it's franziska and clemens' first time on this route from germany to poland.ust as much about the journey as the destination. berlin to wroclaw - accompanied by culture and art. "we're really happy to be headed to wroclaw for the weekend. i think it'll be great, and we'll even take in some culture on the train. there's supposed to be a concert later, apparently. i've never actually been to poland. it's exciting because i grew up in east germany - you'd think i would've been. in the car where the bikes are usually kept, the berlin-based ukrainian trio scho have taken center stage. they're performing a mixture of russian swing and coffee house music. ♪ it's a first for the band, too - performing on the rails, that is. it's wonderful. the people gather round; they're curious, and they listen to us play. some of them even dance, it's fantastic. that's why most of the passengers chose the culture train - rather than the faster eurocity train. "absolutely, yes. i chose it because of all the entertainment on board. it sounded exciting, like something might go down he

it's franziska and clemens' first time on this route from germany to poland.ust as much about the journey as the destination. berlin to wroclaw - accompanied by culture and art. "we're really happy to be headed to wroclaw for the weekend. i think it'll be great, and we'll even take in some culture on the train. there's supposed to be a concert later, apparently. i've never actually been to poland. it's exciting because i grew up in east germany - you'd think i would've been. in the car where the bikes are usually kept, the berlin-based ukrainian trio scho have taken center stage. they're performing a mixture of russian swing and coffee house music. ♪ it's a first for the band, too - performing on the rails, that is. it's wonderful. the people gather round; they're curious, and they listen to us play. some of them even dance, it's fantastic. that's why most of the passengers chose the culture train - rather than the faster eurocity train. "absolutely, yes. i chose it because of all the entertainment on board. it sounded exciting, like something might go down he

it's franziska and clemens' first time on this route from germany to poland.ust as much about the journey as the destination. berlin to wroclaw - accompanied by culture and art. "we're really happy to be headed to wroclaw for the weekend. i think it'll be great, and we'll even take in some culture on the train. there's supposed to be a concert later, apparently. i've never actually been to poland. it's exciting because i grew up in east germany - you'd think i would've been. in the car where the bikes are usually kept, the berlin-based ukrainian trio scho have taken center stage. they're performing a mixture of russian swing and coffee house music. ♪ it's a first for the band, too - performing on the rails, that is. it's wonderful. the people gather round; they're curious, and they listen to us play. some of them even dance, it's fantastic. that's why most of the passengers chose the culture train - rather than the faster eurocity train. "absolutely, yes. i chose it because of all the entertainment on board. it sounded exciting, like something might go down he

you are dealing with samuel clemens, mark twain, you are dealing with a man outside his time, but then firmly embedded in it. he is an "avatar". he is this literary god that understands the world, he traveled everywhere and worked everywhere, he met kings and queens and royalty in europe. are so many angles and so many parts that i certainly needed help just to assemble his life and to go over the course of his life. so i would like tom to talk about how we laid out the book. because that was important, i spent so much time writing about twain. and then getting to that point where tom would say you're not writing another biography of twain but of a country that embraced twain, about our love for this man and what he did which began long before he was dead. so there is a long history of just reverence for twain, and in -- and we way in one volume youd see the whole picture. i understood there would be images we would see, but we did not know what. what we tried to do to organize the book was have a chronology of twain's life running through the book, but twain was fascinated with certai

thanks so much for coming out my name is andy grayville director of the clemen center for southwest studies here at smu let me start by thanking many people or at least a few of them who have helped make this evening possible starting m with our friend at the center for presidential history withor whom are cosponsoring this event tonight. particularly jeffrey ankle brian franklin and ron that spitz i want to thank ruth and who coordinates things on our end for the clemen center so my pleasure to introduce cameron blevins who braved last night's weather to fly in from denver teaches digital humanities at the university of colorado's campus in the mile high city before moving to front range he was assistant professor of history at northeastern university in boston, and a core faculty member at the schools -- mu lab for text map and networks. they learned last night cameron is a nativity of the nutmeg state for those of you anybody knows what that is -- number of you ii was hoping i ws going to be able to enlighten you. although he bolted for palm trees and sunny skies of southern california w

uh steve clemens, it's always it's great to talk to you soon to be okay. thanks. kimberly a site to take a short break, but still head on al jazeera india and make space history becoming the 1st country to land a spacecraft on the moon's south pole. stay with us, the peddler. they will have a look at africa in the name of the 1st to the middle east. and despite the rising heat, we have seen some unusual stormy weather sweep into the south west of saudi arabia . stormy conditions with lightning strikes effecting places like mecca. the good news is that has eased things of quite the down, but the heat continues to build 41 degrees celsius the on thursday, we'll see that replicated. so the east of this in a rock as well as q 8, we could touch 51 degrees celsius thursday into friday launch the dry and hot picture for much of the region. a slight wind could kick up some dust as we goes into friday, around some of the gulf of states, but temperature is picking up. and that should mean that the humidity will ease. there's not much in the way of rain here and that's simil

evans clemens about my book and mark called me up want to do a and an interview form about my book and he did was published here and psychology today and he said i saw him this education and he said there gets lot of hits i mean it's getting a lot of circulation if you go on the internet, it's you put the homa conference in there, you'll see a lot of pledge. i don't know. i think that it's hard to know whether people are really going to take this seriously. and some people do. and some people don't. we have many important news that people really don't take seriously and for which there is no adequate political response. so that's all i can say. i agree with you and i hope it happens. doctor. yes, james. yes. dr. hearn, what do you prescribe for the healing of this disease of the planet? if you could prescribe something, they would follow the course of treatment that you recommend what's what's your solution? even though? solutions are the problem. well, excellent question i'm not sure about the answer. the only thing that i can say, as i point out in the book that our our total dependa

holly clemens, bbc news.on social media. , , .. , ., ., media. this is exactly what we would exect to media. this is exactly what we would owed to see. _ media. this is exactly what we would expect to see, the _ media. this is exactly what we would expect to see, the direction - media. this is exactly what we would expect to see, the direction of- expect to see, the direction of travel for a long time. in some ways it is a surprise that broadcasting is as resilient as it is. 79% of people are still watching broadcast tv every week. down from 83% but if you think about it, pretty much 80% of us watching tv every week. if you look at subscription on demand services, 66% of people subscribe to one. not watching every week but having access to an on demand service. while there is this direction of travel and that has been happening for a long time, i think one thing that is probably more surprising is how resilient broadcast tv is. i have been looking at it for 20 years and people had been predicting a decline of