It and the benefit this region will get from hosting the super bowl. The nfl will have the super bowl at meadowlands, outside new york how far santa clara is. Could be the first snowy super bowl. Is there any concern about the nfl, the fact in february we could have horrible rain or beautiful sunshine about the weather . I have looked ahead. It is supposed to be sunny that day. We are excited to put that in the bid package. My mom reminds me my birthday is february 4th, all grown up. We had all of my parties in the glorious sun so i think we are in good shape. We meet the nfl requirements of temperature. We are above that, so we are in great shape on that front. So be it. Whatever. I dont think it is going to rain. Any questions . We can have two weeks leading up to the event. What sort of things will be part of the overall. I have been told by the nfl the past super bowls jed can speak to this as well, theres over 200 events and parties, opportunities for us to highlight the best of t
Softies olympic park is about to throw open its doors to the games they flow of allegations from the worlds media continue to flood the host city. Whereas bush would do it this way you create and to be great to see that. The National Media for what things imaginable. A Senior Member of the International Olympic committee claims the media uses his remarks on corruption and salty out of context to cause a sensation the Rt International like Marvel Studios islands of thanks for joining me ukraines parliament has voted to cancel most of the anti protest was that triggered two weeks of rioting in kiev. After the countrys Prime Minister submitted his resignation to president saying its a sacrifice to peacefully resolve the political crisis our ts lse are chefs keys in kiev for us. Undoubtedly this is the biggest political day in history more than ukraine with aplomb and voting on very crucial steps to manage a scene. Scenes of jubilation here at the Independence Square when the news broke th
About men and rape. Then, parents give adoptive children to strangers online. Behind the headlines having only one child may have many advantages. Hello, im bonnie erbe. Welcome to to the contrary, a discussion of news and social trends from diverse perspectives. I first, global rape concerns. Across the globe concerned citizens are calling on judicial systems to do more to stop rape. In india the Death Penalty for four men convicted this week of brutally beating and raping a woman on a bus. She died two weeks later. As a result of the Inter National uproar that followed, the Indian Government passed a law approving the Death Penalty. In the u. S. , a Naval Academy case drew indignation after Defense Attorneys asked the victim vulgar sexual questions. And a judge in montana was criticized and apologized for saying an underage rape victim was fully in control of her situation. This week comes a shocking u. N. Survey of men and rape in asia. Almost one in four men in six asian or asianpa
Commemorating the courageous men and women that made america what it is, im reminded we too went through challenging periods, when america was divided by a bitter civil war 150 years ago. President Abraham Lincoln had the vision to pull us together toward a shared goal of peace and prosperity. Growing up in california i didnt know much about the arab world. Then after graduating from the university of california at berkeley, i traveled to north africa as peace corps engineer. I worked as an english teacher in morocco two years and quickly grew to love this part of the world. Since joining the service i spent almost my entire career in middle east and africa. One of the things that impressed me were people old enough to have lived and traveled in the United States when we had closer relations. Those days are back. We had 1,700 libyans apply for fullbright grants to study in the United States this year, more than any other country in the world. We know that libya is still recovering from
Today, in concert with mayor mathews and mayor reed with people in business, philanthropy, academia coming together, certainly under the very large umbrella of wanting and wishing and making sure this is the most philanthropic event the worlds ever seen. It is appropriately hosted in San Francisco. I have often heard when something happens in the city they want it to city. When something happens in San Francisco, we want the whole world to know about it. This is a stage. Super bowl will be a stage we want to announce to the whole world. In that effort i want to make sure you know we dont leave out what i think is happening with great organizations like sf city and our technology companies, that we want to embrace technology as a way to announce this. So with that i am going to do the first tweet. Tweeting. The new hash tag we would like everybody in the bay area to also utilize in their effort to go viral on this. There it goes. Hopefully it goes on there. The hash tag sf super bowl [a