. >> hello, i am a patient advocate. i am also a member of students for medical cannabis protections. i have been working with the medical cannabis taskforce since i became a patient earlier this year. i started learning about the laws and regulations of medical cannabis and cannabis in general. i cannot put down a book or a sheet of paper or anything of that sort. so, i decided to start advocating for patience and getting to know all that i can and to better help the youth, the elders, the low income, the disabled, the veterans, the students. i would do anything to help them. thank you. >> i saw this in your resmae. -- resume. >> i am on the patient advocacy committee. this is the task force. i was given a death sentence due to my severity in the whole of my heart. this pardon me for military service. i was a veteran assistant to the bed utilization. i graduated from i.t. technical institute. and i had to endure brain surgery while i was awake. i was put in a hospice. while i was a hospice, i used medical cannabis which

i am an advocate for medical marijuana. errie -- several serious illnesses that will be the demise of my life probably. i'm a medical cannabis patient and these things help me at this time. i am able to live more comfortably. i receive a welfare check. i pay my handicap aus there. i have $29 to live on a month. it is a trying process. and so is navigating through the city. i'm looking at myself, if i'm going to go through this i might as well become an activist, an advocate for people who are going through this experiences or who are going to this experiences there is a lot of unnecessary time wasted. what i would like to say is i have been -- this is pertaining to the medical cannabis thing. i'm going to the actual meetings over the past year. i have seen a turn about which is not good for my safe access been. we have people who are coming in who are not activists, who are not advocates. they are people who are there to endeavour themselves in money. that is a shame. president chiu: thank you, next speaker. >> hello, i am t

i am an advocate professionally, and i have spent the last 15 years of my life advocating. i have stood at that podium and know what it is like to try to get your point across. i will not tolerate it. i think the level of respect needs to be turned way up here. i am tired of it. just as director hynix said, the rest of it is just air. getting to the point i want to make,

i. advocate and i have advocated the s.e.c. institute penalties specifically for poor performance that rating agencies if they're going to continue to be used for regulatory risk assessment which they are you know that's what is happening no fundamental changes happen in that area that the quid pro quo should be since they're being paid by the issue is that they rate that they should have to pay a fine based on poor performance if their ratings turn out to be wrong in the dead is not repaid in full and that the amount that they should be fined should be you know some multiple of the wiis that they received and i don't think it would be that difficult for the f.c.c. to institute a fairly simple. system of fines and i think under dodd frank they already have the power to do so but i haven't seen any movement from their quarter to do that one of the issues one of the problems with trying to make the ratings better through issuing having fines or having a system of penalties is that people like richard just say well we should just

i wanted to take a moment to -- i wanted to take a moment as well, to advocate for marquis ausby. in the times that i have wanted to be able to do things that were associated with what he was doing, i have seen him put forth a lot of commitment. he spent a lot of his own personal time, i can attest to that as well as its neighbor. and just about everything that he does, he is surrounded by trying to advocate for medical marijuana patients. in light of that in light of the fact that i know him to be very dependable and a very transparent, i would like to recommend him for that seat. i think his qualifications and the work he has been done -- that he has done have been more than demonstrative. he would be the best logical choice. thank you. >> i just wanted to say that i wanted to thank them for coming and having a dr.'s support here. that is much needed in this movement and it is very lacking. we need more of that and people with medical and professional attitude to set up to the plate. i want to thank him publicly for being here. i wanted to support him because he is very compassio

i advocate for time to be able to teach my patients. i can do what is best because i have the support of my co- workers and the protection, the union contract. highchair a professional performance committee that is mandated by our contract, that is only concerned with issues of patient safety. with management and concerns of onstage staffing. i have the support of my fellow nurses. i conform in the best interests of my patients. i have been told to call my patients customers by a member of the human resources department. to me, my patients are people. they come to cpmc for greg, safe nursing care. commodities. my heart is to protect, care, and advocate for my patients. supervisors, do not forbid the nurses when you may your decision for the new hospital. build it right with protection for the nurses and protection for all of our patients. please do not forget the community benefit agreement. thank you. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you. next speaker, please. >> the meeting, board of supervisors. i am here speaking on behalf of a doctor. so

i am an advocate professionally, and i have spent the last 15 years of my life advocating. i have stood at that podium and know what it is like to try to get your point across. i will not tolerate it. i think the level of respect needs to be turned way up here. i am tired of it. just as director hynix said, the rest of it is just air. getting to the point i want to make, i actually have also been in cabs for the past several months, more so with the idea of what the experience is like as a passenger and regular. i personally did not like the monitors at all. i actually found the mute button, and the darn thing actually turned itself back on again. i tried to lower the brightness, and i ended up having to put my coat over it because it was so annoying. personally, i look forward to talking to the cab drivers. they are wonderful people. they have often got extraordinary stories to tell. i will find that i learn way more about this city talking to the cab drivers than i would get from a map. that said, i also understand that there is a push or options, and when i went to l.a. r

i advocate to do energy policy in a new way. we are the only one without a energy policy. wayne is right. the inflation that is exasbrated by the fed policy and if about rates go up a couple of energy points. >> neal, the last word here. we need a new calculation then? >> in terms of inflation, no. the other panelist are right, we have a problem with the fed printing money. i think yields are at record low. this can come back to bite us. but i don't think that gas prices are a problem. >> maybe i am pushing prices up single handedly. bah hum burg. taxpayers are getting screwed. fewer hopes were sold in the housing bust. does that mean housing bailouts were a bust, too? >> coming up. overshooting the number of sales. is it proof they were worst. and >> and a blow to the presidential campaign. and former house speaker and texas governor will not appear on the virginia primary ball on the because they fail to get enough signatures to qualify. they are working to see what option they have left. a white christmas in texas and new mexico. they are slammed by a snow storm. it is

so generally, i am not advocating the use of these alternative devices. i am advocating the use of the in vehicle equipment. back seat monitors, they are touchscreens. have all of your experience to them in taxis? looking at peer cities, they are required in boston and new york. they were in some of the other cities that we looked at. as of mid september, the five companies that were participating in the waiver program collectively had installed about 300 of the monitors. they have not fully met their obligations. and again, they were included in the waiver program as an incentive. the staff thought that this was a good thing and for the customers especially. anecdotal information suggests that driver tips would increase as well. so do they enhance the san francisco taxi experience? no one knows for sure. one of the things we were looking at was a follow-up survey back sonali mentioned. information about taxicab drivers and the way of finding information. however, more data and customer perception on the volume, the ease of use, and just in general the alt

i spend much time in the park and i am an advocate for wildlife. i came to speak on their behalf as they were obviously not consulted or considered in this process. the park is rich with wildlife. possums,, raccoons, coyotes, on and on. they have a tough time in the city in the west end of golden gate park is their habitat. they added to the richness of humanity and certainly to the planet. this project is the opposite of the master plan goal of improving wildlife habitat that would be totally destructive to the well-being in it would very negatively have an impact on the well-being of golden gate park. i think this draft is unacceptable. >> i too want to compliment you for your tolerance and your patience. i would like to ask the user please extend the comments. i know you have heard that, but i think you have heard enough tonight to least raise some questions in your mind about the complexity of the situation, and from the cursory review that has been presented to you. i appreciate the fact that this document is a tool. when you're doing in the pl

i can send of things about the brand to has been a tireless advocate for the low-income patients and has made significant contribution to the medical taskforce in the form of a proposal for a low-income cultivation garden that is included in the annual report. i am happy to answer any questions that you may have. >> my name is paul and i support in-house marquis. he is a good friend of mine. he is a hard worker. and i also support kenand bre-- ken and brent. >> the evening, board of supervisors. i want to state that i stand in support of sera, martin, dr., and can. i also wanted to support marquis ausby. for the past year-and-a-half, i have not seen him as a meeting. he has been diligent in supporting the task force. he has been taking on extended roles and volunteering. >> i have been a patient since 2000. i have been a caregiver for others since 1976. i have known lots of germany -- a terminally ill people that needed medical cannabis. been around the task force meetings and stuff, the different committees, i have noticed that the consistency of marquis ausby nd ken -- and ken lima,

says they should be sentenced to a generic prison a life of boredom and a severe loss of freedom i advocate equivalency if the bankers and the bank stirs want to go back to the. middle ages of service and lords they want to get rid of magna carta they want to get rid of him because corpus they want to go in then under all frickin obama they want to get rid of anything that would stop the government from putting americans anywhere in the world including america in jail for any reason like they i they think he's an idiot for example they could put me in jail for this how about if we bring back punishment from the middle ages to go with your moral equivalency of the middle ages that means you get you. off who max for the first half of our christmas eve special i want to end with a comment from r.t.e. dot com forward slash programs for slash kaiser dash report i remember smoking weed at around the age of fourteen i remember laughing looking at a palm tree because it looked like a bart simpson frog your show has the same effect that's obama from forty thousand feet and a spliff hawaiian sense of

and you know i want to make it very clear that you know i do not love you and that's not why i am advocating higher taxes for myself i value you as a potential customer for one of my businesses and and you know this is just sensible thinking. and resolves to this very simple economic proposition this the practically the only rule you need to know which is we're all better off when we're all better off when a guy i'm curious you know i know that you're part of this group patriotic millionaires there are some people like yourself as out there that has spoken out said they're willing to pay more how much more are you willing to pay you know do you have you also got negative responses from people saying that you're breaking ranks that you're waging a class war on your own. i yeah i am i am part of this group patriotic millionaires but to be clear i don't think the reason that people like me should pay higher taxes is because for for for moral reasons only although i think that's a compelling reason i think the reason that the tax burden needs to shift back to the top is that you simply cannot su

well i mean i love his passion but the focus here is on us should we or do we advocate you know people being taxed based on the foods that he and i say no and i say that because education is key meet people where they are and then as a result of that learning curve they'll be in a position where they can make the choices that are going to work best for them that's what it comes down to i mean we have writers on the other hand i can say these guys are all ok i mean if i can go to you i mean you want to make it let's make them where they are ok i was i think we would all agree to anything that was ok i think we would all agree that obesity is an epidemic ok in the into i mean where they are i guess what i mean you don't know why they will say well he doesn't realize all right i don't tell you center basically point is my point is when we hear a word like epidemic that's a national international emergency now are we doing things to meet that emergency because for goodness sake i mean if you walk in all across the united states and i don't see if you see so much here in russia do i see you

i am advocating for diversification. >> thank you so much. ♪ i am joined by joan mcnaughton, a seniore president of alstom. she is based in london. it operates in many countries, including the u.s. it operates in 70 countries around the world. >> that is exactly right. >> it is a huge engineering companies specializing in energy engineering. >> innovative solutions for the energy sector. >> you work in areas that are renewable. hydro interests me. what does your company do in that? >> remanufacture the turbines. we service and retrofit them to rebuild the hydropower facilities with a partner and expert in the civil construction world. >> what other engineering projects are you involved in? >> we are broadening our renewable portfolio. we have now engaged with a company to manufacture a 3 megawatt wind turbine for deployment offshore. a 6 megawatt is coming offshore. it will be very big. i think of some of the biggest airliners in operation today. >> how far off shore will you locate these? >> depends on the depth of the continental shelf. we manufacture them. we can provide them to an

citizens i talk to, if we shrink the washington bureaucrats we have to grow local citizenship so would i advocateconsider a pell grant for k through 12. so that you actually, every parent has the right to choose where their grant goes and return power to the parents rather than to the government. >> mr. speaker, you've proposed not just impeaching judges who issue rulings to deem unconstitutional, but advocating abolishing entire appellate courts. if president obama were to, in the signature health care law would that be an appropriate application of your plan? >> first of all, the president couldn't do it. the president would have to have the support of the house and senate to do it. and i've mentioned specifically judge barry in san antonio who issued a ruling on june 1st, students not only could not play at pray at their graduation, can't use the word benediction, wouldn't use word invocation and couldn't use the word god. couldn't have them to stand or have a moment of silent. he says if any of these are broken i'm going to put the superintendent in jail. as far as i'm concerned, he's unameri

i advocated in the book, if you need to rent to be in a good school district that might be importantan investment in your family. i feel as though 1990s, 2000, everyone has to have a house, everyone has to have a house, it's really much more complicated than that now. >> i remember in the early 2000s a young woman told me she wasn't going to get an mba because she put so much money into a house. what a tragedy. what a mistake. >> that's entirely the wrong decision to make. >> human capital matters more. your children matter more than your house. let's not get -- this idea that you have to have a big and beautiful house to impress people is way overrated. you can get on living in a modest apartment, right, and send your kids to a good school. that makes a lot more sense to me. >> you don't have to pay the $1200 plumbing bill when something happens in the apartment. in the book we profile a guy zander clark, a young guy, wants to move to the west coast for a job. he's not going to buy a place because then he couldn't move there for his job. thank you. if you're a saver like me you're g

i think what the advocates have done is certainly commendable. i am torn because i have a strong relationship with the recreation advocates in the city and county. i see that the recreation and parts department has moved in a direction in -- i will give you an example, the pga golf tournament that we just completed. it is not a privatization move. it is a managing plan. that managing plan has been accepted by the workers. it has been accepted by the public golf community. it has addressed what i have heard calls talked about today, that is a level of accountability that i think the citizens are entitled to. if you do have sat out there, you have to make sure that you manage them accordingly. i also spent a lot of time in the area when the boat house was, as mr. ritchie said, was going on. i grew up out there. it hits me right here. i would like to see us do something. i was glad that you were able to show up today. i was expecting that the recreation and parks department is getting kind of a raw deal as we sit here today. i also understand the mot