crowd. this is a more good evening ladies and gentlemen, janet director of the space museum, it is my pleasure to welcome you to a very special john h. clan lecture in space history. we established at this lecture series and 2004 to spotlight legendary figures in aviation and over the last 13 years, we ve welcomed some truly extraordinary individuals. but none of them have loomed larger than our programs namesake, john dailey. for many years, senator glen hosted these events, the last few years when he and annie were unable to come in person, they were with us and spirit. senator glen classed away in december after a lifetime of service to his country. he was a marine aviator and a combat veteran of two wars. the first american to orbit the earth, the united states senator and a great friend. it s now up to us to carry on in his honor, and celebrate his legacy of friendship. that s why we are here tonight. today would have been senator clans a 96th birthday. we had him fo
human learning. he s best known for contributions documented in best-selling book, most human and algorithm to live by. christian is taking questions such as we continue to rely on systems to solve our problem, what happens when ai becomes a problem. computer science and poetry, christian has spent career tackling the ethical and technological implication of a society that s become more reliant on technology. the work has caught the attention of technology leaders like elon musk who said christian s book was night table reading. how can we get a handle on this technology before we lose control? he argues that although we train to make decisions for us, eventually humans will need humans. we will be discussing a lot in the next hour and i want to have your questions too. if you re watching live with us, please put the questions on in youtube so i can work them into the conversation today. thank you, brian, welcome, thank you for joining us. it s my pleasure, thank you for ha
war: common soldiers and the environment in 1862 virginia. and on the subject of her book on the always entertaining general and his role as the architect of the lost cause version of the civil war history. civil war brought her to the forefront of civil war environmental history. as one ofso emerged the most effective voices in the field of civil war history for the importance of studying military history. only civil war history and environmental history but also early american military history. recently she has taken on the additional title of associate director of science, technology and society at vcu. she is an advocate of the increasingly familiar stem education framework. not surprising for someone who earned her phd from the university of virginia studying with dr. gary gallagher. sub itot come as a may come as a surprise to anyone who knew her as an aspiring opera major in her youth. she will bring to the symposium the message that she brought to our exhibit proje
nasdaq gaining 0.8%. you know who wins? the giant hedge funds who treat stocks like play things, fliting in and out at a moments notice booo. oh, this is a rough environment for individual inventors who prefer to own stocks net rent them because hedge funds are in control and change the factors right now oil declined today because there was no news about china and into news is bad news so the s&p got hurried from its highs in the morning before rebounding later in the afternoon when oil which was going down did a u-turn today is a ridiculous example of the daily strangle the hooligans they have over the entire stock market the whole market surge at the opening bell for good reasons. mostly because four big cap companies reported incredible numbers. buyers flocked to buy those stocks and the pin action reverb rated all through the entire stock market by 9:51 dow up, s&p up then oil suddenly took a vicious turn for the worse, dipping more than a dollar. and you know what ha
impacts on the economy, this is just over two hours. the committee will come to order without objection, a recess with the committee at any time, all members will have five days within which to submit extraneous materials for inclusion in the record. it is entitled the peril of ignored national debt. i offer apologies to the witnesses that we are starting an hour late due to the floor vote. i recognize myself for five minutes to give an opening statement. multiple know that i m getting ready to leave congress at the end of the year. i leave hopefully with many friends, regrettably, maybe an enemy or two. a body of work i am proud of but also leaving with great regret, i have no greater regret that my inability to convince more of my friends and more of my colleagues in the peril of and addressed national debt. having been a veteran of the less than super, super committee and of the commission, my ipad is a wash of reports, and debt is unsustainable. only the number changed