Bless him, an associate dean of the college of humanities and at byu. He is also the editor of a book. His talk is entitled the special relationship as Popular Culture 1989 to 1906. Please join me in welcoming frank. [applause] thanks, bob. Echo has go stimulating this has been. I was going over my notes. I could spend half the talk making callbacks for yesterdays session. There were so many things i found helpful in my own thinking. I do have a couple of preparatory thoughts. From some things that Patty Limerick is said in her keynote yesterday. I really like her idea of what she calls Buffalo Bills studies, as fieldnotes. Field that identifies our collective project as inherently ecumenical. In its approach to scholarship, one that is called a by the nature of the subject. Was, i informal survey thought, was very helpful. She asked about the various backgrounds of those in the audience. I would like to think that the paper is working towards this vision in a variety ways. One of whic
Money eventhough tivest wasnt licensed to do the work. Indictment burfoot manipulated a filing deadline in favor of tivest for work in the Broad Creek Villas Development where he now owns a home. The feds also bring up the controversial midtown Office Tower Development project where burfoot got 50,000 in cash and other gifts to show favor to tivest with that development and then voted to approve the project for tivest. He also tried to conceal the scene. At another hearing for another project burfoot was asked udner oath mr. Burfoot have you ever solicited anything fo value in exchange for an official act. Burfoot answered, i did not. I have not. Mr. Burfoot have you ever accepted anything of value in exchange for an official act. He answered i have not. Today i went to the treasurers office, would be arriagned today. This is a story we have been following since april when he got federal subpoenas. Since april when he got federal subpoenas. Thank you andy 10 on your sides jason marks a
On whats going on there. That was certainly, that is all generally presyria, which has been system an igniter for the whole resurgence of al qaeda including al qaeda in iraq. So i, i actually believe, and this goes back to how the military fit in, how does force fit in . I would like it to fit in as part of an overall strategy, there are political endeavors and military every endeavors, i feel that way about syria as well, that the political structure, the diplomatic structure needs to be there, not perfect but at least needs to be there that is committed to stopping the killing and getting those, the camps of all those who are out of the country, getting the people back to their homes. Then if the military need be a part of that, thats okay. I worry about, it is too easy to pick up a stick and do something and figure out what happens after the case. So i feel that way. I mean iraq, i saw the other day where there are discussions now about giving them assistance. I think thats a good o
Right now the incentive for agency is to add more staff and chase down more dollars and spend as much as you can at the end of the year. You mentioned spending caps. Sequestration caps and other caps hit at every single program. There are some programs that run more efficiently than others but a cap like sequestration hits all of them with an equal amount of fury. If eui gave the agency the authority to cut 20 from their budget there is very little oversight of which programs they will cut and they will keep the ones they like best and cut those that probably i like the best. Talk through different options you have seen for incentivizing agencies for reduction. I list 15 reasons why the Public Sector will never be as efficient as the private sector. The profit motive in the private sector is usually powerful and the government doesnt have that. Theres been lots of talk for payforperformance in the federal government for decades but it never happens and i dont think it can. The governme
Issues going on inside russia. Some things going on inside russia are quite problematic. One oftin the reasons why he is most popular is because russians are experiencing a time of prosperity. Level of abouta four percent growth, which is ok, but not where they wanted to be. His Economic Growth has fallen close to zero. One 1. 3 . Then it was close to zero. The sense that he brought prosperity to russia if the you are go badly, then disgruntled, and people are looking around, and they are saying, actually, this guy, things are not going so well economically right now in russia. The if there is a dip in oil price, which is so important for the russian economy, then they start another scenario where his leadership is really under much more pressure than one would have imagined. Of focusingelement on the successful russia. Come to russia, and see with the new russia is like. It is completely different than what the Old Soviet Union was like. This is not your fathers buick. This is the new