we understand this and are beginning to understand this in var yis levels. so why is this useful? evolution is conservative. once we work out how a biological problem is solved the chances are components of it are going to be conserved. so this is going to provide background knowledge for understanding the human brain. a second point is that in order to make advances we need technological developments. and i think it's fair to say that we've never been in a better position in terms of technological developments than we are right now. when i began in neuroscience a mere 55 years ago we recorded from oneell at a time, now we can record from several hundred cells at the same time. this is necessary but not sufficient. we can also ask how are they interconnected. how do they control behavior. we can activate certain patterns of neurons and others we can inhibit certain cells and ask what is the consequences of question javier. this is a very powerful set of methodologies. not only do we have physical logical methodologies but wonderful anatomical methodologies to see how the nerve cel

i'm trying to understand because i don't feel that i have enough information in front of me to understand exactly what happened, what is the difference between then and now, number one. number two, in terms of the minimum staffing requirement, does the overtime that is being requested exceed the overtime that has been issued over the course of what is required for the minimum staffing requirement? and has that been looked at by your office? >> supervisor farrell: ms. campbell first. >> i'll respond to the supplemental appropriation. we based our numbers on the reasonably expected increases over the end of the year. >> based on minimum staffing requirements? >> looking at supplemental we were looking at the average spending per pay period per overtime, accounting for the fact that there were holidays coming up between that day and the end of the year. >> supervisor breed: i want to be clear. you don't take into account minimum staffing requirement so that over time does not exceed the minimum staffing requirement? >> yes we did. we looked at the number of ftes the expositions they have to

is that understand?r honor. >> i will be giving you a further instruction on this shortly, but i did want to go over this since it's very important. i'm sure you've talked with your attorneys about this, but do you understand that you have -- that you are waiving your right to a jury trial by entering a plea? that you're waiving your right to confront witnesses against you, that you're waiving the right to compulsory process of obtaining witnesses in your favor? that you're waiving -- well, that you're waiving the right to require the state to prove your guilt beyond a reasonable doubt at a trial? and do you understand that you cannot be compelled to testify against yourself? do you understand you're giving up all of those specific rights by entering a plea? >> i do, your honor. >> okay. i will talk with you about those further. mr. castro, how old are you, sir? >> 33 years oltd. >> how far did you go in school? >> 12th grade. i graduated from high school. >> which is near your house? >> yes. >> and as y

it is the case that sba works with these organizations to try to help small businesses understand how to get credit and fine tools to be able to do that. sba programs cover a wide range, and i will talk about this range of lending and the kinds of things we do, but in many ways, we do not do it alone. we do it with partners, and that is the takeaway message, the sba lending activity, while would guarantee loans through a number of lenders, we do it with a lot of other partners as well. let me give a little bit of a sense of what the small business administration does and is. we in san francisco covered the bay area and north coast counties, and we do a variety of things. i will come back to the credit card because i know that is what this session is about, but before i do that, there's two other roles we play that are important as well. one is about helping small businesses understand how to start businesses, getting good technical assistance, getting good advice about starting and managing your business. equally important is being prepared for credit. one of the things we tried to do

you need to have someone that understands the city and understands our transit system that knows what's going on and then not having someone costa mesa coming from outside and saying this is what's going on the other end of the country you should take into consideration that as well. also i was supposed to be up for reappointment today but i'm not going to worry about it. it's on the agenda. if i have to wait another month i'll do it or two months but my term ended this month so take it from there thank you very much >> ms. sax you are reappointed to your seat on your u our calendar congratulations. >> thank you very much. >> if there are no other members of the public wishing to commit. public comment is closed. and madam clerk call our next item >> item 25 i will adjournment. >> colleagues we're adjourned. >> now the session. >> commissioner andrews? >> present. >> commissioner renne? sfe. here. >> commissioner hur is excused as is commissioner studley. >> >> first off, any public comments? matters appearing on the agenda or not appearing on the agenda at this time? >> yes. good after

>> my biggest problem is i just don't understand, i just don't understand what that means. it just does not make any sense to me. and i'm looking at this report, and i have reviewed the report, and i feel like the budget analyst is saying, one thing that i do understand, and the da's office is saying something that i don't understand. and it makes sense in terms of what the projection is, based on the salaries, and based on the full staffing and based on what we have over all for the district attorney office. and what i'm saying in terms of if there is a concern for the future, if there was a mistake that was made, which i don't necessarily see or i don't have a clear understanding for the basis of the mistake, then there are positions that have been approved and were obligated as a city to pay for those positions. and i am not seeing or i am not hearing exactly what this means, and operating it as a deficit sounds, so for example, there is potentially an overage for this current fiscal year from the supplemental that was provided to the district attorney's office. and ther

do you understand this? any reason you will be released from prison before you die of natural causes? >> excuse me? >> do you think there is any reason, any hope, you might be getting out of prison before you die? >> i don't think there is any reason, no. >> has anybody ever told thaw the law could change and that you might be released? >> i -- that was one of my concerns with my attorneys. they assured me that nothing is going to change. >> all right. you understand, you will be in prison for life? you don't have the expectation or hope of getting out, is had a clear? >> i do understand that, your honor. >> has anybody told you that people have been released before? has anybody made that presentation to you or given you that hope, expectations? >> i heard it through the media that mr. mcginty was trying to get an inmate out of death row. >> do you understand that will not happen here pursuant to this agreement? >> i do understand, your honor. >> you will not be getting out, is that clear? >> yes. >> underst

i wanted to understand what happened. because this compound came so close to not being made, i wanted to know why was it, how could it be that it was almost shelved. and talk about a couple of what we learned. had never been attempted before. it was risky. if the drug ended up blocking -- as one of the investigators put it to me, that was going to be one sick patient. it was a risk. you don't know what is going to happen when you give it to people. disasters like what happens still hang over the pharmaceutical industry. this was a drug that was supposed to help women cope with pregnancy and ended up deforming their babies. weather that or numerous other instances that happened, nobody wanted an event white that to occur. zimmerman, the chemist who made the compound that eventually would be called lee su but back, you can look at this drug and say wwhy did take so long? why did you risk it? how did you do that which i thought was a fair point. and there were problems. there was a point where the drug for the drug was teste

their understanding of the budget that we are going to vote on tonight? >> commissioner wynns? >> this is a little bit backwards, so this will be i will not need to do the question with the revolution foods i would like to ask this. in answer to the question about revolution foods or the food contracts in general and about the sand f budget i would like to clarify a few things if i could. so, your answers to the questions was really complete about the things that contribute and the specific questions that were asked about ordering verses claiming and the unpaid meal charges, some of these things i am not happy with and as i know that you are not either. with them actually going up. and the things that contribute to the need to have support from the unrestricted general fund. but there are just a couple of things that i want to clarify about that. one is that the fair, you will see the assumptions on which the s, and s, budget for the 13, 14, budget is based about the participation and the food costs and things like that, and so there is a 135,366 dollar p

>> i do understand. >> do you understand that you have the right to an attorney, somebody you pay, or if you can't afford one, that the court will appoint an attorney to represent you at no cost to you? >> ined. >> do you understand that you have the right to summon or subpoena witnesses to appear at the trial and to testify on your behalf under oath? >> i understand. >> in other words, your attorneys could cause court orders to go out and people would be required to come in, they would have to take the witness stand and testify under oath. is that clear? >> yes, it is. >> do you understand you're giving up that right by interesting a plea? that that process lieutenant go forward? >> i do understand. >> do you understand that you have the right to confront and cross-examine witnesses at trial through your respective attorneys? >> yes, i do. >> again, when witnesses came in, they would have the chance to question them, to challenge them, as to their accuracy, their bias, their memory, all types of things. but you're giving up that right by entering a plea. is that clear? >> yes, it is

the other is understanding the online/offline. we had alonzo coming in and speaking to us, they don't understand the impact, it's not enough for me to say we're going to do a workshop or a campaign, a poster thing, it's really about how do we change the culture of a community and a people and it's not just a one-off. >> what does it take? >> the thing about changing the environment again, changing the social norms, it helps to understand there are primarily about 5 different ways we can influence and warm the climate of a school or community, students being one, families and parents, staff, policies and young people themselves. if we can understand that strategickly, sort of get down out of the big conversation and look at ways how do we, as you said, educate the educators, make sure they receive the education and understand that relationships are as important as the classroom can urriculum, especially at the secondary level, continue to hammer out policies that are not so punitive but restore we want to connect to correct. we don

i understand callers may differ about whether we need to address that.i do think that the point of this regulation is to address public policy concern about ambush advertising. the fact of the matter then he supervisor supervisor myself, others we do have an issue when we have evidence about whether we want to have aerial flying with advertising that we have no ability to regulate. i think that is something we should consider. this legislation is only in effect until the end of september. we're really talking about just that over the next couple of weeks through the end of the america's cup season of being able to regulate that. let me also make it clear the amendment that i've offered, which as you can imagine was crafted by the city attorney, s i proposed to minimize any if there is legal risk and that to minimize legal risk. if there's a concern that somehow we might be moving into uncharted territory vis-à-vis federal preemption issues were trying to do with this amendment is to make sure that we deal with those issues as best we can. my hope and my

there was an understanding. i'm a lawyer, so i know the contracts dealing with real property should be in writing and there were not. the lawyers are unavailable and don't have records that we have been able to find. we have looked, i assure you. but there doesn't seem to be anything. as an equitable matter what we are were hearing from the project applicant that this is only fair and we are trying to do something and we just wanted to show the equities are all within the neighborhood and that is all in good faith that has not been shown by the permit holder. that was the point that we wanted to corroborate it since there was a dispute. thank you. >> comments? >> i too don't see a lot different from the last time, although i do believe that i voted against this project on the previous hearing. my thoughts are that there was some type of agreement that was made between the permit holder and the neighboring property holders. otherwise the dr would not have been removed that easily. i do see that there is some new

understanding growing into petition misguiding. everybody to discuss. but we will continue this heated conversation right after the break. what if china were a military superpower on par with the united states what kind of world would be lifting what china put in to check washington's appetite for unilateral military action and manipulation of the global economy or would we witness another cold war where both beijing and washington maintained a chilly the relatively peaceful world. sigrid lumber tour. was able to build most sophisticated robots which fortunately doesn't give a dollar amount anything mission to teach creation why it should care about humans . this is why you should care only. i would rather ask questions for people in positions of power instead of speaking on their behalf and that's why you can find my show larry king now right here on r.t. question more. news . welcome back to worlds apart this is a man who dedicated his entire career to preaching tolerance and reconciliation and by this time his space. was already wearing his the head

school board's perspective and i understand it a little bit more. i want to make sure that my colleagues understand the importance and value of this cpac appointments as well. so, like where she has been on for ten years, and well, i guess that she could not be on for ten years because she would have been six years if she was doing her last three years. >> i am an organizizer parent and i have been a cpac member for more than ten years now. >> that is very confusing. >> i was appointed by supervisor sophie maxwell. >> is there a time sensitive nature to these appointments. so we need to get it done, tonight? >> so just to speak to so it was back in i believe it was 2007, 2008, i apologize to not bringing a copy of the bi laws with me. they redid them and that is when there were set term limits and so story was on for longer. and that was prethe bi laws and setting the term limits. >> i think what it was she had a different slot. i think that once it was a consumer and then she became the community member. because there are different slots. but i thi

we were not... >> i understand that, but you know, the west field representative indicated that they were aware of this operation the minute that they started over a year ago. >> and i am wondering if they were aware of the authorization and then they must have had a position as to whether they accepted it or did not accept it. >> our understanding of the situation was at the time was that we would have this opportunity to take issue with the renewal of the permit. because we knew that it had to be renewed at a particular date. >> perhaps that was misreading, it is going through a set of revisions as you know and thes not a common place but it is not sort of old hat as a lot of other processes and we were very surprised when dpw said that they would not accept our protest of the renewal of the permit. we had understood that we would have another opportunity to address the issue, and that is why we waited, although, you know, honestly it was already going, so the point was that it has to be renewed and we will come forward. >> did anyone from dpw, are you finished? >> did anyone from

idea that the kingdom of saudi arabia is propose getting certain understand and i understand your answer because obviously your going to zation is headquarter them dead there but the big all this is my conviction i don't see any policy guidelines of the saudis to propose to promote any understanding i think the i have been experience nine years of second didn't have one day there interfering in our first particular from this point of view this is i don't actually know any i think race and islamic longers this is your own ideas about a number of really am there are also some experts who would. at the moment there is a whole battle being waged for the heart and soul of islam and how islam is defined not only within the muslim community but outside those very different and conflicting interpretations of islam are actually engaged in that battle and my question to you is where do you standard that battle because here we just that there are some more egalitarian versions of islam some are more radical but there they are in a competition of each other to define what is perceived as islam aroun

and but i don't understand, i don't understand anything other than that. >> and i appreciate the points that you are raising. the concern that we have is that we are going into a budget that we know that if we have no salary savings, we would be at a deficit, right? i don't believe that that is a good business model. >> so it is salary savings. >> it is 270 would entail that as people leave, that we would not be backfilling certainty, two positions and whether at that time of year that will occur. and the one of the things that we try to do is that we try to perhaps reach an agreement that we met somewhere in the middle, you know, somewhere in the midway here and that was not possible. and the budget analyst refused to reduce... >> and we believe, that it is just not wise for us to say that we are okay with this reduction, and understanding that it would be under funding or currents. >> mr. chairman, and members of the committee, you heard the district attorney state that he is acknowledging that a portion of our cut is correct. he is saying that there could be a compromise, we compromi

and at the staff level we really understand these concerns and think it's really important that all of our service and fare policies are sensitive to the needs of seniors and needs of people with disabilities. title six however is not the right policy tool for that. it's very specific and narrowly focused and i think it's important that we sort of acknowledge the limitations of it as a tool to understand these issues. in terms of next steps if you approve these policies today all future fare and service equity analysis will use these definitions including any dialogue we have around service increases or decreases or fare increases or decreases as part of the upcoming budget dialogue they anticipate will start this fall. the title six program update as i said is happening this fall as well and we will be bringing that to you in november or late october for your approval. we're also really excited as i said to get the demographic data to really find out if the demographics of the neighborhood is indicative or reflective of the dem graph ikts of the routes. in some cities it is and some c

is the president gave us a window into understanding by switching the roles around so people could understand, if those roles were switched as he says in this particular example, trayvon martin we have been arrested immediately. that's just the criminal justice system we have. the president of the united states acknowledged racial bias, institutional bias in our criminal justice system. that is a historic moment. >> it absolutely is. karen, the president was also careful and sensitive and aware about the fact of violence within the african-american community itself. take a listen to what he said. >> this isn't to say that the african-american community is naive about the fact that african-american young men are disproportionately involved in the criminal justice system. that will they're disproportionally both victims and perpetrators of violence. it's not to the make excuses for that fact although black folks do interpret the reasons for that in a historical context. >> now, karen, on that historical context, that was very important because all this week, i've heard conservative commentator

once we understand and have a better understanding of human behavior and we recognize that there is a much finer graduation that we can draw than this bright line, perhaps it will shift the line or start over. it's not all that consistent, inconsistent with the way to do things. >> i think it is inconsistent, so if you want an open debate, we have to open the debate. >> i would like to jump in at some point. >> go ahead. >> we have the two distributions. we have one distribution based on "free will or volitional control" which applies on the civil side and used to apply under the a.l.i. test and now we have a new distribution of being able to distinguish right from wrong. so now we have two completely different distributions that we're drawing that bright line on. >> competent versus volitional. we can decide that cognitive isn't sufficient, but it is the basis where we draw the line. sorry. >> ok. so to get back to the science, do you see how the research that you're doing and this imaging and identification of areas in the brain that may be part of primarily psychopathy which we're

i haven't had a chance to digest the legislation and understand the impacts and understand it's relevance or non-relevance and understand the non profits to have a h.r. director. i went the tedious process through my employees. i'm looking at this through a prospective p of someone who have employees. the city made it more challenging for me to do the job as the h.r. director and everything that took to raise money and have a program that supports the arts in my community. i know there are other companies that have other issues but i feel like i want time to understand this. i want time to have the diagonal and if this is the venue to have it here today to get the clarity this can be the venue i'm not bothered by that but i'm just trying to, you know, understand more about this and what the impacts b will be and from a legitimate standpoint when the legislation is, you know, implemented when there's the back and forth between the dnld and letters what are some of the claims that are denied and the support we talk about in theory a lot of legislation and we don't think the the impacts on t

it's not out there somewhere like conventional thinking. >> i understand that, i just don't understand that with the cloud thaw -- that you have to be physically close to everything. >> the cloud is nothing more than a building with a lot of servers. they fail, they need upgrades. >> how many ip companies are within 5 blocks of your establishments. >> within 10 blocks i would say 20-30. this is south of market where this was the no. 1 zip code for this location. >> i think it's in the wrong location and i'm not in favor of it. >> commissioner moore? >> i want to say we have a liaison as part of the project, right? the second point is i hope the company who is looking for approval today is trying to have a more neighborly policy with the adjoining people. this is an industrial building. i think we use as the facility described is quite appropriate. i think we need to remember, people use the word generator and backup generator interchangeably. this generator is not for daily power supply, but it is a backup as people would do in a residents. people would have this so in a

was heard, somebody would believe me and not look at where i come from and my bad character and understand that i didn't commit the crime. so hope to me was like it was overwhelming and every time i got in contact with somebody that i thought could help me or even interest in my case there was hope. if i can write a letter to a person and they can listen and read my letter that was hope to me that maybe they can react and even write me back. so in prison, it was like, without hope in prison, and without, i wanted to say something. i jumped around. i want to say, jeff, the public defenders office was something that really helped me because it was jeff that opened the door to my investigation and to the office in san francisco for innocent project. i was one of the persons that was able to get lawyer from that innocent project but then not having a lawyer for a time, the project and his office had to let it go because they had too many cases. so they referred my case to the santa clara innocent project with linda star and from then off that's where fate came in. i didn't have anymore hope. h