and i forced it. wh i was there. there has not been 1 cents. one since. i forced it. we lost. but we had the debate. we went for the right solution. youle up here will tell there are for that, but will they push the debate? will they have the vote? will they take it to the american people? one way you can tell how convicted they are as when they go to the states and fight it with a fight is? i will. i did. i came to iowa last year. i campaigned here in iowa against the three supreme court justices to delivered same-sex marriage to iowa. and i will come back, no matter what i will come back and make sure that onot only do we defeat those justices, but we go to every state. why? because if we do not, then one by one these little stes or judicial opinions will come down, and the supreme court will say that we cannot have all these different definitions of marriage, just like they did with abortion. it is the same game plan. so when people stand up and say, i am for marriage but i will not do anything about the states because of the 10th amendment. the 10th amendment does not allo

and i forced it. when i was there. there has not been 1 cents. one since. i forced it. we lost. but we had the debate. we went for the right solution. youle up here will tell there are for that, but will they push the debate? will they have the vote? will they take it to the american people? one way you can tell how convicted they are as when they go to the states and fight it with a fight is? i will. i did. i came to iowa last year. i campaigned here in iowa against the three supreme court justices to delivered same-sex marriage to iowa. and i will come back, no matter what i will come back and make sure that onot only do we defeat those justices, but we go to every state. why? because if we do not, then one by one these little states or judicial opinions will come down, and the supreme court will say that we cannot have all these different definitions of marriage, just like they did with abortion. it is the same game plan. so when people stand up and say, i am for marriage but i will not do anything about the states because of the 10th amendment. the 10th amendment does not al

i would like to explain what you meant by "expeditionary force." and also, i think what we are looking at as we look forward to a 10-year budget, what will force look like in the year 2020? those are the discussions we have been having with the secretary panetta, as well as the new chief. if you could proceed accordingly. >> congresswoman, the first question, concerning "expeditionary," what that means is a couple of things. number one, we would not be relying on a tough political access being provided by somebody else. we are capable of operating in an austere environment. when we come from someplace, we come with the water, fuel, supplies that our sailors need to accomplish the mission. and with regard to the today's forces today, as i alluded to in my opening statement, physical presence matters. it matters for a couple of reasons. number one, it shows a sign of our economic and military commitment to a particular region. it deters potential adversaries and ensures our friends. as you start moving up the range of military operations, it also allo

that is, you'll see that there is a family vacancy on the task force. i was on the task force over two years ago. i was the family representative. i was told after a while -- i cannot make some of the meetings because i was watching my daughter, that i would have to leave the task force. after this, it has not been filled. the family position has been open for two and half years. it you need to consider the interest of the people that live there, the business owners that work there, where there at night and during the day. it is very important to us. we want to see growth in all areas. thank you. >> get afternoon, commissioners. jeremy paul. and want to echo my support for entertainment uses and wanted to bring up something that is lacking in this plan. the existing entertainment spaces are largely non- conforming uses, non-complying with the zoning. that means that if those buildings ceased to exist, then that use goes away. that used does not continue with the site. many of our most valuable entertainment resources in the district are in, generously spe

to today's crisis with today's force today. first, i would like you to explain what you meant by the expeditionary force. also, tell me -- you're talking about today's crisis with today's force today, but as we look at a 10-year budget, what is the force to look like in the year 2020? buzzer discussions we have been having with secretary panetta -- those are discussions we have been having with secretary panetta as well as the new chief. >> the first question concerns expeditionary. number one, we would not be relied on political actions provided by somebody else. if we needed to go someplace, naval forces are uniquely capable of being able to do that. we're capable in operating in an austere environment. wycombe with the water and fuel supplies that our marines and sailors need. in general terms, that is what we mean by expeditionary. by what we mean by today's forces today, the physical presence matters. number one, it absolutely shows a sign of our economic and military commitment to a particular region. it perturbs potential adversa

i welcome, from my colleagues. as it relates to finding 6, when it says previous effort from the city to include work force policy, that seems a bit of a generic statement. i'm just curious. i could ask olse as well when we hear that, what are the work force policies? it seems to be a bit of a generic statement. this is not applying to local hire because it does not apply to hunters point. supervisor campos: before we take action on this item, why don't we provided another opportunity for members of the public that would like to speak on this item before action is taken. is there anyone from the public that would like to comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, again, we have two findings and two recommendations, and based on the comments that have been made, it seems wary are with respect to finding 5, seems to be disagreement, but agreement on the recommendation relating to that finding, which is recommendation six. with respect to finding 6, recommendation 7, there seems to be disagreement on that. if we could entertain a motion along those lines, president chiu? supervisor chiu:

i am the project director from the office of economic work force and development. -- chair avalos. i have a power point presentation that will give the overview of the broad event and plans, but also, the remarks from the chair more -- resonate in terms of the promise to deliver economic benefits. as you noted, it is very much a challenge to take models we have in different sectors and put them together in a way that hopefully addresses the full range of opportunities in the america's cup events. we will be doing that in a way that hopefully augment, enhances, brings forward legacy is that can help the city move forward and deliver on these benefits on a more permanent basis for its residences and businesses. quickly, i'm going to a brief event overview, talk about the america's cup economic strategy, which really encompasses, as you noted, the over $1 billion in economic activity, how we are looking at that. in more direct places that we can influence and direct activity, and a more indirect opportunities we have to bring those benefits to san francisco. from there we will move tow

today's crisis with today's force today. first iwould like you to explain what you meant by the expeditionary force and also tell me you're talking about today's crisis but what we are looking at as we look at the ten year budget, what is the fourth to look like in the year 2020? those are discussions we have been having with secretary panetta as well as the new chief. if you could proceed accordingly. >> first question concerned expeditionary. what that means is a couple things. we wouldn't be reliant on political access provided by somebody else. if we need to go someplace naval forces are uniquely capable of doing that. we are capable of operating in an austere environment. when we come some place we come with water and fuel and supplies that are marines and sailors need to accomplish the mission. so that is what we mean by expeditionary. with regards to today's forces as diluted to in my opening statement physical presence matters for a couple reasons. it shows a sign of our economic and military commitment to a particular regio

replacement for jp-8 and that's where we're headed with regards to capturing the big rock for the air force. >> tom. >> i think that's another exciting area for the navy as well. we work closely together with the navy and air force. we're working -- we're also working with usda and d.o.e. to accelerate the alternative fuels industry in this country, really aligning for that first- time kind of farmer to producer to consumer and driving toward a market where these fuels are not only available at scale, but also at a price point we can all absorb and use. so that's a big area for us. >> katherine. >> the s&ríarmy is a ground-ba land-based platform, not jets or ships, but the land in which our soldiers are basedded, and so we are looking -- >> more geographically disbursed? >> alternative energy and renewable energy resources whether they be wind and we've seen the cost for those kind of technologies being driven down by the adaptation in the united states. so we're really excited about the renewable energy potential, and we've got the land and then we've got the demand for energy. so we're looking to the

rather than a system that currently is built for a conscript force. i think that is a huge issue out there when it comes to readiness that we have to look at. but my fear is that we will might do this in a balanced way. whatever size force we have at the end has got to be modernized, well-trained, and maintained. that is absolutely critical. and besides shrinking our force, the real mistake we have made in the past is to take some kind of solace in the fact that, from the army standpoint, we maintain at hueneme.ucture tha it was the modernization of that force and the training of that force that got them into trouble. that is what caused the 40% casualty. i just ask that, as we look at this, that we do so with that 3- assessed at the top about early on, force structure, modernization, and training and maintaining that forced and ensure that, whatever size the army is at the end of this thing, that it is a well- trained, modernize force that can do with the nation asks it to do. >> i firmly believe that america is a maritime nation, faced by two oceans a

supervisor campos: i did not know if there's anything to fear from the mayor's office of work- force and development. to go good morning. office of economic and workforce development an interim director for the development agency. and if we could have the power point, i think it would be helpful to consolidate our answers jointly from both departments in group them. the first launch of findings and recommendations were related to continuing redevelopment in light of the state's plan for realignment. and as was indicated, we do agree -- supervisor campos: do you have a copy of the presentation? >> there should be a copy for the members of the public and for each of the supervisors. four members of the public, there are candidates available here. -- there are available copies here. and we certainly do agree with the civil grand jury's recommendation six. we should have contingency plans in place, and we have already implemented those plans in partnership with the board and the mayor. we do disagree the city in redevelopment have been not indicated anything as far as how we will continue

i became a whistleblower in shortly there after i was forced out of my job. two years ago we made three whistle-blower complaints to the ethics commission, and i would like to tell you about each of them. the first one involves a conflict of interest between a contractor and the department of public health. two years went by before we took matters into our own hands and covered the dr. john had received a $1.9 million contract from the comptroller's office and the department of public health, but his wife, high-level department of health manager had written and was intimately involved with. after sending numerous memos to the comptroller's office and ethics commission, the contract was revoked and the city save $400,000. then we reported the gift fund, a charitable trust for patients that was plundered by the book could haunt the administration to pay for staff amenities. -- by the lagunahonda hospital administration to pay for amenities. last week, we complained to ethics about the financial relationship between the health director, and another for-profit con

i. forced to settle for second place overall after missing the podium on the thursday night came and took to michoud as compared to a loan of a finishing just outside the top three in fourth place as well. russian athletes have never worn in the limpet medal in the triathlon a sport introduced to the modern games in sydney back in two thousand a bronze medal is now the official target set for the management team for london twenty twelve and my course of match up with one man who's totally proven he's got the pedigree to reach that goal. this is oversold this season was very successful for me i reached the podium three times at the world series i want to stage of the european cup and the championship of russia i think that's a decent result unfortunately because of cramp i was unable to win a medal at the finals of the world series. alexander brief on cough as one of russia's two triathletes who are currently in the world's top ten and there are hopefuls to win and the olympic gold you place in the london one called the latest major success was in august when he won silver at the world ser

. >> for the last couple of days, what might only be a handful of pro grada if i forces are keeping everybody pinned down here in the center of sirte. they're occupying a tall building just on the other side of the park there. and until they're removed and the fighting is over, there's no way anybody can declare the battle of sirte finished. imagine being a civilian caught up in all of this. this is the mensa family from ghana. george a factory technician. his wife and children were in the thick of it, trapped in their flat for days. >> it's so horrible. they will be shot and bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb. even this one, just 2 months old now. >> then this afternoon, chaos on the front line. balances screaming back along sirte's main street. at least 0 transitional government fighters -- 20 transitional government fighters hit. the battle for this city isn't over yet. "bbc news," sirte. >> the united nations says that 3,000 people have been killed in syria in these seven months of protest against the rule of alassad. the u.n. has also claimed that there are risks that the situation in syria ma

i served as the art task force that presented to you in 2006 and in that process we looked at the various programs and specifically the 1% art on site program and made recommendations that i believe all of which are included in the recommendations and the amendments from the planning commission. and i want to applaud the planning department for actually getting the arms around this great program. back in 2006 when we asked to see the benefit of the program and we know what art we have and a program that supports our artists and supports the public in viewing of the art and to make that experience available. and the art task force strongly recommended expanding the program citywide and in the south and why they were not able to have those experiences in their neighborhood and the addition of expanding beyond the c3 district and support a city wide program for any of the large-scale projects will help ebbing panhandle that areas and especially in residential allowing for the option of the contribution to create art spaces and for performance in the areas where there is large public space to

i have concerns about the president pulling the surge forces out early. i think we're going to be able to keep them in the fight through most of this year, which will be helpful. but next year, the other 20,000, he has said that he wants them out by september, which means they will pull out while they are still in the middle of the fighting season. i am concerned about that. hopefully, that gives us almost a year from now till then, to get the afghans more solid in their ability to carry out operations themselves. so, maybe they can fill in some of that gap. that is what i am hoping. >> we have a little bit more than five minutes left. go ahead. >> as the pentagon said that, when secretary panetta testifies next week, that he will be able to provide some details on where they're going to cut some of these programs? >> i had a meeting with him, with adam smith, the top democrat on the committee. it was a couple of weeks ago. we were all, by the way, in agreement that the $465 billion was as far as we could go, that it would be tough working that and being a

forces from iraq. that is going to happen. with afghanistan i am fully confident the president of the united states is committed to ensuring we transition our combat forces out of there by 2014. we just have to do this right. what i don't want to happen and we need to be concerned about is if we do this in the wrong way, if we do it so fast that afghanistan fall apart again and becomes a safe haven for the taliban or al qaeda and we are subject to attacks again, the world is going to look at us and say how could you let that happen? that is what i am trying to prevent. to do this but do it responsibly. >> i would like to answer that for the record. >> mr. kline. >> congratulations on your appearance in your new roles. i want to thank you for your comments about responsibly disengaging from afghanistan. we have many of our sons and daughters. it would be a terrible disservice for them to serve with no chance of succeeding as well as an incredible danger to our own country. thank you for that. i want to congratulate you on your announcement about

i can assure you that sustaining the all volunteer force and the men and women that so ably serve oureart of whatever we do. i look forward to your questions. thank you. >> thank you for this opportunity to present our views on military retirement concerns. we are grateful to the committee for standing up as champions both now and in the past to ensure military retirement incentives remain commensurate with the extraordinary demands of career service. the primary purpose of military retirement package is to induce toys of all the people to serve multiple decades under conditions few americans are willing to endure for even one term. after a decade of war in which career service members deploy time after time after time, with ever-increasing of coming home a changed person, we find it shocking insensitive that some now seek to curtail their retirement package to make it more like civilian workers. these are the primary incentives that have sustained the career force in peace and war. we are very concerned the recent proposals are aimed mainly at achieving budget savings, with scant reg

i filed the sunshine complaint. the supervisor in question ignored the task force. i would go and sit and do my homework and we would be called and i would be there, and the supervisors representative did not show up. finally after nasty letters from the task force, they did show up and said about the deleted thing and the task force said you should not have deleted them, and you did not believe them, because you can go to the court and get them back, so why don't you do that? from that fit was a bad deal. as i was there i noticed there was not the only one showing up. i remember saying how can this be? how can the city on every page of the website say we were right? he said something very telling, and it applies to previous remarks about being resource- wrapped. it it really was just being resources-wrapped, they would better serve the public by saying we know what the obligation is, we will get to it, but it may not be as quickly and timely or as the row as either one of us look like. perhaps you should look at alternative legal remedies. instead they did not say a

that's one of the biggest efforts is literacy training in the police force and in the army. i mean, how could you have a professional police force if they cannot read and write and they cannot understand the rule of law. they don't understand how to even write down someone's name or things like that. so we have a huge effort underway to improve literacy. improve professionalism, try to train the non-commission officers, training the officers because it's not just about recruiting people, but about having them here. >> how big ultimately should the forces be? what are the right numbers that are sustainable for them? they are the ones that have to pay for it. >> that is the question we are working through right now. we agree. that is required to do the transition as you talked about. the transition of nato and the international security forces in afghanistan to transition the lead of security in afghanistan. you need it as we see the reduction of the u.s. and the coalition forces. once you go through that transition period and you go through the national elections, everything el

think to force an opera i think that's that's that's a bridge too far i don't know that anybody can force an uprising i think a lot i think i think most of the world myself included would love to see an uprising in iraq against did the job the us certainly always really is all or all americans all westerners most of the people on earth would like to see that be done i don't think anybody thinks it can be done when israel tried to do it that's a huge project i think that i don't know i wouldn't i don't see that israel is is has some hidden have you tried to leave the prize reform as an uprising get stuck with you it's too big a job all right. it's obvious or that's all the time we have for today but thank you very much for coming on the program. parents of children in russia who have a debilitating genetic disorder have another battle to fight out of access to the treatment that can prolong their young ones lives as also as oksana boyko reports that medicine is available in russia but just not for everyone. for most parents there is hardly anything more sickening than seeing their ch

was going to retain these combat-experienced leaders. >> first off, i think you're right, we have the best combat- tested leadership force we've had in a very long time. there's a couple of things we have to do. first, i have to develop a leader development program that allows them to be even broader than we are now. we require so much more of our young people today and i think if we understand we're going to broaden their capabilities, it will excite them. we also tell them that we need you to help us to develop a future army. the captains and majors of today are the ones who develop the concepts and the capabilities that we have to have in the future. i need your experience. >> they're shaping you now through the network integration. >> exactly. so they need to shape us and we need them to do that. so it's important that they take the mantle of now leading us in 2020 and beyond of the type of military we have, and we need our best, and we need our most experienced, and we need our combat-tested leaders to lead us through this in the next few years. >> how are you, though, in a time of declining resources, obviously tra

i tried to get better jobs, in restaurants. 80 years after this i got the opportunity to work for this task force. so i had no idea what this was. people know that in spanish. i decided i would take a risk and that i would do this. i was first and -- after a while, the company went out of business and i lost my place. and i became homeless after that. and now, i did not work for a couple of years. i started to go to the conditional homelessness, to do whatever i can just do -- i think that -- i have a lot of experience with talking with people, -- >> i could not see this on your present day. he speaks spanish fluently? i know that you live in oakland. a new volunteer in san francisco. do you work in san francisco? >> i am working down to the city -- >> do you think that you'll be challenged in doing many of the visitations, because you do not work in san francisco? thank you very much. thank you for applying. mr. petty is not going to be here. next we have deborah, -- >> supervisors, i have spoken in front of you before but i will go over what it is -- >> did you speak at the last rules committee

i look forward to this task force coming together before us. but i think it is urgent that we move on this and have something in place by july 1. supervisor chu: thank you. just on the item itself, i would say what concerns me overall about this proposal, and i have talked to advocates about this, is the fact that i do not see what the festival -- what the sustainable funding source is on an ongoing basis. i understand, from the departments and from the advocates, that they hope that this will be a priority if you have to read prioritize within a restraint budget, that this would be something people would want to support and would continue to support through the years. if there are folks that come in today senior funded as last year so you definitely have to find us this year, i do not think those are the statements being made, but it is a statement saying we think it is important to fund this, and we would try to figure out what happened the following year. i am going to be supportive of this at this time, but i do continue to have reservations

a free hug only blair and gave up his weapons of mass destruction the moral is the international forces i should say to national forces because all around the world is being viewed very differently nato and our allies and those in the us or germany will say will be saying look if you don't have the b.m.d. we will we will contravene any internet or we will use whatever means necessary for our economic interest just finally see it's a transitional government interim government when do you expect to see elections conducted in libya under the banner of democracy. they said two years i think we're already seeing rather dangerous problems occurring in egypt at the moment as the united states seeks to show some power there. be no doubt that the americans and european powers will be desperate to ensure the elections go the right way they have for more than this of course because they didn't allow algeria to have free elections so those elections two years i don't know where it takes two years organize elections in libya i guess population a country that's the population of london maybe maybe it's

i found that she was not the only one. she was forced fed with water that contained needles and nails. ccp means terror and painful memories to me. i asked them why it was there. the lady denied that it was a flag. i hope you will do something to prevent this kind of thing from happening. thank you. >> good evening. i am working in san francisco. some days ago, i heard that some residents -- the drowning of a a body. the flight can lead to orders for me and have treated me with a lot of painful memories. i was 16 years old when my mom was arrested because she practiced. without it, she was imprisoned with the labor camps. the first time was two months after she was debriefed. i just saw her three times over the next year. i could not focus on my school work at all. i will see my mom again. some of my mom's friends were beaten to death. in i kept thinking if my mom was going through the torture to. i heard about some other practitioners. the second time i saw her was seven months later. that was the first time i found that is a mother's l

stands for justice neutrality culture and civilization and this force stepped onto the international stage to stand equal to western power i personally believe that the future belongs to the east to russia and china it is a crucial moment in history. when a new force has emerged to say to the west you are wrong and the west is definitely wrong because its leader share a colonialist attitude not only regarding syria but toward the entire region. what do you think the international community will do next. i don't think the international community has many options the new force supporting reform and pluralism in syria has appeared in the international arena that's the path we follow the majority of laws that should have been passed are now adopted work to amend the constitution is underway we're moving forward towards reform employer alyson the problem is that some states fund and arm terrorist groups operating in our towns and villages this makes ordinary people's lives very difficult and puts them in real danger the position of the western countries encourages these terrorist groups. he recently visited moscow and the russi

dying there are more casualties civilian and military than any time in the ten years since foreign forces. i have been in afghanistan and also the afghan national army and its police forces are not ready to take over you have a twenty four percent just certain rate in the afghan national army now the united states is letting contracts to american contractors to build up barracks in various air bases around the country and she and dad in the in the west perhaps to watch for air flights over iran in mazar sharif in the north to perhaps watch former soviet central asian republics in kandahar in the southeast perhaps watch pakistan the united states has not had any intention i do not believe to leave in the short term there are many who feel that they have to surround iran perhaps soft containment of china nato and its allies i don't think are ready to leave this very volatile region united states does not want pakistan to try and make afghanistan a satellite it's a very complicated very dangerous area and i do think that u.s. forces will be there for a very long time now as i promised for the b

i was mainly asked how could i protect women's rights without appearing on satellite channels to defend. me who was allegedly tortured and killed by syrian security forces i have no doubt that yousafzai not al hosni on t.v. and confirmed she was safe and sound so all the rumors about her were a lie today lies in the media have gone beyond common sense some arab television channels have lost all shame and professionalism but the almighty allah shows them what they are doing thanks to allah the truth speaks for itself every day. something delays of the u.n. gives them as leaders time to improve things in the country will the midges presence across the country be peeled back on the we would mind of a security forces mission ended today do you know what i heard from my relatives in homs who phoned me at eleven pm last night they said fifty five people representing different religious communities had been kidnapped in just one day there abducting people of various creeds in order to sow sectarian hatred in homes and what are we as a responsible government expected to do to safeguard the security of citizens what would you do in our place would you just aband

he's got a gun. >> deputy wallace maneuvers his vehicle to get the suspect off the road. >> and i forcedto the ditch area with my vehicle. >> off camera, deputy comit rams the suspect and his car is immobilized. but the driver won't wave the white flag. he pulls out his gun and starts blasting. >> i see deputy comit engage frenzer in gunfire. we were all screaming for him to put the gun down. we could see the gun. the gun was pointed in our direction. >> i know deputy wallace, warden perry and myself had fired rounds. it was undetermined whose round killed frenzer at that time. >> after a heated exchange of fire, driver rudolf frenzer is killed at the scene. but the officers are all fine. authorities find guns, money and masks in the suspect's car confirming his link to the bank robbery. the two other suspects who left the getaway car are both arrested in the days that follow. steven willard jr. is sentenced to 70 months in prison for the robbery while robert mccallie gets 12 years for the dairyland bank robbery and for robbing another bank in the area. >> it's not until afterwards the s