there are so many places where i've seen substantive interface work. really being done by people themselves. they don't need a third party. in fact, sometimes they are better served without one. so in nigeria, for example, there's a pastor and hamad. they both believe the other one is going to hell. >> host: james and ashofa. >> guest: yes. james has one arm. the other arm was lopped off in fighting. these guys have done the most successful interface work that i've seen. it's essentially community and organizing 101. they don't deal with garbage collection, but it's like that. one the things they fight about in northern nigeria is firewood. so they get -- essentially they get a buy in from christian and muslim women, because the women are much more likely to be amendable. they say, hey, you guys, it cost $360 to get enough wood to burn, you know, to make your food in a single year. this stove cost $100. we can't buy it for you. how are you going to figure out to buy it? it's bringing in a secular element. really a third element, rather than a third par

student comes they not only have their own courses that i have talked about but opportunities to interface with buddhism, islam, judaism, and that prepares them for the kind of world we are living in where all of those faith traditions and world religions are found in any city or hamlet. >> that is exciting earlier you told me about a student there for that reason. >> yes. >> you had thanksgiving with them? >> yes we have a large contingent of international students and put on a thanksgiving festival for them and i found myself at the table with one young man in his early 20s who has come here from japan specifically because he wanted to interface -- learn more about the world religions. >> i see i was not here for your reception but your reception you were going to talk about the future of seminary education and connections with churches. >> yes. >> and some of those things. >> what is going on today is that there are some people going the traditional route of coming to seminary, studying for three years, this is of course after their under graduate education preparing for ministry and th

matthew, since you interfaced with everybody. and our secretary-liasson. he can keep his independence in the mayor's office. tom, thank you for serving on the commission on aging. we have one of the premier service departments. i meant that. the work they've done has been recognized across the state and the award. peter stern, a young guy working for a local company here. somebody new to political life. i am grateful he will be on the airport commission. doris ward, no need to say more. she will be reappointed. a legend in our city, serving for decades. thank you for serving on the asian art museum. to kevin clinch and frank lee. i am very proud. the department of building inspection was not what i thought that this could be when i was here. we had to mix things up. frank and evin were helping to get this back on track. to pat kelly, the first woman stock broker. broke that barrier decades ago. this is one of the most connected human beings in the city. i am very proud. why not put her on a commission. she will preserve city hall. a great friend of everyon

to try to understand what is the decision making process for the departments, they can be able to interface, and what are the mechanisms to help influence the decision making process? it is somewhat of a puzzle. it should not make it more pit -- difficult for the citizenry. that is what our democratic principles are all about. it is time that we look at our assets a little bit more efficiently. we have a web site, sfgov. it is time to help share some real estate on that website by putting notifications of of department actions so that it is that much more vivid and clear for people so that they have the kind of electronic road map and know what to do. it doesn't make sense that we just rely on the newspaper noticing. something to you can pull up for us? this is the standard that was part of san francisco's strategy for the last 40 years. it is done in three ways. the that before you is the real fault and the real size, or it will be beside -- behind the clerk's office. you ask yourselves why anyone of us have to feel what i think is important, that people need access to information. it is a

and being an interface between the city and the university. we are very happy to launch bio san francisco. we have local government, and the last thing that is missing is the state government involvement. i have been reading the last couple of days, a draft report looking at the impact of innovation on economic growth and states throughout the union. many of the states are trying to supplant california as one of the leaders of biotechnology. they want to eat our lunch. one of the things that we have to do is evolved a decent innovation policy that governs how biotechnology is going to continue to grow or we will be left behind. whoever comes up with a policy, it has to be an astute in a very frugal one. i think i share all of your feelings on this and if we have to lose gavin, we are glad that

the thing we really value as a community resource is it is an interface between people. it is a chance to be with people who are disadvantaged who can help of the organization. if there are objections to things like noise, there are ways to alleviate that. if you want a community garden, i have nothing against that. it seems to me there is a parcel of land that is just to the west of the site. it is probably about the same area. maybe it gets more son. -- sun. hanc should be commended for the things they do. i urge you to keep hanc. i am on a limited income. it helps me when i can recycle. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> my name is martin. i wanted to briefly address the issue of neighborhood impact. i have spent a lot of time in that area. as far as noise goes, i have never really noticed that. it has never hit my consciousness. a block away, it is like an airplane going over. you cannot talk for 30 seconds. there might be rattling in the background. it is brief. you don't really notice it. the other thing that this major is that this came out of left field. what

local interface clergy joined hundreds of residents in support of the censure. muslim groups have requested more protection. as the state department dealt with the wikileaks release, there was another u.s. diplomatic relationship involving the vatican. an italian newspaper obtained documenting showing after the death of pope john paul ii, american diplomats in rome had drawn out their list of 16 potential successors. according to a telegram sent to washington, the diplomats were shocked and speechless when the cardinal was elected. he wasn't on their list. the wikileaks release showed the internet has become a powerful tool for spreading information that people had hoped to keep secret. it's also a powerful means for spreading false gossip. religious traditions condemn gossip as sinful, but online gossip is still a problem, even at faith-based school. betty rollins reports. >> reporter: it's called cyber abuse, and it looks like this. this is the sort of message that erin and her sorority sisters found herself confronted with her in junior year of college. she'n

these hazards only become sdafters when they interface with our vulnerable system. through neighborhood empowerment and preparedness we can lessen the vulnerabilities of the communities and mitigated effects of natural hazards. that's one of the reasons why the city of san francisco prepared this network for you today of nonprofit organizations and different and bringing all of your neighborhood organizations together so you can begin to build that level of capacity. looking here we call this in broadmoore our 6 point redevelopment strategy. now, this became clear to us after katrina and how were we going to galvanize ourselves and build partnerships to assist us in our recovery? you can create your will today. and that is in the center of this will is the community. is your neighborhood. it starts with you. you have government support is one of your arms. government now is trying to help you plan and prepare and get you focused and empower you to really make a difference. you can build relationships with your nonprofit organizations that private sector as well, cor

. >> this a computer we use to interface. >> the device is designed to produce simulation or rms.s similar to deep brain simulation but according to neurosurgeon, there is a key difference with rms. >> for the differences that in respse or in response to a change in the brain wave activity of the paent. once it detects there is going to be that, it gives the stimulation. >> it also records brain wave activity helpi doctors to program it. it can interrupt a seizure before it's full-blown and prevent symptoms. >> we make it recognize that is a specic pattern that a seizure is going to develop so if you get the electrical stimulation at the right time you can abort the seizure. >> it's locked io position. >> we first reported on it in 2008 when clinical tleils were underway in san francisco. they since then have implanted them in 200 patients nationwide and they reported positive results from the clinical trials and now seeking fda approval. if it's gets the okay, they believe it coulbe used for conditions beyond epilepsy. >> maybe chronic pain, maybe disorders including parkinson's.

how does organized religion interface with this process of seeking peace? >> religion has and does play a part in a number of the issues where there is fighting. >> axelrod: albright has quite a personal perspective on different religions. born in what was once czechoslovakia, she was raised as a roman catholic who then became an episcopalian, then after she became secretary of state, she discovered she'd been born jewish. >> one of the people that i respect the most is archbishop tutu, he had an amazing statement about religion in his kind of homey way of saying it is that religion is like a knife that you can pick up and stick in somebody's back or use to cut bread. and so it's the cutting bread part that we have to get to. >> axelrod: explain to me, then, why the sticking the knife in the back part seems to be winning in so many cases. >> i don't know whether it's really winning or whether it is... >> axelrod: it certainly seems dominant. >> what has happened is the extremists are the ones that get the attention, that create the acts that are divisive to

conundrum to have a competitive be responsible for handling your billing, a lot of your customer interface. so there have been some challenges on that front. for example, customers on the balanced payment plan, paying an equal amount every month, they were being charged double for generation for the first four months of service because our private utility could not figure out how to deoucouple those rates. there are also continuing issues on the bill. the rate factors shown on the customer's bill are the bundled rates. our customers are no longer considered bundled customers. they're only paying half of the generation church, so they should have an unbubdndled rate. despite these difficulties, we have not seen the opt out rate get high enough to where it is impacting us. it came in driver we projected, right around 20%. -- right where we projected, right around 20%. it is unfortunate that customers had to go through this sort of thing though. budget-wise, we've been able to get up and running with a loan from a bank and some individuals, but we are in the process of paying that back now. t

i interface daily with a local state and city governments and and the trustee with our defined benefit plans. in addition, my professional experience to the labor is in california. i have also had the pleasure to serve the city of san francisco's public utility commission since 2008, including the past year, as president of that commission. my involvement with the sfpuc has been enhanced with my understanding of municipal government and has deepened my respect and gratitude for the men and women who are executing the sfpuc's vision. as you know, the sfpuc launched a $6.4 billion water improvement system program to repair, replace, and seismically upgrade the systems aging pipelines, reservoirs, and dams. while president of this commission, we moved to construct 13 projects totaling $1.6 billion, creating significant numbers of jobs and making sidekick and safety operations to our vital water system. both the public utilities commission, port of san francisco share the distinction of an enterprise for the city and county. they both creates a vivid revenue but at times require commensura

of the few departments that do not report directly to the city administrator, edwin lee, but does interface with his office on a regular basis to address many of the challenges and issues that we all have to do to do the people's business, and it has been an absolute delight to see the efficiency, the awareness, the fall through of his office -- the follow- through of his office. he is totally accessible, and i just want to take this time to lend my support to this appointment. thank you very much. supervisor campos: thank you. next speaker. >> good morning. i am a member of the immigrant rights commission. i am here this morning on behalf of angus mccarthy of the commission, to show support to mr. lee's appointment as city administrator. he has shown his honesty, integrity, and leadership, and also has been very that is why we believe he is the right person for this position for the next five years. thank you. supervisor campos: thank you, commissioner. next speaker please. >> i am the director of the san francisco arts program. i am here to voice my support for edwin lee as city administr

i wonder if we could put her on the agenda to present to us the program and how we can actually interface and carry forward the tasks under our purview. maybe we could put her on the agenda with your presentation. president murphy: we can do that. >> with g.s.a. is there any affiliation or connection with fe fema? >> part of the resilient s.f. is looking at improving our relationships with fema. the department of emergency management already has existing response relationships but we are looking at administratively what can we do to set the city up to make sure we can interact as fluidly and efficiently as possible with fema so it is a huge part of the work we do and the underlying motivation to make sure we have the cash flow, the administrative issues in place, the process is in place, record keeping, economic analysis. all of that. commissioner walker: i understand we applied for a grant in advance work of an earthquake to work on issues like the soft story initiative, from fema, which would be historic because they usually only bring money in after the fact. do you know the status of

and the interface between them has to be mutual support. it does not have to be equality. >> tom: marion, what do you think about that? >> i believe the question of entitlement is really addressed in the family through the family values. many of our clients, most of our clients where the families have very strong values of humility and hard work and appreciation for employees and commitment to customers and community, those types of values breed nonentitled children. and they breed an atmosphere in the family where people feel privileged to work in the business, and they feel that they need to own it. and most of the young people that i work with have that kind of an attitude. >> tom: thank you for the perspectives, our guests here, marion and steve, we appreciate your insights. stephen salley, with gen-spring family offices in florida, and marion mccollom hampton of cambridge advisors to family enterprise. >> susie: family firms generally start small and often grow over time. one example is a greeting card business that started in kansas c

so san francisco's totally alive as the place where you create the user interfaces that are going toract millions of eyeballs to some application online. silicon valley, the south bay, i'm reading more encouraging things about the make of widgets. we're not going to give up, by the way. we're going to make them. the east bay we're a little bit lagging, i'm afraid. >> belva: you mentioned the unemployment rate among minority youth and particularly african-americans. some people see this crisis through the eyes of a civil rights action being needed or that there needs to be some rules changed. so moving to another story that has to do with civil rights, not to do with jobs but to do really with human rights, and that is the story behind proposition 8, which continues to live on through the courts. this week we saw a milestone in that case. >> yeah. it's going to live on for some time. three appeals court judges heard arguments in the case. they're considering the august decision by judge walker here in san francisco that found proposition 8 unconstitutional. we spent monday's arguments

the beauty of tivo isn't the box, it's what the box does, the software, the interface. tivo, some analysts say, would be betterach purely as a software company. that's the route roku is taking, its little box, brings internet television to your living room tv. while it's been successful on track for a million sold by the end of the year, the company hopes licensing out its platform will bring more profit. its first partnered netgear actually sells a roku device for less money than roku does. anthony, what is the founder of roku? roku by the way is japanese for six. it's the sixth start-up. also incredibly enough to use the invent or of the dvr. you've been on the show before and i thank youed for the dvr v but again let mimi thank you for making the dvr. business insiders said that you had to start selling -- or licensing your software to other companies, is that accurate. >> no that's not accurate. primary business is still hardware, that's where we do. obviously, most of our engineers the workers at roku are software engineers but we pack it up. on black friday recent

during an interface service in san francisco this weekend, local clergy members urged congress to passhe dream act. the group held a prayer service last night at the old basilica in support of two young people facing deportation. both came to the u.s. as children with their parents. elizabeth lee recently graduated from lowell high school and hopes to become a social worker after finishing college. the dream act would allow undocumented students who work toward college degrees or join the military to earn the opportunity to stay in the u.s. >> we view the united states as our own country. it's the only country we all know. and the dream act would let us stay here and give back to this country that we love. >> the candlelight march also highlighted the case of city clj nursing student steven lee. senator feinstein put a last-minute stop to his deportation last month. a melee outside pasadena's rose bowl. just before the football game. two police officers also suffered minor injuries while breaking up a brawl between 50 and 75 people in the parking lot. the violence began around 4:30 yes

the kodak has a really easy interface and able to set up on the computer and send photos right to theevice. a really close display and intuitive operations. >> the chef's choice smart kettle, you're able to set it at any temperature for the perfect brew every time. for more top tech gifts go to abc7news.com. i'm michael finney, "7 on your side." >> and staying with the holiday shopping scene, and no need to worry about when you can get to the store, what america's !ñ!ñ!ñ÷ >> just days until christmas. retailers are rolling out the red carpet from sun up to sun down. holiday hours j.c. penney 6 a.m. to midnight. toys r us, open 88 straight hours leading up to saturday. >> this is going to be one of the highest flying retails in the history of man kind. every day from now until christmas will be massive. >> looks like we are spending more this holiday season than predicted. the national retail federation predicted a 3.4% increase but now the increase could be as high as 3.5%. >> spending more on ourselves. topping our list, ourselves. the last few years folks have cut coworkers, babysit