Directors, government representatives and International Technology companies to talk about what state and local governments need to improve their systems. if you could silence your cell phones electronics i would appreciate it. Im going to take the role now. Vice chair ben hovland. Commissioner thomas hicks. We have a quorum of the commission. Good afternoon. Thank you for joining us today at the u. S. Election system to examine the security challenge Election Security faces ahead of the 2020th president ial election. This vital conversational providers with a better understanding of ways the commission can help jurisdictions address a variety of Security Issues including those that stem from aging Voting Technology. When Congress Passed the help america vote act of 2002 that established the eac is the only federal entity solely focused on supporting Elections Officials on the voters they serve. Part of our charge is to be the nations clearinghouse of information on the Election Admini
Military pots. Left in the drawing board. Good afternoon. I want to welcome those of you who are here in the auditorium. Here in washington dc as well as those of you who are watching online. On our website or on cspan. I believe they are in fact on site here. According to them. Just wanted to go over a few items before we get to the meat of the program here. I would ask that everybody here turn off their cell phones or at least have them in a silent mode and those other Electronic Items as well. We will have a q a portion as we get close to the end of this, and when it goes down, it will ask folks to please wait to be called upon and wait for the microphone so everyone in the audience has an opportunity to hear you. That i will ask you to announce your name and affiliation. Our topic today is this particular absolutely fascinating and terrifying book eyes in the sky, by arthur hall and michelle and i have to. Out that the digital version that when i call the eye of saffron i will comp
Surprise, killed, vanish. Good evening on behalf of staff and before we begin please silence your cell phones you dont want to be the person whose phone rings in the middle of a talk but doing q a please ask your question into the microphone books are available fore purchase at the registers to be the investigative journalist from area 51 and that uncensored history of darpa. And that act espnti psychokinesis also the paramilitary operators. That has a page turning narrative on the covert actions abroad. With a well sourced and well paid full of surprises. Please help me to welcome Annie Jacobson to politics and prose at the wharf. [applause] how is my sound . First of all thank you for having me. And thank you for coming i am here to talk about surprise, kill, vanish about the military capacity which is something that many people are not even aware it exists. So how i get ideas for our my books this began in 2009 so i had a source visiting me in my house. He was on his way back from t
Anything yet. We do a lot here at the Historical Society. We provide great programs. Educational workshops. We run National History day in massachusetts. We convene academic seminars and mount exhibitions been but more than anything, what we do is hold an amazing collection of almost 14 million items. We provided to historians and researchers for free. In our holdings, we have the equivalent of 2 and a half president ial libraries. We have the papers of john adams, John Quincy Adams and the personal papers of Thomas Jefferson. Thats important to mention because we have a very special program that has a very special connection. Tonight, we will hear about the publication, the president s and which noted historians rank them on a variety of categories. And if theres anything we like talking about more than president s, its historians talking about president s. So this is on brand for us. As we do with most of our public programs, we have pulled together a small display in the room with t
System. Shes interviewed by david blumenthal, president of the commonwealth fund. Host hello. It is a pleasure to be here with you. I want to congratulate you on an incredibly readable in a thorough review of our problems in the Healthcare System and proposals for a solution. I have a ton of questions for you based on my background in the physician as a policy analyst and of course, also as an occasional patient. But first, i would like to ask a couple of question for context. The first one is why did you write this book and why did you write it al . Guest i worked on a series for the new york times. My first stop in that it was actually at the Commonwealth Club to learn a little bit more about the Healthcare System andd how it had gotten so very expensive. Then during that series, we solicited in love stories through social media. At the end of the series two years later, i had a kind of wow of patient stories and people that were smart just havent been able to make the system work. W