the knob hill association is the oldest and one of the largest associations in san francisco and entirely volunteer organization. i'm a member of the board and chair of the committee. we have many members in our membership. our members reside and own properties in the neighborhood in particular on california and many of our members own property across the street from the masonic. the knob hill association supports the project. we are urge the board of supervisors to approve the project and deny. at that time we had a concern that the nature of events at the masonic would put too much strain on the neighborhood and the traffic would have a negative effect on the park. the association and the masonic settled the suit in 2013 agreeing on a number of things including the number of events and you heard greg say. the opening and closing of times, controls of service of beverage and support for maintenance at the park. the conditions at the planning department and board of supervisors have placed on the permit are consistent with our settlement agreement. we also find that the masonic and live n

association or a.p.a. in two thousand and five it followed the recommendations of its task force on psychological ethics and national security or and. so for us the question is not whether psychologists may be involved in these process he's it how psychologists may be involved in these activities in an ethical manner we know from records and accounts of what went on at the task force that there was not never was there a question a discussion about whether it's ethical for a psychologist to participate in these interrogations that that was assumed from the very first moment the a.p.a. has never except when absolutely forced to by. by the public record that they're even problems in the policy psychologist profession has been intimately involved with the military intelligence establishment something that sort of invisible to all margin number of practical psychologist. a.p.a. officials appointed a task force guaranteed to approve psychologist involvement in detainee interrogations. dr morgan banks helped to w

blake man did come to our neighborhood association. i'm not exactly sure when, but it had to have been at least 4 years ago because presidential terms are 2 years and we've been through at least two more presidents since i was president. he came, he spoke, he promised we would hear from him and we never have although the boxes are already sprouting in our neighborhood. one of the things i learned today according to the guideline 18 the facility shall not be in front of boundaries or open space. now i understand also hearing further that that was because when it was originally proposed the original proposal was it couldn't have hit the park but evidently when they did a walk around a box walk, they decided to -- nobody actually that might be a convenient place to put it but nobody knows where it didn't both everybody. so what i'm saying is we can move this box not out of the neighborhood but if we can find a place in finding solutions. we are in a neighborhood where we have done graffiti clean up and we have the people there that are vo

there is a speaker card for the association. since i have sent all of what you have in your hands electronically which covers a great deal of identification of general problems and identification of possible solutions, i'm going to make this two minutes anecdotal. where one of the appealed projects that are coming up before the board of appeals in glen park on wednesday. the presentation the department of department public works said today, i maybe wrong but it's definitely work talking with them about getting their website up to snuff so they can get the information. the notice that at&t gave on the process of appeal was incorrect. we asked them to correct it and renotice and they said no and so far the department of public works did not require that when it was brought to their attention. that was anecdote. i agree with mr. blake man about the dpw restrictions and the fact that when a neighborhood asks for an alternate sites should be considered. city land, we believe the city land ought to be an option. dpw owns land, puc own

now, what happened on the settlement it was large organizations that knob hill association. you will hear from barrett, she's the expert. it's been a very contention manner. there are people concerned about getting involved at this point. the fact that we don't have 20 percent is no indication that one is that the project has been properly analyzed. of course that issue stands on its own, two, the nature of the contention of the neighborhood on the project has been squashed and quelled some of the enthusiasm as before. president david chiu: we have the knob hill coalition and you are representing the knob hill neighbors. from my perspective the knob hill nation representing thousands of residents and the they are representing the neighbors and they were parties to the lawsuit, is that correct? >> i can't speak to what exactly that was. the inference that the knob hill neighbors and the knob hill >> the association and the coalition were parties to the lawsuit and they settled after many consensus after the party. your clients are knob hill neighbors and it's my understanding

psychological association or a.p.a. in two thousand and five it followed the recommendations that its task force on psychological ethics and national security or and. so for us the question is not whether psychologists may be involved in these process he's it how psychologists may be involved in these activities in an ethical manner we know from records and accounts of what went on at the task force that there was no never was there a question a discussion about why there was ethical for psychologists to participate in these interrogations that that was assumed from the very first moment the a.p.a. has never except when absolutely forced to by. by the public record that they're even problems in the policy psychologist profession and has been intimately involved with the military intelligence establishment something that's sort of invisible to all marge number of practical psychologist. a.p.a. officials appointed a task force guaranteed to approve psychologist involvement in detainee interrogations. dr morgan banks helpe

the association would be required to notify states when agents and brokers apply for membership. letting states notify narab of any reason membership should not be granted for a producer. additionally, because the association would be in communication with all state rirgts, this notification measure would prevent bad actors from simply moving to another state because the record would follow them. states will also have significant control over narab, the nonprofit association would be governed by a board of directors dominated by state insurance regulators and chaired by a state insurance regulator. the senator from oklahoma's amendment also implies that this legislation somehow imposes unfunded mandates on states or compels states to take some action, and this isn't the case. the legislation also ensures that states remain responsible for the oversight and day-to-day regulation of the insurance marketplace. states will maintain exclusive control over regulation and marketplace activities, consumer protection requirements, unfair trade practices, and other important areas. under t

we both agreed to push you bilateral consultations at expert level on the eastern partnership s association agreements and the economy consequences on both sites. as a concrete and telling example of the huge potential for all i would repeat what i said last saturday was so in one nine hundred ninety to prosperity levels where the same in potent and ukraine and today poland least three times more prosperous than ukraine and here i am only talking of economic dimension. as association agreements including free trade agreements between european union and partners like moldova georgia or ukraine or forty compatible with russia's existing trait arrangements we he's countries to trade agreements can't interact constructively with the customs union as long as w t o rules are applied and free decision making is guaranteed and we expect that is sessions with moldova and georgia have made vinnie use would be confirmed with a signature of these agreements by early alton at the latest european union is closely following the developments in ukraine and strongly condemns firelands we call for restraint

credit union national association, national association of realtors, american bankers association, manufactured housing institute, and the american land title association. >> thank you, madame chair. thank you, gentlemen. your testimony today and for your responses to a lot of good questions. i want to say thank you for what you intend to provide for constituents and for americans across the country. i just find it unfortunate that in today's economy that we're seeing americans being squeezed harder and harder from every different direction, whether it's trying to get a home loan to buy either a new home or upgrade into another home or whether it's health care, whether it's their job seeing stagnant wages, this economy is not working for the american people. and listening to the testimony from you all today, obviously we hear that your customers and consumers across the country are in for another surprise. i would like to drill down into dti a little bit if you could give us some of your thoughts. i found it interesting that cfpb of course sets the threshold for debt income at 43% but the feder

that time hotels association told nhk. bookings for the capital in the first month of two thousand fourteen. maybe down the quarter compared to the same month last year the association includes over two hundred hotels across bangkok. the association says thailand's key tourist month of december and january had been hurt by the anti government demonstrations that intensified in november dentistry is a demanding that time is like no one immediately step down. she is already dissolved the lower house of parliament has called a snap election but that the race and pants. and the protest is planned to bring bank on to a standstill on january the team. i mean intersections and preventing government offices from functioning in the eighties aimed at toppling the month administration. the hotels association says bookings around the state of the shutdown. i down by almost half compared to the same month last year. in addition the thai foreign ministry says at least forty countries have issued travel advisories for thailand. a fine ye

kathleen is also at our meetings and she's just hired me to work on north beaches association and last night i got to witness her passion for small business owners and how she mediated the rfp board meeting and in terms of the local small businesses come first. i strongly endorse her to be reappointed. thank you >> thank you. >> good afternoon. i'm susan landry i'm with the animal connection on chestnut street. we've had the privilege of knowing kathleen we'll we've had a problem with a chain store moving into our neighborhood and she helped us shows passionate about small business owner and i hopefully recommend you endorse her for small business owner commission. thank you >> thank you. >> hi, good afternoon. i'm shelf for the last four years identify worked upstairs in the mayors i've worked for the small business owner administration and served as president for the north small business owner association. we've worked together on so many issues so rather than noticing the small issue i'd like to talk about the long-term issues. we started out with president david chu and we'll met t

francis association. san francisco. i also support of the continuance. i did not understand until a couple of days ago we could comment on the counterpart sections and i need more time. policy 1.6 should sad add a reference such as a is it fair to say wood so single-family homes could be maintained in san francisco. we just celebrated our citizen technology in 2012 as a single-family neighborhood in san francisco and those are the types of neighborhood that should be encouraged in san francisco. muni is unequal able to serve our population during the rush hour. normally 20 minutes to downtown, however, during rush hour trains stop and muni can't get the number of cars they need. you sit there in the middle of the tunnel sometimes 5 minutes at a time and my husband hearsay fainted twice. during the regular days that takes 20 minutes take 40s minutes or longer. we have density and a transportation problem. i used to work in belmount shores and the trip took 20 or thirty minutes now it takes over an hour i quit that just but i was disappointed my commute in

i'm a member of the university terrace association. i believe that neighborhood would be an example of our future based on this design. and i think that i'll give you an example we live already with very tall, large, dense, micro living units they're called dormitories and there are thousands even if people who live near our neighborhood our neighborhood is rh one and two. to give you an example i live in a dui perplex the change in rh two would significantly reduce the quality of life for us. if there were more people than the four people below us there is no way to have somebody who is ill in a situation like that or the cost of having nor density where we bear the cost is over $400. so i'm trying to provide you with some realistic view. today, i took muni to get here. i was on a bus with two different who cares. there would not enough room for people standing. last night when i came on muni, of course, i'm disabled i can't see my feet because of this mechanism. but i'm disallowed to come from the front of the bus and a hang on with

i'm gail bar from the neighborhood association. what i would like to address today is the demolition of the site. there are several conditions that i think have not been discussed regarding the safety and use of the site in the interim when this property is demolished. we have many examples of properties that remain vacant or have remained vacant and nothing that helps us understand that the developer is going to keep it safe. we have a homelessen campment right now and the homeowner is not addressing that. we have a church on one corner where we don't know what role the developer will play in terms of a vacant site of what will happen and could stay vacant for more than a year. that's my comment. supervisor scott weiner: thank you. mr. washington? >> my name is ace washington. i'm a long time community activist. i go back 25 years in our community. i go back where i used to lobby with our liberal white groups, the bank. now we have 20 years later a new community in the western district. what i'm confused about this is the fifth di

and forced association but it is one that the supreme court has spoken to some four decades ago. and the case. as you mentioned it's about the state of illinois would this have been the cations on you means nationwide the more narrow but very significant implication is that the organization of this type of work or at least home care workers is probably one of the biggest organizing successes of the last twenty five years by unions so in california illinois oregon washington these workers have organized and it's a very rapidly expanding occupation and the population is aging more people wish to be cared for at home as opposed to an institution so as unions organize these workers at the same time there were more and more of these workers. a million workers nationwide have been organized under these types of laws so the notion that you have these laws are unconstitutional or that the linchpin of what makes organizing and representation successful that is the ability to have everyone pay the cost and not impose a cost only on members is threatened by this litigation that's the narrow

the national association of counties, the national league of cities, and the california state association of counties. currently we are sharing those expenditures with the enterprise departments. we understand that the california state association of counties has raised their fee by an additional $40,000. i will work with the committee in january to discern whether or not the committee is interested in funding that increase in the department's budget. second to last, information technology. the department needs a new file server at a cost of 14,000 and maintenance for our aab, online system, which phase 1 is completed and we are now moving into phase 2 and we're on target for that project. we will need an additional 24,000 for that project. and finally, other recommendations by the committee, i'm happy to work with the committee as well as members of the board over the next several weeks to ensure that further guidelines that the department is interested in seeing be placed in the budget is, in fact, prepared so that when they bring it back to you in january, it will be close to being com

the national association of manufacturers. the nfl is a brand. it doesn't represent football. it doesn't have anything to do with high school football, or arena football, or college football. it is a brand representing the teams, the very highly profitable teams, and that's different than a broad association of groups of people, the national skiing association or something, that represented a whole sport. this is a brand. and i think that's what really -- what the difference is. >> so what kind of -- this bill that you introduced, what kind of support does it actually have in the u.s. senate? a lot of times, look, i note that this bill is being sponsor bid two guys who do not have nfl franchises in their states. is there going to be a divide we see states with football and states without the nfl? >> well, i don't know. that'll be kind of an interesting question. but, you know, if you have king and coburn, that's a lot of muscle right there. we just sent a "dear colleague" letter out the day before yesterday, and so we don't really know what kind of support we're going to get.

tell me give a warm welcome to the photographers of the associated press. [applause] >> we will run through some packages and have a little conversation and ask some questions. [inaudible conversations] [silence] [but silence] [silence] [silence] [silence] [silence] [silence] [silence] [silence] [silence] >> why don't we move to the middle? [applause] >> clearly an extraordinary selection of images from the book from the war in vietnam which is what we are and gathered here to talk about this evening. i thought it might be useful to put this work into will little bit of context with the ap's history. for those not familiar with the associated press is a not-for-profit cooperative news organization founded in 1846 during the mexican-american war as a way for newspapers to share the cost and logistics of coverage of that conflict and the ap since 1846 has covered just about every conflict known to man and so we have a very intimate and longstanding relationship to warfare and armies and conflict around the world. the cooperative is don't buy 1500 u.s. newspap

and i understand how it works, and some of the benefits and some of the limitations associated with this and there are certain out come because you have 100 percent design and you know what that is going to look like. the market place very much knows what that looks like. but there is a lot of limitation to this in particular, that there is no integration, design or construction, and you have kind of everything in the separate silos and they are not talking to each other to any degree, and it has cost overruns and cost and littation and little risk transfer that is associated with this and so it is something that we know what that is and it is commonly used. and so the next one to talk about, is construction manager at risk and slightly different than what you are doing for phase one in that, in a cmart and there is a gnp and a guaranteed maximum price that is associated with that. here, the designer and the contractor are hired early, and very, very early in the process. and they are very integrated and very collaborativive in nature so you are working things out but you know that i wil

former governor dean, tell us about these governor associations, the democratic governor association, the republican governor association. what is it like for chris christie to be president of that association with these kinds of investigations on his back? >> it is a problem. he's got to go all over the country raising money and recruiting candidates and shoring up the candidates he already has. so it's a big time commitment. interestingly enough, i was actually chair of both the dga and eventually the ng -- the national governors, actually first. the nga, while it's more prestigious, is not nearly as time-consuming. it's a very partisan job, and on chris christie's shoulders rests the maintenance of the democratic -- of the republican governors trying to keep their majority. >> going to something that assemblyman greenwald just said about chris christie promising in his press conference to be conducting his own hands-on investigation within his governor's office, we haven't heard a word about it since, and we see him flying around the country for the republican governors association