so it came in just as fast as it went out. so we were bs busy, busy. working 24 hours a day. >> what were the notable jos, did you do the neiman marcus in. >> no. i-mag is a beautiful building, beautifully designed, except all the windows were in stainless steel frames, and the glass that have installed was glass that wasn't tempered, and they were glazed very, very tightly with a putty that had a hardener in it. so it was like they were encased in concrete, essentially. and so there was no room for these things to go, or to wiggle at all. so they all broke. well 85% of them broke. >> so the code requires that glazing not take the load of the building, as the building moves. the glazing is not supposed to be the element that resists the force of the building, because that is not going to work. glazing will break. and we can see now, in almost all buildings, that there is some kind of attachment system that allows the building to flex, and it does not harden. and we very carefully inspect and require a careful inspection of that and you have a handout t

i lost my bifolk cast, so now i have to take -- buy folkals, so now i have -- bifocals, so now i have to take my glasses off. the student assessment process and proposals for that, over the past few weeks the pack has been hearing many concerns, which i know you've also heard. i was here last night and saw the huge turnout of concerned families that expressed their ideas about this. we really appreciate the superintendent's recommendation and the vote on the ad hoc committee to extend the timeline for developing and implementing the new middle school feeder assignment system. as you discussed it last night, it's based not only on hearing from community concerns, but also a commitment to ensuring program quality at all the middle schools and the need to have a clear plan for how you're going to get there. that is exactly the kind of thinking that needs to happen, and we appreciate it. we also appreciate the proposal tokes tend the timeline for reviewing and finalizing the new transportation policy which has kind of gotten lost in the discussion and i think we'll be contacting you in th

so we thought of something physical, a mechanical hand so matthew can't control his own hand so we brought a mechanical hand. and here we are seeing a video of matthew thinking about hoping and closing a hand and there he is opening and closing his hand. he had a profound effect on him because it was the first time in years that he had actually moved anything physically himself. he is doing it entirely with his mind. then to extrapolate that a bit further. we asked could you control something practical like a wheelchair. this is actually a lady who has what is called a brain stem stroke. a little bit above the spinal cord. she is not only unable to move, she can't speak. but what she is doing here is using brain gait, this chip to control that wheelchair so it's wireilessly beamed over to the wheelchair and actually the control system is that little computer mounted on the wheelchair. i had asked her to drive the wheel care over to the door. she had practiced for about five minutes before this. and here she is sort of not very gracefully, but driving the over towards the door. and you will

it's so-called vertical stack, same stores, so forth. all the other vendors, and there are many, want an alternative to that. and apple is to the going to give it to them. along comes this android operating system that google had been working on very hard which is a complete turnkey solution with similar capabilities. the ability to do, you know, a camera phone and do proper searches and a powerful browser, using the same browser as the iphone and same technology that we collaborate with apple on. most importantly the software that we made available we make available for free. so all of a sudan droid becomes very popular with companies like motorola, lg, htc and so forth and so on. we to you have more than 200,000 of these phones being turned on every day. there are 90 different models in 59 countries, with 39 different variance. so it's a very, very large phenomenon and growing very, very quickly. so we think android will end up being one of the very small number of very, very successful mobile devices. >> rose: where is the world of ap

on the two percent against the prediction so boys if but did talwar so ever since russia has started its market reforms the development of this country has been higher than the had the rates of development of the developed countries which is natural do you think this this high rate of development in russia will last a long way out really actually started more intense and grew for a new bit of in modernization innovation only to follow since years in one thousand three hundred minus forty forty percent g.d.p. minus forty is it's terrible so we are coming slowly from here very hard crisis and we're doing a little bit bit to be are about to start a major a never asian movement that is asian the next decade. well when when you say crisis . you mean you mean our own crisis i was rushing prices sounds so forth for the russians and for the russian economy our own crisis our own problems that we sometimes create more important than the world crisis of course neiges was the beautiful peter of of we try goof ball but we had this crisis but this is now he joined to go we're going to be developm

so that is the objective. in terms of the staff presentation, we will start with the attendance areas, and we have three areas that we are making recommendations to change the boundaries, and we will go through those in detail. we also love a recommendation from the middle school feeder and pattern -- feeder pattern. we will provide a high-level review and share our proposals for the approach in the interim plan for allocating these that need to accompany any delay. we are going to propose a new timeline. instead of bringing it back to the board on september 28 for the second reading, we will bring it back to the board in november and have it by january, so we will not throw the long term goals off in terms of the implementation, but we will allow more time for feedback. we want to share some implications of the policy. we want to make sure vote before we go any further about the bus stops for transportation, -- >> i just want to clarify. when we talk about a new timeline, so they will know before they submit

forth and so on. whereas in the past this was kind of low on our priority list. it has definitely moved up over the last in june, july, some of the violence we saw citywide, if not -- if it didn't occur directly in a hotel, it came from that hotel altercations that started at the hotel event and then ended up somewhere else. so this is something we're starting to look at much more closely. so we've got some information. i'll continue to report to the commission on what we find but there's a lot of hotels in the city so we're closely working from hotel to hotel to see who has a p.o.e. and who does not and who is doing events. been continuing to check sound levels at manor west. as commissioner meko knows, we've still been getting reports from a resident there so far since manor west has done its soundproofing to its sky lights and recalibrated its system, i, myself and talking to southern station have yet to find them in violation. but we will continue to kind of monitor that situation so if something

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so so so so so you think internet is good but but but a person. should find the right limit the. amount of internet i think internet is face to face and relationships are far better. ships that go on life you know it because for example. for many years working on t.v. i was sure that television was something for only people but television is for somebody who has prime time it's seven o'clock on saturday seven pm but who the hell is watching television seven pm on saturday only lowly people who said it i watched nothing else they would watch television but. there's a good there's a good ready for that don't have a t.v. in your bedroom don't have a t.v. in your kitchen in your living room have a special television room use it a cinema i mean go watch the news and come back to to realize that's all the same with into. i think that's true i think also it's an incredible distraction you know as as a writer i know that i can't help being seduced by checking of email every twenty minutes or so there's actually a company now that was sponsoring you have a way of turning off your internet

so i'd like to just hold that on. i mean, our industry, you know, food, beverage and entertainment, contributes, according to betty yee, over $500 million a year. and i think that somewhere that needs to be, you know, that these tax -- the tax-plus side, i guess, the contribution of the industry, needs to be calculated and accounted for the public. executive director dick-endrizzi: is that a direct request that you would like to have a report provided to the commission on that? or is that just a -- i'm just trying to understand if, i mean, do you want that phrased? vice president clyde: can it be done in a timely manner? can we find out how many businesses are paying, for instance, payroll tax who also hold a.b.c. licenses so we can get an idea of the employment contribution of the industry? is it possible to find out, i mean, like i said, betty yee said the industry as a whole is contributing $8 billion in economic activity, with approximately $500 million in sales tax revenues. but -- executive director dick-endrizz

so you can see why our numbers are so off the charts. on a contract number three, we have only one hardball to go out. caltrans, that was 6.5%. contra four is the construction of tunnels, and we have been working very closely with theresa sparks on local participation, and we are currently at 17.56% of all dollars paid that are going to san francisco lbe certified business, and this is construction, and this is unheard of. we really want to push back to jose and the enormous whether they have engaged this, because it really is putting people back to work, keeping small businesses in, and on july 1, we had an event, and julie, if you could stand up, she is with a view. she and her husband had had an exceptional business. just like two seconds about your business, because this is how the rubber meets the road. >> i thank you for the opportunity to speak briefly about my business. my business is concrete pumping, which seems very odd for a woman to do that, but i love construction. i love seeing things constructed and put together, so i act

so thank you so much. great to have you back, ruth. so next is item f, public comment on consent items. i do not believe i have any tonight. yes, i do. miss black. consent, not general. yeah. any consent calendar. ok, one, i'm having trouble reading these cards as well. yes. mr. kelly.

they are working with the union and so forth. there is a good flow. >> that information would be very helpful, i believe, to us and also to the general public, as well -- vice president clyde: >> .we look forward to working with you to create more jobs. >> thank you. thank you, regina. really awesome. thank you. president yee riley: and just a note, in terms of our monthly e- bulletin, we have a highlight of the workshops. in monitoring our click-thropugh ugh rates, that is one of our highest. president yee riley: all right, thank you very much korea next item, please. should we go back to item number five? clerk: commissioners, you are now on item number five, the discussion and possible action to make recommendations to the board of supervisors on board of supers ivers file number which the board of supervisors by a number100865, an ordinance amending the san francisco administrative code by adding sections 106 through 106.28, to impose a fee and out of a beverage wholesalers and certain other persons to distribute or sell a co

so we facilitated that. so we do advocacy, as well as treatment in stepping stone. well, one of the greatest things, and i think from the federal government perspective, has taken an approach not only that the treatment is one of the ingredients for recovery, so many doors for recovery. and creating an ecosystem in our communities, making responsible communities that, you know, recovery is important and that the person who is in recovery to feel part of the ecosystem, the community. and that is a great thing. i think now the emphasis is not only treatment is important, but what happens after treatment. and that is the federal government, one of the blessings that they have done. but i think we need to disseminate to state government, it's still not happening. they are paying for treatment, but what happens after treatment? they are not paying for the recovery. they are not paying for recovery. they don't see the outcomes. and i don't think they- paying, but i think we have to create this ecosystem in our community, make them part of, the community is responsible for

in the markets so markets need. items so you need. a prospect or there is a collapsing upper europe that makes it would be a moment of turmoil but only. markets can calculate is stable currency is stable interest rate. coming back to the normality of something. but important is much more important so markets. of economies and economies need. to perform. and. see clips. of. real a real positive effect on the economies involved into your storm countries keep on joining the euro zone on the first of january estonia will become a member what's the effect on the union of having these more diverse economies being part of the problem. look monetary union we have lessons from history can function only a limited period if you have no tomorrow on the external markets and it can function only among countries having to seem stable conditions so i would say is a contrary smaller union it's a more cynical way to it's a chance for stability before they have to formalized you or you when we had an informal monetary union in your bounce a dutch mark t

so all know it's a precondition for a stable so you're. having now suspended are you have to feel so you'll never be in trouble. because it's too late there's only one next case is our particular faith. maybe you can hear from. this is a real fear. is flowing in. from. the. inflated and this is a reason we started this complaint. must be fulfilled not so you maintain that under the terms of that treaty a bailout is actually called what outcome do you hope for if secord is sharing. in german participation. be stopped and i think we are coming back to. stability probably the richest are fading away. maybe greek is forced to opt out and why not because the country is not very happy to see the weak country trying to reassume the economy cannot share. monetary crap having hard towards for stability and hard currency and what effect do you foresee for the rest of the year in saying if countries like greece and spain and possibly italy were forced to pull out i seem to see the or possible one get smaller but i have a monetary union not sixteen or

so therefore that is not very useful. >> rose: so as an american friend, a a friend of iran, so... and the american and european sue that it's unacceptable risk for iran to have nuclear weapons. >> well, for us if iran is having nuclear weapons, more dangerous for us than america. >> rose: yes. >> because we never wish to see any neighbor with a nuclear weapon. it means that two friends, neighbors are walking together, one has the gun, another doesn't have, saw the gun, who has, he will have irresponsible behavior so therefore turkey as a neighbor to iran will never see this. will never... >> rose: so do you believe iran wants nuclear weapons? >> i cannot say this. iran is the member of international atomic energy and iran is the... part of... >> rose: the nonproliferation. >> n.p.t. so iran is getting out from atomic energy but iran should be transparent to us so this is the problem, you see. we want to see that this problem, this whole diplomatic way. but definitely this should be solved. >> rose: can turkey play a role? >> i think we have capacity to help, at least, because we a

so that's in watsonville. here, we have some romaine lettuce from salinas. >> for jim mills, life is quite simply all about produce, and every day, his sacramento warehouse receives tons of it from just about every region in the golden state. >> broccoli from salinas. over here, some artichokes from watsonville and castroville. fennel from a local farm over in yolo. >> but the bulk of this produce doesn't stay here very long. within a few hours, much of it is trucked out to restaurants and businesses in northern california, some delivered by mills himself. he spends hours on the road, visiting farmers and chefs, taking produce from one to the other, and educating both parties along the way. >> may need a look at the progress of a particular crop or report back, maybe some feedback, to the farmer about how the chefs are using it or what they might be looking for in the near future. >> in many ways, produce express and people like jim mills are the link between 1,300 different restaurants in northern california

commissioner: so why could they not just pull off? >> they could just pull off. that would be useful. if we found there was not a signal, we could that can read it manually. the meter itself records. that will not change. it would cost money to get us meters modified, to take that feature off. >> what is automated is the reporting, not necessarily the meter. that is the difference, i think. >> i suspect the transmitter is somewhat water -- you know -- what is the word and looking for? >> watertight. water-resistant. >> that is it. >> colleagues, and the questions? ok, hearing and seeing none, any public comment? >> we have one speaker card. commissioner crowley: 90. -- thank you. >> i was almost asleep, but he will bring up when he said good faith effort. we have been talking for the last year-and-a-half. good faith effort does not mean jobs for my people in the community. it is not local hiring. i have heard that word for 40 years. that was when we had redevelopment time for our community, like you had in 1972 the expression of the sewage plant. that word was us

so i'll read this. kathleen cecil, beloved english teacher was a kind, caring, quite funny, sometimes painfully honest and loving teacher, colleague and of course friend to all of us here at mission high school. kathleen spent much of her life dedicated to teaching and nurturing students with a passion that is rare. ms. cecil develop the lessons that challenged and inspired all other students. she was a lifelong and fierce advocate for social justice for everyone. it was not an unfamiliar sight to see ms. cecil move gracefully from the classroom to a march in the streets advocating for civil rights and equity for everyone. to put it plainly, kathleen was a loving force of nature. once you met her, you never forgot her. having had the blessing of working with ms. cecil the past 12 years at mission we have all gotten to know and love this incredible woman who touched so many students and staff in so many ways. her spirit will echo through these hallways for a very long time. ms. cecil's family and loved o

such a need for so many volunteers and so forth. so i took a position with city of oakland to assist in the rebuilding process. as a result of that i got introduced to the group of people that were working on an enterprise grant, $25 million with the clinton administration we were able to bring to the city of oakland to do economic revitalization. i went on there to do arbitration and retiring from the city. >> i remember you from the interfaith community to meet mayor we met for over a year. >> prior to his election i formed network santa fe action, group of pastors of all denominations we did good work getting him elected mayor of city of oakland. that is how i first met you and introduced me to so many hundreds and hundreds of other pastors throughout the city of oakland and bay area that lead to the work i am doing today as a result of that union with the network interfaith actions, this center elders and independents, coworker of mine called me and said jean you have such a good reputation in the neighbourhood we could use you

so we still have potentially a few more changes occurring, so one of the technical changes that we will be adding is it would give the city's treasurer the ability to negotiate lines of credit for surety bonds and when we were working on the city attorney on this legislation, they realized it might have been inadvertently left out during other work on the legislation. and then two items that are currently written into legislation that will require further discussion and you may see some amendments to that, as well, one is regarding the l.e.b. s.b.a. certification. so the city purchaser actually identified a problem where, in the application of the discount for commodities purchases, so we tried to make some changes to the legislation. however, we realized after the legislation was written, that was a little -- it reached a little further than we had intended so we might be amending it or striking it out completely from the legislation. the other change or the other item that might require further discussion is regarding subcontracting goals. the legislation would allow for subcontractin

so next one. if you look at the traces on this plot, which is a global average version of surface temperature of the earth, the thick dark line in this trace is actually the observe or what we estimate to be the observed temperature of the earths surface, and the other part - the colored parts - are actually modelled these,gcms, global climate models, versions of the surface temperatures the first thing i point out, is if you look up to the middle part of the 1900's, what you see is the models replicate observations pretty well. now what i should say is there's two versions of the models run here and this is the beauty of models. we can run them, within this case greenhouse gas enforces included or excluded. the blue envelope is the set of model runs done without greenhouse gasses and the red envelope is the one with. so the message here is that up until about 1970, the two families follow each other pretty closely then they start to diverge. the reason they diverge of course, is greenhouse warmin

i don't think so. i believe the best person right now to handle that responsibility is hillary clinton. >> rose: because? >> because she's tough, competent, and she nose the background. she's determined. and she doesn't have the scars of my past negotiating experience. >> rose: and also do you think the israelis look upon you with... >> with some skepticism. >> rose: skepticism. >> rose: at a minimum. >> i've had very serious confrontations with netanyahu who accused me of betraying israel's rights when i negotiated the peace treaty between israel and egypt. he very blatantly said i gave away the sinai desert which should have been retained by israel which included three small oil wells and so forth. so he has never acknowledged that the peace treaty with egypt that i negotiated was a positive factor for israel. >> rose: it's hard to imagine that menachem begin would give up anything that's not in israel's interest. >> what menachem begin was the west bank. they never wanted sinai, they never wanted ga

. >> rose: i think so. >> i think so. that's another show, charlesie. >> rose: take this whole conversation we've just had and put it at the centre of it barack obama reasons right. >> rose: well, you know, he's i guy who if you sit next to joe biden at lunch, touch you. bill clinton, touching, barack obama, no touching. >> rose: really? >> right. >> rose: is that because of his life experiences in terms of -- some people are touchers and some are not. and i don't think-- i don't buy that he's cold and unemotional. i just think he has-- he's formal. he's a formal guy. and that doesn't mean at least in official circumstances. there are other circumstances i've seen him with old friends and things like that where he's not formal. and but i think in the conduct of his dutys, he's more formal. and so do i think he has great social schools, yes. do i think-- . >> rose: great social skills. >> i do think he does. i don't buy the fact that he's superrational lone err, no, he's not. he's not that at all. but do i think over the c

so -- >> jimmy: so good.i said come, we're having a family dinner, then we're just having people over for drinks and hanging out. and you were like, "great." so you came back and you hung out with us. >> i did. >> jimmy: for thanksgiving. >> i did. >> jimmy: it was so fun. >> i did. >> jimmy: and then we have this thing, me and my wife, we set up in our bathroom, on our walls, we have silhouettes of different family members. >> yeah. >> jimmy: they're just painted, like, people, and you were like, "oh my gosh, i want to be on that." >> yes. >> jimmy: and nancy's like "okay, just give me a picture." >> am i on it? >> jimmy: and you signed a picture. you're on the wall. >> i'm on it? >> jimmy: yeah, here you are. >> yes! what? who is that? >> jimmy: that's you. [ cheers and applause ] >> that's me? >> jimmy: yeah. >> oh, that does look like me. >> jimmy: you have different hair, there, but you had a hoop earring. >> do i look a little bit like i'm from the 1800s? >> jimmy: yeah, that's the way it all looks like

so i have a great resource that i go to. so have i had things that have stumped me? you bet.ou have a 18 or 19-year-old kid that makes hugely stupid decisions, and as a parent you can't tell them what to do anymore, you can only influence them. you can't dictate to them anymore. what do you do about that? how do you deal with those situations? and i have people from stanford university, ucla, harvard, all the great learning centers in america that are on the advisory board so i'm able to send them stories that we're going to do and get them all to weigh in and give me their wisdom. it makes me look smart, of course. but i have such great people surrounding me that i'm very proud to have. >> larry: you ever get tired of doing it? >> not at all. i mean, it's like cat nip for me. i just am so passionate about what i do. what a privilege it is to get to do this, to get to deal with something that i think matters. and to get to advance the dialogue of mental health and nt

so if the u.s. would do something about their trade policy that's how you address immigration not by criminalizing immigrants that's all well then the number one contributor to this immigration problem is not ok if nafta didn't go through then you wouldn't have had u.s. corporations bankrupting farmers in mexico forcing people to have to go north of the border to get the money that they were stolen from them from the american agricultural companies and meat packers so thank you bill clinton i don't see how you argue with that i don't see how you argue with that i mean what you just said is statistically absolutely true people who argue against that like everybody from the clinton administration to the republican party i mean that's like arguing that the sky isn't blue heron thanks for being on the kaiser report my privilege thank you all right that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with me max kaiser and stacey herbert i want to thank my guest dave zirin if you'd like to send me

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so... you know, it's a walk-and-talk moment. >> rose: does that concern you, that there is this image that the president has... it's gotten some traction that the president is in favor-- because of what he had to do in terms of an emergency and the previous administration as well-- that he wants to transform the country through some kind of large government intervention? that that kind of mind-set may be setting in? >> it does. because it's mythical. i mean, we did what we had to do, some of it unpopular, but all of it very necessary to save auto companies and make sure that a million people didn't lose their jobs and all the jobs that were related to that industry. we did what we had to do to try and stabilize our financial system so that small businesses and others could get the loans that they feed to get. and so that people could start to go back to work again so that we could keep teachers and classrooms. we had to do those things just to stabilize the economy so that we would no longe

>> the 2009 meeting, so the status on the research, the chloramine? >> we were looking at putting out an rfp looking directly at bat, and no one has proposed that yet, so we're scratching our heads, trying to figure out how to get someone interested in that research. we're still hoping for more responses. we were looking to see if we had done the questions wrong commissioner -- do the questions wrong. commissioner: -- >> it is a bit of a mystery. usually, you would get some kind of response. president crowley: all right. thank you. madam, we will come back to this agenda item in a moment. now what? >> it is my understanding there have been reports and other amplaces about the effect of chlorinated water on wildlife, various kinds. i do not see any mention a olcott on wildlife in this brief report, and i want to know why we do not have any, and if we do not, why? secretary housh: as we get back to a regular reports. the next is on golden gate, the building going up. there is a brief update on where we are with that. >> good afternoon, i in shelby gambl

so i think it's a good project. as is always the case, staff will continue to work with project sponsor on any architectural tweaking, but it's a pretty well-designed building and in my mind it's ready to go. president miguel: commissioner borden. commissioner borden: yeah. i can understand -- i went to look at a project and i can understand the size and the scale for what's currently on second street, the concerns by the neighborhood. but it is the c-3 district where density and height is 350. and i guess my question just very generally, as i look at the code-compliant alternative, and even with the alternative, it's still a 350-foot height predominantly in the height and still a shadow exception. so i guess i'm not really clear. maybe you can talk about based on what we see here, it doesn't seem like you can easily design a building that can -- it looks like you'd have to design a pyramid-type building to actually not have the shadow be an impact. i guess what i'm trying to be clear on is, what is it that people a

so. the fact that you know i made a point in time if we dump this out of chemicals in the go off we think it would be a crime but here it was condoned right that's i think probably an interesting point had there not been an oil spill to begin with just dumping two million gallons of a chemical into the gulf cripple what would have been an outrage the fact that there was an atrocity already committed and that doubles atrocity somehow those two cancel each other out instead of course the reality is it's a double atrocity they didn't simply cancel want to be out now the government has said that the seafood is safe to eat your thoughts. while the government says the seafood is safe to eat i think a lot of people are concerned about exactly what safe means you know the standard they're using is one hundred seventy six pound male which you know there's a lot of children and women and elderly and women who are pregnant who don't obviously fit that bill of a perfectly healthy hundred thirty six p

so all these things will happen. there are 100,000 chinese now studying in the united states of america. there's about 0,000 meshes studying in china. you know there are 300 million people learning to speak english? >> rose: 300 million people in china? >> in china. there are people learning to speak chinese also, but small numbers. also growing number, but still rather small. the point is, america really does not understand china well enough. >> rose: we continue this evening with a look at mongolia and a conversation with its prime minister, sukhbaatar batbold. >> this is a good time and especially with given strength and advantages we have like rich mineral resources and strong neighbor... china is a market and opportunity and is emerging market i think with this tree sort of big advantages, mongolia has got a strong possibility to develop and now we have the challenge and especially for my government we have a coalition government and how do we deal with these advantages and also the certain difficulties or chall

so thank you so much. great to have you back, ruth. so next is item f, public comment on consent items. i do not believe i have any tonight. yes, i do. miss black. consent, not general. yeah. any consent calendar. ok, one, i'm having trouble reading these cards as well. yes. mr. kelly. >> i'm dennis kelly, president of the united educators of san francisco. there were two things that i wanted to comment on tonight, and they're pretty well separated. one is the -- on page 54 and following, the personnel items that you see there. those personnel items, if you tally up the number of people who were brought on as full-time employees, you have about 135. if you plug in the interns, you have another 35, and then you have another 40 or so, i think, emergency appointments and such like that. those numbers exceed the number of layoffs. and this isn't the only time that you're reporting hiring people. and while the period that we went through last year with the layoffs is, of course, gone and we can't do much about that, we can learn from what h

but so are the primaries and so are the small, local elections that occur. i think it's extremely important for everyone to get involved. if you don't vote, you don't have a voice. >> how -- you see the voterer registration. >> i brought a voter registration form. takes about five minutes to do it. and the last date to register is october 18th. >> so we have a little time. >> you have some time. you can request a voter registration form from the department of elections. you can go online with the second of state and they will send you a completed form. we recommend you do that at least a month before the november 2nd election. >> to make sure. >> to make sure that you receive everything. >> now, what if you don't want to be a member of any particular party >> when you register to vote, and you fill out this form, you will be asked if you wish to join a political party. there are only six designated qualified political parties in california. the american independent party, which began as the party of george wallace, the segregationist. some people don't remem

not on-- so-called infrastructure, i mean so, called -- >> so you always get some kind-of-, i call it a sugar rush in a an economy if you throw a lot of money in the economy in the short run. matters most is you get your basic macroeconomic fundamentals on the right track. right now they are on the wrong track. and so i think there are better ideas that would help us create jobs such as keeping our tax rates low. getting our fiscal house in order by reducing spending. i know that sounds kind of anathema, reducing spending and showing that we are serious about our debt situation. that and more regulatory certainty would help us unlock the private capital. >> rose: you said the regulatory certainty established now that we have the financial reform. >> there are over 500 regulations that will come out of this new law that haven't been promulgated yet that nobody really knows what it is going to mean. they haven't defined them. we have a whole new health care law that many businesses don't really know exactly what the consequences of these things are. so federal government has done a lot

lives, of so many people and so many different communities so and in new orleans, how and why did youd? >> ninth ward was the area that was most devastated. that was the area where the levees first broke and right now you'll go visit the ninth ward and it's still just slowly rebuilding, so i went to the worst place to write about. but i wanted to go to a community where people loved each other so much and i wanted to show what was lost. >> and last but not least, spencer, what is your question? >> at the end of the book, something was holding lanisha in the water, what was it? >> i like to think that it was a tree that was holding her down and almost drowning her. that's when her mother the ghost comes and talks with her and everything is already. and lanis hrklanisha bursts up once again the strong child. >> one to five stars, five being the highest, ninth ward gets four stars. >> thank you. >> jewel parker wrote it. thank you so much, and thanks to you guys, you're a terrific group, we really loved having you guys. if you have a child that would want to join us who lives in the tri-

in denmark or in sweden us you refer to it so we have so far so good to have a harmonious relationship between those who have recently arrived in iceland from all the countries and those who live there for a long time there is a number of. optimists the advocates on the journey of the e.u. in your country who say that if or when i aslan joins the european union it will no longer have any need of remaining in the nato do you agree do you think that that iceland this prize the it's the choice of either or or you may stay in the nato being a member of the european union always a all due respect i mean i've never heard this argument in my own country so i don't think this is a strong opinion there is no linkage in the debate tonight on between the european union discussion and the nato discussion. was of. nato but we have never had any military forces of our own so we have not been a part of the nato military corp apart from the fact that the americans had a base in ice on which they closed on the three years ago so for three years now we have not had to any military activity in my country