ordinary dance companies that we have assembled dancers from all of these companies to present a united work in celebration of the bicentennial. >> dancers from over 20 countries are staunch cultures are participating. >> one of the things that is inspiring is how many are being invited back to their home countries as cultural ambassadors from the u.s.. we are teaching them in committees so that the next generation here in america and back to india or bali or whatever will be able to get enriched by these very beautiful art forms. >> thank you for watching "culture wire." and you can find more information gosh of like to call the meeting of the san francisco public utility -- >> i would like to call the meeting of the san francisco public utility commission to order. can you please call the first item? >> roll call. commissioner caen is ill today, she is excused attendance. commissioner moran was not present at the october 15 meeting, so they may differ again to continue the approval of those minutes until the next meeting when there will be a sufficient commissioners there. >> i thought we

ordinary dance companies that we have assembled dancers from all of these companies to present a united work in celebration of the bicentennial. >> dancers from over 20 countries are staunch cultures are participating. >> one of the things that is inspiring is how many are being invited back to their home countries as cultural ambassadors from the u.s.. we are teaching them in committees so that the next generation here in america and back to india or bali or whatever will be able to get enriched by these very beautiful art forms. >> thank you for watching "culture wire." and you can find more information

a sample, it shows that the unit worked out very nicely. this is based on the programs shown earlier by the developer. i think it works out really well. i asked that it be successfully reviewed and hope you will agree with me. president miguel: thank you. >> my name is maria collins, and i'm an owner at 850 powell street. this is a heartfelt, i am going to make. my feeling is, why are we tampering with historic landmarks? i was under the understanding that historic landmarks could not be changed from the outside. has anything changed along those lines? the tower was constructed in 1965 and was not a historic landmark. now it is 100 years later, and the fairmont hotel is a historical landmark. those rules apply anymore? i don't see a cable car stopping to let tourists out. where does it stop? on mason street? why can't other people do the same? thank you. president miguel: thank you. courtney, mary, patricia, tom, will collins. come on up. if i have called your name, someone, to the podium. -- come up to the podium. >> thank you, commissione

ordinary dance companies that we have assembled dancers from all of these companies to present a united work in celebration of the bicentennial. >> dancers from over 20 countries are staunch cultures are participating. >> one of the things that is inspiring is how many are being invited back to their home countries as cultural ambassadors from the u.s.. we are teaching them in committees so that the next generation here in america and back to india or bali or whatever will be able to get enriched by these very beautiful art forms. >> thank you for watching "culture wire." and you can find more information captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- supervisor chu: good morning. welcome to the regular meeting of the city operations neighborhood services committee. madam clerk, are there any announcements today? >> yes. all persons attending this meeting are requested to turn off all cell phones and pagers. if you wish to submit speaker cards, please place them in the container by the rail to your left. if you wish to submit copies of material for members of the committee

we work with europe and the united states and we work on how europe and the united states can work together on the major world challenges like climate change and economic trade and development, just a number of issues the program i run goes back to the early days in the first 20 years when we were primarily a grantmaker making grants to low-cal practitioners and policymakers. i started this program about four years, five years ago now, i think, time flies, to really bring in members of our marshall memorial fellowship network of which david chiu is one of our alumni. some of our past grantees and also the next crop of practitioners and local civic leaders who are really looking to change their home communities by looking abroad or looking to other cities to see what other cities are doing well and how that might be imported back home or translated back home. so the comparative dom particular policy program works primarily in the 25 cities that doug mentioned, but not exclusively in those cities. we really are looking for some of the best practices in education and workforce development, in

all seven of us working together, and we are a unit working together. and i think that the jobs of president and vice president are -- the president's job, yes, requires considerably more work as opposed to, you know, the other six commissioners. vice president not so much. but in terms of the other powers , abilities, responsibilities and so on, all seven commissioners really stand on equal footing from that perspective. and i think that all seven of us bring special talents and abilities to the commission, and could frankly do the job of president or vice president. if we're down to choosing two, and commissioner mazzucco, we unanimously have elected him, and for very good reason. he's outstanding and has tremendous responsibility. with all of that said, my vote is going to go to commissioner marshall in terms of the vice president spot. and i think that the continuity is important. i think he's served the commission well. i think with commissioner mazzucco nominating him and more or less asking us as commissioners to allow commissioner marshall to kee

take your tests, but i think in team camaraderie, i think it's a lot of fun for girls to be in a unit working the same result, which is always to do a good performance. >> reporter: they move up with the same team through age divisions, practicing and traveling to competitions. perfecting every move. so when it's showtime, they're ready! >> you all have to be looking in the exact same direction and you have to be doing everything the same. you want to look perfect. >> reporter: they compete according to rules set by the u.s. figure skating competition. the judging is on presentation and very specific moves such as lines, blocks, circles, and wheels. >> and then we have intersections, which is when the girls pass through each other. >> reporter: easier said than done. >> what makes an intersection so suspenseful is we're going straight at each other and everyone expects us to crash, but at the last second we drop our arms and go through. >> reporter: it's a real crowd pleaser. but these kids seem to skate as much for each other as for the judges. some of them have literally grown up together -

ordinary dance companies that we have assembled dancers from all of these companies to present a united work in celebration of the bicentennial. >> dancers from over 20 countries are staunch cultures are participating. >> one of the things that is inspiring is how many are being invited back to their home countries as cultural ambassadors from the u.s.. we are teaching them in committees so that the next generation here in america and back to india or bali or whatever will be able to get enriched by these very beautiful art forms. >> thank you for watching "culture wire." and you can find more information >> good evening, and welcome to the november 3, 2010 meeting of the san francisco board of appeals. commissioner chris hwang will be absent this evening. francesca will provide the board with any legal advice this evening. i am the executive director, sent via gold steam. we're joined by the representatives of the department that will be presenting the cases. we have laurence kornfield with the department of building inspection. sitting next to him is the newly named zoning administrator, s

ordinary dance companies that we have assembled dancers from all of these companies to present a united work in celebration of the bicentennial. >> dancers from over 20 countries are staunch cultures are participating. >> one of the things that is inspiring is how many are being invited back to their home countries as cultural ambassadors from the u.s.. we are teaching them in committees so that the next generation here in america and back to india or bali or whatever will be able to get enriched by these very beautiful art forms. >> thank you for watching "culture wire." and you can find more information welcome to the budget and finance committee. i'm supervisor john avalos the chair joined by supervisor ross mirkarimi the vice chair and supervisor sean elsbernd. the clerk is victor young. mr. young could you please share us your announcements? >> please turn off all cell phones. if you wish to speak if i am out a card and turn them in to me. if you present any documents please provide a copy to the clerk for inclusion into the file. items acted upon will be on the board of supervisors age

in the united states for years some have been working there for decades all of them were arrested and had undergone trial were found guilty of being on registered foreign agents and were deported to russia in exchange for four people who were serving time here in russia after having been found guilty of being foreign spies but now back then this summer everybody was talking about the chapman and one of the people in that group deported from the united states a very successful young and. young businesswoman everybody started calling her the russian james bond girl and she really got most of the media attention back then and now we're getting reports also from arkansas newspaper about this another person a part of that group who's already been deemed a super agent this man's name is me with some cough and he'll have to sort the union in the nine hundred sixty s. first to spain then to south america he became a photographer there or traveled to the united states getting all these contacts in the government and among other officials he worke

workers have told abc 7 they don't generally work outside the buildings. >> because of the proximity of her to the unit that she worked in the button went off in the kitchen and then when people responded to it in the kitchen or in the kitchen area they called it a false alarm. >> anna bock is angry. she says if there were better security her mother would still be alive. >> i just feel like something could have been done and if there is any one out there that can help so that it doesn't happen again. >> bock says investigators told her massey ran back into his unit sweating and agitated his shirt torn but no one wrote him up on his condition. police say massey eventually confessed and he is awaiting trial. we asked hospital officials if they wanted to comment on bock's remarks. they declined but told us before that they have adequate security which also includes that personal alarm system. vic lee, abc 7 news. >>> some politics now. it only tack three weeks since the election but san francisco district aattorney capela harris appears to be california's next attorney general. steve cooley conceded there

rvuw, relative value unit for work. rvu relative value unit determined by a -- an agency, not by the doctor's office, it's going to be modified by a geographic practice cost index for that value unit of work and then every value unit of work is further going to be modified by another constant for practice expenses as well as some geographic consideration. another based on the subscript for buying liability insurance. and then at the end, it's all kinds of conversion -- all times a conversion factor this looks complicated but again, you could muddle through that. but unfortunately, what we don't really get is what is the conversion factor. let's take us through that just a little bit as well. so on another page on the seb scythe -- website for the center for medicare and medicaid services is calculation of the conversion factor. you have the conversion factor for the current year, equal to the conversion factor for a prior year plus an update. well, how do you get the update? come down here, this is how you calculate the

unit of command is easy. everyone workings for them and you tell them what to do and they supposedly do it, supposedly. unit of effort is very different. unit of effort means, we have this diagram i used to draw, in one place up in northern iraq you had border, border police. we had the department of homeland security working there. we had other governmental and security and intel agencies working there. we had the state department working there. we ad usaid working there. we had nongovernmental organizations. we had the united nations. we had foreign military units working in there. then i had a brigade commander responsible for this, i was responsible and i say i want you to build unit of effort. what you have to do, you have to build relationships. you have to understand what they're trying to achieve. then how you can assist each other in moving forward to this broad goal you're requiring trying to achieve. what we use to do is ignore many of these organizations. we didn't pay any attention to them t caused us problems. ma

tonight upstairs in the special victims unit, investigators are working a couple of leads in what they call a high priority case. the west oakland b.a.r.t. station, a busy spot swr-z i >> i work in the city, so when i come back it's nighttime. >> reporter: a part of the city where women feel uncomfortable. >> i'm a little uncomfortable. i would rather be with someone else definitely. >> reporter: police say after walking a mile to the 1100-mile of market street, a woman was pulled to the side. >> she was robbed and sexual aassaulted. >> reporter: police spokesman jeff thomason says the other three women that were assaulted were 28 and 30 years old. thomason added that officials are sifting through surveillance camera of the area where the crime occurred. >> this is a high priority for us. >> i don't think it would have safe to walk by yourself. >> reporter: this woman who didn't want to use her name, said the crime is a call for women to stay together. >> i know this community suffers from chronic community violence. a lot of our kids were shot over the summer and it's pretty dangerous

working with day to day units. it has been a wonderful experience so far that i really appreciate. >> gentleman? >> congratulations. >> i would like to say that i am very happy working with this team. it has been pleasant to work with people who care about what they were doing and what they're working for. i would like to acknowledge virginia, without her support we could not do it. >> i really appreciate the opportunity to administer the effective life of the public of the writers. thank you. >> on behalf of the board of directors and the people within the agency throughout the city, this is by the work that you are doing. so important, helping people at these critical moments in their lives. congratulations. [applause] >> at this point, we can conclude. >> item #8, citizens advisory council report. >> good afternoon, mr. chairman. members of the board. as you know, we pride ourselves on being the eyes and ears of the board. i wanted to let you know that i do not know what it is, but there seemed to be a lot of peo

announced that they were arrested a group of people suspected of being secret russian agents who worked in the united states undercover for years in some cases for decades and they've all been arrested or found guilty by a u.s. court of being unregistered foreign agents and deported from the united states to russia in exchange for four people who are serving time here after having been found guilty of being foreign spies back then this summer everybody was talking about on a chop man and one of the people in that group deported from the united states a very successful young business woman everybody started calling her the russian james bond girl and she really got most of the media attention now became a sun newspaper and is now also focusing on the one of the members of that group of deported from the united states this man has already been deemed a super agent and this is mikhail was soon kuo left of the soviet union back in the nineteen sixty's first to spain and then to latin america. he became a photographer and it became known under the name of one. traveled to the united states became acquaint

he worked united states at work in a nationally. free jackie you know some of the s p and don't you. thank you finally stop her. five-year 64 million that is the deal will also you're going to supposedly see to letter league ballplayers. adrian that will be the biggest deal. bottom line a's tried to get all trade at a boston and gave us real consistent players for the a's he's been traded to toronto where he can start every day for a couple of minor league players. chris balochi third in the manager of the year award. vern blackwood voce a limited in the playoffs missed by one point. blackout what of those teams were they say how or they doing it and went right to the end of this season. ron is the american's manager of the year he came in second five times prior to today so good for him from the minnesota twins. one more time a bruised vocbruce benxi, a full n including the post season he definitely would of been up there but that's how works. international soccer because my producer jason applebaum is from family, money and travel

work? >> the units come in sizes. 6, 8, and 10. each year clear channel is obligated to give us 100 new units. supervisor chu: which could be a configuration of six, eight, or 10? >> correct. supervisor chu: thank you. any other questions for the committee? seeing no one, is there a motion. without objection, motion is approved. madam clerk, are there any other items before us? >> no, madam share supervisor chu:. -- no, madam chair. supervisor chu: thank you, we are adjourned. >> i have been a cable car grip for 21 years. i am a third generation. my grand farther and my dad worked over in green division for 27. i guess you could say it's blood. >> come on in. have a seat. hold on. i like it because i am standing up. i am outside without a roof over my head and i see all kinds of people. >> you catch up to people you know from the past. you know. went to school with. people that you work with at other jobs. military or something. kind of weird. it's a small word, you be. like i said, what do people do when they come to san francisco

in iraq, we brought the united nations into coordinated operations. they work off of our provincial reconstruction team basis. we housed them. we secured them. you moved them. they could not have done this on their own. they made a crucial difference as we move into the elections. it is an internationalist ancient -- internationalization of the effort. >> if i could add to that, ryan and i would need three or four times a week in the morning. that sounds like a minor thing. but you do not understand how much was going on every single day inside of iraq. ryan would be working on significant political issues. i would be working on significant military issues. they overlapped. if it was not for us sitting down and talking through, we would have disconnects. we wouldn't -- we would end up working against each other. it was key for the senior leaders to sit down. when we did the surge, we imbedded state department teams with our brigades. we found that we gained this synergy. they were working together because they were sharing everything they were doing together. w

russian newspaper says it discovered the identity of the man who exposed eleven russian agents working in the united states the coma son daily claims it was a form of foreign intelligence service employee but so far there's been no official comment about that. reports. community newspaper claims to have held its own investigation and the see that almost should've baku off an officer of the russian foreign intelligence service was a double agent it was him responsible for blowing the cover on his colleagues in the united states last summer which resulted basically in the biggest spy scandal between moscow and washington since the cold war era the newspaper says that before this scandal erupted paula should walk off was offered a promotion by russian authorities which she rejected possibly because he had to take a lie detector test which could have revealed his activities as a double agent and also reportedly so a month before the scandal should walk off daughter left russia to the united states. and also this could put to him that she might have known that something was about to happen in june americ

this is a great example of our community working together, uniting for something we love in our community is one of the happiest for me. our beloved library will be opened up once again. and for me, as a young person, my love of learning and curiosity as a result came through regular visits to the library with my mother. our new library gives us all of our opportunities to imagine a dream. also, our libraries are crucial parts of san francisco's stake in us, which has to ensure that we have healthy, livable, and caring community spree today is sad for my daughter because she is going to mix -- miss the book mobile. but i felt empty for two years because this building has been seven -- renovated. but it will make our district whole again. kids and families like us will love it. they can use study rooms, and immigrant communities will relieved of these new collections that we have here. but i will just say that our hard-working guardians will have much improved offices and an incredible community room, as well. just look at this incredible 1914 carnegie landmark building. it is incredibly a

government so all over the world that if you oppose united states you work harder to come to it and we will never complete story. socialism despite being declared dead. has seen a revival in governments in countries all over the world. when united states talked about the overthrow of the soviet union and the coming down of the berlin wall as the end of socialism it's absolutely not true a system of capitalism in the k. at this point there are pieces of the berlin wall all over the world what came following the historic moment was this bali hood era of freedom now marked by economic collapse and list war two decades after the fall of the berlin wall some argue the u.s. empire is also in clothing its influence waning in the face of rising world powers several of them with the stink socialist leanings jan hospice r t washington d.c. well it's not only in developing countries the socialist parties are getting vocal vice presidential candidate in the two thousand and eight u.s. election eugene explains why he feels america also needs socialism. we believe that in a world and particularly in

the unit where she worked, the section housing criminally insane and most-violent patients. >> and she'd make comments about how it was dangerous. >> her daughter says there are times her mother was afraid to go to work. >> and she's telling me about patients maybe changed their demeanor or had been behaving in a way that made her more frightened of patients that were, you know, acting up around her and she was scared to go to work. >> donna told her daughter more violent owe grerndz were being admitted one was jess massy, convicted of sexual assaulting a woman, slitting her throat. on the afternoon of october 23 gross went to the store on her break, bought come, -- gum, and cigarettes. a police source says masty followed her then strangled her, stole $2, the gum and her bracelet. the source says gross fought hard, pressing an alarm button which psych techs wear on the waist band. workers told abc 7 they don't generally work outside of the building autos because of the proximity of her to the unit it went off in the kitchen and people responded in the kitchen area they -- called it a fal

. >> uk border agency funding to support immigration and related work at the ports unit in stranraer cairnryan ceased yesterday, with the commitment that all such work would be dealt with in northern ireland. without additional resources at that location, i believe that that cannot work. if in the coming months the ports unit in my constituency does not see a reduction in immigration-related cases, will the prime minister revisit the issue? >> what we do at our borders is incredibly important. i spent some time yesterday with the home secretary at heathrow airport, meeting uk border agency staff. they do a fantastic job, and i want to help them go on doing it. i shall look carefully at what the honorable gentleman says -- the answer is that what we are going to do is make sure that immigration work is done in northern ireland rather than at stranraer, but i shall look very carefully at that to make sure that the system is working. >> does my right honorable friend agree that a proper and well planned international rescue plan for the irish economy would be far less damaging to the wid

the ultimate hope is that the united states can stop entry of foreign airlines, but we, too, depend on international trade and travel. we have to work to harmonize standards and protocols and technologies, and in those instances where foreign countries do not have the funding to support these technologies, the united states has to help them do that. caller: you made a couple of comments. number 1, you want to get out ahead of the terrorists and secure areas that they have not yet breached. the common person out there is just saying, hey, our border is just ready and ripe for some sort of breach. now, you mentioned that you do not feel like the border is a threat. can you help me be educate us as to why we should not be worried about the border? guest: sure. the overwhelming evidence shows that those seeking to enter the united states illegally come here searching for work, not to carry out terror attacks. there have been no instances where the people have penetrated our land borders who are subsequently found to be linked to a terror plot. occasionally people are found at the border come from countries of concern, but those people h

for the first time ever, our governments are working together across all whole range of common challenges we face. let me say it as clearly as i can, the united states not only welcomes india as a rising global power, we support it in we have worked to help make it a reality. together with our partners we have made the g-20 the premier forum for the economic policies. that has included india. we have increased their role of the emerging economies like india at international financial institutions. we valued india's important role at copenhagen. we salute india's long history as a leading contributor to the united nations peacekeeping missions. we welcome india as it prepares to take its seat on the united nations security council. [applause] in short, which india assuming its rightful place in the world, we have a historic opportunity to make the relationship between our countries a defining partnership of a century ahead. i believe we can do so by working together in three important areas. first, as global partners we can promote prosperity and both our countries. together we can create a high- tech jobs of the future. with my visit, we are

she was a maryland correctional officer who worked in baltimore city pretrial unit. police then went to her home on edgecomb to search for more clues and surrounded her apt and blocked -- apartment. >> when homicide detectives came to the location they saw some blood on the door and then had reason to believe that the individual was inside. at that point they contacted swat units. >> when police got inside no one was there so that person of interest remains on the run. police think jones may have known her killer but they are not commenting on what kind of relationship they might have had. reporting live at police headquarters, kim dacey. >> the search continues for whoever shot a man in southwest baltimore. police say the victim wandered into a bar on frederick avenue after being shot in the arm and shoulder. that was about 9:00 last night. he is being treated for nonlife threatening injuries. police identified two shooting victims from over the weekend. 29-year-old jerry thomas was killed friday night during triple shooting in the 1500 block of popular grove. 19-ye

[laughter] working for a united states senator or working for a candidate is completely different. a senator or a candidates -- or a candidate when a grave national problem that arises, it is enough to raise tough questions, it is enough to call for investigations. president cannot do that. a president has to come up with solutions. he has to run the show. and the advisor better have some solutions to offer the present impaired -- presidents. second, if you are writing for the president, be careful. what the president says on domestic policy will be debated. it might much later become law. but the congress has to provide authorization and then on provide money. but what the president says on the foreign-policy, that becomes the foreign-policy of the united states. host: he once said he suspected his headline on his of its wary would read, kennedy speechwriter, misspelling his name, and misjudging his work, but he was much more. ted sorensen died in new york, 82 years old. kennedy words with and more -- wordsmith and more. we will be back -- progressives and this campaign. karen whi

the united nations has been working in afghanistan throughout this period helping afghans at every momenter term. i thank the leaders of nato for their commitment and i pay tribute to all those soldiers and civilians, afghans and international, who have given their lives in this effort. the costs have been high, but the objective, afghanistan at peace, remains necessary and just. i look for a continuing close collaboration with afghanistan and its partners in the period ahead. thank you very much. >> a question for all three gentlemen. given the very serious challenges you still face on security, on institution building and on reconstruction, how confident are you that the 2014 deadline can be achieved. thank you very much. >> i'm confident that we can meet the 2014 deadline primarily because we see a rapid growth in the capacity and the quality of the afghan security forces. we started our training mission last year. already now, we have more than 260,000 afghan soldiers and afghan police. the number is growing and by the end of next year, we have set the goal to have 300,000 afghan sold

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work? >> the units come in sizes. 6, 8, and 10. each year le