Houses project, joined by several archeologists and preservations and a team that came to document Brandon Plantation with a series of 3d laser scans. Were here to do laser scanning and documentation of a slave house that is here. This is part of an independent project i am doing thats called saving slave houses, which is a database of all the known slave houses in the united states. It is a staffing central postory of instrumentation and documentation of slave houses in the united states. I have partnered with turnbull, the company that makes the survey equipment that i use, to do kind of the highest level documentation that is available to us today, which is 3d laser scanning. Its important to do this because one documentation is a type of preservation. Slave houses are buildings that are disappearing from the landscape, so by documenting them, thats one way of preserving them. Documenting them and through my database is also a way to share information and get it out there and learn
This is an opera. Good morning. Hope you enjoy the hot chocolate on the way in. Team said it the up for us. We love the Christmas Music as well. Thank you cspan for being here welcome to the cspan audience, welcome all of you. Os is here to make you smarter and faster and we follow the same format with our events, bringing smart brevity to bringing you into the world of business, text, business, and politics. Thank you to the bank of america to making this possible. Thank my axios colleagues who are here. We are honored to have this morning somebody who has been my governor and who has been my senator. I am a constituent, and we had this morning, the vicechairman of the Senate Intelligence committee, and senator mark warner from virginia. Senator . [applause] we are down to smart and brevity. I dont know if i fit those categories. [laughter] we are are down to four days of christmas. My normal is that i am leading groups during christmas, but that will be on the agenda this morning. We
Research revealed security flaws in chips and crude prices hit the highest level in three years reaching heights not seen since the slump in oil boosted by ongoing tensions in iran all right. We have got the composite pmi Services Number for eurozone, came out slightly higher, 58. 1 expectation was 58 thats higher than the last number of 57. 5 i think this takes it to the highest level since april 2011 so still really strong numbers coming out of eurozone here. Switching to European Markets. Lets look and see what the picture is like for trading this morning. We did have an extremely strong session in asia overnight. Ill get into that in more detail shortly the u. S. Main three indices making new highs again another session where s p, nasdaq and dow jones made new highs. The momentum is continuing into europe you can see the stoxx 600 is opening up about 0. 5 stronger thats a strong open for european equities. You can see its broadbased every index in the eurozone and in the uk are all
Reasons. We are here today to talk about the challenges that the Defense Industry and our Government Faces as a result of the pressure from wall street. How does that Quarterly Earnings report affect the ability of our government to innovate and protect us . He its a big question and its an important question with lots of ramifications for years to come. We have mr. Michael leskinen executive director of aerospace and defense. He is the wall street guy that is demanding all these things so he will have good insight for us. We have the managing director of ti u. S. Hes part of the 200 million fund that the government has with Silicon Valley to go out and require new technology and find the coolest things on the horizon that can really help us. We have secretary of the Navy Honorable Richard Spencer right here next to me and behalf mr. Mr. Michael strianese ceo of l3 technology who also is looking for a lot of this technology that he can then present to the secretary to see what it is th
Database of former slave dwellings in the united states. Her interdisciplinary work includes architectural documentation, photography, interpretation and preservation of slave history. Up next on american artifacts, we travel to southern virginia near the North Carolina border to visit the former Brandon Plantation with joe b. Hill and learn about her saving slave houses project. Shes joined by several archaeologists and preservationists and a team from trimble, incorporated who came along to document the plantation with a series of 3d laser scans. We are here to do laser scanning and documentation of a slave house that is here. This is part of a independent project that i am doing that is called saving slavehouses which is a database of all of the known slave houses in the united states. It is a repository of information and documentation of slave houses in the united states. I have partnered with trimble, the company that makes the survey equipment that i use, to do kind of the highe