i can give this lecture without fear of reprisal. those things are real, yet to remember that our country comes from somewhere, i think, is a critical moment in us engaging in this critical moment with more history. thank you. [applause] >> those of you who have to leave right now, please do so quietly out of respect for the people who stay behind for the questions and answers. those of you who do, the ushers will be around to collect your questions and we will do the best we can to represent them. if i could take the privilege of this, you mentioned governor mcdonnell and the celebration of this session. . secession period. he issued an apology for at his statement. my question to you is given all the misstatements of fact and rosie recollection, are there enough players at play and is there are enough right that there is a response to these things that has effective traction in the public consciousness? >> this goes back to my point about the ways in which this moment is different and needs to be celebrated and recognized as differ

the title of her lecture today is "reconstruction lessons -- current u.s.tics and the lessons of the civil war." please welcome melissa harris- perry. [applause] >> thank you for that lovely introduction. it is very kind. let me start by telling you a story. i am from the south. i grew up in charlottesville, virginia and richmond, virginia. i went to college and graduate school in north carolina. i live now in new orleans. at some point, maybe six, seven, or even longer months ago, i got the invitation here. it came through the woman who handles my lectures. i heard her say it on the phone. i typed and to my googol -- into my google calendar, "chattanooga lecture." [laughter] this made perfect sense to me because it was about the civil war. it was related to the colonial williamsburg foundation. my daughter started fourth grade yesterday in new orleans. i thought, no big deal. i will pop up to tennessee, give the talk, and i will be home before the end of the evening. when she called me two weeks ago and said, "you have to book your flight to new york." i s

i had a friend who said why don't you put your lectures on you tube. to the presentation on basic addition. >> soon, thousands watched his lectures. >> i started getting letters from people and comments on youtube and they are not like hey, i think this kind of might of helped on my math exam. they are like i failed calculus the first time. i start ared watching the videos and now i'm acing the class. >> the youtube numbers kept rising and he got letters from the middle east and africa. >> what sal khan has done is amazing. >> now, he is funded by bill gates and offers web lecturers on everything from history to economics to computer science. his videos are viewed millions of times. >> even if god forbid i got about it by a bus when i walked outside it will still reach millions and maybe eventually billions of students. >> just happen to be good at teaching. >> i will take that as a compliment. >> it is a compliment. he is a great teacher. >> i hope that helps. see you in the next video. >> it is really helping us learn a lot more. >> it is exciteing t

he didn't just lecture, he made sure people really understood. >> he won the master teach area ward back in 2008 and 2009. he loves his job at google. update news. >>> a television show on wheels came looking for participants, viewers and to inspire students to think outside the box. that is three young adultings and r vs around the country. the van is touring 50 different schools to spread the word. says it is important for him to recruit people because he wants students to know there are other options in life besides a 9:00 to 5:00 job. >>> just about your dreams. i feel like a lot of people don't do that. >> it is ten costs now and it is looking for people to travel down your own road instead of someone else's. i hear there's a lot of stuff going on in japan glown that's right. thriem to give you a look. we are teaming up with the asian theater -- together presenting the tokyo broadcasting series # 9 years of love. this sunday 30 people attended it screening. it showed the japanese family familiar strulgs from immigration to -- he spent four years in arizona during world war ii. he's

recently, just a few blocks away, depaul university students sat mesmerized by what a guest lecturer called a more pressing issue. >> the united state for the year ended september 30, 2011, spent $3.5 billion a day every day, including weekends, than it took in. >> reporter: david walker was the u.s. comptroller general under presidents clinton and bush. now he often tours college campuses railing against the nation's $14 trillion debt. he calls it a mortgage against the future of younger generations. >> you need to understand what is being done to you rather than for you right now. >> reporter: with the unemployment rate north of 9%, jobs seem to be a much bigger concern for twenty-something protesters than the national debt. but walker says when he displays charts projecting future deficits and their potential consequences, students often are stunned. >> young people are going to face a government that is going to do less, but is going to ask them to pay more in taxes. how many people think they're going to get social security? raise your hand. i don't see too many young people rai

i think the program notes are sufficient and rather than lecture i would much rather you enjoy the performance. the one thing i would like to emphasize about the first piece this is indeed a comic piece and in most instances westerners have a great problem when they come to a concert of classical music and view it as this is supposed to be serious music. this is not serious music and i would ask to you laugh. you are welcome to laugh. you may laugh. you need to practice laughing. we can progress -- all right. now, for those of you that find laughing difficult ladies and gentlemens you can at this timtiter in a nice way andf you want to be butch about it do the manly thought. please this isn't a work of aesthetic value it should be seen as humorous. as i of practicing this piece i can assure you and my ability for tongue twisters in english is limited let alone in japanese so if you see me stop and the priest turn extraordinarily red it's because i had a booboo. if you will excuse me. (music) this is the sort of thing you don't normally see. this would be a curtain and the oil makes it easier t

i am lecturer at stanford university, not a professor. that is another level of this conversation teary let me extend the conversation a little bit. one of the things that it was after i left or go, i taught for many years at stanford and talk, as i told the kids, real stuff. i started a class on cloud computing. three years ago, i started a class at the university in beijing as well on this subject because i feel it is really important. we are in my opinion in the second year of a 20-year cycle that is no different than the client server cycle that happened last time around, and i think education is an important component of this. so i'm going to take my four or five minutes to educate you guys a little bit on what is this thing we call cloud computing. i'm going to try uses much plain english as i can, leave all the technical buzzwords aside, and try to eliminate -- illuminate for you what is happening. fundamentally, is an economic thing that is happening, and that is what has always driven technologies economics. i will get to that in

. >>> inspirational professor whose last lecture on youtube touched the lives of millions of people since his death from cancer in '08. >> today the family returned to the house where he grew up in columbia, maryland, with a surprising mission in mind. preserving the childhood dreams of the man who gave meaning to so many. >> reporter: inside this 1950s rancher, two staffers from carnegie melon university are out to save the childhood dreams that are literally painted on the walls of randy pelch. he was the professor touched with cancer in his 40s who touched the world with his so- called last lecture in 2006. >> we can't change the cards we are dealt just the way we play our hand. >> these are my most recent ct scans. >> reporter: the wisdom of a dying man in a lecture entitled "achieving your childhood dreams." turns out randy's childhood dreams were literally painted on his bedroom walls as a kid. a rocket to space. an equation. an elevator to an imaginary world and a sense of humor. and now that his 85-year-old mother virginia is moving after 54 years colleagues have come here to turn

it's great honor to give the code and lecture and it's a wonderful program. and that's a very nice introduction, although i'm going to go do your name, john, right after this. in fact, i may have to buy some google ads. last night. 80 years ago, almost exact way, ought to avert 1831, people like you and people like me -- and people like the former officials who gave his speech in washington felt that the crisis was behind them. the crisis of course to them at that moment was there had been the great crash of a covert 1829. two years later, the view among people occluding the worst have been avoided. of course when we let that from a distance, this is hard to believe because those people were staring directly into the face of the world's greatest depression. in fact, looking back now, it's obvious to everyone who writes the history that the depression had really begun to unfold earlier. crake i'm scholz, the great austrian bank had collapsed in the spring of 1931. the british have gone in september. the shockwaves were already washing through the american fina

and he attended lectures of all kinds. and he took notes. he crammed in french before he started his lecture attendance and he became quite fluent in it and he took notes on everything. everything imaginable and one day he -- his mind began to strain a little because the professor was running on a little longer than he expected. so he began looking around at the other students in the hall. the hall is still there, by the way. and of there's close to 1,000 students in the hall and he noticed that the black students were treated as if everyone else. they talked the same as everyone else. they dressed the same as everyone else and they had the same ambitions that he had. and he wrote in his journal that night, i wonder if the way we treat black people at home has more to do with how we've been taught than the nature of things. and it transformed him. overnight, literally, overnight into an abolitionist and he came back got into politics was elected to the united states senate when he was 40 years old and right up there on the hill he led the ab

otherwise i'll show you later in the lecture. paint lines are another indicator of how damaged buildings are. if you want to look at the paint lines on this building, it's kind of hard to tell until you get up close. remember, this building is kind of a grayish tannish color, i guess. when you get a little bit closer, this side of the building should be the same color as this side of the building. what happened was this building moved away from the building next door and that's how far it moved. separation between buildings. you want to look at the separation to see if it's even, is it the same distance at the bottom as at the top, but that's another indicator of how damaged buildings are. this one looks fairly even, but when you get closer you can tell with the racking on the bottom that this building was pulled away. liquefaction, liquefaction is a term they use when the ground is loose. usually when structures or infrastructure is built on sand or land fill, something that's not solid, what happens is in shaking, during an ear

the where lecture.s-perry is the author of the award winning dak barber shops, bibles and eet every day fault and political thought. and a frequent chautauqua speaker, brazil described the recent book "sister citizen: shame stereotypes' and black women in america as insightful and provocative, a must read for those interested in learning more about american politics. the title of melissa harris perry's lecture today is reconstruction lessons, current u.s. racial politics and the lessons of the civil war. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome melissa harris perry. [applause] thank you for that wonderful introduction. very kind. let me start by telling you a story. i'm from the south. i grew up in charlottesville virginia and in richmond virginia, went to college and grad school in north carolina and i live now in new orleans. at some point maybe six or seven or even longer ago months ago i got the invitation here and they came through the woman who handles my lectures and i heard her say on the phone, and

public policy issues and the information sector and then we have academic studies, conferences and lectures by noted academics. these are innovators in the telecommunications and the media world. >> he's also written about cable-tv and the public policy. this is your newest book just coming out "and the fallacy of net neutrality. is this a republican to the credit issue opposing and that neutrality? >> welcome you know, in some respects you could make an argument that certainly i think network neutrality became part of the democratic party platform a few years ago but certainly the democratic party split on that there's significant members of congress who are democrats who are very general hostile to let nature of the comely and on a, you know, republicans are probably more unified on that but certainly some of the policies that result began. in the bush administration with voluntary guidelines that were similar to the net neutrality rules we have today is a there's been republican support. >> what is the economic harm that can come to as vice? >> or metropcs. in fact it's not just the inte

in 2004, the university of puerto rico asked me to come there and lecture and read. i immediately called my favorite cousin, and she said, what are you doing here? i told her and i said, please come to the reading, i have a book for you. she came. she said my son is getting married tomorrow at the caribbean hilton, could you please come? and i went. i hadn't seen her in 30 years. we were kids together. and after the wedding, there was a reception and she introduced me to her daughters, very beautiful girls, then i met the last one, very beautiful, green eyes, and she said, i want you it meet my son. all this is in spanish, you know? so i said, sure. so she called these 3 boys over, about my complexion, curly hair, and this is barry, brian, and brady. you expect jose jimenez, you know. what's your last name? murphy. murphy? si, si, murphy. very close to the way the irish pronounce murphy. i said, that's amazing. did you marry a serviceman from the -- military person who came to puerto rico. no, the family has been here since the 18th century. and i said, really? so we

a wonderful community programs, lectures, to really represent the spirit of bayview.ut that for your new library? let me also say this community has been one of the models for community engagement. every neighborhood meeting we had, we had up to 100 people that held our feet to the fire, that told us exactly what you wanted to see happen. it was wonderful to work with you on that. thank you, bayview, for not only selling for a modest renovation, but for a brand new, wonderful library. there are many wonderful folks i want to take a moment to acknowledge because they have done a fantastic job in that effort. i want to start with a terrific asset we have, which we are fortunate to have with us, linda. she is fantastic. [applause] also from the neighborhood, a couple of folks that have been very active with our counsel of the neighborhood libraries. mary pavis and larry. [applause] thank you for involvement. and of course, ms. jackson. i do not see libya -- there we are. thank you for your fantastic efforts. we have not forgotten that we still need to have a library pres

and you give the lecture. and they did that. and the chauffeur got up before a standing room audience, spoke for an hour, word for word, didn't miss a beat, and got a standing ovation at the end of his lecture. and the professor seated in the audience couldn't believe what had just happened. but then people began to raise their hand, somebody raised their hand and said, professor, that was an outstanding address on a very complex area of physics law, but i have a question. so he went into a prolonged question about three paragraphs long that included some mathematical equations and formulas. and then said, what do you think about that, professor? and there was a long pause and the professor looked at him and said, you know, that's the stupidest question i ever got. and just to show you how stupid it is, i'm going to have my chauffeur answer it out here. now, there are a lot of chauffeurs in this audience when it comes to national security. and i really do look forward to having a good discussion here today with you, but more imp

and we have academic studies, conferences and lectures by noted academics, business people and innovators in the telecommunications and media worlds. >> host: and you have also written about cable tv and public policy. >> guest: yes. >> host: this is your newest book just coming out, "the fallacy of net neutrality." is this a republican/democrat issue? supporting or opposing net neutrality? >> guest: well, you know, in some respects you could make an argument, certainly, i think network neutrality became part of the democratic party platform a few years ago. but certainly the democratic party is split on it. there's significant members of congress who are democrats who are generally very hostile to net neutrality. and, you know, the republicans are probably more unified on that, but certainly some of the policies that now result in net neutrality actually began under the bush administration, the last bush administration with voluntary guidelines that are very similar to the net neutrality rules we have today. so there has been some republican support and some democratic opposition. >> hos

this is a lecture from one of india's most prestigious schools.it for anything that you can do on a computer, typing your notes, sending an e-mail, you can do this on your little gadget. the screen is nice because you can watch different things, including movies if you so like on the computer. you have to have wi-fi in order for it to get a signal, in order for you to get online. so that's one thing that people might have a bit of an issue with. the other thing is that the touch screen technology is a little bit difficult. it's a little more forceful, not as sensitive as an ipad. we're talking about a device that does just about everything that a computer does except for the fact that it's only $50 initially the ministry says that it will be given out to students as a textbook. it will be something that and eventually and it will be so inexpensive that technologies will pick it up and try to sell it. it's a cool gadget and the cost of a smartphone and it's such an inexpensive price, will it force other companies to access something like this. is i

when he isn't lecturing about philosophy, you can find him hanging out in the dorm lounge talking movies. >> i think it's pretty cool, especially a philosophy professor that has a big interest in movies. i've always been huge into movies. >> it's a throwback to an old college tradition when faculty and students living under one roof was common. >> the idea is they live in the buildings, interact with students in a very relaxed sort of manner to really provide that opportunity for students to connect with faculty on a little different level. >> there's advantages like if i have questions, i can just go knock on his door. it's right down the hall and ask questions. >> grau said at first he didn't know what to expect. but now that he's gotten to know his younger neighbors -- >> it's relaxing and it's fun in a way i didn't quite predict. >> reporter: a lesson this professor could only learn from his students. tom trung, nbc news, clemson, south carolina. >> you might be wondering what the appeal is for the professors other than getting to know their students. in exchange for living in the ha

as director of lecture and seminars, it's a pleasure to welcome you and those who join us on the heritage.org website on all occasions. we ask everyone in-house to make the last check cell phones are turned off. it's appreciateed as we record the event. we welcome questions from the internet viewers at speaker@heritage.org, and we'll post the program within 24 hours for your reference. introducing the special guest this morning is jennifer marshall. she's director of policy studies and our richard and hellen devos center for civil society. she expwroafer sees the education, welfare, marriage, the family, and religion in civil society. she also manages familyfacts.org, online catalog of social science research related to family and religious practice. prior to joining us here, she worked on cultural industry issues and was director of family studies. please join me in welcoming jennifer marshall. jennifer? [applause] >> thank you, john, and thanks to all of you for being here for our book event on "black and tired" by dr. anthony bradly. a few days ago, hurricane irene pushed back the official

let me preface this by using the theory in the book that on may 5, 2010, we predicted 234 a public lecturet hosni mubarak would be gone in a year. >> host: okay, excellent. >> guest: first thing he did wrong was he had no control over. he got old. dictatorial leaders are in deep trouble under three conditions to start with. they've just come to power. they don't know where the money is so nobody trusts they'll be paid off properly, so they shop around. you survive the first couple years, you're golden until either the ben ali problem, you're believed to have a terminal illness. they did this to marcos and shaw, or your cronies know you are no longer a reliable source of payment in the future, or you are old. very old is a terminal illness, and they again know you are not reliable. first problem, he's old. he's 82. second problem. his economy didn't have vast resource wealth. he depended on two sources of wealth. one was, for example, tourism. tourism requires a relatively well educated population. these are people with the education that they can think independently and might because they

warless facility's present a lecture for fire hazards that should require extreme caution in deciding where they should be located. this includes photos of wireless facilities that were set on fire during routine maintenance visits. they were taken by media outlets, many because of the spectacular nature of these images presented by these cellphone tower is literally going up in flames. they still point to find the essential fact of any commercial wireless facilities. this is industrial for in nature and utilize is of much of the components that can resolve in fires. if this is in residential areas. the recent fire, this is huge. this took place in the building that hosted a number of teen mobile antennas in the basement and the roof. for the resulting investigation is not yet in. they were determined to play a role in the fire and we would not even know it. the fire department does not reflect the fact this is the san francisco fire department and the situation list from january, 2009 to december 31st. as you can see -- >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervi

the start of the off-broadway hip-hop theater production, he has lectured and performed at over 100 colleges correctional facilities in the united states, africa, asia, latin america, and europe. he has released two albums to critical acclaim, taught at brooklyn college, new york university, the new school in columbia university, and is now touring lyrics for lockdown. one of those is sponsored by the naacp. i learned that he is beginning rehearsals for the remakes of "the wiz." let's welcome him. [applause] our moderator for this afternoon, world renowned anti- racist, multicultural educator. [applause] yes. as many of you in the audience know, she is an accomplished front line teacher. a teacher, educators, researchers, writers, consultant, speaker. she is like a mother, auntie, big sister, all in one, for me. she has taught in canada, the caribbean, and the u.s. and has been involved in the development of teachers for two decades. she consults on anti-racist inclusion very and equitable education. she assists school districts and schools to continually restructure themselves for equitable

well, actually, we got lectured. we were lectured that we needed to pass the president's jobs bill right away, right away. 16, 17 times. just got to do it now. during the speech i don't recall the president ever saying, i really don't have a bill. i don't have a bill. and in fact if you want to sit down and work with me, you won't be able to because in the morning i'm getting on air force one, funded by the taxpayers, and basically hit the campaign trail and i'm going to be beating up on you guys in the house of representatives for not being willing to negotiate with me even though i'm not around and by the way i'm not going to negotiate even if we sat down because you've got to take my bill completely, pass the whole thing, not going to compromise on anything. that was the message for a number of weeks. take it, pass it as it is. never mind the fact that he didn't have a bill when he hit the road and was condemning congress for not passing his bill. that's just strange. you would think if somebody really wants to wo

today is our second signature lecture. it is his first major policy address as defense secretary. thank you for honoring us with their presence. no doubt the secretary will think i will want to do personal privilege. many of these are deployed as we speak. their patriotism and selfless service are unmatched. protecting them as they protect us on top of priorities. i want to thank one other person. that is my fifth child who served as my council on the house intelligence committee for five years. he is the chief of staff at the cia. he has been well trained on this mission. we expect magic. the decisions you make will be life or death. i am supremely confident that president obama has chosen the right person at the right time for the huge task ahead. please join me in welcoming my good friend and secretary of defense. [applause] thank you jane for that introduction and for your leadership, thank you for the commitment to serve this nation that you've demonstrated throughout your career -- as an outstanding member of congress from my home state of california, and now as president of

she lectures and travels the world.the college campus at uc santa cruz. 40 years ago you were far removed from santa cruz. you were an active member of black freedom struggle. >> well, actually, a little over 40 years ago i was teaching at ucla, and because i was fired from my position in the philosophy department there my whole story began. so you might say that it's trajectory from one campus to another campus with a lot of interesting, dangerous, exciting encounters in between. >> one of those major encounters obviously was, i think, the third woman in american history to be on the fbiee most wanted list. >> that's interesting because i had forgotten. i had actually repressed that fact, and i was speaking somewhere and someone introduced me as the third woman in history to have been placed on the fbi's most wanted list and everybody in the audience applauded. >> right. right. at that moment in history is almost like an honor to be pursued in that way because you were fighting for black liberation, no? >> but it was a

one of the dumbest guys of the world who took the x-ray vision of the general electric and lecturing about jobs. he moved the x-ray division to chynna. >> a lott of people agree. >> and you know, wayne's point. give it to high tech . we try today in the green industry and inspector general said the program failed miserably . promised with 8000 jobs and ended up talking about jobs that didn't exist. and 1300, of those people are unemployed. >> can you retrainn them in a speedy fashion or will it take a generation for kids automatically going where the demand is? >> that's normally in a free market. people go where the demand is. when the government gets involved it is skewed and altered . a year ago that was government's big initiative. hope for homeowners and it failed in that and they will fail in the job creation. >> you don't have training. you don't have to retrain them. there is no job creation event. you have people on the far rightt and far left that hate so bad and nothing gets done. no, what we need is a energy policy. create a gnarl gas economy . open up off shore drilling.

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we do elect -- we lectured the third world, at taking austerity measures, we beatt asia for their failurewith adjustments that were necessary. and in this country we cannot address our own serious deficit prlems brought. europe may not pull this thing off. political will is lacking in industrial countries well. >> i don't think there is any disagreement about the need for long-term cutbacks on at we spent in government. but in a peri of time when we are coming off a deep recession, the greatest since the great ression -- since the great depression, it too much austerity can shop us back into rececession. >> we h 2.5% growth in the last qrter. that is not enough. it is better than nothing. we are still early on th -- rereally on t cusp. you see the kinds of layoffs that have gone oa in state and local government,nd you see exactly what happens. it is a chain r reaction. >> can congress, with itits% approval rating, do something like they have done in eure? >> no. apparently at the super committee inot going to be able to get a solution, which means that the automatic cuts are scheduled to

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