i think that second mic right next to you does a better job. i'm going to turn that one on and if you don't mind. >> yeah. >> my name is erik tang. i'm the owner of the property. i request the board to consider granting the extension for this project. my intention is to complete this project and i know there was concern regarding the -- the -- the viability of this project. we have been trying to build this project for the last few years and we were in and out of the contract and working with different nonprofit groups to do the financing and -- i been talking to -- to the lender recently that -- that -- by utilizing the financing, we could -- they could basically finance this project up to 90% of the cost. we ran numbers. as a matter of fact we ran numbers yesterday that -- that you know the number of -- the number worked out and it is enough to like -- to -- to fill out this project. and obviously the process taobve about a year, but that would give me time right now to finish up the structural report and proceed with the construction. presid

yes. >> got to get this mic fixed. we are going to have jeff come up and present an award. >> all right. that's a hard act to follow. let me tell you. we have to go smart. every year we honor one of our own who is distinguished himself or herself as a hero for our youth. a warrior for our youth. in san francisco, that's a high calling. so many of you do this workday in and day out. it's difficult to choose one individual. but we have. and the person that we are honoring today is john osaki. now you know, when you meet john, you might think he is privileged. the japanese youth counsel was a grass roots organization in japan town created by jeff mory. john was actually a participant in the program. he came up and i got his first summer job? gcyc. he has worked in early childhood development. substance abuse prevention. they have expanded the range to include college access. substance abuse. youth employment and youth leadership. just to give you a sense of how many people are served there are over 8 thousand children fro

president newlin: use the other mic. >> officer takens, central police department department standing in for officer matthias, the regular permit officer. i discussed this with officer matthias prior and basically those conditions we'd like to see placed on for obvious reasons. we have residents in the close area and we don't want quite that much sound to be disruptive to the neighborhood any more than it already is. colosseo is a nice restaurant. it's not a personal issue. we don't want microphones in the hands of the opera singer. if you're an opera singer, you can be well heard without a microphone and we don't want the singing amplified. we don't have a problem with the background music amplified. that's basically our position. president newlin: o.k. >> isn't it true, though, that the doors are to remain closed at all times and are still subject to the sound ordinance, that music can't emanate from the establishment? >> that's right. but not to increase the possibility of serving the peace, we would like to see those conditions placed on the entertainment at this time. >> i suppos

right into the mic. yeah, a lot of times commercial spaces what we find out people get a lease and apply for permits and there might be an issue with accessibility issues. i seen some people lose their lease because they can't meet their requirements. >> that's a good point that the disabled access issues where the interface of the sidewalk hits the front of the building, you have to have a front door with a level landing outside. however, the building code allows you an alternative with you have the power door buttons. if you have one you don't need to have a level landing you can have a slopped sidewalk up to the door. and if you have that you don't neat the strike side clearance. if you have a button you don't have to worry about the door opening pressure which is strictly regulated. the power door operators. everybody likes them much the disabled community likes them and they resolve problems at the interface between sidewalk and building. yes, ma'am. >> i have a cookie question, do you know where we

i need to you speak into the mic. thank you. >> my name is kathy. given the city wide recycling program and blue bin pickups, i think the recycling center -- >> hold that mic up. >> should i start over? >> yes, start over. we'll give you a minute. >> given the city wide recycling program and weekly blue bin pickups, i think the recycling center should be moved to a more suitable and industrial location. the site on the east end of the golden gate park would be for vibrant community garden and contribute to the nearby neighborhoods. thank you. >> please come forward. i have called all of the names on all of the cards i have received. so if you would like to speak and your name has not been called, please come on up. thank you. >> david. have i not spoken on this item yet. i think it's appropriate that we're discussing c.r.v. and red herrings since it's hanukkah and time of redemption. but in addition to the previous comments that i made about environmental review, there again is nothing on your calendar item that speaks to the environmental review on

i will repeat the question back so you don't have to get up and use the mic unless you want to. okay. and let's see. we can -- this hall is set up for 250 people it looks like and we have awful 15 of us. so, thank you for being here. i understand they are having a big class here later and that's why we are in here. it will probably be full by the end of the lecture. >> should i give my background. >> sure karl. >> everyone knows laurence's background. mine is construction if restaurants for 10 years. i'm a partner in 3 restaurants in the city. vitaken restaurants from beginning to end from business plan all the way to opening. >> what is the end. beginning to end? >> beginning to end where i lead the situation. [laughter]. i don't do operations. we watch out for the operations, when we are laying out a restaraunt. >> uh-huh. speaking of beginning to end this morning as i was thinking about bringing stuff in to holdup and talk about i was looking at this book cook book of famous san francisco restaurants. it was published in the 80's. and i looked at the restaurants and most of t

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where's the mic? i guess over there, over there. >> thank you. >> yeah. wait for the mic. wait for the mic. >> ralph nader said that he thinks now the way things have gone with the rich owning the media message that our only salvation is a good kauai that's -- guy that's rich. so my question is do you know any really good rich guys like teddy roosevelt or fdr? [laughter] >> oh, teddy roosevelt's awful. >> well, he -- >> well, i love ralph, and i actually slogged my way through the book. and i, but i did ask him when in human history the oligarchic class had ever stopped in to -- stepped in to save anyone, and he sort of mumbled something about fighting robber-barons, and then he said something that sort of broke my heart. he said, look, it's all we have left. and, and ralph who has a kind of eternal optimism maybe that i don't share, i think, was really seriously trying to appeal to enlightened figures of the oligarchic class which is why he names them, although i can't figure out why yoko ono was in there. [laughter] but i, it's not worked. the rich take care of the rich.

. >> en mic aso no sucede, pero de sucederme me gustaría que mis hijos tuviera todos los derechos. >>urriendo, es que los estados estén buscando estableecer normas a nivel estatal. >> por lo pronto doña blanca da su apyo a los de la cámara. >> espero que nos ayuden para sacar adelante a nuestros hijos. >> una familia de inmigrantes que hizo titulares al enfrentarse a la deportación están tranquilos por ahora. >> elizabeth y su mamá tienen motivos para celebrar, las autoridades de inmigración postergaron su deportación por seis meses. >> la decisión fue motivo de alegria. >> me siento muy feliz y le doy las gracias a toda la comunidad por ayudarme. >> hace 10 años, elizabeth su hermano y su mamá llegaron de perú. habían obtenido la psotergación que venía en enero, y ahora se postergó hasta julio. >> fue un día fenomenal. >> los está ayudando el centr counitario de la calle dolores. >> hay muchos estudiantes indocumentados que serán deportados si nada apsa. >> el único juez latino de la suprema corte dice que se retira, su último día será el 28 de febrero, el magistrado iba a cumplir un

first of all, we have mics so please wait for a mic and identify yourself when you ask a question. the gentleman in the far corner. >> thanks, mr. chairman. john ward of the daily caller. on the issue of entitlements, you mentioned that is basically the biggest area you'd like to create a contrast with the obama administration. >> the budget itself i would say. the biggest area of contrast i would not say only entitlements, but all the budget, everything. >> entitlements is the biggest part of the problem. you also said you need to pass legislation to create the contrast, but judges from the last time i heard you talk about the road map in the budget versus now, it seems like less of a likelihood and there also seems to be less willingness to put budget cuts out there before the state of the union. are republicans backing off the wl willingness to go first on this? >> we have a bill today and rescission bills on the floor. i can't speak to the timing of it before or after the state of the union but we are bringing cuts repeatedly all quarter long. i'm not suggesting the budget is o

come to the mic. >> richard, you mentioned the 30th anniversary of reykjavÍk.o you think that the world situation is related to nuclear weapons would be different if the results of the reykjavÍk meeting had been different? >> the question is what the world be a different place right now with nuclear weapons if reykjavÍk had been a success? i was fascinated with the reykjavÍk summit. i got my hands on not only the american transcripts but also the russian and i had the russian transcript translated because i don't read that language and i put them side-by-side. one of the things i discovered is what are supposed to be raw primary documents had already been fixed up a little bit. there was great concern on the part of president reagan's advisers that he not be depicted as offering to eliminate nuclear weapons and that which is kind of cut out of the transcript. and within the russian transcript and not surprisingly the russian transcript was a verbatim stenographic report. whoever was make in that record did not want to be shown when he got home to moscow as havi

we will -- wait for the mic phone please. >> thank you very much. this was really spectacular.asa's top side -- it will create -- maybe not quite as hot as this room now. so the powers that be are educated to having us think that north and to not arrested but what can we do to take appropriate action to say, well, everyone and everything. >> well, i wrote a book before this called "empire of illusions" which is about the retreat into these electronic hallucinations, the kind of magical thinking that is fed to us by the corporate regime, that reality is never an impediment to what we want. and, of course, that is taught to us by over and the christian right, self-help gurus in hollywood and its magical thinking. it's what all the twilight of all dying civilization engaged in. you can read cicerone complaining about the arena and have the spectacle in the arena has poisoned political and civil discourse in the declining days of ancient rome. joseph roth wrote about it with the class of the austro-hungarian empire. and that's precisely what's happened. because all the evidence is

turno on your mic. >> we are on superintendent's proposal one. there is a line in your final whereas that talks about funds placed in reserve and due to a reduction of funding at the state level. from the standpoint of the teachers' union, we agree it is an important step to take. it is created by the voters out of the city revenue for the maintenance of hearts, libraries, music, sports. how much of that money are we now having to divert to simply maintain the school district? thank you very much. president mendoza: this will be referred to the committee as a whole. the second item as authorization to grant the alternative. i need a motion and a second. >> so moved. >> second. >president mendoza: i have one in the back? we have [inaudible] >> good evening, i am the executive -- i am glad this will be referred to committee. i would hope that the committee might take a look at services for special education students. the reason that i would like you to look at that is because the thing that is used by the charter school is from el dorado county. th

where's the mic? i guess over there, over there. >> thank you. >> yeah, well, wait for the mic. >> ralph nader thinks the only salvation is a good guy that's rich. my question is do you know any really good rich guys like teddy roosevelt or fdr? >> oh, teddy roosevelt is awful. well, i love ralph, and i actually slogged my way through the book, but i did ask him when in human history the class stepped into save anyone, and he sort of mumbled something about fighting robber barren or something. then he said something that sort of broke my heart. he said, look, it's all we have left. ralph who has a kind of eternal optimism maybe that i don't share i think was really seriously trying to appeal to enlighten figures of the class which is why he names them. it has not worked. the rich take care of the rich, and boy, human history bore that out. i'm a huge admirer and friend of ralph, but i break with him on that. i don't think the superrich are going to save us. right over here with the red hat. purple. [l

[inaudible] president olague: if you can speak into the mic. >> my name is shanna kon, the owner of 910 silver avenue and i heard another concern from our neighbor that -- about the falling of the, you know, house, that we would actually cramp, if something would happen, our house is going to fall down on their house. i think this is something that is happening that we cannot predict and not do anything about it. but we will do our best and hire all the professionals to finish this project and we have actually consulted a couple of licensed contractors and we were told it would have no impact on the neighbor's house and we add this addition for our own use only. there's no rental, no nothing. it's absolutely for our family use. thank you very much for your time. president olague: thank you. are there any additional speakers for project spons? sponsor. seeing none, d.r. requester, you have two minutes of rebuttal time. [speaking through interpreter] >> there was earlier saying they do not have enough money to purchase a larger home. the fact that they are building the existing home is go

the feedback was that mic. you may lower it one level. sorry. it's driving me crazy. >> how's that? vice chair joseph: sorry. forgive me. >> so, the burrit room itself has been open for about seven months now and as indicated in the application, it's open seven nights a week. we traditionally keep an ipod playlist of soul, blues, jazz, light or classic rock, and the idea moving forward in the future is to be able to kind of book acts similarly along those lines to keep maybe a live pianist here and there, acoustic guitar, very light jazz bands, or occasionally to bring in ae sound doesn't really seep into the street. you have about 200 feet, all of the room in the front of the hotel, above stockton street and on either side of us it's really commercial uses so they're obviously not really occupied at night so as a practical matter, the only people -- the main people we have to concern ourselves with are our guests above the room and that's something we have to manage and if there's ever an event that might be loud, we try to keep our guests higher in the building. if we happen to

we have iona with the mic. >> we got a question right here. . >> hi my name is joanne, i visited atlanta for social reform >> where are you? >> i am here. i visited atlanta for a whole week. the community bus is the best thing we can have if we can put it together. it's nothing like bringing the community together. you have to start at home. if you want to put something together, you have to go to the communities. have the youth say it. i see a lot of youth parents taking them to school because they are afraid they won't see their child again. it starts in the community. this meeting is really great. you are preaching to the choir. we need to speak to the youth. i have seen violence on the bus of a kid showing off a weapon in the bay view. people don't want to change and they don't want to be labeled. we are not protected. you have to be careful on what you see. you can't say what you see at all times. if you live in the community and you see something. you have to understand people are not telling things because they are not protected of the we have to understand, what we can do about i

. >> actually, can i use this mic? good morning. my name is lisa and i am with the office of economic and work- force development. before you today is a resolution approving the annual report for the fisherman's wharf community benefit district and for a portside community benefit district. receiving and approving the annual reports for three fiscal years, these are pursuant to be properly benefit district act of 1994. it is in compliance with the management plan between the city and county of san francisco and the fisherman's wharf association. i want to introduce cavan, the executive director of the fisherman's wharf association. he and i will share the presentation. i will go over our review of the annual report. i will let him talk about the services about the fisherman's wharf association -- the services that the fisherman's wharf association provides. the community benefits districts are governed by state law and local law, and a contract with the city and county of san francisco, and by their management plans. our office is c

you could just speak loudly. >> we need a microphone. >> okay. >> speak louder. >> no, wait for the mic. >> oh, okay. your question is worth waiting for. >> speak from the diaphragm. [laughter] >> yes. mccain and obama -- result of their actions is so cynical that the program that was cut and the money was added back. in working on your book, do you see any real desire given our needs to control the budget -- is there -- is there any sincere effort, anybody who's really trying to cut back on the military industrial complex in the government today? >> well, i think it's just the beginning of some debate and some hope. representative barney frank has joined with ron paul to come up with a proposal to cut $100 billion in the military budget, $100 billion per year over the next 10 years. i have other 50 members of congress signed up of him. paul is of interest because, you know, he's a favorite of the tea party and his son rand paul has called for cutting spending as has eric cantor and this is all tied to the notion of deficit reduction which has its own issues, you know, whether we should

. >> we need a mic there. >> they were going at it pretty good. >> and one more thing, probably not serioussaid, they didn't bother to do x rays after the game. so a precautionary, you know, make sure he is okay. >> thanks. have a good night.

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anybody got the mic? yes. go right ahead. >> mr. president, hi. my name is roman stolyarov. i am a freshman here at smu. this is going off of what you said about wanting to be a life during your presidency. >> yes. >> i wanted to ask you what did -- what do you -- how did the approval ratings affect you during your time in office? >> you know, i mean, i obviously liked it when i was high and i guess i didn't like it when i was low. but it's a -- you study -- here's the thing; you're running an organization of people. i mean the presidency is an administrative position. you've got a vast group of people that are looking at the president and, you know, when people were disgruntled with my presidency, had i let that affect my behavior it would have -- it would have affected the organization. people needed to know that i was doing what i thought was right. or we were doing what we thought was right and if you, as the president, if you're kind of chasing popularity -- what do i need to do to make myself more popular, you're really sending a signal that popularity is more importan

. >> it -- speak into the mic, ma'am. >> i hope you are. >> you can understand, you cannot. okay. i'm not asking much. i own one-third of the property. we had the most obvious one, shortest one, okay? what i understand is -- if s-if it is the garage, then you got one floor, second floor and then third okay? then couple of stair up. i have a bedroom, okay? up there. i don't consider that -- we are overwhelming by beauty -- by being up so high and so tall. we're pretty much -- much with the neighbors. okay? according to what my architect tell me. we have a lot of opposition here. it make me question why? i kind of wonder why. okay. people get up together, okay? they go around. they talk to each other, give the wrong information. we have invited them to the house to see the plan only one person show up. okay. here we are. we're about to do it. waited for two years. been here -- then everywhere -- everyone is defense us. my question to you is please consider and tell me why. tell me why so much opposition here. why. how come? we ask -- we are three-story, not more. it is not four-stor

sixteen is a mic twenty one is flying overhead mubarak is not going down without a fine. sank you are mr obama this is your friend barack this is your friend and the american involvement reminiscent of earlier revolutions in eastern europe. no question about it what happened in georgia with the orange revolution of the rose revolution and join ukraine with the orange revolution two thousand and three two thousand and four was part of a long term strategy orchestrated by the pentagon the state department and various us financed n.g.o.s like freedom house and national endowment for democracy and like those early revolutions people mobilized around a common goal abdel nur came all the way from us wanted to get rid of a dictator it's right to beat us with the police he feel it's right to beat us was army fail the russians must admit a bus is an engineer qualified and jobless but he says he can't find work because of corruption we can't find jobs he paid two one is inside the company sixty so isn't egyptian bone so you can walk is a company and as a result europe beckons most

islam there is flarm has all the colors of the rainbow you can find every current within the small mic world the united states is perfectly happy working with the smarminess in turkey who are staunch supporters of nato and have been a central pillar of nato i don't think the muslim brotherhood in either egypt or tunisia will be all that different but what will be different if the demonstrators succeed in toppling mubarak is that egypt will for the first time in years be able egyptians will be able to decide on who they want to elect in that instance stream lee important and the choice there is much much more different than the choice you have in europe center left center right democrats republicans in the u.s. very little divides them in egypt the gulf between the dictatorship and the people challenging it is huge so it's a very exciting prospect and of course it might well affect u.s. relations with egypt if for instance just on one issue they decide to open the border with gaza they're not going to now because i to be trampled exact you know jeff i mean i i didn't want to go through