i personally have been working at luxor cab and have no problems with luxor cab and think it's the best company to work for as a leased driver like myself. they have done me right. and i am happy to see them have an opportunity to get some of these medallions as well. but i'm here today to talk about the driver. in some of the minutes that were read just now, it sounds like the companis and the dispatch systems are being talked about as if they are the ones picking the people up and they are not. the dispatch service doesn't pick up people. the cab driver picks up people. last week i picked up a psychotic patient from the hospital who freaked out when i wouldn't let her smoke in the taxi. i'm lucky i worked as a psych tech in a houston hospital and i have dealt with that. >> thank you >> is that my time? >> yes, it is. >> i just wanted you to see a real cab driver and i represent hundreds of others. thank you so much. tim santos. john bisteros. >> good afternoon, mr. is on thas. >> hi, thank you for having me my name is tim santos with the company taxi magic. we are the no. 1 electronic

at least not a legal licensed luxor cab. we believe that no. 502 is one of a number of fake luxor cabs that are out there. we have seen some of them. we're extremely concerned about this. it goes well beyond just stealing our business or affecting our band image. what is going to happen when one of these things runs over people or something and the witnesss are all standing there saying yep, it was a luxor cab and it may have well been no. 502. so we urge you onto greater efforts to crackdown on the pure outragous bandit cabs that masquerade as licensed cabs. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> barry toronto. >> good afternoon, chairman nolan. you want to tell me to do what? you have already done that to me. it's too late. i didn't like it. anyway, somebody else did that, at the republican national convention. i did it to show a point. it represent twos things. one, the lack of including us in the public process. the chair is empty because you do things no matter what we say and how much input we give to you, although

i'm an attorney for yellow cab and luxor cab and have been involved as an attorney and advisory since 1989. in the report that supports this particular item, staff reached the conclusion based on various data that there was a significant unmet demand for taxi cab services in san francisco that cannot be met by the current size of the fleet. with my letter of august the 31st to the board and the director of transportation, we submitted additional data, current data from yellow cab and from luxor cab that independently updates supplements and coner firms the conclusions reached by staff in the report that supports this item. if anything, there is a huge unmet underestimated the size of the demand and if anything, the current data through june of this year demonstrates that that demand is literally huge and there are more taxi cabs needed in san francisco than even staff has identified in its report. our data shows that telephone orders are not being met. they can't be processed. they are lost. our data shows that the hails on the streets aren't meeting my better result. one could reason

i first drove in 1969 for looks workout -- luxor cab. paid for favors but i want to give you a scenario. a driver has got his money and he is paying his money in and there's no benefit there or anything else. some throw a buck to the cashier to count them out. a lot of them to the gas man. he will put the gas in and check their oil when they finish. some drivers, not all through the mud driver. the most abuse is there will have to pay extra money to get a good captain drive and i can tell you, i know some other companies, we follow that closely. we fire someone for holding someone out. half of them are assigned shifts and have far side taxis. they're not been told that to anybody. and yet not all but many of them still throughout the book when they throw -- when they're at work. this year -- this says if they're caught doing that, giving someone a dollar, there will be fined $600 and would like to see that revised. chairman nolan: thank you. next speaker? not here. >> are real 13 or 12? >> both together. the one i want to talk about is -

is mandated under the transportation code, as well as it has been for many, many years, yellow cab, luxor cab and the other full service color schemes are mandated to and do provide workers' compensation for all gate and gas drivers. and under the proposed plan by staff, these will be gate and gas operated medallions. under a lease. >> very good. >> thank you. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon. here i come again, this has been since 2007s we have been screaming for taxi cabs at my company and full service companies. we have not basis point able to address our demand for over five years now, if not longer. we are maximum capacity with our system. we're putting up to 82 people a day in our taxi cabs and far exceeds the national average. creating the ability to provide the staff -- the metrics that provide the staff with the paratransit, provides a reliable cab service chart. if you had item 7 on your chart that was sent to you, would tell you the districts by break buon of inadequate cab service. have you gotten a chance to look at that? we forwarded it to you. you can see the numbers are

as also exhibited "in the beautiful reliefs of his reign "in the great colonnade of the temple of luxor-- "we find extreme delicacy of style, "together with character of the utmost refinement. "in the case of a painted scene, vase, or statue, "the primary idea of art is obvious. "but in utilitarian objects,rt-- "as we know too well today-- is not a necessity. "here in this tomb, the artistic value "seems to have been always the first consideration. "what are the great qualities of egyptian art? "they are the sense of pure feeling "that creates an element of serene dignity-- "and herein lies its supreme essence-- "and the extraordinary degree of truth, form, and character "portrayed within such absolute simple and minimum line "by which it stands alone." brown: egyptian art was not immune to outside influence. in the shape of a pomegranate, this vase is witness to egypt's absorptive power. for one thing, silver was extremely rare in egypt. but for another, more importantly, pomegranates were not native to egypt at all, but to western asia. the egyptians adopted foreign designs and styles

. >> it is appalling that a company like luxor or yellow cab is being discussed of extorting driversor. tipping -- for tipping. drivers are not exported to tip anything. it has been a tipping business since i was 8 years old that i can remember where drivers shared with their dispatchers, their call takers about the tip or their gasman for helping them out with cars or whatever. it is not recommended, it is not forced on, is a common courtesy to let individual if they want to share in what they have made for the day with people they work with on a daily basis. that goes back to management exemption. that is one of the items the tac got on the agenda that never got forward -- i do not know if she is our director but she never brought it to your attention after we voted on it to have that done. continuing to do that brings people up on here to speak to you that have experience, educated to know what they're talking about in the cab industry. it is a benefit to everyone of us including you to have that knowledge presented to us. talking about extorting drivers is ludicrous. we have done

we could have started in the caves of lascaux or the temples of luxor.ut if there is a source to which western art and thought constantly refers, it's in ancient greece and rome, which are forever fantasized and idealized, but are with us wherever we look. more than 200 years ago, when the founding fathers of the united states were building their new capital here in washington, they searched for a visual style which would embody their democratic ideals, and they found it in greece and rome in a style which for them, as still for us, embodies harmony, order, and freedom. the west has built its temples to liberty and justice and to money and power in the greek and roman style. you see it in trafalgar square in london and in leningrad in the soviet union. at the root of the western tradition-- in architecture, painting, and sculpture-- is the classical legacy. it's so ingrained in our way of seeing things that we don't notice when we use it in tv, commercials, magazines, coins, even on our credit card. many of our uses for it no doubt would astonish people

companies like mine that have done these services, but i don't know if you give them to me or yellow or luxor or some other company that are just brokering out the medallions to individuals? so i ask you to look objectively at the criteria that use to lease out the medallions. i hope as we go forward that the majority of the medallions continue to be issued and sold to working individual drivers. >> thank you, mr. kim. >> terra housman. [ reading speakers' names ]. >> good afternoon. >> hello. last week when you pulled the rug from out from under the drivers on the waiting list, there were voices of concern among the board members that we have to do something for those drivers soon. i suggest doing this before you do something for those drivers soon is premature. but i suspect you are going to be passing this anyway. so i would like to suggest that in the resolution, that you change some wording. the fifth paragraph down, which is the second "resolved." may i suggest that you either strike the "shall be operated with a hybrids electric compressed natural gas, et cetera." two possibilities. ei

it was named after a scottish antiquarian, alexander henry rhind, who bought it in 1858 in luxor, egypt. in it, he found what amounts to a math textbook full of problems and solutions that addressed everyday issues, things like how to divide ten loaves of bread equally among seven men and much of the algebra needed to build the pyramids. it also contains possibly the earliest written combinatorics problem, and it goes like this: seven houses contain seven cats. each cat kills seven mice. each mouse had eaten seven ears of grain. each ear of grain would have produced seven hekats of wheat. what is the total of all these? a fairly simple math problem... and a very pragmatic combinatorial argument for getting more cats. in fact, it's not that far removed from the st. ives riddle our children at the gate were talking about. both of these problems have elegant solutions by the recognition of the simple pattern of the powers of seven that we see. now, several centuries later, we find slightly more sophisticated kinds of problems and solutions in 6th-century b.c. india. the medical treatise su

as also exhibited "in the beautiful reliefs of his reign "in the great colonnade of the temple of luxor-- "we find extreme delicacy of style, "together with character of the utmost refinement. "in the case of a painted scene, vase, or statue, "the primary idea of art is obvious. "but in utilitarian objects,rt-- "as we know too well today-- is not a necessity. "here in this tomb, the artistic value "seems to ha been alys the first consideration. "what are the great qualities of egyptian art? "they are the sense of pure feeling "that creates an element of serene dignity-- "and herein lies its supreme essence-- "and the extraordinary degree of truth, form, and character "portrayed within such absolute simple and minimum line "by which it stands alone." brown: egyptian art was not immune to outside influence. in the shape of a pomegranate, this vase is witness to egypt's absorptive power. for one thing, silver was extremely rare in egypt. but for another, more importantly, pomegranates were not native to egypt at all, but to western asia. the egyptians adopted foreign designs and styles of

his followers killed more than 60 tourists in luxor and cut some of them up horribly and put little messages in their bodies demanding his release, and then of course was 9/11. >> the new egyptian president, mohammad morsi, has vowed to pressure the u.s. to release this man. the justice department has said today the assertion that the blind sheikh may be transferred to egypt is utter garbage. do you think there's any danger that he will be released at any stage, in any capacity? >> i don't take a denial from the justice department as dispositive. the justice department is not likely to be rung in on this if there have been any conversations. i would look rather at what the spokes person for the state department says. maybe she was just having a bad day but she said that we have not had any contact with anybody in senior -- in the egyptian administration recently about this, and we have no plan. now, that is a statement that forgive me, is eight and a half months pregnant. what do you mean, not recently, what do you mean not senior, and what do you mean, you have no plan. have there been disc