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dr. amy berkhart. she's also a volunteer physician with celiac camp. we saw elaine taylorho taught me everything about this that i am trying to educate people. you have celiac disease as well. >> i do, yes. >> and it is in your family. >> i have eight family members that have celiac disease. >> i know there's so much i want to talk to you about. when did you know you had celiac disease? was that a journey also? >> it was a journey. i was very sick about ten years and then one day got incredibly sick, thought i was having a stroke, then thought i was having -- that i had multiple sclerosis, and took about a year after that to figure out what was actually going on. >> and you were a doctor by then? >> i was already a doctor and dietician. >> it is not one of the things that comes up in medical school or is that getting better? >> i hope so. you know, when i went to medical school, we probably got five minutes on celiac disease. i am hoping they're giving a little more than that at this time. >> so how different is celiac disease from a gluten allergy or is it the same? >> th

was chosen for another reason it makes sense to keep taylor and moscone because they have a high concentration of students in the 1424 he agree with dr. murase it remove mira loma from the list actually a lot of the students don't live in that zip code and they have the 92414 preference if they choose to go to willie brown so someone else had a comment are you finished commissioner, i think commissioner haney has it and commissioner mendoza. >> i have a classification. >> first of all, thank you to all the colleagues those are important conversations although i think most of us agree we wish we had a longer amount of time and so i think all of this is coming out of serious as a consideration, however, imperfect around what is best for the school and families and that we have a full school that it opens up and diverse and people are excited to be there with a successful school so we have to work with the time limit with that said, we owe an apologize to our partners and recognize that we made a mistake in not engaging as early and often as possible around this we all agree on i have a question around process and the policy itself on p

dr. murase. >> yes. i will be supporting this charter of renewal milestone my appropriate is the existing schools and those are sfusd scott taylor's students had a fantastic visit with the school last week it's clear that having moved to the davis campus the school as transformed from the commuter school from kids coming from all over to the dentist location to a a school that is putting a lot of effort into coming o connecting with martin luther king jr. and the students that took me on the tour talked about the campus creating a community and spaces for the students to interact there are a lot of diversity in the classroom equality in action and my visit made me rethink the online education it is very much online education as well as a classroom i'm not in support of one hundred percent of the education but clearly product based learning and goals for our vision 2025 there was virtuosa college going culture to be honest having small high schools is a challenge financially and i think flex academy offers one option in terms of a smaller environment and what expressed me at flex academy the standards have an individualized learnin

dr. murase. >> yes. i will be supporting this charter of renewal milestone my appropriate is the existing schools and those are sfusd scott taylor's students had a fantastic visit with the school last week it's clear that havingov

dr. b. in the house. this is real. >> another benefit of chocolate. i love it. >>> and superstar taylore live, revealing exclusive surprises and helping us reveal the winner of our ultimate shake it off contest. there are our finalists. up with of those groups will be headed to new york as vips at taylor's huge concert right here on thursday morning. lots of fans lined up last night. lots of fans not going to leave until thursday. >>> we begin with the latest on the retrial of john goodman for dui manslaughter. critical testimony this weekend focused on his bentley. matt gutman has the story. >> reporter: a $200,000 bentley. front and center in the retrial of multimillionaire polo mogul john goodman. >> pretty car. >> it's a very nice car. >> reporter: he's charged with dui manslaughter after crashing into 23-year-old scott wilson's hyundai in 2010, plowing it into a canal where the engineering graduate drowned. >> i went to grab my gear shift. that's the last thing i remember. >> reporter: he claims he didn't crash because he was drunk but because his luxury car malfunctioned, preventi

taylor branch is here. because occasionally -- you use these words, dr. emmert, this may work as a cattle prod to get this moving. i have seen the ncaa move quickly when there is money and reputation on the table. for example, you mentioned his na name, napier says on national tv what we know athletes -- what coaches know is a truth. that some guys don't have the money to buy shaving cream, to eat at night. but he says it on national tv and within seven days, because the shame and embarrassment, within seven days, if i'm correct, the law -- the rule is changed and guys can eat. >> yes. i would like -- >> hold on. i'm already over my time, sir. let me give you another example. cam newton was going through the same problems you were at the same time. his eligibility was being challenged, mr. ramsey. cam newton, a guy that brings millions of dollars into a university, and his adjudication happened quickly. yours did not. you are not a name athlete. what i want to say in conclusion, mr. chairperson, is -- really why i love that taylor branch is here. he wrote

dr. >> i was a prince fan. >> the actual news is that converse is suing walmart, h&m, kmart and others for stealing the design of these hightops, the chuck taylorghtops. >> i cannot believe this is happening now. every company has stolen that is on for the last 30 or 40 years. >> it's like band-aid, it's a staple. schatzker wask wearing some chuck taylor's the other day on live television. >> i doubt there were h&m's. >> it was probably wearing the louis vuitton's . >> imitation is the highest form of flattery. >> but to your point, why now? that has been going on for decades. perhaps they need to juice up their sales. they want to consolidate that. number eight is halo, the london-based taxi app competing with uber and lyft, - weren't you alyft driver? >> for aston martin. >> they say we are getting out of north america and the code ceo has left the company. vc's and early about how there is so much money competing in these companies and their was about $100 million funded in hailo in a market that is already nascent. uber andbillion in they will crush competitors. now you're seeing it happen. they are doing it. >> perhaps that's why they are