ben franklin is a serial inventor for one. he made his original fortune with a series of infusion pumps, including insulin pumps that allowed stations to receive medication around the clock. without having a nurse present. he also invented the wheelchair. he built this gyroscopic technology into it. and they said you might want a wheelchair to climate curbs or stairs. so he invented this very ingenious technology to do that. he's probably best known for the segway. it was built on the same technology as the wheelchair. i don't love you remember when the segway came out a number of years back, it was hailed as the future of transportation and it was going to change the way we live. unfortunately, a lot of big cities banned the use of them on sidewalks, for one. in warehouses they used them, i think amazon uses them in their warehouses. there are a lot of tours around the country. the technology is around. maybe it will have bigger use in the future. he obviously became wealthy off of his invention. but if you look at, you know,

be you mentioned libraries being overburdened and i mentioned franklin ben franklin he had started this kind of intellectual men's club the juno society in philadelphia and they had a huge library and has idea for public libraries was give those to the poor give access to the poor and thus the public library came about in philadelphia remembering my my my ben franklin history right. are you suggesting in the. access to the internet should be not entirely necessarily a right but at least not fully a privilege you know how do we deliver high speed high quality internet access to poor people without asking them to leave their home and go into those public libraries that are now being swamped. we decide what basic which is what we did for electricity we say look every american needs a particular kind of connection to the internet just to be dignified to have a respectable life and we say let's say it's one hundred megabits per second download and upload and then you figure out what says. of cross subsidies support for expensive to serve areas and also price controls in places that are less

obviously ben franklin i3 obviously ben franklin is one of the great americans. in school we learned this and all sorts of other things. he was considered a huge source of wisdom which was great. a very interesting figure. the only thing is that he raised the bar kind of high and kind of early. he made it seem like a daunting thing. and another thing interesting was, this was a way to open things up into how i look at them in the book a little bit. in the sense that i understand it it is as much a mindset. i argue in the book that the u.s. postal service was part of this. had such an impact on american society is. it was something that he had to work out over a long time before it ever became a reality. we see how those kinds of virtual things can be as valuable as a physical thing as well. the other thing that is interesting is that franklin wasn't the only founding father. if you look at a lot of them, many of the original founding fathers of this country were sort of tinkerers. george washington probably being the biggest of all. he wanted to find the best fer

one of my favorites is ben franklin. when he left the constitutional convention, one of the people on the street and asked him what kind of government he had given them, and he said, "a republic, if you can keep it." i think in many ways, they are one in the same. frankly, there may be some differences that people at some level view it, but i view it as almost interchangeable words. >> speaking of which, the aba has recently given attention to the problem of lobbying. in particular, the concern that, speaking of republics, that people will have access to money -- businesses, but others as well -- had higher voices whispering in the year -- can higher voices whispering in the year of congressman or more important, in the year of staff of congressman -- the ear of staff of congressman. do you think that is a serious problem? and what could they do about it? >> if you look at how the supreme court looks at even funding of judicial elections, which are meant to be different than legislative elections -- remember that we have

in fact, ben franklin oved them so much, he wanted turkey and not the bald eagle to be the official uniteds bird. turkeys have a long history in the golden state. for more than 50 years, the diestel family has ranched in the peaceful foothills of tuolumne county. tim diestel has a hands-on approach to make sure his birds are at the peak of health. this is country living at its finest, a free-range setting, meaning the flocks have a chance to spread their wings and explore their surroundings. >> this is definitely home of the happy turkey. there--there*s no question. i--i don't think you could have a better, nicer setting for--for a turkey than this ranch right here. >> part of diestel's flocks include birds of a different feather, an older variety popular when he was a boy. tim is working to bring the breed back and has 8,000 heirloom turkeys this year alone. heirloom turkeys are catching on in the culinary world as a growing number of diners are willing to pay more to gobble up this slice of americana. >> so there's definitely an interest in preserving these old birds, and it's kind of fu

i lived in the fill more, the mo as the kids would say and i went to rosea parks and ben franklin and now a charter school and lowell and san francisco state. when i started san francisco state it was $78 semester and people could do it and the affordability is going off the cuts and these cuts are absolutely wrong. we have to look at why families are fleeing the city and this is a move in the wrong direction. we need to get to the right direction. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> hi. excuse me my voice. i have been talking a lot. i am brenda barrels and work at san francisco general, and all i want to say is over the years i have been a 30 year employee of the city and now i'm taking home what i made six years ago, so something is absolutely wrong, and this is only going to make it worse. i mean we all sucked it up to pay our pension. i know employees that lost their homes for that get back and now you want to take more from the low paid people. it doesn't make any sense and it doesn't matter even if it's legal it's just not right for a city to behave that toward the

positions he was a principal, and assistance principal, and assistance principal, and head teacher at ben franklin middle cool and member of the district's personnel task force in 1968 and assistant superintendent and area four superintendent in 78 and 79. director of curriculum and human resources even in retirement he stayed busy and worked as a military communication instruct and her taught at foothill college. there are many employees that remember him with fondness, the board of education and the superintendent of schools express our sincere condolences to the family. meeting adjourned. >> good evening and welcome to the regular meeting of the san francisco ethics commission and he will begin by taking roll. >> commissioner studley? >> here. >> khi, liu. >> here. >> commissioner hayon is sick and not able to attend. >> as a result, we are going to defer item number five, we think that it is better to have the full commission here for the election of the chair and vice chair. the first item on the agenda is public comment on matters appearing or not appearing on the agenda that are in the juri

be you mention libraries being overburdened and i mentioned franklin ben franklin he had started this kind of intellectual men's club the juno society in philadelphia and they had a huge library and his idea for public libraries was give those to the poor give access to the poor and thus the public library came about in philadelphia i'm remembering my my my ben franklin history right. are you suggesting. that access to the internet should be not entirely necessarily a right but at least not fully a privilege that you know how do we deliver high speed high quality internet access to poor people without asking them to leave their home and go into those public libraries that are now being swamped. we decide what basic which is what we did for electricity we say look every american needs a particular kind of connection to the internet just to be dignified to have a respectable life and we say let's say it's one hundred megabits per second download and upload and then you figure out what system of cross subsidies support for expensive to serve areas and also price controls in places that a

um, obviously, ben franklin is sort of held up as the original great american tinkerer and inventer, you know, in school we learned the story of the kite and the key, and he invented the lightning rod, the franklin stove, bifocals, to.comer the and all sorts of other things. he was also considered a huge source of wisdom which is great and really interesting figure. the only thing is that he raised the bar kind of high kind of early. [laughter] i mean, he made tinkering seem like a very daunting thing. .. those kind of can be valuable as the of brandt owls well. the other thing that is interesting about frankland is if you look at a lot of them many of these original founding fathers in this country were sort of lifelong and george washington being probably the biggest of all is a young man. he pursued the farming works and he wanted to find the best fertilizer, the best way to prevent come of the best method of cultivation. he owned a lot of land so there was a lot of need for it but this is something that he pursued her about his life. the other part of it is the building of the pot

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. >> john: on the website since ben franklin the post office has changed with america.nment monopoly, you barely change. >> 200,000 less employees than we had. >> big government media would say things like that? >> they are hell bent on seeing the u.s. postal service die. >> john: so the managers wait for workers to quit or retire. attrition is kinder, is that why you do it? >> we have union contracts and in no layoff provisions. >> john: how can you run a business that way? >> that is how the cookie crumbles. >> john: that is your tax money. >> private delivery services continue to thrive while the postal service. >> fed ex and ups make billions because they innovate and cut costs. postal officials like mickey try to do that, try to close money losers like these. >> john: why weren't they closed long ago? >> political pressure. >> john: congress can do any major change, save billions by adjusting benefit payments? not a chance. >> so the politicians aren't dumb, what are they thinking? >> they are thinking about reelection. >> john: they are supposed to be responsible.

. >> john: the chairman of the post office-- >> on your website you say since ben franklin, the post america, but you don't change. you're a government monopoly, you're barely changed. >> 250,000 less, fewer employees than we had. >> you don't fire anybody. >> no. >> john: if government did fire people, the big government media would say things like that. >> they are hell bent on seeing the u.s. postal service die. >> john: so the manager waits for workers to quit or retire. attrition is kinder, that's why you do it. >> well, we have union contracts and no layoff provisions and so forth. >> john: how can you run a business that way? >> part of being a quasi governmental entity, how the cookie crumbles. your tax dollars crumble. >> fed ex continue to thrive while postal service spend billions. >> john: they could be innovative and cut costs. >> ups. >> john: postal officials like mickey barnett tried to do that, tried to close money losers like these. why weren't they closed long ago? >> political pressure. >> john: congress can kill any major change. close post offices? no way. save

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. >> tom: this caller remembers ben franklin says that democracy was two wolves and a lamb. >> tom: it is. and we can never forget that. thanks to everybody that contact the show this week. keep your comments comin in the tom sullivan show. we're open 24/7. check out ouracebook page and like it, like me or whatever you want to do. facebook.com/tom sullivanshow. you can follow me on twitter@sullivan radio and. thanks for joining us. make sure we are on fox news talk and many local radio shows around the country and through our fox news radio app, it's free. you can also hear us online by clicking the listen live button. all kinds of ways to listen to the radio show. it's every weekday from 3:00 to 6:00 eastern time. we'll have another great tv show >> welcome, i am shibani joshi and four gerri willis. we will tackle the new blackberry. as i don't have anything to worry about? we will discover and talk abt that as well. and the faa starts to close air traffic control towers. we will tell you how that can affect your travel plans going into the spring. but first, raising $8.5 billion and

the generation of choice you cannot have a row of desks and a bell ringing during ben franklin's time with single subjects in teachers and a mass education environment and expect she will be engaged, let alone a small or based on the date of manufacture be lined up in a row is comedy. >> host: how you learned about citizenship? you are talking about reforming capitalism civic children whose look at the cames that they have and the apps to get people automated but you go almost anywhere now just to look at these high phone half a billion people spending more than one hour per dave playing on-line games. 21 years or younger, you spend more time playing on-line game stand in the classroom between grades six and 12. 53 hours per week entertainment media space. 42 year-old women, on-line games is the typical face yet we are cultivating crops virtually in the farm bill and spending money to do it for you cannot make that up a few years ago. [laughter] how do meet people where they are? i remember schoolhouse rock for it is indelible coming reread educated and entertained will retaliate the

one of the things we learned from ben franklin, which is as old as politics in this country, is thatrk toward a common goal, if you're able to bring people together and fight for those things we all agree on, people are going to do a much better job of listening to you on the things we disagree on, and joy and chris, you've touched on this in just a moment ago about coming out. you know, we have seen more people come out of the closet in the last 25 years, the last 20 years, than perhaps we did in the last 100 years, and what's happened as a result is this lgbt civil rights movement, you know, has gained in last 25 years. what took about 66 665 years f civil rights movements. now what happens every single day people see lgbt people around them in their family, their workplace. every morning they bring ellen degeneres and tom roberts into their household. that's the people, chris, we're talking about here. we're talking about seniors, southerners. we're talking about working class people seeing lgbt people around them every day. >> you know what i like about you, brian, you're obvious

owned by mexico, that belonged to mexico, also that these latino students were being oppressed and ben franklind che guevara was a hero. after the superintendent and state lawmakers told the school to stop the classes and comply with state academic standards. teachers and students at the school sued claiming the school, the state was violating their right to free speech. well, first a state judge ruled in favor of arizona ruling that the classes promote resentment toward white people and teachers and students appealed so now a federal appeals court judge has also ruled in favor of arizona and a group called "save ethic studies "is vowing to pick up the fight and continue on. while the legal battles have been going on. there's a separate court dealing with a tucson effort that tucson schools need to bring back the cultural education classes. how that fits in with the 9th circuit court ruling is still a little foggy, but the state of arizona says there are two separate cases and they believe that they will not overlap. we will soon find out. >> megyn: all right. trace, thank you. joining me now t

ben franklin held up as a great original inventor and a tinkerer his bifocals, and all sorts of other source of wisdom, which is great as an interesting figure but he raised the bar high and nearly. he made tinkering seem like a daunting thing. another thing about franklin , this is a way to open things up how i looked in the book a little bit but as they understand it tinkering is a mind-set as the results. i argue in the book in some ways the u.s. postal service was his greatest tinkering project because it had such an impact on american society but he had to work out in his head over a long period of time before it ever became a reality. we will see in contemporary examples how those virtual tinkering examples can be as beneficial. but the other thing is about franklin he was not the only founding father that was a tinkerer. looking at the original founding fathers of this country were lifelong tinkerers with george washington being a the biggest of all. as a young man he pursued cutting edge farming techniques, he wanted to find the best fertilizer fertilizer, prevent plant diseas

ben franklin wanted to make it the bird of america and the eagle won out.rned. we didn't know this photo existed. >> he just walked away. i was going to thank him. he just left. he's gone. >> can we get a camera to follow him? >> he's gone. >> that's what i'm looking for. up next, what we learned today. people join angie's list for all kinds of reasons. i go to angie's list to gauge whether or not the projects will be done in a timely fashion and within budget. angie's list members can tell you which provider is the best in town. you'll find reviews on everything from home repair to healthcare. now that we're expecting, i like the fact that i can go onto angie's list and look for pediatricians. the service providers that i've found on angie's list actually have blown me away. join today and find out why over 1 million members count on angie's list. angie's list -- reviews you can trust. earning loads of points. we'll leave that there. you got a weather balloon, with points? yes i did. [ man ] points i could use for just about anything. go. ♪ keep on going i

miguel is next from ben franklin, texas. good morning, miguel. caller: hello. host: go ahead. caller: i'm actually in corpse cris, texas, but it really -- corpus christi, texas, but it really doesn't matter. the changes that the republican party should make is that trying to get in touch more with the youth, i mean, democrats were out there, obama was out there with the children, and i mean, also with, like, it doesn't matter, but he was still getting out there. and people see that, and that's what they want. they don't care about information, really, because all the voters, they're low informed. and so, i mean, i think that the republicans should, my en just come out -- just -- host: i think we're losing you there, miguel, but thanks for calling in. we'll try now brad from greenville, south carolina, a republican as well. we're talking about -- we talked to just republicans in just the first 45 minutes of the "washington journal" today. good morning, brad. caller: good morning. how are you? host: good. caller: i think we should keep it simple and go back to the thoughts of ro

clayton: you go to new jersey and if you live in philly people pay the toll to drive over the ben franklinll to go back in many ways it's cheaper for them to go to the other state and now you'll have equalling of gas taxes across the countries. >> jesse: if the states can't do balance the their own budgets they do it on the backs of taxpayers and working americans. >> alisyn: they have to balance their budget and why being a governor in some way is harder than president as governor huckabee was saying, you have to balance your budget. all roads lead back to sequester, they won't be getting as much federal assistance as they used to and they have to figure out how they're going to plug those holes. >> clayton: thank you for that optimism on this sunday. speaking of roads, and having to navigate this morning. rick reichmuth was tracking that storm and you saw the video of the storms hitting and the cars piled up on the road. >> rick: across parts of colorado, johnstown, towards the fort collins area, take a look at the tanker, it derails and catches fire. and they were very afraid it was goi

. >> daiflt savin daylight savings dreamed up by ben franklin and was an effort to change energy.doesn't have that impact. think about it for a second, tucker. if you change the clocks, you have to wake up in the dark. for most of us, that change in our schedule, just that hour, is really enough to pose significant health risks. >> we try to take indianapolis occasionally. mid afternoon you start to feel groggy. you're at the office, not a great place to take a nap unless you have one on the set. should you be taking nap every day. >> it suggestion you're not keeping a regular schedule and the same amount. that's the first thing you have to recognize is that sleep is important. you want to keep a regular schedule. >> in terms of catching up after daylight saving, you say today everybody listening should be taking a 20 to 40 minute nap. that will help? >> that's exactly right, a. >> we should have adjusted our sleep by fifteen minutes a night. it's done. it's too late. 20 to 40 minute nap is a great measure to try and offset that sleep loss. >> can we dim the lights in here? that's

ben frankly put -- ben franklin put it well when he said those who would sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither. congressional oversight is critical to ensure that we sacrifice neither as we pursue a smart but tough national security strategy especially in this age of new forms of warfare which my friend from south carolina, my friend from arizona and others were just discussing. this was true over the past several months as i joined senator wyden and others in pushing hard for access to the legal justification used by the executive branch to lethally target americans using drones. the fact that we've had to push so hard, madam president, i'm sorry to say no doubt has eroded our government's credibility with the american people. but it also gave us an opportunity and give gives us an opportunity and a good reason to maintain and strengthen our system of checks and balances. i'm pleased the administration met our request and is giving members of the intelligence committee access to legal opinions on targeting american citizens. this is an important first step, but there is more t

franklin ford. political white house reporter, carry rudolph brown and buzz beat editor in chief, ben. >> for a moment this morning you might have thought the republican party had finally reached the thing that seems to have eluded them for so very long, the modern era. ohio senator rob portman, once a shoe-in for mitt romney's vp slot came out in favor of gay marriage. >> i'm announcing today a change of heart. on an issue that you know a lot of people feel strongly about. and it has to do with gay couples, opportunity to marry. my son came to jane, my wife and i, told us that he was gay. and that it was not a choice. and that you know, he, that's just part of who he is and he had been that way ever since he could remember. >> what was your reaction when he told you? >> love, support. >> was the gop finally knocking on the door of the 21st century? and, as purveyors of trickle-down everything, with this new-found tolerance trick down to the rest of the party. a party that lost gay americans last year by a margin of 53 points. if cpac is any indication, probably not. >> we cannot hope to limit governm

positions he was a principal, and assistance principal, and assistance principal, and head teacher at ben franklin middle cool and member of the district's personnel task force in 1968 and assistant superintendent and area four superintendent in 78 and 79. director of curriculum and human resources even in retirement he stayed busy and worked as a military communication instruct and her taught at foothill college. there are many employees that remember him with fondness, the board of education and the superintendent of schools express our sincere condolences to the family. meeting adjourned.