If i dont give everybody the utmost expect an understanding and compassion are doing that i am not doing right by the book. Its not a movie or a book but has the best of both worlds. Because you have an actual human being giving the story to you and i love that. And the feeling of how that person tells the story. Hearing your novel read aloud transformed into an audiobook is such an honor and a privilege. And where it is finding itself. Its another way to access literature and often times for nontraditional readers. And these are all the reason that 50 percent of americans listen to ann audiobook in 2019s. Here is to all of you. Here is to amazing audiobooks and here is to 25 years of the audie awards. Ladies and gentlemen we are thrilled to introduce the master of ceremonies mr. Mo rock up. And a frequent panelist on npr quiz show wait wait dont tell me. He is also the host of the obituaries podcast. We are here to have him here this evening. Without further ado teethree. [applause] t
Why did u. S. Oil prices hit negative territory an unprecedented fall in American Crude Oil sales has added to the hardships caused by coronavirus so what will that mean for the u. S. And the Global Economy this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program im Richelle Carey thats one of the worlds most valued commodities but the coronavirus lockdowns to overturn the dominance of oil worth of a barrel of u. S. Oil fell to less than nothing on monday thats the 1st time in history the price has turned negative so this means producers ended up paying buyers more than 30. 00 a barrel to get oil off their hands it rebound a slightly shit disturber 2 dollars the next day that jaw dropping slide this because the world has more crude that it could use and Storage Facilities and even ocean tankers are filling up oil is traded on future contracts and fears of not finding a place to put oil in may means nobody wants crude thats led to a severe drop for west texas intermediate a benchmark for
Before, some far worse than we are living today, with the hindsight of history we can see them as Inflection Point in the transitional period between an old system that is broken down in a new one so largely information. Are we added Inflection Point. Absolutely right in the middle. I think to the best example of it in 2016 the republican primary, there was a real civil war and the republican primary that the establishments republicans and john bush and others did not get the nomination, did not get the support of the American People, who got it the revolutionary donald trump, the democrats are doing the same thing right now theyre having a civil war in their party and is it going to be the traditional democrat, is it going to be some outsider, is it going to be a socialist, i think that is indicative of the fact that socialism does not work, to govern the people, it really has not kept up with the country, i guess at the end of this book that i realize after a long period of thoughtfu
Angeles and other festivals in the new orleans, san antonio as well. All canceled. So we know the effect it is having on book fairs and large gatherings but is it happening in effect also on bookstores and smaller businesses. Mitchell kaplan runs a chain of bookstores in florida called books and books. So Mitchell Kaplan is coronavirus affected your business. Yes pete it has. It looks like starting tomorrow, we will be closing down all six stores that we have in the area. And trying to move our sales online and encourage people to buy books and her website. And this is happening i believe across the country with bookstores everywhere. Unlike normally happens in the bigger bookstores, their very rep. Of what is happening in Small Businesses. So many thousands upon thousands of Small Business people who are suffering the same way we are. Peter are used doing this because the state has mandated it or you sought such a drop in foot traffic and sales. Mitchell a couple reasons we are doing
Developments from iran the wells. With updates about travel restrictions and how to protect yourself. To read a virus pandemic special coverage on how to say or. Move to. Cope with 19 has killed more than 18000 people and infected at least 400000 worldwide and counting. It all started in december last year when cases of an unusual pneumonia were reported in the chinese city of war haun. Most of those affected by the unknown virus seem to have something in common they were working at a local seafood market. At the Chinese Health authorities were trying to investigate the causes of the illness the numbers kept growing on january 7th the World Health Organization announced it had identified the new virus 4 days later 41 people had been diagnosed in china and the 1st death was reported. By january 13th cases in other countries began to appear. And the death toll jumped from tens to hundreds to thousands in the coming weeks and months governments worldwide took different measures to stop th