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Host this week on the communicators we want to introduce you to luther lowe who was Senior Vice President for Public Policy for for a site cd yelp. What exactly is yelp and what do you do it . Guest thank you so much for having me on today, peter. Its a pleasure. Yelp is a website and piping the consumer application that allows people to connect with great local businesses. It is a service that empowers and protects consumers, allows people to discover great local gyms, and a way for consumers t...

The Wilson Center best supporter on the planet, and were giving him a name tag, but welcome michael and welcome everyone else. Im jane harman, president and ceo of the Wilson Center. It is the best job on the planet because i get to talk to geniuses every single day. One of them whos not in my script but im going to call her out, shes going to hide somewhere, is maggie king. Some of you may not know her but she runs our science, technology, and Innovation Program and is responsible for the schoo...

Kind of like, why in the middle of a pandemic are they calling people like me . So this is a good thing for us to talk about. This is a history methods course, it is about how you become a historian, and what you do for a living. You may remember the first week of class, we talked a little bit about the reaction you may sometimes get from family members when they hear you are a history major or minor or even taking a history course, that, why is this useful knowledge . Why are you bothering with...

Shutdown of schools during the Global Pandemic. Around the world continues to be called off all played behind closed doors. Much of brazils medical famous for holding nearly 200000 fans in a world cup final. Now the restrictions are getting tougher across the world as countries try to stop the coronavirus pandemic iran has announced 113 people died in just the past 24 hours confirmed cases well thats nearing 14000 tiran says its fighters being severely hampered by u. S. Sanctions in the philippi...

Experience you had just this morning, maybe the lessons that can go to our viewers. Yeah. You know, so we were talking, my colleagues and i, with an investor this morning and we spent about an hour on the phone. This is somebody who has been, you know, managing a portfolio of stocks principally and has lost faith in their ability to do that this week. Actually was actually coming to us and saying, you know, can you just take this over for me i dont have any faith that i actually know what im doi...

Theres no better place than to be in the u. S. To step back and ask what do we have achieved in the last. Years when i look back i see that in the last years europeans have begun to understand that they can in a european way that we must pave our own way to stay relevant in the 21st century for me is in the way europeans are changing the way they look at themselves and starting to see you are as capable of being strong and being sovereign. We europeans often do not see ourselves as being powerfu...

Changing the race for the white house. Im going to go just past sports around the world continues to be called off all played behind closed doors including this couple match a brazilian matic in a stadium once famous for holding nearly 200000 fans in a world cup final. More and more countries imposing restrictions and they are getting more drastic in the fight against coronavirus within the last hour austria banning gatherings and ordering restaurants to close while kazakstan has declared a stat...

More than 2500 cases of the virus and at least 51 deaths and globally there are more than 421,000 s okay says im sorry with more than 18,000 deaths. This data is according to the Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus tracker map young people can and will be impacted by covid 19 that is a message from governor newsome tonight. As a number of cases and the death toll climbs in california the governor says all californians need to take warning seriously. The governor says the virus is affecting thos...

Its going to be severe larry but i dont think we quite know the extent of it yet we dont know if this is a shoot week shut down at the church you might be out of the economy but wonder if its one or the other up for working men and women into this you know about 58 percent of workers in this country are hourly wage worker this is Food Service Workers retail workers none of those people are getting a theyre all filing for Unemployment Insurance now weve got a whole industry of independent contrac...

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