Michalski and associate director of the leon leave the city of biography which is supported by a generous grant from shelby white and the leon leavy foundation. The writing of biography is the famously arduous and lengthy process and each year we award for fellowships of a 72000 each to overworking biographers to help them across the finish line. Over the past 11 years we have given out 44 of these grants and our fellows have produced 21 biographies to date. Thanks to a grant from the Sloan Foundation when we added a fifth fellowship also for 72000 which will support biographies about figures in the science and technology and the first winter is working on a biography of oliver sacks, laura snyder. Another new feature of this center is a unique twoyear ma and biography memoir which will train students in our Historical Research interview technique and narrative form as well as the history of biography in memoir and how the forms have evolved over time. Housed jointly in history and a l
[inaudible background conversations] good evening. i am the associate director of the leon leavy center for biography. which is supported by a generous grant from shelby white and the leon leavy foundation. the writing of biography is a famously argue extend lengthy process and each year we award for fellowships of $72,000 each to working biographers to help them across the finish line. over the past 11 years we have given out 44 of these grants and our fellows have produced 21 biographies to date. thanks to a grant from the sloan foundation we recently added a fifth fellowship also for $72,000 which will support biographies about figures and science and technology. the first winter is working on a biography of oliver sacks, laura snyder. another new feature of the center is unique two-year ma in biography and memoir which will train students in our historical research interview technique in narrative form and history of biography and memoir and how the forms have evolved ove
Seriously. Also something secretly on my bucket list. This guy is spinning his hammer to the end of this beautiful bike. Amazing. The rim is rushing by. But these guys are ramping it up. They get inside the cockpit. Beautiful day for it as well. Its so clear. Its so amazing. It must be so snug inside that cockpit which begs the question, why would you start doing this . Climbing out of the cockpit. He straps himself in. Hes not going to be just enjoying the view. Its the pilots turn to have some fun. Thats the ultimate im the king of the world moment oh, yeah. Its amazing. You can see he has a hold on it. He starts pulling tight turns and then every move just starts moving into another one. Here. He starts heading straight up. Then he just goes over and turns it. Now its straight back down. He starts rolling as hes doing it. Now hes going into a full loop. He is completely upside down. Standing on the top of the plane. This is the greatest show ever. Then climbs back down into the cock
North you have a glaze there, report of a glaze on a lot of things out there 30 degrees. Get low 30s this morning. By lunch time mid to upper 30s, our Winter Weather advisory goes until 10 00 a. M. And this afternoon well certainly get out of this. We are going to get out of it quickly in southern areas as well. Last couple of hours, snow and sleet at the onset. Now sleet and freezing rain, depending on where you are in most areas. Wet snow mixing in north and east of us. Plain old cold rain mixing in with some of the sleet as well. You can see north of town all the pink is a mix of freezing rain and sleet. Take it easy this morning. Not an ice storm but enough. Andrews 32. Look at the low 30s in the northern shanendoah valley. Lets go to Monika Samtani and see how this nasty weather is affecting the morning commute. Reporter howard was tweeting all of this out yesterday afternoon and luckily, a lot of you got an Early Morning start because of his warning. Brunswick lines 870 and 880 a
Fox 5s Lauren Demarco has more. I think we got to do everything we can to get the guns off our streets. Reporter d. C. Mayor vincent gray among the 850 members of mayors against illegal guns. According to the group, 82 of gun owners including 74 of National Rifle association members, support requiring background checks for anyone purchasing a gun. Its 30 second Super Bowl Ad airing in the d. C. Market features claim of nra president Wayne Lapierre testifying before congress in 1999. We think its reasonable to have manner to background checks for of sale at every gun show, no loopholes for every sale at every gun show, no loopholes. Reporter he says background checks for all gun originals as recommended by president obama owners as recommended by president obama would only lead to a gun registry. The criminals arent going to comply with it. They could care less. Youve already seen you wont computerize the Mental Health records. We ought to quit calling it right now a universal check. Th