i'm rab i-eric weiss. this morning i'm happy to introduce you to two people and later on a third person to talk about mental illness in the jewish community. i'd like you to meet diana, she's a member of temple isaiah in lafayette and also the cofounder and cochair of an organization within the context, it's a hebrew term that means open our hearts and it's a cluster of synagogues and organizations in contra costa county that works with mental health issues within the jewish committee. i'd also like to introduce you to pam wrightman who is a member here in san francisco and she's the chair of a similar group, a hebrew word that means mental illness and works within her synagogue. she's also the director of a jewish meditation center program for the center of jewish peoplehood at the san francisco jccc. welcome diana and pam. >> thank you for having us. >> thank you. >> i'm so thrilled. i think we should say from the very beginning we know each other because of the work of the bay area jewish healing center

upon hearing this, alex weiss initiated a movement that eventually led to the building's preservationtional historic landmark. (weiss) i felt that was not the right thing to do because of calligraphy and all that would be gone. i was taking a course at san francisco state college from a biology professor, dr. araki. and i mentioned to him that there was an immigration station with all this calligraphy and it was going to be burnt down. he said, wow, he'd like to see that. anand i brought dr. araki and mak takahashi out and we photographed just about every square inch of the walls that we could. the word spread pretty rapidly and we were getting lots of asian studies classes coming out from not just san francisco state but other colleges in the area also. they had no idea that this was here even though perhaps their parents had come through here or their grandparents. and so i told them that this was due for destruction and if they wanted to save it, write some letters or lobby to do something about it. after a while, i guess the lobbying took effect because they passed a bill to save

that, if they do really well, they can phase into the interventions for six months, which is group, weiss group as well as trim group. and then if-the three interventions are weiss and trim, contingency management, and as well as naltrexone, which is a medication for people who are struggling with alcohol addiction. good morning, everybody. morning. everybody doing ok? yes. finally, we're devoted to helping people with practical problems. people come to us homeless, they come to us poor. we're interested in helping people develop a range of resources so that there's more of a cushion between them and between them being on the streets. -was walking down the street by myself, and no one was out there. then i looked back, i saw a shadow, and i ran. and that was my shadow i ran from. this time around, you know, i feel like i want recovery. i want something. i have goals i want to reach. community connection is beautiful. the facilitators are nice, the caseworkers are nice, and, you know, whatever area you need help in, they're there to help you, with open arms. dr. clark, what are some of the

i'm rob weiss.m a human resource management executive with an expertise in recruiting, employee relations, and training. my most recent position, i was responsible for 7,300 people-- 300 full-time people, 7,000 part-timers. so i'm looking for a position in a similar company, probably a small- to medium-sized company now, in the tri-state area. thank you very much. >> i'm a marketing person looking for an opportunity with companies that are technology related, growth companies. and i will entertain any offers. thank you. >> i'm a telecommunications technician, and i'm looking for a job to upgrade phones at any midsize company... >> my specialty is infrastructure... >> narrator: it is hard not to notice that most of the members are over 50. >> i've been in the pharmaceutical industry for the past 20 years... >> age is a problem. age is a big problem. the large companies don't want people at my age anymore. that's plain and simple. >> companies could include ibm, texas instruments... >> the number of m

started and marin found it was critical because in the beginning marin -- and this was described by don weiss, their interim director when she was presented before you last month -- they had no -- they had no track record of revenues from customers. and so they need to have the more established entity in the form of the government in marin step up and provide those guarantees. and the exciting news is that marin was now since may able to demonstrate with the prack record of -- track record of revenues, use that futechull stream as collateral and was able to refinance the loans. so was able to take the governments of marin

i am a 44-year-old mother and help weiss -- housewife from pacifica, california. i am grateful to share my story with you on an issue that is so critically important to my family and others in the same situation. i am honored to be here today with my partner of 23 years jay mercado. i met him as a graduation present when my father brought me to the u.s.. when we met, our love was instant. since then, we have been committed to each other and our family. our relationship continued even after i returned to the philippines, following the expiration of my six-month the set. our relationship was expansive given the long distance. when i return to the philippines, i learned my cousin, who murdered my mother and sister, and almost killed me as well, was released from prison after serving only 10- year sentence. i feared for my safety and i knew i was in danger and understood in order to meet, but -- to live, i have to leave the philippines to jay, where i would feel safe. i hired an attorney to apply for legal asylum. my application was denied, so my attorney filed an app

i was talking to governor bill richardson at the end of last year and he said they really need a weiss man at the time of christmas. and i think this is a wise man. i spoke briefly with president obama on the phone this week. gwen: or should we say he called you up? >> he called. he was wanting to sing the praises of robert gibbs, his longtime ade. he's stepping aside as well. i asked him if he's going to spend a lot of time putting his second team in place. he said there's no time for dili dallying. we have a lot of work to do. i think it was clear at that moment that these statue changes are happening quickly but it is time to engage with this congress. gwen: listening to the president talking about we have to get right to work and listening to speaker boehner on the other hand saying we're here just to do what the american people the -- sent us to do. it seems we have managers rather than ideologues, which is what we paid so much attention to in this campaign. >> that's right. they're both basically trying to beat the other on who can define the spending question faster. there are f

main character in the new cartoon during his lifetime he found refuge in the weightroom work like weiss the animated hoffman is travelling in the mystical world of his own tales need to make which is produced in his own imagination. this particular fairy tale for children has also become in the philosophical dramas some of the rounding should escape this and for the life. you've been working on for some time now on the small orange phone the book there is theodora on the fairy tale writer so many edie as you call it you promised it would hit the screens in two thousand and nine we didn't see it any time soon. the problem as usual was new mom just said we're making a piece by piece ten or fifteen minutes a film and then you wait for the sponsors should all wait for the government to shell out it was not mostly the entire project has been stalled for several years because the russian government collects the money to sponsor the project or it's that it is a truly that expanse or a what is a ballpark figure that goes into full length or tune just peanuts i don't even say how much it was rea

jennifer weiss is the director of the sports medicine program and likes the idea of getting kids active early and cautions about heightened expectations. >> we have to be careful of their bodies. over use is an issue in very young kids. allowing families and children to learn about how much is too much is very important. >> matt handles marketing and entertainment for my gym. he loves to see them go on to sports stardom because they benefitted from early training >> it's noncompetitive and supportive and the children are generally if not always show growth and benefits in a number of ways. >> a number of ways that more and more frequently starts at a surprisingly early age. >> one of the beauties of parenting in america is you can do anything you want. i think paying money to let your kid play is kind of weird. there you go. >> i wouldn't know a thing about parenting and i'm not looking into it. >> either do i. >> we will leave it for laura and brent. things are looking good. we have a lot happening across the state and not a lot in the immediate vicinity. making their way into the nort

there's a brilliant harvard academic, ruth weiss who has recently written in commentary magazine about zionism of determination, national self-determination and the belief was that the reason the people hated the jews were they were always strangers in somebody else's land. they were never the owners. so if israel had its own countries its own land people would stop hating it. well, that wasn't the case, not at all. what happened was that the hatred became even stronger. and on top of that, we had the jews who began to suffer the psyche of the abused. you know, you've all, of course, heard psychologists speak about abused children, abused adults who are so attacked and so wounded by their abusers that they start to believe the lives that they've heard. they start to believe that they're responsible for this hatred. that they're responsible for the things that they're accused of, even though it's not true. so he blames himself. instead, the jews should say, there's nothing that we can do to end anti-semitisim. it's the job of the haters, the haters are the ones who have to change. israe

started and marin found it was critical because in the beginning marin -- and this was described by don weiss, their interim director when she was presented before you last month -- they had no -- they had no track record of revenues from customers. and so they need to have the more established entity in the form of the government in marin step up and provide those guarantees. and the exciting news is that marin was now since may able to demonstrate with the prack record of -- track record of revenues, use that futechull stream as collateral and was able to refinance the loans. so was able to take the governments of marin off the hook there. some of the costs in the marin contract such as price of renewables were not guaranteed at the signing of the contract but marin was able to work with shell to bring renewables in at a price that worked for their initial phase. and one of the ways we expected a similar thing there, there also was no development of new resources as part of the initial contract with ha marin. but marin had a close and it's one we have spoken to here before and will be key f

may be up to two meters thick and the problem is it's like a sliced pie consisting of many layers of weiss one on top of the other the words being done according to schedule we have enough food and fresh water on board. and attack on the sudanese military has seen four people killed on the eve of its historic referendum which could see the country split the christian dominated south preparing to vote on secession from the muslim north the vote is part of a two thousand and five peace to you all that ended the civil war lasting two decades now many fled the country with thousand seeking refuge in israel a place considered an enemy state by sudan. has met refugees who struggle to make ends meet after finding and you honey. the road to freedom is long on israel wasn't their first choice egypt was but as the thousands of refugees fleeing sudan found themselves under assault in cairo by a police force trying to clean up the streets the decision to cross over into israel seemed a logical one israel is near from here and israel is. and they do. and christian but the journey was long sometimes on

caused outrage in poland warsaw has launched its own probe in an attempt to prove some of the way weiss with russia the interstate aviation committee found the polish crew bad weather and pressure to land were to blame for the tragedy and he said now it has more. for the first time the last seconds are heard before a polish president lech kaczynski plane crashed down all on board. no no no no no. the crew ignored warnings from the aircraft's automated system to pull up and advice from air traffic controllers to land at an alternate airport plus were inexperienced flying in bad weather the interstate aviation committee highlighted what they found to be the main causes behind the tragedy in their final report lesson of a failure to make a timely decision to land at the reserve airport based on multiple we coming day sions about poor weather conditions at smolensk airport descending lower than the safe minimum height necessary to make a second landing attempt failure to react properly to automatic amounts those are the reasons which led to the tragic crash of the aircraft into the land and

pledge money and yet wart democracy in haiti all the same time well joining me to discuss it is mark weiss brokaw director of the center for economic and policy research mark thanks so much for being here thank you for having me let's us clearly has a long history when it comes to haiti but let's look at perhaps more recent events i mean we had saw with the earthquake a year ago where the u.s. pledged two billion dollars in aid if we look back just a couple of years before that to the coup which we held back we cut off all aid to the country i mean it just doesn't really make sense explain our policy here who are i think a lot of the policy is directed towards controlling who governs the country in two thousand as you mentioned they cut off all aid for four years it wasn't just us they got other countries france and canada to cut off all aid to the country to destroy the economy in the port of course tens of millions of dollars into a very poor country to build up an opposition movement there was intent on overthrowing the government which they finally did in two thousand and four and then

he cannot get the weiss family to agree and did not want to rock the boat while trying to get the treatyapproved. and complicated political pressures coming story short, he did not three them while he was an office and the first figure in the land while an office but did the next best thing which upon the of death to free them in his well. i will conclude there with a two transformations of the inner and outer of the statesmen and the liberator and washington who was connected to the land, in his will lead back to being the surveyor to bring his life full circle as he prepared to move on. thank you. [applause] >> that was a wonderful presentation. hall as i was listening, what were the editors like wind you were planning this? first of all, how will you sell this? and a book of maps past two cost a lot of money and ask to be big and it must of taken the enormous amount of time and effort and what were the conversations like? >> that is a great question. the initial expiration was an article in the yale alumni magazine in 2007 highlighted the treasures of the sterling library map collecti

ellen weiss resigned thursday. a company review found she mishandled the firing of news analyst juan williams last october. he was dismissed over remarks he made on fox news channel. the incident has led to republican bills in congress to cut funding for public broadcasting. those are some of the day's major stories. now, back to judy. >> woodruff: and to south sudan, which begins voting sunday on separating from the north. special correspondent fred de sam lazaro reports on how one town is getting ready for the referendum. >> reporter: the town of bentiu lies in the heart of sudan in a state named unity; nothing could be farther from the mood here. in the local stadium, a graduation ceremony yesterday for the new police class quickly turned into a rally for separation. ♪ no one doubts that the mostly black african south sudan will vote to secede from a nation long dominated by the arabic- speaking north. the two sides have been mired in decades of civil war. it ended with a peace treaty in 2005, which called for t

weiss watching our commute. sal? >> airport always contended that if it were easier to take public transportation, the easier days, the more people that would do it. 808 northbound. that traffic is moving well, we've seen -- i've been a traffic reporter lodge enough to remember when there was a b.a.r.t. strike and 880 -- 880 was a parking lot. it is -- it is slow. but if b.a.r.t. were not r unning, let's go to the westbound toll plaza. it looks pretty good near. it's a very small delay. this morning, san francisco a little bit of fog. one says it's a little bit foggy on the carquinez but not as bad as yesterday. let's go to steve. >> thank you, sir. >> you are welcome. >>> anna up in sebastopol, larry in san leandro, he said the sun is out but there's ice on the rooftops. it's cold out there. even if you get a little bit of sun, it's the cold that cuts right through you. once it burns off, it's okay. but if you are stuck in the fog all day long. they are in the 30s and they end up in the 40s. low in southern californ

golden gate bridge looks good look traffic weiss, contending with the dense fog advisory by the chp ishe golden gate bridge. checking out another camera westbound 80 your ride out of albany looks good traffic flowing freely no problems making repassed golden gate fields continuing towards berkeley. public transit great conditions no problems. >> as we go to break another look at cairo. live pictures of thousands of protesters in the street. an overnight curfew in effect. thousands still defying that curfew. they are trying to get into the state tv, the main airline is suspending flights during the overnight hours. back airline is suspending flights during the overnight hours. back with more moment. you're downloading movies. fast! from here? where is her cord?! we switched to at&t high speed internet and got wireless access. no more cords. wireless, okay, honestly, can i just get a cord, please? dad, the cord's invisible. [ female announcer ] for a limited time, call to get high speed internet for just $14.95 a month for 12 months with select services and a 1-year price guarantee. it's

host: you heard the news that alan weiss, new spent 22 years at npr, her jshe resigned yeste. back to phone calls on the defense department and its budget. next is, from plymouth, ohio. caller: good morning, susan. where to begin? i was not a republican and i was a democrat and now i'm independent. i am sick of both parties. the republicans got us into this mess, the war, by weapons of mass destruction. i look at it as words of mass destruction. the-distraction. the way i see it, corporations and government hand-in-hand. most of our money is defrauded by outsourcing troops. you have troops over in afghanistan now -- now making $1,000 or $2,000 per month and you have mercenaries' making anywhere from $5,000 to $10,000 per month. when we cut our military soldiers, what are we going to do? will we just a ploy mercenaries like blackwater? -- just deployed mercenaries like blackwater? we have military corporations -- what we need to do is audit the government of the way through. then we will see where our problems lie. and our problems lie with that building shown on the screen rig

weiss, he's obtained 4.0 gpa while taking advanced classes. that's incredible.ssroom. frank preston who is a high school student at howard high school in howard county. he's pursuing a career in medicine with an interest in technology. lanita preston, she's a local science author, and mother of four from 4 to 17 years of age. stacey kopitsky. sorry, i didn't do it right. she's a elementary middle school administrator and mother of who teenage tons. and parry aftab. she's known for her devotion to family online. dr. gordon, principal of the john phillip sousa middle school. in 2008, mr. jordon became a principal and is credited with boosting academic achievement. these are our panelist. i know this is going to be a good one where we have an amazing exchange of ideas to remember as chairman genachowski said, if you have questions and comments, you can twitter them and we can engage them as part of the process. all right. are we ready? all right. let's start. so stacy, we're going to talk to you to start off as an overall -- you know, to give us the picture. do stu

but building this business has been an extraordinary accomplishment for the weiss family. and it speaks not only to him, it also speaks to all of the employees here today. the hard-working men and women who make this company work. and it speaks to the promise of america. the idea that if you've got a dream and you are willing to work hard, then you can succeed. that promise is at the heart of who we are as the people. and it's at the heart of our economic might. it's what helps give an entrepreneur the courage to start a business. or a company. the confidence to expand. it's what leads to new products and new ideas, and technologies that have not only made us the world's largest economy, but also the most innovative economy in the world. making it possible for businesses to succeed is how we ensure that our economy succeeds, and all of our people succeed. it's how we create jobs. that's what has guided my administration for the past two years. government can't guarantee thompson creek or any business will be successful. but government can knock down barriers like a lack of