with respect to religious nonprofits, it constructed an accommodation, but the accommodation delivers the contraceptive coverage to the employees of the nonprofits. it just does it through an indirect means. but there is no diminution of -- there's no basis for questioning the government's interest with respect to that accommodation because the employees get the coverage, just as they would -- >> well, but that of course is an issue that's being hotly litigated right now, right? whether the employees can get the coverage when you're talking about the religious organizations. >> well, that's exactly why i think you can't look to that as a less restrictive -- that accommodation, extending that accommodation to for-profit corporations, as a less restrictive alternative. precisely because it's being hotly litigated whether rfra will require exemptions to that, as well. >> but you're relying you're relying on it to make your point with respect to the accommodation, and then you're criticizing your friend for relying on the same thing in making his points. >> well, i think i think what just

accommodations. so that's one way, i think, that you'd address the first step of the question here. accommodations. so that's one way to address the first step of the question. >> well, i mean, just take one of the things that justice sotomayor asked about, which is vaccinations, because there are many people who have religious objections to vaccinations. so suppose an employer does and refuses to fund or wants not to und vaccinations for her employees, what happens then? >> well, if we assume we get past the substantial burden step of the analysis, then the next step of the analysis the compelling interest and least restrictive alternatives analysis. and every case would have to be analyzed on its own. i do think in the context of vaccinations, the government may have a stronger compelling interest than it does in this context because there are notions of herd immunity and the like that give the government a particularly compelling interest in trying to maximize the number -- >> blood transfusions?

to some sort of accommodation with i say no and i don't think there's any intention to any accommodation. as a fundamental ideological difference. of possibility for accommodation because. reestablishing a universe. which would include. so there's absolutely no room for compromise with. the big transformation that's happened in the region over the last. building into a flourishing diplomatic relationship between the kurdistan region and turkey no one would have predicted. that turkey would be. most robust in the region but that's the situation we confront whether or not. federation or whether it goes for independence it can be certain turkey will be its principal ally in the region but dr leader it wasn't also the case between syria and turkey i remember visiting a leper just three or four years ago and you know turkish businesses were everywhere and mr aired on the us to invite president assad for vacations or vice versa but look at what happened since then so i think that even at this time in this region friendships are very easily build and they're very easily destroyed. i think there

id you were independents but if they don't reach any sort of accommodation of it the ice is bad dream could be demolished i don't think they will want to do that for various reasons they will want the support of turkey the united states indeed the russian federation and indeed iran government and the kurds will want to ally with them against isis rather than to become partners with isis and i would expect over the long run kurds artist and obviously has an interest in stabilizing its border with the areas that are now controlled by isis but it also has an interest in making sure that isis does not stabilize itself and become a functioning so the kurds will want to see different sony sony arabs in power in the rest of. it in anbar. and indeed in western syria but what makes you think dr levy that some of the actors that you just mentioned the united states even turkey wouldn't want to change or some sort of agreement with isis because we all remember that the united states used to view the taliban in afghanistan as as an enemy and that you know once they failed to eradicate that moveme

we received two complaints, six curb ramp requests and three requests for accommodation. including an electric sign blocking a parking space and issues related to documentation requirements for an accommodation request the a family shelter. the requests for accommodations that we received were primarily involving requests for blue-zone parking spaces. there was one

we received two complaints, six curb ramp requests and three requests for accommodation. including an electric sign blocking a parking space and issues related to documentation requirements for an accommodation request the a family shelter. the requests for accommodations that we received were primarily involving requests for blue-zone parking spaces. there was one request for a blue-zone to be installed outside of the north beach public library and there was also a request for a blue-zone to be installed outside of a residential home for an individual's personal use. the blue-zone request was granted for the location outside of the north beach public library. however, the request for an individual's personal use was not granted. sfmta evaluates blue zone requests using objective set of criteria for criteria to ensure the most efficient use of parking spaces. blue zones are not established for a specific individual at a specific location and instead they are located in areas with high public use that can serve large numbers of the public. these types of areas include dens

so this conceptual design is meant to illustrate how we envision accommodating stops in accommodating access to these stops for pedestrians on the sidewalk or pedestrians that want to get from the stop to the sidewalk. so what we thought was important for providing ample ways to get from the sidewalk to the transit stop knowing that a lot of times people might be trying to catch the bus, etc. these crosswalks already marked with marking similar to continue continental crosswalks and with truncated domes on each side on the raised buffer and sidewalk. the bicycle lane will angle up. they are at the same level of the sidewalk and transit bufrt -- buffer and it will accommodate the level crossing. as you will also note the raised buffer is also wider where the transit stop is located. this transit stop will be a minimum of eight 8 feet wide to accommodate the lift to be deployed from the transit vehicle. this next slide illustrates a little bit in more detail the mid-block crossings that we are envisioning from the sidewalk to the raised buffers. one of the things we want to make sure to

there were also four curb ramp request and 3 request for accommodations. the request for accommodations involved blue zone parking request outside of homes and we also received 7 complaints which is in addition to two complaints we received from the previous month in may. we believe the increase is due to the large number of construction projects that are happening simultaneously in the city. the majority of these complaints that we received mostly involved disruption in the public right-of-way due to the construction vehicles blocking access to crosswalks or on street disabled parking. in these cases we were able to interact quickly through sf mta which included the street inspectors. this is also a reminder to the public, if you notice construction activity blocking an accessible path of travel without an alternative safe path, please call our office at 415-554-67 89. that's our voice. you can also contact us through t ty. 415. 554. 6799 and call 311. our additional complaint in the funding housing city program and lack of communication access at a homel

for the mta, you can use your real estate and you can accommodate the growing fleet through the year 2013, and well the addendum is saying, okay, because there is going to be a largeer and more rapid of the fleet and lrv is an example and what you need to do and also looking at it from a ten year additional horizon up to 2040. you need to find the additional real estate. and that is where we are at right now with it and there is a lot of numbers on this chart. i am not going to go through it with you, three key points, we operate at crush capacity or beyond, capacity. and at all of our facilities. and what was expected to be realized in terms of fleet growth, by 2030 and now looks like it is going to happen by 2020 and so even with it coming on-line by 2016 and so we hope, we are still going to need more real estate to make this thing happen and make it work. and the reasons for the fleet plan increase are five, longer time period, expanded out to 2040 and that takes into consideration the population growth, and service, you know, increases and just the demand on the over all transit

they are eligible for this accommodation, but they are claiming that the accommodation itself, the signingthe government form makes them complicit in providing the conjunto primavera accept if the coverage and they say that violates the religious freedom act. >> so they are asking the supreme court for an emergency injunction that would prevent the government from fining them if they didn't comply with the requirement or would prevent government from insisting on the accommodation or being fined for not providing the coverage. >> and there is this form that there is about. >> yes. >> justice stone i can't, sonia sotomayor in her dissent used very strong language about what the majority had held. she did. she really made three points. first she said that that the court was retreating from what it said in hobby lobby, the monday decision, in that decision, the majority again said that the accommodation itself achieved all of the government's objectives here as well as provided greater respect for religious liberty and justice kennedy even reemphasized that in a separate opinion. he said that

because we've become uncomfortable with that but we're still going to be accommodated by having zero rates for as long as it takes how do the inflation unemployment and you know future fed rates basically appear in her remarks today basically she said inflation isn't becoming so that gives us accommodation unemployment is still which should be with this excess capacity this slack in the labor market and the two when you combine them together given where we are in the economic cycle we feel like we have the fed that is that we need to be more accommodating now what did she say about you know the market's kind of regaining strength and growth happening times and what were her remarks there you know i think she was a bit concerned about or she gave lip service at a minimum to the concept that there was fraud in the in the equity markets and credit markets and so forth. but generally. speaking i think that she's much more concerned about the real economy and the the other side of the economy that is the financial column she feels like you know her remit basically is a dual mandate for fu

they have a regulation that accommodates religious objections. the supreme court has said to the administration, you should accommodate these religious objections, as well, in the same way. of course they will do so. >> woodruff: all right. well, continuing with your point you, were saying there are other reasons why... >> my second point is that there are very few corporations who will be able to make the showing that these corporations made that they really were founded in large part on religious principles. ibm, exxon, google, apple aren't going to be making those points. the third point is that there are very few laws like the affordable care act. this was a very unusual mandate imposed by the government, sown usual that the court came within one vote of striking it down altogether some this law does not have too many parallels. >> well, if we're going to count 5-4 decision, we came within one vote of having the traditional understanding of free exercise rights be upheld today. i think what's important is that kev season doing a valiant job o

we judge that a high degree of accommodation remains appropriate. three things. no real improvement in housing. she talks about participation rate being weaker tahhan it should be. she also talks about the modest wage gains. not enough to basically give her evidence that there is not more slack in the labor markets. on interest rates, again, she will talk about the taper likely to end. bond buying likely to end later on this year. the fed will keep rates at a record low for a considerable period. if the labor market continues to improve more quickly, than anticipated by the committee resulting in faster conversion towards justice, increases in the federal funds rate target will occur sooner. conversely, if the economic disappointing, then the future path of his tryst rates likely will be more accommodative than currently anticipated. she has a warning and her testimony towards the on on the subject of financial stability. she says most asset prices seem to be in line with historical norms. "in some sectors such as lower rated corporate -- valuations appear stretc

these -- a lot of these groups say that accommodation wasn't good enough. it still entangled them too much. those cases are still in the courts. and the question is: what in this decision might signal what will happen with those cases? and people are looking at it and seeing it both ways. some say, "oh the justices said they want to see an accommodation so that should be okay." and others say, "no, this hobby lobby decision will help those groups." that's still an open question. >> and also there's this whole idea of being able to discriminate, kevin. >> yeah. so all -- a lot of people in washington now are, have their eyes on the white house where the obama administration has said that they're going to issue an executive order banning discrimination against gays and lesbians for federal contractors. so that's not just federal employees, but that's groups like adoption agencies and social services agencies, and even relief groups that do work with the government. and the question is going to be is, how big of a religious exemption is there going to be, or i

that's in part why we have needed such an accommodative monetary policy for so long. the economy is making progress. i do believe it's making progress, and eventually if we continue, a day will come when i think it will be appropriate to begin to raise our target for the federal funds rate, but to the extent that even when the economy gets back on track, it doesn't mean these head winds will have completely disappeared. in addition to that productivity growth is rather low. at least that may not be a permanent state of affairs, but it's certainly something that we have seen in the aftermath. we've seen it during most of the recovery. that's a factor that i think is suppressing business investment and will work for some time to hold interest rates down. these concerns and these factors are related to what economists are discussing, including secular stagnation. the committee, when it thinks about what is normal in the longer run, the committee is recently slightly reduced on their estimates of what will be normal in the longer run. the median view on that is now someth

supported by accommodative monetary policy, waning drag from fiscal policy.ts of higher home prices and equity values and strengthening foreign growth. the committee sees the projected pace of economic growth as sufficient to support on going improvement in the labor market with further job gains, and the unemployment rate is anticipated to continue to decline towards its longer run sustainable level. consistent with the anticipated further recovery in the labor market and given that longer term inflation expectations appear to be well anchored, we expect inflation to move back towards our 2% objective over coming years. as always, considerable uncertainty surround our projections for economic growth, unemployment, and inflation. fomc participants currently judge these risks to be nearly balanced, but to warrant monitoring in the months ahead. i will now turn to monetary policy. the fomc is committed to policies that will promote maximum price stability consistent with our mandate from the congress. given the economic situation that i just described, we judge

al learned more fully in my statement, but the first as an accommodation with the west. tried to outline in my statement what might be the principal features of such big and one which does not meet the max will check to us of those in the last but certainly does love me the maximum objectives of russia would like to see the context of the eurasian union and hidden in a sense is strikes me as a possible of remark for an accommodation. he has the option of continuing more directly to destabilize the ukraine. he had done this recent. he could attend to it on a larger scale, but if he does to my rather expect it from what one of us specifically of the chancellor that acts of and more over and drastic type of a larger scale would precipitate the kinds of sanctions that have been planned and which the united states and like to see implemented center revelator. there are there. initial sanctions have since ominous signals. the third alternative is a complete shutdown militarily on the model perhaps of crimea but overlooking the reality that all of ukraine is far more complicate

he relies heavily on the existence of this accommodation, which is an entirely regulatory accommodationhave not looked at analysis on whether it is actually something the industry has the authority to do what it did, it is not something i've paid a lot of attention to. even if the only option were congressional action, that does not change what a justice's obligation is. misses the caller point of the comments. >> ok. we will go to charles next, independent caller. i would ask the lady and thee president democrats getting on tv and lying for two years straight to our face on tv about the affordable care act. host: what about it? caller: it was supposed to be so much better for everybody. they live straight to our face. women are leading the world in obesity and we killed more babies than anybody. host: i will just leave it there. guest: i am not sure i can really take on the mantle of the administration and defend their truth telling over the last how many years. i think they would probably point out that while there were probably hiccups with the getsut, that as it implemented, the ben

public accommodations was one of the major issues of the fact throughout the south african americans could not stay the night at a hotel, eat at a restaurant. that was one part. discrimination in the workplace. >> initial popes were considered to be weak and disappointing to the community. they didn't have any enforcement teeth. involved contractors, not the private sector in the beginning. >> voting rights? >> there's some, and not abolition of literacy test, but insistence they are the same, and the bill did not to state and local elections, just federal elections. provision to cut off funds to state and local programs that received federal money that were discriminated, that was controversial for some people, and making permanent the civil rights act, and establishing some other agencies of community relations service to help mediate disputes. those were the principle things, and the real heart and soul was the public accommodations section, principle and symbolic, affecting the daily lives of african-americans, and martin louiser king himself spent his honeymoon in the only place

public accommodations was one of the major issues of the fact throughout the south african americans could not stay the night at a hotel, eat at a restaurant. that was one part. discrimination in the workplace. >> initial popes were considered to be weak and disappointing to the community. they didn't have any enforcement teeth. involved contractors, not the private sector in the beginning. >> voting rights? >> there's some, and not abolition of literacy test, but insistence they are the same, and the bill did not to state and local elections, just federal elections. provision to cut off funds to state and local programs that received federal money that were discriminated, that was controversial for some people, and making permanent the civil rights act, and establishing some other agencies of community relations service to help mediate disputes. those were the principle things, and the real heart and soul was the public accommodations section, principle and symbolic, affecting the daily lives of african-americans, and martin louiser king himself spent his honeymoon in the only place

kind of accommodation would that be? well, i would document specifically, your question about ukraine or more generally? >> specifically, relative to ukraine? >> well it seems to me that increasingly, it is a fact and no longer speculation. that ukraine as an independent state, is going to be moving towards the west. that is the predominant predisposition of the ukrainian people. i think the regime that has now emerged ukraine is generally democratic and it is determined to correct the errors of the last 20 years for, i'm sad to say, over the last 20 years, ukraine has been governed very badly and i think that it is evident of concern that the regime that's dominated were self-serving and self-enriching and not dedicated to ukraine's well being. the use of force against ukraine by the russians was a stunning experience for the ukraineians. they have not been an thai russian historically. but over the last 20 years they have started to enjoy the fruits of independence. that's especially the case with the younger generatio

as you read the opinion, you see is trying to accommodate the decision that is trying to come to the unanimous result that it does. in the wording i'm sure that various judges had suggestions about wording and i think the chief justice was willing to accommodate all those suggestions to get a unanimous >> and what was your reaction to the fact that it was unanimous and also the reaction of the committee staff you're working with at this time? >> i had clerked at one point on the supreme court. it's so wonderful when the court speaks unanimously. when the court speaks unanimously, the opinion is the voice of wall. are 5-4,f the opinions or 6-3. it is a great statement of the principles and law of the country. personally, i thought that the special prosecutor was likely to prevail, but you couldn't be sure. surprised that the president went ahead and released the tape, it was called a smoking gun tape. but it deftly brought a quick and thehe process president's resignation. >> when you look back 40 years later, the victory of law and government power, what are the lessons from this? >>

to accommodate john boehner and the republicans in the senate, in the house, he i'll delay it. now john boehner says you didn't implement it. to sue you. going the irony is it's ridiculous. can't appease them one way or the other. president obama has implemented much republican legislation. they say he's bad for the economy. the white entered house, the -- wall street was at 8,000. it's 17,000. and they say he's bad for the economy? give me and the free thinking world a break. president obama is one of the most moderate democrats i've ever seen. host: another story making headlines this morning. u.s.a. today.

to accommodate these really new massive can. >> ships. i took several of my colleagues down to the panama canal to witness the construction. it looked like the great pyramids. they are gigantic. they will accommodate ships that are 160 feet wide. they are five and six stories high. they carry twice the cargo at half the cost. yet for a significant number of ports from the gulf of houston all the way up to maine, they can't birth in the sports -- in these ports. martin can tell you. governor haley can tell you. the state of georgia can tell you. port of savannah, it accommodates 278,000 jobs in that state. i forget the number in maryland, but it's gigantic. and yet we are diddling. you are doing all you can. you are attracting investments. the federal government is sitting on its hands because they can't get the so-called worker fell through and they finally got to overtime to figure out how to allocate those funds. i walked with governor quinn along the mississippi river, talking about the critical connection between rail lines, highways

opinion, you see that it is trying to accommodate various interests of the judges, trying to come, in my judgment, to a unanimous results, which it does, 8-0. i see in the wording, i am sure, that various justices had suggestions about wording and i think the chief justice was willing to accommodate all of those suggestions to get a unanimous result. >> what was your reaction to the fact that it was unanimous, and also the reaction of the committee staff that you are working with at the time? >> i had clerked at one point on the supreme court. it is so wonderful when the court speaks unanimously. when the court speaks unanimously, the opinion is the voice of law. everybody has agreed. many ofnow, today, so the opinions are 5-4 or 6-3 and to speak unanimously in this case, as they also did in another one of the 10 top cases, brown versus board of education, is a great statement of the principles and law of the country. i was pleased that it was unanimous. i think personally that i thought that the special prosecutor was likely to prevail , but you could not be sure. i was surprised tha

that's in part why we have needed such an accommodative monetary policy for so long. the economy is making progress. i do believe it's making progress, and eventually if we continue, a day will come when i think it will be appropriate to begin to raise our target for the federal funds rate, but to the extent that even when the economy gets back on track, it doesn't mean these head winds will have completely disappeared. in addition to that productivity growth is rather low. at least that may not be a permanent state of affairs, but it's certainly something that we have seen in the aftermath. we've seen it during most of the recovery. that's a factor that i think is suppressing business investment and will work for some time to hold interest rates down. these concerns and these factors are related to what economists are discussing, including secular stagnation. the committee, when it thinks about what is normal in the longer run, the committee is recently slightly reduced on their estimates of what will be normal in the longer run. the median view on that is now someth

his amendment was that it was amended from the public accommodation. i cannot remember if that got through or not. 150. one other thing. one other thing about covering it, i know and he is going to bring it up. back then they pay their reporters. to the base salary. $25 every time they were on the radio. 50 dollars or time they were on television. here i am five times before television. with up fromary about $400 a week to a little more than $2000. when i realized it my wife and i started a little remodeling will be for this filibuster started. in the middle of this i call my contractor. we had this in the senate press gallery. wehad it with the union and had typewriters. if i did not have too much to drink and i was still sober warning came to read a story, which was in my interest, i would go back after doing all this stuff and figure out what the story was the day. up. would always type it there are only six of us that were covering it. three on eachks, side. on the top of your story you would write in pr. -- npr. id ors night press rapo something l

to station accommodates about eight hundred thousand people per day so these are now working on the scene i was just there all spending by and a role that's one of the main roads in moscow used by the government and by the city citizens as well heavy traffic jam i've seen helicopters all the emergencies ministry there are dozens of the buses that are trying to accommodate all the people that need to get to work people are still being evacuated and there are a lot of police trying to organize the movement so for vehicles and people there as well and obviously merge into the ministry still working on evacuating the people and helping those at the scene and are rushing to the hospital as well ok thank you for. that one course of at the scene of the net and thank you. now a new global economic order is taking shape in the brazilian city of force allays in which he's hosting the leaders of the world's top five developing nations otherwise known as brics. is following the summit. well the brick summit may no begin until later on tuesday but russian president vladimir putin has already held bila

the high degree of monetary policy accommodation remains appropriate. >> specific areas of concern over the course of her testimony -- continuing slack in the labor market. she pointed to the low participation rate. growth.ted to slow wage she said on the housing front there has been little recent progress. likely can now plan most to end its bond buying program altogether in october, as expected. was pressed on exactly when the fed would raise interest rates, and was noncommittal beyond saying almost everyone at the fed thinks rates will start to rise sometime next year. formula, ando there is no mechanical answer i can give you about when the first rate increase will occur. it will depend on the progress of the economy, and how we assess it based on a variety of indicators. a point of saying, through the course of her testimony, that the fed would be to some extent gun shy, cautious about moving too quickly, because of the false dawns, signs of of them is him that had not played out. they want to be sure the economy has turned a corner before they had the liftoff on interest rates. sh

napster crisis and the central banks that are causing it now does the federal reserve while lee accommodative super low interest rates and bond buying program risk triggering the next world financial crisis the answer yeah likely yes so wednesday the federal reserve released its latest minutes from the june seventeenth and eighteenth open market committee meeting and the minutes show that if the economy progress is as the f o m c expects it will. the final reduction of asset purchases will occur following the f o n c's of tuber meeting the ultra easy monetary policy being employed by major central banks around the world has created the ultimate bubble and sovereign debt that's the big story that we're running with here now the new york times writes welcome to the everything boom and quite possibly the everything bubble around the world nearly every asset class is expensive by historical standards stocks and bonds emerging markets and advanced economies urban office towers and iowa farmland you name it and it is trading at prices that are high by historical standards relative to fundamentals s