On cnbc. Courtney reagan is in for sarah. Happy friday. Im always excited to hear what the first song is. Good pick. And i actually know who this is. Old school. Lets check in on the Global Markets this morning. Futures trading right now after some declines yesterday. We did see slight gains for the dow, slight declines for the s p. A bigger decline for the nasdaq. It was down just over 1 . Week to date, were looking at nearly 3 of declines for the nasdaq, 1 for the s p, dow just in positive territory. And were staring at slight declines in the futures market as you can see, the dow doan by 14 points or so, nasdaq by 24. So this will he said tend the w streak if things stay like this. Lets look at the ten year treasury note in that had an effect on stocks yesterday because it spiked more meaningfully in terms of daily performance than it had in recent days b. We saw the ten year note go just shy of 2. 5 , it was 2. 49 at the highest point of yesterdays trade in terms of yields. Its at
Silicon valley. [inaudible conversations] im director of the wisconsin book festival, welcome to what is proving to be a wonderful day at our 14th annual wisconsin book festival. Thank you for coming tonight or this afternoon. I would like to thank Nicholas Carr for his book utopia is creepy and other provocations but first i think Madison Public Library and all our sponsors for making possible, i want to thank you here in this room for coming and everyone watching on cspan booktv, cultural experiences like this are few and far between and we are honored to put one on for you in madison, wisconsin. For the past 15 years, Nicholas Carr has been giving us the real alternative history of what the information is for all of us. If you are listening to him, many Different Things about the personal things we give up every time we empty our pockets. You have heard how the internet changes our brains and fairly scary or creepy things, neck is here to give a better view of how we can live our li
Throughout history have recognized the art forms ability to bring about social change. They are just like us, living in their own time frame, and they want to reflect upon what is going on around them, and potentially influence society with their work. And the amazing thing about prints that allows them to be really powerful social tools, really, is they are relatively inexpensive to produce. They are multiples. They are less expensive to acquire. And so they really penetrate all aspects of society. And they are excellent platform with which to convey information, both image and text. And so lot of artists have used print specifically for this reason. So we selected today from the collection a range of prints from the 18th century through to contemporary of artists dealing with social and political content. And what is really amazing is that while a lot of the specifics change so, the settings, the costumes, the specific details of the current event the broader issues remain the same.
Throughout history have recognized the art forms ability to bring about social change. They are just like us, living in their own time frame, and they want to reflect upon what is going on around them, and potentially influence society with their work. And the amazing thing about prints that allows them to be really powerful social tools, really, is they are relatively inexpensive to produce. They are multiples. They are less expensive to acquire. And so they really penetrate all aspects of society. And they are excellent platform with which to convey information, both image and text. And so lot of artists have used print specifically for this reason. So we selected today from the collection a range of prints from the 18th century through to contemporary of artists dealing with social and political content. And what is really amazing is that while a lot of the specifics change so, the settings, the costumes, the specific details of the current event the broader issues remain the same.
Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the renewable fuel standard committee. I am continued to continuing oversight until we find the solution to what has become this deeply flawed program. In 2005, congress established the rfs with the goal of reducing our nations independence on foreign oil and lowers Greenhouse Gas by demanding that biofuels be blended with other fuels until 2022. After that time, they will have bide latitude to decide the volume of biofuels that must be blended into the gas link supply. It has changed dramatically since 2005 and 2007 revision. Demand for oil is lower, due to sluggish Economic Growth and fuel standards. Given the Oil Production, the u. S. Imports much less oil than initially forecasted. In 2005, 2007, we were importing 60 of our oil. Now, it is 27 . I have worked to determine the structure and viability of the rfs to achieve its goals. I have tried to understand the rfs through the eyes of the epa and appreciate how difficult it is for the agency to