Issues before the meeting today and we would have gladly pulled this aside. It was not brought to the attention of the chairman. I know you want to Say Something commissioner. Commissioner narasaki i just want to note that the commissioners are all well aware of which state advisory and needs are open recruitment. My staff and i have gone out of our way to help as much as the staff to identify people. I have to say that not every commissioner is doing that, so one of the problems we have, as knows,ioner heriot well we have a large number of stated by three committees who are open and not feel and we need to get them done because as we just heard from the report today, they play a very important role. So staff is doing the best they can to try to get these slates up and running. Awould be happy to entertain waiver of our rules to go back and add some people, if there are some qualified people to some of these slates, but we need to start getting some of these slate done. As the chair ha
Interface. There are many ways of accessing the brain. They take electrodes, place it atop the brain, which follows or ne rds narrow signals urosignals. Ferried to aion is computer, and algorithm, that takes the information and transforms it into an action command. Perhaps it is moving a cursor from left to right or moving a robotic arm. It is using computer and algorithms to read and tension from the brain. Intention from the brain who discovered them . Malcolm that is controversial. People have been using electrodes in the brain for a very long time to determine various types of movement and try to understand how animals initiate movement. 1999, researchers realized they could take the recordings and could figure out, based on the rhythms of the firing patterns the cells were creating to enact certain movements, they could recreate that movement. The early work was done in mice models and the plea moved on to monkeys and humans. What is the practical effect of bcis . Malcolm the medi
A dedicated group of educators helped to turn her life around. But even more amazing, they stuck with her. No one in my immediate family has graduated high school and gone into college. However, i believe ill be the first one, and theyll be excited and thrilled and theyll be proud of what ive become. Narrator these two stories on this special edition of frontline. Frontlinis made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. And by the corporation for public broadcasting. Major support for frontliis provided by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. More information is available at macfound. Org. Additional support is provided by the park foundation. Dedicated to heightening Public Awareness of critical issues. The john and Helen Glessner family trust. Supporting trustworthy journalism that informs and inspires. The wyncote foundation. And by the frontline journalism fund, with
It is a tax credit that people with low incomes receive as a kind of bonus for working, the more they earn, the larger the tax credit up to a certain point. Then that, clinton and first Lady Hillary Clinton were engaged in a deeply divisive with congress and the American People in general that the future of the health care system. Clintons efforts to Reform Health care at the time failed, so the white house was occupied with health care at the time. And then in 1995, a new congress was inaugurated. This congress was controlled by republicans. That led to a year and a half of haggling between republicans and congress and the white house over what kind of welfare reform would ultimately be enacted. Eventually in the summer of 1996, almost 20 years ago to the day, clinton signed the welfare reform bill. That bill was signed in 1996. What were some of the key changes it made in the welfare system . Max i think the most important change is that welfare can no longer be taken for granted. Pe
65,000 seat stadium here with hopes of luring the oakland raiders. The current pro proposal uses increase in Hotel Room Tax to contribute 750 million to the pot. The rest of the money coming from the raiders and casino mogul sheldon adelson. This is one of the most exciting days i think in the history of las vegas. Were on the verge of having an nfl franchise. Unlv is going to have a stateoftheart stadium. Maybe one of the best in the reporter but the stadium faces Harsh Criticism as it makes its way forward. It does not pencil out for Public Benefit and the Economic Development factor gets touted but itser in been proved out in any research done. Reporter supporters say it would revolutionize unlv football which would share the facility with the raid ez. Head coach tony sanchez. This stadium will take us to an entirely different level and really change the landscape of unlv and provide an experience current rebels. Reporter unlv president says the stadium would be a boom to the univer