but the real question is, why ping-pong? ping-pong diplomacy? this, i thought, occurred to me in 2008, when my in-laws were kind enough to invite know beijing to go to the olympics. so i went along and we were wandering around, looking at some unloved sports, and of course ping-pong is not unloved in china but it was great to see it being played so seriously. and you realize it was about goals, about nationalisms and about acceptable face of nationalism. and if you are a journalist or in that trade of any kind, when you walk into these stadiums, you're given a big bunch of papers with lots of information in case you want to write about that fantastic match between uganda and ghana. and the very first fact on the pain was that every week in china, 300 million people will play ping-pong at least once. now, if you have ever been to china you know one thing. china is a top-down country, not bottom-up, so that means someone at sometime made this decision to tell everybody to play ping-pong. it's a very straining idea but it's true. you think of all t

his other hobby was ping-pong. he was probably the only person that had enough money to start the federation he gets the international table tennis federation going when he is 20 to start having will to kinships on his way he decides to write a letter to drop in on trotsky. he already had a split and was living in exile in turkey and very worried about being assassinated as he was ultimately but he let in this young aristocratic englishman. he has no idea he is a spy. they set up all night to talk politics at the end of the evening trotsky confesses he is worried he could be assassinated at any moment and hands montagu loaded pistol. we know that he was not a killer. he went fishing and almost drowned then continues on to a ping-pong tournament. a very normal week. the use of the people who he dines with. fdr, the prime minister, a king of england, a charlie chaplin, alfred hitchcock hitchcock, it is remarkable in reading through this it is almost comedic but nobody ever talks about montagu because there is no one

pong as a to use ping- diplomatic tool.hen china decides it wants to be the third rail between the rivals u.s. and russia, ping- pong is the ambassadorial tool. what you have to understand about ping-pong diplomacy and white work, while it seemed like spontaneous, it was anything but spontaneous. secretly, kissinger and nixon had been talking to mau by hand written letters over the course of the year. the trail had gone cold and the americans were very worried. the moment when ping-pong diplomacy arrived shocked the white house. they don't know this is about to happen. >> here they come with their souvenirs and memories of a long tour and frilly chinese faces. >> it dominates the front page -- friendlying chinese faces. >> the nixons were greeted with applause, smiles, and laughter. lastingd was an odd, legacy, ping-pong diplomacy. people thinking it could be imitated in so many ways. you have basketball diplomacy right now. just because you walk onto a court in a foreign country does not make you a diplomat. the key part i

>> jimmy: double turtleneck ping-pong. >> double headed ping-pong. >> jimmy: you can use that on yourthe thing, i've never done red carpet before. maybe you can give me some tips. "entertainment tonight," of course the biggest name in entertainment, along with tv guide network -- we're on the red carpet for three freaking hours. i'm going to sweat my whatever off. [ light laughter ] the thing is, is they know that we have this connection. and so when you're a celebrity and get out of your limo to go to an awards show, everyone's grabbing you to do an interview. so i'm going to do whatever i can to get them on so we can interview them. >> jimmy: just have signs that say elvis duran is over on this side. >> come see me. i know jimmy fallon. >> jimmy: no, you're not going to do that. you'll be fine. this is big-time now. now you're on tv. >> i'm not a tv guy. >> jimmy: yes, you are now. >> no, you're a tv guy. >> jimmy: no, but now you're actually on tv. did i just make you nervous? [ laughter ] forget it! forget i said anything! forget i said anything. but you, actually -- you are on tv

all of that ping-pong has kept him nimble. >> do you like ping-pong? >> no.er tennis and so does my father. my teenagfather has a strategic approach to tennis. >> you can read the fear in their eyes. >> really? you don't think my father can see the fear in your eyes across the court? trust me. trust me. >> kissinger loved ping-pong and brzezinski obsessed with tennis. >> he plays every day. >> somewhere in the middle there is paddle tennis. >> all right. >> not good enough. >> nicholas, thank you so much for being with us. absolutely fascinating. >>> up next, here is jimmy! "the tonight show" new man out jimmy fallon is poised to break up late night tv, next. [ male announcer ] this is jim. a man who doesn't stand still. but jim has afib, atrial fibrillation, an irregular heartbeat not caused by a heart valve problem. that puts jim at a greater risk of stroke. for years, jim's medicine tied him to a monthly trip to the clinic to get his blood tested. but now, with once-a-day xarelto jim's on the move. jim's doctor recommended xarelto. like warfarin, xarelto i

now from the master, the station, he's been getting me back into ping-pong. i'm excited to play with the mayor and everybody else today. >> mr. wong said it was a tough match. it was very exciting when it got to two. you didn't know who was going to win. and

. >> yes, governor, your ping pong theme, but like commercial teaser was a surprise.e surprising, ping pong is huge. seems to be getting huger. world leaders play and even royals. across america, bars and venues are dedicated to ping pong springing up. >> i have seen a lot opening up. >> these are ping pong table tennis fanatics. >> you have to keep working your mind really fast. >> they are proing at spin, now a worldwide chain of hipster ping pong clubs. >> i made a mistake. >> lee who once played for the south korea national team is a table tennis ambassador. in leather and high heels. >> you are making ping pong glamorous, yes? >> i think so. i make ping pong trendy and fun. >> she also makes it look ridiculously fashionable. the public face of spin, one of the founders strangely enough is the actress, susan sarandon. >> it's kind of equalizing the playing field that little girls can beat muscle bound guys. >> another quality, sarandon plays a table tennis guru in a film called ping pong summer. her choice as the director is obvious. >> who won an oscar and owns a

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no one expected the ping pong team to change u.s.-china policy.betrotters went to russia singing "sweet georgia brown." no one expected them to change policy. it led to more political diplomatic efforts. >> those efforts are a bit different, reverend, because no one sanctioned this trip for him to go to north korea. everyone is denouncing this trip. with all that is going on in north korea, the camps, people not eating, poverty in the country, a dictator, not being allowed to use information, cell phones, this is quite different. it seems like you're comparing apples to oranges here. >> i sent a letter to the north korean leader today urging him on humanitarian grounds to release mr. kenneth bae, who is san ill man and a diabetic. i talked to his mother today. that's the role i would play. the roll that ambassador richardson would play, president carter would play. we are professional diplomats. >> exactly. dennis rodman is not a professional diplomat so why should he be congratulated or encouraged here. >> the ping pong players are not profession

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the particular ping-pong ball in question was labelled president obama plans to close the u.s.the vatican. oh, the outrage! the conservative washington times newspaper was on it. obama's call to close vatican embassy is slap in the face to roman catholics. world net daily accused president obama of insulting catholics with this embassy shutdown. the story made it all the way from the fringe to what is supposed to be the center of the republican mainstream when jeb bush decided to join in the frenzy tweeting, quote, hopefully it is not retribution for catholic organizations opposing obamacare. of course, like all ping-pong balls, this story was mostly air and easily destroyed under the weight of even minute further inspection. president obama was not trying to close the embassy to the vatican. he was trying to move it closer to the vatican. to the same compound that houses our much larger embassy to italy. and whether or not jeb bush was aware of this fact, the embassy >> idea that was first introduced by the bush administration in 2008. the state department says the move would

but amid the diplomatic ping pong experts urge leaders to focus on terrorism plaguing the country. and two people have been killed and twenty injured in a powerful blast that's rocks this south of lebanon's capital the stronghold of the movement has been our. live from moscow this is our scene to national with me. and everyone welcome to the progress charging rioters met head on with ukraine's riot police in the country's capital as they try to push the anti-government protesters away from the administrative area of the city downtown kiev has been turned into a child battlefield following two straight nights of rioting dozens of people have been injured and hundreds of thousands of dollars was of damage has been done to the city. reports now from kiev. the situation in kiev has been very tense all throughout the night there was an attempt by the police to post a protest of the grisettes going to see the governmental a quarter it was done pretty much on violent day there were no scuffles they were just pushing the protesters off the first thing they did they destroyed the catapult a

them but amid the ongoing diplomatic ping pong. leaders to focus on terrorism plaguing the country. and getting the golden boot public servants in the u.k. are being promised cash for throwing failed asylum seekers out of the country. your top headlines for this hour it's r t international live from moscow with me. charging rioters met head on with ukraine's riot police in the country's capital as they try to push the anti-government protesters away from the administered area of the city of downtown kiev has been turned into a child battlefield following two straight nights of rioting dozens of people have been injured and hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of damage have been done to the city. reports from kenya. the situation in kiev has been very tense all throughout the night there was an attempt by the police to push to protest this of the grisettes because street the governmental quarter it was done pretty much on violently there were no scuffles they were just pushing the protesters off the first thing they did they destroyed the catapults and medieval weapon which the pr

we are using the ping pong balls. >> and we made them lethal. >> what about space?n't know if it's going to happen in his lifetime. >> but someday? >> every generation of humans has pushed its best and brightest. we have been doing that. i don't see any reason we aren't going to do it moving forward. >> whether we end up with hundreds of thousands of illions of people populating mars, the attempt itself is worth it, because look at the invention and products that has been integrated in our life to put us on the moon and other things. it's often not the most important thing being what you're looking for, but sometimes the things that you didn't know you found along the way. >> what's the myth you would love to bust you haven't busted yet? >> if time and money were no obstacle, there are some people who believe we did not land on the moon and we call them idiots. we would like to go to the moon and picking up a piece of apollo hardware and demonstrate that man was there. >> bust your own myth. >> in a rocketship that we built. -- mie and adam of "bigot "myth busters."

houses multi-purpose rooms for all kinds of activities including basketball, line dancing, playing ping-pongrts can crafts. >> you can use it for whatever you want to do, you can do it here. >> on friday, november 16, the dedication and ribbon cutting took place at the sunset playground and recreation center, celebrating its renovation. it was raining, but the rain clearly did not dampen the spirits of the dignitaries, community members and children in attendance. [cheering and applauding] ♪ ♪ >> okay. >> good morning, today is january 28th, 2014, welcome to the san francisco county transportation authority, my name is john avalos, the chair of the authority, and the clerk today is miss cheng and also broadcast today by the staff from sfgtv. thank you for your work. and madam clerk, could you please call the roll. >> roll call, commissioner avalos? >> present. >> present. >> commissioner breed. >> breed present. >> camp os. >> present. >> chiu. >> present. >> cohen. >> present. >> ferrill. >> present. >>

ping-pong diplomacy.- it can work. >> but if all you are meeting is the functionary of -- >> right -- >> a goodwill ambassador sent by the country. >> but with a -- the system of concentration camps that is different than china. >> you and i know all this. >> the fact that they didn't do any research before going to me is -- >> you and i know all this. but i will say always worth going to these places to try to see what is going on and report a little bit. but i'm disappointed with what has come out from this team. >> we know how bad it is, but the silver lining of their continued persistence in travel there it has elevated the level of corruption in north korea. it may legitimatize it but americans have a sense of how bad it is in north korea. >> not to these guys because they are drinking cognac and smoking cigars and going skiing. >>> if you ask american officials whether the national security agency vacuuming up phone records, they're answer is yet. the nsa director saying the same thing. at least 50

i think the better model of ping-pong diplomacy is when you have normal people to people engagement.ty international believes this engagement is one of the ways that peaceful change will come to north korea. >> so there something to be gained in terms of developing a relationship. >> absolutely, we have to readjust our time schedule. the lessons we have learned from china, or south korea, that used to be a dictatorship is that engagement can help to transform societies and hope them up. through 25 years, through the helsinki process, the west engaged the soviet union, and the lives touched inside the sev yet union, they were the people helping reform when the opportunity began. >> frank spent 17 years in the senate former relations committee before taking up leadership of amnesty international. his concern is not that entertainers are there. his concern is that others aren't. >> it concerns me that dennis rodman has had more hours with jimmy kimmel than any u.s. official. that concerns me. i think that the united states government needs to engage in order to manage the risks on the k

those little pill that expand in the ping spongy dinosaur. don't take those, it does not make your penis expand or shaped like a t-rex. false advertising. this calls into question, folks, all low cost books of any kind. i mean how could the bin be tru- bible be true if they give it away for free in hotels. [laughter] maybe i shouldn't banish my wife in her time of blood. [laughter] what about steve ducey for that matter. on amazon you can buy a copy of his parenting books tales from the dad side for just one penny. with prices that low, i have to question whether steve ducey can even father children. [laughter] try one of those little t-rex pills. [laughter] they work. meanwhile, america's mooching class just can't stop sucking on the government's teeth which is disgusting. and not just because the government isn't dude. and chairman maobama has another tentacle on his squid. it's a new agenda of class warfare. >> i hear you focus for the obama administration making income hone inoakity on their a. they now put this income inequality debate t

is that at some level kind of ping-pong diplomacy. >> i wouldn't choose dennis rodman to be my adversary is entertaining and i think the people he is interacting with will be touched one way or another, but i think the better model of real ping-pong diplomacy is when you have normal people to people engangment, & this kind of engangment is one of the ways that peaceful change will some day come to north korea. so there is something to be gained in terms of developing a relationship? >> absolutely. we have to readjust our time schedule, but the lesson we have learned from the case studies of china, orr places like south korea, that also used to be a dictatorship is that engangment can help to open them up. for about 25 years the west engaged the soviet union even at a time of great repression, and haw moon rights abuses and the lives that were touched those were the very people who helped to promote class and reform an opening up when the opportunity came. >> he spent 15 years in the senate foreign relations committee before taking up leadership of the human rights agency. his concern isn

historic building that has been redone in a beautiful fashion and you have that beautiful outdoor ping-pong table and you have got the art commission involved and if you look at them, and we can particularly the gate as you came in, and that is extraordinary. and so these tiles, i am going to recommend that every park come and look at this park, because i think that the way that you have acknowledged donor iss really first class. >> it is nice to come and play and we have been driving by for literally a year. >> it is kind of nice. >> all of the people that are here. ♪ >> welcome to the san francisco planning commission regular hearing for thursday, january 23, 2014. please be aware that the commission does not trornt any disruption of any kind please silence all electronic devices. and when speaking before the commission please do state your name for the record. president fong. councilmember ford. commissioner hillis. commissioner moore and commissioner johns and commissioner antonini are expected to be absent. item one case is for continuance in 901 is for february 26th. and the next case

they seem to ping-pong along from crisis to crisis, much like a ping-pong table and the motion -- ping-pongle, and machine, and they don't have the ability to focus on what kind of world they want to leave behind them. it is a problem of the system itself but it is also a problem of the nature of how we choose presidents and the kind of presidents we choose. there are very few president anymore that really have the ability in some fashion to fashion a world that would be the kind of world they would like to see left as their legacy . i think that is unfortunate. >> would it be fair to call lyndon johnson the more recent imperial president in american history, given the basically complete involvement in vietnam, almost all just under his guidance and so forth? >> lyndon johnson was in many respects an imperial president could i think that with johnson we begin to see the cusp of the presidencyimperial in that sense. there have been some who have acted imperiously since then -- the bushes, no doubt about that. but he was the last person to understand the use and abuse of power. unfortunately,

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ping costs have tripled and supply chains have been hit by strikes.these factories make garments for brands like walmart and ralph lorenz. >> the customers are really concerned -- and ralph loren. >> the customers are really concerned. can we deliver the goods on time? >> bangladesh's garment industry employs 5 million workers. union workers say another 30 million people depend on it, from truck drivers to canteen owners. 80% of thecounts for country's exports and has been typically spared from the country's unrest. ordersctories save their have been cut nearly in half in the past three months, the worst drop in the past two decades. >> if there are less orders, it will affect many. the unemployment rate will be high. >> it has all ready cost test out companies -- cost textile companies billions. they could look to bangladesh's competitors, like india, vietnam, and cambodia. >> a few more stories to tell you about. india's technology sector is attracting renewed interest from outside its borders. the social networking site, facebook, has bought an ind

houses multi-purpose rooms for all kinds of activities including basketball, line dancing, playing ping-pongrts can crafts. >> you can use it for whatever you want to do, you can do it here. >> on friday, november 16, the dedication and ribbon cutting took place at the sunset playground and recreation center, celebrating its renovation. it was raining, but the rain clearly did not dampen the spirits of the dignitaries, community members and children in attendance. [cheering and applauding] ♪ ♪ >> we are on item a, we will be voting on the regular minutes may i have a motion and a second? >> moved, second. >> thank you. >> are there any corrections? >> seeing none, roll call, please on november 12th,

>> there is no ping pong. it is just going straight through the process. district court made its ruling. the tenth circuit will now decide whether the judge in utah was correct or incorrect. after that, the losing side can go to the supreme court. just in terms of the actual facts, in terms of what really matters today, if you are a same-sex couple, you cannot get married in utah. you could get married last week. you can't get married this week. you can't get married, i think, it is safe to say, for the foreseeable future, weeks, months, until the tenth circuit decides this case. >> ultimately, i find that this one is so precedent setting where california wasn't. >> that case had a lot of peculiarities to california. this case will be relevant for all states. >> also, it is important to point out, no dissent in the supreme court. all nine justices said, let's wait. let's put these marriages on hold. >> that's why i asked. what on earth it could possibly be that they were so certain. >> it is a difficult legal issue that has never been resolved by the supre

i also mentioned in 1972 ping-pong diplomacy. yes, the difference is that we had a u.s. president and a vp engage in the diplomacy there. but diplomacy isn't left just for politicians. we had in 1970, we had red auerbach, bill russell, oscar robinson, they did a game behind the iron curtain in russia when it was unheard of. so there's been sports examples of athletes doing that so i wanted to make sure you understood that there is no contradiction there. the second thing you ask is regarding -- i believe it was kenneth bae? >> no. this is about it being a birthday gift to kim jong-un. that's how dennis rodman has characterized this game. you say it is sports diplomacy. >> yeah, you know, in addition to that, dennis added that it was a gift to kim jong-un. that's the date that was set. i didn't know it was his birthday and to that, it didn't matter to me and it didn't matter to me once we got there and it didn't matter to me once i found that it was his birthday. it was a date that was set and we went and did the event. so that really didn't matter. >> well, charles, we'v

university of virginia golf bag, one ping kinloch golf bag, one sun mountain notre dame golf bag, twoets of golf clubs, one heather mckenzie watercolor and frame, two iphones, and 30 boxes of anatabloc. all of which the governor and his wife and family reportedly took as gifts from the ceo of the company that makes anatabloc. joining us now to discuss the prospects for this corruption prosecution is kendall coffey, a former u.s. attorney and now an nbc news legal analyst. kendall coffey, thanks very much for being with us. >> thanks for inviting me. >> so there are charges here about false statements and obstructing the inquiry, essentially charges related to the cover-up and trying to evade justice. but it seems to me like the core charges here are basically bribery. is that correct when you look at this indictment? >> it doesn't use the word bribery, but what it's really saying is, there was an ongoing scheme to extract all kinds of personal benefits. in effect, close to $140,000 in largely cash items. the rather intriguing list of consumer items that you just detailed, in order to

wall or the exam but i made the diplomatic ping pong experts need is to focus on terrorism plaguing the country. and two people have been killed and twenty injured in a powerful blast that iraq's the south of lebanon is console the stronghold of the .

in the history of this administration have they opened it up for press conference, today they are pingaiting the point that they are making in this statement, they have opened it up for video and still photographer's image. as far as the president, they say that the president -- the white house really taking the high road, hayden saying that the president appreciates all of the input enhances his options and things of that nature. so the white house sort of trying to not feed this fire, but it certainly has taken washington by storm. >> mike it is also fascinating in the sense that there was a time when vice presidents had nothing to do, now with cheney and biden, they had something to do and now they are the focus of tell-all books. >> right. you look at joe biden his long experience in senate, as chairman of the judiciary committee, and the foreign relations committee, the was the point man on iraq, certainly a more high profile role to say nothing of his intentions for the race in 2016, and how that will effect him. >> mike viqueira at the white house thank you very much. >>> in thi

. >> reporter: police pinged his cell phone, which revealed aguilar was inside the mall. only later did investigators determine the missing man and the shooter were the same person. police have not been able to establish anything for the known violence. >> no relationship between our shooter and our victims. >> reporter: in early december, aguilar purchased his pump action shot didn't legally -- shotgun legally at a licensed deal in rock hill. he apparently brought that, ammunition and crudely made explosive devices into the mall with a backpack. there was no answer at the home he shared with his mother. we have learned he graduated from blake high school in silver spring in 2013. last february he was accepted to montgomery college, where he planned to study environmental science, but he never enrolled. while list continue to investigate this tragedy. the mall in columbia will reopen at 1:00 this afternoon with an increased security presence. andrea mccarron, wusa9. >> howard county police are also assisting mall security in providing grief counselors to employees. they w

we ping that against, to check if it's lost or stolen against universal databases and can pay quickly. >> you sell this thing, it was allowing people to fix their phones on their own. we have do it yourself kits and you can fix it within an hour of receiving the kit. coming with the tools, the parts and training for you to do it successfully. you guys got funding or developed out an incubator. in winter of 2012, we participated in an incubator. we had, i believe, 64 companies with us in this incubator program. the most incredible social experience to only have one social excuse to build your company. it's a huge kata fault for us. we networked with a bunch of silicon valley's brightest and helped us to move into the life-cycle company. >> what makes your business do better or worse. when apple comes out with a new phone, does it hurt or help you. >> we believe it helps us. apple had 51 million smartphones purchased. we know that 34 of those will break within the first 12 months of ownership. it's a huge market. apple has a huge eco system and we want to make sure the devices work in t

houses multi-purpose rooms for all kinds of activities including basketball, line dancing, playing ping-pongrts can crafts. >> you can use it for whatever you want to do, you can do it here. >> on friday, november 16, the dedication and ribbon cutting took place at the sunset playground and recreation center, celebrating its renovation. it was raining, but the rain clearly did not dampen the spirits of the dignitaries, community members and children in attendance. [cheering and applauding] ♪ ♪ >>> thank you, good afternoon. if i may have your attention and thank you for being here today at a special joint meeting of the board of supervisors, neighborhood services and safety committee along with our san francisco police commission. my name is david campos and i'm the chair of the neighborhood services and safety committee. i want to acknowledge the clerk of my committee, derek evans and i want to thank the members of sfgtv staff who is covering the members and we thank you for your services. and derrick fernandez and with that we'll proceed by first taking the role call for the committee and

oh, ping. >> no, no. >> you also have to tch the bra right? >> very easy to do. train your dog like normally, like, sit and you put the remote on their collar and you teach the command again so they associate the vibration with the command that they gave them instead of you yelling you umes the command. this is an inside ya go-go campaign and they are trying to raise $15,000 to get this off the ground and if you send them, like, $27 right now enter the campaign you'll get one for free. >>> how far of a distance can you use this thing because to me the only thing you could use this for is lok your dog is prone to running away a lot, like, running out the front door. >> tell me it only works within ten feet. >> like 100 feet. >> some things don't need apps. sometimes the older method of just training your dog like we've done for hundreds of years works. >> as a dog owner i think this is a great idea. i love the fact that you can just use an app instead of screaming stop, stop! sit, sit! >> because then you're the crazy person at the dog park screaming at your dog.

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