. >> reporter: jon sweeney is author of a new book, "verily, verily," which examines that influence.e says the king james version, the kjv, has been particularly important in american culture and history. >> it's the bible of the speeches of lincoln. it's the bible of herman melville's "moby dick." it's the bible of the speeches of martin luther king. it's the basis of cultural identity in the united states more than any other book. >> reporter: sweeney's book is one of many being released for the kjv's 400th anniversary. all year long, groups around the world are organizing celebrations, from symposia and exhibitions to special projects online. based in nashville, tennessee, thomas nelson publishers is the leading commercial publisher of king james bibles. and they're still rolling off the presses. in this factory, workers add thumb indexes to help readers more easily find the various books of the bible. for the 400th anniversary, thomas nelson has released a special limited edition king james bible. today more copies of contemporary translations may be sold such as the new internat

i would also like to say thank- you to someone who is doing a wonderful job, ted sweeney. i rarely get complaints from the field. doing a marvelous job. still get a few complaints from the electric division. people waiting 10 days to get a broad inspection. not good enough. again, i would like to thank you, commissioners. are we open for nominations? >> yes. >> i would like to nominate someone that i got to know over the past few years. my vice-president for the last two years. a wonderful gentleman who really cares about san francisco and dbi, very giving up his time. someone who will make a great vice-president. commissioner rubieuben hechanov. >> second. >> public comment? >> seeing no one. >> on the nomination for president? >> [takes roll vote] >> the vote is unanimous. congratulations. we are now open for nomination for vice president. >> being as i am still the president, i would like to nominate also some what i have worked with on the commission for the past shorter period of time, and while we do not agree on everything, we do agree on most issues that involve pe

commissioner romero: i'd like to ask the same question that commissioner walker asked but maybe deputy sweeney, maybe he can answer that question. >> the only information i have on this building is it is the legal use of the building is a b occupationy which would be commercial. -- occupancy which would be commercial. i believe you have to -- definitely have to go for change of use, change of occupancy. president lee: how much time are they asking for? i know they're asking for time but how long? >> i believe they are asking for more time to comply. i have a copy of the appeal here which i will look over. i don't know if there is a specific time. >> ok. maybe we'll leave it up to the appellant to specify a time. or did i miss it? >> i think the problem that the owners are having is he has tenants up there that are not leaving. you have residential use occurring and you have tenants up there. until the tenants leave you won't be able to do the work. president lee: ok. thank you for your time. >> the inspector is here to speak as well. >> good morning, commissioners. i'm alex fong, deputy inspec

. >> mariners and ors brian sweeney swinging for the can be curve call in the dirt.dy in the fourth. solo homer. and 1 nothing m's. the only run of the game. to the seventh. striking out the side here. former a jack and saunders and miguel. all get nothing and like it. i pulled something but he was the hard luck loser. eighth inning. 2 on for him who drowns out to end the threat. seattle shuts them out. >> raiders don't have a first round pick in the draft. will al davis wheel and deal to move up. round 1 ticket in the deal with the patriots head coach jackson met with the press today. he did fought exactly end speck haitian about the rangers trading up into round 1 next thursday. >> i can't tell you. that i'll be giving you all my secrets. i can't do that. as you know there are all kinds of chatter quos on but i have not pl made the call. that's just part of the business. as a you would have caught me 3 or 4 days from now. maybe have more information. >> you very cagey. the trophy was won first time in 18 years. victory capped off by the party and we circle the trop

assignment of myself as manager and senior housing inspector matthew green reporting to edward wean sweeney. our office is located in rume 3001 rat 1616 mission. in terms -- in room 3011 room at 1616 mission. in terms of our mission, it is to prepare, coordinate and provide an effectively manage response to incidents of earthquake, emergency and other disasters in conjunction with the department of emergency and management. pursuant to that we've developed a work plan. a little background. the office had been started a couple years ago with tom and vern. drafted a plan, got that in place and a lot of resources. so part of our work plan that i've outlined here is six items that we are going to noff ahead on. one is to provide training and education for all staff as city disaster service workers. this is required every two years. we need to assess the training needs and develop training goals for all department staff consistent with fema and california office of service management. that involves training, etc. as well as postdisaster earthquake design of buildings. two is to resign and update

-cio and john sweeney and iran in one thousand nine hundred five and got elected at that time. amy goodman and i can note it. and a.f.l.-cio meeting about eight or nine years ago in chicago i think it was the annual meeting and i don't recall but it was just months after the change to when split it happened and there was a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth at the time about you know what's the future of labor going to be when you look back at that split. what are your thoughts on the state of labor in the united states really well when you look at the split it was still tragic that the split occur because even even the the things that they said they wanted to all of them could have been done with all of us together the good news is a split caused us all to look at each other and we changed a lot i mean this is a stronger because we changed a lot now most several of the unions have come back into the if a c.e.o. and so we were in the other ones were working very very closely together so we're probably more united right now that we've been in the long time even before the spli

house of ill repute and my question is a change of the labor movement around the emergence of john sweeney a few years ago and the seiu becoming a a bake leader organize organize organize. as cia was mired from the far they did organize lots of workers somewhere things went wrong and how did it go wrong? i noticed some unions tend to me heavily staffed those who maybe bright college kids that are progressive and eager and well-intentioned but they don't have a base midday half never done the job session of a debate if that is what went wrong if you are of that staffers to have no political power so if you do you are fired and go get a job somewhere else. so what people spots where did the seiu go wrong? was a false promise to start with crack say bad model? >> exelon questions. the policy committee of labour notes from the postal union from seattle and a great visitor here did you bring yours the bag? the very good questions and ones that are addressed from our own perspective my own people that were involved in the organized campaigns designed fined organizing a lot of different industrie

bringing ryan sweeney around for the score and it's 1-0 a's. and cahill throwing a lot of balls into the dirt. this is a three-run home run. the white sox added another. then the a's countered for another in the third. so right now it's 4-3 white sox in the fifth inning. every bay area sports team is on comcast bay area. >>> playoff hockey is back in just two days. thursday the sharks open with the kings. some preparation right now is about visualizing success, and that is especially important for the man on goal. he was named the team's mvp last week, and for good reason. now he's trying to win back the stanley cup titles. he did it last year with chicago. the sharks' ben eager was on that team, too, so there's two with stanley cups. you have to count ken huskin. he's also won the stanley. so there's five guys hoping to hoist it again. >> if you have the confidence, we should be able to do it. he's been great all regular season. he can deal with intensity better than anyone. >> when you win a championship, there is a common bond that develops

the panel called "inconvenient truths" moderated by james sweeney who is the media columnist. the science of liberty, reason and the laws of nature, seth mnookin wrote "the panic virus: a true story of medicine, science, and fear" and two co-authors of a book called "merchants of doubt: how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming" tell a handful of -- those coauthors are erik conway and naomi oreskes. live coverage begins on booktv's coverage of the festival of books. >> it is on me. i am jim rainy, media columnist for los angeles times. file so blonde for the times and tweet and do all the editing of we have to do. a couple announcements to start out. please silence your cellphone. we don't want to pick up a lot of weeding. there is a book signing following the session. you make 17 left. and a right. and your maps should have that. and you are not supposed to be recording this because c-span is recording this and you can get what you need from c-span. what i am going to do is introduce our speakers, get the discussion going an

sweeney swing and myself. dirt in the fourth. pitcher dual between hernandez and brandon.kennedy in the fourth. solo bomb 1 nothing. only run of the whole game in fact. 7th inning. freezinging former jack. next batter. michael sanders. miguel, you all get nothing and like it. 6 over all for him. hard luck loser tonight. 2 on for jack sochbility only 4 single in the game. he grounds ground out here. seattle shuts out the a's 1 l-nil. giants have the night off. nfl draft begins next thursday but raiders may not make the first pick until friday. silver and black don't have a first round pick. they traded away to get richard seymour from the patriots couple years ago. head coach jackson met with media. speculation raiders might try to trade up to get back into the first rounl. what about that hue. >> i can't tell you that.i'll be giving you all my secrets. i can do that. no. i mean, you know all kind of chatter that goes on but i have not to call doesn't mean there haven't been call all part of the business. you would have caught me 3 or 4 day from the now maybe more informati

economics training that bill fletcher tried to introduce when he was direct your in the afl-cio under sweeney. there seems to be less and less time for her. if we don't get back to more traditional forms, the more fundamental forms of labor education, political education about the system, people may continue to be confused as you say about the root cause of what the onslaught that they are facing every day on the job and darkening sight like the one mentioned. >> yeah, it's not like labor education so much a part of what is governing this country now. and by the way in popular education we start off on this and see if anyone here ever been in a bar? at about party next to one. >> there is this thing called school, right? and some of them have three legs, right? bargaining, politics and organizing, right? for some of them have four legs and is called more of ideas. we have not engaged in not. we have not explained what's really going on. and this discussion is wonderful. i just got back and explain. we have to do this work also. and the bigger picture of what's really going on in this country.

without having a day -- make direct government takeover the industry rather like the italians did under sweeneywhere -- >> host: oh those are fighting words. now you are calling obamacare fascism. >> guest: that is jonah goldberg's interview, not mine. that is what brought them into politics was socialism. he always throughout the entire career thought of his political evolution as being the evolution of the socialist. he thought there was a continuity between where he ended up in where he began and i think he was right about that. socialism is about being left-wing or right wing. it is by the of trust planners or trust markets. there is this such a thing as right wing socialism in the united states today. the look of the people who support massive government intervention in the say the agricultural business with prices dictating terms of trade, we'll have this much land under cultivation in this much not. this a is that lenin would have gone yeah i get that. these people are all conservatives for the most part or at least they were republicans, and a mouse considered a fair bet they are people

brian sweeney add the insurance in the 8th inning with an rbi triple. win 6-2. >>> coming up in 15 minutes why even a loss is still a win for local businesses. >>> last check, to make sure blue skies and clouds out there. but things are changing, rosemary. >> a mix of sunshine and clouded expected for today. a little cooler in some cases by 5 degrees in other cases. notably for the afternoon. we're waking up with low clouds, but we can see, as some of that blue sky is finally beginning to show. santa rosa reporting visibility down to half mile with fog lingering there. we've got the cloudy conditions expected to increase for the evening hours. and into the overnight hours is when the rain will begin to fall. scattered showers in store for your monday morning. back to work. it's going to be a wet one. give yourself extra time along the morning drive. today's forecast, get out, and enjoy. we're going to have temperatures similar to yesterday. but a tad cooler in the afternoon. a similar start to the morning. low and mid-50s out there right now. noon time

here to help you figure it out is deborah sweeney, a tax expert. thank you so much for being here.popular this time of year. it's very confusing to do your taxes and lot of people get totally overwhelmed about it. what should people do if they haven't filed. >> look back at their tax records to make sure that they have everything organized. sometimes people think of working on november and december, but they need to go all of the way back to january of 2010. >> most people keep it throughout the year but if they have to go back that far what should they look for specifically? every single expenditure? >> things they sold, things they bought. things they donated. making sure you have your tax documents to support that, your receipts. >> how do you know specifically what you can deduct? it seems like for certain professions you can deduct some things and other professions other things. how do people know where to start? >> mostly things done in the line of your business. you typically can deduct business expenses but there's a whole other realm of deductions. for example, deductions

ted mccann, andy morton, courtney ryanhart, paul, austin smythe, our staff director, jenna, connor sweeney, dennis teddy, dana wade. i call him john z. that's an inside joke. brad butler. jonathan. spencer pepper. alex stoddard. i also want to thank from our personal office smith anderson, laurie, joyce meier, mike, kevin, martin, andy, my chief of staff, alison style, our interns, brad, jane, david, greg, and john. i want to thank all the hardworking staff for making this possible. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: thank you. the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from michigan seek recognition? >> i ask unanimous consent that we be permitted to file reports accompanying 1214, 1215, and 1216 at any time through april 15, 2011. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. pursuant to section 5580 and 5581 of the revised statutes, 20 u.s.c. 2223 and the order of the house of january 5, 2011, the chair announces the speaker appointment of the members of the house to the board of regents of the smithsonian institution. the