More now from the National Competitiveness forum with the focus on Public Private partnerships and manufacturing. This is an hour and a half. Good morning, everyone. Its great to be back with the council again. So i only have half a voice, im afraid. I left the other half in stockholm a couple days ago. I was very privileged to get to attend the nobel prize ceremonies because the National Science association supported the 3 physicists that won the prize for Gravitational Waves for 40 years. I think thats a good place to start. [ applause ] its good for all of us to appreciate just what a high risk high reward investment is all about. So that was a progress of technology and super duper engineering challenges that had to be overcome. A lot of people, as you might guess, came and went. It involved multidisciplinary teams of people who did the numerical relativity using Super Computers so we actually knew when the first gravitational wave was detected, what the source was, that it was two
Its good for all of us to appreciate just what a high risk, high reward investment is all about. So if that was a progress of technology and super duper engineering challenges that had to be overcome, a lot of people as you might guess came and went. And it involved multidisciplinary teams of people who did the numerical relativity for computers so thats new in the first gravitational wave was detected. And what the source was, that was two colliding black holes that were in a postbinary system. The most recent gravitational wave detection to neutron stars emerging. So its, but it was a very long tail. There are many many directors, many and its a Program Officers involved National Science board, they changed over large number of times during that interval and had to improve all the funding and that of Course Congress of course was the ultimate arbiter of appropriations and making the decision to continue an investment but nobody was quite sure what would have a result so how risky is
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Next, republican president ial candidate, Ohio Governor john kasich, holds a town hall meeting in salem, New Hampshire. Then, the iowa state fair. We begin with representative wasserman schultz, followed by remarks by republican residents of candidates, new Jersey Governor Chris Christie and bobby jindal of louisiana. Republican president ial candidate, Ohio Governor john kasich, held a town hall meeting in salem, New Hampshire on wednesday. He discussed combating isis, Climate Change, and the iran nuclear agreement. This is just over one hour. [applause] john kasich should i tell them the story or not . Ok. Town grew up in a little outside of pittsburgh. It is a bluecollar town. My father carried mail on his back, his father was a coal miner. My father was a democrat his nevere lifetime switched parties. My mother, she was a very intelligent woman, very opinionated, but undereducated. She could have really been something. She would have so many views on things, and she was never afrai