blackman since you're here to continue your service on this and i've seen and heard and read about all of your extensive background and the work you've done, so thank you for that especially as we've been talking about the reauthorization of children's fun and peace. with that, i support your accommodation, the full board. >> thank you. the motion passes. congratulations. madam clerk, we have item number 5. >> hearing to consider appointing two members, terms ending april 27, 2015, and four members, terms ending april 27, 2016, to the soma community stabilization fund community advisory committee. >> hearing to consider appointing two members, terms ending april 27, 2015, and four members, terms ending april 27, 2016, to the soma community stabilization fund community advisory committee. >> there's six seats and six applicants. >> we're going to call the applicants in order of the agenda. joel jason. merchant. >> my name is joel merchant. and i was born in raised in san francisco and raised in soma. i grew up in the neighborhood obviously and attended betsy car michael through the year

and i think that was a really key lesson that i had learned from my mentor rabbi blackman in cincinnati and i tried to carry that on over the years and take pride in their success. one of the nicest complements i ever received was a con agree dependent who said to me let's say one of my younger colleagues gave a good sermon i was smiling, i was happy for them. >> so we have a picture here with you in the middle why don't you let us know what the framework is of this picture who these folks are. >> that was taken when i was installed as the president of the reform rabbis and my colleagues came to share that happiness with me so these are both rabinic colleagues i had served with in my congregation so called assistant or associate rabbis and eight who came from our congregation including my son, to become rabbis themselves. >> beautiful. >> i truly take great pride in that. >> you know, every profession has its if i can say kind of zone of intimacy, that allows that particular profession to really let their hair down really understand what it is like for example really no body knows what

blackman come up if you wanted to hear further testimony we'll send a field engineer to see if tests possible to this alternative site as you know from the other many, many appeals i've argued in front of you at&t did that on a routine basis if they feel the order contemplates we attempt to identify with the alternative sites and tell the hearing officer we identified two or 3 and pick one that is the least unimpactable site the unfortunate thing there are not other sites that are feasible to install. under the sf m f they're required to grant the permit >> so i disagree with the appellants that at&t representative indicated that it was an acceptable site and you i believe said a they'll study it; is that correct? >> yes. i disagree with the assertion that's an inadmissible hear say. >> mr. quan. >> good evening, commissioners john quan from the department of public works once again. as noted i heard both the appellant and from the appellant and at&t and i ask honestly say the brief was clear and concise subjected statement were said there was a box walk between at&t and the appellan

scoring is blackman and barnes keeps on coming! the three home, it's an inside- the-park home run!>> brandon barnes, rockies went ahead. you know pagan felt bad on the rout he took to get to the ball. he had chance to play hero in the home half of the ninth. he hit a double play ball here. it was close at first. take a look. pagan was called out and that was challenged to replay. to replay...safe? out? what is the call? umpires s the s, two straight punc to the gut for t >> he's safe. >> what's the call? >> after a meeting, the umpires say out. and the game is over. to the rockies 5-4 giants lose their second straight game in the 9th. 5-4. >> i think that makes it that much more special because they have given us fits especially here and in late, uhm, fashion. we have been walked off quite a few times. unbelievable things happened inside-the-park homeruns so it's nice to give them a dose of their own medicine. >>> plenty of these statues around the u.s. open pinehurst course. every time phil mickelson got a chance in round 3 today, it was trouble. this the fifth hole. it's on and t

charlie blackman scores on the barnes inside-the-park home run. 5-4 rockies.m nine, one out, one on. he grounds into a double play. he thought he was safe. replays were close. he might have a case. umps call him out. giants have lost five of their last six at home. 5-4 that final. >>> day three of the world cup. featured match from group d, italy and england. first half he drills one between three defenders. rooney sets up daniel stiris. celebration needs some work, 1-1. 50th minute, the cross and they head it in. italy wins 2-1. >>> uruguay and costa rica. joel campbell here in the 54th minute and oscar duarte in the 57th minute amazing header. costa rica not expected to win a game upset of the day. >>> greece dominated possession time but colombia scored all the goals. in the fifth minute, gets the bounce off the defender's foot. tough break for greece as colombia goes on to win 3-0. >>> nba finals game five tomorrow night at 5:00 right here on abc 7. we have a preview coming up at 6:00. >>> a veterinarian calling this dog a miracle. her story of survival, n

. >> hi, my name is sandy blackman and first i want to thank supervisor yee for nominating me for serving on the childcare planning and advisory council and to the committee for considering my appointment. as brief background, i has been a san francisco resident for six years and has raised three children in the city. and i served in the leadership capacity for non profit organizations. for the past three and a half years, i've been the executive director of children's counsel where we help thousands of families per year and help low income san francisco families secure subsidies to pay for care, support and nurture the childcare sector, especially family child care homes, and work closely with our government and community base partners to insure that all san francisco families have access to quality early care and education. our organization works with families in supervisor yee's district including families in san francisco. 80 percent of the families who come to us are low income families looking for subsidies to help pay for care. we have a diverse staff that delivers services to san

in his 1978 dissent, justicen[] blackman said, quote: in order to get beyond racism, we must first take of race, there is no other way with. now it's 2014, and my friend and colleague, professor cashin, has suggested there may, in fact, be another way; namely, just focusing on socioeconomic disadvantage rather than race. she has offered this as a response to the public ask judicial resentment -- and judicial resentment that's developed in the 36 years since the use of racial affirmative action was first authorized. i strongly, strongly support the consideration of socioeconomic factors in making educational admissions decisions both for justice and diversity reasons. but i'm skeptical about the ability of socioeconomic factors alone to remedy the problem of ongoing racial discrimination. i think justice blackman's admonition remains true today, and our only hope of eliminating racial discrimination is to confront it head on. contrary to the prevailing rhetoric, i do not view affirmative action as a system of racial preferences. rather, i view affirmative action in the same way it was vi

. >> 1972, deborah blackman was sterilized at age 14.as severely retarded by north carolina. right now she and her family are waiting to hear whether or not she qualifies for reparations from the state for that program. joining me now, irin carmon, national reporter for msnbc.com, covering this story on the ground in north carolina, and elizabeth haddock, staff attorney at the university of north carolina center for civil rights. she's representing women who are sterilized and now are now seeking compensation from the state. state eugenics board, the niece of that woman saying i can't believe they would do something like this, i think is probably the reaction most viewers are having now. how common was this? >> north carolina had in some ways the worst program because it wasn't just institutionalized people who were sterilized. they reached into people's homes by social workers recommending people to be sterilized. but in fact, 30 states had eugenic sterilization laws on the books, and 63,000 people in the 20th century were sterilized on

. >> daniel blackman, chief operating officer of "how cast" another how-to site, says even the mysteriousught in a two-minute video. >> use these proven methods to charm and produce. >> give him a bright smile. >> also picking up the cues to see if someone's flirting with you. >> someone who can't take their eyes off you is very intriguing. >> it's definitely told from a woman's perspective because i think a lot of these tips, if they were given to a guy, might be arrested. >> just keep it above the belt. >> if you're flirting with someone and their feet are pointed toward you or away, those are indications, so there are all of these settle clues that you can use. >> happy hunting. >> daniel says the how-tos of making a how-to video follows a straightforward formula. >> don't look now, but you're juggling. >> take this example this video on how to moonwalk. >> there's a short walk. >> unlike the hustle and the macarena, the moonwalk still has it. >> there are two things you will need. >> you will need a slippery floor, optional, socks. step one, find a floor good for sliding like hardwood

as part of an msnbc original report one of the survivors deborah blackman beand her fami shared theirs a daddy's girl. and he tried to protect her all he could. so it was hard for the family. i remember social workers coming to our house. they would always talk to my parents. they came so many times and then the next thing i knew was my father telling me my sister was going to have surgery. i don't think they really understood, you know, what was going on. you don't hardly find too many men that cry, but my dad pulled out some tears the time my sister spent in the hospital. my dad told the doctors, he said, take care of my baby. we seen all the pain that she went through. >>s this is the document they actually had her to sign and they had her to put her signature here consenting to her having this procedure done, a 14-year-old. final diagnosis, mental retardation, severe. eugenics sterilization and total abdominal hysterectomy. >> i remember when they were shaving me, they said we'll go down to your surgery. okay, i'm going to take the surgery. and i went down and they gave me a sedat

when o'connor saw scalia unraveling her test, she wrote a note to hairy blackman as she was listeninge fruits of this labor now the majority has been created with the edition of alito and roberts, he's not the central actor. anthony kennedy. >> is anthony kennedy is, dahlia, bruce says. do you agree with that in terms of religious senseivities on the court? >> i think my cat would agree with that. >> you have a smart cat. >> whether kennedy goes, that's where the court goes. i think one of the things that so important, and bruce said this, but it's really worth emphasizing, the singular most important thing with the court is for o'connor of alito. it moved the court dramatically to the right on issue after issue, whether it's religion, abortion, campaign finance refort. that shift of alito for o'connor really changes everything. he becomes the fulcrum and everything moves to the right. >> irin, is the fact that the supreme court is becoming less popular, is that just a manifestation of the polarization of our politics at large or is there something different going on at the supreme co