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Michael hasnt been challenged, fingers crossed but one thing i should say, its about the three characters that customize their car, it gets customized by outer space and it is written in spanglish and i noticed on good reads weve gotten comments from teachers very irate that the spanish isnt correct. So one of the things that theyre saying in effect is that we dont want the spanish spoken that we live to kids, they want sort of a perfected, not stylized but almost strict spanish almost. And its ...

Hello. Hi, everyone. Thanks for coming out tonight. As you can see and as you heard, these are cameras from cspan be, booktv. Very happy to have them here, were very happy to have this discussion here at powells. If you want to keep up with whos coming to powells, we have events nearly every night, lots of really great, outstanding stuff coming up especially in the month of october. You can look on powells. Com, our event calendars can be found around the store as well, and be you can pick those...

Should get together with each other and say what do we want and then make it known and then illustrate by your example that you can have a home life and work life. One of my former had three young children, a day schedule. There happy with her work. She has a whole library of work at her fingertips at home. It should be much easier to have a balanced life that once was, but dont be shy about speaking up. Have company when you do so so you are not a lone voice. Thank you. [applause] thank you ver...

National womens party. The National Party was hounded by a woman named alice paul in 1913 as the Congressional Union for womens suffrage. The Congressional Union for womens suffrage became the National Womens party in 1916. This group of women spent seven years actively lobbying the president and congress for a federal suffrage amendment. At which time, once the received the amendment in 1920, they began, they wrote and began lobbying for the equal rights amendment. During the period where they ...

Jo ann it was unexpected. I have spent over 25 years in Public Service in a number of Government Agencies and i had the opportunity to come over and be the head of the aarp organization and spent two years there really trying to institute and constitute the foundation to have it solely focused on serving the needs of the low income of 50 plus across the organization and as a result of the success that we had and the foundation, the ceo asked me if i would come over to their side and help develop...

There really trying to institute to constitute the foundation have it solely focused on serving the needs of the low income of 50 plus across the organization and as a result of the success that we had and the foundation, the ceo asked me if i would come over to their side and help develop a strategy for 2020 to make sure aarp was relevant to its members in the 21st century. As part of that transition and building strategy, the opportunity and opening came to be the ceo of aarp. While not planne...

Issues, but i think we can get around them. I think we got the sense that there are serious and deep problems that need addressing. We thank you very much for coming to present your book and thank you to the panel. If you have questions we will be at the reception and just ask us in the informal setting. With that, our time is up. [applause] skraz oakland is 11th on the list. To find out the other cities making the top 20 list look for the article on booksquire. Com. Carla hayden was sworn in as...

Sell on cable tv this production they came up with called hillary the movie, about hillary clinton. And the Bipartisan Campaign reform act said that because Citizens United was a Nonprofit Corporation, they were limited in how much they could spend in the days leading up to an election. And and so, basically, this group i sued and said youre discriminating against us. Were not able to offer our message because of the Bipartisan Campaign reform act. Now, the court ruled in their favor by a 54 dec...

Remember the first moment you were asked about being in the library of congress . Guest i can remember that because i was surprised. I had been advising and consulting. It was an opportunity for the Library Community to weigh in basically on what would be needed for the library of congress in the next few decades so my aim was put forward as a person to talk to and that went on for a little while and i was asked would you consider being considered for the position yourself . It took me aback a l...

[inaudible conversations] good afternoon. I had the honor of serving that as deputy to the library. Welcome to the 2016 National Book festival. Generously sponsored by wells fargo. We at the library of congress are extremely thrilled to be presenting the National Book festival where the 16th time. This event would not be possible without the friends that we have supporting us, generously supporting like wells fargo and we are very appreciative of that. More important, we would not be here, but f...