Guest netflix is the worlds leading Entertainment Service bid we reduce and amazing Television Series and movies. We bent up around about 20 years and serve millions of families around the world who are membe members. Host is there a connection to the 1998 company where you had 900 movie titles and 30 employees . Guest there was a little connection to that. We started 22 years ago and mainly mailing dvds in the United States competing with blockbuster. That was a whole decade really that we were competing with video stores in the u. S. That was 2007 when we started streaming. Roughly the same time youtube did. Host erin meyer, how did you get involved in this book project . I study cultural differences in the workplace and ive been a school professor. I came across the netflix culture when i read what many people have the netflix culture and it was way at the beginning and it was quite shocking when i read it. It said things like adequate performance gets a generous severance. That sho
Efforts to bring complete mechanization to Mail Processing continue through Indepth Research into latest scientific techniques and development of operational hardware. Reduction of human effort, removal of lifting and movement of heavy burdens from human muscle to the sinews of machines. Improvements in methods for processing and everincreasing volume of mail. These are some of the fields in which r d engineers are delving into and finding new answers. This film will show you a few areas of research underway. Some of developing hardware. The use of controlled compressed air called fluidics is getting attention for possible use in processing mail. Control devices could eliminate many moving parts and reduce maintenance costs. As seen in slow motion, this test device in the postal laboratory roles letters over by controlled jets of air. This fluidic device separates machine of the letters from those which will not pass through Mail Processing machines. Another air jet controlled transit.
Were joined by the smithsonians michel delaney. Tell us what your title is and what your job is . Thank you. My job is assistant director for culture at the smithsonian Smithsonians National team of the American Indian. I lead the scholars, the historians the curators at the museum who are in charge of producing exhibitions, the books a lot of the Educational Programs and symposiums, and work with a collection of about 824,000 objects. But i have a real interest in photography and we have also over 500,000 photographs in the National Museum of the American Indian archives center. So i have been working very hard in the years that ive been spent at this museum. I am a 30 year career at the smithsonian but i just joined the American Indian museum in the last year and these photographs are of much interest to me is an archivist. So you wrote an article about the collection. Tell us why you wrote the this article a virtual tour of history. Thanks richard. We have a great magazine. American
For being with us today. I look forward to a fascinating conversation. My pleasure. Thank you for being with us. I could not be the more delighted to welcome my old friend general washington to be in company once again. It has been a time, general. It has been, search. Its actually my pleasure and my honor to be with you, although i confess i do not understand how this is happening. Well i believe, general, it is because of one of the duties written explicitly in our constitution. One of the duties of the legislative body. The pursuit of science. Which i am a strong supporter of. Our first question then. It is for the two of you. What do you remember as your first meeting . First meeting. You know. If you will allow me, mr. Jefferson, i reckon that those who are viewing may or may not be aware that i am older than yourself by 11 or 12 years. 11 years, your excellency. We were both born under the old style calendar. Thats correct. Very confusing at different times. I actually believe i
Served in congress. Prior to the mid20th century, many served as territorial delegates and commissioners as opposed to voting representatives. Archives hosted this event and provided the video. Historian at the center for legislative archives. Thank you for attending todays talk on this last day of july. This is the last talk in the series until we resume in september. For those of you in attendance, our guest hardly needs an introduction. Matthew wasniewski is the historian of the u. S. House of representatives and a member of the advisory meeting on the records of congress. Friend andgtime supporter, as well of us as well as a source of guidance to the center through his service on the advisory committee. Matt is here today to discuss hispanic americans in congress, which was published last year. This is the third in a series that has come out of the house office under his leadership. The previously published volumes being women in congress 19172006, black americans in congress, 1870