Folklife center. The library hosted this event as part of its summer lecture series. I am going to start the program off. I want to leave time for q a for stephen afterwards. I have a boatload of questions and i imagine the audience is going to as well. As littlewho know about the American Folklife Center as i did, i will share notes i jotted down. Our speaker today is Stephen Winick, who is with the Folklife Center. I will tell you more about his job and a second. The center is located at the library of congress, that is our theme for this month lecture series. The center was created in 1976 to preserve and present american folk life. Rather Ambitious Mission that involves researching,ocumentation, archiving performance, exhibitions, publications, everything that any Cultural Organization likes to do, the Folklife Center tries to do it. Is made up of 2700 collections, that is according to their website. It could it includes 150,000 sound recordings, 3 million items. Youll be sharing s
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China rings in the year of the sheep. Also aaron will be with us. The greek debt deal. It is a deal this time. It looks like the greeks blinked first. Athens has formally requested an extension to its current eurozone Loan Agreement. Remember, thats the one thats linked to all those austerity measures. So it could mean greece has offered major concessions to avoid running out of cash. Oh and to overcome the big resistance led by the germans. Its midday here in london 7 00 a. M. In washington 2 00 p. M. In ukraines capital, kiev where the ukrainian president has said theres been an agreement to allow full access for international monitors into wartorn Eastern Ukraine. In a phone conversation with the leaders of france, germany, and russia president poroshenko demanded the release of all ukrainians taken prisoner by prorussia rebels. All four leaders denounced violations of the ceasefire and they also called for the truce to be sustained. Well, the news follows the fall of the strategic
Thank you. That was extremely helpful and, i think, a fantastic complement to what weve heard. Jan and i have negotiated. What we have decided to do is take one round of several questions, and then give the panel a chance to very briefly close, and then we hope we wont run too far over. There was right there. Teresa, national war college. I wanted to ask a question about the storage. Ambassador pascual, you noted that theres 14 billion cubic meters in ukraine right now. As far as i know, their Storage Capacity is 30 billion. I want to understand the ownership of that storage. Does is there a transparency problem . Is there a part russian ownership problem . In what sense is the storage in ukraine usable, and in what sense does it continue to be county. Okay. And right there. Thank you. Im from russia. What are the u. S. Policy goals in the energy field in ukraine, and what are the instruments to achieve those goals . My question is for ambassador pascual and others who want to comment.
It is there on the float. I would like to convey to the mainland some small sense of our spirit of aloha. This is the isiserettes drum corps from des moines, iowa. They trained at sidwell friends, thats where sasha and malia they were allowed to stay there. They came in from des moines. Lets just listen in a little bit. Following the isiserettes, the regiment. This is from ohio, the Miami University marching band, from oxford, ohio. Before that is the platoon, 3rd u. Infantry regiment. This is the Miami University marching band. Has been an integral part of the spirit and pride of Miami University and surrounding oxford, ohio and butler county. Miami, ohio, will tell you, is close to my heart because my sister actually attended miami, ohio. A beautiful campus. One of the most beautiful ive ever been to. And their marching band is huge. Im watching it head our way right now. 260 members. Love the percussion. The band has performed in macys thanksgiving day parades, carnegie hall. Lets l