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Web cam shortage . The nations hottest supplier going gangbusters after its computer equipment outfitted so many home offices during the work from Home Movement. The ceo of logitech is here in a fox business exclusive. I will ask him can we speed up the manufacturing of the web cam . And Actress Lori Loughlin faced a web cam and a judge via zoom for trying to sneak her kids into college. Now one Major University system says applicants no longer need to take the sat or the act. They are moving on because it can be gamed and so many more reasons. The khan academy has been invented so any student can learn from free, from Kinder Garden to those studying kindergarten to those studying for college, he is here. As more kids turn to him from home. Less than an hour ....
You have to have that looked out. You guys are in the south bay. Were in mountain view. I have to ask you, with kids all around the world and 6 million here in california and your kids and my kids not able to go to school, what kind of growth have you seen on khan academy. Weve seen our traffic, depending on the day of the week, 250 more normal and parents are 2 x and teachers are 5 x so we have seen a step up. How about the time spent learning. Precovid there were minutes and now it is closer to 90 million minutes per day so this is gone up. That is astronomical growth. Everything is free. Your math and science and humanities lessons, all free. Yeah. Were not for profit. You own khan academy as much as i do and were Public Charity and people thinkcah becaus somh the internet, it looks free and then you see adds that another 2. 99, youll get this. That not khan academy. We have folks of all levels, so people in a position to donat ....
[inaudible conversations] all day here at the library of Congress National book festival we are recognizing and celebrating the importance of reading and authors and books. The library of congress mix it seem easy to do this each year but the truth is the National Book festival is a huge undertaking. Its a huge financial undertaking. And it has been made possible by generous support from our sponsors. You can see who they are in the programs and video monitors around the Convention Center but they ca tend to take for granted that this will continue to exist. So id ask you to consider making the contribution right now using your cell phone and you can send a text to make a onetime gift that will be added to your mobile phone bill. The details are on the screen and on the back of your program. Once you are to please s ....
You are growing up and you have a stepsister. That is true. You are being raised by a single mother and how did she support herself . Mom i remember became a nurse sometime after i was 8 or 9. As i write about in the book, these were good times economically. We were not struggling during that time. Before that i dont know. My grandparents helped out a little bit and one of the stories in the book was they, after mom was no longer in nursing things were tough for the family economically and they were tough socially. Your mother was married or has relationships with people, 4 or 56 different times. With that disconcerting to see a different man . It was an unstable childhood from the perspective of people coming in and out of our lives. I didnt realize until i was older what effect that was having on me. I didnt like it when i was a kid or that i would befriend this guy or feel this guy was becoming a father figure and was out of our lives. I know a lot of my friends were going through t ....