Mr. Speaker, mr. President , former governors, distinguished justices of the courts, representatives of our congressional delegation, members of the hawaii state legislature, elected officials, military leaders, honored guests, family and friends. Good morning and aloha. As a new legislative session opens, i want you to know i am ready to work with you on the issues that affect us all. The state of our state is strong. We are a resilient people. And the future is bright. As i stand before you today, im struck by the beautiful and often challenging complexity that makes hawaii our home. We really are the most beautiful place on earth. We are of many cultures and faiths and we live together in greater harmony than any place in the world. People from all over the planet come here to enjoy our environment, our culture and their gifts to all of us, the gifts of aloha, tolerance and respect, and the celebration of each other and our differences. We often need to be reminded of what makes us
Whether they believed it was the word of god. This talk was part of a symposium hosted by the museum of the bible in washington, d. C. It is 45 minutes. Our Third Session today is the bible and the American Revolution with james byrd. In this presentation based on his latest book, he shows that the bible was a key text of the American Revolution when war came to the colonies, preachers and patriots turned to the bible for solace and exhortations to fight. Such scripture helped soldiers. Conferred on those who died for the revolution and he gave americans a sense of the Divine Providence of their calls. In this session, dr. Byrd will examine specific biblical text and how they were used especially in making the patriotic calls for war. James byrd is chair of ft graduate department of religion and associate professor for religion at vanderbilt university. The latest book is sacred scripture, sacred war. Join me in welcoming dr. Byrd. [ applause ] well, thank you. Im pleased to be here. A
Mellon foundation for funding our program. Think the office of congressman Gerry Connolly for arranging meeting space. Above all, think congressman hill foster, a phd in physics from the 11th district of illinois. And his communication director for their help in organizing the briefing. To amanda thanks perry for organizing the briefings. Some of you may remember a cover from the new yorker that came out just a few weeks ago. I will show you an example. It shows robots going about their daily work, coffee and their lunch pails. Onlyest of it, while the person in the picture is delegated to a panhandler baking for money. It speaks to the widespread anxiety that exists today, that our nation is making work obsolete. The first time the technological innovation has transformed how we make a living. Question in todays briefing is what can the past tell us about the impact of automation on employment on the workforce . We have three leading experts today who will help us with this. I am not
For reelection this year. This is 40 minutes. [applause]. [applause]. Speaker, president kochi, former governor, distinguished justices of the court, representatives of our congressional delegation, members of the hawaii state legislature, elected official, military leader, honored guests, family and friends, good morning and loja. As a new legislative session opens, i want you to know im ready to work with you on the issues that affect us all. The state of our states is a strong. We are a resilient people and the future is bright. As i stand before you today, im struck by the beautiful and often challenging complexity that makes hawaii our home. We really are the most beautiful place on earth. We are of many cultures and faiths and we lived together in greater harmony than anyplace in the world. People from all over the planet come here to enjoy our environment, our culture and their gifts to all of us, the gift of tolerance and respect and a celebration of each other and our differen
Earnings. Eak down with facebookon sandberg. She says the me too movement has gone far enough. After a blow at first quarter, revenue topped estimates for the First Time Since snap went public almost a year ago. Snapchat fourthquarter sales jumped 72 and 200 and 85 million and instead of active users jumped to 187 million. Up 18 from a year ago. We have deborah in from seattle. Also, sarah frier recovers snap. What did snap get right this quarter . Sarah they been transitioning their advertising business to make it more automatic, more programmatic. Theyre selling as automatically which means they could have a better base of advertisers. The price of as have gone down but the volume and the a lot of time people look at these as going up, snap has been able to really make this work for them in this quarter for the first time. Emily we know that been doing a lot, there is a whole redesign and perhaps we are seeing some of the results of that. But what do you think is really driving these