my name is david is i'm also a student at lowell lowell high school and i live in visitacion valley and everyday i go to the school and transfer at balboa park to take the 29 but the thing with the 29 it serves many high schools want for example it goes. >> >> [inaudible] high school and balboa and lincoln and colleges and city college and [inaudible] and [inaudible] valley middle school. every time i take the morning buses i always have skip at least one bus pass me by to at least get on the bus because after that many buses come by and i don't really have time to get on a crowded -- i can't get on a crowded bus because many times bus drivers will skip you or push you out because they don't want you behind the yellow line so there is an issue with equity here and the 29 is serving many schools here but the time to stop isn't enough because the run time is eight to 10 minutes and that time isn't enough because most of the students really want to take the bus at a certain time to get to school. for us at lowell we get to school around 730 or 725 and get to school at the time and many tak

powell i understand tagalog but i don't know how to speak it i never learned next year i'm going to lowell they don't give any language courses involving filipino or tagalog i wish they had it there's a population of 2 thousand seven hundred students that go driver's license and one hundred and 89 kids from there is filipino it is about 7 percent of the whole school so i feel like we should have it we need to take at least two years of our language to go to any uc we have tagalog or filipino it is going to be the first to take classes and have an externals of learning the language. >> thank you for your time. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please >> (speaking foreign language.) >> commissioner i'll provide translation this is robert the father's of a student another betsey carmichael and going to west bay after-school program he is thanking the commissioners and the school district for linking to the requests we're very happy at the additional allocation for the filipino youth their requesting that well perhaps this could be increased sometime in the future he is sayin

concentrate our work and most of the high schools we have been in since i have been there except lowell high school and we focus our efforts because we're three folks and have a contracted person as well within the neighborhoods i mentioned and usually one or two middle schools per academic year. >> okay. great. thank you very much. i appreciate it. >> thank you. i wanted to call up professor and others. >> i am with the lead educator in the project survive program and proud to stand with the sisters against rape and we work with them and sf program and we started 20 years ago. we offer workshops through peer educators. over the 20 years we have served 80,000 students through 4,000 work shops. in addition to the standard workshop we offer bilingual workshops in english with spanish, cantonese and mandarin so i read the thousands of evaluations that we get from the workshops and in the early years what i read over and over and over again from our students at city college was go to the high schools. okay. it took some time. we went to the community based organizations which are the heart

lowell and welcome to san francisco and thank you very much for chu's san francisco for this wonderful installation. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> and to the nc gallery for the work to make that a successful display in making oversee works the display is a credible display for a incredibly city like san francisco. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> over the years the civic center plaza has been the stink tangible is leading artist like patrick duarte and now wong lee. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> those installations exist local resident and draw tourist as the mayor mentioned draws economic terrorist which in turn helps the local artist and art organizations to thrive in san francisco. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> bringing such high quality artwork into the sacred and public spaces send see the message that art is on a essential part of san francisco. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> we look forward to continuing this tradition of showcasing some of the best contemporary art from around the world and making it assessable for everyone to joy. >> (speaking foreign lang

college and finishing her last year and aaron is ready for high school and she actually got into lowell's a scomblip. the international high school what would i do without kip and if my daughter was here she'd say if it wasn't for kip and i want to say how much our neighborhoods need kip and that's the word of day thank you very much >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello, i'm rep kip bayview i've been there 6 years i've had the opportunity to work an, an amazing amateur of people that are wholeheartedly contacted to kip's mission to get kids hooked into education and splan and go to college bayview is an 200 underserved area high crime and high drop out rate and high unemployment blight is definitely fulfilling something that no other school provides for our community me being the athletic director i love sports everyone knows i loving baseball and go grace but sports allows each and every kid to allow them to build rindz and bonds and mold certain characteristics they'll obtain in college in the future sometimes, i feel like a lot of our teachers we are a bunch of eddy manufacturi

. >> i believe i'm next donald green i'm in lowell heights i've been observing the number of gas stations in the city i know the board of supervisors passed a code change some years back concerning the use of service station the dispositions are changing my concern we should have a citywide review of the gas stations and the policy towards increasing pumps that increases or reduced the price and the attractivenessness of auto and the public safety from increasing traffic in and out of gas stations the citywide study there are 73 stations in almost all parts of the city 19th avenue is one so if you guys could have the planning department took a longest view in addition to look at some you'll have an overall apply supply in the city if you want to have a larger number of becomes or smaller and where and how that's my suggestion i saw supervisor farrell yesterday he thought it was a good idea thank you very much. >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm john of todco group i'd like to update you on some important positive progress we're making in the central selma area which you see on the on th

teacher support the theefks has been reduce in the repair line item those funds were earmarked for the lowellrack project is it so no longer planned the second in the stem budget we have shifted $210,000 from the pathways line item to increase the support for reducing class sizes in eight grade math total ftes dedicated to this 5.3 ftes personalized pathways will no longer be in the budget as the priority is in reducing the size in eight grade math and the next change is a clarification ever distinction we've included a fte african-american council to support african-american students and that has been changed to a student advisors to better articulate the responsibilities of that position person will still be working with the superintendent for african-american achievement that positions is for targeted support for african-american students to increase their access to college and career activities for college this advisory will provide other support so for african-american and high school black student units fourth change a shifting of $1,800,000 plus within the multi lingual paths program i

lowell's cousin lauren remembers lowell as a shy sweet young man. she said lowell's parents george and claa hardmeyer grieved lowell's death until their own in the 1990's. merlin peterson. merlin was from fargo and he was born on june 19 1936. he served in the air force's eighth tactical fighter wing. he was 35 years old when he went missing march 29, 1972. merlin was one of nine children, six boys and three girls. five of the boys served their country. three in world war ii and two in vietnam. merlin's brother bob remembers him as a wonderful boy who people couldn't help but love. bob jokes that merlin had personality to burn. merlin went missing when his plane was shot down by a surface to air missile. 14 years later in 1986, his body was finally recovered. years later his family was finally able to lay him to rest in arlington national cemetery. these are just a few stories that i hope sharing today with the senate and sharing today on the floor of the senate will remind us all of the tremendous sacrifice that not only these young men have provid

and this year the department of public works will be hosting the event this saturday at 9:00 am at lowell high school. kick off there. and just in case, you know, you want to do more cleaning, the greater west portal area, it's also having their cleanup day at west portal playground at 10:00. today colleagues, i'm requesting a hearing to get an update basically on the work to prevent chronic absenteeism. at our san francisco public schools. years ago i had authored a policy to look at this whole issue of chronic absenteeism in the public schools. and when i say "chronic absenteeism" ksh just so people know what i'm talking about -- it's really defined by students who have been absent at least 10% or more of the school year. and at the time when i introduced it, people didn't understand the impact this has, because most of this actually occurs when kids are young -- kindergarten, first, second grade. in fact, one school had 40% of the kids missing, which would be labeled chronic absentee. the impact is this -- when we look closely at which schools were doing well and which schools were hav

facility has a lot of money it should be spent open facilities our track fields little d rings at lowell our facilities as i last remembered they're our facilities i think in the facilities department their financial responsibility to do something so i think that peace is for one thing and facilities is for another and filling the ground for facilities it should come out of that budget with that said, i want to thank the athletics department for the pe spfltd in every high school i mean every middle school in the week to i think it takes another ftes for every student to have contact with the staff that's our goal but thank you everything christina one thing you got the most beat up and the most work to do and the juggling to you never said that those are my words by all of us me included i want to say thank you, kristin a it exciting we have more money it is a good problem to have i hope that problem increases quite frankly and not you'll on you but this is an opportunity to finally keep some the promises to the parent and students around our languages and having them militant lingual a

my name is helen sang and i am currently a senior at lowell high school, a peer leader from young asian women against violence and a program community center. before joining this program i had no idea what rape culture was and what affirmative consent is so i have to say that from what i remember in middle school and high school sucks in health education. topics related like this were never mentioned. i remember always being taught how to protect myself and also being taught how to help my partner put on a condom before having sex and i feel because of these focus -- these issues and a lot of female students feel victimized and at fault. it was mentioned earlier that most calls to the confidential hot line are made by adults and i believe one of the reasons that the current health curriculum focuses on too much of accepting rape culture instead of fixing these issues in society. instead of teaching our youth not to get raped why not teach them not to rape and hurt others and i suggest we should focus on targeting the root issues of sexual harassment and teach them about these issues as

in a letter by the missionary lucy chase to a friend ana lowell up in massachusetts, her friend to see passion arriving in cities like norfolk and other places. what was going on? she said that these refugees tumbled amongst boxes, beds tables and tubs. the little ones with shining eyes and frolicsome ways singing jubilee for the whole community while the more anxious parents sit on table corners or lean against brick walls to unset eltled in the face of an uncertain future. she said my sister-in-law saw many reunions yesterday. one woman came to her leading a girl of 18 and said see my daughter. they sold her away from me when she was just old enough to rock a cradle and see how they done her bad. see how they've cut her up from head to her feet. she is scarred just as you see her now. regardless of the legal restrictions of the emancipation proclamation that limited freedom only to enslaved people in confederate territory these enslaved people who were in union occupied territories took their freedom into their own hands and continued to flee to union lines and to force their way int

you have riot police with their shields both lowell police and state troopers displayed out here. we have not seen the national guard since earlier this evening. i don't know if they have been part of this effort to push people back out of this intersection. but they have -- if not made arrests or if not stopped the protests, they have completely scattered them from the area which was something like a block party for most of the evening tonight. and now, back almost entirely under police control, we do still hear the helicopters overhead and we have seen some police vehicles continuing to crisscross the side streets looking for people. but as we are now back much closer to the main event here, if you will, we're not seeing those protesters and other folks out on the street. mostly just reporters and the streets at least in this area have quieted down significantly from really just 20 or 30 minutes ago when it was imper active for us to get out of there -- imperative for us to get out of there to not have to breathe the gas that was being sprayed to dispurse these folks. >> live in

in a letter by the missionary lucy chase to a friend ana lowell up in massachusetts, her friend to see passion arriving in cities like norfolk and other places. what was going on? she said that these refugees tumbled amongst boxes, beds tables and tubs. the little ones with shining eyes and frolicsome ways singing jubilee for the whole community while the more anxious parents sit on table corners or lean against brick walls to unset eltled in the face of an uncertain future. she said my sister-in-law saw many reunions yesterday. one woman came to her leading a girl of 18 and said see my daughter. they sold her away from me when she was just old enough to rock a cradle and see how they done her bad. see how they've cut her up from head to her feet. she is scarred just as you see her now. regardless of the legal restrictions of the emancipation proclamation that limited freedom only to enslaved people in confederate territory these enslaved people who were in union occupied territories took their freedom into their own hands and continued to flee to union lines and to force their way int

concentrate our work and most of the high schools we have been in since i have been there except lowell high school and we focus our efforts because we're three folks and have a contracted person as well within the

jim lowell what's your version? a garden variety sell-off? >> my version is that the earnings reports didn't give us enough of a catalyst top advance market gains much farther. the economic reports continue to maintain sort of a slow growth not no growth environment which is net good for long-term investors. there are certainly no obvious headwinds. strong dollar i don't think accelerates from here. certainly not based oen what we saw in the first quarter. we put transitory issues of bad weather. port shutdowns at least in relative terms behind us. i think this is sort of a market in search of momentum either to the up or downside. today it looks like it is just choosing to run to the downside. >> mark, you think that downside run could continue here as we witness a 10% pullback. first correction in four years going on? >> yeah. it's been a while. it's been at least 3.5%. typically you see a 10% correction at least once every 12 months. we are looking at -- we do think there are some headwinds. we think right now you have a deteriorating earn

. >> well in all fairness, can i just say, i got to mention lowell. >> jimmy: yep. >> i got to mentionl the people on my team, because they are all good. >> jimmy: no, no. they are all talented on there, but please. [ laughter ] >> that's because he's from upstate new york. >> jimmy: i know and so am i. >> and so are you. >> jimmy: yeah, exactly. more with pharrell when we come back, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ we take great care with what goes into our chalice. only maize, hops, barley... and water. and because water is so important to us, we've partnered with water.org to help those who don't have access to it. each limited edition chalice provides five years of clean drinking water to women in the developing world. ♪ undisciplined overwaterer. she claims he's a cruel underwaterer. with miracle-gro moisture control potting mix, plants only get water when they need it. fight ended. or shifted? miracle-gro. life starts here. the redesigned ford mustang? ♪ ♪ ♪ sometimes when we touch. ♪ it makes every thing more exciting. ♪ even this song. ♪ ♪ ♪ (under loud music) this is the

let's talk shall we in our "closing bell" exchange here today, jim lowell from advisor investments. steven parker from jpmorgan private bank. hank smith from haverford trust. heather hughes from sun america trust and our buddy, rick santelli, in chicago. there he is. jim lowell we talked about the tradition the early part of april the market might struggle as people sold stocks to pay their taxes. then the second half of april might do better as people get their refunds and buy stocks. seems to be working here doesn't it? >> well that may be part of it. i think what we are really seeing is we can now keydeclare an earnings trend. whether it was port shutdowns, currency issues geopolitical issues. business management seems to be weathering this soft patch here in the u.s. reasonably well and also tactically capable of engaging reasonably well in areas where currency headwinds are present. i think what we're basically seeing the market react to is there hasn't been a significant reflection in the earnings of a major slowdown in at least slow growth, not no growth here at home and glob

we'd be breaking three guinness book records regarding the stock market. >> jim lowell. i can't wait to hear your response to that. >> well if this is a secular bear market then call me bearish because we've been able to make gains every year the last six years. i'll take that kind of a bear market any day. i think the real concern i would have -- >> it's a bad connection. >> go ahead. is that investors would definitely hear that and fear that this is a marketplace that they just don't want any part of. that would be i think a profound mistake. both here in the u.s. where it is getting tougher to pick your way through to good return success. we've been relatively bullish on europe, now even more cautiously optimistic about what we're seeing going on inside the eurozone, inside japan's market place. so if this is a secular bear market count me in. >> heather hughes you want to add to that? >> i don't know. i'll be jumping up and down if we get a 20% to 30% decline in the market. i guess if you're short the market, you would be. with valuations nearing 17 times in the u.s.

i noticed in the picture of senator menendez walking into court, his defense lawyer is abby lowell. >you reported yesterday that menendez has already stepped down from his position as the ranking democrat on the foreign relations committee and very outspoken in iran and cuba. >> fighting to keep his seat and no intention yet to resign from the senate but in leadership that's where he was able to sort of give cover to fellow democrats by saying i'll step out of the lime light in this important leadership position temporarily. other democrats are saying let's let the court proceed but republicans in terms of not office holders but republican groups are saying he should resign. the new jersey paper the star laej ledger is calling for him to resign. pete has been covering for the past few years, while we have expected theymy come at some point, he's been under a cloud for three years. he's ham perred politically for sure. he's a vocal critic of the administration on iran. odd timing but that's -- >> indeed. >> that the iran deal is unfolding in switzerland. for menendez he's going to have

during one of the lowell's the activity, i went -- lulls inactivity, another group of five, up to them and talented them and accuse this group of stealing their television. you live on very little money but a lot of loot. when anyone would want to fight over a television where there is no electricity is beyond me. how did they solve this? by filling this guy's stomach with bullets. they wanted to take our taxi. this is the fellow yelling for the driver. it is rare they have been that's. -- they and its -- bayonetts. this is how you learn to work with the best afghans translators, drivers. this driver was renowned for his fearlessness. he had a cutoff switch underneath the dashboard so when he said no, the car is not working, he would turn it over and it would make a lot of noise . they said, ok, we are out of here. they put the guy in a will barrel and moved him. these are the drivers and the relationships as a journalist, you need to make. i would've never thought he had a cutoff switch underneath. walking around kabul in 1993 you would be amazed what you came across. to this day, i c

or is it made by the masters of the lowell mills or the farm girl who says i'm going to town to get meney? is there really a difference in mentality between those who appear to be in command and the rest of us or is it just a difference in means? does that make sense? >> i would vote for a difference in means. in my work, i looked at a tennessee farmer who has hardly anything to his name who was heading off to illinois -- to get to missouri. he stops in illinois. they say why not stop in illinois and have a great life? this guy wants land in missouri to own property and human beings, but he has no money. he is aspirational from his bones. i think rogan falls more in that line. in chapter three, he talks about how land hunger is what defined early america. he says the virgin land gave america its identity. ownership gave americans land. in his view, this land hunger is somehow tied to what it means to be an american. unlike europe, we have a surplus of it. of course, we had to steal it from other people. but there was an opportunity to gain land that was not available in the old world.

lowell wyker happened to be a neighbor of mine in old town, and he and i had had some conversations, so he knew that there were some collections like this. and as i tried to explain to the senate when i revealed this information, it was assembled by a fellow by the name of george bell who was anything but a -- sort of a tough guy. he was a mild-mannered, very successful businessman who was working on a dollar a year sort of basis at the white house just volunteering. and colson had given him -- one of many assignments was to gather the names of the people who were less than our friends. it kind of on the shortened down to the enemies list. it was people we wanted to make sure didn't get invited to white house functions. it expanded out. at one point there's no question it gets holliman's attention, and he thinks it's a great idea to get sort of an enemies project going where we can use the power of the federal government to screw these people, in essence. so there's pressure -- and i actually learned much more about this by going through files of holliman's aides, higby, strong and c

nobody is trading at that lowell yet. >> are you telling me we are going to get back to 2 1/2. >> we'lles. there's been a lot of volatility. concerns around greece for example, and the whole federal reserve posture on rates. when you've got uncertainty and you have a big blowout in earnings, the question is always going to be how sustainable. >> right. i thought yesterday on the call you addressed potential up side opportunity when you talked about how much the e increased and what the opportunities are for the return on that given a lot of things that haven't taken place including a rise in rates. >> we feel terrific. there is one thing how shareholders bought or sold yesterday. another thing how we feel as an instant substitution. we like our strategy. we clearly believe there is more up side. that's what we laid out in our six-point plan beginning of this year. the's coming together. we had a nice capital plan approved by the federal reserve. increased our dividend 50%. increased our buyback. these are all positives. the firm's got momentum. medium long term i'm very confident. what

capital improvement was the largest capital improvement any museum in ohio history supported some 1,100 lowell jobs. the project injected more than $360 million direct cannily into our state's economy, the impact will be felt for years to come. a it approaches the centennial celebrations next year, the cleveland museum of airport will continue to attract visitors no from cuyahoga county and around the world. 2013, 600,000 people visited that museum, more than a third of them were outside of ohio. these -- more than heavy million visitors were responsible for $80 million in consumer spending in the city. the first director, frederick alan whiting believed a museum should serve not as an ivory tower but an educational institution. he wanted to bring art to people not just into the museum. the museum established its first education department, they held in 1919 the first annual exhibition of cleveland artists and craftsmen, became money as the may show and showcased local artists for the next 73 years. dr. griswold continues that tradition of community engagement. when i let with him he told me l

during one of the lowell's the activity, i went -- lulls inactivity, another group of five, up to them talented them and accuse this group of stealing their television. you live on very little money but a lot of loot. when anyone would want to fight over a television where there is no electricity is beyond me. how did they solve this? by filling this guy's stomach with bullets. they wanted to take our taxi. this is the fellow yelling for the driver. it is rare they have been that's. -- they and its -- bayonetts. this is how you learn to work with the best afghans translators, drivers. this driver was renowned for his fearlessness. he had a cutoff switch underneath the dashboard so when he said no, the car is not working, he would turn it over and it would make a lot of noise . they said, ok, we are out of here. they put the guy in a will barrel and moved him. these are the drivers and the relationships as a journalist, you need to make. i would've never thought he had a cutoff switch underneath. walking around kabul in 1993 you would be amazed what you came across. to this day, i canno

. >>> let's bring in mia bloom from the university of massachusetts and lowell. with me. we have not heard a great deal about al shabaab recently. we have talked a lot about isis. first of all in broad terms, how dangerous is this group, and perhaps more importantly, do they pose a significant threat outside the area of somalia and kenya? >> well you know so we have heard quite a bit about al shabaab, if you're focused on africa. i think richard engel is correct, perhaps we have focused a lot on isis but like what happened at west gate mall al shabaab issued warning to university a few days before. there is a certain pattern we have been seeing as far as them giving a warning and executing the attack. biggest difference between west gate and what we have seen at ger east a, in west gate mall they were allegedly prepared to be suicide bombers but didn't actually carry it out, whereas at ger east a, they told the hostages we are here to kill and here to die. so al shabaab has been engaged in suicide bombing through this whole period they have been using women. but

jim lowell from advisers investment. rick san telltelli joins us as well. oils if we believe the wisdom that a deal with iran pushes the price lower since we're going to bring more oil on to the market from iran, is that good or bad for the u.s. equity market do you think? >> i think it's a net positive. there's a region in this country, the oil belt will suffer a bit more. overall for a consumer-driven economy to be able to sustain these kinds of lower prices i think will provide the impetus for consumers to spend more. their income is rising their savings is rising. we know from this week's spending report it was a little bit disappointing. that's like compressing a spring. consumers are impatient. as long as purchasing power thanks to low inflation remains good spending power remains elevated due to lower oil prices, i think it's a boone. >> danni, where do you think oil is heading and how significant is it that the trade deficit due to the drop we're seeing is at its lowest since 2009? >> it's interesting to see, kelly. oil has a little way to go. the c

this time we spoke with them in the new home being built for celeste outside lowell massachusetts.ve to pinch myself. you know i wake up and think it's not real. the only way i could have done this is because of all the outpouring of support whether it was services or money or you know donations. >> reporter: the house which should be done by mid-summer has wider doorways for her wheelchair. the elevator which was donated will give her access to the whole house. >> this is going to be my sanctuary where i can continue to heal. >> reporter: we were there in florida when she got her new feet alongside jeff beauaumann. >> they allowed me to have a more natural work. >> reporter: as celeste learns to walk again, sydney ran again. her sister remains her inspiration. >> i feel like the last year was all about figuring out how to get up and live. and the second year has been a lot about healing internally. for her whole family for all of us. >> reporter: that family now includes two service dogs to help her move around celeste has sebastien. >> he's my gentle giant. >> reporter: and sydne

this time we spoke with them in the new home being built for celeste outside lowell massachusetts. >>ve to pinch myself. i wake up and i think, it's not real. the only way i could have done this is because of all the outpouring of support, whether it was services or money or you know donations. >> the house, which should be done by mid summer has wider doorways for her wheelchair. the elevator which was donated, will give celeste access to the whole house. >> this is going to be my sanctuary where i can continue to heal. >> we were there in orlando florida, when she got her new feet alongside fellow survivor jeff bowman. >> we were one of the first people to get these feet and they've allowed me to have a more natural kind of walk. >> as celeste learned to walk again, carmen kept running. >> it's been you know sort of therapy for me. >> her sister remains her inspiration. >> i feel like the first year was all about just figuring out how to get up and live and the second year has been a lot about healing internally for her whole family, for all of us. >> that family now includes two se