. >> we segment that is to the shame of this prosecution that it has the smarts to the lofty ideals -- besmirched the lofty ideals of criminal law by turning this case into a 21st century form of neocolonialism. i am not apologizing for saying that. >> the verdict would be a critical moment. his trial has shown the international justice can bring even the most powerful. >> pakistan successfully launched a ballistic missile capable of caring and nuclear warhead and wednesday. it was launched into the indian ocean. it was described as an intermediate range missile. 3,000 kilometers. last week, india successfully launched its first intercontinental ballistic missile. i am joined by a lecturer in defense and strategic studies. thank you so much for joining us. what do you think prompted pakistan to launch this missile? >> it is basically a demonstration of pakistan's resolve to continue to modernize its capabilities. the significance of this is not that it is our response to india's test, but it intends to upgrade current capabilities. on this particular missile, the range has been extend

we have both thomas mazzucco and miss loftis here today. i know that you had people here that may not have been able to stay to speak on your behalf. >> i want to first thank the mayor for having the confidence in the nominating me to rejoin his administration and i thank you for this opportunity. following year format, i will tell you a little bit about myself and what we have accomplished. some of the things i like to were caught in the future if i am fortunate enough to stay. i am very proud of my native san franciscan routes. i am the son of the seventh go police officer, which gives me great pride. iman, who is probably one of the strongest and most intelligent people in the world raised three children while being married to a police officer and dealt with all the issues that you have to deal with being married to a police officer. i've been married to the love of my life and a schoolteacher. i have two children, my son as a first-year law student at my daughter is a senior in college. i raised them with san francisco values. personall

. >> a lofty $179,000 a year despite revelations that even after the vegas boondoggle was exposed, the global wining and dining continue. trips to hawaii guam, and napa valley jet setting with his wife and kids on the government a dime. >> fool me once, ok. but again and again? >> it is not just neely. >> every time we turn over a stone we find 50 more and we find things crawling out under them. >> the general services administration has been mired in scandal dating back to the jimmy carter administration. former metro boss now cleaning up the miss. >> we will look at the entire structure of the agency's top to bottom. >> they all agreed the gsa has temporarily given all of washington a big black eye. >> this is outrageous behavior regardless of whose administration it is. >> the inspector general says since the scandal came to light many more whistle-blowers are calling the hot line. leaders are demanding several reimbursed taxpayers for the expenses. leaders will not talk about punishment that might be heading might beneely. >> -- might be coming to jeff neely. >> which cell phone co

unanimously to approve and maintain his amendment, stating that all -- although 50% participation was a lofty goal, it was desirable. regarding entitlement, once a property is designated, certain types of work will require a certain type of search of a gift of appropriateness. that is prior to any building permit or any other entitlement. the requirements for this process begin in section 10.06 on page 19. these are based directly on the charter. at one part of the process but i would like to point out to you is that the planning commission has the authority to modify a certificate of appropriateness within a district when process requires administrative review. there is another process also already in place and we will be codifying it. it will be an effective tool in streamlining the apartments and the age -- hpc review. the standards for review of certificate of appropriateness are located in 10.06b on page 29. this introduces the secretary of the interior standards to article 10. the secretary of interior standards are in nationally accepted a framework that are designed to promote respons

susie loftis. same format and i'll be asking the same questions. >> great. thank you, supervisor kim, supervisor farrell and campos. i am honored to be nominated by the mayor to serve on the police commission. i will tell you a bit about who i am and what i would like to do as a commissioner. i stand before you as a potential commissioner, a mother of three, my husband had to go pick up our daughter. i am a former prosecutor and a former special assistant attorney general for the california department of justice. i am an executive and an innovative non-profit in the bay view. i'm the daughter of maureen roach, a woman who, while not born in the united states, love this city more than any other. mom would regularly remind us of the few things, we were lucky to be born in san francisco where we were injured our freedom. i remember her taking my sister and die to golden gate park. she would tell us about the day she became the united states citizen. it was among her proudest days. she told us that there were many others that would never have that opportunity an

and so this first year was really a test of what this lofty goal ordinance would do if we all concentrated on the seriousness of performance rather than words. so we all got together and we all not only looked at ourselves in the face, we actually made agreements with companies like elations to really get accurate reports, with the labor units to really bear down on the trades that were going to be welcome, really bear down on our training programs to get the preapprenticeship programs up and running and then we went to work with our communities, all of our communities to make sure

and so this first year was really a test of what this lofty goal ordinance would do if we all concentratedn the seriousness of performance rather than words. so we all got together and we all not only looked at ourselves in the face, we actually made agreements with companies like elations to really get accurate reports, with the labor units to really bear down on the trades that were going to be welcome, really bear down on our training programs to get the preapprenticeship programs up and running and then we went to work with our communities, all of our communities to make sure our doors were open and to make sure that their anticipations could actually be met. all of that working together has produced this final report that we're handing out today of one year worth of performance and i want to announce today that after the first year, we have hit not just the 20% goal that we had anticipated we would try to do, but because of the very deliberate work of the departments, the unions, the apprenticeship programs, the and all working together, we have accomplished 34% of all work in local h

i think $4 million or 50% is a very lofty and ambitious number, and i think we would be putting ourselves in financial risk by supporting that proposition as we move forward, and i think we should really give this two-year private a chance, and we can see the generation of writers ship, and also, young people able to access so many of the great things we have in the city. thank you for your time, and i want to thank the commission folks are being here and being consistent and coming to the meetings. i know you have to hear them all, but it speaks to their support, as well. thank you. [applause] chairman brinkman: thank you, supervisor. >> i appreciate the work you are doing around this. i have to tell you, free muni for all kids actually encourages families to ride muni, and that is what we want. think of those families that will join them, and that is what i look for, not just our public school kids but all kids and their families, and i see that when i see people coming on the weekend, going to movies, the parks, all of our museums. i see families, and this is what free muni for all kid

taking a step back, it is one thing to say from a lofty perspective, i want to support a company that offers a benefit. who would say no to that? but if you actually took a look at what the budget analyst says, what ab 31 says, b corporations -- that is a very broad definition. what does that mean if i. a product i market to underserved communities? does that make me qualified? i suppose there is just a desire for me to better understand, are we capturing a beneficial corp.? the discomfort for me is why we are providing this economic benefit on an organization where i do not know if the benefit is necessarily as tight as we would like. at the very least, let's deal with benefit corporation that are regionally impact all. that is just my thought on it. supervisor chiu: i am happy to suggest, if we could, if the committee wants to move forward with this, to put in those amendments to limit this to a three-year program that would require another affirmative vote by the board of supervisors to continue at the end of three years. i think i would suggest that the three-year time period, thr

i have often in the deep stillness of a summer sabbath stood all alone upon the lofty banks of that noble bay and traced with saddened heart and tearful eye the countless number of sails moving off to the mighty ocean. the sight of these always affected me powerfully. my thoughts would compel utterance. and there with no audience but the almighty, i would pour out my soul's complaint in my rude way with an apostrophe to the moving multitude of ships. if you ever go glance at douglass' narrative, he then quotes. he puts his words in quotes as though he is quoting his teenage memory. and it reads, "he speaks to the ships." you are loose from your moorings and are free. i am fast in my chains and am a slave. you move merrily before the gentle gale and i sadly before the bloody whip. you are freedom swift winged angels and fly around the world. i am confined in bands of iron. oh, that i was were free. oh, i were on one of your gallant decks and under your protecting wings. alas, betwixt you and me, the turbid waters roll. go on. go on. oh, that i could also go. could i but swim? if i could bu

sports team coach or even a chief executive of a company or of a military leader, but someone with a lofty transformative division taking the american people to new des city tagss that the people themselves might not be entirely

say, sports team coach or even a chief executive of a company or military commander but someone of lofty transformative vision we might say today taking the american people to new and distant destinations the people themselves might not even be entirely aware they want to go. slightly more prosaic, wilson began the familiar practice increasingly debasing republican government. namely the in-person state of the union address to joint session of congress. and he did that in large part to try assert the mastery of the presidency over congress to is implement congress it is a leading institution or center of gravity in the american politics. prior to wilson almost all restrained office than governor. today you wouldn't think that if you think about presidents compared to governors, right? and so today our president is expected to be a miracle worker. we owed to gene healey at the indicate owe institute of dredging up the sentiment from herman finer, political scientist in the kennedy era at the university of chicago who wrote the following. the presidency is the incarnation of the american p

i'm in it to serve the public cause it gives me satisfaction i know their needs but alongside these lofty aspirations are some murky allegations the news has been charged with attempted murder intimidation assaulting a public servant and armed rioting he says he's not guilty of the charges but he's not the only candidate in this year's municipal elections facing serious allegations coke or things of the association for democratic reform about fifteen to twenty per cent of candidates from both major political parties have a criminal background many actually have pending cases involving serious allegations like murder kidnapping extortion and robbery and actually in a recent local election ten family candidates were actually campaigning from and shale. out of the one hundred thirty nine candidates in delhi's municipal election the nisha has the second highest number of charges pending against him but he says the allegations are bogus and that on a general level the problem in india isn't as serious as it sounds. with. there's no truth in the arch it's a conspiracy i was in fact fighting for

say, sports team coach or even a chief executive of a company or military commander but someone of lofty transformative vision we might say today taking the american people to new and distant destinations the people themselves might not even be entirely aware they want to go. slightly more prosaic, wilson began the familiar practice increasingly debasing republican government. namely the in-person state of the union address to joint session of congress. and he did that in large part to try assert the mastery of the presidency over congress to is implement congress it is a leading institution or center of gravity in the american politics. prior to wilson almost all presidents fulfill constitutional requirement to fulfill information on the union as the phrase in the text by sending letters to congress and publishing them in the newspaper. well, wilson created spectacle we know today which all presidents followed with one or two minor exceptions and i -- i hate -- as much as i hate to say it, mag news as rush limbaugh calls him, contributed to the degradation to the state of the union spee

still, even apple lovers concede the shares, particularly at lofty levels, are vulnerable. and some analysts say competitors know apple is most vulnerable on pricing. after all, not everyone can pay $600 for a new iphone. others worry the bar is set too high for apple and its innovations. they wonder whether the company can keep coming up with juicy new products. >> that's a lot of pressure on the company to deliver yet another revolution after an ipod, an ipad, an iphone. so the next feat will be tough, and we're not sure it happens this year. >> reporter: here's one more thing for investors to think about-- apple releases its quarterly earnings a week from today. analysts say the company needs to show it sold 35 million iphones and 14 million ipads to make wall street happy. suzanne pratt, "nightly business report," new york. >> tom: apple's volatility over the week is a reminder of just how big the company has gotten, and how influential it can be for any stock index that includes apple shares. as the biggest publicly traded company, at over $500 billion, it represents t