and eliza hirsch is the supervising attorney in the clean slate pride is at the east bay community lawter. welcome, panelists. i want to tell the audience that while we are having this session, if you have questions, feel free to write them down, and the ushers will get them some you. at the end of the discussion, we will have a question and answer session. dr. richards, it is my understanding you have some personal experience in this area. i would ask you to share your experiences with us and tell us about the barriers that exist for people who have a criminal record. >> i'm a convicted felon. i'm an ex-con. and i'm a professor. i'm the leader of the convert criminology group. if you jus

and eliza hirsch is the supervising attorney in the clean slate pride is at the east bay community lawter. welcome, panelists. i want to tell the audience that while we are having this session, if you have questions, feel free to write them down, and the ushers will get them some you. at the end of the discussion, we will have a question and answer session. dr. richards, it is my understanding you have some personal experience in this

. >> hi, my name's eliza and i was forced to play an instrument when i was younger so i was wonderingboth of you if you think it's important to make a kid play an instrument? >> sometimes maybe you're playing the wrong instrument. maybe that's why you don't like it because instruments are really different. perhaps, for instance, i can't play the piano, but i can play the flute because my fingers don't work right on a piano. so, maybe if you're forced to play one instrument maybe you can just try something else like the trumpet and then you can keep your mom happy. >> hi, my name is max and i was just wondering if you guys felt that musicians like yourselves that play the kind of music you do get the same respect from you know, kids and adults that pop artists do? >> it's a bit different because, you know, pop artists do a different job and they're sort of idols of, popular idols you know? what we do is a rather specialized thing and the people who come to hear us know what we're all about. >> hi, i'm rachel. >> i'm perinas and we were wondering what the best part of being a profession

and eliza hirsch is the supervising attorney in the clean slate pride is at the east bay community law center. welcome, panelists. i want to tell the audience that while we are having this session, if you have questions, feel free to write them down, and the ushers will get them some you. at the end of the discussion, we will have a question and answer session. dr. richards, it is my understanding you have some personal experience in this area. i would ask you to share your experiences with us and tell us about the barriers that exist for people who have a criminal record. >> i'm a convicted felon. i'm an ex-con. and i'm a professor. i'm the leader of the convert criminology group. if you just go to google and google convict criminology, you will find our website. our group was actually started many years ago by professor john irwin, who was at a san francisco state university for 30 years. john recently passed away. john, even after he retired in 1995, for nearly 15 years helps me to organize the convicts criminology group. there is now 30 of us. we are all ex cons, ph.d., and profess

yet another one said eliza will sing i will not pass this way again at the last church service, much to the delight of the crowd. when i talk about health policy, i'm going to try to extend it, because i think health policy no longer is just health policy. in fact it's not even dominantly health policy. increasingly, it's, as dean i think mentioned, it's basically budget policy. budget policy for a long time has been that 500 pound gorilla sitting in the corner. it's now the 800 pound gorilla sitting in the middle of the room. there's almost nothing else we can talk about in any area of the budget without walking by that 800 pound gorilla and how it's going to take a swipe at us. so i have a couple slides up here quickly up front to try to convince you why health policy is no longer health policy and medicare is the dominant public expen expenditu expenditure. if one counted spending on health care equal to the taxes we pay, and i've long argued that's what we should do, we should stop reporting on revenues as if they're the taxes the public owes. the taxes the public owes is equal t

. >> yeah, there have been big stories, although my 14-year-old daughter, eliza, has never paid any attention days ago she came home and she said, "dad, this is amazing." and i said, "what happened?" she said, "you're in the justin bieber movie!" [ laughter ] >> jimmy: yeah, yeah. >> yes, and apparently there's a cameo of me in the justin bieber movie. >> jimmy: yes -- >> nobody even rang me up to ask me, or anything. i'm just in it apparently. >> jimmy: -- well we can tell everybody, you are a backup dancer for justin bieber. [ laughter ] >> no, no. >> jimmy: a lot of people don't know this. you're in 3-d. >> thank you. >> jimmy: absolutely. although this is a big honor. yeah. i've got to ask you about the michael jackson interview. because that for me, that's the first time i really knew your name, martin bashir. because it was headlines, that you got to talk to him, you got to go into where he lived, and it was just fascinating to me to see, like i think you kind of really humanized him for me a little bit. because, for me, i was just like, man, michael is out there. you know, sleeping wit

. >> dretzin: take eliza. she's 20, a mechanical engineering major, and completely wired, all the time. >> is it going to stay in beta for as long as gmail stayed in beta? >> probably. >> a decade. >> probably. >> i have a few friends who, if they hear the word blackberry, they think of me. like, i am never off of it. it is glued to me. when it's more than arm's length from me, i start to get panicky. it's very disconcerting. are we gchat buddies? can i just... i'm always im-ing or texting or things like that. always checking my phone, taking care of other things while i'm doing something else. >> you are talking to your friend at the same time you're talking to another friend. at the same time, you're emailing another friend about what you're going to do tomorrow night. classes here aren't fun, man. we kind of understand that, too, between each other. we're all so busy that it's okay, if i'm talking to murph right now and his blackberry goes off and he has to start going on it. i'm like, well, that's okay bec

hi, eliza with politico. for those of us not as expert on these issues, could you just briefly lay out in layman's terms what rate of regulation is. >> it mean if a company spends money on various capital expenditures, gives the bill to the government, says please give me my money back us a rate of return, which i believe if i call correctly is 11 1/4. i read a recent report that said jim's company -- it costs the capital about 8%. so we're paying a lot of -- let's put it this way, if anybody would offer me a guaranteed 11 1/2 -- i would put all my money there right away. >> just to juxtapose numbers and, by the way, almost everything blair said, that's within that totally within the 60% or whatever that i agree with him on. but keep in mind that the universal service tax that results from all of those things that he was talking about, understand legally it is not a tax, but the effect of it is, is i think now 15% or close there to. i think john had a comment. >> a quick academic qualification about rate of r

where did you go, eliza? you're typing. want me to speak slowly so you can trans scribe this. let's, apostrophe s, put all options on the table. put your name on it. we're in sunshine, blackout. so i can't go into details with regard to tuesday but there will be ample opportunity, i thnk, perhaps to mr. levin's delight to comment on many ideas just such as that. let's put everything on the table and let's work together to try to achieve the best result. >> next question, please. >> this was in some of the questions. for those who haven't read your opinion, i just wanted to ask, does the government have the authority to regulate the internet? and if so,where does that authority me from and what is it? >> that's a broad question. certainly there's criminal acts -- you mean the government or just the fcc. just the fcc. the government does this authority with criminal things going on. as we come up to the anniversary of the telecom act, internet is mentioned in that act a few times. not a lot but a few. i think when congress did not act to explicitly give authority for the regulat

hi, eliza with politico. for those of us not as expert on these issues, could you just briefly lay out in layman's terms what rate of regulation is. >> it means if a company spends money on various capital expenditures, gives the bill to the government, says please give me my money back plus a rate of return, which i believe if i recall correctly is 11 1/4. i read a recent report that said jim's company -- it costs the capital about 8%. so we're paying a lot of -- let's put it this way, if anybody would offer me a guaranteed 11 1/2 -- i would put all my money there right away. >> just to juxtapose numbers and, by the way, almost everything blair said, that's within that totally within the 60% or whatever that i agree with him on. but keep in mind that the universal service tax that results from all of those things that he was talking about, understand legally it is not a tax, but the effect of it is, is i think now 15% or close there to. i think john had a comment. >> a quick academic qualification about rate