without my garfield id, i left havana in 1981 and went to zurich, switzerland, thanks to james joyce. my dancing there became walking through the silence of the city. instead of people looking at me like my family did when i was a child, people began to ask me, where are you from? i felt disoriented, exiled. the changing perception of nature, religious views, philosophical and political opinions, botanical knowledge and idiomatic sounds, everything new. i asked myself many times for a specific reason why my irish family went to cuba and began searching for missing pieces of my irish history in irish, cuban, and catalan archives to discover before me that i had a fascinating history of displacement and transformations in various geographic setings. my book, ticket it ride, is a personal journey towards the past and the present. there is no one but many places i belong to: havana, dublin, mahon, barcelona, and since the lay 80's, the bay area. so thank you very much. . >> i'm going to do this in about 5 parts. i hope you will bear with me. first of all, i want to thank cross roads for i

grover cleveland who was elected four years after garfield in 1884 always fascinated me for the plain fact, and this is what everybody knows, grover served to non-consecutive terms. he was elected in 1884, lost reelection in 88 and then came back four years later and won the white house back which is a unique achievement in american politics in the american presidency. so he had to be a pretty good politician. and of course he screwed up the number for the president. he's number 22 and 24, a little aside actually when president obama gave his inaugural address in 2009, she said 44 people have now taken the oath of office and i was at a party with friends and i said no, 43 because grover gets counted twice. shut up. nobody wants to hear about grover cleveland right now. my friends, we were in rome at that time, learned much too much about grover cleveland if anyone should and they are forgiven if they don't buy the book, but you won't be. grover aside from being a great politician, also had the most extraordinary rise to the white house. in 1881 garfield was elected, grover cleveland w

[laughter] they've got a piece of the brain of the guy who assassinated garfield, and they have in a small glass jar they have the tumor that was removed from grover cleveland's mouth in 1893 in this operation on a boat. and so that really triggered my interest in the story, the fact that the tumor was still around and that somebody had thought maybe this was something to keep. and i talked to the museum, and it turns out one of the doctors who performed the surgery had donated the tumor back to the museum back in 1917. i guess you would know he was a bit of a saver, but he also saved all his correspondence and clippings and lots of information about the operation which, of course; was intended to be secret. so i realized there there was a possibility of doing something about this story. and then as i, as i dug deeper into it, i found it wasn't just the story of this operation, it was really the story of the economy at the time, and it was also a story about medicine and it's a story about journalism as well. there were a lot of things going on in the 1890s which is sort of a dead sp

years of reassurances from government agencies and the gas companies, a lot of ranchers here in garfieldounty believe these operations are a serious threat to their health. carol and orlyn bell owned a 110-acre ranch just outside of silt, colorado, for 27 years. >> the corporations themselves consistently insist the fracking fluid is nothing but water and sand, and we know that's not true. it's laced with hydrocarbons that are extremely dangerous. and we had a neighbor who became very, very ill because... the fracking fluids got into her well. >> reporter: in 2004, encana drilled a well on their property, and the bells say their lives changed forever. after three spills and what they say was constant exposure to fumes, the bells sold out and moved away. but they say they still suffer from coughs, headaches and even memory loss. >> you know, you can look at those things and it gets you to wondering. was breathing five, six, eight, ten, 20 shots of gas fumes a day while you're out working on your property messing with your brain? or is it messing with your body? you just don't know. >> rep

. >> alumnos de la escuela garfield reiteraban su plan.omo parte del banco de los condados de santa clara. >> esto es muy importante cuando no tienen acceso en la escuela. >> no se recuperan tan rápido. porque están pensando en que tienen hambre. >> si bien el banco ofrece alimentos y dan víveres a las personas esto está enfocada a los niños. >> la escuela terminó pero el hambre no. >> este banco de comida se ha propuesto dar alimentos a muchos niños. en el condado. >> se puede apoyar estos esfuerzos ya sea con comida o dinero. si lo solicitan. >> si quiere hacer una donación puede hacerlo. donde hay información en español. regresamos a los estudios. >> espero que donen. >> hablando de alimentos ya que muchos argumentan la pirámide. tiene como objetivo a medir porciones de comida. necesitabamos algo útil y simple. en un plato separado productos lacteos. >> lo que no ha cambiado es esto que la gente debe comer más vegetales. esto debe seguir siendo igual. >> lo importante es comer más vegetales. >> las pirámides siempre fueron confusas. la

the pool would be packed as well as garfield, and i am hoping that you will rethink your hours of operations for the pools. sunday is the only day that people can get together as a family in it. >> the question wreaks of too much common sense. we would keep all of our pools and are recreational facilities open seven days a week if we had the resources to do it. we have to make some tough choices. one daily, the pools have to be closed for maintenance. we have come leaps and bounds in our aquatics programming. we have a new manager in charge of aquatics that comes from the city of oakland and has some excellent experience. the suggestion is a good one, to rotate the days off so that more are open during the weekends. we're also aware of a desire for families and kids that have family pool time. our tools are very heavily used between labs swimmers, recreational swimmers, and the swim leagues. we're working this budget season with our aquatics staff on some changes that we think are likely to result in increased access and increased hours. in to sort of more of the ideas that the gentleman was

--" >> jimmy: garfield -- "if you want to -- i've been taking mma lessons." [ light laughter ] "ricka split." [ laughter ] >> steve: you can get elmo, right? >> jimmy: i gotta get on my moped and take off. [ light laughter ] [ imitates moped engine ] he drives a little moped. >> steve: yeah. >> jimmy: "ah man, could you give me a jump?" [ light laughter ] >> steve: "push me down this hill. [ laughter ] if i pop the clutch, it'll start." >> jimmy: "push me down this, i'm gonna throw it in drive. anyways, nice meeting you, man. [ light laughter ] push me, man!" >> steve: "nice meeting you, little dude." >> jimmy: "whoa, here we go! nice meeting you, little dude." [ laughter ] "don't call me 'little dude.'" [ light laughter ] pro -- using skype to have a long conversation with mom. con -- about how to use skype. [ laughter ] "mom, just press the button -- i can't hear you. i can't hear you, mom." pro -- calling your mother a "mom i'll love forever." con -- or calling her a "milf" for short. [ laughter ] that could get confusing, i think. don't do that. >> steve: i don't get that. >> jim

it's garfield's odie. >> oh, yeah. jim davis. great. you're a garfield nut.and love lasagna. [ laughter ] >> "celebrity whispers." [ whispering ] >> hey, sorry i sat on your guinea pig earlier. it was an accident. it was pretty funny though, right? [ laughter ] >> mm-hmm. >> it's just that i think he was making fun of me the way he was looking at me. i don't take that kind of [ bleep ] from anybody. >> mm-hmm. >> hey, you know the name of that song, it goes, like -- [ singing ] ♪ yeah you want my body uh-huh, i want your body ♪ and the chorus is like -- [ scatting ] or something like that? >> yeah, that sounds familiar. >> man, i just love songs that get me on the dance floor, you know? >> totally. [ laughter ] >> celebrita! [ cheers and applause ] [ whispering ] >> hey, man, sorry about eating all your pretzels. >> mm-hmm. [ cheers and applause ] >> they were just sitting there, so i thought it would be okay. the bag was open. i didn't even know it was yours. [ laughter ] >> i'm peggy hess. sp wri"erhi ss. o "celebrity whispers." [ cheers and applause ] >> j

one thing that garfield once said about his time at williams, he was talking about the mark hopkins withthe president of williams college for think almost 40 years, jim, susan? and he said my definition of the best education is mark hopkins on a log and a student on the other end of the law. all i can say is jim burns was my mark hopkins. [applause] and experience unparalleled to be able to study with and work for one of the great scholars as an undergraduate, williams college is one of the very few places where that is possible. i thought i would talk a little bit about how jim came to write roosevelt, the lion and the fox. he claims that this is because his memory is not as good as his mind but actually it is because he is very modest and he doesn't like talking very much about himself. so i thought i would talk a little bit about how this happened as he is told me over the years and actually as i have gleaned it from other sources. perhaps to give a little bit of background on this, jim came into a family in eastern massachusetts that was not necessarily a new deal family, wouldn't yo

. >> if you have problems, i see right here, we call garfield 7171 for service. member that is right. operators standing by. >> from here, we are going to look at those wonderful elevators that go of the outside of the high rise building that everyone wants to take a ride in. >> let's go do that. >> here we are in the most exciting elevator in the city of san francisco. this is the outside elevator that goes into the 32nd floor. tell us about this. >> we are in one of the tower elevators now. these were originally installed in 1972. 1,000 feet a minute, outside observation elevators, so a great view of the city. some of the most popular elevators in san francisco, as you mentioned, and these cars run a lot. they run about 2000 starts per day. about 700,000 starts per year for an elevator like this, and these are pretty hard working. >> must be hard to maintain these elevators. mechanical devices in the rain. >> this is much more difficult to maintain. normal elevator installation is all sealed from the elements, but in this case, it is all exposed to the outside,

a program garfield ante natal mood grows in the claims of more civilian victims as a result of a large spawning leaving fifteen dead including children. and parents fighting red tape for their children's lives thousands of kids dardanelles from syndrome russia can only survive if the state found expensive treatment. broadcasting live from the russian capital twenty four hours a day you're watching r.t. a plane crash that killed forty four people in northwestern russia may have been caused by power outage on the ground local officials say the plane itself may have clipped power lines triggering a runway blackout eight passengers survived the instant and are being treated in hospitals craft on its own moscow crash landed on a highway just one kilometer from its destination airport. is full of the story. the latest there we're hearing from the management at the airport in patrols of what's good northwest russia where this plane it had intended on landing as that's as the plane was coming down a take power lines that caused a short term blackout before that before emergency power was able

russians envoy to libya says both garfield the rebels agree there's no way to end the crisis through war meantime nato dropped more bombs on the libyan capital to dislodge the five colonel gadhafi. and all countries around the world according to stress tests for all twenty plants for the new fukushima the u.k. is committed to expanding its facilities but experts warn london's persistence with its nuclear project poses a massive security threat. just ahead people are values cross-talk estimate whether a tough crackdown right now on drugs by mexico the u.s. is actually spreading violence is here on our team. can. you think of. a way to welcome because not computable about the war on drugs has been declared a failure the u.s. government has spent more than two and a half trillion dollars fighting this campaign over the past forty years but the problem has only gotten worse and more deadly is it now time to seriously consider decriminalization and we have some illegal drugs. can. cross talk what went so wrong fighting drugs i'm joined by geoffrey my run in newton he is a senior lecturer

which is foolish in the first ones all right well thank you very much there for your thoughts claude garfield an international trade researcher in washington thank you. by israel's military is on edge shafter intelligence reports of troop movements in syria and across the border in lebanon it's concerned hezbollah might be moving weapons to strike at the jewish state to divert attention from its ally syrian president bashar al assad artie's policy or takes a look at how the situation in the region threatens the spin further out of control . things are quiet on the israel lebanon border but many suspect it's a lull before the storm everything hinges on what happens in neighboring syria and what hizbollah decides to do with its stockpiles there any opposition group that might take over in syria. differently consider these belies an enemy is us through it. it's the mass of the. logical thing people who transfer the weapon put in syria. including. been for years has been found an ally in syrian president bashar assad and so it's no surprise they want him to stay in power but if he goes and those

americans really feel because this story deserves the hype that's been getting our two producer lindsey garfield hit the streets of the nation's capital to find some answers. the past few days the news networks have been covering what's going on with this wiener gate scandal but to the mainstream networks care more about this than the people do you find out i honestly don't really care much about it it seems like more of a distraction than anything. i think it's important. and well it's been in newspapers and you know cable networks for about four days now so i'm just wondering is it important do you want to get to the bottom of it. i think the summer after here. and. you know whatever doesn't make a difference because refusal to deny that it's a picture of i think it's probably will keep the story alive. isn't important to you to know whether or not he was the one who sent it not really but i think there are far more pressing things in this world that could get a little bit more coverage like what tornadoes. continued crisis in the middle east our country's fiscal situation i think it's pretty

mean does this story deserve the hype that it's been getting so we sent our two producer quincy garfield to hit the streets to find out the answers to that question. the past few days the news networks have been covering what's going on with this wiener gate scandal but to the mainstream networks care more about this than the people do you find out. don't really care much about it it seems like more of a distraction than anything. i think is important last year well it's been in newspapers and you know cable networks for about four days now. so i'm just wondering is it an important story to you know do you want to get to the bottom of it. having all the politicians somewhere so. unless we change the system it's not going to change anyway so you know whatever that doesn't really make a difference because refusal to deny that it's a picture of i think it's probably like it's a story a lot of. buzz a room of the book isn't important to you to know whether or not he was the one who said. not really but i think there are far more pressing things in this world that could get a little bit more

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james garfield in 1880, he was the last person to go from the house of representatives to be electedthe presidency. you know, he was in congress for a while, a republican, i think almost 18 years, and he happened to be a civil war hero. but that shows you how unusual it is to make the leap that michele bachmann is trying to make from this end of pennsylvania avenue untin the he to the other end at the white house. >> thanks. stay with us. as soon as michele bachmann gets ready to speak, we will return to waterloo and carry her announcement live. >>> as michele bachmann celebrates home coming of sorts some of her republican challengers are fanning out across the country. jon huntsman a number of stops in california, mitt romney talking the economy and jobs in new hampshire, and then rick santorum also in iowa, stumping in sioux city. >>> president obama ramping up efforts to diffuse the nation's ticking time bomb. our debt crisis. with an august 2nd deadline to raise the debt ceiling the president is meeting with senate leaders to break that stalemate. democrats say taxes will have to