Is this live . Can everyone hear me . Welcome. My name is kyle byrd im the executive director of the leon leavy center for biography. Over the past 12 years the leavy center has awarded 44 major fellowships to working biographers. Each of these fellowships is not worth 72,000 so its not chump change. To date some 20 biographies have been published including ruth franklins biography of Shirley Jackson which won the Prestigious National book critics circle award biography. I also want to spread the news about our brandnew holy unique Masters Program in biography and memoir is just started this autumn with at least 17 students enrolled which is phenomenal. Brenda is actually both former director of the leon leavy center and teaches the core courses in new Masters Program. Our next program is next wednesday, september 25 at 6 30 p. M. With david netzel giving the annual leon leavy lecture on biography. Tonight im very delighted to have Benjamin Moser in conversation with brenda one apple.
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Your book is a world tour that begins in quincy washington my coauthor and i chose quincy washington because of the Data Center Capital the world its near the Columbia River are being built there because its close to hydroelectric power that is cheap and clean, we take the reader on a tour of what is becoming the infrastructure of the 21st century, the mammoth buildings, more than 20 of them filled with electrical generators, hundreds, thousands of batteries but of course mostly supercomputers, everything that we do, almost every day is actually accessing or storing our data in the cloud which is in one of the data centers. Your 100 of these and 20 countries is that correct. More than 20 countries, more than 100 data centers, microsoft is one of the largest but cavities like google, amazon, facebook, apple were all building more and more of these data centers, its were restoring our data they become among other things the Largest Consumer of electricity in the world. So if i send an em
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Celebrates his 100th birthday just days after completing a record breaking charity walk to raise money for Health Care Workers battling the corona boxers. Hello im terry martin welcome to the program we begin with some breaking news germany has banned hezbollah on its soil and designated the iran back group a terrorist Organization Since early this Morning Police have been conducting raids in 4 cities on mosques and associations suspected of affiliation with the group as well as a shiite Muslim Political party and militant group based in lebanon German Security officials believe up to a 1000 people in germany belong to its extremist wing. Lets get more now from Political Correspondent. Tell us what do we know about these rights. The goal behind these raids according to the German Interior Ministry was to prevent. Destruction of documents in particular after the announcement over the bond that bond again announced by the German Interior Ministry its important terry opposite to understan