Developing space projects. Please welcome Christian Zur of the Space Industry Council, us chamber of commerce. Good morning and thank you to the chamber of commerce, launching the space economy. Our Second Annual space summit. Events such as this are team effort and we appreciate the support of our sponsors, boeing, northrup, rocket lab, one web, hawkeye 360, we have been busy in the past year from policy discussions ranging from management of commercial aviation and space launch airspace to small satellite encryption and the orbit assurance, commercial opportunities aboard the iss and future gateway. We convened a roundtable for the coast guard regarding the need for greater use of space surveillance in the arctic waterways. And Space Industry Council has an effort for policy pursuits. Fortunately we have an enthusiastic space industry ceo. And it sums up the chambers approach to the entire sector for which i will quote. Harnessing the potential of space will be no easy feat. It took
Which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] the speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers rooms, washington, d. C. January 10, 2020. I hereby appoint the honorable david n. Cicilline to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered by the guest chaplain, rabbi barry h. Block, from church, from little rock, arkansas. From congregation bnai israel, from little rock arkansas. The chaplain source of blessing we come before you today asking your blessings upon the United States house of representatives. At this time of grave division, inspire these members of the peoples house to reach across every kind of aisle, to build new friendships that may grow into opportunities for greater understanding, speaking shared solutions to americas greatest problems. As th
Brownlong was convicted of murder at 16 and set free 15 years later. Her message about keeping the faith and believing in herself. Its monday, october 28th, 2019. Heres todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. The United States brought the worlds numberone terrorist leader to justice. The leader of isis killed in syria. He died like a dog. He died like a coward. He was whimpering, screaming, and crying. Reporter california is under a state of emergency as wildfires continue to grow. Reporter tens of thousands of people have been ordered to evacuate. Its hard. Hard to leave, you know. Reporter california congresswoman katie hill resigns amid allegations of an inappropriate relationship with a capitol hill staffer. A manhunt underway for a gunman who opened fire at an offcampus College Party in texas killing two people. The world we live in now. Reporter the latest protests in hong kong quickly turned violent. Reporter hong kongs Financial Sector says the unrest has triggered a reces
The judges considered 151 books, which were whittled down to 13 on the longlist, six on the shortlist, and tonight there will be just one book left, one winner. The six shortlisted authors are all here tonight they include two former winners of the prize sir Salman Rushdie and Margaret Atwood. And all of them are now waiting to find out if they have won, and if theyll be taking home the £50,000 cheque that goes with winning. To help guide us through the proceedings, im delighted to say were joined by the author and journalist Daisy Buchanan and nic bottomley, owner of mr bs book shop in bath, and president of the Booksellers Association which represents book shops in the uk and ireland. Thank you both for being here. Not long now, plenty to discuss. But before we chat, lets have a look at this years shortlist. You lionesses six of the best books of the year are competing for the booker prize. Margaret atwoods testa m e nts booker prize. Margaret atwoods testaments is the sequel to the
Which i absolutely love my father left me ireland by Michael Brendan dougherty. In some ways is very different from what we do, from what im used to. Im a scholar here at aei and we are a private institute for Public Policy research. We do lots of social science studies and in fact social science studies get a bad name in my father left me ireland but in a way that highlights what we have in common to the section that goes after how nationhood in the modern day is often well ill put it like this a nation today in a modern way of thinking is at best problematic. It is at best problematic a useful administrative unit. That section is tipped off by the author Michael Daugherty talking about singing to his newborn baby over and over again the same songs. The foggy dew, the wind that shakes the barley and even the patriots game which i tried to sing in that lullaby way. This is familiar to me because i also sing my children to sleep with irish songs. I mostly use irish rebel songs because t