[applause] good evening, everyone. Im the Deputy Director of programs at politics and prose bookstore. Id like to thank you all for joining us this evening. Tonights event is a joint effort with our venue part owners of the marvin theater. I am honored tonight to introduce doctor Jared Diamond. I work with academics every day. We offer over 100 classes yearly with local distinguished professors on subjects such as current and classic literature, history, politics, writing workshops as we are a community of lifelong learners and speaking of learning, Jared Diamond is professor of geography at the university of california los angeles. His work includes five bestselling books and hes here today to talk about the most recent book entitled upheaval turning point for nations, from the firsthand experience the history of the six countries where he lived and was in five of six languages. I asked which language he didnt speak and he said japanese but he had japanese relatives. Upheaval complete
Good evening, everyone. Im the Deputy Director of programs at politics and prose bookstore. Id like to thank you all for joining us this evening. Tonights event is a joint effort with our venue part owners of the marvin theater. I am honored tonight to introduce doctor Jared Diamond. I work with academics every day. We offer over 100 classes yearly with local distinguished professors on subjects such as current and classic literature, history, politics, writing workshops as we are a community of lifelong learners and speaking of learning, Jared Diamond is professor of geography at the university of california los angeles. His work includes five bestselling books and hes here today to talk about the most recent book entitled upheaval turning point for nations, from the firsthand experience the history of the six countries where he lived and was in five of six languages. I asked which language he didnt speak and he said japanese but he had japanese relatives. Upheaval completes the trilo
Soledad i am soledad obrien. Welcome to matter of fact. The lack of Affordable Housing is a problem for many americans, but for adults with disabilities, it is on verge of becoming a disaster. That is according to the nonprofit groove the arc. They warn there are nearly a million intellectally on development ally living with a caregiver 60 or older. Manny worry their Adult Children will become institutionalized or homeless. About a half million children will reach adulthood in the next decade. As Jessica Gomez tells us, parents are now taking taking matters into their own hands. In a small coffee shot in rural mount horeb, wisconsin, this group of parents has become a fixture. Meeting here every tuesday for the past six years. Brochures hot hot off the press. At the helm. Friends for decades, mary and and osuna. They share a common bond, children with disabilities. Susans son, 27yearold frankie, and mary anns daughter, 25yearold amy. Both have severe autism. The conversation buss their
Home and how are the airlines justifying themselves . Hello you are welcomed by the Information Service of the ntv Television Company in the studio of yuli bekhtereva. And we are starting the release of the tragedy in dagestan, where an explosion occurred at a gas station the night before by this hour. It is known that 27 people on the list died, more than 100 have already been injured. There are children among them. This is the data of the authorities of dagestan at the scene of the incident , the debris is being cleared to help local doctors, specialists from moscow flew out tuesday in the region declared a day of mourning, footage from the scene of the tragedy, all the latest information in material. The job is on fire, some of these shots were taken at 21 40 on the outskirts. Makhachkala, a powerful explosion thundered at a gas station near the black sands beach on the federal highway, according to preliminary data, the fire occurred during work at a service station. The fire then
A bicycle tour of amsterdam. Alternative angle will discover new perspectives them from famous tourist sites. And volcanic paradise why people are flocking to the nordic country of iceland. Where you start off in the dutch capital of amsterdam a city that simply never gets boring now amsterdam is a perfect getaway for the weekend it boasts the the unesco World Heritage canal system a wealth of museums not to mention the parks restaurants and of course coffee shops and unlike many other capitals amsterdam is relatively small so you can reach pretty much everything on foot but if you want to do is the dutch do then youd better get on a bike which is what we did to explore the city. Dam is hands down europes capital of bicycle riders its home to an estimated nine hundred thousand bikes thats more than the population of the city center. In two thousand and one the worlds first bicycle perking garage was built at the citys central rail station shaun cody has been offering individual sightse