irregularities unsettled randel. every field book attests to his precision and pursuit of perfection in his, his expenses, his schedules. even a rumination offered a window into randel's exact tuesday and his sense of humor. and i typed this out for you pause it's a long passage. -- because it's a long passage. fearing he will not have time to get it requests the lope of my horse and saddle -- the loan of my horse and sad saddle. he is going and returning 65 minutes and 32 minutes in getting and putting up the horse. the whole distance he could have walked in 43 minutes. [laughter] he is, therefore, 44 minutes longer going with the horse than he would have been without. by loaning the horse i have, therefore, damaged him 44 minutes of time which i will allow him for. conclusion, it is bad policy to loan him my horse for my own convenience. [laughter] this is very typical of randel. so i just wanted to show you some of the pages from the notebooks. maybe you've seep some of them, but you get a sense of sort of the ran

he tried to find material on randel. the books the national water way to track down the work of the chesapeake and delaware canal that mandel was involved with the large lawsuit but there is no cash of letters there is some in delaware and maryland, of virginia, a relative in texas, new jersey, it took a long time. most of it was in the new-york historical society in the notebooks that cover the time of rimbaud's life we know the most about. he lived in extremely long life and he died 1865 and saudi enormous changes in the most well-documented period overs will be ears perk up i will go back and forth to read some passages. it would be divided into three stages by the growing public impersonal turmoil. from 18 '08 through 1810 during that time he measured along east and west and north and south lines with blocks with the equipment. the streets would run river to river to facilitate traffic to the dock and to rid the city of stagnant air. also the copy of the manuscript of map is a famous commissioners' plan of 1811. the

consulted with randel. it's not a part of his statement that is often read that she hired him to give judgment on what the city was doing in terms of leveling the streets and he was worried there was going to be flooding and randel agreed with him and said they shouldn't be leveled. it's a very interesting part of that, so she does seem to have some sensitivity to that. >> you say she died in poverty essentially. do they know where he is buried? >> he is buried in a range new jersey. we went out to the church in the cemetery where a lot of his relatives are buried and he was apparently buried with his first wife because her family was buried the first wife and a cousin who was from that area and all around that area we searched today through poison ivy looking at headstones the were faint and we didn't find anything but we did discover very sadly the huge section of the cemetery had been black topped with a parking space so we don't know if that is one of the headstones. some of them are indeed in very bad

ladies and gentlemen, please welcome rebecca randell. >> great, thank you, melinda. i'm going to ask you all to come up now. as they get seated i'll say a few words. all these panelists really bring a great wealth of experience and wisdom to what on the one hand is actually a really complicated issue and on the other hand at its very core is somewhat simple. whether it's online or off-line, bullying and harassment or as the teens that we encounter at common sense media often say, drama, it's about power. as you heard the boy on the video say, i'm the big dog. who has it, who wants it and who wants to keep it. i realize this is an incredibly simple definition so i will leave it to our panel to pick it apart and to delve deeper. each of our panelists will have the opportunity to give a brief introduction of who they are and their organizations and after we've done the rounds i will pose a series of questions to eefrp of they will and then you will all have the opportunity to interact with them yourselves so we can have a really dynamic conversation. the one thing i wil

they were also looking to europe very often to learn and filter and randall -- very strongly that randel was familiar with the work of a surveyor who did a lot of experiments and temperature affects of various materials for surveying. that makes a lot of sense because the transactions, and not sure what it wasn't in the late 1700s and randel -- do which had so much influence on building a cultural community in fall bunny, papers and books from all over the world and it could very well be that that showed up there. randall has books and textbooks in the library. thank you very much. [applause] >> visit the author's web site, measureofmanhattan.com. david bego, founder of executive management services inc. talk about the power of unions in the united states and describes his contentious relationship with service employees international union going back to 2006. this is about an hour. >> union membership it and 97 year low, americans belong to a labor union, fewer than when president roosevelt sino national labor relations act. in the private sector is more dire longworth house office build