Communication workers of america discusses the companys recent 45day strike against verizon and discusses the antipartnership position on trade, as well as highspeed internet and broadband expansion. Hes joined by david shepardson. You need broadband and people more and more want broadband capability and the fcc is backing up giving Companies Money to build out broadband in rural communities. My members do broadbrand and its a big, big part what we do and i think its going to become an even bigger part what we do. Watch the communicators tonight. British defense secretary Michael Fallon recently updated a Parliamentary Committee on efforts to combat isis in sear yap. Syria. This is just under two hours. Some of the distrust was publicprivate stations by people who were pretty aware of what was going on. And, again, the underlying issue would the members introduce themselves. Im now the director of the ministry of defense, im mark carltonsmith. And im dominic wilson, member of ministry
Them and who has even written and implement chill book about this world that we live in. And even written and worldntial book about the that we live in. If i am not mistaken, even worked for one of the first ethan worked for one of the first. Com enterprises. Ofis also a Founding Member Global Voices online, a popular Nonprofit Network of bloggers, citizens, and journalists. In 2007, he joined the inaugural wikipedias eyes reboard. Added to the list of stop global bloggers. It is my pleasure to present ethan zuckerman. Please join me in welcoming ethan to rice. [applause] mr. Zuckerman thank you so much. It is wonderful to be here in this beautiful state on this gorgeous campus. Want to tell you about where i from and how that informs some of the work that i am doing at the moment. I teach at the m. I. T. Media lab which is one of the stranger academic institutions in the world. Behind the media you have to be future on inventing the and you have to be studying something that no one el
Change how doctors think about prescribing opioids, encouraging them to prescribe much shorter durations of treatment. Lower doses of the medications. And also in many cases, encouraging them to think about not starting a patient on opioid, if thats not necessary. Other kinds of perception medications, even trying modification first to deal with pain. Host executive action from the president yesterday, the cdc making initial guidelines on overprescribing. What about on capitol hill . As the senate left, they just pass the bill dealing with opioid addiction. What would that do . Sarah that bill would direct some money the federal government already appropriated. It would do two things. It would try and help support prevention programs, once thats try and prevent drug abuse and from even beginning. Also help support treatment programs throughout the country to help those suffering from drug abuse. Host seems like one of the big amendments was some 600 million by senator shaheen. That ame
Why it is not a normalcy . What aspect of it is not quite normal . Ms. Sullivan i will invite jerry bell to answer your question. You are talking about a range of probabilities, and this is potentially reinforcing factors which make this year more uncertain than others. But, jerry, do want to answer that . Seasonl we have three classifications, nearnormal refers to a range of activity defined by the overall season strength, as well as the numbers of hurricanes and tropical storms. We used near normal instead of oftentimesple think as the mathematical average, and we are not talking about the mathematical average here, we are talking about the middle third of the seasons with a certain level of activity. Ms. Sullivan each one of the season designations is a range of prospects, not a distinct number. Either the lower range, the nearnormal range, or the higher range. There are uncertainties, like. Ou said bell yes. If somebody could address, talk more about the signals we might be activat
We meet regularly, the defense ministers of the coalition, and we are urging other countries in the coalition to do the same. We have seen some welcome announcements from other European Countries that they are prepared to do more. General martin may want to add something about syria. I think there is a clear distinction between the coalitions contribution in support of the Iraqi Government and that that it is able to manage in syria. Arerly in iraq, we supporting the sovereign entity, and a military command. Those relative advantages do not exist in syria where we are marginally engaged in the air across a much less homogenous battlefield, where the identification of the parties, and tribes is much more difficult to determine. With respect to harnessing the significant grant component, which might maximize the Tactical Advantage the coalition were to provide, makes it that much more difficult. In terms of the decision made by parliament to move with airstrikes, any idea on the cost tod