. >>> this week's your biz selfie comes from eric wisham from testen, george jj. he's pointing to his baby, wis h ham gel liz. send your photo to yourbusiness@msnbc.com or tweet it to @msnbcyourbiz. >>> here's something i want to share with you from this week. when you think of the word hack-a-thon, you think of programmers and engineers sitting at their computers. in my company we invite everyone, designers, customer service, anyone can submit a project. here's something we came up with in our last hack-a-thon. one of our teams created a funny birthday hat that we carry around and it goes on top of the chair whose birthday that is that day or week. this is great. it helps company culture. it got everyone involved. think of the hack-a-thon that gets people's creative juices doing. they done the have to be solving a tech problem. they have to be helping move your company forward in whatever way they can. it's tons of fun. we'd love to hear from you. if you have questions 0 are comments about today's show, e-mail us at yourbusiness@msnbc.com. also go to openforum.co

george, on twitter if you want to follow him. kelly, thank you both for joining us once again. we'll be right back. when we do come back we'll be joined by jjess anywhere the executive director of the funds for peace. talking about a new report ranking the most at-risk and stable countries around the world. but first all weekend long we've been exploring the history and literary life of proveo, utah as our c-span cities tour continues on book tv and american history tv. coming up we'll be featuring our history programming on c-span-3 american history tv including an interview with history professor jay spencer fluman who shares a story of the first mormen settlers in he area in 1849. >> i've been collecting rare books for the past 30 years. the past 10-15 years book storse have sold books have suffered with the advent of e books and everything going digital. but what i found is the interest in rare books has increased. i enjoy early american history. this is really one of the most important books printed in america pre-1800. it's an original copy of thomas payne's common sense which was printed in philadelphia. the printer was robert bell o