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Minutes. This subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness response and communications will come to order. The subcommittee is meeting today to review our ability to timely and effectively alert and warn the public in the case of an emergency. I want to welcome all witnesses here this morning on issue that is vital to the protection of americans. Effective and reliable alerts and warnings. Numerous disasters and terrorist attacks weve witnessed over the past few months have illustrated that timely communication is critical in emergency situation and ability of critical information, the ability of critical information can help individuals protect themselves from harms way. While some of us grew up in Emergency Alert warnings through television, radio, and im old enough to remember when they told us to get underneath our desks because there was a siren warning, many alerts today are also received through mobile devices, internet and even social media. Considering the Technology Advances that h
Building in the United States of america. It has a wonderful 600 year story. First of all, it is most important for you to understand that above all, the synagogue is a house of worship. We have services here all year round, a fulltime rabbi, a congregation of about 120 members, and it is orthodox in its service. That is what we are doing today. The story starts in 1492 in spain, when eating of ferdinand and clean isabella issued and Queen Isabella issued a decree. It was they wanted a purely gavelic country, so they the jewish people two choices. Convert to catholicism or leave. Those who converted were called conversos. Others chose to remain jews in a secret. Objects. Their ritual if they have been found out, they would have been tortured and put to death. To get a sense of how spaniards of jews at the time, their nickname was morano, ort swine. They had four months to get there affairs in order, which meant you of everything away to the spanish government, such as their land or any
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Todays lecture is going to be on military aspects of the revolutionary war in the north and south. Next week, when we have our guest speaker she will be talking about the western campaigns in more detail. There are other aspects of the war, financing the war, womens participation that we will not get to today that we will be leaving for future classes. I wanted to start by talking about one of the best recent books on the American Revolution called the men who lost america. He argues that british generals are described as incompetent, in decisive, but he argues that these were competitive men in the midst accomplished professionals, and the reason why they failed was not due to a character flaw, but because they faced insurmountable obstacles fighting a war in america. I will lay out some of those obstacles. The first thing is diplomacy. In the seven years war britain had allies. During the war for american independence they found themselves relatively alone, fighting france in 1778. S