it's a very insidious narrative, and a very effective one. you see it used in other issues, it's spilling over into the discussion of public employees, and unions, and the right to collectively bargain. so i think we need to look at this deficit issue very, very carefully. now james galbright is an esteemed economist from the university of texas. he points out an interesting tidbit in the cbo projections, of course, every reporter writing about this uses these same projections. that's what everybody is talking about. and the cbo projects relatively large and increasing budget deficits over the next year. especially if the so-called bush tax cuts which we might rename now the obama tax cuts are not allowed to expire on schedule. he says it's an interesting thing that the cbo does. they assume that we will have inflation at about the same rate as now. one half or two percent. and they assume that interest rates will go from close to zero to 5% over the next five years. now i know that the worse thing you could do in public speaking is to get wo

these are all equally valid narrative. but the one that suggests that we must cut, whether we like it or not, popular progressive programs is the dominant narrative that you hear again and again and again every time you open up a newspaper, every time you turn on your cable tv. it's very clear. and i want you to think about that. the amount of ink, the amount of discussion that we're going over over this deficit, i would argue, hysteria. and then i want you to contrast that for a moment with some very real, very real crises in the american economy today. these are not contrived. these are not trumped up. we've been hearing less and less about the foreclosure crisis. even though 2011 will be, is projected to break the record set either in 2008 or 2009, i'm not sure which, in foreclosures. so in other words, that crisis which began several years ago is going to be at its worst this year, and it's getting very, very little attention. a few interesting facts about that. the amount of housing wealth that has been lost by the am

>> i don't think that the narrative of his life is inaccurate. i see this as augmenting the narrative of his life, supplementing it. the narrative of his life as he told it in his auto biography, and that he was a leader and in the movement of the 20th century. he's all of those things. and he's a man who dreamed of achieving a level of love, as you put it, between hindus and muslims. abolishing untouchability. the idea that the mere presence or contact with another social group could pollute a person. and instilling values of nonviolence. and really focusing on the poorest in the society, and none of these things have exactly happened. it would be a miracle if they had happened. but for gandhi it was a huge disappointment. and that's why i tried to argue with indian in mind that he remains the social conscience of india today. but the people that struggle with those issues relate gandhi. tavis: the great book great soul by joseph lelyveld. good to have you, that's our show tonight and until next time, good night from l. a. and keep the faith. >>

second, the narrative. it's important to remember that there's only one governor who was still in office and that's gonna perry from texas and then that is just to be played in every city that isn't true of the national-security apparatus on the federal side, most people who are in our crossing the partisan politics and the people you've heard from those of us change but the people that have been there 20 or 30 years, it doesn't matter who, it matters who the president is that those aren't going to have the sort of an significant changes on the day-to-day the and narrative and political culture is who was in place at the time of september 11th so when you think of the governors and mayors that our new that isn't a part of the sort of government history and i think it's important to remember how we approach the anniversary that is a different field certainly at the end of the bush administration but certainly in the early years after and something to just note as we are coming to that anniversary. florida, w

the narrative supplied by the department was september 19. the last time i was here, there was a discrepancy between the citation and the date contained in the police report. the board did take that into consideration and fashion a remedy to reduce the time of the suspension. commissioner hwang: i have one question. there was a sub middle -- submittal on the part of your client. it is two pages. i was perplexed by 0.7 and 8 and wanted you to address them. -- i was perplexed by points seven and eight and wanted you to address them. >> you wanted me to address? commissioner hwang: paragraphs 7 and 8. i am just curious about those. there is an accusation pointed at the decoy. >> i did not procure this document. i guess it is illegal for a minor to purchase cigarettes, but that is really not what we are here to determine today. commissioner hwang: so you did not help prepare this document? >> i was not retained until after this document was submitted. i think sometimes people in their own defense -- commissioner hwang: got it. thank you. >> dr. o

in narrative nonfiction i refer to it as history-buffed. what we end up doing is do our reporting, figure out what we think really happened, then dramatize what happened based on original reporting, and if there's a debate, we footnote that or end note that. that's why our books have numerous notes. the last 100 pages of my book are end books. not a 500-page books, it's just end notes. people want to know how i found out how fred harvey had a second wife. in my story, he has two wives. that's a change in history. i don't want to belabor something like that. these books existed before. they existed in new yorker writing, and i think this kind of style got more popular in magazines and "vanity fair" in the 80s and the 90s and because of the success of books that show what jowrnists can do with the historical stories that are different than what historians have done and the more successful historians, that's why there's an explosion of this. it's what the readers prefer and what we like to do. >> michael? >> sure. i'll underscore what was said

your narrative gives you influence with the people in tahrir square.and i think the obama administration was trying to walk this tightrope and obviously it wobbled several times, but i think it got down that to tightrope relatively well. so i think neal was wrong. neal looks to simplify things. i don't think he got this one quite right are there. but i think it is a good illustration -- he is a friend of mine so i would tell him this if he were sitting where you are. we have had debates and lots of fun with it, but i think the key here is to learn how we going to combine your hard power, dealing with the government, and her soft power dealing with civil society and do them without one canceling out the other? and i would argue that yeah it was not easy but i don't think the obama administration did that badly on it. >> when you give a second or third look for another intern around the table. >> i was wondering if you could talk a little more about how the u.s. should possibly -- given that the middle east is largely made up of people of a certain age g

your narrative gives you some influence for the people in past year square. and i think the obama administration was trying to walk this tightrope and it wobbled several times. but i think it got down that tightrope relatively will. so i think new israel. he loves to simplify things. i don't think he got this one quite right either but i think it is a good illustration. is a friend of mine so i have -- we've had debates, lots of fun with it. but i think the key here is to learn how we going to combine your hard power, dealing with a government come into soft power dealing with civil society, and do them without one canceling out the other. i would argue that it was not easy but i don't think the obama administration did that badly on it. >> when given a second and third look around him for coming back to myself. >> i was wondering if you could just say more about how the u.s. should possibly change -- [inaudible] is largely made up of people of a certain age group, that often may be anti-american and how you think we should balance our narrative on a very, ve

the idea of using narrative to imbed the information is like a trojan horse.hen you have an emotional experience with the person listening. you are telling them something that allows them to metabolize the information. they hold it differently. they retelling. they own it. that is the purpose of telling a story -- to move people. think about all the people we know and were very successful. they tell purposeful stories. they move people to action by aiming at the heart. tavis: what are the ingredients, tools of being able to get the story across? >> 80% of it is the tell. 20% is the story. when you go into the room with somebody, you have to think about the following elements. are you motivated and coherent? is your intention aligned? that intentioned shines through. authenticity. if someone does not appear authentic, you do not hear the rest of the information. you have to have that as the first element. the second element is to recognize the people in the room with you. the idea is that date are audiences. -- the idea is that day are audiences. you try to be

the narrative supplied by the department was september 19. the last time i was here, there was a discrepancy between the citation and the date contained in the police report. the board did take that into consideration and fashion a remedy to reduce the time of the suspension. commissioner hwang: i have one question. there was a sub middle -- submittal on the part of your client. it is two pages. i was perplexed by 0.7 and 8 and wanted you to address them. -- i was perplexed by points seven and eight and wanted you to address them. >> you wanted me to address? commissioner hwang: paragraphs 7 and 8. i am just curious about those. there is an accusation pointed at the decoy.

and example saudi arabia it's like i said earlier it's not it's not the same narrative all the way through go ahead i think there's a real ambiguity here there's not clear lines between good guys and bad guys in our media life portrayed here in the united states like you mentioned earlier the top

traditional zombie narratives in some affection are quick to get to the apocalypse. most of the theoretical approach presented here, however, suggest there would be a vigorous policy response to the menace of the living dead. liberals predicted and perfectly useful counters on the regime. neoconservatives believe an aggressive and thorough the military deployment would keep the undead menace at bay. some constructivist would predict a robust pluralistic security committee dedicated to preventing new zombie outbreaks and socializing existing zombies into human society. organizations my air in the initial response but they would adapt and overcome. individuals would be hardwired for an aggressive response against the living dead. these kind of predictions suggest that maybe, just maybe some became the dominant narrative of human extension is overstated. while encourage it, these surveys radio cautionary mornings lurking on the horizon. first contest of accounts are still quite possible. bureaucratic dysfunction could trigger a total collapse in state authority. public

how you were able to tackle a story that may not have a straight narrative. >> thank you for the kind words. those are always very long stories and i won't start and the absolute beginning but i will tell you that one of the reasons i was attracted to crazy horse was it didn't have any nuclear weapons in it. i was ready to move in a new direction and deal with new materials and i stumbled across it at the custer battlefield along the little bighorn river in 1994. first, started thinking as an adult about crazy horse. if any of you have been there and stood on custer hill you may have experienced what i did. you looked to the south and you see this string of white crosses coming across in your direction. you are almost on the top. almost at a place where a person might be able to determine the military underneath the attack. and sometimes in dozens or scores. it comes very real. looking over the countryside you see roughly what custer would have seen or the indians attacking him would have seen. the biggest change is a railroad line and a lawn that railroad line, several times a day a

. >> one of the narratives that runs through this book, particularly as he becomes more sick in the last part of it, you are the relentless, you are going to be okay, there is going to be hope, if i make enough contacts, i'll fix this. he is the almost unfailing despite his occasional request to you to help voice of it is not going to get better, deal with it, what did you learn over the course of that thing about the terrible tension between hope and reality acceptance when you are close to someone who has a terminal illness? >> that is such a hard question because the fact is they are so you. you are looking at yourself. it is impossible when your brother, sister, and 2 and a half years apart. i couldn't give what he was going through a reality. i couldn't see it for what with it was. it was catastrophic. now that i had my brother, i was desperate not to lose him. >> you hadn't had him until this. >> we had that cotten batting between us. we had a fierce attachment, when you are that locked together in this kind of angry, very strong bond, underneath that is the bond and the real attac

they wanted to use the power of film to bring in the stories, to bring in authentic images and narratives of the arab world, here to american audiences, in order to fight the negative stereotyping, and to introduce the positive, authentic images to america, which iraq california, -- throughout california, a teasing familiarity, establishing harmony between our communities. the selection this year it is really a good selection. it is perverse, comes from more than 18 countries. it has a bit of everything for everyone. -- it is diverse, comes from more than 18 countries. there are shorts, and from us, comedies, you name it. this year, the film festival takes place in the castro. there is a comedy film from nigeria that is pretty hilarious. you can get to know arabs threw their laughing as well. [speaking in foreign language] >> when you come to see all the diversity, nationality, ethnic, skin color, dialect, anything that you can think of, that world is very rich in diversity. we are trying to represent that diversity so people can see the different parts of the arab world. [speaking in ara

there's always the narrative. >> there's always the narrative. i've heard it for a while.en cracked jokes on it, too. right? you've seen it. but i think at the same time, prize brings a certain ear into the studio, when it's in the context of the fugees. try this sample. let's go left here, right here. you know, it was the synergy of the three that made that happen. when we was in there, like it was no trust. like you fell me? like lauren had to basically -- >> create a trust. >> -- lauren has to put her trust in me. you know what i mean? when i say let's go like this, you know what i mean? because out of the three fugeesing the pulse of this time in this generation, they would have to say, you know what? we really got to just listen to what clef is saying and fix it with what we're saying. >> lauren didn't trust you creatively. >> no. and i didn't trust them creatively at all. because i'm not -- when it comes to the music, i'm not here to like trust anyone. i'm here to say let's take the group from point a and skyrocket it. that's my job. >> so -- i don't mean to over sim

there is an inconsistency between the narrative and the math and the narrative by introduced. i'm going to reintroduce my amendments today. the amendments to not change the nature of the scope or area, latest clarify the statement i made last week. this is obviously a very important piece of legislation and we wanted to be reflective of our intentions and what we are voting for. i have distributed the amendments. we are deleting blocks 0716 on page two, reducing the scope of the legislation to apply to parcells on the north side of alice. we also have the consistency which changes the from the mayor's office of economic development to the office of city administrator that shall submit the annual report to the board of supervisors. those amendments are not substantive but will require us to have a second reading the following week. thank you. president chiu: is there a second? any objection to the amendments? without objection, the amendments are adopted. now, if we could take a first reading vote on the ordinance as amended. >> [roll-call] there are eight ayes and three nos. p

we recently introduced a one- page narrative to pull out some of the highlights of the report. hopefully, that makes it easier to read. this is the general presentation of the data and the barometer. we have the measures, of which there are 40, grouped by major service areas. for each individual measure, we have the prior year's value, the prior period, two months ago, and the current period value, just to give people a sense of how things are changing. whether these trends are preset relative to our judgments, whether going up is good or bad. a couple of highlights from the february 2001 version. serious violent crimes declined. the wait time at dph for a new patient's appointment shows a lot of variability. 30 days compared to 13 in december, 25 a year ago. complaints are down from a year ago. you will be happy to know the value of construction products for which permits were issued is up quite a bit from the prior year. supervisor avalos: a question on the first ones. serious crimes declined by 90.7%, and we had a spike in homicides. so every other type of violent crime is d

both sides to confront a historical narratives. >> the israeli spokesperson. more than 200 members of the governing party have resigned over the crackdown on demonstrators in syria. the u.n. security council in new york has failed to produce a statement condemning the violence of the government. the u.s. ambassador told the meeting that is the syrian president must and the repression -- the u.s. ambassador told the meeting that the syrian president must stop the repression. >> they must of the violence against their own people. my government calls on president assad to change course now and heed the calls of his own people. we also call upon the international community to respond to this brutal crackdown and to hold accountable those who are perpetrating these human rights violations. the united states is expressing its position to the syrian government and we are considering a range of options including targeted sanctions to respond to the outrageous and ongoing use of violence against peaceful protesters. >> the syrian ambassador criticized the security coun

that was a beginning moment for me. >> one of the narratives that runs through this book, particularly as he becomes more sick in the last part of it, you are the relentless, you are going to be okay, there is going to be hope, if i make enough contacts, i'll fix

and i think that is the next narrative in this discussion, is the damage we have done in the last half century is such that this conference, regardless of whether or not we take bold leadership in the next months and years ahead, the reality is we are going to be burdened with the mistakes of the past and we better get serious to begin to address them. so i want to thank each and every one of you for taking the time to come here from seattle, los angeles, new york, all across the country, interestingly those coastal cities, appropriately those coastal cities that are taking the time to be here, and begin the process not only of identifying the problem today and working through the consensus again, sort of sharing the same set of facts which continues to dominate the dialogue, but then begin the process of resolving what we do about this reality tomorrow. that being said, in san francisco i'm very proud to be a resident of a city, fifth generation city, of a city that has always been a city of dreamers and doers, a city of entrepreneurs, a city that doesn't just identify these larger gl

narrative from a particular perspective. now, we have chaos. i'm not saying that is not a problem, but on the other hand, we need to think about the fact that we have a lot more voices and a lot more information, and we need to develop citizens that understand not only how to read a news story and understand it, but also know how to tell a story, understand how fact work, how confirmation works, how non- fiction story telling works. that is a big challenge. we also need to develop procedures within the community of journalism in the new media that are as thoroughgoing and really comprehensive about the nature of the practice of journalism for the new media as they were in the newsroom, say, 20 years ago. >> i think one answer to the question of how we police bias, at least on line, is that online news is a conversation, right? that is one thing that is great about it. when you are talking about a piece that runs on line -- online that people can immediately start commenting about, people can start talking immediately about w