commissioner norton? commissioner norton: thank you, in support of the center of sustainable gardening. as the school district has enjoyed a long-standing relationship with the botanical society working together to teach students about conservation and where over 10,000 school children 90% are from san francisco have a unique opportunity to visit the botanical garden free of charge to participate in educational programming and where as the educational activities of the san francisco botanical garden society provides at no cost to the school district include botanical, horticulture that includes science and teaches students about water conservation and appreciation for environment and where as the botanical garden society was built in the 1906's and impairs the garden's ability to san francisco's public school students and where as the garden societies plans new plans for a new nursery to enhance the society's ability to support the educational activities offered at the garden and enable students of all ag

vice president norton: my question was about special ed students. i have heard a few reports and i think there is some confusion out there. as this is starting to seep out, the people are upset that bus routes are changing. i have been contacted by a few families who are worried that their special ed children are losing transportation. i know that we are not proposing to do that. in some cases at the middle school level and some elementary, there are students riding a big yellow bus who have iep's. they did not get a door-to-door route and instead got a big yellow route. are we making sure that those who have transportation needs and iep's are not going to lose transportation because of this? i have gotten some queries from parents who are being told that their kids are losing transportation and they are worried because they have iep's and they think they would lose it. if we can be very clear in how we are communicating this and making sure that the school sites are clear on what is being cut and what is not being cut. president yee: any other comm

norton? commissioner norton: commissioner fewer, i want to thank you for the courage you have displayed here. i came into the office today looking for any way that i could vote against this resolution. and justify a vote that i know will be deeply painful to the people that i consider supporters and friends. . and i was not able to find that justification today. first i thought that perhaps we could compromise by drawing the line around at a smaller number of schools, a set of schools that i feel as clear justification for taking the steps we're being asked to take. to say that schools as clearly defined, you know the schools, many of us are aware of the amount of money that has been given to us by the federal government to work on the schools, to improve the schools. we only have that money for three years, significant money, invested and professional development in the schools. i thought that would be a more reasonable compromise. and then i looked more closely at the list of schools and re

in memory of suzanne sweeney, commissioner norton will speak to.e president norton: not to return to the somber mood, but i like to close this meeting in member of my friend and neighbor, who passed away last week at the age of 85. she worked for many years as a teacher and administration in the district. she served at john chin and francis scott key elementary. by the time i met her, she had been retired for many years but i enjoy hearing about what was happening -- but she enjoyed hearing about what was happening in the schools. she grew very frail and a bit eccentric but never lost her sharp intellect and fierce independence, her love of music and npr news and her pride in her sister's in the teachers' surety. she left no close family but will be missed by her many friends and neighbors. i would like to thank the many retired administrators who shared their recollections of working with her, including jenny, phil, caroline. thank you. president yee: meeting adjourned. >> good evening and welcome to the february 29th leap year addition of the boa

. >> vice president norton? vice president norton: so i want to ditto everybody. it's a really wonderful program. i told the story before. i told it to you. thank you for tall work you're doing. one of the greatest -- my greatest peer resources story is when i came on to the mission website one day and saw this wonderful interview that peer resources students had done with students in your assisted communication class there. it was really great because you hear our students with profound disabilities had profound disability handicaps and are not, are using all sorts of devices to help them communicate. and the whole video was about how the -- the special education students and the noneducational students found a way to communicate together. and this was really cool. he can play music on his box that he has on his wheelchair. it was a way of introducing the students to their classmates at mission in a very kind of equalizing way. and i really appreciated that. my thought that that was such a -- a great -- a great use of the program and in a great way. it's such a s

jim norton discusses his new book "america going to hell in a hand basket." first, why is it neat to eat red meet? we report and you bring the cich up. >>> so, does eating red meat make you upbeat? consuming cow keeps you content. australian researchers, it is true, kaylie, says devouring the steak cuts the risk of depression in half. that's 50%. and if you extrapolate, that explains why vegetarians are so miserable. extrapolates means kissing hobos, right? one catch, of course, the study was conducted in a population of women which i find sexist. says one of the lab coats, quote, when we looked at women consuming less than the recommended amount of red meat we found they were twice as likely to have a disorder as those consuming the recommended amount. that is so boring. you know what keeps me happy? doing extreme sports. i believe we have tape from last weekend. >> great. i recovered though. i look great. a little plastic surgery they ever hurt anybody. john, were you at all surprised that red meat eaters are happier? >> it looked like mitt romney in the so

delegate eleanor holmes norton introduced the bill.prompted by the upcoming may 15 special election to replace former councilman harry thomas, jr. d.c. will spend more money to hold the election because the current timing -- the rules for the current timing prohibit this race from being added on to d.c.'s presidential primary ballot next month. >>> in campaign 2012, mitt romney cannot rest on his two primary wins tuesday night. that is because super tuesday comes next week and with the 419 convention delegates at stake, all the republican candidates are scrambling to try to get their message heard. >> that is the key building block that we have to have to move forward in the presidential campaign. >> as much as i would like to do something, i think it's going to self-destruct anyway when the money is gone. >> i'm running because i want to return the power that's gone to washington back to the american people. >> we've got work to do. i need year votes. i -- i need your votes. >> virginia is one of the ten states holding presidential pr

and finally, the division commander, joe norton, he showed up and said, you've got to turn over your brigade. your replacement has been here now for over two weeks. so i turned over the brigade. and i flew back out, me and sergeant major. we packed up our duffle bag and flew down to saigon spent the night in saigon. the next day we were put in a jeep and headed out to thompson newt airport to get on the freedom bird. to go back to america. and we got the tom sob airport and it was bg being mortared. after all we had been through we thought, this is ironic to get killed or wounded in a mortar attack in saigon. so they sent us back to saigon and we were delayed on the airplane for two days and got on the airplane the next day. came home together. plumly is a piece of work. he doesn't give interviews. he avoids the press. but he is -- he and i are dead loyal to one another and he lives just my side of fort benning. sergeant-major plumley. and over the years, long gone by, my wife and i would go over to fort benning on occasion to visit my troopers at the cemetery. and her parents were v

or ed norton's character, "in fight club."ng himself up in the boss' office. >> what are you doing? >> reporter: in real life, some people do quit in spectacular ways. most famously, that jetblue flight attendant, who slid down the emergency slide. >> they treat us like [ bleep ] here. >> reporter: on youtube, you'll find joe quit, who worked at the providence marriott. >> i'm here to tell you that i'm quitting. >> reporter: he brought his own marching band for backup. and there's how to quit mcdonald's. [ bleep ] you. [ bleep ] you. >> reporter: whether you're flipping burgers or flipping multimillion-dollar deals, quitting is powerful stuff. but today, goldman sachs took issue. in a firm our size, it's not shocking that some people could feel disgrundled wrote zee lloyd blankfein in response. but today, one disgruntled guy spoke louder than the world's most powerful bank. one london website offered a "star wars"

. >> reporter: brian norton ran into his handicapped daughter's bedroom to bring her to the basement. he had time only to dive on top of her as the ceiling collapsed. >> i pulled her out, we went to the basement, the water ran through the floor, flooding the basement. >> reporter: it's caused bay powerful collision of cold air smacking into warm air. the storms went from nebraska, to kansas and missouri, into illinois and kentucky. the mecca of branson, missouri, was struck. the destruction is enormous. the worst may be yet to come. meteorologists predict another strong similar could hit friday. >> relentless weather. and has a team of reporters spread out across the disaster zone, including chris bury. he'll give us a snapshot of the new normal in harrisburg, illinois. you can see how powerful this tornado was. the mayor told us he heard the sirens go off. and then, he knew in his gut that something awful was going to happen. at least six people were killed. entire shopping malls flattened like pancakes. homed ripped apart. cars turned asundayer. the damage took only a few moments to

a norton study calculated the cost of global cyber crime at when combined with the value of time victims lost due to cyber crime, this figure grows to $388 billion. orton described this as global black market and marijuana, cocaine, and heroin combined. in an op-ed last month entitled "china's cyber thievery as national policy must be challenged" former dni, mike mcconnell, former homeland security secretary, michael chertoff and former deputfens w lin noted ability of cyber terrorists to cripple -- cripple -- our critical infrastructure. they sounded an even more urgent alarm about the threat of economic cyberel espionage. citing a report by office of national counterintelligence executive, the of the catastrophic impact that cyber espionage, particularly that pursued by china, could have on our economy and competitiveness. they estimated that the cost easily means billions of dollars and millions of jobs. this threat is all the more menacing because it is being pursued by a global competitor, seeking to steal the research and development of american firms to undermine our economic lead

. >> let's talk now to norton beau na part, the city mannier of sanford, florida. on the city website, answering some questions about this controversial case, you wrote, the sanford police department has conducted a complete and fair investigation of this accident. do you stand by that? >> the sanford police told me they did conduct and complete their investigation. what i have done is the congresswoman asked the united states department of justice as law enforcement officials to come in and take look at it. >> that's an unequivocal sentence. the police department has con ku conducted a complete and thorough investigation. >> i did not review the report. i think it is only fair to have the state attorney have a chance. if they think it is not complete and thorough, they will be doing some additional work. >> you are in the middle, sir, of a national controversy that is getting global attention. you also write, as we move forward and strive to answer the questions that are a point of controversy in the community, we ask for your patience, understanding and assistanc

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sanford city manager norton bonaparte. earlier tonight i asked him why and why george zimmerman is not in custody. >> i heard you d an interview with al sharpton this evening on msnbc and you said you want justice for the, quote, murder of trayvon martin. you used the word "murder" which is not a word one would use to describe an act of self defense or anything under the stand your ground law. if you believe trayvon martin was murdered, why hasn't the man that shot him been arrested? >> what i have been told, anderson, and this is a law enforcement matter, that when the police arrived, they handcuffed mr. zimmerman, they took him to the police headquarters, they questioned him, they brought him back out to the scene, they asked him to reenact what happened. and based upon what they heard from him and based upon the evidence that they saw at the scene and based upon some information from witnesses, they could not uncorroborate the fact that he said it was self defense. what they have determined, at least at the scene, is th

like commissioner norton, it needs to be said here tonight that the people who chose the six schools were not bus. out -- were not us. i have done a lot of public condemnation of how that was done. actually, i did not report that we should have applied for this, because i think some of -- and we see all of the other schools around the nation that have taken, as is the direction of the federal administration, a far more punitive, strategic posture around transformation and we have. i think we are right, that the way that people want us to do it is the way that we have tried to do it before, very punitively, but it has not worked well. i am happy that we have looked for compromises, that we have tried to be as supportive as we can, but i know from all of that work that staff stability is key, and gaining subtraction in the multiple initiatives we have had for these very schools is important. what i was going to say is the six schools have been arbitrary selected for us. we chose, and in the end, i supported that in order to be with my colleagues. i did not want to be the lone person vo

it is a norton publication. >> guest: thank you very much. >> you are watching booktv on c-span2. forty-eight hours of nonfiction authors and books every weekend. >> joining us on booktv is richard brake who is director of education for the intercollegiate studies institute. first of all, what is i s i? >> we are nonprofit education foundation. we have been around since the 1950s. bill buckley was our first president. our mission is to educate for liberty by going after college students across the country. providing intellectual foundation for their conservatism. >> host: you also publish books and i would like to look at some of those. let's begin with this one edited by lee edwards. reading the right book:a guide for the intelligent conservative. >> guest: a scholar at the heritage foundation. a huge public service. a lot of college kids to they are conservative but don't know why. he gives you a little 100 page annotated bibliography that says to be a smart conservative leaders will not just a talk radio conservative leaders and you need to read books like road to serfdom, idea

norton: i thank the gentleman for yielding. the american people will be puzzled by why we can't get out of this house what has traditionally been the most popular bill, the transportation bill, an they will hope we're not on the road to the 30-plus f.a.a. extensions that we had before. you know it won't do to say, like two kids you did it too, we did it, you can do it, therefore we can do it. none of us should have done it. but in any case we know we don't have to do it this time. the senate has passed a bill that we could pass as well. so we know the compromise can happen because they passed a bill with more than 2/3 of their own house, including many republicans signing on, compromise is possible. if you believe in compromise. and i'm afraid this bill shows that we have a majority that does not. they are on record saying that they must have 218 votes from their caucus alone. that will say to the american people if we need to pass a bill that will have only people from our party voting for it, while the senate has passed a bil

the city manager of sanford, florida, norton bonaparte jr. thank you for joining me tonight. >> thank you for having me. >> the case you just heard from that city commissioner for chief lee resigning, do you think that is -- those points are valid points and reasons for him to resign? >> well, let me start by saying that what happened was a tragedy. the loss of life, the loss of trayvon martin was regrettable and as a parent, i can't even begin to think of the loss and the pain his family must be going through. i think it's very important we always remember the young man that had a promising future is now not with us. and that's the very painful reality of it. in terms of the city commission's vote this evening of a no confidence in chief lee, i have stated that i believe we need to have an independent investigation. not only into just the shooting that took place, but also the actions of the sanford police department. i've stated that i want to know, as the city manager, did the sanford police do things they shouldn't have done? or did they