let's shovel some dirt >> our own mayor ed lee. >> thank you norman and norman i want to thank you and cdc staff you guys don't get the credit but no matter what you're focused observes and the quality of life to i'm grateful to you. i'm very happy to join supervisor david chu and other agencies that have worked hard. john said something earlier about the subway and this project. there's much more and i think that ms. wu understand how we have to plan important the city. transportation and housing go together and they miss go together in the future. we've been taught for many, many years you can no longer build housing in areas where it's not connected to great transportation systems payroll so we took this opportunity when we understood when the embark did care highway was going down we were sad and i know we were there struggling for the survival of the chinese community which this freeway went down. but we take opportunities to have confidence with people about what we we need to continue doing. this is why cdc forces those conversations to have to happen. this is just the beginning

rockwell. >> and norman rockwell. when he moved there it was a psychoanalytic center of the united states because he the -- there was a center there and it drew a lot of prominent doctors. >> brown: you said he was a perfectionist and you say many people in the art world didn't take him seriously, was that part of it? how did he see himself? did he see himself as an artist? as a fine artist? as a great artist? >> he saw himself as an illustrator and he worshipped the illustrateors who came before him, most of whom we don't know today such as howard pyle, painter of pirates who's been largely forgotten. but he wanted to bill himself into what he saw as the great tradition of drawn illustrations does he trance send that category? i think he throws a monkey wrench into the whole process of classification because he was an illustrator but his work has held up over the years and for me has the mystery and staying power of true art. >> brown: let me ask you about one specific work of art, one famous one. "freedom from want"

not all consumed and this is a problem and that's why the world food prize was created by dr norman borlaug to find the breakthrough achievements that will deal with all of all of those issues and yet the ambassador queen i think the default course that you are going to say shame is that making is more on our culture and sustainable production of rather than distribution and sustainable management don't you think that it would be wise to shift the focus a few organization and the overall food availability debate not so much on production and advances in technology but rather on the distribution well our organization takes great pride in dealing with all of the issues across the entire food chain and sustainability is absolutely a very top priority and the agro ecological breakthroughs that can help small poor farmers in particular deal with issues have been rewarded with with our prize our founder norman borlaug the nobel peace prize laureate put it this way we have to produce more food. to feed our ever growing population and there's only two ways to do it. one is you grow more food on the

not all consumed and this is a problem and that's why the world food prize was created by dr norman borlaug to find the breakthrough achievements that will deal with all of all of those issues and yet the ambassador queen i think the defocus that you are going to say shin is making is more on our group culture and sustainable production of rather than distribution and sustainable management don't you think that it would be wise to shift the focus a few organization and the overall food availability debate not so much on production and advances in technology but rather on the distribution well our organization takes great pride in dealing with all of the issues across the entire food chain and sustainability is absolutely a very top priority and the agro ecological breakthroughs that can help small poor farmers in particular deal with issues have been rewarded with with our prize our founder norman borlaug the nobel peace prize laureate put it this way we have to produce more food. to feed our ever growing population and there's only two ways to do it one is you grow more food on the land av

not all consume and this is a problem and that's why the world food prize was created by dr norman borlaug to find the breakthrough achievements that will deal with all of all of those issues and the ambassador queen i think the defocus that you organization is making is more on our group culture and sustainable production rather than distribution and sustainable management. don't you think that it would be wise to shift the focus a few organizations on the overall food availability debate not so much on production and advances in technology but rather on the distribution well our organization takes great pride in dealing with all of the issues across the entire food chain and sustainability is absolutely a very top priority and the agro ecological breakthroughs that can help small poor farmers in particular deal with issues have been rewarded with with our prize our founder norman borlaug the nobel peace prize laureate put it this way we have to produce more food. to feed our ever growing population and there's only two ways to do it one is you grow more food on the land available or the

the talk on the norman rockwell museum in stockbridge massachusetts is about an hour. [applause] >> thank you for that fabulously gracious introduction and i'm glad. i can't believe that the archive has been digitized now that i'm done. i wore gloves fy read through the papers but it's hard to turn pages. i'm glad to know that other people can now do it in ten minutes. i came to this book from the historical background and i studied history at cornell and attended college in the 70's at a time when abstract expressionism was seen as the high point as the great savior because it was said he shifted that capital. they have a mystical flying through the sky shifting the capitol. and the studied rockwell and i didn't really think about rockwell until other people started thinking about him first such as robert rosenblum who organized the show at the guggenheim museum in 2001. and i was immediately taken by the work. partly because i had been tired of spending my intellectual life at greenwich village in the 50's. i felt like i can't think again about that. his word struck

not all consumed and this is a problem and that's why the world food prize was created by dr norman borlaug to find the breakthrough achievements that will deal with all of all of those issues and the at the ambassador queen i think the defo cars that you are going to say shame is that making is more on our culture and sustainable production of rather than distribution and sustainable management don't you think that it would be wise to shift the focus a few organizations and the overall food availability debate not so much on production and advances in technology but rather on the distribution well our organization takes great pride in dealing with all of the issues across the entire food chain and sustainability is absolutely a very top priority and the agro ecological breakthroughs that can help small poor farmers in particular deal with issues have been rewarded with with our prize our founder norman borlaug the nobel peace prize laureate put it this way we have to produce more food. to feed our ever growing population and there's only two ways to do it one is you grow more food on the l

turns out it went right through downtown norman. >> sergeant scott doesn't realize it, but he's drivingoward the eye of the storm. as he's driving you can hear mike morgan giving the weather report on radio stage kj 103. >> you got to get out of your car. you got to get in the ditch. >> you think you're safe in your car. it's basically sheet metal and steel. it's a frame. but think about it. it's also a glass cage. >> the longer sergeant scott drives through the storm, the more danger he's in. >> when the wind speeds begin to approach 90 to 100 miles per hour, the ability for that tornado to roll that car increases dramatically. >> with nowhere else to go, sergeant scott continues driving. the rain pounding on his cruiser. back at the station, conditions are not much better. >> lights started flashing. it looked like something kind of out of a horror movie. i was hoping no one else was headed this way. >> just a few hundred yards away sergeant scott desperately tries to navigate the streets through the pouring rain, unaware that the tornado is behind him and gaining on him. >> looking a

and we had to go through norman yee's office. who is or district 7 supervisor and we had, and i don't know if you can see this here. we had to go through supervisor norman yee's office how in order to get the information on the permits because mr. john qwang from dpw would not give us that information. and we had, we were stalled for two weeks before we could get permit information and we believe that is manifest injustice. and we believe that we were denied due process to contest the work that we had already started. we had started work for two weeks, that we did not get a chance to contest these permits until september 9th, i believe. and so, also, i want to bring to your attention, the fact that there is late information given to me by the director of this board and saying that the issue of a mta special closure permit for brotherhood way for this work could have been conceived by this board. and it was not and we would respectfully request that if there is any grounds for a rehearing it would be the fact that there is new inf

.>> norman lear, 20 years ago, people for the american way, former television producer and your on that board of able for the american way.fit it all together.he is talking about some of the violence on the shows you have on pimp i haven't seen some of them.i saw one episode of "breaking bad bad."where does that fit in?that was 20 years ago.have things change?>> that was 20 years a . ago.people for the american way is, among many things, meant to protect freedom of speech and i am a proud long time twenty-year plus board member.and i admire the work that norman set up and that able for the american way carries on because they are vigilant -- and that people for the american way carries on because they are vigilant.they do wonderful work.the question of television balance, it is interesting that that is the clip he cousin -- because it will be a complicated answer on my part.we do have some shows that, in a narrative sense portray violence.and i don't know what impact they have on people's behavior.there may be experts to understand it better than i do.i have a personal opinion and a que

i think it is a worthwhile and virtuous effort. >> who are some of the people besides norman lear and alec all baldwin -- andc tried to think of others on the board. >> mary frances berry, a longtime and well-known civil rights leader. >> michael keegan. >> he's the president for the people of the american way -- people for the american way. members of the clergy, probably from the baptist church, rabbi david from the jewish religion. ande is a catholic priest congressman. >> kathleen turner the actors. >> some people from the arts. people from politics. people from the clergy. a pretty wide range and wonderful group of people. >> how effective do you think you have been? >> i would say them, not me. they do the work. i am on the board. i wish i were a little bit more active. i would like to take it for their work. i think i'm -- i think it times they have been terrific and at times not so much so. at the the directive people for the american way is important and maybe even profound. i think very important, not dayssarily effective every but certainly no long run. >> there are people

tricia norman 12-year-old daughter rebecca sedwick jumped to her death.nd a month later two of her classmates were charged with aggravated stalking which is a felony. they were dropped because of insufficient evidence. tricia norman is here with her lawyer mat. i think this is hard for you. i think this has been unbelievable and a nightmare you have called it. tell everybody at home a little bit about rebecca sedwick and whether you would expect she would be so subjective to this behavior. >> i would never imagine i would be in this spot. she was a normal happy kid. she liked doing things every other kids did. she had friends and people who were jealous and picked on her. >> what did you witness for the bullying? what form did it take? >> she would come home and say this girl pushed her or called her this name. there was a lot of that every day. and i would call the school to get something done about it. it go to to the point where one of the girls jumped her at school. they suspended the other girl and had me pick up becca. i said enough was enough. i ha

nuclear and otherwise in the entire region this could be a good step in that direction all right norman solomon thank you so much for us here director of the indeed a for a public accuracy thank you. well now let's take a look at the long and winding road to the historic deal iran's nuclear program started and the nine hundred fifty s. with the help of the u.s. but it is in the late twentieth century that tensions started really heating up around its atomic ambitions back in one thousand nine hundred six the u.s. firmly moved down the track of sanctions lambaste it to iran after alleging its nuclear program was for military purposes and that's also when talks started but they reached deadlock in two thousand and five iran's president at the time i'm ready to jog resumed uranium enrichment the u.n. were quick to respond unanimously agreeing on their own set of sanctions a year later now this though failed to convince iran to drop its nuclear program on the contrary and at twenty eight increase the level of uranium enrichment to twenty percent and that was widely seen as a significant ste

norman borlaug sad that and since that our relationship with food has changed a great deal i know that you have a very long professional ties to asia you served as the years have bastards you come border you've worked in vietnam and i think asia is a very very typical example of how that relationship to food has changed it used to be hunger that's was the main issue the main problem in asia and while it hasn't been fully eradicated it is now a challenge by abyss it is so again it's not so much about how much food you produce but rather about the quality of food as you said and who gets that food that's that's right and with the growing urban population and you look look a. perfect example of these mushroom ing cities as people leave the land and come into the cities and how are we going to ensure that in these big urban populations that people have enough food so there have to be innovations in things like vertical farming gardens sustainable production micro irrigation all of the elements so that we can be producing food in many different places and we not only give a prize but we hol

means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage joshua and i go to you first in norman oklahoma it was ninety five years ago the maps were drawn what's the legacy of the most important legacy in your mind ninety five years later well i think that we are seeing the birth of nations in the middle east and dictators like saddam hussein side are a little bits of the ottoman empire and they've kept this multi ethnic multi religious parts of the ottoman empire together by. oppression largely now in this age of popular movements we are seeing them challenged and we're getting the break up i think and rearrangement of ethnic power and in iraq we've had the shiites come to the top the sunnis cast down in lebanon something similar is going on with the christians losing power muslims coming up and in syria the alawite it's a small minority twelve percent are challenged this is much like the austria-hungary an empire and eastern europe after the first world war the map of there was completely rearranged yugoslavia seven countries czechoslovakia split into polish borders changed in

ok josh i'd like to go back to you and then norman oklahoma the west. western powers to these borders in the middle east as we know it today they came up with a plan before the end of the war and was put into place after the war how much can the western powers and particularly the united states in this case control political change on the ground i mean we created this world when it comes to borders and move people on this side of the line on that side of the line and we can have disagreements on this program but it seems to me an untenable people are going to want to live among themselves and we have dictators that are taking cues from other countries particularly in western countries as we saw in north africa and all through the middle east it's not working anymore so can they continue to do it or is there a new strategy why i think you're right and this has big policy implications there are too many different issues one is changing borders and i agree with the other two gas that it's hard to change borders in this day and age not impossible but it's m

to cross-talk legacies in the middle east i'm joined by my guest joshua landis and norman he is the director of the center of middle east studies at the university of oklahoma in new york we have andy martin he's an independent foreign policy and intelligence analyst and in london we cross to charlie wolf he is a writer broadcaster and political commentator right gentlemen cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage joshua and i go to you first in norman oklahoma it was ninety five years ago the maps were drawn what's the legacy of the most important legacy in your mind ninety five years later well i think that we are seeing the birth of nations in the middle east and dictators like saddam hussein side are a little bits of the ottoman empire and they've kept this multi ethnic multi religious parts of the ottoman empire together by. oppression largely now in this age of popular movements we are seeing them challenged and we're getting the break up i think and rearrangement of ethnic power and in iraq we've had the shiites come to the top th

. >>> hola pa, norman. >>> hola violeta vayase al cuarto que estoy atendiendo a norman. >>> violeta,estuviera. >>> pa, pero ¿por quÉ? >>> hola. >>> mi amor. >>> ja ja ja. >>> a ver, la veo, quiero ver la visa ¿te la dieron?. >>> dame otro abracito. >>> dÁmela, no me dejes asÍ. >>> no, si me la dieron, con esa certificaciÓn tan lisnda que me hiciste pero no la traje, no voy apo

to cross talk legacies in the middle east i'm joined by my guest joshua landis a norman he is the director of the center of middle east studies at the university of oklahoma in new york we have andy martin he's an independent foreign policy and intelligence analyst and in london we cross to charlie wolf he is a writer broadcaster and political commentator right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage joshua and i go to you first in norman oklahoma and it was ninety five years ago the maps were drawn what's the legacy of the most important legacy in your mind ninety five years later well i think that we are seeing the birth of nations in the middle east and dictators like saddam hussein side are a little bits of the ottoman empire and they've kept this multi ethnic multi religious parts of the ottoman empire together by. oppression largely now in this age of popular movements we are seeing them challenged and we're getting the break up i think and rearrangement of ethnic power and in iraq we've had the shiites come to the top

praesht norman plans to file suits against. she wants to crack down on bullying.ropped aggravating stalking charges for two girls. >> people ask me how do you feel. i don't really know how to answer that question. i feel like i'm wearing a nightmare and i can't wake up. i keep waiting for it to be over, but it never ends. my heart aches constantly. my body is numb. i can't sleep. my happiness no longer exists. my baby is gone. i have recently become aware that the current laws in florida do not allow for bullies to be punished. this makes me very sad because i think it sends a message that bullying is okay. kids will now think they can get away with this type of behavior. >> norman says she keeps waiting for an apology, one she realizes likely will never come. >>> george zimmerman has hired a new attorney to defend him against charges he assaulted his pregnant girlfriend. a week after having a public defender represent him claiming he was more than $2 million in debt he has hired a private criminal defense lawyer from south florida. zimmerman acquitted in the murd

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the talk on the norman rockwell museum in stockbridge massachusetts is about an hour. [applause] >> thank you for that fabulously gracious introduction and >> i can believe the archive has been digitized and now that i am done a. [laughter] what was that all about? with all those papers and ard ton pages. i'm glad to know that other people can now do it in ten minutes. i came to this book from the historical background and i studied history at cornell and attended college in the 70's at a time when abstract expressionism was seen as the high point as the great savior because it was said he shifted that capital. they have a mystical flying through the sky shifting the capitol. and the studied rockwell and i didn't really think about rockwell until other people started thinking about him first such as robert rosenblum who organized the show at the guggenheim museum in 2001. and i was immediately taken by the work. partly because i had been tired of spending my intellectual life at greenwich village in the 50's. i felt like i can't think again about that. his word struck

this talk from the norm in the rockwell -- norman rockwell museum. [applause] >> thank you for the fabulously graceful introduction. and i'm glad he finally lets me upstairs. i can't believe as the archive has been digitized now that i'm done. what were all are all of those summers about? i had to wear gloves as i went through his papers. i had to their research gloves to keep oil of the paper. it was hard to turn the papers. with a slow and laborious process that i'm glad to know that now people can complete it in ten minutes. [laughter] i came to this book from a historical background studying history at cornell and attended college in the 70s at a time when abstract expressionism was seen at the high point as the great savior because as is was said he shifted the capital of our power to new york. i always had a vision of a figure flying through the sky shifting the capital. and of course i didn't study rockwell and i didn't think about rockwell on till their peoples are thinking about him first such as laurie and robert rosenblum dead at the gugge

butler, before i talk to you i would like to recognize angelo king and ed norman. i just want to know how you advertised this program you have? >> we are using a number of different techniques. we developed a data base of all the minority women on businesses, local businesses and sbe in the 941207 and 02 and we developed that list and e-mail and fax and we made sure we partnered up with disseminating information with the bayview merchants association and the chambers, the chamber of commerce and all the others to make sure they reach out to their constituents and stake holders to get the information out. we follow up with a systematically normally three within the timeframe of a prebid meeting and outreach workshop or any activities going on and we make everybody is aware to what is going on at the shipyard. >> how many people on your list and what kind of associations? >> that's an excellent question. we have every association and every chamber of commerce on our list and the cac and stakeholder organizations and when you take a look at the actual contractors, we

. >> norman, lo relevo de su puesto. >> el acusado acÉrquese. ♪. ♪. >> ¿querÍa verme, seÑor?¿entiende? es la oficina oval, solo usted y el presidente. no llevarÁ invitados. >> ¿ni un amigo? >> comandante oficial neil t callaghan este tribunal ha llegado a un veredicto, pÓngase de pie, comandante. ♪. ♪. >> teniente james. >> sÍ, seÑor. >> es un placer conocerlo, pase, siÉntese. >> gracias, seÑor. >> como dice el artÍculo 15, por golpear a un oficial, encontramos al acusado culpable del cargo y lo sentenciamos a un aÑo de condena en la brigada naval de miramar. >> seÑor, el defensor del teniente estÁ aquÍ. >> hÁgalo pasar. ♪. ♪. >> de acuerdo al artÍculo 90 por desobedecer una orden, encontramos al acusado culpable y lo sentenciamos a 10 aÑos en la brigada naval en miramar. >> teniente robert james, es un honor darle este reconocimiento y muchas gracias por su valor, tome, y felicidades. ♪. ♪. >> ¿algo que decir? >> no, seÑor. >> muy bien, por Órdenes ejecutivas, las transcripciones de este tribunal son confidenciales, el registro de estos cargos deberÁ eliminarse de su record

when norman borlaug won the nobel peace prize for this he was credited with having saved more lives than anybody in history . he didn't gloat what he said it's acceptance speech was we bought some time for the world unless the. population problem is handled in conjunction with the food production problem we're never going to be able to feed everybody and disaster will eventually strike because there are limits to how much we can possibly produce and. we're coming to those limits when i went to india and pakistan i found that we're reaching some of those limits we india. is about to surpass china now is the most populous nation on earth pakistan is one of the fastest growing and it's a country that's just frankly out of control it's it's a dangerous country there was a lot of mayhem when i was there some of the people i needed to interview i didn't get to because they were floating tortured in the karate lagoon and this is a daily occurrence there and when you've got a whole population. filled with unemployed young men because there's just not enough jobs to go around things get the stabl

norman said it tended to see daycare as bending down twenty percent of the spears the new government in pakistan his money into lined up this week the conception and the head of the teaching authority r e ii. the agency chastity construction work students and promising option is to sit in the second time in nineteen eighty and that nonsense about twenty new and old kenny got his new the new company admitted that not anybody on some candy. i got spunk and nine months with the baby died already. man city but the ache in the writing. i can't eat. i kept thinking what if the other side of the camp is a great day. students also say they cannot concentrate and innocence because of exposure to the highest money and live there. once more lawyer with them and tell me that think that is double teamed and eric denton member of the aisle and i think i've been thinking that i can come at a school and the meantime than the back side and pull my pants getting a d minus i'm thinking. it originally did it because of ei he said that to pull its head handed to them. the agency. he was santa made it acr

of agriculture and that miracle that a culture which we now call the green revolution took place norman bore log in his center for wheat and corn in mexico and scientists in the philippines at the international race research institute came up with these incredible crossbred strains of grains that would produce. much more food let's let's pick up from that in just a moment more conversations with great minds with alan weisman after the break. i would rather ask questions to keep building positions of power instead of speaking on their behalf and that's why you can find my show larry king now right here on r.g.p. question more. i know c.n.n. the m s n b c news have taken some not slightly but the fact is i admire their commitment to cover all sides of the story just in case one of them happens to be accurate. that was funny but it's close and for the truth and might think. it's because one fall attention and the mainstream media work side by side the joke is actually on here. at our teenagers we have a different approach. because the news of the world just is not this funny i'm not laughi

means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage joshua and i go to you first in norman oklahoma it was ninety five years ago the maps were drawn what's the legacy the most important legacy in your mind ninety five years later well i think that we are seeing the birth of nations in the middle east.

its own language, culture, its own history of norman, arab, spanish, roman, turkish, egyptian interlopersnfluence. i grew up in new jersey which was pretty much sicily on the hudson. the italian-americans next door weren't from milan, i could tell you that much. i guess what i'm telling you is i figured this will be easy. villa moraci, a certified hotel, restaurant and working farm that in this case produces olive oil. >> how many acres of property do you have? >> about 40 acres. it's one of the oldest organic farm in the mountains. >> this is guido, the proprietor. wow. so that's where potatoes come from. how freakin' hard can it be to make an awesome show in sicily? eat the nice food, drink the wine. in an idyllic village in the countryside, outside catania. how low impact can it get? so the plan was we go fishing. we get some fresh octopus, maybe some cuttlefish and explore the bounties of surrounding waters, all while working on our tans. with a local chef, fishermen, man of the sea. he's experienced. he knows where to get it good. >> you like the ocean? >> i love it. >> how do you se

. >> norman tenÍa todo el itmtiemy no quiero que los patrones se n antojen de vos. >> yo quiero que sigasbien p;or vos. >> si. >> mija pero que entusiasmos y e ese esa trompa tan estirada. >> anoche me dejaron plantada. >> por tres hjoras, no llamo , n apareciÓ, que pereza los hombre e hombres. >> hijo dÓnde paso la noche. >> mampapito y esa muchacha l n llamando como una loca. >> si llama diÍgale que la llam cuando me levante y listo. >> sgureguro no quiere que ha o con mi amigo leonel. >> ya le dije que soy una vieja legal y me gustan las cosas l l lgallga legales hablemos de billete. >> usted me prometiÓ unaplta r para irme si usted me humilla o por plata yo me bajo del bus ya listo. >> escribase en los libros que l le vamos a dar dos millonmees o pocoyopocr acom;paÑ'paÑarme a miami y tamÉn prestamo de 5 mil dolÓlares, l p parecce bien. >> si, claro. >> hable con (...( y que le de la plata . >> comousted manded, con permi o permiso. >> gracias. >> que. >> venga,prometame una cosa, que no me va a dejar botada por alÁa que ya lo hizo una vez. >> prometamelo. >> se lo prometo. >> ni al ba

holiday weekend, four days of book tv on c-span2, including deborah solomon on the life and art of norman rockwell tonight at 9:30. and on c-span3's american history tv, the 150 anniversary of the gettysburg address. -- at 4:00rson helps and 10:00 p.m.. congressional leaders dedicate a bust of winston churchill last month. after a was placed cause passed by the u.s. house shortly before the 70 and the anniversary of his wartime address to a joint meeting at congress. this is one hour. >> ladies and gentlemen, please , theme our honored guests democratic leader of the house of representatives, the republican leader of the united fate senate, the majority leader of the niceties and become a united states senator if they, and the speaker of the united states house of representatives. [applause] please stand as the chaplain of the u.s. house of representatives give the invocation. >> let us pray -- god of all nations, we ask your blessing all on this gathering of people separated only by a common language to honor today a towering figure of the way first century, sir winston churchill. a man

i am joined today by supervisor norman yee and we will be joined later by eric mar. we want to than

i am joined today by supervisor norman yee and we will be joined later by eric mar. we want to thank the following members of the sfgtv staff who are covering the meeting today, jennifer low and david larson. >> please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices, completed speaker cards should be submitted 209 clerk. items acted upon today will appear to the november 18 meeting unless otherwise stated. >> if you can please call item 1, which is the only item on today's meeting and we have been joined by eric mar. >> item 1, hearing on the budget and legislative analyst's report to further understand the level of san francisco's housing crisis. >> i want to thank all the members of the public here at the meeting and all the people who have been contacting my office the last few weeks about the displacement that is happening. i do want to make some introductory comments but before i do that i would like to ask the budget and legislative analyst to a very brief presentation on the report and what i would say about this report is the way this report came

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chair campos and it is great to be here with my co-sponsors of the importants here in the supervisor norman yee and kim and cohen and the chair supervisor campos and i wanted to first start off by saying that hunger lately has been on my mind as a policy maker and a supervisor in this city, but for tens of thousands of people, in our city, including tens of thousands of children, it is on their minds and on their stomaches every day. and i will just say that this hearing is important because of the technology in the great work of so many community based organizations and so many departments that put their hard work every day into trying to deal with issues of hunger and food insecurity. this hearing is important because it is going to bring to light the profound irony of how san francisco suppose he had food capitol of the world and arguably one of the world's richest cities with that we are one of the world's richest cities, and yet, thousands of our residents walk around every day hungry and worried, worried having that fear of the ability whether they will have the ability to feed themse

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i am supervisor norman yee and i will be chairing this meeting today. i'm joined by supervisor cohen to my left and supervisor london breed to my right and joining the committee today is supervisor farrell, and right on time for your item. so, before we do that though, the committee would also like to acknowledge the staff of sfgtv and also -- who are jessie larson and jonathan goma who record each of our meeting and make the transcripts available to the public online and i'm also joined by our clerk today, linda woning. madam clerk, are there any announcements >> yes, there chair, please make sure to silence all cell phones, the documents to be submitted to the clerk, items will appear on the december 10th board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> at this point, could you please call item number 1. >> it is an order nones amending the administrative code to modify open data standards and set deadlines for releasing open data. >> so, supervisor farrell, the author of the legislation, can we have your comments. >> thank you very much, chair

and the life and art of norman rockwell. in exploring the life of personal artist norman rockwell. and a public health official at yale university at the leadership institute presents a history of health care health care in america and their thoughts on reform in the american health care paradox and why spending more and giving us less. and josh ott presents the story of two american anthems. look for these titles and book stores this coming week and watch the authors in the near future on booktv and booktv.org. >> randall kennedy is next on booktv. he talks about the history of affirmative action policies and argues that affirmative action is a morally sound idea that should not be abandoned. this is about one hour and 10 minutes. >> thank you very much for that generous introduction and for making the space available and for all of us. and i'm going to talk for a few minutes about my new book and then we will have a discussion and hopefully the monologue will turn into a dialogue and four will be open to questions and comments and by all means objection, because this is a subject

and when norman yee, supervisor yee, asked, where does this all come from, it makes me think of caberet, money money money money makes the world go around. this city is not a place where middle class people can live. this city is not a place where families can live. when we talk about beautiful schools in the richmond district, there's nothing sadder than schools without children. there's nothing sadder than neighborhoods without children. and you, david campos, when you talked about fighting for the soul of the city, that is exactly what we are doing here. we need places where families can live. we need to keep our diversity. what you are doing with this hearing will help to start but what you must do is finish the job. you represent the soul of the city. you represent the people here in this room. thank you for this hearing (applause). >> thank you. thank you. and if i may ask, and i know that people, we want people to express themselves, but to make sure that the hearing flows and that everyone gets an opportunity to say i would say if you want to express your approval, maybe doing i

norman lear. >> rose: what do you do?rac your family tree back to the -- until the records disappear then we do your d.n.a. and your d.n.a. will tell you your percentages of european, native american, and african, charlie. you're from north carolina. lot of strange things happened at watering places down in north carolina during slavery. do you think you h slaves? do you think you had slaves in the family? >> i doubt it. i doubt it but i don't know. i really don't. i'd like to know. speaking of slaves, you advised the great steve mcqueen, the director, the film director on "12 years a slave." >> rose: didn't he do a brilliant job? it was amazing. do yo know that that book -- i have a series of penguinbooks called "black classics" and we published that edition. >> rose: is that right? of the original book. >> it sold 40,000 copies last mth. >> ro: that's because of the movies. >> yeah, we sold more copies me a month than in 150 years. it was a best-seller at the time but it sold 30,000 copies. >> rose: tell us what it tell