meridian, thank you very much. .lcome back to the stage the honorable stewart holiday. >> nothing like a heavy dose of geopolitical risk in the morning to give us food for thought. what a great panel, thank you, chairman. the perfect segue talking about the role of the private sector in strengthening america's engagement with the world through corporate diplomacy. we have an award that recognizes leaders in ability to help their companies succeed in the global marketplace, increase international collaboration and made societal impacts. en it's my pleasure to invite kwan tran up to the stage, and with his wife kathy, there she is, in from vancouver. and he leads a $20 billion business that spans services, software, hardware solutions, meeting the needs of homes, offices and the ever evolving graphics industry. his vision has been central to transforming hp's business and make sure it remains a leader in the rapidly changing and challenging marketplace. under his guidance, hp leads the way, both in product reliability,

big admirer of meridian house and all the work that's done.ill tell you i was at the colombia school of international and public affairs this week speaking to a group of students and i said you are hot right now. your skill set, if that wasn't true pre-the ukrainian war. where corporations are spending a lot of time here on talking to ceos all the time and we spend less time talk about a soft landing in the u.s. and more time talking about how to think about geopolitics and effect on business. there's a whole new career and for those of you might be switching in and out of careers i would say companies really look today very differently geopolitics and why it matters. i was looking at the title of this discussion, resilience redefined, it was redefined by all of these events. so starting with the pandemic and then as you go through each of them, events since then, have redefined what does resilience mean for companies? so very tangibly for accenture when we think now about technology, we didn't use to talk about the decoupling of technology, r

, all chinese medicine is based on, i understand, meridians, meridians, let's go further, good doctorften used to cramp my arms and legs, so one day i came to visit friends at the dacha, and plunged into a cold pond, and i liked it so much that i started hardening myself, it helped me so much that since then it's the only thing that helps me, in fact, hardening probably does not fight muscle... although, although any cramps, spasms, we know, for example, if there are leg cramps, cramps in the calf muscles, we advise massaging with ice, a woman loves massage your face with ice, and since childhood , by the way, i’m curious, some, i remember as a teenager, i had headaches, but i haven’t had any since then, then i intuitively found a way, i inserted cold water, turned it on and put my head under it, that’s when it started to ache, so much so that it aches, my head went away, and since... hello, i’m a piano teacher, i sit a lot, because of this i started to get headaches often. i used to take painkillers, but then i started using breathing exercises. for example, the tongue needs to be pu

of the meridian, agriculture becomes almost impossible without irrigation. so he's right. he's seeing really dry pieces of the plains. he doesn't know that irrigation technology is going to come along and mitigate kind of all of those problems. but the reason turner that massive gap in american expansion, the reason the great plains, actually the last part of the frontier to be settled is partly because long, calls it a desert. it's a good question. yeah. uh, i like his little, little outfit. i do like an army explorer, you know, the best post i'm going to be painted. i'm an explorer. i'm a point. something. the army kind of doubles down on its exploring corps in the 1830s by creating what becomes known as the corps of topographical engineers. and these are guys that are basically their whole job is go out and make maps topography to go out and explore. i'm trying figure out what's up, what's going on all across the west and william gottesman, who was a famous historian, pulitzer prize winning historian, taught at the university of texas at austin for many y

rob and their two teenage daughters had just moved from california to idaho, where they settled in meridian, a quiet town at the foot of the majestic rockies. >> rob and candy hall had been married for more than 15 years, and by a lot of accounts from their friends, were happy. >> rob was the i.t. specialist for the local sheriff. candy was a paralegal. but the 40 year old wife and mother was dealing with some career struggles. >> she had recently lost a job at another law firm, and so she was looking for somewhere to work. >> enter emmett corrigan, her soon to be boss. the rising legal star was boyishly handsome, cocky and ambitious. the 30 year old had just opened his own law practice. not only did emmett have a thriving career, he had a beautiful wife, ashley. >> we were dating like two months. we dated really fast and we both just kind of knew it was what we wanted. >> they were the picture of the squeaky clean, all-american family with four kids and one on the way. the future looked bright. candy, the paralegal, was thrilled to be part of a vibrant new firm, but just as her professiona

the soviet industry produced many similar devices: elektronika, meridian, spidola, sokol.ople still remember these names. the legendary ocean. it could even receive ultra-short waves. engineers were constantly working on reducing it. it was believed that with such a thing it was not shameful to climb even everest, well, at least elbrus, however, the weight of the receiver was slightly more than a kilogram, and for mountaineers every gram of cargo counts. in our history, it was such a radio receiver played a crucial role. the elderly woman was wounded, as everyone was afraid of poleny, but it never occurred to her that he would come straight to her home, so, noticing the hostess, he rushed at her, grabbed her, the unfortunate grandmother lost consciousness from horror, and the fugitive monster hastily collected some loot and grabbed the radio receiver with him the climber, later he would attach a rope to its handle and would but... on the neck, the detectives could not figure out poleny, he constantly moved from place to place, as if in mockery openly mocked, intimidate. ne

. - they were going to pick me up and we were going to go over to meridian and then to neshoba countyed a very bad cough. i had bronchitis, and so i was coughing all over the places they were concerned and they kept talking to me, telling me i shouldn't go on this ride. a lot of people tell me the same thing that you would've been killed if you gotten in that car. i don't know that, maybe i could have done something i don't know, but it never get out of my head. oh... - i don't want to have to go to another memorial. i'm tired of feeling it. i'm tired of it! (sighs) we've got to stand up! - [narrator] david dennis delivered the eulogy for his friend james chaney. - you know, when i was talking about tired going to funerals i'm talking about, you know, in general, you know, watching us die, you know, and nothing's being done about it in this country. i was only 23 years old. - it's hard for dad to watch, and really in a lot of ways it's hard for me to watch. no person should have experienced what he experienced and so many other people experienced, but to know that he went through that

hour, dance with me for the last time, the saxophone sings and cries, but tonight it plays, that. meridianad voice, we dance for the last time in my love's autumn hour, we dance, the autumn time, my love's autumn hour, pa-pa-pa, pa-pa-pa, pa-pa-pa, pa-pa-pa, pa-pa-pa, thank you, what restraint, what a style, well done, well done, you are so beautiful, thank you, what is your name, victoria, listen, you are like a statue, just yes... the tone is simply incredible, i have never heard such a performance, until now, i really, really want to invite you, of course, to my place too, victoria, and how old are you, eight, 8 years old, but you are of course incredible, and you really are like porcelain, like from some cartoon, so beautiful, so delicate in the best sense of the word, and it was all so cultured, it was all so... intelligent, it feels like at this age you can't feel and understand like that, yeah, that's what i'm getting at, it's amazing that a child at this age understands what sound culture is, what technology is, this kind of volume, it was very subtle, i invite you to join my team,

joining us from meridian, georgia, is nbc's priya sridhar. what do we know about what happened?ay to get sappalo island is by ferry, about 30 miles away. about 100 people on a given day will make their way to the island but on this day there were 700 people there. the reason is it was an annual celebration of the gula geechee culture. they're descendants of black slaves and they still on the islands off the coast of georgia and north carolina. they kept many of their african and creole traditions so it was a special day for them when the gangway collapsed which plummeted dozens of people in the water. the seven people who were killed were all senior citizens between the ages of 73 and 93. as you mentioned, another eight were injured. six have critical injuries and were taken to local hospitals. we still don't have any indication as to what caused the gangway to collapse. we know it was built in 2021, so it was relatively new. there is an investigation going on by the georgia department of natural resources. they say they don't believe that a boat actually hit the dock, but as of

thank you won meridian township over and i've won every election since. >> wife -- we've been calling her landslide gretchen. >> i talk about that in the book, a chapter in here called you never regret being kind. i have regretted being sarcastic, i've regretted not being as kind, but i've never once regretted being kind. i was at the mack once and a man came up to me very familiar looking so my default was just to hug him and be very friendly and we walked away and i realized he was the consultant for one of my opponents who absolutely did me dirty and i was like, okay, well, you know what? i would rather be nice to someone. i didn't mean to be nice to them to be mean, and unkind to. my first election we were 20 points down weeks before the primary. mary linderman was my primary opponent, we had two others, and she was the toughest. and her husband had been our long time drain commissioner, i think he still is, right? yes? and it was a formidable name well-established, down 20 points, three weeks ago, and my campaign manager said we've got an opposition folder five inches thick and w

okay one meridian township by almost 200 votes and that put me over the top and won every elections in calling or landslide threats. but but i share that you know during the campaign i talked a little bit about that in the book there's a chapter in here that is called you never regret being you know i have regretted being sarcastic i have regretted not i have. i have regretted not being kind. but i've never regretted being kind. i was at the mark once and a man came up to me and he was very familiar looking. and so my default was just to hug him and be very friendly. and then we walked away and then i realized he was the consultant for, one of my opponents who absolutely me dirty. and i was like, well, you know what? i would rather be nice to someone. i didn't mean be nice to than to be mean to someone. i didn't mean to be unkind to. and so me in my election, we were 20 points down weeks before the primary. mary lindemann was my primary opponent. we had two other men were in the race, but she was the the toughest one to beat and her husband had been our long time drain commissioner. i

was held three days later, on april 11th, in the gothic expanse of second presbyterian church in meridianls, an community just north of downtown indianapolis. some 1500 mourners attended the funeral, while hundreds more unable secure a spot in the sanctuary, were stranded outdoors in the bitter and rain. unsurprisingly, given ryan's celebrity status. various stars and dignitaries were in attendance as well. first lady barbara bush set directly behind the white family and michael jackson. one of the most famous people in the world at the time. sat next to jeannie white jackson had actually flown to indiana on donald trump's private jet to attend the affair loss. angeles raiders defensive end howie long singer elton john and talk show host phil donahue, who recently passed away, served as. cnn carried the 45 minute ceremony live air and all three major broadcast networks showed footage of the service that evening. ryan laid in an open casket at the of the sanctuary. his body adorned with some of the clothing and he cherished and through which he channeled his rock. our idols, people like mi

host: let's talk to julie in meridian ville, alabama, republican. caller: hi. just want to say that all the media has done is trash trump, and the thing about it is that he was president before. and we did not have all of this mess. it is ridiculous. i am a woman. i think a woman president would be great. but we have got to have strong women, smart women, that can answer questions, that have not had babies with their husbands, have not cheated and had babies with nannies, people like margaret thatcher. host: here is stone mountain, georgia, independent line. caller: how are you? host: doing ok. how about you, victor? caller: i'm doing great. it is time. it's time for a woman to lead this country. no, we have had 46 presidents, all male, most of them white males. and it is time for a woman to lead this country. i feel like they can do it better than a man can. men have done too much. some men did good. some, not so good. let a woman try. but her give it a shot. i think she can do just as good as a man can. i think it is time for a woman to be president of the un