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And the professor of strategic studies, so welcome tammy, and we have sarah shard, whos our second sarah panelist today and sarah is the author and contributing editor for the solitary watch website and shes a university a uc berkeley visiting scholar, so welcome and without further adieu, i will give it over to bob to start, each panelist will have about ten minutes to speak, and after that well go right into audience participation and questions. Again as a reminder, students will be invited to come and ask questions first. So bob, thanks so much. Thanks everybody for coming today, its great to be here, youre especially remarkable for coming to the topic which is not exactly easy to swallow, i think for most people. In fact, talk about euphemisms, it always sticks in my craw when we talk about dead innocent people. So lets try not to use that. So im certainly not going to use it in my presentation. Its hard for me to talk about this, because it it immediately becomes very personal for ....
Themselves in the world. Access and affordability. Because the cost of Higher Education has gone up over the last many years and now we have to figure out as a country, and as individual institutions how to make this affordable and accessible to young people, because education is transformational. Transformative experiences make a whole individual. Thats for citizens of every country, especially in a democratic environment. So how are you doing that then . How are you addressing this challenge of affordability and access . The university of illinois at urbana, champagne, tuition for instate is over 15,000, out of state is over 30,000, and room and board can come in at nearly 11,000. Yes, indeed. We are over the last many years, we are increased our effort in terms of Financial Aid. We have given over 70 million in Financial ....
To be in a direct attack from western powers. Thats the claim of the russian president. The accused, the west of sabotaging europes Critical Energy infrastructure with was that great to have you with us are full this our program and what is basically an historic day for the Russian Federation and its brand new siblings. We continue on special coverage here. Were not in international. So Vladimir Putin does say actually that the west has violated security agreements by fabricating hypocritical anti democratic rules that russia will not follow. The president made the comments during his speech or the ceremony to just to stop the accession of for New Territories into the Russian Federation. Rusty silicon ....
Most advantageous way. And by everybody filing, we created a backlog. I believe now that bdd and the quick start claims have come down a bit. We, i mentioned the benefits delivery of discharge which is another initiative that started. Basically, youre submitting your claim along with all your medical documentation and asking the va to adjudicate the claim because they have all the information available. And i believe right now these claims are being adjudicated, depending on the region office, between 130 and 135 days. Like i said, i deal with the ides, and maybe some of the issues with the ides, too, is all cases go to seattle Regional Office, all the others go to providence, rhode island. I know right now the issue on that is the seattle Regional Office, the army if you look at the numbers, they have the majority of cases, so maybe this is, i dont know, do they switch the ....