Stores with reduced capacity could mean a 40minute wait. The National Retail federation on its website predicts online sales will be capturing 20 to 30 of the holiday market, up from last year. There are no corporate parties and reduced inventory and fewer employees are in many stores according to consumer expert and San Francisco State University marketing professor. The projections are that because the consumer demand has been suppressed so far, starting with today, which is black friday and the start of the Holiday Shopping season, there is some kind of penalty up demand that people, you know, they want to give gifts to family and friends to uplift their spirits in a very challenging year. Reporter walnut creek downtown there is a 20 vacancy rate right now but Property Owners say they are getting inquiries about renting the vacant sites according to the walnut creek Downtown Business association. Whats missing is probably, you know, the ice rink. Were unable to host the ice rink thi
Dangerous lurking off our coasts and hardly anyone suspects that theres a problem. Weapons of war that have been deteriorating for decades. These are ticking time bombs. This threat on the ocean floor is known only to a few experts. Its a race against time. But is this a race that we can win. Here at the polish port of good didnt you know a team of experts is getting their Research Vessel ready for an expedition. The crew includes hydrographers biologists and divers from the Marine Institute and the nearby port of dikes. Theyve been working together for years. Theyre headed for a site located in the base. About half an hour sailing time away. In 1909 experts made an alarming discovery there. The teams leader is benedict tuts a former polish navy officer. His repeated warnings about these underwater wrecks have made him unpopular with the authorities. Logically shit is just given some of them dont like what were doing the russians are. But its not our job to please them or to make thing
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All right. Welcome to another evening lecture with francis Tavern Museum. Remember, if you are joining us virtually if you have any questions during the lecture, you can submit those to the chat or the q a. I know last month there were some issues with the chat, so the q a is always open and you can let me know about issues there. As a reminder, we will be recording this lecture so it will be sent to everyone who registered. If you want to share it with someone or watch it again. Now the views of the speaker are their own and do not represent the views of sons of the revolution in the state of new york, inc, or its Fraunces Tavern museum. And let me introduce tonights speaker to you, dr. Keith beuttler is a professor of history at Missouri Baptist university and his specialty, the United States, founding era. Hes a former High School Teacher whose professional awards include the 2003 deans award for teaching excellence from the graduate school of arts and sciences at Washington Univers
I have been the director since 2015, january. What is the value of an oral history . Well, for us we try to make it accessible to the cadets so they can use it for their research but all of our videos and interviews are open source so anyone in america can get online and look at our interviews and hopefully learn something about our history from them. As an historian what is the place oral history holds in the overall study of history . Oral historyies help add detail. If you are writing a paper or book about something and you find oral histories you can pull information from that to add a little bit of color or nuance to what you are writing about. It gives you have the experience of the people that lived through it. It is interesting because memories are different. People remember things differently and they change a little bit over time. So, it is good to add to some of the research you are doing but of course you want to back it up with good primary source documents. Who are you ca