all over massachusetts towns were denouncing it. concorde had a meeting to denounce it on october 28 of 1765 a few days before it went into effect. that'sgoing to change things. and concorde didn't even put the resolution in the town book .when on the eve of the boston tea party people in lexington gathered up all the tea in the town, brought into the town commons and burned in their own tea party. concorde didn't even pass a resolution against the tea act until a month after the tea party and then they said what you start to realize as a historian is you look not to see what people say but when do they say? to what effect? they waited until the last possible moment. they clearly didn't want to take big risks and i think part of that has to do with the fact that they were a seat of government, royal government.a number of these people had appointments from the crown and they really didn't want to pick their next out. maybe because they didn't know the king. and they felt bound by them. i think when we talk about the american revolut

massachusetts was a royal colony. there had been tensions growing with the mother country cents the 1770's. because of the tension, thomas gage was appointed to oversee. what started to happen was, as the decade were on, the were a series of events that would take place. the boston massacre and the boston tea party. the tea party was the destruction of private property. because of the destruction, the royal authority had to punish massachusetts bay colony. one of these punishments was a series of acts called the "intolerable acts." you brought in the real governor, now a british officer, had the closing of the port of boston, and the massachusetts government was shut down. that mean any town in the colony, they were not allowed to meet. so this was an affront for how people have been governing themselves for at least a hundred years. so, you have a series of responses which take place. amongst those responses which took place was the reactivation of the militia system. it was a community effort. 60 were called to come

thomas gage has been appointed governor of massachusetts. he's also been commander in chief of in north america. his heart is not in it, but he's doing his job. he's married to an american woman. he's trying to keep the peace. he's made several efforts to send troops out to seize military supplies. in february they went out to salem, and it almost led to the beginning of war there, but the commander negotiated. peach roots of the con this came called worth going to take anything lying down, but the governors keeping the peace and he gets a letter from london telling him around april 1516, contact, we are waiting any longer, get troops out, break this opposition. from london his superiors sent him notes saying, they are just a rude rabble with no plans and you should be able to crush them immediately. he then sets his plan in motion. he sent advance troops out to take a look at the countryside and plan. he releases some of the squadrons that will go from regular duty. none of the men are told where they would go. there awakened in the middle

massachusetts was a royal colony. there have been tensions growing with the mother country cents the 70's -- with the mother country. was, asrted to happen the decade were on, the were a series of events that would take place including the boston massacre and the boston tea party. the tea party was the destruction of private property. because of the destruction, the royal authority had to punish massachusetts bay colony. that included a series of acts called the "intolerable acts." so, you have the bringing in of a british governor, the closing of the port of boston, and the boston government was shut down. speopleant that any town in the colony, they were not allowed to me. so, you have a series of responses which take place. whicht those responses took place was the reactivation of the militia effort. that meant that men sitting is old to 26 result were required to show up for training and practice. then, there was the minutemen reform which had younger men that were better equipped and expected to turn up in an min

by the time we get to the american revolution, massachusetts has a long history of allowing free and slave men of color to serve. caesar did serve in the revolutionary war from this era. he served three different tours of duty. the first was in march of 1776. he seems to appear on a role listing soldiers who march to boston and roxbury went george washington and the continental army seized dorchester heights. we know caesar was there during that military engagement. once washington and the army c dorchester has fortified, the british army eventually had to abandon it. during that time period, he appears to just be a standard militia soldier. the militia was composed of all adult men able to bear arms. slave owning was not extremely common in this area. it did not pervade every level of society. most slave owners from the upper echelons of society, so they tend to be town and civic leaders, ministers, officers in local militia companies, large time merchants, or sometimes even farmers who have a little more wealth and property. those are the type of men that owned slaves. the lives of

in 1692, for the one time in massachusetts history, legal reasons massachusetts converted to english law which includes a provision that a felon's personal possessions were seized became property of the state that includes your clothes, your cash, your livestock. furniture. but, houses, real estate, all land goes to your heirs if you are executed so you never lose your property. and even if your personal possessions are taken, guess what, the government is the recipient of your property, no one else. there is no finders fee. it does not mean to say that jealous neighbors cannot accuse people of witchcraft but not to profit. let's shoot that one down. to me, again, i really sort of, generations of historians have viewed the salem witch trials as a social crime. going back to others what looked at witchcraft have been social historians. i was inspired by these people and was a young, new social historians in the 1970's and now i like the old social history which has morphed into the cultural history which is becoming maybe the old cultural history. most historians studying witchcraft i

things had changed in massachusetts.astly, though, come back, these are all issues of religion and politics. that means we need to look at the leadership. imagine, if you will, in a distant galaxy, a powerful political leader who comes to office lacking any political experience whatsoever -- [laughter] as a young man, he comes to the big city to the economic center of the universe to make his fortune. he becomes one of the richest man in america by taking big risk, winning and losing, making good deals, breaking deals. incredibly famous, huge personality, larger than life. he has a late conversion to his political cause only shortly before seeking high office. makes many members of his party suspicious of his motive. but he champions the cause of the working class is incredibly popular for that and a help to really launch him to office. once in office, his style admittedly makes people nervous even before he takes office when they know of his coming office. probably because he is a nonconventional communicator and does n

this is the start of the puritan experiment in massachusetts bay. it is supposed to be a place where people walk hand in hand with each other and live in peace and harmony. i think that is maybe part of the answer as to why we remember the salem witch trials and why we will never forget that. fall of this tremendous from grace, this idea of 1630, , while people were still alive, who heard winthrop give that sermon -- daughters accusing mothers, neighbors accusing neighbors, of being witches. witch the surgeon experiment is being torn apart. i think that is a trauma we never recovered from. it is a turning point in american history. in some ways, i see this as the beginning of the end of puritanism in new england and the beginning of something much deeper -- our distrust of government. if you think last year's elections were an indication of something new in america, i would tell you it is a very old impulse, this libertarian antigovernment streak that manifests itself again. it begins with 1692, with a massive failure of the government to protect th

lynch of massachusetts. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 454, the gentleman from massachusetts, mr. lynch, and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair now recognizes the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. lynch: thank you, mr. chairman. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for such time. mr. lynch: at the outset, i would like to thank chairman upton and ms. castor, the ranking member from florida, for their articulate debate this afternoon on this important issue. i'd also like to thank chairman sessions and ranking member slaughter and the full member of the rules committee for making this amendment in order. this commonsense amendment will simply ensure that the transportation security agency, the federal agency with the primary jurisdiction over pipeline security on behalf of the american people, will retain a meaningful seat at the table when it comes to determinations made by the federal energy regulatory commission, ferc, on whether

massachusetts was a royal colony. there have been tensions growing with the mother country cents -- since the 1770's. thomas gage was appointed to oversee. what started to happen was, as the decade were on, the were a series of events that would take place including the boston massacre and the boston tea party. the tea party was the destruction of private property. because of the destruction, the royal authority had to punish massachusetts bay colony. one of these punishments included a series of act's, called the "intolerable acts." so, you have the bringing in of a british governor, the closing of the port of boston, and the boston government was shut down. in essence what that meant was any town in the colony, they were not allowed to meet. this was an affront to how people have been governing themselves for almost 100 years. you have a series of responses that take place, among those responses, the reactivation of the militia system. an offshoot, something called the minute companies are formed. equippedhey are be

dent: of a massachusetts as opposed to the whole union, that it could never -- representative of massachusetts as opposed to the -- was not, that it just in national terms come but he was thinking in cosmic terms is about his mission in life and legacy, and so forth. in some degree that is true, but there are always other things embracing, other than the anti-flicker position, that are fraught with all kinds of internal tension, as revealed in this way. then, i would say this is worse tension as president, but never simply after that point. different --as a he was aware it was a different job, being a congressman was different than being -- the diplomacy not being responsible for the u.s. international relations as being a leader of the party and having to appeal to both sections. that certainly did make a difference when he was a congressman. and yet, he is always a nationalist. he knows the traps that massachusetts politicians could fall into about being sectional, and he is very aware of it. it is still going in both directions. >> thank you very much, gentlemen. james madison, fourth presi

tsongas of massachusetts. the chair: the gentlewoman from massachusetts and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentlelady from massachusetts. ms. tsongas: my amendment protects the public review process for any proposed pipeline that seeks to cross protected conservation and recreation lands. this time for pipelines that include a crossing with canada or mexico. the legislation before us today with its narrowly defined environmentally reviews puts public treasured resources at risk. my home state of massachusetts, like many areas around the country, faces real energy challenges. we need careful and strategic long-term planning to lower energy prices and increase reliability and resiliencey. as with h.r. 2910 that we considered earlier this afternoon, h.r. 2883 moves us in the wrong direction. in fact, it doesn't allow careful or strategic planning when it comes to fossil fuel pipelines. pipeline interests should not be permitted to tread on public lands, lands expressly s

massachusetts had a marijuana law, go, massachusetts, right? so it's an interesting thing because people are afraid of what? the unknown? what are we afraid of? what are people afraid of? what's on the other side? i purposely let people troll my facebook page that has totally blown up with trump stuff, and i let the trollers come in because my friends say you should unfriend these people and i say, oh, no, i shouldn't. i want to hear what they have to say, and so from your vantage point, what are we fighting? what's on the other side? why would anybody fight equality for all? why would anybody want somebody to live on the street? what are we fighting? can you tell me what we're fighting? thank you. >> i think they're parents telling young kids some really not entirely factual information and they grow up in an environment where perhaps someone that runs on a really religious or conservative agenda would match with what we are told is good and right in the world. so these early childhood, formative years, i think, are -- they last a life time. w

i had the fortune of working in massachusetts after the state supreme court, sjc, in massachusetts ruled in favor of marriage equality. and gave the ledge slajer six months to do what it needed to do in order to enact marriage equality or possibly not in massachusetts in 2004. the court ruling came down in 2003. and they gave the legislature six months. i was brought on board as the first person hired in massachusetts to help prepare that state to defend that decision. because the legislature was going to do everything it could to have a conversation and perhaps amend their state constitution to stop marriages from going forward. so we had six months in massachusetts to defend that decision and ultimately another two years because in order to amend the constitution in massachusetts, you have to do it twice. once in the intervening general election and again before you can ultimately amend the constitution. we had 2 1/2 years to defend marriage equality in the first state. to think about what it was like, it was really a really tremendous battle for our movement. and most americans weren'

he was a massachusetts boy. there was yankee fishermen who were in a regiment from the north shore north of boston. they encountered a group of virginia rifle men who had come in their fringed hunting shirts trying to appear like american indians. they'd come together in the -- around the college buildings at harvard college at the time, now harvard university, and a fight breaks out among these men from these two different regions. israel traft in 1845 remembers that george washington rode into the scene, broke up the soldiers' fights. this is just a moment in which washington is writing home to his brother in virginia, talking about the challenges that he was facing of trying to get men for whom their colony was their country, to think of themselves as americans. so we think this is sort of a wonderful storytelling device to point out how long that journey would be. perhaps a journey that's not even finished yet today. for us all to see ourselves as americans despite our twedivers. each one of the cases in thi

and then massachusetts had a marijuana law. go massachusetts, right? so it's an interesting thing because people are afraid of what? the unknown? what are we afraid of? what are people afraid of? what's on the other side? i purposely let people patrol my facebook page, which is totally blown up with donald trump stuff. i say i want to hear what they have to say. so what are we fighting? why would anybody fight for equality for all? why would anybody want someone to live on the street? what are we fighting? can you tell me what we're fighting? show less text 01:54:52 >> i think there are parents telling young kids some really, maybe not entirely factual information. and they grow up in an environment where perhaps someone that runs on a really religious or conservative agenda would match with what they were told was good and right in the world. so these early childhood, these formative years, i think, they last a lifetime. and i think when we all become adults, we don't really know where everybody came from, what state we grew up in, what are parents be

the closer we get to the american revolution and by the time we get to the american revolution, massachusetts has a long history of allowing enslaved and free men of color to serve in armed forces. caesar did serve in the revolutionary war. he served to three different tours of duty, the press in march of 1776. he seems to appear in the town of athens. they marched to rocks. when george washington and the continental army began the markets and 76. we know that caesar was there during that key military engagement, once they seized dorchester heights and fortified , the british army had to abandon boston. it was a turning point in the american revolutionary war. during that time. , he seemed to be a standard melissa soldier. it included free men of color. incrediblyg was not common, most were from the upper echelons of society. they tended to be ministers, officers in the local was a company, fox-sky merchants, sometimes even farmers who have more wealth and property. are the types of men that owned slaves in the 1700s. the lives of enslaved people depended on where they lived, slave men and wo

in massachusetts, we had about 2000 deaths in 2016. that is more than five deaths per day, more than all of the deaths associated with automobile accidents and gunshots combined. there was a 22% increase in opioid-related ems transports between 2015 and 2016. the first quarter of 2017, the number of opioid prescriptions dispensed in massachusetts declined by 23% compared to the same period in 2015, and by 13% compared with the first three months of 2016. that is for a number of reasons, but among them, in massachusetts now, you can't graduate from nursing school, dental school, or pharmacy school unless you pass a course in opioid therapy and pain management. and you also cannot continue to be a prescriber without taking a course in passing it with opioid and pain management. we also dramatically upgraded and simplified our perception monitoring program. at this point, prescribers have made more than 2 million searches of that new program and it has had an and respect on prescriber behavior. we have also doubled state spending on treat

she created this group and we now have them all over massachusetts. i have been to their gatherings and they are really informative and i am really -- one night, this guy said, you know, i live in this town but the first time i went to one of these meetings i went to one 30 miles away because i was afraid i might run into somebody that i knew here from our town 30 he said i want to the 130 miles away and i ran into people from our town and then one of the other guys said that is really funny -- the same thing happened to me. and this was going to a meeting where you knew everybody who was there was somebody who is and there is ais great, sad moment in an hbo documentary on cape cod in massachusetts where they have a mom who is talking about her own child's addiction and she says, if my kid has cancer every day one of my neighbors would be over here with a casserole looking to help and she said that because my kid is doing with an opioid addiction which in somertality rate -- cases, it's higher than a lot of forms of cancer -- and i think the more that

in north hampton massachusetts, students won an honorable mention price of $250 for their documentary on sanctuary cities and immigration reform. the massachusetts received honorable mention price of $250 for their documentary on the opiate epidemic. thank you to all the students who took part in our 2017 student cam deck competition. to watch the videos go to student cam.org and student cam 2018 starts with a theme the constitution and year. choose any provision of the constitution and create a video illustrating why it is important.

in massachusetts, we had about 2,000 deaths in 2016. that's more than five deaths per day, more than all the deaths associated with automobile accidents and gunshots combined. there was a 22% increase in opioid related e.m.s. transports between 2015 and 2016. the first quarter of 2017 the number of opioid prescriptions dispensed in massachusetts declined by 23% compared to the same period in 2015. by 13% compared with the first three months of 2016. that's for a number of reasons. but among them in massachusetts you can't graduate from medical school or dental school or pharmacy school unless you take and pass a course in opioid therpy and pain management and you can't continue to be a prescriber back to get relicensed without taking a course and passing it in opioid therpy and pain management. we also dramatically upgraded and simplified our prescription monitoring program and at this point prescribers made more than 2 million searches of the new program. it has had a tremendous impact on prescriber behavior. we've also doubled state p

we have them all over massachusetts. i went to one of their, i have been to a unbp of their gatherings. they're really raw and really informative, i really am glad i go to them. i was out there one night and this guy said, i live in this town but the first time i went to one of these meetings i went to one, you know, 30 miles away because i was afraid i might run into somebody that i knew here from our town. he said i went to the 1:30 miles away, and i ran into two people from our town who went into that one too. the other guy in the room said that is really fun my. same thing happened to me. he was going to a different one. this is going to a meeting you knew everybody who was there was somebody who was dealing with this. you know, there is a great, sad, moment, in an hbo documentary they did on this issue on cape cod in massachusetts where they have a mom, tacking about her own child's addiction. you know, if my kid had cancer every day one of my neighbors would be over here with a cast role looking to -- casserole loo

massachusetts as time would tell. is of then history tv concord museum in massachusetts. we're going to look at the collection dedicated to the very fused -- to the first few days of fighting during the revolutionary war. >> the concord museum was founded in 1986, around the collection that had been begun almost 30 years before that. it was a collection of individual started putting together of objects with histories, that's the important thing. he was only interested in objects that had histories. the institution was formed around that collection. our earliest object is a stone projectile point about 12,000 years old, not very long after the glacier retreated from this area. we have a very good collection of 17th and 18th century furniture, owned and in many cases made in concord. 19 century furniture, objects associated with the authors in concord and the great collection of objects related table 19th, 1775. we have arguably more objects that were participants in the events of april 19, 1775 maybe than any other col

for those who chose not to in massachusetts, they had to pay a fine. as it turns out, it was not a very big fine. it went up over time but 23409 quickly -- but not quickly, and not very high. some people who were healthy get covered in the exchanges in massachusetts? yes. if you ask some of the people who were involved with governor romney at that time, they would say if they had to do it over again the fine would have started a little bit bigger and gone up a little faster in order to make sure that healthier insurable people got into the exchanges for coverage. if they had to do it over. 2009, we're here on this floor, and debating what some people still call obamacare, but it's something else. it's really romneycare. it's really chafeecare. it's really heritagecare. but it ain't obamacare. it's a market-based idea to get coverage for people. certainly not a democratic idea. i just think it happens to be a good idea. right now this administration has done their dead level best to destabilize the exchanges. they've made it -- the question of is there

inre is a great, sad moment an hbo documentary they did on this issue on cape cod in massachusetts where they have a mom who is talking about her own child's addiction and she says, my kid had cancer. every day one of my neighbors would be over here with a casserole looking to help. she said, because my kid is dealing with an opioid addiction which has a mortality rate that is higher than some forms of cancer, my neighbors can't talk to me and i can't talk to my neighbors. i think the more we do collectively to make people realize they are not alone on stuff, help them get treatment, acknowledged a problem, and access resources come the better we will all be. host: you can view the panel discussion anytime at c-span.org. james, how have you been impacted? caller: my community is probably the largest community in america that are addicted to opioids. i had congestive heart failure, and i was treated for one of the symptoms, which is looted in the lungs and this chronic cough that is just terrible. i received cough medicine with an opioid in it that alleviated the cough, the headaches attr

it is difficult to father or mother it's far massachusetts massachusetts regimen. so tar conclusion of the most significant. we are waiting for the terms to be published and army to be demobilized. there are at least five african american soldiers. by the end of the american revolution there were perhaps 5000 or more. you'll see this list is a way for the regimen to keep track of the mens names, ages, their size, if they had any kind of trade, where they had been born, their police of first of all, if a serted you knew you could add veertize and say he had this con pleks, this hair. false soldiers demanded that they would gate discharge during the course of the war there is the kind of document how did they sort some and so you'll see that reflected where a his age was not known. he buzz 50 fooet 9. bris ton was the county. he was rised as having dark air hand dork complex. so an open ended enlist m. he would not be able to claim until haes had been dewe was also from massachusetts and in this case bridgewater he had black hair, dark complex complexion. sit a wonde

had been seen all over cambridge massachusetts as a matter of fact the book opens with a remark made by a cambridge police official who said these you know mother bleepers are here and that's because the cameras police are getting nine one one calls about suspicious vehicles in and around the area of where that we would later learn this and i have lived so the big question became right away for local law enforcement is what was the feds doing there and what did they know about these brothers before these photos were released now remember sean collier was assassinated on april eighteenth and that was within hours of the f.b.i. releasing the photos of suspect black hat and suspect white hat so right away it smacked of the feds knew something about this and i have brothers that they weren't sharing with local law enforcement and why well if you go back into the history of how these brothers got into the country you take a look at this and i have planned came into the united states via ancora turkey who was the cia station chief in accra turkey at the time well it was a guy whose son in

let's move on to rebecca on the line for republicans from massachusetts. go ahead and welcome to c-span. caller: this is my first time. i'm very happy to get through. one of the things that has come up so many times is about social security. i am on social security. but what very little, most people i don't think anyone ever brings up is they think social security is free. monthsenior pays $105 a for their health care. they really don't get anything. they have to go to a next her plan. also being from massachusetts, i as a senior from a low income -- we were on mass health medicare, which is what supposed to have been what obamacare was done. massachusetts did it. maybe all states should be doing it at a state level. in ion as obamacare came was kicked off mass health. i have a disability. disability,major but i was on it because of that. and because i am low income. why not kicked off mass health, i also got kicked off my drug plan. i think people should take a look. i was listening this morning. and theenator cassidy counterpart for his -- his counterpar

massachusetts, the students received an $250able mention prize of for their documentary on the opioidpidemic. thank you to all the students who took part in our 2017 studentcam documentary program. to watch all the videos, go to studentcam.org. we are asking students to choose any provision of the u.s. constitution and create a video illustrating why the conversion is important -- provision is important. >> on lectures in history, emory university professor felix harcourt teaches a class on how conspiracy theories about ufos have shaped american culture. he begins in the late 1940's and describes how public opinion about extraterrestrials changed over the course of the 20th century, often paralleling societal anxieties. this class is about one hour and 15 minutes. felix harcourt: let us start with the question that i am sure no one will have any problem having their answer recorded for television for. a show of hands -- how many people believe alien life exists? a pretty decent number of people. i am going to throw in their as well.

we now have them all over massachusetts. i have been to a bunch of theirs gatherings, and they're really raw and really informative, and i am really glad i go to them. i as at one of them one night, and this guy said, you know, i loif in this town, but the first time i went to one of these meetings, i went to one, you know, 30 miles away because i was afraid i might run into somebody that i knew here, from our town. he said, i went to the one thirty miles away and i ran into two people from our town who went to that one too. another guy in the room said, the same thing happened to me. he went to a different one. this is going to a meeting where you knew everybody who was there was somebody who was dealing with this. and i -- you know, there is a great, sad moment in an hbo docks documenta documentary they did on this issue in cape cod where a mom is talking about her child's addiction. she said, if my kid had cancer, every day one of the neighbors would be here with a casserole looking to help. but because my kid is dealing

that is out of the concorde monitor in massachusetts.heir lead story takes a look at some of the states that allow recreational and medical use. it talks about the black market, smuggling and trafficking of this. it was in june that colorado prosecutors busted a 74 person marijuana.muggling two tons ofd cannabis from dozens of homes. "those of us in law enforcement say you are just making it easier for people who want to make money. we have given them cover." that is just some of the two issues, to states dealing with issues stemming from the legalization of marijuana. we want to get your thoughts, especially if you support or oppose the idea of recreational as someg legalized states have already done. (202) 748-8000 for democrats. i'm sorry. (202) 748-8000 if you support this issue. (202) 748-8001 if you oppose it. in usa today, there is a map showing where marijuana is legal in the u.s. several states, including washington, oregon, nevada, california, and colorado. other states allow it for medical use. cannabislow it for extract use.

the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker, at this point i'd like to yield two minutes to the gentleman from california, mr. khanna, and also congratulate him on becoming a new dad. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. khanna: thank you, representative mcgovern, and thank you to your wife, lisa mcgovern, for being a great support to my wife. i rise today in opposition to this rule, and it's not just because i am opposed to our policy of refueling planes into yemen, refueling saudi-led planes. it's because of our view, a bipartisan view of the place of congress, congress' article 1 of the constitution, it's congress' responsibility and duty to have a public debate about our foreign policy, about who we ought to be arming, who ought to be intervening overseas. and we are and gaiting our responsibility. my amendment would have been very simple. they would have said this body should debate whether we should be refueling saudi-led airplanes that are leading to civilian deaths in yemen,

american history tv is joining our comcast cable partners to showcase the history of concord, massachusetts. to learn more about the cities are current tour, visit www.c-span.org/cities tour. the continue with our look at this -- the history of concord. interesting that very walden, when of they come to the pond, are a little puzzled, maybe a little disappointed, because when you read "walden," you really are expecting to be just amazed at the landscape. the fact that thoreau could be every day just staggered by a landscape as humble as this, takes a little getting used to. it was just a little pond and now it is an icon of american literary history. henry david thoreau first came here as a little boy and he remembered that excursion long after so he came here with his family, actually to gather sand for his father's sandpaper manufacturing enterprise, but he came here to live. it was on july 4, 1845, that he came to live and was out here for two years. his friend, ralph waldo emerson, had not long before bought the property we are standing on as a woodlot, the soil around walden was not go

keating of massachusetts. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 440, the gentleman from massachusetts, mr. keating and a member opposed each will control five minutes. mr. keating: i rise to offer an amendment that would authorize the secretary of defense to make existing funds available from the defense health program for collaboration with medical researchers and universities to address the growing number of tick-born diseases through research and testing. the army public health center has operated the basic tick-testing program for nearly 30 years. military personnel can assist tick identification services through military health care facilities at no charge. however, the tests provided by this program are limited to only six tick-borne diseases whereas the centers of disease control and the department of defense have now identified 16 of these tick borne diseases, some of which can be fatal. according to the centers for disease control, around 30,000 cases of lyme disease are reported each year. addition

in concord, massachusetts, we take you to orchard house, the home where louisa may alcott wrote her most famous work, little women. concordwe are in massachusetts, on the lexington road, where the redcoats marched into the north bridge on april the 19th of 1775, starting the american revolution. this house was standing event. eventually much later it becomes the home of amos brownson all caught and his family. one of the daughters, louisa may, in this house writes a book that changes a lot of the way people think about children, the way they think about women, the way they think about mature women. it was a progressive book or its day. frankly in many ways it still remains this. because it is a simple true to life story for young women and their parents. at al qaeda was an educated cott was al progressive thinker. they were in boston when he met ralph waldo emerson and they struck up a friendship. thinking that brownson belonged here. you had the political revolution in 1775 and there was a literary revolution in the 1800s. mr. emerson really wanted brownson all caps move here -- amos br

this hour-long presentation was part of a symposium held in massachusetts. >> good morning, everybody. lovely to see you all today on this day, this reverent way. i am chair of the history department here. i thank you all for coming today. we are all here, obviously, because of rigid ship. the long hot summer and early

and it is also a story about mike from douglas, massachusetts. and kai, and gina and the other michael. so, let me go back and read you a little bit more from this book. trump and his team seemed to believe that government is the enemy and the poor, beleagured giant corporations should be turned lose to do whatever they want. break the economy, poison the water, cut cozy private deals with russia, refuse to pay people for the hours they work. trump and his team have the power to he destroy much of what is left of america's middle class. they have the power to extinguish the hope that our children all of our children, will have a chance to grow up and do better than their parents there is a lot of tough stuff in this book. i make it clear, that i wrote this book in part because i am worried, that trump is now poised to deliver the knockout blow to the middle class. i want to make a point here and focus this down. this is not about what donald trump says. this is not about donald trump's 3:00 in the morning tweets. this is about what donald trump d

and new jersey -- see these 30 girls from rhode island and massachusetts and new jersey solving the problems of the world. they built an act for senior citizens because far too many of their aunts and uncles had been hacked. they built a website to make sure underemployed women had an opportunity to get jobs. we had a team from the northeast they built an application to negotiate traffic because far too many of them are late for school. future.rls are our eyes, i i look in your see the same look i see in courtney's fathers eyes. you do anything for your girls and you would probably do anything for your constituents who are girls. and when it comes to computer science education, we have made progress. hutchinson, you have done tremendous work. we are so proud what we are doing. today, one in four students offers computer science. i am here on this stage to talk truth to power. we are failing our girls. failing ourare girls. you don't have to trust me. look at the data. than one out of five girls areomputer science classes is girls. that is not enough for me. it should not be enough f

and new jersey -- see these 30 girls from rhode island and massachusetts and new jersey solving the problems of the world. they built an act for senior citizens because far too many of their aunts and uncles had been hacked. they built a website to make sure underemployed women had an opportunity to get jobs. we had a team from the northeast they built an application to negotiate traffic because far too many of them are late for school. future.rls are our eyes, i i look in your see the same look i see in courtney's fathers eyes. you do anything for your girls and you would probably do anything for your constituents who are girls. and when it comes to computer science education, we have made progress. hutchinson, you have done tremendous work. we are so proud what we are doing. today, one in four students offers computer science. i am here on this stage to talk truth to power. we are failing our girls. failing ourare girls. you don't have to trust me. look at the data. than one out of five girls areomputer science classes is girls. that is not enough for me. it should not be enough f

concord, massachusetts to hand out a second price to students won the second place prize of $1500 forheir documentary on the wage gap. in massachusetts, students from north hampton high one and honorable mention prize of 200 $50 for the documentary on century cities and immigration reform . massachusetts, they received an honorable mention prize of $250 for the documentary on the opioid epidemic. thank you to all the students who took part in the 2017 competition. to watch any of the videos go to studentcam.org a theme of the constitution and year. choose any provision and create a video illustrating why it is important. << several countries have led a blockade against qatar's to its ties to extremist groups and reports of terrorism financing. on tuesday, qatar's ambassador to the u.s. spoke about the impact of that blockade at an event in washington posted by the world affairs council. this is just over one hour. >> bonjour. nihau. good evening, ladies and gentlemen. that deserves a round of applause. [applause] >> i'm the president of the world affairs council, washington, dc.