vice chair joseph: mr. chang? do you speak english? >> a little bit. ce cirjoseph: a little bit. can you tell me aboutyou eratio n you telle ato? >> do like ataurt. wejnt tge e entertainment for the customer light dier enterment vice chair joseph: what entertainment? >> singing karaoke. ce cir joseph: ok. anybody have any questions? commissioner cavellini: have you had a karaoke bar before? ye commissioner cavellini: i am sorry. i do not speak chinese. in san franciscoyou had a karaoke bar? or you have been working at a carrier could barefore? >> mostly, i do entertainment around theay area for many years. commissioner cavellini:n yo tellmewhere >> san franciscoe soni center. a chinese concert over there. a the city hall. at the palace. vice chair joseph: mr. chang, unfortunately your application is not filled out. of igoin t is the only way i know how. if you do not understand what i amsayingstop me. heplication, thepeyo submitted, is not filled out. therere manyreat did not answer for instance what are your doo

vice chair joseph: mr. chang, unfortunately, your application is not filled out. the only way i know how. if you do not understand what i am saying, stop ubmitt, not filled out. eleveryby to keep quiet?our that is insignifican dooteet stans.licatio t is just blank. your application is blank. roblmoving forward with this application. commissioner perez: you are required to do a neighborhood outreach and talk to your neighbors. you said you did noto any of return on your application. that is part of the requirement. you need to ta to you neigors to ask about what you are going to do. tell them you are going to have >> poste a sign in front of commissioner perez: that is not enough. you actually have to reach out. vice chair joseph: mr. chang, heentertaiencoissiontaf contacted you about this permit? >> yes. vice chairjose whenid they contact you the first time? >> october. you could not erate le youyo had a permit. did you stop operating? restnt.want to do the iconfus that i still need an entertainment license for that. ice ai joseph do you represent him? do you want

on behalf of our sponsors, comcast, represented by linda today, i believe, and mr. chang, from comcast, on behalf of our co presenters who are in the audience and listed on the back of your program -- i will read them off to you and ask that they would stand as i read the groups of. the alpha kappa alpha sorority. we have the bayview ymca urban services program. please remain standing, if you would. we have the black women organized for political action in the crown. we have a black women's during the waters with us today. gamma phi delta sorority. the museum of the african diaspora. the national coalition of 100 black women, san francisco chapter. the it san francisco chapter of the links inc.. let us give them a round of applause. [applause] these are all code-presenters of this event. it is a portrait these organizations are here. the theme for black history this month is black women in american culture and history. all these organizations are organizations of black women who do an outstanding and amazing job. i would also like to acknowledge members of the official fa

francisco without first having obined the required permit from the irector or enterment cosi he fac that mr. chang was notified in augt and octobe atoperatg olatio -- thank you very much. is there any public comment on shabu pub 3809 geary? >> michael nulty. as a eighborhooactivt, i woul either deny this or continue it until the application was filled andth fi ifor all e violatio obviously, he isno understanding all the business. i would talk to the city attorney about withholding his business license. vice cir joseph: thank you. is there any other public comment? seei none, public comment is closed. tostaff, rificatioof the nile -- when can the applicant apply again? after nine ice ai joseph: 9 months? not a year? >>ithink it is a year. ice aijose ok. commissioners, i am pelexed. if we continue this, we have to hear it at e next meeting. if the applicant conti it would come back to us when the applicanthadurll the defect i am not sure what the address oel if we had akaraok bar on arel i do not know if it is e same place. i amnot inclin to ask, because we're doing with this location. i entertain a

for the late mr. chang and for the late mr. hodgson. president chiu: does that include our business? >> yes. president chiu: ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned. >> the right to vote allows us to vote for candidates or party and it is a significant way to have our voice heard. exactly 100 years ago, women were given the vote in california. the battle for women's suffrage was not an easy one. it took more than 70 years. a woman could run for president in new york. >> organizing this conference, basically it modeled itself on a declaration of independence for women. it marked the beginning of the women's equality movement in the united states. >> at that time, women were banned from holding property and voting in elections. >> susan b. anthony dedicated her life to reform. >> suffrage in the middle of the 19th century accomplished one goal, it was diametrically opposed to this idea. >> many feared it would be corrupted by politics. >> women in the 19th century had to convince male voters that having the vote would not change anything.

for the late mr. chang and for the late mr. hodgson. president chiu: does that include our business? >> yes. president chiu: ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned. supervisor kim: we are just waiting for sfgov tv to get started. >> is good afternoon and welcome to the special rules committee. i'm joined today by supervisors and david campos and supervisor farrell. are there any announcements? >> please make sure to turn off all sell funds and all electronic devices. all documents to be cleared up as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. all actions on today's agenda will be on march 4. supervisor kim: could you call items #one and two together? >> ordinance amending the campaign in governmental conduct code and municipal election code to modify expenditure ceilings for the city is public financing program, and to amend at the date on which candidates must file the papers. item number two, a motion submitted to the voters of the rising the amendments of the campaign and the government will conduct code and minutes elections

hello to mr chang now china as we know is thousands of kilometers away from syria so there is no geographical proximity and doesn't have strong economic ties was damascus so can you tell us why has been taking such a tough stance on all this well basically. the united states has been exerting pressure on the middle east with don't respect the interests of russia and china and that is against the idea. and this is a matter of a lack of respect for the interests of major powers russia and china china certainly wants to. do and don't know is influence in the middle east region which is of strategic importance to china and china even. if there is a global power it has interests and these interests should be respected. well tell us continued support of negotiate a solution to the conflict is leaving it increasingly isolated on the international stage was the majority of young members now against president so what implications might this have for beijing and is beijing worried about that. i think beating is concerned beijing understands that is the tool instead of the stand certainly. not only the

commissioner hechanova: what would constitute this being a code change rather than added mr. the bulletin? >> this is a change to the california building code also. this is the change to the state laws. this has to go before the cac also. commissioner hechanova: commissioners, additional questions, comments? public comment? >> is there any public comment on item 3? seeing none, public comment is closed. our next regular meeting is scheduled for february 15, 2012, at 9:00 as usual. >> i will not be here. just letting you know. >> ok. it is essential that we try to have a full quorum. it will need five people to pass the budget. i can talk to you guys about this in the next week. basically, i will have to contact everybody to make sure that all of you can attend, otherwise, we may have to change the meeting date again to another special meeting. commissioner hechanova: could i add some clarification that might be needed on item 3? where director day had asked for support, not having a motion -- >> not an action item. commissioner hechanova: yes, just for discussion. commissioner

mr. corzine joined, the composition of a leverage changed. that's the important point. >> were you there in august of 2008, he came in the spring of 2010. you say that started to change. did this window-dressing issue begin to arise as well at that time? >> i would say when we speak in terms of window dressing it is pretty common practice across the street to bring the leverage down at the reporting periods. i would also say -- >> but this is 34% higher. >> i'm sorry? >> it certainly was brought down. i'm aware of that. the point you need to be aware of that as well is if you can bring the leverage down, it affects the liquidity of the positions. if you can bring them down, that means they don't pose a threat to the balance sheet per se. it's the leverage you can't bring down which is the more concerning risk which would be consistent again with what happened during the subprime crisis as well as again some of these other positions held by m f global. >> their investments in sovereign debt, i take it. when asked about the concerns you raised,

environmental impact on the federal lands, and doesn't appear there would be, i think we can make the change, mr. terry recommended to deal with the issue that ms. gaffney-smith if we change this bill to allow you to continue to have your statutory authority that wouldn't be a problem. would it? >> no. we'd evaluate all the crossings and the impacts under the current statutory authorities -- >> you have didn't that already? >> no. we haven't done it. only received pre-construction notifications for certain aspects of the pipeline i. see. my time's expired. thank you very much. >> recognize gentleman from texas mr. gonzalez for five minutes. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman, and welcome to the witnesses, and we had a witness from ferc, the way i recall his testimony was, one, they weren't really equipped to do it. two, the timeline imposed by this particular bill, 3548, was not realistic, and i believe what you provide and what you bring to the equation, building this pipeline safely, is invaluable and essential and i don't believe that this bill is the best method of accomplishing the buildi

we've got to change that. >> thank you. thank you. mr. forbes. >> thank you. mr. secretary, your schedule only allows me five minutes for questions. i'm going to try to be concise and help you be concise in your answers. you made a statement that this will be a test whether reducing the deficit is about talk or action. i just want to be clear, we welcome a conversation with you or the president about serious deficit reduction. we wish we could have had it before the president pushed through an $800 billion stimulus package many of us believe was ill-advised or a health care bill that's putting a lot of our employers out of business. we don't want to put it on the backs of the men and women fighting for the country. i wouldn't have voted for that $800 billion stimulus package which contained twice what these cuts were and review the health care bill tomorrow. let's look at the approach here. wouldn't you agree if we had been more responsible handling our budget, the better approach would have been to develop a national strategy to defend the country, to be able to

spending in the republican primary has exceeded $40 million and prompted the change of heart in the obama campaign. on sunday, mr. obama telegraphed the change in an interview with matt lauer. >> it is very hard to be able to get your message out without having some resources. >> reporter: the decision will also impact the battle for control of congress. >> the problem for democratic super pacss affiliated with house and senate races is that the titular head of the democratic party, barack obama, made it very clear in 2010 and all the way back to his 2008 race that he didn't approve of super pacs. now that he's giving the okay, that should turn on the spigot of outside money. >> reporter: campaign finance reform advocates were filled with doom and gloom. >> i'm telling you this, by the end of the 2012 election, we will have an historic national scandal in this country, and we will have new opportunities for major reforms. >> reporter: and brian, consider this -- during last month's south carolina primary, there was so much super pac money coming in that tv stations actually ran out of room to air the ads. that w

change. >> eisenhower, answers america. >> mr. eisenhower, what are you going to do about taxes? >> we are going bring them down. and here is how. we are going to cut out the billions that washington is waisting and put that money back in the pockets of the people. >> eisenhower, answers america. >> general, the democrats are telling me i never had it so good. >> can that be true when america is in debt and we are still fight engiing in korea? it's time for a change. >> how bad is waste in washington? >> how bad? recently just one government bureau actually lost $400 million and not even the fbi can find it. it's really time for a change. >> eisenhower answers america. >> i pay $24 for these groceries, look, for this little? >> a few years ago, those same groceries cost you 10 dollars and now $24 and next year, $30, that is what will happen unless we see a change. can you cut taxes mr. eisenhower? >> we can and we will, an -- the democrats say, taxes must go up. but we will put the lid on government spending. >> eisenhower answers america. >> i am 66, i cant live on my social sec

mr. roseman so he hired you. leverage keeps going up, very risky, market conditions continue to change, and margin call happen. when that when those margins -- margin call seven, the liquidity that mr. roseman was worried about was addicted in the final hours in the mayhem, someone, which we have yet to find out, but i think everyone has a good idea to, transfers money from the segregated accounts, from the, over to the holding companies. and that's probably where the money is so that's probably where it got lost, that's just a hypothetical. that's my hypothetical. but i'm wondering now when you look back, if you're the chief risk officer for both, but the holding company, what, what, what safeguards were in place from keeping that from happening? and before you answer, i just want to read to you, here's the latest from mf global that went out to customers. and it says your assets at mf global are protected by the multilevel safeguards, stability, separation, and protection. as the chief risk officer for both of these entities, is this true? is their stability separation and protection, to the best of your know

and i think that it's important to recognize that emotions can stimulate physiologic change. >> mr. chairman, may i also address tha

and i think that it's important to recognize that emotions can stimulate physiologic change. >> mr. chairman, may i also address that? >> dr. maixner, sure. >> yes. i agree totally with what was just said. i think it's very important that we don't disassociate mind-body when we talk about chronic pain conditions and put chronic pain conditions into strictly an in their head psychological component. it's very clear from current research that there is an underlying neurobiology that associated with affect and mood and emotion nalt. there is a neurochemistry there is a very well assessed neurobiology. and we know that many of the pain pathways that our patients have activated, activate these same pathways in the brain that are involved in affect and mood and emotional response. so chronic pain is really a mosaic. it's a mosaic of interactions between the active -- the effective domains of the brain and those areas of the brain involved in processing pain information. they are overlaid. so it is really impossible for us to disassociate mind-body. and in fact when we talk about the emoti

jeff, do any of those issues worry you enough that they would change longer term your opinion of the stock? i mean, mrmoynihan has made some changes, investors have been less than patient with him certainly recently. but what about the mortgage exposure? how big of a risk is that in your scenario? >> well, i think, really from uncertainty becomes opportunity. that's one of the reasons you want to look at bank of america. all of those points are valid. i think things to worry about there. but to really get too concerned about their mortgage exposures, i think you have to start thinking about a significant downward turn in the housing market. if that happens, that's bad news for bank of america. but i would also argue that's bad news for the economy and pretty much all banks whereas if things stabilize or move up some, not much is expected from b of a. i think they could post some upside on that. brian moynihan, he was dealt a tough hand. we'd be in a much different story or conversation about bank of america if they had not bought countrywide. i think he's doing what he can, but it's a slow big ship to

mr. collier has represented the people in my district. and i can testify that the outcome changed. ther speakers? mr. paulson. >gollickson. >> the state of the eviction in san francisco is pretty abysmal right now. we needed it to expand upon what it is right now. we had a court case and the name of it slipped my mind at the moment. about a year-and-a-half ago, it placed a landlord-tenant matters and to the litigation privilege. it is virtually impossible for a tenant to sue a landlord for wrongful eviction unless the tenant has moved and been evicted. that has led to a sharp increase in what we see as bogus and serial eviction notices. the city department was notorious for non-payment, someone that has paid their rent and never missed a rent. tenants are not able to get an attorney to defend themselves. there are n virtuallyo te -- virtually no tenant attorneys right now. they rely on the defense collaborative, sometimes a pro bono lawyer, sometimes they get some help from the housing clinic. the resources out there are totally inadequate and it has reached the point that tenants a

he said he's studying change. mr. ama spoke with sister carol keenan who said she is pleased with the administration's change. >>> let's bring in fox 5 political analyst mark plotkin for more on this birth control debate. is obama pandering to the left? >> this is barack obama's strategy and methodology, brian, which is kind of split the difference and find out what is politically palatable to both sides, but he might be displeasing both sides. the catholic amp bishop cardinal dolan was -- archbishop cardinal dolan was actually brought into the oval office to discuss this months ago and said it's a step in the right direction, but it's really politics. it's about the swing vote which are catholic voters. they're not a monolith but they're very weary of alienating a group he carried by nine percentage points and i think vice president biden probably talked him into the compromise. >> is this over yet? >> i don't think it's over. i think as you saw with the clips romney and gingrich said this is a war on religion. this i

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