the knicks thing about this downpayment assistance program -- the neat thing about this downpayment assistanceram, when these loans are repaid, they will go into our rental assistance pool. ñómmas the home buyers either sl or move on and repaid the city, they will be paid the loan -- repay the loan, we will put it back into our rental assistance loan pool. supervisor cohen: this fund of money, it is part of the agreement for the rebuilding of this particular project, correct? if there was no rebuild projects, we would not even be discussing the $29 million? >> absolutely. there is the $29 million for the affordable housing. this additional $29 million for the down payment assistance program. ieÑ -- the initial cpmc contribution towards affordable housing, if you total, a $58 million. that is in addition to the replacement housing fees key will be paying for &s÷Ñ the ren- controlled units. supervisor cohen: has there been any thought to put to helping san franciscans currently this money? as opposed to someone coming in from the outside? cpmc has done some testimony on the number of san francis

he acknowledges the fbi agents may be able too assist in sorting out -- to assist in sorting out leads from greenhalgh's facebook activity. >> it does play a key role in this case. we're working with facebook. >> reporter: in her last pose on facebook sarah made reference to sleeping with her windows open but hoping a bat [ bleep ] crazy boy wouldn't

this is humanitarian assistance not military aid. about 1/5 of our income goes to foreign assistance. now research shows in survey after survey that most americans think that we spend between 15% to 20% of our federal bug on foreign aid. and when asked how much we should spend on foreign aid about 5% -- i'm sorry, when people ask what we should spend most americans say we should spend about 5% of our federal budget on foreign assistance. so you can see most americans think we should be spending much more and they vs.ly underestimate how much we spend. what's absolutely certain is that our budget, our foreign assistance budget is not a cure for our federal deficit at all. we spent a total of about $30 billion in foreign assistance out of a budget of $3.78 trillion. so it's a very tiny share of our foreign -- federal budget. in terms of aid effectiveness most research has shown our aid does help reduce poverty. does help increase equality in general. it has led to economic growth and has helped to achieve some human development success

gainfully employed with good-paying jobs so they were no longer on assistance. and so that's what these two amendments do. they give the states greater flexibility in administering their tanf program under both the employment and training efforts that are so critical to get people back on their feet for jobs that exist today, not for jobs that no longer exist. the way it does it on the first amendment is to -- intended to broaden the eligibility requirements to those who can receive assistance while at the same time limiting the amount of funds that can be spent -- expended on behalf of that participant. as the food nutrition act of 2008 was written, only a program state agencies are prohibited from spending s.n.a.p. on the employment and training funds on those participants in tanf, this would provide that greater flexibility. therefore, the amendment is intended to provide an exception to the limitation for programs that are shown to raise nutritional levels of low-income families, and therefore, to increase their self-sufficiency as s.n.a.p. recipients. the s

passed -- senior assistant district attorneys as well as homicide assistant district attorneys. whenever there is a suspect in custody, we this into the interview, the witnesses in custody, to assist them in any way that we can to develop a very strong case that we can pursue any criminal court successfully. we also review all of the cases for charging and warrant requests. in every homicide case, our protocols involves been in contact the next morning with the homicide -- the lead homicide inspector. we obtain all of the victims information, the surviving family information. we out reached to those family members to provide monetary assistance as well as any counselling assistance required. we work closely with the victims compensation board, a state board, in order to be able to access restitution funds and money for funeral and burial, things that you do not think about right away when something like this happens. the victim services people and advocates are very involved with the families to make sure that everything we can do in terms of the wraparound services are working

are targeted to the families who need the assistance. similarly, most states have implemented categorical eligibility for s.n.a.p. which means that any household which benefits from a low income assistance program is automatically eligible for s.n.a.p. benefits. some of these benefits can be as simple as providing a household with a pamphlet or access to a 1-800 hotline number. when states implement categorical eligibility, these households do not need to meet the s.n.a.p. asset or gross income test. this program changes nothing for households that qualify for the program under the rules of the s.n.a.p. law. and those households will continue to receive the benefits level for which they qualify. families that receive cash assistance can still take advantage of categorical eligibility for s.n.a.p. but by ensuring only cash assistance triggers s.n.a.p. eligibility and not other benefits like brochures, we can save billions of dollars over ten years. we have also -- we're also trusting states to do their job in administering s.n.a.p. curren

there is an assistant patrol exhibit. the one you have in your hand here, which i was just handed, his department exhibit ernest tachihara -- department exhibit e. >> there was one in 2009 that had to do with a completely different purchase, that had nothing to do with an off list record, that was in the files of the store. when he made the purchase, he was mistaken about his status, but that is not the purchase involved here. there was another signed by mr. tachihara in the transaction. both parties agreed that mr. hanby filled out the form. it is not to the credit of my client that he signed the paperwork without examining it. >> i prefer to ask the question before you answer. that information is helpful. you have helped me distinguish. this one from 2009, which has no exemptions, it is not what we are talking about. i have seen your client before. i have certainly observed him. he is asian. he has black hair. he is about 5 foot 7 inches. i would say 170 pounds. i do not think there is any dispute that this is his signa

foreign assistance isn't tied enough to u.s. policy goals and the paramount u.s. policy goal in the post-9/11 era is keeping itself safe from terrorism and violent extremism and therefore all money that was spent, all programs that we have need to be looked at through the lens of how are they helping produce societies around the world that are less likely to produce the threats. each one of the critiques has elements of truth to it, and i think the aid community and the people who love it have spent too much time wishing those critiques away even though each of them, i believe, is fundamentally wrong. but they suggest real confusion about what aid actually is what it is, what it isn't and what we're promising the american people and what we're promising the recipients it will do and carrie has already laid this out and i'll put a little more of an edge on it because that's the joy of it not being in government, but we ourselves are often trafficking in mixed messages about those things and we need to understand that. so, you know, i, as an advocate have, for years

you mentioned assisted suicide laws.ffer from state to state and in most states it's illegal. >> that's right. in most states it is illegal. and so we've heard about these assisted suicide cases and i think dr. kevorkian brought this to the forefront but, again, it is usually a very over the act that takes place. i have not seen this kind of fact pattern, so it is unusual and i think many people will be following this because assisted suicide is something that does take place and what's also interesting in this case is this use of helium to assist in suicide or to take one's life. we've seen an uptick in that as well. >> sunny hostin, thank you. >> thanks. >>> a mystery illness is killing kids in cambodia. the doctors say they think they finally have a lead here. turns out a common childhood illness named enterovirus 71 may be to blame. 64 children have died some within hours of showing up at the hospital. a good number of them tested positive for this particular virus which is a common cause of foot-and-mouth disease. d

we continue to do outreach for who should em assistance -- mutual assist departments as far away as canada to restore power as soon as possible. we are doing tree trimming to help. we are continuing these efforts and we ask for our cuss merse' -- cuss merse z -- customers' patience. but with this much damage, it will take time. i spent a lot of time over the last couple of years visiting many areas in montgomery company and prince george, and dc, all over the service area, and the damage is devastating. there's large trees that have crashed down on homes and cars and our utility poles. i've seen areas today where a tree came down and snapped poles and the road is completely blocked. we saw a home last night on old georgetown road that had been crushed by a tree. i understand the sensitivity with respect to our customers but i can assure you that recovery source that we -- every resource that we have, we will bring those time. the current time, we have about 1500 resources committed to restoration of service for our customers. total for support personnel is about 2100. we made a total commi

equip is the principal source of financial assistance and cost share payments for agriculture producer who wish to implement conservation practices to meet or prevent environmental regulation. this has been one of the environmentally beneficial programs that usda has administered with producers in all 50 states participating to achieve the environmental benefits. the program's goal, of course, is to optimize environmental benefits by assisting producers in compliant, concerning soil, water and air quality while groundwater conservation. in rcs, influence equipped by establishing national priorities to reflect the most pressing and natural resource needs and to emphasize the offset benefits to the environment. state conservation must implement state priorities to implement local needs of the environment. air quality is one of the three top priorities in equip. congress does not need to mandate funding for one resource concern or another and bear this in mind. if you don't live in an area with air quality concerns with the adoption of this language you will have to compete with your fund

military assistant to president nixon. i encourage all of you, if you haven't been to yorba linda recently, please visit. and a very special welcome to an expert on pat nixon, julie nixon eisenhower. julie serves as a member of the board of the richard nixon foundation. pat nixon was admired and liked by a broad spectrum of people at home and abroad, regardless of their political leanings. she had a talent for connecting people and putting them at ease. no other first lady traveled so much until pat nixon set out into the world. sh traveled to over 75 countries, most famously china and russia with the president, but also on her own libera, venezuela, southeast asia and more. in 1970 her immediate and heartfelt trip to peru after a devastating earthquake earned her the gratitude of the people and the government. with a greeting heads of states, introducing herself to children, pat nixon was always a caring and gracious lady. now i will turn you over to sandy quinn, the vice president of the nixon foundation. he was an assis

and assistant patrol special officer exhibits 1, 2, and 4, exhibit 3 having been withdrawn during the hearing. your also provided a copy of the charges, the written and closing arguments from the department, a written penalty statement from the department, a post tiering brief, and a post hearing brief on penalty. those are the documents that were in the package provided by the commission secretary, if he wants to go ahead and take your statements now as to whether the remainder of you have read and considered all of those documents. >> i can clearly say that i have read the documents. but i do with hold on reading the penalty statements, because i did not want them to influence me before i decided on the merits. i figured we could take a break before we get to that. >> that is fine. >> i have read everything. >> i have read everything. >> yes, i have read everything. >> yes, i have read everything, i guess. >> and we still have a quorum for consideration of this case. >> all right. is there any other questions? thank you, counsel. i believe we have to discuss the case. i do not know

he was also his military assistant as vice president. he was commander in chief for the pacific fleet. knew the nixons very well and we are proud and delighted to have him here. and, of course -- [ applause ] >> and, of course, julie, who is author of the biography of her mother entitled "pat nixon, the untold story." and also worked with her husband, david eisenhower, in writing "going home to glory." a memoir of dwight d. eisenhower from the period 1961 to '69. ladies and gentlemen, your panel. [ applause ] >> well, i hope we can get that video working before we are done because it is really good. >> because he produced it. >> we take it for granted these days that senior government officials travel all around the world, but that hasn't always been true. so i think a great place to start today would be to ask you julie, who although was only 5 years old when her parents when on their first international mission of vice president pat nixon, because she's an authority of her mother and on the biography of her mother, "pat nixon: the unto

the case management assistance is always available the office of management assistance. the bulk of the proposed a distance -- proposed additions fall in the neighborhood development division. the neighborhood development division was very active in this past year. they were able to make 31 loan that create 83 jobs with just eight that rebels dollars -- $800,000. we opened a grocery store at several small businesses that have served as catalysts on third street and there are now weekly events happening and we continue the third street corridor business attraction at retention program. on that central market, the table tax and it has resorted it 450,000 square feet of new leases being signed. in the eight neighborhoods -- in eight of the new red districts we work in that participated marketplace initiative, they can see rates went down in a struggling economy and we take that to to the lark -- to the attention of our managers at the good works being done by stakeholders. that new initiatives -- supervisor avalos: on that -- supervisor chu: i have been out in my neighborho

my personal feeling is that assistant patrol specialist tachihara should be bending over backwards to make sure there is no confusion at all. that is the way i feel all the way around. with regard to personal weapons, with regard to identifying himself as an officer, with regard to sales. i am a little bit astounded. why would he relied on mr. hanby? why would he take his word that he could purchase the weapon in the first place? that does not make sense to me. he has the duty. he has the rules. he should have been over backwards to make sure there was no confusion with any of these things. that is just the way i feel. one and three are fine for me. i would vote yes on all of them. >> i think there is an issue with specification two. i do not agree with that. 23, i can see that. with the fourth be wearing the uniform? >> if it would help, i can read the relevant rule. >> for list -- for which specification? >> this is for specification four, uniform and equipment displays off duty. patrol specials and assistant patrol specials should not use any uniform or equipment item, including we

foreign assistance has been largely effective.ether or not we are using it as effectively as we possibly can and we have to look at the research to do that. we live today at the time of greatest development in the whole history of the world. the indicators of i have found most striking in terms of reduction of global poverty rates in the percentage of people who live under 1 dollar a day, who are in less less than 1 dollar a day since the beginning of history. that number as a share of our total population remains relatively steady until the industrial revolution as a share of the percentage of the population. it was relatively stable. after the industrial revolution, they share or the portion of people living in extreme poverty actually declined although with population growth the number of people living in extreme poverty actually increased until about 1980. in 1980, that is when the dramatic changes really happened. between 1980 and 1995, there was a huge reduction and poverty rates from 1.5 billion to 800 million. that was a d

waynestein served as an assistant u.s. attorney in both the southern district of new york and in the district of columbia. later he served as the u.s. attorney in d.c., and then was assistant attorney general for national security. he served as fbi director robert s. muller's chief of staff, and then as president george w. bush's homeland security adviser. he received his undergraduate degree from the university of virginia and his law degree from the university of california at berkeley. mr. nathan sales is an assistant professor of law at the george mason university school of law. before coming to george mason, sales was deputy assistant secretary for policy development in the u.s. department of homeland security. he previously served as counsel and senior counsel in the office of legal policy that the u.s. -- at the u.s. department of justice. he was the john m. olin fellow at georgetown university law center in 2005 and 2006. from 2003 through 2005 he practiced at the washington, d.c., law firm of wiley, rhine, and fie

somalia where the african union mission force has been in the last two and a half years greatly assisted by u.s. and european. militaries i mean holding up the peter as it is the african union isn't willing to do it why then should the united states do it i mean if the united states want to point i should it be determining that you go right ahead go ahead let me answer that two points first the african union is willing but it's not capable there's a difference between the willingness to do something and the ability to do so secondly in some cases even if it were not willing and those are few and fair fairly far between there the u.s. as any other great power has its own interests and those interests give it a right to act in the sense of those interests now in central africa we have instances where at the invitation of local governments the u.s. has actually gone in where does not have a director interest northern uganda james's example the ugandan military along with that of the central african republic and the so-called democratic republic of the congo have been unable to deal with jos

the idea is these two full-time employees would be out in the neighborhood nearly every day assisting small businesses who are too busy or small to take a timeout to come to city hall to work out a problem. the idea is these folks would be highly trained to do outreach and education around assistance programs of all sorts, whether it is reviewing rates are tax benefits are department of environment assistance -- and the thing this city has to offer, they would be educated on how to address a business's ability to address it. they would also be able to provide rapid assistance to neighborhoods detrimentally affected by various occurrences or, if you take valencia's street -- valencia's street for example, we have well-trained folks that could have gone out after the night of vandalism and assess what was needed and delivered city services effectively. these folks would also be able to identify and escalate bigger issues and served as a front line for identifying systematic issues small businesses are facing and bring them to policymakers. one issue we hear a great deal about as large c

and to assist using the limited enforcement resources we have the night of. as far as are influencing the event -- >> that is not a one-day event, correct? >> my point is that you cannot help to improve it, but we can impose these improvements. >> i wanted to make a comment about think saturday. it is run completely by the sisters and funded by them. talking with them and being involved in their organization, they are extremely overwhelmed with manpower and do not have the resources. i think it would be great if we could somehow offer them assistance because i think they are looking for it and i think they understand the issues. all of a sudden, they are planning for this yvette and there is no support for them. i think they are looking for support and ways to change it to make it more positive. i think they are a little bit confused as to how to do that. >> we are happy to assist if you would like to do some interface as well. supervisor wiener's office is interested in improving the event. and then any other external groups that might also assist with finan

we also requested an attorney and a legal assistant to assist us with a dedicated consumer protection unit that we happen to believe will be cost effective and will pay for itself over the course of the entirety of this two-year budget cycle. as most of you are aware, we had a long history of doing affirmative litigation in the city attorney's office that has always been supported by the mayor's office and board of supervisors throughout the course of my tenure. it resulted from an effort started by my predecessor where we used affirmative litigation to receive tobacco money, to which extend we still get $50 million a year. i have continued that tradition and you have continue to support that, i'll be -- albeit subject to reductions over the past several years. last year, i back filled through some settlements i had to make sure there was money stay in constant but less reliance on the general fund. it has been something that has paid dividends for the general fund of the city and county of san francisco. for example, last year, i spent $1.5 million of previous settlement money that i

the appraisal foundation stands ready to assist in any way they can assist this effort. thank you. >> thank you so much. >> good morning. i thank you for the opportunity to testify. nar represents more than 100 million real estate officials including 30,000 licensed and certified appraisers. i go my frank. i do not speak french. i'm a realtor but earn my living as a real estate appraiser. my qualifications are detailed in my written testimony. nar believes a strong independent profession is important to real estate consumers and the industry and vital to restoring faith to the mortgage origination process. appraisals are critical for the housing market recovery. there's no question about the importance of appraisals in real estate and mortgage transactions. a credible valuation by a competent, licensed or certified professional provides benefits to the lender, borrower and secondary markets. public trust in the real estate profession is enhanced. there are obstacles to preventing realization of these benefits. among obstacles is weakened appraiser competency. the asserti