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[applause] good evening. Its wonderful to see everyone here. Thank you for bracing what could be a snowstorm that would keep you trapped here for the next few days. For what i know will be an important discussion and i appreciate everyones flexibility with the time so we can make sure our members of congress get back to washington in time for their votes tomorrow. I am relieved that youve been introduced because you are both princeton grads serving your fourth term of congress for the eighth district of your state and i was worried that i might mix up the states and i know that what put me in ...

[applause] good evening. Its wonderful to see everyone here. Thank you for bracing what could be a snowstorm that would keep you trapped here for the next few days. For what i know will be an important discussion and i appreciate everyones flexibility with the time so we can make sure our members of congress get back to washington in time for their votes tomorrow. I am relieved that youve been introduced because you are both princeton grads serving your fourth term of congress for the eighth district of your state and i was worried that i might mix up the states and i know that what put me in ...

Entertainment commission. For all of you that dont know me. My name is maggie weiland. And im the director of the Entertainment Commission. Nice to see high oh, thank you all so much nice to see all of your faces today. Although this is our 13th annual summit. This is actually our 20th year of being a City Department here in San Francisco. So this is a big year for us. Um i dont believe i see him in the audience. But i did want to thank terence alan today for all of you that know him. Yes so terrence was a founding commissioner on the Entertainment Commission, and he had the vision in the earl...

Programs at the Commonwealth Club. And i want to welcome all to this evening to talk about muppets and moscow bringing sesame street to Russian Television and into homes in russia in the 1990s. I had the privilege of being in during this time as well. And it was a really heady time. A lot of things seemed possible. And so the fact that sesame street came to russian and to russian families is really interesting and exciting story. So im glad youre all here tonight to learn about it. Before we get started, id like to ask everybody to take a moment and please turn off anything that might be bring...

That produced the capstone pavilion to an incredible accomplishment that really took an Incredible Team to bring it about and to kind of lead us through that. You know, weve assembled an amazing panel. You know, of course, we have dr. Nick mueller nick mueller, the president and ceo emeritus of the National World war two museum. Cofounder the museum, along with Stephen Ambrose. And as those who were here for the Previous Panels know, you know, clearly, you know, the tour de force, the great ideas that have driven this place forward, but also will drive it into the future. And then joining us t...