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Forum Network

Free online lectures: Explore a world of ideas

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Public Broadcasting Atlanta's (PBA) Forum Network is an online, on-demand archive of discussions given by some of the world's foremost scholars, authors, artists, scientists, policy-makers and community leaders. These discussion events are hosted by cultural and educational organizations in metro Atlanta and beyond. Through the Forum Network, people across the world can now listen and watch these events online. We encourage our audience to browse our featured, new, and popular lectures. Explore all lectures by Topics, Series, Partners, and Speakers. To provide our viewers with added information lectures are further augmented with speaker biographies, related lectures and books, captions and transcripts, and downloadable audio. **About Atlanta Public Broadcasting ** Great cities are known by their museums, theaters, symphonies and parks. But the greatest impact on a city's cultural life radiates invisibly through the air. For Atlanta, that cultural force is Public Broadcasting Atlanta. WABE 90.1 FM and PBA 30, brings NPR News, music, the arts and PBS programming to hundreds of thousands of listeners and viewers each year. Today, people turn to public broadcasting for their news, music, arts and entertainment. Yet, few people realize that public broadcasting began as "educational television" -- strictly a learning resource. As a broadcast service of Atlanta Public Schools in partnership with the Atlanta Educational Telecommunications Collaborative (AETC), PBA has never lost sight of its original mission. Education remains at the core of our operation at every level, from preschoolers to our elders.

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  • Denis Brosnan, CEO of Prommis Solutions, Inc., talks to students at Atlanta's Grady High School about self-confidence and how to get it. Denis says that whatever success he's had in his life has a lot to do with self-confidence. He explains that whatever your challenge may be, confidence helps you achieve it. Confidence allows you to accomplish your goals. He explains that words have power, if you tell yourself that you can do, you can. Also, perception counts, if you walk around upset or angry, no will want to be around you. Finally, he reminds students that success is incremental, you have to believe that you can do things, and then go one step at a time.
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  • Mary Pat Matheson, executive director of the Atlanta Botanical Garden, discusses what *TIME Magazine* named as one of the top 10 Museum Exhibitions of 2008. The Atlanta Botanical Garden is the final 2009 destination of the tour, with 20 of Henry Moore's monumental sculptures in a single locale. This talk is hosted by The Englishman Gallery of Atlanta.
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  • General Electric Vice Chairman John Rice comments on his multi-national company's progress and policies, as well as ancillary issues of the day.
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  • North Fulton Regional Hospital presents a panel discussion on caregiver relief and the options for those who care for others, whether professionally or through personal responsibility. Leena Dutta, Ranjan Paul, Ruth Sarmiento, Fred Whitehurst, and Kamela Sooknanan are panelists, and Community Education Coordinator Diane Sanders and Marketing Coordinator Joanna Stotter also participate. WABE Science Reporter Jim Burress moderates.
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  • Host of NPR's *Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!* Peter Sagal tells all about his life, his career, and the phenomenally popular radio show. His talk is with members of Public Broadcasting Atlanta's Cornerstone Society the morning after the show was taped before a live Atlanta audience.
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  • At this Cobb County neighborhood forum, Jane Hayes, Chief of Transportation Planning and Finance for the Atlanta Regional Commission, discusses the region's sustainability. This is the first of four planned neighborhood forums. She talks about air quality, water availability, transportation projects, and green space. She presents a vision for the growth of the region.
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  • As Mayor Kasim Reed prepares to select a new police chief, he hosts a town hall meeting with the three finalists for the job — Dr. Cedric L. Alexander, federal security director for the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport; City of Atlanta Interim Police Chief George N. Turner; and Louisville Police Chief Robert Crump White. The mayor begins with a brief overview of their qualifications. Deidra Dukes of Fox 5 and Bill Nigut, a former political reporter who now heads the Anti-Defamation League’s efforts in the South, ask questions of the three finalists. Dukes and Nigut also ask Alexander, Turner and White questions submitted by residents.
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  • Kennedy Center President Michael Kaiser, author of T*he Art of the Turnaround: Creating and Maintaining Healthy Arts Organizations*, speaks about current challenges and opportunities for arts organizations.
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  • Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed delivers the 2010 Mayor’s Annual State of the City Business Breakfast address, hosted by the Atlanta Committee for Progress (ACP).
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  • Basketball Legend Chris Webber talks with freshman students at Atlanta's Grady High School on how to go through a process of achieving career goals. He tells kids that the thing that's your hobby today, might be your talent. Find something that you love to do, find people that you love to work with who will encourage you, don't listen to the "haters" when they say you can't do it, write a list of all the negative things and the reasons that you shouldn't make it, and then go get what you are looking for.
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