Grea fort bragg and oth installations and call North Carolina home, eve for a thanks to our colleague for joining us today. Madam president , thanksgiving dinner has become the single most sell grated celebrated meal of theay. With tens ofmericans gathering with family and friends to give thanks for their bleings and of course for one another. Folks, i know that this yr its a lot different. While we sti have so much to be thankful for, the covid1 paemic means folks will be traveling less and might not be celebrating in larger groups. And as a result, many will be separated from their loved ones on this very special day. Bu folks, this is a very familiar feeling for anyon who has ever served in our Nations Armed forces. Protecting our nation. Rom at any given moment, thousands of men and women,oms and dads, brothers and sisters, are stationed arnd the world standing vigilant in the defense of freedom. Those wearing the uniform arent the only ones making a sacrifice either back home ther
1985. During and after world war ii. It describes the movements of millions of people among shifting of orders and general chaos the chaos of that war and its aftermath. It describes a light at the street level and politics in the highest region of government. Millions of people were displaced by world war ii. Most known were those sent to concentration camps they were already migrant laborers, sports laborers, collaborators, political prisoners, and pows. When the war ended many if not most displaced persons return home. Yet as the title suggests, a million did not. This book tells the story of their search for a new home. So david, thanks for joining us. And to kick it off i have a simple question. Which is how did you come to the story . How did you see the last and million as a singular story to be told . Speech i think it had a lot to do with tony juts externally book postwar. And i have learned not to take the common sense view of historical events as necessarily truthful. Someti
And put into camps behind barbed wire, United Nations relief administration. But supplied by the armies. The army supplied them with food and medical supplies, build facilities and took care of them. In germany in the years following ve day, in these camps they were little ukraines, little jewish settlements. In the beginning the allies decided that they were going to separate by nationality, they did not recognize that there was such a thing as a jew. Lithuanian jews were sequestered to lithuania, with nonjewish, in many instances the jewish survivors found themselves in the concentration of labor camps. That ended in july and august. And all of these camps it was transitional. Would soon be allowed to go home. What they believed world war iii was coming rapidly. The americans and british were going to liberate lithuania from the soviets and they could go home again. Same with the polls. The jews knew they could never go home again. They tried to convince themselves and others they co
A human because with the in blood i have just how Mary Jane Berry quick very swift with the type of electrodes must refers to i cant say how thats possible so i have a Big Questions yet how it will work as far as humans are concerned doesnt post to just the pigs that is the drugs or lets lets speculate a bit because if i get it right they idea of here a link is to transfer trust made our thoughts directly to the computer without the need of any middleman technology and at a much higher speed right how is it supposed to work exactly like well i have to say what i want inside my head for a computer to deliver on that what do you make of it. Well timidly we dont know how well its going to work whats being done so far is more motor signals so make any movement and those normal signals can be sent out sorry to a robot um to cause it to move so you can move Technology Remotely but also in terms of sensory information you can feed that back into the writing so its motor and sensory thats what
From the united states, canada, mexico, jamaica, peru, [inaudible] guatemala, argentina brazil, coaster rica [inaudible] and probably even pasadena. [laughter] thank you. My pleasure. Thank you everyone for joining us for this evenings event. My name is kim sutton and im the host of the event. Before we begin i want to encourage you all to check out the lineup of upcoming Virtual Events by visiting. One of our many Upcoming Events we are looking forward to is tiffany in conversation with ellie about the new book say it louder black voters, white anarchists seen saving our democracy. Thats next friday the 18th. Please remember to follow us on twitter, facebook and instagram. Tonight we welcome leonard and rob paulson. Leonard received his phd in the theoretical civics from the university of california berkeley, was an Alexander Von Humboldt fellow at the Max Planck Institute and was on the faculty of California Institute of technology. His previous books include the bestsellers the gran