I just buried our youngest in back and youre not going to have anything left. You need to come home. Will examine the vietnam war of the 1960s have experiences of Charlie Company discussing the battlefield of vietnam and we soldiers have to fight upon return to the United States. Veterans have been just as political footballs. They been used as part of a morality play. They been just as many things but hardly anybody had gotten to tell their story who they were as young men before they went, the trauma of war that they went through both as great victories, its funny times, its horrible times and then what happened to the generation since they had been home. The 1966 length of civil rights activist advanced of the ku klux klan. For what reason did anybody want to come and kill my dad . They came as result of the orders from the head of the klan who said go annihilate. And they came to kill the whole family. And learn about the Freedom Summer School programs during the summer of 1964 whe
I call this thes hearing of the Senate Committee on agriculture attrition and forestry to order. Thank you all for coming. Todays hearing will examine the overall climate of credit in Rural America, the health of ag lending from the commercial bank in the farm Credit System perspectives and what the impact of current credit environment having our nations farms. We will also examine whether the Farm Credit Administration is exercising appropriate oversight in the farm Credit System. Farmers and ranchers across the country are experiencing difficult Economic Conditions as the farm sector profitability is forecast to decline for the Third Straight year. Over the past three years alone, debt debt farm income is expected to decline by 56 . As our nations farmers and Rural Communities continue to deal with low Commodity Prices and always elevated input costs, access to Affordable Credit in Rural America is absolutely crucial. The spring 2016 agriculture Lenders Survey released by kansas stat
Types of synthetic substances. The challenge is to preserve researchers needs while stemming the flow danger synthetic chemicals and a proper response to consider three points. First allowing research of potential therapeutic uses, second legislation should be guided by rigorous science entered the impact on mass incarceration especially in cases where substances have not been fully vetted by the scientific community. Few investigators will pursue research with schedule one drugs various researchers discourage engagement obtaining a schedule one licenses not a trivial matter and researcher must be motivated to obtain one even if the investigator requires small truck amounts that do not represent a potential for diversion in most cases researchers are funded for example by nida to study only the deleterious properties of a specific drug of abuse but is also important to have funding available for Research Identified Beneficial Properties of schedule one substance is as with recent medic
Brian jo ann jenkins, ceo of aarp, why did you take that job . 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 Foundation. And i 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 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 planned, it was a wonderful transition for me to be able to move from being an initially a board member for the forprofit and are running the company. Im the only leader who has worked at all three organizations. Brian some of the d
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 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 planned, it was a wonderful transition for me to be able to move from being an initially a board member for the profile fit forprofit and are running the company. Im the only leader who has worked at all three organizations. Brian some of the details, how big is your membership . Jo ann aarp has