Good afternoon, everyone. Sorry we are running a little bit behind today. On behalf of the American Enterprise institute i would like to welcome you for a talk with pamela paul about her recent book how to raise a reader. She coauthored with her colleague, maria russo. Colleague, maria russo. The Current Situation is untenable our kids have trouble with any kind of a structured activity but reading for pleasure is the activity that has suffered the most brick according to a recent analysis the share of americans who read for pleasure has fallen by more than 30 percent since 2004. If there is a way to reverse the trend it will have to start with their children and no one who can help us better than to learn how to share the joy they and pamela. She was the Childrens Book editor at the New York Times and has three children herself and also the author of six books and a host of the book review podcast. She and i will have a conversation and we will open to questions from the audience. Tha
Books and books and Miami Book Fair presented an evening with Cory Doctorow discussing choke point capitalism. How big tech and big content captured creative labor markets, and how well win them back. Choke point capitalism is a call action for the Creative Class and labor Labor Movement to rally against the power of big tech in big media. Cory doctorow is a best selling Science Fiction writer and activist. He is special advisor to the electronic frontier, with whom hes worked for 20 years. He is also a visiting professor of computer science, the open university and a Library Science at the university of North Carolina. He is also an Mit Media Lab researcher. Brilliant. He cofounded the cofounding uk open rights group and coowns the website boing boing. He is the author than 20 books, including novels for young adults, graphic novels for middle grade readers, picture books and nonfiction, books on technology politics. You can follow him twitter at doctorow. And before i think of any mo
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Really i wanted to take the story of beyond desegregation which occurred in 1963. The idea cover that in the first chapter. I wanted to take you to the rest of the 60s because while we desegregated in 1963 did not integrate. That took a long time even going beyond 1970. Its a ne in the spirit of the University Went in a new direction. Once segregation was out of the way, once all the energy that had gone to trying to maintain and actually illegal and certainly immoral way of doing things, after all that energy could be sent in another direction, the university of alabama begin to turn itself away from being a regional Football Party school and turn itself towards becoming a Major National academic institution. Thats what it has become but it was a long journey in the 1960s sent us in that direction. There were a lot of changes going on at the beginning of the 60s but really it stems from 1956. The first effort of desegregation which failed horribly. Accompanied by riots. Lucy was a stu
Sue serio, were going to have a rainy nurse. Looks like it. The rain isnt here yet. So were warning you now youll need your umbrella later on, see it in the central part of the state, out through ohio, but eventually all that is going to maurice ward and get here, we do have cloud cover. And the temperatures arent that cold. Not like the last couple of mornings. But we will indeed not only have rain, but as i tweeted, get ready for rain and wind this morning. In fact, we have a wind advisory in effect for southern new jersey, and all of delaware t starts at 7 00. And goes until 6 00. We could see wind gusts as high as 45 miles an hour, in these areas, it is mostly a coastal event, but some of those high winds will spread inland, and will probably see some decent breezes around the philadelphia area, as well. Right now, it is 55 degrees. What a difference from the past couple of frigid mornings. 16mile per hour winds, and really dont need to talk about windchill today. Sunrise is 6 35 t