John malone with the legendary media icon has to say about the covid19 virus, direct to consum consumer, streaming, so many other topics we hit in our hour long shutdown. The ceo of goodrx, we had him last week, since then, amazon came into the business what does it mean for his business carl, well ask that question amongst others. Yeah, thats good stuff for this hour, guys. Jim, we talked for last week and a half about the fact that a path to the vaccine would face some setbacks and clearly new york city schools, new state of emergency in wisconsin, speak to that i think that one of the things that we needed was a bridge, which would be stimulus, to the vaccine we dont have the stimulus were getting terrible numbers, we have half the country that thinks the numbers are okay, given the fact that the death rate hasnt skyrocketed. We have the other half, were saying, look, if we dont do something about it, then the Healthcare System is going to be overwhelmed. In that scenario, it is ver
Doctoral fellow and virginia sensor for civil war studies. Im certainly really glad she is here and i think you all will be as well once you hear her talk. Its clear she will bring an awful lot to Virginia Tech in terms of teaching, research and outreach programs as well. She specializes in 19th century u. S. History. It but also north american slavery more generally. Her writing as appeared in civil war monitor annes and Civil War History journal among other publications. Her big project at the moment is converting her ph. D. Dissertation into a book. That is going to be well worth looking at a few years down the line. Its in the same topic we will speak about tonight. You can see the power point is already up there. Black prisoners of war in the confederate south. Under the rebel lash. Hero she was big for 30 or 35 minutes, which will leave us plenty of time for discussion. I think another advantage of the zoom format is that you can type in your questions using the queue and a featu
Enslaved. Including those born free in the north. The senator for a civil war study said Virginia Tech hosted this online talking provided the video. On todays event speaker is doctor Caroline Wood newhall, she graduated with a ph. D. Earlier this year, from the university of north carolina. She joined us just a few weeks ago, at Virginia Tech, as a post doctoral fellow at the Virginia Center for several more studies. I am certainly really glad she is here, and i think you all will be as, well once you hear her talk. Its clear that shes going to bring an awful lot to Virginia Tech, in terms of teaching, research, and outreach programs, as well. She specializes in 19th century u. S. History, including of course, civil war era. But also north american slavery more generally, warfare more generally, as well. Her writing has appeared and several war monitors and Civil War History journals, among other publications. And her big projects at the moment are converting her ph. D. Dissertations
Also north american slavery more generally. Her riding has appeared in and civilmonitor war history journal and she is working to compile her phd dissertation into a book. That will be well worth looking into. You can see the powerpoint under the rubble lash, black prisoners of war in the confederate south. She will speak for about 25 minutes, which will give us plenty of time for discussion. You can type in your questions q ag vq and a using the feature. You will not be up to use the chat. In anytimepe those during the talk. We may not be able to get to all of the questions. We will wrap things up by about 8 15. Ok, that is all for me. Please join me in what ever the round of applause may be maybe it is a round of laws. Dr. Newhall . Thank you, paul. Thank you to everybody for being here tonight. Its such a pleasure to share my research with you and go through the details, my findings. This has been a labor of love. I am excited to have and just really try to understand what this time
The Prime Ministers Office to demand his resignation on wednesday. On thursday, Government Police moved to quell the protest, by reuters are reporting that state television said it was necessary to maintain peace and order. In addition to the ban on gatherings, the publication of any news or online messages judged to Harm National Security is also prohibited. The huge antigovernment protests have come at a time when the king, who spends most of the time outside his country, is in the thai capital. Then str they are demanding change in the political system, including a new constitution and reform of the monarchy. Moving to france where the city of lights will be going dark. A nightly curfew will be in effect starting saturday for paris and other major cities, as the french government grapples with a resurgence of the coronavirus. Translator the message i want to send is that i need each of you, we need each other to stop the spread of the virus. The government declared a new Public Heal