small businesses are struggling. workers are struggling. you are looking at the interest of small and businesses, and i want to let you know how workers are affected. you want to support the high road. you recognize that taking care of your workforce is a central part of taking care of your business. 90% of the businesses in santa cisco are complying with this law, and they are not talking about a -- of stanford cisco are complying with this law. we know that -- of sanford cisco sent -- san francisco are complying with this law. the fact is san francisco has led the wayne establishing protections for workers. we are a city that has taken great leadership in pioneering. we have pioneered environmental awareness and health the idea that employers should help protect not -- helped the idea that workers shouldn't help protect -- should help protect people. many workers are not receiving the benefit of the law because of the loophole. some workers are even being told now that you have the account. if you do not use the money, i will give you mon

those applications are out now. they are due tomorrow. we are going to be selecting the people next week pretty randomly, throwing them in a pot and picking the names. we are sure we are going to get a couple of hundred applicants. we are going to do it randomly at this point. it will provide case management and critical analysis at the end. we will see what works and what does not so that hopefully these programs can continue because the money will be controlled by the implementation committee. we want it to be a successful, strategic, analytical, and structurally-sound program that will make a difference to people. that is what we are doing. we are very excited. supervisor cohen: before we go, a question for you. commissioner maufas: thank you, ms. ford. i understand you have the implementation committee. are you working with the transitional-age youth? this was a task force. i think it has melted back into dcyf. are you working with them? >> we are working with them. commissioner maufas: you will have to come to the podium and state yo

we are closing in. we are closing in on a side. we had to change our criteria a little bit to permit us to look a little further out from washington. that is a little bit of a problem for us. it makes the selection of sizes little bit easier. it also means that since it is beyond a simple driving range that our trainees will have to overnight. that means the construction of storms and cafeterias. that adds a little bit to the cost. we are closing in on a site and helps to have something to announce in the coming months. we absolutely require this. they have a range of facilities. the biggest problem is that we do not own any of these facilities. these are joint use facilities. it causes a problem for us. i'm going on a little too long. i want to cover the long a question. had to redo our training in the interim? we are years away, even if we get a sight. we are years away from having a full-fledged facility. we will have to continue doing what we are doing. we are going to continue to make do with some imagination with what we have

these expenditures are the qualified expenditures, no matter where they are. they just say, i will reimburse you. >> they have gone as far as they can legally go, and we have followed very closely what they have said about this. we are following a clear guidance from the city attorney's office, because we know the moment we go down in the road where there is a possible legal question, we know the track record on healthy san francisco is that we were sued, so it knocks -- it would not surprise us that we could be sued again, which is why we are trying to put together a piece of legislation that can survive a legal challenge, so we have gone as far as federal law allows us to go for discussion of these accounts, but let me say that i will continue to have an open door, to meet with small business and to hear the concerns. we are going to meet with them tomorrow, and i would be happy to get any suggestions common -- to get any suggestions, and we have lived -- and we have listened closely. the dialogue will continue. >> one comment i wanted to bring up is that th

what are the reasons for that? what are the cost drivers that might be driving it? what are the not-controllable economic conditions that drive that? part of the issue will be pension reform. that is something that i think is on the minds of many people, not only in san francisco, but elsewhere around the nation, and it certainly will be a topic here as we look at how it is we can control some of our costs and understand where our trajectory of our budget deficit is going to be. certainly, the budget is not simply a numbers issue. it has a big impact when you translate it into the lives of our residents. when you are talking about deficits that may impact the morning commute because you write muni -- you ride muni, or whether we're talking about closing down seven facilities, or whether we're talking about impacts to services, there is an impact to residents, so i think that impact of the budget is big, as well as economic growth for our residents. >> what are the biggest issues for your district? supervisor chu: sunset district is a great district. it has many resi

we are trying to make sure that we are using it right. >> we are not anti-development. we are anti getting pushed out and killing our kids. >> a cheap way to provide opportunities for people is affordable housing. and this is affordable housing that will very from rental housing for families, rental housing for seniors, housing for people with disabilities, housing for the chronically homeless, holders of housing. >> we love redevelop it, but we are going to have to do some development ourselves. that is what we want the city to do. let the people year, starting with the people out here in bayview, to the development here. at the shipyard, whatever it is. you do not need anybody out there. you give me all about lead, i could get the money to develop it. >> first of all, we have a very public and open process. when you look at a public the size, you are looking at a national developer to have the wherewithal, the resources, the expertise and the finances to really complete a project like this. >> the residents of this community said they needed very affordable senior hou

here they are. there are 55 of these blue and gold ambulances here in the south bay in the fleet of rural metro. this is what they look like. they are bigger than the old ones. managers say they are as state of the art as they come. they will operate in the south bay under the seal of santa clara county. they take over the contract for amr. they are equipped with technology to receive the patient's chart, vital signs and crucial medication before the patient arrived at the hospital. the gurneys are new and state of the art. the wheels lower remotely making it easier on the emt and the patient. response time will remain the same as mandated by the county. >> this is a very tightly regulated contract. it's performance based meaning we have to meet specific response time requirements. >> reporter: the faces inside the ambulances will remain the same as well. rural metro hired most of the emt's that were working for amr. there's displeasure over pay. we received e-mails in the news room from the emts ab

they are either victims or suspects. 9 out of those first are shot are killed. with the target with the call in is working. we are doing bed checks. we go out with these probation officers. i know where he is. we bring him home and do that 3 or 4 times. i just think that gun violence is really up and we have to get the guns off the streets. all you need is an id. if we don't get the support of the community, with no questions asked. i'm sorry i am taking so long. and we will be glad. we need to do more gun buy backs. >> i have more questions for you. did you want to say something? we moved on. it was only in regard to expansion. there was a supplemental buy back and now they are in the planning stages. so, while it's been pretty tried and tested. it's still relatively new. they are different in some regard in their texture complexion and i think that there is on going discussion about evaluating the impact that those crn's are having in those neighborhoods. i think folks have their eyes on it. they are a tremendous asset. and those most at risk. we support the w

they are our main nuclear weapons that are not adequately tested are characterized. they are our main them on missiles. they are a long way away. new have interests that go beyond the whole picture of any kind of nuclear confrontation. this is a very dangerous issue. >> should we worry about china and pakistan? he mentioned that we might threaten them and citing more with india. -- and citing war with india. is this a credible threat? >> it is a threat we make. we made a remarkable scene recently with the minister of defense -- most of you do not know who he is because pakistan is being the minister of defense and the government is being the least important job -- he came back and said we will give china a naval base. there is an embarrassed silence. we really do not want a naval base. it may be a lot. i am not a china expert. i cannot tell you the chinese part of this. from the chinese point of this, and they see -- and the pakistani point, they see china as their all their friends -- they are all whether -- theor friends.ather i think they are more complicated alli

they are positive things that are happening. while it may be true that the first wave of online-only journalism tended to be national and international criticism and opinion, which got the name of blogs, what we are actually seeing of the local level is something even more exciting than that. as newspapers have become challenged, and we have seen, sadly, the destruction of capabilities of newspaper and local television stations and other media in the local arena, we are seeing a new layer journalism being created at the local level. some startups such as the "bases and close " in san francisco, "texas tribune" out in texas -- there have been others that attended some similar things -- are starting to use a digital- only medium to provide a layer of local coverage. after that, the other positive things that i see our outfits like -- are outfits like patch and yahoo!, which is looking to create semi-pro or citizen journalism to take place, a new layer, stuff that was not covered at all before. observational community-oriented jour

these are shared questions that many of us are confronting. >> they certainly are that mega questions. they are important ones. if confirmed, i will be very much focused on these questions. i would expect to be out there for a couple of years. i am not ducking by saying i just don't know the answer now. i do think that we have an interest in ensuring that the country does not backslide. it does not become in al qaeda shape -- safe haven. we all share that. how do you do it and how much does it cost and how long does it take? these are questions that my colleagues and i will have to work on. we are accountable to you as you ask them. as we saw in iraq, by going in big, you can then come out small. iraq as oil and it helps to have oil beside the corruption issue there. they can pay for many things that the afghans cannot. i think the strategic partnership declaration process is important as the strategic framework agreement was in iraq. it left both countries know -- it lets both countries know which way they want to move in the future. will lookdome different than iraq but it is intend

-- >> we are going to 7. we will be in the next budget cycle, we will be reducing the crew from 19 to 7. supervisor avalos: how much would a crew cost? >> a little under $500,000. supervisor avalos: what happens when we have a big storm and a bunch of trees are knocked over or damaged in a short time, and we need to, like, in a matter of hours clear the streets and help a lot of trees? how do you wrap up your staffing to deal with those crises? >> in preparation of a storm, our artists are on the call, and we actually do have several trees that have fallen on the cars, on overhead lights, and staff goes out and clears those trees. those trees are fronting private property. supervisor avalos: currently, if we have a big storm, is it all in 11 fte's and called on that day to clear the streets? >> it all depends. the last huge storm we had was -- april -- february 17, i think. that storm had two ships, people coming in. a lot of the tree cutting and -- supervisor avalos: we go down to seven fte's, does that even

there are a lot of problems here. there are consumer problems. when only have some bad banking practices, and at the end of the day, will also have the tremendous impact. tremendous impact. finally, in order to get all of

there are chimneys that are okay to replace and others are a sin to replace. a huge of allowing garages to be in historic buildings where they have an impact on the facade. a big issue the planning department is considering something. you have comments on parking and the issues of automobiles. >> parking and other issues, when you have a historic home and adapting it to historic character. nobody wants a historic kitchen. kitchen, grablgs and things like that require creative adaptive reuse. if properly designed, most homes could benefit from having a garage. there are some homes that there is no tasteful way to do. i think those homes should forget having a garage. >> i went along the row of painted ladies and they all have a row of garages. those are the icons of san francisco. they all have garages. let's talk about the other interior and hardware issues. go back and talk about doors. here's inn exterior door set. how does one retain and maintain hardware like this. you don't want to replace should go like that. if you do it will be expensive. vsx+or?3vy÷v

they are paid $12 an hour. they are college students. they are doing well and excelling, and they had a lot of mathematics and english expertise. >> i have a couple more questions to add on, and i am completely in alignment with commissioner fewer. as you talk with her, feel free to talk with me as well. i cannot express that enough, that her thoughts are really much of my own, so i am grateful that she is here to represent those. one of my questions -- are any of the tudors from district 10? >> a good amount of them. the way we originally designed the program was to collaborate with collaboratecbo's -- collaborate with other cbo's. i had a conversation when i first came on board with diane gray, who was with 100% college prep, and she shared with us the fact that a lot of the kids that they set up the pool, home for the summer and did not have employment. 100% a college prep had the first crack at sending in resumes and getting their participants hired. as well as college track. from there, we had conversations with other organizations

they are still our team and they are still in our communities. i would like to have a welcome party. very soon. he is our coach. there are things that we have done in the past that have exhibited -- he is very excited about having one of those lunches that we used to have. get everybody together and root for the team. we might disagree with their effort, but that doesn't mean that they are not our team. >> humans and lloyd brown earlier. how often have you talked to them. >> i know them vaguely. willie and rows of the wonderful friends for so many years. they give me great advice. i asked them a lot for the vice, especially when we have such a very serious fight with jerry brown over redevelopment. i have never intended for them at all to be a negative, because he is doing what he needs to do. >> eliminated from the state budget? >> it also hurts us in long term ways. we have used redevelopment of the correct way. the governor knows that. he knows there are other things to gain by this elimination. in that dialogue and, i have asked for a lot of

when you are sizing up what are the dangers, what are your capabilities, what are your limitations. terrorism is no different from a natural disaster. you are going to respond the same way. be nice is not nice. b stands for biological. n is nuclear, i is incendiary and c is chemical. on the bottom scale, we have a likelihood it's going to take place and this scale here is the impact. so nuclear device, think of a nuclear bomb taking place, impact will affect a lot of people, yeah. high impact, what's the probability that a nuclear attack will take place? not that great. as you move on, as the season progresses, then add a chemical release, over here, likelihood gets higher that would take place, less impact biological and explosive incendiaries. once every two weeks on the average and sometimes 2 -- i have a two in one night my last watch, incendiary incidents happened in the city. the probability it's going to take place, yeah, i'm telling you, on one night we had two incidents take place. people living here in the marina, let's say, did it impact you? no, very low impact. but it h

are close. we will be steadfast in tracking them down and making sure they receive justice. it's the one thing i promised the mother. >> reporter: in the shooting, the parents suffered non-life threatening wounds. it's obviously hit this community hard. they led a vigil last night. the shooting actually comes at a time when crime has dropped here in east palo alto. murders dropped 75%. meanwhile, investigators are hoping anyone will come forward with information leading to an arrest in the shooting. they are offering a $25,000 reward for that. >> let's hope they catch them, thank you very much. 6:04 now. deputies are asking for your help in catching a man who posed as a pest control worker. it happened on porter lane around 8:40 saturday morning. the man posed as a pest control worker pretending to take soil samples and forced his way into the home of the 73-year-old woman and assaulted her. anyone with information is asked to call santa clara county sheriff's department. >>> this morning, the f

are you? >> good to see you. >> i've been a strong supporter of the credit unions, but i think there's serious questions here. how is it we will hear from the next panel i just want to look at a couple of arguments and get your sense of it. one is today will say this legislation would allow credit unions to aggressively pursue business customers toward the commercial real-estate loans it would also serve as an invitation to credit unions that are not near this now to focus on business lending to the exclusion would further greater limitation to be eligible for an increase in the business lending cap. are you concerned about that? >> i think you would be an opportunity for credit unions to expand their business portfolio but of the loan to the share ratio of credit unions is a high 60s may be 68% so there's still a great deal of capacity for the credit unions to spend business lending and meet the needs of consumers. >> what about the fact that credit unions by the nature are tax-exempt and obv

that's like what we are headed for. preservation of property in many cases in the code takeses second fiddle to making sure everybody is safe ask out of the property. safety is number one. >> fire escapes are used in san francisco under the california building code. they are not typically allowed in new buildings. most of san francisco is older buildings. because we have such tight lines 0 lot lines on the side and often a rear yard where you can't get from the rear yard to the street. we see all over san francisco fire escapes and allow new fire escapes on existing buildings where you can't build a fully complies stairway. we came up with rules about fire escapes that require them to be e illuminated and they need to be maintained. some are difficult to maintain they have a moving part and a crank ladder. hauven to people have to maintain their fire escapes. >> they need to always have them maintained. we ask the property owner at the time of the inspection to demonstrate that the fire escapes are in good working condi

so that while they are on the corridor, they are enjoying better service, but we are also allowing more capacity to get to the waterfront, as well as northern new locations and park lands. the primary backbone for this service are the three bus lines you see here. the 47, going along van ness, a limited stop service. that would incorporate a terminus event launched site that would allow connections to bart, parking at civic center garage, and other locations to get people focused on staying out of the downtown congestion, which may occur due to so many interesting attractions. the other two bus lines are the 30 and 30x. 30 would include potential limited stop service to allow it to bolster service through what is whatgenerally a slow ride through chinatown. we spoke to poke through the chinatown development center to see how we could make this service work better. not only as a benefit to the residence, but this will be running from the caltrain area through union square, up to the northern waterfront, and even having a quarter leg near the f line at jones street. that would be a key ba

we have found that there are a lot of people who are very concerned about pedestrian bicycle safety, the livability of our streets. my next slide will show this is really the only funding source available for those improvements, and they are part of st. safety. and this is not just a resurfacing bond, but a safety bond. we also believe when we are going into the streets and improving them, muni, because it carries so many passengers, is a key part of our transportation system, that women are making these improvements in the street -- when we are making these improvements in the street, improvements to muni should also be made. with the st. transit signal infrastructure, the mta does not have any other identify the source of funding. >>supervisor chu: i'd think many of us recognize the need to have transit improvement work, whether it is the signals we are talking about in this situation, among other things, for muni. the question is why this comes forward with a street repaving bond. is there something that links transit signals to a street? if you are paying, is there something that

stay with us on mosaic ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> you are with us on mosaic and we are glad. we are talking about retreats and we are looking at them through the eyes of valimbrosa retreat center a ministry of the archdiocese of san francisco it is in menlo park down the street from a foster freeze i love and father thanks so much. there is so much to talk about retreats, we can't cover it all today we invite everyone to visit your website www.valimbrosa.org and they can find out so much more and contact you. we just want to open the door but there are things we do want the open the door on one is you say you have a revised advisory board, user friendly website and post card ministry talk to us. >> well, let me start with the post card ministry that is brand new we are just starting. we actually do two thing s with the post card ministry, in every retreat, there is a post card and a little thing that says i am on retreat and while i am here i am praying for you and we encourage the retreatist to fill it out and send it to someone they love. >> wow. >> put down the date that t

there are no jobs. second, we are always told the american people need to compete with countries like china and india, that we need to be more advanced. if they are so advanced than we are, why do they need manufacturing jobs? host: trudy, wh kind of work are in? caller: administrative. 've been out of work since 2009. a lot of people with advanced degrees are out of work. host: thanks for sharing your story. guest: i completely agree. i speak to a lot of people around the country that are in a situation like you are, but they worked in the public sector, they worked in the service sector, or they have worked in the skilled trades or construction. they have a great set of skills, but there are no jobs available. we are in a situation like that where we need to figure out a way to create jobs in this country. the talks in washington on the debt ceiling and the deficit, too focused on austerity and not focused enough on what we can do to create jobs in this country. there's this thing that is called the b

their mortgages are upside- down. their houses are under water. they basically are desperate. so they are here to get help from the banks and lenders. judging from their success rate with this program, it looks like they are going to get it. so they are calling it the save the dream tour. and the dream in this case is the american dream. that's their home. previous events across the country seeing tens of thousands of people show up every day. and the folks basically come here, they sit down with the counselor, they figure out exactly how much they can pay, and then they walk right over to some of the banks and lenders some of the people who own those mortgages and they figure out exactly how much they will owe on their homes. a lot of the times they reduce the principal, sometimes these people reduce their interest rates down to 4 to 3 to 2% sometimes and it works. they say that same day turnaround they get about a 50% success rate. 80% of those who come in have their home mortgages reduced, they say. for a lot of people that allows them to stay in their homes. >> if i'm acce

you are correct that there are a number of things we are doing right now that are on top of the things that we eventually hope to not be doing. we hope to be reducing some of the expenditures that are less effective. you are correct in that. a few weeks ago, i did have something sent out that laid out specific ways i think we are going to be able to be more efficient in our spending as we move forward. i would be happy to try to recap some of that from memory and also to resend it. commissioner wynns: i am concerned because we have had a lot of good discussion that has been helpful to me about the kinds of changes we are making. we did have a discussion at the committee as a whole about having to have at least temporarily more paraprofessionals for more conclusion -- more inclusion or less isolation of disabled kids, which is a good thing. i will tell you what i am most stumped about, what i know the least about. i would like to have come through a budget lens, somebody talk about the difference in the assignment of teachers. i do not mean the mechanism, although i am interested in tha

how do we do it chris markair we are at i am very pleased that we are here with his -- we are here at ced. i am very pleased that we're here with this crew. we need to get a handle on what it is that students and unemployed workers, what skills they need to have, and how it can be done cheaply, but a fairly quick programming. and then, can we work with community colleges, not letting the bad ones get in the way, but trying to find those common grounds both on the education side and on the private sector side, creating these short-term skill enhancement programs that make people better able to fit into these jobs. i do not pretend that is an easy task, but if we are in this economic crisis, and if it is really true that we have the skill shortages, should that not give some urgency around doing something like this? >> carl, what is your take on a from the private sector perspective? when you finish the situation would not fill the position is that your name? do you think that martin is on the right track? >> several days. we have a very schizophrenic set up policies. we do not have an

what are your views? are you with us?ler: i am saw him come out, lock up to the microphone -- out, walk up to the microphone, and i heard him say that he would bring back the troops that he sent there. he added 30,000 troops and now he's talking about pulling back 10,000 troops. really, pretty much just pulling back the surge. to me, that looks like no progress in any direction. it's two steps forward and two steps back towards. host: what do you think about and in combat operations in 2013? caller: has afghanistan ever been able to take care of itself? probably not. they grow poppies. they do not have a civil society. we tried to build a nation and we have to keep in mind that every dollar we spend over there, 42 cents is borrowed from the chinese, the japanese, opec, and everyone else willing to throw money in our treasury box. host: back to the article in "the new york times." "2012 worries military experts" is the headline, but here's the rest of it. host: john is a democrat in venice, florida. your reaction to the pr

when you are building a building, you are applying a load and you are wondering if the earth will be able to supply that load. we work closely together and we come up with practical engineering solutions. >> this is when someone wants to build something. also, we have a rock piece of land. we have to have a resolution. >> in the u.s., about 2/3 of the population lives in areas that are prone to landslides. about $2 billion of damage occurs annually from landslides. unfortunately, 20-25 million people die as a result of landslides o. >> much of the coastline is either a bright red or a beige print th. >> here we are at the base of telegraph hill on lombard street. this is owned by the city. behind you is a large piece of something exposed. you are looking at a large class that was xextricated in a quarry about hundred years ago. this is a secretive sandstones, shales, accumulated debris. essentially it ended up piled up here. the quarry activity was so intense and they used some much at dynamite that the kind of over blasted. 10 feet of the face was left shattered. you can see the fre

i have friends who are doing it, who are writing 10 stories a day just to get by. at the same time, the proliferation does make it very difficult for one small site to exist, right? our strategy in the old days was to align ourselves with a big media company -- cbs. we align ourselves with yahoo! in some way and with ail -- aol in another way. you need the types of connections with more established or at least larger players in order to survive. the other reason is that the proliferation of sites has caused a change in the way people get their news. no longer do they just go to what we call destination sites, which was essentially a newspaper online. they are getting their news on facebook and google and bing and search engines. to be out there in that news sphere, you have to have different ways of attacking a and having connections and distribution arrangements. >> i would like to add that proliferation of new sites creates more demand for content, which creates more opportunity for professional writers. before you think about going into news as a business as an

well, we are glad you are here. thank you, glad to be here. and we are glad you got the appropriate help. so, jane, given all these sets of circumstances, what do parents, really, in terms of beginning to assess a young lady or a young man in their home, what do they need to know? how do they... what signs do they need to look for? that is a really good question, and i think all of the parents who are out there viewing this program are wondering, "what can i do to increase the likelihood that my kids don't end up with problems that lead to suicide, depression, or substance use?" i think the most important thing, first of all, is to just be a really good parent and listen. and then, secondly, educate yourself and learn about these things, learn about community resources and work together with other parents, particularly in your schools and your communities, to make sure that all of your kids together are getting what they need to grow up to be healthy and avoid problem behaviors. and when things do surface, i think it is really important for pa

we are real women, we are real republicans, we are here to restore the american dream. i yield back. mrs. mcmorris rodgers: next i'd like to yield to the gentlelady from illinois. mrs. biggert: i thank the gentlelady for having this tonight. mr. speaker, i thank all of the republican women that are here and especially the freshmen because they have brought so much enthusiasm, so much talent, so much intelligence to this body and have really been such a help to us. when i was elected to congress i was the only republican woman to be there and it was kind of lonesome so i thought, well, at least i can be the president, the vice president, the treasurer, the secretary of the freshmen republican women that year. but there was nobody else to be there with me. so i had to do it all alone. but i've been here a long time. this is my 13th year. and to see what's happened and the enthusiasm and what is going on and the changes that are happening is incredible. but i came from a family that, my father was the first to go to college, his parents were -- immigrated from finland even

are talking about people who are unemployed who are losing their health care. so what you saw again yesterday, many people who actually lost their jobs, lost their health care, so they end up in emergency rooms. that is unacceptable in the wealthiest and most powerful country in the world. host: joe tweaks to you, "is medicare so perfect that they cannot be ttinkered with in any way? there are no improvement and no cost savings possible?" guest: we are going to keep medicare as we know it and insure that our seniors have medicare. that's the point. i do not want to see any tinkering with medicare that will lead to what the paul ryan plan wants to do. that is either privatize or provide a voucher for medicare recipients to buy health insurance where they would have to come out of their pockets, hundreds, maybe thousands of dollars to access quality health care. so we need to preserve medicare as it is and make sure that it is there for those who are seniors is sin citizens nowd those who will be very soon. host: next call from texas, herman, a democrat. caller:

you are acting like you are aristocrats. he will not improve the service. improving the quality of drivers, this one happened overnight. thank you. >> are there any members of the public that wish to speak? public comment is closed. why don't we move to adoption without committee reference calendar. >> item 29-35 are considered for immediate and unanimous adoption without reference. they will be acted upon by a single roll call vote. >> would anyone like to sever any of these items? >> item 30. >> same item. >> i will set for item 34. please call the roll on the balance. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. 9 >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> those motions and resolutions are adopted and approved. >> item 30, resolution opposing taxi fare increase under consideration by the municipal transportation agency in the effort to improve taxi service. >> i would like to thank those who came out to testify about this item today. i wanted to make very clear that if you read a resolution, none of us are saying that cab drivers don't deserve to be c

such opportunities are rare, but their impact are profound.now i am working with the pentagon to help ensure the rules they make are smart and wives -- wise, a world in which it will be safer because they are not discharged because of sexual orientation. nothing represents its better than how much the pentagon has embraced the policy change. they are rapidly moving past zero law but was in force. i have seen their efforts. they understand, and they are getting this right. we understand that they march back for a spirited -- backwards. i got to say to president obama something i am happy to be able to say to you tonight publicly. thank you so much, mr. president. we are also very proud of you very good -- of you. given all that he has done and we'll do in the future, i am very proud to introduce our commander in chief, ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states, barack obama. [applause] >> thank you. thank you so much. thank you so much. thank you for continuing to fight for what this country stands for, even after you had to take

we are like a bank except we are nonprofit. we are 501 c 14. we are insured up to 250,000. we build credit. what we do a lot is one-on-one counseling. we are also a part of the bank of san francisco, so we do pay their lending -- payday lending. we help people build up their credit before helping them to get a bigger loan amount. especially people who want to start a small business. credit unions offer micro loans. we do a lot of micro loans up to $50,000. this is -- we check credit. we need a business plan. then we look at the three-year tax return and that statement. we do a lot of home care and mom-and-pop shops. we also do start ups. we asked for approval through documents. we work a lot with people who do not know how to file taxes properly. we are mainly focused in san francisco. we are small. we focus mainly on the tenderloin, chinatown, bayview, visitation. we do a lot of expansion. people start small through the credit union and then want to go to the bank. we know we are limited. we cannot afford to give out a big loan. starting from the credit union, we educate t

are. the problem is that when we are busy with a 35 hour week, other people are concentrating on improving their training, education, investments, manufacturing process. that's how we got backwards. that started in the year 2000. so what are we doing? investment for the future for the next 20 years, and the entire policy that we decided to set up. but investing in nuclear power, it is good for french industry. the decision taken by germany and france means 30 to 45 billion euros they will need in order to replace energy. anyway, we cannot go on like this. we cannot keep on ignoring the rest of the world. the question is that we have to prepare france for the challenges of the 21st century, and also to keep on financing our social model. you see today the questions that are being posted. of course, you have the dead question, but in her to reimburse the debt unique growth. you need savings and unique growth. the interests of the debt is over 40 billion euros a year, every year. and this is

>> they are positive. they are always looking out for people.y are humanitarians, great people to look up to and aspire to be. they, you know, you can -- they -- you can -- they live by example and they totally present themselves as really, really great people. they walk the talk. >> reporter: you are from ireland and had to come to america to see your home country band for the first time? what gives? >> i was too young to see them. the opportunity turned up and i said i would go. >> reporter: it's a source of pride when you hear about them? >> definitely. >> reporter: kind of like the rolling stones of america. what brings you out on this cool tuesday morning? >> i have always loved u-2. they are a great band. the music is classic. they live by example. they set a great example for the rest of us. they are wonderful guys. >> reporter: you shouldn't have. that's lovely. >> i know. i know. >> reporter: have you ever thrown flowers to him before? >> i handed them to him in the early '90s. i went to so many of those shows. i started bringing sunflo

who are the rebels? we are not sure who they are either. they may be extremists, they may be patriots, they may be a democratic philosophy. we have no idea. i'd ask for another minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time haexpired. ms. ros-lehtinen: the gentleman has an additional 30 seconds. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for 30 seconds. mr. poe: we don't know who the rebels are. they may be worse than omar gaddafi, isn't that a lovely situation, if they take control. we replace an oppressive regime with an extremist radical regime. that's all because we are in a war that was unauthorized by this congress, cut off all funds, vote against this resolution. that's just the way it is. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from california. mr. berman: i'm pleased to yield two minutes to a gentleman of the opposite view of this issue than i have, the gentleman from ohio, mr. kucinich. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. kucinich

there we are. my question to you is can you confirm that this is also the position of the commission? and secondly, sorry, as time is pressing, shall you propose these changes on the emergency mechanism to the next european council in june in two weeks? >> i want to confirm that all the ideas put forward by the commissioner have of course my full support and involvement. i will not repeat what he said. regarding the esm, we are now on the process of establishing that. i think they will very soon agree on that. i hope that the european council, that there will be a political decision confirming the decision regarding the european stability mechanism. and you know what our position is. and the european commission for many years, including one of my predecessors, has put forth the idea of the euro bond. others have not accepted. when we had the crisis with greece, it was not rejected by a number of the member states. there is some progress in coming to consider several options and the commission could

newer homes are highly insulated. question of how you prioritize our expenditures for green building i'm curious to know how and where insulation fit necessary this prioritization chart. yew are right older homes and some people it's a cultural and a lifestyle what you are accustomed to doing much the very first home i was inlated as a weatherization contractor as we were leaving the house the gentlemen said, he must have been in his 70's and said, this is great now i can turn on the furnace. he never used the heat because he knew he was wasting money. now that we insulated his sealing and floors. >> probably wore a sweater. >> what i see a lot of in san francisco is in older house us that don't have insulation in the walls, that you are talking about the condensation of moisture. if you have an empty wall cavity and have air through leaks in the walls than more around old windows the moist air can condense in the wall cavity itself and cause mold to grow where you can't see it. you wonder what the problem is and peop

we are a community. when we realize and move in the direction of being a human's and having this human experience, connecting together, really be each other's keeper, then san francisco begins to drive. i also learned through the endorsement process -- you go through this process to get endorsed from different popes -- different folks, or no endorsement. having a broad base. we have a choice of voting in san francisco. there were 21 candidates. no clear front-runner. no major person with a heavy political experience. no person that carried the heavy downtown interest or big business. you had a lot of candidates on an even keel. what i felt quickly was the strategy to being successful was to build coalitions, and also to approach your communication in a multi land will approach. in my district, it is one of the most ethnically diverse parts of san francisco. we incorporated that. my campaign team was diverse. i had seniors. i had young people. i had different types of volunteers. i had folks that could sp