within those limits, have a little bit more flexibility. president o'brien: thank you for your presentation and on behalf of all the people that can benefit from any change of the ease of the permit rules. the justification for this, the increased size on the ada makes me inclined to support it. the fact that it does not supersede a local neighborhood controls that can be very specific for the historic neighborhoods, they all have their different dynamic. i believe that an open flame should be permitted pretty well. but i hope we don't have the tangle of reservations. a lot of this is really cleaning up years and years of different rules, going one on top of the other without the corresponding weeding of those rules. i also believe that the government should follow the people, the government is the servant of the people. the people are developing business plans and business models, responding to this economy. they are responding to this society. we have young people coming in and working 14 hours a day. they don't cook for themselves anymor

the other thing we do is increase the use size limit. there was a strict square footage limit on these self- service restaurants, proposed in the 1980's before the americans with disabilities act and other requirements. it is a very small commercial space. and we have heard stories where only a small self-service restaurant was permitted and a large one is not permitted. if you had a 1200 sq. ft. space, you had to petition of 200 square feet. -- you have to partition off 200 square feet. you still pay rent on it, but you cannot use it. this gets much larger with the mission, 5000 or 6000 square feet. >> the taqueria on mission were given an expanded size footprint because it is on mission street, but if it was in a different location in my tongue and a thousand square feet maximum. >> i was thinking about la cornetta. it probably should not have been permitted on mission street and. i do not know why is there. i hope i have not singled them out. >> it might have been conditionally permited or they got a variants -- a variance. if you wen

one hundred tomahawk missile that's not limited one hundred twenty four sites hit not limited to eighty two thousand pound bombs according to one general to be or have been dropped not limited and this is a massive intervention already in the name of a no fly zone which isn't like telling people you just can't park in this space it's really a massive attack on a different structure of a nation we're in a war and it has to be recognized as such and it was south without the approval of the united states congress so is this president sinking this country in a swamp is this president's thinking the united states in a slump he's taken us in a direction in which there is that it is. very dangerous. and he should be taking us out of afghanistan and he's taken his deeper into afghanistan and should have taken it out of iraq and he's keeping troops there for whatever period of time he should be incurring into pakistan he has now we're in. libya it's not what people expected the congressman we talk so often about the financial situation but this country is in right now if you listen to the republ

yesterday, later rose to 140 times, and today was at 1,250.8 times the control limit. this figure means that if you drink 500 milliliters of such water, you would get a dose of one millisievert which is an average dose limit for adults. >> the situation at the fukushima daiichi plant remains serious. tokyo electric power company has had to change its strategy to restore cooling systems at the plant due to high radiation levels at the site. reactors one through four all lost their cooling capabilities when external and backup power supplies failed after the quake and tsunami. tepco has been working to restore external power while trying to cool the reactors. the three workers were exposed to highly radioactive water in the basement of the turbine building of the number three reactor on thursday. the radiation level there was very high. the company revealed that 200 millisieverts per hour were measured at one time. this led to a change in plans. in an effort to continually cool the reactors, tepco started to pump fresh water instead of sea water into the number one and t

the radiation was 190 beck quells, exceeding the limit of 500. it was grown at the center and is not sold on the market. the health ministry says that level of radio activity would not have an adverse affect on health, even if the vegetable was eaten. the tokyo metropolitan government had lifted its advisory against giving tap water to infants under the age of 12 months. the level of radioactive substances in tap water decreased to a safe left on thursday morning. tests found radioactive substances exceeding the standard for babies. a tokyo metropolitan government advised people in central and western parts of tokyo that infants should not drink tap water and that it should not be added to powdered milk. but on thursday morning, the level of iodine, 131 decreased to 79 becquerels peer liter, lower than the 100 safety standard for babies. >>> translator: numbers can always fluctuate but there is no problem with temporarily higher levels if they stay within the legal limits. we will continue to make publicly available the results of the water testi

it would limit the dominance of brush -- the dominance of groszarages. it establishes the ground floor controls, removes the parking minimum requirements for the market specialty's district, it would allow the zoning administrator to reduce parking when certain conditions are met and would apply the street frontage controls to the limited commercial uses and residential districts. it would also take with it the formula retell controls to make sure that applied in these areas and will allow awnings in the neighboring commercial district. it would allow usages that would be allowed on the ground floor of the nc3 district and allow limited corner commercial uses in high density residential districts. finally, it would add review procedures for all billings of 50 feet or more lead therm and rc districts. you suggested over a dozen recommendations i will not go over right now, but you asked the staff work with the supervisor and his office on refining controls for snout houses, the houses where the grosz extends beyond the facade of the majority -- will garag

the machine has an electric limited. -- limiter. if you try to go faster than the 12.5 miles an hour, the machine pushes back, and you will feel sort of a slowing down or the machine redlining, so to speak. supervisor mar: kind of like an automatic brake? them at exactly. that is my presentation. with that said, i would like to make myself available for any questions the committee might have. supervisor mar: you said there were no accident incidence -- incidents from the one-year pilot until now? do you know if other safety studies -- is it the i2 segways? there's a certain type used that is more safe than other types of segways? >> i would have to defer to the vendor. i'm not familiar. i know that earlier models have some software issues. many of the more publicized incidents were related to that. a few years ago, there was a recall, recalling all of the segways, and since that time, many of those safety issues have been addressed, but i'm not familiar with the different models. supervisor mar: thank you so much. through the chair,

back in two in one hundred seventy two was called limits to growth and it forecast that some time in the early twenty first century resource depletion in population growth would lead us into a colder to such that world economic growth would would cease i believe we're at that point and it's largely because of oil prices which essentially are forming a cap on economic growth if the economy if the economy starts to recover that question's oil prices up when oil prices go up they undercut economic activity so. while the cheap easy oil is gone it's not that we're about to run out of oil price of extraction. exploration is is rising rapidly so at this point i believe enter energy prices are effectively capping economic growth ok so climb back away early early years of the london school of economics there was thomas marcus he came up with the law through the end dire prediction with other states as a matter of fact for the entire field of economics being referred to as the dismal science in that that there would be of course the. arithmetic growth of resources versus geometric growth of th

a limited government. one with powers for each branch that are clearly spelled out in this document, clearly defined and you know, we're a long way from the limited government and the limited and enumerated power they strived to corral. i'm concerned we don't read and study the united states constitution enough in our public schools like we used to when i grew up. i'm worried that we the people don't know or remember why our founding fathers divided power into three separate branches of government. why they define the powers of each and why they were inclined to spell out our liberties in a bill of rights. you know, they formed this government that's lasted well over 200 years. but after they formed that government, they decided that they better spell out the liberties. in fact, they had to do that in order to have the states ratify this great document. everywhere i travel around my beloved palmetto state and around this country, i ask folks, what are your first amendment rights? and almost to a person, th

i understand your concerns about the consequences of not raising the debt limit. however, that event is so big, it seems to me if we do it and don't do any meaningful budget reform, that is a very clear, very strong negative signal about how serious we are about correcting our fiscal path. that's my point. would you disagree with that? >> i guess i would draw a distinction between not increasing the debt limit and maybe, you know, even shutting down the government. those sorts of things. not increasing the debtimit is like saying, you know, we're gog to solve our family's financial problems by refusing to pay our credit card bills. these are bills that have already been accrued as opposed to cutting up the credit card and say going forward, we're not going to do any more spending. these are -- this is money we have already borrowed. these are commitments we have already made to contractors, to senior citizens and so on and what we're saying here is we're not going to make these payments that we promised. so i would rather that we be forward looking and say, you ow

>> we limited this to -- we limited them to 10 events, so you may want to go over the conditions of approval with the staff. okay. commissioners, we are now on item number nine. case 2006.0422 mtuze. executive park amended subarea plan. this is an informational presentation. >> good afternoon, commissioners. >> hold on. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i am matt synder of department staff. we are here to give you an informational presentation on executive park and very quickly, sorry. just a quick orientation. executive park is at the southern gateway of san francisco just west of candlestick park. and here it is closer up context looking at several larger development mixed use developments that you have recently adopted including candlestick hunters point shipyard and visitation valley. and then here it is zoomed in again. and as y see, one of the biggest characteristics of executive park is that it is boxed in essentially on three sides by highway 101 and the bay. >> executive park project as it's being referred to now essentially has three components. the first is a general plan and zoni

guess, with limitations. i would suggest that you go back with rec and parks and see which trails would be better. i am surprised that they ever even thought about strawberry fields because that is not even paved. that part of golden gate park is not paved over. i cannot believe that they would even want to run the segway over that. i would suggest that you go back and revisit the paths, find out what limitation you can put on them while they still do their business. supervisor mar: thank you. supervisor avalos: we will close public comment. supervisor mar: i had some questions for mr. kinsey. i think there needs to be more conducconversation with the vars groups. i would hope that my office and your organization can have a meeting. it does sound like some of those quiet and sensitive pathways, and aids memorial grove, other stuff that may not be a corporate for segway use -- but other areas, if they are well- paved, wider -- i do not have as much a concern, but others might. i was going to ask you about the

we have had guests with limited range of motion take the tour who appreciate the limited freedom. not everyone ride -- not everyone can ride safely, so sometimes, our job includes denying people permission. we are not comfortable sending someone out, they will not go. we find in training to accommodate a wide range of riders -- [bell rings] >> good morning. i have a very nice letter written by an enthusiast, and she writes, "as you know, i feel passionate that your company is doing a wonderful service for the park, san francisco, and the people lucky enough to get a reservation on your segway tour. if i could have spoken at the hearing, i would emphasize that your safety training is not only very thorough but as a fun and memorable part of the experience. every minute spent on safety was important and was done extremely well. each of your trainers that individual attention to insure that everyone had requisite safety skills and to make sure everyone felt comfortable individually and as a group. as i mentioned, the city was responsible for implementation of many miles of bicycle tr

there are limits to all of those strategies and i think we're reaching those limits as well let me ask you a question and i heard something recently i want to comment on it the has to do with the amount of debt that's in a global economy and the the the hypothesis is as follows to pay our debt requires a certain amount of the growth and of course in our modern twenty first century world growth means only oil of oil driven growth and the commentator there read was suggesting that the amount of growth it would say to generate the ability to pay off this debt versus the amount of oil in the ground that could be burned to engineer that growth does not exist in other words we have more debt then we have oil to burn to finance the retirement of that debt are you familiar with that equation and if so could you comment on it well i think that's probably true but the point is really we've created all this debt to fund economic growth we we have even created modern currency as a form of debt we loan money into existence so without increasing levels of debt we have no way to increase the money su

due to radiation levels, though, the operation should be conducted from a minimum altitude and limited to 40 minutes per helicopter per day. on wednesday, a white plume was seen rising from a reactor building at the fukushima daiichi power plant. tokyo electric power company says water in a storage pool intended to cool spent fuel apparently evaporated from the vapor has the cooling system has not been working since the quake. there is urgent need for cooling to stop the fuel from emitting hydrogen for possible explosion or meltdown. at 9:48 a.m., 9:52 a.m., 9:54 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. japan time on thursday, two japan self defense force helicopters have prayed water on the crippled number three reactor building at the fukushima daiichi power plant. each helicopter is cape able of carrying 7 poen 5 tons of sea water and they have sprayed it on the number three building at the fukushima daiichi power plant. due to the radiation levels it should be conducted from a minimum altitude and limited to 40 minutes per helicopter per day. we are waiting for the defense minister to hold a news confe

face and serve some of it on sight and limited to 10 period. and we are wondering these are great businesses that employ people in the making and great uses and to create vision to the ordinance and get rid of the limitation and we're not quite sure why the bakeries have to be limited and 10 is fine. and so if you consider stretching that line from the definition of the specialty food service, it would be great and goes in the direction and the other ordinances in terms of creating the secretscape. president olague: and if you can stick around for the discussion, some might have questions for you. >> public comment is closed. >> i'm going to make a motion. president olague: i'm sorry. did you want to speak? i didn't notice that. i'm going to let them. there are a few people who want to speak to this. >> i amgen manager of fillmore center and we're all for vitality and traffic coming into the fillmore but we oppose the use of restriction on the first floor. right now it would be hurtful if all the vacant store fronts had just right now there's n

first question relates to coentration limits in your role as the fsoc group. section 622 prohibits any firms whose total liabilities are greater than 10% of all financial firms liabilities from merging with or acquiring another company. i'm concerne the way those numbers arealculated could put u.s. companies at a competitive disadvantage. that's because for u.s. companies, the number in the numerator includes all liabilities worldwide but for all non-u.scompanies, only their u.s. liabilities. that means if a u.s. company and swiss company simultaneously bought a brazilian bank, the concentration ratio for the u.s. company would go up and the ratio for the swiss company would go down. as iunderstand it, the committee has the ability to change that and make it fairer. what are your thoughts and what should fsoc do? >> i fully agree with your concern. it is unfair in the sense that as you say, a foreign bank that has operations in the u.s. could purchase a domestic u.s. bank where a u.s. bank of the same size could not buy that bank. >> or a foreign bank of the s

first question relates to concentration limits in your le as the fsoc group. section 622 prohibits any firms whose total liabilities are greater than 10% of all financial rms liabilities from merging with or acquiring another company. i'm concerned the way those numbers are calculated could put u.s. companies at a competitive disadvantage. that's because for u.s. companies, the number in the numerator includes all liabilities worldwide but for all non-u.s. companies, only their u.s. liabilities. that means if a u.s. company and swiss company simultaneously bought a brazilian bank, the concentration ratio for the u.s. company would go up and the ratio for the swiss company would go down. as i understand it, the committee has the ability to change that and make it fairer. what are your thoughts and what should fsoc do? >> i fully agree with your concern. it is unfair in the sense that as you say, a foreign bank that has operations in the u.s. could purcha a domestic u.s. bank where a u.s. bank of the same size could not buy that bank. >> or a foreign bank of the

let's limit this to two minutes per speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i represent the 12,000 members of the san francisco bicycle coalition. we are very supportive of the proposal. it is very common sense. it rationalizes and harmonizes the zoning and deals with this orphan block. you have heard about this already. if anything, it will make development there more predictable, more fair, and it really brings the standards that we have developed at length for market and octavia to this last block, and it really helps to protect market street as a transit bicycle pedestrian corridor, so it seems like a very common-sense thing to do, and again, we bring you our wholehearted support for the measure. thank you. supervisor mar: thank you. those that would like to speak, please come and line of the pecan -- line up if you can. >> hello, supervisors. i represent the castro area planning. our members and members of other neighborhood groups have been working with the planning department and also some of the developers who are working to build new developments wit

the question now on the minds of many just how limited is limited three days later in el salvador president obama said this about the timeline i said at the outset that this was going to be a matter of days and weeks but five days after that here are two of the president's highest in charge secretary of state hillary clinton and secretary of defense robert gates on a.b.c.'s this week do you think will be gone by the end of year will the mission be over by the end of the year i don't think anybody knows the answer though here's what nato said shortly after taking charge of the operation what we have decided tonight is to take. responsibility for enforcing the no fly zone with the aim to protect the civilian population. and. the mandate doesn't go beyond that nato has approved the mission is for ninety days an option to be extended so what's the answer should be read deeply into the title operation odyssey dawn those in charge of naming it say it was totally random there is a group of planning officers led by a lieutenant colonel to sit down in the early days of planning it came up to look at

and what we're asking for is not 12 hours of service but limited service to talk about the neighbors and we don't want a bussing station and restaurants sometimes make a lot of noise and we wanted to work to move from the states and those are the things that sharon talked about that we really want to limit the hours and just use it for an overflow because we have been blessed and doing well and people have complained about long waits and we don't have any place to put them and so it's turned out we couldn't when we wanted to extend the beer and wine license to the garden we found out we could not serve food out there. and we want to be a good neighbor and do the right things and not operate an illegal operation in the backyard, but it is lovely and i would like to ask you to take that into consideration. this is not a slice joint or that kind of a pizza restaurant. it's a small neighborhood place that is very heart felt and i feel blessed to be in that neighborhood and on that corridor and i looked for two years to find that space and this is very specific and happy to be in partners

there is one limitation: the card will expire in six months. >>> 4:48. a pair of major u.s. airlines has cancelled fare hikes after competitors failed to follow suit. last week united and continental airlines began charging $10 more on roundtrip flights. but when low cost carriers didn't follow their lead, they decided to roll back the increased fares. >>> volkswagen is recalling 71,000 jettas because of an electrical problem. the problem is the cars can be turned off by beeping the horn. it's a short-circuit problem in the alarm system. volkswagen says there are no reports of any accidents or injuries. the recall involves cars made in the last 12 months. >>> well, we have some good news on the weather front although if you really loved all the sunshine you saw yesterday, you're going to have to hang in for one more day because we have the return of clouds. starting out this morning, only partly cloudy. temperatures in the 40s for the most part, low 50s. temperatures do stay mild, the beginning of a warm getsdramatic by tomorrow. we'll stay mainly dry but we are going to see

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the chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip limited to five minutes each but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11:50 a.m. the chair now recognizes the gentleman from california, mr. mcclintock, for five minutes. mr. mcclintock: madam speaker, when the president ordered the attack on libya without congressional authorization, he crossed a very bright

washington claims its military involvement in libya be limited for some americans it's deja vu with fears of a repeat of the iraq operation. and russia calls on all sides to put an end to the violence while terming foreign intervention in libya is regrettable join me in a few moments for the latest reaction from moscow. you're watching r.t. broadcasting live the top stories from around the world will straight to developments in libya the libyan army claims forty eight people are dead and one hundred fifty others wounded after one bargains of cruise missiles and strikes on american and european forces a broad international campaign by france britain and the united states against hundred officers started on saturday evening but that's not to be now for more. paula we're hearing that the capital where you are has been under fire this morning how dangerous is it dead now and what's happening in the rest of the country as far as you can tell. a lot of finding. we're being told in response to. and here in the capital city tripoli not far from the compound. and death and we do know that thousand

>> i don't think it will be required, perhaps in a limited way. i am not a military strategist, but there has to be political pressure. there has to definitely be political pressure. the regime doesn't have any way to keep going. they don't have fuel coming in. they don't have support from anybody. >> forgive me for interrupting, but in the country itself, they have these strongholds in tripoli, and we have seen very heavy clashes. for those areas to fall, not only do we need a political mind-set, but surely, there might be an argument for more military intervention. >> nobody has their hand exactly. the man himself will get killed. would you resign himself to say that we are going to give up? perhaps the africans will make him a deal. nobody has a specific magical way. >> it has risen to 150 in yemen. they blame al qaeda for the explosion. >> they came in the tens of thousands. protesters on the streets calling for the president to go. leave, leave, leave. a young mother of three, she has that the protests almost daily. >> that this is impossible

a constitutional limit. in addition, we need statutory budget controls like i have been talking about that would hopefully keep us from ever approaching that constitutional limit. we can think about a line item veto. we can think about making sure that federal spending is actually for somhing that has a national purpose. you would be shocked, federal money are spent for things that don't have a darn thing to do with something of national significance. host: this tweet from james -- guest: first, the fair tax proposes to elimite the income tax, to eliminate the payroll tax, and to eliminate the irs -- which sounds good, but the reality someone will have to administer the new tax system. but it will be replaced with a progressive consumption tax. basically a tax that would be on most, but not all major commercial transactions, and that people who are earning at the porty level for close to the party level would get a rebate for how much taxes otherwise they might have to pay. from an intellectual it makes more

by limiting how much you can spend. -- could be losing big and chase may be fighting back with limiting how much you can spend. according to leaked information from jpmorgan chase, they're considering capping all debit card purchasees to $50 or $100. >> i use my debit card for most of my purchases. that would be very hurtful. >> reporter: the move follows last year's wall street reform which among other things reduces the debit card fees banks get from retailers from an average of 44 cents to 12 cents. that adds up to billions in bank losses which could lead to limiting your spending. >> it is our money. they use that money to make money. >> reporter: critics say in an effort to make more money and recoup losses, banks want to force you to make multiple transactions so they can collect multiple interchange fees from retailers. >> they threaten to cap all debit transactions at $50 to $1 hundred, it's blackmail. >> reporter: wendy from consumer action says this is the bank's way of getting consumers involved in what has been until now a battle between the banks and the retailers. >> they'

the issue before us a short term is the conforming loan limit. los angeles it is easy to get a $20 million loan to buy a home because if you're buying a home in malibu you either know your banker or you are the banker but it is almost impossible to get a loaner in the $8,000 range. what could happen to this economy if we precipitously allow that 729, 750 that applause to ten major metropolitan areas, what happens if that were too precipitously dropped? what is the effect on housing prices in los angeles? >> it is very careful as you look at what to do with conforming limits with a guarantee fees, with underwriting standards that we not magnify the pressures on a very delicate market. the failures we produced, that this government reduced were bipartisan failures. you have to be careful as we try to fix what is broken we don't make this crisis worse for people. that is the responsibility everybody shares. we have to be careful as we do it but i do believe that it would be prudent, for congress to let those limits fall modestly as they are schedule

the bar used is limited such that it may only occupy a third of the tenant's space. this condition further restrict the bar use, requiring and operate in conjunction with another permitted by right years. the project sponsor indicated they do not plan to operate beyond 7:00 p.m. and their liquor license requests by 7:00 p.m. closure. the department has asked for a 10:00 p.m. closure so that this entitlement runs with the property, not the current senate. it is our opinion that the 10:00 p.m. closure in addition with the other conditions will limit the operating of a full bar at this property. we feel that 10:00 p.m. is the appropriate maximum closure time for retail business with this business model. since your packets without, the department has received two phone calls and two letters concerning the project. the department has also received support front the project -- for the project from the neighborhood organization. the bar entitlement will be limited to such a degree that it cannot easily become a more traditional bar and will ensure compatibility with the sur

to us or was hidden from us, we do not have a statute of limitations. in this example, the one watchdog case we had, the statute of limitations had already passed. we have to go all the laid-back to get all of the back taxes, not just the four-year limit. that information was hidden from us. supervisor mirkarimi: how far back would be some of the examples? i imagine most of them would be between three and five years. but they go back farther than that? >> my recollection is that information came to us in 2006 and the transaction occurred in 1998, approximately. what was ironic about that case is it was a real estate investment trust which is a publicly traded company on the new york stock exchange. if you pulled their 10k, they reported it to they stock exchange but they never reported it to the assessor's office. supervisor mirkarimi: if the assessor's office would not be doing this, would this also be considered part of the district attorney's purview and the white collar crime bureau? >> i'm not really sure. i guess it could be. supervisor mirkarimi:

--se acerca la fecha limite para presentar la declaracion --se acerca la fecha limite para presentar la fecha limite para la declaracion de impuestos, hablamos con los expertos. ya solo quedan 3 semanas para entregar los impuestos. este año es el 18 de abril en vez del 15 de abril, feriado, entonces es el lunes 18 muchos contribuyentes prefieren hacerlo de manera electronica es mas rapido y facil, es mejor, uno ve el dinero mas rapido. además el irs ofrece ayuda en español. si la persona gano 58 mil dolares, pueden hacerlo completamente gratis. dicen que se fijen bien en poner todos los datos y los calculos matematicos desde washintong univision. la tasa de desempleo dismunuyo por segundo mes consecutivo. la tasa de desempleo se ubica en 2 puntos menos. los legisladores democratas en sacramento se niegan ante el plan de presupuesto de jerry brown. se espera la decisión para hacer frente al deficit presupuestario. hy la asamblea de california busca ayudar el acoso en las escuelas, el 8% falta a clases 1 vez al mes. un grupo de acosadores acoso a un niño con autismo. por afuera parecia

they may be limited to six feet long on trails in san jose part. fines could be as high as $200 for repeat offenders. the "mercury news" reports the change was proposed after a woman was killed when she got caught in a leash between two bike riders and one of his dogs. >>> safety measures being taken today in contra costa county. the flood control ticket items wants to launch a campaign about the dangers of its 73- mile canal system. officials are hoping to increase safety and awareness during that meeting. back in february, two teens died while rafting in a creek. >>> it is 6:04. let's check weather and traffic once again and julie, the good humor gal today, nothing but good news most of the week huh? >> i love being the bearer of good news and i am today, although i think some folks may an noise at the clouds coming in but don't worry they're short-lived. partly cloudy this morning due to a weathermaker coming into the pacific northwest, mild temperatures. 40s for most folks, some 50. san francisco at 49. 43 santa rosa and 47 in fairfield. now, l