i a believe for each exception there is a criteria outlined in that code. >> there are exceptions thatwould be more -- >> permitting exceptions -- on historic buildings -- this did come up earlier -- there is a provision of the legislation that would permit exceptions from dwelling exposures converting to residential use and it is specifically delineated and does not include additions -- >> de are of a kind with other exceptions so i'm happy to -- commissioner fong: they are not new exceptions? >> i would be happy to do a word search in the next few weeks to find all the times it is mentioned. but there is one removing the exception -- it is a very technical one. çthose are the ones that jump t as new and of legislation and they all make a lot of sense. >> i am the acting son administrator here. >> [unintelligible] what is it different and is the standards -- there are different standards for conditional uses which are for the most part the desirability where the exceptions tend to have more specific enumerated findings required based on the type of exception. also of particular note

. >> well let's look at those exceptions. uniform commercial code does repeat the general rule that contracts for the sale of goods worth more than $500 must be in writing to be enforceable. however, it also provides three exceptions for the enforcement of oral contracts. the first exception applies in cases of part performance, that is where the buyer has accepted some of the goods or paid for some of the goods. under this exception, an oral contract can be enforceable, but only to the extent of the part performance. >> well looking at this exception, in fact there is some evidence of part performance here by bellwether. the goods were shipped to bellwether-- a partial shipment at least-- and bellwether waited a day or two before notifying the supplier that it no longer wished to go ahead with the original contract. however, since the supplier shipped the rest of the parts to bellwether, the supplier seems definitely interested here in enforcing the entire agreement, not just collecting for its initial order and, therefore,

exceptions are basically dead when you act.theoretical appeal -- you need 80%, you need four votes to do an appeal. i have never see the board of appeals overturned an exception and i have a contested one on parking. i also questioned what the standard car in terms of permanence. eightcu -- ac cu çbecomes the planning code. my question is -- you have a one-week rule for staff reports. it is like pulling teeth to get it two weeks in advance because you are in a longer staff reports. you are going to have -- the public will have a staff report on an exception. on friday afternoon it is available and the public is able to get up to speed and question exceptions, you may modify it the following week, and if you don't, the staff report stands. permanently. for all intents and purposes. i think you need to be cautious about making things exceptions rather than conditional uses. exceptions did not exist -- i was there when they were born. they were born in the downtown plan and adopted in one of the plans and -- it's now the fast rou

>> excepting the 20 feet, it is correct. gosh i think that is correct. i think it would actually cause the same shadow issue if you built it without the variants, pretty much of the rear yard, it is already taken out by the structure but it is kind of interesting that it requires a variance because there is already something in the yard. from a planning standpoint, we have established that there aren't any issues really there, and the problems that the neighbors have outlined it would be a problem regardless. it is a much-needed improvement, i am very familiar. i have really enjoyed my time with seeing the great work that they do, hearing the kids sing and perform. i know it is a great public amenity, not only just north beach, but it is exactly the kind of necessary and desirable project we would want to move forward, and i know that they meet the upper grades. it is a very crowded environment and they're definitely needs to be improvements. i move to approve. >> second. >> the motion on the floor for -- commissioner sugaya: i just -- the testimony that

so the service secretary maid a request for exception to that policy. they picked positions where women have already been serving. i'll give you an example. one example is a medical nco. women have been serving as medical ncos, that has been an open specialty for women for quite some time. now we're taking a woman who is already experienced in that at the nco and officer level and assigning them according to the exception of policy to an infantry battalion. experience of those bim and others in specialties like that generally in the support area will inform future policy changes. i think that's the key point the secretary has made, is that this is the beginning, not the end. we'll start with women in specialties they've already specialties they've already been serving in, they're already experienced and we put them in an infantry battalion, i they'll help us make decisions that will affect other changes. >> i just want to clarify something on that. if i read this correctly, correct me if i'm wrong. a woman who's an intelligence officer could be an s-2 o

this bill does have a narrow exception except that exception is so narrow that it is rarely used. i believe it opens the door to television and in my observations when this reaches the trial court you see prosecutors perform. you see defense attorneys perform. i'm sorry to see judges perform. and the simpson case was a big case in point in my view. so i have come to the conclusion that because something is televised, justice is not necessarily better. justice depends on the law and the interpretation and application of that law. i recognize i'm in the minority but i did cast my no vote so thank you very much. >> and i appreciate this and i note that the senator has mentioned this to me previously. i would also put in the record senator grassley's statement which would follow tradition, immediately after mine in the record and senator klobuchar. >> thank you. appreciate your work on this bill, mr. chairman, and particularly senator durbin and senator grassley. we had a very good hearing on this if i could respond to my good colleague senator feinstein. we had a spirited debate abou

they cannot recall a split vote on any of these smaller except and expands. i do not even recall us having a debate on any of them. they are frequently for very small amounts. 500,000, $10,000. they are often, as we see on the agenda, retroactive, meaning that the department has already expended some and it is coming to us after the fact. these often create huge amounts of paperwork headaches for the mayor's office, for our staff, with very little benefit given that they do not get referred to committee or have the same kind of public hearing. the legislation would shift for the acceptance and expanding of $100,000 approved by the department hadn't the comptroller would issue rules in terms of how it would be handled so as to be transparent and methodical. last year we had 65 accept and expand under $100,000. the grand total of all of those was $2.5 million over the entire 6.7, $6.5 billion budget, spread across every department. i am submitting several except and expands today, all of which are retroactive, meaning the money has already been accepted but be

'06 quake went through the quake just fine except one that had a lot of damage.t's interesting, the structural steel institute did a survey of san francisco after the '06 earthquake, that happened was the only building they omitted in their report. >> the williams building which actually had -- >> a lot of damage. all the other buildings went through fine. >> the steel frame is comprised of a number of different parts. >> there is a square box column here. and underneath this box column is fire proofing. it is not asbestos fire proofing. you don't have to worry about the asbestos. this is a nonasbestos fire proofing. it's got this much fire proof coating, so that for four hours, you could have a fire here, and the steel column would be protected. and the code regulates, that this is four hours, the girders that frame into this are three hours. the beams that frame into the girders are two hours, and the floors must be two hours. and that tells you how much, how long a fire can burn before there can be a problem. >> right. so this is sprayed on, onto this field. u

and one glaring exception. i talked about that. the questions have been tough and fair you asked, and i share, you know, what was indicated, a desire to make sure that we have in place mechanisms so that the thing that bring us here today is something we will never have to discuss again. i think there are a variety of things that we can work on as people that are dedicated to the safety of the american people, and i look forward to working with the members of this committee across party lines to reach those kinds of -- successfully reach those kinds of solutions. >> i thank you, general holder, and he we stand adjourned. >> thank you. >>> first of all, thank you all very much. this is the sixth time that the attorney general has appeared before congress, and there is nothing that we heard today that refutes one sill bell of this report. this report lays it out quite succinctly that the attorney general did not know about these tactics with regard to fast and furious until early 2011. and that this was a bottom-

of american exceptional is some and a belief that we are a christian nation. but from the beginning there was an alternative vision. roger williams was a minister with such a tremendous reputation that when he arrived in america after john winthrop founded boston he was the minute the -- immediately offered the boston church which he declined. .. >> disable liberty, the former american individuals. a lot of pier. so to my surprise the book became about much more than religion in american public life or the separation of church and state. became about the development of the modern idea of individualism and freedom itself. this is not a biography. want to learn about how all williams raise his kids, you will be disappointed. i don't care. it is, in effect -- i've been asked questions. i don't know. i don't care. i focused on a history of ideas. those ideas did not come from reading a book. they came from living through extraordinary times. the overreach of two games, rebellion, revolution, the beheading of an, the heading of a king, the rise of cromwell, sorted

but there are plenty of exceptions to the rule.ore retailers are capturing personal information with a quick swipe through one of their machines. >> there's hundreds and hundreds of seed beads. >> she makes unique crafts like these bottle ornaments. >> making a part-time living with that. >> which is why she shops often at the michael's craft store chain. at least, until she had a troubling encounter. >> they asked me for my driver's license. >> mitsy was returning these lights that didn't fit the bottle. they only cost about $3. but michael's said she would have to swipe her driver's license to return them. >> they said they needed me to take it out of my wallet so they could swipe it on their computer. it just didn't feel right to me. >> she had a receipt, but michael's said it was store policy. no swipe, no return. mitsy said for $3 it wasn't worth it so she kept the lights. >> the driver's license has a lot of personal information. aside from my name and address it has my birth date. >> the national retail federation says about

americans just seem to accept the notion that we were living in a dangerous place in time that exceptions should be made and the government agreed with gusto and two thousand and nine the f.b.i. question the suspect umar farouk abdulmutallab also known as the underwear bomber for about fifteen minutes without reading him his rights. also known as the times square bomber was interrogated for three to four hours before being read his rights both under the public safety exception to miranda in which information from questioning before reading the miranda warning can be admitted in court in certain situations which public safety is a concern but that's still with not enough for some people out there. one of the i've already given him his miranda rights. well i think obviously it would be a serious mistake that we at least that we find out much information we have and there are ways we go away from knowing that that's that's an old that was adopted during a very different time of conflict i think it's time for us to look at whether we want to amend the law to apply it to american citizens shoe

your hov restricts lifted everywhere except for route other, the john hanson highway.lays to speak of there. metro on the saturday schedule but the red and orange line, we do have some works. >>> drivers continue to feel the pain at the pump. gas prices are going up almost on a daily basis. >> much of this is due to some of the turmoil overseas. fox 5's melanie alnwick is live at a gas station in bethesda with more on the winter price spike. >> reporter: good morning. there is actually no holiday to driver whose are out here on the roads today. let's take a look at what the national gas prices are right now. the national average is about $3.55 a gallon. a gallon. you know, the u.s. just wrapped up the most expensive january ever when it comes to retail gasoline prices and it certainly look like february is headed that way too. there are several factor at play. we have some refineries offline. and this is the time when refine fineries should be switching over to the more expensive summer blends. they have to be formulated to meet some of those environmental standards. d

please, except for the first three rows. please have a seat. thank you. the only way i know now. so, what we're going to do is please ask everyone to be patient. i'm going to ask all of you who are right here, right now with the exception of the governor and the mayor, i'm going to ask everyone to please clear this area for right now. we're going to ask the family will be -- this is the way we're going to exit. the family will go first, the three rows. i'm going to now ask if i can have -- and all of your security that goes along with it. we're going to ask if the first seven rows would please stand on my right. yes. yes. don't go anywhere. don't go anywhere. the casket has to go first. clear the aisle. keep the aisles clear, please. everyone else, please stay seated. carolyn, it's on you. ♪ if i should stay i would only be in your way ♪ ♪ so i'll go but i know i'll think of you every step of the way ♪ ♪ and i will always love you i will always love you ♪ ♪ you my darling you ♪ ♪ bittersweet memories that is all i'm taking with me so good-bye ♪ ♪ please d

with respect to window seeking, the planning code requires a request for exception if you are not only creating new antecedents, but even if the building does not limit all exceeded cents, and quite honestly, it is relatively common to upset -- to request an exception. with that said, this building does make ground level substantially different from what it is today. >> there was also a slight floating thing we have to include in our approvals. >> that deals with size and dimensions, and it is not something subject to process, so it would be subject to a variants, and that would have been in the future. we have that in the calendar. >> thank you. this is a terrific project. i think it is important the public know these things are considered for every project, and it is important they are aware of any of the things we are passing. >> i was going to have him comment on the items he did, because i think it is important to understand this is a complex site, and it would be difficult for any building to have problems with the bulk. this building really takes consideration of what is are rou

now, there are obvious exceptions. john mentioned a couple.rge henry thomas is famous among virginians who stayed with the union. but ko contrast that to annapolis, most of the annapolis southern-born annapolis graduates stayed with the union. of course, i can make comparisons about how loyalty is perceived to the two institutions. >> right, right. >> i won't do that. i'm merely suggest i think service in the overseas united states navy serving under national flag on foreign shores created, i think, a concept that they were serving a national government rather than serving a particular state. that may have had something to do with it. if you're cynical, another explanation may be the southern navy was so small, there were very few jobs for senior naval officers -- >> very few ships i think, too. >> very few ships. the difference is age of institutions. west point founded in 18 on 02, around a long time, many graduates had reached senior, colonel field grade ranks where the naval academy, founded in 1845, it's graduates were relatively junior.

but there are plenty of exceptions to the rule.e retailers are capturing personal information with a quick swipe through one of their machines. >> there's hundreds and hundreds of seed beads. >> she makes unique crafts like these bottle ornaments. >> making a part-time living with that. >> which is why she shops often at the michael's craft store chain. at least, until she had a troubling encounter. >> they asked me for my driver's license. >> mitsy was returning these lights that didn't fit the bottle. they only cost about $3. but michael's said she would have to swipe her driver's license to return them. >> they said they needed me to take it out of my wallet so they could swipe it on their computer. it just didn't feel right to me. >> she had a receipt, but michael's said it was store policy. no swipe, no return. mitsy said for $3 it wasn't worth it so she kept the lights. >> the driver's license has a lot of personal information. aside from my name and address it has my birth date. >> the national retail federation says about o

fdr would win every state except? maine and vermont. and guess what? fdr wins every state but maine and vermont. there used to be an old saying because maine voted first. it was an exception to the election laws to let maine go first because of its tradition. and the old saying was -- anybody know the old saying about maine? as goes maine, so goes the nation, that maine was a harbinger. farley changed that to something else after this election. anybody know what that was changed to? as goes maine, so goes vermont. >> right, as goes maine, so goes vermont, which is exactly what happened in 1936. so an enormous ratification of roosevelt the candidate and roosevelt's policies. so let's stop and take stock. you had all these first new deal programs, followed by the second new deal. you had enormous democratic majorities piling up. you had roosevelt changing the nomination process. what were some of the fundamental ways in which franklin roosevelt, during his first term, changed american politics, changed american policy, and changed the presidency? start a

we are confident we will get an exception on that. the time line is extremely tight. we do not have the full picture. we are waiting for mtc to release drafts and investment for the entire spectrum of regional funds, what projects will receive that funding. particularly important for the regional projects, multi-county projects, and other big county projects. right now, the schedule is for official adoption of the land use and transportation side in may, but we have less than two months to get there. with that, i would be happy to answer questions. commissioner avalos: 84 the presentation. we will go on to public comment. >> good morning again, andy thornton. there was lots of information there. for the one bay area grant, we will be coming back to spend money this spring. cycled two of a call for projects. there is one more thing that the s.f. bicycle coalition and regional advocates are asking for. we support the notion of delegating to the county's a block grant. here in san francisco, we are smart enough to do the right thing and apply that sophisticated lea. let'

he hadn't seen anything except pornographic things he described in great detail. he said why do you respond that way? the patient said don't blame me, doc. you're the one showing the dirty pictures. there were other ones that were interesting. go home tonight and take out a piece of paper and write down the answer 20 times to who am i? you'll find that you can do a lot of things. at that time i could say i'm a husband. i'm a father. i'm a marine. i'm a pilot. i'm a so and so and you get up to 15 or 16 and it's hard to get those last four or five. exactly what they were trying to do with that one, i never knew either. any way. we went through all of these interviews and pictures of where you would describe pictures of where they would say draw a picture of your choosing on this piece of paper that would illustrate truth or honestly. that's getting in the abstract. karen, a clinical psychologist, may make something out of this, those were things that we didn't know how to analyze at that time so you just went along and did the best job you could. pete conrad, he was

seat except for the first three rows, please have a seat.o be patient, all of you right now with the exception of the governor and mayor, everyone to please clear this bay area for right now. we're going to ask the family, this is way we're going exit. the family will go first, three rows. i'm going to now ask, all the security that goes along with it we're going to ask if the first seven rows would please stand on my right. don't go anywhere. clear the aisle, keep the aisles please. everyone else stay seated. carolyn, it's on you. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ you, darling you ♪. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ please don't cry ♪ we both know. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ i, will always love you ♪ i will always love you ♪ i will always love you ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [ applause ] >> we're going to ask everyone to have a seat except for the first seven rows. we will get you out quickly, i promise. thank you. >> in a service that ran really four hours, originally planned at two but ran world says goodbye to a superstar, the entertainer whitney houston. absolutely very moving se

almost like they would with a torch except from 500 feet away at a distance and in mere seconds. >> andhis is some slow motion which everything looks cool in slow motion. >> everything looks cool in slow motion. >> except i'm worried about all the debris in the river. >> don't you worry about that. cleanup crews were on standby and plan to have all the debris cleaned up at the end of the day. they did get everything out of the river. >> when the light first goes by it looks like a light show, like they lit up the whole bridge, did it again. and then collapses. >> here's another angle. this video provided by wheeling newspapers in real-time. watch how quickly the bridge goes down. ♪ >> 490 charges, 153 pounds of explosives all at once. >> oh. >> sucks if you use this bridge on your morning commute and didn't realize they were doing this. >> where did the bridge go? drive around. the bridge has been closed to vehicle traffic for some time now. the bridge was 83 years old, built in 1929. it was one of four similar bridges that was used to span the river. this was the last one to be demolis

in addition, the quality of the team staff is exceptional. there were members all of which had extensive construction experience and we say it is one of the best construction management teams we have been served in the industry. they wanted to look and construction management procedures, those are very well written in terms of risk management and cost schedule and contingency control. the important thing is how they are implemented. that was part of the task of going out and meeting with the project staff, visiting with as many as we could to see that those procedures were being implemented. we can report that they are. the regional and product level are fully familiar with procedures had to know how to apply them and are being trained how to make sure that occurs. does not to say that there aren't some exceptions as always. one of the things we struggle with this change. in one case, we felt that they were extensive, but immediate action was being taken to address that problem in terms of changing of staff and strengthening procedures. we ha

for the napa airport, most locations in 30s and 40s except for livermore is at 32.re is building in today and tomorrow and also the wind is cranking up. santa rosa did hit 70 yesterday. the record in santa rosa was 77. if they get enough of a north wind it is possible. 73 in concord, yesterday 67 and 71 in san jose they were only 75 yesterday but the wind is beginning to crank up, 48 and 54. now it is 61 miles per hour and hens a weather advisory and that will kick in tomorrow morning so it is mainly for thursday. east bay hills there are still gusts up to 25 in the santa cruz mountains and there is the 39 in napa and 62 in livermore. 40s for many, very mild, i heard from a call, very mild conditions and temperatures will be mild to warm in the city, everything is going up and over except for a few high clouds, i am really trying to find it but i just don't see it, windy and warm, not too bad at the surface, 70s for many today, concord, pleasant hill, santa rosa, temperatures will just be on the mild side well above average this time of year windy and warm into thur

that a platform of business is much more open to try to find solutions which are not car- related, except for here and there. also, for the population, it is hard. they have in mind, if you are better off to have a car, and have the car in front of your door. it is still a long way to go for us. the mobility plans that local authorities are now obliged to develop, and the hearings that are organized because of that, are almost always concerning parking places. we have now a program where we are having one less car parking space. in the streets, you see, there is one car less because now bicycles can ride their bikes, but the comments are not as enthusiastic. you will have to be from the cycling movement to be happy about that. it is a hard struggle. >> you, sir? >> with health insurance, i think people are realizing it is an idea whose time has come. maybe we're trying to make the same thing with cycling. in the united states, many people, especially in big cities, are much more resistant to the idea, including individual motorists, not just businesses afraid of profit. i am wondering, i

except politically, you belong here, because you are living in the past.etribution for a past you don't like. you don't like history. but i tell you what, it's coming to bite you back. thank you very much. >> is there anyone else who would like -- richard? >> at the good morning commissioners. i was looking into this garage issue and what we could do to gain additional income. one thing i look at would be would we ever have a row tear off of people who go in and pay road tear off and this would have a bonus to it such as a lottery at the end of the month, maybe somebody would get free parking for a month. but i would not look so much on the prize of it, i would look to the legality of private alone property and people going in and out of the park and people using the garages. another has to do with places like district 3, chinatown, around there, they have a lot of garages there and i thought it being that there are some there, there should be a consideration when it comes to budgeting. what i understand is when the budget comes out, we're going to have a

but i got to take exception to one thing in in budget. i have an exception on many. i am supportive of the budget transportation budget in the president's proposal. i got a major problem with the retroactive cab on a municipal bond tax preference. how long are we going to take to

or was there nothing except an inxoerable deadly silence. and the next reader is rick london. >> i'm going to read a few poems by the palestinian poet mahmud darish. i have the wisdom of one condemned to die. i possess nothing, so nothing can possess me and have written my will in my own blood. oh, inhabitant of my song, trust in water. and i sleep pierced and crowned by my tomorrow. i dream the earth's heart is greater than its mouth, more clear than its mirrors, and i was lost in a white cloud that carried me up high as if i were a hupo and the wind itself my wings. at dawn, the call of the night guard woke me from my dream, from my language. you will live another death, so revise your last will. the hour of execution is postponed again. i asked, until when? he said, wait till you have died some more. i said, i possess nothing, so nothing can possess me, and have written my will in my own blood. oh, inhabitant of my song, trust in water. this last poem has an epigraph, the cypress is the shadow of the tree and not the tree itself, and has

with two exceptions.and they don't posture the achievement, but they do convey a sense of awareness that these disparities are significant. and i think that great. and incidentally when you said earlier, apart from the chinese system is more or less universal. i think most american business trip shanghaied feel that it's very different from u.s.a. except if they were part of the chinese structure themselves. >> host: this is another reason why we have to leave antiquated notion of hegemony and military superiority and the old imperial jostling behind us and look at it in a very different way. >> guest: yes, i do what do be accused of not, but maybe that's coming of age. yes, military security. or we have to be very deliberate to what i consider to be my security, could be a source of threats to you and vice versa. that's the name of the game. we start moving that direction in the 1950s with concerns about nuclear weapons, efforts to maintain the whale is nuclear weapons and has now become more comprehensi

except work and construction for water enterprise improvement program funded contract. approved modifications and the final increasing the contract amount and increasing the contract erasion an opera's final payment to the contractor. except work performed by madam -- by mountain cascade for water enterprise improvement program, san antonio pump station upgrade. increasing the contract with a time extension of 29 it consecutive calendar days and outcries final payment to the contractor. >> commissioners, does anyone want to remove either of the items from the consent calendar? if not, can i have a motion to approve? moved and seconded. public comment? those in favor? those opposed? the motion carries. >> the next item is regular business item 19, a discussion of possible action to authorize the manager of the san francisco public utilities commission to enter an agreement to provide a liquidity facility authorized for wastewater enterprise commercial paper program with j.p. morgan and u.s. bank. >> good afternoon. i'm the assistant general manager and cfo. we visited in