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and it almost was like a shotgun and a billiard hit and another billiard.are true with a handgun when he heard it [laughter] >> henry: plastic was a effort to save our resources and at this point, they balance between benefit and hazard. how would you balance it? >> both are there. both plastics are great material, fantastic but we use of them far too often. and misguided, foolish waste. styrofoam. it is a great material for insulation and even in building. it can keep a house warm, cool, and it lasts forever. durable material that is going to be used once however, if you or going to be using that for only once and perhaps a styrofoam cup. >> henry: it is biodegradable possibility. >> you can make it but it is often times and not that successful. >> henry: that it would disappear. what would the world be like without plastic. >> you and i would be really embarrassed right now [laughter] and with hospitals would be impacted. with artificial limbs, cars, planes, and you would have a difficult time coping and keeping your food cold. in a difficult time cooking
and it almost was like a shotgun and a billiard hit and another billiard.are true with a handgun when he heard it [laughter] >> henry: plastic was a effort to save our resources and at this point, they balance between benefit and hazard. how would you balance it? >> both are there. both plastics are great material, fantastic but we use of them far too often. and misguided, foolish waste. styrofoam. it is a great material for insulation and even in building. it can keep a house warm,...
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[reading roll] president newlin: a, morgan, david, chaps bar, 1255 folsom, billiard parlor, mechanical amusement devices. >> it is hard to say. this is to add a pinball machine at this type-48 neighborhood bar on folsom. the applicant applied mid february. it is open until 2:00 a.m. each night, and as you can see, this is an accessory use, and the approval has been recommended with some conditions. kevin is here tonight, too, i think, introduce himself, as well as speak to any that might have questions. staff is recommending a conditional grant. come and say hi. >> good evening. i am kevin, and i have been a permit officer for about 10 years, so i have some history. any questions you have, i hope i can answer them. there are some issues that i think we're going to be taken care of, and we are just moving some of the cabinets or some things to make space for the pool table and pinball machines, and everything seems to me to what standards would be there, so we do not have any objection as long as some of the equipment in the area is moved so that the pool table can be used freely. presi
[reading roll] president newlin: a, morgan, david, chaps bar, 1255 folsom, billiard parlor, mechanical amusement devices. >> it is hard to say. this is to add a pinball machine at this type-48 neighborhood bar on folsom. the applicant applied mid february. it is open until 2:00 a.m. each night, and as you can see, this is an accessory use, and the approval has been recommended with some conditions. kevin is here tonight, too, i think, introduce himself, as well as speak to any that might...
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billiard, amusement device. i understand we're going to continue this item? >> correct. we've been unable to resolve the issue with the planning department. so the applicant has requested an additional continuance? >> are i had a couple of questions -- i had a couple of questions if you don't mind. president roja: i do not. commissioner meko: this permit is covered in the police code? >> correct. commissioner meko: i couldn't find language in it but are there other permits that we're responsible for -- are there specific grounds under which we must issue the permit, the place of entertainment, extended hours and others are framed as we are to issue the permit if -- and then there are three or four criteria? >> i can't answer that. but it is a question that's been posed to the city attorney along with what, in cases like this, when there is a code compliance issue with another department, then how do we proceed? may we proceed? is there some obligation to proceed. commissioner meko: the planning department, for the edification of the public, has stated that their recommen
billiard, amusement device. i understand we're going to continue this item? >> correct. we've been unable to resolve the issue with the planning department. so the applicant has requested an additional continuance? >> are i had a couple of questions -- i had a couple of questions if you don't mind. president roja: i do not. commissioner meko: this permit is covered in the police code? >> correct. commissioner meko: i couldn't find language in it but are there other permits...
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the new owners plan to convert it into a restaurant and billiards room. it's part of an effort to attract new business and a rougher crowd. a new lounge called monroe opened two weeks ago. they plan on enforcing a stricken dress code and playing music geared towards older people. they want to bring a revived energy to the neighborhood and provide people with a safe and fun night life. >>> it is official: twitter is keeping headquarters in san francisco. the social networking site is moving to market street between 9th and 10th streets. twitter tweeted the decision. the deal comes after the city's board of supervisors gave twitter a tax break on new hires. the company is expected to move into the former furniture mart next year. apple has invests $1 billion in the new facility, which is expected to create thousands of jobs in that area, but the organization green piece says the data facilities also create a big risk to the environment because the center is mostly powered by coal and nuclear energy. >> yes, jobs are good. i believe that running the plant on
the new owners plan to convert it into a restaurant and billiards room. it's part of an effort to attract new business and a rougher crowd. a new lounge called monroe opened two weeks ago. they plan on enforcing a stricken dress code and playing music geared towards older people. they want to bring a revived energy to the neighborhood and provide people with a safe and fun night life. >>> it is official: twitter is keeping headquarters in san francisco. the social networking site is...
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. >> reporter: is this something to do with class, or is this just how to play billiards better?( laughs ) it could be either one. i can send a message, and you can see it pop up on his screen, and he's clicked back on to his history page is that he's supposed to be back on. so he realizes that he was caught in the act, and then he's stopped doing it. >> reporter: to prevent students from going where they're not supposed to, mooresville also blocks sites like youtube, myspace and facebook. to see how far the limits go, we did some searches of our own. "hate crime" was blocked. "gun control"-- blocked. "terrorism"-- blocked. is there something strange about blocking information in a school that's supposed to be an intellectually open place? >> no, i really don't think so, because i know that if you look at education over the years, and if we talk about what was blocked before technology, well, a ton of information. everything was blocked that wasn't in this one book. >> reporter: but even if computers do make more information available, across the country, it's not done much to li
. >> reporter: is this something to do with class, or is this just how to play billiards better?( laughs ) it could be either one. i can send a message, and you can see it pop up on his screen, and he's clicked back on to his history page is that he's supposed to be back on. so he realizes that he was caught in the act, and then he's stopped doing it. >> reporter: to prevent students from going where they're not supposed to, mooresville also blocks sites like youtube, myspace and...
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. >> reporter: there is bowling, billiards and booze but there are upscale touches, dj booth, gourmeteles location even served as a backdrop for the hugely popular justin bieber video, the most-watched video ever on youtube. back here in new york, it's a celebrity haven with kim kardashian and rhianna heading to the lanes to party. a far cry from al bundy or homer simpson. all of the buttons and gadgets here? >> this is the system that controls all of the lanes and pool tables. >> it's all computerized. >> it's harder for the customers but easier for us. >> you deal with all of the shoes. >> all of the shoes are here. >> be honest, some shoes when you get them back they have to stink. >> got to use extra spray on those. that's not bad. this room looks way too interesting not to take a peek to see what is going on. i think my friend anthony will tell me what's going on. looking at things through the opposite way that a bowler would see it. they're out there bowling right now. throwing those bowling balls toward us. this is the machine that catches everything. explain to me how this wor
. >> reporter: there is bowling, billiards and booze but there are upscale touches, dj booth, gourmeteles location even served as a backdrop for the hugely popular justin bieber video, the most-watched video ever on youtube. back here in new york, it's a celebrity haven with kim kardashian and rhianna heading to the lanes to party. a far cry from al bundy or homer simpson. all of the buttons and gadgets here? >> this is the system that controls all of the lanes and pool tables....
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i taught him how to play billiards. we were friends. so that was my focus, study bobby fischer is a biographer, as an official chess arbiter, as a player and as a friend. and i can tell you as they go through this in the book, bobby had an extremely competitive personality. i matter what he did, i mean he was a good swimmer, for instance. going to high school in grammar school and camp he would swim in when they had recess, bobby would be in the water before everybody was in the dies. he was just fast and he wanted to win. when he got older and when he went up to grossing kurds, he would play tennis to beat everybody at tennis except the tennis pro. other than that, he wanted to win everything again. so i go into that and talk about his competitive personality. he also had a phenomenal very. when he was preparing for spaskky, there is a book, spaskky's game, hundreds and hundreds of his games with about 10,000 moves to not book. and almost as a parlor game they would you need the book and say pick up the game, tell me when it was played
i taught him how to play billiards. we were friends. so that was my focus, study bobby fischer is a biographer, as an official chess arbiter, as a player and as a friend. and i can tell you as they go through this in the book, bobby had an extremely competitive personality. i matter what he did, i mean he was a good swimmer, for instance. going to high school in grammar school and camp he would swim in when they had recess, bobby would be in the water before everybody was in the dies. he was...
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i taught him how to play billiards. we were friends. so that was my focus, study bobby fischer is a biographer, as an official chess arbiter, as a player and as a friend. and i can tell you as they go through this in the book, bobby had an extremely competitive personality. i matter what he did, i mean he was a good swimmer, for instance. going to high school in grammar school and camp he would swim in when they had recess, bobby would be in the water before everybody was in the dies. he was just fast and he wanted to win. when he got older and when he went up to grossing kurds, he would play tennis to beat everybody at tennis except the tennis pro. other than that, he wanted to win everything again. so i go into that and talk about his competitive personality. he also had a phenomenal very. when he was preparing for spaskky, there is a book, spaskky's game, hundreds and hundreds of his games with about 10,000 moves to not book. and almost as a parlor game they would you need the book and say pick up the game, tell me when it was played
i taught him how to play billiards. we were friends. so that was my focus, study bobby fischer is a biographer, as an official chess arbiter, as a player and as a friend. and i can tell you as they go through this in the book, bobby had an extremely competitive personality. i matter what he did, i mean he was a good swimmer, for instance. going to high school in grammar school and camp he would swim in when they had recess, bobby would be in the water before everybody was in the dies. he was...
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so he strengthens his powers, but when we look at the time line of katrina, there is a billiard to understand plight of persons who work -- failure to understand the plight of persons who i call marginalized. we saw those marginalized communities and help their need was much larger than it hurricanes that hit florida and other parts of the country. there is an institutional factor as far as how we respond to persons who need government assistance the most? there was also a issue of cronyism. the man had already been weakened institution anyway -- fema had already been weakened institution. to have a disaster such as katrina really showed how ineffective that agency was. the failure does reflect this bubble that we have talked about for the last two days, particularly in who president bush actually spoke to advise and who he did not talk to, his understanding of the issues, and even looking at some of the documentation about when he received information and how he responded, there does seem to be a perception that he did not have an interest or an understanding even when he was answering quest
so he strengthens his powers, but when we look at the time line of katrina, there is a billiard to understand plight of persons who work -- failure to understand the plight of persons who i call marginalized. we saw those marginalized communities and help their need was much larger than it hurricanes that hit florida and other parts of the country. there is an institutional factor as far as how we respond to persons who need government assistance the most? there was also a issue of cronyism....