this was made by mechanical engineers at the university of chicago and cornell university. this yuniversaal can pick thingings up and start jamming things. >> it looks like a bozo nose. >> yes, it does. for this thing to work, what you basically need is sand, some kind of flexible membrane like a balloon, it uses vacuum suction to harden it once it grabs something. and then when it's ready to release it, it just puts air back in the bag and it puts it down. >> and why do we need this? >> think about the real-world application for this. if you have somebody who can't pick something up, this could help them. also, if you're in a war zone and you need to pick up a bomb or a road-side contraption, you're trying to figure out what it is, you send the robot in. >> i understand the picking-up as pekt of it. but the throwing it, the tossing it, i'm kind of like puzzled about. >> i think it's just demonstrating the following the accidentb accidentblety of the way this thing can grasp and release. it's demonstrating that it's dexterous enough to pick something small up and releases.

he received his bachelor's degree from cornell university. gentlemen, thank you very much for your testimony. we are looking forward to it. if you would proceed in the order in which i introduced you and attempt to keep your remarks to five minutes. your full comments will be included in their entirety in our record. mr. black. >> thank you, mr. chairman and ranking members and ladies and gentlemen of the committee and ladies and gentlemen in attendance of this important hearing today. i'm deeply honored to serve as commissioner of agriculture for all formers and all consumers in georgia. a state that is very rich in agriculture heritage and diversity. i first discussed this guest worker reform issue and this type of sub committee forum with three farmers in 1997. our gracious host for that day was congress member sonny bono. dozens of us have come here for generatio generations. we lay problems at your feet. snap photos and return home. the ritual has become an industry in and of itself. people share their problems with me, too. we can artic

about our i was thinking of creativity i thought that for the fun little tidbit turns out that cornell university and the university of hawaii are now doing a simulation they want to perfect the menu if we really ever were to send men to space that had to be for three year. so they want to give them you know some options and so some are out of are actually going to be doing this the simulation and i mean what do you think right how creative can you really get with space cuisine. i don't know i was a little scared when i read that story i don't know how i would do with eating the same you know fused menu selections for two and a half years or three years so i wish them well i hope they learned how to keep people happy from killing very standpoint because psychological health is actually going to turn out to be one of the big challenges of sending humans to mars and you know as i've pointed out to you before when you get out all the way to mars and you're anywhere from forty to one hundred to two hundred million miles away from the earth you know the earth is just going to be a bright star in the i

cornell university did a study. they think a total of between 2,500 and 3,000 jobs. the fantasy that newt gingrich beautifully uses that term is theirs and not this president. >> alan west attacked the president on facebook. he said it took $70 to fill the tank of my 2008 h3 hummer. what does it cost you and what does it cost the president to fill his gas tank? richard, what's wrong with this statement? >> the guy should get a smaller car. something more efficient and up to date. there are a number of options out there. but his bigger problem is his party's problem, right? this is a party that says we understand the private sector. we understand business. this president is clueless. we could be producing any amount of gasoline and crude oil in this country and it would not affect the price of crude oil around the world. it is so much of a bigger market. saudi arabia has more direct impact on the price of oil and it struggles to influence because demand is so high. there is a world market for oil that is irrelevant when it comes to american policy. we can mitigate som

. >> the first verifiable incident clearly is 1873 at cornell university. it's the death of mortimer leggatt who was the son of a civil war general and hero. >> reporter: for the next 100 years more deaths followed sporadically. but about 30 years ago, he noticed a disturbing trend. >> alcohol is the big discussion group. >> reporter: the one constant in 82% of hazing deaths, he found, was massive quantities of alcohol, part of a growing culture of binge drinking of colleges across america. >> we're talking levels which would be approaching basically half of your blood system being filled with liquor. in the death of chuck dinzel when i interviewed the pathologist and went to the room where he did his autopsy, he basically said his brain was swimming in alcohol. >> reporter: chuck died at alfred university in new york in 1978. and the community was so outraged they passed the state's first anti-hazing law. one of 44 states to do so. and yet 30 years later, nothing much has changed. tell me about carson. what was carson like as a kid. >> carson was very funn

he's chairman of the information science department at cornell university. that's a big title. we communicate. professor shall nice to have you back. >> great to be back. >> with the new guidelines in place, how will it affect the normal user? >> we'll have more options to be able to control the kind of information that we leave behind every time we click on a computer. >> but they're guidelines. so, a, how many people will do this when a lot of people don't read a privacy agreement? >> we never read them and just say yes. the idea is to create a one click button that allows to not retract that section of browsing or whatever we're doing. >> is anything ever really private on the internet? when people say you can send it to me and your credit card, anything you want to say, anything -- once you put it on the internet, is it ever really totally private? >> in most cases no. i like to think of everything online is digital tattoos. >> reassuring, isn't it? >> need to go delete some stuff. >> even -- >> i will do that, charlie. >> you copy charl, then he has a copy. even if you del

chairman of the information science department at cornell university. you back. >> great to be back. >> with the new guidelines in place, how will it affect the normal user? >> we'll have more options to control the kind of information that we leave behind. every time we click on the computer, we're leaving information around. >> but they're guidelines so, a, how many people are going to do this when a lot of people don't read a privacy agreement before they click yes. >> i know, the privacy agreements that are 14 pages long and we never read them and just say yes. the idea is to create a one-click button to allow us to not be tracked for that session of browsing or whatever we're doing. >> is anything ever really private on the internet? hat's what i want to know. people say you can send it to me and your credit card, anything you want to say. once you put it on the internet, is it ever really totally private? >> in most cases no. i like to think everything we do online is like a digital tattoo. >> that's reassuring. >> you need to delete some stuff. >

we have cornell university, global labor institute saying 1400 and the state department saying 6,000.saying 138,000 and the u.s. chamber of commerce saying 250,000. pretty wide var indication. katon, is this the no brainer that the democratic party -- >> i disagree with both. in late august the state department came out with the study, said there was no significant risk to the states it would cut through. we as americans have to dee tien where to buy oil from. canadians will sell it to china or us. >> weren't we going to sell a lot of this oil. my understanding is it's not going to flow into our gas tanks but that it would flow to the gulf coast where we've had oil anxieties lately. >> flow through our economy, is what it's going to do. and right now, this is a jobs election. this is an election about creating jobs. we can all argue whether it's 22,000, 250,000 or what the impact is. whether a hundred billion. the canadians have it. talk to the ambassador to canada, from south carolina, davy wilkins, he said they're going to sell it. they want the jobs. i live in south carolina where

john sweeney, the director of global labor institute at cornell university, who did a study about thatis would create, made it clear that -- he said this decision was about the president being reelected. the president's re-election is at stake. he said there is more at stake here than a simple pipeline. in closing, i would like to quote from an editorial in the chicago tribune. keystone should be approved. this is a good project. it will give us energy and give us jobs. you want stimulus, this is it. this is a $7 billion project to be done with private dollars. taxpayer dollars will not be used. president obama made a decision that we think is the wrong decision. with that, -- does anyone seek recognition? >> i will recognize you later. >> all right. >> sure, mr. chairman. i think the gentleman for yielding. i appreciate his comments. i was reviewing the testimony by the gentleman from the bureau of land management. it is interesting, and our government rules come into play here for so little land. the total permanent right of way on the public land for the keystone project would be ap

sean sweeney who was the director of global labor institute at cornell university who did a study about the jobs that this would create made it very clear when he said that this decision was really about the president being reelected. the president's re-election is at stake, and he said there is certainly more at stake here than a simple pipeline. in closing, i would simply like to quote from an editorial in "the chicago tribune." keystone should be approved. this is a good project, it will give us energy and give us jobs. you want stimulus? this is it. this is a $7 billion project to be done with private dollars, taxpayer dollars will not be used. president obama made a decision that we think is the wrong decision. and with that i would -- does anyone seek recognition for a minute and 48 seconds? no, i'll recognize you later. all right. >> sure, mr. chairman. >> i'll yield my time to you -- >> i thank the gentleman for yielding, i appreciate his comments. i was just reviewing the testimony by, i believe it's mr. poole from the bureau of land management, and i just find it interesting t

sweeney, the director of the global labor institute at cornell university, made it very clear when he said this decision was really about the president being reelected. his reelection is at stake. he said there is more to save than a simple power plant. in closing, i would like to quote from an article in the "chicago tribune." this is a good project. it will give us energy and jobs. if you want stimulus, this is it. this is a $7 billion project to be done with private dollars. taxpayer dollars will not be used. president obama made a decision that we think is the wrong decision. with that, does anyone seek recognition for a minute? i will recognize you later. high yield the balance of my time to you. -- i yield the balance of my time to you. >> are reviewing the testimony of mr. pool. i find it interesting how much our rules and regulations come in for so little land. the land would be approximately 50 feet wide and comprise a total of about 270 acres. let that sink in. think about the role the government is playing in this land. the main issue is their approval. final biological ass

and received degrees from howard university here and cornell and taught at texas southern university, howard university, yale and trins ton. her contributions to american history come from her six novels and during her ceremony, the permanent secretary of the college said her depictions of the world of black people, tony marcheson has given the african american people their history back. let us recognize the history of tony morrison during this month's black history month. while the united states is facing challenges, it is incumbent to make sure that the work of others do not go unnoticed. i just wanted to mention also she pened a story about a girl from her childhood. i happen to have blue eyes. i never thought about that and she said this was the basis of her first novel, "the blew eyes" published in 1970. i always wanted curly hair and i never really had it. we learn from one another and we appreciate from one another and in conclusion, let me say i wish to place on the record from "the cleveland plain dealer," recognizing the great african americans. there are a few of whose name

cornell and got a ph.d. in american civilization at the university of texas at austin in the bush 43 administration.rved in a succession of positions at the white house, including deputy director and acting assistant to the president for domestic policy and head of the domestic policy council. toward the end of the administration he was appointed deputy secretary of health and human services. during his checkered career, he has been at the following think tanks, in addition to hudson -- aei claremont, the potomac institute, the american action institute, heritage, and the institute for humane studies. after he speaks, we will hear from our three panelists in the following order. first, neera tanden -- she is the president of the center for american progress and a counselor to its affiliate the center for american progress action fund. she was among those who founded c.a.p. in 2003. she served as legislative director for senator hillary clinton and was a senior official on her senate campaign in 2000. before that, she served in the clinton white house. she was a director of domestic policy issues on

university. he is the author of several award winning works in putting the memoir of colored people, as well as the future of the race co-authored with cornell west. and 13 ways of looking at a black man. please come join me in to the war plan to welcome to henry louis gates jr.. [applause] >> this thank you very much for the kind introduction. i appreciate that. good to be back in orlando. i love atlanta. i always have a good time and atlanta. it feels like my home away from home. midevening everyone. come on life will all the way down from boston. good evening. good evening. that's what i'm talking about. i can't do that in boston that is a strong appeal for me. it's been a big day. i saw sanja today. i'm doing in a pbs series finding your roots that appears in late march, and i've always admired him. isn't he a good guy? [applause] she's such a warm guy. with one of the most moving experiences that i have had doing all of my genealogy and genetic series so i'm psyched about that and want to tell you state-owned late march and you will check out his family history. but tonight i want to tell you about my new book called "life of on these s