Lets give them a good round of applause. [applause] its a chock full day. Youll start hearing people give you insight to Social Security and a lot of it in depth of the actuarial perspective which are the lifeblood of the Social Security so youll be hearing but the key to this day, in my view and i hope to be here the whole day, is the last session real have a chance to put together a Social Security long term solvency program. Youll hear a lot of the options discussed and to do it yourself. This is an amazing city. I relocated here last july from new york, you might be surprised to think im from new york and what i love about the city is that everyone is connected. Im taking over this morning and my driver says where can i take you and my driver said i told him the barber center. Barbara jordan, theres a center named after Barbara Jordan and i said yes, did you know who she was. He said not only do i know she was but i had a radio show in washington, 50 years ago on the station it doe
Offeofficer of the academy. For those of you who were here who was here at the demystifying healthcare session this week . You will hear a little overlap. The academy itself is its 30th year of existence and 30 years ago wilbur cohen, bob myers, real legends in the area of a social insurance realized that we needed the academy for two purposes. One, to serve as a network of consisting social insurance scholars so they can support each other in advance the field. At that time 30 years ago we scoured the country and could come up with just about 100 people in this country who were legitimate social insurance scholars. Today, the academy has a thousand members so within 30 years weve had a nice growth. The second goal of the academy and this is the essence of what is today is a magnet to attract younger people and at that point the academy younger people were me. It was a fear that we boomers were not understand why we had programs like Social Security and medicare and workers comp. The f
Well, tim, the attention mar chants, the ethics scramble to get inside our head. Historical perspective going way back to the early days of newspapers. What inspired you to dive in this way and go so far back to track how our taeattention is getting captured . I believe its by history and it came to me that writing this book or the reason was i noticed how much of our life is driven by models. It used to be just either the media or newspapers, things like that. Google, facebook, all of the internet sites, but i also think i had this experience which may be other people have had as well where i increasingly found i would sit down at my computer and maybe try to write one email and four hours going by, like in a casino or something. They call it the casino effect and i said, got kind of strange. This ad model where the idea to resell your audience to other people as opposed to have them buy the product itself. Always seemed to be counterintuitive. I started thinking about, where did this
H hysteria in the bay. This is a toxic organism in the water that produced some kind of neuro toxin, caused millions of fish to die, and a lot of reported illness in fishermen and water, never really figured out, but one of the stimulating factors that was described was the amount of inputs of nutrient of poultry waste that went into the water. That was kind of the first thing. But the main thing that got me into this was going to a lecture and listening to the speaker talk about foodborn infections and how these are big problems. And it was particularly a problem because many of them were drug resistant. I knew nothing about the subject. So infections, e. Coli, listeria. Right. Exactly. We have Something Like 70 million cases a year in the United States. And it is the leading cause of morbid mortality. We have all been taught, dont leave Chicken Salad on the table because bacteria can grow. But i was puzzled as to why they wouldnt be drug resistant. I asked. She said, oh, that because
[applause] thank you so much. My name is arlo haskell, and i am the executive director of the key west literary seminar. [applause] before i get started, let me make just one quick housekeeping announcement. Were going to do the question and answer session a little bit differently today. There will be stationary mics in each aisle, and if you would like to ask a question, you should get up out of your seat and come to the mic and ask your question. When we get to that point. Okay. It is a pleasure to welcome you all to the San Carlos Institute and to the 35th annual key west literary seminar, revealing power the literature of politics. This sunday afternoon session is free and open to the public. This is our gift to the community. And it wouldnt be possible without the gifts that many others have made to us that support our operations throughout the year. Id particularly like to thank peggy whose support makes this free sunday Public Session possible. Thank you. [applause] and in addit