About the story. I know it involves a fairy. Yes. I happen to have a very right next to me. We are all a little fairy today. Take a look at this picture. There is a baby in a couple of different publication and it doesnt take a trained eye to say why. A woman and a Wedding Dress, a face planting off of a horse into into a lake. It has romance, adventure, animals, irony. Irony. All i was missing was me. So when i heard of the mystical misadventure happened right here in new jersey, off i went to weigh yonder. It is a real place in new jersey per thats where im at the start of this now famous picture. We just spread smiles and joy thats how i live my whole life, i just a fairy up. You just heard that way. Sparkle is a very. Spent selfproclaimed, dreamer and an artist. For. For me to recreate that day i had to fairy up. And so does sparkles. On the very special day, sparkle was recreating her special day that was more of a disaster. The mayor did show up, we got married in a bathing suit,
When the government turns on you and you are defenseless. They can pretty much but there government behind them self to crush you in many ways. I had a gentleman visit with me and he refused to give the Bush Administration the names of all of the clients after nine 11. He said i cant do it, so they came up with some backdated options and put them in jail. They spent 30 million defending himself. If you read it it is quite amazing to see what went on. This is the hysterical kneejerk reaction after 9 11. Its a a horrible thing of course, but why. But then on my side of the coin were talking i said yeah, gave Osama Bin Laden support, he had a 14,000,000 dollar Million Dollar count. He lived in cambridge, massachusetts. No connection. But granted you think theres a connection he might want to go down that path, but they had no interest in doing that. Then i told them when i gave the account of the middle east and geneva they set out thats in enough account. We had 7,000,000,000 dollars. We
Director of the hayden planetarium, place we all went to as a kid and i was never the same after that. I came back and actually became director. We also want to welcome cspan into this event. They are recording it for book tv. Cspan inhouse. Pan is [applause] tonights book is called welcome to the universe. I love saying that, welcome to the universe. When you go to the planetarium director school, they teach you how to speak like that. Let me immediately introduce my coauthors. First, michael strauss. [applause] these are my two coauthors. [applause] have a seat so just a bit of an introduction, i talked fori t ten years at Princeton University from 1994 through 2003, and before i transferred all of my activities here to this museum, over that time, i taught a course on introductory astrophysics and i got very popular and people liked it and we moved to vickers pace and we realized we could charge, we could energize the course even more by adding other talent that has particular exper
There is such a conversation about universal prek, that is something that is not possible in japan. Why . Ellen there is this big shortage of women in the workplace and the Prime Minister is hoping to get more women actually working, and more women would like to work but there is a huge childcare issue. There are not enough Nursery Schools and the Nursery Schools are just sort of mired in regulation, and the teachers are paid very poorly so the teachers are constantly dealing with paperwork, etc. They do not want to do it anymore so they are trying to recruit more teachers and they in fact are building more Nursery Schools, but it is tough to make it all come together. David high yield investment programs, something i have not heard of before, talk about what they are. Ellen they are basically online programs that invest in various things and promise really outrageous returns. Really many of them are ponzi schemes so they are paying old investors with new investors money. A lot of inve
Preschool in japan. There is such a conversation about universal prek, that is something that is not possible in japan. Why . Ellen there is this big shortage of women in the workplace and the Prime Minister is hoping to get more women actually working, and more women would like to work but there is a huge childcare issue. There are not enough Nursery Schools and the Nursery Schools are just sort of mired in regulation, and the teachers are paid very poorly so the teachers are constantly dealing with paperwork, etc. They do not want to do it anymore so they are trying to recruit more teachers and they in fact are building more nurseries schools, but it is tough to make it all come together. David high yield investment programs, something i have not heard of before, talk about about that. Ellen they are online programs that invest in various things and promise really outrageous returns. Really many of them are ponzi schemes so they are paying old investors with new investors money. A lo