status.
NADAL: I believe in what the people who knows about medicine says. The people say that we need to get vaccinated. We need to get vaccinated. We need to get the vaccine. That's my point of view.
BLACK: This picture shows Djokovic at Melbourne airport's passport control shortly after his arrival trying and ultimately failing to convince border officials that he should be allowed into the country. His lawyers will argue the case again before a Melbourne court on Monday. But even if they're successful, there is little chance of calming Australia's public and political outrage.
BARNABY JOYCE, DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER OF AUSTRALIA: Sometimes I get a sense that people who make a lot of money start believing that they have evolved somehow above the laws of the land whether you like them or not.
BLACK: Phil Black, CNN, London.
KINKADE: Well CNN's Angus Watson is following the story for us from Sydney. And Angus, I mean, clearly Serbia says the tennis champion is being held captive. His parents say he's being treated like a prisoner. But the Australian government say he's just like any other immigrant coming into the country without the right paperwork.
ANGUS WATSON, CNN PRODUCER: That's right. This has caused quite a (Inaudible) between Serbia and Australia. Serbia is called in the Australia ambassador in Belgrade the embassy here for Serbia and Canberra has made representation to the government. The leader of Serbia has also spoken about the treatment of its star player where he is in an immigration detention facility in downtown Melbourne.
Quite astonishing to think that the world's number one men's tennis player in this detention center for days now at least, because it's not until Monday until the court will again resume to hear Novak Djokovic and his lawyer's plead for an injection against his deportation.
A deportation ordered on Wednesday night local time after he'd spent hours in the airport trying to prove that he had the correct medical exemption from being fully vaccinated. We just heard there from Rafael Nadal that if Novak Djokovic wanted this all to go away and wanted to contest the Australian Open, he could've just gotten vaccinated.
He and politicians in Australia including the minister who is in charge of border says he has another option. He could just leave, here's what she had to say today.
KAREN ANDREWS, AUSTRALIAN HOME AFFAIRS MINISTER: Mr. Djokovic is not being held captive in Australia. He is free to leave at any time that he chooses to do so, and border force will actually facilitate there.
WATSON (on camera): But there are other people within that immigration detention facility, Lynda, who don't have the choice to leave if they want to. There are at 33 refugees in that hotel turned detention center with Novak Djokovic. There are crowds of people, there have been crowds of people all day today pleading for people to listen to their plight. Some of them are caught up in Australia's immigration detention system for years now in limbo not knowing how long they'll have to remain there because Australia has these strict border policies that says if you come here as the refugee by boat, you won't have the option to stay.
So, these people have been stuck there for years including a person who served in Afghanistan as a translator with U.S. forces, a Rohingya from Myanmar, and several people from Iran, Pakistan as well, Lynda. So, Novak Djokovic has a few more options than some of the people sharing his accommodation.
KINKADE: Yes, he certainly does. We will wait and see how that appeal plays out on Monday. Angus Watson for us in Sydney, thank s very much.
Well Ben Rothenberg is a senior editor at Racquet magazine and joins us from Melbourne. Good to see you again. So, I want to understand, Ben, from your perspective in Melbourne what
the feeling is there given Melbourne had one of the longest lockdowns in the world as a result of the pandemic. Is this case getting much sympathy?
BEN ROTHENBERG, TENNIS EXPERT: Certainly, wasn't initially. It was a swift and immediate anger and resentment when the news that Djokovic would have been granted an exemption. It was put on social media by Djokovic himself before his trip.
There was a lot of resentment toward someone who they saw as seeing himself, fairly or not, as above the rules and trying to cut corners through things that people here have done. And where we're trying to bring the pandemic under control as much as possible, there's been a wide, wide spread vaccination acceptance here.
There's been long lockdowns that were divided and Novak Djokovic became sort of perfect avatar for all sorts of frustration to be directed at as someone coming in from outside for a relatively frivolous purpose, tennis tense tournament, in their view. And not following the rules on the way to do so.
It was really a quite fiery (Inaudible) to bring here. Now that he's facing consequences for having an application for his visa that getting rejected and not being able to get into the country and is being held in a detainment center which he is free to leave the country and leave.
But there is some sympathy, I'm sure for his plight at just some human level being a person stuck in room he doesn't want to be in whether at the airport and now at this detention facility. But overall, I think that his arrival here is definitely not popular and stoked a lot of resentment that politicians were quick to recognize as being potentially expedient for them to try to support.
KINKADE: Yes. I can certainly the frustration in Australia. But I can also understand the frustration from here, his family, from his team who thought they did all the right things, they thought they had this medical exemption, but I have to wonder why tennis Australia who approved his exemption didn't speak to the federal government knowing that this could cause an issue when he arrived into the country?
ROTHENBERG: Yes, I think that's where the remaining questions that sort of accountability needs to come from. Right? Tennis Australia how did they manage it seems like to mislead Novak Djokovic so much into thinking that he was in much better shape than he really was when he came to his status in Australia. They granted him an exemption and he seemed to think that that was a done deal. He would be able to get into the country.
But at no point, according to what we know at this point do they really run that by a federal immigration official to let them check that it would be valid enough to get in and that his reasons would be enough. And then once he announced his exemption it was news to the federal government, and they really start to scrutinize it far more than they probably would have, otherwise not, we don't know exactly if his exemption would've passed regular scrutiny just at the airport.
But under the intense national spotlight he was in they found a definitely lacking. And he couldn't produce any documents at the airport in the eight hours he was held there to bolster his application enough to get him across the border.
KINKADE: Yes, exactly. So, if this appeal fails on Monday and he's not allowed to play in the Australian Open what is this going to mean for the Grand Slam?
ROTHENBERG: It means that the tournament will go on. At the Grand Slam they're still -- they determine they're blind on any one player sort of carried them or, I mean, they're relevant. There is still work events that a lot of (Inaudible) with Novak Djokovic but it would make it
competitively a lot more wide open.
He was a huge here to win his 10th title here, go for all-time record men's 21st Grand Slam singles title. And now lots of other players will, if he is indeed out of the picture will have their chance a lot more. People like Rafael Nadal who is tied with Novak right now along with Federer with 20 Grand Slams overall. Nadal is here, not in perfect health, but he's here and competing and seems to be in good spirit and he would like his chances a lot with Djokovic and other field.
Also, the recent U.S. Open champion Daniil Medvedev who beat Djokovic in the final of the U.S. Open and is the world's number two, I think probably move into the slot as being the favorite to win it without Djokovic in the mix this time.
KINKADE: Yes. And from what we have heard, he hasn't got a lot of sympathy from some of the players in this tournament. And as we have been discussing, Australia has had some of the toughest restrictions in the world. And right now, cases there in Australia are surging, right?
ROTHENBERG: Yes, they are. Now there's a big spike in cases, they're breaking all sorts of records during the Omicron wave. It's really the first wave of the pandemic that has hit Australia with full force. They've done a really great job of keeping COVID out, and being near COVID zero for much of the pandemic.
But this wave has overwhelmed and it's breaking through even with vaccinated people with long lines at testing centers, and running out of at-home testing kits the frustration of many in cities like Melbourne. It's been tough here, and that's the backdrop through which this resentment for Djokovic is probably higher than it would in many other places in the world that many other times in the world.
So, it's a perfect storm that Novak is playing around into, and it was clearly not a smooth landing for him.
KINKADE: Exactly. Exactly. Especially as Sydney is already looking to roll out more restrictions. All right. We'll leave it there for now, Ben Rothenberg, thank you so much.
ROTHENBERG: Thanks, Lynda.
KINKADE: Still ahead on CNN Newsroom, a blistering attack from U.S. President Joe Biden. We'll you who he says is holding a dagger to the throat of American democracy.
Plus, the new homeland security memo reveals the growing number of threats to U.S. lawmakers. How capitol police are responding. We'll have that story after the break.
KATHEE, MOTHER OF U.S. CAPITOL POLICE OFFICER: A year ago, we watched in horror as rioters invaded the capitol and we know our son Josh was in the middle of all of that as a capitol police officer. Desperately wanting to be here to give him a hug a year ago and couldn't, so we came down today to give him a hug when he gets home from work tonight.
ROBERT, FATHER OF U.S. CAPITOL POLICE OFFICER: You can see the violence but you didn't really know specifically what was happening. And that, you know, that was really difficult for us to deal with for several hours until we eventually heard from josh.
KINKADE (on camera): Well, those are the parents of a U.S. Capitol police officer speaking to CNN the one year anniversary of the attack that left several people dead.
It also shook the foundations of American democracy. Well, the couple say that during those events a year ago, they waited hours to hear from their son before he could call and let them know he was all right.
Well, U.S. President Joe Biden lead commemorations at the capitol with a blistering attack on his predecessor without mentioning Donald Trump by name. Mr. Biden condemned Trump as a threat to democracy for the false claim that the 2020 election was stolen, and directly blamed him for inciting the mob -- mob that attacked the capitol.
BIDEN: Former president supporters are trying to rewrite history. They want you to see election day as the day of insurrection. And the riot that took place here on January 6th as a true expression of the will of the people. Can you think of a more twisted way to look at this country? To look at America?
He is a defeated former president. Defeated by a margin of over seven million of your votes in a full, and free, and fair election.
KINKADE (on camera): Well, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi led a candlelight vigil on the capitol steps. Earlier in the day, she held a moment of silence in the House and paid tribute to those who protected the capitol during the riot.
Experts warn that the threat posed by domestic extremism remains high. That the threat is outlined in a new memo from the Department of Homeland Security.
CNN's Brian Todd reports from Washington.
BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over): In the 48 hours leading up to the January 6th anniversary, there was an increase in online extremist content according to a new DHS memo obtained by CNN. It warns that potential violence could be directed against political and other government officials including members of Congress or the president and not limited to Washington, D.C.
One recent online video flagged by the FBI and DHS list 93 members of Congress who voted to certify the 2020 election and calls for them to be hanged in front of the White House. The memo says, quote, "no indication of a specific and credible plot."
But security in Washington has been stepped up amid particular concern about the potential for lone actors.
ALEJANDRO MAYORKAS, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY: The threat is real.
TODD: Administration officials in part blaming today's divisiveness and misinformation.
TODD: Experts on extremism say the threat has not diminished.
OREN SEGAL, DIRECTOR, CENTER ON EXTREMISM, ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: The extremists are not done now that we are a year away from January 6. They have not been swayed as a group or a movement from stopping their activity.
TODD: U.S. Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger says he expects his force to be tested again. To protect the capitol, he says they have improved intelligence gathering and sharing. Streamline procedures for calling National Guard backup, conducted joint exercises, or improving equipment and training, and planned to hire 280 officers a year for the next three years.
But former D.C. metropolitan police officer Michael Fanone who was dragged out into the mob and beaten during the riot says the work is not yet done. MICHAEL FANONE, FORMER D.C. METROPOLITAN POLICE OFFICER: They also
have to address the security posture, the training, the equipment that is provided to their officers. And also, the physical security of the capitol complex.
TODD: A former capitol police chief says one vulnerability that has to be addressed, the fact that there are still so many entrances to the capital building.
TERRANCE GAINER, FORMER CHIEF, U.S. CAPITOL POLICE: We still don't have a safe way to get into the capitol complex. The capitol police have to be everywhere at once and keep a lot of doors open that are done for convenience.
TODD: Over the last year, threats to lawmakers hit a disturbing high with the U.S. Capitol Police reporting 9,600 instances, about 26 a day.
TOM MANGER, CHIEF, U.S. CAPITOL POLICE DEPARTMENT: The ones that concern us the most are the ones where we have had previous contact with the individual who is making the threat, and we are concerned about their actions.
TODD (on camera): A full year after the attack more than 700 defendants have been arrested in the Justice Department investigation. Attorney General Merrick Garland vowing they'll hold all the perpetrators accountable at any level, but the FBI is still asking for the public's help in identifying more than 350 other people who the bureau believes engaged in violence that day who they still haven't thought.
KINKADE: Well still to come, stories of loss and despair as Xi'an, China enters a third week of lockdown. How these measures are taking its toll. That story, ahead.
And while some countries in Europe are opening up to vaccinated international travelers, others are struggling to stay open as the Omicron variant spreads. We have a live report from Paris.
KINKADE (on camera): Welcome back. The highly contagious Omicron variant of the coronavirus is driving global cases to some of the highest levels ever seen. The World Health Organization says new infections increased by 71 percent in the week ending January 2nd. But it says deaths decreased but 10 percent during the same time.
A new study from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control finds death or severe illness from the coronavirus to be rare for those fully vaccinated. We should note the research was conducted before the rise of the Omicron variant.
Well, as cases skyrocket the head of the WHO warns against underestimating Omicron's impact.
TEDROS ADHANOM GHEBREYESUS, DIRECTOR-GENERAL, WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION: While Omicron does appear to be less severe compared to Delta, especially in those vaccinated, it does not mean it should be categorized as mild. Just like previous variants Omicron is hospitalizing people and it's killing people. In fact, the tsunami of cases is so huge and quick that it is overwhelming health systems around the world.
KINKADE (on camera): Well, the WHO chief also stretched the need for vaccines to be distributed more fairly, calling vaccine inequity one of the biggest failures of 2021.
Well, meanwhile, the U.S. is imposing new restrictions for its military bases in Japan. All personnel are now required to wear masks while off base regardless of vaccination status. COVID-19 tests will also be required before and after arrival in Japan.
And in China frustrations are growing as a city of Xi'an enters a third week of strict lockdown.
CNN's Kristie Lu Stout joins me now from Hong Kong. Kristie, the story is coming out of Xi'an pretty horrific actually inhumane. Some officials are now being held accountable.
KRISTIE LU STOUT, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes. That's right for over two weeks now some 13 million people in the northern Chinese city of Xi'an have been living under this hard lockdown. They have not allowed to leave their homes unless it's for COVID-19 tests. And the residents continued to say that they are struggling to get food, to get basic essentials, to get even access to lifesaving medical care.
We know that local health officials in Xi'an have apologized. They have been punished as well. But to many angry netizens in China, it is not enough.
LU STOUT (on camera): -- As the Chinese city of Xi'an enters a third week of hard lockdown, a harrowing story of loss and punishment.
As we reported earlier, in a graphic video that went viral in China, a pregnant woman was turned away from a hospital in Xi'an, because she didn't have a valid COVID-19 tests according to the post from a Weibo user who claims to be her niece. The woman is sitting outside the hospital and bleeding so much, there is a pool of blood at her feet. Hours later, she was finally admitted, but ultimately suffered a miscarriage. And we have since learned that hospital officials have been punished. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
LU STOUT (voice over): The head of the Xi'an Gaocheng hospital and its emergency center director have been suspended, the municipal government announced on Thursday. The Director of Xi'an CDC was also issued a disciplinary warning by the municipal government. He apologized, and vowed to the patient.
But to angry netizens in China, it's not enough. One Weibo user accuses the government of only taking actions after tragedies happened. Another says, there's no need to sacrifice individuals for the group, because we should be able to protect people's lives. A top rated comment ads, this just goes to show, COVID-19 might not kill you, but bureaucrats can.
A metropolis of 13 million. Xi'an has been in hard lockdown since December the 23rd, after more than 200 local COVID-19 cases were detected over two weeks. Residents are forbidden from leaving their homes, unless it's for COVID test.
A month before the Beijing Olympic Games, local officials have vowed to achieve communities zero COVID before beginning to ease the lockdown. But zero COVID has come at a cost.
MATTIE BEKINK, CHINA DIRECTOR ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT: Measures in Xi'an are China's toughest on such a scale since really the early days of the pandemic. There are no signs that China will deviate from the dynamic zero COVID approach or that this current outbreak has been effectively contained. There are still cases in China every day.
LU STOUT: Social media has been flooded with cries for help. Residents say they continue to struggle to get food, basic supplies, and medical attention. One user on (Inaudible), China's Instagram like platform, appealed for help after a hospital refused to admit her father who had just had a heart attack. Why? Because it lived in a medium risk area of the city. She later writes that her father was allowed in emergency the operations, but quote, "The delay was too long and rescue failed. I don't have a father anymore."
CNN cannot independently verify the authenticity of these videos and post. The video of the bleeding pregnant women outside Gaocheng hospital was widely shared before it was deleted. But the cracks in China's zero COVID strategy have been exposed.
LU STOUT (on camera): Monday, we tragically we have learned that a second pregnant woman in Xi'an has suffered a miscarriage because of delayed medical treatment during this prolonged lockdown. The Chinese's central government has been weighing in. In fact we had heard from the vice premier, who has been telling hospitals in Xi'an not to turned away patients. Back to you.
KINKADE: Yeah, it really is heartbreaking. Kristie Lu Stout for us in Hong Kong. Thank you.
LU STOUT: You're welcome.
KINKADE: Elsewhere in China, Beijing is preparing for the Winter Olympics despite the growing number of COVID-19 cases. The World Health Organization does not expect any increase risk associated with the game. The WHO says it is working with Chinese authorities to the International Olympic Committee to ensure a safe operation. And the current measures in place, are doing their job.
DR. MICHAEL RYAN, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, WHO: Certainly, at this stage, given the arrangements that been put in place before the athletes by the organizers. We don't perceive that there's any particular extra risk in hosting the games.
KINKADE: Well, the Winter Olympics will begin February 4th in Beijing.
India is seeing its highest case numbers since early June. It just reported more than 117,000 new daily infections. New Delhi alone more than 15,000 new cases were reported on Thursday evening. And the region plans to go into a lockdown over the weekend. For more on this, let's bring in CNN's Vedika Sud in New Delhi. And we're just seeing day after day these cases continuing to rise and the omicron variant largely to blame.
VEDIKA SUD, CNN PRODUCER: Well, that's what the health ministry is also saying that these cases are omicron driven, Lynda. But as you mentioned rightly, India has breach yet again 100,000 case mark with new cases being reported as high as 117,000 in this case. While the death still remain just over 300 in the omicron cases are over 3,000 currently, but Mumbai has seen a record up high of over 20,000 cases.
And while the concern is this surge across India, which is a highly populated country. The other concern and a growing concern are the number of health care workers who are testing positive, be it in Delhi where in just two hospitals there are over 145 cases of doctors testing positive in Mumbai, in four places.
Also, we have 313 resident doctors who tested positive. And these are just resident doctors we are talking about not the nurses, not the senior doctors. In fact, a short while ago, I did speak with one of the members of the COVID task force of the state of Maharashtra, Mumbai is the capital of Maharashtra. He has said the Mumbai is going through its third wave. And here is the warning he has for people who were trying to flock to hospitals with their loved ones.
HEMANT P. THACKER, MEMBER, MAHARASHTRA COVID TASK FORCE: This is a warning to my colleagues, and to my patients and community at large. Don't run to hospitals. You know, people have panic in their hearts, and omicron in their minds, and money in their pockets.
SUD: And that is a concern even with other medical experts we've been speaking to ever since the surge across India. Another reason to worry, is (Inaudible), which is one of the biggest slums in Asia. It's located in Mumbai. As of last evening, which is Thursday evening, 170 new cases have been reported from the slum area. We know that this virus is highly contagious and people are there, really live cheek to jaw and that could be a growing concern in the coming days for the city of Mumbai.
As of now, India's health ministry is not calling this a third wave across India, they are just saying that they've seen a surge in cases in many big cities. Lynda?
KINKADE: All right, Vedika Sud, we will leave it there for now but we will touch base with you over the weekend, no doubt. Thanks very much.
Well, France is softening its coronavirus testing requirements for students return to the classroom after positive cases are detected. More than 9,200 classrooms are shut down across the country, in the past month because of COVID infections.
The more on that on the other COVID headlines across Europe, I'm joined now by our Jim Bittermann in Paris. Good to see you Jim, so students went back to school this week. And we do have now these softer rules regarding infection rates. And it comes as we are seeing the surge in pediatric infections?
JIM BITTERMANN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (on camera): That's exactly right, Lynda. In fact people here, authorities here are quite worried about this surge of COVID among young people. Especially at the schools, schools opened on Monday. And just since Monday, more than 47,000 students across the country have tested positive and more than 5,000 personnel in these schools have also tested positive.
And so, they impose a kind of testing routine, very confusing in the way it's been ruled out. Basically requiring people to test, to get back into classrooms require them to have three negative tests over the course of four days.
There's slightly softening that overnight, but the education minister says the objective is constantly to keep the schools open. They want to keep the schools open and as such, they have this rather draconian testing regime which threatens to put a real burden on the amount of tests that are available for people, especially for parents who want to get their kids back into school.
Overall, in a situation in France is not that great. The incidents rate here is over 2,000 per 100,000 population. And that's 2,000 testing positive for a 100,000. Just to give you an example, compared to Germany, the testing, the incidents rate is 300. So, it's about seven times as much in France as in Germany.
KINKADE: Yeah, right. So while we are seeing a softening of some rules to get kids back in classrooms, and keep classes open in France, across the rest of Europe, some countries are considering vaccine mandates for certain groups?
BITTERMANN: Well, exactly. The main one that we have seen overnight is the situation in Italy. Where again, the incidents rate is very high and the number of infections are over 200,00 in 24 hour period, and as a consequence, the Italian government has now imposed mandated a vaccine roll for over 50. If you are over 50 and you have not been vaccinated, you could be fined up to 1,500 euros for not being vaccinated.
So that's a mandatory sort of provision for vaccinations which is unlike other countries in Europe. In neighboring Austria, they've decided on more stringent masking rules when you're out in public. That's something that we've had in France here for some time, but the Austrians now worried about the omicron variant, an explosion in cases, they have rules that are coming to place just because the situation seems very difficult to control, Lynda.
KINKADE: Yeah, it certainly is. And surprisingly so, so far into this pandemic. Jim Bittermann for us in Paris, thank you so much.
Joining me now is Anne Rimoin, she is a professor of epidemiology at the University of California, Los Angeles at the Fielding School of Public Health. Good to have you with us.
ANNE RIMOIN, UCLA FIELDING SCHOOL PUBLIC HEALTH (on camera): Nice to be here.
KINKADE: So plenty of governments and companies around the world had mandated vaccines for employees. What we're seeing in Italy right now is the country about to mandate the COVID-19 vaccine for everyone over the age of 50. Italy, of course, has the second highest death toll in Europe after Britain. Even now we're seeing about 150 people dying a day. Is that the way to go? What is your reaction to this mandate? Does it go far enough?
RIMOIN: Well, the issue of mandates has been very controversial. But what we've seen here in the United States for example is that they do work. And I think that what we will see in other places that they will work as well. You know, interestingly, Italy, has a very high vaccination rate and it's over 80 percent in their ages 50 to 55. And even up to 90 percent in the highest age groups, those people over 80.
So, it's a small margin of people, but we do know that COVID-19 is going to affect those people most to over the age of 50. So this may be a move that will protect the hospitals.
KINKADE: And as you say, mate, despite the fact that it has got one of the highest vaccination rates, it's still right now has the highest infection rate since the pandemic began for their numbers as supposed their numbers go. But when we look across the board that Europe, it's not the only country looking at doing a mandate. We have Austria, planning to make a vaccination mandate for everyone
14 years and older for next month. Greece, it's going to make a compulsory for everyone over the age of 16. Given that you get higher immunity from vaccination versus infection, is vaccination the only way we're going to get out of this pandemic?
RIMOIN: It's always going to be a layered approach. And I think it's important to remember that the vast majority of spread of this virus, we're seeing globally, is likely in the younger groups. It's those hospitalizations that are occurring in the older groups. So I think that these kind of vaccines mandates, when you target specific age groups, you know, it's to be determined how well they're going to work.
Really, we all live together and so it's going to be important to make sure that everybody is vaccinated, you know, an infection anywhere is potentially an infection everywhere. And that is certainly true when you're thinking about how this is going to spread.
We are going to have to target it with vaccines and boosters. We are going to have to have adequate masking. And we really are going to have to be thinking about these the kinds of restrictions that are in place. When we do see surges, that's the only way forward.
KINKADE: Professor, I'm wondering if there's a silver lining with this variant. Given how contagious the omicron variant is, compared to the delta variant. And the fact that it appears to be weaker for the most part. Could this variant help us get to herd immunity? Can we be cautiously optimistic here?
RIMOIN: It's hard to know. Right now what's happening in this virus is spreading rapidly through all of these countries, and we know that every time a virus has an opportunity to spread to another person, it has the opportunity to mutate whereas the opportunity to mutate, it has the opportunity to create this kind of new dangerous variants.
We don't know what the next variant will be. So, I think it's certainly a possibility that we will see, you know, a lot more immunity, widespread globally that may prevent us from a future surges, particular the near term. But in the long term, we really are going to go have this kinds of strategies of vaccination over to be able to make sure that we don't see new variants occur. So, bottom line it's anybody's guess.
KINKADE: Some countries, like Israel are rolling out a fourth vaccine shot. Here in the U.S., like the U.K. and other countries, people are being urged to get a booster shot, a third vaccine shot. How many jabs are we going to need and why don't they last longer than four to six months, like other vaccines?
RIMOIN: Well, the reason that we are seeing this kind of a need for additional vaccines, is because, right now, these vaccines as you said, may not provide long-term immunity. Now these are all first generation vaccines, it is very likely that we will see new vaccines coming down the pike that will provide better immunity, longer term immunity, broader spectrum immunity, immunity to multiple variants. And so, we have to remember that we are still in very early days.
Where it does feel like it's been forever. This really is early days in terms of vaccine development, in terms of understanding the virus, and really knowing what's going to be happening with variants.
KINKADE: Well, thanks to you for helping us understand this. Professor Anne Rimoin, thanks so much.
RIMOIN: My pleasure.
KINKADE: Well, Chile will begin offering a fourth coronavirus vaccine dose, next week to residents with compromised immune systems. It will be the first Latin American country to do just that. Neighboring Argentina is reporting a record number of COVID infections for the third day in a row. On Thursday, nearly 110,000 new cases were registered.
Well, the pandemic has created chaos in the global supply chain, and now, the good old fashioned freight train is making a comeback. We'll look at a trading route that is getting a lot busier.
And then, details on a collision at sea between a submarine and a ship hunting it down.
KINKADE: Violence erupting in Sudan, where an activist group says at least three protesters were shot dead during anti-coup demonstrations. We're hearing others were injured and brought to nearby hospitals. Video posted online shows demonstrators running through plumes of tear gases, gunfire rings out. Dozens, are reportedly being killed during protests against military rule since the late October coup.
Tax cuts, could be coming to the world's second largest economy. China's premier says, they are needed to get the first quarter off to a stable start. The Chinese government, maybe looking for ways to boost spending, and revive the service sector, which has been hard hit by the pandemic.
The World Bank, recently lowered its growth forecast from China from 5.4 percent to 5.1 percent, which should mark China's second lowest growth rate since 1990.
The coronavirus pandemic has also been causing well-documented delays in shipping channels and hurting the global supply chain. But that is creating new opportunities for an old method of transportation, freight trains.
CNN's Cyril Vanier, reports.
UNKNOWN: This train arrived last night to Paris. And it will be unloaded to today. CYRIL VANIER, CNN SHOW HOST (voice over): At this fright station,
outside of the French capital, the end of a journey across two continents.
So this train carried consumer goods, all the way from China to France. Headbands, electric bikes, sweatshirts, shoes, you name it. But, also, items that are used in industry, components, and spare parts, like steering wheels, like valves, tubes, and then, all of them are going to be trucked to their final destination.
Rail only accounts for about 5 percent of goods transported between China and Europe. That number though set to tick up as an old trading route is brought back to economic relevance. Beijing has been promoting, even subsidizing it. Part of its belt and road initiative, aimed at increasing trade ties, and China's economic clout.
More than 6,000 miles, from the city of Xi'an, through Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, Poland, Germany, and further into Europe. An odyssey usually completed in less than a month.
UNKNOWN: The China, this is an advantage to be able to harbor circulation within three or four weeks between, Europe and China. So time is more quick and time is more mean, of course.
VANIER: The value of time, not lost on businesses, especially those that ship expensive cargo. Luxury French furniture brand, Nino Jose, sells its iconic sofas around the world with 20 percent of exports, going to China usually by boat.
So this container full of furniture is about to leave for (Inaudible), China's East Coast, it should get there in about 50 days. Now, a similar container left yesterday by train and that should get there in 35 days.
These last few months, the maritime route has been a nightmare says the groups transports director, shipping has become two or three times more expensive and a lot slower. Europe, China, by sea, is now taking up to 70 days, compared to 40 previously.
The pandemic has thrown the global supply chain into disarray, an increase in demand, and a shortage of labor to work the ports, and drive the trucks, has led to scenes like these, a bottleneck of cargo. And, so, the good old-fashioned freight train is making a comeback.
Near Paris, the Director of development here expects the number of trains flying the Europe-China route, to double by the end of the decade. The only spanner in the works? Even trains build as more reliable are not completely immune to the pandemic. This one arrived two weeks late, after multiple German operators came down with COVID.
UNKNOWN: We live in the pandemic like everybody. We say in French, (Inaudible).
VANIER: Cyril Vanier, CNN, Paris. (END VIDEOTAPE)
KINKADE: The British defense ministry, sharing details about a rare collision in the North Atlantic, more than a year ago. HMS Northumberland was tracking a Russian submarine near Scotland, when the sub hit his sonar, the British warship was towing. The sonar is a sense of the trails behind a ship when it's deployed, and it used for hunting down silent subs. It is not clear if the coalition was an accident.
Well, new tech making its debut on Las Vegas, after the break, your chance to see the annual consumer electronics show.
KINKADE: The Russian president seemed celebrating orthodox Christmas, which is today. Vladimir Putin appear to attend midnight mass, alone, at a church, on the grounds of his presidential residence. The cathedral, made the service invite only, due to the pandemic. And it is unclear if others were allowed to attend.
The annual consumer electronics show is happening in Las Vegas, Wednesday. Showcasing everything from high tech, phones, to cars. And it was scaled back this year, due to the omicron variant.
CNN's Karin Caifa, reports.
KARIN CAIFA, CNN D.C. BASED REPORTER (voice over): The show must go on. That is the approach by CES, the global annual tech showcase, hosted by the Consumer Technology Association.
ALLISON FRIED, CES SPOKESPERSON: By bringing people together this week, hopefully, let this solve future problems, and again, getting us living, working, playing, better all things to technology.
CAIFA: After an all virtual show last year, CES was supposed to return to full form on the Las Vegas strip this week. But, omicron had other plans. Big names such as Amazon, Meta, and Google, or participating virtually. So is General Motors, which took to reveal of its Chevrolet Silverado electric vehicle, online.
On the floor, which requires being vaccinated and masked, our names like Samsung, showing off a more affordable addition to its Galaxy S21 family of smartphones, with the Galaxy S21 FE. And, the freestyle, a tiny home projector for movies, TV's, and more.
Beyond big name, CES spokesperson, Allison Fried, says in person connections at the show are vital to small companies.
FRIED: This is their time to shine. These are people who have brilliant, innovative ideas that are trying to get it to market. And that market is at CES. CAIFA: That includes more in the fitness and health arena, in the
COVID-19 era.
FRIED: Telemedicine, digital therapeutics, remote patient monitoring systems, is a big deal right now. Sensor technologies getting smaller and smaller.
CAIFA: The show will wrap up on Friday, one day earlier, than initially planned. For consumer watch, I'm Karen Caifa.
KINKADE: Well, your dog could be bilingual. A new study, out of Hungary, indicate that dogs maybe be able to detect differences between languages, as this one researcher explains.
ATTILA ANDICS, SENIOR BRAIN RESEARCHER: In the study, we showed dogs exerts of "The Little Prince" story, in two languages. In Hungarian and in Spanish. Some of the dogs were coming from Hungary speaking, some were coming from Spanish speaking families. And they had never heard the other language before.
KINKADE: The dogs laid in a brain scanner as the story, "The Little Princes," is read to them in Hungarian and Spanish. Researchers said, the dogs brain showed different activity patterns, when they heard familiar, and unfamiliar, language. And the dogs could distinguish between words, and random noises.
Waiting to see if they speak back in Spanish. Well, that wraps up this hour of CNN Newsroom, I'm Lynda Kinkade. My colleague, Isa Soares, will have much more news after this quick break.

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The People's Choice Awards are back.
The fan-chosen awards show hosted on Dec. 7 honors the year's most popular movies, television shows, music, fashion and pop culture icons. The awards range from Movie of 2021, Comedy Show of 2021 and Song of 2021 to more contemporary ones such as Social Star of 2021, Beauty Influencer of 2021, and this year they're introducing the Music Icon award.
Here, WWD breaks down the details for the 2021 E! People's Choice Awards. Read on for more.
When are the E! People's Choice Awards 2021?
The E! People's Choice Awards 2021 will take place on Dec. 7 at 9 p.m. EST at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Calif. For the first time, the awards show will be broadcast both on the E! network as well as its sister network, NBC.
Who is hosting the awards show?
Kenan Thompson, best known for his work in "Saturday Night Live" and "Kenan," is slated to host the E! People's Choice Awards 2021.
Who is nominated for the E! People's Choice Awards 2021?
This year's awards show includes 44 different categories across movies, TV shows, music, fashion and pop culture.
Nominees for Movie of 2021 are "Black Widow," "Coming 2 America," "F9: The Fast," "Saga," "Dune," "No Time To Die," "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings," "The Tomorrow War" and "Venom: Let There Be Carnage." TV Show of 2021 nominees went to "Cobra Kai," "Grey's Anatomy," "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," "Loki," "Saturday Night Live," "The Bachelor," "This Is Us" and "WandaVision."
Song of 2021 nominations went to BTS for "Butter," Ed Sheeran for "Bad Habits," Adele for "Easy on Me," Olivia Rodrigo for "good 4 u," Lil Nas X for "Montero (Call Me by Your Name)," Justin Bieber, Daniel Caesar & Giveon for "Peaches," The Kid LAROI & Justin Bieber for "Stay" and Cardi B for "Up."
This year's awards includes pop culture-themed categories, such as Social Star of 2021 with nominations going to Addison Rae, Britney Spears, Charli D'Amelio, Dwayne Johnson, Justin Bieber, Kim Kardashian West, Kylie Jenner and Lil Nas X.
See the full list of nominees here.
Who is performing at the E! People's Choice Awards 2021?
Christina Aguilera at the 22nd annual Latin Grammy Awards. Eric Jamison/Invision/AP
Christina Aguilera was named the first performer for this year's awards ceremony. Blake Shelton will also reportedly be performing.
Are there any honorary awards?
Dwayne Johnson, Halle Berry and Kim Kardashian West to receive honorary awards at the 2021 People's Choice Awards. AP; WWD
The E! People's Choice Awards are giving out several honorary awards this year, including its first Music Icon Award, which is going to none other than Aguilera.
Halle Berry will be honored with the People's Icon Award, making her the fourth recipient of the award.
Kim Kardashian West will receive the Fashion Icon of 2021 Award. "For nearly two decades, Kim Kardashian West's style evolution has disrupted and influenced trends on a global level and cemented herself as a force to be reckoned with within the fashion industry," said Jen Neal, executive vice president of entertainment live events, specials and E! News at NBCUniversal.
Dwayne Johnson will also receive the People's Champion Award, which recognizes the actor, businessman and former professional wrestler for his "uncanny ability to raise spirits and make people smile despite circumstances" and "philanthropic efforts and international social media presence."
Johnson has been nominated a total of 15 times for the People's Choice Awards.
How are the awards decided?
As the name suggests, fans vote for each awards category at the E! People's Choice Awards 2021. Voting ended on Nov. 17.
Who is presenting at the E! People's Choice Awards 2021?
Not many names have been announced as presenters for the award show so far (last year, the presenters were named the day before the event), though Becky G and Cardi B have been tapped with presenting the Music Icon Award and People's Icon Award, respectively.
Will there be a red carpet pre-show?
E! is holding a red-carpet pre-show starting at 7 p.m. EST.
How can I watch the E! People's Choice Awards 2021?
The E! People's Choice Awards 2020 will be broadcast on the E! network, as well as on NBC.
The awards show can also be streamed via services like Hulu+, Paramount and YouTube TV.
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Four teenagers went to the same store to buy shoes. They bought shoes from different colors, sizes and prices. Can you find out which size are the shoes that cost $50?
1. The $30 shoes are white or size 9.
2. A girl spent $10 more than Rudy.
3. Wendy didn't buy the $30 shoes. She doesn't wear number 10 nor 11, and doesn't like brown.
4. Brown shoes are 1 size larger than black ones, and Claire bought neither.
5. Benjamin spent 40 or 50 dollars. His shoes are not size 8, but are smaller than Rudy's.
6. Red shoes are 1 size smaller than those which cost $60.
7. The $30 shoes aren't brown nor red.
8. Exactly one customer chose the color with the same initial of their name.


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Ultra-low rates push some investments out of reach
Tuesday, 14 November 2017, 12:17 pm
Article: BusinessDesk
Infratil says ultra-low rates have actually pushed some investments out of reach
By Jonathan Underhill
Nov. 14 (BusinessDesk) - Infratil, the investment company managed by HRL Morrison & Co, says ultra-low interest rates since the global financial crisis have pushed some investments out of reach because they have driven up prices of assets with higher returns.
Infratil has historically been one of the biggest issuers of NZDX-listed debt securities but over the past decade its use of fixed-term bonds and bank debt has fallen to 19 percent of total funding as at Sept. 30 from 49 percent as at March 31, 2009 (although another 9 percent of funding comes from perpetual bonds).
The change has been driven by concerns "about the potential for unpredictable adverse changes to global credit markets to cause an increase in the cost of debt and its reduced availability," Infratil says in its interim report. "A second factor is the difficulty management has experienced finding good investments at good prices. Other investors who have been willing to invest at low yields have driven the prices of many assets out of reach."
"Cheap debt may seem like a boon (except for savers) but it creates distortions and risks," chairman Mark Tume and chief executive Marko Bogoievski say in the report.
Problems for Infratil have been the increase in investors seeking "near bond" investments. Stock prices have risen for companies offering good dividend yields, as have prices of assets offering solid rents. "This has priced Infratil out of some brownfield opportunities," Tume and Bogoievski said.
It has also driven some of those investors into more complex and difficult assets, such as power stations that carry energy price and volume risk, driving up prices and pushing down the potential returns "again squeezing Infratil out," they said.
This year Infratil has focussed on existing investments while selling its 19.91 percent stake in Metlifecare, while in 2016 it invested in US renewable energy company Longroad Energy, acquired 48 percent of Canberra Data Centres and teamed up with Australia's Commonwealth Superannuation Corp to win a 30-year concession for student accommodation from the Australian National University.
Infratil cites a Bank of England working paper published last month that the current bond bull market in US Treasuries, which originated in 1981, is the longest since a "bull run" in interest rates in Venice between 1441 and 1481. That paper said all bull runs come to an end and Infratil adds that it is "sceptical" that interest rates will stay lower for longer. As a result, it has adopted a "circumspect and cautious approach" to investment.
"If it turns out that rates do rise, especially if that rise turns out to be sharp, then our conservatism will be rewarded," the company said.
Infratil's investments amounted to $2.79 billion as at Sept. 30, down from $2.9 billion on March 31, which included the Metlifecare stake. Its biggest asset is its holding in Trustpower at $877 million followed by Canberra Data Centres (CDC) at $435 million, Wellington International Airport at about $398 million and Tilt Renewables at $329 million.
Last month Infratil, which is one of the biggest issuers of NZDX-listed debt securities, opted not to offer a reinvestment to holders of its November 2017 bonds, saying it had ample funds and untapped bank facilities. Funds on deposit stood at about $377 million on Sept. 30 and it also had $246 million of undrawn bank facilities.
"With that level of liquidity a new bond wasn't required," said Tim Brown, who is head of capital markets, regulation and governance at Wellington-based investment bank Morrison & Co. "We do like to be able to offer bondholders a rollover as we know a lot of them like the convenience. But over the last decade, we have let issues lapse about a third of the time (and offered rollovers two-thirds of the time). It has always boiled down to actual and projected funding needs."
Infratil expects to have allocated much of its cash holdings before November 2018 and will be offering a rollover for that maturity, he said.
The company expects assets in its portfolio including Tilt Renewables, Longroad Energy, Wellington Airport, CDC and RetireAustralia may soon require additional capital for their investments, it said in the interim report.
Infratil shares last traded at $3.215 and have gained 17 percent this year.
(BusinessDesk)
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Q: Equivalent of .NET's System.Xml.XmlWriter - in Java? I want something proven and tested (e.g. apache commons level of maturity) not some code snippet from the first search result in Google
Or is GenerationJava not the abandonware it seems to be (the download link and the referal to the new host - osjava.org  are both 404)

A: What about StAX?
Example from the link:
xtw = xof.createXMLStreamWriter(new FileWriter(fileName));
xtw.writeComment("all elements here are explicitly in the HTML namespace");
xtw.writeStartDocument("utf-8","1.0");
xtw.setPrefix("html", "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40");
xtw.writeStartElement("http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40","html");
xtw.writeNamespace("html", "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40");
xtw.writeStartElement("http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40","head");
xtw.writeStartElement("http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40","title");
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Retailers and manufacturers have urged software firms to sign up to a major XML (Extensible Markup Language) messaging initiative which aims to create a common XML standard for the industry.
XML, the language used to describe data, is designed to allow organisations to share information across the Web quickly and easily. However, the lack of XML standards has held back widespread adoption.
The EBXML (Electronic Business XML) project, which is being overseen by UK supply chain standards body e.centre, is designed to allow software firms to demonstrate that their XML implementations are interoperable.
The interoperability tests, based on specifications from the Organisation for the Advancement of Structured Information Systems, will promote EBXML as a practical standard for users within the UK and beyond, according to e.centre.
Companies such as Tesco, Nestle and Kraft Foods have already signed up to the EBXML project, and the aim now is to get the software suppliers on board.
Creating a common XML standard is vital, according to Peter Jordan, director of IS strategic projects at Kraft Foods. "XML use is minimal at the moment so we are looking to get a single standard out," he said. "EBXML is going to be an important element in bringing the advantages of the electronic supply chain to users."
Jordan believes the project will also benefit smaller companies that have not been able to take advantage of EDI (Electronic Data Interchange), the traditional messaging standard. "It will open the door for smaller companies, helping them improve communication," he said. "EDI is a trusted technology and we want to get to a stage where XML is in the same position.
"Hopefully, six to 12 months down the line, the technical standards will be robust enough for people to use them for day-to-day work."


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Alternative ICC Awards for 2019: India star Rohit Sharma is Cricketer of the Year
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The winner of the 2019 ICC Awards were announced on Wednesday and there were no real surprises with Ben Stokes and Pat Cummins grabbing the biggest prizes.
There is no doubt Stokes was fully deserving of the Cricketer of the Year award with the England all-rounder starring in the 2019 World Cup final at Lord's, while also pulling off an all-time great Test innings in Headingley against Australia.
As with any awards, there were several other deserving candidates for each category. While we don't doubt the credentials of any of the players chosen by the ICC, we have compiled our own alternative list of winners below. Men's Cricketer of the Year – Rohit Sharma (India)
While he had an uncharacteristically average year by his standards in the T20I format, Rohit Sharma was simply irresistible in ODIs and Tests. India skipper Virat Kohli once again enjoyed a tremendous year in ODIs with 1,377 runs to his credit and it is some achievement by Rohit to outdo that tally by some distance.
The India deputy skipper scored nearly 1,500 runs in the format with the help of seven tons and six half-centuries. Five of those hundreds by Rohit came in the 2019 World Cup in England – the most by any batsman in a single edition.
On top of that, the right-hander also had a stellar year in Test cricket for a change after being promoted to open the innings. His first two innings in the position yielded back-to-back tons against South Africa before he went a step further and slammed a double century in the final Test against the same opponents. That splendid showing meant the India man ended the calendar year with a Test average of nearly 93.
Even in T20Is, Rohit still managed to register four half-centuries which is better than what most players achieved in the same duration. Statistically, Rohit had a better all-round year than eventual winner Stokes and it was the Englishman's ability to seize the big moments which tilted the scales in his favour.
Test Player of the Year – Marnus Labuschagne (Australia) While the rising Australia star did bag the coveted Emerging Player of the Year award, he could quite easily have scalped the Test trophy as well ahead of compatriot Pat Cummins.
Cummins' haul of 59 Test scalps was, by far, the best of 2019 although Labuschagne's contributions with the bat were equally important to Australia's dominant run in the format. The 25-year-old's year started off with a promising innings against India in Sydney, but it really took off like a rocket in the Ashes series in England.
Becoming the first official concussion substitute in Tests, the right-hander reeled off four fifties on the bounce after replacing the injured Steve Smith. It all stemmed from a slightly changed technique from a stint at Glamorgan, following which Labuschagne was a batsman transformed.
The best, however, was yet to come for the Queenslander who took Test cricket by storm in the Australian summer. Slamming three big centuries on the trot against Pakistan and New Zealand meant that Labuschagne closed the year as the highest run-getter in the format and was the only batsman to breach the 1,000-run mark. It was some turnaround for a player who's fast-tracking to the Test squad had been questioned heavily by fans.
ODI Player of the Year – Shakib Al Hasan (Bangladesh) The star Bangladesh all-rounder has endured testing times after copping a one-year suspension from cricket due to his failure to disclose bookie approaches. That is probably the reason why Shakib wasn't considered for this award by the ICC along with his absence from the Best ODI XI of the year.
That controversy makes it easy to forget the stupendous year he had prior to his suspension. He was in beast mode for the Tigers in the World Cup despite what was an underwhelming campaign for Bangladesh.
The southpaw was one of only three players who crossed the 600-run mark in the tournament and supplemented those batting displays with 11 wickets with the ball in hand. He might have played only 11 ODI matches in the year due to his suspension but his batting average of over 93 cannot be ignored.
His sensational knock of 124 against the West Indies in the World Cup helped Bangladesh pull off their record ODI chase of 322 with more than eight overs to spare. Only twice in his 11 innings did Shakib fail to register at least a half-century and that tells you all you need to know about his impact.
Emerging Player of the Year – Jofra Archer (England) Labuschagne was ICC's pick for this category and it is hard to argue with that selection. However, Jofra Archer's superb year can't be ignored. With his England residency being fast-tracked after a change in rules, the Caribbean-born pacer wasted no time in making an impact for the national team.
His limited-overs prowess were never in doubt after his previous exploits in franchise T20 leagues around the globe, and Archer was thrown straight into the cauldron of fire by England in the World Cup.
The 24-year-old claimed 20 wickets over the course of the campaign and was a vital cog in England's maiden World Cup glory. He then went on to show that he can do the business with the red-ball as well with a fine maiden Ashes campaign. Picking up 22 wickets across four Tests in the series, Archer gave Australia's batsmen including Smith a torrid time with his pace and bounce.
While he did disappoint in his first overseas Test series in New Zealand, Archer finished off the year with a five-for in the Boxing Day Test against South Africa. His introduction has added a completely new dimension to England's pace attack and bigger things are expected from the fast bowler going forward.
Associate Player of the Year – Bilal Khan (Oman) Scotland's Kyle Coetzer was ICC's award winner for a solid run in the ODI format. However, given the fact that it was a T20I World Cup qualification year, we feel that performances in the format should take precedence.
Oman pacer Bilal Khan played a huge part in the team's second successive qualification for the T20I World Cup. The 31-year-old finished as the highest wicket-taker in the Qualifier held in the UAE and bagged 18 scalps at a stellar average of just 12.50.
The left-armed bowler displayed some impressive pace and control over the course of the tournament which ended on a happy note for Oman. The pacer is definitely one who could surprise some established batsmen in the T20I World Cup in Australia later this year. Sport360
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The Andhra Pradesh government is playing the number game. Exploiting the fancy among Telugus to own a vehicle with a fancy registration number, the transport department's auctions now earn it a whopping Rs. 2 crore annually.
The last four digits numbers are unique to the vehicle. Special lucky numbers such as 3333 or 6666 fetch a high premium.
9999 is the most sought after number in the state. Motorists are so keen on getting the fancy number that the number was recently auctioned for six and a half lakh rupees.
The fee now is Rs. 50000 for these four numbers; ten years back it was only Rs. 5000. Even if it's made 50,000 people don't mind paying for these numbers?
People today follow Numerology which suggest them to own vehicles, house or mobile numbers which are lucky to them. We can say people are sentimental.
What do you call it Superstition or Fashion?


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Minnesota Board of Veterinary Medicine
State Board of Veterinary Medicine
Veterinary Medicine Board
1893 Minn. Laws Chap. 31
Minn. Stat. 156.01
Rule(s):
Minn. Rules Chap. 9100
The mission of the Board is to promote, preserve, and protect the health, safety and welfare of the public and animals through the effective control and regulation of the practice of veterinary medicine. The Board licenses veterinarians, registers veterinary corporations in Minnesota, and investigates complaints concerning them. (2011)
State Veterinary Examining Board
Board of Veterinary Medicine
State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners
Established in 1893 as the State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners, 1893 General Laws of Minnesota Chap. 31, Sec. 3. The name was changed, in 1965, to State Veterinary Examining Board, 1965 Laws of Minnesota Chap. 204, Sec. 2. In 1975 it became the Board of Veterinary Medicine, 1975 Laws of Minnesota Chap. 271, Sec. 3. It then became, in 1991, the State Board of Veterinary Medicine, 1991 Laws of Minnesota Chap. 199, Art. 1, Sec. 48. (2011)
7 members; 2 public members as defined by Minnesota Statutes 214.02, and 5 licensed veterinarians; appointed by the governor. Each appointee shall be a resident of the state of Minnesota, and the veterinarian members of the board shall have practiced veterinary medicine in this state for at least five years prior to their appointment. Membership terms, compensation of members, removal of members, the filling of membership vacancies, and fiscal year and reporting requirements shall be as provided in sections Minnesota Statutes 214.07 to 214.09. Three to five full board meetings are held per year; as well as, Complaint Committee meetings. (2011)
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Minnesota Health Licensing Boards Biennial Reports (1998/2000- )
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Having discussed the inclusion of StepWise with NHS Choices earlier this year, I had not heard anything back, and had forgotten about the whole matter.
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With STUDIO 54 opening Friday in theaters here is a repost of my brief review from this years Tribeca.
Ian Schrager breaks his silence to tell the story of Studio 54.
Sold to me as the definitive story of the legendary night club by someone associated with the film, its more like a glitzy coffee table book that looks great and lacks complete substance beyond the surface. Other than the frankness and the uncensored pictures there isn't much that we haven't seen before.
Yes I was entertained but I didn't come out feeling as though I really learned anything new.
Decidedly good but not definitive.


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WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. – If it wasn't for her older sister, Helena Barney-Anthony, calling her a "crybaby", telling her she was "too small" and saying she wouldn't make it through boot camp, Angela Barney-Nez might not have joined the Army.
Army veteran Barney-Nez said that was her sister's response in 1974 when she told her that she was going to join Army.
Barney-Nez explained that NOW or the National Organization of Women had just made a "great fuss about women's equality.
She laughed as she remembered how she became a contestant for Miss Navajo.
Right after graduating from college, Barney-Nez, who is from Tohatchi, decided that she didn't want to go to work immediately.
"I could have gone to work but I went way out there with the sheep," she said. "I built an open pit fire where I cooked my food. I carried a rifle all summer. Right after that I went into Miss Navajo.
Barney-Nez explained that relatives or community members would often ask her parents to enter her into the Miss Navajo competition.
Barney-Nez laughed again as she remembered her grandmother and how the Miss Navajo pageant was under the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs.
"I had to go to the BIA superintendent office to apply to be Miss Navajo," she recalled. "The superintendent was Donald Dodge. It was good encounter.
"I went through the Miss Navajo competition and it had its own little things that challenged women's feminism," Barney-Nez said.
Barney-Nez, who was single at the time, became the 1976-77 Miss Navajo.
After her term as Miss Navajo, Barney-Nez decided that she wanted to earn a master's degree.
Barney-Nez then realized that her bachelor's degree would earn her a $3,000 educational bonus when she joined the Army.
"I could finish the masters program and get over not being good enough, being a cry baby," she said. "My sister doesn't know she put incentive, a challenge into me to join the Army. She was in the Marines. If she didn't say anything then maybe I would have stopped thinking about joining the Army.
"But she's my older sister and we spent lot of time together," Barney-Nez said. "She took care of me at boarding school. She fought my battles. She knows how small and petite I was. How people picked on me.
She said that she joined the Army on July 19, 1978, and her sister, Helena, joined the Marines right after high school in 1968.
Helena went to an all-female Marine boot camp at Paris Island. Barney-Nez, ten years later, went to the first co-ed Army boot camp at Fort Dicks, N.J., with 12 other females.
All the female recruits had to have high school diplomas, which was not a requirement for the male recruits, she said.
And since she had a college degree, she was offered officers' school, which she declined because she wanted to prove that she could make it though boot camp without special treatment.
But she was relieved that the "old military" which was "very, very brutal in its treatment of trainees" was a thing of the past because boot camps were now co-ed.
Co-ed boot camps also ended "name calling," she said.
Barney-Nez said there more 200 men in her whole company and maybe 40 to 30 in each platoon.
She was assigned to the 3rd platoon, Alpha Company.
At the end of boot camp, nine of the 13 females graduated.
"You'll be surprised at how many men feel uncomfortable with women in uniform," Barney-Nez said. "It's like this is mine. You're not supposed to be in my profession. You're supposed to be at home. You're supposed to be married to somebody and not in combat garb.
"And even today, here on Navajo Reservation, there's a little bit of that kind of thinking," she said. "But Navajo men are getting use to it because of different experiences.
She smiled as she remembered her father telling her and her sister, Helena, that women can do anything a man can do.
He also said that the only thing that a woman can't do by herself is have a baby.
That was in the late 1960s and before the feminist movement, Barney-Nez said.