the first place attract a lot of people in a month. but other counties think it's not very hard to have this kind of festival so we can do that. if it is a local government festival, the local government has to think about why this festival can only have them in our county but not in other places. it can only happen here so in this sense, they can think about how to include local partners to the festivals and as i said in the beginning, all of those vessels relied on government budgets. how can we self sustained what will be a big issue? in taiwan, it's going to be a big problem if the festival can get copied in different places. so how can we link our local uniqueness with the festivals and how to link them together will be a big challenge area very difficult. ask what talk about food. despite the recent scare over food security, food has been a huge plus for taiwan's or motion of tourism, local festivals and activities. what are the marketing strategies in terms of the soft power and trying to attract international attention? >> i th

of flash backs, a lot of thoughts, a lot of parallels that jump to mind. the thing that comes to my mind was probably i think recommendation 4.3, active shooter situations, and we recognized the co-chairs togo west and vern clark noted that the dod had not accepted or brought in an official way all the body of knowledge for active shooting, since columbine, lessons learned, best practices had been codified or brought in to policies of dod. >> give us an idea, in this particular case it might have seen to those of us as outside observers, it was hodgepodge they ran a bunch of law enforcement. but you said there was an active plan. >> that's what came out of this what they recognized in the wakeup call that was fort hood we had to reach out to get this fantastic body of knowledge which involved neutralizing, the old plan when there's an active shooter there you hold tight and you call in the people that know what to do. in an active shooter situation, you need to quickly identify and neutralize that shooter. what the military has become good at is planning f

but for business, it is a lot of trips. till do not have a visa-free system, but we have made a lot of regrets on that. in the past, we took 10 to five days to have a visa. right now, in one day, you have a visa. it is very time efficient. we have a lot of progress on that. right now, we are moving to a new office here. we are going to provide better service. it is three times the size of the office we had before. we are going to have more people to help. we want to make better service, and more efficient. brazilians, when they come to taiwan, still have to have a visa, and still need a visa when they come to europe. this is an area that we still can have better talks, better improvements. i think we can have improvements in this area in the future. >> finally, before we end this part of the program -- we talked about the program initiated by your government, called academics without borders. there have been some exchanges between the academic communities on both sides. what is some progress in the future that we can look fo

we have a lot at stake with sixth street in the mid market area. so i think in the long run it will be a positive thing and a successful business it's but it's their responsibility to educate the residents with a fundamental night club going on. i know the owner of the organization m g and had my meeting at the monarchy and we've had a good relationship with them. i plan on continuing that relationship but we ask you wait until the place opens. i walk up there everyday i have not seen any construction in regards with the club being close to being opened. on our part as the department we let the club open and we can talk about an after hours permit once we see what we're dealing with. any questions >> yeah, so they definitely have done outreach and the idea is they're getting an idea of the neighborhood and the concerns there. and they have absolutely flild that so far as i'm concerned. and did they not come to the south of market community group way back when? tonight is the first night i've met this gentleman and not the owner tail. >> you said i h

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 them about filing taxes properly and then moving on to the bank, a small one, expansion, and we work with the bank. the bank and credit union are similar. we do allow tax returns, projections. credit unions do not charge an additional loan or processing fee. processing time, on a small loan, -- consumer loans probably a few days. because we require a business plan, sometimes it takes longer. business plans take a while. especially bank statements. we need to see consistent income coming in. so far, a credit union delinquent rate is quite low because we are working with a client. we want to keep that low and as part of our mission. there is no application fee. if you are interested in an application or information, i have brochures, or you can give us a call. >> thank you. next is marked with wells fargo.

but yes, i believe that rightfully so a lot of men are angry. >> listen to chloe, a video comment. and that's not showing upright now, but moving on real quick, here we have a facebook page devoted to fathers rights. and this is the page dedicated to fathers everywhere trying to stay with their children. and last month, there were 330 hashtag searches for children's rights, 33 for mothers rights. so social media is a place for fathers to get involved and discussed. thomas, i want to ask you, what have the social media of fathers been saying about this issue? >> mostly, we want equal rights and we want to spend more time with our children. the reason i began the page is a way to vent from the injustices my children and i were suffering. but we started to come to the page, and it was extremely valuable and allowed me to break through the isolation of thinking that i was alone in this, and i wasn't alone, it's quite prevalent and happening in every city and state in the nation. more and more fathers come daily. we had 300 members in may and now we're up to 5,000. we're a very active p

and i see the genius in a lot of the these kids. i know that it only takes a few people to just give someone the encouragement that they need to really thrive. >> kids start every morning with breakfast then line up to repeat their morning affirmations known as the scholar holler. >> who are we? >> we are leaders! we are empowered! >> who's ready to learn? >> we are! >> the school offers a homework club, aeronautics class, help forring in medicine and science. the goal is to make sure all the needs of african-american boys are met. >> if you had not received the kind of support as a boy that you are providing to these african-american boys at this school, where would you be today? >> i'd be in san quentin. or dead. >> you seem very sure of that. >> absolutely. i had people that refused to let me fail. who said, you've got to do this, you've got to do this. there are no other options for you. and we've got to have that. we have to have that attitude towards our children today. >> dr. alexander says the situation is more dire than peop

venezuela with the united states those speeches are going to be interesting to observe major one that a lot of analysts are looking out for is what exactly is going to happen in terms of iran and the u.s. with the new iranian president coming here to new york might there be a meeting might there not be a meeting might there be a handshake or you know a wink certainly something that might shed more light on what kind of relationship and turn the rayney of u.s. relations might take in the time to come certainly we're expecting almost two hundred speeches to take place in new york thousands of bilateral meetings and you know we're certainly going to be bringing all the details to our viewers and it's just going to be this huge array of issues that we're coming up with we're expecting to see in the days to come honest usually whenever a u.n. g.a. meeting happens in new york it's very exciting but really very little actually comes out of it what's the environment like surrounding the u.n. g.a. this. well it's certainly yet again a diplomatic beehive lots of delegations here with you know it's ov

in a lot of cases, they are. and also in some cases, people deserve a second chance.f you did not do -- i do not know. yet, but i for one know i do not like being accused of something i did not do. in general. cannot even imagine being in that position. i may visit it but i do not know. i do not want it to be predictable. ado not want it to be, here's guy who did not commit this crime and he has been incarcerated for years and now he is free. that is it. there has got to be more than that. tavis: you may or may not have been following this. i am curious if you have. have you been following the story about the california prisons, what do you make of this mess? >> this mess? tavis: overcrowding. >> there is -- this is true everywhere. wherever there is a prison, especially where there is black people, it is overcrowded. i do not know who really gets out. i have heard, i have read some of the stuff, but i think the reasons why they are doing it are ridiculous. i mean, why did they not think about this years ago? half of them should not be in there. especially for the len

still a lot of 60s here across the board. ly bun a couple of upper 50s unless you are far enough north. san francisco starting off mild. not too bad, 71 for a high. slightly above average for this time of year. the clouds will focus their attention on the sierra nevada, not for us. more sun, starting off in the mid-60s. we'll have a warmer forecast. the moisture in the air, the humidity is really, really high. 70s for many to low and mid- 80s. >>> steve we're looking at slow traffic. let's go to highway 4 where traffic has been set back a couple of things. we had a crash on the way here. we also had slow traffic as you get up to the concord area. this is all because of -- just a lot of volume this morning. a lot of people as you drive through. not only on highway 4 but also on highway 680 and on highway 4 as you thrive over to 80 -- drive over 80 -- over to 80. the traffic is moving along relatively well. if you are driving onto the bridge. it is looking okay. there's still a little bit of the backup coming up through the sing

lot, a lot, a lot.but it was one of those things. all right, now behold. you know what that is? >> what is that? >> cookies and cream. >> oh, they are beautiful. >> yes, so we got to get --. >> all right, all right. we treat the cookies like wine tasting. i don't ever want anybody to bite into a cookie and not get what they want to get. we're training staff because they can look at the cookie and tell if it's wrong. >> oh, here we go. >> you smell it and then you taste it, clean the plat palate with the milk. >> i could be a professional painter because i know how to do this. >> i can tell that it's a really nice shell, that nice crunch. >> but inside. >> oh, my god. so you are going to -- cheat a little bit. i had to give you a heads up on that. >> what's happening tomorrow? these cookies, there's a lot of love in these cookies. i don't know how else to say it. it really just makes me so happy. man, you bake a mean cookie, anthony. >> i know. people really know if they are getting something made with l

a lot of people don't know that and that might be second to seattle. do you see a fairy from the treasure island coming over and maybe as a possible warrior and what the president was saying to really educate more of our community to the fact of the availability, the take water taxis like 15 or 20 percent of the people that go to the giant's game, it's fun and it's fast. to use the water front and a lot of our communities doesn't know the efficiencies of water tax. there's an alternative that people can take water taxes or taking them to the city. >> on treasure island we have worked closely with the treasure island development authority and we do have a plan in place where once they reach a certain threshold, there's a fairy terminal and that's a part of that project sort of vie ability in terms of getting people to and from the city and elsewhere and i agree in terms of ideas about other locations and we've recently met with warriors organizations and we're starting to look at and explore ways that the fairy can enhance that project and our own servic

so you like fish a lot? >> i do. huge fish fan. just gonna use my hands. >> so how do you grade the food? >> when i first get a dish, i first kind of look at the presentation and see kind of what feeling it gives me, how i'm meant to eat it, how big it is in comparison to the price, and then i'll take a bite of it. i'll write down some initial thoughts. then i'll take some more bites, and i'll finish the dish, and at the end, i'll give a more kind of in-depth review of it. >> to be a food critic, eating is only half the job. the other part is writing about it. david takes notes during his meal to remember the special details. >> so, hannah, what do you taste in the dish? >> i really like it. i like the sauce, and i like the fish a lot. what about you? >> one thing i like -- i mean, i love the fish in the dish. a really key thing about this dish is how the flavors kind of interact with each other. it sort of, to me, tastes the best when you eat it, like, all, like, with the -- combine it with the guacamole, combine it with the speci

we do a lot of tree plantings. all of you must intuitively go, "of course it's good to plant trees," of course, i want to put a rain barrel on my house." but is there a measurable environmental impact? trees are going to take up a lot of stormwater over time and are kind of a long-term green investment. we've had more than 200 volunteers come out planting street trees. we need people to make active changes on their property. and to reduce the amount of flow that's going into the combined sewer lines, we're trying to install 4,000 rain barrels. narrator: homeowners can disconnect roof gutter downspouts from the sewer system and divert the stormwater into a rain barrel. schombert: the rain water then can be used to water lawns and gardens and infiltrate back in the ground slowly, rather than being piped to a creek where it disappears moments after the storm's over. it's being held within the watershed and it helps regenerate ground water and stream flows. hecht: that's what we're going to do this afternoon is think ab

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dwell project and a civil engineer and he will be working with brian dikes on the construction and a lot of experience on the dispute resolution work that we well be embarking on and also have hired a senior program manager that starts on december 16th also from cal transand he is also a civil engineer and both of the new team members are licensed civil engineers and his name is mark sabana with 27 years of experience at cal transand he will be joining us this coming monday and will be filling bob's shoes. so we do have the budget for that. >> so, the next line item is the quarterly project labor agreement report and we are going to have dennis present that but i also want to mention for the veteran's part, ted wang and you have met him before and he will be reporting on a few items and we have a special today, eddie ramerez who will be joining ted as well to give information on what we are doing with the veterans and so dennis, please? >> good morning good moments and i appreciate the opportunity to give me first presentation with this quarterly update i do have experience in the senior

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>> that is a lot of it. e a talk about retraining because a lot opeople go to college especially hard to find jobs and it is not very effective. what we are seeing nonetheless is the economy improves, people say now i can go work, i don't need to go to some program that may or may not give me the skills i need it gerri: i'm hoping the schools look at this and say number he wants to pay this tuition so we're going to cut it. any possibility that will happen at all? >> i think that is probably unlikely across the board. some that have said look, for want greater enrollment we have to cut our prices for the most part this wasn't a big enough drop most schools are really worried about enrollment. probably the big ones with the high prices are not too concerned especially because the federal government will give people money to pay these things. gerri: there is in a limited supply of federal tax dollars, that is for sure. the most intense reaction is from small private schools that have high tuition and are really

feasible means that it may require a lot more money, a lot more alteration to get that done. under the ada, you need to be surveying your property and putting together both a short- term plan and a long-term plan. the short term plan is going to be the readily achievable solution. the long-term plan could take 20 years. i do not know. your business might not be making huge profits. you may need to be saving money for the long term. but it is your obligation to plan for the long term as well as the short term. the ada has a set of priorities that guide you on how you will be serving your property. the ada says a certain party of getting in the front door, but you are logical, you want your customers to access your services. be that steps, be that ramps, if the door is not wide enough, if the landing is not level enough. priority two is actually travel. once you get into your business and start speculating the wits of your files. access to all of your services. [inaudible] rearranging furniture. that is something we would call readily achievable, if you move your table out of th

when you learn how to organize, you have to learn a lot of things. en have to know how the camera man walks when they have the show or they are taking some -- doing some video taping for the opening ceremony. you have a very broad analogies. they need another kind of training. they not only know how to organize, they also have to know the finance parts. even some legal parts. we have to sign contracts with hotels, with our service provider, every contract you have to look at it and be very conscious of the terms that are written in the contract. >> the devil is in the details. >> yes. >> a son yuri spirits over the last 25 years -- and based on your experience over the last 25 years, what would you say are the most important qualities for somebody who is interested in the m.i.c.e. industry to possess? for that will -- for several, organization skills, communication skills, and in terms of balancing the different objectives that you try to maintain, what are some of them? >> all of them and you mentioned. [laughter] >> oh, ok. >> i have to say patience

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he's getting a lot of attention now. simply if the republicans should be forcing a shutdown of the government. i want to play his answer and talk to you about it on the other side. here it is. >> to be fair, i don't think you hear responsible republican leaders advocating a shutdown of the government. >> so those who are advocating it, are they irresponsible? >> i think it's always irresponsible if you're running the government to be advocating for shutting it down. that by definition is a failure. >> whose failure will this be? we spent a little bit of time talking about this at the top of the hour. ultimately when the government shuts down is this going to be blamed solely on republicans, solely on democrats? will there be a shared burden? >> we've seen that poll that i think you or the programming was showing before saying that americans would put blame 39% on republicans, 36% on democrats, 17% for both. which is actually surprising to me. i would think it would be more republicans. one thing that isn't getting enough

>> the phones don't bring a lot that's new. addition will be a fingerprint reader which one might associate with mobile payment. i don't think a lot of innovation, and, therefore, not a lot of excitement. >> what about from a subscribe perspective? $11 in incremental epss. that's nothing to sneeze at. that's the most optimistic case. >> think about china mobile in particular, which is the biggest opportunity. apple already sells 10 million to 15 million foephones on to t network. their market share is already approximately what it is at china telecom and china unicom who already have sub ssidies. the successor lack of success wouldn't suggest there are a lot of new phones that are coming. >> walt, where are you coming from on this one? >> i think china mobile has 700 million customers. 5 million or 7 million is hardly penetrating the base. smart phone penetration, is very low. we are still at the early growth stages. the whole point is not about doing stuff that is innovative. the 4-s wasn't innovative. here we are. it is about

in this way it is not unusual, kids that have a lot of trauma, a lot of kids had been through many homes. one of the girls i have followed had been through 22 homes covered dream was to become adopted. a couple of the really wanted to be adopted. some had good relations or some relations with their biological families and some didn't so what i did was what followed what happened for five years with his family. >> seems like you are there a lot. >> i was there a lot so i just hang out with them on weekends and weekdays and go to sporting events with some of the kids or hang out with the after-school or just be with them in their house and all social of 4 important events like adoption or court dates or whatever or show up but when something would happen like when a child would go back to her biological mom i would use that as a moment to look at the history of foster care because it is not a static system. we think about it often as foster care is a disaster. it changes with time. had certain points in history it is favored by biological parents and at other points it favored removing the

your egos get a little blown away i don't think so i think it has a lot to do with where we came from and we also are extremely appreciative of what we have especially now you know being able to take a break and come back and still be able to make music in tor and have a fanbase act that is in a still receiving what you're putting out is incredible and i think we're just really honored to get to do when to tour to yeah i think we fall into into winter when you know we have a new member of the family coming pretty soon you so so we have to because if you do right after the new year like january and january so you know holidays and then the new year world will probably be a little quieter just with that happening but up until then we're going to go on hard and try to be in front of our fans do you have a steady girlfriend. are you going to marry her wow come on that's over the house when you ask me. well you have to go out on the twenty fourth and it's the baby when you get married oh wow. she might not be watching yes right every watch might be in the room there you never know and i th

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unfortunately found out it was a lot more otherwise. il: what do you think about if we had never done that? the argument for doing it is that we faced a depression and that it would have been just horrific. >> if i was the decision maker would not want to find out. the potential for it to be catastrophic was there. when i got there in december the panic level was very high. it is a counterfactual, so it's impossible to know exactly what would happen. neil: that was the argument ostensibly. >> the world was shutting down. that is not necessarily mean that we did was entirely the right thing, but something had to happen. institutions were too big to fail. by definition they were in we would have had if the dominance cub falling, it could have been catastrophic. neil: the argument is that is corrected too big to fail. i do not think that we have. that is very much in our faint -- thinking. >> of course we would. that is a political argument and one that was put forward by t largest financial restitution, but the reality is that the banks ar

be a lot more expensive. than in the past, we are also running in the date challenges with the metrion in terms of being able to bring in a tent for the first couple of weeks and so that is the challenge around the flavors of san francisco that we are kind of looking at. >> that is why we have you. >> we are currently working and we are not just me, and i have to say that you know, we have a tremendous committee and they are already working on like, the directors and already reaching out through the city to try to have a partnership with mascone and leslie maloy is working with the assistant managers of the larger hotel and we are trying to just find out what the opportunities are, and we are also, we also may approach the new port crews ship terminal about the flavors and that is a large space and that may be an opportunity. >> so we see a lot of opportunities in terms of you know it is a great event, and we have some great partners who are celebrating their important anniversaries this year as well. and hope

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that is a lot of hope. if it does not, they have been unable to answer -- they do have before the congress a very broad authorization. . would be concerned about that they give the executive the broadest authorization. you would not have a vote on the floor on the actual resolution hit. of columbia has sent people to iraq, afghanistan, without a vote, and they have come home without a vote. --ill make sure i have can questions. my own constituents have been asking me, even though i cannot vote for them. i will do so. by thank you. >> go-ahead. a few more. >> -- hearing what you have said, have you had an answer? >> i have made a -- i still have to read the intelligence brief downstairs. i still have to talk to mike to join their it i would still be leaning no. >> we have heard a lot of concern about the scope of the way this has been written. >> that is not the core of my concern. the core of my concern is it is a civil war. a religious war. i am not sure it directly impacts the national security of the unit

[danny coughs] >> you're coughing a lot. you may have a chest infection. >> well, i don't believe in antibiotics for a cold. it would have been gone by now if it wasn't for the wood dust. oh. martin, your parents--are they always like that? your mom? >> you should use a mask. >> why, have they got something? >> when you're sanding the floor. >> i know--joke. >> goodbye. >> god bless you, martin. >> this is old jim sim's place. huh. is there room? it's like a doll's house. >> it's got a spare room. it's quite small, but you can have my room while you're here. >> oh, one spare room. hmm. well, we're here now. >> is everything all right, mom? >> mm-hmm. >> dinner at the portwenn hotel, hmm? 6:45. [girls laughing] >> what you reckon, girls? [christopher chuckles] >> hey, hey. >> whoo! >> i like that. [knock on door] >> come in. >> maureen tacey. works at the school. she's a bit tearful. lived with her mom all her life, [indistinct]. probably prefer a female doctor. here you go, maureen. ok? >> thanks, paul. >> come in, sit down.

and obviously providing a lot of relief to a lot of parents out there, because a lot of the young peopleas they have been entering into the job market at a time when jobs are tough to get and oftentimes benefits are slim, this is providing an enormous security until they get, you know, more firmly established in the labor market. we provided additional discounts for prescription drugs for seniors under the medicare program. and so seniors have saved billions of dollars when it comes to their prescription drugs. so there have been over the last three years a whole array of consumer protections and savings for consumers that result directly from the law we passed. and for those who say they want to repeal it, typically when you ask them about what all these various benefits, they said well that one is good and that one is pretty good, and we would keep that. and you pretty much go down the list, and there's not too much people object to. you will recall also at the time that part of the way that we paid for the health care bill was we said, medicare is wasting a lot of money without making

we have a lot of homeownerses, we have a lot of tenants in the city.ain balance is really key. i think we also have to approach the budget and some tough fiscal issues looking at the city-wide budget as a whole and not just looking at specific sectors or issue areas that we real have i to look at the city's financial standing as a whole for the long term. that's really important and that's definitely what drives a lot of my decision-making process. and i think it's also tougher in san francisco because we really are held to a very high standard where we have to balance the budget every single fiscal year. we cannot run into a deficit in the new fiscal year. we cannot print more money. we are held to a high standard by our charter and, so, i think that's why these tough decisions are made every year rent. >> what other issues do you feel are facing san francisco? >> i think for san francisco and also elsewhere, one of the biggest issues right now is really how do we ~ attract economic development and spur job creation. and those are two things that real

i have a lot of responsibilities. so where gender does come into play is there's a wide variety of issues that i can choose from, and i think that women might be more likely to prioritize some issues that people would call women's issues are women's rights or social welfare issues among a very large set of priorities, just based on their own experience of women. lisa murkowski talked about how she came in, and she's republican from alaska, and that she was the only person on the help committee who had a child in a title i school. in alaska. she talks a lot about that and the tba -- pga but everyone brings their perspective and life experience. that's i think when you get more diversity at the table you get different life experiences where people think of issues and think of things that other people wouldn't oppose. they just when i thought of and then they bring to the table and other people say that's an interesting and good idea. >> we are going to take a quick break. then we will be back. >> listen to "after words"

the gun manufacturers why are they so powerful why why yeah it's a good question i mean i think in a lot of parts of the country for whatever reason you know an endorsement from the n.r.a. is kind of a proxy for something else for whatever reason is kind of been a signal to their constituents that you're a real conservative but it shouldn't anymore because you're right the n.r.a. is change that used to be in or is a membership organization it's not any longer members still pay dues but a bigger portion of their funding than ever comes from the industry and the industry has changed used to be to the industry sold guns to lots of americans over fifty percent of americans in the seventy's own guns today that number is only about thirty three percent and so the industry makes money by selling lots of high powered expensive weapons to a small number of people and so the n.r.a. has to sort of create this paranoia about government that incentivizes those. survivalists and constitutionalists to buy lots and lots of weapons so the n.r.a. has a very different business model today than it used to a

there is a lot of opportunity. don't squander that. we wanted to be a healthy mix that reflects the cultural history of the southeast part of the city. >> what are your thoughts on how the city can deal with the budget issue? >> we are in a very difficult time financially as a country, as a state, as a county. we have a multimillion-dollar deficit. what i see is we have competing priorities. >> ok. >> there's a whole host of non- profit and service organizations that provide a service and a social safety net for people. if people are not able -- they're not making money to get on calworks, or they get on aid, we cut that aid, that has an adverse affect on a population that needs it. i would like to see the city continued to move in a direction where we are prioritizing when it comes to our budget, our budget strategy. i was fortunate enough to be named to the budget -- i was not fortunate enough to be named to the budget committee. i will exercise my voice to guide us through this precarious system. i think we need to have a serious con

so so there's a lot of distrust in the town. and if you boil it down, the question is, do you feel that water should be modified and sold? and there's a resource that's under the ground, is it something that should be tapped on for profit or does it belong to the community in a sense? >> tom a. of the utilities commissions, and we look at friberg and is there a concern that the town is running out of water? is that a real issue? >> it certainly is a real issue, in the sense that the people have raised it as one the concerns about the contract being approved. a concern that a couple of dimensions. under the new contract, the incentive for nestle to extract more water than it has in the past. and as you pointed out, the contract exists for a long time. one of the things that the commission pays attention to is whether the utility involved in the contract like this can continue for adequate serve. so clearly on some level, the issue of whether a contract would result in the copy's inability to provide that service something that wou