are the cuniform tablets that were excavated in the late 1880's and early 1890's by the university of pennsylvania. tens of thousands of fragments of cuniform fragments. the story of anana starts in her adolescence. it travels through her journey as a queen and a goddess, and much of her story is devoted to the love, a very passionate love, for dimusi, who is a shepherd who she takes as her husband, lover and king. and this is called the return. a lament was raised in the city. my lady weeps bitterly for her young husband. anana weeps bitterly for her young husband. woe for her husband, woe for her young love, woe for her house, woe for her city. dimusi was taken captive in aruk. he will no longer bathe in aradu. he will no longer treat the mother of anana of his mother. he will no longer perform his sweet task among the maidens of the city. he will no longer raise his sword higher than the kugar of priests. great is the grief of those who mourn for dimusi. anani wept for dimusi. gone is my husband, my sweet husband. gone is my sweet love. my beloved has been taken from the city. oh, you flies of

university college of dublin. i went back to the states and went to law school at university of pennsylvania. then i came back, and choosing to live in san francisco was natural to me. when you are a child, you do not realize what you had until you leave home. i had the opportunity to live in los angeles, abroad in ireland, and there is no place like home, when you are from san francisco. i have been a corporate attorney at palo -- in palo alto. i became an >> i worked in the finance industry about 5 1/2 years. in the summer of 2009 i joined a venture capital firm with two other partners. >> we are all excited about the americas cup here in district two but one thing if you think about it everyone knows what fleet week is like here in the marina. this is fleet week on steroids. think about fort mason, these will be the most brings taken places to watch the americas cup. what we're working on and working to continue to work on and want your input on, how do we make it a positive experience for the people that live here. >> i'm happily married and my life and -- wife and i live around laurel vi

here to talk about it is assistant professor of english and africana studies in university of pennsylvaniaof "long walk home." award-winning filmmaker maker, and a kiba solomon. thank you all for joining us. >> thank you. >> there's so much conversation today about race. even if people don't like it they're talking about race, they're talking about poverty and economics. one thing that rarely gets talked about are issues of gender. what's going on? why is that? >> i think the basic answer to the question is that men and women, like you said, the question is part of the value the same and men and women aren't the same in our society and it's not unique to the united states and i think you can see this on so many different levels, whether it's equal pay and women don't fair the same as men in the workplace and whether it's women's work being considered less valuable and whether it's reproductive justice or sexual violence, women are seen as lesser than men in our society. >> why don't people care? there's at least an outcry? people will talk about it. the gender seems to get hidden. >> i thi

york we cross to brendan o'leary he is the louder professor of political science at the university of pennsylvania and his most recent book is how to get out of iraq with the integrity and in london we have sami ramadani he's a senior lecturer in sociology at london metropolitan university all right gentlemen this is cross talk that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it but first let's take a look at a report about the future facing the kurds following the u.s. withdrawal from iraq. eight years after the u.s. led invasion of iraq washington is negotiating its withdrawal from this war torn country has forty six thousand u.s. troops prepare to leave iraq is integrity and fragile democracy are threatened by the brewing animosity between arabs and kurds a factor that has made questionable the plan of a complete pullout i believe that we should take whatever steps are necessary to make sure that we protect whatever progress we have made there. largely marginalized by iraqi arabs the kurdish minority has long since been vying for a form of independence which given the sweep

came back to the states and went to law school at the university of pennsylvania. spent three years in philadelphia. came back, and ever since coming back to the bay area, professionally, i have been a corporate attorney down at palo alto. i left after about three years and became an investment banker here in san francisco at thomas was all partners. working the industry for about five and a half years. in the summer of 2009, joined a venture capital firm. i am happily married. my wife and i lived around laurel village in district 2. we have two small children. our goal is five and our boy is three. how parents and excited to be here on the board. >> why did you choose to live in san francisco? and tell us about what motivated your interest in politics. >> choosing to live in san francisco was natural, given that i was born and raised here. when you are a child, you do not understand what you have until you leave home. i have the fortunate opportunity to live in los angeles and abroad in ireland and in philadelphia. there is no place like home in san francisco is y

. >> james surple is a pro tells sorry of animal welfare at the pennsylvania of university, universityf pennsylvania pet school. >> people are having fewer children and more likely to be divorced. they tend to have less substantial friendships, and what i think is happening is that people are looking to animals to fill those gaps. what a sweety, up. >> according to him, a growing body of evidence suggests love for our pets is as much a matter of the head as the heart. specifically, a neurochemical called oxy toe sin. >> we know if a mother or father handles their own infant they see a big increase in oxytocin level in their blood streams .. and we know that this rise in oxytocin is associated with a decline of stress on them, so the animal is doing the same thing for us, essentially, it is producing this rise in oxytocin level, that is bringing down our stress levels. >> it makes perfect sense. the birds of life are eased by pets. more burdens than ever mean more pets than ever. >> yeah. >> it also explains the pampering that can sometimes seem like people taking care of people, not an

philadelphia's, industrious sam brilliant says the son of the hardware merchant went to the university of pennsylvaniaand did so well they hired him immediately to teach the law. he was a brilliant advocate and a republican and city coming to the attention of president could two appointed him to investigate the teapot dome scandal and did the very effective job and was celebrated. when he was appointed by hoover but the previous choice was shot down by the progressives and the senate then as a republican and the public statements that he made in the girls thought he prosecuted the harding administration and not an ideologue been actually hid is even in accordance and then just seem to go back and forth and open-minded in certain ways with those opinions of the early 1930's but the 1935 he throws and a lot with the conservatives not they he is voting with the conservatives but writing these almost scornful opinions that put him very much out in front and he writes opinion on aaa and other things and very strident and sweeping opinions of the seems entirely lost. it is an amazing thing when he finally s

. >> the detective is able to trace the stolen numbers to the university of pennsylvania hospital. >>hey all work in a small department within the hospital. they were able to access credit card information and people's personal information such as dates of birth, social security number, addresses, home phone numbers, and what they did, they stole these -- this information, and they were able to obtain credit cards, either mail order them or stole credit card numbers. >> it turned out the four women had ripped off a number of stores, stealing thousands of dollars worth of merchandise. they all pled guilty to fraud and theft charges and were given probation. >> we were able to obtain so much information from that video surveillance. the investigation itself had its bumps, but without the videotape, we wouldn't have any evidence of them committing a crime. when we received the numbers, the tip-off that it was the fraud. the most important thing was they were handing her a credit card, and it shows what kind of credit card they're handing her. and what numbers are being typed to the compu

recollections of my own inadequacies of the teacher of the american history survey course at the university of pennsylvania where most of my career there. i should confess that unlike most of the people who teach the first half of the american history survey course, i actually end the course with a firing on fort sumter. .. >> and that the north was very reluctantly, halfheartedly respond to that challenge. it's not a conflict that they wished to have. your interpretation is not wholly at odds with that, but you do see northerners even at the moment of fort sumter as not merely occupying and attentive posture. but as standing up in an affirmative way for things in which they sincerely believed. i wonder if you could talk a little bit about your sense of what northerners thought they were about to fight over? >> first of all ages want to say when you talk of having hard time keeping track of the battles, i'm the same way. nobody asks me like whose calgary went charging over which he'll get his infantry, i can't remember that stuff at all. that's not the part that interest me. i'm interested in what's going

university of pennsylvania researchers say that one in 15 kids was injured in crashes when grandparents were driving. that's about half as many injuries as children who were in cars with a parent. >>> japan won the world cup after beating the usa in a penalty kick shootout. it ended 3-1 after three american players missed their shots. it was so hard to watch. during the game the japanese came back from behind twice. in overtime the u.s. did score in the 104th minute to go 2-1 but the japan with a kick in the 117th minute. japan is the first asian nation to win a world cup. congratulations to japan. >>> 6:26 now. coming up, a lot of people were betting on that u.s. win. winning the world cup including secretary of state hillary clinton, how she is now paying up to japan. >>> plus, it is day 2 of freedom for casey anthony. the steps being taken to keep her safe. >>> two people dead a third in the hospital after another weekend of violence in richmond. what may be at the cause and what police are looking to do to fix it? that story just ahead. >>> san francisco police under fire this morni

i went to college in philadelphia, the university of pennsylvania. i graduated in 1988 with a degree in folklore. any other folklore major said today? this was -- and david went through the list of other occupations. obviously i've chosen many non lucrative occupations, including writing these non best-selling books. but folklore especially was done on lucrative one. i still remember looking at the philadelphia inquirer. it would have been right between florissant forklift operator if i remember correctly. but finding those jobs are moved to seattle and drifted into public radio. public radio, of course, the stations that play a left of the dial like 89-91, route there. worked at public radio stations in st. louis, seattle, minn. for a while, maine for a while. two dozen 5i went to los angeles and get a job with the public radio program called marketplace, a good program. was around this time that my wife took the foreign service exam passed. she was offered a position in the u.s. foreign service. bieber in a bit of a quandary as to who would be the b

then he went on to the university of pennsylvania and ultimately graduated as a doctor of veterinary medicine. this is somebody who managed to navigate through all of these institutions and these various scenarios without a tremendous amount of confrontation and conflict. >> how did he manage to do that at the turn of the 20th century when so many others are having a hard time, so many african-americans were having a hard time? >> i think that is one of the most intriguing aspects of his personality because he defies expectation. you know this was a moment in history where you would absolutely not expect a young african-american male to excel both academic he and athletically. we take for granted these days that sports are kind of a natural thing for people of color. but at the time, he was a rarity in track and field as well so this is somebody who manage to stand up and sit and. i think that it was his christian upbringing as well as the force of his character and his talent, his god-given talent that allowed him to transcend the situation and really defy the circumstances that bla

of fort valley state college for negros in fort valley, georgia. and moved to pennsylvania where he became president of lincoln university, which was a black college.ht. >> but of course, pennsylvania, it couldn't have been black by law. >> right. >> it was black by custom and experience. >> indeed. >> and had white. >> no white enrollees. >> it had a couple. >> it did. okay. >> and white teachers. >> yeah. >> and then we moved back to atlanta and i entered morehouse college n atlanta to go to college, and i was sitting one day in a cafeteria near the school and a student came up toome with a newspaper and held it up and it said, greensboro students sit in for third day. it told how greensboro black students at north carolina a&t for the third day in a row had sat in. it was a phrase we didn't know; sat in.. >> yeah. >> .woolworth's lunch counter, and he said to me, he said, what do you think about that? i said, i think it's great. he said, don't you think it ought to happen here in atlanta where we are? i said, sure, it's going to happen here. he said, why don't we make it happen here? and before i could say we, he said, you take this side of the

but the economic benefit of shale gas, so-called fracking, may be irresistible in an industry sponsored report, pep state university researchers found pennsylvanianow producing enough gas to be self-sufficient, even exported. by 2020 it will have enough to supply a quarter of the nation's natural gas needs. >> we are looking at jobs, economic development, tax revenue from the industry in pennsylvania. that is truly, you know, phenomenal and actually at this point, a national scale story. >> pennsylvania department of labor says gas exploration created 72,000 new jobs in just the last 18 months. the penn state report found the impact to be especially broader. supporting a total of 156,000 jobs in the state this year. john pickerton is the ceo of range resources. >> that has been the biggest economic rivalry in the state for the last 100 years. it will be big. >> the shale gas boom lowered cost to consumers by 12.6% according to the pen report. that is a saving of $633 million last year. critics at fracking say the economic benefit come too high a cost for the environment. this family has been drinking out of a tanks since faulty frac job contamin

pennsylvania university. when lincoln began a program to train civilian pilots buchanan was not far back in the line of students who went to sign up. it was so exciting because there was something new every day. i don't care who you were there was always something you didn't know about flying and the whole world. he dropped out of college before his junior year to earn money. a friend in atlanta and let him know about tuskegee airfield. the military base under construction at day's driveway in tuskegee, alabama. they instituted training civilian pilots, a primary flight training base that operated under contract for the army air corps. now the war department was building from scratch on the outskirts of town. the idea of building an air base in treat him. he found a job at taft and are carpenter's apprentice and as soon as he got to tuskegee he learned about training black instructor pilots. he used the skills he learned in civilian pilot training to pass the entrance exam and began a training course. when the program was unexpectedly interrupted he found work driving the station wagon that ferried aviation cad

a bunch of economists at lehigh university in pennsylvania, they sat around with their thinking caps just to figure it out. you know what this really shows, don, how popular the "harry potter" franchise is. we see it, kids dress like harry and they are lined up in advance to get books and all sort of other things. there a big cult following. okay. let me answer your question. how much would a hogwarts education cost if there was such a thing? drum roll. more than $43,000 and only one year. tuition is the biggest chunk. remember, harry, he needs a unique list of school supplies. the usual textbooks and seven go for about $500 and three robes, another $500 and he needs a wand and gloves and a cloak and pointed hat. the group looked up these items on amazon to price them. now to compare, $42,000 is what it costs to go to columbia university here in new york and it's more than a year at harvard. so just to send your kid off to become a wizard, it's going to price you out of the ballpark, i'd say. >> i say it costs zero because it doesn't exist. >> there you go! >> i could have done the c

. >> joining me now former pennsylvania governor ed rendell now nbc news political analyst and bob shrum at new york university, thank both of you for being with us tonight. i mean, it seems to me, aside from the fact that this is dead on arrival at the u.s. senate according to senator reid and dead on arrival in fact, the move this all the way now to where we are talking about, the balance budget amendment has to be passed through both houses and states have to ratify it. i mean, this governor ren dell is gone from bad to worse. >> it is an embarrassment. i mean, this bill is an embarrassme embarrassment. they couldn't have the second debt limit raised even if they wanted to. it is an absolute embarrassment. i think speaker boehner might have been better biting the bullet and losing on a semi reasonable plan. but i think this embarrasses him. it embarrasses his party. the only way it settle for harry reid and mitch mcconnell and other in the senate is to pass a reasonable spending reduction and spend it back to the house where enough demjanjuk krats where enough democrats, reasonable democrats, pass it. >> how does mr. boeh