my name is melanie nathan. i am a personal advocate and conflict resolution specialist.i serve as vice president on the board of fair housing in marine and was recently reappointed to the marin human rights council. i practiced law in south africa before moving to the u.s. in march of this year i was faced with a choice. i could stay in the united states with might call-year-old daughter in a shared custody arrangement or i would have to leave her behind to go into exile with my same-sex spouse and our four-year old. our nightmare involves navigating the complex immigration system to keep our family together. had we not been of the same sex, we would have not had any problems. after receiving help from senator feinstein, i led the drive to introduced private bill 867. when my advocacy became public, scores of bi-national couples began contacting me for help. not a day goes1/ request. i testified before the california state assembly, judiciary committee, and provided written testimony to senator leahy for the uniting of american families act. the irc, in making their reco

melanie wrote about her story. good morning to you all.you went through six in vitro fertilization and you explored adoption. how did you reach the decision that we're going to go to plan b which is to find an egg donor and surrogates, really not surrogates, they're gestational carriers because the egg is not their own. >> it was like falling off a cliff in slow motion. we had a lot of time to gradually face the fact that it wasn't going to work for us. and we explored adoption and were very discouraged about our prospects and i worked with a counselor at our fertility clinic and we began to realize that it could be a solution for us. at first it seemed very scary. it seemed very alien and -- >> what was scary about. >> it it sounded very alien and science fictiony. i remained very fearful about it right until i met the three women who helped us, until they came forward. melissa, thea and the young woman in my piece i call the fairy god donor. and as soon as you meet the people, it transforms from this cold technical thing to this amazing

. >> i also want to mention melanie is from the department of environment. we have other folks in the room today, so thank you all very much for coming. we will be available for questions, but i think we are all going to go warmup somewhere. thank you. [applause] patty: hello? cathy: patty! i've decided to follow your lead and file for social security benefits online. patty: but cath, aren't you back in zanzibar? cathy: i just got on my laptop and went to socialsecurity.gov. it took less than 15 minutes! patty: wow! you are a miracle worker. cathy: well, cheers, patty. i'm off to film a baby rhino. ♪ when cousins are two of a kind! ♪ patty: a baby rhino. you are so lost. no, i'not, man. dude! i dropped my phone. oh, the road! whoa. yeah. you know what i'm saying. how would you like to save your life from an ugly reckless driving death? don't answer yet, there's more! act now by slowing down and we'll guarantee you complete satisfaction! kids: that's awesome! announcer: in the real world... passenger: whoa, andy, slow down! >> good morning. welcome to st. fra

nellie, christy, melanie. >> i am nellie. i have lived in park merced for 40 years with my son. i strongly oppose3 thank you. >> thank you. [applause] >> i'm crystal, i've been a resident of park merced for 20 years. my mother raised me single and my sisters have their kids and raising their families there. a lot of families living on a fixed income. i'm wondering what is going to happen to the elderly if they get put in a high-rise. god forbid an earthquake happens and they can't escape, or if any -- what happens with all of the trees and the animals that -- that walk around. i don't want to see a tree replaced by a meter. it is ridiculous. i totally oppose this. i like misses hiss stark merced the way it is about a lot of history for my family and san francisco. thank you. >> thank you. >> excuse me, i need to ask all of you to refrain from clapping and so on during the proceedings. >> my name is nelly delgado. my whole family has two apartments in park merced. you know, i completely disagree in the demolition of park merced. i have my children there. my mom lives there, we al

. >> i also want to mention melanie is from the department of environment. we have other folks in the room today, so thank you all very much for coming. we will be available for questions, but i think we are all going to go warmup somewhere. thank you. [applause] >> thank you all for coming out, especially on short notice. it is a real thrill for all the giants fans and for the elected officials here in city hall to announce formally the trophy tour. we will be bringing the trophy to a city near you but will first stop. the start of the official tour is here, the visa tour, in early january. january 5, we will be celebrate your birthday and the world series victory from the giants. it will be making its way all throughout the state and even going over the state border. we are honored to have the trophy here as a preview of that tour, available for your viewing pleasure and for your photographic memories. we will have this trophy available here for a few hours this afternoon before we head off with mayor cluck of arlington, who was kind enough to join us toda

. >> i also want to mention melanie is from the department of environment. we have other folks in the room today, so thank you all very much for coming. we will be available for questions, but i think we are all going to go warmup somewhere. thank you. [applause]

melanie watts has confused queen elizabeth i and queen elizabeth ii.ust have typed the wrong queen number into google. your first day at school okay, then? yeah. hmm. the virgin queen has got four children now. hmm. oh. one of them's a helicopter pilot. dad! dad! mm-hmm? would bullets kill a fairy? yep, you could kill a fairy with bullets. would a machine gun kill a fairy? yeah, you kill pretty well everything with a machine gun. would a bazooka kill a fairy? yeah, a big bazooka. that would get 'em. dad: wha--? sorry. ben! just pick it up and put it on the shelf. you're lucky your mum didn't see that. ben: what about an atom bomb? dad: atom bomb would kill everything, pretty well-- fairies, elves... ben: can i watch little britain? dad: no. prison break? the sopranos? no. where is the dinosaur book? it's here, but you can't have it. why? because it's one of my days. i wrote it all down at the back. there are your days, and today's not any of your days. tv: the wildebeest seem little concerned... what's this? attenborough. that wildebeest is such an idi

i do not know if melanie from the department of the internment has any additional comments. -- from the department of the environment has any additional comments. >> from the department perspective, i want to thank the mayor's office, the supervisor, and the stockholders. we want to do this right, but we want to do is aggressively. we are trying to strike a balance. whatever is decided here today, the department is prepared to support the ordinance, but i will be available for question perio. chairperson maxwell: why do we open this up to public comment? francisco dacosta, steven pollick. >> as i stated the last time, i have been involved with this process for a long time. but it seems like for some apparent reason we do not want to give credit to southern addison, which is here in california. we keep talking about new york and other states, but that is where it is really being done. it was done by this company which is like pg&e was, because they saw that by doing their energy auditing and by training the people to do the audit 10, they could save energy -- to do the audit, they could

from hollywood, lucille ball, jimmy cagney, olivia dehalve lin, melanie on gone with the wind. and also a later anticommunist crusader conservative republican president named ronald reagan who admitted in 1946 that he had been misled, that he had been duped as well. democrats, on the other hand, there were anticommunist democrats and liberals from the very beginning who i think were never duped and right away recognized the danger that the communists posed to their plans and their policies. and i'm going to surprise you here. the first president who had to deal with this at the founding of the party, founding of the american communist party was who? 1919? woodrow wilson. woodrow wilson. and woodrow wilson may have been -- [inaudible] of a man on the left, all right? but he was an anticommunist x he was stridently antiboll she e vick. described the bolsheviks as barbarians, tyrants and

thank you. >> melanie campbell, that was beautiful. i do want to it knowledge our national field director. he is one of the foot soldiers of this era's -- he and i came out of brooklyn together. we debated on who was going to be the president and because i was better looking -- [laughter] the way. every step of but we had a margin it was time to go to jail, he stepped back and said, you are the leader. [laughter] there is a downside to being up front. andrea johnson has always been on the ground here. [applause] i must say that a young leader the i think has national ramifications -- he is the example to me of what it means to be grounded and no matter where he goes, he has remained grounded and a foot soldier even in high places. that is terri thomas. -- harry thomas. [applause] i really appreciate his work. i want to also acknowledged the principle of dunbar, coach walker. [applause] the principal comes from my neck of the woods. but we had the march last year and started at dunbar high school, he was giving orders, i had to tell mig

thank you. >> melanie campbell, that was beautiful.nowledge our national field director. he is one of the foot soldiers of this era's -- he and i came out of brooklyn together. we debated on who was going to be the president and because i was better looking -- [laughter] the way. every step of but we had a margin it was time to go to jail, he stepped back and said, you are the leader. [laughter] there is a downside to being up front. andrea johnson has always been on the ground here. [applause] i must say that a young leader the i think has national ramifications -- he is the example to me of what it means to be grounded and no matter where he goes, he has remained grounded and a foot soldier even in high places. that is terri thomas. -- harry thomas. [applause] i really appreciate his work. i want to also acknowledged the principle of dunbar, coach walker. [applause] the principal comes from my neck of the woods. but we had the march last year and started at dunbar high school, he was giving orders, i had to tell might national staff

and her name is melanie charlton paschietlli.e eds. >> i don't need to hear any more. >> this is incredible. and it's only $50 from closet.com. >> and the hangers, too. as far as saving space. >> totally saves you so much space if you just get in a set of uniform hangers. and a lot of people don't know there are actually different hangers that are designed to go with different items of clothing. so it will actually preserve the shape of your clothes, and extend the life of your clothes. so shirt hangers for shirt. coat hangers for coat hangers. suits, you have a lot of suit hangers you told me. why do you need two hangers when one will do, right? >> and these are also from closette.com. >> this is the book case. >> from cd2.com. $189. what's so great about this besides it being super chic and it's almost invisible that the footprint of this is only 14 inches. normally book cases take up tons of space. so you can shove it in the corner, you're good to go. >> take the jacket off the book and there you go. >> yeah. >> thank you so m

creator of the fox action show "24" and a rare and outspoken political conservative in hollywood which melaniemay have been a source of concern for the kennedys. >> according to the history network, it's historically accurate, whether the tone or some of the portrayals are in tune with how the kennedys like to remember their legacy, that's another thing. >> reporter: in a statement, the history channel said while the film is produced and acted with the highest quality, after viewing the final product in it's totality, we have concluded that this dramatic interpretation is not fit for a history brand. it is blatantly obvious from many public sources that the family had certain flaws and certain problems. we weren't inventing the wheel, the kennedys is a positive reflection, but we have shown the flaws. the film's producers are reportedly shopping the series around to other networks. but so far no offers have been made. the drama is still set to air in canada and overseas, but with no network set for the u.s., it has to be a major disappointment to those attached to the series, including holmes

let it be said that on this day, thanks to the generosity of eager and melanie mock, that canada and is largest city, toronto, is truly a part of of the global conversation. [applause] now, the moment we have all been waiting for. we have our motion before us the resolved, religion is a force for good in the world. all we need is our debaters here, center stage. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome mr. tony blair and mr. christopher hitchens. hot back [applause] [applause] [applause] >> tony blair with the prime minister of the united kingdom from 1997 to 2007. among its many international rules today, he is the quartet representatives in the middle east, working with the u.n., the u.s., russia and e.u. to try and secure a lasting peace in the region. after leaving politics, mr. blair converted to catholicism and he launched to tony blair face foundation, a global initiative to promote respect and understanding among the world's major religions. many of us in this room have read his recent si memoir, a journey, my political life. christopher hitchens is a author, journalist and athei

melan melanie, you have a different perspective in terms of misdiagnosis i would imagine. >> yeah. instinct. and go from there. >> and does she still have obstacles to go through, maybe reconstructive surgery, things like that? >> yeah, when she's older she'll have reconstructive surgery. >> her prognosis is good, though, right? >> yeah, it will be very good. >> aleisha, it's nice to have you and ash here. thanks for coming in. doctor, thanks for the information. appreciate it. >>> up next, we'll lighten things up and show you what happened when a to w back to high school. and actually tried to join the marching band. that's right after this. [ male announcer ] you know that old floor that's been lying around? let's tear it up. and take it on. let's get a lot of style... for a lot less. get everything we need -- and everything we need to know then get to work making more rooms work for us. with guaranteed low prices on every square foot, the home depot is lowering the cost of a fresh new look. more saving. more doing. that's the power of the home depot. we've made a special buy on