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

it is very difficult understand. i believe there is an omission, the exact kind of detailed openings create the facades that are compatible. this project reminds me of the heated discussions we had where the only names -- you probably remember from a few weeks ago, we did not understand what was going on. i am not opposed to this project, but there is something in the presentation that is missing for me to be really fair to the thing. the disclosure that i would be more inclined, it is quite massive. i am kind of hedging what the other commissioners have to say. commissioner antonini: i have to look at rendering of what the appearance of the building will be on the north elevation. i see a picture here. it is hard to understand what we are going to see. it looks as though there is an additional level, a tile roof that will match. it would be nice if we had a better image so we could really see. there are windows, i guess, up on top. i think the material should contain something that is a little bit better a rendering

so much more and understanding who we are and understanding where what we thought o as in a sense didn't quite understand about behavior and how there was a connection to biology. and eric has helped us understand that he is my great friend and has been the guiding hand and light and mind... $it's been a shared experience if i may interrupt you. >> i am pleased to say this is 12 parts. we will do more. captioning sponsored by rose commucatis captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org

we are in the planning phase of that and trying to understand what the time line is they will need in order to have those needs met and working closely with the city so we don't recreate the wheel and we leverage existing access whether 311 or neighborhood services, working with congresswoman pelosi's office and having direct connections to the federal agencies that ned to deliver some -- need to deliver pieces. i think that is generally what you need to know is going on with the organizing committee. we will add more members. we are also helping for the advancement of the sustainability plan and community benefits package. >> can you go over the money part again? what is your total obligation and time line? >> the host city agreement calls for $32 million to be raised by the local organizing committee. it is broken up in terms of deliverables. the first $12 million is due by the end of the environmental review process. i defer to the city on exactly what the time of that will be. i think we are on track to meet the commitments of the host city agreement at the end of this year. we ar

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

the fact of the matter is, if we do not understand the constitution, if our children do not understand the constitution, and appreciate the separation of powers, and appreciate the different roles that are branches of government are meant to play, how are our elected officials opposed to understand? what has happened today in washington? what is happening to our country? what is happening to a saying that we all have heard? i will ask people to raise their hands. do you remember going to school when we all heard the statement, "i don't agree with what to say, but i will defend to the death your right to say it." to do you remember that? how many of you recall saying that? every single person in this room raised their hand. today, the statement is, "i don't agree with what to say, and if you say it, you are a bum, and you should not say it, and i don't like to." where did we lose our way? what happened to us as a country? we cannot have a civil discord and discussion amongst ourselves and still respect the other point of view. is it 24-hour-day cable? is it a society that says "i won't

to understand the nature of political imagination means not just going to the people i do agree with but going to the people who i disagree with and the case of battle cry when i think are even dangerous isn't there some also some legitimacy in fact a lot of legitimacy. to the critique of contemporary capitalism. exploitation of shall we say capitalism the the use of of sexual imagery to sell products you know the whole you know on and on it goes right in fact you talked about how absolutely want it one of the kids can fast but he had played a video game and. looked like a grand theft auto yes young man named logan who. was very upset he really felt he had really sinned grievously and that was he was playing grand theft auto and worse that he had like that now thing is so i don't know i'm not coming from there is a sort of a left strain of thought this sort of a critical of that stuff and i'm not going to sit here and bash grand theft auto i will say though that you know i'm talking to you from new york and we have. down the street right now the the take wall street movement or occup

i mean one understanding this. but i think part of that understanding particular type of skeins and of course i'm going to talk about the science i do which i think is exciting and important. sohat is important. but i agree. what i really wanted to do in writing this book was also get across some of those ideas interweaving some of the things that really go into, how do we come up with a model. how do we come up with this idea. what are the guiding forces. >> right. >> what is the role of creativity. just how are we thinking? >>f i could have the-- your colleagues in your department come here and sit around the table and say okay, men and women, boys and girls, tell me what is the most important you guys are asking tay wa, would be the top five questions. >> i think there would certainly be questions about quantum gravity, aside from the question we talked about. how to combine together quantum mechanics and gravity. and again it's really important to realize tha this is a estion that will have implications at ener

they don't understand business starts and they don't understand entrepreneurship. inarge measure economis don't understand it. this is really fundamental to the creation of the economy and it's sad tt people don't. but i think probably what happened is that while the president understands it one level, the enormity of the general electrics, the general motorss, the chryslers with this huge employment... >> rose: the apples. >> they just are a huge gravitational force that has to take your policy focus over there. >> rose: andy, do you agree that? job creation? >> i mean, i do believe that we are way too focused on large corporations. they're not american corporations anymore, they're multinational. they have fferent sets of responsibilities. they've shed basically two milln jobs over the last decade. i do think we have not done a good job. we have to allow everyday americans who want entrepreneurship. and i think what's scary about the republican debate was the fact ithis. we have a different economy. this is the third economic revolution and what andy grove from i

they need to understand that before they incur $100,000 in debt. is there always room for another good lawyer? we need good lawyers. there always is. you have to ask yourself how much that you can afford -- how much debt you can afford. they have been watching too much "boston legal." you see $100,000 starting salaries. that may be for the top 10 students at the top 10 law schools. there were 30,000 graduates this year. what are the others going to do? there are jobs available and good jobs available, but we have to first let them know what to expect upon graduation. second thing we have to do is make sure we continue to have the profession look like our society. two spots of the examples. hispanic lawyers, less than 4%. 15% of our society. african americans come 8% come away under-represented. what we are doing in that regard as we have minority scholarships and a program where we put minority students with federal judges and state judges. we have a diversity center, which are the only four missions of the aba, one of them is to promote diversity

but if i understand you, you understand that this is an imperfect system. >> one thing that we understand -- this is the power of the district attorney's office to pursue the conviction. he has the right to the judge and the trial, but by the same token, i have never heard the district attorney say -- did he ever prosecute a police officer for perjury. did he ever prosecute? and any other office persecutes -- prosecute. continue to do that. did they ever prosecute anyone as a prosecutor for of seen things were bad things. when you try to put accountability together, you look at the whole picture and was going on in the trial. where is most of the misconduct happening. it becomes important. who is up to, so unless we can put accountability not just with the district attorney, he needs to have accountability. we need to find out who will be responsible for the prosecutors that go wild, and how do we deal with this? does the defendant get a chance to make that claim? what happened? nothing. this is his witness. >> can you tell me this story that you told me? you showed me a photograph of a m

commissioner hwang: let me just understand. you want to delay the suspension so that in 30 day you will not be an operating concern? >> so we will be moved, in another location. commissioner hwang: 2 be suspended at another location? not following. >> it may take me longer than 30 days. commissioner hwang: i do not understand the reason for the delay. so you would no longer have your shop >> probably. meanwhile, there are other places that are operating. commissioner hwang: thank you. thank you. >> i would just like it to be fair comment to all of the businesses -- to be fair, to all of the businesses, not being singled out. commissioner hwang: thank you. director goldstein: the department. >> good evening, i am with the san francisco's city attorney's office, and i am here on behalf of the san francisco department of public health. we received a notice of appeal in this matter and were not aware until the owner just spoke with the grounds for the appeal were. -- what the grounds for the appeal were. that they would like to sel

they understand that will not have board approval. if we get your consent, they understand will not have your approval in that timeframe. >> is there a way to go back to them and try to negotiate the terms or see if they are open to it? >> we could do that. it compromises our overall ability to serve through a western approach. we already have a basic resource contract with them and that extends beyond this term. it is very cheap power. >> he will see how strongly they feel about that, having a contract with them, but not as long. >> it is unlikely. >> i suspect this is the way they do business. this is how we are interacting with everyone else. survey, why an exception for you? >> if we were cannot take, there would not be a penalty? >> i think we can come back at the next meeting and provide more detail on that, that is my understanding in the conversation with the attorney that drafted this. it goes to your issue about what rate we are buying this power at. this is more of an option to purchase that overlay of power, and there is a

as more definition comes to the plan and people have a better understanding of the community benefits, what are the youth opportunities, what are the workforce and job plans and that is unfold being the next three -- unfold bei folfold ing the n months so we are going out to sell those opportunities for folks to help us facilitate our obligations. generally i say i'm raising $40 million if you count the $32 million specified in the host city agreement. there is a bond provision and other obligations, whether taxes or utilities, garbage. then i have the operational expenses. so if you roll it all up, a little bit of contingency, i think we are generally comfortable saying we are raising $40 million. >> of the 32 you have raised what do you have so far? >> we told you this summer when we got the status we raised just over $2 million, gifts from 10 members of the committee helping us get started with staff. we are now in a quiet phase. when we are done with that and come to the board of supervisors we will demonstrate that aware able to raise $12 million and we are well on track. i won't

i didn't understand. for instance, our understanding of bin laden, that he was this physical jar and counted that he had kidney disease, deduce it leaves wholly in his youth, that he was a billionaire. you know, that was where i started as almost all americans did. i didn't have any understanding of who it was at all. i had no idea what he really wanted. >> host: and what did you find out? >> guest: well, on the subject of bin laden, i talked to a lot of friends and relatives and i would always ask him how tall is he? and at first i was going to be noncontroversial. some of his closest friends were about my height and in those cases six-foot tall. i would think to myself, that's not true. i know he must be six-foot five, six-foot eight, but i began to hear a lot from people saying he was even smaller than six feet. occasionally you get someone you had met him once and say that he was a real joy. i had a long section of my footnotes describing this is a man whose height ranges from five-foot 926-foot nine,

for example we do not understand zero all authority in this new middle east we do not understand the decor lumps of egypt because a regional player. created a situation in which turkey is a regional player and probably is a corner store of the american strategy and diplomacy in the middle east create a situation in which it is a major interest of america. to empower turkey as the middle east becomes more unstable who benefits. the extremist players in the middle east benefit from curious. whether it is there are have maoists are there are a very extreme groups i think that players are losing and this is why it is thought important to try to create a pragmatic free moral axis of players what can bring peace to the region peace we are not come we. know hope. if people will not believe that we didn't achieve a bit. position of achieve it. so the question should be what should be do what should be do or what can we do in order to create talk this i mean i and i want to thank you very much for joining us here on our team thank you very much. this is a city. of about one hundred ninety tho

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

christians understand, many understand this is a fatal day for the nations. they are going to make a choice with eternal complications. in hague and in lon don and south africa, they are calling on the governments not to vote for the division of the land of division of israel and palastinian. they want to avoid god's judgment. >> what are you trying to communicate to christians? >> christians need to be woken up to the critical times. we are living in cry crisis days. my words and christians wherever i can speak to them, get in touch with the lord and our response to be taken place. >> you can check out chris's new show called "jerusalem dateline" you can find it at cbnnews.com. >> for decades, wendy, the world leaders have been trying to bring peace to the middle east middle east without success. >> spiritual leaders there is a way to bring them together through the prince of peace. lee web has the story. >> reporter: the conflict between muslims and jews, arabs and israelis. in the christian community there is division. a small group of christians is try in

so having that understanding, having seen management, middle and senior management that understands that and provides just been linked up with a mentor within the program that will work with me for the next year in program management. in taking actions like that and stepping up to the plate, you know, bringing 50% effort on both sides is really going to help. >> let me get the last two people way over there on the end. >> we've heard that there may be as many as 85% of g.i. bill users dropping out of college, and my question is, if the education crisis linked to the unemployment crisis, and it's a what can employers do with universities to build a sturdier bridge from education to employment? >> well, we do, as you might imagine, we have a pretty aggressive canvass relations program, generally. we have a fairly long relationship with student veterans of america. we are actually looking to better integrate the military aspects of what i have done into our larger campus relation programs. i think we will be more integrated. we have a very aggressive intern program. and so, we take pretty s

for example we do not understand zero all of turkey in this new middle east we do not understand the decorum ups of egypt as a regional player. created a situation in which turkey is a regional player and probably is a cornerstone of the american strategy and diplomacy in the middle east create a situation in reach it is a major interest of america. to empower turkey as the middle east becomes more unstable who benefits. the extremists players in the middle east benefit from curious. whether it. will. have other a very extreme groups i think that pragmatic players are losing and this is why it is so important to try and create a pragmatic free more pragmatic axis of players what can bring peace to the region. will not come with. no hope. if people will not believe that your achievement. as they will not achieve it so the question should be what should be do what should be do or what can we do in order to create top mr i mean i alone thank you very much for joining us here on r.t. thank you very much. in the faraway land. where human life is ruled by nature. the. planet earth is scarc

families that deals with what is the illness and understanding addiction. then what's my role? what are the kinds of things that are helpful and constructive and what are the things that aren't so helpful and constructive? and then what are the resources out there and how can i access them? some of the others is just a family understanding their rights and that some of the confidentiality laws don't apply to the family. you know, i can tell you what is happening in my family's life. the counselor or the treatment provider may not be able to tell me what's happening, but as a family member i can do that and really help, really support in a very constructive way the person's recovery. and why is it important, joe, for families to get engaged? well, one, of course, is like bev said is that we're dealing with a disease, one that it really hurts the whole family. it affects the whole family. one of the things we say is that risk factors are not predictor factors, they're protector factors. and the one thing is that we do protect the community with the recovery s