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Site. Your thoughts are important to us so please take a couple of minutes to fill one out and submit it to the festival committee. Mr. Mccutcheon and mr. Mark will be signing books immediately after this presentation, copies are also available at the politics and prose tent at the festival here. A quick word about buying books. Even though this is a free event and we want to keep it that way it does help the book festival if you buy a book here. The more books we sell for our events the more pu...

Fairfax county. Thats where the suspect is believed to have spent time after the escape from the hospital where police found the carjacked camry we were talking about yesterday. The homeowner tells news4 that the house had been broken into, a window was broken and the door to the house was broken. It appears that someone was inside there and had gone through every room in the house. She believed that the suspect ditched that hospital gown. We mentioned that he left the hospital wearing inging on...

Up next to master and political commentator nick adams talk about travels across the state and explains why he thinks this country is exceptional. This is about 45 minutes. [cheers and applause] thank you. Thank you, diane and thank you, ladies and gentlemen of austin. Madam chairwoman, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen and in the great state of texas. [applause] and its great to be here among so many teachers and friends and i want to give a special shout out to a couple of very specia...

I would watch her finger go across the page and eventually, because the reading level of true romance was fairly low, i could pick out the words and by the time i reached the age of five, i could read to her as she a parent and as she worked. I never knew she was giving me something. I never knew she was teaching me a skill, but today i know it. Walter you want onto school for a few years, right . Right. And you are in school until what age . I was in school until i was 15. I did fairly well in ...

This is true because of the incredible success the Broadband Program has had across the country here and at the Brooklyn Library amazing things. Making Great Strides and addressing the digital skill divide. Many of us are wondering where the additional funding is going to come from . I should take a moment on the Digital Literacy spectrum to talk about the room we are sitting. This is a digital commons. It provides us through an increasingly sophisticated set of tools, faster connectivity. It co...

In 90 seconds. A monster earthquake rocks chile. A magnitude 8. 2 triggered off the coast. Reports of fires, landslides homes destroyed and power outages. I am deeply sorry. Congress demanding answers on why gm took ten years to recall the defective cars. They were warned again and again, but they did nothing. A British Nuclear submarine has joined the effort. Looking for the missing malaysian airliner. The battery on the flight data recorders could run out as early as saturday. Wild weather exp...

Audience to pose questions. Here we go with our panel number one. We are looking at the vision. We will explore innovative practices and partnerships. Our first speaker will be the Senior Program officer at the bill and Melinda Gates foundation. Hoping to have leon mac, director of el paso Public Library. Unfortunately she had a family emergency and was not able to the year. We are excited to have clarence anthony, executive director of the National League of cities. We will start out with her. ...

That you want to submit. Ber who a staff mem will be picking up those questions after each panel. We will also have a chance for members of the audience and our virtual audience to pose questions. Ate is what we are looking with our first panel, the vision, what happens when we get it right. Examine why partnerships and investments in broadband make a difference. We will have a senior officer at the bill and Melinda Gates foundation. We are hoping to have the had of El Paso Public Library with u...

20th Century Technology to 21st century highspeed Broadband Technology. Its a reallocation of resourcef resources are never easy and never pleasant but they are essential if we are to keep pushing forward. We are moving to broadband to the person at the library. Its not just an external connection but its how do you get using wifi to the individual in a library . We are bringing the application and administrative process into the 21st century as well by using the same kind of ride band tools and...

Thank you gentlemen. That was a great way to start. I will ask our panel number one to join me here on the odium. First of all i would like to say thank you very much to chairman wheeler and to tom for being with us. We are very honored. Were moving onto the Panel Discussion portion of our program. I want to remind everybody that this hearing is being live cast, and viewers are in courage to submit questions via twitter. We also have some cards on your chairs if you have questions that you want ...