what are the r&d budgets they put forward? >> off the top of my head, i can't really say exactly how the r&d budgets, but i can say that certainly china especially has a very strong commitment to those industries which china deems would be an important part of their economic prosperity and future. and for that reason, that is why they are investing in many -- they want to diversify from coal. they are heavily dependent on coal. they are investing in nuclear reactors. they are going to be the biggest did he employer of wind and solar in the world, in their country. they also view that as something for export as well. >> okay. well, i was just hoping i could get a sense whether or not other really mature economies like germany and france were doing numbers much more similar to us. i think all of the really fast emerging economies would be doing more r&d than we would be doing. i'll leave that. we can discuss it at another point. our r&d, some of our r&d major activities have been the engineering with frontier research centers. we

currently the eeaa has given this movie an r rating. >> why? >> their reasoning for the r rating is language and the scene of violence. it follows five students and their families over the course of one entire school year. so everything that you're seeing, it's not like it's hollywood violence. these are the real images of the lives of people. >> the people that really should be seeing it, the kids in school, aren't going to be able to see it because it's r rated. >> here is what happened on february 3rd lee hirsch and winestein company unsuccessfully appealed the r rating. but one teenager in michigan, a 17 yearly, decided to start sending a petition to change.org to try to get the rating of this movie changed. so far she's already gotten over 150,000 signatures. >> i'm sure it's going to be a process to get that rating change but i'm really glad this movie it out there and people are talking about it, because it's an issue that really has to hit home. people have to see it. >> on the other side of the coin, the national association of theater

the r for us feels like a total obstacle. it's unfair. y movies that are violent that have profanity. we just are really hoping that the mpa will reconsider and we can get back to the work of getting this in front of kids and schools. >> ellen is one of activists on her show drawn attention to this fact. let's watch that. >> a petition has been started by a high school student in michigan to change the rating. her name is katie butler. hi. good for you. i'm proud of you. >> you have several hundred thousand signature ons a petition to try to change this rate l. i also really struck, and i know we sdroent a lot of time by how you got access to this community. how did they let you in? >> i have the biggest smile on my face seeing katie. how awesome is she starting this petition. access was incredibly difficult to get. we asked a lot of districts if they would be willing to let us do this film. we were lucky to find partners. we worked with their superintendent, with the school board. they're very -- they're awesome. they were awesome for let

the documentary has a rate of an r. advocates want to change it to pg-13. people from hollywood to pennsylvania avenue are getting involved. there's a big take television on the internet too. the movie is brutally honest. it's a documentary about kids bullying kids and it's meant to be viewed by kids in an effort to help stop that but the r rating could get in the way. the movie got the r because of the f word that's used by the bullies that were caught on camera. >> the f word conveys the brutality of the bullying. it's important. it's not over the top. the film isn't laden with profanity. there have been many films with far more uses of the f word than this that have been given a pg-13. >> the online petition to get the rating change has already drawn hundreds of thousands of supporters. >>> what you're about to see may shock you and that's what the federal government intended. the centers for disease control and prevention announce add new media campaign to get smokers to stop and to keep youngsters from starting. >> we want to warn you some of the images

the right. and it causes a whiplash effect in government r&d. is there a solution to this? >> i think the real conflict has been, at least politically, has been over the issue of giving government somehow the us are ready to pick the winners and losers. you will obviously have certain politicians who will be -- one technology over another. that is where i think government r&d should be kept as apolotical as possible. i understand in this town it is heretical. >> not contained in this town. >> let me push back a little bit. i think this is often a complaint we hear, particularly from those worried about government waste. but you look at many of the major technology funded programs in the government and they are anything but political. darpa in the defense department, it is not a politicized agency. if you look at the people now in rpe, incredible group of people. ph.d. scientists from the best universities to come there for three years, give up what they are doing and devoting their time to totally peer-reviewed process. nista the same way. national science foundation. >> as

the right. and it causes a whiplash effect in government r&d. is there a solution to this? >> i think the real conflict has been, at least politically, has been over the issue of giving government somehow the us are ready to pick the winners and losers. you will obviously have certain politicians who will be -- one technology over another. that is where i think government r&d should be kept as apolotical as possible. i understand in this town it is heretical. >> not contained in this town. >> let me push back a little bit. i think this is often a complaint we hear, particularly from those worried about government waste. but you look at many of the major technology funded programs in the government and they are anything but political. darpa in the defense department, it is not a politicized agency. if you look at the people now in rpe, incredible group of people. ph.d. scientists from the best universities to come there for three years, give up what they are doing and devoting their time to totally peer-reviewed process. nista the same way. national science foundation. >> as

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out, but it's going to make us better. >> reporter: he's here in washington fighting the motion picture association's ry one vote due to the f word. >> the f word conveys the brutality of the bullying. it's important. it's not over the top. the film isn't laden with profanity. there's been many films with far more uses of the f word than this that have been given the pg13. >> reporter: producer harvey weinstein says making teens watch the movie with adults will not have the same impact and results so desperately needed. >> when kids see the movie themselves, they react in a way that's all of a sudden it's uncool to be a bully. >> reporter: now giving new steam to the drive to lower the rating to pg13 is michigan high school senior katie barrett who was bullied herself. >> they pushed my into lockers or into walls and one day they ended up slamming my hand in my locker and they broke my finger. >> reporter: she started a petition on change.org which already has more than 200,000 signatures. there's a screening going on right now with the motion picture association. they've invited educators to come and

the "f" word. and lots and lots of violence which was turned from an "r" to a pg-13. think that there's a lot of precedent. and also if you think about the incredible amounts of violence and aggression and, you know, all the things that we often see in a pg-13 or pg movie that they say that's fine, but then this is not, it's so -- it's so frustrating for us. >> why do you believe this production is being treated differently in your view? >> i wish i knew that. i wish i understood that. i think we've tried really hard to appeal to them. it was extraordinary. alex who you saw in the clip being horribly bullied went himself with harvey weinstein to appeal before their board. he spoke incredibly movingly. he said, what you're effectively saying is that i can't see my own life. and others can't see what they see every day. i don't know what the hang-up is. i wish i did because i could speak to that. it seeps thms that it's arbitrad mysterio mysterious. we're hoping that will change. >> without diluting the message, the reality of what it is, how brutal it is to be bullied,

public in legitimate businesses much of the music offered for download by the r. and b. exclusive dot com website was illegally obtained from artists leading the industry to attribute losses of approximately fifteen million pounds a year to the site security that's raised questions about how the police became the personal in for three of the recording industry standing guard to protect corporate profits and it's also given those concerned with internet freedoms and unpleasant glimpse into a more regulated. the treaty to protect against online copyright infringement in piracy goes ahead pick. your ip address was being monitored so you could be monitored and tracked again this was. move which is seems quite unprecedented in the united kingdom i'm afraid that we're going to see this kind of abuse on the scale it back to comes to pass after a short response from internet campaign as the government agency has now taken down the harsh message and replaced it with this simpler one which just taking control of the domain but it's already caused much worry and distress on twitter

if you downloaded this song through the website r. and b. exclusive it's not just the prisoner of love you got to be afraid of instead of finding the usual blog comment tree and links to r. and b. and hip hop music recent uses of the site was shocked to find their online activity was under police scrutiny and they could be jailed for ten years more than the usual penalty for many violent crimes and a ten year prison sentence you would expect that to be and they don't for very serious offenses serious sexual assaults and rape manslaughter very violent offenses. and you would normally expect it to be handed to own respective. musical legally the u.k. government serious organized crime agency or soka confirmed it rested this but wouldn't talk to us about why it's threatening users with a decade behind bars instead they sent this statement secret audience organized criminal enterprises profiting from the explosion of the u.k. public in legitimate businesses much of the music offered for download by the r. and b. exclusive dot com website was ille

the language in the film is fueling the r-rating. the mpaa, they felt it was strong enough language to give it an r-rating. many other movies with more profanity are labeled with pg-13. how have they explained to you why this was given an r? >> they don't give you explanation. it's incredibly secretive. they will just say, sorry. this is a decision. it was for language. we can't tell you any more about the process. it's a very, very secretive process. you're right, the sort of morality judgment is so odd. they'll say all this violence, gratuitous violence, glorification of violence is fine and then they look at our film and give it an r. it's heartbreaking and sort of infuriating and it's really, i think, what's helped rally so much support to this film, which has just been awesome. >> there's a young girl name katie butler started an online petition to get the rating changed. i interviewed her and i asked what she thought about cleaning up the film. this is what she said. >> taking out the language in the movie is taking away from t

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susan also has a very special role as the official ship sponsor of the "uss gerald r. ford" care year under construction. it will be christened in 2013 and commissioned in 2015. susan is also a trustee of the ford presidential foundation and serves as co-chair of the foundation's program committee. she is an avid supporter of all we do at the library and museum and played the key role in convincing our speaker to fit this into his schedule today. along with her brother, steve, susan has stepped forward to represent the ford family at many events in grand rapids and across the country, giving very generously of her time and talent. we're very honored to have her with us this afternoon. please join me in welcoming susan ford bales who will introduce our distinguished speaker. [ applause ] >> good afternoon. thank you all for coming today. welcome to the foundation trustees, joe calvarusa, special guests, donna randall, members of the museum staff and volunteers and congratulations on your 30th museum anniversary. uncle dick, i love seeing you, as always. ladies and gentle

the r-rated flick opened quietly with 7 million. >> and eddie murphy opened in sixth with 6 plus million. the film did earn a rare distinction of earning 0% on rotten tomatoes. >> so this is going to be the worst film of the year? >> i bet. >> we called this. and this comes from channel 2 news in anchorage, alaska where a local pageant winner showed her true beauty. she promised to shave her head if she reached $2500. she met her goal and out came the clippers. she's trying to help, took her buzz cut in stride. already the winner of one contest. she's going to keep the bald look when she takes the stage as a contestant in june's ms. alaska contest. she's actually hoping that the kids will see her and say, you know? >> we get it. she's beautiful inside and out. she's perfect. >> exactly. we get it. >> you're better than us, all right? >> well, this is early today. just your first stop of the today today on your nbc station. >> the warmest breeze from superman to penguins, kites of all shapes and sizes created a colorful scene in a small beach town there. 32 teens joined together to tackle

the movie. it got rated "r" they pulled it. ocese, said if it's pg-13, we'll do it, if it's r, it won't. >> you have the option of cleaning up the film, taking some of those words out. are you willing to do that? >> i think the movie loses some of its strength. >> the two men, longtime friends, agreed to work together to find a middle ground, but it will ultimately be up to an independent board. in the meantime, the movie opens at the end of the. he's hoping to get the rating overturned, still hoping for a happy hollywood ending. i asked harvey weinstein, why he decided to do this project. he told me he was once rated one of the ten worst bosses because of his temper, and his tough nature. that was something he was not proud of. so he says this movie is a little redemptive for him. he's also a dad. he haus four daughters, two of whom are teenagers, so this is an issue he's very familiar with and it's very real for him. >> it seems like there should be a simple answer in there someplaceisms hopefully they can reach a compromise.