>>are anna has a disable. looking at here, you wouldn't know she is legally blind. >> the only way i can tell is that the way my eyes move, what i have is called star lights disease and it affects my frontal vision so i don't have any frontal vision so when i'm looking straight at something i either can't see it at all or it's so blurry i can't make it out. >> she used magnifiers and book readers to help her study. she relies on peripheral vision to get around. she has bad memories of the last try of interviews. >> i told them i was visually impaired so i was slower at first but i could memorize things so i could pick you will skills fairly quickly and then i just wouldn't get a job and somebody else would. and at the same time, i mean i get in an interview, i could just not mention it and then spring it on them later. but i don't know. i never thought that was the right thing to do. >> but doing the right thing can have consequences and kim hing also discovered that. >> i have asperger's syndrome, major depre

getting to the person's disability. business owners do have the right to ask that. emotional support from animals, the 2010 standards clearly say that dogs that are used as theft deterrents as those be a comfort are not considered service animals. emotional support of animals are very different from psychiatric service animals. psychiatric service animals have been trained to do something very specific. and emotional support animal may not necessarily be trained to do something specific. whether they be well behaved in public or in a good citizen manners. they may have obedience training, but not necessarily to perform a specific task. there is a reason why people with disabilities or emotional disabilities will be able to get out of their house to go on about their business simply because they have an animal that helps with anxiety. if those things were not confusing enough, there are state and local laws and california state law that expands the definition. the rules are more inclusive under the housing act. we are no

do you use a service dog for a disability or as a pet, because oftentimes, there are people who are disabled. this is versus people who just want to bring in a dog, so if you have a disability, that is pretty much what it is about, that you verbally have this contract that is disabled, and this is the main thing i think businesses should note to truly asked about this for disability and what task the animal can do for you. this is a trustee -- a tricky question. if you tell them about this, it tells them about the disability, too. the cannot ask you what kind of disability you have. sometimes, that is a really tricky thing, but i encourage the businesses to make use of those questions, and it is a liability issue for us, too. and the other thing i would appreciate is is businesses would fix their little signs on the windows. that is pretty much it. >> -- president o'brien: thank you very much. so noted. any further public comment? >> hello, since i am a business owner, unfortunate, by ms. this -- my business does not allow animals unless somebody has an issue. all i ask is going for that peo

. >> we have news of an important new report on disability in east timor. >> that is right. the united nations' integrate the mission is launching the first report by a peacekeeping mission on the rights of persons with disabilities. they want to create policies that respect the rights of persons with disabilities for education and retab pation. we are joined by a representative of the high commissioner of human rights for east timor. thank you for joining us. first of all, what are some of the key findings of this report? >> well, i am sitting and talking to you from a country that 12 years ago lay in ruins. one of the key findings is that in a number of areas, the government has already begun to take important measures to see that the rights of the disabled are realized in education, health care, accessible at district level in terms of public buildings being more accessible to persons with disabilities. but there is still a lot to be done. this is a country on the fast track to develop with one of the highest growth rates in the world and no public date. it is an auspicio

, and it includes physical, sensory, psychiatric, or other disability. the current standards in 2010 only defines the animals as a dog and in some cases, a miniature horse. that is only considered a reasonable modification, mean that there is a narrow area that would not accommodate -- the business owner can still say no. that is very different to what we have been accustomed to. the federal standard has substantially narrow the definition of a service animal and keeps creating even more confusion. in addition, i will show you some images. on the top, you see a gentleman with bipolar disorder that has been pretty famous in the news. that is the service parrot. the parrot is trained to calm him down by speaking certain messages to him. he has a special backpack to be able to carry that. under the regulations, that animal is no longer allowed in. you see golden retriever, it is an alert dog. that dog has been trained to push a button on the photoperiod that as a service machine that has been used traditionally for many years. here you see him -- it is no l

no carla johnson from the office of disability. -- we have carla johnson from the office of disability. i want to especially it acknowledge my colleague to help us get the resources and brought legal expertise to the table. i do not want to take too much of your time. thank you for coming. >> thank you, supervisor chu. i want to express my admiration for a supervisor chu's commitment to you. so, from our office, what we heard, many small businesses were receiving lawsuits regarding it the ada. tonight we will hear about the legal requirements, what has been in place. any small businesses that nderst informed as far as their obligations for the ada, there are the mechanisms to provide that information to you. so, we are tasked with providing the information. there have been about 300 small businesses that have received the lawsuits. knee individuals who use this mechanism and come up -- the individual to use this mechanism. while it is important to have ada access, but we want you to understand there are individuals out there taking a look at your vulnerability. we have a packet of info

in mind that some of those people have disabilities which are not visible disabilities -- is by pulling into a bike lane and loading them from the curb. we encourage the agency to continue exploring ways to safely separate modes of transit. we understand this is not an easy question. we understand that the agency has to balance a lot of interests with this. we are always reminded there's only so much right of way in the city. we also urge that the agency develop procedures to prevent abuse of this policy. this is something we think should be done specifically for mobility impaired and disabled taxi passengers, not necessarily for everybody. how you draw the line between the two groups -- that is a little trickier, and we think that is something the agency should look at and have a discussion about. we also recommend -- you are considering a proposal to issue -- to exercise the agency's no authority to issue bonds, and we recommend that the sfmta proceed with the plan that was presented by staff at our september 1 meeting, to exercise the agency's authority to issue bonds, retire existin

if you take the hospital costs associated with penetrating injuries and the disabilities that results after, more severe with hollow point bullets, you need rehabilitation, ancillary services to maintain the patient's medical needs. it actually becomes quite costly for the city and county. supervisor mirkarimi: the other thing we are focusing on, and guns not kept safe, getting into the wrong hands. anything that you would like to reflect on that? >> we see self-inflicted gunshot wounds all the time. usually, we will get some information. by and large, there was a gun that was left unlocked. we do not have any hard-core statistics for that, it is all anecdotal, but that is what we usually hear from the people bringing in the patient at the time. supervisor mirkarimi: supervisor campos? supervisor campos: i think, in terms of making the policy case, explaining why something like this is needed, i think the testimony and comments from our public health staff, personnel, is compelling. it is not just a public safety issue, it is a public health issue. not only is it about saving lives, b

one requires handguns to be kept in locked containers or disabled with a trigger lock. the other, which prohibits the sale of the hands of lethality ammunition, the most common of which are hollow point bullets. in 2008, the supreme court decision change the interpretation of the second amendment to mean that it protected an individual's rights to possess a gun for self- defense. since then, gun advocates have been challenging local gun laws across the nation, including san francisco, which is why i teamed up with the city attorney's office so we can fortify our defense of reasonable gun safety laws. this ordinance is needed to clarify the board of supervisors on going intend to reflect updated research to ensure existing gun laws in the police code are for look -- are fully enforceable. there is ample evidence these laws are needed now more than ever and they will save countless lives every year. in addition to several shootings in august, a man was shot a forty-niners game we heard about when the police chief was on which made national news about insufficient staffing

disabled veterans. we are proud of what we do and we are proud to be associated with so many other companies. if we could just get the fortune 1,000 to take that kind of challenge, 4% of their population be disabled veterans, we would not heck out of this issue. .. >> to give them the benefit of the doubt, the start so we had to take a lot of burden of helping for people to require the skills ourselves. i think i will stop there. >> i'm going to stick my nose in for a minute. junior, as we come upon you and the rest of the panel, broaden it out a little bit for us as final employment as an issue is of the employment of the disabled combat veterans, broaden out for us to all veterans coming home who are impacted by the recession, the economy, the lack of jobs, what you're seeing in the department, what works, what doesn't work, and my suspicion is that mr. prophet and mr. schmiegel also given who they represent will have other thoughts to offer about the broader picture let's broaden it out for a minute.

to reduce the isolation, make the building safer, and aging friendly and provide the elderly and disabled greater access to community resources. those are our recommendations from a number of organizations that have been working on the issue. i have been working with the senior action network, the mission, central city, and chinatown sro collaborative. the in home support services consortium and others. we will share the information at the meeting and from these problems and begin to provide solutions from the bottom up with grass-roots community based organizations centrally involved in policy development with the rest of us. i hope from this hearing there will emerge strategies for meeting the needs of residents who are aging in place in housing systems that may be inadequate or unsafe for them. i am also introducing an ordinance today that has to do with the richmond district's george washington high school which is 75 years old and celebrating its many accomplishments. i would like to also point out that george washington first opened on august 25, 1936 and is among the finest, prince

disaster and disability prepareness. just last week a team from san francisco was chosen to present at a conference in d.c. the head of office disability and coordination and the head of fema were there addressing the conference and reflecting a real change in our current administration's emphasis on disaster preparedness for disabilities as a civil right. the team that came from san francisco included ben ames from the human services agent si. rod stengel from the department of emergency managements. carle and jill from the mayor's office on disability. they highlighted not only the wonderful things the mayor's office is doing but also collaboration with so many community groups and nonprofits to have a really grassroots ground-up approach to preparedness. i thought you'd want to know that. >> very good, thank you. other? yes. thank you for sharing that. i just wanted to record that it's the 22nd anniversary of [inaudible] the neighbored emergency response team is always a great option for people to consider investing a

it is important for the disabled as well. over here is the controller. but this does is it provides information to the elevator where to go. receives commands from within the elevator and from the destination dispatched central -- dispatched central. these elevators are precisely the electronic breaks, so they need to be very precise. in accordance with the vfd to supply power to the elevator motor, which is right here. these are original d.c. drives. d.c. was in place at the beginning of elevators. it was easier to control. currently, new elevators are ac drives. but they are so expensive to replace and waste of materials. we have made it more efficient by providing aid to the electrical system to drive it. this is controlled by the same transistor that controls the toyota prius. when the elevator is empty, the counterweight polls the elevator and it generates electricity by breaking. the same thing as in your toyota creosote or another hybrid car. -- prius or another hybrid car. here inside we have the ibtv drive. this is important for landing of the e

look how disabled he is.not be fit enough for duty but he's fit for an ironman triathlon. ♪ f! megyn: we are getting a look at new unemployment numbers. they are up. the labor department reporting jobless claims increased to 414,000. liz? >> reporter: the jobless claims did rise to 414,000 last week. this comes on the news of no job growth in august. a fraction of the population that is working is at its lowest since 1983. we are at the slowest pace of job creation since world war ii. economists are stunned at this. job growth the last two years has slowed down dramatically and the job creation on average is only 40,000 per month. economists say you need at least 250,000 to get down to 7% unemployment which what is we saw before the financial crash of 2008. news breaking this afternoon about the republican's plan following president obama's job speech tonight. a top gop aide saying republicans plan to look for common ground and want to work with him on jobs. the american crossroads taking a different approach

first, two are disabled, one severely disabled. she lives on the ground for, sherida. she is quite simply incapable of doing her laundry at a remote location. since she moved in in 1973, she has always had laundry facilities on the service porch outside of her apartment, and as we tried to point out in the brief, even the notice of violations do not address any issues with sherida ireton's on ground service porch. if i read this correctly along with the pictures that were submitted by the permit holder, the issues here have to deal with the post's leading up to the top floor deck or service porch on the second unit, the deterioration and the rotting of the top floors service porch, and sherida, who would be most impacted by the elimination, her apartment is on the bottom floor. it is their position that her laundry facilities should not be interrupted temporarily even during the repair because there is no repair work to abate a notice of violation that would go to her facility. the upstairs are different. there definitely is repair work that they would need to move the

building code has a number a provision that makes traditional elevators usable by people with disabilities, but destination elevators presented challenges, particularly with cited. how do you know to get from this keypad to your our corporate car? >> we had a terrific program where we develop and administer the bulletin, which your help, elevator companies, involvement from the public, and you can tell us the outcome of that. >> what is amazing about the process is we had both government and private industry, as well as people with disabilities at the table for three years creating these accessibility standards. what we are doing here is being looked at by the department of justice access board and state architect's office. that is how good our standards are. would you like to see? i am going to push the access key which will activate the voice. i want to go to floor 24. ok, to the left. >> elevator j has arrived. >> that was smooth. >> i am getting a text message. it is amazing, these destination elevators. pretty soon, the signal that changes the system will be able to be routed through