Introduce our last speaker for the afternoon. He is the director of the Texas Military forces museum. And an adjunct professor of history at Austin Community college. He is an author and a contributor to essential civil war curriculum. His last work as a trilogy covering the civil war in virginia from gettysburg and includes meade and lee, which is due for publication next year. Lets give him a welcome. [applause] thank you. It is a real pleasure to be here. It is always fun to stand in a group of people that have the same passion. You dont get looked at as strangely when you talk to other people. I am going to break precedent today and have a powerpoint demonstration. I am doing that for several reasons. Pamplin spent a lot of money to put this system in. You will not have to get a new puppy at the end of my presentation. I became interested in the story of what happens in the Virginia Theater after the battle of gettysburg following a conversation i had with one of my favorite profes
29,000 people Alyssa Carlson from station k g e t in bakersfield joins us now with more alyssa this is your territory ridgecrest even though its 90 minutes away is your backyard. You cover that area what kind of reports are you getting were trying to determine the number of injuries, the amount of damage its dark there and i know its hard to get that information right now. The city fanned into the newsroom. Asked if we had any updates on the amount of injuries and they are telling me dont theyre saying dot. Multiple injuries have been reported as well as multiple fires by r county Fire Department and of course Emergency Responders are trying to get to those people as fast as they can but we dont know the severity of the injuries at this point the good news is at this point we do not have any reports of fatalities. So im sure that those First Responders have their work cut out for them. So what did you exactly seal. Tonight and can you compare that to the earthquake that you felt yester
Caseshiller report, home prices up 3. 5 in april compared to one year ago, compared to 3. 7 gain in march all right. Lets bring in Carl Quintanilla. Yesterday or over the weekend, traveling to vietnam, you saw a bit of some of his teases and reports, but hes there in a place that, of course, carl, has become so central in the discussions of trade that we have on this desk every day with jim in terms of changing your supply chain, so curious to see what you have learned in the time youve been there in terms of how easy or difficult that actually is. Yeah. David, youre right. It is funny, you know, we talk about it at the desk all the time, and then you get here on the ground and see what is happening in real life because this is not something that companies address directly or specifically you and i know we have read the transcripts and the Conference Calls, they say were looking at it, were going to study it, reports that others may or may not be studying, expatriating supply chains ou
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Thank you. Thanklet me introduce our panels im going to do so in alphabetical order. So it probably will not relate to to what the order in which they speak. So first, jake Jake Friefeld is the new director of center for lincoln studies at the university of illinois springfield. Earlier, he was illinois and midwest studies Research Historian at the Abraham Lincoln president ial library and museum, and he is the latest addition, a contingent of of Springfield Young scholars who have begun coming to forum. And were delighted that they here and that theyre participating. His recent book is first migrants how homesteaders quest for land and freedom heralded americas great migration. Who was here for the second time is the director of research and interpretation at the abraham president ial library and museum in springfield for years he taught history. The university of arkansas. Hes the author of manual mental. Oscar dunn and his radical fight in reconstruction louisiana. And that was publ