a generic drug. a traditional generic drug. is that owing to any deficiency in the product or is that because of a special characteristic in the patient? >> i think very often it's going to depend on the patient. there was some litigation about the medicaid program on its failure to cover brand name drugs in florida. and there was some affidavit testimony from a neurologist who said that he had a lot of patients with epilepsy who were on brand named drugs forced to switch to generics and had seizures when they had been seizure freeor years t may be the invidual patient who can't tolerate perhaps the finding agent in the generics or something in the generics. and for these folks, when they can't get active to the brand name drug, they have a hard time. >> have you heard of a doctor who took a brand name drug when off pattent and he tweak today? i believe the drug was called, i show here abrexaine. and he tweak today so taxol was the generic, its active ingredient was coated and easier to take and avoid an allergic andraection po

. >> thank you very much, general ingram. general mckinley and general wyatt. as i indicated in my opening remarks, this past march, the air force announced structure changes and end strength reductions. and the greatest reductions were in the air guard. 5100 billets lost. my question is were you involved in reaching this final decision? were you consulted? what was your involvement? >> senator, i think i'll let bud talk to the tactical process by which the air force works its corporate process. and traditionally in the national guard, the two directors have been totally involved with their services in how the budgets are built and how they're briefed. i will tell you that as chief, i was involved in the final deliberations discussions in the december time frame at which time i expressed certainly our corporate view on behalf of the adjtants general, on the outcome that the air force was pursuing. and then following the holidays, a number of meetings with both secretary panetta, chairman dempsey, general schwartz, and secretary donnelly to continue to work out

i'm not sure if general ingram, or you, general mckinley, is the best one to answer this. but that's the story on this? >> first of all, thanks for the question, senator. i'm in receipt of letters from 17age tanlts, generally in support of purchasing new humvees. i am the channel communication between the states and the department, so we have forwarded the letters of support. general ingraham can talk about the percentages. i would say strategically across both air and army guard, this generation of soldier and airmen have joined our services and joined the guard specifically to be used, to operate first-line equipment, to be part of the team that goes forward, either here at home for domestic emergencies or to support our army and our air force. and so recapitalization across our fleet to include ground vehicles has got to be factored in. and we've got to fight hard with our services to make sure that the balance and the proportions are right or some of these young women and men who have joined us since september of 2001 are just not going to be as excited about their rol

the vietnam generation, my generation, is graying now. but this commemoration effort gives the country an opportunity today and in the years ahead to try and right the wrongs of the past. to remember those who served in this war. and what they did for us. their service, and their sacrifice on our behalf. last week, i had the opportunity to join the president in paying tribute to a fallen member of that generation. specialist les sable who posthumously received the medal of honor. les sable died in vietnam saving his brothers in arms. and it was those same brothers from the 101st airborne division who campaigned to re-open the medal of honor process for les more than ten years ago. the story of les, in many ways, is the story of the vietnam war. we forgot, and now we finally remember. next week, as secretary of defense, i'll have the opportunity to travel to vietnam to continue strengthening the growing ties our two countries are reestablishing since 1995. we've come a long way since the war has ended, and it was the veterans of vietnam wh

miller who is the inspector general of the united states general services administration. welcome back. and mr. jake weens is the investigator for government oversight, often called pogo. welcome back. pursuant to house rules, i'd ask you to please rise to take the sworn oath. and raise your right hands. do you solemnly swear or affirm the testimony you are about to give will be the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth. let the record indicate all witnesses answered in the affirmative. please be seated. as i previously said, we're, unfortunately, today going to be on a very tight constraint because of votes. i will try to keep our folks to their five minutes. i'd ask you to try to stay to your five minutes, and i assure you we'll will stay as long as we can on a vote and if possible return as soon as possible. with that, we recognize miss fong for her opening statement. >> thank you, mr. chairman, ranking member cummings and members of the committee. it's a real privilege to be here today to represent the federal ig community which consists of 73 igs in the exec

with general joseph johnston in mississippi and to assist johnston. he tempered his language to general holmes by telling him he must use his own judgment. additional examples could be brought forth, but i hope i made my point. it's difficult to explain the contrast between davis' handling of his field commanders and his management of the war department. it was surely not because he didn't comprehend the change brought by the telegraph. he used the telegraph constantly communicating with generals it throughout the confederacy. perhap c

, but introduce a video of the secretary-general.laughter] after which i will give the award for the distinguished international leadership to my secretary-general of the united nations. [applause] >> the last 10 days, including 120 meetings with the government and foreign head of state, head of ministers. i chaired the high level meeting of pakistan, and so many spent -- somalia. >> what huge amount of work gets done but also the opportunity to have a voice, talking about the issues that they care about. >> climate change and public issues. we were able to mobilize $40 billion to reduce brutality and dying of women and children. >> it is amazing to watch. one day he gives 30 speeches on different topics, different priorities. >> i wake up at 4:00 a.m. that gives me the best time, without any interruption. i have private time. it's like i am on conveyor belt. i spend time with my family members. unfortunately, my youngest randdaughter, i am immensely grateful to my wife, my children for having been very patient, understanding my situ

a few weeks after general clay going to berlin, general clark came to visit him. they had a meeting in clay's office. i was not privy to sit in on that meeting, and i know why. because essentially clark read the riot act to clay. he said these are my forces. he said take your cotton-picking fingers off my troops. i don't know whether he was alluding to clay's southern background at that particular point, but whatever it was, it left clay with a funny situation. and that's one reason clay often consulted directly with kennedy, because kennedy would give him authority. but clay did something, which was actually about as fair as one could be and still have some measure of bureaucratic authority, and that was he would deal with general albert watson, two-star general, the commander of the u.s. forces in berlin. he was in berlin. clay would say to watson, i would recommend that at this point you do this. and watson, who had enormous respect for clay and who also rather liked the things that clay was doing would do it. for example, that's how the tanks got up to checkpo

the inspectors general for the agriculture department and general services administration. when it gets under way the hearing is set to last two hours. it could be a couple minutes before it gets under way. it was a late night on capitol hill last night with the house armed services committee meeting all day long yesterday, marking up the 2013 defense authorization bill, a hearing we covered here on c-span three and across the c-span networks. they did pass a $246 billion defense authorization bill. can you find all of yesterday's markup session in our video library at c-span.org. the house itself did come in this morning about a half an hour ago. the budget sequester bill replaces $98 billion in cuts in defense and social programs with different cuts. we spoke to a capitol hill reporter for a preview on today's debate. >> the house on thursday is expected to take up two measures aiming to avert a sequester of defense funds. we're joined by kathleen hunter with bloomberg news joining us from capitol hill. y remind us again what the sequester would do and what are the two go

general fund. it is required by local statutes as is the county assistance program, or to require an effort to draw down federal and state dollars. when you break down the general fund, really about 100 million is truly discretionary money. that is sort of a ballpark, and when we get a budget reduction target, it is not of the entirety, it is of of the discretionary money. and of that, there are programs that bear a disproportionate share of the discretionary general fund. for our agency, it is housing and homeless services which is not authorized by any local ordinance and the most is general fund this that go to support shelters and housing for single adults and the homeless prevention programs. >> you have a very large share of your budget that is represented by federal and state funding, generally. it is much larger than many of our other departments because our general fund typically leverage is a draw-down? >> correct, they are generally federally mandated programs. our welfare program for fa

coughlin general, if you could -- mr. counsel general, if you could -- >> yay! [applause] >> i wanted to make sure that we recognize carol. thank you for your incredible stewardship of the gift shop and teahouse. thank you all for joining us. i encourage you to patrons are beautiful gift shop why you are here. otherwise, enjoy our incredible part. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you, everybody.

as the secretary general of the united nations, my thoughts are with more than 120,000 u.n.cekeeping operation staff from more than 120 countries, contribution countries who are working day and night on the very difficult and dangerous circumstances. my deepest admirations to all of them and to all the people who are working tirelessly for peace and stability around the world. [ applause ] ladies and gentlemen, let us cast our eyes across the political landscape. in syria, the violence still continues. we are in a race against time to prevent the full-scale civil war. death on a potentially massive scale. tensions between israel and iran remain dangerous. recently launched another missile and appears to be contemplating another test in defiance of the international community. we see family coming in, military coups in mali, sudan and south sudan on the brink of conflict that claimed two million lives. add to this the crisis in your area. climate change, the pressure of a growing population of seven billion on our increasingly fragile planet. we have planetary limitations. al

the founding generation to see the general government for general purposes. i'll talk about in the preamble of in a few minutes. so when the constitution came out of philadelphia in september 1787 and no one was even sure that they would give ratified. they'd written it, talked about it, sweated over a come apart their hearts in some cases, but no one was sure if this thing would make it out of the united states, with his father required to ratify the document. savanna had to be sold. the sales job is what i talk about in the book more than anything else. sometimes you can't understand the constitution and the language that understanding what they said. but often times you can understand the constitution what they said without understanding all throughout the united states. in fact, james madison agreed, this is what he said. he said the constitution on this brought to light and only found its meaning because of the state conventions which gave it all the validity and authority of possessives. another is what we presented in philadelphia means nothing. what a

about half in the general fund. new this year, for the first time, we will be implementing two-year budgeting for the entire, for all city departments, and we have some increase in reserve requirements that we will be funding in our budget. we are making good progress in reducing our structural budget shortfalls. that is both due to some of the ways we balanced the budget last year, due prop c reform, but also due to the improved economy and better than expected revenues. as you know, at the six-month report, we projected as a result from the controller's office a $170 million shortfall in fiscal 2012 to 2013, and more in 2013 to 2014. so the comptroller went over this information for you, just a moment ago. again, highlighting the current year, better than expected news on fund balance, and compared to where we were at the six-month. so what does that mean for our city budget shortfall? so we started at the joint report with a $170 million shortfall in the first year and a $312 million shortfall in the second year.

our six month report across most of our general tax fund revenues. we have summarized those on the slide and it is mixed news here. we have very good news in accelerating improvement in our local payroll tax and property transfer taxes which are to of a larger revenue sources in the general fund. that is offset two. or partially offset by some unexpected weakness in property- tax. you continue to see the local employment picture improves in san francisco and that is in terms of the number of jobs, all of which is driving a larger than expected improvement in payroll tax. we continue to see considerable acceleration in our commercial real-estate market which is driving property transfer tax up. we have seen a number of appeals now awarded by the assessment appeals board in the current fiscal year related to prior years' tax appeals which were worse than expected. that leads us to revise down our thinking about property-tax because we have a number of appeals, we expect the out fund -- the outcome to be worse. that is a mixed revenue picture but genera

it started by defining what the minnenal generation is. >> the minnenal generation was born from 1982 to 2003. it is the largest american generation. 95 million minnenals are currently living -- >> really? >> yes. >> they beat out the boomers. >> there are nearly twice as many as generation x. >> why is it so big? >> well -- >> and why it is a generation? >> generations are a group of people who are born roughly within a 20-year period of one another. they are united by kind of common behavior, common attitudes, not that everybody in the generation march in lock step, but there are tendencies that show them going in one direction or another. and they have a sense of commonality. >> and there are a lot of them because boomer women waited to have children, and then those children got put right on top of the 20 year olds -- >> this is your second book about the millennial generation and my guess is you guys are not of that generation. >> good guess. >> so why should anybody listen to you two about it? >> because quite frankly what we have to say about this generation has been pretty much

general england and the director of the air national guard, general warren. all witnesses include the chief of the army reserve general stoltze, the chief of the naval reserve, admiral debbing, the commander of the marine corps reserve, general stephen hummer and the chief of the air force reserve, general charles stenner. and i would lining to thank you all for joining us today as the committee reviewses the fy 137 budget for the reserve components. this year's budget proposal significant force structure changes for the air national guard reducing end strength by 5,100 billings and aircraft by 134 aircraft. this proposal has come under intense scrutiny from the members of congress, the council of governors and many generals, and i would like to hear from you on how involved you were in the process that proceeded the announcement and what inpupt you we asked to give. in addition over the last several years, the guard and reserve has made important changes as it transitioned from changes as they transition from a strategic to an operational reserve. this shift

general grant in 1864 was a brigadier general and charged with illinois. it's back water then, it's back water now too. but he's just a lonely guy, unknown. yeah, he was a captain in the mexican war. he faded from the army very quickly after that. this battle is going to put him on the glide path to success here. he has a lot of competition out there, but he has one thing going for him. he almost loses a lot of battles, but he ends up winning them in the end. and he's going to do -- you know, belmont, learning -- this is back in december of '61. he almost loses his shirt physically at belmont. he learns his lessons there. comes here. he has more learning to do, but he's learning his trade. and he's learning it through success. the confederates on the 15th come this close to pushing him back to the river and defeating him. but he springs back. the subordinate commanders on the ground are also learning their trade. gentlemen such as at that time colonel logan will go on to high rank. james mcpherson, general mclearnen will rise to a point and off he goes, lo

[applause] >> the playground is broken into three general areas. one for the preschool set, another for older children, and a sand area designed for kids of all ages. unlike the old playground, the new one is accessible to people with disabilities. this brand-new playground has several unique and exciting features. two slides, including one 45- foot super slide with an elevation change of nearly 30 feet. climbing ropes and walls, including one made of granite. 88 suspension bridge. recycling, traditional swing, plus a therapeutics win for children with disabilities, and even a sand garden with chines and drums. >> it is a visionary $3.5 million world class playground in the heart of san francisco. this is just really a big, community win and a celebration for us all. >> to learn more about the helen diller playground in dolores park, go to sfrecpark.org. supervisor chu: hello and welcome. i am joined by supervisor and joined by supervisor: and supervisor wiener and supervisor kim will be joining us shortly. our clerk is mr. baker young. you have an

coughlin general, if you could -- mr. counsel general, if you could -- >> yay! [applause] >> i wanted to make sure that we recognize carol. thank you for your incredible stewardship of the gift shop and teahouse. thank you all for joining us. i encourage you to patrons are beautiful gift shop why you are here. otherwise, enjoy our incredible part. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you, everybody. >> hi, my name is pete shoemaker and well toll energy center. i'm standing in front of a model of a home. this is one of the tools we use here to assess solar energy. five years ago i was in a position similar to that of many of you. i was a homeowner thinking about solar electricity for my home. i had to answer a bunch of questions. one, does this stuff work? would it work on my home and most importantly, can i afford it? well, i did the research. i bought a system. now i get to share that knowledge and that experience with you. for the next 30 minutes, we'll have a class in solar basics and we'll go out in the field and see an actual solar system being installed. 30 m

coughlin general, if you could -- mr. counsel general, if you could -- >> yay! [applause] >> i wanted to make sure that we recognize carol. thank you for your incredible stewardship of the gift shop and teahouse. thank you all for joining us. i encourage you to patrons are beautiful gift shop why you are here. otherwise, enjoy our incredible part. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you, everybody. >> everyone deserves a bank account. in san francisco, anyone can have a bank account, things to an innovative program, bank on s.f. >> everyone is welcome, even if you are not a citizen or have bad credit to qualify for a bank account is simple. just live or work in san francisco and have a form of id. >> we started bank on s.f. six years ago to reach out to folks in the city who do not have a bank account. we wanted to make sure they know they have options which should be more low-cost, more successful to them and using chat catchers. >> check cashing stores can be found all over the city, but they're convenient locations come with a hidden price. >> these are big. >>

the vietnam generation, my generation, is graying now. but this commemoration effort gives the country an opportunity today and in the years ahead to try and right the wrongs of the past. to remember those who served in this war. and what they did for us. their service, and their sacrifice on our behalf. last week, i had the opportunity to join the president in paying tribute to a fallen member of that generation. specialist les sable who posthumously received the medal of honor. les sable died in vietnam saving his brothers in arms. and it was those same brothers from the 101st airborne division who campaigned to re-open the medal of honor process for les more than ten years ago. the story of les, in many ways, is the story of the vietnam war. we forgot, and now we finally remember. next week, as secretary of defense, i'll have the opportunity to travel to vietnam to continue strengthening the growing ties our two countries are reestablishing since 1995. we've come a long way since the war has ended, and it was the veterans of vietnam wh

september 1st, 1961, powers gave nato secretary general their draft instructions to general norstad. because these instructions used certain words it was clear they were not just limited to the four power live oak planning for berlin. the document called upon general norstad to prepare plans for, quote, broader air, land or naval measures and also the selected use of nuclear weapons. further tasked with the ambassadorial group in washington. clearly shocked by the way the four powers had bypassed the nato chain of command with these instructions, secretary general sticker informed them that it was his job, as the secretary general, to maintain unity of the alliance as well as to safeguard the existing chains of command in the political and military fields. he warned that, quote, the dangers threatening the alliance do not only come from the outside. and he also complained that some ambassadors were complaining about the lack of consultation within the alliance. finally, he told them, there can be no doubt as to what is the political authority of the alliance. ie, the north atlantic c

the vietnam generation, my generation, is graying now.his commemoration effort gives the country an opportunity today and in the years ahead to, try and right to wrongs of the past, to remember those who served in this war and what they did for us, their service, and their sacrifice on our behalf. last week i had the opportunity to join the president in paying tribute to a fallen member of that generation. a specialist to posthumously received the medal of honor. he died in vietnam saving his brothers in arms. and it was those same brothers from the 101st airborne division that campaign to reopen the medal of honor process more than 10 years ago. a story of les is in many ways the story of the vietnam war. we forgot and now i finally remembered. next week, as secretary of defense, i will have the opportunity to travel to vietnam and continue strengthening the ties that our countries are re-establishing since 1995. we have come a long way since the war has ended. it was the veterans of vietnam who led the way for the two nations to try to

crt developed the generator especially for water mills. technician bal krishna is bombarded with complaints. this man says nothing's working properly, that there's not enough power, the lights flicker and the generator keeps breaking down. the technician answers that he'd told the villagers the mill should have been located elsewhere, but that they hadn't listened. they make an appointment to meet in the afternoon with the village electricity committee. crt wants to convince the villagers that the technology works. the organization hopes to upgrade several thousand more mills in the coming years. >> the project contributes to reducing co2 emissions, first by clean electricity generation by water power. but it's also important to have our efficient water mills replace the old diesel-powered mills. there used to be five of them in this village. now there are none. that's much more environmentally friendly and reduces carbon emissions. >> at noon, dhan bahadur goes home to eat lunch. it's an hour's walk, and he's carrying 20 kilos on his back

the generals who fought here, commander generals on the southern side, two of them escaped, billow and floyd. they never received a command after this. they spent a great deal of their lives afterwards -- general floyd didn't live much longer after the battle, by the way. general billow tried to exonerate himself out of this, but his conduct was fairly questionable, so he never got a command. general buckner, who was the one who actually surrendered, he was in ft. warren, michigan -- ft. warren, massachusetts, for six months. so, he was kind of -- he was not allowed to communicate with anybody, so it was -- the action report was able to pass through, but by and large, he was out of reach. and bushrod johnson, who walked out of here on his own he was pretty quiet about the whole thing too. it was an embarrassment to the general officers, so maybe that's why, at least the south doesn't remember it quite as well. now, let's see. in concluding my actual informal remarks here, it will be a travesty to allow ft. donelson to be not remembered as well as it should be. it is remembered with you

the mobile device generation. tim jeffrey, that's the mobile, mobile device generation, the m.d.g. do you have a mobile device, charlotte? we're going to get you one. look how cool this is. fresh, show us how this works. we're on this screen, i think. >> when we developed the game, we wanted a game that anyone could play from 6 to 96 and anyone of sailing experience or no sailing experience so the game can be played by anyone, but we'll demonstrate it a little bit later on. you choose your team you want to represent. of course, we'll choose oracle. >> this is a new style of racing. in fact, russell, we have incorporated this into the america's cup world series. it's called the speed trial. it's over a 500-meter course. the idea is to sail the boat down the drag strip as fast as possible among all of the teams. this is done in naples. here is fresh demonstrating trying to go down the course. >> down the course as fast as i can. i'm steering by actually rocking the ipad from side to side and if you aren't careful, you can actually capsize the boat just like real life. i'm trying to g

>> in general? >> in general. >> well, i think you all have taken an huge step forward with the data act that you just passed in the house of representatives. that includes a number of provisions that would really help i.g.s in terms of computer matching, data gathering under the paper work reduction act, and reforming some of the i.g. act. we're hoping that those provisions that relate to i.g. operations will get passed in the senate as well. those are things that we have wanted as a community for a number of years. and so we're very heartened to see progress being made on that. >> mr. miller? >> well, when i was chair of the legislation committee for the national procurement fund task force, we put together a white paper with a lot of recommendations regarding additional tools for inspectors general, and i have previously testified to other recommendations. i'd be happy to share those with you after the hearing. >> all right. and the gentleman from pogo? >> we've done a number of reports on the in

>> #7 is the minutes under general manager. a slight amendment. >> without objection, that change will be made. bawsca update. >> nicoel stle from bawsca. i wanted to keep my comments short in light of a full discussion about water supply later. there is one item that i wanted to talk about. we are pursuing the possibility of prepaying old capital that. the regional water system using the water supply agreement. in fact, at the rate analysis is the same air as the $50 million that would be repaid in this manner. we have hired a bond counsel to assist us with this study. that is making its way right now through the state legislature. we will work to keep her updated. we appreciate the support. if there are questions i can answer for you on this or another topic, i would be pleased to do so. >> can you explain why mr. jensen could not be here today? >> his daughter got married over the weekend, it was a very large affair. he has taken a well-deserved couple days off. >> any questions? madam secretary, william cole the consent cal

i doubt if there is an officer in this room, beginning with general powell and general and umbriel and other distinguished great leaders in this room who would disagree with anything that i have just said, nor would they disagree with the fact that we are honoring our enlisted men and women tonight. but since i have a microphone -- that is the way we will do it. enlisted men and women don't have much to do with making policy. but enlisted men and women faithfully always carry out the policy. they don't ask for anything special. it is the enlisted men and women and their families that are the ones who really take a tremendous amount of the brunt of active duty work and make a tremendous amount of sacrifices. i thought prince harry is comments about families was particularly important and i want to thank prince harry and his brother prince william for what they continue to do in recognizing our men and women in uniform all over the world. men and women who serve in the armed forces do it because they believe in something. they believe in a noble cause. they believe in their country. they

very generous and well- respected in the community. it is a tragic loss. we stand in solidarity with members of the community. supervisor avalos: thank you. i am also very excited about the parks bond will be moving forward to the ballots in november. i have not yet on as a co- sponsor. i suspect i will be able to get there. i just want to thank the rec and park department. i think it has been significant, it has not been an easy road. people in san francisco are very passionate about our parks. to find agreement on how we will spend $185 million is a very difficult thing to do. i just want to give them credit for their outreach and their work. and a willingness to hear from residents all across san francisco. i am also very excited that we have been able to increase the size of the bonds, especially because that movement has created greater opportunity for parks said mclaren park, as well as district 11. i know there was a large effort from the comptroller's office -- controller's office. i expect that i will be in full support. i wil

when we are talking about the general fund, 48% of the $6.8 billion, that is our general fund.is what we think of as our more discretionary revenues. it is like if you were to have a small business, you would not mix your household expenses with your small business. you would keep those separate, keep your own bank account and your businesses bank account. that is how we think about the distinction between our enterprise fund and general fund. when we are talking about our deficit today, we are talking about a deficit in the general fund. the $170 million number, the $312 million number that the mayor spoke of earlier, that is the general fund deficit. $170 million out of our $3.5 billion budget, not the whole 6.8. that is important to keep in mind. what do we spend our money on, what we spend the general fund money on? we spend a lot of things and services and make sure that we need the community need. we spend a large portion of community and public health in our human services agency. we spend general fund money on public safety so our police and fire departments can operate

general breedlove? >> ma'am, it is really less about nonstandard equipment, but the worry i have is we have had a period of time where really good ideas have been brought to the battlefield and quickly adopted to help our soldiers and marines on the ground and the mc-12 liberty aircraft is a shining example of getting it right and also we have some examples where we have multiple starts to try to get to capabilities and others where we have several that are competing and many in the same mission space, and i am concerned that we are able to get to the right number and type and then transition them into long-term use and we have been able to do some of this work because of oco money and now as the oco money goes away, we have to start making prudent decisions about some of these multiple starts in similar missions. >> i think that's really a good point, general. when you have oco money, it is almost embedded in that that you keep looking around and trying different things and it almost breeds a certain i

coughlin general, if you could -- mr. counsel general, if you could -- >> yay! [applause] >> i wanted to make sure that we recognize carol. thank you for your incredible stewardship of the gift shop and teahouse. thank you all for joining us. i encourage you to patrons are beautiful gift shop why you are here. otherwise, enjoy our incredible part. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you, everybody. >> thank you for all joining us tonight. i am the good government policy director here at spur but it is my distinct pleasure to welcome such an amazing panel tonight, as well as the mayor of our fine city. this is the innovation mayor, mayor ed lee. [applause] >> thank you, everyone. can everybody hear me? welcome. welcome to spur. i always enjoy being here. because every time i come here, some part of my brain gets woken up pet. earlier i had a wonderful opportunity to exchange with our panel members about what they're doing and how they're doing it. there is one great theme. i think these panel members are here as part of their own entrepreneurial spirit. they own co

generation in 2001. a long way from home, his autobiography growing up in south dakota, 2002. boom, talking about the '60s came out in 2007. and finally his most recent book is, the time of our lives, a conversation about america. mr. brokaw, what got you to write --. >> guest: what prompted this? >> host: yeah. >> guest: there was a seminal moment, really. it was spring of 2009 and i had gone to the 65th anniversary of the d-day landing. i go back about every five years for those and i went from there to dresden, germany, to meet with the new president of the united states, a young african-american. and i went through berlin on the way. i had been in berlin the night the wall came down. i had the experience being only correspondent there with live capacity and reporting it. still one of the memorable moments of my professional career. i got to dresden and i was interviewing the president and i said to him, i've just been at berlin. i was there the night the wall came down. he said i remember i was in la

assistant general manager and cfo of public utilities.here today, i would like to give the three key updates. overtime is a very small part of our budget. we're used to staffing 24/7 and responding to rainy weather. we have tried to staff up appropriately. we have had a number of retirements. in particular, we lasted a work force succession planning analysis that showed almost 50% of our employees are eligible for retirement by 2014. we had about 10% turnover last year. i have been doing a great deal of permanent hiring in particular. with that being said, we have some of vacancies, and we're filling those in particular in our power house operations. the item before you today, and i understand the budget analyst support our request, is actually a reduction in overtime year- over-year for both our waste water operations as well as for our power generation facilities up in moccasin. while i am asking for a supplemental consideration, it does show year-over-year decline. thank you. supervisor chu: thank you. to the budget analysts. >> madam

, and retired general wesley clark.h of their long military careers include service in vietnam and our thanks to you gentlemen for your service as well as for sharing this memorial day with us. we were talking a little earlier about the wall. 247 feet almost of black granite. on it now, i am told, are inscribed the names of 58,282 mostly men, and some women. and what, what does the wall, what does this day bring to mind for you, general clark? >> i think about all of those people that i know whose names are on that wall. i lost 30 west point classmates there. first classmate we had killed was killed just six months of graduation from west point. we had people killed in every imaginable way. people killed in accidents. people killed in combat. people captured and tortured. people injured with rpgs and shot. a lot of my class, all my class served there. a lot of them came back wounded. it was -- it was a very wrenching, emotional experience, and when i go to that wall and i look at the momentos that are left behind and th

as in the middle east general gray commented on. this was an event where a small group used modern technology do kill 3,000 people. and they demonstrated to the rest of the world how a small group of people can have a strategic effect. that's the legacy we're going to have to deal with and learn how to compensate and cope with for generations to come. i'd like to thank you all for joining us today. we hope that you'll continue to participate with us in this attempt at scholar suspect in studying these issues and we hope that you'll come back to the institute in the future. thank you very much. >>> the military academy at west point published 17 declassified documents recovered from osama bin laden's compound in pakistan. translated into english, the documents total 175 pages. they're available on our website. go to c-span.org. >>> live tonight on our website -- >>> at 9:30, former defense secretary, donald rumsfeld talks about the bush doctrine, compassionate conservatism and the war on terror at the citadel military college in char