wrote it let me finish it is what dickens wrote about it is a small very wealthy upper class a very small mercantile list and professional middle class and huge class of the working poor that's what an economy normally produces if you keep all your hands off as you're suggesting as you're suggesting and so you're absolutely right that unions come in and say we are going to we are going to say we're not going to work unless you push some of that money down from the top that was not the economy in america from eight hundred eighty eight in one nine hundred twenty arguably one of the periods of time when we had the most laissez faire attitude that this country's ever had and it is simply and as a rule and in one thousand nine hundred the average income in today's dollars was ten thousand and five we don't have the inflow and we had an influx of people coming into our country because it was such a bountiful place of opportunity people were getting their hands cut off their fingers cut off they were dying in a country where they were all of the older working roma were trying your strateg

i believe director dickens has some opening remarks. >> yes, thank you.o, jennifer matz, please step up to the podium. as part -- the small business commission has the recognition program for employees of the city and county of san francisco who have really -- who have either support our small businesses and in your case you have been a real champion for the small business commission and our office. so, commissioner mark dwight has nominated you to receive recognition from the small business commission, and he is going to be presenting you with our certificate of recognition. >> okay. now, the official business here. certificate of honor -- where is the camera? [laughter] >> okay. so, this is the official certificate of honor, small business commission of the city and county of san francisco acknowledging jennifer matz from the office of economic and workforce development, on this monday, october 22nd, 2012, the small business commission is proud to acknowledge the contributions of jennifer matz, office of economic and workforce development, has made the

when charles dickens visited us in 1840, he was truly blown away by high water pressure on the fourth floor of the hotel he was staying in. nowhere in europe had he experienced that. this technology was doing something to support the life and the growth of the city. philadelphia, throughout the 19th century, was the major industrial city of the united states. all of these industries used water from this system. and it served as a prototype for many american cities, including pittsburgh and new york. man: new york city went to philadelphia and said, "you know, we're thinking of developing a hudson river water supply -- what do you suggest we do?" and they said, "we've had "a lot of problems on the schuylkill. "don't go to the hudson river. go to the upland and work by gravity." and that's what new york city did. they first went to the hudson highlands, but 150 years later, it went to the delaware highlands. and really diverted the water that normally went to philadelphia to new york city. i don't think they anticipated that. narrator: the majority of new york city's drinking water come

regina dickens, director of office of small business. that was combined workshop with supervisor carmen chu and s.f. bar association which we recorded and is being aired cyclically on sfgov. >> was there anybody from the building department? >> at that particular presentation, no. >> with regard to that, i mean not to -- why wouldn't we have representation there from the dbi, ma'am? >> that was probably an oversight in relationship to the coordination of the program with the sf bar association and not communicating all the different departments that may need to be there to represent and provide information. >> okay. just, you know, looking down the road here, we're all in this one together. we have a huge role to play and it's frustrating for us because we want to do all the right things. information is power, power is information to us. what is going on with the other departments so we're all on the same page with this, i don't know if any other commissioners want to weigh in on this, but it's very important. if we're to be successful a

that, is, but also to encourage people -- small business has something right now that scares the dickensut of them. and that is obama care. that is one reason we have to get rid of it. now, for us though do those five things, is going to create 12 million jobs in america. and with that type of job growth you will see employers having to pay higher wages, to hire capable people. and that means incomes will start to go up. that is how this whole thing works. this is how free markets work. we'll get more people hired, and rising take-home pay.

. >> in the 1800's, charles dickens wrote a novel about his trip to america called "martin chuzzelwit." he mentioned his exposure to newspapers. we know that the "new york times" is biased. we know that the "economist" is biased. "wall street journal" is now horribly bias. we kind of adjust our lenses here when you read online and you do not know the person is, it is difficult to know whether it is legitimate or not. newspapers eventually disappear and are no longer published in print, so they are just competing with everyone else. how do we establish -- how do we know -- how to newspapers establish credibility? i saw this news reporter who put a piece on youtube about gavin newsom just walking away. so how did these organizations establish credibility? how are people able to see the problems with bias that will never come up? there is also a problem with advertisers, backers. a millionaire putting $500,000 or $1 million into a newspaper, and he will expect something in return. he may not want his coverage to be negative. so there are all these things. i wondered if anybody had any ge

he was already on his own reading mark twain and circling charles dickson -- charles dickens, as he put it. he liked dracula. did you know, that is the novel? i did not know that was a real novel. i thought it was just too scared children. [laughter] i made a bargain with him. he promised a firewood could read it dracula he would agreed the tale of two cities. we both kept our promise and i think he got the better part of the bargain. [laughter] at 13 he handed in his first novel he failed every test he took because he hated the 80 of the test and would not participate with the drilling some of the schools spend half the year how to outwit the test. nothing to do with learning. he went to school in england and ninth grade principal said this boy will never go college. he is not college material. he cannot pass his test. of wonderful headmaster said there is something and this boy. we will not give up on him. he had 12 for 14 kids in his class. he graduated from a wonderful college a few years ago also back in the south bronx serving with the kids he left behind. he wants to be a ministe

look at dickens, all the great writers, tolstoy?d there is some sort of redemption or you feel unsatisfied with the book. >> "les miserables." >> are you enjoying your time on the stage? most people know you probably from tv. >> what i find fascinating about the stage, the deeper tone, what i find fascinating about the stage, they've always said this repeatedly, it's different every night. >> yes. >> the one joke falls flat, the next night it's boffo. >> because the audience is everything. >> and you screw up, too >> have you had a screw-up? meltdowns? >> no meltdowns, brain farts. >> depending how long those last they can turn into meltdowns. you know what he said when he saw hoda, he came over for a big hug and said -- what did you say? too big to fail. that's hoda. >> she interviewed me then. >> she is a long drink of water. >> mary tyler moore was here about a week ago. >> how is she? >> she seemed great. do you guys keep in touch? >> we don't. >> is that on purpose or would you like to run into her on occasion? >> i would like

she would write chapter by chapter, not unlike the way dickens would write. he would write as things occur to him and send them in immediately. she needed time and space to think and work in she didn't have a lot of that, so she would have to squeeze in her writing, in between taking care of her children, cooking, cleaning, doing all these things at the same time. and that is something, in the morning or very late at night was probably when she wrote. she had a kind of dedication to her writing. if you've read her stuff, she wrote in such an engaging manner, works that could actually be rad, by people like her, by her children. "uncle tom's cabin" is also a great children's story that is who she was writing for. she was ready to kind of educate young people on the politics and social situation of her time. she's kind of middle-class i guess. before the publication of "uncle tom's cabin," they were living off calvin salary, which wasn't very much. after the publication of "uncle tom's cabin" she became a sensation, the most famous soccer in america, if not the

not the charles dickens character. the other guy? [ laughter ] he got married, he was here.t wedding. and you can see it on youtube probably. but anyways, if you don't know johnny carson, if you like comedy, you should learn about this guy. go to johnnycarson.com. there's clips online, dvds, documentaries. he was the greatest. so, happy anniversary to -- [ cheers and applause ] -- to that legacy. feel the vibe. [ applause ] we have a great show tonight. from "taken 2" -- i cannot wait for this movie -- liam neeson is here, you guys! you can't get bigger. [ cheers and applause ] oh, he's good. >> steve: good dude. >> jimmy: plus, from the new comedy, "animal practice," here on nbc, joanna garcia swisher is stopping by! [ cheers and applause ] and we have music from one of my favorites out there. matt & kim are playing tonight. [ cheers and applause ] matt & kim. i'll tell you a quick, little story. they probably don't even remember this, but we had their tv debut when they were on our show. probably about a year ago or something? and it's, you know, matt and kim. there's two

he was already at the age of 12 on his own reading mark twain, and as he put it circling charles dickens and he liked horror books for one year. it's an awful. i didn't know what was a real novel. i thought it was just something to scare children. so i made a bargain with him. he promised that if i would read dracula he would read the tale of two cities and we both kept our promise and i think he dust got the best part of that bargain he and he handed me this first novel. he failed every test he took because he hated the test. she hated to deal with the test and he wouldn't participate in the drilling for tests. some of those schools are just teaching the kids how to outwit the test. there's nothing to do with learning. here's another one that we pulled out. he went to school in new england and the principle even said they would never go to college, they are not college material because he couldn't pass the test. a wonderful headmaster in new england said to get the scores there's something in his eyes i want him don't worry credit from a wonderful college a couple years ago serving the

simon: there were remarkable documents-- letters signed by mark twain, sir isaac newton, charles dickensed by lorenzo de medici 533 years ago; an epitaph written by benjamin franklin for himself... and he wrote, "lies here food for the worms, yet the work shall not be lost." pretty good stuff. ...a letter written by john hancock with a real john hancock signature. and for 20th century buffs, there was the original reading copy of fdr's 1937 inaugural address-- this one... >> president franklin roosevelt: one third of a nation, ill housed, ill clad, ill nourished... >> rosenstein: it was a rainy day. in fact, the reading copy of the speech, the document the president read from that day was waterlogged. and you can see that on the document that we seized from mr. landau. >> simon: and landau didn't just steal from historical libraries. he had taken his campaign of kindness all the way to the white house, befriending president clinton's former secretary, betty currie, who made the mistake of inviting landau to her house. landau was pretty good at making friends with people who could help hi

. >> rose: dow rich woman think of yourself as dickens. >> no, i really get that, i think it's a fair question. but i also think that i do genuinely think that if you are-- if are you sitting there thinking now who would i most like to be compared to, you are wasting your time. just get on and work. do the work. >> rose: yeah. but who are you writing for? >> my ideal reader has an open mind. and loves character, i suppose. >> rose: but when you are writing dow see like a movie. do you see this-- pretty soon i assume after harry potter you saw the character as exactly like the movie character for harry potter. >> interestingly-- no. >> rose: interesting? >> no, i didn't. >> rose: you never thought of him as -- >> with one exceptio exception-- exception this is what is interesting. i never saw dan or rupert or emma as my-- no, because hi lived with them so long i saw my characters in my head there was one exception and i have said this before, if anna lynch who played luna lovegood, i saw her. >> that-- they are conspiring against you and dumbledore. >> thanks, seems about you are the o

i can say charles dickens has nothing on this market, including today's roller coaster action. markets closed up, the dow rising 2 points, the s&p gaining 0.38%. stocks are going up or down not because of revenue growth or lack thereof. that's the simplistic way the newspapers are explaining it. they're going up or down because of expectations with a capital e. often the expectations are just too great going into the quarter, or the expectations are negative enough that poor expectations should be the title of some of these conference calls. take caterpillar. it reported a hideous quarter because it was the worst of times in china, the worst of times in china. not the worst, but certainly in america. on top of, that cat's management lost its optimism and started it, well, an attitude of resignation. next year will be better. that's the attitude that often precedes disappointing seasons in every sport, as well as disappointing numbers in the sport we play in. this was not kathmandu. it was cat-no-do. so what happens? the stock looks horrible in the premarket that time this when

she would write passage by passage, unlike the way charles dickens would write, he would write quickly and cinnamon immediately. she needed time to have space, in between taking care of the children in cooking and cleaning -- doing all those things at the same time. that is how you squeeze in these things. that is probably one she wrote. >> she had a dedication to the craft of writing. she would write in a way that could actually be read by people like her and her children. "uncle tom's cabin" is also a great children's story. that is who she was writing for. she was writing to educate young people. educate them on the politics and social situations of the time. before the publication of "uncle tom's cabin", they were living off of calvin's salary, which was not very much. it was really after the publication of "uncle tom's cabin" and she became a famous author. the most famous author in america, if not the world. this novel brought her great fame and with it came -- some prosperity, but it would've been more if she would've negotiated a contract. she continued to write and she wrote p

. >> he has a new book and we'll flog the dickens out of that thing. lori: you should. melissa: it is quarter to, as we do every 15 minutes let's check the markets. nicole petallides standing by on the floor of the new york stock exchange. you have upbeat news on the housing sector. >> stocks may not reflect the upbeat news we've seen, not today at least. look at homebuilders while i give you numbers on the sentiment. homebuilder sentiment rose to a six-year high but momentum is easing as far as expectations in the next six months. that's why you're seeing this group is mixed and leaning to the downside. current sales we're seeing are pretty much flat. the outlook is flat. the momentum has been decelerating. but many of these stocks are up 100, and in the case of pulte homes, 300% in 52 weeks. back to you. melissa: nicole, thanks so much. lori: so at a time when our country's deficit is more than $16 trillion, should the government really be spending one 1/2 billion dollars of your money to subsidize cell phone service for others? rich edson is in washington with more,

she did this in installments so shero chapter by chapter not unlike the way dickens would write. he would write his things occurred to him. she needed time and space to think and work and she didn't have a lot of that said she would have to squeeze in her writing in between you know taking care for children, cooking, cleaning and doing all of these other things at the same time and that was something -- you know how you squeeze them in the wee hours of the morning or very late at night is probably when she wrote. she had dedication to the class, her writing. if you read her stuff you know, she wrote in such an engaging manner, work that could actually be read by people like her, by her children. uncle tom's cabin is a children's story and that is who she was writing for. she was writing to kind of educate young people on the politics and the social situation of her time. this is middle-class i guess but before the publication of uncle tom's cabin they were living off of calvin salary which really wasn't very much. after the publication of uncle tom's cabin she became a sensation,

it is being compared to the works of charles dickens and caramel. i am joined now by the author of "ghost of manhattan", and my husband. how are you doing, dave? >> on good, honey. i'm very proud of you and i want to talk to you about this. i think that our viewers knew a lot about the risks that we are taking on wall street. they knew that we risked too much and what this lays out is that this was not just a professional choice but an entire lifestyle that they are living. >> it is a lifestyle that they are consumed by. business on wall street is a relationship driven business. it is not as though these guys were for apple and things are based on product differentiation. the. megyn: everyone selling the same thing. >> that's right. megyn: but the advantage you have is on the other side? >> that's right. it's very nightlife entertainment. again, it's not like software appliances were you have your year-end bonuses in the tens of thousands. if you work at bear stearns, and your bonuses $2 million -- it's not like working at tgi friday's. megyn: it is

. >> the tale of two campaigns, read dickens. it was the best of times, it was the worst of times. i could show you ten polls. you look at those polls, you think there is no way barack obama's going to win. i could show you ten other polls and you'd say, mitt romney is sunk. >> an associated press poll now has him up, what is it 49 to 45. with women. do you think that maybe stemmed from the debate? he was a little more moderate in the debate? how is he picking up these female voters right now? >> i have no idea. >> you're asking the wrong person. >> i have no idea. and these debates over abortion and these republican candidates who are just stepping in it on those issues, i think terrible timing for your party. at the same time, the polls show that mitt romney is actually gaining support among women. >> in a big way. >> i also think, overall, it's still a kind of convoluted enough where each side, i can see, the positive that i want to see, and why i think obama will win. and he could probably see the other side. >> this is such a tight race. what do they need to do? what can they