is this a generational thing? >> when the main reasons i wanted to write for "rolling stone" was because matt was there. he was doing incredible work. i think there is a generational split in journalism and across the media as well. it can be divided in between those who get in and those who don't. >> what is it that you are getting that that others do not? >> this is off the topic. other media figures were taken by surprise by the social media, by the internet, by this rapid change in the media landscape. they do not know how to adapt to it. and they fail again and again. i witnessed it first. i witnessed " newsweek" having 26 correspondents to being sold and having two. i think you have that side of things. in terms of actual reporting, i think a guy like myself, you know, or matt does this, i respect his writing. pushing the envelope further. what can you say? how can you say it in a way where you would get people to read it that is accurate? the great thing about matt and "rolling stone" is it is journalism. "

of general stanley mcchrystal. but that in c" but that angle contrast. >> the reviewer is a consultant for the u.s. military worked for general petraeus. the wall street journal has chosen a military contractor to review the book and did not disclose it. when we are talking about journalistic ethics, i would exhibit a in what not to do. >> how do you know it? >> it is on his web page. there's a company that employs him as a contractor. i wrote a letter to the editorial page. he did not see that to run my letter pointing out there oversight. that jimmy was sort of a really i opening great -- that to me was sort of a really i openieye opening or deal. there is a real difference. it is generational. this is what it is. halberstam and sheehan were in their 20s in vietnam. they saw this stuff firsthand. they saw the disaster unfold firsthand. they solve the horrors of the war firsthand. when they came back, they were able to decipher all the bs in get through this finishing. david halberstam called it "the machine."ing

>> as we can build of the generation, we will not be stuck with having fuel generation, we can roll in. >> is the language in the resolution sufficient for your purposes, commissioner? commissioner torres: i don't know yet. >> maybe we will hear some testimony. supervisor campos is here. if you could also address this unusual circumstance where it appears that some of the proponents are urging us not to proceed. >> thank you for giving me the opportunity to be here and for accommodating our schedule. we had the last board meeting of the calendar year, is a busy day. i want to thank the general manager and his staff for all the work they have put into this very important project for us. i think the question that was raised by commissioner torres is an excellent question. i would not be here asking you to approve this matter if i did not feel that there was a commitment on the part of the puc to have a strong, robust, local build out. the reason it has taken time to get to this point, we want to make sure that before we came to the board of supervisors with a contract on community choice

francis jeep sanza was a driver for general dwight eisenhower and general patton. he was chosen by general patton in 1944 during preparings for allied invasion of german occupied france and drove for him from d-day until the end of the war in europe in may 1945. later that year general patton died on december 21, 1945 as a result of an auto accident. mr. francis sanza received five medals and five bronze stars during his time of service. thank you. >>> my first ride in an airplane was in a waca open cockpit type plane, rode in the backseated on my father's lap. that was quite an experience. ultimately an air force recruiter told me i could be an aviation cadet. i asked what the deal was and they explained if i had passed through the pilot training program they would give me wings and commission. if they didn't want me, they didn't want me. i said, that's a no-brainer. they can teach me to fly and i can leave if i want to? okay. sign me up. ♪ >> we lost a lot of guys in korea. i fully didn't expect to survive. i met a friend of mine that i went to high school and co

none of the other generals -- there's no big-time general that can threaten the president's command.bled -- not ambivalence but the way that generals do pr. describe the problems with civil affairs as an stulgs in the military. and also the sort of weirdness about generals picking up civilian pr pros to essentially as famous people. do you have mixed feelings about that? was i reading that right? >> i think we're using taxpayer dollars to give generals their sort of personal pr team. and what are they doing with the media influence? they are using it to push their own agenda and policy. david petraeus sort of pioneered this message. you get a fan base in the media. therefore, you can bypass the traditional chain of command. by the way, this is the book to read for petraeus opposition research. this is the one that they are going to go to. >> general petraeus' name floated today about presidential picks. >> and the white house was worried about that. this plays again into the tense things that we're talking about. back to the pr point, the pentagon spent some $4 billion a year on broa

as we face significant general fund challenges in the past several years, we have focused on generating additional fund revenue to meet the challenges. the enormous work we have been doing at the department have that really paid off, and this slide demonstrates the general fund revenue has been increasing since 2008-2009, and is between fiscal year 2011-2012 we added 1.2 million to the budget. this has come in big ways and small waves. everything from outside plan to break rentals -- outside land to bike rentals. i have slides that illustrate how we allocate our resources. the department spends half of operating budget maintaining parks. this includes gardners, custodians, urban foresters, and integrated pest management staff, among others. the nextthe next two largest are delivery of rec programming in our recreation and swimming pools at 27%. and it the maintenance of all our facilities by our structure maintenance yard, approximately 12%. we allocate 6% of the budget to administration, which would include the general manager, finance and accounting, human resources, purchasing, partn

we will not generate money for this for 25 years. we will benefit from having a clean power on the roof of alvarado. from the standpoint of where we ought to be going in the world, it is good for us. until the day of arrives when it is profitable to put stuff on our rules -- on our roof and sell it at a different rate, that is not working for us, so to use our schools and not make energy green, they have to raise the rates to a point when budgets and would explode. they are already talking about raising rates of not just a school district but everyone else, and they want to raise it to five or six, and that will have a significant budget hit on us, so our view this as a win- win opportunity. they are doing other things with us. they have a lot of money available to help us with, and i think we are in the infancy of trying out which model works for us, so i think it is important to start. i would ask if the board needs more information and does not feel comfortable voting on this tonight, i would like to withdraw its and provide more

in general pershing's words, it didn't hurt america to have a general so bold that he was dangerous. los angeles went all out in its reception. with him was general doolittle, whose force in europe did so much to ensure final victory. >> although no unit, no individual won the war, we're fortunate in having one here with us tonight with us who had a large part in winning the war. i'm pleased and proud to have been privileged to fight by the side of general george patton. [ applause ] >> your honorable mayor, general doolittle, soldiers, ladies and gentlemen, coming over here, that was a very great, the first four hours, we passed over a destroyed land. permanently destroyed. those who have not seen it do not know what hell looks like from the top. that's what germany looks like. that's what it looks like, that's what anyplace that the 8 air force and 3rd army worked on looks like. [ applause ] you must remember this, that those blessed in various towns and solid governing and names who i can't pronounce, but whose places i have removed -- [ laughter ] -- the trail of the 3rd army and

it's a cycle we've all seen that goes generation to generation. we're not able to address thatgs in silos, even with the best of intentions as so often we've tried to do. this task force brings a multidisciplinary examination to the issue, and we have the opportunity to be able to heare witnesses from throughout thebu nation and hear different ways of dealing with it, differentg issues, maybe some best practices that haven't beent spread throughout the country, and i'm hopeful that we'll be able to come away with a product at the end of the day that we can present to the attorney general that will become a blueprint for dealing with thise issue, that will be valuable and, hopefully, a great resource for those that dedicate their lives to making the role and the lives of children better. thank you, mr. attorney general, for bringing your attention tobe this very, very important topic. thank you. >> good morning.this my name is greg boyle, i'm the executive director and founder of home boy industries in los angeles, it's the largest gang interventio

generally it is 20? >> generally it is 30, but the city won the 30 years. the time that we took it to the voters, we recommended 25 years because that is what we could amortize over to meet the threshold of the capital plan. the first issuance was 20 years, so that we could accommodate the 20 year plan. the idea was to review it again and reduce it to 20, to conform. supervisor chu: thank you. i am not sure if you can speak to the department recommendations for the rec park item. >> supervisor, we're happy to sit -- accept the recommendation. supervisor chu: why don't i invite supervisor wiener's office forward for the recommendations to the amendment. >> good morning, chairman, supervisors. in the legislative aide for supervisors got wiener, who is offering up -- authorized -- supervisor scott wiener, who is authorizing the amendment, specifically among the needs of the as 78 position. when considering the timing of the first bond issuance, the priority was to secure funds for the project and the date of rhett -- readiness repaid in the projects. before th

it is difficult to address i general basis. occasionally looked at particular items and whether it would be appropriate for expenditure from the transportation fund. are necessary for the agency to fill their function, those would be appropriate expenditures from the transportation fund. supervisor campos: thank you. why don't you continue? >> in some instances, md 8 monitored charges against all -- mta monitored charges against four quarters and that as i just described, however in other instances, mta contained bills that paid inconsistencies that are not income -- that were not approved. while there were not material in amount, the fact it was paid with resolving the issue shows a weakness in the internal controls that could result in more significant problems. recommendations related to specific instances are included in the specific findings section of the memo. as a result of these findings, the audit included three general recommendations. the goal of the recommendations is to help mta ensure it as valid mous that layout

i want to think the general managers for keeping the lights on. -- thank the general managers for keepingights on. this sunday we will need those lights. and my question has to do with the bond. the last bond that we did we worked -- this department invested in the class system to help manage the capital projects. we did an extensive grading of every single property in the department in terms of need and so forth. i am just a little bit -- i need a little bit of clarification, because i know now you are already going out and meeting with folks. i know you were at par yesterday. i missed that meeting, but i've heard from some of the members. how are you approaching this through the same grading system? what kind of response are you hoping for from the community? are they being asked to suggest projects? what is your process? >> is a great question, commissioner. for the next capital meeting i want to do a presentation that goes in more depth. we are still using the same analysis that we use to divide -- guide the development for the 2008 bond planning process as well. we are using the same

we are now on item 12, general public comment continued. is there anyone who wishes to make general public comments? seeing none, and 12 is close. we're on item 13, commissioner matters. >> can i say one thing? i just want to say that i went to the tree lighting briefly -- i could not stay for the actual writing of the tree, but i can only imagine the amount of staff time it took to put that together. if you remember on the roof of the emporium at christmas time, you see rights, and i had that same sense at maclaren lodge. what made me so happy was to see so many children and families, and those are our kids, our families, san franciscans who are raising their kids here, and we do that for them. i just want to commend you, and i want to thank you very much. commissioner lee: i want to echo what commissioner levitan said. tom harrison also went to the employee holiday party earlier this week and had a great time, and it was very rewarding to talk to the employees and how excited they are, particularly under the general managers leadership, a

>> i think that there's a generational side. we've heard, for example, in the words of bill cosby who at times has ranted against part of this generation for not doing i think what he perceives to be kind of the respectable right thing to do to succeed in society. there is a concern that we often hear from older members of black generations about, for example, rap music as i think there's kind of a fundamental divide that sometimes happens across generations. i think the concern here when you talk about blog community is the often young black people feel alienated from a larger dominant or white society. so we assume there's a kind of support system that happens within black committees. when there's a divide even within black communities there's greater concern about where they will find support, where they will resume, they will understand to be their community. >> but that divide from the larger white community, as you say come is nothing new, is it? >> it's not new but i think it is substantial. given the post a bryce molder

is this considered general advertising? >> yeah that is considered general advertising sign. so in that case if it was after the proposition they can't have it? >> exactly. >> this picture is interesting. somebody said how about if the general advertising sign is inside the building? and here we have one of those frames and advertising snakeos a plane inside the building. is this a general advertising sign? >> it could be considered general advertising sign but i don't believe it's subject to the prohibition of the planning code and it's within the building, and as long as it's not designed to be viewable by passers by -- >> that's obviously what's it for. >> it's in a parking garage and meant to get to them and maybe it can be added to. >> i don't think it's covered. >> we recently did have a dialogue with a person who is a entrepreneur and indoor advertising asking that very question and i would say we have to look at -- like scott said and if visible on the public right-of-way and does that constitute a general advertising sign. i think something -- i have seen signs in el

[applause] i know i surprise our general manager.had a presentation to and he has had to modify it. >> it's a great pleasure to give you some gifts from today. at rec and park, [inaudible] move on the fly. [laughter] i hereby give you the very first hellman hallow [inaudible] [applause] [applause] >> we can take care of that. >> thank you. >> president buell and the recreation and park commission, i am absolutely thrilled. i would like to thank the city and the commission on behalf of my father and family. i am honored to be given the opportunity to address you on the occasion of your decision to adopt the san francisco board of supervisors' unanimous decision to rename speedway meadow by the name of my father, warren hellman. i am awed by the old low of love and support. i learned so much about him. many stories. these will be like family legends to me now. stories told by the extended san francisco family might father loved an. now, in the meadow fortunately renamed hellman hallow. i offer my own brief contribution by posing the qu

[inaudible] needs to be told from generation to generation. this year, the international community saw the first ever filipino american book festival. it celebrated a richness and fusion of philippine and filipino american culture into literature, visual arts, and people. it marked the largest gathering of authors and artists of filipina heritage from around the world. the san francisco bay area filipino american community salutes this milestone, a legacy of the duration of our people's story. >> representing the filipino american book festival of the committee chair and the committee for the event. [applause] >> thank you very much. [applause] >> filipinos love a great party. in northern california, one organization proves this year in and year out by celebrating our heritage and culture. this year, it broke records, making it the largest festival in the region. ladies gentlemen, the filipino american art exposition. >> [inaudible] and the best of philippine cuisine with more than 100,000 filipino americans living in the bay area alone, it is

i have two more redundant emergency diesel generators. either one's capable of safely shutting down the unit. they're located at four different elevations, four different areas of the plant. some are in bunkers you were in, one's elevated at least 40 feet above where the water is. >> o'brien: this is a contentious license renewal, the most contentious, i think we can agree on, right? why? >> well, we're in a metropolitan area. when the plant was built back in the '60s, because unit one was actually commercial in 1961, there was people who didn't want it here then. but we are a valuable asset to the community here, in many ways-- in the air quality, we're a low-cost provider of electricity, therefore we hold the price of electricity down in the area. and, in fact, if you look at our life extension, if we operated 20 more years, just the union labor would earn over $1.3 billion in earnings at today's salary. >> o'brien: the plant has its passionate critics. >> we've had some earthquakes in the eastern and central u.s. >> o'brien: lynn sykes

>> they are all females. >> thank you. >> wish to thank general manager -- we should thank general manager ginsburg for his help. >> is there any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed and we are now on item 7, which is speedway matter of golden gate park, naming of war in h -- warren hellman meadow. commissioner buell: i would like to sit couple of things first. on tuesday november 6, the board of supervisors encouraged the recreation and park commission to rename speedway metal golden gate park in honor of f. warren hellman. it was unanimously approved. really what i disagree with a unanimous resolution of the board, but i would like to suggest hellman's hollow as opposed to hellman's meadow, and i think this comes with the encouragement of family members who have weighed in on this, and i thinki think is the most appr. i cannot think of a citizen who has done more for the city and has the city as his highest priority on most everything he has done. i have personally been involved in, cheered bond issues for parks. i have been involved in school bond issues, c

this is a good way to generate water. what we're looking for is the approval of the pilot program to go forward, and the ability to enter into that agreement, and this is funded in the 2012 budget, and part of the budget process -- we would come together for the additional funding to move forward into the future. we think the investment in fixtures, and the community industrial institution was a great way to have conservation safety. >> thank you. and my way of commenting on this, this has been my experience when we look at conservation performance. the hardware-oriented measures are the ones that say -- >> those are the ones that will save us. it is safe to represent a saturation of one part of the market in terms of the residential trade. we are moving beyond that. >> there are only so many toilets out there. we will have to start with some additional fixtures out there. >> and are there any questions? and is there any public comment? do i have a motion? it is moved and seconded. all of those in favor? the motion will c

and the general public -- general accolades for the project.ryone is excited about this project. i actually brought a picture, if you can see it. that is the current state we're in. . contract modification of to 10%. modifications exceeding 10% require recreation and park approval. the contract amount increase is still within the overall project budget. the increase will allow us to meet our project milestone to allow for the successful completion in may 2012. i will be available to answer any questions you may have. >> is there any public comment on this item? president buell: there is one. >> please come forward. >> ♪ fix the recreation center for friends friends to the end think of betty bring it on with song i know she would want it that way ♪ >> thank you. is there anyone else would like to comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. president buell: commissioners, is there a motion? all those in favor? >> aye. >> aye. president buell: unanimous. thank you. >> item number 10, parks maintenance standards annual report. >> b

general. as i tell witnesses from gao at nearly every hearing, you are the unsung heros of the government for the work you do every day. nothing pains me more when people take political cheap shots at government workers, particularly because i am aware of the work that is done at gao, the incredible savings that you produce for taxpayers in this country every day and the dedication with which you go about your work. and it's not like you're doing it for big bucks. as i tell during the september 2010 hearing, i said that i would continue my work on arlington until i was confident that all problems at the cemetery were fixed and that we could stand tall and assure the families of our veterans that they would never again need to wonder about the location of their loved one's remains. i look forward to continuing to work with all of you and my colleagues to make this goal a reality. i thank the witnesses for being here today, and i look forward to their testimony. senator tester, welcome. you're w

it just some general comments. i would like to appreciate supervisor wiener and his office for taking on this issue. this is overdue. i appreciate a lot of the work that went into cleaning out the ordinance and making consistent the penalty for violating the wage. also, extending new contracts. i think that we saw it is really crucial in terms of making insistence for those that are employed. i'm looking forward to some of the discussions. we did talk to some of the nonprofits. i am interested to see if there is any feedback on ways to narrow the profit exemption. i am very supportive of the rest of the ordinance. thank you, supervisor wiener. >> thank you, madam chair. i am here on a different item and i wanted to take an opportunity to say a couple of things. thank you too supervisor wiener and his office for the work they have done, and to our labor partners that have worked to identify this as an issue for quite some time. i am proud to be a sponsor of this legislation and i am glad to see there is work in term

the revenue generated from the sublease of the market rate housing, commercial and event space for the utilities, public works, and the community services on island. the first amendment simply adds another building to the master lease with the navy. we estimate we generate $75,000 annually with the use of this property. 13 years ago tida entered into an agreement with non-profit. these non-profits do not pay rent, but to pay common meet its charges. members include catholic charities, rubicon, community housing partnership, and ashbury free clinic. recently, haight ashbury loss funding and returned eight units under the agreement. these units have been distributed to other non-profit housing providers. the second and third amendment we moralizes the debris distribution of these units. -- the second and third amendment memorializes the distribution of these units. the newly-configure non-profits housing provider known as haight ashbury/walden house. supervisor chiu: thank you for the presentation. why don't we go to the budget analyst report. >> on page 4 of the report we estimate that

. >> changing power structures that really keep a lot of us port generation after generation. -- keepot of us poor generation after generation. >> you have to have people that respect people and left people enough to spite. tavis: our poverty tour ended in memphis, tennessee where dr. king lost his life. he had launched the poor people's campaign which brought people from all races across the country together to demand an economic bill of rights. >> something is happening in america. there is a direct connection between the warehouse workers and the poverty tour. this is happening in florida, colorado, arizona, happening in the big apple. >> how do i know that if dr. king were here today, he would be talking about poverty? he got shot down like a dog on the balcony in a this, he was there talking about what? poverty for sanitation workers. >> he talked about the evils of militarism and racism and he talked about economic justice. these are things that to dr. king were very intertwined. tavis: there are examples here in the wonderful museums of those post a board that you were wearing

the budget instructions for general fund departments this year come in four parts. the first is that we have been requested to submit a base budget reduction equal to 5% of our general fund support, which is equal to a little less than $1.6 million. we have been asked to submit a contingency proposal for 2012- 2013, equal to 2.5% of our general fund support for an additional $796,000. then we have been asked to submit a base budget reduction for 2013-2014, equal to another 5% of our general fund support. again, $1.6 million. we have also been asked to reduce our budgeted and funded general fund fte by 1% in both years. it is still unclear in talking to the mayor's office exactly what they mean by this instruction, but i'm sure more information will be forthcoming in the next several months. the mayor asked departments to prioritize core operating functions, minimize service impact, and pursue solutions such as revenue options, administrative efficiencies, and program or function consolidation. he is strongly encouraging the department to foster community engagement

it says the puc will only authorize the general managers to launch the program as long as it is a per by the board of supervisors and the following conditions are met to the satisfaction of the puc, and the same language stays in there. we wanted to make sure that is on the record. president moran: ok. so what is before the commission is the substitute resolution with the addition of the two whereas clauses that were just read earlier. ok. public comment on that item? >> good afternoon again, commissioners. san francisco green party and the local grassroots organization of our city. a few things on the amendments that you're going over. an important one is the ceqa issue. what we're seeing out here is that we need the final approval of the shell contract and the program that is being based on it to be contingent upon the build out work -- and by the way, not necessarily the full nine to 11 months, but enough of the build of work being completed in five or six months to inform of the economics of the contract will work. we're not saying that the contract needs to be changed so that it

the generic version of prozac has at least ten different generic manufacturers.o each of these medications, generic medications, may have a slight difference between them because there's differences in the fillers and binders and so there might be a difference in the amount of medicine reaches somebody's system. it is possible somebody could take one generic version of prozac which has 125% of what they are used to with the brand name. switch to another generic and it could have 80% of what you are used to with the brand name. 45% difference in the amount of medicine they are take. >> what about side effects? do they differ, too? >> side effects could differ as well. >> how is a person to know what to do? >> it is tough. what you really need to do, i think is you need to make sure if you do switch to a generic, which i advocate, i have lots of patients on generic medications, i think you just need to make sure whatever generic medicine you are taking you stick with. what i suggest is when you go to your pharmacy, and you get your medication filled, make sure that