Continued the practice of the 13th strike. It could have fixed itself if there had been sober management going forward, just like any organization. If you have strong leadership and folders leadership you can resolve problems but it takes effort. Tonight on the cspans q a. This year, cspan is touring cities across the country, exploring American History. Toook at our recent visit augusta, georgia. You are watching American History tv. Welcome to the lucy craft laney museum of black history. Where black history is every day . Our goal is to promote the legacy of lucy craft laney through art history and the preservation of her home. We carry those tenants back in all that we do. Lucy craft laney was an africanamerican educator, and she was one of the most outstanding africanamericans educators in the state of georgia. She was born in macon, georgia in 1854. That was during a time where black people were not they could not be taught to read and write. And even though her father was a free
Students going why are we here were supposed to talk about race this is really hard. The other student said because you came because this is the first time and maybe the only time you wouldve talk to someone that looks like me. So, i see hope. These are not always for everyone. I do not think you have to worry as much about getting everyone in the conversation as starting the conversation, and bringing the students in an wielding these conversations out with real in and wielding these conversations out. If we think every time we meet we have to change the curriculum or redo everything, we will not make progress, but its every time we meet we have an income until idea, we try it, tested, put it back in place, students will come, start believing in the process. I think carolina conversations is one step and stay tuned i will come back next year and tell you about the rest. It is pretty important. I think almost every campus in america is probably going to be doing something more trying S
Their money, they could have paid their pensions in full and continued the practice of what is known as a 13th check. It could have fixed itself if there had been some sort of sober management. If you have strong leadership and focused leadership, you can resolve these problems. But it takes a lot of effort. Cspans q a. T on press foundation briefed reporters on the issues, logistics, and coverage of pope visit to the u. S. Scheduled events in washington dc, new york, and philadelphia. This portion of the briefings about onee hour is hour. We are the best of reality television. Cspan. Im going to transition to the next panel, which is reporting on the hope. William douglas spoke earlier about logistics, credentialing. E correspondent from mcclatchy newspapers. I guess i am covering the president ial race as well as others with the conflict driven in discussions. And with climate wire for years a Climate Change reporter that his first foul i saw his byline we had to know what he was wri
Representative Brendan Boyle democrat of pennsylvania, tell us one thing that has surprised you the most since in washington. [laughter] not toole fortunately much surprised me. I was a state legislator before coming here. Procedures i have been familiar with through the lifestyle. Me has pleasantly surprised is that generally most members i find get along pretty well. I am going against the grain in saying that, but i have relationships on both sides of the aisle. Partisan. To be too generally i would say that people are more constructive than what appears on tv. As people solve more colleagues that coworkers. What translates out to the world is a worst of both sides. [laughter] you talk about the personalities. Into thee went to get capitol complex and get her early in the morning, your here all day. Early in there morning, you are here all day. There is a constant fastpaced and trying to squeeze everything in in a few days. I think that is one of the challenges im hearing in d. C. H
Kevin ashton, he is the coiner of the term internet of things, and hes also the author of this book, how to fly a horse. Mr. Ashton, whats the, whats the background story on the title of that book . Guest it comes from a quotation from Wilbur Wright of the Wright Brothers who was explaining how the Wright Brothers were first to fly. And he dropped a piece of paper to his floor and said to his audience notice how the paper darts back and forth, this is the kind of horse we have to learn to ride if we are going to fly. Host and how does it tie into the theme and themes of your book . Guest well, yeah. The interesting thing is why did the Wright Brothers fly first, and what was the process they used, because they werent the first people to have the idea of building a flying machine, and they werent the first people to try. So why did they succeed where everybody else failed . And the answer is they understood the problem they were trying to solve much better than anybody else. And at the