Im here with others author of the American Gods country and for me in the heartland. On return to the bulk and marie in a moment. Just have a couple of announcements to make. My name is danny im the owner of the raymond bookstore in kansas from city right now. The director of the literary festival. We appreciate you being here. With us, trend 12 the author. It would perhaps be more fun if we were altogether this beautiful sunny day. But we appreciate regardless. And we plan to be back stronger than ever in 2021. We had a great series of Online Events are all archived and available for replay just like raven bookstore at the top of the page. To get to the list of archived events. In a couple of other things about how this is going to work. Marie is going to give a sort talk and show some photos about the book. Then well open it up to questions. You can ask a question by clicking the ask question buttoned at the bottom of your screen. We appreciate you asking questions to kind of keep th
Across the country and serving about 35 of our landmass. Host could you name a couple of those companies to help us get familiar . Guest absolutely. We could go all the way to western south dakota by Mount Rushmore to visit golden west and we could go to citizens on the Mississippi River up in wisconsin where we got cooperatives and if you are in my state of virginia weve got scott county down in the very tip of the state serving the tristate area so ive got 850. Host when you talk about landmass you not talking landmass or population at all. Guest peter, you hit upon the key part of this. Its about 5 of the American Population but they are truly the providers in this extremely rural part of the country and everywhere from alaska down to the panhandle of florida so they stretched all across and it got everybody from someone who is got about 150 subscribers to probably my Largest Company has just about 100,000 subscribers. They are serving those areas with quite frankly the Bell Compani
Because there has been a long history of it but it is a different scenario now. We all want fair am a secure, timely elections, but we have three essential problems facing this upcoming president ial election. First, the Global Pandemic, which none of us have ever seen, throughrough, or voted before. Second, the emerging tactics of a white house that is moving to very broadly and very clearly suppress the vote and third, the impact of both the white house strategy and the Global Pandemic on marginalized groups. That included black, brown, native, or those with differing disabilities, etc. In the past, in different administrations when the question of suppression came up, it could be put squarely on how the state treated black folks. It lost drew lines, how ballots, and that sort of thing. How they had been targeted by state policy but it is more complicated now. Moment where the administrations tactic is bolder, broader, and in some levels, it is extremely transparent and that tactic i
Several of whom will participate remotely. I will come artisticpa wish panl of witnesses. I thank them for a period. Today we will hear from mr. Steven berry, president and chief exec of Competitive Carriers Association paid ms. Shirley bloomfield, chief executive officer of the ruralhe broadband association. Mr. Dean kimmelman, Senior Advisor of Public Knowledge who will be appearing at testified remotely and mr. Jonathans vulture, president and chief executive officer of u. S. Telecom broadband association. The crisis has changed lead dramatically for every american. As the administration and the center for Disease Control and prevention encourages social a distancing to prevent further spread of the virus normalia activities like work, school and Health Care Services are now increasingly taking place online. This has caused a huge uptick for the use of broadband in one estimate shows that every Broadband Usage is up by 47 since the pandemic began. The good news is theres been progre
Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie is testifying. How are we expanding that . As i am sure you are aware so 6 is a constant constellation of syndromes. There have been several definitions over the past 20 years and it takes recognizing what we call gestalt, looking at the numbers of the patient, identifying this early so you can hydrate the person and get them the antibiotics they need. Several facilities are exploring an automated way to synchronize that data that this might be a substance than for them to make a more immediate clinical decision to engage that patient. We have extensive and consistent protocols across the system for this and excellent data to show that we are effective in managing this but these advancements in Technology May take a step further and that will be important in the setting of covid19 where we know this is a complication of the illness. I would like to recognize this cart right forgive me. I take it back. I recognize mister case for 5 minutes. Thank