given how deep the hole was.es but we're headed in a much better direction now and i think this report is further evidence that the economy is continuing to heal. >> but why is it a slow growth? >> you know, the first quarter we had the best job growth that we've had since 2006. so, i think you need to step back and kind of put these numbers in context. they move around. it makes a lot of sense i think to look at a moving average, if you will, of the data coming in. and i think we also have to recognize that given the severity of the recession, given the nature of the financial crisis, this recovery has faced a lot of headwinds and in spite of those headwinds we've now had 26 months in a row of private sector job growth, we've had 11 quarters in a row of economic growth. the residential construction sector has shown growth over each of the last four quarters for the first time since 2005. so, there are signs that the economy is healing from these very deep problems. >> can you really write off, though, the shrink

the-but is proposed, given the dramatic increment -- the height proposed, given the dramatic increment, maybe it requesting a height increase supportable by the planning department, and the commission made a recommendation accordingly. >> you made a comment about how you do not believe this creates a precedent for miami beach- like development, but you're asking us to create a first- reclassification in almost 50 years. good >> but as the first when the commission recommended approval of spirited >> that may be creating of president -- created a precedent for how we built along the waterfront, right? >> i do not believe it would given the context of this. you do not have a lot of parking sites. they do not have the same context of being right of the edge of the financial district, and those might make a height increase more appropriate to consider a this location vs. further to the north. good >> y 140 feet beaumont -- why 140 feet? >> any of those could have been appropriate from a design standpoint. the department felt it was appropriate to have a height increase of that location. re

it is fair because the police are given this incredible power. more than anybody else. you know, i can deal with a cop in court, but i will not mess with him on the street, because he can tell me or arrest me. there has to be a standard -- he can kill me or arrest me. there has to be a standard. ianne is talking about her clients are basically on the street. this is not a minor problem. [applause] >> we of so many other questions that need to be answered, but i think we're coming to the end of our time. this is been a fabulous discussion with our experts here, with all the notes from whence they are talking. i want to thank everyone for their words of wisdom and -- and i think it has been a wonderful discussion about this problem. i have a couple of questions that have been submitted, which i will throw open to any panelist. i guess this could be fourfor ms. wu. what is the procedure for the san francisco police department and the d.a. and is a public? >> it is public. there are external and internal policies for bringing forward materials that would affect the credibil

given that he endorsed his opponent in the most fullsome term. he said, nicolas sarkozy has my support, i say it clearly. now, mr. speaker, the foreign office, we're a bit per teshed about this. they started briefing, and said, all the chip the on one card, it turned out not to be the eighth, it was an error of judgment and not what was advised. you can tell whether he was advised to see perfect hollande. i think we can all concur after today, the prime minister has a habit of shooting from the hip. i think that's certainly true. the reality is, the reason why we didn't get the conclusions of this summit and the action we needed is that the international community is divided, not united as the prime minister said. it's divided between those who believe we must have a decisive shift toward growth, president obama now joined by president hollande, and those who believe the answer lies in more of the same. the german chancellor and this prime minister. for two years he's been the high priest of austerity. he's been telling the world that austerity a

[applause] >> given up for sunni. the rock, paper, scissors champion. >> what are you going to do now? >> i have been having so much fun. i got my tattoo. before we go, i want to thank melissa alexander for having us here tonight. how did you know san francisco needed a night like tonight? >> thank you for coming. everybody loves the exploratorium. we are reluctant to push the kids out of the way in the day, so i knew we needed to create one evening a month just for the rest of us to have a good time, the adults. >> absolutely. where can we find out what is coming up after dark? >> that is easy, exploratorium .edu/afterdark. >> thank you. thanks for watching >> a lot a ton with the community and we say to ourselves, there is this one and this one. we all compartmentalize them, we have our own agenda. our agenda is to create great work. if you are interested in that, you are part of our community. >> hello and welcome to brava theater. >> we are trying to figure out a way to make a space where theater and presentation

the conditions given by staff. supervisor elsbernd: that will be the order. matt -- madame clerk, item number three. >> item 3, ordnance waiting duffy in public-works code section 724.1b for temporary street space occupancy within certain designated streets in the city and county of san francisco on may 13, 2012 and saturday, may 19, 2012, as part of small business week sidewalk sales. supervisor olague: this is the eighth year the office of small business, in coordination with dpw has requested this approval to waive the fee. i think it's a no-brainer and wait -- and makes perfect sense. we want to encourage small businesses success here in the city and to waive a fee so they can have a sidewalk event on may 19 and may 13 is a small ask. it brings up revenue to the city and creates excitement in the neighborhoods. i think it is a small ask and since it has been done before, i see no reason not to move this forward. i would like to thank regina for approaching us and think you for your work with small businesses. i

and was given the green light and was given like three options, and when this information was told to our administration, all of a sudden, she has a new obstacle. ok, so we want to pass out -- we have got petitions on our staff where we have 80% of our staff to sign the petition. we want to pass that out as well as timelines leading up to the consolidation. thank you. president yee: thank you. [applause] president yee: we will move on to item k, the advisory committee reports, appointments to the advisory committee by board members. in the appointments? seeing none, item l. superintendent or -- no. this is an action item. the subject is a resolution with respect to certificated layoff during proposed decision and to issue final certificated layoff notices. is there a motion? [laughter] commissioner: i will move it. president yee: who is going to set and it? commissioner -- who is going to second it? commissioner: i will. president yee: who will read it? >> she will read it. >> a proposed decision and to issue final certificate and layoff notices. i will read the important parts of the

it is given to those who may be at high risk of hiv. a final decision is expected by the end of next month. it is important to know that the drug is already given to hiv patience who could become infected with aids. >> n n he has been giving tickets to family members for big-time concerts' and sporting events. we uncovered he has given tickets to sold-out bruce springsteen concert. tonight he gets his response to our investigation. >> vincent gray has this guy is week here at verizon center. >> we made an effort to use those tickets as much as we possibly can for the improvement and advancement of the city. clucks while they are intended for city business, documents provided by the mayor's office shows his son and daughter have been given thousands of dollars to tickets to nearly 20 even silver the past year. the mayor's sun has been given over 40 tickets to nine events, mostly sold out shows like chris brown, jay-z, kanye west, and the washington wizards. the daughter has also received dozens of tickets taking in shows including taylor

you have given $400,000. if you dividewe need to get some items to see how many people will benefit from this pump -- from the point of view of the fed. she was trying to talk about this, that, and the other, very tactical, but very convoluted but having no transparency and no accountability. if you have an auditor and you have some questions -- we are getting the money from four parts and we're going to do this and that. let me speak to the youth. they have to learn to be educated on issues. [tone] we have a group formed a long time ago and i appreciate we have a youth commission, but the youth have to learn to do the right thing and the right way and not follow some of the supervisors here who do the wrong things in the wrong way. wrong things in the wrong way. youth need help, seniors need help and others need help but we need to do the right thing in the right way. [tone] >> [speaking spanish] >> i am here because i want to thank you for taking the time to consider this very important issue. >> [speaking

given the fact -- >> i'm sorry, can you identify yourself? >> yeah. robert warner. given the fact that europe is undergoing three simultaneous crises, political crisis and economic crisis, and china, not in a meltdown but a substantial slowdown, what do you think the responses might be and the differences might be between obama and the second term and romney with respect to those -- this very deteriorating economic financial situation? >> want to start? >> i think that there's a very serious debate that's now going on about the best route of the current crisis and that debate is essentially on the getting the balance right between fiscal consolidation and, you know, what's called austerity versus new growth programs. and, you know, i think that that debate is being now joined in europe. europe is not unified by any manner of means in terms of how it is going to, you know, where it's going to come out on that balance. i think in this country as well. the two parties are quite different in their positioning on this. china i think is rather different. china is indeed s

given the choices of barack obama and mitt romney. if you talk about that and where you see that reverberating, which situations around the world. >> sure, i think if things were going reasonably well in the world. it wouldn't make that much difference. because sometimes the focus of the elections is going to be on domestic issues. that's probably right. but things are not going that well in the world. and if particular things are not going that well in the global economy. so i am not sure that i would ascribe to bruce's view that well, the sort of fundamental institutions that are taking care of the world. are still doing their job. and regardless of who comes in, they will still be able to do their job. i am not sure that is still the case. the reform of the international financial institution has been going very slowly. one of the big destabilizing factors in the global economy has been the mammoth accumulation of foreign exchange reserves in asia, for example. why? some people say they are doing that because they have very little

you have been given much here at christopher newport university. you have learned from and then mentored by some of the greatest faculty in all the commonwealth. so now, much as expected. you have been trained for excellence. so do not deliver mediocrity. don't make excuses, make things happen. now as i close, i have one last request as governor of virginia. i know you will have many opportunities. maybe some around the country, and around the world. but i want to humbly ask you this. no matter where you came from, today you are here in virginia. so if you are going to create something big, create it in virginia. if you are going to open a business, open it in virginia. if you are going to be a great artist or doctor or teachers or professors or lawyer or counselor, or whatever it may be, do it in virginia. we want to keep your talents and your dreams in virginia. we want you to pay taxes in virginia. so thank you for your hard work these last four years or five years or six years. you have gotten to this day with love and support of your families,

and i have given you the names, but they should be given up to 15 minutes and no more. commissioner fong: ok. there are four blocks in 15 minutes. the first one is marian and wen will give thema time to come. >> up. commissioner fong: the second one is john. >> , on up. -- come on up. >> good afternoon pat i am the vice president of programs with the san francisco community clinic consortium, and i am representing john, our president and ceo. he unfortunately is not able to be here this afternoon. i am here with three of the consortium's board members who will each have an opportunity to speak as well. charles, the executive director of the south of market health center. brenda, the executive director at the mission at neighborhood health center. and david, executive director of curry senior center. it is a partnership of 10 of the nonprofit community clinics in san francisco. collectively, we serve about 90,000 patients annually. most of those patients are low- income and uninsured or underinsured. and we are here in support of the proposal. we certainly look forward t

given that -- [laughter] given he endorsed his opponent in the most fulsome term, he told him, nicholas arcos has my support. i secluded. now, mr. speaker, and the foreign office were a bit perturbed about this so they started briefing about and he said, we put all the chips on one card and it turned out not to be the ace. it was an error of judgment and not what was advised. can he tell us when he was advised to see, refuses in place within a said this, i think we concur after today, mr. speaker, the prime minister has a habit of shooting from the hip. i think that's certainly true. the reality is that the reason why we didn't get the conclusions of the summit on the action we need is the international community is divided, it's divided between those who believe we must have a decisive step towards growth the president obama now joined with others believe the answer lies in more of the same. the german chancellor and the prime minister. for two years he has been the high priest of austerity. he's been telling the world that austerity alone isn't the answer. but now, of course, but now,

i don't think they will be given a choice. the iranian situation will resolve itself or will not resolve itself. either way it will be the dominant foreign policy issue in the first year in 2013 under any circumstance where i think people will look to opportunities if they want to define those. where the opportunity lies is in the tightening up of the alliance with india, turkey and australia and forging new cooperation with those factors and are suspect either party would look to opportunities. >> i am with strobe on this. before looking abroad and being effective abroad, fixing the fiscal and fixing growth is the essential. we will have to think about how to do that. >> the program calls for a closing thought from each of these gentlemen to some up all the things we have talked about. one thing we didn't are the ten things we did. let's move down the line, whichever way or whoever wants to go first. how do you want to start us out? strobe? >> it is appropriate that iran came up towards the end. i will make one observation ye

the authorization was given. i think he is barking up the wrong tree. >> throughout the process, senior teams on a regular basis -- in the interest of transparency, all parties should publish all correspondence between their representatives. >> i think that is a very good idea. we all need to be transparent. >> i have heard 42 and to receive

it would be nice if that member had had one antenna in their neighborhood given that there is over ten that have been installed and the surrounding areas. another issue, the antenna that natasha showed was on fell street. that is a very different street and i used to live half a block away from that antenna. it would not have bothered me there, it is a very different environment from 27th avenue. the antenna that the appeal d-- it did go to the court of appeals, we thought it was a little bit in bad faith that they bothered to turn it off. we filed the appeal before they finished construction. and yet, they still moved to finish construction, turn on the antenna throughout the process, and it has been operating for a year-and-a-half on no permit. i guess they get a free be there -- freebie there. one of the issues that our residents are concerned about that become clear, nextg will argue that once a valid permit has been issued, they have the vested rights to that site. when undergrounding starts to occur again, we put no faith that they will up and move. it will be a headache for ever

i am wondering, given that you showed tentative construction schedules for brt on van ness between 2015 and 20 cents -- 27, followed by geary between 2017 and 2019, and by topic correctly. when i put that into context for construction for cmc, it would take 54 months. there must be a conflict somewhere, which i have not seen in the diagram. >> yes, that issue has been raised many times. it is an issue of concern for people on how the construction would interface. i do not have the specifics of construction for cpmc or the van ness projects. i am sure other colleagues of mine could answer that question, maybe at a later point. >> good morning. michael schwartz with the san francisco transportation authority. project manager for planning and environmental review on the van ness brt project. we have been moving forward with this schedule, and we will be in front of the commission on may 10 with a recommendation for the locally preferred alternative. our construction scheduling is becoming more solidified. it will not be across the entire corridor for the length of construction. it will be

but that does not seem to hold water, given the reaction by the market, given the reaction when we talk to the credit rating agencies about this, because the presumption is they're going to receive very fair treatment by the agency task by unwinding it by the fsoc. and mr. gruenberg's comments certainly would imply that. i just wanted to get your take on that. >> so, i can't speak for mr. gruenberg's comments. i can say my understanding of the application of -- or liquidation authority is that when a firm is put into liquidation, all its equity holders would be wiped out. >> as i cited. >> yeah. and its debt holders would be given concern, paid back in part. the result in that would allow the new company that survives to be well capitalized. >> i understand that. but understand that the market, arguably, looks at that and says that haircut is not equivalent to what the haircut would be if they go through bankruptcy. and now because they have this potential path, we're going to evaluate that as a -- you know, as an advantage to creditors and as implied through the decisions by the credit

>> yes, it must be given in evidence. and my particular concern is cannabis. there's been quite a lot of discussion already about cannabis. and the facts and figures being given out about cannabis are inaccurate, they're misleading. if i talk about frank giving out things, the information, there are grave omission in this the cannabis information. and the scientific evidence is there but a lot of it's being ignored. i'd like the opportunity later in the meeting to tell you -- >> we do have other questions for you. quickly, do you think frank was a success or a failure? the government's initiative? frank? >> frank? oh. there are some very good bits about frank. but no, it's -- im, there was a survey in 2010 by a faction which found only 10% of children would phone frank, would look to frank. this is the sort of thing that's coming through. and i've had personally very negative vibes about frank from all sorts of people. >> very good. we will come and ask you further questions on education. michael ellis, a quick supplementary. >> just if i could ask, miss hitch

tavis: the timing could not be more propitious given ann romney and what a woman should do. what qualifies for being a great leader. what about the timing? >> my daughter would say about her friends, she is not doing anything. and i would say that is not ok. she learned that kathy had had a career and made the choice to stay at home. she saw that she was doing so many things in the community and making a difference. at the end of a she said i would like to be like her. she had a greater understanding of what it meant to be a great leader. tavis: what is the question to how great women lead? >> a lot of people ask that. are they different than men? they lead in many ways. it is important. there is an archetype of leadership with the orchestra conductor. for her to break into the field, e only woman who is the head of an orchestra. she had to fight her way, i get a financial sponsor. she is breaking the mold for what that looks like. not only does it allow more women, it has been -- allowed a greater range of men. by opening the doors and having more diversity and tapping into

the supplemental first report said it was given improperly giving information to mitt romney's advisors and the recent thing was a supplemental bill. not only did he give away information but he traded information to romney advisors to help him get confirmed so he was given something for value and giving his votes for value and that sure sounds close the criminality if it isn't. >> i did see the report and it was one form romney advisor named in the report. >> give us context for this. >> it's one of the two republican members. >> don't move away. >> improperly given information inside information that violated the ethics and not a single republican on the hill has said anything about it. not one. republicans have been quiet about it. >> he hasn't resigned either. if that had been labor person they would have been doing hand stands in front of fox news 24/7 but not a word. >> so let me provide context. he's one of the republican members on the board accused of disclosing internal board information to former board members and there's been two reports on the matter. >> both of them had sa

given that we, what we already know and what we will hear today, these findings are not surprising. a tailored definition of prosthetics is just one way the va can better track and manage its prosthetics acquisition. for instance, the broad inclusion of durable medical equipment under its prosthetics definition could encourage the misuse of seconds 8123 authority. in addition, as the ig noted about the va's overpayments, exce excess inventories, "strengthening controls over these actions should jot compromise the quality of the prosthetic limbs provided to vetera veterans." in short, the va can be a better steward of taxpayer dollars while still providing access to care including in the area of prosthetics. another way the va can better manage the billions spent in prosthetics every year is to actually enforce the acquisition regulations that apply to section 8123. and the response i received yesterday, the va still fails to acknowledge the abuse of section 8123 and the blatant circumstance come vengs of the far and the var by va enemployees. we know pt problem exists. now is the ti

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i don't think they'll be given a choice. the iranian situation either will be resolving itself or not and either way will be the dominant foreign policy issue in a crisis management mode in the first year of -- in 2013 under virtually any circumstance. where i think people will look to opportunities if they wanted to define, i think where the opportunity lies is in the tightening up the alliances with india, with turkey, with south kcore yeah, with australia and sort of forging new patterns of c cooperation with those actors and i suspect either party would look to opportunities there. >> homi? >> i'm with strobe on this. before looking abroad and being effective abroad, fixing the fiscal and fixing growth is essential and both will have to think hard about how to do that. >> okay. well, what our program calls for at the moment is for a closing thought from each of these gentlemen to try to sum up all of the things that we've talked about or perhaps the one thing that we didn't or the ten things that we didn't. we'll just mo

it was given to a finnish troubleshooter, a u.n. diplomat. but some people have said that the committee should be aware celebrity awards, celebrity selections. there have been a number of celebrities in oslo in recent years with obama being maybe the biggest. >> host: yeah. >> guest: but the committee likes to say or there are many be paths to peace, and so it's given to diplomats and given to humanitarians, mother teresa; microlenders, global warning campaigners, arafat. different paths to peace. and they almost always have a case. i think the global warming award was really my own view of gore and the intergovernmental panel on climate change. i think that award's probably a little far afield for the nobel peace prize. it's such a departure from the will that i'm not sure is defensible. but it's their award. the five norwegians on the committee determine the award, and the rest of us are just spectators who peck at it. >> host: what did you learn about the obama prize in the course of writing the book? >> guest: when? >> host: what did you

given. -- public input is given. we have noticed the grant received some letters of support from the community itself, including from the office of supervisor avalos. we will be providing that information. there will be out -- provided in addition -- there will be out breach provided using consultants to plan and facilitate public meetings. the scope is just about what we will be providing sfmta for its recommendation. we're seeking a recommendation for authorization to enter into thismoa. supervisor wiener: colleagues, any questions? any public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. can we move that the word without objection? item #6. >> recommended that award of the two-year consulting contract with option to extend for an additional one-year time frame to parsons printer off. this is an action item. >> and the deputy director for technology services. this item starts on page 55 of your packet. this item 6 a recommendation to award a two-year contract to on called modeling techno

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now that we have the leveson up wirery, they will be given the opportunity to explain why they're given so little than what is in that report. >> it's the point of the last company. they were powerful results by the information commissioner, but i think the process is our political issues did react properly to them. this is up of the reasons why it's important to have the leveson inquiry, and try to get to the situation, so when problems rise up, like they have, then they can be debt with. >> exciting his authority in the news corp, explain what benefit smith expected to get from claiming the murders. >> i think adam smith special adviser has made absolutely clear his role. he said it was part of my role to keep news corporation through the process. but the extent of my contact was doneout authorization of the secretary of state. i think that is what he said, and i think you ought to listen. >> the prime minister rules his nay valley predecessoand he shod i,and only a yahoo would make up his mind in 23 minutes. >> my friend is quite right. it is the easiest thing in the world to react t

there are many thais to peace so it's given to diplomats and is given to the humanitarian scum and mother teresa, microlenders, campaigners, arafat, a different piece, and they almost always have the case the global warming awards and the intergovernmental panel on climate change that award for the peace prize is a departure from the well and not sure it is a defense bill but it's their award to determine the award and the rest of us are just spectators. >> host: what did you learn? >> guest: i tell you something that is not in the book directly and some little old leak to the co oblique. someone and norway what's remember now barack obama is in the dogfight maybe that isn't the right word. in 2009 the red rock star heights. you know why the dtv award? they want to come to oslo and he's the great rock star celebrity of the number one figure how do we grant president obama. the committee wanted to bask in his glory and the chairman thought they would boost him in europe, so i hear this and i think to myself that's ridiculous. i hear from the second and ninth and 15th and 25th whether it is

in our view, the proposed witness list that has been given to you by the mayor is excessively link the. we believe many of those witnesses are irrelevant. for the determination to are going to need to make. also in our view, the only two witnesses that definitely should be testifying live our mayor lee and sheriff mirkarimi. we think all the other witnesses can be handled by declarations subject to the other party insisting -- by a cross examination and if you decide you need that. >> that issue, the specific issue will be addressed later. this is limited to the question of should we have some live testimony. it sounds like you are amenable to that and the mayor wanted that as well. i do not expect any [inaudible] from the parties on this. because there are so many decisions to be made tonight, i am also proposing that we take one vote at the end, addressing all the issues, particularly when it sounds like there is unanimity on an issue. is there any dissent on the view that we should entertain some live testimony at a hearing? ok. moving on to the next issue. the standard of -- of pro