now, we need empirical data from this so-called consultants because sfpuc has this habit to have consultants. we saw this when they tried to put the combustion turbines and seen it again and again and the emphasis is on consultants so sfpuc has to learn in san francisco where we have many advocates and environmentalists that we need to have san franciscans doing the outreach for san francisco, and we will be paying attention to this and once we notice something -- which we have been doing we will write about t now, clean energy has to be discussed in the various facets that clean energy is produced. not only here in the united states but brazil and other areas and to find out really how much does that cost and finally let me say mr. chairman that we do have hydro electricity as part of this and we need to see how that is implemented. thank you very much. >> thank you. i have -- additional cards to name? jessica dur man ackerman and david mccord. >> hi. i am jessica ackerman and conservation staff with the sierra club and i am here to represent the 30,000 members in the bay area. i want to th

we really need to do the right hing with empirical data, not with fluff, and as one who is a philosopher and i go really deep into things and read stuff i will not tolerate fluff. i will expose it. i will shine light where there is darkness. thank you very much. >> thank you. any other members of the public would like to comment? seeing none. we will close public comment. and madam clerk do we have any other items before us? >> no mr. chr app >> a lot a ton with the community and we say to ourselves, there is this one and this one. we all compartmentalize them, we have our own agenda. our agenda is to create great work. if you are interested in that, you are part of our community. >> hello and welcome to brava theater. >> we are trying to figure out a way to make a space where theater and presentation of live work is something that you think of the same way that you think of going to the movies. of course, it has been complex in terms of economics, as it is for everyone now. artistically, we have done over 35 projects in four seasons, from producing dance, theater, presenting music, h

we really need to do the right hing with empirical data, not with fluff, and as one who is a philosopher and i go really deep into things and read stuff i will not tolerate fluff. i will expose it. i will shine light where there is darkness. thank you very much. >> thank you. any other members of the public would like to comment? seeing none. we will close public comment. and madam clerk do we have any other items before us? >> no mr. chr app >> hey, guys, known a with the weekly. much to do and much to see. here the top activities at the top of my list. this tuesday, january 15th, the sf main library will feature free film night and reception and celebrate 2013. join itbs for viewing soul food junkieses, history and cultural significance of soul food, black cultural identity. across the street from the library at grove street. after movie might, learn about the 21st sea lion anniversary. this thursday through next monday, pier 39 will feature sea lion experts and celebration of 23rd anniversary of their arrival. become sea lion savvy and learn about marine life and state conservation

we really need to do the right hing with empirical data, not with fluff, and as one who is a philosopher and i go really deep into things and read stuff i will not tolerate fluff. i will expose it. i will shine light where there is darkness. thank you very much. >> thank you. any other members of the public would like to comment? seeing none. we will close public comment. and madam clerk do we have any other items before us? >> no mr. chr app >> san francisco recreation and parks department offers classes for the whole family. rec and parks has a class for everyone. discover what is available now and get ready to get out and play. henri matisse. frida kahlo. andy warhol. discover the next great artist. get out and play and get inspired with toddler classes. experience art where making a mess is part of the process. classes and the size the artistic process rather than the product. children have the freedom to explore materials at their own pace and in their own way. talks love art, especially when they died into the creative process -- dive into the creative process. at the end of the

provided we have the empirical data from the right areas to do the right thing. i see you just asking questions in general and not going to what type of quality work has been done. so it's left to y'all. this an enterprise department that generates a lot of money. and you can use your money wisely or waste your money. but i am here to tell you in district 10 and 11, that survey with that map that you have has to be revisited first. and that's what the chair, kind of said after i spoke. and we also need to get some empirical data in district 10 and 11 as to the pollution and contamination. because simply speaking that's where the power plants were and polluted the area for 60 years. and as an environmentalist i have the duty to inform you of that fact. >> thank you, mr. decosta. mr. brooks. >> this is the last one, eric brooks representing san francisco green party. i want to pick up where commissioner vietor left off, on october 9 when you give the preliminary okay for this. i got up and gave tentative support for it. but commissioner caen rightly insisted that d

we really need to do the right hing with empirical data, not with fluff, and as one who is a philosopher and i go really deep into things and read stuff i will not tolerate fluff. i will expose it. i will shine light where there is darkness. thank you very much. >> thank you. any other members of the public would like to comment? seeing none. we will close public comment. and madam clerk do we have any other items before us? >> no mr. chr app >> feel like it really is a community. they are not the same thing, but it really does feel like there's that kind of a five. everybody is there to enjoy a literary reading. >> the best lit in san francisco. friendly, free, and you might get fed. ♪ [applause] >> this san francisco ryther created the radar reading series in 2003. she was inspired when she first moved to this city in the early 1990's and discover the wild west atmosphere of open mi it's ic in the mission. >> although there were these open mics every night of the week, they were super macho. people writing poems about being jerks. beatty their chest onstage. >> she was energized by

we really need to do the right hing with empirical data, not with fluff, and as one who is a philosopher and i go really deep into things and read stuff i will not tolerate fluff. i will expose it. i will shine light where there is darkness. thank you very much. >> thank you. any other members of the public would like to comment? seeing none. we will close public comment. and madam clerk do we have any other items before us? >> no mr. chr app >> welcome to "culturewire." today we are at recology. they are celebrate 20 years of one of the most incredibly unique artist residency programs. we are here to learn more from one of the resident artists. welcome to the show, deborah. tell us how this program began 20 years ago. >> the program began 20 years ago. our founder was an environmentalist and an activist and an artist in the 1970's. she started these street sweeping campaigns in the city. she started with kids. they had an exhibition at city hall. city officials heard about her efforts and they invited her to this facility. we thought it would coincide with our efforts to get folks to

and i think that somehow in some way with noaa and other agencies that provides some empirical data, we have to closely monitor the impacts. now, i did visit the highway when some of the infrastructure was exposed. and in all our deliberations with the sewer system improvement project and our infrastructure, i don't know if you commissioners are paying attention or want to shift some of the infrastructure inland while we are working on the infrastructure right now, making plans, rather than waiting for something really drastic to happen. because i was watching all the experts on the east coast say that they never, ever expected to tackle the problems that they are supposed to tackle now. they don't have the money. i mean, there's money there, but the money is not available quickly. i doubt we'll have all the money available quickly. so, i'm interested in infrastructure. and because i'm interested in infrastructure, i'm bringing this to your attention. the other thing is there's a lot of talk about open space and greening, and some of the projects and some of the programs have come be

now, we need empirical data from this so-called consultants because sfpuc has this habit to have consultants. we saw this when they tried to put the combustion turbines and seen it again and again and the emphasis is on consultants so sfpuc has to learn in san francisco where we have many advocates and environmentalists that we need to have san franciscans doing the outreach for san francisco, and we will be paying attention to this and once we notice something -- which we have been doing we will write about t now, clean energy has to be discussed in

well there's no empirical data to support this, there's nothing whatsoever to support that. >> president chiu: thank you. >> supervisor campos: i think as if my friend charlie would say i get your point. so thank you. >> president chiu: thank you. >> any other questions? >> president chiu: any other questions, colleagues? at this time, why don't we go to members of the public that wish to speak on behalf of the appellants. if you could please line up on the right-hand side of the chamber. and please step up to the microphone. first speaker please. walter, that's you. >> hello. it's working. ♪ city, city, give me your environmental review ♪ ♪ i'm half crazy all for bike riding with you ♪ ♪ and we won't -- we will ride through oak street, but you'll look sweet, upon the city bike seat, of a bicycle -- and you're riding there with president chiu ♪ >> president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> hello. j.j. dillon, i came to san francisco in 1994 when i got out of the service, i went to usf, i worked hard in the city, i finally bought a place in the city last year. i'm not going to argue the

the ones that you can detect using empirical data. i'm not sure that the trend lines of american policy are quite so positive. there is an interaction between the two. to end with a few other statistics, the situation has changed since 2001. today 4/5 of afghan households have [indiscernible] one half have tv's and three- quarters of afghan households have telephones. the statistics, for radius they may have been fairly high. for tvs and telephones they would have been zero. there connected with each other and with the rest of the world in ways that are completely different from where they were 10 years ago. on balance that is positive. >> let me thank the panel, each of whom has been positive in terms of a thoughtful and useful presentation. we appreciate it. thank you for coming and we're concluded. thank you very much. [applause]>> next, your live calls and comments on " washington journal." after that, remarks by public and afghan president karzai. >> if you ask how many people described themselves as libertarian, depending on whi

in light of the evidence, what empirical data supports your contention that restricting the rights of law-abiding citizens to possess firearms would decrease crime rather than making people more vulnerable to violent criminals. which is what i would suggest the data indicates has happened when it has been done. >> we know that nearly 2 million gun purchases were stopped from obtaining their firearms since 1994-2009. senator, i would say that your statistics would be much greater in homicides. what is often missed is the medical intervention and takes place today from the emt in the field to shock trauma. that would be much higher. i am here today representing nine major police executive leadership organizations. for the sake of time, i will not read all of those. they are a matter of record the problem. in areas like baltimore, new york, chicago with some of the toughest gun regulations and laws in the nation is outside weapons coming in. it is about the background check problem. it is about the acquisition of these firearms outside the normal firearms licensed dealer. that is what we

one of the things that i know of no way to gather empirical data on and you all may, make an analogy to when we first started dealing with the issue of crack cocain in the early 80's, coming from the bahamas. although i was senior, i was not equal the daniel patrick moynihan that was a great mind. the front page of the newspaper. one of the mafia bosses was gunned down in a barber chair and riddled with machine gun fire. it made the front page of every newspaper in america. the referenced a story where an entire family were murdered execution-style. it made page 57 in the new york times. there is no measure that i am aware of to determine whether or not there is a coursing of our courts are -- culture. i do not know the answer to that question and i do not know what impact it would have. i wanted to tell you what we are about. at the end result is that i would be making a recommendation as a consequence of long, drawn-out hearings. there is an awful lot of research that has been lying around over the past 10 years with recommendations on having a federal weapons trafficking statute u

in light of the evidence, what empirical data supports your contention that restricting the rights ofaw-abiding citizens to possess firearms would decrease crime rather than making them more vulnerable to be assaulted by violent criminals, which i would suggest has happened? >> we know that 2 million predicted purchasers were stopped from obtaining firearms -- prohibited purchasers. from 1994 through 2009. senator, your homicide statistics would be much greater -- often missed from this conversation is the medical intervention that takes place today at the emt level in appeal to the shock trauma centers that are very robust today, the statistics would be much higher. host: a tweet -- rick in louisville, ohio, independent. what are your views on gun control and have they changed? caller: we have the people that are killing these people and we have the actual guns. they both lead us back to ronald reagan and his conservatism. ronald reagan did not like the middle-class or union jobs. what happened in the past 30 years, the family has dissolved. kids are now being influenced by outside s

one of the things that i know of no way to gather empirical data on and you all may, make an analogy to when we first started dealing with the issue of crack cocain in the early 80's, coming from the bahamas. although i was senior, i was not equal the daniel patrick moynihan that was a great mind. the front page of the newspaper. one of the mafia bosses was gunned down in a barber chair and riddled with machine gun fire. it made the front page of every newspaper in america. the referenced a story where an entire family were murdered execution-style. it made page 57 in the new york times. there is no measure that i am aware of to determine whether or not there is a coursing of our courts are -- culture. i do not know the answer to that question and i do not know what impact it would have. i wanted to tell you what we are about. at the end result is that i would be making a recommendation as a consequence of long, drawn-out hearings. there is an awful lot of research that has been lying around over the past 10 years with recommendations on having a federal weapons trafficking statute u

the ones that you can detect using empirical data. i'm not sure that the trend lines of american policy are quite so positive. there is an interaction between the two. to end with a few other statistics, the situation has changed since 2001. today 4/5 of afghan households have [indiscernible] -- have radios. one half have tv's and three- quarters of afghan households have telephones. the statistics, for radius they may have been fairly high. for tvs and telephones they would have been zero. there connected with each other and with the rest of the world in ways that are completely different from where they were 10 years ago. changed and appealed to become more workable. renewable fuels are a key part of our energy infrastructure and our energy equation but not at the system or policy does not work. in 2007 when it was first enacted, it was put in place, driven by the need to wean us off for the sources of oil. today we see that occur primarily due to the vast domestic energy production in the united states. new day, new circumstances.

the ones that you can detect using empirical data. i'm not sure that the trend lines of american policy are quite so positive. there is an interaction between the two. to end with a few other statistics, the situation has changed since 2001. today 4/5 of afghan households have [indiscernible] three-lf have tv's and quarters of afghan households have telephones. the statistics, for radius they may have been fairly high. for tvs and telephones they would have been zero. there connected with each other and with the rest of the world in ways that are completely different from where they were 10 years ago. on balance that is positive. >> m. e. thank the panel, each of whom has been positive in terms of a thoughtful and useful presentation. we appreciate it. thank you for coming and we're concluded. thank you very much. [applause] >> afghanistan president hamid karzai is in washington beginning today for meetings at the pentagon, the state department, on capitol hill, and at the white house. a joint news conference is likely. on friday he w

most of the ones that you can detect using empirical data.i'm not sure that the -- in american policy are quite so positive. and obvious if there's an interaction between the two. but just to end with a few with a few others assistance to basically agree with ambassador khan, but the situation has changed their finally since 2001. today, four-fifths of afghan households have radios. one half of afghan households have tvs. and three quarters of afghan households have telephones. those statistics may be a radio my giving fahrenheit in 2001. tvs and telephones, they would have been zero, outside of a few people in kabul i would guess. so, you know, as ambassador jawad said, they are connected with each other and with the rest of the world in ways that are just completed different from where they were 10 years ago. i think on balance that's a positive. >> so we will end on a positive note. and let me thank the panel, each of them has been extraordinary positive in terms of very thoughtful, very useful presentations. we really appreciated very muc

that all relief related to the fiscal cliff and what happens now that we move into some more empirical dataortant. but as i discussed with bob sa sanny last week, the feeling here among the old fogies like me was that a good chunk of the fuel was new money for a new year. there were a couple things that worked out to underscore that. wednesday on the market on closes, there was over $1.5 billion to buy on balance. thursday, it dropped to 800. friday, it was 400. again, the old fogies believed that new money for a new quarter, a new month, a new year tends to come in in a three-day cycle. the most up front and then slows down. now until the very old, old days, it was a little bit the reverse because they had to have committee meetings and it will be the third day when you saw the most. that's when bios go up. it's reversed now because everything is electronic. so the feeling is that that push is now gone. we're going to see if the market can stand on tone. that's why i said last week starting monday we wouldn't have that fuel. so far all we're doing is consolidating. they're not selling. >>

. >> when would you see empirical data suggesting that the tide is turning, though?d the end of share loss when it comes to the digital ad market, is that in the near future? >> no. i mean, look, google, it's growing somewhere between 30% and 40%. facebook around the same level. it's going to take a while for facebook to -- for yahoo! excuse me, to go from negative 5 to a positive. we think sometime by the end of this year, they may be flat to maybe slightly up. you know, we're not holding our breath on them growing as fast, or even faster than the industry as management continues to believe that they will be able to do. but in the meantime, we'll be looking at engagement to see month-to-month engagement, particularly on the mobile side. and also try to figure out or try to see the rollout of new products. that will be a precursor to them doing well over time. >> amazon, that's a big report we're all looking forward to after the bell tonight. amazon has just come off a couple of new 52-week highs. sort of in the same situation where there's a run-up ahead of earnings

. >> speaking of fundamentals, is there any room in your empirical data, saying margins at the top of come in, or samsung taking a larger part of the share or galaxy crossing the $100 million mark? business is a zero sum game. share is a zero sum gain. and apple has lost some of it. >> who said business is a zero sum game? >> then address the fact that margins peaked with the release of the iphone 3g, address the fact that it's lost market share. how does it fit into your analysis? it can't be just that the investors set the expectations too high. maybe they haven't delivered on certain things. >> i don't see how you can say the company has not delivered on certain things. the ipad is, what, two years old and they come out with the ipad mini. i just told you the gaps between the other innovations that you're comparing apple against. >> as a long-term shareholder, you don't look at margins and the fact that they're coming in, or maybe there's cannibalization between the ipad mini and ipad? >> well, there was -- apple has always cannibalized its own products, right? the iphone has canni

because when facebook sees you as an advertiser, they have empirical data showing it's really workingthe return on investment is much better than anybody else. >> for a company who says we deliver the super bowl every day, we're going to get an actual super bowl in a few weeks, after an amazing weekend of football, jim. whether your teams won or lost. >> i love that color. >> incredible. cramer is ready to help you get off to a fast start in a new trading week. he'll bring you the "mad dash" next. rick santelli will talk with americans for tax reform. grover norquist, what is the father of the anti-tax increase saying about the debt ceiling standoff? one more look at futures as we kick off monday morning. don't go away. >>> about seven minutes before the bell. let's get jim's "mad dash" this morning. >> there's the investing carl icon. always a good investor. and then the put into play carl icon. i think transocean, this is more of a rock bottom valuation. it had been hurt very much about an investigation, obviously what was the role in the condo. that is now behind them. the stock sp

the ones that you can detect using empirical data. i'm not sure that the trend lines of american policy are quite so positive. there is an interaction between the two. to end with a few other statistics, the situation has changed since 2001. today 4/5 of afghan households have radios. one half have tv's and three- quarters of afghan households have telephones. the statistics, for radius they may have been fairly high. -- for radio they mave have been fiairly high. for tvs and telephones they would have been zero. there connected with each other and with the rest of the world in ways that are completely different from where they were 10 years ago. on balance that is positive. let me thank the panel, each of whom has been positive in terms of a thoughtful and useful presentation. we appreciate it. thank you for coming and we're concluded. thank you very much. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >>>> afghanistan president hamid karzai is in washington

in light of the evidence, what empirical data supports your contention that restricting the rights of law-abiding citizens to possess firearms would decrease crime rather than making people more vulnerable to violent criminals. >> we know that nearly 2 million gun purchases were stopped from obtaining their firearms since 1994-2009. senator, i would say that your statistics would be much greater in homicides. what is often missed is the medical intervention and takes place today from the emt in the field to shock trauma. that would be much higher. i am here today representing nine major police executive leadership organizations. for the sake of time, i will not read all of those. they are a matter of record the problem. in areas like baltimore, new york, chicago with some of the toughest gun regulations and laws in the nation is outside weapons coming in. it is about the background check problem. it is about the acquisition of these firearms outside the normal firearms licensed dealer. that is what we have to fix. high-capacity magazines or a problem and we are seeing assault weapons

university of chicago -- the reason so much empirical work is being done here, it is easy to compare the 50 states. we have similar types of laws, we have data that is compatible across the state, you have different states that changed their laws at different times a you can have a lot of different tests. bill and i have looked at things like assault weapons bans because different states have different ones, background checks, waiting periods, there were 13 different kinds of laws were looking at and the only one we found that reduce multiple beckham public shootings was the le victim public shootings was the passage of the right to carry laws. when that passed, there was a 60% drop in these incidents and 80% drop at the rate which people were killed or injured. these events over when the youth took place in the areas where guns were -- these events took place in areas where guns were banned. every single one has taken place where guns are bad. -- banned. it is not just true in the united states but in australia, new zealand, and it is true in host: wisconsin, independent line, good morning. caller: thank you for taking my call. the point yo

and we've gotten philly fed and empire state fed data out, business survey sentiment in the last couplee getting worse, not better. so if you look at capital expenditure plans, cap-ex plans, if you look at new orders, they're getting worse. and before we can get, i think, more bullish about the u.s. economy, we need to see more momentum coming from the corporates. it can't just be on the consumers. and i don't think we see it. >> how long does that last? when does this hit? >> the better corporate? >> midyear. >> midyear. >> there you go. >> you agree with it? >> right on time or direction. he's taken the time. -- >> no, because cap-ex is so low, corporate savings are so high that take, for example, the technology sector. and everybody's adding storage. from a enterprise perspective. a year ago emt's revenues going at a 20% annualized rate. by the third quarter they're down 1%. so there's a huge cutback in capital spending last year because of public policy uncertainty. if that just were to stabilize you get a maintenance level back and then you start getting into the longer term argume

a litany of data hitting the wires. empire manufacturing, a january number. minus 7.78.y minus 7.3. not pretty there. we're expecting basically unchanged. retail sales december headline up half of one%. up 0.5. take out autos up 0.3. take out autos and gas up 0.6. producer prices keys, down 0.2 headline. take out the all-important food and energy up 0.1. year over year headline up 1.3. let's look through the data. if you look at retail sales, that was better than expected by a factor of two on that 0.5, and ex-autos was pretty close, maybe even 0.1 better than expected. ex-autos and gas a couple of tenths better. some revisions. november's retail sales originally reported unchanged headline is now down 0.1. so i guess if we summarize the data headline inflation a little less, core about right. retail sales picking up, but defense against different issues. you know, for example, what the economy is going to look like in its entirety for the fourth quarter. gdp of course for the first quarter is going to be coming out at the end of this month. we're going in with a minus 4

those boxes could fill the entire capital rotunda and pile higher than the empire state building. that's a lot of data and smarter. so if the s.e.c. shows up with a subpoena asking for your hard drive and your cell phone records, you should know that using pass codes and even deleting those files won't protect your information. we got a rare look inside the s.e.c.'s crime lab last week. >> here we actually have a word document and a spreadsheet file that has a password protection over it. so we're running a program to try to crack the passwords on those two files. and access the underlying information contained within. on this machine here, it is another machine that we acquired, and what you're actually seeing is what the user before they delivered the device to us, and in this case a personal computer, what they were doing on the web. here you actually see them looking at their aol account, you see what websites, what news sites, what stock sites they might have been visiting prior to delivering the evidence to us. next we're going to walk into the cell phone room. over here you'll actually see we h

university of chicago -- the reason so much empirical work is being done here, it is easy to compare the 50 states. we have similar types of laws, we have data that is compatible across the state, you have different states that changed their laws at different times a you can have a lot of different tests. bill and i have looked at things like assault weapons bans because different states have different ones, background checks, waiting periods, there were 13 different kinds of laws were looking at and the only one we found that reduce multiple beckham public shootings was the passage of the right to carry laws. when the past, there was a 60% drop in these incidents and 80% drop at the rate which people were killed or injured. these events over when the youth took place in the areas where guns were -- these events took place in areas where guns were banned. every single one has taken place where guns are bad. it is not just true in the united states but in australia, new zealand, and it is true in europe. host: armstrong great, wisconsin, independent line, good morning. caller: thank you for taking my call. the point you made earlier -- i am 6