American rail act that was signed into law by abraham lincoln. It allowed several Railroad Companies to make it Union Pacific and then they were charged with the task of building the Transcontinental Railroad that bridged the east and the west coast. They met up in utah and that is really what propels us even farther. We become that point of moving west, one of the gateways towards the west. That is today at 2 00 p. M. Eastern on American History t v. Now to discuss the future of television with a group of industry leaders. Speakers include a former sec fcc chairman michael powell, gordon smith, and Consumer Electronics association ceo gary shapiro. This is part of the conference of the advanced Television Conference committee, which develops standards for television. This is about one hour 10 minutes. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to this super panel on the future of television. Of course, we have a trio of panelists who lead industries that are vitally interested in that future. Its
Spoke and said some things as well. I listen to what you say and i dont always follow it. Theres tablets, things you carry, a lot of displays Virtual Reality coming. Theres all sorts of technology. Some of which are aware of lcd and things like that. Some have not been invented or research labs. I really do want to correct. Its not just about apple. Apple is a great company. They are doing great things. Vizio is talking about going public today. In terms of what else well be seeing in the near term its had a successful run. When i talked to retailers, i hear about sets going off the shelves. The numbers are truly astounding in terms of how they are selling and the price you can get. Because we all work in washington, d. C. , i suppose the obligatory question has to be, well start this time with you, michael, what can the government do to help or, on the other hand hinder your industry and filling out its role in the future of television and feel free to lay out any concerns you have ab
Some faith providers from kenya on the subject of Family Planning. So i think it is true what the first panel really emphasizes, that things are evolving and developing and this is an important moment to be exploring this further. And with this panel were eager to talk about it from the focus of the u. S. Policy perspective. And i think to begin with well turn to sandy thurman. Given your long involvement with hiv policy from the u. S. Government can you describe to us more about how pep far began partners with faithbased organizations and how that has evolved. Sure. Thank you. And thank you all for being here. It is interesting, the Faith Community has been a partner in response to hiv since the beginning of the epidemic both domestically and globally. So i think pet far was an out growth with faithbased organizations on the domestic side for a number of years. When we really began looking at the disproportionate impact of the epidemic in africa back in the late 1990s and early 2000,
Here. It is interesting, the Faith Community has been a partner in response to hiv since the beginning of the epidemic both domestically and globally. So i think pet far was an out growth with faithbased organizations on the domestic side for a number of years. When we really began looking at the disproportionate impact of the epidemic in africa back in the late 1990s and early 2000, it was a lot our interest and a lot of the pressure that was brought to bear on the u. S. Government and policymakers was from faithbased organizations who were on the ground in africa seeing the devastation that was occurring on the continent. So theyve been a natural partner for us faithbased organizations and faith backers have been a natural partner with those of us working in the hiv and aids response from the beginning. So when we began to expand the global perspective to focus on hiv and to put this in perspective, working in the white house, with the global aids budget had been 125 million a year f
Took all of the medical research amendments and all of the democrats and republicans and said lets put everything in one amendment, susan went along with it and she said that she had the alzheimers amendment specifically. And we had 42 or 43 that had cosponsored amendments when it came to medical research. Now we were all together and that is the way this works in the way that you build the coalition. When you look at heart disease, alzheimers has got the largest footprint out there in the costs are the highest as i understand them of all of these. But the level of Research Dollars that the federal government spends is really a pathetic third or less of what you see going into similar rates. Im interested structurally what you think is happening in this field that has made it difficult to step those numbers up. Thats a good question. I am asked about it as long as i have been in the house and the than it how do you pick your research projects. And it is a deadly disease, it affects chi