Today, we are beginning to get days on the subject of mormonism. We are going to begin our story really at the end of the early chapter of mormons history in mormonisms history in the United States. We began on june 27, 1834. On that day, the Mormon Prophet joseph smith sat in jail in the town of carthage, illinois. This was just little bit east of this red dot in western illinois. It was near the mormon gathering place, headquarters of sorts nauvoo, in western illinois. Joseph smith was the president and prophet of the church of jesus christ of latterday saints. His followers were commonly known as mormonites or mormons known after the churchs founding scripture, the the book of mormon. Smith was the mayor of the city of nauvoo and the Lieutenant General of the militia. He was in jail on the charge of inciting a riot. A group of mormon dissenters upset with his leadership of the church, had published the first issue of a newspaper criticizing his leadership. Smith had persuaded the ci
In always good for the country as well. On the other side of the political spectrum, former Texas Governor rick perry is believed to be preparing for a run for president. How were your dealings with him as mayor of san antonio . Governor perry served, as folks may remember from 2001 until just recently. And i served on city council in san antonio from 2001 to 2005. Most of the time i interacted with governor was around Economic Development projects. And often times when mayors and governors interact on Economic Development, everyone is on the same page. You want to see investment in your local community. Senators are usually involved in sparking that investment. I have said publicly and privately that, with regard to Economic Development, former governor perry did make that a priority. So my relationship with him on those issues was cordial and good. When he supported san antonio. Obviously, i have much different views from him on a whole host of issues. And i believe in general that t
Government sales program. And saturday on cspan3, on lectures in history john turner on the early mormons and their attempts to create a new zion in the american west. Sunday afternoon at 4 00, nine from little rock. About the forced desegregation of the allwhite high school. Find our complete schedule on cspan. Org and let us know what you think about the programs you are watching. Email us. Send us a tweet at cspan comments. President obama was in here falls, iowa to outline his plan to increase access to affordable broadband service. He chose cedar falls because it is the first city in iowa where fast Gigabit Service is available. It is a preview of what he will announce in his state of the Union Address next tuesday. Hello cedar falls. Thank you. It is good to be back. Give mark a big round of applause for the introduction and the great work he is doing. [applause] i also want to thank mayor john cruz and the whole team here at cedar falls utilities for hosting us here today. A big
Television and radio and then tv players and vcrs. Expanded into home office and then the internet came along and it was about the internet and connectivity. Weve shifted further and gone into solving problems of the world. Not to sound too grandiose, but if you look at the show, what we are talking about transportation problems. Driverless cars. F food production. Hunger. There is a lot of way of sensing crops. So you do not have to be there. Health care. My gosh, more solutions for health care. Sensors which tell you about yourself and give information to the doctor. Use the cloud. Then safety. Safety in the home, safety of everything. In an easy way, exploring things remotely. So you are taking a lot of problems the last several years can we are going to reduce them in the future. That is what really charges me up. And we have so many ways to go. The next several cess should be really interesting. 160,000 people attending. How many exhibitors . 3600 exhibitor. More than 100 than las
A news about Climate Change, nasa and the National Atmospheric Administration Says that 2014 was the warmest year on record since Record Keeping began in 1880. We will ask you to comment on that. Here is how we are dividing the lines today. If you believe in Climate Change, if you consider yourself a Climate Change skeptic, if youre not sure and you want to wait in any way, please call in. On a social media, you can post your thoughts on our twitter page, facebook, or you can email us. Some of the highlights from the findings that were released yesterday are highlighted in the papers of mourning. This is the star ledger out of new jersey, it provides a graphic. It says that for 2014, the earths it says that for 2014, the earths average 58. 24f. Nasa finding similar findings, 58. 42 overall. They say that compared to averages from 1951 to 1980, it means that earth is warmer 1. 22f. Those are just some of the findings. Also, a map showing the warming patterns. Here to explain more is emi