i'm merriam i'm with the san francisco municipal transportation agency. i want to take a quick momentum to impress our support it's in the goals around improving the conditions of walking and biking in the city and to reach neighborhood parks. we've been involved for the last two years particularly in the development of the green connections network as well as developing the design and we're excited to encourage more walking and biking so thank you very much for having us >> thank you. >> that concludes my presentation. >> great, thank you. open this up for public comment for. i have two cards (calling names) >> good afternoon commissioners i'm anna i'm from the san francisco parks awe liensz we're one of the 3 nonprofits that kirsten mentioned we worked closely with the planning department for over 24 thousand park advocates in the city that was great to give recommendations go on the routes and look at the routes and sections of city. which consolidated the notes and sent those to the planning department we helped to cooperate open houses and are impres

and good evening, commissioners, neighbors i'm merriam and i am a resident on terrace that abuts right against the baseball field on the lower side of the campus. i took the time to read through the website and the planning and the notice of the public hearing is the first i've heard of any changes on the campus maybe that's because i'm new to the neighborhood and not part of the neighborhood association so i come as an individual i scoured to lock for the details about buildings seven hundred and 8 that are new proposed maintenance buildings right up against my property and explicit find any details 80 how it will impact any property in terms of light and height and sound and use. i look forward to hearing more details maybe from millions if that's the person i need to turn to but i want to point out this is the first time i've heard about any changes and i want to make sure that individuals are also part of the process. thank you very much >> thank you. next speaker >> good evening. my name is john i'm the president of the association i'll have lived near here for 3 years. thank you

." >> this very week, the dictionary, merriam-webster formally, legitimately brought the noun "superpac" into its dictionary, its online unabridged dictionary. have we made our peace with them culturally and politically? >> i mean, the super pacs are here to stay. they just are. and i think that citizens united pretty much set that up. there are super pacs. we have to know how we're going to deal with them. and we also have to say, "are we going to allow anonymous money coming into those super pacs? i think dark money is one area where you can get change and regulation. but if you're going to have all this money going into politics and into elections, at the very least, you can have disclosure. >> one thing i would say from being on this beat and sort of studying the history of it, you often see a sort of swing between scandal and response. you see the system sort of grow, grow, grow, grow, grow and get stuffed with money for so long until finally it pops. being in the middle of this every day, i at least have the feeling that if we're not at one of those moments, man, are we sure ge

. >>> i don't know whether i'm having a private immediating with sheldon and merriam or not.king with the jewish community. i was invited to give a speech there. >> maybe chris christie doesn't know and still doesn't know if he's immediating with sheldon and merriam. he's on a first name basis with them. it's hard to believe he doesn't know if he's meeting with sheldon adelson. >> 93 million reasons to speak to him. >> one of the richest republican donors. that's a small thing. bob, i wanted to ask you, the tone of that, this was combative christie, back in january, he was trying to be contrite christie. you have seen a number of press conferences over the past few years. what did you make of that tone? how different is that from what you have experienced and what was he trying to accomplish? >> going back to the good ole days. he got a good deal of publicity and support when he would take on reporters and justifiably. it looked like that's what he was doing. hey, everything is back to normal. i'm not concerned about this, that was a stupid question. >> do we all agree the ti

. >> reporter: many start with a spelling bee study list of 300 words some of them move on to the merriam-webster000 words divided into section by language of origin. 11-year-old nicholas reads and posts new words on his bedroom door. the day before the regional bee last month his mother took time off work to drill him on spelling lists for several hours. >> we just pick out random words and -- [ spelling ] >> reporter: and nancy got creative. >> kind of motivated by upon any. so, you know, we got out the coin jar and we said, if it was a difficult word, he would get up to like 4 cents if correct but if he missed a difficult word he had to give back a penny. >> reporter: the campbell 7th grader advanced to compete in the national bee. >> to make money? >> yes. >> how much? >> $6. >> reporter: then there's evan from danville a harvard junior. he won the national spelling bee in 2007 after reading the dictionary with his mother jennifer. >> 12 pages a day. we would write down the words that i did not know in notebooks. >> over two years we did go through the dictionary twice. >> reporter: but evan

. >> reporter: many students start with a list of 300 words some of them moving on to the merriam-websterpell it site that contains about 1,000 words divided into sections by language of origin. 11-year-old nicholas hanson reads and posts new words on his bedroom door. the day before the regional written spelling bee last month, his mother nancy took time off work. >> conscientious. >> reporter: to drill him for hours. >> we pick out random words. [ spelling ] >> reporter: and nancy got creative. >> kind of motivated by money. so you know, we got out the coin jar and we said if it was a difficult word you get up to like four cents if he spelled it correctly. if you miss a difficult word you have to give back a penny. >> dissect. >> that's correct. >> reporter: the campbell 7th grader advanced from the regional written bee to compete for a spot in the national bee. his study game paid off two field. >> to make money? >> yes. >> how much? >> $6. >> reporter: then there's evan of danville now a harvard junior. he won the national spelling bee in 2007 after reading the dictionary with his mot

. >>> i don't know whether i'm having a private meeting with sheldon and merriam or not. looked amy schedule yet for tomorrow. >> that's new jersey governor chris christie. he is going to las vegas this weekend. but he told reporters today what he was not sure about was whether he would get a personal one-on-one with, yes, sheldon adelson, he and his wife poured $92 million into superpacs during the 2012 election. sheldon adelson clocks in at one of the richest people in the world with $38 billion. remember back in 2012 when the press marveled at how republican presidential candidate newt gingrich vowed to stay in the race and insisted he wouldn't leave the field after losing major primaries. maybe he was dogged, really determined to see things through. but it didn't hurt that he had a little financial boost courtesy of mr. adelson and his wife. they poured $15 million into a pro-gingrich superpac called winning our future which mainly went toward advertising, a big assist at a time when the gingrich campaign was very short on cash. by late march, adelson decided he lost

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he was from merriam virginia -- marion, virginia. marion is in another world probably.is southwest virginia. who was the congressman was the last congressman -- i would suggest that it took heroic votes to make a difference in this country. he paid for it. pat jennings was his name. [applause] >> in addition to the problem of patients being denied care in the first place, what you have to say about hospitals dragging patients with a serious mental illness when they still need care? that -- that is a big issue. my son was hospitalized twice and both times -- when he was first hospitalized, i visited him and he was under the 48 hour order. he said this is where he needed to be in i realize it now. about six weeks later, we were back in the same situation. he was released within the 48 hours and we had a problem. we took -- by the time we went to the next hospital. he was one of the smartest people i met him he could figure things out. there was no psychiatrist or psychologist he couldn't talk out of or into what other -- whatever he wanted to do. answers to give -- he kne

>> well, you know, every morning when i open up my browser, i look at the merriam-webster word of they's word was susayer and it didn't have my picture next to it pp nobody on the street was as low as what they reported. it was very tough. >> they talked about their margins, not only in fresh fruit, but some of the non-perrishable items, too. it caught a lot of retailers by surprise. is that what happened here? >> i looked at that this morning and said wasn't this obvious that this was going away problem? walmart was down and dirty on pricing. target was tough on pricing. costco does sell apparel. macy's was down and dirty. everybody was tough on pricing. so i guess it shouldn't have been a surprise that it was tough on them, as well. we see their sales monthly. their sales looked fine, but inside of those sales, the mix was obviously very tough. and february was okay on the release just now on sales. it wasn't great. >> and i guess they don't give stuff on these monthly sales releases. they just don't talk about the margins or what they have to do. what surprises me is the stock has