this is howard lazar on a public plaza on a phone to somebody. i'm not in his face, i have not approached him. in a logbook, he claims that i got on a trolley from 25 van ness, went down market street and went down powell street. we were talking about the giants. howard lazar and shook their both and he approached me and claimed in the logbook that i said something to them. it did not happen. i live close to the park. very often i walk to plaza and eat. >> you will have another minute to continue your argument. >> thank you. we'll hear from the department now. >> good evening commissioners, i'm howard lazar. by way of background. in 2003, the arts commission denied her renewal of arts certificate after finding here in violation of not selling arts by the commission and disrupting the businesses of other street artist. in 2007, she applied for a street artist certificate and two hearings were held on her request, the commission denied her request. on november 7, 2007, the board of appeals over ruled the arts commission and ordered the commission t

lazar, the appellant discussed different levels of penalties. can you provide from the arts commission ordinance and policies and procedures? >> yes. this is a policy of the hearing procedure and standard penalties adopted by the arts commission many years ago and this of course was with the aid of the city attorney. the violations if you will are loosely divided into two categories. one category is minor violations and that would be selling not in a street artist legally designated space or selling with display that exceeds the size regulations which are three feet deep by four feet wide by four feet tall. those are minor. typical violations is having a sales person selling for you or selling what you don't make or selling something that is not examined and not certified. those are violations. and the first category of standard penalty could be for example a three week suspension and i'm talking about -- >> you are talking about minor? >> yes and first time coming before us. it can increase of course. the second category, the major violations w

lazar, you show these products and this size, she shows a different product and different size. how are we supposed to gauge that? >> i'm only show you what was given to me. i can only testimony she is license today sell feathered jewelry and it was not what she showed us. when that happens that requires a reexamination. >> i understand that. then let m ask you slightly differently. those photos were given to you. did you did not actually see? >> correct. >> thank you. >> commissioners, the matter is yours. any comments? >> confusion. i don't know what completely opposite. i don't know what to do with it yet. >> well, evidently there is a personality conflict to say the least. >> please don't speak. >> [inaudible]. >> i'm not in for taking someone's livelihood away and i'm extremely disappointed in the lack of information that was brought forth by the commission that we need to have this information before us to make a decision. i think there is some violation here, but not enough to warrant her not being able to have a livelihood. that's my thoughts. >> okay. did you question h

cathy, and andrew from the (inaudible) cvd and jim lazares that i was just talking to and he is already working on the next phase and we have the china town and many of our china ton including in the front row miss rows pack and mr. gordon chin. and we have a number of members of our community advisory group for the central subway. people who have volunteered their time as everyone else just mentioned has year after year to suffer this project through to make sure that we are doing it well and doing it right. and finally, there is a lot of leadership and support from the communities, from the federal partners and from the government and from city hall that makes all of this happen, but at the end of the day, everybody has to drive this project forward and so i want to acknowledge the subway director, john sungi, since 2006 john has been working day and night living and breathing this project to make sure that it happens, i think that he has a central subway tattoo on his arm. i think that the tunnel manage machine down stairs has spent more time with tom than his family has. he has been

we have been really fortunate out in the ingleside since captain lazar, cast nago and captain falvey. he's everything everyone said. he's very involved. he was at the youth summit and it wasn't easy. there was a lot of distrust between the youth and police and there was a lot of misinformation and going forward, i think that's going to be an on going dialogue and i think there is going to be a lot of improved relations between the youth and the community and the police department and i think it's a good thing and i thank you all for coming out and hearing our concerns. >> thank you very much. [ applause ] >> any further public comment? >> public comments is now closed. now it's time for commissioners to ask some questions and i first must say that you have to find that letter. that accent there. >> i will look for it. actually i will speak with her. >> i have heard that accent before when i have been in trouble before. >> i will get on top of it and find your letter to respond. >> i have a problem. i cannot hear. [inaudible] >> i will take care of it senora. i have got it. i will take

we have been really fortunate out in the ingleside since captain lazar, cast nago and captain falvey. he's everything everyone said. he's very involved. he was at the youth summit and it wasn't easy. there was a lot of distrust between the youth and police and there was a lot of misinformation and going forward, i think that's going to be an on going dialogue and i think there is going to be a lot of improved relations between the youth and the community and the police department and i think it's a good thing and i thank you all for coming out and hearing our concerns. >> thank you very much. [ applause ] >> any further public comment? >> public comments is now closed. now it's time for commissioners to ask some qu

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and so as i like to joke lazar never going to make things right. all of us were serious about policy, we try to make things is not wrong as possible and be happy with the result, but it is important to be engaged and take these issues seriously. the more we have conferences like this and try to bring it to the fore, i appreciated. >> questions from the audience. i will feel some on twitter if anyone has one. don't be shy. i see a question in the back. please make sure to identify yourself. [inaudible question] >> the copyright. at that point but to the hca do as far as circumvention? stick to that. and in that sense the provisions of the copyright. >> you can imagine situations where you have an on locking mechanism that serves no other purpose than infringement. those would remain illegal. >> anyone else? any other questions? twitter? anyone? i have been asking a lot of questions. we will exercise moderator's prerogative and as one final question. you alluded to the -- there is another provision that is ongoing now about revising copyright law. ca

. ♪ you >>> our guest hosts this morn having been ed lazar and eric bernstein.track and the only way to do it is to reform taxes, trade policy, regulation and the budget and that's the standard stuff. hard to do, but we need to do it. >> jared? >> i don't manage a zillion dollar hedge fund and it's easy for me to say and i'd like to bring down the anxiety, the skittishness and volatility about the tapering. it's going to happen, and interest rates do have to rise at some point. >> long-term perspective, that's probably the case. >> i understand. thank you both for joining us and that does it for us today and right now -- thank you and watch "fast money halftime report." see you tomorrow. it's time for "squawk on the street." >>> good wednesday morning. welcome to "squawk on the street." i'm carl quintanilla with jim kramer and david faber. the streak has broken after the dow's 76-point loss after adp did miss. mortgage rates above 4% and hawkish fed speak last night and in europe flash pmis were tepid and marginal growth in germany. the nikkei fell 700 points, a