thank you very much mike jacobson. [applause] thank you. >> thank you ralph and mike jacobson. our next speaker will be talking about empowering consumers, a subject near and dear to my heart. he is, he teaches and he's a professor of law at georgetown university law center where he teaches federal court, civil procedure, administrative law and seminars in first amendment litigation. he also codirects georgetown's institute for public representation which is a clinical well program there. formerly he was the director of the federal trade commission's euro of consumer protection and he has also spent 25 years with the public citizen litigation group, public interest law firm in washington where he has handled multiple cases before the united states supreme court and more than 60 cases before federal courts of appeals and state courts of last resort. he is a senior fellow with the administrative conference of the united states and an elected member of the american law institute. he is also a scholar with the center for progressive reform. welcome david blatt. [applause] >> i spen

thank you very much, mike jacobson. >> thank you, ralph and mike jacobson. our next speaker will be talking about empowering consumers, subject near and dear to my heart. he teaches -- he's a professor of law at georgetown university law center. where he teaches federal court civil procedure, administrative law, and seminars in first amendment litigation. he also co-directs the georgetown institute for public representation, which is a clinical program there. formerly, he was the director of the federal trade commission's bureau of consumer protection and he has also spent 25 years with the public citizen litigation group, public interest law firm here in washington, where he has handled multiple cases before the united states supreme court and more than 60 cases before federal courts of appeals and state courts of last resort. he's a senior fellow with the administrative conference of the united states and an elected member of the american law institute. he is also a scholar with the center for progressive reform. welcome david vladdic. >> so i spent a mere

if you don't have mike jacobson in the opposition, they're planning lands use practices. they plan everything because they want to control everything because that's what they do. that's what's in their dna. it's called predictability. predictability. it is under their control, and their commercial value's extremely focused, extremely motivating against the civic values that they have to shunt aside, co-oped or destroyed. so i'm at princeton kbrfrt, 1950s. i walk into my classes, i can hardly see my fellow students. do you know why? they're smoking. they're smoking. what will happen if you went in your class at hood college or goucher college whose students were invited but the teachers couldn't be bothered or the administration, what would happen if you walk into class, people were smoking? you'd be totally off the wall, okay. see what i mean? okay, i'm at harvard law school, we have 550 students. 15 women. one african-american called the negro, and a couple hispanics who were the children of oligarchs in south america. you think any of my white male colleagues were worri

we have mike jacobson, the legendary advocate for nutrition and safety and food, head of the center for science and the public interest. we have david vladek from the federal trade comission among his many experiences talking about empowering consumers, we have wobert weissman talking about stopping putting corporate money in politics. after lunch we have the world's expert on whistleblowing, law professor robert vaughn, from american university washington college of law, we have petter d dreyer on social sentiment, reminding us abraham lincoln said with public sentiment you can do anything. we have jordan, national people's action on training for change, civic skills training like we train for our other skills in life. i'm tackling the most important issue of all, unfortunately, overcoming civic apathy, as if anybody has an answer to that one. we have teaching civics, a view from the classroom. we have building a movement by director of common cause, we have civic engagement, the responsibility of business leaders by mitch rosky who started the better world club, a sort of environmenta

unlv big five include kyle saxelid, he put on 20 pounds will kreitler, nathan jacobson really big and then go more fit. and mike chev-vahl-yay. "he's another guy 63, 310 last year they were undersized... this year they're just right... intelligent, tough, with a strong work ethic and quick feet... if it all comes together unlv will ride its success to the trough where the hogs have set the table. will; 'we'll lead you to the promised land." ((chris maathuis)) got to hand it to marvin menzies... because of hiring mess last spring, recruiting by ever other coach. but he's plugging away and today officially signed a legit recruit. troy baxter junior is a 4 star recruit from florida... it's also listed as a top 100 forward. last year for oldsmar christain academy he averaged 17 points and 7 rebounds a game. the 6-8 forward also won the high school slam dunk competition last april. sounds like a pretty good find for menzies... he'll be able to play this season. ((chris maathuis)) t.j. rivera becomes the fifth player in las vegas franchise history to win the pcl batting title. the 51s' four batting champions since th