Language so that you can take language and put it into high gear and then slow down. That is something shakespeare lets you do if you are a politician. The night, the night. Parting is such sweet sorrow. Iowa State University professor Thomas Leslie talks about the changes in 19thcentury Architecture Design and technology. New materials and Foundation Methods allowed buildings to be built taller and incorporate more glass to but in more light to interior spaces. This class is an hour and a half. Professor leslie lets get started. Good afternoon to everyone and our expanded classroom today. I want to start quickly with where we are in the course and how this intersects with American History in particular. We have been looking at the history of Building Construction in the west, and we have gotten to the point where we have it developed a fair amount of building structures. We have a couple of new materials we are working with iron and also glass. Finally, we have this conception that we
With what crime and policing is like in your community. If you live in an urban area, dial in at host you can also join the conversation via twitter, facebook or sent us an email. Phone lines are open. We want to know what crime and policing is like in your community and what sort of reforms, if any, you want to see. Heres the Baltimore Sun this morning front page courtesy of them. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings blake asked ooh fullscale civil rights investigation into the practices of the Baltimore Police department it would exam Excessive Force discriminatory harassment and false arrests and unlayoffal unlawful actions. Justice Department Said they received it. This is after Loretta Lynch the attorney general went to baltimore and met with the mayor and other officials in that community and now the mayor asking for a full probe of the citys police. This after a jack young and 10 members of the city county critical asked for a fullscale investigation. All are democrats. Robert is up first i
That made secretary of state nominee Rex Tillerson so appealing to president elect trump is under scrutiny. Learning more each day about the oil magnates business dealings often at odds with the state department he plans to lead. His special relationship with Vladimir Putin. Nbc National Correspondent Peter Alexander is outside trump tower. Lets drill down on this New York Times reporting a lot of details about exxon mobil, their dealings with the kurds, side stepping what washington wanted in iraq. Also dealings with repressive governments in africa and going to moscow for an economic meeting last june when the other Oil Companies were boycotting it being criticized for the state department for that. Reporter the bottom line is you have a man who for most of his adult life, almost all of it, was focused on profiting on behalf of his own company. Now the challenge is whether he can translate the dealmaking experience to Reliance Building overseas. It poses concerns as you are indicatin
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