Now stop and think about it just for one minute. How close did Gail Halvorsen come to not being deployed to berlin . And if he didnt take the place of his friend who had just had twins, what might have happened . Would the story play out differently . I dont know, but Hal Halvorsen was there, and he did make a difference with a selfless gesture. And right now, you can make a generous gesture of your own. Make an ongoing, monthly gift of 6dollars, or 72dollars onetime and well thank you with the dvd of the candy bomber. With your 8 dollar monthly, ongoing contribution or a onetime donation of 96dollars our gift to you will be the poignant autobiography, the berlin candy bomber. This is Gail Halvorsens first hand account of his experiences during the berlin airlift, and its filled with many of his own personal photographs from before, during and after his tour. Well thank you with both the dvd and the book, when you join this station with an ongoing, monthly gift of 12dollars or a 144dol
Friday, december 12th. Good evening, everyone. A dramatic selloff in stocks today with the dow tumbling more than 300 points. The selloff snapped a streak of 7 winning weeks in a row for the market. Well have more on that in just a moment. But we begin tonight with the price of oil, which also sells today and sell hard to a nearly sixyear low. The latest driver . The International Energy agency is now predicting that Global Oil Demand next year will grow even less than first predicted. Renewing investor worries about flowing Economic Growth around the globe. Heres how oil prices settled today. Domestic crude tumbles more than 2 to 57. 81 a barrel down 12 just this week. International grain crude off 1. 83, a drop of 11 . Jackie deangelis has more on the latest plunge in oil and just how low oil prices could really go. Rep is 50 a barrel the new 100 a barrel for crude . Thats reflected in the price action. Down 10 this week alone and under 60, the market is forecasting more downside. Un
Kqed news room, im thuy vu. This week, protests continued over the shootings of unarmed black males by white Police Officers. The movement is not just like it was 50 years ago. It has arrived today. Demonstrations swept through several bay area cities. Many were peaceful, but there were also clashes of vandalism. On wednesday, an incident involving a Police Officer sparked additional controversy. Well have scott shafers conversation with organizers, but first, i talked about the Chronicle Reporter vivian about the incident. Thank you for joining us. Thank you. For people who are not completely familiar with the oakland incident can you give a quick recap of what happened . Well, it began like a lot of other protests in these recent weeks, it began with about 100 people marching in berkeley and ended up in oakland. And somewhere in oakland, around lake merrit, two Police Officers were outed by the crowd. Two people in the crowd recognized them as Police Officers and you know began to ch
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Since 2012, TEDxYouth Park City talks by area students have garnered more than 1.2 million views on YouTube, and Teri Orr would like to add more students to the mix.
The TEDxPark City event organizer will host an open TEDxYouth audition for students in grades 10-12 at 3:30 p.m. on April 13 and 14 at the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Center at Park City High School.
Pre-registration is mandatory, and audition applications may be accessed by visiting tedxparkcity.org.
“The auditions, which are free, are not limited to just Park City School District students,” Orr said. “It is open to any local youth, ages 13-19, regardless of where they attend school. We are looking to have at least 12 speakers.”