The cdc said it perfectly in the sense that food and hunger insecurity can affect us in many ways. We know what happens when we dont eat we drop off with attention and get cranky sometimes so the next point in importance really revolves about relieving family stress and less money out of the pocket providing the meals and not having to hurry to get food on the table and they know that the children are fed. And then also federal and state funding is available for child nutrition and currently in San Francisco a majority of what were talking about today is leveraging those funds to maximize local dollars. This last point of importance really does its kind of a story. I was talking to the director for Columbia Park of boys and girls club and he wanted to switch from snack to a summer meal provided and i was asking him why and he stated over a period of time that since october he had tracked the number of incidences that occurred like behavior incidences and out of all of them 95 of those
Unstable. We are seeing extremism. We are seeing a major shift in this region. We are not dealing with iran in a vacuum. The decisions we make have to be decisions for the region. We are dealing with a United States that is tired of war. It has not gone well in the two big wars it conducted in the middle east. It spent trillions of dollars, a lot of mud and blood and treasure. It is very clear that the americans are more interested in nationbuilding at home. These are important context to bear in mind. Hopefully the Iranian Regime will change. Hopefully, the administration will take diplomacy very seriously. Or that sanctions really change the koran and governments mind and they change course the iranian governments mind and they change course. It is quite likely and possible that iran may go nuclear before any of these things take effect. Before sanctions, as rigorous as they are, produce a result, or before there is a democracy movement. Then, we are really left with two choices. We
Influencing machine. She sat down recently at fort university. This is an hour and 20 minutes fordham university. This is an hour and 20 minutes. Our moderator is the author of four books on cultural programming and for 15 years, he was the head of special projects at the directors guild. He frequently moderates and events around the city for bafta, the screen actors guild, the producers guild, the academy of Motion Picture arts and sciences. Please welcome brian rose. [applause] next, but could not be more delighted to have Brooke Gladstone here tonight. She is the managing editor and cohost of nprs on the media and author of a highly acclaimed book the influencing machine. we will be doing a signing of her book. She has been at npr for many years, including a threeyear stint in moscow where she covered the last turbinate years of president yeltsin. I know all of you die hard groupies out there will agree there is something about brooke that pulls you in. Each week, even at 7 00 a. M.
Microphone, please give us your name and where you go to school. If anyone would like to come up. Here is our first inquire. He is adjusting it. Until someone gets the courage up, you mentioned nate silver. He offers the fascinating thesis that it is that talking heads on all the cable channels are the ones who are constantly predicting things that, believe it or not, have the worst prognostication records. He said that the amount of minutes you are on television are inversely proportionate to the accuracy of your predictions. I listen to your show every sunday afternoon. I want to know, i saw on your web site that you went through an independent bookseller. I am wondering about the role of amazon in the book industry and how it is hurting it. Actually, norton bought the book. They wanted it. I was delighted that they did. We were proceeding along very well. It is owned by time warner, and they came in and said by the way, we own all rights to it. We can do what we want with it without
Not having to hurry to get food on the table and they know that the children are fed. And then also federal and state funding is available for child nutrition and currently in San Francisco a majority of what were talking about today is leveraging those funds to maximize local dollars. This last point of importance really does its kind of a story. I was talking to the director for Columbia Park of boys and girls club and he wanted to switch from snack to a summer meal provided and i was asking him why and he stated over a period of time that since october he had tracked the number of incidences that occurred like behavior incidences and out of all of them 95 of those students said they were hungry and so he really looked into that deeper and just learning that 50 of them had not eaten since 730 in the morning and a majority wanted something when they got there and were talking about 4 00 oclock in the afternoon. A scope of San Francisco and a big picture and 72,000 students youth livin