Digital arts writer from the art foundation, she has been a resident, Nonfiction Program fellow. Her essays and reviews have appeared in publications by the new york times, defense wired the globe and others. She will be joined in conversation by kendra albert, a lecturer on law at Harvard Law School where they practiced law, their work reflects on technology and law covering topics like facial recognition, computer secure, online reaction and tonight they are going to discuss lurking how a person became a user. A poetic, empathetic and incisive history of the internet that will resonate with anyone who goes online to listen and learn, not shout. Joanne mcneil traces it in playful ways revealing what has been lost, what has been stolen and what utopian possibilities may still be recovered. Lurkers of the world unite. We are pleased to host this event at harvard bookstore, please join me in welcoming Joanne Mcneil and kendra albert. [applause] to start i have a brief reading. I will sta
About leadership and character and the lessons he learned from studying commanders through history. Its the subject of his book sailing to north. [applause] thank you latest denman. Please be seated. It is my distinct honor tonight to introduce a very special guest and a good friend. This is the second of our jack bergman distinguished leadership series. The first member of that series was general james mattis who was here two months ago. Jackma brennan was Lieutenant Colonel in the marine corps, return with president nixon from sacrament, retired from the marines ratherre than leave his side so we thought we would name it for jack, this series and we had a distinguished profession of arms here for my people the jackman continues to serve. Many of youod so are here. If youre a veteran or a of activeduty would you stand and allow us to thank you . [applause] our guest graduated from the United States Naval Academy 1976 a 37 year career and some extraordinary stations along the way inclu
Grief and purpose. The knock at the door. [inaudible conversations] all right. Welcome. I want to welcome everyone to the Doylestown Book shop. We, the entire staff, are all happy to have you here and its such an honor to host this event. My name is glenda chiles, im the owner of the book shop. Were so happy to be in a community that supports our local businesses as well as our local nonprofits and this is a special one today. So, its my honor to introduce you to the authors of this book. Well start with briryan manion she has supported our families of fallen heroes. Inspired by the character, leadership and sacrifice of her brother, First Lieutenant Travis Manion who made the ultimate sacrifice in iraq on april 29th, 2007. Serving as the president of Travis Manion foundation since 2012, ryan leads a National Movement focused on assisting veterans and families of the fallen to take the next step in their personal journeys and inspiring the next generation of leaders. And in 2015, she r
Programs dale gregory really is a delight to welcome you to our Robert H Smith auditorium read the next program, the second founding of the civil war and reconstruction relayed the constitution is a part of our bernard and Eileen Schwartz s english speaker series, the height of our Public Programs and as always wed like to thank mister swartz for all the support which has enabledus to produce such a wide array of wonderful programs the white we give him a hand . And of course our board of trustees who has been active and helpful in bringing this institution to the level it is today. We have a trustee who is with us in the audience and all of our Chairmans Council members are with us for their great work and support. The next program is going to last one hour and include a question and answer session read the q a conducted questions and notecards and you should have received something from one of our volunteers had no notecards and pencils and i will be going through as soon as im done
Government and the promises they once made to resemble has more now from the time of the mess in venezuela. Has always lived beside the lake of monaco you will in the northwestern state. Hes a fisherman but he says pollution from the oil industry is destroying his way of life. This is abandon completely abandoned in the past the oil and gas installations were taken care of but not anymore now are lake is filled with oil and contamination our boats are dirty or nets are dirty my family depends on this and its killing us were close to the town where oil was 1st discovered in venezuela in 1922 it turned this country from Michael Cohen coffee producing nation into an oil giant but things have not been going well in the past 2 years the bottom of the lake of what i was filled with thousands of kilometers of Gas Pipelines some of them are broken if you can see right there thats a leak i guess week this is just an example of the enormous infrastructure problems that Venezuelas Energy sectors