but what if they are not "encouraging them to run?" i mean we're still trying to capture anyone who is spending money to support the election of someone who is not a declared candidate, regardless of whether they are saying hey, mr. thompson, we really want you to declares a candidate. versus saying vote for mr. thompson. he would be the best mayor for san francisco. >> so what you are saying, if i understand it, vote for mr. thompson, he will be the best person for san francisco? that is really getting him on the ballot? or getting him nominated or getting him certified for nomination where he has not taken action to become a candidate? >> right. we want that draft committee to be covered by this. >> right. i think as the executive director says, this law will cover that situation. >> okay. >> where you have an individual who has not declared as a candidate, who has not given permission for anybody to raise funds or spend monies on his or her behalf, who has not given permission to be on the ballot. this will cover those committees th

we could say we would wave it maybe for 30 days as soon as the wltion is passed, which would encourage landlord to want to just do it, to get a break if they do it within the first month, even though it's a 6-month period, that we would wave it then and i would defer to the staff on making what would be cost effective to try to lower it thereafter. >> deputy director sweeney may want to weigh in here. >> listening to the proceeding i would figure there would be two inspections, one to check that the block, the backing was put in correctly, and then the final. that would be two inspections. it would be up to the commission to see. >> do we have any mechanism in place now where we could just say, okay, it's a $25 or a $50 flat fee for that? >> the cheapest permit's 360. >> 360 bucks. so there is no mechanism in place. >> that's correct. . >> also commissioner mar mentioned about legislation passed for the ordinance, aupbing and all those is from the board of supervisors but i don't know we can wave the fee as such. the city attorney can address that point because i know i don't have the

people are counselors and encouragers. defenders. oftentimes i hear this often lately people on their jobs being attacked by other people who want their jobs sometimes or just bigots and they just hate anybody who is religion or hate anybody who talks about jesus, true genuine friends step in to defend you. now listen. you and i must be willing to do the same for other people. to have the courage to stand by someone. if you have a true genuine friend and you see them going through something difficult you should have the courage to stand by them. someone says, i don't want to get into that. what do you mean you don't want to get into that? if you're their friend, you are into it. you'll be wise how you go about it. but to defend someone who is being mistreated. then, look. someone to love us. everybody needs to feel loved. and there's something about good relationships, loving relationship. you can tell the difference between a loving relationship and somebody who just wants something from you. that's not love. there's such value. and

i don't see the advantage of lipting it to people who are encouraging or urging -- i mean why not just leave a1 as-is. i mean, i have another slight amendment to it. what are we worried about that required us to define what "support" means? >> i think that is a fair point. he think what you are generally saying is that if we define "support," or possibly excluding things in the definition. i think that is a very fair point. i would also just point out subsection 4 does allow the ethics commission to propose regulations and i think the reason that we put that in there, we know that to the extent there is any potential ambiguity or loophole, people will try to go there. that is just how things go. >> this whole issue came up because of a loophole, because someone found a leap hole. >> right. so i think to some extent the ethics commission has the ability to address leap hole lope holes. the only downside if we don't define "support" at all there will be the chance of zero gay and lesbian as of what "support means." >> if we had "support" i would define it as public action or statement or

the goal is to encourage youngsters to want to become more skillful because they want to.mething new, they do it over and over without adult urging. man: you're going to run into the desk. you're going to run into the desk. turn it this way. there you go. there you go. there you go. hendrick: let's also keep in mind that some children are more physically able than others are. remember, our goal is to support each child in their development according to their own abilities. i think that children-- physically delayed children-- need to, again, focus in on what... the progress that they are making and the things that they can do. and also, getting other children to help them with the things that are difficult with them makes the normally developing child feel good, and the special needs child is feeling important to that child, too. and so there's a good relationship that can occur between the child who needs the help and the child who's doing the helping. it's very... it's mutually beneficial. cara, would you like to ride on the boat? mark's looking for a friend. mark, cara

are you encouraged by that today? >> i'm encouraged by what governor cuomo is doing. i'm encouraged by my governor and my legislature which convened today and immediately started talking about stopping this terrible gun violence. i'm encouraged by the white house's initiative. i think finely, after aurora last summer and now the terrible tragedy at sandy hook, finally people are realizing that the american public, the moms and dads of this country have to speak up. and i've been working on gun issues for 20 years. and i've never seen such a deep sense of outrage and a deep sense of commitment to doing something. >> that sense of outrage and that sense of commitment, does that also extend to your constituents and the coloradans that you talk to who are themselves gun owners, who may be hunters, may be sportsmen, people who see themselves as pro second amendment? >> oh, yes. you know, i'm a westerner. i come from a family of hunters. and we respect guns out here. we use them to hunt. but people who i've been talking to, they can't understand why you would need an assaul

it's also important to encourage small businesses. i am looking down this list, and there are places that i have been in recently including a holiday function i went to at the monarch bar so i understand where you're coming from and i have walked the streets and we want the area improved in an effective and respectful way of the folks in the community so we hear what you're saying and we're going to do everything we can to give the resources that we can to this. you have to hundred right now we're stretched department when it comes to resources but we're committed and we will find a way to be more effective. >> thank you. commissioner king king. >> i just wanted to add my thanks and appreciation to all of you that appeared before us this evening. i think it was a well planned and organized -- at least that's the way it appeared -- appearance on your behalf and to hear your individual stories certainly made an impact on all of us, and just want to thank you again, and also add my support as a commissioner to your efforts in trying to g

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so, i would definitely encourage you to do that. >> absolutely. and if you have a contact for the merchant association, if you could pass it along, that would be fantastic. >> great. and then to nick, then, just to follow-up on final questions. just remind me again in terms of the local hire. i want to thank supervisor mar for advocating for that. i think that's a great start. how many jobs did you say that would translate to? >> well, the commitments an annual job fair in the outer sunset and richmond. they are committed to having the two largest employers on the site, the two largest vending companies, the security company, and the beverage company who employ over 1200 patrons on-site, that they would work through that jobs fair to hire any available positions for the event. i do want to say i think the event has already employed many of the principles of local hire and planning the entertainment for this festival to have 26% of their own staff. we're based in san francisco. local 16 who actually the stagehands at the festival, over 36% of their

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to not build student housing but we should be encouraging the cc a's of the city. and because i carry around a map here with me. there's a municipal problem i don't know if it's going to show up here. the housing is here the college is here. and i have because i have - i was here 90 for the last item. an analysis of the bus it's supposed to connect these the number 19 bus is pardon me is a joke. it if doesn't go that often and the planning department has got to step up to the plate. we've been approving much humongous now housing and new opportunities but the bus system is a one hundred years old it's not a business system that goes around. there lines in the map and not really frequent. if you live in the richmond district and want to get downtown you're in fat city. but if you want to get around from the center of the student colleges then oh, well >> but who is going to yell and scream until the bus system is improved. it should start here and we have an i deal institution on the number 19 at both ends of this south market and they did the better bus service but

that and we like that because i think everybody should -- they are the public open space, and so i encourage public comment and letting us know how you feel. as you can all appreciate, every decision we make pleases some people and by its nature doesn't please others, so we're trying through the committee structure to have meetings where we can try to iron out to the best degree possible those differences before they reach the commission, so i just want to thank each commissioner for their involvement and participation this year. i think it's been very constructive and congratulate phil and all the staff on a job well done. thank you. >> is there any public comment under the president's report? seeing none, this item is closed. we're on item number 3, the general manager's report. >> thank you, commissioners. before i dive into a few substantive year-end issues that we want to cover in the gm report, i want to echo president buell's remarks, it's important to remind people that you are all volunteer and is for all the time and energy and perspective and guidance that you give to the departme

so i would encourage you to keep working on this. it is part of a cohesive community when you have churchs and preschools as part of residential neighborhoods. so i disagree that this is a business in a residential neighborhood. it's something to serve the neighborhood and i would urge the preschool to prioritize the neighborhood, so kids are not driving. that is something that we encouraged our preschools in our neighborhoods do. so i am supportive. >> commissioner borden? >> i'm going to agree with the previous commissioners and the way the project is designed it would be designed in a way that could be converted back into a home at a future time. as stated by commissioner antonini, it's as right use and they could put the preschool without this process at all. the fact that they are adding actually the net benefit. i am at that age demographic when all my friends are having kids and being told that they need to register their kids for preschool while they are in utero. we're part of a pilot aligned with the core curriculum standar

i think it's one of the things our city does not want to encourage. the one thing we will never be able to build more of is rent controlled units. that is a depleting stock every year. and we don't want homeowners that can't afford to buy homes competing with tenants in rent controlled units. but i'm very sympathetic to the current status of our existing t.i.c. owners in the status that they're in. so i'd really like to see if we can come up with some kind of solution that will help our t.i.c. owners, particularly the ones -- and i think it's important that it be owner occupied. i think we should be looking at a ban of fill for five or 10 years to ensure that these are folks planning on living in their units and not flip. and i think we should be talking about if we allow 1800 potential units to go through in this year are we talking about a freeze over the next nine or 10 years. so what we're trying to avoid is people stuck in a process for eight to 10 years and that's the actual challenge. then maybe we help take care of those folks today, but then

." >>> japanese vice prime minister and finance minister they feel extremely encouraged that someone that maintained friendly relations with myanmar is japan's vice prime minister. he said the japanese government and private sector will together assist myanmar with its reform efforts. he said the government will first forgive 60% of myanmar's existing $5.7 billion debt obligations. he promised to provide a new loan of roughly $570 million by the end of march to repair thermal power stations. it will be japan's first loan to myanmar in 26 years. aso's pledge of economic assistance comes at a time when democratic reforms in myanmar are encouraging companies in japan and other nations to start doing business in the country. >>> u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton has been released from a hospital in new york after undergoing treatment for a blood clot in her head. the state department made the announcement on wednesday saying she is making good progress. clinton left the hospital by car and was accompanied by her husband, former president bill clinton, and her daughter, chelsea. doc

and encouraging imports.o that we want the surplus to continue. last year, a percentage of gdp was about 2.8%. i think this year we will continue that trend. it will be a little bit higher. we will continue to sink as a percentage of gdp. the policy will continue under a goal is to basically achieve this. the other point is that we emphasize environmental protection and energy efficiency so that the growth has the higher point. the last point i would like to make is the international environment, especially the quantitative easing monetary policy for developed countries we must continue. we must continue knowing the trade is very important. overall, i think that it is pretty much the prediction of the imf. thank you. >> thank you so much. it is very difficult to get used to the economy of the scale, which has had growth of 7.8%. we are thinking about the implications of that. then our final speaker has a very interesting perspective. remarkably rapid growth, a little under noticing how it's going. what are th

the second one is to encourage local renewable energy and dg distributed generation and don't need to build new transition needs and local security and keep the dollars in the local economy and to help with us there are a number of recommendations and they're tinkering around the edge of our regulatory process and rules but ultimately we want to work together to drive comprehensive energy policy to support renewables and continue to take the lead on streamlining the processes and working with neighboring jurisdictions to do that as well so we have a standard system bay area wide and include this for local renewals and work with pg&e and we have a robust electric grid downtown and precludes installing renewable energy there and work with the homeowners so they know the options and how to finance it -- >> chair campos. >> commissioner mab. >> can i ask danielle? can you say more about explore and fee and tariff for local renewables. >> sure. we will talk about that in a second, but this is one of the opportunities that we have for community choice aggregation. it's a toil that has been

so, in 2009 the city was awarded under the same grant category to encourage arrest policies, and that was awarded to the san francisco district attorney's office. the original applicant at the time was the mayor's office of criminal justice. in the 2012 fiscal award announcement where we have applied to tailor our grant awards specifically to follow the assessment, it was indicated that a law enforcement entity could not be the lead applicant. our communication with the mayor's office and the department of status of women appeared most appropriate for them to be lead applicants. so, you'll see within the materials that the grant award is extending beyond our march date, which was actually when we completed our close out package with the federal government. when we completed our close out, the district attorney's office used our general funds to support the staffing positions that were no longer funded through the grant at that time. we have current requisitions at our business that we utilize to hire new positions in to support those grants. i'm happy to answer any questions about the

so we're encouraged by that. and the british are encouraging as well. we hope to be using it, at least experimentally, in the next six months. >> schieffer: do you foresee any problems with civil liberties groups? they may say this is invasive on people's privacy? >> oh, sure. this is new york. no question about it. and we're working with our attorneys to see to it that it is appropriately used. we understand there are fourth amendment issues here. so we want to get everybody on board before this goes to any widespread use. but it is-- it is encouraging. and i say new york is probably most litigious environment in the world, and we have to be aware of that before we implement it. >> schieffer: what about people who sincerely believe that when we institute tighter controls on guns, even background checks, that it is infringing on their rights? >> well, we understand that. there are different cultures in this country and i think you know the supreme court case the district of columbia versus healthem, pretty much made certain that the concept of people ha

he should be encouraging his constituents to do that. it is only just begun. the energy company of the nation also provide the opportunity to help insulate some 230,000 homes a year compared with 80,000 on the one from. instead of talking down the schemes he should be encouraging his constituents to take them up. >> mr. speaker, two men have drowned in stormy seas in separate incidents this week, despite the best efforts of brave lifeboat crews and the coordination of the britain's coast guard. how can the prime minister greater local fishermen to pay significant amounts of duty and taxes on their catch that it coast guard station is close, the risks they take will not increase? >> my honorable friend makes an important point and it's a good moment to pay tribute to our coast guard into the incredible work the very difficult and dangerous work that they do. as he knows, the government's examination of the coast guard hasn't been about reducing the number of votes or active stations. it's about the coordination center and whether best locator i think that's an

offer more encouragement and opportunities for remorse or and apology and restitution because victims and defendants have to go back to living with each other. often their friends, relatives, and try to figure out a way to fix the broken punishment system. right now it's just a warehouses for other criminals in prison. instead find ways to get them involved in work, to work, to gain skills so that they can come out again, maybe even serve in the military and find ways that once they've done their time and paid their debt, they can come back out to a law-abiding job and apartment instead of being exiled to go right back to drug dealing, say. >> host: well, professor, did we ever have a criminal justice system where we did focus on punishment and then reintegrationing and these good things as you see them? >> yes. in the 17th and 18th centuries in colonial america you had a system where it wasn't just the middle and upper middle class people punishing the poor as a permanent exiled under class. people of all races, economic backgrounds, etc., committed wrongs, got pun you shoulded tempo

i encourage them to two continue their leadership roles. i also encouraged i feel it's important the public process, people need to be included in the community process whether it's the various board committees. it is important to have committee chairs that allow the committee process to happen. this is an important part of city government to include public discussion and allowing people to talk. welcome class of 2013. thank you. >> president: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. my name is ernestine wise [sounds like]. i want to congratulate all members of the board and welcome london breed and norman yee. congratulations. [indiscernible] the best one when whoever it is, a woman or black. for a woman there is a lot of anger about -- on the waterfront. a lot of people have voted for the unjustly, 31,000 signatures offer to put it on the ballot for the people to vote. remember, you are here to represent the people not the developers. furthermore we don't need high-rise condo, 136 feet. we don't need a park. i presided ferry park, alon

it's encouraging for me.it gives me a little bit of enthusiasm that you really like to watch this program. i thank you so much for your call. it supports public television. quality education coming to you in the convenience of your home. i think that has been the benefit of public television to all of you watching. for me, too. i watch lots of public television. so thank you again for calling. coming up next on sewing with nancy you're going to see tips "i" through "p." "i" through "p," so interfacing, i'll give you a hint i think that's the "i". we taped it a while ago, but i think that's the "i". it will be in the "a to z" book if that isn't the first technique. you'll be seeing that. i'll be giving you other techniques using your sewing machine, your serger and things that you can do at the cutting table. so stay tuned. we'll be back. here's our second episode of "a to z." as you might guess i have been sewing a long time when i was asked to organize my favorite sewing and quilting tips as well as techniqu

we encouraged artists from all mediums to apply. we want as many artists from the bay area out here so they can have the same experience. >> how many artists to do your host here? >> 6 artist a year, and we receive about 108 applications. very competitive. >> but everyone should be encouraged to apply. thank you again for hosting us. >> thank you for including us in "culturewire." ♪ >> okay, good morning. thank you all for coming out today. we're very happy to be here. my name is ed rifkin, i'm the other ed, director of transportation. and as the transportation director, i oversee the sfmta which is the agency that is charged with implementing the city's transit first policy. and what our goal, what the city's goal and the transit first policy is is to make sure that everybody can get around san francisco, that everyone can get to where they need to go. it is an important part of making the economy of san francisco work, to making the quality of life good and better. but it's not just get around san francisco any old way. this is sa

that are trying to urge or encourage a particular outcome. i think that is the point of "support." and i'm also trying to think through if you have got a committee under state law that you have a primarily formed committee. i know. right. that this is creating a new animal only under scintilla, but is requiring that animal to file reports. all right, i will just keep thinking about it. if we haven't figured out the definitions we should try to get that right. it's dangerous to have a definition here that is complicated and interconnected and say that the commission may further adopt presto clarify this. i think we should get it right and not rely on having to go back later and define by regwhere we already have a definition that is intended to be comprehensive. >> because we so seldom try to do things right the first time? >> we should try. i'm being supportive. i will shut up for a while. >> i think commissioner studley is correct that the issue of the words "qualification," will make it more parallel to decision point 2. line 18. >> so we're going to say in order to support the q

news of a possible peace deal has encourage refugees to head back to the capital -- has encouraged refugees to head back to the capital. talks could determine whether they can stay. >> you are watching "bbc world news." these are our top stories. lawyers are demanding action to protect women after the gang rape. five men have been charged with her murder. reports from northwest pakistan said at the taliban commander, mullah nazir, has been killed in a u.s. drawn -- said that the taliban commander, mullah nazir, has been killed in a u.s. drone strike. the oil rig accident shows that shell, according to some, is not able to keep the arctic safe. our bbc analyst has the latest. >> it looks better than yesterday. they have put some salvage experts on board. at first, they said five saba's experts, and that has been confirmed. -- five salvage experts, and that has been confirmed. they now have to work and how to get the oil off. it broke three -- free from its tow ropes. it is now grounded on the bank. the weather conditions are slightly better than they were. they previously have been experienc