it is the case that sba works with these organizations to try to help small businesses understand how to get credit and fine tools to be able to do that. sba programs cover a wide range, and i will talk about this range of lending and the kinds of things we do, but in many ways, we do not do it alone. we do it with partners, and that is the takeaway message, the sba lending activity, while would guarantee loans through a number of lenders, we do it with a lot of other partners as well. let me give a little bit of a sense of what the small business administration does and is. we in san francisco covered the bay area and north coast counties, and we do a variety of things. i will come back to the credit card because i know that is what this session is about, but before i do that, there's two other roles we play that are important as well. one is about helping small businesses understand how to start businesses, getting good technical assistance, getting good advice about starting and managing your business. equally important is being prepared for credit. one of the things we tried to do

they understand that the fishing practice is the thing that should be banned. we don't know if it will directly contribute to that at this time. >> there is time for one last question. it is an audience question. how can the local hiring policy be made compatible with the existing situation. >> there is obviously policy and reality. the policy that embraces local higher. i want her those that pay more to have a fair chance. we begin with this construction ordnance where we have special steps to be taken for contractors to show that they are making every effort to comply with the word of its. we had people that were ready and willing to do that same work in san francisco. in my opinion, that is not fair for all of us that is paying for those projects. having said that, when you look at the city work force, i begin by saying, i remember when lily told me, if you want this job, move to san francisco. i made that sacrifice. how can everybody do that? i am not sure. i would like to champion more work force housing. it offers everyone a chance to afford to live here.

they do not understand how shortsighted it is because they do nothing to understand the fundamental problemsabout crime. i think part of education people about criminal defense lawyers, public defense lawyers, is educating people about the source of crime. they need to understand if the constitution does not work for everybody, it does not work. >> so how do we educate them? >> you bust rush limbaugh. he learned there is a fourth amendment to the constitution. seriously, how do we do it? i am not sure. one of the things that i struggled with, in particular, in robert blake's case, when i got into the case, i was determined not to get caught up in the media and to be the same person at the end of the case as i was at the beginning. i think of lawyers need to be lawyers, not try to be entertainers. you would know better. >> just so you know, i covered him while he was trying that case and desperately tried to get him to come to me during the case. i felt it was so important for the public to understand the constitutional issues that were coming up, but he rightly wanted to remain focused on th

what we understand, partners at mta understand, that needs to be a public dialogue on how that works. we have heard comments on both sides. who that line as far south as you can. then we have heard people say, what if i want a carpet cleaner to come to my house? is that going to be a hassle? in some ways, this is a new approach where we need to figure out the right mechanisms, and 2012 will do that, but we need to engage with public to allow people to get to where they need to get to, realize that there may be times of the day where they may not be able to do that. >> thank you for the presentation. i appreciate all the effort that is going in to do some of the advanced planning, recognizing that this is somewhat different than anything that has been done before as it relates to the america's cup. i know a number of my friends in the bus to a community are especially appreciative that bicycles have been incorporated into the plan. perhaps, the idea that there could be a healthier motor transit available to visitors. however, to commissioner ho's point, there will be a different profil

you have to understand that there are major telescopes on the ground. we have now about 10 telescopes that are 8-10 nerts size. in other words, they are more than twice the diameter, more than 4 times the light gathering power of the telescope which was the world's largest for a long time. 10 more under construntion. we the the largest telescopes, two in hawaii and 4 in chile. and there are many others around the world. and in addition, we have great radio telescopes which although they are getting radio signals, they allow us to make detailed images using radio waves and by cross comparing the data from these different telescopes, we can learn more than we could from any one telescope. >> what do you think about the size of the universe? >> we know nows sight of the visible universe. i can tell what you it is. 46 billion light years from here to as far as we can see. >> that's beyond the power of the human imagination to conceive, though, correct? >> the imagination has to be trained. it would have been hard even for a professional astronomer to unders

from my understanding of what's here, it's very difficult for me to understand yet whether or not this really does move us in the right direction. the understanding that i have for why we're all here today is because of the second memorandum of understanding that was introduced -- entered into in 2007 with the f.b.i. and it's my understanding that the reason that we're here is because of concerns that many of us have about whether or not that memorandum of understanding is in conflict with some of the values that san francisco and the people who live in the city and county have. it's very difficult for from this bureau order to know whether or not it addresses those concerns. i think a great deal of discussion really needs to take place on that particular issue. and the latest comments that i heard from the aclu tonight do not specifically address this particular bureau order. and i think that that is in itself interesting as well and it also concerned me slightly that some of the comments that the aclu made were referring to whether or not the city of san francisco and county of san f

so they understand the importance of what we are doing here and they understand the importance of the decision making they do every day. probably the answer to your question is -- respect and getting every soldier to understand that they are here to protect the afghan people, and that is their mission. the afghan national security forces -- and that can only be done that through mutual respect of the afghan people, the afghan government, and understanding they have a different approach. and we have to understand where they come from, because they are from a different culture. as a matter of fact before we came here, we did a lot of training down at the social level on afghan culture. because it is very hard to transplant a 19-year-old man or woman to a different country for the first time and say, go operate. oh, by the way, you are not in america anymore. so it is very challenging for all those. and the important thing is, we are all human beings and mutual respect, and you have to understand live in a different culture. we have all heard, i guess, the decisions that have to be made

too often today, i think we see one or two images and we think we understand what is going on in a part of the world, and we should try to get away from that. we should question what we know about a conflict, where we got the information, and always look for new perspectives and new focus is on topics that we think we already understand. >> james, thank you for spending time with us, and congratulations on the exhibition and letting san francisco see this big body of work of yours. >> thanks. >> thank you for your patience. i m leader pelosi's district rector in san francisco. i've been with the for about nine years, and we are excited to put on this forum today to help people learn how they can access credit and capital for their small business. click background on some of what was accomplished in the last congress when later closing was speaker of the house. she had had 16 tax cuts signed into law to help small businesses grow and thrive. as we know, during the last 15 years, small businesses account for about 2/3 of the job growth in our country, but when the bush recession hits in 2

however, we do understand a few things. our current schedule allows for specialist classes, including art and dance. it allows for the maintenance of low teacher to student ratios. in dire economic times, we understand our schedule is averting layoffs and furlough days. currently, the majority of the staff falls in the middle of the range of years of service. the majority of members will experience increases in compensation. our members can improve compensation with additional academic credit. it is the continued objective of our union to improve the composition of our members. in these economic times, we understand we must share the burden. the retention rate of more than 90% of our staff speaks to the union commitment to the success of the charter academy. if you look at the budget, our parents are not full-time employees. their hourly rate is $2 higher than the current rate offered by uesf. thank you. >> my name is sean whitney. i am the special director at edison charterer academy. tonight, i will speak on the committee

on that basis some understanding fundamentally saying people old people because. the police are going to schools and universities is extremely limited and ventura county thirty bit of knowledge. go by. more newspapers or something like that well i've got a newspaper quote here it actually shows how the public opinion was changing how it was transformed ever since our after the war after nine hundred forty four the new forty five here's a quote from a french newspaper called diplomatic. in with support around one thousand nine hundred forty four right after paris had been liberated parisians were pulled in which country contributed most to the victory sixty one percent said it was the soviet union twenty nine percent thought it was the united states sixty years later the same organization asked the same question this time twenty percent said it was the soviet union and fifty eight percent the united states after the reading of the read only continued to diminish. do you think this is the reason i don't have a say do you think the reason for this is the cold war the

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young boys away so it's you have to understand history and we have to understand what has led us to this point i mean the soviet occupation of afghanistan as a very serious example that we can learn from when the soviet union invaded afghanistan there was a massive influx of jihadi smuggler sires in violent ideologies that were preached in our region thousands and thousands of moderate souls were created to brainwash people and it's the consequence of those kind of actions that we're seeing in our region. it is going to take significant amount of time to once again to educate these people that you know what is happening in specially in this context is wrong the way our culture has been changed the way these ideologies have been infos upon us that is going to take time and we should not automatically expect that things will change in the immediate future some of the servers say political scientists like yourself say that pakistan may follow in the first steps of canst after the killing of god. there may be sort of a see even a civil war inside the country between between government and sl

understanding that. it didn't make things any easier, but i did understand that there were differences. and, of course, your job at the n.e.a. is to promote art, promote public art, promote art education. you don't go in every morning and say, you know, "we ought to find some more shocking projects that we can support." and you mentioned you got some advice very early on from nancy kassebaum, the junior senator from kansas who said, "don't try to explain controversial art to congress." that turn out to be good advice? it actually was excellent advice, because i think i thought, "well, if i could just educate people "about what art is and what controversial art is "and why it's always going to be there "throughout all times and places, i could change people's minds." and what nancy kassebaum said to me is, "don't try to defend controversial art. "you can't do it. "there are going to be some people "who are just never going to accept it, and there are going to be some who will understand it." and orrin hat

. >> so to understand china you've got to understand. >> you have to understand... >> rose: where they come from? >> what happened in this case, in the tang dynasty, it's a living reality from which they can learn for one thing they don't forget ny... it's a different perspective. we look at the future, our coordinates are ahead of us. in chinese mythology when they talk about their first emperor, the yellow emperor, he is reconstructing an already existing reality when their basic philosopher is trying to construct an acult major that was in the past, it's a different perspective. >> the question has often been phrased in terms of what will their economic success impact on their political life. >> inevitably. the economic success started in a society that was largely agricultural. they are every year up to a hundred million people are moving from the country side into cities. that means they are deprived of some of their roots and have to define a new relationship to the syst or to where they live. in every other society that has lead to political attachment and it's inevitable that i

i understand the appellate's frustration. it was a simple matter, and we made this clear through our communication. you can remove a boiler, but you need a permit to remove the boiler. we will do the physical inspection to make sure the cross connection has been eliminated and the gas lines are secure, and we will update the complaint. simple as that. going beyond that, to install a new source of heat, particularly gas heaters and water heaters, we need additional permits for the new equipment. as of date, i have no permit indicating that they are installing any of those acquitted. i have no inspection history of any physical inspection for any plumbing or heating devices. all i have is a permit would says replaced damages from fire. that permit is long since expired. >> so if i go to the online side and look at the history, there will be no permit for either a new heating system or a removal of the old one? >> based on the staff report given to me that i have in front of you here today, that is my understanding. there is no

you need to understand this conflict. host: you do need to understand what it means to both sides. do you think that is important? guest: absolute. will you have is the holiest destroyedjudea saism twice. and now you have one of the most important shrines in islam built on top of that. ariel sharon went up there to walk around. he did not go into the religious shrine. but walking around in flamed muslim passions. jews pray the western wall. that is the most explosive piece of real estate in the entire middle east. guest: you have to understand how layered it is and the proximity and also how small the place is. we tried to paint the picture in the book. we take the leader there on that day when aerial shot walked onto the temple mount. i was there. the next day, friday prayers. jews were praying at the western wall. i did not understand that how on top of each other the mosque and worthy jews were praying. there is a beautiful picture. the last picture. it is in the old city. it shows an arab and a jewish worshiper passing each other in the old city. the above cannot see each other

understanding. and we are happy to incur the additional costs to study whether there would be any wind or shadow impact, but what we are asking you to

i understand you have a number called -- what is it? >> the air dose vacancy. >> explain us about that. >> yeah, there's this idea of how many degrees of separation you are from famous people. the original one is however -- how far away a person is from kevin bacon and mathematicians wanted to compete and there's the question of how far are you away from having written a paper with airdosh and people said let's put it together and see how far away an individual is, and as you can imagine, there's not too many people that are sort of close, but there are a handful of us, so i'm one of them. >> how many are you? >> well, i used to be the world leader -- >> what's your number? >> number five, but i've been overtaken. >> five and what? >> five from airdosh and three from bacon. i think paltrow has taken over. there's definitely people who have taken over. >> it's another universe maybe you're number one. >> that's probably the case, yes. [laughter] >> let me ask you, we all think that there's one universe. how could there be more? >> well,

i understand that most cases settle. i think it was 97%. i do have a concern of how that could be perceived by workers who find themselves in this situation. this is a smaller number of cases. in the number of cases where there is able -- recalcitrant employer who is unwilling to cooperate, where the case needs to be taken to a hearing, where you only have five hearings, that is the problem as i see it. even though we are not comparing apples to apples, you are still talking about five and then hundreds. do you get a sense of why only five cases? why are we there. >> i think that goes a little bit back to the different types of waves -- ways the agencies do the investigations. they are able to go in and audit payroll records. maybe they could back the employers more into a corner. using the citations as encouragement as a stick to encourage employers to settle earlier rather than later, because citations to increase overtime. in some cases, there is an avoidance of trying to go through the hearing process. it is going to take a lot more res

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we did not understand them and we did not understand how they viewed us and what they saw our role to be. i was talking to reporter at the time and said to him, he asked me -- he said, do you think this is going to improve our standing in the middle middle east? i said no. he said that we are liberating them. i said you are seeing it like germany that they are seeing us as the mongols. he said what do they have to do with this? the simple fact is that the mongols were the first invaders of baghdad and they actually saw us as the new invaders. there had been the mongols that had conquered, there had been the british that they conquered and now they were us. the issue here is that if you were going to operate in the region, if we are going to invest and lose lives, and cost ourselves dearly and treasure, we at least ought to know the place we are going into and the fact is that we did not. we don't know because basically our educational system does not prepare us, and we have gone through reviews of textbooks that i've gone back to the 1970s. actually you go back to when i was a kid and

i'll republicans understand the stakes of making the right decision and understand the stakes of of four more years of the obama administration means to america. don't take the fact that iowa has not coalesce around a a candidate or to means they are not satisfied. they want to be discerning. they understand it is a decision we have to get right and i think you'll see more deliberative nature of the caucus process. >> let me ask about the deadline to determine when your primary is going to be held. what is the deadline and when will florida decide whether it will hold its primaries? >> glad you brought this up. i get is critically important all states follow the rules established at the convention. florida approved their original position which would be around a first of march. quite frankly, i think they will get the support. they could be king makers, getting back to their original position. they're talking about january 31st. that backs all of us up and groups us closer together and i think that is not beneficial to the party and certainly not beneficial to the candidates. but we have

i understand that. but i don't want that resentment t go for revengism or sort of, oh, well, you didn't want us in europe, so we're going to middle east kind of politics. there is a invest congratulatory rhetoric about well, yo are going to take us to european union. we're going someplaceelse. but how much of it is you sometimes think really a policy of the government and also observations of outsider. >> rose: some people have raised the question about the united states and turkey in the following way. this is foreign policy but bear with me. they say, you know what do i think of a country whose enemy is my friend, and a country whose friend is my enemy? meaning, the united states says to turkey at this stage in its development, my friend israel is your enemy and your friend iran is my enemy. >> they are, i don't think so. i don't think it is, it is the situation. and really for my own turkish israeli relationships are not that important to what's happening in turkey can. don't judge a country by forei