Thats it. Thank you very much for coming. Recently, a hearing held on the increase of number of unwanted phone calls and scams aimed at Senior Citizens despite laws allowing people to opt out of receiving marketing calls. We heard from someone who was a victim of one of these phone scams as well as a federal trade Commission Top regulator and a Computer Science and networking specialist. You can watch the hearing at 4 30 p. M. Eastern time and well take your phone calls and questions immediately after. Over on cspan. The cspans city tour visits sites across the country to hear from authors and Civic Leaders every weekend on cspan 2s book tv. And American History tv on cspan 3. And this month with congress on its summer recess, you can find the cities tour on cspan every day at 6 00 eastern. Today, the literary life of lincoln, nebraska, including the letters of novelist, biography of chief standing bear, and a book about the removal of native American Children from their homes. That st
Which isnt easy. Our country is a lot bigger and its different and we know that. Thats why we need support for that because it is a daunting you know, experience. Ford foundations already, you know, pledged their support. We need other powerful entities within our own country to think this is an important issue. So certainly that is one of the areas we feel theres a huge gap. The other one is were really hoping American Media can find ways to collaborate. Certainly in the field, thats so important. Jim seemed to feel that freelancers did as a whole, thats all they had is one another so they tended to Work Together in the field. But we really would love to see if we couldnt do more as American Media for colleagues in captivity, if you will. I realize this complex is very competitive here in our country. Its not a simple thing. But thats something i think jim would have liked to have seen. You know, some of the hostages mentioned to us once, this really was a big hostage issue. I mean, c
9th. An emotional first day of testimony as two teens go on trial for a murder in the east bay. Theyre accused of killing paramedic quinn boyer two years ago during a carjacking in the Oakland Hills. Jodi hernandez is live at the Alameda County courthouse in oakland where boyers wife and father both spoke today. Reporter thats right. Boyers wife and father were the first people called to the witness stand. Now, it was quinn boyers job to rescue others, but on april 2nd, 2013, the roles were reversed. Today his family shared their incredible loss. I feel like ive lost a limb. I feel like ive lost a major organ. Im never going to be the same again. And i miss him so much. Every day. Reporter with her husbands wedding ring around her neck, liz boyer told an Alameda County jury about the pain she suffered since her paramedic husband, quinn boyer, was shot and killed more than two years ago. The alleged triggerman, christian burton, was just 16 at the time of the murders. Today he and 17yea
Halt. The data not voting well for euro zone member which is are due imminently. Deals galore from goldmans. The invest ment bank selling its mines. And inturn buying deposits from ge capital. So that has come out. We have gdp from the Second Quarter at 1. 3 . Thats in line with expectation and an improvement from 1 the previous quarter. Thats the year on year number. The quarter on quarter number has come in at 0. 3 against a forecast of plus 0. 4. So fractionally below expectation which is some what in line with germany and italy earlier. They were both fractionally below expectation where france was significantly below and spain was significantly ahead. Overall the gdp number below expectation. Lets talk about the health of the consumer. Were just getting a look at the inflation picture in the euro zone. Consumer prices falling 0. 6 on the month. Rising 0. 2 from july of last year. Thats in line with expectations. Of course well below the 2 target that the ecb put in place as the me
On lectures in history, Emory University professor, Patrick Allitt teaches a class about the California Gold rush of the mid1800s. He talks about the evolving Technology Used to mine gold. Good morning, everybody. Morning. My lecture today is the history of the gold rush. And im going to talk mainly about california in the years immediately following 1848. But goallds played a very Important Role in history. The history the conquest, first of the aztecs and then the incas is an unquenchable thirst for gold. When the first english settlers came to jamestown in 1607, one of the things they were hoping to find was gold like the spaniards. They brought with them jewelers and goldsmiths. But americas first gold rush took very close to where we are now in georgia. In 1829. This was the georgia gold rush in north georgia. About to the town of deloniga, the courthouse has been converted into a gold mine museum. First gold was discovered and people started pouring into the area in huge numbers