vote for our neighbor, cynthia rubenstein, for county council. i'm cynthia rubenstein. the first time, are all about retail politics. and that means that you can't take for granted that a last handshake or a last good positive word with someone won't make an impact. and in a race, in a three-way race, which this essentially is in the primary, every single vote counts because historically maybe 20% of registered voters show up on primary day. poussaint: at liz brennan's local polling precinct in district 5, voter turnout is light. brennan: the other group spent so much money, we thought that the people who were like-minded, our like-minded folks, would feel compelled to go out and vote against them. poussaint: tom debraga is the lone neighbors group representative at his polling precinct for the entire day. debraga: by quarter to 7:00 in the morning, we were there, ready to go with our literature on tables, banners out, t-shirts on to tell people who we were. and then, 13 hours of standing, waiting for people to come by, to get two seconds to hand them their literature,

introduce a few people in respect of the agenda that you have, we'd like to keep it tight beth rubenstein is executive director for out of siekt, loraine is the community school coordinator for the fall reveer middle school, christine harris is the chair for the board of directors of the jazz heritage center and marylan coral is the assistant principal and donald savoy is the director for the civic community benefits district, nan key ton is the director, internal affairs for the san francisco symphony, and assistant managing director , and out of this group, we would like to hear from two of them if we may. would you like to come up, please, beth. thanks. >> hello, everyone, i'm the director of the out of sights and we're honored to be partnered with sf jazz and speak on their behalf, we work with teenage youths would don't have access to arts education and don't have access to after school activities, that gives them that access, and our partnership with sf jazz has enabled us to bring world class musicians to a group of youths who are sophisticated and smart but haven't had the opportu

. >> len rubenstein from johns hopkins. thank you for your presentation.now, there has been a debate about what can help contribute to security. there's an agreement that health interventions contribute to human security and also the united states has a major role in humanitarian response and that is not necessarily driven by national security considerations in a very broad sense. but there has been a debate about the extent to which health intervention can concretely improve u.n. national security. there seems to be a lot of agreement that global infectious control can obviously a fact and help our security. but i'm interested in what you think are some concrete ways in which u.s. national security can be improved through health interventions, beyond cross-border infectious disease control. >> anybody care to take that one? >> i'd be glad to respond to dr. rubenstein. you're right here there's been a lot of debate on this area. it's really healthy and we think csi is her bring the two of us together. we probably would've never met otherwise. there is a wi

that is a group in these discussions that glenn rubenstein and i were talking about probably would behe next group to drive to the discussion about how to work together if we could expand that group. given the other comments other comments i'm not? [inaudible] >> one of the pieces project hope did is partner with pharma, get supplies and what we would do in a cooperative way, leverage our logistics resources, which could then be augmented or the resources to manage. when i was in the military i had the chance to be the senior medical guy in the ground with the military for hurricane andrew relief. so it's not just a problem outside the country. it's a problem inside, where people would bring down and with great intentions spartak inductions in mind, provide a lot of tremendous resources, expensive drugs and so forth. i brought a medical logistics battalion to organize a and eventually turn a two state because that was the authority that should be doing that, but did not have capacity in the short-term to do it. so i think there are opportunities to get things, as alan said, i work coo