And just make up some stuff because jonerik cups to us from West Virginia and hes done some fantastic scholarship for us at the blog about those early months and the early year of the war in 1861, which really set the stage for what happens in 1861 and onward. A lot of people forget about how formative the action in West Virginia was and hes in there with his sleeves rolled up. Really working the material in a way that ive been impressed with. But now im going to read this really nice introduction. From mount pleasant, ohio. He studied history at Bethany College and received a masters of library and Information Science at kent state university. Where he focused his studies on archives and preservation. He started his career in the preservation at the library of copping and later worked for a congress and later worked for a pittsburghbased preservation firm, where he developed Preservation Strategies for libraries, archives and museums. In 2012 he was named director of archives and reco
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Of higher Interest Rates. Ill have more in a moment. Human eggs have been grown in a laboratory for the first time. And carol has the weather. Good morning from the roof of broadcasting house in london. Broadcasting house in london. Will cross the rest of the south east. South east. Some wintry showers, most prolific in the north and west. Most prolific in the north and west. Some of them will be over lower levels and heavy. Levels and heavy. We will see when 15 minutes. Good morning. First, our main story. Of the Winter Olympics in south korea. In pyeongchang shortly to watch the event. Allegations have lost a last minute appeal to take part in the games. Our correspondent, Stephen Mcdonell reports. After years of preparation, the pyeongchang Winter Olympics is here. Pyeongchang Winter Olympics is here. The venues are ready and the spectators are pouring in. Spectators are pouring in. The political manoeuvres being played out of these games. Played out of these games. The Opening Cere
Those losses right after the numbers came out. And one of the reasons facebook shares may have traded lower is because the stock had run up so much in anticipation of strong earnings in a quarter where the company beat pretty much across the board. Revenue, earnings and user numbers all better than expected. Cfo david wayner who we spoke to right after those numbers were out telling us that video as well as growing engagement particularly on mobile devices are factors driving results. We have nearly 1. 5 billion users on facebook. Thats nearly half the worlds online population. And thats growing very nicely. We added 173 Million People to facebook year over year. Thats our strongest growth in nearly two years. And those people are coming back. Weve got 65 of our monthly users coming back every day. On the Earnings Call were going to be looking for more insight into the success of those video ads as well as the role of instagram ads. And were going to be looking also for some details on
Weather and traffic with katie and meisha. You were so excited it is friday. Im right there with you. So i can tell you also that the roads are looking really good. Still really early, looking dry, but we do have some protests coming up later on blocking some roads, well talk about that. Pack along the umbrella it wont be raining for your morning commute. But later into the day today rain will be coming down. So little foggy, little sad, if you forget your rain slicker today. But dry conditions right now. Lit bit chilly. Certainly damp as you step outside early this friday morning. 34 degrees right now in philadelphia. So were off to colder start than yesterday. Winds are calm. Not so much after windchill impact. Down to 30 degrees, sub freezing at the shore, actually more mild in the poconos, than along the coast, 31 degrees right now, with wind out of the southsoutheast at around 5 miles per hour. Storm scan3 showing us we do have high level cloud cover in place, philadelphia and poi