audience is. you have to reach those people who are going to the parks that's what people are doing with and without. it's about checking out the publishers. you can do a search and most of them will pop up. they write similar subject matter and things like that and just looking at the front matter of the website they will tell you who the editors and the agents are. i'm the author of a coffee table book and i worked on two others. the culture is so rich what advice would you give to those that want to document visually i mean coffee table books with photography, little novelty

books that are visually driven or graphic novels. we work with our printing company i was talking to some folks last night at exactly the same thing. coffee table books and novelty books tend to be on the expensive side for most publishers to take on and it's not only the question of the production of them to get to the quality to represent what you're doing visually. the challenge for the publishers that specialize in making those books have a very hard time with them. one will consider if you want to

invest your money and i'm talking about self production but then it becomes an expensive thing. what we are talking about in the world of print that area has become the barrier to entry to become high and highe higher any needed to produce like you have to produce more and more. you have to have an audience that is going to buy them. most publishers will tell you to put your publishing has on for that one. >> it's not that it can't be done. >> it's definitely true, and i think also because of the production cost is so high they

end up being priced high so even if you do get them into the bookstore they are 40 and $50. we know that overall our economy is rough and people aren't spending a lot of money. are they going to spend $50 for a coffee table unless they are passionate about the photograph and so some of my friends who have done them or giving virtual ones. you get them edited and you have a digital book versus a print book that might be 40 or $50 is a 500 copies. >> when i share information about the mixes there is a lot of engagement. there is an interest in them and i'd seen a couple i wish i could

remember the title of the book's i received recently. one was a photographer book of shots of harlem from the 70s. i could have been on one of those. and i loved the book and actually i did sell it. and it was priced reasonably. it was less than $50. they never disappear because you cannot replicate on the tablet of the screen is a tactical thing that to create extensis to reproduce, but from what i'm saying now doing it at the price point that is a good calling and i wish i could remember the

title of that book. it was a nice book. >> if you subscribe to my newsletter, i will put it in my newsletter the next issue. i guarantee. >> we are on time. thank you panelists. [applause] that concludes coverage of the national black writers conference at th the medicare es college in brooklyn.

the politicians got wind of the excitement and we have learned more in the last five to ten years about the mind than all of human history combined. president barack obama last year got wind of this and it is the state of the union address announced the initiative just like the human genome project changed the course of medicine. $1 billion that's billion with a b. will be devoted to creating a map of the brain.

all of the connections on the mind on the desk. the short-term goal is to cure mental illness that has been with us since biblical times even the bible mentions mental illness, but if we have a connection and the genome on two different disks then if you die, you live forever in some sense because your personality. your memory is coming your want and desires are coded inside of a disk. when i was a kid i was fascinated by telepathy, telekinesis, moving objects, recording memories.

a belief it obelief it or not wl of the above. and you will see that in today's slide show. we need something to the commission during the reagan administration or the base realignment closing commission during the clinton administration of outside groups with integrity, former members of congress come in no elected politicians that come in and do a complete audit of the government from top to bottom. every agency has a piece of legislation or a charter that created it. it has a purpose. if it's not fulfilling its purpose, we are not doing it in a reasonable budget it should be cut or eliminated. let's take a start that came with the highest motivation? did you know there are now three had starts, there's early head start, advanced and regular.

why do we have the other to? two? because the first one wasn't working.

the first thing i would do is not left the largest cable and tv company by the second-largest cable and tv company. that's where i would start. my job here on the judiciary committee is to act these hearings raise my concerns. he seems like a really smart g guy. he earns -- my job was to ask tough questions. they have 107 lobbyists on capitol hill. they are swarming capitol hill with lobbyists. but i got 100,000.

i had 100,000 people write me their objections, so the first thing i would do is stop this deal. i wouldn't let this go through. but it's not up to me. in just a few numbers tell the story comic disease causes seven out of ten deaths in the united states and 49% of americans have one or more chronic diseases which account for three out of every $4 we spend on health care that's nearly $7,900 a year for every american with a chronic disease. by 2030, chronic disease such as heardiseases suchas heart diseae and diabetes will cause more than three quarters of all deaths in the world and the cost to the world economy over the

next two decades is estimated at $47 trillion. injuries are the other leading cause of death and disability within the u.s. globally and especially for young people. global annual road traffic tests are projected to increase from 1.2 million in 2002 to 2.1 million in 2030. primarily due to increased motor vehicle fatalities associated with economic growth an in low d middle income countries and in addition to road crashes injure up to 50 million people a year and children are the frequent victims. in the second half of the 20th century, violence and suicide became increasingly important causes of death contributing between a quarter and one third in young men aged ten to 24 in all regions of the world. by the early 21st centur 21st cy come injuries especially from cars and guns were the dominant cause of death among young women

and men in most parts of the world. the conventional explanation is growing affluence and changing lifestyles and of course in part that's true but in epidemiology, our task is to uncover the cause, to go a little deeper so we can find more effective strategies. in the people but legal i make the case that the fundamental cause of the rising burden of chronic disease and injuries is the emergency of what i call the corporate consumption complex.

>> jim demint discusses how we can fix our social and economic problems. he argues nothing will be solved and solutions will have to come from communities around the country. this is about an hour. [applause]