i had an idea, based on an installation that i saw in europe. i am struck by the fact that there are more children in the tenderloin than anywhere in san francisco. people are amazed by this. it is a wonderful opportunity down here. by law, it will be impossible to dislodge all of these folks and replace it with real estate, condos, dentists, not that there is anything wrong with them. but you know. they are not going to be dislodged, they live here. >> we expect development, we like that. the tender line is approach development. -- tenderloin is pro- development. >> this is just a kind of thing. this is just an idea rattling in my head. we may not do this. we like to do things radically. we like to go to the root of things. what if he went to the families and kids, and with great respect for all the institutions that exist, -- you see, i saw this thing in holland. little glass canisters, and they would talk to all of the young people at this festival. they said, pick one sound that is really important to you. and that is a radical notion. who i

sort of congressional vote or congressional action if it came in came from that but that kind of an idea would never flow through the treasury department and be

>> i think that's an idea whose time has passed. we've had three housing tax credits. i think the first couple rounds were pretty helpful. they brought an end to the housing crash. but i think homeowners are getting to the point or potential home buyers are getting to the point where they'll stop buying and wait for next housing tack credit, so it's becoming counterproductive. folks in the real estate industry are not supportive of that idea. >> susie: mark, a big part of the whole problem... i mean, these proposals all sound good, but a big part of the problem is this crisis of confidence. what do you think has to happen to restore consumer confidence so they feel good about buying a home? >> well, the key here is i think that policy-makers need to remain aggressive in responding to the problems that we face. the administration, congress has to follow through on the debt ceiling deal and continue on with deficit reduction. the federal reserve has to remain very aggressive in keeping long-term interest rates down. and the european policy-makers have to be aggressive in

two men can be foolish but hardly mad. 10 men sharing an idea begin to action. 100 draw attention as fanatics. 1,000 in society begins to tremble. 100,000 and there is war abroad. and the cause has victories tangible and real. and why only 100,000? why not 100 million and peace upon the earth? you and i who agree together, it is we who have to answer that question." it's not just one or two of us who have this idea in our head that we need to restrict congress' borrowing power because that power has been so severely abused over such a long period of time. it's three out of every four americans, and i urge each of my colleagues in the senate and each of our counterparts in the house of representatives to join the american people in at least the same proportion in supporting the idea that never again should we raise the debt limit without a balanced budget amendment in place. this is a permanent, long-term problem. it requires a permanent solution. the only permanent solution is that which involves an amendment to the constitution. thank you, mr. president. a senator: mr. president. th

colleagues sophie maxwell and now working with malia cohen, the community came together to put forth an idea of putting an incredible chondria of young, diverse, linguistically-proficient individuals -- the men who women -- the men and women who stand behind me -- to make sure our families, seniors, and young people are safe. this is the type of best thinking that we have when the private sector and public sector and nonprofit sectors come together. i want to thank other local nonprofits that have been working for years to think of creative solutions to be a part of this. when we come together, we are at our best in the city. i could not be more pleased to join the mayor and my colleagues, supervisor cohen, all of the city officials, the chiefs in being able to talk about a program that should hopefully make us say for decades to come. we will keep working. we all recognize that this program is only one part of other programs that we need to think about here. we need -- we know that the south is part of the city needs more resources, and i for one, along with all of us here, know that we wan

this is not a new idea but typical of hurst it was an idea that he seized and pushed to the limit. >>> a hurst newspaper was essentially three things, headline, comics and sports. hurst would latch on to a single story and blast it into the public with relentless glee. for days, the headlines would breathlessly glare out the day's latest. if the news wasn't interesting enough on its own merit then a hurst reporter would make it so. for example, without knowing yet exactly why a preacher ran off with his 18-year-old ward, a hurst reporter wrote that the man was written by a love microbe that strangely enough seemed to exist only in the long island neighborhood where the preacher lived. the preacher wound up killing himself. there is the story of the hurst reporter who sought a photo of a dead girl. the reporter proceeded to set a fire in the back of the house. when the mother fled, he sneaked into the house and stole the dead girl's picture. do we have here an intrepid reporter or a heartless thief. a hurst newspaper gave you all this and more. from sports to comic favorites like maggi

i wrote a little thing about how this is an idea, how our world should work. it should have printmaking, archiving, a gallery. it should have a retail store. in 1972, i wanted to have art sales, point-of-sale at the grocery store. >> so you go through the manifesto. with the bay area should have. you are making art incredibly accessible in so many different ways, so that is a good segue. let's take a walk around the facilities. here we are in your gallery space. can you tell me about the current show? >> the current show is jeff chadsey. he is working on mylar velum, a smooth, beautiful drawing surface. i do not know anyone that draws as well as he does. it is perfect, following the contours and making the shape of the body. >> your gallery represents artists from all over, not just the bay area, an artist that work in a lot of different media. how to use some of what you look for in artists you represent? >> it is dependent on people are confident with their materials. that is a really important thing. there is enough stuff in the world already. >> you also h

not here speaking to you as someone who grew up in a very middle class society it this is this is an idea that we can bring the rich for all of our problems back is an excuse that's not an explanation so much that bridge that britain has rich people america has rich people what do you should be a social aspiration for us to ascend the ladder we will not get richer if we say we're going to pull the rich people down this is an idea that there is no shared sacrifice there is the austerity measures that we've implemented there is a new bank levy we are sharing the pay in the top two percent of the usa or the us other than the fifty percent of the overall thought of all people in the u.s. don't pay for drilling comes out so that's another another misnomer also what do you consider poverty i can sort of poverty someone who can't afford to feed their kids however if we look at why the american standards of poverty there is an x. box in the house there is two cars there is mobile phones there's the i've heard ok that is not politics and i want to get to what you said about about america i want to

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actually, michele bachmann has an idea, but it sounds to me like a great idea. michele bachmann has an idea to create 1,500 new jobs in the city of big lake, minnesota, by providing funding for something called the big lake rail park, a project she notes that will enhance economic development and job opportunities in this rural minnesota community. there's 1,500 jobs right there at the big lake rail park. we know michele bachmann wants these jobs because of the intrepid sam stein at "the huffington post," he filed the freedom of information request to find out if while presidential candidate michele bachmann was denouncing the stimulus as, in her words, an orgy of spending, was she also asking for stimulus funding for her district at the same time? because regardless of what she was saying publicly for political effect, she actually knows this is the way that government can create jobs. was she saying something in public that contradicted what she was doing in private? yes, over and over again. sam stein was able to dig up 16 separate occasions where michele bac

. >>> you see it making its way into important museums that gives you an idea of how big it is. >> why the line between vandalism and art is more hazy than ever before. >>> and temperatures cooler than the average by a good stretch today. we are down into the low 60s in hayward, 57 and windy in san francisco. we do have a store. yomiur sev en-d your seven-d is comiayng up. p. >>> modern graffiti has been popping up on everything from highway signs to dumpsters for decades. but recently, especially here in california, it's become a hot kmod itty in the art world, hanging in museums and selling for bic bugs. as nbc's lee cowan reports, that's reporting some to wonder where to it draw the line between one man's vandalism and one's artistic expression. >> reporter: when with an lapd detective a cop, he never thought he would be an art critic. but as a member of l.a.'s graffiti task force, he now polices the vast canvas that is the inner city. >> there have been some cases made out of fingerprints from -- rnc >> reporter: off the cans. >> yeah. >> reporter: to him, graffiti is vandalism, ev

the tropical storm wind probabilities, as we talked about for several days now, this gives you an idea area that's going to be likely to be impacted by at least tropical storm force winds while irene makes its trek up the eastern seaboard. and wherever those tropical storm force winds last for hours and we have the saturated ground, that's the area we're going to be focusing on for the wind damage associated with trees coming down and the like. next slide, please. this is our probability of storm surge gauged off our 4-foot exceedance. right now the highest probability storm surge is you might expect is where it's actually happening. i also want to point out the likelihood of exceedi ining 4 f and the upper ends that come into james river and the chesapeake and the ocean in the norfolk hampton roads area, and then some parts of the lower chesapeake have a chance. the upper chesapeake, on this track in our current forecast is not looking like it will have the kind of a flood issue you saw with isobel. maybe some small water rise as the storm approaches, but the winds will actually swing

. >> at one point did you come across them isn't as an idea, as an intellectual moment in history? >> it was, actually i was at yale and an art major. i do know a lot about contemporary literature but i took a class on contemporary women poets. and it was great. we read mostly lesbian poets. there was a woman named joy whose poetry i just love. there was a collection, i was looking at it today and she does repetitive thing which i'm doing now that i had realized that but we had horses, each line starts with we had horses. beautiful and intense story. is something about her work and how she incorporated the landscape that i find myself doing now. also a very wide open since of the world. do something, i had never read poetry like that. there was also a remember a japanese-american woman poet, and she had a book of poems which refer to the world war ii camps with the japanese were sent to gaza first place i'd seen the camp that my mother had been sent to that her family had been sent to, written about. and that was very kind of eye opening, you can write about this stuff and it's all

still in the tight-knit stateside communities where they're based, everyone has an idea what these quiet heroes are about and the extraordinary dangers they face. tonight those communities feel a deep sense of loss. miguel almaguer has the latest. >> reporter: tonightance as you mentioned, this is where loss is being felt. in coronado, california, where the navy s.e.a.l.s train, sorrow and grief. >> it was devastating. absolutely devastating. had i first heard it i wondered if maybe it wasn't a retaliation if they were aware who was onboard the helicopter. >> it took me a while to sink in. then when it did i felt like i was melting. i didn't know what to say or do. >> reporter: with 30 american troops killed in afghanistan today, 22 belong to one family. the navy s.e.a.l.s. >> go! >> reporter: they are the best of the best. special operations teams so elite, 80% of those who begin training doethts make the cut. >> we like when it cuts. >> reporter: the navy pushes the s.e.a.l.s beyond the limit. mental toughness, physical fitness and extreme courage, not just requirements for the job but

does not mean that everything about it is untrue it is an idea or a story which is partially true and most of the things i say in terms in the book is that it's not a good thing to believe things which are not wholly true now that basically two parts to my thesis one is that historically. people in the united states exaggerated how different they are an outside how exceptional to world history and that the history of the united states and many many important ways has been part of larger movements larger ideas the protestant reformation the enlightenment there are all kinds of political and legal ideas which came from europe but also such great historical movements as the competition between the british and french and in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries industrialisation the industrial revolution all of these things so to present the united states is somehow created by only american events and ideas such as you know massachusetts puritanism or french or jackson turns i just the frontier seems to me to be distorting history that's the one second that it was probably more controv

you could have the architect or designer early so they can give you an idea how much it will cost. typically they can say if i turn this room to a restaurant you need 300 square foot based on the size you have in your budget. that information to help get them started so it's not a surprise later. >> i encourage people to get an architect involved early o. i see architectural problems that could be resolved my not renovating the space or starting out by saying, we need to have a second exit and that will take a lot of square footage, here's how you might solve it. the architectural problems are significant time and money issues. okay. tip 2, develop an effective business plan. how does one develop a business plan? what is a business plan? >> i business plan should have a financial component for construction and preopening. have a financial component what you expect your profit and loss statement to look like. many have that experience those wlo don't there are on line tools to do that. the thing underestimate indeed opening a restaurant is the business plan should have a marketing p

ideas? >> you should talk about seneca. the >> senate the village was an african-american community with 264 people. it was right about across from the national history museum is where it was and it was one of the many places that was raised, purchased through eminent domain but ultimately raised to make central park. the first thing i should mention is olmstead cleared a bunch of structures but wasn't involved in the land acquisition and driving out of people. yankee great joe paterno and helped drive people off the land. have to go after former yankee great's relative on that one. olmstead, it is a very valid argument you make that there was something -- olmstead had noblesse of the day -- oblige. he was egalitarian. he wanted to condescend to people who were the lower classes, quote, and give them rightful entertainment and rifle diversion. there was some element of that. you have to put him in the context of his time and give him credit for in kent. his intent with central park and his other park creations was that these be egalitarian places. he reall

. >> give us an idea. if you get a view, it will be different -- >> shore. the value of a simple remodel verses a very fancy kitchen remodel in a house that might be worth more than a condominium. those things can matter. it can make a difference. >> we have a request from one of our viewers to make sure we talk about -- home-improvement results and building taxes. >> accessible. >> the other thing that might be brought out his people over- improved. there is a fine line. i recommend that my client or anyone talk to realtors before they start. it is a good idea to get an idea of that neighborhood, that house, and how it can be done. >> page 22 of the handout, spend an hour with the pro. talk about what the value means and how it will add value to your home, or if it will be over spending on something that maybe you can do without. >> exactly. >> it is very important to know why you are doing it. are you doing it to add value? will you live there for 20 years and you want a nicer kitchen? it cost $20,000, but only as $15,000 in value. it is different than if

i would like to get an idea from lafco or p.u.c.'s staff side the level of assertiveness so people were thoroughly briefed when they took hold in their power of position. >> there were -- mike campbell once again with the sf p.u.c. one of the parts of the presentation i skipped over was about the numerous presentations made in public about lafco and s.f. p.u.c. so there have not been many votes the current commissioners have taken on this matter. there have been public presentations. there also have been some private briefing that's i know of. but perhaps if this is a broader issue, it should be taken up at the giant p.u.c. lafco meeting. >> when is the joint meeting, sfleeze >> we don't have a date. it is something we started talking with mike about today. but i am serious about going to meet on our own -- hopefully with mike, with each commissioner, to talk about what their concerns are. as to the joint meeting, i did have a conversation with the -- with ed harrington about trying to set up their special meeting in august, which is