the medicaid expansion. just a moment to talk about our colleagues in south carolina who were not able today.ere christina dangerous and marisa a ngling have put together very informative report that is available out front and i you pick it up. a couple of comments i would make about their study -- of a much bettere in position to discuss it than i am but two important points. narrative in south carolina also follows some of the more oppositional or states in that much of what has happened in south carolina does partisan dimension to it and it does deal with some disagreements amongst key stakeholders. but there's another story out of south carolina as well and again support to this observation that over time stablished private interests such as hofpts and the business community may have a moderating responses tate because there has been a colonel legislation of interest in south carolina who have been in medicaid expansion. so the big take away for south something and it is mentioned already in the presenta

third the project is a minimal of muscone north the expansion has been scaled back and an existing lobby to meeting rooms near the pedestrian bridge close to howard street the north expansion will adds 8 thousand square feet of the area. the project also includes two pedestrian bridges located above howard street framing in the main conference center brown the north and south building the eastern bridge will be partially enclosed and the pedestrians will be moving between the public walkway and improving the small businesses on the north and south blocks it will be designed to function as an expansion of the small businesses and touch on the children's parks it includes significant public realm improvements adjacent to the site and howard will have a pickup and drop off facility. slafrl third street will be improved of the off street area it will help to break up the streets and increase the activities located within the interior of the lot and create an small business in the form of a terrace that is occupant by restaurant at the yerba buena gardens. the project will include significant

conditions we're not necessarily with this expansion and improvement looking for bigger conferences our larger conferences are what the community wants but allows us to do back to back conferences smaller conferences instead of having dark days we can have a smaller conference in mucus west. the benefits will create about 34 hundred construction jobs and about 35 hundred permanent jobs. an additional $20 million in hotel tax revenue generated out of the project and continue to be a major economic development force for the city and county of san francisco and region of san francisco. the objectives of this project are to maximize the economic impact by attracting the clients and keeping the clients what we we already have. we want to maintain contiguous operations of the building that's a complicated process to do the improvement while conferences are meeting in san francisco we don't want to close the building and have the negative impacts we're keeping the building open during construction and it will be beneficial to the citizens and california lists on muscone location by improving i

has been revised and it's restraining order stronger and the massing has been reduced it meets the expansion for the city and meets the demands of the community. we also wanted to use the opportunity for this project to better weave moscone into the surrounding neighborhood and cape with the destine that activates third street and introduces more widening of the sidewalks you'll see the better design flow for the people in access to the gardens. sorry i think my slides are out of order. moscone has a deep-rooted history in the development of the neighborhood people fought hard to protect the neighborhoods interests and that's understandable since moscone moscone center was built san francisco neighborhoods have changed. the project as now envisioned provides that improvement for better fitting of the 21st century of san francisco. i want to thank the project team and the community for getting us here and helping us to move the moscone center forward. i will introduce greg the lead architect who will walk you through the building design and go into a detailed presentation >> thank you edgar i

businesses south of market so a big asset for the people south of market i urge you to support this expansion. thank you. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners and of any person(s) responsible for the ringing or use of a jim lazarus with the chamber of commerce i've testified before and supported this in the months i've seen it get better we're pleased to a participant with the design team and neighbors in modifying this project it's critical to the economic growth of san francisco last year you had a project on the knowledge does the rebuild of the c pmc hopeless an important component of our economy there's no more important projects than the moscone it's on a world designation since 1980 we look forward to approve all aspects of this project in moving forward thank you. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners john from the yerba buena i apologize. i i was outside when i called my name i have good news. first, the settle time are our museum is set for final approval this tuesday it provides the safety improvements we've requested and second since the eir hearing six or seven

you thousand employees and 57 period of time live and work in san francisco as a benefit of the expansion of mucus really helps our citizens not only working but enjoying our community. i want to thank you and encourage you approve the eir before you today. thank you so much >> thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm scott i'm managing director for the yerba buena center i'm speaking on behalf of myself and our director. >> the yerba buena center supports the mucus project and the mucus center we appreciate the designer teams listening to the community and viewing the design it is a better design and function and creates numerous pedestrian and public realm improvements and finally we ask the city and mucus team to continue the partnership that's been long-standing between the divisions thank you. >> thank you. >> commissioners excuse me. commissioner president wu and director ram i'm andrew be robison with the district i'm here to advocate for the commitments to the improvements in the public realm as the cd said before we support the mucus center and recognize it's benefits to t

the clinton administration began to push hard for nato expansion and there's no way you could explain nato expansion unless you make the argument that it's designed to contain some sort of future russian threat nobody put the argument for nato expansion in those terms at the time but in retrospect it's quite clear that that's what was going on so the deep cause of the present crisis i believe is nato expansion which is part and parcel of a strategy designed to contain russia and to strip ukraine away from russia's orbit and to grade it into the west the precipitating crisis would cause the. present crisis that's going on i should say the precipitating cause of the present crisis were the events of february of this year especially the february twenty two coup. in kiev. it's stephen it's interesting if we if we look at nato expansion and it ends up being kind of like a chicken in the egg situation because if russia is the threat do you want to expand nato but if it isn't a threat you know if you expand it you do create a russia that is extremely anxious about it a vast military complex

use subsequential pedestrian improvements so we've been working on this boo-boo fore the moscone expansion as well as the selma capitalization it's come down to that the plan we'll be doing for the area will include a piece that will be implemented by moscone as well as other pieces that will be implemented through the impact fees with the projects and selma. as someone pointed out mr. harmon we're looking at the eir is looking specifically at the possibility of turning fulsome and howard into two way streets it this will prove peaceful and make that more pedestrian friendly and there's a lot of support from the community to make the traffic work, of course. there's a number of things we're collectively working on to improve pedestrian safety and commissioner antonini and i think it sounds like a wonderful improvement and since the last time we talked about this in the right direction i have questions. i understand that we're going to have an increasing a captain of the north and south see 5 hundred and 15 square feet how did that compare with other cities we're in competition with and our

and you know with nato expansion major nato expansion and is it expansion i remember reading several books after after the collapse of the soviet union with where we have we had given. assurances the nato would not expand would not come to russia's border borders and then we just went ahead and do it so from russia's perspective contingent is very much alive so russia and china have to have always wanted to have a multiple to work now what's happening is in the in the aftermath of. economic meltdown they couldn't make situation has has not has not been favoring you know the us interests so in the aftermath of that mark that pulled out of the has become more fit reality now ukraine crisis is in my estimation at least was probably more one of the most recent examples of russia's greater titian i remember president putin's comment everybody remembers that he said that the collapse of the soviet union was the greatest disaster of the twentieth century so you know people who are who are who are making america's foreign policy and deal d. and d. o. s. and various. bureaucracies should have

states the mucking expansion is essential to maintaining good wages and benefits for the members of local 16, the other employees at the mucking center as well as other businesses that support this industry. we'll appreciated our consideration thank you. thank you. next speaker. . >> good afternoon commissioners. commissioner president wu and director ram i'm kathy the executive director of the yerba buena community district i thank you for the opportunity to speak about the eir. has been mentioned previously the neighborhood has been transformed over the last thirty plus years to the increasing number of residents there's over 10 thousand people that that live within the yerba buena area the yerba buena gardens is a focal points it's critical to the neighborhood vitality. i want to speak today in support of the overall project and all the public space improvements specifically funding improvements so far the children's garden area and the western pedestrian bridge both of those amenities are well loved in the neighborhood. i'd like to ask funds be looked for the pedestrian safety c

this was a resolution calling for an end to expansion., what happened was obama vetoed the resolution. that tells you something. furthermore, the official about the to israel settlement expansion, is accompanied by what diplomatic language is called the wink. it is an indication that you do not really mean it. latestmple, in obama's condemnation of the recent, as he puts it, violence on both sides -- was accompanied by sending more military to israel. people can understand that. hen obama came into office, made the usual statements against settlement expansion. and, his administration was obama would do anything about it. when the first george bush did something about sanctions, to block settlement sanctions. the answer was, no, this is just a moment. the israeli government just what is happeneiing. the military continues. the economic aid continues with diplomatic protections, ideological protection continues. thatng the issues in ways form to the israeli demands. all of that continues. there is this clucking of the tongue that is not he

well he tail sales again are driven to a large degree by credit expansion so what you're seeing now is that as debt terminates that cycle terminates the ability to drive retail sales expansion also terminates and so we are seeing a slowdown in any area and i think that's going to continue i don't believe to be anyone's you know anyone credible thinks that we can really gets reports percent g.d.p. growth rates on a five year rolling basis over the next five years and you know most of the economic projections are being made in the forward views within the stock market and in other marketplaces are being based upon disk promise i think this is just absolute nonsense. so the fed seems to be more worried about the economy than it bennett lets on but after all it's still in plain quantities and that's important to remember and the fed funds rate is effectively zero right now so do you think it makes sense for the fed to ease given the state of the economy. no to said means to pull the quiddity out of the system it needs to cut this game out stop the bond buying in essentially allowed rates t

not only about post 9/11 expansion of border patrol with the world that represents. looking at that expansion from many different angles in conceptual and goals. -- ankles. that is why i tell a lot of stories on big themes so in that spirit of a play to begin tonight stock with some storytelling and i hope i can explain the book well i hope to talk about 20 or 30 minutes then leave some time for question and answer. one of the places i focus on looking at the southern u.s. border but the northern border and spent time in niagara falls, dominican republic, a detroit. but it's has anybody been down to the reservation here? and one of my research trips to go down with an older from the nation with long gray hair and 60 years old wanted to show me the western side of the nation in what was happening. a very isolated and desolate border but in the middle of the saboorian desert. if you don't know about the and reservation is the second-largest in the united states. the size of the state of connecticut's. the only one baker is the navajo nation. but one of the critical asp

this independent republic of texas all of this land, the hungry young country for expansion, westward movement in the country so he sets his sights maniacally on acquiring texas and bringing texas into that union. van buren is defeated in the nation. in the most important part 1844. one of the most important rules that affected so much of the history is something called the two thirds rule the democratic convention. democrats in those states required two thirds of the delegates of the convention to approve a nominee and this gave them the toe power over the choice of the nominee. van buren was reluctant to acquire. mexico was still considered part of the territory and was also a new sleeve area that would be brought into the. the politics of the time dictated any time america was in the position to acquire more territory came the contentious issue of whether it would be free or a hybrid who would cause a major problem and threaten to drive the country apart and ultimately would lead to civil war. so van buren and clay was against it and he considered running forunning the third-pary c

this is evident in the case of medicaid expansion.to be risk averse is not tantamount to be an obstruction nist. states with restricted medicaid in the past may be cautious about expanding the program. with time we are seeing oppositional stances modified as state leaders search for alternative mechanisms such as a private options. let's talk about markets and demographics, another factor influences state responses to a.c.a. just as the issue of medicaid expansion reflect issues. state experiences also tell us there is more to the equags than just politics. what is notable in our field research is how market and demographic forces have shaped state level deliberations and action. when the a.c.a. was signed into law, a number of states signaled their intonet create their own state operated exchanges. it is safe to say that the conventional wisdom held that the federal exchange would be a fallback rather than a default choice and the states would actively pursue exchanges. we know this has not come to pass. as our field research con fir

positive impact of allowing this exemplar school far out weighs the expansion permitting the expansionill have a lasting and positive impacts on the lives of the alleged children able to attend this school as well as the greater community. i've been there when people were being picked up from the school it doesn't happen all at once it's a staggered it is not - i actually work near a school not like a traffic jam. anyway thank you very much i hope you approve it >> good afternoon i understand it's been a long day i want to thank you for your patience i'm andrew i live across the street from the daefr center and been there for 24 years the reason i'm here i'm concerned about the children going to the daefr center let me share with you a couple of things we have no parking on the street for 3 reasons there are most people living in each house for cars second some neighbors have converted their basement into other purposes the daefr center has no parking garage the sponsor as a white toyota truck and late model bmw and others vehicles it blocks the center so he packs his car's on the stre

. >> one mine retail giant amazon has been looking to asia for expansion opportunities. the company plans to set up operations in the shanghai free-trade zone. though it's not yet finalized, the deal would allow them to import roddick's into china which would otherwise be difficult for consumers to find. amazon will open a logistics center in the zone. amazonmine retail giant is wrapping -- ramping up its presence in china, hoping to take advantage of less stringent trade regulations to sell a wide range of products in the country. chargesll have lower and faster delivery coming into the free trade. there will be many benefits. >> e-commerce in china has been dominated by domestic player aly baba. amazon's expansion comes as international retailers are trying to bring in international consumers. china enjoyones in more relaxed import/export regulations than the rest of the country. shanghai is one of china's boldest reforms in decades and is expected to receive a boost with amazon's arrival. amazon's expansion into the area will promote innovation in the free-trade zone