And this event excited to see folks here and excited for the last two events. We have stacy chin up next at 5 30. Closing us out for the weekend. But before that, im really excited to welcome Kimberly Dark here. Performer, thinker, critical analyst, and generally essayist. I dont know any other nouns you prefer. So sorry, im algebraic dead, long weekend. But im excited to welcome her here to our stage to talk about her book fat, pretty and soon to be old so join me in giving her a warm round of maas. Ill talk to the three of you sitting in front of me. I want to say thank you to dr. Kennedy diif would be standing there getting a book signed myself if i werent here busy with other things. Im Kimberly Dark and its my pleasure to be here with you. Im also fat, pretty and soon to be old, as the title says, and well talk about appearance privilege and how that works. So if you could just look around you right now and focus on a stranger. Dont stare. That would be weird, but just give a stra
Same with the nasdaq up about 60 points. Close to 1 . Here is the big stock news of the day. To stand out retailers. Target and lows. Both did very well in the profit report earlier this morning and consumers have money to spend and their spending it. It is the giant retailers who are responding best to Amazon Online challenge. Look at the two stocks go. 70 up for target and 12 for lowes. That is valid. This is not a race, i will ask you anyway. How much do you have in your 401k or you are away . I hope youre one of the hundreds of thousands of people who have at least a million. According to fidelity, 196,000 have 1 million bucks in the 401k and 179,000 have a million in their ira. Those are Record Numbers. The u. S. Drone has been shot down over yemen, it was an in queue nine drone otherwise known as you reset. It is been a long time since this kind of incident and that is true today. Without going on in the gulf oil is up just 30 cents. Stay there place, the latest on greenland. Var
The weather was crazy. Right . And is the ambulance on the way, is it . The coastguard apparently lost contact with it. So when my parents first found out i was sailing, they were like, whats sailing . Youre just on a boat. But once i qualified and now im a sailing instructor, they realise that im actually getting somewhere. Its not what they expected. The main reason why i do this whole programme is that it has real, tangible benefits for the students that do it. Ill probably use the helm one. Sometimes its hard for me to articulate myself. And when youre on a boat with different people, you have to kind of communicate. Screams and laughter what the hell . The students who originally started the programme, they became a lot more into racing, in particular. We went on ebay. We bought initially a 22 foot boat from a back garden of a farm in birmingham. We did that, did it up, realised it wasnt very good, so then looked again, and this time, we found a really classic racing yacht. We wer
Century contribution to music. Former bg barry gibb said he was humbled and proud to be made sir berry. Barry. Warhorse orfor michael mokoko, and one time childrens lorry at is proud of his honour, and says he hopes it is something that emphasises importance of rich literature. Reading is something that helps against stupidity and ignorance. The greater so we can stupidity and ignorance. The greater so we can give children is to make them readers. Former deputy Prime Minister nick clegg has been knighted for political and public service. Strictlyjudge darcy bustle, who has occasionally performed on the programme was made a dame. Those being made cbe, the next highest level of award include the actor hugh laurie for services to drama. Former British Vogue editor alexandra shulman, who left the magazine after a quarter of a century at the helm this year. And bestselling authorjulie cooper. Century at the helm this year. And bestselling authorjulie cooperli bestselling authorjulie cooperi
Working from the control room to make sure that that impacts not too severe. Drivers are advised only to travel if necessary. Judith moritz, bbc news, wakefield. Now, its time for the weather. After today brought snow for some of us, the weather is going to turn progressively less wintry. A band of rain pushing northwards and east was during the night. Some snow for high ground of wales, Northern England and maybe low levels in Northern Ireland. A mild night to the south but Northern Areas across scotland, north east england, it will turn cold enough for frost and perhaps icy stretches into tomorrow morning. A cold start in the north and then this band of wet weather turning to snow over high ground in scotland, bright sky is falling behind. A bit of rain into the far south west later, a blustery day and three in aberdeen and 13 in london. Into new years eve, a band of the very wet weather in the south east at first, strong wind with Gale Force Winds for ireland and scotland and things