it is a wonderful series called "enlightened." as if you did not already know from all of the billboards. glad to have you on the program. that is our shoreline for tonight. see you next time. as always, keep the faith. >> if we can change, anything is possible. the whole world can change for the better. we will talk after. >> what medications did they give you? >> nothing. i do not want to talk about my medications. >> i just want to be sure you are ok. don't get irritated with me. i want what is best for you. that is all i've ever wanted. >> for more information on today's show, visit tavis smiley at pbs.org. tavis: hi, i'm tavis smiley. join me next time for a conversation with chilean writer ariel dorfman/ . >> every community has a martin luther king boulevard. it's the cornerstone we all know. it's not just a street or boulevard, but a place where walmart stands together with your community to make every day better. >> nat>> nationwide insurance supports tavis smiley. with every question and every answer, nationwide insuranc

now through this monday only, get the pantech breakout for $49.99, the free lg enlighten, or a free xperialay by sony ericsson. the smartphones are ready, the tablets are wrapped. now through monday only, get the technology they love, on the network they deserve. verizon. >>> we've had such a stretch of great weather and temperatures have been on the rise. same tory today. 61 degrees at national airport. that is 9 degrees above the seasonal average for the day. 67 at dulles takes us to the plus 14 side and 70 degrees, second day in a row for baltimore to reach 70 and that's 18 degrees above the seasonal average. we have had extremely mild conditions which should only be in the low to mid-50s across the area. right now, current temperatures, 49 at d.c., 48 in gaithersburg. a little chillier in fredericksburg. we have 45 degrees at baltimore this hour. our skies seeing a few clouds starting to roll in. ridge of high pressure moved off. this is what we are keeping a close eye on. the next weather maker is a frontal system. we expect to see the clouds increasing during the course of the next 2

town to honor will now through this monday only, get the pantech breakout for $49.99, the free lg enlighten, or a free xperia play by sony ericsson. the smartphones are ready, the tablets are wrapped. now through monday only, get the technology they love, on the network they deserve. verizon. >>> maryland's athletic director is asking fans to become more respectful at football games. he got several complaints at the home opener against miami. school officials say it paints maryland in a bad light. fans have a responsibility to represent the school with class, dignity and respect. >>> when it comes to bad customer service, these days there are more options than complaining to the company or telling a friend. now, you can tell the world, thanks to the internet. how social media is giving consumers a louder voice. >> when something goes wrong, it's annoying. sometimes you have to tell someone. >> reporter: this woman wanted to tell someone about her lousy bagel. >> there was this much cream cheese on it. i paid $3 for a bagel. >> reporter: she complained publicly on twitter. >> if i took a pic

we have a clip from "enlightened."ber here and it readjusts all the data that comes after. it's no big deal. >> how did you do that? oh, my god. oh, thank god. that's so good. oh, thank you so much. [ sighs ] mmmh, thank you. [ sighs ] oh. oh. [ light laughter ] >> okay, sorry. >> oh. >> i didn't mean -- it's no big deal. >> tyler, i -- i just didn't expect that. >> don't -- i don't -- you know, it's no big deal. i'll see you tomorrow. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: got awkward real quick. is this something? it might be something? no? it's nothing, it's nothing. >> yeah, no. >> jimmy: mike white, everybody. gosh, don't you love this guy? [ cheers and applause ] "enlightened" airs mondays 9:30 p.m. on hbo. you're going to love it. we're playing the new zelda game when we come back. come on back, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ [ jennifer ] here... this is my world. ♪ this place inspires me to be tougher... to stay sharper... to think faster. they may be just streets to you. but to me... they're a playground. ♪ .

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the sandman dollar is a palace that may serve as a temporary abode for an enlightened. colored marble sand is applied to the canvas through a cone shaped tube this tibetan form of spiritual art is widely recognized across the world. and owners are due to go to a new b m m dollar of thirteen rio and turkey day two yes i'd love to see people attending the festival being motivated by the prospect of coming face to face with them and. i'm going to see them and dollar they'll say once again i'm going to accumulate merits trying to achieve a yemen talkies state of compassion and enlightenment and i'll try to help all living creatures in my homeland and across the world achieve the stated. used this when i was a child each time i looked at the map i thought my home and was too tiny but now i see to vast country with endless steps. you've got is that i think people's way of life primarily depends on where they live eat the stuff is the best place for nomads. go mickey that's coming here is such a big country that part of it rests against a scene. that has amazingly it means tha

i want to enlighten you about two issues. one is coverage versus capacity. the one you may not have focused on is the necessary, desirable, incompatible standard, versus a significant gap. let us get started. i do not think anybody has shown the actual site. this is the large industrial complex we want to put on top of the kaiser building on sixth avenue. you can barely see the antennas. they are on top of the mechanical penthouse. this is a preferable site on purpose. it is the tallest building in the area. the antennas to not face sixth avenue. they face north, west, and south, and provide coverage in those areas. there is a reason this is a preference one location. in terms of need, of horizon wireless coverage -- verizon wireless coverage is currently provided by three sites. verizon wireless readily admits it has marginal coverage in this area now. you can make a phone call on the sidewalk while standing still. we need this facility for two reasons. the community needs it for two reasons. we need infill and coverage in this area, because most calls are

and 50 years ago policy makers had such an enlightened view of the art's ability to make our city welcoming to visitors, to give our residents opportunities for creativity and one of the things we have seen is the very large institutions grow up in the city of san francisco. we're a small city and we have institutions that are in the cities with many, many, larger populations and enlightened leadership in the policy makers for so many years. and sfmoma shines in this and we know it will help our economy and it will help the arts and i urge your support. and one final note, i have worked for the city for 30 years and a lot of large building projects and i don't think i have seen a project that has been so care to feel bring in the community and bring in the policy makers to work hand in glove and this is really a rare and marvelous opportunity. thank you so much. commissioner miguel: thank you. >> and good afternoon, commissioners. and i would like to tip my hat to soma. and a new fst

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now through monday only, get the pantech breakout for $49.99, the free lg enlighten, or a free xperia play by sony ericsson ! verizon. mira ! i'm a star ! >>> the clock is ticking in los angeles where hundreds of occupy protesters showed no sign of moving. the city has imposed a midnight deadline for them to abandon their tents. reporter al nipo is live in downtown l.a. with what's happening right now, al. >> reporter: i tell you one thing what is notary public happening is the la encampment is not moving. by in large most of the folks are here and it appears that they plan on staying. that they're not going to be moved, so of course that then begs the question, what will the los angeles police department do and when will they do it. well it all depends who from the lapd you're going to be talking to. we found an exchange between an l.a. encampment and lapd. >> there's nothing going to happen tonight. obviously there's going to be some type for everybody to move out. as to when the removement is going to take action, we have no idea. >> i spoke to him and he said that there's not goin

i think todd will enlighten you on that type of model. what i am pleading on behalf of the 99, because i and advocate, you know. we have the 1% and i belong to the 99. we do not have too much money, but hopefully we have a good heart and hopefully we can speak the truth, and hopefully we can do some good action so that when we leave this world, we leave a better place. when you say bank of america, i kind of get a heart attack. you know the bank of italy and their headquarters was in san francisco and now they are in north carolina. i know how the takeover took place. todd and charles -- hopefully they will look at ways of investing and stay away from any entity that has a lot of toxic loans. any entity that has participated in that algorithms, where they brought the downfall of our economy. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> i believe i need a motion. >> so moved. sion? all those in favor? opposed? the motion carries. next item. >> item 12, authorizing the general manager of the san francisco public utility commission to execute on be

you and enlighten the audience?your stature in business do you consider romney a businessman other a politician? >>guest: with the caveat i could have standing as a businessman i have little in the expertise of politics but the governor, i thought about that, and i think at this point we can say based upon his performance he is both. he has been successful as a governor and as a businessman and i think that is sort coming through in the debates where he surely is holding his own along with romney and the other fine candidates like mrs. michele bachmann and mitt and newt gingrich. he is both. both. >> what do you thing of herman cain. positive or negative? >> positive. >> is he qualified to be president? >> yes. >> by a show how many say she qualified? he has never held elective office, as someone from the business community, any reactions? >> when people on other side of this question, the democratic point of view say herman cain is completely inexperienced, i find that to be one of the funniest compensates. how abo

. >> how about thatnfé weatherrr forecast enlighten us. >> she made me a more enlightened person. on. >> first rule, stop digging. >> yeah, i'm down. 5:51. am i feeling lucky? no, not right now. >> stop digging. >> quite piling it on. i'm stopping, i'm done. you want to talk about showers? >> yeah, let's do that. >> live doppler you can see them, few and far between and heading into the central valley more is lined up out towards the coast. temperatures now we are looking at mainly 40s in the north bay valley, concord, antioch, livermore, fremont the rest of us in the 50s. monterey bay upper 40s inland 52 gilroy, 57 salinas. today scattered showers cooler conditions showers taper tonight hang around tonight taper quickly tomorrow morning dry, mild pattern sunday through thursday. east bay valleys low 60s today area of least likely to see organized rain. the closer you are to the coast the more likely you will see it. showers around the east bay shoreline upper 50s to low 60s south bay today low 60s as you head up the peninsula, low 60s, mid to upper 50s along the coast into downto

and enlighten the audience?nce, do you consider him a politics or businessman. >> i have little expertise on politics. i think the governor, i thought about that, i think pretty much at this point we can say based upon the governor's performance, he's both. i think he's been successful as a governor and as a businessman, and i think that is sort of coming through in these debates where he is surely holding his own, along with mit romney and the other fine candidates like mrs. bachman and mit and newt gingrich, of course, i'm impressed. i think he's both. >> what do you guys think of herman cain, positive or negative? >> positive. >> is herman cain qualified to be president? >> yes. >> by a show of hands, how many of you would say he's qualified? he's never held elective office. someone from the business community and you look at herman cain, any reactions? >> well, when people on the other side of this question, the democratic sort of point of you say that herman cain is completely inexperienced, i find that to

other -- cultures consider the number of enlightenment. others say the ones signal new beginnings.s are offering special deals like $11 shoes or hotel deals for $111. you felt a vibration? >> earth shifting. >> at least the temperatures aren't at 11°. not here any way. >> all time records here. maybe 55, definitely cooler than it should be, not that cold. earlier today you can see the folks must have been watching channel 7 this morning because they had their umbrellas, that was a shameful plug, i'm sorry. wet weather going on. beautiful picture look how green everything is getting our time of the year to be green while everybody else is starting to turn brown. mount tamalpais you can see the clouds and defused nature the rain falling but it is very light, the most rain about a quart of an inch in the mountains -- most of us less than a inch. zoom out and over the last couple of hours it swept across the bay area and fell apart another band starting to develop offshore the waves of showers we'll have as we head through the afternoon into the evening. bulk of the moisture going to s

. >> we right to enlighten all the people to look beyond the situation. a lot of time people are faced with lot of challenges. we want to put things in perspective. >> reporter: damian has dreams of becoming a professional basketball player. he's the number one point guard in the country for his age group. damian had a tough life. his mother was shot and killed in 2002. his father was shot and paralyzed last year. damian remains positive and focuses on his future in basketball. >> try not to think about the negative. keep it positive. i learning how to become a better man. lot of life skills and stuff on and off the court. >> reporter: chu smith has hundreds of girls and boys in his program. he hopes to give them tools to follow their dream and succeed in life. abc 2 news. >>> chu myth recently released a -- smith recently released a children's book. he's also in process of building a new facility. >>> well the ultimate challenge. she challenged them to read and boy did they deliver. when she found out how many books they read, she hit the roof. >> report

the causes are those that we abbreviate with the term the enlightenment. for one thing, knowledge replaced superstition and the birds. as walter said, those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. as your society becomes smart enough to debunk various forms of hogwash such as that heretics' cut to help colleges poison wells, which is caused crop failures, children are possessed and africans are british, a kings rule by divine right and someone calling is bound to undermined many traditional rationales for violence. also, literacy can be part of a general current toward cosmopolitanism, also encouraged by technologies such as ships that allow the easy movement of the mixing of peoples, and it is possible that as people spend more of their waking life reading fiction and history in journalism they start to inhabit other people's minds, see the world from their point of view. therefore they develop more empathy and less cruelty. if you reflexively try to imagine what it is like to be some other person, maybe you are less likely to

can you enlighten me on this subject? so i am educated on issues. even though i know a lot about puc for the last 40 years. so we have some dealership here. we need to contact the right people who gather the right information so that what ever is going to happen has the blessings of the elders. in all indigenous communities, you have to get their blessings of the elders. that is just how is done. if the city and county of san francisco and some politicians want to do it some other way, then you know what? you're going to challenge the community. and somebody challenged me with hunter's point. they learned a big lesson. i do not want to be an enemy of the public utilities commission. the general manager knows that. in all of my deliberations, i have never said anything about him because i want him to take us to a better place. i have stood by you. so what i am saying is, we have good leadership in the sfpuc. we have good leadership in the community. let's work together to take our community to a better place. thank you very much. >> next speaker. >>

the society's primary mission is to enlighten, to inform, to inspire and to empower.ety of ways. almost always in partnership with others. through our current partnership that trevor spoke to with the finance -- kinsey foundation shall the san francisco public library, and the california council of the humanities, we are now hosting an incredible exhibition of art and artifacts from the kinsey collection, the kron -- that chronicles the story of people of frick desnent america. if you haven't done so you owe it to yourself and particularly to your children to visit and see this important exhibit which is at our library in the frake american -- african-american art and culture complex at 762 bolton street. the posters you see here are examples of elements in that exhibit. these are actual objects that are part of the kinsey collection that are on display in our exhibit. bernard i'm sure will touch on the collection during his remarks. our speaker, bernard kinsey, is one half of team kinsey. the other half is his lovely wife shirley, so please join me in welcoming shirl

other -- cultures consider the number of enlightenment. others say the ones signal new beginnings.s are offering special deals like $11 shoes or hotel deals for $111. you felt a vibration? >> earth shifting. >> at least the temperatures aren't at 11°. not here any way. >> all time records here. maybe 55, definitely cooler than it should be, not that cold. earlier today you can see the folks must have been watching channel 7 this morning because they had their umbrellas, that was a shameful plug, i'm sorry. wet weather going on. beautiful picture look how green everything is getting our time of the year to be green while everybody else is starting to turn brown. mount tamalpais you can see the clouds and defused nature the rain falling but it is very light, the most rain about a quart of an inch in the mountains -- most of us less than a inch. zoom out and over the last couple of hours it swept across the bay area and fell apart another band starting to develop offshore the waves of showers we'll have as we head through the afternoon into the evening. bulk of the moisture going to s

. >> they were not the most enlightened company.they were strict about not showing homes to minorities. they got in trouble for that. willie brown actually made his name by going and trying to see one of the homes. it was a very political thing. he would walk up with a whole bunch of people in the person showing the home would sneak away. >> even in the teens, there were a lot of neighborhoods that had restrictions against certain groups of people. >> this was in the 1950's. willie mays had trouble buying a house in san francisco. a couple of people would not show him a house. they had to enlist the mayor and a bunch of people. this is their reservoir. companies would take a block and there would start wrecking houses. there were building two a day -- they were building two with a. the 1930's were the big boom times for the sunset. >> this is a recession. >> these are the homes in west would park. -- in westwood park. >> how did this perform? the composite the assembly -- come's assembly -- composite assembly. >> they would stucco i

now through this monday only, get the pantech breakout for $49.99, the free lg enlighten, or a free xperia play by sony ericsson. the smartphones are ready, the tablets are wrapped. now through monday only, get the technology they love, onhe network they deserve. verizon. >>> the department of education is hoping to improve schools in low income neighborhoods. one way is to help veterans transition from the battlefield into the teaching field. lyanne melendez looks at one such program in the bay area. >> tony says education was not his first career choice. before landing a job as a kindergarten teacher he spent 20 years in the air force. but when he and his wife started a family, he wanted nothing more to be at home with his children. >> i saw the effect of me being gone on them. i thought, well, why should they have to deal with this. >> his wife had also been in the air force but retired to becomel a special education teacher. his life changed when he visited her classroom. >> my heart went out to the kids and the needs they had, to the academic needs. >> with a degree in he, he spent tw

new life -- how a midwife in vietnam is enlightening her community. and the green mat -- coping with algae blooms in the baltic sea. today we begin with our new series "africa on the move", where we teamed up with local journalists to report on the dramatic changes that are occurring on this diverse continent. they span the revolutions in the maghreb region, as well as other political, economic and social shifts that are being driven by globalization. we set out in the epicentre of the arab spring. in december of 2010, one man set himself on fire, and soon the whole region was ablaze. it's a revolution of the young. never before has political resistance been driven by social networks like facebook. tunisia's youth culture has been instrumental in the drive for change. and the country's rappers are shouting out the frustration and anger of an entire generation. ♪ >> the souk in the centre of tunis. this is where tunisian rapper wajdi mascott grew up. he developed his enthusiasm for rap here in the hustle and bustle of the city -- long before the arab s

so all of these things converged in her mind, the idea of socialism, french enlightenment thinking andthis romanticism. and for this young woman who is hungry for knowledge and experience and she met a young man who said camino, come at me and i'll take you out of here. the first place they landed was paris, which wasn't too shabby. >> this father who was the leading official -- leading representative was also an important aristocrat. and he had an important early influence who as you point out the friendship with jenny's brother, friendship developed in school. and marx learned about the french utopians as you point out that the future father-in-law started on the way. >> can you imagine his father is not in his wildest dreams taking what is lessons walking with young karl marx is going to lead to? but i think it would be nice to know more about the father and two study guide a little more because they must've been an exceptional man to be able to balance these various interests, official duties and intellectual interests and get away with it because people were under observation at t