Each week american artifacts visits locations across the country. The archive offers permanent access for scholars, historians and the general public. The idea is to try to build the Library Version two. Can you go and make all of the books, music, video available to all those that are interested enough. We are trying to do the pieces that are missing. Maybe the historical pieces or the large scale hosting materials or taking the materials of people that people are puting up on their websites every day. The archive is large servers but also physical holdings of books, music, video, and offering them for free Public Access anywhere in the world. The digital materials are on servers that are here in a church that we have bought in San Francisco. We have converted a church to be a library. I love looking at them. They have lights on them. Every time a light blinks it is someone uploading or downloading something. We get ten to fifteen million books downloaded a month. Concert recordings a
Four, the nasdaq squeezing out a gain, and people keeping the close eye on washington in particular, the debt ceiling, Government Shutdown and the like continues to pressure wall street and putting an economic numbers like personal spending and income which are in line, Consumer Sentiment is something we kept an eye on. It is doing well today, hit a new alltime high. And better than expected numbers, basketball, deer in particular, running gear, stock is 5 . Tracy the dow is not as bad as it could be. Adam see you in 15 minutes. Fannie and freddie and the federal Housing Administration, billion dollar bailout from the u. S. Treasury. The bailout, the first in the at h as 79 year history due to lost revenue because of higher Interest Rates, billion dollar figure is double what the Obama Administration expected it would need in april. Senior Administration Officials say they expect fhas finances to improve in the coming months. Tracy fords ceo alan malawi vaulting to the top of the list
Them for free Public Access anywhere in the world. The digital materials are on a church weve brought in San Francisco. I love looking at them. Every time the light blinks someone is uploading or downloading from the archive. We get 3 Million Viewers a day. Books aloan we get 10 to 15 million books a month download ed from the internet archive. We have the primary servers here. We have backup servers in richmond, california and in redwood city. We have a partial copy in egypt and amsterdam. The idea is to have copies in other places so that we dont have the fate of burning and disappearing. It has been my idea to try to take advantage of this change that we can actually store things online and make them broadly available. It was always in the air. The promise of having the library of congress on your desk forever. It was like why dont we just go and build that . It has been a long journey and then building some of the computers and systems that became the worldwide web. The early days
Number one, mr. Speaker. The Prime Minister. Thank you, mr. Speaker comes to the whole house will wish to join me in paying tribute to warrant officer ian fisher of the first the type who was killed on operations in afghanistan on tuesday the fifth of november. It is clear from the tributes paid he was a professional and well respected soldier who made a huge contribution to the army over many years on a number of operational tours. Our thoughts and condolences should be with his family and his friends. This morning i had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others, and in addition to my duties in this house, i shall have further such meetings later today. Im sure everyone of us will want to in this season of her members we will always remember their service to our country. Hear your. Mr. Speaker, in piece across the house will have memories of the nightmare unfolding across the bank. Does the Prime Minister share my sense of his belief that a person such as responsible as he was f
Drop off with attention and get cranky sometimes so the next point in importance really revolves about relieving family stress and less money out of the pocket providing the meals and not having to hurry to get food on the table and they know that the children are fed. And then also federal and state funding is available for child nutrition and currently in San Francisco a majority of what were talking about today is leveraging those funds to maximize local dollars. This last point of importance really does its kind of a story. I was talking to the director for Columbia Park of boys and girls club and he wanted to switch from snack to a summer meal provided and i was asking him why and he stated over a period of time that since october he had tracked the number of incidences that occurred like behavior incidences and out of all of them 95 of those students said they were hungry and so he really looked into that deeper and just learning that 50 of them had not eaten since 730 in the mor