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charitable deductions however, charitable deductions are critical to civil society, but to eliminate a lot of loop holes and to bring about a bipartisan effort to get the government on a sound footing. >> the principal is you've got to protect poor and vulnerable people as you find a path to fiscal sustainability. both are moral issues. >> it's hard to overestimate the importance of getting healthcare to 40 or 50 million people who did not have access to it before. that's just huge and as the wealthiest nation in the world, not to ve healthcare foall was just a profound embarrassment. >> as bishops we've been working on healthcare reform for years. now there are issues about the healthcare reform that's been passed, the affordable healthcare act, that we have concerns about, one, some of the conscience issues. >> i hope he protects religious liberty. i hope he defends the right and protects the right and advocates for religious pluralism. >> the issue of marriage equality because i think he's alredy started to take that on in his first administration and i just feel like we're so close we
charitable deductions however, charitable deductions are critical to civil society, but to eliminate a lot of loop holes and to bring about a bipartisan effort to get the government on a sound footing. >> the principal is you've got to protect poor and vulnerable people as you find a path to fiscal sustainability. both are moral issues. >> it's hard to overestimate the importance of getting healthcare to 40 or 50 million people who did not have access to it before. that's just huge...
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i rent from a private company that owns a lot of buildings in san francisco and i pay below market rent, although my rent is still very expensive. with this last round of rent increases my rent has increased to $2005 for a two-bedroom apartment in the mission. during my time with this company, they have sent me many notices with miss steer yus sums of money that i owe, that i supposedly owe. all of these notices are in english and the amount of money that i owe is never fully explained to me but i am charged at least $200 for $250 a year. my building has changed a lot in the time that i have lived there. the majority of the new tenants are not latinos, they are younger, they are whiter and they pay a lot more rent than i do. it is clear that the property owners wish to displace me because they can make a lot more rent renting to other tenants. tenants like me who have been living in our apartments for many years and that pay rent that is much lower should not continue to be the targets of landlord harassment. we deserve to live in our units and in our communities. i ask that you all who
i rent from a private company that owns a lot of buildings in san francisco and i pay below market rent, although my rent is still very expensive. with this last round of rent increases my rent has increased to $2005 for a two-bedroom apartment in the mission. during my time with this company, they have sent me many notices with miss steer yus sums of money that i owe, that i supposedly owe. all of these notices are in english and the amount of money that i owe is never fully explained to me...
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a lot of names hit 52 week highs today. david: finally apple didn't have a huge pop but significant increase for apple. many people thought it was -- [inaudible] -- not so today. nicole: everybody is loading the google maps back on to apple. liz: yeah i know people who were up at 2:00 in the morning reloading google maps. let's go with the markets. what a day for the bulls. dow jones industrials not at the highs of the session. we were up more than 127 points at one point, but 114 point gain. two day of triple digit moves here. the russell had a nice percentage move up 1 1/2%. the nasdaq better by a full 43 points. david: we have been talking about the up moves. liz is wearing green in honor of the -- she saw it coming. we do have some red on the screen. gold down significantly today. almost $25 an ounce. ending the day at 1673. coming up, we have a very big bull on gold who says now is the time to get in, while some people are saying it could go down to 1200 an ounce. liz: media stocks surging the new highs today. discovery
a lot of names hit 52 week highs today. david: finally apple didn't have a huge pop but significant increase for apple. many people thought it was -- [inaudible] -- not so today. nicole: everybody is loading the google maps back on to apple. liz: yeah i know people who were up at 2:00 in the morning reloading google maps. let's go with the markets. what a day for the bulls. dow jones industrials not at the highs of the session. we were up more than 127 points at one point, but 114 point gain....
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was virtually shut down for a couple of days or gaza as well i think during the crisis and i know a lot of us sort of went on to i think it was the i don't know if it was a prime minister or somebody in israel his facebook page was was hacked into by anonymous and there was a free palestine put up and just sort of the wallpaper of his face absolutely was so really people were you know when they were talking about it on this they would really just put all these all these together and just see this as a sign of the growing influence on the internet so i think that's the big takeaway from this isn't just you know sort of a group of computer savvy people these are people who definitely have strong opinions about certain things and make that known and i think sort of the bigger picture here is that they're able to do this the fact that they're able to hack into the f.b.i. web site kind of shows you a lot about their influence and their power i want to talk now about the person who shot the forty seven percent video i was surprised by it by this one at first because it's not like after it air
was virtually shut down for a couple of days or gaza as well i think during the crisis and i know a lot of us sort of went on to i think it was the i don't know if it was a prime minister or somebody in israel his facebook page was was hacked into by anonymous and there was a free palestine put up and just sort of the wallpaper of his face absolutely was so really people were you know when they were talking about it on this they would really just put all these all these together and just see...
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smokey robinson produced a lot of them. rdy, he has a new play that will be on broadway. i cannot wait to see it. i am very happy. i know that he worked very hard on that. i am very happy about that. motown got behind us and give us what we needed. they trained as which a lot of times people today, they make all this money, more money than we ever made. they do not have that training before hand as we did. we did a lot of workshops. when we have already professionals. tavis: i am glad you said that. when the first hit came seven records in, -- >> look who is laughing now? i am sorry. i did not mean that. tavis: when they first hit came, you are ready for it. it also said something about motown. you got today and get a record deal. you are out of there. the same thing in television. if you're not hitting in the ratings the first couple of weeks. >> i have written several books. this is not the first one but this is the second. it was a bestseller. i am very happy that i did write a lot about that. motown's early give us every
smokey robinson produced a lot of them. rdy, he has a new play that will be on broadway. i cannot wait to see it. i am very happy. i know that he worked very hard on that. i am very happy about that. motown got behind us and give us what we needed. they trained as which a lot of times people today, they make all this money, more money than we ever made. they do not have that training before hand as we did. we did a lot of workshops. when we have already professionals. tavis: i am glad you said...
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a lot, a lot of emotion, a lot of hormones, a lot of, um, just really learning how to process things. and what happens is in that phase is that you can make a lot of decisions that you look back on later and say, gosh, like i really didn't think that one through. um, another thing that's really happening at that point is the influence of peers is becoming more important than the influence of family or parents. so there's a real shift that takes place in who the kind of important elements are and where they're looking to for support and for acceptance. and i think that's what really makes some of the jockeying for power, for popularity really feel like this kind of almost life or death thing when you're in middle school. if you've been ostracized, no one will sit with you, no one invites you to things, it can feel like the entire world has turned against you. and i think with what we see taking place online and on the internet that sense that the entire world knows something about you or has spread a rumor about you or doesn't like you can feel, can really snowball or very quickly when
a lot, a lot of emotion, a lot of hormones, a lot of, um, just really learning how to process things. and what happens is in that phase is that you can make a lot of decisions that you look back on later and say, gosh, like i really didn't think that one through. um, another thing that's really happening at that point is the influence of peers is becoming more important than the influence of family or parents. so there's a real shift that takes place in who the kind of important elements are...
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obviously, it can cost a lot of money. we have provided financing before. it is a lot of money. so come and talk to the office of small business and make sure you have professionals and task inspectors and contractors lined up so that we can be part of that conversation in terms of helping you maintain your business and helping to stay in business despite the fact that a lot of businesses are being regulated by now. if you have questions, my information is in the packet. we are more than happy to field any questions, but again, because there are different parts of this whole saga, we are all in different parts in terms of financing, but the loan program will be available. it will be available until the ada compliance issues are no longer there. >> thank you. any questions? [inaudible] we do have legal expertise and individuals with our mayor's office of disability. if you do have any questions at all about things that you might have heard about or issues you are facing, it might be the opportunity to ask questions. any questions? >> thanks, supervisor. sorry for being late. i he
obviously, it can cost a lot of money. we have provided financing before. it is a lot of money. so come and talk to the office of small business and make sure you have professionals and task inspectors and contractors lined up so that we can be part of that conversation in terms of helping you maintain your business and helping to stay in business despite the fact that a lot of businesses are being regulated by now. if you have questions, my information is in the packet. we are more than happy...
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that put a lot of pressure on them because the consumers said we don't want those things in our products and the change happened and now they have a plan with timelines and clear transparent goals to get those chemicals out of their products. it might be a little slower than we'd all like as consumers but it's moving in the right direction and getting one major company to move put a lot of pressure on those other companies if they want to maintain their credibility, so we're seeing safer shampoo products, we want to pass laws. >> radiation is the longest and best studied exposure link to breast cancer and what can we do about that, some radiation is naturally occurring, but we know that since 1980, radiation exposures for the average person have doubled and most of that is probably due to a 600 % increase in medical radiation, we're being exposed to a lot more radiation from medical tests, sometimes that's the only option, it's worth that added risk because the alternative is really dangerous sometimes, but we want to ensure those scans and those medical imaging tests are the most approp
that put a lot of pressure on them because the consumers said we don't want those things in our products and the change happened and now they have a plan with timelines and clear transparent goals to get those chemicals out of their products. it might be a little slower than we'd all like as consumers but it's moving in the right direction and getting one major company to move put a lot of pressure on those other companies if they want to maintain their credibility, so we're seeing safer...
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you add all that up, we have a lot better chance when we need it. with that, i'm going to bring up dejon and take over the panel and i'll talk to you shortly. >> thank you, rob. the panelists we have represent a broad group of participants, some of them participated themselves and some of them had individuals in their organizations participate. and i want them to start with an introduction of who they are, a little bit about their own background, so you understand the lens they were looking through when they were providing some of their answers today. starting with our 3 panelists that were part of our command and control exercise then we'll hear from our 3 panelists that were in our communications drill. >> lieutenant commander mike kress, operations officer at naval beach group 1, i was a coach during the exercise. we supported the exercise with 3 subject matter experts from amphibious construction battalion 1, their expertise is in route clearance, they actually played in the exercise and i was the coach for the exercise. >> good morning, i'm colo
you add all that up, we have a lot better chance when we need it. with that, i'm going to bring up dejon and take over the panel and i'll talk to you shortly. >> thank you, rob. the panelists we have represent a broad group of participants, some of them participated themselves and some of them had individuals in their organizations participate. and i want them to start with an introduction of who they are, a little bit about their own background, so you understand the lens they were...
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we learned a lot about each other, capabilities and processes. i would also say that during the day we focused on how a command post should operate. within the marine corps and the military, we talk about commander's sbept. that gets us past the flow chart diagram or the policy question, it gets to what truly is the outcome that the commander or the mayor in this case is looking for, and that allows everybody in the room to think beyond just the specific problem but to more the holistic solution to the outcome that we're looking for, in this case route clearance. we talked about how to filter information that comes into the coc my experience in disaster relief is the amount of information coming into a command post is overwhelming so processes have to be put in place so that the filter allows emergencies to be addressed appropriately, priorities to be resourced appropriately, and the routine to be put into something so that everyone is aware of it and if it becomes, it changes to one of the other categories it can be addressed. and, last, we talke
we learned a lot about each other, capabilities and processes. i would also say that during the day we focused on how a command post should operate. within the marine corps and the military, we talk about commander's sbept. that gets us past the flow chart diagram or the policy question, it gets to what truly is the outcome that the commander or the mayor in this case is looking for, and that allows everybody in the room to think beyond just the specific problem but to more the holistic...
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we did a lot of work with the data. we did a lot of data, put things together. we did things like added value, added certain locations. and i would love to be able to pull that back up to a shared community portal. from what i can tell it wasn't necessarily promoted at this time, but i think there is a lot of value in that. and shannon, interrupt me if i'm speaking -- if that's -- if i'm stating anything that's incorrect. you know, i know that they went through a special process. maybe we make it a little easier, a little more seamless so that anybody is pulling down data and doing things, they can't push it back up. that was one of the things we would love to see. >> probably shouldn't have been in public, but we were very naive about the whole process and we were actually trying to feed content locations around the city. and started to do this and started to think there must be a list out there. there must be a list of every park in san francisco. i would find it in wikipedia. we stumbled into the sf data website and started looking. it was unbelievable, actual
we did a lot of work with the data. we did a lot of data, put things together. we did things like added value, added certain locations. and i would love to be able to pull that back up to a shared community portal. from what i can tell it wasn't necessarily promoted at this time, but i think there is a lot of value in that. and shannon, interrupt me if i'm speaking -- if that's -- if i'm stating anything that's incorrect. you know, i know that they went through a special process. maybe we make...
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people are dealing with a lot of isolation. i mentioned people with disabilities who may be in the room where it is hard to get out. the staircase to be rickety. the elevator may be broken. there's a myriad of problems where people can be stranded in the room. phone jacks are one way that people can connect with the outside world. even if they're not physically stranded, to be able to call a friend, to connect with the neighbors, to set up a doctors appointment, critical for seniors and people with disabilities. for everyone to have a working phone jack. they are not being enforced. there issues with the department of building enforcement. we have recently introduced into the board of supervisors legislation that requires working phone jacks and grab bars in sros. supervisor marr introduced legislation that about two three weeks ago. they were very excited about this happening moving forward, getting a lot of support an interest. we have a handful of supervisors that have agreed to cosponsor. right now the bill is in the process
people are dealing with a lot of isolation. i mentioned people with disabilities who may be in the room where it is hard to get out. the staircase to be rickety. the elevator may be broken. there's a myriad of problems where people can be stranded in the room. phone jacks are one way that people can connect with the outside world. even if they're not physically stranded, to be able to call a friend, to connect with the neighbors, to set up a doctors appointment, critical for seniors and people...
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sound like you have a lot of work in front of you. bringing it up to ada access is a lot of work. do you have any idea when you might open? >> i can optimistically tell you a date but i know i will not hit that date. i think, you know, we are going for june, but that can easily push to late summer, if not beyond, you know, our plans have all been finalized, we are in the permit process right now. we are waiting for the historic preservation society's green light, they have verbally okayed it, we're going to issue two separate permit, one for internal and one for exterior so we're not delayed. >> do you intend to memorialize the purple onion in any way. er >> we cannot use the name, it has been trademarked fwr the previous owner, he placed that in september and has taken it with him, we have not reached out to him to possibly purchase that name but legally, we're unable to use it. >> okay, thank you. >> hi, chris. >> hi. >> thank you for coming in and i've been to the purple onion, i attended a comedy festival there so i'm glad you're taking over and renovating the place. are you in
sound like you have a lot of work in front of you. bringing it up to ada access is a lot of work. do you have any idea when you might open? >> i can optimistically tell you a date but i know i will not hit that date. i think, you know, we are going for june, but that can easily push to late summer, if not beyond, you know, our plans have all been finalized, we are in the permit process right now. we are waiting for the historic preservation society's green light, they have verbally okayed...
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a lot of that is not true anymore. world looks at the united states with a lower projection of growth. if we were sitting in this world in 2003, it would have expected gdp for the next six years ahead and a long-term average of 3.6%. a in 2012 the forecasts would say they expect to 0.5% and a long-term average of 2.7%. a lot with lower expected growth, unemployment is more certain. today 40% of unemployed workers are unemployed for long for that six months. the historical averages 13%, that expects the ability for people to make mortgage payments. there is also the probability of unemployment. is it higher than they used to be? i think statistics would prove that true. average annual household income has been half a million every year. if you look regionally, the issues we describe are much different. it seems like detroit has lost substantial population according to the senses. debate about home ownership is much different. all of these factors taken together, weaker economic growth, duration of unemployment certainty
a lot of that is not true anymore. world looks at the united states with a lower projection of growth. if we were sitting in this world in 2003, it would have expected gdp for the next six years ahead and a long-term average of 3.6%. a in 2012 the forecasts would say they expect to 0.5% and a long-term average of 2.7%. a lot with lower expected growth, unemployment is more certain. today 40% of unemployed workers are unemployed for long for that six months. the historical averages 13%, that...
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i thank the breast cancer fund because i learned a lot from your presentation, i work at common bhaoel and we do a three day intensive training on breast cancer and environmental health and we want to work with you all to develop a training with the breast cancer fund on those chemicals that firefighters are specifically exposed to nr the course of feting a fire which has to do with insulation and houses, diesel and so on so i hope we can work together with that in the future. >> any questions? yes? het her bring the mike phone to you. >> why -- when you were talking about the cans and the bpa exposures, why did you just address beans? i'm assuming you mean any food or liquid in all cans? >> yes, it's all of them and i didn't mean to just address beans, that's why the recommendation is frozen or fresh vegetables, for instance, frozen and fresh fruits, we did a bunch of product testing and looked at also past product testing to see where are the highest levels of bpa in canned foods and it looks like they end up the most in kind of very complex foods like soup or, you know, the pasta di
i thank the breast cancer fund because i learned a lot from your presentation, i work at common bhaoel and we do a three day intensive training on breast cancer and environmental health and we want to work with you all to develop a training with the breast cancer fund on those chemicals that firefighters are specifically exposed to nr the course of feting a fire which has to do with insulation and houses, diesel and so on so i hope we can work together with that in the future. >> any...
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at great cost to a lot of people in a lot of countries. >> this is a question to both of you. what is your view on the theory of subjected utility in the economics, it does it describe reality? especially considering your experiences in international economics and asymmetric intervention and other matters? >> wow. [laughter] >> why don't you try, all? >> we have a lot of economics built around the notion of this idealized -- rational man who has a utility, a clear ordering of preferences and you can express as a mathematical function and rational decisions and all of that which obviously is not a twitter role description of anybody and the question, it is a metaphor that is helpful for organizing about how decisions are made. the way to do it is to always think about it in the subjective. if it were the case that people were like this they could do this and offers an guidance and anyone, any economist who believes that the expected utility model of decisionmaking a is a literal description of how people make decisions probably should find another profession. nonetheless it is
at great cost to a lot of people in a lot of countries. >> this is a question to both of you. what is your view on the theory of subjected utility in the economics, it does it describe reality? especially considering your experiences in international economics and asymmetric intervention and other matters? >> wow. [laughter] >> why don't you try, all? >> we have a lot of economics built around the notion of this idealized -- rational man who has a utility, a clear...
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here in mexico city and as far as the mood concerned it's one of tension and security and certainly a lotof folks are bracing for what the return of the party that will next over seventy one years mean especially when the first day of this return included a fatality three very serious injuries and well over one hundred people arrested during what was a pretty lucky three rockets are listed on the problem though with the arrest. also of injuries as well that apparently none of them occurred with the folks that were actually involved instruction that one of the anarchist groups that playing this possibility for the resistance which is really trying to penetrate a perimeter fence that was about three miles away from the same place that any of that was in forming which was the mexican congress here in which the city. they were trying to penetrate the perimeter fence and they came out with a statement saying that none of our comrades none of our people are in jail or in solidarity with the people that are jail and then of course came out as well from a variety of human groups saying that actua
here in mexico city and as far as the mood concerned it's one of tension and security and certainly a lotof folks are bracing for what the return of the party that will next over seventy one years mean especially when the first day of this return included a fatality three very serious injuries and well over one hundred people arrested during what was a pretty lucky three rockets are listed on the problem though with the arrest. also of injuries as well that apparently none of them occurred with...
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>> there are a lot of books. that is one of the thing that hits me the most. books are good for understanding, language, and art in general. also being a graphic designer, going straight to the magazines and seeing all this printed material being discarded has also been part of my work. of course, always wood or any kind of plastic form or anything like that. >> job mr. some of the pieces you have made while you have been here. -- taught me through some of the pieces you have made while you have been here. >> the first thing that attracted me to this was the printed surface. it was actually a poster. it was a silk screen watercolor, about 8 feet long. in terms of the flatwork, i work with a lot of cloddish. so being able to cut into it come at into it, removed parts, it is part of the process of negotiating the final form. >> how do you jump from the two dimensional work that you create to the three-dimensional? maybe going back from the 3f to 2d. >> everything is in the process of becoming. things are never said or settled. the sculptures are being made while
>> there are a lot of books. that is one of the thing that hits me the most. books are good for understanding, language, and art in general. also being a graphic designer, going straight to the magazines and seeing all this printed material being discarded has also been part of my work. of course, always wood or any kind of plastic form or anything like that. >> job mr. some of the pieces you have made while you have been here. -- taught me through some of the pieces you have made...
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a lot of the lessons learned there are in bullets from just 2007. why this discussion is important and lessons learned up there, the 2007 fires burned a little over 500,000 acres, destroyed over 3200 structures and caused 10 fatalities. so why this is important, as you start to read the fire weather reports that justin talked about as we go into this fall, the experts are predicting above normal significant fire potential across the northwest quarter of the united states. those of you who live in southern california are used to a phenomenon called the santa ana winds. when you take into account dry conditions, we're in the part of the year when those winds start to change directions, we do have the opportunity for significant fire events throughout the california area. so, with that, what i'd like to do is kind of focus our discussion on 3 major areas.. command and control, relationships and resources. with that, let me start off with the first question, we got a lot of discussion yesterday about command and control. i just wanted to give an opportun
a lot of the lessons learned there are in bullets from just 2007. why this discussion is important and lessons learned up there, the 2007 fires burned a little over 500,000 acres, destroyed over 3200 structures and caused 10 fatalities. so why this is important, as you start to read the fire weather reports that justin talked about as we go into this fall, the experts are predicting above normal significant fire potential across the northwest quarter of the united states. those of you who live...
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this is actually, i mean a lot of it is into but a lot of it is extra. the opposite -- opposition connection -- have no interest in democracy but have their own politics and interest in removing the regime, same with the united states and europe, as well as turkey, a lot of these countries have had their own problematic human rights record, and supporting the opposition for all three are motives is something that is not jelling with a lot of people in the region. because there's no believe these countries are supportive of democracy because they are either not democratic as we saw in qatar, or with the united states, they have been supporting object when reaching for decades and continue to support those but not democratic. all of these countries is actually not a legitimate person, not a credible person. >> here in the u.s. we often judge our economy by the unemployment rate, the gdp, things like this. give us a snapshot of the current syrian economy. >> the current syrian economy cannot be actually access. the numbers are just not there. even from the
this is actually, i mean a lot of it is into but a lot of it is extra. the opposite -- opposition connection -- have no interest in democracy but have their own politics and interest in removing the regime, same with the united states and europe, as well as turkey, a lot of these countries have had their own problematic human rights record, and supporting the opposition for all three are motives is something that is not jelling with a lot of people in the region. because there's no believe...
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there was a lot of that. the data on just americans who were loyalists fighting americans were patriots, huge numbers of battles never had a british soldier in them. >> how many british soldiers could be here just for the purpose of protecting the crown? >> i would say they had never more than 40,000 at one time. so if you considered that some would be called back and regimens were changed, i doubt they ever sent any more than 75,000 or 100,000 soldiers and sailors. you have to include them. >> you said the british looked to the russians first for troops. >> that is true peer >> explain the germans and how they got into it. >> the russian thing was amazing. the russian monarchy had a lot of soldiers occasionally to rent out. they had a war in southern russia of some significance in 1774. so there must of had a lot of troops left over. they were approached obviously early in 1775. by june 1775, there is a report in one of the virginia newspapers that the crown was tried to hire russians. and they thought that -
there was a lot of that. the data on just americans who were loyalists fighting americans were patriots, huge numbers of battles never had a british soldier in them. >> how many british soldiers could be here just for the purpose of protecting the crown? >> i would say they had never more than 40,000 at one time. so if you considered that some would be called back and regimens were changed, i doubt they ever sent any more than 75,000 or 100,000 soldiers and sailors. you have to...
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a lot of people find this a tricky question.t's not simple and they are forced to deal with it every time they fill out one of these forms. it leaves them questioning, oftentimes, does this even need to be asked and should i even answer it? soledad o'brien has a great explanation. ♪ >> if there was a word to describe me, it would most likely be -- i'm in a band and we do alternative rock kind of. at first when people meet me they don't know what i am. people will ask me, what are you? >> reporter: 17-year-old jones is a singer, talented poet, a high school senior. but that's not what people want to know. >> recently after i had one of those experiences, i was like, becca deals with the same thing. let's make this a group piece. >> what do you want to do? >> pick a book and pick a poem. >> they do spoken word poetry together. >> it starts off and it's like, girl, you are so pretty. what are you? the quintessential girl because answering human is not enough for them. they can't handle my racial ambiguous figure. >> if they can jus
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those medical imaging tests are the most appropriate, are at the right dose, especially for kids are a lot of times, they don't know how to scale down for a child-size body and the machines may not calibrate or have clear directions on how to make that happen so in our own lives, we can ask our health care provides, are there safer alternative, mri or ultrasounds for doing this test, and then if you have kids and they need a test, ensure and ask questions about the safest dose and if they have machines that can calibrate to kids, and then we have to see these changes with the laws so if fda has proposals out for medical imaging around kids so you know how to downsize a radiation dose for kids who is smaller, their physical size is narrower, and also to make machines more accountable and more clear in how they work. >> [inaudible]. >> it's very low doses but that's an excellent question and i thought somebody would probably ask that. so, the united states preventative services task force in 2009 came out with a proposal to revise guidelines saying that perhaps women aged 40 to 50, there's n
those medical imaging tests are the most appropriate, are at the right dose, especially for kids are a lot of times, they don't know how to scale down for a child-size body and the machines may not calibrate or have clear directions on how to make that happen so in our own lives, we can ask our health care provides, are there safer alternative, mri or ultrasounds for doing this test, and then if you have kids and they need a test, ensure and ask questions about the safest dose and if they have...
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they don't have a lot of options out there. erve to the indian community, which is a huge, huge population now in san francisco. and we serve them vegetarian and vegan which is a stricter diet, i guess. and we actually prepare the food fresh. so nothing is deep fried or made that was frozen and reserved. so it will take a little more effort on our part to actually produce this food and it will take a while to deliver and take a while to sit and seat the meal as well. so it is a little bit different than the restaurants around the corner from us. so it happens and that we are in a strange situation where we actually have four 24/7 restaurants half a block away from us. i actually drew a map in the back and so you could go to slide six or seven and a map that shows that we are next to the cafe, and jack in the box at 24/7 and cafination and a diner. by, or most of the time, this restaurant is a very quiet, family, with children running around, that kind of a place. unfortunately, we are also some what have to be on the weekends be
they don't have a lot of options out there. erve to the indian community, which is a huge, huge population now in san francisco. and we serve them vegetarian and vegan which is a stricter diet, i guess. and we actually prepare the food fresh. so nothing is deep fried or made that was frozen and reserved. so it will take a little more effort on our part to actually produce this food and it will take a while to deliver and take a while to sit and seat the meal as well. so it is a little bit...
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minute, we work on public education, on policy initiatives, on web based and media advocacy, we have a lot of fun in that area so you should join us online and corporate accountability campaigns which i'll talk a little bit about later on in this presentation, we're really a community, so you can see pictures of different folks at different evens interacting and having a great time so we like to be hopeful that we can indeed prevent this disease and reduce the rates of breast cancer, and we have what we think is an amazing website that's full of all of the information that i'm going to present today and then some, so anything i talk about today, you can also find on our website which has rich information about the science, rich information about policy and ways that you can get involved, even by hiking in mount town this weekend and helping us raise some funds so we have some folks doing that in the audience as well, so as i said, we are a science-based organization, everything we do a rooted in a rich foundation in the science, and so for the past decade in fact, every couple of years, we
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or some major endeavor to rescue the country and bring back water generate more why not really in a lot of cases and particularly in a case like pakistan which i've looked at quite closely i know donnish as well you know you could take relatively simple measures like paying a relatively small amount of money to patch up leaks in water pipes you know it doesn't mean taking a ten second shower either you know convene investing in your a geisha in technologies that use drip forms of irrigation instead of the flood irrigation which is used more commonly in that country and in other countries across south asia and elsewhere so you know i think it's more sexy and so forth to say oh well you know this country is is increasingly water scarce we need to do something now before basically the country water situation really blows up but really there are some basic realistic solutions you know whether governments are willing to carry them out that's that's another story ok if i could stay with you michael why doesn't the pakistan government do just exactly what you said. well that's a question that
or some major endeavor to rescue the country and bring back water generate more why not really in a lot of cases and particularly in a case like pakistan which i've looked at quite closely i know donnish as well you know you could take relatively simple measures like paying a relatively small amount of money to patch up leaks in water pipes you know it doesn't mean taking a ten second shower either you know convene investing in your a geisha in technologies that use drip forms of irrigation...
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and there is a lot going on there. we touched on it a little bit with the survey with the rising numbers of people who aren't affiliated with a particular religion. in fact, 80% of americans still are affiliated. while many aren't, 87% are. >> imagine you saying that. >> i'm sorry to say our time is up now. thank you for a great conversation. to e.j. deion of the brookings institution, kevin ekstrom, and kim lawton of this program. next up, a look ahead to 2013. that's our program for now. merry christmas. you can follow us on twitter and facebook. watch us any time on the pbs app for iphones and ipads. there is much more on our website as well. audio and video podcasts are also available. join us at pbs.org. as we leave you, the last of the hallelujah chorus from handel's messiah as performed by the choir of trinity church wall street in new york. if you want to stand up, please do.
and there is a lot going on there. we touched on it a little bit with the survey with the rising numbers of people who aren't affiliated with a particular religion. in fact, 80% of americans still are affiliated. while many aren't, 87% are. >> imagine you saying that. >> i'm sorry to say our time is up now. thank you for a great conversation. to e.j. deion of the brookings institution, kevin ekstrom, and kim lawton of this program. next up, a look ahead to 2013. that's our program...
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we have a seat height to be concerned about, but a lot of other things. for example, people worry about getting into bathtubs because they are slippery. how do you deal with that? >> it all depends. the most important thing you can do is have a grab bar for the tub and shower. we think about the toilet heights. we think about having barrier- free back from -- bathrooms. if you are in a wheelchair, a shower curtain would be a barrier. thinking about the door to the bathroom. you want to have a nice, white door. 3 feet would be very nice. even a little bit larger bathrooms are you could maneuver in it would be helpful. >> let's look at some six. we got an e-mail from some of who watches us online who had a question about whether or not there are any downside to getting one of these vessels sinks, one of the six that sits on top of the counter. >> that is one of the reasons i like j.c. plumbing. they have a great selection, and i can make my point. let's compare these two six. this is a bowl shape, and this is a ceramic that comes straight down. the disadvant
we have a seat height to be concerned about, but a lot of other things. for example, people worry about getting into bathtubs because they are slippery. how do you deal with that? >> it all depends. the most important thing you can do is have a grab bar for the tub and shower. we think about the toilet heights. we think about having barrier- free back from -- bathrooms. if you are in a wheelchair, a shower curtain would be a barrier. thinking about the door to the bathroom. you want to...
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i've got a lot of freedom i've made a lot of work. >> rose: made a lot of money. >> made a lot of money. >> rose: interestingly, you and andy warhol have made that sort of acceptable. >> yeah, i think without andy warhol i wouldn't have gone so gung-ho. a lot of people say "oh, my god, you've got factory." and you think, well, factories can make dog food or they can make porsches or great cars or something like that, you know? so the process is not -- i think it doesn't matter how you get where you're going as long as where you get what you want as an artist. >> rose: and you want what? >> it's different. sometimes i go in the studio and i think look at all this stuff, this guy's insane. one minute i want to spot paint and the other minute i want a spin painting and i kind of imagine it's almost like there's a lot of crys in here. >> rose: what do you think people don't get about the spot painting? >> probably the simplicity. i think -- it's funny -- there's a big difference between art and craft as well. i get asked a lot where people go "you don't paint your own paintings." but that's
i've got a lot of freedom i've made a lot of work. >> rose: made a lot of money. >> made a lot of money. >> rose: interestingly, you and andy warhol have made that sort of acceptable. >> yeah, i think without andy warhol i wouldn't have gone so gung-ho. a lot of people say "oh, my god, you've got factory." and you think, well, factories can make dog food or they can make porsches or great cars or something like that, you know? so the process is not -- i think...
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it will hurt a lot of people. not change the law and it went one month, two months, three months, it could lead to another recession because there be such a sharp drop in people's incomes and it would be spending less. that would not be good for businesses. i do not think that is quite to happen. -- going to happen. host: caller, last word with sam goldfarb. caller: i called social security the other day. the maximum amount the bennet fishery can receive is $2,000 approximately. four in years ago, i am looking at, how much can i really get out of social security? when a look at the paperwork that is sent out every year, it says if you earn over this much, you get taxed that much, you can ali earned as much as you get a dollar deducted for every dollar -- only earn as much as you get a dollar deducted for every dollar -- is very confusing. how does that work? guest: i'm not sure i can speak your specific problem. it is true that you should get the best financial advice that you can get. the federal and state laws ca
it will hurt a lot of people. not change the law and it went one month, two months, three months, it could lead to another recession because there be such a sharp drop in people's incomes and it would be spending less. that would not be good for businesses. i do not think that is quite to happen. -- going to happen. host: caller, last word with sam goldfarb. caller: i called social security the other day. the maximum amount the bennet fishery can receive is $2,000 approximately. four in years...
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any time one twenty five go to you first in london do you like the term water wars because it's used a lot in media. it sounds good because it's a literal served want to was but in fact it misleads people into thinking that once you run out of water whatever that means you then automatically reach for a kalashnikov and go to war waters we have seen over the past forty years at least if not more is that when people are a lot of water that is they haven't got enough water to raise the food that they need at home they're not no longer self-sufficient they then reach for trade because trade is quiet and invisible it doesn't raise any politics a country all the twenty countries in the middle east and many other countries in the world and all the countries in europe except france can easily move into dependence on imported food which has huge volumes of it bet it water it without any politics or any anxiety so provided there is enough water in the global system that is not only the water we can see and drink water we can pump and move from the ground will throw from the river or the water in the
any time one twenty five go to you first in london do you like the term water wars because it's used a lot in media. it sounds good because it's a literal served want to was but in fact it misleads people into thinking that once you run out of water whatever that means you then automatically reach for a kalashnikov and go to war waters we have seen over the past forty years at least if not more is that when people are a lot of water that is they haven't got enough water to raise the food that...
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the radios need to be unencrypted single channel and plain text, which is something we don't operate a lot on in the battlefield, but this isn't the battlefield, this is home. so that's a new communication change as we move forward in supporting our civil authorities. >> okay, i understood the question perhaps a little bit different. what would we tell, you know, personnel coming in for another iteration of this drill. and for me, no. 1, is of course military folks do this a lot, is to read the after action. i think a lot of work, time and thought has been put into that. i think one of the best conferences that i've attended was the very last one in september, which was the after action. i know jill raycauft and lucas ekrode have taken this to heart so we do have a road map for next year. read the after action. no. 2, captain houston mentioned it already, it's think open architecture. i noticed that departures for the military, our communication is encrypted, when you are doing humanitarian assistance or even here on national soil, you need to be able to communicate. so that was a take awa
the radios need to be unencrypted single channel and plain text, which is something we don't operate a lot on in the battlefield, but this isn't the battlefield, this is home. so that's a new communication change as we move forward in supporting our civil authorities. >> okay, i understood the question perhaps a little bit different. what would we tell, you know, personnel coming in for another iteration of this drill. and for me, no. 1, is of course military folks do this a lot, is to...
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there's a lot of finger pointing but not a whole lot of action. >> all right, eamon. thanks so much. >> you bet. >>> as negotiations continue on washington, that is a bit of an overstatement, check wall street, the fear index is spiking as the markets drop. we're back above 20 for the first time in fact in five months. up 14% in the past week. let's get trading action here at the nysc. mary thompson joins us on the floor. this is a vulnerable point for the markets. traders have been saying they're going to make a lot of noise and it will get made up. >> suddenly it isn't. so we're having a bit of a reality check. the dow, the s&p and the nasdaq all negative. it's the lowest now of the month. the vix is spiking. moving above the 20 level for the first time in five months. we want to point out the last time we had this angst over what was happening in washington was in august of 2011 when we had the debt crisis and the subsequent downgrade. at that point the vix was well above where it is, more than twice where it is. so while the fear index is high, up 31% in the last s
there's a lot of finger pointing but not a whole lot of action. >> all right, eamon. thanks so much. >> you bet. >>> as negotiations continue on washington, that is a bit of an overstatement, check wall street, the fear index is spiking as the markets drop. we're back above 20 for the first time in fact in five months. up 14% in the past week. let's get trading action here at the nysc. mary thompson joins us on the floor. this is a vulnerable point for the markets. traders...
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it doesn't economically seem to make a lot of sense. and this is a private project, too. this is not a city-owned project. this is not a project being done by an affordable non-profit. this is a private project and there is -- they are responsible to be receptive to the neighborhood and build something that is appropriate to the neighborhood and is supported by the neighborhood. and protected light and air and other things, but they should have the ability to put the type of project that they wish to put there, and have that ability as along as it's not deleterious to the neighborhood. >> commissioner borden? >> this project has certainly come aways. it's ridiculous in my personal view that there weren't these kind of conversations before. at this point i don't think that we're ready to take up this project. i think that there is a lot of work to be done. the adjacent buildings points out a lot of problems and mr. schoolneck pointed out things are moving, but there are things to be done. i don't think you can necessarily arrive at a quick resolution after so much time and
it doesn't economically seem to make a lot of sense. and this is a private project, too. this is not a city-owned project. this is not a project being done by an affordable non-profit. this is a private project and there is -- they are responsible to be receptive to the neighborhood and build something that is appropriate to the neighborhood and is supported by the neighborhood. and protected light and air and other things, but they should have the ability to put the type of project that they...
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has been a personal friend and mentor to me and she has spend a lot of time mentoring a lot of people in this particular champ better and she is a woman that, that i respect and it's a privilege to be able to present to her colleagues here on behalf of all of us we would like to congratulate you for recently completely ago term of the charm state assembly and the frank board of supervisors in recognition of your dead carted support and helping democratic woman this is for you my friend. congratulations you have around this.. >> actually i think there are other supervisors that would like to comment. >>> supervisor kim. >> speaking as another female elected i have always appreciated that you have mentoring those of us who are entering into the field after you and not a lot of elected officials do that to give their advise and support and i appreciate the support that you have given to me and i also want to say that i have an incredible apt of respect fortitude you have and the honesty and the way you carry yourself as-woman and a woman leader and it's rare to see that type of leadershi
has been a personal friend and mentor to me and she has spend a lot of time mentoring a lot of people in this particular champ better and she is a woman that, that i respect and it's a privilege to be able to present to her colleagues here on behalf of all of us we would like to congratulate you for recently completely ago term of the charm state assembly and the frank board of supervisors in recognition of your dead carted support and helping democratic woman this is for you my friend....
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that's a lot of kids. we know that kids who are lgbt are four times more likely to be bullied than other kids. >> and they are gay, transgendered, bisexual, transgendered or perceived to be. >> guest: absolutely. kids don't necessarily have to identify as day to be picked on or harassed for not setting the gender stereotypes. that is another big part of the picture. another population that is very vulnerable are the kids with autism. a high number of kids on the autism spectrum are bullied often. kids that are at the height, with a call - sharing autism they are mean streamed into schools so they have great grades, they look like everybody else, and yet they have a disability that invisible and which plays out in social context of not understanding social science, of not understanding that behavior's that someone may be doing our bullying and not from a ship so they are at risk. >> host: you describe in the book that kids with special needs for them bullying is a pandemic. it's that prevalent. >> guest: ab
that's a lot of kids. we know that kids who are lgbt are four times more likely to be bullied than other kids. >> and they are gay, transgendered, bisexual, transgendered or perceived to be. >> guest: absolutely. kids don't necessarily have to identify as day to be picked on or harassed for not setting the gender stereotypes. that is another big part of the picture. another population that is very vulnerable are the kids with autism. a high number of kids on the autism spectrum are...
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he's been involved in a lot of interparty fights. most successfully, marco rubio. beat charlie crist in a primary and one of his biggest failures is christine o'donnell. he's not afraid to get into the mix and we -- he didn't want to be here much longer. he was going to be out in 2016 so he was ready to go. you're right, the question is what does he do with this new position? use it to positive agenda? tell america what we stand for or, as many republicans we all talk too are worried about is he's going to use that perch to punish republicans who don't tow the tea party agenda. gwen: what is the tea party? we saw that with dick army and paid a lot of money basically to go away. we've seen a lot of shifts and moves. jim demint's departure from the south carolina senate seat races the question of who replaces him? >> right, and there's a tea party governor whom he elected and there's a lot of talk she should pick tim scott for that seat. also a tea party candidate and he's african-american. what a great opportunity. that i got criticized for not diversifying and anyb
he's been involved in a lot of interparty fights. most successfully, marco rubio. beat charlie crist in a primary and one of his biggest failures is christine o'donnell. he's not afraid to get into the mix and we -- he didn't want to be here much longer. he was going to be out in 2016 so he was ready to go. you're right, the question is what does he do with this new position? use it to positive agenda? tell america what we stand for or, as many republicans we all talk too are worried about is...
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you also had a lot of segmentation. ne of the reasons that i was able to do, um, interviews in all the places that i talked about, i happen to speak a very neutral spanish. you can't really place my spanish geographically. kind of quirky set of reasons. and that allowed osa to use me in multiple places. i did one interview all fall, which was orlando, which has a large spanish-language media, but it's a puerto rican electorate. and you don't need somebody with my skill set or even my neutral spanish speaking to puerto ricans. you need fellow puerto ricans speaking to puerto ricans. and that's also true in other parts of the country. there was a much more deliberate effort this time to insure in ads and in media outreach and just people-to-people outreach that you were speaking to and through folks from the same subgroup. >> and different issues as well? i mean, does immigration come into -- >> interesting, the issues this time at least in my experience, and you saw this borne out a little bit in the national exit polls,
you also had a lot of segmentation. ne of the reasons that i was able to do, um, interviews in all the places that i talked about, i happen to speak a very neutral spanish. you can't really place my spanish geographically. kind of quirky set of reasons. and that allowed osa to use me in multiple places. i did one interview all fall, which was orlando, which has a large spanish-language media, but it's a puerto rican electorate. and you don't need somebody with my skill set or even my neutral...