their report is excellent. it deserves your certification. were there were impacts identify, mitigation is provided, that is what the eir process is all about. then we move forward. the port and the city is blessed with this tremendous opportunity to further port revitalization with the financial support of a project developer that is imbued with a strong environmental ethics. remember, this is a port project. without these public-private partnerships, we cannot continue the essentially violation -- revitalization of the port, which provides wonderful benefits for the city, region, and all of california, frankly. thank you for your support of the eir today. >> commissioners, i am peter winklestein. have experts of a letter from will travis it cannot be here today. dear commissioners, after spending 16 years as the executive director of the san francisco bay confrontation -- conservation and development commission, as my first civic act as a civilian, i offer my unqualified support for the 8 washington project. i will stress the role it will p

. >> reporter: doug parsons is excel's president and c.e.o. located in illinois about 20 miles outside of peoria, excel is in the business of manufacturing aftermarket parts for open pit mining equipment, the niche manufacturing company has 50 openings, most of which are high skilled high tech manufacturing jobs. >> the ability for us to go out and find an employee with the skill set that we need and be able to plug them right into our work force just doesn't exist. >> reporter: according to the bureau of labor statistics, job openings in manufacturing grew from 98,000 in january, 2009, to a projected 264,000 in december of 2011-- an increase of over 169%. at the same time hiring has only increased 62%. dennis vic rellly is the managing director of world business chicago, a nonprofit focused on bringing manufacturing and other high tech companies to the city. he says the gap is due in part to the changing nature of manufacturing itself which is still perceived as dirty, tedious, and back breaking. >> it's not manufacturing in the sense of what

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the overall design excellence, scale, a character, and urban plan are well-considered and will be an important contribution to san francisco's waterfront. we share, as a city, the galvanizing platform of sustainability and healthy living. 8 washington meets this cultural need by promoting vital, active, and healthy uses to the coastal culture of san francisco. seizing a unique opportunity to reconnect our city back to its waterfront. 8 washington's thoughtfully organized program and urban plan strategies that include pedestrian-friendly housing, new pedestrian corridors, ground- floor retail, a publicly- accessible open space, the aquatics and health center, and much-needed underground parking. well-seeded and brilliantly planned for the embarcadero. this site is the ideal location for higher density housing on a major transit corridor with open access to the waterfront. the existing golden gate tennis and swimming club represents an integrated urban paradigm that serves to privileged few. it privatizes the waterfront that should be shared by all san franciscans. remove a portion of

at the request of the commission we used our proven design excellence process to select the design firm. this competitive process seeks the most qualified designers. we seek to contract with the nation's most talented architects, landscape architects and engineers to design projects with outstanding quality and value. as part of this process, gs afrnlts utilizes the expertise of private sector peers to assist in the evaluation of proposals and design firms ensuring we benefit from the knowledge of a wide variety of individuals. at their request gsa worked with a commission to develop a highly qualified ae evaluation board of 11 members from the commission, gsa, the eisenhower family as well as private sector peers in a variety of design and architectural areas. the board used a three-stage process to make its selection. this included evaluating the work officials submitting proposals and inviting a short list officials to be invited for interviews and reviewing proo pose als of details of the memorial. in 2008 gsa asked for firms to submit portfolios of their work. there were 44 respons

[ male announcer ] for excellent fruit and veggie nutrition...8 v-fusion, also refreshing plus tea. could've had a v8. >> foggy and moist start to the day today. it is balmy out there. it probably feels 5 to 6 degrees warmer than it is right now. northwest wind at 5 to 10 miles per hour. pretty good as far as the temperatures right on normal. we did have a lot of rain. at the inner harbor a quarter inch. as far as the low temperature normal, b.w.i. did well, but the inner harbor, 43 degrees warmer. happened in 2009, 4.7 inches of snow. we haven't seen any snow this winter. nothing to write home about. current temperatures mid to upper 40's. warmest temperatures on the eastern shore. salisbury 58 degrees. way out west it is still warm. 43 degrees. h.d. doppler shows the storm that moved through yesterday. this is a well defined cold front that will push the rest of that strong, strong system toward the midwest. we will see portions of the midwest. we can see it is well defined. a lot of moisture ahead of the front. possibly a couple rumbles of thu

michael nulty would be excellent. he has been a mentor to me in the sense of, you know, i have found a way to use my skills for the people around me. thank you. supervisor kim: thank you. and yet there public comment? >> good afternoon. my name is douglas yepp, and i have lived in san francisco to 60 years. before coming here, i was having no choice for these four applicants, but what -- but since it was stated earlier that michael nulty is an alumnus of reardon high school, i say give reardon a chance. in my opinion, there's one school that has influence in san francisco. in regards to this seat, i felt dizzy and important for this city to consider how independent the applicant will be. according to my research, it seems like many people that fill these committees have a very cozy relationship with parts of the city and county in san francisco. and i feel that this might hinder the creative thinking and eventual solutions on these committees. so i think one criteria that should be considered is how independent a comm

file chose to run the competition under the guidelines of gsa's design excellence program, a program that was never intended to be used for memorial competitions. it basically limits the candidates to only 44 hand picked firms. thus the use of the design excellence program made it impossible to see unknown and untested talent such as maya lin who designed the vietnam veteran's memorial. in the 1990s the initial competition for the world war ii memorial was run according to the design excellence program. there was a public outcry about the design and it was changed. adding to our concerns, when the eisenhower commission recently released the minutes from its meetings, it didn't publish minutes from meetings in 2008 at which the competition was discussed. stranger still there does not appear to have been a quorum at those crucial meetings. what exactly is in those missing minutes and why has the commission not released material submitted by competition entrants. the commission's commemorative cost $2 million and it's now estimated to cost $119 million. that doesn't include the unusuall

our waterfront, providing a vital link to the embarcadero's urbanism, as well as engaged design excellence and standards that will look forward, rather than backward. [bell rings] assuring san francisco's future as a livable waterfront city. thank you very much. >> thank you. michael, tony, dave, don, and billy. >> hello. my name is darcy. i will be brief. i am the mother of a teenage son who has been a long time camper and later jr. counselor at the camp. i have heard people discussed the fact that the campbell goalie and it will be compromised. i did not see that at all. my son and i reviewed the plans. he was quite ecstatic, noting the addition of more green space and recreational areas. quite frankly, when we were there, we did not see a lot of people using the tennis courts, so he will not miss that. we both felt strongly that this makes such a nicer contribution to the city. we always felt guilty taking up this duty for ourselves. we are excited to see the addition of the green roofs and of these beautiful things that will be added to the waterfront. we will continue to enjoy the cam

there are so many centers of excellence out there, i'm not sure what excellence is anymore. i'm not berating anybody? how do we make sure that we're investing in institution that's get the return on the invest sment based upon as a nation we need and that we have the ability to measure what each one of these institutions do and compare it to other ones. and so this was our attempt to come back and go we recognize congress' authority to specifically say these are things we want to do. there's been a lot of growth here. how do we sustain it, make it more competitive and put more emphasis on is this identifying the training we need for the various disciplines? >> i get your arguments. i know the details, sirment that's why i want to respond in writing. >> you have to evaluate more importantly the question would have to be is somebody making the evaluations of how these centers are meeting the criteria and if i understand this program, the $60 million is to allow others to create new centers of excellence if you want to call it that way. and how do you cut the bad ones and creat

the gary plan having gone through the gsa design excellence program has attempted to compromise this rule. the memorial commission and gary intend to redefine what it means to build a memorial, far exceeding congressional mandate. to me this is the most important part in this hearing. we have an accepted rule and either we stick to it or throw it out. if you go this new direction we might as well tear down the lincoln memorial and put a log cabin there. monuments should be built from materials that last centuries. mr. gary does not typically spec this type of material. it's my understanding the gigantic fence is larger than the hollywood sign. in urban environments acid rain, bird droppings and air quality will disintegrate this feature and cause security problems for pedestrians below. the only positive thing i can say about it is most likely very few people would go there. so there is less chance a piece of kansas would fall on someone's head. trash collects in public spaces. the wind blows and visitors are careless. gusts will blow standard city trash all over the 600 foot long fe

just two months ago it's been serviced so it's right on. >> excellent. let's find out what this lady is making over here. hi, what are you making for? . >> this is for the lamb stew. >> what kind of biscuits are they? . >> butter milk. restaurant, it's all about food but we inspect a restaurant, we never get into the food, unfortunately. >> we are just moving through. generally we try to do it before or after the main rush hour but this is such a popular restaurant it looks like it extends quite a long time. >> we need some of that lamb stew, ought to be working on that. >> you need one requirement for kitchen work. >> we like you to not wear too much jewelry. those are guidelines to consider. people go, oh, we can wear gloves. the health department standards on gloves in terms of the uniform is not that good. gloves will protect your hands but it will not protect the food. if i went to the bathroom with my gloves on, boy, my hands are clean but i go back to the food area with the same gloves. we want you to feel that dirt on your hand. if you have dirt

we just deployed a brand new dispatch system which is excellent. i think our services are going to reflect at and i am happy to announce we will be able to take more calls from the neighborhood and it is an excellent system. we are in a situation right now since i have been involved in the industry almost 14 years, one-third of the taxi cabs right now are not run by a cab company, they are run by brokers and individuals who are not held accountable and who are exploiting taxi drivers and have have proper insurance. this is an all-time high and i'm going to make a prediction. if we do not in force and create high standards, there will be serious accidents of people who are not licensed and we've bill have crimes was not just bandit taxicabs, people who do not have the proper license to do so. this must be addressed immediately and if we do not, the public safety is going to be affected very strongly. we are already seeing it. one of the things the city needs to do is hold the industry accountable -- cold high standards for cab companies and medallio

just as important, he is known for an excellent work ethic and a good attitude. based on all of that, he was promoted to supervisor 12 years ago, and selected, because of his leadership, for some of the more difficult assignments, because of his knowledge and expertise. he was one of the key folks who has done something on the sf park pay-by-phone project. for all the expertise and experience he has built over the years, he is someone the department has looked to when it comes to innovative parking management. we are honoring him for all of that. also, because of his quarter- century with the department, he is retiring soon. he will certainly be missed by the men and women of the mta, if not by the 500 people who were cited by him. i want to thank him for his service. i invite our commander, our director of safety. >> i am really pleased to be here. lance is somebody i have looked to a great deal, when we have moved toward innovative things. he is a mentor. he really puts himself out there with the folks who work with him. i cannot tell you how much i am going to

as many of you know, his excellence abdel rahim el-keib was a dissident under the gadhafi regime. exiled from libya in the '70s, he was educated in the united states and served as professor of electrical engineering, so a problem solver at the university of alabama for several decades. he dropped everything early last year to join the uprising against gadhafi, and played an integral role, helping finance and lead the revolution. last october, he was elected prime minister of libya by the national transitional council and is today responsible for overseeing the country's rebuilding effort and shepherding libya to elections this summer. it is our great pleasure to have him here at carnegie today. ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming his excellency, prime minister abdel rahim el-keib. [ applause ] >> thank you. excuse me. distinguished ladies and gentlemen, good morning. i'm honored, very pleased to be here with you today. and i want to thank the carnegie endowment for international peace for their kind invitation and for their outstanding program which supports and prom

excellent arrest. we have made several since i have become the commanding officer of bicycle thieves. we look forward to serving more. the focus of my newsletter is awareness and getting your neighbors and building owners to take measures into securing the entrances. usually it is coming in through the back, and also garage doors that people are sneaking in. we pulled out an automatic garage door. in there was an incident just the other night where the burglar did that same thing. the person's neck and behind them with the garage door and went into the building install a bike. -- the person lifted the door and the person went in right behind them. auto burglaries. they are down slightly this last time, however it is much higher of a number then i would like to see. again come awareness. do not leave anything in plain sight in your vehicles. a lot of the burglaries are from the east end. golden gate park burglaries as well. leading items in the car. if we could make people more aware about not leaving t

again, we are doing an excellent job of providing education and training. because that is what we get funded to do. that is our job. there is this other piece and i agree with you. the companies that are coming to san francisco and that are here in san francisco are extremely well intended and truly do one to hire the population. that is the peace, the function we do not have. >> i wanted to also mentioned their members of the use commission in the audience. mia shackleford. and gevonte. he did help with this meeting. if you wanted to speak, there would be good to have your input. maybe we can have you stand up and share some of your thoughts with us. >> thank you. i am going to be at career day tomorrow for certain fourth graders and i want to encourage the supervisors to participate in any of the career days that start earlier as well to have our kids starting to think about what we want to do. the united way has been conducting these white house conversations around jobs for our youth, especially in the summer and wanting to solidify the paid internships

i think both candidates are excellent.se things where you wish you had two seats to fill. i don't know which way to go. i'm wondering if you can tell me about the differing makeup of the body in terms of who is on it to make sure we have a diverse group of individuals as we can. >> i'm the assistant general manager for the san francisco public utilities commission. this is comprised of seven numbers and is only one vacant board seats. there is also one vacant seat appointed by the comptroller. the qualifications are diverse. with waste water experience and financial experience in particular. this is one where we have a lot of very talented people and experience diversity. we also have a very active citizens advisory committee. we are blessed with many good candidates. supervisor campos: are there any openings right now? >> there are or there will be soon. the focus is on waste water, power and water. there is many opportunities. >>supervisor campos: mrs. donovn is on the committee right now? >> she has been in the past but

i think he would also do an excellent job. but at the end of the day, i am going to get deference to the district supervisor with this kind of appointment. in light of that, i will be supportive of supervisor kim and what she has indicated. my hope is that for those of you who do not get an appointment, there are other opportunities down the road to serve either on the same body are on a different body in a different capacity. thank you. supervisor farrell: thank you. i will echo what supervisor campos said. mr. nulty, you have the most support here, for sure. i will follow supervisor kim, given this is a never the organization. i will make a motion to send mr. forward recommendation. >> thank you. recommendation to the full board. i want to thank both of our applicants who are here today. again, mr. nulte, i would love to support you for something that is more of a general residence seat on this cac. there'll be other seeds over the next couple of years. i want to thank and recognize lj cirillo who previously served on this s

they shot poorly in the first, excellent in the second, just the reverse for michigan state, buford withbrandon wood off the bench with 15, and the two stars continue to sit here at the breslin center. four fouls each for draymond green and jared sullinger, and remarkable similarities in the statistics. green on the left, four of 15 from the field. sullinger in the game, four of 15 in the field. both celebrating birthdays. >> clark: that birthday celebration will be much sweeter for one of them based on the result of this game. tom izzo electing to bring draymond green back on the floor. i was wondering when he and thad matta might elect to do that, ravenel has been so good for the buckeyes that i think thad is willing to ride with him longer especially since the buckeyes are in the lead having a chance to make it a two-point lead if he knocks this free throw -- if thomas knocks this free throw down. he leaves it short. also as a passer and another three-point shooter. >> verne: here is payne. with appling. draymond green guarded by thomas. wood pops out. look inside. looks like they got

>> that was an excellent update. >> i have one. on expenses, it is dated 11/30. >> i am sorry, i did not update the date on the report. it is as of the end of january. >> ok. next question would be, based on our lag in hiring, is that possibly going to roll into, if we do not hire them, roll into the next budget period? >> the budget would start over. we would still be anticipating that we would have them hired for the full year. we do have a lag this year. i would hope and expect that we would have everyone hired before the end of the fiscal year, which is not until the end of june. so it should not roll into next year. we are asking for quite a few new positions. so hopefully we will be able to get those hired faster last year than we did our positions this year. >> great that you mentioned the word fiscal. as you mentioned it late in the year, being february only, that relative to that is our fiscal year, which is at the end of -- >> in june. so our fiscal year begins july 1. commissioner hechanova: so we're almost running close

excellent layered and oral history that they did. in melvin, it was who john kennedy bought i had. . if you did it wrong. so laird's positions and how he did it and how he related to the president's and that's why certain things happen the wi they did dear during, his xhi testimony the ar war, but the way the nixon administration went about doing that had a lot to do with the character of melvin laird who, by the way, played a very important role in water date and not only nixon and convincing him to yield the tapes in 1973 and '74, but also with gerald ford. >> i've got time for one por. >> my name's mark kellar and i'm at cal-state fullerton. we've been asking similar questions and i'll try again a different way. could we have one of the how and what with would it took hook? >> that issa way to approach it. diddis innon, kissinger and laird other ands believe the war could be won. z we have to be won. they did not believe it could be won militarily and this san important point to remember when blame is thrown at others for losing t

finally, it should not simply be so difficult to build something of such excellence in our city. this project should be a cause of rejoicing and celebration, not controversy and obstruction. most respectively, daniel solomon. thank you. >> thank you, commissioners. i am president of the mark company. a key focus of our business is doing research in the residential real-estate market, is this ability -- specifically in san francisco. we have a standard research report each month, quarterly recaps, and annual recaps. i want to talk about the dire need for housing and why do support 8 washington. in the year 2008, which was a peak, there were 34 projects that were actively selling and had 10 units or more. 34 in 2008. today, the first quarter 2012, there are only nine projects in san francisco with 10 units or more that actively selling. that is a decrease of over 70% in terms of the number of projects. if we look at the number of units, the peak was 2007 with 3000 units where you could purchase and move in or that were being pre-sold, 3000. today, during the first quarter, there ar

to become an excellent army commander. unfortunately, while vanadorn was bold and brave off to a fault, tremendously offensive-minded, he also was impulsive, reckless, and perhaps worst of all careless. he lacked administrative skills. as we shall see, he had political sensibilities of a brick. his only qualification really, if you, if you -- if you examine the situation his only qualification for high command was -- his friendship with his fellow mississippian in the confederate white house, jefferson davis. i cannot help but quote at this point a letter that vanadorn wrote to his wife in which he announced his new promotion, blah, blah, blah, blah. then at the close of the letter, he perfectly expressed his rather vague, breezy notion of grand strategy. i must have saint louis. details not necessary. okay. van dorn, who was in the army of northern virginia, under r.l. lee. the change of command had not happen, still commanded by joe johnston. vandorn left the post excited about his command in the trans-mississippi where

. >> excellent. >> greg, anything you want to say? >> andy, about last night's show. it didn't live up to my expectations and our viewers at fox news deserved a better show so i scraped it. >> sounds good to me. >> see you later. >> a special thanks to shira, bernie, gavin. that does it for me. i'm greg gutfeld and i am going to stair at you. stare at you.

is the white house doing enough with what keystone excel could give them?they're letting a lot of surrogates do a lot of heavy lifting on that. they were out today talking about how keystone excel is not a magic bullet, and the president himself said there is no magic bullet. it is not a magic bullet to get gas prices lower. it is not going to be built or pump it's first drop for several years. the number of jobs, that argument is speechless in that it's not going to create nearly as many jobs as a study confirmed it would not create 20,000 jobs as the republicans say it would. the president and the surrogates for the white house are getting that message out in different ways. the white house is also promoting a fact sheet on white house.com.gov that talks about how gas drilling has increased and the markets still won't pull the prices down in the united states. >> the explanation was in 2008 as a matter of fact forces speculateors, that's the way it is and it's the case now is the white house doing enough with that? once again it would seem that the time i