Good afternoon. And welcome to todays distinguished speakers scare on series. And to open the program to lay we are delighted to open up for this very special event and in the history of Dicks Sporting Goods which i could get the book early and read its a great book and a great story if you have not gotten a chance i strongly urge you to do that we are glad to have you here today and welcome you home. Welcoming our invited guest in particular to the new Vision Business Academy students and the district of our region here today in particular if you are not familiar with University Forum its a Membership Organization to bring together people who share a commitment to the university and our Great Community to strengthen the bond between the two our mission is to enter energize and engage in in which the university as we work to establish the premier university and welcome any of you that are interested to join the membership it brings great people together for outstanding events just like
Good afternoon. And welcome to todays distinguished speakers scare on series. And to open the program to lay we are delighted to open up for this very special event and in the history of Dicks Sporting Goods which i could get the book early and read its a great book and a great story if you have not gotten a chance i strongly urge you to do that we are glad to have you here today and welcome you home. Welcoming our invited guest in particular to the new Vision Business Academy students and the district of our region here today in particular if you are not familiar with University Forum its a Membership Organization to bring together people who share a commitment to the university and our Great Community to strengthen the bond between the two our mission is to enter energize and engage in in which the university as we work to establish the premier university and welcome any of you that are interested to join the membership it brings great people together for outstanding events just like
Congratulations. Your book is a major accomplishment. It is a significant scholarly work. I think its fair to say you rule the field. Thank you thats tremendous hearing that coming from you. Thank you so much. How does it feel . A big relief it was ten years in the works to make the book and is just a pleasure to be able to talk about it with you and tons of other interesting people. The three major rivalries spent their careers studying writing about the cigarette from Richard Kruger the Pulitzer Prize ashes to ashes. An amazing book it is a page turner. The great medical scientific historian and and Robert Proctor at stanford for industry any trepidation and you took a risk i feel as though those books ashes to ashes and the biggest of which is called golden holocaust i felt like i was standing on the shoulders of giants indebted to them but when i was thinking about writing about tobacco i wasnt approaching at the same way that was from industry and when i began this project as a Li
Tonight, we will be talking about the 75th anniversary of the battle of the bulge. Tonight is also probably my farewell introduction, if that isnt a contradiction in terms, for the ongoing signature series with the History Department of the general staff college. The director of the command school, scott green, is here tonight. Scott, can you wave your arm . Thank you. [applause] in uniform, at the back of the room. This lecture series, which is about great military events, great commanders and sometimes great controversies in the art of war, has been ongoing since almost the beginning of my tenure 15 years ago. It has been our great series on in the library. This is probably my last introduction, because i have been drafted by the president , so, if you can identify with that, to go to washington to save the republic, which as you know needs saving. But as i always like to say, the command school is the intellectual center of the army. It is selfcritical, selfaware, it plays no favori
Im on the edge of glory. And im hanging on a moment of truth. Im on the edge of glory. And im hanging on a moment with you. Ill on the edge. The edge. Lauren happy friday. Welcome to fbn a. M. Im lauren simonetti. Tracee im tracee carrasco, in for cheryl casone. Lauren it feels like a tri. Tracee . Tracee a friday. Tracee . Lauren we have all three major averages up significantly, a quarter percent a across the board, ill all three major averages did close at record highs yesterday and are up at least one andahalf percent on the week. Tracee lets take a look at how things are moving in asia right now. Asian shares rising as data did come out showing that chinas economy grew as expected, that was 6. 1 . Lauren and investors in europe responding to two major trade deals with china and mexico and canada yesterday, so green on the board here. The big outperformer is the cac in france, up 1 today. We start with a fox business alert and that is just moments ago irans Supreme Leader praising