Degree in writing in addition to his book hes of the author of rebel yell, and empire of the silver moon, it was the finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in National Book critics circle award. Sam spent most of his career as a journalist including bureau chief, National Correspondent and Senior Editor for time and as executive editor of texas monthly. We are delighted to have you here with us this evening your latest book, hymns of the republic, the story of the final year of the American Civil War and to my immediate right is Donald Miller and i hope i can call you don. He is the author of several New York Times bestsellers including masters of the air, americas bomber boys who bought the air war against germany which is currently being developed as a miniseries produced by Steven Spielberg and tom hanks which is evobably the closest ill ever get to meeting those guys. [laughter] he previously worked as a consultant for the hbo series, pacific, anchorage abated to several episodes of ameri
A bill to limit the President Trumps ability to attack iraq. In the libyan war Khalifa Haftar rejects a call for a cease fire going against a plea by turkey and russia. And the top stories including. Trying to cash in on celebrity status public shock and anger part time. And in sports the tennis world number one makes a losing start to the new year actually barty sapper is a shock to a dinner opening match the brisbane national. So we begin this news with breaking news u. S. President donald trump says that he has suspicions about the crash of a ukrainian airliner outside tehran on wednesday all 176 people on board were killed when it came down shortly after takeoff u. S. Intelligence sources of concluded that it was shot down accidentally by an Iranian Missile a view that donald trump shared with reporters. I have my suspicions it was very i dont want to say that because other people have those suspicions also. Its a tragic thing when i see that its a tragic thing. But somebody could
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
Record temperatures and hate waves in europe the United States and the arctic coincided with a major ice melt in greenland data from scientists at the danish me to a logical institute shows melting on almost 60 percent of greenlands ice sheet that released 197000000000 metric tons of water into the Atlantic Ocean in july we actually now see a. Signal of. Climate change Global Warming the arctic is actually warming at twice the rate of the rest of the world and now theres a very clear signal that is or may is actually driven by too much Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere so as this year 2 increases so should temperatures around the world were going to see more of these type of heat wave. These heat wave events. Behind large wildfires since early june wildfires in the arctic pumped out more than 100000000. 00 tons of Greenhouse Gases thats equivalent to belgiums Carbon Dioxide emissions in a year climate Scientists Say there is still time to limit Global Warming to 1. 5 degrees celsius abo
I dont know if the individual has the courage to ask that question. Is that possible . You want to do that . Ok. All right. I asked if that picture was you. Well, its part of me. This is Maurice Jacob weiner, my father. And this lecture is in honor of him. My grandmother, his mother, was functionally illiterate in english. Spoke yiddish. Never really learned the language. He graduated third in his class in high school and won a scholarship to law school where he 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 gettysburg address or 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 five years old. I know the differences in the airplanes, all