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And thats why she has to be destroyed. So i think you are right. Locally there can be some importance because you dont need massive sums of cash but by the time you get on the National Stage and i do vote but i just dont think voting means that much at this point. Id like to invite all of you to continue the conversation but for now lets join in thanking chris hedges. [applause] [inaudible conversations] also i would be remiss as a bookseller if i didnt tell you that chris will be signing books at the book table. Booktv recently visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what they are reading this summer. Right now im finishing frank by barney frank. Its an autobiography. Its a really interesting book and it gives you a look at his career and congress back when it worked a little better than maybe now and some of the highlights in the major legislation he worked on some of the experiences he went through that are especially r ....
Years of research. Its the unofficial sequel to his book which new orleans a lot of slaves who were brought in from the kind of from haiti and cuba and also from africa. So that is one that were very excited for. Its an october title. Host and are you going to send the author on tour one that booktv would look at covering. Guest absolutely. The authors will be going along the mid Atlantic Coast to various locations that are talked about in the book Chesapeake Bay area. Host what other books do you have that you think booktv would be interested, booktv viewers would be interested in . Guest 17 [inaudible] i dont know if you can see the cover, it is one of the first modern sub b marine rescues submarine rescues. The it was a training accident with, i believe, the uss spaulding. Six of the members of the 4 were in the to torpedo area, and they were still alive when the submarine ....
But as we widen out, there are these scattered storms that are developing ahead of a main line, a cold front to the north and west and until that cold front passes through, these storms are going to fire up and be on the intense side because of that extreme humidity. So a severe thunderstorm watch in effect until 10 oclock tonight for the entire viewing area. The main threat the very strong powerful winds with the storms and even some isolated hail. So, what to expect. Youre going get a round or two of storms between now and until it clears the coast around 11 oclock tonight, extremely heavy rain, blinding rain to the point youre going have to pull over many times and also those damaging winds well be tracking but brian and sharrie, this does not end the heat wave after this cold front passes through. Well talk about more 90s and heat indices above 100 coming up in full accuweather forecast. Okay, adam, thank you. Lets take a live look now at the floor of the convention here of course ....
Jim . Honor, the whole group. It is a humbling honor, blessed be part of it. Thank you for the great introduction. I can skip part of my talk. I want to go back one step. My granddad was a corn farmer during the Great Depression in colorado. He had to sell out. My granddad left and went north to find a new business. He started making grain doors for the railroad is this. That is how we got started in 1936. I jumped in my children, well my dad. He was six years old then. Now he is 85. We got into halftime, and his you, that is 12 hours a day. Is still hurting cattle herding cattle. My daughter is working in dallas , the halftime incident. Some of you may know about it. Some of the objectives you have here, my son just got deployed. He is heading overseas soon. [applause] it is a lesson i have been given. We started with 15, now we have 480. 300 independent contractors loyal to us, on top of our employee base. Ive been on quite a ....
The problem with that is when job,graduate and find a there are only so many of that type of job. But frankly, there are more jobs these days that you can get without having a college degree. Most of my employees with our half, had noaybe background and what we do prior to working for us. We train them. You looking for basic skills and then train them. Paul exactly, we are looking for hardworking ethic. And we have settled with saying we will teach them the rest. My cto has become the educator in chief, helping employees develop and grow skills. You can see that across all industries. I dont think there is a job shortage. I think there is a worker shortage. But i dont think theres a people shortage. Bob we could spend a lot of time. Heidi, if you could address this briefly and then audience questions. Heidi i think the key is education reform, and private Public Partnerships like ibm is doing. Things like that where you got e ....