Audience to pose questions. Here we go with our panel number one. We are looking at the vision. We will explore innovative practices and partnerships. Our first speaker will be the Senior Program officer at the bill and Melinda Gates foundation. Hoping to have leon mac, director of el paso Public Library. Unfortunately she had a family emergency and was not able to the year. We are excited to have clarence anthony, executive director of the National League of cities. We will start out with her. Well, thank you, director. The national museum, Library Services for holding this hearing. I appreciate the opportunity to talk about the experience that the bill and ellen Gates Foundation has had with in china access to technology through Public Libraries and our vision of our libraries can drive personal and Community Development. Today the foundation is composed of many programs and initiatives. Helping farmers in africa strengthen their crops, improving the educational system in the United
20th Century Technology to 21st century highspeed Broadband Technology. Its a reallocation of resourcef resources are never easy and never pleasant but they are essential if we are to keep pushing forward. We are moving to broadband to the person at the library. Its not just an external connection but its how do you get using wifi to the individual in a library . We are bringing the application and administrative process into the 21st century as well by using the same kind of ride band tools and we are focusing on fiscal responsibility. The key is not just more money although if more money is warranted we will deal with that but the key is money well spent by encouraging consortia, by creating longer support. So you can have longer contracts with lower rates and by establishing a system of reference phrasing so people know what is a fair price . We dont expect librarians to be Telecom Experts and able to go out there and haggle with Telecom Companies so how do we help in that regard .
It is the inside story. Hem low, i am ray swarez. A long long time ago there were many different nationalities separate countries on the island of britain. The people spoke different languages over time, practiced different varieties of the christian religion, made different alliances around the world, in time, the riches and most powerful of the countrys in britain, england, united whales scotland and ireland under one monarch and one government run from london, after three centuries of union, the people of scotland have agitated for more and more autonomy, running more of their affairs in scotland. Now many are saying they want a complete break, to become a separate selfgoverning country, making that almost inconsequential line, into a Real International border. Will that benefit the scotts . Do the english want them to stay in the United Kingdom . The polling is in two weeks, and scottish Public Opinion is closely divided. Should scotland be an independent country . In just two week
Thousand jobs in august, the smallest gain in years. This could mean the fed waits before tightening policy. Over 700 billion of fixed income from blackrock. He is here to share his views. People saw an immediate reaction. Except for the headline, Everything Else was pretty good. Themployment rate dashboard improved. We saw hours worked unchanged. Longterm unemployment went down and the number of people working parttime. Federal several prominent researchers said that a secular because so many people are retiring from the labor force. That is not the position janet yellen has taken. Within the fed there is a growing recognition that that is the case and we are not going to see a big rise big rise. Are people going to come back into the labor force . What you make of all this . Take a caveat and say there are things that are really good. Every single piece of Economic Data has been positive. Adp was really good. I sm. If there is something worth thinking about. To 17 have disappointed a
Must be expert riders willing to risk death the daily. Wage is 25 a week, which is a large sum of money for the time period. But of course, risking death daily comes with this type of occupation. The telegraph comes across the prairie and often times the is stretchede across the sagebrush because there were very few trees even to this day across much of the expanse of the planes. With the telegraph laid out across the prairie, annals would run through it. Native americans learned the talking wireman more white people coming down the prairie. They would use it for ornamented accessories or jewelry, etc. The story of the trails ends with the Continental Railroad bringing in mass populations very rapidly through the western United States. It also begins a new chapter with the modern highway that we now have today. I hope visitors take away from the Interpretive Center here in appreciation of the people that settled the american west. They were not large people. They were tough people with