. >> are you jonas? >> i am. >> ok, not because we sent you two emails. >> ok. vice president olague: so, mr. smith, if you can't reject it -- if you can describe the case for us? >> good evening, michael smith, planning department's staff. the proposal is a construction of a three story horizontal addition at the rear of a single-family dwelling within an rh-1 district. it was granted a rear yard variance. the variance request was opposed by the d.r. request youors and appealed, but the decision was upheld. there are three adjacent neighbors, two neighbors nearby, and the neighborhood association. the d.r. requestor is concerned it would impact their privacy and noise, that there would be noise impact from these as well into adjacent rear yards and the amount of encroachment has been granted through the rear yard variance is unprecedented for this district and this neighborhood and violates the residential design guidelines. to address their concerns, the d.r. requestor wanted to be reduced by 5.5 feet. on the overhead, just walking through the project quickly,

. >> jonas, we do have a translator for this case? >> we did request a translator. is that translator present? thank you very much. >> commission keller ander, department staff. this is an abbreviated d.r. so typically these neighborhood planning quadrant team leader would present the case. that person is on vacation this week so i will present this case and the following, the d.r. good afternoon, president olague, members of the commission. you have before you a request for discretionary review of a proposal to build a rear two-story hors agets extension to an existing dwelling. the rear extension will have a five-foot setback along the property line and match the rear building wall of the adjacent property to the east. the addition will be set back 34 feet from the front building wall. the height of the addition as measured from front of the property line will be no higher than 25 feet. after the d.r. was filed, the residential design team was consulted and they found the proposed project to be consistent with the residential design guidelines as the addition is a

. ♪ >> another big moment on the program is the performance of jonas kaufmann an internationally renownenor. ♪ >> the ball confers a medal, the order of st. george. the award honors prom gent individuals for their achievements. this year bob geldof received one for his humanitarian work. it is close to midnight when the dancers settle down to a more restrained three-four time. as usual, in dresden visitors dance not only to the ballroom but outside in the opera house. the debutante couples leave the building and dance among the crowd in what's become something of a tradition. the motto of the ball this year is "dresden smiles." hence the giant clowns' faces. >> it's just wonderful what we'v here. especially for an eastern german city. >> i think the motto is a good one, and thrares great atmosphere here. >> 3,000 red balloons rose into the night sky, carrying a valuable cargo. the one that gets the farthest wins its finder and an invitation to next year's semiper opera ball. >> if you were to ask parisian photographer sasha goldberger to name his hero, he'd almost certainly say his gran

. >> good morning, my name is samuel from jonas college. my question is from your point of view, what is the psychological role that the media has on society, particularly on human behavior? from your point of view what is the psychological role that the media has on society, particularly in the human behavior? >> we're not very good a psychology. and i really don't know how to answer that question. let me answer it in this way. it's unsatisfactory. i worked for a network -- two networks for 30 years. every now and then, i came upon a boss accident who psychologically was open to different points of view, different personalities and knew how to balance interests. the washington newsroom of cbs was loaded with ego. and only a certain amount of room on the cbs evening news, so you had to balance these things. it was the most delicate psychological problem. but my bureau chief did it very, very well. aside from him, i can't imagine anyone else who had in mind psychology in dealing with the news and presentation of news. as a matter of fact, i

should tell you if you want to talk about the hero who i spent my time with, is my son, my oldest son, jonas, i wrote the book for him. and this is a moment i recently gave him the book. and this is a moment i waited eight years and i'm presenting it to him and he doesn't care about eleanor roosevelt. he doesn't care about rosa parks he goes looking for the athletes in the book. and he is flipping through and he finds a book of roberto clemente but i tell my son all the time do you know what being a famous athlete means. nothing. it seems nothing. it means you're good at sports. it doesn't make you a better person or nicer or anything. i say to him do you know what's selling a lot of books and being on the bestseller anything, it doesn't make me smarter or nothing. he's reading it because there was a earthquake in nicaragua and roberto sent three plane loads of food and medicine for the victims and they were stolen. they were confiscated so he sent a fourth plane i'm so determined to make sure the fourth plane will get there. i'm going to get on the plane myself and make sure it gets there.

should tell you do you want to talk about the hero who i spent my time with, my son, my oldest son jonas. this is the moment that i gave him the book. i've waited eight years. it's called "heros for my son" i'm telling my son. he doesn't care about eleanor roosevelt or rosa parks. he's looking through the athletes. he finds roberto clemente. you know what being a famous athlete, nothing. it doesn't make you a better person, nicer, you know what selling a lot of books and being on the best seller list, nothing. doesn't make me smarter. it means people read the books. roberto clemente is in there not because he was a baseball player, because there was a earthquake in nicaragua. he sends three planes for help. they were stolen. he was so determined to make sure the plane gets there, the fourth one, he gets on the plane. it crashes in the ocean. killing everyone on board. he's not a hero because he died. he's a hero because he got on board. i'm waiting for my son to say i'm the greatest hero. he said, dad, i'm sad. my book has backfired in my face. he comes racing into the room on his own, h