[music] [music] you are watching booktv on cspan2. With top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. Booktv, Television Series readers. Coming up next, books about digital technology. Brian dear writes about Online Education in the preinternet age in his book, the friendly orange glow. Then, the history of Silicon Valley with the author the no one calls discussing the Tech Industry ethics. Brian dear is the author of the friendly orange glow. Computer systems developed in 1960 to provide Online Education. He talked about his book and the era of computer learning at a bookstore in washington dc. This is just over one hour. Hello everyone. My name is faith griggs members of the event staff. I would like to thank everyone for coming out. Tonight we have brian dear to present his book, the friendly orange glow the plato system. Before i turn my attention over absent housekeeping rules to go over. Please silence all devices. We are recording this for a website and would be distracting. S
Mike, thats a great question and with that heat comes the poor air quality. Let me show you whats going on from the east bay hills camera and giving you readings right now. We have poor air quality in the north bay, the coast in central bay and the Santa Clara Valley. The only place without poor air quality is the east bay valleys which could have unhealthy air for all of us later today. Same thing in the Santa Clara Valley as were into the spare of air day. The areas in orange along the coast and San Francisco. Heat advisory until 9 00 monday evening and an excessive heat warning for all of us, and weve got the high fire danger in the hills until 8 00 tomorrow morning. Heres what we have. Limit Outdoor Activity if you can. I know its a holiday weekend. Drink plenty of water before you get thirsty and dont forget under no circumstances, leave kids or pets inside the cars. Weve already had 35 children lose their lives from being left in a hot car. Matt . Already. Good advise. Some kids
[inaudible conversation] before we have our Opening Statements for this hearing, i have a short statement i want to make on another issue. If mrs. Feinstein has anything on the same thing im talking about, she would get whatever time she wants. Separate from my regular opening statement, i need to talk about a serious threat to this committees Oversight Authority. The need for congress to havee access to information in the executive branch is inherent in the constitution. The Supreme Court has said so clearly and repeatedly. Executive Branch Agencies cannot limit our legislative power of inquiry mary merely by entering into nondisclosure agreements with one another, but thats exactly what the fbi has tried to do. Yesterday i sent a pair of letters to the office of special counsel and the fbi about the most recent example. P nondisclosure agreements are essentially gag orders, plain and simple. They thwart transparency, corner jim account ability and seek to obstruct congressional overs
Distinguished socialist mitch duneier. I am a former professor at the John Hopkins University up the street. My baltimore connection. As a school i take delight in books which were painstakingly researched and keen interpretation, help me understand a complex continue or phenomenon with greater clarity. The book ghetto is just such a book. I had the opportunity to teach get to in my last semester at hopkins in 2016 with the professor of history and director of jewish studies. Ken and i were impressed with the manner which the professor discussed the conflict of the ghetto. And i dont mean the context of jewish and black communes, and also how the concept itself and its application has shifted over time and n both the poplar . Scholarly imagination. Were not alone in our admiration for ghetto. Wrote an important review recently in New York Times that the professor has provided a, quote, stunningly detailed and timely survey of the ghetto as concept and phenomenon. Other reviews have ech
Tonight and historic meteorological event with nothing abstract about it. For those who live along the Pacific Coast line, what you are looking at is the strongest hurricane ever recorded in this hemisphere about to make landfall, Hurricane Patricia right now bearing down on mexicos west coast with 200 mileperhour wind. The unprecedented storm also posing a significant threat to the state of texas where dangerous flash floods are expected. A live report for you coming up here tonight. Well, the mainstream liberal media boosting Hillary Clintons performance and her 11 hours of testimony before the House Select Committee on benghazi. While there is no question about her endurance or stamina there are many questions about the content of her testimony and whether a number of her statements were accurate. In washington that is referred to as speech that is factually aligned. Was it . Fox news chief intelligence correspondent with our report. It was terrorism not connected to an obscure anti