I do want to go to some of the video because i was up on that hill earlier this evening and if it werent for the cell signal, wed be going live up there right now. You can see those flames and just how close they were to some of the homes earlier this afternoon, at one point between 30 to 50 feet from those homes on woodley place, but they have since dissipated at this point and even gone in the other direction a bit and the good news this evening is the fact the wind is not nearly as strong as it was earlier this afternoon in this area. Most of the people have been evacuated from here. I mean it was a mandatory evacuation. I did talk with a couple people who chose not to leave despite that mandatory evacuation. They advised us get out now and i said we will be ready to go if we think were in jeopardy and they were insistent and we said, you know, bear with us. We want to stay as long as we can. Its really sad. Its so sad. We love oakmont. Weve been here for almost 20 years. We really
[inaudible conversations] [applause] this is great. We have a full house tonight. Good evening. I am Jean Mccormick and i have the honor of being the president of the institute for the United States senate. It is my pleasure to welcome you here tonight along with our special guest for this Evenings Program, katie and robin who will be coming through this door in a minute. We are doing something a little different tonight. We are really thrilled to be joined by so Many Community leaders and we are especially excited to welcome our new members of the institute, membership is one of the ways we make it possible to have programs like this evening. For those of you who might be visiting the institute for the first time, welcome to our replica senate chamber. It is truly spectacular in the way that senator kennedy envisioned it might remind people about the Important Role of the senate. Every day, students and adults like you and i come in and become senators for a day and try to grapple wit
Special guest for this Evenings Program, katy tur and robin young who will come through this door in a minute. We are thrilled to be joined by so Many Community leaders and we are especially excited to welcome our new members of the institute. Membership is one of the ways we make it possible to have programs like this evening. For those of you that might be visiting that institute for the first time, welcome to our replica senate chamber. Its truly spectacular in the way senator kennedy envisioned it might remind people about the Important Role of the senate and the life of our government and every day students and adults like you and i sit in those seats and they become senators for a day and actually try to grapple with the same issues and be reminded of the Important Role of participation in a democracy. We all have to be involved. Through our interactive programs like tonight our goal is to see ourselves with the new generation and they keep thinking to myself real spy or as of th
Programmable computer. Its arrival gave the allies a huge edge in world war ii and saved thousands of lives. It also marked the start of the information age. England built 10 of the colossus machines. And they became the heart of its booming computing industry. Actually, no. This is a replica of colossus. The real machines were destroyed after the war so that the pesky russians would not find out about the technology. The metaphor then is a simple one england dismantled decades of pioneering computing work because it seemed like the proper thing to do, and it has suffered the consequences ever since. As i doubt many of you can name a single tech product or startup that hails from this country. What you will see next then may come as a real shock. Ashlee because in its very subdued, selfeffacing way, england has in fact given rise to a handful of Tech Companies that have impacted the world on an immense scale. I am heading from london to cambridge and into the english countryside to fin
Huge edge in world war ii and saved thousands of lives. It also marked the start of the information age. England built 10 of the colossus machines. And they became the heart of its booming computing industry. Actually, no. This is a replica of colossus. The real machines were destroyed after the war so that the pesky russians would not find out about the technology. The metaphor then is a simple one england dismantled decades of pioneering computing work because it seemed like the proper thing to do, and it suffered the consequences ever since. As i doubt many of you can name a single tech product or startup that hails from this country. What you will see next then may come as a real shock. Ashlee because in its very subdued, selfeffacing way, england has in fact given rise to a handful of Tech Companies that have impacted the world on an immense scale. I am heading from london to cambridge and into the english countryside to find the best technology that england has to offer. Along th