Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to the gaithersburg book festival. My name is mark corpsman, im ab state legislator from district 16. Gaithersburg proudly supports the arts and humanities. Were pleased to bring you thiss fabulous event thanks in part to the generous support of our sponsors and volunteers. A few announcements. First, please silence your devices. If youre on social media today, and we sure hope you are, pleasc use the hashtag gbf. Your feedback is also really valuable to us. Surveys are available here at the tent and on our web site. Youll be entered into a drawing for a 100 visa gift card. Our author will be signing books immediately after this presentation, and copies are on sale in the politics prose week tent just to your right book tent just to your right. This is a free event, but itbo does help the book festival if you buy a book, and the more books you buy, the more books the festival sells, the more publishers will want to send their authors here to speak wit
Will say thanks. Please is silence your devices and if youre on social media today please use the gbs. Feedback is valuable and surveys are available here and on our website. By submitting a survey will be entered into a drawing for hundred dollars visa gift card and i hope you all put that in. Our author will sign books immediately after this presentation and copies are on sale to your right. Quick word about buying books, this is a free event, but it helps the book festival if you buy a book and the more books you buy the more books the festival cells in the more publishers will want to send their authors here to speak with us. Purchasing books from our partners help support one of the world great independent bookstores and supports local jobs. I have a bag full over there myself. If you know this program, please buy books today. Our author this afternoon is Sharon Weinberger in the book is the imagineers of war the untold story of darpa this is sharons third book and also her third
For 12 years, the ngo fund for peace has been publishing an index of fragility around the world. While many countries are politically and economically stable, others like mozambique or south africa are more fragile. The situation is particularly bad in syria, somalia, and yemen. Reporter wind whistles through the gaping hole in alis parents home. The saudi missile attack that caused the damage also killed his father. Ali now lives with his uncle. He hopes to get his house repaired at some point when peace has returned and people no longer live in fear of foreign bombs. The situation in yemen is very bad. This war has to stop. Reporter the saudi attacks have left their mark not only on the buildings. At the marketplace, traders have a lot of time to chew khat leaves, the local stimulant. Theres hardly anyone here with money to spend. After 20 months of war, yemen is in ruins, and its civilians who suffer the most. Many districts no longer have access to electricity or water, so every da
For 12 years, the ngo fund for peace has been publishing an index of fragility around the world. While many countries are politically and economically stable, others like mozambique or south africa are more fragile. The situation is particularly bad in syria, somalia, and yemen. Reporter wind whistles through the gaping hole in alis parents home. The saudi missile attack that caused the damage also killed his father. Ali now lives with his uncle. He hopes to get his house repaired at some point when peace has returned and people no longer live in fear of foreign bombs. The situation in yemen is very bad. This war has to stop. Reporter the saudi attacks have left their mark not only on the buildings. At the marketplace, traders have a lot of time to chew khat leaves, the local stimulant. Theres hardly anyone here with money to spend. After 20 months of war, yemen is in ruins, and its civilians who suffer the most. Many districts no longer have access to electricity or water, so every da
Corruption is widespread. There are barely any Public Services in yemen, and only a shell of a legal system. As a result, the country is in a very bad state. For 12 years, the ngo fund for peace has been publishing an index of fragility around the world. While many countries are politically and economically stable, others like mozambique or south africa are more fragile. The situation is particularly bad in syria, somalia, and yemen. Reporter wind whistles through the gaping hole in alis parents home. The saudi missile attack that caused the damage also killed his father. Ali now lives with his uncle. He hopes to get his house repaired at some point when peace has returned and people no longer live in fear of foreign bombs. The situation in yemen is very bad. This war has to stop. Reporter the saudi attacks have left their mark not only on the buildings. At the marketplace, traders have a lot of time to chew khat leaves, the local stimulant. Theres hardly anyone here with money to spen