Town of monson in central maine has a big problem. The town has bounced back from a fire that swept through downtown, destroying many of the buildings in 1860, and it is recovering from the trauma of the american civil war. The civil war ended just seven years earlier, in 1865. More than 10 of townspeople served in the civil war, and at least six of them died. The problem, even as the town of monson celebrates the 50th anniversary of its founding, is that so many of its young people are moving away. In the census of 1870, monson was listed as having 604 residents. Out of curiosity, how many of you are from places with more than 604 residents, show of hands . Virtually everyone. How many of you went to high school with more than 604 people . Virtually everyone. Monson was a tiny place, and that meant that every departure, every person who moved away from home, hurt. Their absence was noted. In 1872, when townspeople gathered to celebrate turning 50, the speaker at the event tried to put
Podcast. Given the political times that we are in and given the height and stocks of amazon, google, facebook and others, but you normally have a pretty broad scope of your coverage the job for the Financial Times by mandate was to figure out where the worlds biggest business and economic stories that cover them in opinion form which is a rather large mandate. I saw amazing numbers in terms of how well they took conditions to the Technology Sector since the great financial crisis and one of the numbers that really stuck out was the Global Institute figure looking at how 80 of corporate wealth was held at 10 of firm into those are the firms that were purchased in personal data and intellectual property so if you were holding the majority of the wealth they were the ones i profiled in the book there is some overlap with facebook and google making Digital Advertising they look at apple and mostly shined advertising. Its a great question. What they do have in common is the Network Effect a
16 billion in trade a year for both countries. Jobs rely on this network of transportation 150,000 jobs rely on this network. It is a part of our history and has been since precivil war. During prohibition, detroit is responsible for bringing in 75 of the illegal alcohol. For the 14 years of prohibition. Tocourse, that comes windsor, and canada. Trade in the 1800s in detroit, a city we know now is the motor city, was cigar capital of america. We were not only transporting in raw material, but out finish material. There were days in the 1860s we knew had 700010,000 Railroad Cars waiting to be transported that could knock it across the river because they would come into detroit via train, and wait for fairies to take them to canada. That backlog made the conversation about a tunnel or bridge take the national forefront by 1870. Something had to be done because we had storehouses filling up, waiting for this transportation that was very slow because fairies can only transport 5075 cars at
Nonnative americans. Stretching about 110 miles long and 70 miles wide, the black hills of south dakota rise up from the plains, just to the west of rapid city. The black hills are very important to the native American Community members. They are referred to as the heart. And thein pine trees elevations that we have that surround that area thinking of where rapid city is at, we are positioned at the gateway to the black hills, where it is kind of how we have always build ourselves, billed back to the earliest founders of rapid city. I am doniphan donovan sprague, i come from the lakota ise family and my tribal affiliation, from ,cion river sioux reservation , a veryacred bear butte spiritual place where not only lakota, but people of Many American Indian Tribes and nationalities visited. Aroundhe time period of 1800, we will say up to the wins as a time period, our henota and cheyenne are w lakota and cheyenne dominated this area. They moved with the buffalo and game, which supplied th
I am pleased to welcome you to the third of four lectures that comprise ourselves or men lecture series. This years series focuses on new perspectives in dissent and the Supreme Court. Before we begin the evenings program, i am commanded, not asked, im commanded to ask you to turn off your electronics. Cell phones, tablets, apple watches. Even in silent mode, they can interfere with the sound system here in the courtroom. So thank you for doing that. I would like to express the societys gratitude to our host this evening, justice sonya sotomayor. She has been enormously generous in giving up her time to the society when we call upon her to help us, and i want to thank her for taking time off during a very busy time in the life of the court. Sonya sotomayor was born in the bronx, new york, june 25, 1954. She earned a ba in 1976 from princeton. She earned a jd from yale law school, where she served as an editor of the yale law journal. She then was an assistant District Attorney in the N