Journalism please please help me giving a warm welcome to charles fishman. [applause] good evening. Im delighted to be in houston. I am always delighted to be in houston. Tonight is a nice night. I want to take you back to sunday afternoon, july 20, 1969. It was about 2 15 central time. Neil armstrong and buzz aldrin were in their spaceship, in the lunar module. They were getting ready to fly from lunar orbit, down to the moon to Tranquility Base and that last leg of the 240,000 mile journey would take just 13 minutes, from 50,000 feet to the surface of the moon. The first three minutes of the 13 minutes went perfectly normally. The last we 10 minutes were a cascade of problems. You would not have noticed the problems if you are listening live because that is the way astronaut and Mission Control were. The first problem was as armstrong and aldrin swooped down toward the moon, looking out the window, armstrong discovered the place they were intending to land was strewn with boulders be
About how to stabilize the individual health care market. His is just under two hours. Good morning everyone. Im with the American Enterprise institute and welcome everyone here in our Conference Room and everyone watching through electronic means to a conference today, addressing the general and very specific question, also of stabilizing the Health Insurance market under the Affordable Care act and in particular, some proposal made by a group of eight governors who will actually be following the panel. Now you may wonder why we have the governors speaking afterwards and the answer is travel considerations. But fortunately, although this panel is certainly not obligated to confine their remarks solely to the governors proposal. The governors did put out a letter last week that is quite easy to summarize. Everyone has a basic grounding in what the governors are talking about and to some extent and grounding and what we will e talking about as well. We identify really three categories o
I am honored to be asked to conduct this conversation we will draw you into in a few minutes. I will ask each of the directors and the Deputy Director support an opening assessment of their agencies and i will follow up with a little bit of detail and we will go to some general discussion and turn to you. With our first public appearance by new fbi wray, and director i want to ask the simple as question. How is it going . Agency inerseeing an the news. What surprises you . What do you want to fix . At first, i would say i would love to be here when i still havent figured anything out. , am only a month into the job so hopefully i can answer as many questions as i can. It took 10 me, seconds of walking back in the fbi building to remember how much i missed it and how excited i was to be back in the fold. Walking around the building, meeting people, trying to meet with every division and get out in the field. It has been inspiring and it reminded me why i loved the place so much when i w
I am honored to be asked to conduct this conversation we are going to draw you into in a few minutes. Each of the to ask directors and Deputy Director for an opening assessmt of their agencies. I will followup with a little bit of detail. We will go to some general discussions, and turn to you. I want to begin with our first public aearance by the new fbi director, christopher wray. How is it going . Justice,ack at overseeing an agency not at a lack for being in the news. What is the privacy echoewhat is working what is the pri vacy . What is working . I still havent figured anything out. Hopefully i will be able to answer as many of your questions as i can. Seconds totook me 10 walk back and fbi building to remember how much i missed it and how great it was to be back. Walking around the building, meeting people with every division, trng to get out in the field. It has been inspiring and reminded me why i love the place so much. Part,say for the most fewer surprises than not. The thin
Addiction hosted this panel during its annual convention in washington. This is 1 10. Good morning again, everyone. My watch says 11 20. Were going to go ahead and get started. My name is Curtis Taylor and im a person in long term recovery. I have not used alcohol or any other drug in almost 15 years now. [ cheers and applause ] please understand that is strictly by gods grace and mercy. Like marty walker, i take no credit whatsoever for all the good things god is doing in my life today. This particular panel is what my passion is many my life is dedicated to what we call reentry. Im dedicated to helping men and women transition from incarceration in a successful manner such that they never ever ever go back to prison. Thats what i get paid to do today. Imagine that. Over three quarters of the oxford house population has done some jail or prison time. I think only the senators aide has not. 70 of people in jails or prisons are addicted to alcohol or drugs. Every year thousands of them