we always wanted to redo the kitchen. that was the main thing. people say, i love the kitchen. we sold that without redoing the kitchen. we made more money than we thought we ever could. they loved the kitchen. we separated the appliances and painted the whole thing. we did all the things around it. we made sure there was storage, and parking. all of the things that that was one thing that was not on, for somebody who would like to have it your personal, the kitchen, particularly, do it -- do everything else. that was a very big lesson in some ways. i thought the value would be taken away for that. it was not. >> that is a good point. you are right. especially if you -- did you do a countertop change at all? you didn't. you did appliances. >> yellow. >> new appliances can help a lot. especially today, the cost of competitive prices are pretty good and you can make those changes for $3,000, $4,000, $5,000. they're oftentimes more energy- efficient. the general consensus is people like that. one other thing that i think is overlooked in terms of value, and i don't know of the sur

>> designed for a kitchen. >> a piece of granite and it comes in black or stainless steel for kitchens. >> very cool. there are lots and lots of regulations about receptacles in counters. i wanted to ask you about energy efficiency, you have a few products here which i believe are energy efficient. and this particular recessed can looks like it is the one that holds that four-pin bulb that we were looking at earlier in this show? >> yes. >> and you can't put a edison base screw bulb in? >> no. >> can you change this out or is this pretty much much it? >> it's pretty much it. >> it assures that it's energy efficient for the life of the fixture? >> yes. >> what is this? >> this is actually a four-inch . this also meets california title 24 and the reason we're showing this one today is this is one that is a shallow. so it will fit your standard two by six configuration like in a residence. it looks like a really big box because it has to be bigger for the heat dissipation and it is double-walled and it is rated for up to 50 watts, which most everything else on the market is only rated for

should the kitchen remodel be reassessed? you might get that tax bill, but if i were you would consider what that meant. i do not know. >> next year we should have the tax assessor reporter's office here to answer those questions. >> that is a tricky thing. i read the fine print and it says similar quality materials, so i do not know exactly what that means. >> along the same lines, the next section are repair and maintenance base say are assessible, but under state law you can file a claim exempting this. >> i did not know this. >> these are possible exemptions. i had not heard this either. disability improvements -- they will assess it unless you file. disability improvements, seismic retrofitting of an existing building has an assessment exclusion. fire escapes and so on. this is very interesting. i think we do need to get someone from the assessor's office one of these days. >> it is unfortunate you are going to be assessed or punished for putting in new york electrical and plumbing in some instances. >> i think replacing

in my test kitchen. when the kitchen is open-- it's for foodies. we cofunctions where they can see everything made. i could hear them talking and i started thinking some of these guys are better cooks than me. but i heard them talking about what was happening in england and france, where they had a style of lecture about me novels and they were talking, the english, saying we created the pyramid, scientific diet. wenow we maden error, and the americans followed us. and the french said, we never really-- that wasn't something for us. but over the series went on, and how they closed it. at the end of each end of my stove were english folks and french folks and new yorkers were standing there and they were going back and forth and i'm in the middle cook and they were saying, "if you remember how it closed--" the french people said-- "you english asked us how do you folks eat the cheeks the but eall those things that you eat? you ha the lowest obesity in europe?" >> rose: and their answer was. >> "it's true. we do. we choose the best quality and the be

our kitchen window would be completely blocked and that's the main source of light into the kitchen. the new designs from what i have seen just there, it looks like the new designs will also block the main source of light into our bedroom, which is above the kitchen and the designs also show that as they did at the early meeting that all of our light into our living room and our dining room will be blocked. so i haven't seen anything in the new drawings to indicate that they have addressed any of the concerns about access to light. so i would hope that you would approve a project that would be more consistent with some of the drawings that the neighbors, the so-called neighbors design has shown that would allow access to a little more like for our windows. thank you very much. president olague: thank you. sahid followed by mary. >> thank you, commissioners. i'm a journalist. i write about design. i also write books about design and i have seen this project as you know the last time. i also know the project architect quite well. i have written about his work and i would like to read a

it's the prison kitchen. >> everything back here could be made into a potential weapon. those sheet pans are very thin and they're sharp on the edges. it only takes one of these guys to pick one of those up and they could almost cut my head off. >> we met officer epperson at the kern valley state prison in california. armed only with pepper spray and a baton, he's the lone officer responsible for supervising the inmate kitchen staff. >> i have six, seven inmates back here now. i've got one sitting on the line. granted, i got four, five cops outside that door. that door's locked. there's only one dude out there with the key. you have to trust them to a certain extent. they have no reason to assault me. unless they're totally pissed off or i disrespect them. >> among the inmates epperson places his trust in is the number two cook, carter hill. >> tell me what your sentence is. >> murder. >> you're here for murder? what's your sentence? >> 51 to life. >> you know, it's interesting. sometimes there's this dynamic in prison when you're interviewing somebody, if there's a corr

it is similar to in kitchen appliances, stainless steel. is good. it goes with all color schemes. >> there was a recent change to san francisco's codes that said you could not have more than one sitting turned on at any more than one time. so you cannot have multiple salaries and more for water savings. >> right. a lot of people like showers for two, and now, you are saying one valve for one shower. >> i think you could probably sit flow rates could be adjusted, and you could probably make it happen, but it is beginning to be very tightly regulated. tell us, when people come in to buy, what is it that they like? what are they actually buying? >> a lot of it has to do with style. first is for the lab faucet's. you have the widespread, the two handles, hot and cold. very modern design. >> people like modern. >> people like modern, but we are in san francisco, so we get a wide range. then the one hand, very popular, ada-approved. saves water. very easy to use >> > one of the standards for commercial, not residential, is that you have to be able to oper

the front end of the restaurant where the kitchen is. we also got cited for that and i was able to show the inspectors by virtue of having him presence inside the restaurant that we have not touched anything. he saw the space and he knows we have not done any construction. the remains untouched. he was able to abate the citation based on the fact that we were not wrongfully cited but we should have been cited for the scope of the work we performed at the back end of the restaurant near the restrooms but we did not touch anything at the front end. i did mention to the inspector that we were going to remodel the kitchen area and we would install new plumbing and new gas lines. the new grease trap. he mentioned that in doing so, retaining a licensed plumber and apply for the necessary permits. we're in the process of doing just that. for the front end of the restaurant. >> does this find that you're asking to be reduced include the work that was done prior to your tenancy? >> i do not believe it does. >> thank you. mr. duffy, anything furth

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. >> just hang out at the kitchen counter for a second, okay?t happened? >> do you want a drink or something? >> no, that's okay. >> all right, hang out at the counter. i got to go get my shirt on? sit down at the counter for a second. i got to go get my shirt on. >> he was leery, suspicious. and sneaky looking. you know he looks in and peers around and as it turned out, lyons had good reason to be suspicious. it wasn't his first time down this path. >> robert lyons, lewd acts of a child 14, 15 years old. so same sort of sex rap. robert m. lyons, but what is crazy is that -- check this out -- he says in the chat that he is 28. >> that ain't no 28. >> there's no way he's 28. >> in fact he was 68 years old. we see a lot of fibbing online about ages, but it's usually five or ten years, you know, not 40 years. >> this is his picture, right? that's his sex offender arrest picture. it's the same guy. >> yeah. yeah. >> everything is the same. >> when you think that this guy had just recently pleaded guilty to having sex with an underage boy, that he ha

kitchen. the most dangerous place to be in a disaster because that's where all the stuff breaks, in the kitchen. where do you put the heaviest pot? top shelf in the back over the fridge. least accessible area. they are the first to fly out. how do you medigate that problem? what do you think? on my house i have a 5 and 7 year old everything was baby safe. that's the same for earthquake proofing you don't want the glass to fall and come out. the way they do it in new york. these are different types. hook the hooks. put safety latches you can put the magnetic ones. any heard of [inaudible] wax. she this expensive vase if it's earthquaked it will not fall because we use this. a silly puddy you put on if you have things of value you don't want breaking in an earthquake, grab this. all hardware stores have them. anybody have this at home? >> this is, why is this a hazard aside from it being in an earthquake? most of the home it is built in the city before the 1850's was meant for one socket not for

and the kitchen an. [chime] commissioner garcia: when you dealt with the individual -- >> i did not. commissioner garcia: was there a use of jcc? was that a unilateral decision? >> when i talked to the tenant, i told him what they needed to do. i suggested that as a resolution and that is what we agreed to do. >> it doesn't seem odd that a woman would not accept that? does that strike you as strange she felt that way? >> i understand that in the work we're doing is a huge inconvenience. but it is work that needs to be done. in addition to that, i had been given reports that she has keys to at least one other unit that she is regularly seen going in and out of. i have reason to believe that she does have access to shower and bath facilities in the building. could i prove that, probably not? commissioner garcia: what does the code provide for? what does it require you to do in that situation? >>-only know that it requires us to give them notice of what we are doing. >> for instance, when there will be a ma

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i'm more concerned about the kitchen table, because ts delay and uncertainty has a tremendous impact on america's families, as they sit around the table and talk about how they are going to make ends meet, how they are going to pay their bills, is sorle security going to be intact for them and will their checks arrive, is medicare and medicaid something they can count on. well, after months and months and months to reach an agreement that could have been reached a long time ago, it's not so great it took so long to achieve, it could have been accomplished months ago and at least have the merit of instilling confidence sooner rather than at the last possible moment. we must make sure that we are -- we say why are we here today -- that we aren't here some other day to go through these motions and that's the reason i'm supporting this bill. the president was successful in impressing upon the congress that we need the full 18 months so the americans at their kitchen table, people sitting around that table and aboard room table will know that you can rely on the united states of america t

. >> these are just simple spoons, kitchen spoons. (applause). >> (speaking spanish). >> and here we have our principle instrument. >> (speaking spanish). >> the name of this instrument is called cajon. >> (speaking spanish). >> in certain places in africa this instrumentality existed. >> (speaking spanish). >> and the percussionist will play with their hands and their feet. >> (speaking spanish). >> with the african slave trade he used to be in the ports. this type of boxes. >> (speaking spanish). >> so they were sit over these big boxes and play over them. >> (speaking spanish). >> but for the blacks these type of instruments were not allowed to be played because they were too loud and for the church they will provoke movement that was not appropriate. >> (speaking spanish). >> they could also work as a form of communication with the drumming patterns. >> (speaking spanish). >> this was what was going on in africa. >> (speaking spanish). >> and from some of the sounds they used to play that we almost lost all of them we still have s

my name is helen ashe and i am the happy founder of the love kitchen.address the needs of the five hs, i say. the homeless, the hungry, the hopeless, the homebound, and the helpless. >> do you have the coffee and the cups out? >> my sister, ellen, is a blessing to me. >> and how about those small tomatoes, ellen? >> the lord sent two because there's so much work to do for one. >> do you want me to help you in? >> we went to nursing school. back then, segregation was pretty ramped. i saw the black people having trouble with food. every way on our way home, i told my sister, one day, i'm going to do something about this. >> we're getting ready to open the line. >> the first day we served 22 meals, that was in 1986. and since that time, we've been growing, growing, growing, growing. everybody here is a volunteer. they enjoy doing what we are doing. we deliver from 1,400 to 2,200 meals every thursday to our homebound people. >> she's my buddy. >> we was taught to work for what we got and to share what we did get. and we have so many people that are in need,

essentially when you get in the kitchen, when you get in the kitchen -- can you come anymore? in? they are trying fredericka. but the floor leans to the right and the ceiling is cracked. you heard, guy, that this is unliveable. what does this mean for you and your wife? where do you go from here? >> it depends on how long this is going to take to fix. it's new to us obviously, we've been in this home 40 years, it's a family home. >> my mom and dad had this thing built. my mom still lives here, we all live together. so i don't know. this is all new ground for us. i honestly don't have answer answer just yet. we have great friends who have offered to put us up. we'll see. you know -- i mean. the good news is it's justify stuff. this is a home and we love our home but at the same time it's just things. everybody is healthy, my mother is 75 and still kicking strong. everybody is good so healthwise it -- we're okay but now we've got to rebuild. >> reporter: fredericka, do you have questions for him here? this is the second home with severe damage. as we hear people say the storm wa