. >> sue hester you've within working on this for 13 years the academy should be graduated they've period of the moonwalk you start an eir and you don't finish it. you start studies and you don't finish them you keep requiring buildings the basic things the commission has talked about publicly at the hearings the few hearings you had relatively speaking is the plunder of the housing resources by the city by the aa u that is operating every housing project illegal i sent a letter asking on the commission to have a hearing on the 6 housing resources at the time 3 of you were on the commission 4 of you were not you've been since postponed it was to clooith alexander and at that time, i pleaded with the commission to set hearings i can't take action on an informational item i'm asking please set an action item for thetively of juan june for the purposes of setting and hearing in december if the eir is released in a timing manner within the quote/unquote deadline manner there's been so many deadlines it's ridiculous if they have a eir it will be harder on december 4th and simultaneously the co

. >> sue hester you've within working on this for 13

. >> my understanding of sue hester's request first no action is needed by the commission to calendar that's part of the normal process once the draft eir is published within thirty to 45 days a hearing from the commission to accept public comment so no separate action is needed to acquire that my understanding in reading ms. hearst comments she'll look at taking accountabilities action in june you'll outline a hearing date on december 4th to hear the draft eir if the draft eir is not published it will be used to calendar for disapproval. >> so your sense the june hearing will be a hearing like this to talk about the process and to schedule action and offer it will be an action item f this is a unique enforcement matter we're not faced with this to my recollection there will be an update on the eir but the ability to calendar for december 4th a hearing that will either take public comment on the draft eir which is the standard process and not need an action but if this were not possible because the november 1st deadline was missed at that hearing instead you'll take up consideration o

. >> kevin san francisco information clooerg house i'd like to support sue hesters request are for the commission as opposed to schedule on action item on the subject. in the intervening decade and a half this issue has been before the department our department and you as a commission have amended the housing element of the general plan twice. and both of those amendments you articulate the primary objective and policy of the housing element of the general plan is the preservation and this is an affordable housing issue that is unclear to me how many hundreds of units have been illegal converted and i believe it's unclear to you. the housing element now stipulates that the preservation of housing that existing housing is a principle source of affordable housing. to allow it to be converted to in an illegal way is an agency vacation not only of the policy of the general plan but the responsibility of you as a commission and as a staff. and it you rivals only the departments inability to grasp the rise the rapid rise and removal from the permanent housing stock of thousands of unit throu

. >> sue hester following up on a speaker's comments. he brought your attention that developers could -- [speaker not understood] this is a real concern and something that the planning director and planning commission needs to pay attention to now, and not after, because once the legislation is out of here, it will not be amended, witness scott weiner's strong statements to that effect. i have right here the negdak for 650 indiana, which is on today's agenda and coming back two weeks ago to get approval of the use of 19th street. i am one of maybe three people who gets negdex [speaker not understood] and because you don't have eirs for most projects in the areas that are high-development, and you have to figure out how you are going to give notice that this is happening? and it has to be real notice. the current process of getting notice that you get to go through the 00 ages' of documents, six days before the hearings and you will find this exemption. if you are crazy enough to do that every week. i'm crazy enough to do that, but it's h

. >> my understanding of sue hester's request first no action is needed by the commission to calendar that's part of the normal process once the draft eir is published within thirty to 45 days a hearing from the commission to accept public comment so no separate action is needed to acquire that my understanding in reading ms. hearst comments she'll look at taking accountabilities action in june you'll outline a hearing date on december 4th to hear the draft eir if the draft eir is not p

>> sue hester, i strongly support this project. i have worked with tcnd and tenderloin for a long time. one, funds dried up and there are real consequenced to people cheating on fees. you had other testimony earlier about this. and people have to scale-down affordable housing projects when the fees aren't collected because there is a manipulation of the process. so we really need to go through again all of the fees and the entitlements and how people change uses without paying fees? because that affects projects like this. secondarily, the federal building changed from 10th and market to the former greyhound bus site at 7th and market because the window study was so terrible for a federal building at 10th and market. and i submitted a letter a while ago that went to the commissioners in your packet. it's time to do a serious window study before the projects hit you, because there are real consequences for people in the area and affordable housing. and if you wait until the wind study is done on an individual project you are cheatin

rd r [ [ reading speakers' names ] >> my name is sue hester. have an overhead for the planning commission documents for today's calendar. just the items that i am here for have 800 pages of documents. they are 73 pages for 63rd street. 70 pages in various things for public plaza. 288 pages for 1036 mission. 255 pages for 650 indiana. 196 at 1201 tennessee. they all appear on the public agenda friday, six days before the hearing. and they have no table of contents. none. zero. so the only thing a person like me can do is basically punch "hit all/print all" to find what we want to find. very few of the public have oversized printers. so although the plans that are provided in there are going to be mini plans, even though you have 11x17 plans. the planning department has with the consent of the commission, and the consent of the office of commission affairs, basically abandoned any two-week report. how do you expect the public to read -- i'm not even dealing with ers -- i'm not dealing with things that i don't care about on this calendar. 800 page

hester. >> the chocolate guy forgot -- [inaudible]. i have had a procession of the businesses before you -- i bought from them. the city has gone through ups and downs. the pdr sector is what saves the economy of the city because we have had probably six office booms and busts since i have lived here and i want to draw your attention to a couple of things on pages 12 and 13, and perhaps the author can tell me how they're going to work in reality? the grandfathering clause for the office space is 1316 -- line 16 on page 13. once a office is developed in the state they're grand fawshtded forever. that's the language i read and the nsr language is the enforcement language. it's on page 12. every [inaudible] in the city has an nsr on it. a number of enforcements of nsr is minus one. it's zero. no one ever enforces nsrs. the planning department really consider them a huge joke. they tell people -- yeah, you don't really have to deal with it, and i think you need to find out how the enforcement is going to work. the law of supply and demand

at rbs, stephen hester in, out. ross mcewan in.urces and the united states of america and here in london that i speak to at rbs, i cannot actually repeat the language they use in terms of the atmosphere inside rbs in terms of what is happening in the waiting game that has started playing. there are structural issues within rb. s. nowhere near the beginning of major restructuring. >> talk to us about the stress tests. i was catching up with the italian finance minister yesterday we talked about the italian banks. it seems that overall, the u.k. banks have been through much tougher strategy -- stress tests. >> the system we will use here is talking about house prices dropping by 35%. an unemployment rate of 12%. the most telling line of all for me, the stress tests in the united kingdom are being benchmarked off an interest rate of 4%. so telling. that is below, certainly below the long-term average and certainly below my long-term memory. >> thank you so much. coming up, are you obsessed with how the cards -- "house of ca rds"? >> i

muslim brotherhood of libya and the .xtremist islamist militias meanwhile, the government has labeled hester'srevolt a two in the making. it is had an effect on the rhetoric. but the parallels drawn between egypt and libya are very tenuous. the situation is extremely complex. /non-islamist divide is more than national level manifestation of a series of local conflicts over control of territory by militias and groups [indiscernible] >> sharif, you're cutting out. we're going to switch from moment to meritage gerald. tripoli.so there in >> i want to ask about a group that is considered -- it has gotten a lot of attention here in the u.s., supposedly behind the attack on benghazi that led to ambassador stephen's death. your reporting on how the level of popularity, what is been happening with that group? >> what is interesting about this in the last year or so is how it has evolved from being the armed group of some 250 to 300 men under arms in 2012 to what is essentially a broader social movement in benghazi right now. what they've tried to do is concentrate on charitable works and preaching in

the underlying work done by stephen hester who left the bank, many people are saying that the kitchenmbers at christmas time. to a certain extent what we have got is a jumping off point. the first profit since the crisis began. $1.2 billion. that is up from $400 million. the markets division is one of those ones where you would see more pay come through later in the year. markets are up at the markets division, costs are down. but investigations and regulation are going to be the dominant forces. the one thing that stood out for me on a couple of telephone calls yesterday was her should have been a big restructuring charge. it did not come through in these numbers. theye were saying 700, and are building capital. that is critically important. the one thing investors want to know because the government, rbs did a deal to buy out the government's ability in terms of dividends, so capital is building. get ready for restructuring later in the year. staff costs are down and impairments. this is a story of impairments. this time the slasher -- this time last her, the impairments were at one

and steven hester, his predecessor, had one of those as well. the point for rbs investors, even though they've had good results, this is a good start for ross mcewen, he's already said in february that it will take him a long time to turn the bank around. he stopped paying dividends. that's a key sign for when the bank can start returning to the private sector. >> they did say they expect a modest uncrease in its net interest margin as obviously an improvement in the uk economy. >> yes. >> that presumably, you can read that across the sector. >> yes. i mean, all banks should be now reducing their bad debt quite substantially. they should be gaining from the improvement in the economy and the housing market. .big question hanging over the sector is what happens when interest rates go up? that's the key question for anyone looking at the uk economy. but it clearly will affect banks disproportionately. >> nathan bostalk is leaving. do we know who's replacing him. >> another new zealander, ewan stevenson from credit suisse. he's an investment banker

nlrb hester bit -- has been struggling in various dimensions with religious liberty limitations. we should reasonably expect some private religiously affiliated universities to challenge the board's authority to be regulating institutional missions expressly granted in a religious world view. a second and more structurally significant is that decisions implicit exclusion of state institutions and intercollegiate athletics, private universities which compete with state institutions and likely create many discrepancies among the nation's universities. >> thank you, mr. livingston, you are recognized. >> good morning, mr. chairman, members of the committee. as a supreme court has noted, principles cannot be imposed blindly in the academic world. while i fully support the purposes in allowing employees of freedom to choose other are not to form a library in and bargain collectively the nlrb itself is recognizing the problem of attempting to force the student university relationship into the traditional employer-employee framework. that problem is apparent here. the university's prima

she is the ultimate modern day hester print except she doesn't wear a big scarlet letter because she doesn't have to. we all know. joining me is mel robbins who wrote a cnn op ed that reads in part, quote, yes, affairs and other injectiodiana des discret are immoral. we don't publicly execute people for these everyday offenses between two consenting adults. yet that's what the world did to lewinsky. welcome, mel. i just find it actually sad that she continues to pay for this affair and bill clinton doesn't. >> at all. he just won the congressional medal last year, for crying out loud. i think she deserves to have the same level of freedom that he does. when you think about the amount of money he makes per speech and how he's gone on with his life, clearly it's been very difficult for her. you and i were just talking about this. she's continuing to pay. there are writers right now, female writers, maureen dowd being one of them, trashing monica lewinsky for talking. i find the trend of women attacking other women just so unbelievably discouraging, carol. >> i know. it's like -- i can'

emerged on the internet as the heavyweight boxer didn't seem to mind too much the agreeing with purse hester's that he can just buy himself a new one. if you are some ice skate with exceptional role as an indispensable country in the wild so said president obama during his address to a prestigious military academy but as aussies ghana chicken reports his age is didn't go down so while. president obama's message to the world the u.s. is the one indispensable nation on earth and must intervene wherever it can america must always lead on the world stage if we don't. know one well it's well the united states well use military force unilaterally if necessary when our core interests demand that making some wonder whether the u.s. recognizes other nations right to do the same president obama has named countries which in his view challenge the international law russia china iran although he spoke persistently about the u.s. is right to use military force unilaterally the us president admitted not every problem is a military solution just because we have the best her word does not mean that every probl