and when we speak to washington there's an echo effect and we need to be one voice and i think that needs to be clear. >> thank you. yes? >> hi, i'm with the california public utilities commission. i watched the news last night and another senator was really claiming on the debate on global warming, gee, i think you're saying it's profitable for the green industries now and i'm thinking, of course it needs to be profitable and really the fossil fuel and oil industries that are making hundreds more times more profit and that's what drives this. if we could internalize externalities and middest oil and regardless of your political leaning if you or we could internalize that that's what it takes to drive the point home to the public. people don't see the profitibility of it. the profitibility of it if they see it, it could achieve it. it's an inconvenient truthfulness. it's rather from your gut than based on facts. well, because i have a vested interest, without saying so, this is my opinion. that comes from a high level as far as kind of covering up the truth and talking what we want

sense of people having come over if not in mass by a great number to this other place with a kind of echo of that place being transposed into the world that became my world. so that of my mother's side of the family. my father's side was more mysterious. over time i heard stories of lost aunts and saint john >> new found land which is not where they are from and a deeper echo further back. i had my grandfather's passport from 1918, you could smell the must on it. all of the mysterious presences were there. my father's side was a mystery which we will get to eventually. and the third component is similar to what margaret was talking about. i irish american. i didn't know what a pure american was. none of my friends were pure americans. a lot of my friends were lebanese and from syria. i had yewish and irish american friends. all of our identities were mixed. my sense of being american was being in a mix of things. >> margaret could you also reflect in a prior conversation you talked about your father had a sense of where he came from and it was a little more difficult for your mom to artic

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supervisor dufty: i want to echo the success of this program. are having a hearing on safe route to school on a broader perspective next thursday. i think this would be great information. i want to point out, one of the issues for us, the school district will no longer be providing bus services this year. we have a lot of high school students that will be writing the muni system that have not been traditionally riding in. already, we have problems maintaining the system, so this is a great initiative, focusing at the elementary level. we had an initiative the other year where one high school was getting a lot off at the same time as another middle school, and it was causing some problems. i would appreciate it if you and your partners could join us in that future hearing. supervisor campos: thank you. any other questions? let's open it up to public comment. seeing none, public comment is closed. thank you for the presentation. colleagues, we need a motion. motion by commissioner dufty, seconded by carmen chu. thank you. next item. >> item 10. re

i wanted to echo some of the same things. i feel that we do view the rent board as a source of information. what the former speaker just said is that some time is not the best tool for us to use. sometimes it is not a way for tenants to be able to work out issues with their landlord. the perception among many people is that it is a lot of work, and listening to those kinds of statistics, the chances are not good for a positive outcome. i was going to talk a little bit about retaliation. i feel like that has been covered pretty well. i would just like to say that maybe we can put some of the politics aside and think about the potential that the rent board has. in being fair and deciding what is fair. i think when we look at it in that way, it becomes clear that there is room for improvement. even looking at best practices, all of these other cities -- none of them have appointments fully. we need to look at other cities around the day at around the country. we can learn from what is going on outside of the city and county of s

in 1985, during the cold war, an explosion occurred when the submarine, called "echo ii," was being refueled at a soviet navy base in the sea of japan. ten crew members were killed and 290 are thought to have been exposed to radiation. the soviet government had never revealed details of the accident on grounds that they were top military secrets. the sub had been kept off limits since the accident. dismantling work will continue until november, but the reactor, which is still highly radioactive, will remain sealed and kept at a nearby facility. >>> now for a business update with ines matsuyama. ines? >> thank you very much, catherine. >>> the u.s. central bank says the american economy has continued to grow overall but the pace of growth has slowed in some districts. that's a slight downgrade from the bank's previous assessment. the federal reserve released its latest beige book survey of business sentiment on wednesday. it shows economic activity slowing in june and july in 2 of the 12 federal reserve districts in the country. they are the midwestern region of chicago and the southern regio

are the equity markets doing at the moment henri we're seeing falls in european markets and that echoes overnight weakness on wall street and asia commodity assets are leading the decline so i'll have more market news in just a moment but first they say all secrets come to light russia's president dmitri medvedev has signed a law preventing insider trading the new law clarifies and defines concepts such as insider information and market manipulation amongst others insider trading is an offense in most financial centers but until now the law has never passed its first hearing in russia and it won't take effect immediately the rules come into force six months after publication. the government says it will offload shares in state companies even if the budget doesn't need the money so far the finance ministry proposes selling up to eleven major companies like ross enough to spare bank to name a few the earliest date for a sale will be next year the economic development minister said privatization will help build a competitive economy. these would be fairly big companies you. partially our c

brooks, but i'll just echo the sentiments of ms. jackson. thank you. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you. next speaker, please. >> aaron israel is here, a longtime member of the citizens advisory committee for power on issues of sfpuc. wanted to point out that the club thanks the good work that -- the staff of both the p.u.c. and lafco have been doing this year. focusing on the negotiations. finding the lessons learned from that process and being open. we don't have an opinion one way or the other about r.f.p. or splitting out the renewables work. we should point out that we are an advocate. we've long been involved in this process. mr. brooks does not speak for all the advocates. we're not all of one mind on this. we take great issue of him speaking for an alliance that we helped put together a number of years ago, which does not have an opinion in this matter today. so it's not possible for him to speak for an alliance or for members of that alliance, including sierra club. we hope that you get this r.f.p. out and that staff focuses on getting also the r

commissioner mirkarimi: i just want to echo the comments of my colleagues. very much appreciate your interest, your background and your commitment to san francisco, of course in the southeast sector of san francisco. i would very much and i think we would very much like to work with you in one capacity or another. thank you. >> [inaudible] commissioner mirkarimi: i tell you what, let's go ahead and hear from our other applicant. then i will bring up public comment. >> thank you. and thank you for the opportunity to apply for this position again. i have been a public member on lafco for the last 80 years. i think almost as long as lafco has been around in this form. i am -- 19 outside of lafco, i have been an environmental lawyer and energy lawyer -- hawhen i am outside of lafco. work on finding an oval our sources and funding and enabling power to be distributed in a clean way during the power crisis. i was the environmental lawyer for the university of california system. i also worked on their sustainability efforts, which resulted in most of the canvases -

supervisor chiu: i'm going to be brief, but i want to echo the thanks of the mayor's chief of staff, the budget director, all the wonderful budget analysts who spent many hours on this. the department heads, everyone here i can see almost to a person was incredibly involved in getting this done. of course, my colleagues. supervisor john avalos, thank you for allowing me to convince you to step up again for a second year. you did tremendous work, as did all of my colleagues on the budget committee and on our board. there are some folks who are not here who i want to really extend a warm thanks to. everyone who represented all of the different and important constituencies that were affected in so many ways -- i want to thank you for the late nights you spent with us at the board of supvisors helping us winnowed down the budget priorities with the few dollars that we have. this is not a perfect budget, but i think it is a good budget. it is a budget that protect course city services in public health, in public safety, and services for it the most memorable san franciscans we have in our

i want to echo the comments. thank you, steve for each question and how it was answered. >> seeing no public comment, all in favor, please say aye. ayes have it. next item. >> item 21. discussion to authorized the general manager for applicants on behalf of the puc to authorize the use of portable water supplies. >> another mindreading test. evidently this one did not go through. [laughter] i will have to work on my technique. i asked earlier for information on various projects, and that is somewhere in the works an fhopefully will emerge. i asked about the dollar cost providing that, and for the commission reference, and and i can are criminals of the -- a benchmark. the question for you, putting together -- cost is you had a couple with pretty high numbers here. jefferson off the plaza. what was the thinking that was included? >> we are going forward as part of park improvement projects, even if they aren't the most cost-effective in terms of water. this has come back through the board, and we talk about evalua

city-wide child-care administrator, and to echo that comment, we really welcome the opportunity to work with the departmental audit as we jointly fund, joint discussions around policy and planning and services, and also work with eph. it will be a welcome opportunity to dialogue about how we might be able to interconnect with services and programs. supervisor mar: can i just ask a question? i know that through the early childhood education funds, there has been an effort to try to urge the city to look at better coordination of early childhood education program in. could you talk a little bit about what is currently going on with dcyf and hsa and first five and other early childhood education in duties? >> are you speaking of the mayor's proposal to online the two city departments? at this time, dcyf and hsa have been hosting community forums. we had two. they were duplicates of one another, where we shared the background and history of the effort to align city departments around early care and education licy planning and financing. we spoke about the vision for early care education in

you reference concerns, and those have been echoed. the ladies said we were not fair to speak, but we are -- thought there is free, but we are. -- not there to speak, but we are. we are going to have up to 12,000 new jobs. the bridge is vital for traffic circulation and development. it will be of vital and economically sustainable part of the city. the gentleman from the sierra club was complaining about the noise. that is the noise of people going who work. that is what it sounds like. if he wanted to be like golden gate, so be it, but that is the sound of people going to work, and we would like to see people going to work. we urge you to support the project. >> thank you. >> the afternoon i am here today without many. manny is sitting by a full having a cheeseburger and a club soda, and he is watching on his laptop. i want to says i have heard somebody talking about a missing a train. that is what is going to happen. if we do not get on board, we miss the train. we build bridges. we build the floor as we walk on. we build the roof th

i want to echo what was said about coordination. it has long been said that working together with other projects is important for the sources some plan. i think it would be stronger language than incorporating it, and i would like to say we published a report. what should be the objectives for the waste water plans to years ago? -- two years ago. the current draft satisfies all those objectives. i think all the implementation and details going forward is how we will really manage the challenges. we will continue monitoring implementation of these approve this through the watershed approach, so i encourage you to move the system forward. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker please. good afternoon, commissioners. with all due respect, i am going to confer with the first speakers and ask you to delay your resolution to take up a number of things that have come before you today when during public comment as well. i do not think after all the great work that has gone into this to us for this is too much to ask. i have a couple other thi

to echo what supervisor avalos said in his introductory marks, we do face and a tremendous degree of uncertainty about the economy, the state and federal budgets, and the revenues in our budget. given that large amount of uncertainty, what we are going to have to -- we are going to have to cross those bridges when we come to them. our intent is to move forward with these programs and carry them out. the language that supervisor avalos introduced is insured to come to a point where we do have large revenue shortfalls in the city budget that change the budget picture dramatically. it would set up a process to have a conversation with you about how we intend to address those shortfalls. thank you, mr. wagner. let me ask this a little bit differently. i understand about the uncertainty, as you indicated. there is a process that is outlined here. but for that uncertainty, i want to make sure there is a commitment on behalf of the mayor's office. >> absolutely, supervisor. >> supervisor chiu. >> thank you, colleagues. i want to thank the tremendous work of the budget committee and our budg

público implicados, según a él aunque se comprobó que sabían lo que pasaba no fueron cómplices en el echoinvestigación que podría llevar cargos criminales. >>> gracias lourdes el comité de justicia del senado dio su aprobación a elena kagan para la corte suprema de justicia sólo un re senador republicano se unió a los demócratas en la votación ahora el pleno del senado deberá votar de sker ratificado kagan seria la cuarta mujer en la corte suprema . >>> una epidemia de se inicio una campaña para advertir a la comunidad latina sobre la importancia de vacunar a los bebés. >>> tiempo de una pausa comercial a la vuelta ana bárbara involucrada en un accidente donde una anciana murió. >>> el presidente chávez dice que su gobierno será accionista en el único canal de o el gobierno de venezuela apunto de conseguir la mitad de globo visión el presidente chávez dijo que en los próximos días tomará posesión de las acciones de o globo visión, además, el gobierno va a recuperar las acciones de uno de los fundadores de este canal que ya falleció de esta manera tendrían el 45% de la las ksz de globo vis

. >> charles, i would like to echo my colleagues, this was a helpful tool. we can all improve on what we do every day, this has been a real firsthand look from the man that came from the comptroller's office. and how important it is for transparency. >> again, if there is more information that this summary does not provide, please give us at feedback. if we can help to make things easier in terms of follow-up on all of those issues you raised, we would be happy to address that in another way. ->> thinking about the community benefits program, thinking about performance monitoring and measuring successful programs, it would be great to be able to tap into that accessibility. >> have we inc. from the independent study that was made? >> we have been doing that without focusing -- on the bond based group in this parts of the world. this review

commissioner sullivan, thinking long term, echoing the conclusion of the report, is duly noted. i think we obviously have had a lot of conversations about identifying sustainable funding sources, but a subset of that, i think we need to come up with a strategy to figure out how to improve the work we need to do on this front. it is a concept that a lot of things come before this commission that are divisive. protecting our trees is not. i think if we take that sort of consensus opinion and figure out how to translate that into a policy idea, to dedicate funding for that purpose, i think we could actually take a very significant step in that direction. so i will do it to things, not remove the trap -- not remove the taxgs, and i will be thinkig about what this team how we can comeback with a strategy for augmenting our resources in this area. >> i think the good news is in the last fund, the first time, the city of san francisco was able to come before council and put $4 million in four major tree work. the most important properties that need this work will get a huge shot in the

and that's been echoed. additionally, there has been -- while i'm on the topic, there has been pretty widespread comment from the firms that i've spoken with that the regulatory unknowns regarding the a.p.f. standards in california, particularly around sb-722 is something front and center in everybody's minds. they're having a hard time managing that with their existing business, so it's something that they expressed as just a general concern. they also had -- there are a variety of issues we've talked about before of the intention of what we're seeking to do in terms of the renewables and trying to meet or beat out prices. and some folks had questions about that, because that's a concern they have. supervisor mirkarimi: colleagues? anybody else have any questions for staff, p.u.c. or lafco? ok. why don't we go to public comment. three? i will read the cards as i have them here. eric brooks,es opinion knoll la jackson, eric smith, espinola jackson and espinola jackson. you have three cards. >> we need her to

hillary clinton was down there a few weeks ago, trying to separate echoed their -- ecuador from venezuela. we keep over reaching. we want to control anyone that steps out of line that is a regional power. recently when turkey went into the iranian sanction, remember their head was cut off? fighting with turkey. brazil was criticized. 500 billion barrels of oil reserves. we are making enemies out of them. they are not the enemies the us. you know what it is? the attacks of the new century, when bush and donald rumsfeld called wolfowitz, they wrote the pack about the american unilateral control of the world. they would not allow for the emergence of military or economic rivals. whenever obama says, this is what he is pursuing. there has been no real change in policy. the empire, we are the world's police. it is a soft power. >> i was watching a documentary last night. reading what some people had to say about, some people that think you were too soft. >> the fair and balanced approach. that is the fox news. frankly there is criticism in the film. it is not up-to-date. i am not a journalist.

britain's prime minister, david cameron, has echoed hamid karzai's call for greater action against terrorists in pakistan. his comments came during his trip to india and he defended them, saying more needs to be done to crack down on the insurgents. pakistan's officials say they are dealing with the threat. our world officials editor says those in pakistan still face suicide bombings. >> pakistan does not have just one group of taliban to deal with. it's got to separate ones -- a home grown version and an afghan version, both operating on the territory. the army has clamped down hard on the pakistan the telegram, -- the pakistani taliban. the crackdown is succeeding although peshawar is still dangerous. i used to wander around here on my own without any problem. now most people locally say we should not stay in one place for more than 20 minutes for our own safety. a taliban suicide bomber heads for the press club. he blows himself up. it is caught on cc tv. the area outside peshawar has plenty of volunteers that support the afghan television. this is the village of the would-be bombers who l

trying to pick up the echo of the electrical signals in just inside her brain which in some animals the stage is fifteen to twenty centimeters under the skin. that is the lower jaw bone of the sea mammals is considered the best area for sound reception hydrophone is affixed to the white whales lower jaw bones and puts out a series of noise it's. our experiments this toasting all in basis of this because he doesn't feel and it's like giving if i was to listen and listen to music how often our or now i'm just off of that she can swim again without any problems and let's look with. the scientists watch the brain response to the sound impulse on the computer monitor the first research on dolphins was launched here in the one nine hundred sixty s. today new technologies present scientists with new opportunities a lot of facts are being gathered but many of the mysteries of sea mammals remain unsolved. as for the mysteries of should everything is a mystery here really. from here sounds ten pitches higher than the human ear can take. why can't people hear it with the majority of animals have o

. >> i would like to echo those last few thoughts on the floor. certainly our experience in the, uk, is you can't move forward at all if you face challenges in an integrated way, without engaging properly with the utility communist and regulators. it's absolutely essential. it's not natural for us in the, uk. we have spent a lot of time building trust between the agencies and companies but when we achieved that it's been enormously helpful and it's achieved the feedback back into the legislation process because when you get a collective bodies working together, it's very easy to influence the legislation process. >> chuck, i'm going back to running the office and be a regulator and tell you what i hated. what i hated is when people came in and said they didn't like the rules and they wanted a performance based standard and they would say, we know what we want to do and we're green and trust us. if someone comes in and says we don't like the prescriptive standards and we run models and can invest better to have a better return for theen environment

. >> i want to also -- echo the comments of -- of commissioner borden and commissioner moore and the other commissioners. i think it is an excellent project. sometimes it is a little unsettling when -- when we hear members of the public sort of characterized -- characterize people in low income housing as being sort of guilty of you know -- potentially you know crime ridden or whatever. i think as commissioner borden pointed out, that's not accurate, that most people would be greatful -- grateful to have a beautiful new home to be in. it is really -- it is really nice to see that -- there -- there will be units provided to -- to -- i don't know emancipated use. i know that the politically correct term that is out there. and so i think that is really heartening because -- there's -- there isn't enough of that in the city, god knows. then sometimes -- we have had a transit first policy in place for sometime. sometimes i'm concerned that we don't really apply our policies in a real way. we kind of say, we have the policy but -- you know, we see it how. it sort of touted and it is never

today americans have been drawn to niche channels precisely because they echoed their preconceptions.t's where we are. >> we're living in an echo chamber. >> charlie: the question is what's the responsibility of you, people who have access to minds and the ability to bring together the best and smartest among us? and to create the kind of debate we need to have about where we are and how we meet the change and the challenge of an increasingly complex but connected world. >> so first, just an admission, i have to say that there are times when i feel like -- not even like don quixote but like graham greene's character who thought he was descended from don quixote, i feel like jeremiah because i'm worried about what this is doing to american society, what can we do? we have to do something. that's paschal's wager. >> charlie: first can you put the horse back in the barn? >> i think the first thing we have to do is people like you and me, university presidents and thought leaders have to begin to use the basic techniques of shaming and honoring. and i think we have to begin to get -- to g