officer eleiff could have backed off the chase as a 1 person unit. officer stearns and sgt. kane could have done nothing. officer came and started o'malley also could have decided not to. each of these officers showed restraint in not firing their weapons where a suspect provocative action would normally end in shooting. these officers were awarded the gold medal of valor. [applause] >> a sgt. paine, who could not be here tonight, was also awarded the gold medal of valor. >> it is with great pride that we honor these individuals for their valor. every day, officers put their lives at risk and do very good police work and we do not do enough to thank them for that. i am brought to be part of a ceremony where we can point to these heroes and thank them publicly, the way that we should do so every day publicly. so thank you again. [applause] the police commission and the park would would also like to think the diversity of california's san francisco for its generous support in co- sponsored tonight's event. we would like to single out the community relations office and the conf

you talked about $20,000 personal gps unit. where's the value now in kind of location as you see it? >> sara talks about the start-ups but they are mostly all software companies, right? >> they are all dependent on the electronics in something else. cell phones, for example, early on we understood a gps only needed a certain number of transistors to make it work. but now that it's smaller, it's better. going back to one thing you said, we're a little concerned about will i stay be able to use what i have? you'll still be able to use what you have today but you won't see the improvements. >> where does telenab make its money if gps is run by the government itself? >> our primary flagship product is the nef gator, basically a phone navigation system that is paid for by subscriptions. >> you sell that to the cell phone companies? >> we don't sell the software but sell the services that allow it to work. routing computing and business listings. >> you're being the back end -- when i'm typing something on my phone, somehow telenab w

so the life of the contemplative and the life of the active person are united in the monks and shouldunited in all religious people. >>> on our calendar, this week, sikhs will celebrate one of their most important holidays, vaisakhi. the day marks the time when sikhs first identified themselves as a distinct group in the 17th century. many hindus also observe vaisakhi as a time of renewal and rebirth. christians are nearing the end of lent, the 40 days leading up to easter. for eastern orthodox christians it's called great lent and it's a time of especially strict fasting. the eastern orthodox observe fasts of one kind or another all year, no meat on some days, no dairy or oil on others. but lent involves special disciplines, and orthodox calendars serve as reminders. going without some foods is intended to bring the person fasting closer to god. catherine mandell of clearview, pennsylvania, talked with us about her russian orthodox family's lenten fast. >> the church generally gives us a calendar to help us track those days that we are to fast and which days we're allowed not to fast

. >> i am here speaking on behalf of the vice-chair person of the united residents. members of the san francisco board of supervisors, you are -- we oppose the antenna project, also known as 1653 grant. the united residence of polk is a registered neighborhood association in san francisco. we write in opposition of the micro cell proposed. we believed it is unreasonable to require an environmental impact report of a tiny antenna out that this just 30 inches tall. this will be enclosed in a rooftop that is just 5 feet in height and obscured from view by casual observers. reluctant the latest set a dangerous precedent that could harm all neighborhoods and businesses and property owners that are seeking to build or expand with minor improvements. we believe this will be a waste of the city resources as well and not reasonable at these times in the bad economy. we support t-mobile site because it expands the wireless network. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> good evening, board of supervisors. my name is smith. i live here in the city. i think we deserve quality

personality disorders and defendant. but the prosecutor was adamant in demanding the death sentence. i. think it's rather tragedy that in the united states a sixteen year old when he commits a crime can be put to death. in one thousand eighty seven sean sellers was sentenced to death and first became the youngest person condemns to death in the united states in the past fifty years. over the thirteen years following his sentencing sean grew up an adult in the macalister penitentiary. in these half buried buildings the cells which are underground have no natural light. as the years pass shawn's lawyers try in vain to get a retrial. psychiatrists seem to have brought to light psychological disorders that were no one of the time of the trial shown now in adults writes books attacking the cultures of. the styles of letters and maintains correspondence with hundreds of teenagers. when i met him thirteen years after his condemnation he had exhausted all legal recourse. to whatever it is a. cage. most of the streets to believe that i know is are good and it's you know. nothing to me am i am . three days after meeting sean i sit in on a c

obviously irrelevant things i'm going to blow us all up i don't hear anyone anyone a single person in the united states saying we ought to restructure our debt rather it's going to blow us all off if you don't give me my way you know marni it seems to me they do if the u.s. isn't financially bankrupt it's intellectually bankrupt according to and i'm kind of extrapolating from what jeff had to say but again you know i mean the thing is is that people are using this is a political opportunity here maybe a crisis that may not be a crisis but i'm going to get what i want to portion was mentioned i read that earlier before i'm going to do this program here but there's a lot of other things that people just want to you know a lot of horse trading and again is is we're going the titanic is going to its final destination people now waking up to what really needs to be done jeff mentioned some very good things. yeah i mean definitely i seem to be abating and maybe i even have to debate on raising the debt ceiling or not raising the debt ceiling but why this is being debated saying they are thaw it he who

and go ahead i'm not convinced that the united ireland convinced that the united states government decision not my own personal view but the united states government decision was not a sudden one based on what the people of benghazi wanted they made a strategic decision and it's cold it's calculated it takes into account the moral issue only as a political factor in terms of how it will be assessed what their decision is ok and so i want to ask you what you know you know and you know it's not very much of your assertion that we still don't know. last point greg i want to challenge you on that point however because i don't think that it is and sort of the principle of of what has always been the timing factor in foreign policy in america in the west as well as a bunch of however i do want to was whether or not we believe that this is not always in the interests and if it can also personally what do you think the motivating factor was in order to go into libya. because i think it was a combination of factors the main one i think the main factor was a lack of clarity about what their pastor was going to be in the

living than the united states so sometimes you get an idea of how people are actually living we look at something called g.d.p. per capita which is how much income does the average person get and their united states remains about four to five times higher than that the chinese numbers that we're likely to see in the next few years but it's a significant i mean again this is something that we need to china was on the rise we knew that china was poised to overtake the united states what role i guess did their own policies play in making this kind of disparity. well our own policies are largely behind the rise of china in many ways and the decline of the united states i mean it's probably not good for the accidental this comes a week or it's sort of strangely for two of us are eerie this comes a week after we see standard and poor's threatened to put the u.s. treasury the u.s. sovereign debt on a downgrade watch and if you do keep importing more than you act or you keep running giant trade deficits and you consume more than you produce and you outsource and ship those jobs and you import a lot of goods from another place and that places china and then you're actually send

now ready to jump and go ahead i'm not convinced that the united that the united states government decision not my own personal view that the united states government decision was not a sudden one based on what the people of benghazi wanted they made a strategic decision it's cold it's calculated it takes into account the moral issue only as a political factor in terms of how it will be assessed what their decision is ok and i want to ask you what you know you know this and you know it's not very much of decision that there's little i would. last point but greg i won't challenge you on the point however because i don't think that humanitarian aid is and so the principle of of life has always been the dominant factor in foreign policy in america in the west there's a lot of punch about however i do want to was whether or not we believe that this is not a coincidence of interests and if we can all see personally what do you think the motivating factor was in order to go into libya i. believe it was a combination of factors the main one i think the main factor was a lack of clarity about what their pastor was goi

his room had a personal air conditioning units, internet connection. he says the conditions were plush. do you have any formal authority to weigh in on the demand side of the equation to look at what the wants and needs are being specified and to be able to get in and control those? any formal authority to do that? >> i do. i have a lot of informal authority on top of that. i am not very respectful between the difference of acquisitions and requirements. i do not think i should have to pay attention to certain distinctions. they have to be together. >> what about the control of resources? the military department controls the resources. >> not deserve it. the secretary of defense controls the resources. >> i was referring to something else. >> correct. >> that would be your formal authority as adviser to the secretary of defense. >> i am the acquisitions executive. >> you recommended the program manager be set up for services. the services need a lot more attention than what they have received in the past. would the program manager be responsible for up

i know of plenty of instances where individuals by those units either with another person, and two singles living in this space or one person who divides the additional bedroom space into offices or something like that. the ability to buy a unit with parking does present itself here. i know plenty of families who prefer not to drive cars. they are environmentally- focused. they don't want to contribute to feel cool motor trips. their preference is to live sustainably. i am sure there are some families that prefer paying a lower cost on a unit that does not have parking and would maybe allow for a teacher or a couple of parents with the child to afford a unit where -- this is unbundled. still, they would not have to deal with that additional cost and headache. i know families who cycled around the city and take public transportation. there are many people who are not interested in owning cars. i will not be supporting any motion that would request conditional use on parking. i like the project, i think it is a good project. it is too bad that there was not a -- it would have been nice. i su

thousand eighty seven sean sellers was sentenced to death and first became the youngest person condemned to death in the united states in the past fifty years. over the thirteen years following his sentencing sean grew up an adult in the macalister penitentiary in these half buried buildings the cells which are underground have no natural light. as the years pass shaun's lawyers try in vain to get a retrial. psychiatrist claim to have brought to light psychological disorders that were unknown of the time of the trial shown now an adult writes books attacking the cold as it. sees thousands of letters and maintains correspondence with hundreds of teenagers. when i met them thirteen years after his condemnation here exhausted all legal recourse. are we deliberately. i think. most of the street is to believe you know what it's. up to. three days after meeting sean i sit in on a clemency hearing that takes place in this small chapel near the penitentiary. is shown as a last chance to have his death sentence commuted to life imprisonment. for life. steve preston shown as new lawyer is working day and night to preven

think terry jones is is detrimental so those short term and long term interests of the united states i would personally say use your freedom of speech in a different way and i'm happy that the permit was denied all right well that's the year after final word on that i really appreciate you for giving us your opinion on that was richard green communications strategist attorney and author of worth.

narrator: over 300 million people live in the united states. and each person uses an average of 100 gallons of water every day. man: what it takes to actually make clean water is somewhat a mystery to most customers. woman: so how does water get from the river into your house, or here at school? woman: somebody has to bring that water to us, and somebody has to take it away when we're finished with it. man: the water infrastructure is vital for disease protection, fire protection, basic sanitation, economic development, and for our quality of life. man: you just can't visualize all the assets that are under our feet. we have about two million miles of pipe in this nation. if you're walking around in an urban area, you're probably stepping on a pipe. man: our grandparents paid for, and put in for the first time, these large distribution systems. woman: and in many cases, it's not been touched since. man: we're at a critical turning point. much of that infrastructure is wearing out. narrator: our water infrastructure is made up of complex, underground systems th

today said emily's fighting spirit is what made her the right candidate to be the first person in the western united states to receive a hand transplant. >> i felt early on that if i told you you can't do something she was going to prove me wrong. and that's the exact type of determination we need for somebody to be a pioneer in medicine. >> i do feel like it's mine fully, but surely every day it becomes more and more mine. i think once i have sensation in it and i can feel it and i can function with it more, it's going to feel more and more like mine. >> reporter: and finell says her new hand could have an unexpected benefit. she says right now she types 45 words a minute with her left hand alone. she's looking forward to getting her new right hand up to speed. she says there's a lot of better job opportunities out there once she's already looking into. >>> new research shows using foul language can actually increase a person's tolerance of physical pain. scientists at keal university in england performed experiments on student volunteers and found they had more tolerance to pain if repeating foul

underwear, that seems to be the tack he took an life to the detriment of his own personal demons really ended up in the united states of america. he is a very smart person, men would come to the tailor shop to read to the taylor. people in the shop for the first time who can't read at a man would come and read a book of speeches, he kept the book and gave him the book. he would go back and read this book of speeches and he realized because he gets into debate and of the shop to do the equivalent of taking an outside and firmly they invite people to watch them argue and it becomes clear he has a talent and the talent is public speaking. that links him to lincoln. he was a different speaker. he could be very rough. he was sarcastic and aggressive and people haven't really seen anything like it and so his fame grew. people suggested he might stand for office which he did. he was very ambitious. a good businessman even though he started poor. he made the right investments and actually battered himself financially and went into politics and climbed the ladder people every round of the ladder he was on it up to the

the institute of medicine says for the average person, 600 international units a day of these is plentye were a little surprised that individuals were consuming nearly adequate amount. >> true for most but not all. dark skin cuts down on the production of vitamin d. while ten minutes in the midday sun without sunscreen is enough for those with lighter skin, blacks need 3-5 times as much exposure to sunlight to produce the same amounts of vitamin d. blacks are also more likely to be lactose inn toll rapt so they -- intolerant so they skip vitamin d milk. >> you have to think about having a balanced diet. >> the blood pressure translates to thousands of extra deaths each year from heart disease and stroke. simple interventions like taking vitamin d supplements might help close that gap. >> i have high blood pressure. lots easier to take vitamin d than start taking pills all the time. >> i am all for trying to keep my health up. you know, i do everything and anything to stay healthy. >> vitamin d levels did not fully explain the differences in blood pressure. it is thought that psychologic

prime minister vladimir putin who is held that position in the past this of course profit a person to go to the united russia party of which he is the head of to speak with top party officials and say look guys it's surely a bad election isn't until two thousand and twelve it's still a ways away and we still need to focus on the state duma elections which are coming up this year on december fourth of two thousand and eleven but let me give you a little bit of history about why this has been such a big deal this week and particularly ahead of the brics summit meeting in china we get it met with chinese media and in that he was asked about possible divisions in policy different ways different directions that he might be going away from him or put him in terms of how the country is being run he said yes there are some areas where they disagree but this is part of a healthy democracy it's part of a system that works now the two of them have been friends for a long time this interview talks a bit but not as much of a party to start hinting if you will that they would be in support of a vladimir putin presi

i'm the only person in my family born in the united states. my family is from mexico did my grandfather was recruited to work here in the united states during world war ii. my father emigrated here. i sister and my mother emigrated in 1967. we have very different experiences for all three of those members of my family. in my entire professional life, i was looking back. i've always been around immigration law. i am proud that it has been so. someone asked me if i ever regretted been so focused on that. i said i did not do it on purpose. somebody just told me once to do what you love and everything will work out. i'm pleased to say that it has. we were told to give our perspective a little bit. it's hard not to speak personally about comprehensive immigration reform and what it means. i had the privilege to work on some of the most meaningful cases to me. i know it's the one place in san francisco i always know how to get to. to give you a brief legislative update, one of the things that i said before ever working for a congressperson, if they

personally, i might prefer 0.5 to one unit. but i think this is a good compromise. the whole eir and the whole project has been worked with lots of public input. it is not going to be everything i want, but i think it is going to be a major plan that will be leading the future of development. this is exactly what we need at this time, something that is dense yet also very achievable. we do not need more building out in dublin. we need more controlled growth here. there was a question about the changes to the ifd versus redevelopment, the infrastructure funding districts. one plus is that it genuinely gives the planning department much more control. so there should be some happiness over on that side of the aisle. [laughter] so i am very excited about the plan in general. certainly, there are aspects that could be examined further regarding the eir. i would hope that my colleagues and my colleagues across the aisle also support this plan. vice president samaha: well, this debate tonight really made me realize just how much i love san francisco. i love the help the de

system from a standpoint of spending that isn't true or control we spend twice as much as a person as you can the united states on health care is those canada and canada is a first world country we the same situation exists with for example france which here is the entirely you socialized medical system we spend twice as much in use so it is growing all right i think we're going to have you back on an individual health care system because i definitely disagree with you on some points there but carl thank you so much as always great to hear from you now before porsche go it was arlen sponsor collapse that was the talk of the town but as tom explains ireland's economic woes threaten the entire european union let's take a look at what tom had to say today ireland is in the process of completely reinventing itself as a nation they have no choice the banking system is in complete turmoil their banking deficit is thirty percent of g.d.p. and in order for there are economists survive in any way they had to receive a bailout from the european union actually it's more like ireland had to receive a bailout in ord

years and this amendment help hearing like my family first thing i did when it came to united states i think personally something jackson and congressman bennett because they did a great job and another person we probably should mention him again because he's the important part of this story is the richard pearl richard perle who was the guy who actually wrote this woman he was a senior aide to senator jackson and he was wrong who wrote it and its center he was the inactive politician well you know he's he's scholar he was the american enterprise institute but he speaks he is expertise almost on t.v. and he comments on many important issues and actually one of the reason why he filed this lawsuit because richard said something at this event we do every year old russian formed you you hosted this world russian forum this year as far as i know. the incentive to start this lawsuit it actually happened ok can you tell us more. be on it ok because so many things so you try a good german sorry for jumping from one circle an undeveloped let's make it pouring straight an emotional thing and really the dance an

badges are being won in europe in the enlightenment and personal autonomy, and personal freedom and there being one in the united states on the adjudicate christ judeo christian. with cal vun in his um. you're an individual be calvinist that and the we're in something together with god that we have sort of a contract between human beings and god and the american still think this way. you think this rhetoric out of the white house with democratic, and republican presidents. it's not going away. >> you want to comment on that. >> i think that we have that doctrine and it's held up as an ideal in america it become somewhat attenuated. ththother thing about cal vunism. this is of the for and religion it became gradually what happened after the review formation that the netherlands becaformation that the netherlands became >> legalizing prostitution, and legal i guess doctor assisted suicide. religious authorities from the wide cross section of churches stand in opposition. why do you contend they are able to testimony the tide. they are misaligned with their faithful. >> i think there's some of that. i'm not catholi

badges are being won in europe in the enlightenment and personal autonomy, and personal freedom and there being one in the united states on the adjudicate christ judeo christian. with cal vun in his um. you're an individual be calvinist that and the we're in something together with god that we have sort of a contract between human beings and god and the american still think this way. you think this rhetoric out of the white house with democratic, and republican presidents. it's not going away. >> you want to comment on that. >> i think that we have that doctrine and it's held up as an ideal in america it become somewhat attenuated. ththother thing about cal vunism. this is of the for and religion it became gradually what happened after the review formation that the netherlands becaformation that the netherlands became >> legalizing prostitution, and legal i guess doctor assisted suicide. religious authorities from the wide cross section of churches stand in opposition. why do you contend they are able to testimony the tide. they are misaligned with their faithful >> i think there's some of that. i'm not catholic