but they invited me th second te the third time, and et cetera, et cetera. and that started the friendship with me and israel philharmonic and israel. >> in 1971 they made you conductor for life. >> that's an honor not a contract. >> what must it feel like? >> any conductor given that honor is something that you just dream of. it doesn't come every day. >> why did you become a conductor, why not play an instrument or -- >> always wanted to be. my father founded the bombay symphony orchestra, when he came back from america he continued as a soloist and conductor. i would prepare the musical parts for him. i would put the music on the stands. i was his assistant. and i just always wanted to be associated with that orchestra. and then of course, through his love of symphonic music which he brought and imbibed in me, that's the music and that's the life i always wanted to have. >> you're 78 years old. how long do you want to keep doing this and what do you want your legacy to be? >> i'm not going to die in a sanatorium. that i promise you. >> do you want to die

basically we're going to be like a hub where people can come to get services, help, information, et ceteraat you see here on this table are a whole variety of did you ever rent things from tools, some walki-talkies. this helps people know what is going on in their neighborhood. over here you have a whole variety of water and canned goods. we're really hoping that people will stock up for themselves at least for the first 72 hours if not more. i know that i have a ton of canned food and other sorts of things such as water within my own home. and everybody should, but there's going to come a time where people are going to end up running out and needing more. so, that's what we've got right here. >> so, this neighborhood support center, this doesn't look to be a major city sponsored fully stocked space. it can be a small commercial space, even somebody's garage as long as they have the information, a guide of information, who to call for what, communications equipment, some power, have a generator. >> that's right. >> thinking of lights and charge your cell phones and so on. and probably be o

, et cetera. so it's not the easiest thing in the world. i have to say, wal-mart, pay an extra dollar or two an hour for your workers but then they have to turn around and raise the prices, and exactly where that baseball lie -- balance lies, don't have any cheap answers. >> i'm going to answer a related question -- first, if i woke up at wal-mart's chief economist tomorrow, wal-mart would be in big trouble. i took two econ courses, undergraduate. by the way, mike was professor at my college, and i studiously avoided his classes because he was considered to be hard grader. but one of the underlying questions, not the one you actually asked, related to the wal-mart foundation. wal-mart is a -- i studied corporate giving, and wal-mart i think this year is the largest corporate donor in america. something like 300 mental a year -- $300 million a year. that sounds like a lot but corporate giving has gone up a lot over the years, but has declined precipitously as a percentage of corporate profits, whic

forced to comply with a subpoena and turn over all the documents, including even more text messages, et cetera. kelly's lawyer tells nbc news that the fifth amendment should protect his client from having to turn over those documents and all those text messages. also an attorney for bill stepien, governor christie's former campaign manager and

, et cetera, and, in the view of saudi arabia and bahrain and the uae, qatar has not lived up to that agreement and, hence, the public expression of disagreement with qatar on this agreement was by withdrawing the ambassadors from qatar. i can tell you that there was no secret meeting between tamim and the other gcc members in kuwait because all the meetings that have taken place have been in public. >> charlie: but they did meet. of course. >> charlie: and they told him to cut it out, you're meddling too much and we don't like it. >> they told him that the articles of this agreement that we agreed to, qatar has not respected them, and that's why we're withdrawing our ambassadors and hopefully the qatars will come to their senses and come around. >> charlie: do you believe the iranian government will be successful and be prepared to dismantle the nuclear -- >> the hope is there. >> charlie: yeah. but, you know, your late president reagan used to say trust but verify. you need verification. >> charlie: and in syria, you're hopeful that the president of the united states will come back

, et cetera. if they don't like what they see, they signal up to somebody at top of the building and ordered them to shoot. my friend's brother was shot in the head because some of the sound of the phone. you're left with the realization that syria needs a humanitarian intervention but it also means to samantha that it is for cybersecurity conscious and aware of these things. the other day cometh syrians pride that was going on. they are caught in the crossfire. this horrific tragedy don't understand authentication. they don't understand why they should use the phone browser and all these different things. there's a real question we as technologists who are geopolitically waiting to address which is how we make sure the average citizen is secured online even if not physically secure. >> we use the example of smalley appeared to match them for discussion the government is better now. imagine no government at all for a while. imagine the industry which is 11% of lawless somalia and everyone has smar

wertheim, et cetera, including ms. hester to continue conversations on and see transit impact development fees for office because if we're building new office or adapting other uses to office, wouldn't it be correct for all of us to find other revenue sources he? because these missing transit lines don't automatically disappear nor would there be additional land for having new parking service lots as we are not providing transit. i just want to take it that far, but i suggest that we take that ever caring advice and remind we need to take that further. >> commissioners, there isa motion and a second on the floor to adopt a recommendation for approval with staff modifications. on that motion, commissioner antonini? >> aye. >> commissioner borden? >> aye. >> commissioner hillis? >> aye. >> commissioner moore? >> aye. >> commissioner sugaya? >> aye. >> commissioner fong? >> aye. >> and commission president wu? >> aye. >> so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously. 7 to 0 and places you on items 11 a and about

over ukraine political life, status in the world, membership of different organizations et cetera. russia is unlikely to use that leverage for the purposes that would be combatable with ukraine's good development. >> we are going to take a short broke. when we come back we'll talk about the new post cold war calculus - whether a russian win in crimea is necessarily an american loss. this is "inside story." crisis. >> drugs were the way to escape... >> addicted in vermont on al jazeera america ho>> >> welcome back to "inside story", i'm ray suarez. sunday there'll be a referendum for crimea. on sunday john kerry will be in london to meet with russian foreign minister sergei lavrov. there has been so much concentration in domestic political circles on president obama's alleged weakness, and vladimir putin's alleged strength. with all the concentration on whether putin is winning in crimea, are we losing site of the fact that he lost in ukraine, that this action might be pushing ukraine into the arms of the west. >> i think it's an excellent point. first of all, this is a very difficu

of satellites, this is from ken who says, can't we look at satellite photos from sunday, monday, et cetera, to see how far the objects have moved? no, yes, who can answer that for me? mary, is that you? >> well, they can look at satellites -- >> go ahead, mary. >> okay, they can look at it, but they have to see the same object in the satellite photo. the problem is they appear in some and not others and it's difficult to track them when they don't always appear in the photos. that's why they gave them coordinates two days after the accident. so the suggestion was, look under those coordinates for the black boxes. >> jeff? >> nothing to add to that. >> here is another one from betty. why not make priority searching islands, land, instead of oceans. land could prove life. richard quest? >> because which land are you going to look for as you go out over the southern option. if you look over the northern option, yes, they have looked over land. kazakhstan confirmed they have no evidence of any wreckage being found. there was no radar tracks from places like air thailand. i know jeff wise will

and that is cease and desist the violation, file any required report, statements, et cetera. pay a monetary penalty of up to $5,000 usually. there is a provision here that says with respect to city officers other than those identified in 8.107 of the charter, which is probably out of date, that reference, when the commission determines the basis of substantial evidence that a violation has occurred, the commission may recommend the appointing officer that the officer at issue be removed from office. and that's it. so, i guess without moving forward and having, you know, just sort of looking at it right now, my one concern would be to the extent there is additional language, that's sort of outside the scope of what's provided for in the charter, it might not be allowed for under the regs. i don't know if the city attorney has kind of a question on that. >> it sounds like if there was a recommendation for termination, then that would be contemplated in the language you just read. >> well, only if somebody -- only with respect to particular city officers and only with respect --

, et cetera. so, clarifying that the prevailing wage is focused on the county where the work is performed rather than only in the county of san francisco. ~ of that >> great, thank you. and these will be done [speaker not understood]? >> yes, the committee can make these amendments and pass the item to the full board. >> thank you very much. i'd like to motion we accept these amendments. >> we can take that without objection. [gavel] >> and if we can on item number 5 move the underlying ordinance forward with recommendation. >> we take that without objection. [gavel] >> thank you, colleagues. >> okay. madam clerk, do we have any other business in front of us? >> no, mr. chair. >> all right, we are adjourned. see you at 1:00. [gavel] >> good afternoon, everyone. welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors budget and finance committee meeting for wednesday, march 26, 2014. my name is mark farrell. i will be chairing this committee. i am joined by supervisors london breed and john avalos and wi

, et cetera. >> so what i'm a little bit confused about, and i did hear the previous panel say, oh, well there would be all previous implications if we had to return to a judge on the foreign intelligence surveillance court to get approval to do further monitoring. what i'm confused about if that information was appropriately obtained in the first place and indicates other people are implicated why they wouldn't go back for title itron i can search and they have what they need for that. >> if it is two grandmothers an they're probably opinion innocent. all i'm saying the only reason i raise it, i'm trying myself to figure out are there not gray areas here an wondering if you had any solutions authority of about authority which you find is too broad and completely ignoring it. let me not use up my whole five minutes. i did want to ask you about, as you know the president's review commission said they wanted to see a warrant, an actual, go get a warrant for probable cause before you could search the data using a u.s. person indicator. my question to you, is, and, we have heard some reasons

et cetera has been good.the day last week when president obama announced sanctions of russian officials close to putin they were in san francisco to look at american weapons as part of a treaty. up until now we understand the cooperation on the issue of nuclear weapons is good. but as the crisis evolves, if it does, i think some experts here are wondering whether or not all the work that has been going on to diffuse nuclear tensions in europe and elsewhere sense the end of the cold war may unravel somewhat but the tough challenges that president obama mentioned in 2009, his baby, he will push through the agenda because as we see on the package that is coming up, challenges facing the world from the huge stocks of nuclear materials are very severe. this is president obama's big idea, back in 2009 he called the danger posed by the world's huge stocks of nuclear materials the most immediate and extreme threat to global security and not all is well guarded and leading where the world is closer than ever to nuclea

et cetera. there's places, there are particular importance, there's particular communities that need to be prioritized as you think about your budget and how the license fee is going to roll out. and i'm going to step away to a discussion around the rail -- >> that's our conversation. we're not taking action but give direction to this staff. i like to say a couple of things first. i was in washington dc the last -- the grid lock could have major impacts on the highways, federal highways administration, the funding and the blueprint that expires this fall, and there is little action about it. so it's a sobering message from back there. and the second part of the message is we got to rely -- states are going to have to do more and locality is going to have to do more which rends -- lends more measure. i would support raising the age of muni to 18. i'm supportive of pre-muni with those with disabilities and youth. >> thank you. >> i really appreciate and echo your comments. we do at a local and sta

checking their names against terror watch lists, et cetera, et cetera.esn't mean that they might not find somebody down the line that changes their mind on that but that's their position. and like you say, for other kinds of theories, was their smoke in the cabin, et cetera? until they say that data, they are not going to sit with that theory at all. they are going to wait to see it. they haven't had anything hard glet mary, you've done a lot of work with families of these sorts of tragedies. what's the responsibility of the malaysian and u.s. government when it comes to how careful they are in the information they release to the families? because obviously they want information. they want anything they can get but at the same time, you have to be careful. you don't want to tell them one thing one day and correct it over the next. >> over the years i've worked with hundreds of families in many different crashes and the hallmark of each of them is they want information and they are smart enough. sometimes they are just terrible circumstances makes them ab

you seen, as this investigation has developed, a better cooperation in sharing of intelligence, et cetera, from malaysian authorities? >> what i see is that the malaysian authorities are starting to learn how to run an accident investigation and they're going back and forth because of the fact they simply don't have the experience. you look at the news conference when a piece of paper was handed to the official to say, hey, this is information. i've been accused of not sharing so here it is. you know, that gives me -- i feel for these guys because they're really trying to do the best they can. it's just they don't have the experience. now that the information is coming out, i think they've accepted that we don't know what we don't know and we're starting to work together and share information in the way that it's appropriately shared after it's been validated and has some good information that we can say we have good confidence that this is true or it's not true. i feel like it's moving forward now and as mary said now hopefully we can focus on the real facts. i doubt that that was prepro

of the safety net, part of the fraying safety net that includes all the cuts and medi-cal ihss, et cetera. those classes offered at senior centers, disability centers, the library, community centers, are absolutely essential and it's not just being attacked here, it's being attacked statewide. (applause) >> thank you very much. i'm going to read a couple more names. cedar lay. dee anna scott. timothy killy kelly. tariq ferrar. [speaker not understood]. next speaker, please. >>> okay, five years, $13 million to put lip stick on a pig. [laughter] (applause) >>> my name is carol mayer and i teach business at city college of san francisco. in my previous career i worked with information technology systems so i am qualified to comment on this. ccsf's it system is called banner and it's version 2.0, the current one is from 1998. the current revision is 8.8 so there is 16 years much technological upgrades and advances that are missing. yet ccsf administration or special trustee decided unilaterally to lock into a five-year $13 million services agreement with a private vendor without even looking

research and the telephone game between like how it is presented in the media or policy circles, et cetera. so it was, i'm quite honored to participate in that process. >> so, thomas, now i assume you got at least a b-plus on the -- that you did well enough on that and you've kind of come out of that, i mean, at some point in your career you're going to be putting on another hat and that is a policy hat. tell us what is the deal with austerity policies? i mean how, how do you look at them now having researched it extensively? >> it was interesting. the austerity policies have a long history. and so there's been a lot of times you can kind of test to see if they worked. and a lot of the common wisdom in the economics profession you see in basically any macro 101 textbook is that during a recession, you know, cutting the government budget with austerity policies is really damaging. you will contract the economy more than one for one. and, you know, that was one of the reasons why i thought, that the research was kind of implausible at the beginning. i think it was kind of, it helped my confi

traffic in the area, algae in the water, et cetera.d to two nautical miles. >> given the enormous depth of the indian ocean, i think would they have to be right up on it in a certain depth of water? >> they are certified to survive up to 20,000 feet. as far as locating the device, that two miles is good for any direction. >> what are the chances, though, of the beacons failing? woe look at recent airline tragedies or missing airplanes and it has taken up to two years in some instances to find the data recorders. >> actually, each unit is tested in water prior to shipping to it's destination. so, the likelihood of the pinger failing is very slim. it is a very reliable device. it has been used for many, many years. this unit has proven effective over long span of time. other than that, fairly simple and very reliable. >> mr. scofield, stand by. our meteorologist, chad myers, has been reporting on this, also, the tracking of the plane, satellite, radar and all that. do you have any questions for him? >> chuck, i do. this is not going to s

there was some applause, et cetera. you get the idea. he had to address the honesty issue.'s see what he had to say. >> i've been honest since day one to all of you. and sometimes that happens to seem a little rude. and, yeah, sometimes it happens to be that way, but at the same time, i would rather not be appreciated being honest and then be appreciated not being honest. >> well, there you go. he cleared that up, didn't he? >> yeah. >> i thought he did, too. right. moving on. juan pablo said he wouldn't change a thing about anything that went down and he said he has no regrets about any of his phrasing or how he said certain things, et cetera. one more note, we saw andi there in the clip. she said that no matter what has also been said about the fantasy suite, et cetera, quote, he wasn't mean -- excuse me, he wasn't mean to me. so, there was, you know -- >> i don't think the issue was being mean, just -- >> just being juan pablo. being weird. >> tough night for him. my goodness. >> next week, the merciful finale. >> back to the kisses and topless stuff. >> yeah, hopefully.

student behavior, student conduct, et cetera. so, one of the thing that we can report is that the construction process for the recently completed center for science and innovation was actually very well managed. and an effort for which the university tourist association has been grateful. i mean, we trust that all of the strategies which delivered such a positive result will now be put into effect for any future construction projects. there are concerns do not reside as much with the construction itself as it is with campus density, and our reservation to support any future construction is concerned with translating it into added student staff population or undesirable visual impact. neighborhood problems remain. most aggravating problem currently being the parking saturation in the neighborhood. usf has created a special task force chaired by peter novack, vice provost, to work with the lone mountain coalition of neighborhoods to [speaker not understood] the solution and improve the current untenable parking situation, and we re

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, et cetera. what i would say as well is every piece of evidence that we are getting, we should be treating it as a huge jigsaw. there is no one piece of evidence that is going to be the eureka evidence. there is going to be no silver bullet. we need to treat each piece of evidence as the single bit of the jigsaw. we place it in and step back. >> christine, the race is on to get to the place where those objects were spotted. this image was taken on sunday. we have had a store move into the already difficult seas. the challenge is to locate them once again. talk to us about that. that, they could be miles. we were talking to a currents experts earlier today. they could be moving about a mile an hour. >> that's very fast. that's absolutely right. i agree with michael it is a very positive thing that we have 120 over a large area which they are seeing objects. it makes it easier for them to follow them, really. as opposed to one or two that are bobbing in the ocean which, again, weather is always goi

hadn't used all of that, you know, satellite capability, et cetera, to help find the plane. why target the u.s. now and how severe is that anger against washington as well? >> well, it seems like the chinese are pointing their finger at everyone, other than themselves. rolls-royce, malaysians and the u.s. as you say. china is a growing military power, but this has shown their lack of influence and investigative capability. of course the u.s. agencies are the ones taking the lead in this investigation and jim, we have to look at this also domestically. china is potentially going to face a lot of criticism from its citizens as people travel abroad, can they protect those citizens and if something goes wrong, can they investigate that. so really, china is beholden to malaysia, to the u.s. and other countries, to solve this mystery and that doesn't look good for the communist party, so it makes sense for them in a way to point the fingers. >> no question. chinese government is extremely sensitive to perception of limitations of its power, ability and we can see that playing out