Are the American People Betraying Their Dream? Or Is the American Dream Betraying its People?
David Brooks - Editorialist, The New York Times
Rusty Reno - Managing Editor, First Things
Maurizio Maniscalco (moderator) - President of New York Encounter
#507 General Session VI of UUA General Assembly 2015
UUA Moderator Jim Key presides as the business of the Association is conducted. Please refer to the Agenda at uua.org/ga/2015 for details of the specific items which will be addressed.
Event 403 404 Saturday Morning Worship, General Session, and Theme Program & Conversations 2
That Used To Be Us: How America lost its way and how we find our way back
J. Edward Rall Cultural Lecture That Used To Be Us: How America lost its way and how we find our way back
Air date: Thursday, May 24, 2012, 3:00:00 PM
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Category: Wednesday Afternoon Lectures
Description: The NIH Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series presents the annual
J. Edward Rall Cultural Lecture
Thomas L. Friedman is an internationally renowned journalist, columnist, author, and three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Since joining the New York Times staff in 1981, he has been a financial reporter, Beirut bureau chief, Jerusalem bureau chief, chief diplomatic correspondent, chief White House correspondent, international economics correspondent, and, in 1995, he took over the Foreign Affairs column. He has written six best-selling books, including The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century. His most recent book, published in 2011 and co-authored with Johns Hopkins University foreign policy expert Michael Mandelbaum, is That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back. The book addresses how America should tackle the four great challenges it faces—globalization, the revolution in information technology, the nation's chronic deficits, and our pattern of excessive energy consumption
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Author: Thomas L. Friedman, The New York Times Foreign Affairs Columnist
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Family Focused Addiction Support Training 9.17.19
Maureen Cavanaugh will introduce her newest project “Taking Back Your Life.” Taking Back Your Life is a family-focused intervention designed to define and increase fluency in the language of recovery. If you are a parent, sibling, a member of the extended family or even a professional working in a setting with individuals going through substance use disorder, learning the steps to care for yourself is essential if want to be a healthy, empathetic and effective supporter to your loved one, patient or student.
Learning Objectives:
• Learn what “recovery” and “recovery capital” are. Understand the multiple pathways that are available to treat the disease of addiction.
• Learn what the “Stages of Change” are and how they are necessary to the recovery process.
• Understand the power of stigma and how blame and shame hinder recovery. Learn how to create strategies conducive to your own mental and physical health.
7th Annual William G. McGowan Forum on Communications
Archivist of the United States David Ferriero, moderator Alexander B. Howard, and panelists Pamela Wright, David Weinberger, and Sarah Bernard discuss the National Archives' next steps in developing its social media presence.
7th Annual William G. McGowan Forum on Communications: What's Next in the Social Media Revolution?
Can Depression Be Cured? New Research on Depression and its Treatments
Four medical researchers at the forefront of developing treatments for depression present new findings in a special conference held at the Library's John W. Kluge Center. The program was part of the annual meeting of the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
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Participant Engagement and Health Equity Workshop - July 1-2, 2015 - Day 1
On July 1-2, the Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) Working Group of the Advisory Committee to the NIH Director (ACD) held a public workshop on participant engagement and health equity as they relate to the proposed PMI national research cohort. The workshop focused on the design of an inclusive cohort, building and sustaining public trust, direct-from-participant data provision, and effective and active participant engagement characteristics of a national research cohort of one million or more volunteers.
The workshop built on the big science questions developed during the April 28–29 workshop at the NIH, digital health data perspectives shared during the May 28-29 workshop, and information on the strategies to address community engagement and health disparities in a large national research cohort gathered from stakeholders through a request for information. The workshop took place on the National Institutes of Health campus in Bethesda, Maryland, and was videocast.
A full list of workshops being convened by the ACD PMI Working Group is available on the Events page of the NIH PMI website.
Agenda and time codes:
Welcome and PMI overview - Dr. Francis Collins - 00:01
Meeting overview - Ms. Bray Patrick-Lake - 29:30
Envisioning a Cohort that Is Participant-Driven, Inclusive, and Diverse - Dr. Tony Coles and Ms. Vernal Branch - 36:50
Public Perspectives about a PMI Cohort - Dr. Kathy Hudson - 1:08:05
Inclusion and Engagement Goals Related to Health Equity - Dr. Shiriki Kumanyika - 1:55:30
Challenges in Recruiting and Retaining Disadvantaged and Underrepresented Populations and Best Practices for Overcoming Them - Dr. Esteban Gonzalez Burchard - 2:54:35
Establishing Collaborative and Inclusive Governance in a Large Study - Dr. Spero Manson - 4:06:49
What Would a Direct-from-Participant Cohort Model Look Like? - Ms. Kathy Giusti - 5:34:15
Participant Perspectives on Data Sharing and Data Use - Dr. Sachin Kheterpal - 6:34:35
Wrap-up - Ms. Bray Patrick-Lake - 7:32:45
NINR Director’s Lecture - Dr. Aiken: Nursing’s Impact on Patient Outcomes
On March 2, 2017, Linda H. Aiken, PhD, FAAN, FRCN, RN, presented the first 2017 NINR Director’s Lecture on the NIH Campus in Bethesda, Maryland. In her talk, Nursing’s Impact on Patient Outcomes, Dr. Aiken described her program of research which shows that nurses with higher levels of qualifications, fewer patients to care for, and improved working environments have better patient outcomes.
Governor elect Hogan Visits Montgomery County
Poetry Jam
Members of the Washington, D.C. Youth Slam Team performed poems inspired by recordings, photographs and field notes from the American Folklife Center archives. Presented in partnership with Split This Rock.
- Amina Fatima is a 2019 high school graduate of Hayfield Secondary School. She will be attending Northern Virginia Community College to study general science in the fall. Fatima has been a part of the Split This Rock community since she was 14 years old. For the past three years she has been president of her high school poetry club. She and her team won first place at Louder Than A Bomb DMV 2019.
- Takier George is an a 11th grader at Wakefield High School, set to graduate in 2020. She has been a member of Wakefield's Louder Than A Bomb team for the past two years and a part of the Wakefield Poetry Club for the last three years. This is her first year on the D.C. Youth Slam Team.
- Marjan Naderi is a five-time Grand Slam champion winner, the 2018 Library of Congress National Book Festival Poetry Slam champion, two-time Nationals MIST Spoken Word winner, and the 2019 D.C. Youth Slam Finals Slam champion. While being on the 2018 and 2019 D.C. Youth Slam Teams, Naderi was been featured in the Washington Post and Now This Her.
- Jordan Shaibani is a junior at Walt Whitman High School. Outside of the D.C. Youth Slam Team, she participates in her school's Debate and Mock Trial Teams. She also leads the Young Professionals Club and the Minority Scholars Program on both local and county levels.
- Alexa Patrick is a singer and poet from Connecticut. She is a Cave Canem Fellow, and holds teaching positions through Split This Rock, the University of the District of Columbia, and the Center for Creative Youth at Wesleyan University. In addition to the D.C. Youth Slam Team, she has also coached the slam teams of American University and George Washington University for the College Union Poetry Slam Invitational. Her work has been published in CRWN Magazine and The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic.
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Prison Rebellion and Prison Reform
From mass hunger strikes and work stoppages behind bars, to wider reform movements, a panel of experts discuss the politics of punishment in the United States. Participants include Bernard E. Harcourt of Columbia Law School, Heather Ann Thompson of the University of Michigan and Vesla Mae Weaver of Johns Hopkins University. Christopher Berk, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Virginia, served as moderator. Dean Risa Goluboff gives an introduction to the event. (University of Virginia School of Law, May 3, 2019)
Ngozi Ukazu: 2019 National Book Festival
Ngozi Ukazu discussed Check, Please! Book 1: #Hockey at the 2019 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
- Ngozi Ukazu is the creator of Check, Please! Book 1: #Hockey, an online graphic novel whose printing campaign remains the most funded web comics Kickstarter ever, having raised almost $400,000 by May 2019. Ukazu graduated from Yale University in 2013 with a degree in computing and the arts, and received a master's from the Savannah College of Art and Design in sequential art in 2015. Her graphic novel focuses on Eric Bittle, former Georgia junior figure skating champion, vlogger extraordinaire and amateur pastry chef who is starting his freshman year playing hockey at the prestigious Samwell University in Samwell, Massachusetts.
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HHS IDEA Lab Town Hall: Invent Health
The HHS IDEA Lab Town Hall held on January 28, 2016 covered a presentations about the Invent Health initiative, and how this movement is affecting HHS.
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Turmoil & Triumph: The George Shultz Years: To Start The World Again - Full Video
A ceremonial welcome greets Shultz and Reagan on their first trip together to Japan, but as they arrive back in the U.S. Philippine dissident Nimoy Aquino is assassinated and this important island nation is thrown into turmoil. Reagan views Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos as a friend and ally in the fight against Communism, while Shultz increasingly sees Marcos as a cunning politician who is allowing his country to fail. In September 1982 Marcos teeters on the edge of defeat.
Inside the White House, Cabinet members continue to vie for the President’s attention, putting forth competing tactics to achieve the administration’s goals. Reagan is taken with the Contras, a group of rebels fighting the Communist government in Nicaragua. While Congress had ruled out the use of Defense Department or CIA funds to help the rebels, some advisers keep bringing the issue to Reagan’s attention. “Reagan loved the Contras because they’re the kind of guys who are the good guys in the movies,” says Reeves. “And he really believed that they were something like the men who came down the hill and conquered. And beyond that, it was almost all kind of romantic imagination in his mind.”
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Interrupt V: Meredith Morran, Bridget Hawkins and Jaylen Strong
Interrupt 2019
Meredith Morran, Bridget Hawkins and Jaylen Strong
moderated by Claire Donato
Meredith Morran is a writer and filmmaker based in Providence, RI. Her writing and new media work examine interactions between humans and technology as sites for both humor and for questioning our existing forms of meaning making. Her documentary work strives to highlight socially relevant issues such as aging in rural America, the opioid epidemic, and generational poverty. Her films have been screened internationally at festivals including SXSW, Los Angeles Film Festival, Heartland Film Festival, Fastnet Film Festival, Lady Filmmakers Film Festival and the Pitch Her Productions' Riveter Series. She is currently a senior at Brown University, where she studies Modern Culture and Media & Literary Arts. (Meredith Morran's performance is not included in the video)
Jaylen Strong is a seeker, a body that breathes, and a companion to truth. He works in the realm of writing and art but is most fascinated by our profound connections to each other. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Bridget Hawkins is a New Jersey native who lives in Brooklyn. She is currently completing her senior year at Pratt Institute, earning a BFA in Writing. Her poem Anemic was winner of the Academy of American Poets 2018 College and University Poetry Prize, and her graphic short story Tell Her Anyway is featured in the Simon and Schuster 2018 anthology, It Occurs to Me I Am America. As a biracial black woman living in America, Bridget's poetry often confronts issues of race and marginality, engaging a range of forms and genres.
Claire Donato writes across genres and is the author of two books: Burial (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2013), a not-novel novel, and The Second Body (Poor Claudia, 2016), a collection of poems. Recent writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Territory, DIAGRAM, Bennington Review, BOMB, Fanzine, and The Elephants. Currently, she teaches in the BFA Writing Program at Pratt Institute, serves as a Mentor for the PEN Prison Writing Project, and lives with one cat and 48 houseplants.
About Interrupt V:
Celebrating the intersection of writing and new media, Interrupt V involves readings, exhibitions, performances and video screenings, along with discussions that investigate interruption in digital language art and performance. In computing, an interrupt is a command sent to the central processor, demanding its attention and calling for the initiation of a new task. The festival’s aim is to not only interrupt trends in the field of literary theory and digital aesthetics, but practice interruption as an applied critique of systemic forces.
The festival’s approach to media and authorship casts light on the myriad ways data encrypts the body in late capitalism. As computational media becomes increasingly material, and media is ever more woven into sensation, this conference considers digital writing as an impression on the body. By highlighting performance and new media artists who have used their own bodies as aesthetic tools, and writers who describe embodiment, Interrupt V focuses on the biological as a system of networks. Electronics and computational vernaculars are not outside of the ecological. The notion that meditated text art exists without natural resources, material processing systems, and very human pathologies must be interrupted!
Saturday, February 9, 2019
Brown University
Launch of the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace
The Obama Administration released the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) on April 15, 2011 during a meeting with about 250 business, government, and other leaders at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, D.C. NSTIC seeks to better protect consumers from fraud and identity theft, enhance individuals' privacy, and foster economic growth by enabling industry both to move more services online and to create innovative new services. The video features remarks by U.S. Sec. of Commerce Gary Locke, other Administration officials, and U.S. Senator Barbara Mikulski, as well as a panel discussion with private sector, consumer advocate, and government ID management experts.
Bob Carter's Interview (2018)
Robert Carter spent a year and a half as a graduate student at Purdue University before being recruited to work for the Manhattan Project. At Los Alamos, Carter’s team, which included his close friend Joan Hinton, worked on the research reactor. Eventually, Carter and Hinton came to work closely with Enrico Fermi, who became a mentor and friend to the two of them. Carter fondly recounts his dinners and hikes with Hinton and Fermi, both at Los Alamos and after. After the war, Carter enrolled in graduate courses at University of Illinois before returning to Los Alamos for fifteen years. For the rest of his career, Carter worked for various government agencies before retiring. Carter also discusses his friend Harry Daghlian and advising prominent physicist George Gamow on a project.
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Writing Contest Winners: 2016 National Book Festival
Winners of two contents for children about books and literature -- Letters About Literature and A Book That Shaped Me -- are honored at the 2016 Library of Congress Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
Three national winners in the Library's Letters About Literature essay contest will read their letters to the authors they wrote to. Letters About Literature is a national reading and writing program that asks young people in grades 4 through 12 to write to an author about how his or her book affected their lives. More than 50,000 young readers from across the country participated in this year's Letters About Literature initiative, a reading promotion program of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. The 2015-2016 Letters About Literature contest is made possible by a generous grant from the Dollar General Literacy Foundation, with additional support from gifts to the Center for the Book.
A Book That Shaped Me is a summer writing contest that encourages rising fifth and sixth graders to reflect on a book that has had a personal impact on their lives. The contest is administered through local public library systems in the Mid-Atlantic region. Top winners will read their essays and be honored during this special program.
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County Report This Week Episode 416 April 13, 2018
Lorna Virgili hosts County Report This Week. On this episode: the Charles W. Gilchrist Immigrant Resource Center opens headquarters in Wheaton; County Council proposes legislation to fast track development approvals; Executive Ike Leggett launches the “Stay Alert, Stay Alive” campaign aiming at distracted drivers and pedestrians; Ride On gears up for the “Give and Ride” campaign to collect food for Manna Food Center; Earth Month celebrations continue; and the Volunteer Center gets ready to celebrate the “Montgomery Serves” awardees.