but given the access to the train, given the access to the freeways, and given the sort of geographic dispersion that has been part of this tech renaissance, we feel this is an extraordinarily good site for a corporate campus in san francisco in the years ahead. the footprint is expanding and we feel this is where the growth in san francisco is going, not necessarily into the very tall towers that are being talked about in the heart of the transit center district. that from our perspective are difficult to pull off, given the size of those towers and the height of those towers. one last thing i want to touch on, given that thatis cycle is technology-driven i get asked three or four times a day, aren't we just falling into the same bubble that we did at that time? and clearly technology and real estate are cyclical and we will go through cycles. having been there in sill cron valley in 2000 and sitting here today, there are a couple of things that i see as being significant. first and foremost, the tech tenants that we're dealing with are move stronger financially than the tenants that

he won because he had given free education to all. he has given free health care assistants. he has given housing for poor people. >> we have the best president in the world. we all love him. we are going forward and we are growing with him. >> street parties broke out over caracas almost as soon as results were announced. venezuela is polarized. although some people are celebrating, others will be commiserating. the opposition candidate .onceded defeat wit he mounted a serious challenge to the presidency, but in the end it was not enough. mr. hugo chavez was treated for cancer earlier this year and many will be watching his held closely. for now, his supporters are thinking only of celebrating. bbc news, caracas. >> the u.s. congressional committee has called for two giant chinese telecommunications companies to be banned from the american market. a draft of report by the house intelligence committee says they cannot be trusted to be free of chinese estates influence and so pose a security threat to the u.s. and its systems. the two firms denied being influenced by the chine

i have given up -- i have given up -- >> chairman nolan: next speaker. >> steven heimnay. security. >> i have. steven heimnay -- >> with all due respect to you guys giving us a minute you're getting paid to be mere. my cab that you just issued a new medallion for is in the garage so i can give you money for parking. so you're trusting me -- i'm supposed to trust you to borrow $300,000 to get a medallion, where you're watering down our investment by issuing down medallions to companies for less amount of money to the pointd9,! where i'm not even sure that it's worth it. and there's 1400 people on the waiting list. if they all did 10 years apiece you're talking about 14,000 man years. go far back far enough that's before we came to the country over the asian land bridge. thank you. >> chairman nolan: next speaker. >> i told you at the beginning of this meeting that we would have two minutes, while your secretary -- >> chairman nolan: next speaker please. highbeck and christopher -- thank you,mnx christopher fullkerson. christopher,h[: followed by jim templeton. >> what you

it was, again, negotiated. >> i just don't understand, given that the lease at the port doesn't expire until 2015, why don't we take the time to actually -- whether it is a better deal with this company, with prologis or, you know, this is a very dynamic market -- real estate market. why not take the time to actually find something where we are actually not being taken advantage of. what is wrong with waiting? >> again, as exexplained, it's been a long search. so the other properties we look at. for instance let's look at the good man. that would take five years to get into at a minimum * because of the eminent domain process. having to demolish existing warehouses and planning and funding and actually building an alternative property on the 12 to 13 acres. the port property is bare land that needs everything, from infrastructure up. the property that is south of pier 70, the jenon company property is, again, in total remediation need. the plan might be done by 2015. after that the remediation would occur. so this does not fit in with the time where the port has a one-year termination

if somebody gets wind that we're consecrating our resources to a given area, we will find some place else with the on going physical analysis. >> and some crime, you can trade or gang activity can move, property time -- [indiscernable] -- >> it actually robs those people when they're there, when they're not there, when their lights are on. who has a dog and who doesn't have a dog. when you prevent those crimes it drives down the crime rate rather than somewhere else. >> just -- it's predicting the number. people who are being burglarized the victims are the ones who are saying it. how does this [indiscernable] -- >> we're working with our community and identifying. >> i'm wondering if your resource -- just thinking about possibly moving this. >> i just saw crime at the leer level, theft, burglary but what about crimes that are more opportunity driven? there's not really an algorithm or something you can use to predict it. so like is there anyway you can appropriate that or is it just going to be -- >> well, that -- what it said is -- every time [indiscernable] they're writing a repor

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what they have given consideration to date. >> i'm looking at this chart. these are total funds we are talking about in terms of fiscal year 2012-2013. part is double a funds. we don't have that much funds that are here. >> the overall available funds, if you add up all three, that is what we anticipate being able to program out in prap aa dollars, including 12-13. if we had enough in 12-13 to -- we do. after understanding our revenues in terms of what was projected in the expenditure and seing from the department of motorvehicles, putting that together, these are funds being able to program out in given years by cash flow. not on the programming side. that is clear. >> so if you have your magnifying classes with you, commissioner, attachment 4, you can see the first year we actually have 12 million in the bank. we have been building up moneys so when departments come in we can pay them. we have a little higher than normally, but a total of $26 million. again, if you look at the programming side would tell you in 12-16, the previous authority board could aw

now the moro people will be given more rights, living on the island of mindanao. >> we have signed the most important document in this chapter of our history and, a landmark document that resource to our people their moro identity and their homeland. >> to reach this agreement, the rebels have had to make compromises. they have abandoned their demand for separate state and agreed to give up all their weapons. in return, the people they represent will have more autonomy and their land will be renamed the land of the moros. peace cannot come soon enough for the civilians. 120,000 people died in the fighting. the area is underdeveloped. it is the poorest region in the philippines. much of the credit for the agreement must go to president aquino, who showed more sympathy and to them than the other leaders. >> that's what needs to be done to reach an agreement. we have commitments to fulfill and dreams to achieve. the details provide us with a solid opportunity to expand the principles we have already articulated the agreement. >> both sides know this is the beginning of a long process. it'

mention that the background scans -- and it's in these reports that were sent to the residents and given to you today -- the measurements they're taking and measuring are .01 milligram per hour. and if you do the whole calculation in per year and all that, it's way less, way less than what we're seeing. so, that's why we can say with confidence that all these areas that have been scanned are way less than anything of concern. >> and i appreciate that. you know, i am not an expert in this, and certainly radiation. and i think that everything you said makes a lot of sense. but where i disagree with you is on your point about the impact of additional testing. i actually see it differently. i actually think that the lack of trust is not going to go away, and i actually think it will only intensify. and i think that taking that extra step, even if it's a pain, even if it is expensive, it is something that if i live there that i would like to see my government do. and, so -- (applause) >> it's not to take anything away from what you said. i respect your judgment and your professional judgment

i experienced this first hand when we were given the hans to bring othello to high schools and we were able to bring shakespeare to students in ways they never have seen it before and relate to their lives and engage the students in what they witnessed and express how they were affected by it in a safe environment and i believe it changes the lives of the students and changes of lives of usace artists. it's my hope in the year to become a second space like the strand will afford the students and the community to have gold work and engages the community the same way we were able to engage those students. i believe it will be a place where audience members will say their souls were fed from the stage and i urge the commission to share in this hope and enrich the life of the community so that we have grow and thrive together. >> good afternoon commissioners. i am eddy raymond and the vice president of ist local 16 in san francisco. i was an employee for act when i came into the union office. act employees hundreds of local 16 members over the course of one season. we represent the stage s

been given this year. a justice department study said it was an issue in far less than 1% of the votes cast between 2002 and 2005. our new ad as about voter fraud intended to inform voters or intimidate them. voter fraud is a felony. billboards with this simple and factual message are stirring up controversy in two battleground states. here's why voting rights activists like eric marshal are upset. >> yes, voter fraud is a felony. but it's the way they're being displayed and the fact that they're in almost exclusively areas or around areas that are predominantly latino. >> reporter: the billboards have been popping up in cities in ohio and wisconsin. 85 in milwaukee and 30 in columbus and another 30 in cleveland and 31 in cincinnati. protests started almost as soon as they went up, demanding the signs come down.

however, given the building department has agreed to it -- >> okay. >> and given the reasons. >> okay. >> you can do what you want, but it might be problematic. i understand where you're coming from, but, yeah. >> before we even ask that, do we know, does she lift the request -- the reason for her asking for a rehearing or should that be discussed? * list >> this is for continuance. is there a reason why she's asking for a rehearing, or do we have to discuss that when we continue the matter? >> basically in terms of her grounds for rehearing, is that what you're -- so, we have -- i think you all have in your packet, it's like third or fourth page to the back. it says to suspend -- her state the reasons why. suspend order of abatement and waive all fees if no hazard exists or at least until tenant vacates. that is the sum total of her reasons for requesting rehearing. >> i don't see any grounds for opening the repealed item. so, i would tend to say no to a continuance as well. but i'll defer to the rest of the commissioners if you feel we should as a courtesy continue the matter for th

given that we have miss herrick and mr. shaw here, one possibility would be that we want to proceed and there may be complicated issues that we will want to know on the merits as well. i am not sharp and final, but i am actually what i am hearing is making me feel that we may have to do it, and there is... and less reason that we can't do it in terms of the direct, you no, do we have a conflict? we ask, you know, with regard to the city officials all of the time, who where the situation is sensitive and we are all working for the city, and we have those kinds of concerns. i haven't heard anything that said why we in particular would be unable to deal on the merits related to a member of the staff. >> commissioner liu do you have any thoughts on this? >> well, i think that was a really helpful discussion, helpful from the city attorney's office to get the guidance we did. because i came in thinking, you know, if there is a way to transfer it to another adjudicatory body that might help with the perception issues, but if ther

and breaking through a young russian amateur footballer has given a shot at a professional career. to football first the second night's all champions league action this week itself in st petersburg and wednesday's in needs were aiming to follow in the footsteps all fellow russian side sports talk and claim their first win after three attempts on their lacked this side standing in their way and after existing in ninety minutes up north sea need have a really good nights if they're competitive and so is the west just the one goal of the patrols the stadium and it came from the penalty spot alexander character called who dislodging hold eighteen minutes from time so one nil the final score meaning the russian champions league from their opponents into third spot in group c. after a terrible storm last sixteen football has now become a definite may be able to challenge the public these charges. and there was plenty of action elsewhere on the night in the needs group seema like a manic managed to keep hold all the summits with a one nil win against ac milan i.x. and manchester city now

it is not something you can just read those three lines that given you your allegedÑ]gÑ authority.ou're supposed to be doing the taxi commission's job, not sweepingh2oe"!ñ it away. >> chairman nolan: next speaker. >> jim templeton, followed byfnb corey lamb and then carl mcmurdo. >> jim templeton i started years old. i will be 68 years old in november. you people can't run a bus company. real world? $15 an hour and no pension. you're paying your muni bus drivers three times what bus drivers in the real worlda"] mae and you're using us as a piggy bank. this is going to in the 25 years i waited to get a medallion, i waited 30 but most guys wait 25. in those 25 years they pay five to 600,000 in gates. and that money goes to buy taxicabs to pay for dispatch, to pay for the mortgage on the building. we created this industry. get your hands out of our pocket. medallions right now have put in $84 million into thisf⌞ójfp ind. and if you want to run a cab company, you run it. you can't take that 1900 a month we'll call it the milk an÷ heinicke industry. you run the damn thing. >> chairman n

. >> given that, though, then, how is the priority given to the particular neighborhood that we're talking about in chinatown? >> because it's the closest parks outside of the plan area. there are no parks within the plan area today and there are -- there are parks south of the plan area, i don't know what they are. there would be one or two in rincon hill. it's the most proximate parks outside of the plan. >> commissioner moore. >> i express my support for prioritization. all fund for chinatown parks, however, i would have appreciated slightly more definition. since chinatown is heavily impacted by the studies -- by the shadow studies, we were presented last week, i think there are certain parts of the four parks which are being affected which are more critical to chinatown thans others and most effect $the critical park, largest being portsmouth square, it would have been a little more definition in this prioritization which would address that those fund would be directed early on towards portsmouth square. i would be more comfortable than saying that it randomly implies could be used to

feared just a few days ago. >> no worry at all about supply shortages of gasoline in the northeast given the widespread flooding and some of the power outages. >> i'll tell you what, there is. logically you look at this situation that we have supplies that are 10%, 20%, 30% below the historical norms and we've already sidelined and closed refineries over the last two years so retaking over a million barrels of crude oil processing out of the market over the last two years, therefore, we're in a very diminished state from a refinery output standpoint. threat is real. we could certainly see shortages, but if the market were really expecting those shortages, i would have to expect we'd have to see some sort of reaction now from the forward curve and we're not simple police seeing that at this point so i don't know. i don't know if there's any -- if there is real damage from the refineries, but i'll tell you what, the price action we're seeing in the futures market along the forward curve suggests we are not going to see any sort of prolonged shortage and product if it does indeed occur. >>

they were given vouchers and therefore, moved to other cities. there simply weren't enough units, so people couldn't come back and due to screening and eligibility requirements, people were left out of the new developed units. and so in light of those stories that we had heard from our clients, we have actually worked with supervisor olague's office to craft this legislation, because we saw the writing on the wall. with hope sf happening, a program that we do support, because our public housing stock is so severely distressed that we do need to rebuild it and we have no federal funds to continue operating it as it is. and so we wanted to make sure we could have the best of both worlds, which is to have newly developed housing that is

had my suspicions about which is people actually really do care about these things people i mean if given a choice giving an avid given an avenue in order to watch they will i mean this is something that interests everybody and anybody who's you know wants to be engaged in the process and we're seeing that increasingly even you know. younger people are and that's the best example twitter right there i mean even throughout the entire electoral season if you will twitter is media has actually played a major role in that people actually watch things while they have their computers on their lap or you know at their computers whatever in order to so you know sort of feel even more engaged so yeah that's a great example i mean it's it was pretty astonishing it is really interesting we saw of course during the republican convention how. in moments there was a twitter handle called invisible obama clint eastwood speech and so i think it's a really good point that social media to twitter and particularly plays a role and i think that total want another kind of telling thing was some of the issues

givener, our city attorney. >> deputy city attorney john givener. as the committee members know, the residency requirements that is imposed on a number of different committees and boards is waivable in certain cases when the board or committee was created by an ordinance. in this case the requirement is that the member holding the seat be a property owner. that specific requirement in the ordinance is not waivable. so, that's just a mandatory requirement. >> thank you, mr. givener. at this time, can we hear paul giusti? >>> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is paul giusti. i'm a resident of district 8 and i am applying for the graffiti advisory committee to be reappointed. i've actually been involved in the graffiti advisory committee since the beginning. i think it's been, ghosh, i want to say 7 or 8 years now. and the work that we've done, it's just too much to really even get i

media coverage of the debates to read one group was given coverage focus strictly on policy like why each candidate took the position they took what affects those policies would have on the nation and so on important stuff that we as americans should be getting out of the debates the other group of viewers was given media coverage that framed the debate as a sporting event which candidate won who appeal better to that bloc of voters that kind of stuff the political horse race stuff after all that the debate viewers were then asked to describe the debate as if they were telling a friend what happened and here's what the researchers learned in this study the media coverage had a strong effect on whether the viewers engaged in policy reasoning even though they were all exposed to the same clip viewers who read the media article with the game frame emphasizing who won the debate listed the fewest policy reasons in their description of the debate those who read the article with the policy frame listed the most policy reasons as the lead author of the study re pingree concluded the media h

housing at the expense of -- without any consideration given to the whole. so in many ways without more information we're kind of the shot in the dark. i know that because at planning as supervisor campos mentioned it's piecemeal. there is no comprehensive consideration given to things and we go project-by-project. that is what happened in a lot of areas like the mission, where you saw project-by-project, the dismantling of entire communities. and with no consideration ever given to the overall impact that some of these approvals have had. so i know when i was on planning, we approved thousands of units of market -rate housing. i approved and i stand guilty. i'm not saying that i just sat there and just approved housing that was below market rate or anything. but i think it would have helped to have had more of a comprehensive view of how our individual elections were impacting the whole. and also the long-term view of housing here in the city. because there was the 10th and market project, i know started out as for-sale units and asked for a conditional use

but givens isn't done. poppy goes for his firearm. as givens rises, his weapon in hand.givens goes down. incredibly he's only wounded. given says convicted of attempted aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer and sentenced to 11 months 29 days. more and more, police are relying on tasers. >> it keeps us from having to fight somebody hands on. >> detective jared mathern should know. he with two other officers are with the louisiana police force. they were uninvited guests who brought tasers who a wedding that went very, very wrong. instead after toast, the broom got a taze. and the bridal party got a shower of mace. >> what is going through my mind, is oh, my god, i'm suppose getting married and supposed to be the happiest day in my life. getting tazed, it couldn't get worse. >> jeffrey has been on the force for 15 years. >> this is a small town. it's nice to live here. it's quiet. >> it is usually quiet. but not on july 23, 2005. riding along with police is a cameraman. >> what the [ bleep ]. some wedding. >> shooting for aek there al tv show, called the beat, ro

given i think the circumstances of how this news came out in particular, i was very disappointed with the way and the manner with which the navy conducted itself in releasing this information because i think now, of course, we have a lot of concerns around health issues on the island, which i completely understand. moving forward, we do still have residents living on this island and i want to be able to address some of the present concerns as completely as possible. one, of course, is a hotline that tida will be running monday through friday -- it will be running all the time. so, there's one number people can use to report any concerns or to ask any questions about the ongoing clean up operations on treasure island. and, so, that number is the hotline that tida will run and will respond to within one business day. i know there are questions, of course, about what to do if we observe people in those areas on the weekend. and i'm hoping that the answer to that is that we can call sfpd ento ensure no one is getting in those areas and potentially putting residents at risk. the second is

given where interest rates are, and given where we are both in the american earnings cycle and in the economic calendar more broadly, i would expect very small moves in bonds for the balance of the year as investmentors continue to stay defensively positioned and concerned about the issues that we talked about earlier. >> tom: all right. lincoln, get some rest. back at it tomorrow are if the first time in four long days. in chicago, chief investment officer at the strategic financial group. while the stock exchanges get back to business, the federal government is getting down to business in responding to the widespread disaster. sylvia hall has the latest on the federal response. >> reporter: as east coast residents survey the mess sandy brought ashore, federal, state and local governments are already coordinating the cleanup. right now, thousands of workers from every level of government are on a rescue mission in new jersey and new york's hardest- hit areas. fema is pulling in generators and working with power companies to get the lights back on. the storm's damage was so severe tha

given you have it, it makes sense. do i think we would be able to get a property -- purchase a property in short order that is cheaper, probably not, given everything we are hearing. it might be possible. i don't think anyone can definitively say we cannot but at the same time it seems unlikely, given the time constraints on the port development work as well, we have a lot of things to consider. i would be supportive of the continuance. i'm very happy to hear very specific things that has been articulated in terms of what it is this committee wants to hear about. i do think it is important for us to understand the net present value of the leases. and what that means in terms if we were to locate and find a property, frankly. we are kind of doing this exercise of what is net present value of lease amount we are putting forward. what would that mean in terms of purchase price. can we find a property at the purchase price is a whole other separate question that fits the needs we are looking for. the other thing is the mas

had given aaa ratings to that was a scam that was a scheme to defraud german banks the german people however have a tremendous sense of guilt so they didn't focus on this they didn't want to rekindle the whole sixty years worth of german bashing so they allowed themselves to be sold toxic sludge from wall street wall street of course playing down this they gave junk bonds aaa rating they ended up in the blender spanked and frankfurt in german banks and european banks now to add insult to injury wall street is saying you know you don't have your gold i there are so germany i know you've been quiet for a number of decades but maybe it's time to think self-preservation. well i think they're putting their toe in the water self-preservation because this story then goes on to say the decision means negotiating with three foreign central banks for a physical verification but anticipation the buddhist bank has begun the process of shipping fifty tons per year from the fed back to germany for the next three years while that means nothing i mean they're going to buy gold on the open market is