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My wife attended the same high school as Harry Jerome in North Vancouver.
Harry was also a grandson of John Howard, the first black Canadian to compete for Canada.
As a sprinter Howard in his day was considered the best hope for a Canadian gold medal at the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden. But he was unable to deliver on the expectation as his coach Walter Knox accused him of insubordination.
The coach Knox was uncomfortable with a black athlete on Canada’s team in 1912 and threatened to expel him. John Howard was eliminated in the 100- and 200-metre events hindered by a stomach ailment caused by stress stemming from Knox’s essentially racist attitude.
so this is some basic findings from my research. these also are entirely based on u.s. government statistics. if you spend $1 million on investments in a green economy, and by that again i mean investing in energy efficiency like efficiency in buildings, efficiency in industry, public transportation, improving the electrical grid system so it is able to operate with solar and wind power and so forth. investments in energy efficiency. and renewable energy. so building a solar power, wind power, geothermal power, to some extent hydroelectric, small-scale. you re going to create 17 jobs for every $1 million you spend. i contrast, if we spend the same $1 million on maintaining the fossil fuels economy and nuclear power, you create five jobs. so at 17 jobs versus five jobs for the same amount of money spent. so you get roughly three times more jobs per dollar of expenditure every time you shift $1 million out of the fossil fuel economy and into the gr
the deepest and darkest phase of days of the crisis was the fall of 2008. you wrote a book on that in a number of people have. i wanted to try and capture a different story and that is only part. this global story first of all of how what started as what we thought of as the housing crisis in the united states and the financial crisis became this global towards european union unity has portion the british economy for years and years and had this global reach that has affected almost everybody on earth and i wanted to tell that through the story that would be most logical which is the global bankers who again and again have been the ones who have tried to corral this rapidly spreading fire and tried try to contain it whether it s in europe with the eurozone crisis that is endangered that continent or the u.s. with bernanke and the federal reserve so i view a lot of the books written in 2,002,009 that capture that intense remarkable crisis at the starting point and try to captu
and make history. executive producer of democracy now, amy goodman taking your calls, e-mails and facebook comments and tweets, in depth, three hours live today at noon eastern on booktv on c-span2. welcome to mesa, arizona, on booktv. with help of our cox communication cable partner, for the next hour we will explore the history and literary scene of the city of about 450,000. first a look at asia valley city in a desert climate deals with water rights with the colorado river. it is considered to be the most litigated river in the world, and that is probably very accurate. more lawsuits, contracts, laws to regular what is collectively known as the law the river. there s probably 13, 15 major laws that have spanned the whole 20th century was up until the present time that is talked about who gets how much of this water and who can take it, how much every year, how to share it, and our relationship with mexico in the water as well. the colorado river is about 1450 mile