there was a 53% increase in challenged books. and for the same period in 2013. bans are requested by concerned parents to restrict books they find to be inappropriate. before being banned it has to go through a process. objecti objectionable content ranges from sexually explicit material or violence. a complaint can include multiple objections. in response students and the authors are speaking up. >> books are only coercing coerced. >> it doesn't are to do with literacy qualities as much as deepest prejudice and fears. >> do the restrictions protect students. we have a student among our guests, a college freshman, challenging the removal of two books from his high school's reading list, and carr jol the author of "the earth, my butt and other big round things", she's a parent and a challenged author in the past decade. in denver, jim, who participationed her district to remove "the bluest eye", and christian johnson - a former middle school english teacher supporting age-appropriate scandal, and on skype an eighth grade literacy teacher and objected to her schoo

in the stream. the number of books being challenged or banned is on the rise. we look at why in the intersection of education and community values. >> our digital producer wajahat ali is here. it's hard to believe that books like "to kill a mockingbird" was on that list. >> check out my facebook page, kite runner, where the wild things are, huk finn, and our facebook, jim has a comment, if you backed a book that offended someone, you would ban every book. serena asked. what counts as a quote unquote dangerous idea? judgment will be arbitrary and here is an interesting one. library comment, i read one day in the life of ivan denisovich. what is graphic, what is objectionable, who gets to decide? >> that's the big point is it being decided in a vacuum? how does a book become offlimits? books like captain underpants and the kite runner have been one of the most challenged books in libraries. the kids, second half of 2012 to the same period in 2013. bans are often requested by concerned parents to restrict books that they find inappropriate. but before a book can be

he said the country was committing war crimes with the war in vietnam and challenged white modderates known as liberals saying they were allies for a certain period of time, and all of a sudden walked away. in his book "chaos for communicatee", one of thee books he wrote, he talked about that, in terms of whether allies said "enough has been done." when other evil forces went away. people said that's about it. he said, "no, now is the beginning of the nest phase, and we are still in that phase." i want the professor to address what you brought up, the riverside church speech. he brought up moderates. that speech was not well received, the position on foreign policy was not well received by the new york times, washington post and other moderate whites. >> that's true. dr king was vilified in the mainstream media, attacked by j edgar hoover, the fbi, and was called a communist, a radical and a socialist, in the mainstream media and at the end of his life, a year before he died, gallop did a poll and found out that two-thirds of americans looked at dr king unfavourably. >> i need an answ

already turning all kinds of colors in his face. >> of all guys to create a youtube food-eat ining challeng. he's got the gag reflex and doesn't seem to have a very strong stomach, but somehow there he go. >> he tries for a really long time. finally he goes in and pulls it out. >> oh, it's bloody looking. >> now i get it. >> it's individual squids. that's one. >> oh, boy it's a whole squid it's not, like, calamari. >> no. you are getting the whole thing. >> this part's really gross. >> look what i got. i got my head and then i got a little piece of a ring. >> well, he doesn't really talk about what it really tastes like so he tries to psych himself out. what he thinks and hopes it would taste like. >> what? >> is he pouring it -- looks like -- oh. >> does that look delicious? who wants to drink it? >> mud puddles. >> i think he vomited. >> that one sounded juicy. >>> stormtroopers making dance, not war. >> i got to say stormtroopers they got moves. >> see a move on "right this min [dad] [laughs] [boy] mom! [mom] yes? [boy] whoa,whoa,whoa... [mom and dad] [laughing] [boy] whoa,whoa,whoa... [

i have applied to virginia tech and i hope to work in solving life challenges. >> excellent. thank you very much. now i would like to recognize the next witness. >> thank you among members, for myng here and listening to testimony. i am in the 12th grade. a significant number of this district are here. my experience with first is i started with fll in the seventh grade. educationsay my touched well on the aspects of first, and i want to talk about my store. describe it in three ways -- spirited, challenging, and fun. i may basketball, football, frc hasan, but for me been so different from every other activity i has been through, there is a subculture behind it. flowers, others, they are the people who are my role models with respect to engineering. that is unique to first and to these stem activities. challenging -- i think first the challenge that is performing has pushed me to engage these stem fields to firmly and more thoroughly than anything i have ever done in class. .p.ave done all these a classes, and i have gotten the grades. being in first, i have gotten better grade

crossing dunes, mud in a 1900 kilometer challenge. it starts in argentina and ends in chile.dible. ♪ >> this is "lunch money" on bloomberg television. streaming live on bloomberg.com, your tablet, and smartphone. the big business of gambling. new jersey legalized online gambling last month. the business is eating into atlantic city's casinos. >> the new motto is "do ac." our chart is called don't ac. fewer people are gambling, the total casino wins, revenue. at the peak, $5.2 billion in 2006 when they opened. they started taking away market share. it has been a downhill drop ever since. >> now relying on internet gambling to make up for the drop in revenue. a gaming industry analyst says it is still early in the game. the problems are obvious. >> it is important to keep in mind that we are in inning one of a long game. they are moving to online gaming, the rollout is like obamacare, people cannot sign up, with the deck is stacked -- >> why are bankers and not participating with casino owners? >> they are not sure who is doing the gambling. >> visa does not want a 13-year- old

all the challenges that we are facing to make sure that we are all in alignment to make sure what direction to go as enterprise. >> that would be great even to have this bond question to see how this fits together . thank you. >> commissioner moran? >> thank you, todd. the slide on the rating challenges, we are an unusual credit in some regards one of which our revenues in large part come from rates that we charge to city departments and that's not totally in our control, it's also something the board gets to weigh in on. in dealing with that i guess the statement would be if we need to take action at the commission or proposed ordinance at the board that the deals with the risk issue from the bond holders standpoint and can maybe work in conjunction with covenants that deal specifically with those issues, i would expect that you will bring those to us to act on. i think you have to expect that rating agencies in doing their job are pretty coldhearted about it and pretty matter of fact and if they see something that compromises our ability to preserve o

the media fallout from the political ca scandal in turkey exploded when he dared challenge erdogan . he confirmed via twitter that he had been fired. the announcement came a day after he had appeare appeared on cnn. he writ sized the is politician that were involved in the scandal. he also called for an early election which got him attention since his newspaper supports erdogan and the akp. in the past few weeks erdogan has called for charges against journalists who he sees is against his government. on his own twitter feet he ended with this comment. what an advanced democrat. the muck raking greek journalist has been back in court, and this time a judge ruled that his articles on a real estate scandal involving a monastery and senior monks went too far. there were ordered to pay in fines over controversial land swamp involving the government that saw forests owned by the monetary exchanged for prime real estate in athens. the magazine called "unfollow" was defamatory. suggesting that although he was serving a jail time. he first grew in prominent in 2012 when he published a list of

the lawyers when they graduate from law school i do think should be at least introduced in some of the challenges that are going to face them in practice beyond the intellectual challenge of coming to grips with legal principles. on the other hand, fell law is complicated and hard and if we go too far towards the end of inculcating skills and values and students, we will be letting go of the goal of the large body of legal knowledge and the main task of the schoolhouse to remain that to educate students over a wide range of the legal areas and the requires teaching them an awful lot of the law and so the resources we put into doing other things the more we take away from that central test. >> host: robin west come if you could start a law school how would you structure those three years and will be three years? >> guest: i think it would be three years. i think that the reform suggestion that we cut to is certainly well intentioned to cut back on the cost of the legal education which is a terrible problem these days but it's not that it's too long, they are too short. there is a lot to teach and

taken together we're seeing from that challenge an increases of $20 million a year in operating costs. and then finally, our third challenge that would anticipated in our balanced financial plan in our 10 year plan adapted in february with some new regulatory requirements like newark and federal requirements and our federal cal i placing requirements on us. we assumed 26.9 million in regulatory compliance costs with the standards that are embodied on us by newark and we can. and we've identified an increase for new rules of 32.4 million of up country capital needs to comply with the standards. taken together - >> i'm going to ask you to go back to the challenges slide. >> yes. >> so thank you. i'm hoping that commissioner vietor will consider commenting. i'm looking the memoranda in the passage for the public january 10th >> yes. >> you kind of summarize this in advance. i'm looking at page 6 it's the second paragraph. i'm concerned that we're not listing energy efficiency under challenges especially, since you highlight the build out options that's been identified. the puc budget for

mound is served by over 2000 operator who work in challenging conditions to deliver service. one of those challenges is finding clean and safe rest rooms at terminal locations. facilities [speaker not understood] as well as health and safety of our sfmta operators. [speaker not understood] sfmta uses licenses with businesses, leases, use permits and free public rest rooms to provide operators with facilities. there are often circumstances that prevent our ability to use these options. they include the proximity of the business to the terminal site. our bus drivers have limited time available to them to access facilities. the facility has to be close by the terminals. other limitations are type of business. the operation of the business -- hours of operation of the business go from 6 in the morning to midnight and often businesses are not open during those hours. other issues that come up are the accessibility of the rest rooms and whether or not they're easily available when the operators need them. the current project includes six sites in total. for the valley and lincoln a

we were seeing the character develop and get richer and deeper, and we were going to put him in more challenginguations and have him confront things we didn't confront in the first two seasons. not just for my character but for all the other characters. the season is great to get all the other actors, ben, josh, -- we arehey all have all figuring out our ways on our own in this season. it is great to get the characters richer and more developed. tavis: but everything is falling the fun for us fans is to see how these broken pieces are going to either come back together or not. what form will they be when they come back together? that has to be fun. >> i am left wondering what are we going to do. he doesn't have a business, but his family is not there. his son is like, i am going to leave you alone. he is himself. at the end of the second season he has his family, but his is this family is gone. clyde has gone on to work with his ex-wife, and jeannie has stayed, too. journeys disparate they are trying to figure out how to get back together and when we get back together what does that look like? a

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in his letter, the world is looking to the u.s. and china to work together to solve pressing challenges. there is great potential for cultural and scientific exchanges to help us solve problems that would benefit all. >> china is one of the most important countries in the world. its relationship with the u.s. is one of the most important relationships in the world. that relationship continues to grow in size and complexity. with me is my guest. he became the ambassador to the u.s. as china's ambassador to japan, i'm very pleased to have him here at this table for the first time in running opal the number of visits to talk about this important relationship. welcome. >> thank you. >> characterize the relationship today between china and the u.s. >> in the last several years since establishing diplomatic relations, our two countries have gone through many changes. he just in the world and in our own countries. fortunately, we have been able to identify growing common interest and manage what differences we may have. that enables us to develop this relationship. i think now it is more on pret

those who defend these programs are not interested in civil liberties. the challengen getting the details right is not simple. over the course of our review, i have reminded myself, i would not be where i am today if it were not for the courage of people like dr. king were spied upon by their own government. as president, a president who looks at intelligence every morning, i can't help but be reminded that america must be vigilant in the face of threats. fortunately, by focusing on facts and specifics, rather than speculation and hypotheticals, this review process has given me and hopefully the american people some clear direction for change. today, i can announce a series of concrete and substantial reforms that my administration intends to adopt administratively or will seek to create with congress. first, i have approved a new presidential directive for our signals intelligence communities at home and abroad. this guidance will strengthen executive branch oversight of our intelligence communities. it will ensure that we can taken into account our alliances come ou

in leesburg, richard reeve. >> challenging indeed. in maryland, the dot is operating out of the snow emergency plan in several counties. that includes frederick county. time -- tom roussey is there with the latest. >> the snow has finally stopped. if it looks like it is snowing ultimate, that is because is falling off the trees. this is the main drag through downtown, looking pretty good -- go to sites greets looking pretty good. you go to sidestreets, and you see more snow. as the afternoon came to evening, the snow started laying on the grass and trees and finally on the roads. as the inches kept piling up in frederick, for many it was time to get to work. he says some storms can make you want to do this. he he felt fine tonight as went out to shovel for folks. >> the gentleman right here has a bad heart and cannot do it. i said i would do it for him. the lady next door is like 70, so i do it for her as well. parking lotto keep ice free. -- tonight, his job got harder. with the snow emergency in effect, plows worked to keep roads cle

so they're living through very challenging times. they're living in tough neighborhoods often. and there are lots of just daily challenges in terms of navigating all of the intricacies of live. >> how many children do you serve? >> we serve 1,000 kids through the five county area. for our kids meant rg really makes a difference. we've seen it through the personal stories that are shared when we talk with our matches, we call them matches, as well as all of the metrics that we follow in term fz the impact that our program has had. it's a very simple program. our mentors spend a minimum of two adventures or encounters a month with our littles. but that steady, consistent caring adult in their life can really make the world of difference both in the short term and in terms of their long-term life trajectory. so very significant impact with a program that really is very simple in terms of the way it's carried out. >> i want to bring in tom into the picture. your day job is at the gap at executive vice president and chief information officer. and you volunteer with big brothers and b

in a 1900unes, mud kalama their challenge. kilometer challenge. rts in argentina and ends in chile. incredible. ♪ this is "lunch money" on bloomberg television. streaming live on bloomberg.com, your tablet, and smartphone. the big business of gambling. new jersey legalized online gambling last month. the business is eating into atlantic city's casinos. >> the new motto is "do ac." our chart is called don't ac. fewer people are gambling, the total casino wins, revenue. inthe peak, $5.2 billion 2006 when they opened. they started taking away market share. it has been a downhill drop ever since. >> now relying on internet gambling to make up for the drop in revenue. a gaming industry analyst says it is still early in the game. the problems are obvious. >> it is important to keep in mind that we are in any one of a one of a long game. they are moving to online is likethe rollout obamacare, people cannot sign up, with the deck is stacked -- >> why are bankers and not participating with casino owners? >> they are not sure who is doing the gambling. not w

[applause] as senator portman knows, the policy challenges that we face in 2014 are numerous, they are complex, and their consequential. portman knows, t policy challenges we face in 2014 are numerous, they're complex, and they're consequential. voters will make their voices heard at the polls later this year with potentially huge bearing on the way our government works and the policies our lawmakers enact. and all this against a backdrop of an economic recovery that has been slow and uneven. so we have our work cut out for us this year. the u.s. chamber is going to continue to marshal all of its tool and resources to educates the public, to influence our leaders, affect positive change where we need it, and insure that america lives up to all of her promise. technology will be central to those efforts. today, we're launching a revamped u.s. chamber.com. including a new blog, a blog that will highlight the issues and policies the chamber is fighting for in washington and around the world. and we'll continue our work on free enterprise.com with a new focus, a focus that will carry the s

this law in court. >> i think it is really poor for california to do this, and that's why we are challenging this in federal court and suing the state of california over their handgun roster and their microstamping provisions. >> on the flip side, several gun control groups are celebrating this law. we got a statement a from the law center to prevent violence. the legislature decided to listen so law enforcement and require this common sense improvement to handguns to help bring criminals to justice. greg, this really puts california under the microscope. several states are looking at possibly implementing laws that will have microstamping as well, but they may wait until the dust settles to see exactly how they want to move forward. >> will, thank you very much. >>> there are new developments now on an emotional story. a texas hospital removing a brain dead pregnant woman from life support. munoz's husband won a battle with the state. the court ruled she was legally dead and gave the hospital until monday to remove the ventilator. munoz is about 22 weeks pregnant and suffers from pulmonary

so we passed more than 160 bills that linger in the senate. the challengethat we do and this is what i bring up making policy in the world of politics, the house and that's a lot of legislation but you have a senate that has a fear of may be losing a majority. so you have a senate leader that doesn't want to put a lot o of s members that could be vulnerable in tough races, up on any vote. so you did not commitments and deny bringing something up. that's difficult for the president if he wants to accomplish legislation as well. it's not the biggest challenge to deal with in the house. is biggest challenge is what the senate and can he get members within his own party or the leader in the senate to say yes, i'm going to bring that up and we will have a round of amendments and some will be tough votes because that is not the nature the senate wants to go. the senate doesn't want anything to happen. >> you are saying a lot of house bills are stuck in the senate, ma some of these things are things president obama talk about. one thing he talked, the centerpiece

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we've been working with sfmta in the past year to find ways to meet this challenge of finding ways to get our employees to our canvassing campus in south san francisco and do it in a way that supports sfmta and works in compliments with the public transmission. our program started in 2006 and the primarily goal of our program was to encourage pleasing employees to stop driving to work alone by themselves in their car. over the past 6 or seven years we've had sdhek program and eliminated over 5 thousand car trips 0 over the roads our employees take the bart and the ferry to get to the offices in san francisco. our employees get to work and it reduced traffic in san francisco and in the community as well as reducing our cartoonish emissions. we enjoy you a partnership with sfmta and we're hopefully, this program will move us forward. thank you (clapping.) thank you and while >> you can see there's a lot of companies that have been part of this. people refer to this as google buses google is only one of the larger companies we're happy to have google here and 53 we have very sincerely, c

and interrupted his speech so many times that he finally said please meet me in my office and just leave. so, again, challenging his narrative in the press and saying this is actually the truth about what's happening in texas and here are the faces and the families who are impacted and they're not going to take this sitting down, and they are going to tell their stories and challenge the governor. so that's how we're measuring success right now. [applause] and we've had another, another kind of texas version of success, i mean, on the navigator rules. i hope people are following this. the texas department of insurance which are appointees of governor perry were making proposals on changing rules on navigators where in addition to the training time they're already required, they would have to add 20 -- 40 additional training hours, they would have toffees and register with the state and pay additional fees to be navigators in texas. so, obviously, in an attempt to discourage organizations from becoming navigators and helping people enroll in the exchanges. and so we just found out yesterday or the day before tha

and i want to make sure that yes, we have our bases covered in the draft plan, but one of the challengeshat we face, in terms of out reach, with the five fulton when we implemented the five l, was the sufficient out reach to the senior developments in the area within an important area where a bus stop was removed. once we received information and reevaluated the situation, the bus stop was restored, but, those are the kinds of things that i am hoping to avoid, and i want to make sure that in our out reach, efforts we make it clear, that we not only take out reach seriously, but, with the amount of money that we are spending, we have an expectation to make sure that we try to reach as many people as possible especially those most impacted in the particular areas that we plan to change. so, i just wanted to go on record and express that, and thank everyone for their support as well as bringing to the table the information that we needed to feel a lot more comfortable with moving it forward. >> thank you, commissioner breed. >> commissioner cohen. >> thank you very much. i also wanted to ec

day knowing i'm not going to satisfy everyone three yards in a cloud of dust using executive powers using the bully pulpit using the challenges that the opportunities that present them. selves in the challenges of stalemate to kind of get little deals wherever they can but it is difficult i mean we we have a constitutional system that was set up to put many many checks to slow things down when the founding fathers were concerned about about anything they were not concerned about congress doing too little they were concerned about doing too much well now those checks are in a place that we are get very little done so a president today is the doesn't perhaps have the power that an l.b.j. had cajoling a legislature but i think that that history will will show that president obama is as tried the very best he can to get stuff done three yards and a cloud of dust and i think that some of the successes that he has manifest i think that there are going to be recognized by historians overall how do you assess him i know he's disappointed you in some areas. well look we're we're different types i mean. i think i would've i would have

in my bedroom. and we just wanted to do something together -- >> go ahead. >> it was challenging to find stuff in fine retail shops in india, and i thought an e-commerce site would solve that problems as it has in many markets around the world. >> is there a particular challenge in india, because you have so many mom and pop small retail merchants? >> india has a $600 billion retail market, out of which only 7% is organized. >> $600 billion? >> yeah. so only 7% is organized. so there's a great opportunities we saw in ago grating a long tail of supply in these mom and pop small services and offering it to consumers across 4,000 towns and cities. we're talking about a billion consumers. >> many people when they think of india, if they have not studied the history, it can almost look homogeneous on a map. there are elements of distinct regionalism. explain about catering to that audience. >> it's one of the most heterogeneous market out there, which makes it an interesting market to build a business in. the kind of clothes people will wear varies in different parts of india. the kind of food people eat a

>> it's commonly used by most to lose weight because it's typically in diet products. but the challenge here is that it doesn't cause you to lose weight. in fact, most of the studies looked at this topic, show that it actually causes you to gain weight. that's the primary challenge. in addition to that, it's loaded with side effects. and in fact, there are more reported complaints to the fda than all other food additives combined. even the faa has -- or most airlines require, or strongly discourage pilots from using it because of the risk of seizures and loss of consciousness. >> before they fly. >> before they fly, yes. >> what is it? what is it made of and where does it come from? >> aspartame specifically is a derivative of -- it's a chemical, a synthetic. >> complete synthetic, completely chemical, not found in nature, it's something we make. >> that's a definition of artificial sweetener is synthetic. >> and it's a neurotoxin, is it not? >> formaldehyde specifically -- >> wait, wait, formaldehyde is what we embalm bodies with. so it means it stimulates in a bad way the brain. neuro

in the orchestra. is our gift. msk(music) >> and then you have strauss, extraordinary piece. the most challenging of all. ring orchestra work. 23 solo instrument, no violin section, now viola section; everybody is responsible for their part in this piece. the challenge is something that i felt not only that we could do , absolutely could do, but i wanted to show off. i can't tell you how aware i am of the audience. not only what i hear but their vibes, so strong. i have been doing this for a long time. i kind of make them feel what i want them to feel. there is nobody in that audience or anywhere that is not going to know that particular song by the fourth note. and that is our encore on tour. by the way. i am proud to play it, we are from san francisco. we are going to play that piece no matter where we are.

passengers and that's a financial detriment and (inaudible). >> using a muni zone in coordination with our very challenged muni system that's been succeeding over the years but now we have a whole plan to get them resources i think that's a privilege to use the same spaces in a coordinated way and we're not talking about a tax we're getting a system they've agreed with us would be a better system then the he felt skeleton. >> thank you go (music) >> herb theatre,open rehearsal. listen to the rehearsal. i think it is fun for them, they see our work process, our discussions, the decisions we make. it is good for us. we kind of behavior little bit when we have people in the audience. msk (music) >> we are rehearsing for our most expensive tour; plus two concerts here. we are proud that the growth of the orchestra, and how it is expanded and it is being accepted. my ambition when i came on as music director here -- it was evident we needed absolutely excellent work. also evident to me that i thought everyone should know that. this was my purpose. and after we opened, which was a spectacular opening concert ab