we add up all of the demographics of those particular block groups and that gives us the demographics of the route. in san francisco our routes -- particularly the cross town routes tend to be very long, so unlike some cities where their routes are very segregated or they will have very minority or non minority routes our routes tend to be more evenly balanced because of the diversity of neighborhoods that they travel through. in terms of service and fare changes any fare change that is in place for more than six months requires an equity analysis and that is regardless of the dollar amount we're considering for the change. for a service change though there is acknowledgment by fta they don't want this high level of scrutiny get in the way of service and schedule changes part of the regular business so they allow us to design what is a major service change so once we determine that then also requires that we evaluate the impacts in minority and low income communities. through that analysis we are trying to determine if there is a disparate impact on these communities? if we determine

why don't you seriously suggest that demographic -- that the demographic makeup of the state has nothingto do with whether somebody feels isolated, that if you're in a state that is only 1 percent black that doesn't mean that you're not isolated so long as there's 1 percent in the class? >> certainly -- racial balance >> i wish you would take that position, because it seems to me right. >> justice scalia, racial balancing is not a permissible interest, and we are constantly this court has constantly held not a permissible interest. and that is something we certainly agree with. trying to respond to justice sotomayor and in the framework of grutter, what you're looking at is, do you -- does this person, member of a so-called underrepresented minority -- it's a concept we don't necessarily accept, but it's texas's concept -- are they isolated? are they unable to speak out? and i think we've always said if you have a very large number, as texas did in 2004 when they ostensibly made the decision to reinstitute race, they had a 21 percent admission percentage of what they called the underrepr

demographics are slowing. slowing and aging demographics are inflationary themselves.id: let me explain. simply what you're saying as the boomers retire they will not be buying as much? retirees save more than they buy, right? >> they particular, they pay down debt and don't invest in the future. they're not buying a bigger home. downsizing to a smaller home. young people enter the workforce at great expense and borrow and spend money. they're the opposite. the bigger factor, every great debt bubble in history when it finally bursts has seen deflation. there are no exceptions to this. the endgame is deflation like we saw in late 2008 but only when the financial system starts melting down. of course central banks are trying to prevent that. my worry is not so much fed tapering causing a crisis here. my worry something goes wrong in southern europe i think will happen in the next six to 12 months. china has the biggest unbelievable bubble in the world. i can't believe more people see this. overbuilding everything. debt has escalated unbelievably in the private sector the

i think the rates are fair because the demographics i have today are the demographics we are going to have in 2014. the dynamics of the huge migration is no longer there. i'm sorry if i confused anybody. >> i'm still not clear on the justification for the large increase and i know the health service board heard information about what factually the integrated care managed system is and why those cost were going up significantly. i still don't understand that and i know there was a lot of discussion at the health service board level. if you can take a stab at explaining why there is such an astronomical increase in different cost set are not understandable to me or many people from the public? >> i will take a stab at an easy description of that. what you see in our buildup is composed of many different things. the easily recognizable pieces are traditional billable fee for service. you go to the doctor, they bill for that particular provider. kaiser is an integrated delivery system. we were not very good at billing, but very good at providing care. the administrative services dealing w

number one, demographics.u are worried about demographics. >> i'm not worried about it, interest observant of its and the demographics have changed and are continuing to change rapidly. the countries have low fertility, rise and longevity to the they are getting to be older societies which has an impact on your outlook and capabilities. the russians have a demographic catastrophe on their hands. very low fertility. longevity is only a little better than 60. women live 12 years longer than men of. a lot of the younger talented people are immigrating. they have huge problems in the caucasus to deal with border with china a lot of people on the one side partly have anybody on the other. so, but the demographics underlining this are devastating china has in some ways the most interesting demographics because hour and 30 years ago fertility dropped and that meant that for a quarter of a century china has had a growing labour force and a declining number of people at the labour force had to support the demographic d

number one, demographics. you our word about demographics. >> i'm not worried about it. i'm observant of it and i see that the demographics of the world have changed and are continuing to change rapidly. the developed countries basically have low fertility, rising longevity. they're getting to be older societies, which has an impact on the outlook and your capabilities. the russians have a demographic catastrophe on their hands. they have a very low fertility, longevity of man as old only in the safety. women live a lot longer than been a lot of the town is immigrating. they have huge problems in the caucasus to deal with. they have a long border with china. a lot of people on one side, hardly anybody on the other. so but, the demographics underlying this our devastating. china has in some ways the most interesting demographics because around 30 years ago fertility dropped like a stone. that meant four a quarter of a century china has had a growing labor force and a declining number of people that the labor force had to support. call it a demographic dividend. know those

challenges in terms of the age of its population we know that russia and europe also have demographic problems the united states demographically is the only country especially with saying immigration policies that is going to be able to generate the sort of people that we need to come up with these ideas the the the the notion that western europe or that or that once again come up with a solution that they. do well i don't mean that you know you share and go hey george jump in go ahead please do. that cup is fine you know if you can say oh the united states innovation so again leave the profits will accrue to these smaller number of shareholders and as peter said you know ok so innovation can come in argentina and investment can take place in argentina as long as argentina has a sufficiently cheap labor falls all of the investment can take elsewhere it may well be that the u.s. companies that had to remain here then i would have to judge but here we're going to go to a short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on america in decline state. i'm most interested

we're also really excited as i said to get the demographic data to really find out if the demographics of the neighborhood is indicative or reflective of the dem graph ikts of the routes. in some cities it is and some cities it isn't. for example los angeles is 70% minority but the ridership is 85% minority so you can certain see variations and i expect that we will see some variation here. i'm happy to answer any questions. >> thank you very much. anyone from the public wish to speak to us? >> one person turned in a speaker card. herbert wiener. >> let's hear from mr. wiener. >> herbert wiener impaled stakeholders and also senior citizen. one question i have about this i really feel that seniors and handicapped and severely ill should be considered part of minority because basically they're a significant part of the population, and they can also be adversely impacted. now, if you adopt this this would possibly be a legal basis and criteria for provekz of services to minorities and i feel that seniors and the disabled should be considered part of that, and if you don't decide to innerc

out the goals of the waterfront plan, the adjacent neighborhood plans and the larger economic and demographic goals of the city, so i want to close by thanking all for the time and particularly thanking you for the excellent collaboration that we have with the port. i think that the relationship that we have with the port staff on all levels is extraordinary. it's almost like working with one's staff. there is a tremendous amount of respect from the director level down to the staff levels and it is really i think an almost a combined work plan if you will that we have been trying to implement for many years and i really appreciate that and i really appreciate the support of the director and all of you in making that happen. that concludes my presentation and i am happy to answer any questions. thank you. >> thank you very much. is there any public comment? commissioners comments? well, i would like to thank planning director figure coming today. i think. >> >> this is something that is comprehensive, many of the things that come in from the port is transactions and leads the impression we're

you look at the gdp, population demograph demographics, you have to feed the people, house them, and create the energy. one of the gentlemen earlier touched upon a very important fact. energy, when you look at energy and how critical it is to civilization, you see these growing population demographics. you can bet directionally on the price of research in motion or yahoo!. but when you look at food, fuel, and forests, in other words betting on whether someone will eat today and when you look at a population trend like that, something like that is amazingly powerful. when something decelerates, commodities get beat up, this is growth on sale. >> yeah. no, i think you make a good point. rebecca, are you surprised we're at another record high for this market? i mean, volume is -- was low today. you know, summer monday. not a surprise. but does that bother you that we've got very low volume and a time when the market's going up? you'd rather see, you know, higher volume in that regard? >> obviously, more volume suggests more people are feeling good about getting involved. but i think we'

when we work with our clients while he ask they be able to identify by demographic basis this is voluntary. but we track when we provided services in a particular language. so there's a bit of on error it's not fourteen percent of all of the o s b clients it's 12 percent that are limited english proficient and 8 periods of time spoke spanish and 8 percent were chinese services. the office of small business provides over 25 forms etc., translated in chinese and spanish and the materials are around especially the disability the ada compliance packet have been translated in spanish and vietnamese and russian and others >> i know you're a small office but 40 percent of your staff are bilingual especially in chinese dialogues or spanish but your 12 percent is a much smaller number than the exciting percentages by limited proficient owners what do i attribute to that low english speaking clients? >> some of it is that - i mean, we have emphasized more on the chinese because we're able to provide those services and as i said we'll bring in interpreters. we also find that many business owners they

the demographics of our climate ants were african-americans comprised 26 person and caucasian were counted and latinos had 12 percent and pacific islanders 3 percent. our staff speaks several languages including cantonese and spanish. two of our investigators are bilingual spanish speakers which is important because the largest number of interviews we conduct are in spanish. for languages other than the one previously mentioned we'll get those services. we have intakes in spanish and 5 in cantonese. we're located on the corner of van ness and marketed. we're assessable by public transportation for walk in complainants but we receive complaints regarding police conduct from 12 calls by e-mail and faxes. we're open monday through friday between 8 and 5 and on the off hours we have on a answering service. you can file a complaint with the district station and they'll forward it to us. if any of you would like additional information i'm previously introduced a senior member ed and he's hear to hear your concerns. thank you >> thank you for your presentation. you know, we're very lucky director

this is about demographic shifts. this is about trying to have their last stand to control and have power. and so at the end of the day, yes, politics does matter. but it's who you try to target and that's what's making it illegal. you know at the end of the day, election day is supposed to be equal. we're all supposed to have the same amount of power when we go into the voting booth. >> you know what, a.b., i think you have a point there because i think eventually we'll have to have i.d. cards down the road. this is the direction this is all going in. look how republicans in places like pennsylvania have tried to change the electoral college to go congressional district by congressional district rather than state by state. that's clearly intended to nullify the impact of the big city vote, the urban minority vote. because if you go by cb, in pennsylvania you've got 23 i mean 13-5. so clearly they did that even though obama carried the state as a whole you could argue because of minorities having a role to play. they

now, those demographics, granted.se folks are people who don't turn out in the mid-term. these are folks who are at this point becoming more motivated, if you will, by some of the thing we're seeing happen at the state level with regard to a woman's right to make her own decisions about her health care. and with regard to the voting rights act. so how do we think that could shape 2014? >> well, to the extent the democrats can generate energy, especially around social issues, that will help. you can see them trying to do that now in virginia governor's race. i think the reason why this isn't going to be a wave election, each side has some things working in their favor. republicans have a very good map. they have seats open in states that are very good for them. they have fact that intensity in an offyear election, tends to be with the party that is out of power of the white house. the things that are working, the other thing they have working is the fact, as you were discussing, an offyear election, the electorate does

the demographic thing... disney is just going to be watching its budget from now on. it was already shut down because of a $250 million budget at one time. they got it down to around $215. that's still very high for a western. but these are the people that did the "pirates" movies, came up with $3.7 billion in grosses for the "pirates" movies, so they gave them carte blanche and let them do what they want, and they paid the price for it. - some people are saying we might see some more safer sequels coming from disney. - like "iron man 3?" the $1.2 billion movie that came out this year that disney is making tons of money on in conjunction with marvel. they probably have that $150 million write-off in a suitcase in jerry bruckheimer's closet. so i'm sure they're going to be just fine. - here's a look at the numbers at the box office from the holiday weekend: "despicable me" coming in at $143 million, so that sequel did extremely well for universal; "the lone ranger" at $48 million; "the heat," $36 million; "monsters university" at $30 million; and "world wars z" at $26

we try to mirror the demographics. >> so when do you start planning?> we already started planning for next summer. >> where do you start? a blank piece of paper? do you call in your favorites? what do you do? >> that is what is so much fun. we don't have to program to sell tickets so we can really be free. we can really be flexible with the programming and bring in artists we think will have a great appeal to the audiences so we start with a blank slate of dates. we start talking to them. we have a program director, we travel the country, look at other festivals, listen to people. it is really a great, great experience for us as well. >> i read, you said in an interview somewhere because it is free, it is hard to know the profile of who loves what or who is your audience. how do you work that in? >> it is really challenging. we are actually considered one of the largest arts organizations in the bay area, but we don't know who our audience is. we have over 100,000 people comeing to the concert over the summer months but there is a solid core group comi

number one, demographics.u are worried about demographics. >> i'm not worried about it, interest observant of its and the demographics have changed and are continuing to change rapidly. the countries have low fertility, rise and longevity to the they are getting to be older societies which has an impact on your outlook and capabilities. the russians have a demographic catastrophe on their hands. very low fertility. longevity is only a little better than 60. women live 12 years longer than men of. a lot of the younger talented people are immigrating. they have huge problems in the caucasus to deal with border with china a lot of people on the one side partly have anybody on the other. so, but the demographics underlining this are devastating china has in some ways the most interesting demographics because hour and 30 years ago fertility dropped and that meant that for a quarter of a century china has had a growing labour force and a declining number of people at the labour force had to support the demographic d

. >> the demographic of people who come will match the demographic of the reader.t is very simple. if we want more people of color, you book more people of color. you want more women, your book more women. kind of like that. it gets mixed up a little bit. in general, we kind of have a core group of people who come every month. their ages and very. we definitely have some folks who are straight. >> the loyal audience has allowed michelle to take more chances with the monthly lineup. established authors bring in an older audience. younker authors bring in their friends from the community who might be bringing in an older author. >> raider has provided a stage for more than 400 writers. it ranges from fiction to academics stories to academic stories this service the underground of queer fell, history, or culture. >> and there are so many different literary circles in san francisco. i have been programming this reading series for nine years. and i still have a huge list on my computer of people i need to carry into this. >> the supportive audience has allowed michele t

just look at the incarceration rates across each of the counties, fresno, like county, population demographics to san francisco. and it's a law that impacts on a statewide basis is more sensible than leaving it up to each county because then you'll end up with 58 different styles and methods of criminal justice. >> tal? >> i'm the public defender and it's my job to push the envelope. it's one thing to talk about reducing possession charges from felonies to misdemeanors but i'm not sure that's going to change the color and demographics of the population in county jail. they're out there on the street sometimes selling small amounts of drugs. until we address that problem and expand exponentially. jails will still be filled with poor people and people of color. you're not ending the war on drugs. we need to think of at holistic play as a public-health problem. not as a rush also the people who are selling and people are selling a rock to a police officer pretending to be an addict. all those people need help. >> i think that have given my all for the cause. i will leave it to george to put the c