[applause] -- this year's arab heritage month. thank you. [applause] >> find the executive director of the arab festival. -- i'm the executive director. will i accept this proclamation on behalf of the arab-american community in sentences go with deep gratitude and affection -- the arab-american community in san francisco with deep gratitude and affection. allow me to thank our mayor, gavin newsom, for establishing arab heritage month, which will always be proudly remembered by our community and future generations. [applause] our thanks and appreciation also goes to mike farrah, a community member, leader, and representatives who worked diligently to make this a reality for our community. lastly shadi elkarra, who tirelessly put the details for this event together to make it materialize on the ground. thank you for your dedication to our community. most of all, i would like to thank each and every one of you for being here to support this important occasion. this is an occasion that should become the space and base where the community comes

- annual native american heritage month cicelebration.ould like to thank our host for this month, native american aids project, the mayor's office, the san francisco native american health center, and kqed public broadcasting. how about a big round of applause for our host? thank you. at this time, when indian people -- when we gather, we throw on our regalia, our outfits. we do not call them costumes. if you are from oklahoma, we call them in being close -- clothes. it is good to see all these dancers and singers as well, their families. when we gather like this, we start out with prayer, so please stand if you are able. creator, grandfather, we give thanks this day for the many blessings for this beautiful day, this opportunity to honor our own here in san francisco city hall. we give thanks to native and non-native alike, those that are here today. when this ends, we hope that they travel safe, that they continue this relationship, creator. we remember the words spoken here by the leaders of our native american community. creator, bles

we proudly celebrates the diversity out northern california by commemorating american indian heritageh more than 60 programs this year -- this month, in fact. these programs are highlighted in a guide along with listings of community resources and local events, and you can find that actkqed.org/ -- at kq ed.org/heritage. i wanted to point out a couple of films we have coming up on our films series. one is called "real injun" and is an interesting trip through the history of north american native people as they have been portrayed in the history of movies from silent did today. the second explores the life and death of fred martina's and the spiritual nature and gender. two spirits is going to come on kqed television in june of 2011, but we are also sponsoring the american indian film festival this year, and that will be premiering at the festival i think next week. then, just this past month in october, helped dialogue with a special theory from kqed public radio did a report on the current condition of native american health with interviews from health care providers, community leade

part of life heritage. mourn a rise of around lunchtime he visits his father at the local nursing home he says a few phrases in russian that i'm with you know it's good to know i. was there come to the race. nick lehman can't remember names and faces clearly last year he had a stroke. one of the us here in the us but even. that's my son and he cleans condition sometimes makes him imagine he's not it's old news nursing home but in the old settlement of new real chick where everyone has a boat for christmas is celebrated in early january rather than in december and where people in nearly every home speak russian. don't struggle users of books so goes away i want to know the rest of the book i'm going to. a group of. leman is one of the few people here who still remember the russian era of the land its former legacy is gradually being forgotten much in the same way as old people's memories fade away i'd like to teach my children about their heritage referred it it's caught on especially with our oldest child o

>> i think the heritage foundation. heritage had the 2.8 number in there but the idea that anyone can project with what the unemployment rate will be in 2015 is ridiculous. so ryan would have been better to just leave that all to the side. but what we have here, job, is we have set up a conflict of visions obviously, we have an unsustainable fiscal situation in the country. there were two ways to go. one is ever higher taxes and price controls on health care to control the costs of health care, which is basically the democratic plan. but they're too cowardly to be explicit about it. or we can get spending under control, take first steps to getting the entitlements under control with no tax increases and price controls and that's the ryan plan which will become the lowest common denominator to for republican presidential candidates in 2012. >> so it's going to be president. >> not every candidate will endorse every jot of it. it will be -- it will be -- the standard by which candidates will be judged. [everyone talking a

we don't have to save the palestinian heritage.will know that it was lifta, but we are a new nation that has to progress. >> while some israelis see the ruins of lifta as a threat to peace, others believe just the opposite. they want to preserve lifta as a place of education and hopefully reconciliation. >> lifta is also a village of hope. it can be a place where we can talk about our future, where we can remember the past, where israelis could see how palestinians used to live, could understand what it means for palestinians to lose their houses, what happened to them in 1948. so why destroy this little hope that we still have? >> my uncle dreamed of a land where jews could walk the streets proudly as jews. he saw arabs as an impediment to that dream. i have come to believe that lifta is important for jews as well as for arabs. if jewish and arab youth grow up believing they have always been natural enemies, peace will be impossible. we need to preserve lifta to challenge the simplistic memories we often pass on to the next genera

and faith and heritage.r that today i'd like to share with you a little story. it's a hard cover book that came out in march of 2006. anybody have a hard cover. wave it up here. you might not want it after i say this. i got to pick the title. three cups of tea but viking told me they would pick the subtitle and they picked one man mission to fight terrorism one school at a time. i objected because obviously there's- ways to fight tear riz m with education but i said i do this to promote peace and i started 8 years before 911 and this is about promoting peace through education. i've worked afghanistan and pakistan many years and i said we need to have a tribal council. i went to manhattan in the fall of 2005 and the big boss of the whole group, nancy shepherd and carlin coburn in publicity. we met in a little room and i stated my case and they said, this is your first book so you need to listen to a few things here. first of all only 12 percent of nonfiction books make a profit and 2/3 are pre chosen by the p

last saturday, april 9, san francisco heritage held a soiree in commemoration of the 40th anniversary. we were proud to ablprovide the cruise terminal, the location for the soiree. we want to thank them for the support of the program. we were represented by mark and curracorrine. they were also able to celebrate the port city of san francisco. we are amazingly proud of all of their successes and contributions to our very own waterfront. we are so glad to be considered partners with them. on may 25, at pier 1, the heritage executive director and michael corbitt will come to the port for a brown bag lunch to present the book. we have the book available for sale and autographing. that will be open to commissioners, cac members, tenants, and anybody else. that will be made 25 at 12 noon in the conference room. to date, heritage has given presentations of the port city to the california historical society, american institute of architects. the next presentation is may 11. it is being well received and i have people ask me all the time if they can find a book on amazon. you cannot, as far a

okay. >> brian walsh from the heritage foundation.this week the weekly standard has an article about the declaration of the principles of an academic freedom, are you familiar with that document? >> not very, no. >> okay. what i'm wondering is what the declaration done, and it's been touted by others for a while, it lays out standards and principles for what academic freedom looks like. it would actually give faculties, for example, a guidance on how they should be making decision about tenure, about who to accept, what articles they should be promoting, those types of things or at least being open to. what do you think about some type of standards where the academic community actually -- not that it's imposed from outside, but it adopts those standards voluntarily, and then it's used by faculty and other members to point to and say, you know, i'm not being afforded my academic freedom whether it's in tenure or whatever else it might be, do you think that would be helpful to combat that problem? >> i have considerable skepticism about

so able to, learning chinese dance they will learn their heritage at the same time and they're learningrals and learning where they come from and what's special about chinese people. >> i think it's interesting to learn about your culture and your heritage and doing chinese dance, and it's fun too. >> every week the group gets together to practice. their traditional outfits and drums are red, because in chinese culture red means good luck. >> this dance is called a drum dance. it comes from the north part of china. >> chinese dancing dates back more than 5,000 years. and it demands some special talents. you need to have good rhythm to do chinese dance. you should be able to concentrate on what you're doing. >> you have to be able to count. remembering the moves. >> we need to put our toes straight. >> you need balance, you need rhythm, and you need to have a lot of fun. >> it takes a lot of practice. >> and practice they do, to make sure they are ready for several performances throughout the year, like this one at a chinese new year celebration. since the days of ancient china, this dan

lauren leanin doesn't see that russian heritage simply as a distant episode in the history of his native state he remembers well that when he was a child far more people spoke russian than english i talked about it with my brothers about the russian herds and we often joked about it when we get within about ten miles of the week doing what we call speaking and we start talking like my father telling some of the stories it is still a very. furtively heard. more in a rise that sold around lunchtime he visits his father at the local nursing home he says a few phrases in russian if i'm with you it's go i. was no conscious pre-race. nuclear man can't remember names and faces clearly last year he had a stroke. or what. you hear yes but human. that's my son nick lehman's condition sometimes makes him imagine he's not it's old news nursing home but in the old settlements of the real chick where everyone has a boat where christmas is celebrated in early january rather than in december and where people in nearly every home speak russian. everybody says so drug programs or rather what do you know t

south carolina after the englishman rode his luck it's a one shot lead into the final round of the heritage dos is third in the world at the moment and his not stand to get off the best of starts his ball bouncing as a bounce on just the second hole a double bogey here seen him briefly lose the lead but he was back to park by the time he reached the turn and we found his form and she with a one under par seventy his was round of the tournament so far however he was still a shot at defending champion fearing the american mr pats a car on the last hole to scotland his chances of topping the leaderboard at the end of day three was. ten as well number one rafael nadal has beaten fellow spaniard david ferrer for the second final in

ashton carter to the heritage foundation. as the under-secretary of defense for acquisition, technology, and logistics at the department of defense. dr. carter has been working to implement numerous initiatives to save money during a time of what we all know are falling budget. he has led a sense of acquisition reforms, industry, endorsing the cancellation of over 50 major weapons programs as part of the 2010 budget. prior to his current appointment undersecretary carter worked in a number of defense related positions of great prestige. he served as assistant secretary of defense for international security policy under president clinton and a member of the defense science and policy board. is also serve as chairman of harvard international and global affairs factly at the kennedy school of government. he's received many awards, among them the department of defense distinguished service medal and the defense intelligence and metal. dr. carter has taught in the past about the massive $700 billion portfolio that he helped overse

in south carolina englishman riding his luck to take a one shot lead into the final round of the heritage i don't know what is third in the world at the moment in his penultimate round didn't get off to the best of starts his ball touching bouncing out of bounds on just the second hole a double bogey here seeing him briefly lose the lead but he was back to par by the time he reached the ten i really found his form finishing on a one under par seventy his first round of the tone but he still a shot ahead of defending champion jim fury. the american missing a putt for par on the last hole to play his chances of topping the lead of pool. meanwhile tennis number one rafael nadal has reached a landmark in his career the twenty four year old claiming his five hundred when i

another from our architectural heritage. still working on the docks, i think this policy tries to look at the risk. "the tragedy for maritime use at the port is that you can prevail over particular issues hundreds of times, but you " -- you can only fail once and everyone is gone forever." thank you. >> thank you. public speakers? >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is [unintelligible] and i am the general manager for the shipyard in san francisco. thank you for putting together this maritime preservation policy. i see it as another example of the carnival splendor. a span of pop tarts and media. that ship could not have been docked here if it had not been for the forward thinking of port of san francisco in 2006 when they put together an agreement that allowed us to expand dry dock no. 2. that provides jobs, working closely with the port of san francisco. today we continue to work closely with the fort to maintain access to the shipyard. i appreciate the hard work and effort that court staff has put into these challen

at least 20,000 fans showed up for japanese heritage day before the a's faced off against seattle. the pregame ceremonies including taiko drummers, free t-shirts, and hideki matsui appeared on the field before the first pitch. the a's have raised $50,000 and will donate $1 to every ticket sold to japanese earthquake relief efforts. >> a major recall of turkey burgers. some have already been sick 'ed, possible live by sam nellie. -- salmonella. the baby eagles who are a huge hit on the internet. >> leigh: we're looking live now at angel island out there, spectacular views. a beautiful day. how much longer can we expect this kind of weather? we take a look at the seven-day forecast coming up. >> federal officials say the turkey burger may have been come dam -- contaminated with sam nellla. they're labeled all natural turkey burger with lean white meat. 12 people have become ill. if you bought one, you should return it to sam's club and get a full refund. we have more information on our web site, abc7news.com, under "see it on tv". >>> an eagles nest where three chicks have hatched is

mother's side is irish american my father come from a different heritage. he is a genealogy. he traced his family all the way back to the times when they moved from spain to a region of france. that's where his family came from as peasants in 1850. and for generations, his family members had been going back to this place to visit their distant cousins. they knew exactly where it was. i was thinking that was a year after my irish american family came here. why don't my irish american family know this information. i want to try to find out what it is. i didn't know at that time what i was undertaking. i heard it said with irish american it's not genealogy it's archaeology. i found out about that later. it's exciting to hear the nuts and bolts experience of discovery. and at the same time i know i heard from both of you that a very spiritual and unmeasurable experience happens of people come alive in the histories of your family's lives. i was wondering if you could bring alive for the audience the individuals or characters of your family's history and also if you can both refle

san francisco heritage located in the,li z, 200 franklin street, 441 -- 3000. they have original print version of the sand born map from 1830s. building files and files on architects that practices in san francisco and major contractors that worked in san francisco their biographies and certain indexes that are not available else where. so i would suggest contacting them. >> and joining. it's a nonprofit organization that preserves san francisco heritage. >> okay i want to flip through some of these other materials we brought along to show you. not the building codes. here today, fantastic book you want to tell us about it. >> here today, is the end results of years worth of research done by the junior league of san francisco. a book published in the late 1960's and there's an enormous volume of research. architecture, social that went into the making and not every building researchs in the making of this book is published. there are background files that san francisco library history room, the planning department has an index but the library has on their web p

>> i can't give you back your heritage. i can't restore the gulf the way it was 100 years ago. i can only do what small role i can play in providing you compensation for your current damage. >> reporter: mitch is harvesting oysters again, but sales are slow. >> if we can get back to 30% of what we normally did, we'll be -- i know it's crazy to say this. somewhat satisfied, because at least we can do something and pay the bills. >> these are the tar balls they're talking about. >> reporter: he met with president obama on his first trip to the gulf and listened to his promises. >> you will not be abandoned. >> just getting our share of it back. >> reporter: now? >> i don't know if there's really much he can do. kick fineberg in the butt and tell him to get off your butt. >> reporter: among the many questions, what's behind the fourfold increase in dolphin deaths. this doctor tracks the strandings in mississippi and alabama, 86 so far this year, 67 babies. >> it is very unusual. it was very concerning. >> reporter: but there are no answers yet. the government won't reveal any resu

part of my heritage. so there is no way i am missing it. >> reporter: san jose british pub offered 100 people a chance to watch the wedding together while eating a traditional english breakfast. >> i watched the first one. this is every good as this one. i love the pomp. i am a royalist. >> reporter: a replica of the wedding cake. some wore hats. as these two walked down the aisle eyes followed them. some seen it different. >>> catherine middleton the commoner captured the right attention to change machines. >> i think we will see change. kate will make a big impact on what will happen in the future. >> reporter: we caught royal watchersepterring the palace hotel including the general a site of another viewing party. >> the whole pomp and circumstance thing we brits do that rather well. and i think it is something that attracted people to the uk and the institutes like the monarchy. if is really our heritage. [cheers and applause] >> reporter: so, right here it was felt here on american soil, back to you.