Before class. I dont know if the individual has the courage to ask that question. Is that possible . Do you want to do that . Okay. All right. I asked if that picture was you. Well, its part of me. This is Maurice Jacob weaner, my father. And this lecture is in honor of him. My grandmother, his mother, his functionally illiterate in english. Spoke yiddish. Never learned the language. He graduated third in his class in high school and won a scholarship to penn and wharton in law school where we also boxed and ran track. He was drafted at age 35 when my mom was pregnant. Came home really didnt mind the war. Now, he was a nifty guy, and i think one of the main reasons im doing this tonight is because of him. Because he used to have me sit while he shaved every morning which was quite a scene. And he would quote the gettysberg address, or he would quote from shakespeare, but above all, he would talk about world war ii. So i knew about the battle of the bulge when i was about five years old
Good thursday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. I am Carl Quintanilla with Morgan Brennan and jon fortt at post nine of the New York Stock Exchange getting close to new highs well start with facebook. Mark zuckerberg goes to the hill today. Were getting news out of the company on new ad formats as well Julia Boorstin has both those stories. Good morning to you Mark Zuckerberg is making the rounds in washington, d. C. , meeting with legislators, looking to regulate two areas, one, facebook privacy policies, two, responsibility for inappropriate, manipulative content on its platform. Zuckerberg met with democratic senator cantwell and also attended a dinner with mark warner and senator blumenthal also joined take a listen. I was impressed by a number of the ideas and interests of facebook in advancing privacy on the internet but i hope that we also can continue the conversation zuckerbergs meetings span the aisle, he is meeting with republican senator moran, and supposed to see hawley an
To september 29th. Put. Hardly anyone knows how nontransparent this market really is still for that one ton of charcoal requires 5 to 10 tons of wood. This has an enormous impact on the environment. Where the wood comes from this awful terrible human rights abuses of poverty theres deforestation theres deserts protection bison. But. Its completely unacceptable that tropical rain forests are being destroyed just to produce cheap charcoal should be happening its madness bongs and. Nigeria with 186000000 inhabitants its the most populated country in africa this is where most of the charcoal imported to the e. U. Comes from its a huge business not only in nigeria paraguayan in south america is another big global player. According to the un over half the trees cut down worldwide are burnt to produce charcoal with severe effects to the climate. Nigerian merchants praised the high quality of charcoal derived from tropical wood its particularly durable and its embers last much longer but these
Put. Hardly anyone knows how nontransparent this market really yes for that one tonne of charcoal requires 5 to 10 tons of wood and. This is an enormous impact on the environment. Where the wood comes from this often terrible human rights abuses of theres poverty theres deforestation theres deserts of occasional ices. But. Its completely unacceptable that tropical rainforests are being destroyed just to produce cheap charcoal should be happening its madness bonds and. Nigeria with 186000000 inhabitants its the most populated country in africa this is where most of the charcoal imported to the e. U. Comes from its a huge business not only in nigeria paraguay in south america is another big global player. According to the un over half the trees cut down worldwide are burnt to produce charcoal with severe effects to the climate. Nigerian merchants praise the high quality of charcoal derived from tropical wood its particularly durable and its embers last much longer but these traders dont
But. Hardly anyone knows how nontransparent this market really yes still for that one tonne of charcoal requires 5 to 10 tons of would. Normally impact on the environment. Where the wood comes from theres often terrible human rights abuses theres poverty theres deforestation theres deserts of occasional ice of the day. But. Its completely unacceptable that tropical rain forests are being destroyed just to produce cheeta charcoal should be happening its madness bonds and. Nigeria with 186000000 inhabitants its the most populated country in africa this is where most of the charcoal imported to the e. U. Comes from its a huge business not only in nigeria paraguayan in south america is another big global player. According to the un over half the trees cut down worldwide are burnt to produce charcoal with severe effects to the climate. Nigerian merchants praise the high quality of charcoal derived from tropical wood its particularly durable and its embers last much longer but these traders