commissioner joseph? >> commisioner joseph: the format that you are going to run this place in is what? >> the format is a high and cocktail lounge. that is -- no dancing. we are not going to have a dance floor. it is an entertainment. >> commisioner joseph: ok, no dance floor. >> that is correct. >> commisioner joseph: you can have three accidents and three security persons and one person will be on the sidewalk. and one person to check id's. how are you going to secure your doors? the other doors that are not covered? >> correct. shaw security, he really did an evaluation. he is my next-door neighbor and he has assured me that there will not be any issues. >> >> commisioner joseph: we have panic hardware so they can open from the inside? is that how you are going to secure them? >> i will look into that. i am really -- i believe what we're going after and what we are going to essentially, this is not what gravity is going after. we will make the changes any way shaw security wants is to. >> commisioner

. >> commisioner joseph: say you have no performer. for tuesday night, you're having a cocktail hour, are you having used -- music? >> yes. off recorded music. >> commisioner joseph: a cd. is it going to come through speakers? >> that is correct. >> commisioner joseph: is it going to an amplifier so will go through the speakers? >> it will go through that amplifier. >> commisioner joseph: you're going to do with sound test. -- do a sound test. your sound will be set in a certain range and even if you change that, what you are doing, it has to remain within the parameters of how our sound off has to sound. if you're going to tell him you have soft lounge music and you bring in a band, and they want to rocket out -- rock it out, that will not be within the sound parameters. i am not clear on what you are doing, that is all. >> it is a talent -- high end cocktail lounge. the entertainment would not be the predominant thing. of the business. i will give you an example. the fillmore is based as a standard place of entertainment that draws p

. >> >> commisioner joseph: we have panic hardware so they can open from the inside? is that how you are going to secure them? >> i will look into that. i am really -- i believe what we're going after and what we are going to essentially, this is not what gravity is going after. we will make the changes any way shaw security wants is to. >> commisioner joseph: when do you think you'll open? >> the sound test, we're not wearing this place with -- wiring this place with amps, this is acoustic. we're not having an in-house amplifier, like somebody wants to come in with an amplifier, there will do a sound check. we're not going out the neighborhood. >> commisioner joseph: say you have no performer. for tuesday night, you're having a cocktail hour, are you having used -- music? >> yes. off recorded music. >> commisioner joseph: a cd. is it going to come through speakers? >> that is correct. >> commisioner joseph: is it going to an amplifier so will go through the speakers? >> it will go through that amplifier. >> commisioner joseph: you're going to do with sound test. -- d

. >> commisioner joseph: thank you. >> president newlin: any other questions? >> commissioner roja: i was wondering what i reach you had done with the neighbors. >> the tragedy that happened there before stirred things up. i have got to talk to the neighbors. i am coming from trying to do the right thing. i have been in business -- >> did you do this verbally or did you send out mailers? >> i talked to the shop owners and i am their all-time. i know a lot of the neighbors and they have been, they are excited. >> ok. >> it would be nice if we had letters from neighbors or someone were here to speak on your behalf. that is always really a plus. kasay there is not going to be a dance floor. previously there was. there is no dance floor. >> the dance floor has been removed. >> what is in its place now? >> pool tables i have put in in that place. i am having a pool table permit also. you walk in, and high and cocktail lounge, two pool tables, a shuffleboard table. you cannot move the pool tables out. you cannot move the 900 pound shuffle puck out. we are going with

joseph: i want you to know where i am coming from. just so that you stick to what you say. >> i can assure you when you walk through the door, you will see where i'm going with this. you'll be let in, i promise. >> did you already hire shaw security? >> we walked through it. the security, this is not going to be the focus of this place. we aren o not planning on seven nights a week having a different bj or banned. on thursday, do this or saturday, do that. we are not a band or dj peÑa. i do not want to walk out -- i am applying for it now and i would love your support. >> commissioner roja: do you have a copy of the security plan? >> i think we do. >> i would like to remind commissioner joseph off that we granted [inaudible] >> commisioner joseph: because gravity was such an issue in this area. >> i do not have one. >> you said this is jazz and dj's. are they running through your house system? >> ok. have a seat. members of the public wish to address this item, they are allowed three minutes. >> no meetings were called with the neighb

. >> i would like to remind commissioner joseph off that we granted [inaudible] >> commisioner joseph: because gravity was such an issue in this area. >> i do not have one. >> you said this is jazz and dj's. are they running through your house system? >> ok. have a seat. members of the public wish to address this item, they are allowed three minutes. >> no meetings were called with the neighborhood. we were told it was going to be a piano only at the time. we knothe notice of this meetinn saturday. no one saw the sign. before the applicant and -- bars caused problems. drugs, federal and state rates, midget parties, noseise, vomit n sidewalks. we want mr. owens to be successful but we would request the fire -- following conditions. amplified music and singing to stop at 10:00 p.m. on sunday through thursday. friday and saturday, amplified music until midnight. all is must be closed at the time of the amplified music -- doors must be closed at the time of the amplified music. must have licensed security guards at all times and they must have patrons where they are not just hanging out t

commissioner joseph? >> commisioner joseph: the format that you are going to run this place in is what? >> the format is a high and cocktail lounge. that is -- no dancing. we are not going to have a dance floor. it is an entertainment. >> commisioner joseph: ok, no dance floor. >> that is correct. >> commisioner joseph: you can have three accidents and three security persons and one person will be on the sidewalk.

the next we cross to joseph he's a middle east expert talking to us live from geneva joseph thanks for being with us now as you just heard skeptics are raising concern over who will get access to libya's weapons of mass destruction washington has also admitted it cannot guarantee the arsenals will end up in the right hands just how dangerous could this be for libyans and indeed further afield i'm thinking here of revenge attacks against nato countries for example. right and here we are facing a tradition. where it's not clear what's happening on the field now isn't this the. rule. regime is ended and they thought i'm being calm about are you should getting in in the streets of people in other areas of the media but are we in the same climb we can or. do you didn't pollution is only nomics going to we are in need be a position the libyan opposition. is a multitude of different groups you have the muslim brotherhood your father. who most of. the how do you need english and in the indian conditional national council was literally we're not sure yet it's believed to decide this book it's a

will next week cross to joseph di he's a middle east expert talking to us live from geneva joseph thanks for being with us now as you just heard skeptics are raising concern over who will get access to libya's weapons of mass destruction washington has also admitted it cannot guarantee the arsenals will end up in the right hands just how dangerous could this be for libyans and indeed further afield i'm thinking here of revenge attacks against nato countries for example. well as that interview we are facing the situation need we're not clear what's happening on the field with the knowledge of the rules the regime is ended and they thought i was being conned by our lives she was doing in the in the streets of tripoli and other areas of the news but in the same blind. sided allusion it is all nice nomics the moment we are in need it was ition the libyan opposition. is a multitude of different groups you have the muslim brotherhood you hire people that were good a. few months ago the fact is. they need english and the indians in this in our national council was this group your media were not

. >> commissioner joseph: here. >> commissioner roja: >> here. >> members may address the commission for up to three minutes at such a time the item is called. does anyone want to address the commission on an item not on tonight's jeagenda? >> i want to say that folks in the north beach corridor are anxiously anticipating the passage of the limited live entertainment area. there are businesses entering in, very excited about the opportunity with this legislation to pass. it is an accessory use so it will help some of the businesses adjust their models. it will be a warm and inviting area. we cannot wait. thank you. >> thank you. we will go to the police department and introduce rich corea who we omitted from the agenda but we know he is here. please come forward. >> good evening, commissioners. i want to come tonight, i have been here before and introduce myself to you. a little bit about me. i want to say enough to put you at ease about my background and experience. 31 years in the police department. i have been in every area of the police department. i was a permanent officer a lon

. >> commisioner joseph: i make a motion at this point. before i do, i wanted to make my feelings really clear. i do believe that some things are going to open in that space, whatever it is. having something without a dance for is a far better cry then having another gravitate type club opened in that space but -- gravity type club opened in that space. opinions of what his sound is going to be like is unrealistic. he cannot have in-house system and put a dj through it and bands. it would make our sound enforcement impossible. that is not realistic to me. i also think that his neighborhood outreach was somewhat lacking. although i am reticent to continue it because we continue it, we can only continue it for how long? the next meeting would be when we could continue it to, is that right? if the applicant asks for a continuation. >> we do have an issue that the commissioners are aware of. if there is a continuance. it might be 45 days. we do have to be careful. there is a clause in 1060 but that does not trigger if it is a request from the

joseph, mr. perez. >> yes. >> item #3. for a report from the executive director. >> good evening. as was mentioned earlier, there was activity around this long to live performance legislation. -- limited live performance legislation. in a nutshell, after all the commission took a look at it and send recommendations in support of the land use committee. again it was passed with recommendation yesterday. july 25. the board did discuss the item today. we did continue it for a week, they felt they had to have more discussion with community. the plan is to see that item by the board on its first reading. i have given new this legislation before. if anyone is interested, i have the package. the other legislation i wanted to make the commission aware of is something that was introduced, it is in the waiting period, a piece of legislation regarding a bowling alley in the mission. i think we attached this behind my memo there. a copy of the ordinance from june 21. i believe this will be heard after the summer break. in short, the genesis of the legislation is a new bowling alley and restau

thank you very much, joseph. >> thank you, rick. jamie: seems everywhere you look the economy is in chaos. europe slipping, america sliding, there are some new fears that we could be heading for a double-dip recession. here's a live look at wall street. the dow right now, it's still below 11,000, down 35 points just about. so what does all this mean for the upcoming elections in 2012? paulgigot is editorial page editor of the "wall street journal", and "the wall street journal" does do a great job of keeping us in the loop. >> thank you very much. jamie: more and more people are reading it, in fact. >> we try. jamie: no question about it, everyone's worried about it, paul. if it doesn't come back between now and the re-election, how big an issue will this be for everyone? >> well, it'll be the most important issue in the election by far. when the economy is down, it is always the dominant issue. and if we have a second recession in four years, it will be even more dominant. so, and in that kind of environment, any president -- inclu

presentation today by joseph smooke, legislative aide to supervisor eric mar. president o'brien: welcome. >> good evening. joseph smooke, legislative aide to supervisor mar. a have been working on this legislation. my colleague was working on this for a number of months. i am picking it up from her to present to you tonight. , do lovage is here as well in the audience. -- tom radoullovitch is here as well in the audience. the supervisor presented to you a couple of months ago the first part of this legislation. we do appreciate a letter of support from july 7 as a result of that. we are still working out the balance of the legislation and has implications toward the strong -- the small business community. we have had enormous support and input from clement street and are happy to bring new this legislation -- you this legislation. we've taken under advisement some recommendations for amendments and modifications that ms. rogers brought to our attention. the first is to more narrowly defined the definition of the formula retail pet supply stores to limiting the

after shelly, there was joseph l. aliato and mrs. aliato is here. after joseph aliato, there was george moscony and chris moscony is here representing george moscony. [applause] and after the moscony years, it was diane feinstein. and her husband, richard blum, is here. they actually got married in the chambers upstairs. [applause] now, in just a minute, the president of the board of supervisors is going to say the words that will allow you, the public, to know what the vote was in his chambers earlier in the afternoon. but mr. lee, there have been several people from across the bay, from sacramento and other places, who are here to extend their warm welcome. standing next to you is mayor newsom's chief of protocol, my chief of protocol, diane's chief of protocol, everybody's chief of protocol, who's ever had a chief of protocol in san francisco, charlotte schultz. and i hope she sticks around as your chief of protocol. [applause] one of your state senators, and we have two of those, only one is present at the moment. the other one is up working on

joseph schmidt -- please come over here -- mr. joseph schmidt, who is a true san franciscoan in the fact that he's generous and in good times and in bad, everybody loves his chocolate. if you haven't had his chocolate, you don't know what you're missing. he for this occasion built and carved himself a coit tower out of white and bittersweet chocolate which is on display in the tower when we open the tower today. thank you, mr. schmidt, for doing that for us. in addition, mr. pll schwab donated $25,000 worth of graphic artwork design. this banner is made for this occasion only. we will give out free posters of this design today and that will be available for you. we also have half a dozen city guides here today to do commemorative tours of the tower the you can ask any question you have, no matter how esoteric, and they'll be able to answer it. also we will have jail productions, down here, to perform ragtime music. also, again, lots of history going on today, mitch morea zachaim, the author of the most influential book every writt

about a new global reserve currency is mounting well archie spoke to a nobel prize winning economist joseph stiglitz on the eve of bretton woods conference in april but as revenue seems to have only gained currency since that. joseph stiglitz is a nobel prize winning economist in columbia university professor and he's pushing for a rethinking of the global economic framework in the wake of the financial crisis now he's come with other economic and policy leaders to the historic bretton woods where decades ago a conference here led to the formation of the international monetary fund and named the u.s. dollar as the reserve currency and they've gathered to rethink some of those very policies he joins us now to tell us more about it i want to thank you so much for joining us professor now you've written recently about the increasing disparity between rich and poor in the united states and you've even compared these conditions to what led to the unrest we've seen in the middle east so what do you think are the factors that led to this and what do you think the consequences will be with the poin

joseph stiglitz is a nobel prize winning economist think limby a university professor and he's pushing for a rethinking of the global economic framework in the wake of a financial crisis now he's come with other economic and policy leaders to the historic bretton woods where decades ago a conference here led to the formation of international monetary fund and named the u.s. dollar as the reserve currency and they've gathered to rethink some of those very policies he joins us now to tell us more about it i want to thank you so much for joining us professor now you've written recently about the increasing disparity between rich and poor in the united states and you can compare these conditions to what led to the iraq's we've seen in the middle east so what do you think are the factors that led to this and what do you think the consequences would be with putting a raised was that the increase in the concentration of income and wealth in the united states has been enormous. would happen in the last couple decades is almost a quarter of all the income goes to the opera one percent around fo

joseph is from independence high school. he did a video project with his students encouraging starbucks to move towards -- or move away from paper cups and then valerie ziegler at lincoln high school did a project that taught the students about the development of the new green marketing guidelines the f.t.c. recently announced. with that i'd like to say jim lecure in the back of the room was the inspiration of the contest and i look forward to working with the environmental specialist in the curriculum department to do more in the environmental education field coming up. so thank you for the evening. >> thank you. there's actually a speaker -- i have a speaker card for this item. james lecure. come on up. >> dr. garcia and kim-shree maufas and jill wynns and the others that may or may not know me. i'm james lecure and taught at soda for 10 years and began advocating for the futures contest in the late 1990's trying to push environmental education in the schools which seemed to be lacking. some of the students and teachers be

so if i can go back, married joseph lyons. her mother to the list. mother was the life of a mine herger but young single and married folks who found in her asocial woman whose company was as agreeable as when she was a meeting. with her it was possible to have a good time without fathers. her guests were frequent and they played games were sold for charity. and all like found many an opportunity to pass many delightful hours with her in the home or courtesy, sociability and friendliness reamed supreme. it was permissible for the families to move one circle to another. no hard and fast lines were drawn however eclectic for the same could be now in one circle and the other so you can

you talked about joseph campbell. i am a little surprised that you did not find him because i think -- i think that campbell, his great contribution having setting the literature and relations of the world was to translate religion into poetry, to help the see that the literal truth of the scripture is not nearly as important and can be very misleading to the poetry of the experience. and he said to me, if you want to change the world contains a metaphor. tains the poetry. to me that the essentially is how i see religion today. the troops study reveals poetic rather than literal. >> we were not brought up with metaphor, brother. [laughter] you and i both had scorching experiences when we were young, and you know it. we looked into a yawning chasm at our feet of hellfire, and we withdrew from it. we felt -- and we felt the love of the lord surrounding us. if joseph campbell had told the story of abraham and isaac, i would have understood that. if he told the story of joan and the whale would have been up there with tha