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Its good for all of us to appreciate just what a high risk, high reward investment is all about. So if that was a progress of technology and super duper engineering challenges that had to be overcome, a lot of people as you might guess came and went. And it involved multidisciplinary teams of people who did the numerical relativity for computers so thats new in the first gravitational wave was detected. And what the source was, that was two colliding black holes that were in a postbinary system....

Welcome to the 2017 National Competitiveness forum. I hope all of you that were with us last night had a lovely evening at the University Club for our annual dinner. I know we were all absolutely blown away by the fantastic talk that was given on sustainability. Thank you again for that wonderful poor divorce of the imperative for sustainability in our future. Allow me to recognize and thank our sponsors for their support and commitment for the council of work and i want to recognize the company...

Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Containing cost and increasing productivity is important to boost profits, so it is real critical that stay as one of the most important things that we need to continue to work on. And third is actually workforce productivity. Companies are continuing to move forward toward higher value and more sophisticated products and processes. And so, workforce productivity was the third thing that came on the list of things that are i...

Future work force. So were going to go into our third group of presenters under the rubric of breaking the mold. We are going to start with blakely polietto followed by michael rourke, followed by will zimpf. If we can have blakely. Thank you. So good morning and thank you for the opportunity to be here. We are going to talk about university of Maryland University college, which is the public Online University that is designed here we go designed from the ground up to provide affordable, accessi...

Blakley, and michael and wrap up by jeff. We can have blakley. Good morning and thank you for the opportunity to be here. Were going to talk about university of marylanded and University College which is a public Online University designed from the ground up to provide affordable, accessible skbalt career relevant education for adult learners and especially for military learners. And to understand who we are i need to tell you the story of umuc. We were established in 1947 at the university of m...

Answered a few questions from the governors. This is about 45 minutes. It was a classic situation where the host turns to the first speaker and says shall we let our guests enjoy themselves a little longer or would you like to begin your remarks now . Im sorry to interrupt all the conversations going on, but thats why were here. And the secretary has graciously agreed to be with us for this time, so lets take advantage of it. I want to thank governor fallon to agree to being the cochair. I want ...

Higher education from the winter nga meeting. This is included michael crow and kevin kerry. Its an hour. Good morning. We have a really great discussion ahead of us this morning of pathways to prosperity examining our possibilities of innovation, and post secondary education and career connected learning for our precious kids in the future of this nation. We know that the font of all wisdom is a repository in the governors offices. We know that we have the greatest collection of education leade...

I want to thank governor fallon to agree to being the cochair. I want to thank the secretary for his remarks and for agreeing to remain afterwards to engage in dialogue with all of us. Im a little bit torn because i learned just as we walked in that hes a big Philadelphia Eagles fan who, yeah, governor, yeah, see . Well, im getting over it. But the Veterans Administration needs no introduction, so mine will be brief. The va impacts the lives of our veterans in so many ways, and in addition to it...

Trump have staying power, can Hillary Clinton survive her email troubles and a former president s candid talk of cancer. Well get the analysis of mark shields and michael gerson. All that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the worlds most pressing problems skollfoundation. Org. The ford foundation. Working with visiona...

Hillary clinton survive her email troubles and a former president s candid talk of cancer. Well get the analysis of mark shields and michael gerson. All that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the worlds most pressing problems skollfoundation. Org. The ford foundation. Working with visionaries on the frontlines of soci...