moderating today s conversation could therefore introduce ruth wilson gilmore i want to thank the organizer and the sponsor haymarket books. haymarket is the publisher in a new series called the abolitionist papers and i m proud to publish patient for this hearing is that the gilmore s forthcoming book change every thing, haymarket has three more important events lined up this week. on sunday too much midnight and on wednesday had discussion of schools in the time of coronavirus and on thursday a week from today a conversation. a bit of housekeeping so many people have joined this call we may need your patience if we have technical issues. if it gets choppy at any point you might want to try reducing your image quality. it will be recorded onto youtube channel and we are reserving time for q&a. please post your questions on the live video feed wherever you re watching it. the pandemic forces us to break with the past and imagine the world anew. some responses to covid-19 is o
steve told the story of going from a glass blower in st. louis teaming of the founder of twitter to build a multibillion payment company. in the book you talk about a lot about perfect problems. when did you realize that small business payments were a you are going to have to do something new and you cannot copy. i hired jack when he was 15, he was a high school student came into work at a company that i actually still have. i don t run any of my companies but it also don t sell them. this one s been around for 30 years. he goes off to college, we kept in touch. and then he had kicked out of twitter, the first time,. [laughter] they showed him the door and he came back to st. louis and he came back we were hanging out and talking and decided to start a company together. we are then kicking around ideas he didn t have an idea and i didn t have an idea suisse are looking for problems we could solve. and came up with the problem. when did you come to that conclusion you talk
we collect three-dimensional artifacts and two-dimensional materials like letters, diaries, photographs, audio and visual materials, and we are also the largest military reference library collection as well. what we try to do here is focused on the army s history through the individual soldier stories that we collect. where we are right now, we are at the storage facility for the museum, so we house all of the three-dimensional materials that relate to soldiers as part of our collection. we have approximately 75,000 artifacts in the collection, in this personal collection. that can run from the smallest piece of insignia to a tank. it is quite a variety of materials that we have here. we pull out a few world war i materials. all of them are identified to a soldier. that has been our mission here. we try to collect materials that relate to soldiers. the very first piece, we have it is known as a jerkin. it s a british inspired piece. once americans got over to france, we a
were injured. one, brian sid nick, would later die. ashley babbitt, a protester, would be fatally shot by law enforcement during the attack. another rioter would die in the throng of people pushing into the building. the crowd that gathered at the capitol that they ransacked the offices of congressional leaders, and posed for photographs in the senate chamber itself. 1.5 years later, legislators who were trapped in the capitol complex that they began their investigation as to how it happened, and who was to blame. donald trump made a purposeful choice to violate his oath of office. the select committee to investigate the january six attack investigate the january six attack on the united states capitol attack on the united states capitol will be in the order. the capitol will be in the order. the january six committee was set up after democrats and republicans failed to agree on an independent commission. instead, the democratic speaker of the house named the committee.
the cold weather isn t going anywhere. that doesn t stop folks from heading towards the pub to celebrate st. patrick s day. let s check in with krystal klei. she has the most accurate forecast in town. spring starts monday. doesn t feel like we re approaching spring with temperatures like this. feeling like 36 degrees right now in philly. and 34 in pottstown. allentown to 28 and only 17 mount pocono. atlantic city right now feeling like 38 degrees. now it was colder earlier in the work week right after that snowstorm passed through last tuesday but this is still a cold week for us as we go through saturday-sunday. temperatures will remain below average even in the afternoon. radar and satellite here, a wider view to show off scattered system is passing by. set up nothing impressive. few flakes north of philly. light rain south of philly. mixing near parts of philadelphia county. overall this won t be too impressive of a morning or afternoon when it comes to precipitation. n