they want to be able to help others. the biggest part of recovery from-from any disease is being able to give it away and share it with someone else. and-and give back. barbara, you wanted to add a few thoughts on medication-assisted therapies? yes, dr. clark makes a very good point that medications therapy is covered by the ada. on the other hand, i think there's a big need out there for education. because if you're in a drug-tested environment, you're going to come back with a weird drug test, something they're not used to; it's not going to look like a clean drug test. so there may be a need for some education on to employers to explain to them that this person is not using drugs, they're taking medication to assist with their therapy and that this is okay. the other thing i think is important is that it's not just illicit drugs but the illegal use of drugs. so if you're using somebody else's prescriptions, that's not legal and that's not protected by the ada. very good point-it's prescription misuse. okay, john, i wa

"an sba lender will be able to make the loan with a guarantee that sba will be able to provide. we probably will about 225 sba loans this year. at any point in time, we have about 1500 loans in san francisco that are sba loans. a lot of them are restaurants because that is one of the areas that is very typical because it is a riskier business. but a lot of people in san francisco see that as an opportunity for them as well. we also partner with the golden gate restaurant association to help people understand how to do financing for restaurants. a lot of what we do is helping small businesses get access to credit. the sba loan program covers a range of small loans down to $25,000 and large loans up to $5 million, so it is a very wide range. can be used for a variety of uses -- debt refinancing, building acquisition, working capital, so it can be used for a wide range of things from a small business point of view. as you heard, we do guarantees for about 90 or 100 banks in the country -- or in the bay area. about 3000 nationwide. there is a lot of lenders that do some sba lending.

the time line is by 2014, we should be able to pull out and they should be able to provide their own security. i think we're doing well on that timeline. >> there has been measurable progress in training the afghan security forces. there has been measurable improvement to security, particularly in former taliban stronghold, helmand and kandahar provinces. when admiral mullen last gave testimony, the correction in the government -- call russian -- governmentin tehe -- there are serious concerns about pakistan's role in encouraging a t -- attacks. do you have a sense that pakistanis are just trying to wait us out until 2014? if so, what should we do about it? >> when i was last there, i met with the government and military leadership. it is not utopia, by a long ways. pakistan is not america. but we must remember they do have nuclear weapons. it is a very touchy situation of a there. and i think we need to help pakistan. afghans need to help pakistan. the border is not secure. it is a very tough spot. as we have been able to improve things in the south, the forces now are moving up to

they were able to link an and powered by action organizations. the end of registering and abetting ngos in the field, which meant to those organizations were able to display their needs, a number of the nation's coming in from the private sector that never had to move logistically. they were virtually offered until then he was found and they were matched. the system can search warehouses and can mask the number of things. i will very specifically give an example of how it works in haiti. in many cases, i hesitate to say what did happen, and basically didn't want volunteers to go to haiti. we wanted to systems of volunteers. one system where nobody was ever really loved that, the other was a medical personnel that were needed. they put that the in the system. a number of volunteers that match that need. a match was made. the question is, how do you transport them? the transportation component with over a thousand transportation and logistics companies to get transportation needs. we love the market system. it will work, for, it can be donated. the

and in everything that we have been able to do, it's been because of the people. they have taken the equipment, the weapons, the systems, and they have made it effective in a scenario which we didn't know we were going to face and very rapidly, within a matter of hours were able to turn genuine ability into capability so the first big lesson is never, ever forget which i don't, that the people are at the heart of this. the next one i think is about making sure you have the widest range of capabilities because in all the elements of afghanistan, certainly in libya, knowing precisely where and what the enemy is doing and understanding what the targeting requirements are and being able to be precise, it's not only accurate, it's timely, it's when required and where required. that, of course, is a big lesson that's come out of it. and the success we've had with the weapons systems we've had available that the boys and girls have been able to produce the results i think is down to all those factors. >> but you mentioned that the intelligence surveillance -- and reconni

the side of what this person is able to do.their work, their job, their contribution to the family. so that people see and get- develop a sense of competence about the person, the individual. because that, indeed, it is that competence that's going to allow individuals to go out into the work life that-to be able to secure independent living, correct? well, that's true, and i think it just takes- it takes a matter of getting over the threshold. you know, a lot of the prejudicism and-and-and thoughts of that nature are inside of ourselves. we, being the-the person with the disability; not to say that it doesn't come from the outside but the fear in all- once i step through the fear and-and-and by going to the-to the rehab, you know, that was one of the most fearful times in my life because, you know, i was different. i was completely different than all the rest, but once i was accepted-and in the world of alcoholism, i found over the years that everyone is acceptable of whoever you are. no matter what you are. there's one thing

so we were able to provide assistance to them. after the earthquake barbra continued to be involved in the process of rebuilding the watsonville community, particularly focusing on the health and well being of the community. the red cross and other clinics throughout rural california. as the public health director and previous health director she is conducting a -- an intense -- and housing. barbra will work with the needs and services and the aftermath of the earthquake and beyond. barbra? >> good morning. the loma prieta earthquake was probably a redefining of my career in 1989. i learned through crisis, it can create opportunity and conflict can bring collaboration and even friendship. and i was about -- i lived about five miles away from the epicenter of the loma prieta earthquake and our clinic was about seven miles from the epicenter. loma prieta means dark mountain. and we would always say during the earthquake we were kind of on the dark side of the mountain. san francisco did an incredible job but to give you a little bit

we were able to do hope sf and create this mixed in come model. most of these are at a mill or density than most san francisco neighborhoods. we were able to add density which allowed us to add market rate to the equation. the market rate is going to allow us to have the public housing validation. this came together to create a situation that was feasible to us. we are going to have affordable housing, market-rate ownership and below market rate ownership. as i mentioned before, we continue to be guided by these principles. i will not bring you through the list. i want to make sure that my other partners tell you about the great things we are doing with the schools. i wanted to make one thing very clear. we are ensuring that there is no loss of public housing. when we started this initiative, that is what we said we would do. the second thing, i want to make sure it is very clear, we are here to minimize displacement. in previous transformations, what has happened was that section 8 vouchers were given to families. families gets settled where they

being able to develop an operating picture was the goal. what you are seeing here now is the actual data of an aerial measuring system. these are sensors in an airplane. it think of mowing the grass in the air. they are looking at the reflection in the ground. that helps us to understand how bad of a problem we have and how to communicate to the self- defense force. they are looking at the same information. it helps us to understand what is going on with the water in the reactors. modeling and simulation that we have at sea is based on what happens with oil. what happens with oil and a radio isotope are different properties. we come up short when we look at what happens when radioisotopes are introduced to overtime. that is a common operating picture. that is what we developed so that, as the next aftershock came in the next power loss incident took place, in the launch floor that we build with the self-defense force, we were able to work side-by-side. we have a hot line to the embassy and ministries in japan as an event takes place, everyo

it will be defined to a lower level but i will be able to give you next meeting. essentially, stages are defined by initiation analysis. paid based on the liberals. they also have acceptance criteria. we are trying to schedule a meeting next weekend. going down to a lower level of specificity, also working out some of the details on how the planning department will work together. the other thing i wanted to but you know is i am trying to schedule a time where you will be able to have a demonstration of the citizen portal but we talked about earlier, which will allow the individual to be able to see status of whenever the process is. the other one of would like to have them do would be of the mobile devices. they are interesting gadgets. we would have to buy them, obviously, and maintain them. that is down the road. what we would have you see is called commercial off-the-shelf, meaning it is just the structure. certainly, it will not be configured until later on in the process. i am trying to set up but it will likely not be until part of october. any questions? >>

many of our students are not able to meet this.s so tight in the schedule that if they are missing one or two, they may not graduate, so i really appreciate it. thank you summit. it is good to know that so many of them passed. going onto the next course of study is even more challenging. look at some of the things students have a difficult time and other districts have proven, that as a gatekeeper to completing the requirements. i have one suggestion. i also have one question. my one question is, how can san francisco unified school district be a better partner? were there any glitches? for example, were you to get a class list out not in time? those types of things come administratively, that maybe we can work on for next year. that is my one question. i am wondering, many of these students are the first generation to go to college. the college processes very daunting. we do not have the research centers set up on a really comprehensive college centers. they go through the process, how to fill out an application. how are these cla

it is great to be able to say yes to a couple of things. we cannot say yes to everything without a balanced choices. i am happy to answer any questions. >> presidentpresident campos: mr. , anything else? >> one item i wanted to emphasize because i did not see it on the timeline, is moving forward on the bill that i touched on that my previous comments were close to this but finalize in the works of work can begin soon. that fits within the time line. supervisor campos: if i may, and know there have been discussions and negotiations -- where is that in terms of moving forward with the initial work on the build out? >> the commission had given the approval to continue the contract with local power, and that official approval is not finished. we have discussed the coscope ad now we're down to talking about what the liberals will click with what time payments. finalizing in about 11 months. we have had changes several times in the past week. we would expect if we can get that wrapped up with local power, we would have approval within the next w

this is a camera angle showing how close the fans are able to get. if you recall the previous slide, they were segregated. this is just a good shot from the camera angle. here is an example of what pit row looks like, if you compare it to motorsports. it is a big draw for these fans to see these crews working on the boats in a much more personal way. this is one of the core assets we have, allowing people this up close and personal access. again, an example of a beautiful day we had in england at the last event with spectators and on-air commentary, at the sign time, looking over their shoulder to see the event. we also have the america's cup experience. this will be coming to san francisco. it is a simulated experience where we can bring 30 or 40 people into the room at one time and they can watch an imax movie where they can get an interactive experience of what it is like to be on a boat. we are working to make it even more dynamic as we go forward. this is about a youth movement, about attracting a younger audience, about having an event for the

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is to be able to automatically monitor those on a frequent an ongoing basis, because of the changes in computing environments and changes and threats, as well as the increase in a connectivity of these computer networks, it's imperative that agencies monitor on a more frequent basis. you referred to the old regime of fisma. the law is sound and based on fundamental security principles. it has been more of how omb and perhaps we have developed the reporting destructions which led agencies to focus on some of the check list approaches to security. there's an emphasis on assuring that each system is secured under the old reported missing. agency spent a lot of money to have accreditation reports prepared sometimes, they were out of date. so the continuous monitoring capability that was designed to improve that situation may need to become more mature at the agencies. guest: you mentioned the ability to secure mobile devices and so forth. all of this comes down to procurement and the ability for agencies to buy this capabilities in a timely fashion to ensure that they stay on top of the th

we have property that we are not able to maintain, we are seeing a loss of our diversity. we talk about african-american out-migration. a lot of that is due to housing costs and the foreclosures occurring in the community. as well, in the hispanic and chinese and asian communities as well. the purpose of today's hearing is to explore how we can use our local dollars to get greater accountability from the banks. across california, we have a foreclosure crisis that continues. in san francisco, 4210 foreclosures alone in our city. that is an astronomical number. in california, $200 billion worth of property that are under water. in san francisco, we have many as well under water. what is the response, how can we change the situation? the timing of this is interesting because of what is happening outside this room, in the country with the occupied movement, but we also of some great local timing as well. the city treasurer is in the process of putting out another rfp for begging services for the city and county of san francisco. this is an opportunity to see how we can use the

customers could pay less than $1 per day to be able to choose and select into that. that would actually pay for itself and cover the $19.5 million. it is one of the possibilities. the other possibilities mentioned in the past, but your commission as well as san francisco, is that we could look at tapping into fund balances to the degree that we have cash between now and june 2014 s still projected for the general fund could look at general fund reserves as one of the funding sources. those are four items are going to be items that will be before the policy makers on this choice. de-green it to pay for it. keep it 100 percent signed green and up the amount to pay for it. that creates the amount -- the need to adjust that unbalance it sooner or the general fund could look at paying for the startup costs. those will be for discrete issues that u.s. policy-makers will want to consider. >commissioner avalos: when we talk about reapying 19.5 million, that assumes how many customers? >> about 75,000 customers. to put that in comparison, we have 316 megawatts. this would be

they need to be able to do that. in many cases, the nonprofit and government sector have been well behind. i will just share a part of what we do with supply chain. part of what this panel is here to address is connecting private sector and government. i teach at the university of wisconsin. it is on different cultures. i start out on the difference of cultures between private sector, government, and non- profit. i know that a number of people in the audience are helping to work towards that. some of the jobs are to begin to connect private sector, government, and non-profit to create stronger communities. that is what we are here to talk about. creating that collaboration and intertwining. >> so, we have talked about this extraordinary distribution system that we have had in this country. many of us simply think about the trucking companies, like ups and federal express. to deploy as all of that? who mobilizes those resources in a time of crisis? do we have an issue with that? >> you want a system of centralized con

administrators should be able to do that as well.ed governance speech is part of what academic freedom protects. without that, you really don't have the expertise or the faculty available to you. >> cary nelson, author of "no university is an island," sunday night on c-span's "q&a." >> this is a dangerous time for britain and a dangerous time for britain's economy. the government's austerity plan is failing. you can sense the fear people have as we watch the economic crisis that stalks our country in 2008 threatened to return. >> with the british house of commons still in recess, annual party conferences are continuing in the u.k. watch labour party leader ed miliband's keynote address sunday at 9:00. and next sunday, british prime minister and conservative leader david cameron. now for regular updates of what's on c-span, with c-span now on twitter. gets tweets once an hour with quick program information, including which events are live, and links to help you watch. it's easy to sign up. just go to twitter.com/ cspannow, and you get

shell would be able to see that it is there and available. if there is an early termination, it would provide a counter signature from both parties sites to make sure the appropriate amount of funds are sent to the shell should they be old pavement. let me say what that means, should there be a payment due, there is the appropriation of the $19 million. it does not mean necessarily gets spent. this is really just collateral. so the program operates as we expected well, and consistent with the pro forma, the 90 four and a half years, we would still have all of it. even if the programmer to terminate early, shell is not entitled automatically for the full $15 million. did the prices have fallen for whatever reason during that time, this is intended to help make shall be made whole for whatever losses. in addition to that -- commissioner torres: yes, the $19.5 million is going to be put into where? >> the $15 million would go into some of the escrow account. commissioner torres: the $19.5 million goes where? >> $15 million goes into an escrow ac

having the background knowledge and being able to do something like, is a wonderful thing to be able to do. >> are there any other issues of concern we have not discussed ayet that you want to chat abou? >> in the end, it all comes down to budget. i hate to be focused on such a bad issue. but whether your issues parks, public health, transportation -- in the end it is all about budget. that is what i will be focusing on. >> it looks like we are out of time. we will have to wrap this up. thank you so much for joining us today on "meet your district supervisor." we have been speaking with supervisor elsbernd. we will be back next time with another one of our supervisors. ♪ >> about four years ago, [inaudible] look at how beautiful this was. there is our relationship to the planet. these regions are the wealthiest, the most powerful. that really has impacted the planet. it is almost impossible now to go anywhere and had it really be completely dark. there are very few locations that you can find. that means our relationship to the sky, there is a way where we dominate the sky. we cannot

i wanted to be able to see what it was like to drive that are without being anal to stop -- able to stop. during that era african-americans in the 1940s, 1950s and into the 960s could not be assured of a place to rest, to get gas, to recharge their batteries, to be able to even eat, to get a meal. so they had to take great care, planning and caution. after a certain point be one could stop, but he had a very difficult time. so i attempted to recreate that journey. i rented the buick, i had my parents with me as tour guides, and we got to this dangerous, frightening part of the journey where you're going through the desert, and it's night, and i had not slept for hours as he had. it had gone on for many, many, many hours and into the night without being able to rest. and my participants were with me as i was about to rear off the road. -- veer off the road. and at that point we're in the mountains, and we're seeing the signs that say 80 miles to the next gas station. i mean, it is a forbidding area and terrain in be parts of our country. these states are countries unto themselves. but i w

we will not be able to deliver health care. [applause] there are a number of ways to deal with this. as a governor, i have had to deal with this issue. i have had to balance those budgets. we have gone to washington d.c. since 2005, we have asked for waivers on our medicaid so that we could deliver health care in a more efficient, more effective, give options to be different populations out there, and we were turned down time after time after time. washington d.c. as to get a lesson. the lesson is -- always and does not emanate out of washington d.c. they need to let the states be greatly more involved in how our medicaid populations are taken care of. i will grant those dollars back. the idea that washington ought to be taken your money out to washington d.c. and deciding how and when it goes back to your state for education purposes is counter to what our constitution -- one of the last things, number six, is too faithfully and forcefully of old and protect the united states constitution. there is nothing in the constitution

. >> we are honored to be able to do something for the school. >> i want to thank you as well. i had the privilege of going to japan for the japan foundation this last year, so it was a real treat to be able to understand the japanese education system, and it related remind us of the strength and -- it really did remind us of the strength and power we have on our language project as well. >> i would like to also thank you if i ever get a chance to go to japan. >> wonderful. thank you a very much. but the next item is an update on the strategic initiatives. this was originally presented last week, but we did not have participation of the entire board, and we wanted to save it for the board meeting. >> thank you. we would like to present this presentation to you this evening recognizing the time constraints we have. we are going to move quickly through the slides, but we do want to make sure the commissioners understand we will happily entertain questions as we go. this is going to be a joint presentation by myself and the special assistant to the superintendent, who is also now

there are 10 things we need to be able to do. these we can take some risk in terms of time whether it is time to activate the component or generate it. time is the independent variable. >> thank you. >> thank you. congratulations to both of you. my mom is 100% italian. congratulations on being the second secretary of defense. let me associate myself with his remarks. i represent a district in northeast ohio. it is critical that we have this money that we are spending. i spent years when i was first on this committee dealing with the very amendment. sometimes the waivers that were given they provide the materials for the military. as you continue to push down to the bureaucracy, some of this is taken into consideration. the one issue of want to talk to you about the pc off and, young kids have been killed in action. -- that you see on and off, and done the kids have been killed at in action. one and the issues that i have been concerned with is the kid to come back can never be reestablished. there in the obituary section in the b

"uh, not being able to say good bye...thanks for everybody's "uh, not being able to say good bye...thanks for everybody's support. we appreciate that." pinon was at an early morning meeting last wednesday when the gunman, 47- year-old shareef allman opened fire. 3 people were killed and six others were wounded. tonight, bryan stow will spend his first night out of the hospital in more than 6 months. doctors transferred him from san francisco general today to a long- term rehabilitation center. they won't say where exactly. he still can't stand up or walk, but the doctor said stow is able to move his body and sit up on his own. "when bryan came here, he was in a comatose state. when he left us today, he was able to speak, interact with his family, he's beginning to eat as well and he's making dramatic progress." stow arrived at s-f general after first being treated in l-a after he was attacked outside dodger stadium. two suspects have pleaded not guilty to the attack. other news making headlines around the bay area: shareef allman, the man responsible for killing three of his co-workers at

because the youth aren't the ones with the options to like be able to pay or not to be able to pay. so like really, we're not providing service. which is really our goal to provide service to our residents. and really we're not trying to be a private sector business. and just trying to rip people off. we're really trying to provide service to everyone in this city. and not give them tickets for not being able to do something they can't do. thank you. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. my name is rachel and i'm also a member of the san francisco youth commission. but today, i'm not speaking as a representative of the youth commission. i'm speaking for myself. i'm speaking as a 16-year-old high school student. a frequent day church user and also a really, really lucky girl. my family can afford to pay for the bus. and i'm really grateful for that and i know i'm very lucky. i say this not to oppose the issue of accessibility to transportation for youth. i firmly believe in this issue along with many people here today. i say this to add another p

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they are able to get downtown if they live in the outer avenues without having to worry about delays. i wanted thank you for that. it has been nothing but positive, in terms of feedback, from what we have heard from our constituents. it also helps with the large number of boardings sometimes when we did not have the express service. i also want to thank you for having the real time information. i have get to see how it will look yet, and oftentimes people will be calling our office to see if there are any issues within the system. i know john haley is looking at a process to analyze different bus lines to see what we can do to improve operations. i do want to thank the mta for looking at these things and starting working on those things that we can control. a couple of things that are still problematic, in terms of the turnaround service, i understand the flexibility the mta would like to have to readjust the system, but as super out -- supervisor ablow is mentioned, it does matter what time of day those switchbacks happen. when you have three train going downtown, it could be a diffe