Missouri, we took a driving tour museumcity with history on the square executive director john sellers. Were driving around the in springfield. And this Public Square is interesting. Its designed with the streets it in the center of each side, which is kind of rare. The corners. In but it was designed by one of the founders of springfield, campbell, who came here in 1830 with his family and wanted this to be the county designated newly Greene County of southwest donated 50 acres of land and the city sold 48 acres to get enough money for the courthouse and these two town remain, the county square. They built the courthouse in the center of the square and that became the side of Greene Countys county seat. And kind of got things started 1835 and 1838, the city was chartered. It all came about because what by now whicho go is an Historical Marker in the on whatsa building called water street. The reason its called water is was thethis intersection of several native american trails, becaus
The clerk the speakers room, washington, d. C. , august 4 2015. I hereby appoint the honorable jeff denham to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, john a. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered by the guest chaplain reverend dr. Dan c. Cummings from Skyline Wesleyan Church in san diego, california. The chaplain join with me in prayer. To the lord, the chief shepherd and savior of our souls. While members of congress are at home in their districts, we pray give each member rest. Cause them to lie down in Green Pastures lead them beside the still waters, restore and refresh their souls, lead them in the paths of righteousness for your namesake and our nations benefit. While other members are abroad who may walk through the valley of the shadow of death let them fear no evil, assure them you are near. Let your rod and your staff bring comfort. Prepare a table for all in the presence of their families. Anoint them wit
This is not the education we think of as a College Education, meaning on a campus with learning communities, the broader experience, but there are certain aspects of learning that occur. There are other formats here. Theres a lot of talk about what carnegie melon caughts the open learning model, the intelligent tutor. This is an ai intelligence based interactive situation. I ithica and other groups do behind trails on this and found out techniques that are not involved at all, you learn twice as deep and twice as fast in certain areas. The third area, i guess its called interest game, for those who know anything about science fiction, this is deeply immersive gaming. Once, again, it expands very, very parpdly, but in each case, the rapidly, but in each case, the learning process is significantly different with these than what you see op College Campuses which are facetoface, highly inter[talking over each other] interactive, and students learn more in formal settings. Its stimulating a
Matters about how work is done, but with essential respect for the delegated role of a faculty and academic policy is critical. I think that we need to be Building Systems that can do that job. I also think that the there is a town here that the governments is worse now than it ever has been. If you look at the literature on governments and the facts on governments over the last half 100 years, it has always been at messy. It has never worked all of that perfectly. Whether we are talking about internal government or external governments boards and legislatures. There is a lot of messiness on both sides of those things. I remember my president saying he came and left the job the same way fired with enthusiasm. He was one of the Great Public University president s. He fell victim to politics. It happens to the best of them then, it happens to the best of them now. I do think what is different now, this is now the peoples business. What we have to be paying attention to now more than i th
Falling apart. Over the course of just the last several decades, california has gone from one of the richest places in the world to the poorest state in our country, more than a third of californias population now hovers around the poverty line. Even before covid, over 4 million californians were collecting food stamps, more than 150,000 people in california are homeless, they are everywhere. Living on the streets, in parks, under overpasses, intents on the sidewalk. The home of crisis los angeles is getting worse with some campus getting so big, they are driving away businesses many of which are already struggling financially because of the pandemic. 32 increase in shooting since last year, while police say Financial Stress from the pandemic is largely to blame, some criticize city leaders were once again being unable to control the issue. Tucker california didnt always look this way even recently. This is a human tragedy. It wasnt caused by god or nature, it was caused by the selfish