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good evening everyone and welcome. i am the director of the research library and it is my pleasure to welcome you to the library we are pleased to have cathy davidson with us this evening, the author of the critically important book of the new education how to revolutionize the university to prepare students for a world in flux. the distinguished professor at the city university of new york at the director of the futures initiative program prior to joining the faculty sh she felt they shared a professorship at the vice president for disciplinary studies at duke university. serving on the corporation the developer as you probably know on the firefox web browser and the underwriter of a community of open source developers appointed by president obama through the national council on the humanities and was the 2016 recipient of the award for significant contributions to higher education. all of that you probably know it in any case you can read it in the program should yo ....
the scope congresswoman suzanne bonamici pic that sonia sotomayor s my beloved world. booktv covered with just a sotomayor where chick talks about her book. [applause] greetings, welcome. [applause] greetings, welcome to the progressive form. i m with valens donder of the progressive form america s only civic speaker organization expressly does it dedicated to in the largest speaker organization in texas. [applause] we are excited tonight to present supreme court justice sonia sotomayor launching her first book a memoir called my beloved world. please turn off your cell phones photography or video taping is not allowed. the beautiful flowers on stage or flowers that were found in lovely puerto rico. [applause] puerto rico just a sotomayor s culture and family. thank you c-span booktv to be here in houston texas at the wharton center. welcome to you and her friends across the country joining us on television. thank you for joining us. [applause] i m excited to ....
in their time. because everybody knew there was a northwest passage to the pacific ocean. there was a water way to get across this country. and because they failed to find that, they were considered failure. later on in 1742, two of his sons. louis and francois traveled further south and further west than they had previously. and on the return trip, they stopped at the con fluns of in missouri river. in this vicinity. and on a bluff over looking what is the present city of fort peer buried a led plate claiming the region for france. that does more than anything set the french control of this particular area. the beauty as it was saved, it could have been melted away and never found it. here people can actually look at the plate and understand this is the first time in 1743 that we know there were non-indians in the area. and it caused a great deal of kpa excitement in the city at the time. and history community and people doing further research on what the veredrye brot ....
his first primetime address to the nation on the path forward in afghanistan and south asia. the strategies based on traditions on the ground, not arbitrary timetables. it will ensure terrorists never again use afghanistan as a haven to attack united states. the brave women and men of our military have given extra nares sacrifices extraordinary sacrifices. the president recognized the sacrifices on monday at his speech. a gentleman from santa fe, tennessee sent his son a letter nearly 10 years ago while he was serving our country in iraq. now, his son is on his second were of duty in afghanistan and his father has generously shared the letter and mailed it to the president. he s been a police officer for over 30 years and he sent this letter to his son and onto the white house in hopes that the president would actually receive it and read it, which i m glad to say he did earlier today. joseph wrote please don t lose sight of your purpose. you are the only hope for th ....
tell us what the president requested for 2018, and what were his top priorities? the president stuck with the overall number in the law. the budget control act, requesting basically a little over $1 trillion. 1.1 trillion, as the law allows for. but within that number, he really departed from the budget control act numbers and requested a lot more for defense programs. about $54 billion for security-related programs. he covers that within equal amount of cuts in nondefense spending. that is a violation of the budget control act there. more than that, it is very politically unpopular. members really like the defense spending increase, but they don t like taking it out of nondefense programs, like agriculture, cut more than 20%. transportation, federal housing programs cut 15%. labor, health, education programs, cut similarly. state department programs cut tremendously. congress is rejecting that. they don t really have their own plan laid down just yet. but while they ....