vice president goh: i wonder if i can see that again. that is revision 2. what is revision 1? >> the skylights and windows not visible from the street. vice president goh: to add skylights. that is dated april of this year. >> i think the permit was submitted in february. the action date is the last inspection date on the system. the permit number indicates the application date. it looks like it was a february 24 application. that was revision one for the skylight. the original permit was submitted october 21, 2009. vice president goh: does that original permit safe kitchens? i am having a hard time reading it. >> we have copies of the permit itself. you can look at that. >> should we call public comment, or the want to have a minute to look at those? vice president goh: go ahead and call public comment. >> is there any public comment on this item? step forward. >> my name is mary russell. my husband and i are new residents of russian hill and originally from southern california. we have been coming as tourists to san francisco for a long time. we have enjoyed many parts of th

supervisor campos: i am wondering whether i could ask someone from the mta to come forward. i am trying to understand the contract and how it would go forward. i understand the impetus is that the mta does not have certain expertise to provide these services, which i understand why in light of that why you would go and do a bid process and higher and outside consultant. i am just trying to understand a little bit more about making sure that you do have the in- house expertise to actually supervise the work of this consultant. oftentimes, when the expertise is lacking to do the work that in turn leads you to hire an outside consultant, you want to make sure you do have the internal controls to ensure that the consultant does what they are supposed to do within the confines of the contract. >> through the chair, my name is arthur wong. i am the construction manager of the subway project. the response is that we do have staff members that have expertise in the area to do supervision, which just do not have enough staff to perform the work that would have to go to the ongoing pr

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i wonder who did this? (news van beeps) all: busytown action bug news!for busytown action news, reporting live from the playground where the teeter-totter has been chained up. what can you tell us about this, huckle? well, we were only gone from the playground for a few minutes.

i wonder if there were other designs having the equivalent of what we had here with the clerk and the president of the board working side-by-side. i also know from experience of watching the president conduct business here, and having a clerk at next to the president is an important function. i wonder if there was a discussion about configuration that would provide ample access for people with disabilities. >> there was a great deal of discussion about that as an alternate design. there were a couple of reasons why that approach was rejected. the most important perspective is that we did not trust that the podium would be permanently there. once they don't have someone in a wheelchair on the board like we have changes in administration, someone wants to use the president's podium, we would have one of two situations. we would start using the podium again and we would have another situation, or we would have a backlash against the disability community. this is a common occurrence. why do we need to use it? ada is just a ridiculous law. we get that all the time. another thing i can say

but looking through the material i was wondering, i would have liked to have had the 1988 resolution, which sets forth the performance criteria for implementing 163, some other conditions. and the resolution of 1989, which would have given us some background on this whole thing. you don't have to go into the background tonight. but because then i have a question as to all of the material we've received comes from this organization, and there's no planning staff evaluation of whether this is meeting anybody's goals or not, independently of what we received from the group. is that -- unless i missed something? but if so, i have no in depth, you know -- so i can't form late an opinion as to whether it's been meeting its goals, not meeting its goals, whether we should move forward, you know, how this whole thing got started in the first place. >> they're not necessarily set out as goals but rather as objectives. things that we desire to achieve and to encourage. i'm not sure tmasf connects can actually provide numbers of its impacts but certainly getting the word out there influences ride

this has you sitting aside timothy geithner, i wonder if this includes the credit union, i wonder in times of crisis how this war council will be with all these people around the table. >> right. well, not all of them are voting members. even if they were, i think, there's one lesson i learned during the crisis. people with diverse viewpoints can come together and make a decision and make it quickly. we have done it over and over again with our own process. that is a fairly elaborate process requires a superior majority of the secretary of treasure with the concurrence of the president. those decisions got turned around quickly. when the situation calls for it, it can be addressed. i being with anything, you need a balance. then i'm not worried about. i think if a crisis situation, we can come together. if i have a concern >> it's about the rule-making process and there's a lot of elaborate processes. it's always good. at what point does that facilitate reform? if there's so many people you have to talk about. that's where we have to work to make a performance decision. >> you delaye

i wonder what to think about that characterization? -- i wonder what you think about that characterization? >> i have had lots of mentors, going back to childhood, but if you're going to be a specialist in politics and military and the soviet union, your mentors are going to be white men. that is the kind of the way it is. it just says to me that is a wonderful thing when you find mentors that look like you, but if he cannot, the most important thing is to find mentors. indeed, today, young women or young minority looking to make a mark in international politics or international security and russian studies would have the possibility of having mentors and role models that do look like them. but if we always wait for someone who looks like us, there won't be any firsts. that is just the way life is. tavis: you have made the point that we have had two african american secretaries of state. i have a youth program and a young man you can't in my program called me and decided he could be -- who camped in my program called me and decided he

i wonder what you will do to address that. >> we do have some translations available on the website. >> i could not find it when i visited. >> certainly, some feedback is that it needs to be more prominent. that is the first thing we will do. there are some translations available in chinese and spanish on the website. the other point is we have in place for a number of years a number of language lines where you can call in and we can have it arranged for any language. >> i would strongly suggest making it more accessible to a different languages. and the vending machines themselves provided little information in other languages. if you could talk about what you would do in those areas. >> i would defer that conversation to mta. in the last slide to talk about is the a pass transition. it is happening for the november event in window. there has been a number of activities that have taken place to support that. what i want to talk about is some of the specific things that mtc has done to support it. mta will be talking about the planned activities in place but based on our lessons learn

i loved -- >> i wonder who that person was that bought it. now i know. >> that was a big hit. >> i tell you it was a comeback for me. because i was out of work for 12 years. the beatles and rolling stones came in -- tavis: that happened to a hot of people. frank sinatra. >> yes. then i met a guy by the nainl of elton john. heard of him? i went to england because i couldn't get work in america, they had respect for the rock and rollers of the early days. soy went to england melt elton who was starting a record company called rocket records. he signed me and wroy a song called "laughter in the rain" and sedaka is back was the name of the l.p. that dates me, l.p. it has been a hong wonderful career, 51 years. i have written for -- i -- i'm fortunate some great singers from frank sip nat tra to elvis pressly. >> captain and tinal. >> love will keep us together. >> i got a grammy for love will keep us together. and i must tell you that i'm going back to my roots. i started as a pianist and i just wrote my first concerto and my first symphony. next

so peter, i don't know how your plan is a reasonable plan of that. so i'm wondering - and then you're saying,oh, by the way you have to move as fast as possible but don't build,dams, until you do analysis. i'm not sure how it fits together more coherently. i wonder if you could be more precise on what you tell people to do. >> on the,pa leoclimate, part, one thing to remember is the precipitation we're expecting is only suddenly changing in the climate model and one of the big concerns is an observation that brad mentioned, the 20th century when you look at what happened over several centuries - assumeg the proxy indicators are accurate and they are probably close - is that we developed infor structure and so forth during a period when the delivery was maybe higher than the long-term average. there's a real need to understand what the natural system is or sort of has the capacity to do and the way to do that is not just from the instrumental record. it's too short. unfortunately, the climate has these natural fluctuations that will be with us that allows for mega dro

people from running and we are getting these uninspiring candidates. >> it might be a cyclical, but i wonderhether this environment we helped to create is making people who might be higher quality ask why should i do this? i feel the candidates in the past did tend to be better. one exception -- whatever you think of the way president obama has been, i think he was an extraordinary political candidate. do i think that the quality of candidates has declined? that is probably true. i think there are a lot of terrific political journals and what we do is really important, but there is also a lot of gotcha journalism. one thing you notice this year is candidates are doing less public events with the media because they see them as an enemy. tavis: unless you are on both sides of the aisle. khristine o'donnell and andrew cuomo will not talk. -- christine o'donnell will not talk. our lack of real focus on campaign finance reform keeps real people from putting themselves in the races. >> would you want to go into congress at this time to get the stuffing knocked out of you and get nothing done? tavi

i was wondering what they expect. >> i would like to refer that to a project manager. >> if there is going to be a major disruption within the park, we should consider that as an option. >> i am speaking of highly dense areas. and their heavily used daily. where are people going to go. are you going to give them that? i would assume you are looking into existing programs. >> absolutely, we are working together to make sure to provide notification. >> commissioner, i will take a stab us well. the areas are basically lawn areas. there are no recreation areas, so they know what to expect in terms of the project, scope, and duration. we will do similar system there. they know when to take the field off the permanent menu. the impact would be a fair not available -- would be that they are not available. >> i know there is more efficiency in efficiency once we complete these projects. is it safe to assume there is improved irrigation in terms of maintenance of areas? we have seen worse days. we have great days, but there are still some areas that can improve courier -- can improve. will th

i congratulate you, mr. ambassador. your wonderful nation that i have been blessed to spend some time in. moving forward you are and this saga is an example hopefully for all of us in the future. thank you, mr. ambassador. gracias. >> thank you, dished, for inviting me. >> -- thank you, geraldo, for inviting me. >> coming up we will meet the american heros who played a role. and surviveors of our own mining miracle. mining miracle. join me live, back in adrs39 i got an egg [pop] i got gum a kazoo a candy necklace i got one of these [pop] a stamp helium fabric softener ear plugs [pop] lipstick two pills a day is what it takes to stay alive if you're hiv positive. those pills cost about forty cents a day. >> geraldo: we have heard have all from the miner who proprosed a church wedding for his long time bride, she accepted by the way and they are getting married on his birthday, and we heard about the miner whose wife got the cash but his mistress got the spot light. joining us, the editorial director of latino magazine. start with the fellow with the wife and mistress that everyone is to.

i was also wondering what the deadline is for feedback. >> i want to commend the department. it has been a constant theme that we need more communication. ii think it is a good plan, and we appreciate the opportunity to be involved. we will participate in whatever way we can. we will make sure we can be part of this as well. >> good afternoon federer give one of the things we do not do great in -- good afternoon. one thing we do not too great is communicating, and that has changed in the last four or five months. we have worked on getting things in our newsletter including using our staff to post on family list serves in san francisco, responding to e- mails, making sure we have our response and that we are not far apart from each other. i want to stress a couple things. people of their who are listening, please write an e- mail -- people who are out there listening, please write an e- mail. anybody dealing with customer services has to learn, so i look forward to more collaboration. hopefully we will be able to plan out how they are going to communicate with the public. they

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so i wonder if this is a change. they look different, and these from the earlier set. i wonder if that was a change that was made in between. >> i can only tell you what the plans show. vice president goh: but you have both sets. >> the permit holder and has both original sets, well-worn and available. i note that one of the sheets is not be approved stamp sheets, but generally it seems they are. >> let me ask a question differently. i am sorry i am not being very clear. the march 5, 2010 approved plans a company a permit application for the "add skylights and replace existing windows. however, on those plans it appears that there are these kitchen appliances that are crossed out as though it is a change. -- vice president goh:. they were in the original permit application. they are still in the revision. vice president goh: i am sorry. i did not follow that. >> if you look at both pages of a2.1, you will see in the plan the two kitchens that are shown here and also the revision set will have kitchens indicated. vice president goh: there is something crossed out here t

i wonder who george soros is ;7 polls. join me in 24 minutes for "special report." back to glenn. ♪ ♪ >> glenn: we had such an incredible response to the horrifying ecovideo i showed you yesterday, as well as the whom who wants to smother sick babies that we're going to spend an hour long special tomorrow night looking at the policies and the people that support this kind of stuff. the roots of socialism, fabian socialism out of the u.k. and you will not believe who is involved. tomorrow at 5:00. make sure you dvr the show and don't miss it. in fact, the next three episodes, don't miss. i want to talk about an interesting trend that coincides with several of the large currency collapses. certain powerful billionaire with a spooky voice tends to find himself in the middle of it all every time. he's like what happened? i don't know what happened. he rakes in billions of dollars speculating against and driving down the value of currencies. he is famously nicknamed the man who broke the bank of england. his name -- george soros. why lead a star chamber when it's just me

when -- i wonder if i got that across. it went to 5 million gallons a day and we had that water, we don't use it here in san francisco. there are other counties that buy our hechey water. is there any way that we in san francisco get that type of money back here, sfrpd. to develop funding, so it is going on. now i want to post it. some people brought us something about the mail and other things we recycled water. this wasn't anything that had a buffer base to pass them. we have storage tanks, a common buffer base and -- i like to include that in the -- in the mitigation whether -- with the planning department. >> thank you. >> is there any other public comment under the general manager's report? being none public comment is closde. we're on item four, which general public comment. at this time members of the public may traci the commission on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter of the commission and don't appear on the agenda. with respect to the items, you're -- your opportunity will be affo

i was wondering what they expect. >> i would like to refer that to a project manager.

i wonder. >> reporter: and clements will be sentenced on december 21. he faces up to 20 years the prison. >> jae miller, thank you. >>> dwayne wade took the stand today. >> that was in a custody battle against his ex-wife. the couple divorced in june and are fighting for custody of their two sons who are 8 and 3. wade testified he was a victim of domestic violence after his ex-wife physically attacked him in their home. wade also denied several claims made by his wife including drug use and domestic violence allegations. he says he's not seeking sole custody of the children and doesn't want to punish his wife. they are asking schavon to undergo a psychiatric evaluation. >>> the moment of silence serves as a secular and practical purpose in settling down students at the start of the day. the ruling came in a lawsuit followed by atheist talk show host rod sherman and his daughter. sherman calls that decision a move of activism and he vows to appeal. >>> paid respects to albertina walker. legendary recording artist aretha franklin was on hand at the church