, et cetera. they went through that cicada craze and even evolved to mean simply created images of their deities and stylized mode so that they could claim that this figure stood for the same because that is how accomplished they were creating to human beings. until today you find this a credit freeze existing, but also there is another phase, which is very, very prominent, where there was a revolt that was christianity, go away. and today you'll find all of the deities in their original splendor and separatism from states. so even the religion itself, like culture, has members that. >> ask of a and that they are a double moved frontier. >> hello, professor soyinka. as a second-generation consumer of culture, i find myself sort of representative of this. [inaudible] >> consumer of your culture. my mom was a student of yours that the university of eisai but said sander, the children with only consumed more from a fiction. in your book, you've actually made a statement where he said as long as we co

, et cetera. that may be helpful for judges sentencing to drug courts for addiction problem instead of prison for a long period of time. the primary problem is one of addiction and treatment of remediation of that and the subsequent behavioral problems and other things is probably far more cost-effective and good for that person than simply sentencing them to prison time. and so i think the neuroscience helps to educate and change our ways that we understand drugs and drug addiction. >> another question is have you ever been allowed to testify regarding i.q. in a hearing or a trial using your program? >> yes, i just did that this weekend. so i testified this morning. i do know that -- so the atkins case was actually argued by a professor at the university of new mexico and he is constantly barraged by what's the best way to assess i.q., especially when you have these different tests and different measures, et cetera. i.q. is one of the most well studied things in psychology. so taking a brain scan

and so remember the great weak of fleet week and world champ ship play offs et cetera we want on forever and they started scorch sun day october the seventh between three point of port location and is three other landing points treasure island, angel island and the san francisco yacht club on november 20th they submit their first monthly statement and it showed in their first three weeks ever service they had 91 landings in the site and an offing of four and-a-half passengers per landing per landing which, is terrific one zero one paniers moved here peer one and one 54 landed here between the marina and were transported to the high peer in fisherman whof and the our next company is going to have more people moving down and up the water front by vessel and other mode we often and so it's very exciting and happy to have that going. next, another great announcement for us, is the grand opening of peer half premi prom iniad which, is funded from a [spelling?] variety of source which, is the least of a number of geobonds and it entertained entailed a significant repair of the sea area between

unbe knownst to the parents when they went to talk to the state troopers, et cetera, their son was unaccounted for. so they told them to look in the woods, go door to door, talk to people and for an hour or so they had no idea where their son was. they called the police department a couple of times and they had no record of him being there. finally after an hour and a half they called and were relieved to find out their son had been dropped off at the police department safe len sound. >> at that time they must have thought the worst. >> they thought the worst. it was very difficult time for them. he said it was the worst hour and a half he's ever experienced in his life. >> police interviewed this first grader, i'm guessing he's 6, 7 years old. >> he's 6 years old. they did interview him since he was there. >> what was he able to tell them? what details. >> they asked him, the interview was very elementary but they

come et cetera. why did you include this list of taxes in "freedom manifesto"? >> picture shows government coercion and that is almost everything you do now is that giving tax do we don't realize it. was the first thing you do? u-turn on the electricity in the future electricity bill. you have a cup of coffee, cup of tea. gasoline tax and that list doesn't even include the upcoming taxes on medical devices and the odometer taxes. you could expand at the 16 coming without one. the bottom line is everything you do ends up getting taxed that reduces capacity to create resources and reduces your freedom. >> steve forbes can you talk about tax withholding would never think about money has been ours. >> is, that came in world war ii. once upon a time to pay taxes on fear, which made people very conscious of the income tax rate. so when wartime, when everyone was brought into the income taxco system, about 20, 25% of the population, bringing almost everybody, how would you collect? half the population in a

you know, who should pay more in their tax rate, et cetera, et cetera.it was a pretty good indication of why they haven't been able to get a deal so far. i have to tell you this was prior to the latest setback as it's being called. there was some optimism. saying most people will keep their tax rates, they shouldn't worry about it. what there was a difference of opinion on, was weather that would happen before the 31st of january. there were a number of people who thought the deadline might slip that it wouldn't harm most people in the sense that their taxes aren't going to go up right away, anyway. and basically, the with holding is still set at the old rate. so there was optimism, but you kind of wonder. is it going like this. i don't know if there's any more. there was this morning but now we seem hung up on whether to change the way that cost of living increases are computed for social security recipients. >> and this breakdown or setback, do you see this as a strategy on somebody's part. 0-door think it's a legitimate indication that the wheels are

filings -- by either state or local law for a primarily formed campaign for a candidate seeking, et cetera. >> i think we're all concerned that you address primarily formed committees in the same cycle. so actually i would suggest saying draft committees shall file any campaign finance-related filings, reports or statements require bed featherstitch required by state or local law, et cetera. the only change inserting owe same." >> i don't know how that supports the cycle argument. >> you have related filings as opposed to semiannual filings. >> okay. so basically we want any draft committee that is operating to support a candidate for say the mayor's office, to file in the same manner as any other primarily formed committees. that is actually in operation for a declared candidate for the mayor's office. now it's possible, although i honestly don't know how often it happens they could have a primarily formed committee laying around from an election last year. maybe that doesn't need to file anything this year pause it's not supporting a candidate in this election. >> we'll is a dress that i

the nr a said it could voluntees and et cetera, et cetera.eaction, i think, struck some people as wrong. so there definitely was a lot of blow-back about it. what's the nra trying to do? it's trying to change the conversation. they think the debate should be about safe schools as opposed to guns, and obviously they're the gun lobby so you can understand that. that's what they were doing, and i mean, they got a lot of fierce pushback by some of the folks on capitol hill and some in the country. >> certainly a lot of response from lawmakers. any indication that any of them will get on board with the nra's proposal? >> i think school safety in general. the -- i think that what has happened this time in some ways is that people do view this as a problem that doesn't have one solution. certainly safe schools is one of the things. as far as putting more armed people inside a school, trained as the nra says, they'll be professionals and not teachers because they should teach, et cetera, et cetera, is not an unheard of idea. we've identified at least

anthony, the lady of the candles, et cetera, et cetera. they went through that phase, and even evolved a means of re-creating images of their deities in slightly stylized mode so that they could claim that those figures stood for the things and that is how accomplished they were in creating human beings. still today you find this phase existing but also there was another phase which is very prominent -- which is said christianity, go away, and you find owl the deities there in their original splendor, and come from the same. so, religion itself, never stuck. >> yes, gentleman in back there, and then down front. >> hello, professor soyinka. as a second generation consumer of yurba culture, find myself instead of representative -- sorry, i'm missing most of that. >> a consumer of yurba culture. raised in nigeria and brought here. my mom was a student of yours, but since then we, the children, have only consumed it more from fiction and in your book you made a statement where you said, as long as we continue to fictionalize the events and exp

just say these are the non-public schools that we're going to contract with and it's placement, et cetera. so we don't actually vote on the amount of money we're giving to each non-public school that. is what makes this a little different. >> exactly right, commissioner wynns, which is why this particular reso $13 million the entire non-public school budget and to give her the advice to declare and abstain from this kind of discussion for the very reason you very articulately said. >> the question arises just like i think when commissioner fewer was you been talking about. we talk about what strategies we have to spend less money on non-public schools. that is one of our budget strategies related to the budget in general. so somebody along the line has to think about that and tell us how that might -- i mean we're not doing that until june. so i don't know-- although, we might at some point. all the budget hearings and budget committee meetings we often talk about that as something that we need to look at. what are we doing about that? i don't know -- i really don't know. i want somebody

entirety of the hearings, shall certify on the record that he or she personally heard the testimony, et cetera." >> okay. i think that is good and where would we put it? >> section 4 i think i would just add at the end >> j? >> yes. >> >> just make it j and then you don't have to re-number the other sections. there is a particular need for chronology here. >> any other comments on decision point 4? >> just a comment, it may be unnecessary, but under the ex parte communications it does not preclude communication between commissioners. i know that there are other provisions that may take care of that, but i'm just curious as is it intended one commissioner could talk to another in advance of the hearing, concerning the subject matter? when the commissioner can't talk to a staff person, can't talk to an executive director? >> i'm just curious. >> is there nothing in the law that would preclude you from speaking to and one other commissioner. obviously beyond that is a seriatim problem. when that word poped into my head, i swore i wouldn't get it out, but i did. >> i don't feel strongly about it,

, et cetera, but the reason i'm here is to bring this to your attention. we'd like some city services that doesn't involve the police. the police are doing a very good job. we have 3 bicycle officers, we have calls, we have people up and down. we like having police. we'd like to have some city services to take care of some of what we call the antisocial behavior in the plaza -- drinking, public urination, public other stuff that people do in the middle of the day. the city already sends somebody out for two hours in the morning from 4:00 to 6:00 or 5:00 to 7 klak to power wash the plaza every day. we're spending a lot of money as taxpayers. we think we can do better. we appreciate the police, they're doing a great job, but what we'd like you to do and the reason i'm here is i'm asking you to make some calls, get other agencies involved, a multi tier, multi level approach, we just need some help. the other thing, just out of interest, i got all this from the department of records also. this is about 24th and mission and 16th and mission and the calls for se

, et cetera, et cetera.oesn't work that way. muslim practice in general is not so far different than practice here. and muslims want to be political the way we want to be political. let us not fall prey to the bigotry of low expectations that they can't make reasonable choices about their own political organization. and that there were, if you fall prey to the, you will accept the proposition that islamism essential, unavoidable, inevitable, malarkey. it is not unavoidable. it is not inevitable. what in politics is unavoidable and inevitable? it's not the case. and it's certainly not essential that if we want to defeat the great ideology that jim spoke about this morning, we want to defeat that great threat, it's certainly not essential that we embrace victory of people who have that ideology. because then what does that mean about us? it means that we are vanquished in the face of that ideology. so it is not essential. let us try to defeat it through the means that we know, the ones we've used in the past a

he took the money from the koch brothers, et cetera and he always was going to do this.fact, here is former michigan gop mayorman, ron -wiser as he's talking about their plan dating back to 2007. he talks about how he met former governor john angler from michigan and former oklahoma governor keithing and dick debos and americans for prosperity and they patched up this plan. here he is talking about it. >> i was talking to governor keithing the last day to pass right to work, and i was with governor engleer. what we determined was that to win that election and be sure to win it, we put in a governor. we decided to wait until we had a governor. now, we have the legislature and we have the governor. >> all the way back in 2007, they have a meeting saying hey hey, let's wait until we get a republican governor in place then that governor can pretend he's not going to take away the worker's rights and the moment we have the majority, we strike and take away the workers rights and we screw them over. that was their plan all along. billionaire donors love that plan because they'

there are a number of system interfaces, including address, parcel, cashiering, et cetera. we are meeting with various different team members to define those requirements and document them. we have continued meetings with planning where we identify enterprise level processes, process improvement for what starts in planning, what starts in dbi, the hand offs between the two organizations and how we will work it with the new system. our next steps are we're in the process of putting fogt -- together a letter to invite the citizen access committee members to a meeting january 30. we will continue the development stages i explained for the excella automation and the excella public portal. we will complete the test cases and do the kick off with our staff. be glad to answer any questions. >> so just what we got your list, we put our list together from the dbi site. have planning got back together with you -- you said 16? >> yes. >> so that list is put together now? >> yes, we're in the process of finalizing that and we'll be sending out that letter. >> do dbi, do we have a meeti

what happened with that movie, et cetera, et cetera. [applause]

, et cetera. >> is there a member of the public who wishes to zvictiontion about this? -- to speak about this? >> yes, david con. >> good afternoon. >>> i've dadev kahn, [speaker not understood], on behalf of the san francisco downtown parking corporation board. * david i'm working with the board, san francisco downtown parking board to finalize use agreement for the 5th and mission garage. i've been speaking the last several days with the city attorney's office and actually this afternoon with mr. roberts and mr. katari. we have a few remaining issues with respect to the lease termination. it is the expectation those remaining issues will be resolved and the language finalized no later than friday at 12 o'clock. i've discussed that with mr. katari. the staff recommendation as the board understands it is to approve the lease termination subject to the ability to ratify the language provided that it remains substantially similar to the agreement before the board and we agree with that recommendation. >> sir, thank you. anybody else care to address the board? if not, we n

you get crepes and burgers, et cetera. i feel that there should be a 30-day notification, like planning does with other building issues, and i think we should have a 3 only' radius, 30-day notify case, so people can go ahead and courtroom with comments and then decide from there. i really appreciate by the way, what supervisor wiener has done to try to move this along. again, none of us are against these trucks. and i would like to see this continues until we have a meeting with supervisor wein because quite frankly, i think it's on the side of the food trucks and once again, i love them. i think they are great and i like what they do as far as providing work and employment and all sorts of stuff, but it's not good for the bricks and mortar people. so we really need to continue this. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. i own a subway restaurant and 7-eleven. i'm one of the numerous brick-and-mortar restaurant owners in the city and we have contributed our fair share to the city's revenues over the yea

the ability to utilize our foreign trade zones for everything from tech to clean tech to biotech et cetera and the ability that you all have been helping us with to expand our trade zone and so we are now covering san francisco, san matt at a yo and county and contra costa county and so i would like to commend our staff to invigorating our trade zone is that has been around for a long license time so much so that we got you aian award for it. next, i'll like to mention that we have received our second award on our brand new cruise ship term flail that has not been constructed or yet and it's a shot in the arm really i wish they would have given us that and we have been awarded by crews critic which, is an interactive community belong for people who are travelers in the crudes industry and they have picked san francisco as their 2012 united states port on the basis of it being one of the most beautiful city's in the america to sail into and we can all say well do and strainings has been a long contenter for the united states ports but the state-of-the-art crews terminal with site seeings an

people who are actually taking metal illegally from housing, public utilities, private utilities, et cetera, and we are the third part of it, which is to make sure that all the transactions we do in buying this metal are properly done, legally done, completely recorded, et cetera. that's the general comment. the single comment i want to make about supervisor cohen's proposed ordinance is this: we have a 5 year lease with the port of san francisco and we would very much like to have the licensure be commensurate with that time period because as you know companies who invest like we do millions of dollars in an acre in our case that is actually not ours need to have some reliance on our ability to continue to operate within the strictures of our lease for the period of time of our lease. thank you very, very much. >> thank you. is there anyone else from the public that would like to speak? >> good afternoon, supervisors, my name is dan dote, i'm a bay view resident, home owner, business owner, and director of the bay view office of community planning which is a community-based land use entity

and we would have this area devoted to more commercial activities, entertainment, dining, et cetera. and, so, in the early 1950s, the port moved forward and had the franciscan restaurant built. as part of that. and this area we are standing on was an old timber wharf that supported parking for the fisherman's wharf area, of course, all the other restaurants developed over time. * and this old wonderful car ferry slip used to move railcars on and off of the pier over to tiberon and to richmond and other parts of the bay. so, for the last 50 years or 60 years if you're really doing the math, the port has been trying to keep regenerating our area and making it more of a great magnet, not just for tourism which is our core industry, but for locals alike. so, we really believe this promenade which, by the way, is a seawall. and you'll be happy to know that the old wooden seawall underneath has been repaired after over 100 years. so, all of you who own property across the street have another 100 years of safety to go. and all the rest of us get to enjoy that. and we truly are coming to whe