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Will try to get to everyones questions, but i apologize in advance if we dont have time to address yours. We are delighted to offer closed captioning for this event via zooms auto captioning service. To access captions simply click on the live transcripts option, which is also along the bottom of your screen. And now on to our event the candidate was young 28 years old a child of puerto rico the bronx and Yorktown Heights. She was working as a waitress in bartender. She was completely unknown an...

Interesting things to talk about and were gonna be talking about your book majority minority. In fact, i wonder if we could first talk a little bit about um why you decided to do this book and with such a title something. Thats kind of been a little bit of a buzzword in washington in the last 10 years or so. So what drove you to do the book, you know, mark. Thanks so much. Our, you know interviewing me so many pieces of my earlier work feels like they came together with this work on you know her...

Thank you for joining us. Great crowd. Hello, everybody. Its an honor to be here with you. I heard there was a new book coming out. Kind of neat to read i think im actually selling more kindle copies than hard cover. I was going to ask you to autograph this. There you go. It was got some questions lined up. I do remember it was in this very room not long ago we talk about intel for the documentary. For cbs. And as we were talking and watching, you point out there was arthur rock standing right n...

Journal assists, there was a lot of gunfire in sort of the main foyer area. Down a hallway. And led to a second sort of a bunch of gunfire it looked like a shootout that left one body on the ground that i saw, i cannot say whether it was a shooter. It seemed like it was. And all the police i should say were shooting at that direction. We have heard reports since it was the shooter that was down by the actual sergeant of arms who is in charge of security here. This appears to be, again its a lock...

Looks like almost a half a percent drop for both the ftse and the dax in germany. In the u. S. , a packed Economic Calendar today. At 8 30, weekly jobless claims. July cpi and empire state survey. Then at 9 00, tick data. 15 minutes later, july industrial production. At 10 00, the philly fed survey and the National Association of Home Builders survey. And the consumer is in focus once again today. Walmart and kohls among the names to show results before the bell. Well be hearing from dell. This ...

Any role for trade associations in this process . Because your discussion of courtesy sounds a lot like the norms long prior to the existence of copyright in england where there was a court enforced courtesy in terms of possession and first entry of areas published things. Thats what we know about the ownership of intellectual property by printers and stationers in london. And were their associations, a group meetings, of recognized publishers in new york and philadelphia in the 19th century whe...

Science education going on like this. Especially in a time when funding is being cut to sciences at the National Level so we need to keep pushing for as much Science Education as possible. I just finished writing an optimistic book about the apocalypse. I didnt realize this book would have a happy ending. It started because i have been fascinated with stories about destruction, especially massive global destruction, and apocalypses and everything from kind of the underground cannibal apocalypse ...

And thanks to the town hall for putting on this amazing series. Its so terrific that there is Science Education going on especially in a time when funding is being cut to sciences at the National Level so we need to keep pushing for as much Science Education as possible. So i just finished writing an optimistic look about the apocalypse and it didnt start out that way at all. I really did not realize that this book was going to have a happy ending and it actually started because i have been real...

Immensely powerful idea. Richard dawkins has written about ideas. What was it like to write about yourself . Guest quite difficult. I was persuaded by publishers and had to overcome embarrassment. I like to think its humorous. Finally i have to say i enjoyed writing it. Did you enjoy doing it . Why . Guest reliving memories is not exactly a systematic history of my life. Its a patchwork of memories. Its a working title i had in mind but i started writing it. But i hope the man random memories ar...

I will be your chair for todays program called, your fatwa can does not apply here. We also welcome our guests from the Turkish Parliament and welcome our listening and Internet Office and invite everyone to visit us online at www. Commonwealthclub. Org. And now it is my pleasure to introduce our distinguished speaker. A veteran of more than 20 years of Human Rights Research and activism, Karima Bennoune has served as a Legal Adviser at Amnesty International and has taught at rutgers and the uni...