so that is the disability committee. we have direct access to the secretary. chairman louis is the commissioner for the administration for now the newly formed intellectual and developmental disabilities. on that the aging said, mr. walker serves as the deputy assistant secretary for aging, advocating on behalf of older americans. now this new federal agency will seek to enhance and improve a broad range of support that individuals may need to live with respect and dignity as full members of our community. this needs to go well beyond health care. it includes the availability of private housing, employment, education, meaningful relationships, as well as social participation. in addition, we will be working with the centers for medicare and medicaid services to develop, refine, and strengthen policies that promote independent living among all populations, especially those served by medicaid. we would also look with cms to promote home and community-based services and support. last but not least, i will be remiss if i forget to mention that may is also the time

the disabled access is expensive upgrade requirement. the green building stuff we will see a lot of green building regulations in the next 10 years and start affecting restaurants as well as every build negligent stay. have to do with lighting and envelope efficiency. it will tighten up the rooup rules more. it's not just the state and local legal the bay area air quality management district passed a law with restaurants where you have a broiler of more than 10, >> 10 feet. >> you have to have a special way to burn off the grease and vent. very expensive. there are regulations coming from every direction and mostly ending up in the building code. whether they are social issues or health and safety issues they'll be in the building code. yes , sir. >> on the exiting, you have 2 fire exits do both have to be disabled access or can you have one? >> the code just changed. it used to say an accessible entry and now you need accessible exits as well. for new accessible for remodels red you with use the second exit. >> the lift, ironically we g

we don't call them disabled. they happen to have a disability. he joined pacific bell, helped organize honda the advisory group for people that happen to have a disability. he gave them put to that company on how to develop features that will help them do better. he became the director of death and disabled services. he was executive director for berkeley in 2001. under dmitri's direction, they have expanded it, they have done so many different things. i can't even less the mall. he sends people out that happen to be disabled and of a test things. before they get out there, to make sure that they are done the right way. so they can practically help people. it is my pleasure right now. give a warm welcome cojones -- to mr. dmitri belzer. [applause] >> thank you, dave. i just decided who will be giving this speech that my memorial service, that is a great introduction. i want to talk to them about how people with disabilities use computers. the first and want to talk about is my family. i come from a family of eastern european immigrants. they were

services that are made available to all non- disabled individuals. if the food service related entities such a -- such as a restaurant, you must have a restroom and the rest must be accessible. there are other items such as telephones and atms. there are specific requirements, state and federal, that speak to those accommodations and those things such as tables, the door pressure, restrooms, those are classified as accommodations. that are offered to the public. we talked about readily achievable, a couple of factors that go into that analysis. what are the overall financial resources of the business? that depends on each person's circumstances, each entity's circumstances. also the nature -- how burdensome are the proposed remedial measures? the last two items are not applicable to small businesses, they are intended for larger entities like a wal-mart or safeway or home depot to have multiple -- that have multiple locations. most small businesses do not. another reason we see access litigation in the news so often is there are a lot of businesses,

i have many disabled customers. as a microbusiness, we cannot afford to alienate any segment of potential business. also, i could not afford to defend a lawsuit nor could i afford to settle out of court. as a businesswoman and a resident of noe valley, i wouldn't want my reputation to be someone who doesn't care about others. i am on the a.d. committee, whose purpose has been to warn and protect merchnlts in san francisco from the lawsuits that be targeted small business owners. we've walked the streets and gone business to business to help spread the word. this does not mean you'll be forced to close your business. we've focused on readily achievable aequivalent facilitation as well as the casp process. all the proactive steps that business can take to make a plan for the larger and more expensive repairs that may be made ov

almost half of all households headed by someone with a disability did not have a computer. compare that to only 20% of households that do not have a computer if they were headed by someone without a disability. similarly, 43% of homes headed by someone with a disability subscribed to broadband compared to 72% of all homes, a 29-point difference. our data also shows that older americans, particularly those 65 and older, are less likely to live in a home with a computer or to have broadband internet access at home. and what is more, as we look further into this data, we found that when we looked at other socioeconomic factors, like in come or education, it did not fully explain it the gaps. even after accounting for a socio-economic and geographic factors, african-american and hispanic households still lack a white household in broadband adoption by 11 percentage points. at rural households still lacked urban households by five percentage points. these ongoing disparities and our critical need for our nation's future to overcome them are white today's summit is so important -

disability issues are american issues. a broad segment of issues, i hope disability will be included as a lens. >> i want to be sensitive to our time but those who come to testify, an opportunity to be heard. unnoticed that it is passed 630 and we still have several folks here. if there are no questions we will go to the next presenter and on will ask presenters to please do as much as they can to keep their remarks to five minutes and i will ask my committee members if they have a burning question please ask it. let's try to be as sensitive as we can to the fact the time is moving along. the next presenter, the rev. canon k. campbell and is executive director of minnesota council for churches, representing profits -- protestant denomination in minnesota. and respectful, welcoming and just communities in minnesota and also the past president of the national council of churches. thank you for coming and we look forward to your testimony. >> i know there's an awful lot of history and ways in which the clergy are like lawyers

mainstream news about one that speaks volumes about the death penalty debate here in the u.s. a mentally disabled man was executed last night in texas so why are some states willing to overlook science to use the death penalty or question more. plus fox news is on the hunt their prey obama adviser david plouffe and his connections to iran about all of this foreign policy double speak is enough to make your head spin we'll try to sort out the details and say psion r.-o. to your privacy the u.s. appeals court just ruled the government has the right to spy on all your communications without warrants or worry to be careful what you say big brother would be listening. it's wednesday august eighth five pm here in washington d.c. my name is christine you're watching r t. let's begin the show with a look at the state of texas there last night a mentally disabled man was executed marvin wilson was convicted of killing a police informant twenty years ago he had an i.q. of sixty one well below the average of seventy the number considered to be the bare minimum to determine competency after months of appeals

hugh bleeshz there elieves ther thing as a disabled person, just disabled technologies. he and his team are creating cutting edge prosthetics using a device called a biom. which stands for what? >> bionic motion. so here you see the biom. inside this metal shield we have a muscle-tendon like what we call actually your motor system and we have various sensors, about 12 sensors. we also have several computers. there's three computers. here's the battery, the power supply. >> people walk, they put their heel down to their toe. they're bending their knees slightly whether they walk. you can tell someone who has an older type of prosthetic device that the walking is unnatural. >> want to have a race? >> no, i do not want to race now. >> how about with you? what is different? >> there's a lot that's different. so these offer control when the foot's in contact with the ground and when the foot's off the ground. so these actually propel me forward so i can do all of things, walk at all speeds and run up steps and all kinds of things. >> what's that like for you? >> it's exhilara

well judging by the fact that he clearly is mentally disabled. they shouldn't have executed him that is for sure. and they should make sure in games like that i mean they should make sure that these people have good representation good legal counsel which oftentimes of the case i mean that's one of the reasons that the court room court ruled you couldn't execute people with mental disabilities because they were going rable to wrongful conviction and they were vulnerable to having you know across the representation and not being able to you know not being able to help themselves. so i think that the state of texas need to do adopt a regular standards i mean i actually would object to the executing people period but it won't be heard ality i don't think any time soon they should be using science to determine they should be using doctors and science to determine whether people are mentally ill mentally disabled or whatever else medically needs to be diagnosed and right now i know you're following this really for quite a while now but i want to talk

this man is clearly mentally disabled how is texas moving ahead with this execution the challenge is that when the supreme court ruled in the atkins decision in two thousand and two it didn't set out a definition for mental retardation or intellectual disability it left it to the states to determine that and so that meant that a state like texas. basically had their own standards and as you said they look to the work of john steinbeck to develop some criteria for what they would consider somebody with quote unquote mental retardation. as out of work i mean well a set of a set of factors that have been deemed by the american association of intellectual and mental disabilities as being. false stereotypes and just completely ridiculous not based in science at all so it's basically if the inmate acts like a lenny from of mice and men then we can consider him mentally ill but if he doesn't display the qualities that when he does then he's he can be executed that's the basis there is that right now in texas a sickly and it really goes against the very heart of the atkins decision which was

participation for people with disabilities. mark, we thank you for coming and we look forward to your testimony. >> it is a pleasure to be here. thank you for your invitation. it is an honor to speak on behalf of 54 million americans with disabilities. we are the largest minority group in the united states. this is something that most people i think do not know or realize. before i go on, i will say as an american with attention deficit disorder, i have no idea how you have sat here all day and still remain so focused. it is absolutely impressive. as one of my disabilities, attention deficit disorder, i have prepared remarks that have totally changed in the last two minutes. we heard about the war on women, and that is a very public war that people know about. but there is a silent war that is happening is people with disabilities all across america. it is happening in the halls of congress, in state capitals, in boardrooms, in schools, all across america. the decisions that you all make, the democratic party platform, is the f

i manage a program for people with disabilities that need assistance devices.here is a great program with the at&t network. a co-worker and i work with it. if anyone is interested in borrowing the equipment, you can call our office. we can help you to register. it has no cost. you can keep it up to 30 days. you can borrow a lot of things that will help people with different needs to play wii or do anything else. even simple things. let's say someone wants to buy a walker but you are not sure what kind. if the center happens to have different ones, you can try different walkers before you make a final decision of what you want to buy. >> fantastic. they will have a resource table throughout the course of the day. if you want more information about the adapted wii equipment, this is what it comes in. when we went through the metal detector this morning, they looked very closely at this thing. it just has the remotes, the sip and puff, and the different adoptive -- adaptive equipment for the wii. the cost is around $1,000. they have already purchased it. they will

american with disabilities. and i am proud to say that. i want you to know that president obama has done more for us, a group of people that have been ignored, than you could possibly imagine. first, he signed the u.n. convention on rights of persons with disabilities in his first year when, by the way, we had tried to get that done for ye s years. then he saw the high unemployment in the federal government of americans with disabilities, so he signed an executive order that the federal required would be over five years to hire 100,000 employees with disabilities. then he was support active of 503 of the rehabilitation act federal d require oall contractors to be obligated for having a plan to employ americans with disabilities. he this week, on monday, our great champion valerie jared has become a national spokesperson for americans with disabilities and our desire to be employed. because without employment you are never, ever, ever free in this country. you can't buy a car. you can't go on vacation. you cannot live that american dream un

also disturbing information notices in multiple languages on the local, state, and federal disability access laws. we all know that much of what is at play here involves federal and state laws in addition to our local laws and there probably are their ideas we should move forward that i hope to be able to work with you, colleagues either as a sponsor or is a co-sponsor of future legislation but from my perspective, we need to do everything we can to insure the accessibility of our spaces and ensure that small business tenants and landlords are fully aware and educated and doing what they need to do to bring their properties and their spaces into compliance and with that, i would like to ask for your support. supervisor mar: thank you. i went to thank president chiu but also the small business office and the mayor's office of disability and others for their hard work on this legislation. i am proud to be a sponsor. we held a hearing at the land use and economic development committee a couple of weeks ago with many small businesses that came out raising concerns. many people did speak p

are you disabled? the politicians say they can help you find jobs, but, no, they can't. >> must take strong action. >> john: for this guy, young senator al gore helped convince democrats and republicans to overwhelming pass the americans with disabilities acted. >> the point is to get people with disabilities employed and had the reverse effect. >> the reverse effect. when the law was passed, 61% of people were in the work force. now it's just 33%. one reason is that the law makes employers see the disabled as a legal threat. you fire a disabled person he may sue you. in addition, it would force businesses to accommodate handicapped people. it includes hundreds of pages of rules. every new doorway must be 32 inches wide. every mirror 40 inches above the floor. if they aren't, they may sue you. he filed hundreds of lawsuits every year. >> john: what would you do if you were in a wheelchair, to don't you want something to protect your rights. >> but the protection is a nasty thing. now some businesses ar

the website tells them the best way to get there, depending on their disability. they can access the site from mobile phones. and the number of monthly uses has topped 1 million. >> make changes, it's about much more than sport. it's about inclusion. it's about an entire society. >> the paraolympic model is spirit in motion. more than ever, that's true for spectators as well as athletes. erica stephenson, nhk world, london. >>> scientists at nasa have transmitted the first ever voice message from another planet thanks to a little thing called curiosity. the mars rover curiosity beamed back the message along with new images of the red planet. this image shows layer upon layer of multi-colored strata. scientists compare the terrain to the grand canyon in arizona. the dots on this photo indicate the different levels. sciences say the geological makeup appears to be different. the lower ones res resemble tho found on the grand canyon, which was formed by water. nasa officials say the images reveal a previously unknown side of mars. they plan to send curiosity towards

the world needs to be open. >> people on disability has the task of addressing all the disability. when we are talk about the sidewalks, ramps, we have very specific issues. for people blind and low vision, we have the issue of knowing where they are and when the cross. it can be hit or miss. >> at hulk and grove, that sound the the automatic -- it helps people cross the street safely. >> now we have a successful pedestrian signal. >> i push the button, i get an audible message letting me know that i need to wait. when it is safe to cross, not only am i going to get an audible indicator, this button is going to vibrate. so it tells me it is safe. there is the driller sound and this trigger is vibrating. i am not relying on anything but the actual light change, the light cycle built into it. >> it brings san francisco from one of the major cities in the u.s. to what is going to be the lead city in the country. >> city working on all sorts of things. we are trying to be new and innovative and go beyond the ada says and make life more successful for people. >> disability rights moveme

we know some kids come into the world, with disabilities, physical disabilities and mental disabilitieshem at risk for being targeted as well as being kid. we know there are kid who out there who have autism and other developmental that make it difficult for them to identify signals and seens out there about when bullying is occurring, and how they might respond. we also know those kids don't respond very well to the queues in the environment and solutions what they're experiences was of those neurological or other disabilities. and n my world. if i have a special of working with kids on behavior disabilities or social emotional disturbances those are the kids who in addition to school-based mental issues have behavioral difficults that interfere with their ability to socialize. as a result of that a target of bullying behavior or being accused of being engaging in bullying them when it might be fact a manifest station of the disability. i want you to know that kids with disability oftentimes end up being targeted as well as being recipients of bullying behaviors of the behaviored disor

after that, i was disabled again. when i went back to work, i went to city college and i tipped classes new mexico -- i took classes and i want to do that kind of work. i could not do it before. i could not pay the money to take care of my kids and go to had a job making over $15 an hour that i did not want to go back to. i had to go back to my job to take care of my family. city college has done a lot for a lot of single parents. the situation is that i did not have to live a welfare life. i had a decent address and everything. the kids went to school and graduated. look out for the people who do not have the resources to go to the regular universities. president chiu: thank you. again, if i could ask members of the public. we shall only have one person speaking at a time and that is the person at the podium. >> greetings, mr. director, members of the board of supervisors. i serve as the president of associated student council of the downtown campus. i am here to speak and support the november special initiative that

it's not ridiculous but he has mental disabilities so that's another question you may have problems with reasoning . i think he's not capable of making decisions for other people i do voluntary work myself with mentally disabled people for them and got a lot of respect for them but they have to realize themselves that they're not able to do everything all the other get residents like frederick think it's really nothing more than a publicity stunt and i know it's difficult when you criticize such a nice and good guy but i don't want to criticize him in person i want to criticize his party for using him as a kind of political tool and to get media attention in a time where we are close to. melissa pool elections did you know is well aware of the criticism but as far as he's concerned these are political i spend a lot of energy campaigning the rest is up to a broader diversity because you may not this one just silly r t get in belgium and r.t. is coming to live from moscow greece is struggling to curb the flow of illegal immigrants claiming scarce public funds and more than sixteen hun

deep-seated prejudice against people with disabilities. they often receive verbal abuse. i want to show them that if you do your best, god will help you, and you'll be successful even with a disability. >> reporter: he hopes success in london will bring rare, good news to neem papeople in pakist. the economy is weak and violence widespread. more than 30,000 people have been killed across the country over the past decade. >> translator: i want to prove that young people in pakistan can be active members of the world community. we are not inferior to other nationalities. i want to show that we can do anything if we put our minds to it. >> pakistan failed to win a medal at the recent olympic games. his fellow countrymen look to him to represent pakistan and give hope to everybody, no matter their ability. nhk world, islamabad. >>> thousands of residents and visitors are waiting for the games to get under way. some have already found the city is easier to get around. nhk world erica stevenson has that story. >> reporter: musicians from around