come apparent and professor of language and culture study that trinity college in hartford thank you so much for to finding time to join us on the program tonight thank you very much. the portuguese island of terror syria in the atlantico is in desperate need of decontamination decades of u.s. air force activity have left it polluted with heavy metals and islanders are say they're worried about the prevalence of cancer and other serious illnesses. and it's time to run away from here as well ready to stay too long. we have is a series of locations with extremely high levels of pollution caused by heavy metals a hydrocarbons there are very high levels of lead in some say sterility and cancer everything me and neverending amounts of problems associated with an excess of these substances. all my family lived in that area both of my parents died of cancer when i was thirty three i was diagnosed with breast cancer. the dire environmental situation on the island was first acknowledged in a classified report written in two thousand and three which has since been leaked it describes seventy m

studies at college of europe. while at trinity he was auditor and debating gold medalist of the college historical society and winner of the irish times debating competition. he holds an honorary doctorate from the dublin institute of technology and was awarded a second honorary doctorate from his alma mater, trinity college. he also has been a visiting professor at the european college of parma. welcome me in joining the panel on foreign perspectives of trade. [applause] >> good afternoon. it is wonderful to be here. i'm nance my mcclaren, ceo of organization of internext investment. i have a pleasure of representing over 200 companies. these are all foreign firms that have made a deliberate decision to invest in the united states and employ americans here. across the country, almost 7 million americans get a paycheck from foreign-owned companies. companies like japan-based toyota, german-based siemens, switzerland-based nestle, and canada-based burger king. these companies probably have a lot to do with your day-to-day existence

the treasurer that link to trinity college, which is a andodist schools, faculty president owned slaves. so we have a great deal to talk about. but briefly, i know we are running out of time here -- michael: there is no rush. prof. glymph: briefly, in terms of monuments, the robert e. lee duke, so weat struggled with, should we put something in it? i think not. people have suggested patty murray, washington, martin luther king. s most effective use would be a blank space, which is kind of speaking to our potential. enthusiast of sort of willy-nilly trying to compete with the confederate landscape by putting monuments up to black people. i think we have to think about what monuments are designed to do, what kind of nationstate message they enact. the confederate monuments, as david pointed out, they were not just monuments to the confederacy, but they were also monuments to a particular conception of the u.s. as a nationstate. so there or monuments that i would have no trouble saying oh, yes, take it down. statuesthose are like that look alike and overall they and ugly, and then are land

mention the productivity funding formula in which we will fund our tenet public universities and 22 trinity college based upon student progression and not just student enrollment. it's about our arkansas futures grant that assures a student that if you go into a high need field of study then two years of college for training will be covered and paid for by the state. we want to make sure they are comfortable in securing at least two years of pay for education in terms of tuition and cost. and yes, it is important that we apply this to nontraditional students, as well. everybody can benefit from that opportunity. it provides a mentor in two years that they will be staying in arkansas to work after they finish. many of you have advocated for funding for pre- k. it has been increased in the last few years thanks to your leadership and advocacy and that is an important part of improving education in arkansas. [applause] there is an important principle to follow and that is a growing economy and improved job skill training should benefit everyone even those who have fallen on challenging times and need