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When we get to the question and answer part of the talk, if you have a question, which we highly encourage, please check up to the microphone. We cspan book tv with us and would like to pick up your question on the recording. Also, after the talk sharon will be happy to talk and sign books. The line will start to the right of the podium. As you get up, if you could please hold up your chair and set it to one of the sides against the bookshelf, thats a big help for us. The imagine years of work b...

Providers who actually started off as Telephone Companies in areas where the Large Companies chose not to provide service eesti and 100 years ago because it is rural, it is remote, hard to make a business case, so they built up Telephone Networks and have evolved Service Lines that are broadband providers. Half of our people do wireless. They are truly a onestop shop for Communication Service in Rural America, covering 3 of the land mass. They are close to literally live and work and raise their...

Is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. Host and this week on the communicators we want to introduce you to Shirley Bloomfield who runs an Organization Called the ntca, the Rural Broadband association. Ms. Bloomfield be, what is that group . Guest so thank you for asking, peter. It is a national organization. We represent about 850 communitybased communication providers who actually started off as Telephone Company in areas where the Large Companies chose not to provide serv...

Two 3rds do videos and half does other things. They cover about 40 of the land mass. They are folks who live, work and raise families in communities where they provide communication services. We do everything from training, education and finding ways to create synergy that is hard for small carriers. Host who are your Member Companies and who do they represent . Guest i have carriers in 46 states. I have Community Held companie in iowa. They are folks that provide service to again Rural American...

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We are literally the largest Minority Group in america and one in every five people in our nation have a disability. The majority of people have a loved one with a disability is 12 and we are the only Minority Group that anyone can join at any time due to accident, illness or aging. Respectfully is very proud to be a member of the ccd, a group of more than 110 National Disability organizations who want a Better Future for people with disabilities. As we have seen recently, overall the Disability...

Liz time to drain the swamp, congress got a wakeup call about that from president elect trump today, welcome to risk reward. It is day one of americas 115th congress, they were sworn in today. What is first thing that House Republicans do . They under cut president elect trumps vow to drain the swamp by gutting the Ethics Office panel. President elect saying, with all that congress has to work on, do they have to make the weakening of the independent ethic watch dog as unfair as it may be, their...

Shes looking at extending the initial compliance deadline for the checklist on that just to make sure that theres ample time for this program to get upcoming we think this program is going to run out by the next 8 to 10 years we want to get those initial Foundation Infrastructure pieces into place and on the maneuvered soft story implementation we mentioned that tooerp two were down to have 35 noncompliant buildings out of 5 hundred and 50 so were at 93 or 94 compliance rate those buildings out ...

And note that neil sims is present. I would like to approval of the agenda with changes and Meeting Minutes and under reports no report from the nominating committee. Can i have a motion . So moved. Second. Its approved that we approve the agenda with the following changes. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposes . Ayes have it and the motion carries. The next item is approval of the january 4 Meeting Minutes. Could i have a motion. So moved. Second. Okay. It has been moved and second that we approve...

About the just to remind you that the Oversight Advisory Committee of the dignity fund is going to have its first meeting on the 24th and i know you have representation there so youre probably well aware of it already but i wanted to remind you of that, and were getting that kicked off, and then i just kind of wanted to say give a kudos to some of the staff. There was a major fire in chinatown this past week, about a week and a half ago i guess and we had great response from our staff and our ca...