if you visit at level 5, level 5 is much more of a quiet unit and they become much calmer.. they become much more willing to comply with the level system. >> lean forward. you're leaning back too far. there you go. all right. like part of the family. >> why is that? >> well, we've known each other 20 years. who do you know 20 years? >> your visiting hours are from 8:30 through 3:30 wednesday through fridays. you're allowed to have up to 15 visitors on your visiting days. you understand? >> yes, sir. >> after learning the rules that govern level 5, sears is transferred along with his belongings to his new tier, a place where he'll have a chance to work, eat and socialize with other inmates. the level system appears to be working. >> you're always going to have the hard-core cases but from the old main facility, there's no telling the change that i see from then to where we're at today, which is the level system, which is the best thing i've ever seen in my whole career. if the inmates do good, they get more privileges. if they do bad, they get less. and it's something that r

and they will move into the lower levels of shoring there, shortly. and zone three, the central section of the project, both the bracing going in as well as do watering wells. and another shot of that. and the final demolition as they approach freemont street and have to take out the final wall from the center section of the project. >> the butress area has changed a little bit. if you look closely, we are getting rid of some of the equipment, they are actually in the final third of the work. and down sizing just a little bit as the progress is made on those shafts. the three shafts in yellow have actually been poured out by the end of last week. so, i believe that they are at 157, 159 now, it should be i think that two of those should be poured last week. and so we are zeroing in on the completing. and right on track, is a weekly update here on the production of the shafts and you can see that we were behind the curve in the beginning with just the learning curve of putting the shafts in but we are caught up and projecting a finish on time. but, it i

so at a low level where recognition simple things like the crossfire and a higher level you have thomasa as an apple. it's a much higher level. that was funny, that was ironic. they are the same except for the position in the hierarchy. produce a hierarchy come with? were not with warren -- [inaudible] we are not born with that knowledge of english or chinese. in fact, all of these connections reflect memories, personality. the neo cortex creates from our own experience. so the more important you are what you think. the grandson has laid down several layers. you basically can work on one-liner at a time. >> host: the layers have been sent to some extent by biology come at a geometric information. >> guest: the ability to create the layers as they are, but a newborn is struggling with understanding very basic sounds in shape and touch and is flying down the most basic level of hierarchy. the reason a child can learn material so it easily is because -- [inaudible] it doesn't mean we can't learn new things. anything we've learned is not just have one copy of that. i can get some of that gen

has increased above the rental level. the pricing of the unit under that first right of first refusal scenario would be priced per their actual income level. so those are the highlight modifications that i wanted to bring forth. and i too will be here for any questions. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> why don't we take a few clarifying questions first or public comment? >> public comment. >> let's take public comment on this item. seeing none, public comment is closed >>> commissioner antonini. >> thank you, i had a couple of questions on the memo. and i am led to believe when i first saw this, i thought it was the entire program. but this is only a memo dealing with the resale of existing ownership units and then dealing with the other entities here. for example, as i recall unless it's changed, your for-sale ownership units are 100 ami and it can be up to 120 in some instances, but i believe it's always been at 100 ami has been the price for-sale units. and then the rental units at 60 ami? >> that is correct, but there h

, about state laws and it can feel daunting to think about getting involved in legislation at that level, although we try to make that easy for most to do by signing on to online actions and stuff, but for parents with kids, changing policies at schools can be an accessible thing, joining pta's or talking to the school board about having integrated pest management so kids aren't exposed to pesticides on playgrounds, that's been successful. there's a huge movement to get safer, healthier foods into schools and they just revised the school lunch guidelines, but also you could go organic, you could go local and there are schools in berkeley and in the bay area really making some amazing strides and ensuring safer food practices, universities could do the same thing and that would be huge because that's such a large population as well. cleaning products in the schools, don't we want particularly these little kids who are more vulnerable to be less exposed to the kinds of cleaning product chemicals that might not be on the labels of those products being used, so schools can be a really target

establishing those standards, what we call levels of service, there's levels of service for threats of terrorism and also the seismic one, which is essentially an 8.0 event on the san andreas fault. we're working with other city departments so they know what to expect from us. it's been an education process. as we started down the road i think there was an expectation all water and sewer was going to be in operation in san francisco after an ert quake. that probably is not going to happen. it's a little bit different having several blocks in your population out of water versus out of electricity or gas or cell phone service. it's a little bit different level of emergency. after an earthquake what we're designing for is to have the high level fire system more or less immediately. there may be homes, individual service connections, which could be out of water for quite some time and that's where my utility has to interface with other departments to make sure we're getting water to people through humanitarian stations, red cross, mutual aid is a huge part of this with our federal and stat

and on higher level you recognize the capital a and higher level the apple and much higher bubble that was funny, that was ironic. these pattern recognizers are all basically the same except for their position in the hierarchy. where does this hierarchy come from? we are not born with it. language is a hierarchy replacing the hierarchical structure of the neocortex. we are not born with a knowledge of english or chinese. all of these connections that reflect our knowledge, our memories, skills and personality, we create, the neocortex creates from our own experience so you are what you eat but more importantly you are what you think. your grandson has laid down several layers now of this conceptual hierarchy. we basically can work on one layer at a time. >> host: the layers are said to some extent by biology, genomics information so it is a combination of things. >> guest: the ability to create the layers is there but a newborn is struggling with understanding the very basic sounds and shapes and touch and is laying down the most basic level of this hierarchy. the reason a child can le

marijuana use is level, daily use on high levels. synthetic marijuana use also is level, but remains at a high rate, one out of every nine 12th graders. cigarette smoking is declining and is at historically low levels. alcohol use is declining, but is up a little in 12th grade. a number of the illicit drugs including some very important ones are declining. finally, bath salts have not made a serious inroad at this point. i think that is encouraging. thank you. [applause] >> before we open it up for questions from the press, we thought it would be important to ground us in terms of people must affected by the findings of the survey, and that really is our future generations. we came upon our next speaker a couple of months ago at a town forum in arlington virginia. i was so struck by his story that we invited chris to come and join us to speak briefly about his experiences and help us get a better perspective on how the impact these findings may have in future prevention efforts. [applause] >> hello. thank you for having me up here. i

this street level is cut through the grand hall and the bus deck above that and then the park and then connecting the entire vertical, center of the transit center is or are several large light columns that bring light deep into the building all the way into the train level. the key in this section though is if you will notice is the connection at the roof park level with the transit center tower and i will go into that in detail and i have to say that is an exciting idea and i think that we are at the forefront of thinking, urban design thinking and we have already had several, other adjacent properties talk to us about bridging to the transit center park. so i feel quite confident that that is an idea that will really have some great substance to it. this is the ground floor, what you see primarily is a great deal of public access. we have worked with the planning department to really increase the amount of retail that one finds publicly accessible and retail that we would find at the ground floor. there is 8,000 square feet of retail and you can see that the transcenter tower lobby

so to summarize, marijuana use has leveled, though daily use is still unacceptably high levels.synthetic marijuana use also has leveled, but it remains at a high rate, one in every nine 12th graders. cigarette smoking is declining and is at historically low levels. alcohol use is declining, but it's up a little in 12th grade. and a number of these specific illicit drugs including some very important ones are declining. but finally, as i started, bath salts have not made a very serious inroad at this point. i think that's encouraging. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, dr. johnston. before we open it up for questions from the press, we thought it would be important to ground us in terms of people who are most affected by the findings of this survey, and that really is our future generations. and we came upon our next speaker, l. chris leibowitz, a couple of months ago at a town forum in arlington, virginia, and were so struck by his story that we invited chris to come and join us today to speak briefly about his experiences and help us get a better perspective of how the impact

well, there is an ami level and there is also the 15% on-site and 20% offsite? >> i'm afraid i can't comment on that. i am not familiar with inclusionary programs in other jurisdictions. >> that is a problem for me, because when i am asked to vote on this, i have to know what other places are doing and i think you are doing a good job, but i don't think i can support it at that point, because i really don't have all the information. if it comes up in the future, i would like to hear about it. >> i also want to thank you on your presentation and wanted to ask mr. chue, the data that you gave us today kind of illuminated the need for more education or focused on credit scores, as you said. what do you think, and you mentioned working with the groups that are in community such as metta. what do you think is a timeline for working through that process? it may be preliminary to ask, but what are some ideas? would it be new programs that would come out of it or a changed process or something like that? >> those are good points. in terms of being able to utilize prop c

to the d level. just a shot of some of the excavation and bracing going on and the conditions which the contractor is working under right now in zone 1. micro piles continue. they have 70 completed to-date, or by the end of november. installing bracing, under the 1st street bridge between zones 2 and 3. completing the trestle in zone 3. and excavation and bracing in zone 3 as it progresses along. the end section, the east end section, zone 4 buttress work continues. as i said they met the milestone of 162 and actually had 165 completed and continuing to get 2.5 a week. up-to-date progress chart and you can see on the chart kept by the program management folks, the team was right on target for the completion of the buttress work. a couple of the buttresses being worked on over of the last period. the contractor has elected to put in a sheet pile cutoff wall in the north-south division on division between zones 2 and 3 on eastside of the fremont street. this will allow them to start the excavation unde

so if we break above 1425 next level 1450, now we're looking at the 1475 level.o get 1500, that's a major if. i think you need a fiscal cliff resolution there. if you get to 1500 to see an additional 100 points from there i think is doable. >> i would have felt better if you said 1475 in six months and 1575 end of the year. yeah, 1600 is great in the first half of 2013, but the concern he has is on the back half of 2013. that's a bigger problem. i think that's the headline. >> up next on "halftime" hold them or fold them? three winning stocks and whether it's time to let them go. plus the ceo of ethan allen weighs in on the decision to offer a special dividend as fiscal cliff worries grow. amerie in charge of their own future. how they'll live tomorrow. for more than 116 years, ameriprise financial has worked for their clients' futures. helping millions of americans retire on their terms. when they want. where they want. doing what they want. ameriprise. the strength of a leader in retirement planning. the heart of 10,000 advisors working with you one-to-one. tog

million apiece. >> sea level here is coming up for lots of reasons.re is no reason for it to go down. it just keeps coming up. >> reporter: larry atkinson heads the climate change and sea level rise institute at old dominion university. >> there is anecdotal evidence and there is real evidence that we have from the tide gauges we have. we can measure this. the science is simple. >> reporter: atkinson is part of a team of scientists the state of virginia has hired to study flooding. an early draft of the bill in the state assembly that funded the study drew criticism from some conservatives. the virginia tea party described the study on its website as: "more wasted tax dollars for more ridiculous studies designed to separate us from our money and control all land and water use." the final bill avoided the phrases sea level rise and climate change and won overwhelming bipartisan support this year. >> some people have tried to spin it into a political issue because we changed the wording from sea level rise to flooding. >> reporter: republican state dele

level as a key level. >> all right, jane?t. here's another surprise. defense industry is a huge employer. i know people who have been getting their layoff notices ahead of the fiscal cliff. market isn't playing defense in selling the stocks. no. pretty close though their 52-week highs and have outperformed the s&p. in fact, lockheed and raytheon ended up, melissa. >> doc j, what do you see? >> ah, i like general dynamics the most of the group. it's only about 4% year to date. some of these others are up double digits. all of general dynamics move lately, melissa, has come since the election. so, this would be the one that i would play of that group. >> okay, jane? >> thanks, jane. >> finally a smackdown between writer dan lions and mark zuckerberg that randi zuckerberg said it wasn't cool that someone retweeted her photo. lion s ripped into her. how awful this might have been, how invasive. how terrible that someone might take something that belongs to you and use it in ways that you had not only anticipated and for which you

so i am comfortable with what we're doing and i can guarantee the level of perfection. but i said to this person who asked me that question, can i ask you a very important question and he said yeah, what's that? i said you've got the most amazing suit on. >> he said it's armani. >> i said how much? he said a thousand dollars. i said when you bought it did you ask if gorgio stitched it? >> rose: (laughs) >> and that's the same level of peck answer the in my restaurant >> rose: you can train people to be as good as you are? >> of course you can and i don't have the insecurities about them becoming better or just as good as and if my team win three michelin stars themselves and i set them up in business, i'm over the moon. i'm complete. >> rose: tell me how you train them. because training people and understanding how to run a restaurant is a key to both these television shows. on the one hand you have an ae prynne thys thing where you're judging would be chefs and the other you're looking at restaurateurs and sayings -- >> failing. >> rose: your restaurant is failing and

there was a lot of questions from a political level as well as a public level. you've got aircraft sitting at north island, just launch them, get them in the fight. it was hard to explain to them that that's a very delicate air space when you have fixed wing and rotary wing sharing the same air space. our aircraft are fixed wing, typically 150 feet agl at 200 knots but they didn't understand the calm complex of that. it would be like me showing up to the battle of belugia with my civilian fire helicopter and say i'm here to help. i would not expect to do that because i don't know the com protocol, i don't know the doctrine on engagement. it was tough to explain that to a political body and the public why cal fire isn't launching everything we have and the marines to fight a fire. we've worked hard to educate them, i think a lot of them get it now but it was a challenge initially. >> thank you. do you want to say anything? >> yeah, i wanted to comment on operatability within the california national guard. they worked really well within the framework that we estab

you can say things at a groupwide level, though. and so kent mentioned earlier the case out of florida in the sue presume court graham in which the court said the juvenile should be treated differently with respect to life without the possibility of parole. the same happened in simmons where the court has treated juveniles differently. it may be the case we can start to do that. we can start to categorize people. we categorized a group of individuals in virginia and said those people who have mental retardation have lesser couple ability for a whole host of reasons, they're more likely to follow people. they're more likely to be subject to peer pressure, less likely to have made premeditated decision-making. that's probably where this evidence is the most useful. we have a standard in criminal law called the reasonable person standard. this fictitious person that we measure everybody's conduct by. we say this is the person, the average person, the average juror, the average individual, the kind of conduct that we would expect an ave

we just had holiday sales coming at the worst level since 2008. that's not good. it's not all on sandy. >> depends how you read that metric. when the story is finally told, not .7%, somewhere higher than that. m moo. >> maybe it will. it's not all sandy, people cutting back already, whether military families cutting back dramatically because of sequestration or people who work at defense contractors out of jobs. there's a lot of bad heading our way. to josh's point, people will still send their kids to school and still go shopping but everybody is going to cut back how they shop. they will be trading down, judge, i think. and these idiots from harry reid to the president on top and john boehner included, i'm equal opportunity, it's horrible. >> we heard the same thing at the end of 2011 europe would spill to theist and the u.s. consumer was changing their habits. i'd like to point out the discretionary consumer is the second best in the market this year, 21%. any whoever made a bet against the u.s. consumer -- >> what kind of pullback are we talking about? if you

so it's a 1:1 match between the pricing the unit and the eligible income level. and given how the pricing works, you really have to be at 89% ami for you to be able to afford the mortgage payment. you have to be credit worthy and have the required down payment. so we have seen cases where a pool of applicants is so restricted given the tight alignment between pricing and eligibility that we wanted to provide the eligibility for bmr units to be priced still at 90% ami, but the income eligibility extended up. so it provides a bigger pool of applicants and allows us to -- if facilitates the sale of the units more quickly. this was the good-faith effort line after a period of six months, units are not able to be sold. and what this allows us is under certain circumstances to grant the ability for those re-sale units to be eligible to people for up to 20% above the ami level. it doesn't change the pricing, but gives us flexibility. >> i think that is right. because if someone is at 89 and right on the line and their income falls a little, they might have trouble makin

is there that level of projects that are necessary, that level expense that is incurred to do that? >> , that is the current estimate of the project necessary to protect our system if everything is connected. if we, say, get about two-thirds of those, we might do a few less things. generally it's roughly that order of magnitude. and, so, as these agreements are finalized, the share per person generated new electricity will vary depending on how many projects survive the approval projects. >> got it. so, the $28 million is not just some sort of fee that gets assessed by iso. it's really based on an estimate of what we expect we need to spend in order to sure upedth system? >> that's correct, it's abased on a shes item, not cal iso fee. >> thank you. to the budget analyst, i think you've already given your report. * so, anything you would add? okay. why don't we open this item up for public comment. are there members of the public who wish to speak on this item, item number 11? seeing none, public comment is closed. okay, colleagues in front of us we actually have some language that a

that is different or a higher level of exemption. i know we will take the amendment as it comes and so we'll vote on this. and if there is enough support for the amendment then we'll evaluate a different higher level. that is why i will be voting against the amendment. thank you. >> president chiu: i will be supporting supervisor elsbernd's amendment today. i think that it doesn't make sense for a simple renewal at this time for us not to continue existing policies. that being said, i absolutely agree with the transit community, that we need to have a real dialogue around long-term funding solutions for our transportation system, and i want to reiterate, my appreciation for the good faith commitment made by leaders in the nonprofit community, that we near future, and having a dialogue about nonprofit involvement with the potential transportation sustainability program, which is currently undergoing environmental review. i think we need to do that. we have to figure out how all of us, that have impacts on the transportation system, ar

at least leveled off.daily marijuana use has maintained a high level, probably the highest in the last 30 years that we've seen, with 6.5% of high school seniors say they smoke ideally in just the past month and that's about one of every 15 seniors. so if you look in any class of 30 kids, two of them are heavy pot smokers on average. given the increasing information about the consequences of that, including dependent, including brain damage, including the effect on i.q., that is really a concern i think. very positive development this year for sure, xtc is down, saudia is found significantly. inhalants are down and taken without using a needle is also down. that was the former heroin use that burgeoned in the 90s and has a lot of users to about what people using with needles. other narcotic drugs, as you've heard, specifically oxycontin and vicodin were down significantly this year, to if we look at the three grades combined. the proportion of kids using prescription drugs of any kind has leveled for sever