he is so accommodating. he tries to be accommodating. moments of threat, moments of need, he tries to be accommodating. >> some would say that he has been forced to do it by the protesters. >> i am not denying that. nobody becomes accommodating unless he is forced. [laughter] >> we hear gunfire, and there were thousands of people who gathered in tahrir square. >> he has actually stood up. he has actually stood up. >> he is still in power. >> a promise that he would never run again. now, we need to make sure that he will hold up to his promises and that it will be a transitional. it is not a cunning game, not anything else. >> but he still wants to maintain himself in power. >> yes, but the point is, yes, yes. he has to delegate his authority if in order to assure that he is really serious, and he wants to honor his promises. >> in you were a supporter of the -- and you were a supporter of the ndp. it was burned. >> protesters or some other organization. >> protesters. >> i do not know about that. >> do you think there is a lesson in hist

the plan is to accommodate the 20, 8, 14, and perhaps a few other lines. the area needs to be big enough to accommodate the loading and unloading activities, as well as layover activities. that is one thing that we do not have costing information on this time. the next step -- again, we do not need to fund this extension at the moment. but we need to identify sufficient bus layover and passenger boarding spaces, how we can obtain the funding to operate, develop the longer term trolly extensions as a longer-term strategy. working with daly city to see if they can accommodate the potential overhead wires in their jurisdiction. commissioner campos: thank you. i know last year we have talked about something, that service cuts were looming. there was discussion that this could be possible in 2013. i understand the needs of the capacity at the daly city bart station. i am a little bit disconcerted about the time line you are proposing here, but i want to be helpful as we move forward, where i can assist -- relationships with dailies city, bart, any way that my o

russian hotels are the most expensive in europe with moscow boasting a number of luxury accommodations was scarcity of budget rooms in the russian capital many believe new developments in other parts of the country might give tourist a chance to experience russia without shelling out a fortune. looks at how tough the search is for an affordable night sleep. captivating journey to the heart of russia has never looked prettier this point star hotel in moscow for superb use of the red square and probably everything else that any traveller may dream about from top quality buffet or service to your own personal office decorated with dark cherry and burwood but this any other luxury accommodation this presidential suite comes with a price seventeen thousand dollars a night in some way as price never scares people because people are ready to pay for quality and somewhere if you. gain the confidence of the guests that you are providing quality people are ready to pay for the quality and it is expected and everybody's aware that is an expensive city and expensive it is with an average price tag

for the past two years, we have used alternative tools to provide monetary accommodation. in particular over the past two years, the federal reserve has further ease monetary conditions by purchasing a longer-term securities on the open market. from december, 2008 through march, 2010, we purchased almost $1.70 trillion in longer- term treasury agency and agency mortgage-backed securities. in august, 2010 we began reinvesting the proceeds from securities that were mature or redeemed into longer-term treasury securities to keep the size of our security holdings roughly constant. around the same time, we began to signal to financial markets that we're considering providing additional monetary policy accommodation by considering further purchases. in early november, we announced a plan to purchase an additional $600 billion in longer-term security treasuries by the middle of this year. all these purchases are settled to the banking system with a result that the positive -- that depository institutions hold a revolt by reserves with the federal reserve. large-scale purchases of

the second big one thing is accommodating regional growth. we need to prioritize the resources to words places like us so we can keep running the assistance that we have. as you know, that is really important. it is absolutely critical. we are asking them to prioritize expansion resources for jurisdictions they are proactively planning. and lastly, we want to see them prioritize discretionary funding for projects that not only reduce greenhouse gases in terms of emissions, but also do it in a way that is equitable and cost effective. it includes affordable housing as a good example of that. those are really the take away is that we are pushing. we would like to work with you and with members of the community as we are already starting to meet with them to decide whether these of the ones we continue to hammer or if there is more that we need to add to that as we follow this process. how do people get involved? this is a hard thing for us to provide as we are a participant in the process. we don't have much control over it. we are doing our be

there are parking lots in and around the neighborhood we will accommodate those who are in the building and currently parking at that site. >> we currently have nine residence. how was this a originally foreseen when the building was first built? how many parking spaces will you be losing? >> i believe there are 12 altogether. >> ok, you will do something for at least the nine to find another site. >> that's correct. >> conceivably, it would depend on what the developer would want to do. parking as part of their new development. >> until they start construction, we still have the use of that parking lot. this is at least 80 years away and it gives us two years away to accommodate those nine residents. >> are you free to speak about your prospective buyer? >> well, this is a san francisco family, a mother and son. >> that's fine. >> if i can reiterate that there is no project filed with the city for a new project and there is no new use being proposed are contemplated at this time with the recommendation to approve this ordinance. that would require a building ordinance application at th

we have the group picnic area which should accommodate 200 people, tennis courts are full. it also has 3 playground areas. the ampitheater was built in 1972. it was the home of the first blues festival. given the fact that jerry garcia used to play in this park, he was from this neighborhood, everybody knows his reputation. we thought what a great thing it would be to have an ampitheater named after jerry garcia. that is a name that has panache. it brings people from all over the bay area to the ampitheater. the calls that come in, we'd like to do a concert at the jerry garcia ampitheater and we do everything we can to accommodate them and help them because it gets people into the park. people like a lot of color and that's what they call a park. other people don't. you have to try to reconcile all those different points of view. what should a park look like and what should it have? should it be manicured, should it be nice little cobblestones around all of the paths and like that. the biggest objective of course is getting people into the park to appreciate open space. wha

as a person who has seen friends leave the city, it is depressing to think we cannot better accommodate people here with more preschools, in a residential neighborhood where people can walk with their kids. it cannot be transit first if the services that serve the neighborhood are not in the neighborhood. i think this preschool is a wonderful project. it is meeting a need that is very great. i am very familiar with the rogero concept. it is a phenomenal teaching method for growing kids and having them become the persons we want them to be come acerbically engaged and creative in our society. -- to be, critically engaged and creative in our society. thank you. vice president miguel: i was impressed with the school and the high percentage of the families that were in the neighborhood are close enough to walk. expanding to 48 children and instituting some scholarships is going to be a really good thing. i think they handled pick-up and drop-off very well, which is always a challenge. by using the space they have next to the school for that purpose, it moves very seamlessly. i am very suppo

them if they need to be accommodated? absolutely, and that is why this program is so important, and all of the thank-you gifts associated with it, because it helps you to analyze your money type and the way that you do look at money. so please go to your telephone right now and make your pledge of support. lee. and we certainly urge you to go to the phone right now, dial the number on your screen, and become a member, because your support, your pledge, makes programs like this happen. and susan has such fascinating insights into our relationship to money -- and, of course, anyone can benefit from it, but i think that her message has particular interest to the baby boomers, because the baby boomers, right now, are caught between caring for elderly parents and sometimes also looking after financially needy adult children and also contemplating retirement. so if you relate to her message, perhaps you're a baby boomer or you know one -- and who doesn't? go to the phone right now, because she certainly has such great informati

then widened to accommodate a wider san jose avenue and the railway. and then this is as it looks today, kind of built more freewaylike as part of that freeway that was never completed. and then the third challenge is the development concerns. glen park as we've seen even from these fricts way back has been largely built out for a while, but in the small plan area there are a couple opportunity sites for infill and they're pretty high profile, one is the bart parking lot, another on the corn of northwest diamond and bosworth that is a smaller parking lot. there has been past and present interest in developing from both owners and there are questions and concerns about what will happen there. so given these challenges and special qualities of glen park, the goals, the three main goals are to protect and strengthen this vibrant walkable neighborhood commercial core, balance the use of streets for all the different people using the streets in a way that improves circulation and liveability, and minimizing some of the negative impacts of these larger infra

we have to withdrawal that accommodation at some point before we get there.that would be the area we hope to get back to. >> 5%-6%? is there a projected time period where that might occur? >> at the rate we're going, it takes 2.5% real growth just to keep even because you need that much growth just to make jobs for the new entrance to the labor force. if we were to average hypothetically 4.5% growth, which is quite ambitious, it would still take us another four years or so to get down to the 5%-6% range. it would take a long time. >> how long would it take at 2.5%? >> it would very, very slow. >> our current rate of growth is what? >> in the last quarter it was 3.2%, and we're looking for 2011 to be between 3%-4%. that should bring unemployment down for the year, but not quickly. >> how long would it take at 3% to reach the 5% goal? >> that would lower unemployment by about three to four tenths a year. that would be about ten years. >> ten years and you still think your policies are promoting success, that we're still projecting 10 years until we reach the le

accommodate, and those are pedestrians and cyclists. i think we're doing what is necessary to reach the goal. this is our mayor, a photo opportunity. it is a possibility to be seen. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you very much. our next speaker is peter. peter is supervisor and senior adviser of the traffic and transport division at the chamber of commerce, amsterdam. they are partners with businesses and public authorities to develop a robust and economically healthy region. they supervise a team of professionals in the port industries, barge, rail, and road transport. sounds like mta. the chamber of commerce amsterdam is known as an element of innovative approach to connectivity and mobility. he is strong and establishing unique partnership to create groundbreaking solutions. he started a task force formability management for employers and employees to reduce car trafficked by 10%. -- he started a task force for mobility management for employers and employees to reduce traffic by 10%. >> i will give you the perspective of th

operations accommodated 18 buses within sight and laid out three crosswalks. the site is visibly open and easier to monitor now that the construction activities are completed. here is a photograph of what operations look like to date. the site plan here shows the location of the proposed to restrooms, that is in the center of the site. more specifically, there is a layout of where the restrooms would be. these would be available for all transit riders. sides would be posted only to transit riders using the terminal. any passenger using our facility would be able to use the restrooms. operations would be monday through friday 7:00 a.m. through 7:00 p.m. the restrooms will be key controlled by on site personnel. linc is our property manager. they will implement a secure system so that the restrooms remain secure in the event of a locked or lost keys. the doors will be self-locking, so after someone is done using it, the facility will lock itself, only accessible with the key. if there is someone in the restroom and they are in need of help, they will be able to

have to watch our vehicles closely because we want to make sure that the vehicle behind it can accommodate the people that are being switched back. in terms of the 14 mission, -- and one of the things that i have tried to do in this issue -- you made a request about going back on the rail side. there is not much historic data available. much of the information was handwritten. we went through some of the material that i could find, but at this point, with the changes we have made over the last several months, i am in a position to identify on a light rail side, when we can make switchbacks, when we can address the issue. you have addressed the condition of which packs. are we making announcements? those kinds of things. in january, on the mission, we made 137 switchbacks, more of them in the outbound direction. february, so far, 34. the path, to a great extent, would look like the pattern on the light rail lines, following the same principles and procedures. in this particular case, we make sure we try to, where possible, follow the policy we have laid out and make sure we enforce it. comm

the right of way is slightly greater to accommodate the traffic. this is a lowering of the towers in the islands center. this would be lowered to 450 feet and would be lowered a commensurate amount. this will be about 520 feet high. looking back to the city is the original plan which you see here. that is a very quick summary of the plan revision. the principal author will describe those details. >> good evening, commissioners. i am happy to be here. i am here tonight to what you through the designed for development. i am happy to say that the document has held up quite well during the process. there are some changes that i wanted to mention. this is the document as you received it and this is the content of it in the same five sections. treasure island is handled separately. this summarizes the cart and the intent and the idea. many of these are in the first section serve there is a description for th

hopefully, what i say now will not jeopardize my getting accommodation next week for black history month, but i am here because my heart is hardened. particularly because of the situations of females in the homicide. i have been fascinated. i am appalled of my black ministers. i am appalled for my black community. as i look around, i see one or two commissioners. even out here speaking on the issue. i am appalled. i am a father. i am a grandfather. i am a great-grandfather. to wake up and see these articles here in the western addition, i went down but to confront the chief of police. i went to talk to the d.a., .and finally, i came here to speak to the supervisor. the black community are going to have to be accountable. here we have a homicide of females. what is the hell wrong with my youngsters? what is the hell wrong with the community. i am concerned about the public meetings coming up. speaking about supervisors, i warn, and i caution everybody, check your history. for anybody to come up here and defend the redevelopment, you need to check your history. i would be in your face over

they also aim to accommodate the region's population at all income levels, and requires coordination with the regional housing process. it is a process of the planning department he to do every eight years are so. in addition, it requires the transportation networks be consistent with the land use strategy. it is the regional transportation plan for the next 25 years for the region. it is quite a big deal because this is where the public investment resources can be tied it turns to devise some of the land use changes. the four stages of this integrated process is the planning that is happening now, some detailed scenarios. they're going to be releasing some of the results of an initial vision scenario. it will allow the region and ourselves to weigh in on the if we had a certain vision, we will see how far it gets by placing development where we think we can mere transit. we did not assume a financial constraint. it does require us to consider restraint transportation as a piece of the plan. those types of planning will happen during early summer. it will lead us toward a preferred s

. >> there were 10 people who requested accommodations. i don't know if many of them are left. ethel silverstein i know, is no longer here. ms. traveler? i don't know if you are here, but feel free. if you can raise your hands so i can get a sense of who you are. >> we did have one group that needed to go first, and then we will hear from everyone else. >> this project has been -- this project has had a lot of misinformation. contrary to other views, it doesn't cost the taxpayers a dime. this is a singular, unique opportunity for the west side of the city. the investments in housing at park merced will subsidize the following -- $150 million in the value of the rent-controlled housing. 900 b.m.r. units, 1/3 would be cited on site, two-thirds would pay the equivalent of $229 million. this is quifflebt in scale to a public housing bond. by the way, we have a terrible record in the city of passing those. goodness, could you imagine what the mayor of the office's housing could do with that much money to fund affordable housing in the city. are there other terms elsewhere, like rede

people should able to listen to this and they wanted to accommodate them. so the excitement, the intensity. i hope it comes through in the book. it requires our imagination sometimes. the documents give us tremendous amount of information. and as i looked at the conventions as a whole i saw there was something of a line of development. that is to say, one way of looking at this is that the federalist federal is, whatever else you think, learned from their mistakes and they really made mistakes. in pennsylvania the first convention they say, they went in with a two-thirds majority. they understood this because the divisions in pennsylvania roughly call a with divisions in state politics. not perfectly but pretty closely so they knew they had the majority. and then they just rode roughshod over the opposition. in fact they treated them so poorly that any in the minority refuse to accept the decision of the convention. they said it did not, in fact, speak for the majority of people in pennsylvania and he did not accept the decision. they kept trying to overtur

the leadership in egypt as for example they seem to have been in tunisia so they're reading to accommodate themselves to whether or not this is the real situation and it's what's being reported i think through facial channels and so they're having to accommodate themselves to that how do you suddenly turn around when the people. revolution is that war doesn't look like it's going to bring the kind of change that perhaps you hope for an intense debate but at the same time are we hindering the people's revolution by also supporting so much i do i say make use of the man it's going to leave this orderly transition i think this is cause and effect i think what has happened is the bulk of the egyptian people have grown somewhat weary of what's happening in terms of not having any money in the a.t.m. is having no banks open no meat vegetable prices going out of sight and so forth and so when you get this whatever sixty seventy million of the egyptians or at least the middle class largest middle class in the middle east you get them not on your side anymore and sort of feeling antagonistic to wha

[bell] president chiu: ok, we would like to move to our special accommodations at 3:30. you will be the first person to speak when that is over. the first will be provided by supervisor carmen chu. supervisor chu: thank you, president chiu. i would like to invite christopher of. as many know, one of the biggest tests we have is the graffiti. the city spends over $25 million in your painting over graffiti, and it is very likely -- $25 million a year painting over graffiti, and it is likely that it would be more. he has worked for nearly 10 years. he has met with hundreds of neighborhood groups, educate them on combating graffiti, establishing new programs to solve hundreds of problems. he has educated hundreds of juvenile. -- juveniles. he has worked with the department of public works, the graffiti task force, the public defender's office, and, of course, every single supervisor 's office, and he has an encyclopedia of tags. he put in a transfer years ago, and while we are very happy for him and his family, this is a very big loss for the city, as we have depended on you