I welcome you to the Historical Society and center this eechk. If you do not know about us, its time you did. We are the first such center within the walls of a major museum in the United States. And its about time. Im not going to take too much time, too much time away from the panel, but i do want to do a special shoutout to our moderator, post doctoral fellow in womens history and public history here at new york his r historical. Nick is a fantastic scholar and human being and colleague and i am so absolutely thrilled that hes been with us at a very important moment in the development of the center. I also want to do a special shoutout to the Melon Foundation itself, which about four years ago, gave us a giant vote of confidence and very lovely grant to get the center up and running because at the Melon Foundation, we are here and we are here to stay. And really, really happy about that. In any case, nick went to columbia university, got his phd there just a couple of years ago, as
Apples stock down. Suppliers like this. The apple watchmaker getting a nice jump. A whole new review. Time now for the morning brief. Apple had an announcement yesterday. Unveiling a 999 iphone. The iphone 10 is the most expensive phone ever from apple was one of three new models tim cook showed off at an event at the new headquarters. The event came on the 10th anniversary of the launch by steve jobs. Phone, and an internet communicator. Are youphone getting it . These are not three separate devices. This is one device. [applause] iphone. E calling it today apple is going to reinvent the phone. Tim cook said the new phone signals the next era of smartphone evolution. Iphone wet advanced have never made come a new design, face idea, true depth camera system, and more powerful technology than we ever put in an iphone before. It really is the future of the smartphone. The big question, will these new products impress customers and investors. Great to have you with us. Adam, lets begin wi
Were going to continue to challenge states to hold universities accountability. Were going to get much more information out to young people and their families to make good choices. We hope theyll go places that are not just serious about creating access, but about completion. Theres a number of things were going to do to help people make choices and to get more resources to places that are doing the right thing by their young people. This questioner suggests that the administration has pulled back a little bit on that effort to evaluate and rate colleges and universities wondering if the administration was bowing to from Higher Education institutions or what happened there. We can be accused of lots of things. It was an interesting process that was we learned as we were going through it. Its almost like an old school versus newschool approach and the idea of having a federal government do an annual report card and come out with a seal of approval, that used to maybe make some sense. It
When it comes to the Auto Industry and expanding u. S. Auto exports, we have quite a strong case to make when it comes to the tpp. According to the agreement, we will this agreement will cut the 30 car tariff in malaysia and 70 car tariff in vietnam. Those are two countries where you have a large and growing middle class. That makes them good markets for selling automobiles. The United States and the negotiators who represented our interests at the table are keenly aware of that and thats why there is the priority that was placed on trying to cut the tariff so is that u. S. Automakers would have better access to those markets. And if youre going to be able to cut the 30 car tariff in malaysia and 70 in vietnam, youll be able to sell more cars and thats ultimately the goal. It will expand Economic Opportunity for american businesses and create significant opportunity for American Workers for making those cars. Thats been the goal of this particular agreement and thats the case that well
Published in 1906. A year after his bought his ranch property. The valley of the moon was published while he was living here. Jack london claimed that he worked two hours a day writing thousand words a day before breakfast. But i think a lot of his time was spent because he was trying to build the beauty ranch so it could be a model and that took a lot of his time. See all of our programs saturday at noon eastern on cspan 2s book tv and sunday afternoon at 2 00 on American History tv on cspan3. And a house Science Space Technology hearing. Discussing the potential of life on other planets and the recent discovery of liquid water on mars. Lamar smith chairs this hour and 40 minute hearing. Science space and technology will come to order. Without objection the chair is ordered to declare recesses of the committee at any time. Welcome to todays hearing, astrobiology and the search for life beyond earth in the neck decade. Let me make a couple of announcements. One is to say we expect more