mr. ron tom the initial review couldn't make heads or taldz she said it was convoluted she requested new drawings so see the subject matter into alignment you can imagine in people of the experience and quality of training of diane and tom of ph.d engineering who what do you know the neighbors had to go through we know there's construction outside of the permit therefore we ask you not to continue this problem but allow beginning now which we believe for the first time is going to do american people excellent job of sort of through the problems and let contradiction wait until we have a real project with a - has been shown to the neighbors and we march forward with one complete understanding of what is to be done as far as the sidewalks encroachment is concerned i support the position by scott sanchez that this is got so many there's a lot of moving parts that to start with that will come cat the entire project how this particular approach to the garbage fit in with what's going to be constructed therefore we join his position and ask you again to allow dbi to do their job i think their

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. >> not true, the neighbors -- actually both adjacent neighbors -- there was a letter sent from mrs. tom who lives in the other adjacent building over here. she couldn't be here, but she's lived here almost 50 years. she sent a letter -- >> it was sent at 4:54 and submitted to the board. >> she would agree to the sloping sidewalk with landscaping. that's what we've tried to get but for reasons we don't know they've refused that. this is what i've been banging my head on trying to convince them. it makes more sense and is more attractive and you could landscape this area and pave it and maybe widen it a little bit. taking a 15 foot sidewalk up here makes no sense whatsoever and it's unfair to the matulas and not legal. >> thank you. mr. brand, you have three minutes of rebuttal. >> a sidewalk that close to the house there would be no turning radius so that's r just not foing to happen. that's not the intention at this point. whatever happens with that will be way in the future because karen's planning on fibbishing this project and selling it. it is true. he's been trying to sell it for a

go ahead >> the head of mta mr. tom president of the mta board and officers and members the board ladies and gentlemen, good morning. i'm a seminar volunteer representing the senior center headed by the leader a smarlt lady she has social services and translations for the homeless to is a fantastic place to live in the living conditions are very high that effects the cost of basic needs like medicines and house and fairs seniors and adults with disability are hard up to reach out or traveling to buy food medical check up and going to recessional parks and art exhibits and walk to see a movie visiting relatives and friends we have $23 afforded in our papers is not enough for seniors and persons with disabilities we want to leave a meaningful life and be healthier and happier we need free muni he repeat we need free muni our deepest appreciation and staff who came to the center and collaborate with us with current issues for the senior and 12k5ib89 university thank you for enitalian us on the safety measures and the benef

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. >> gambling industry will rest on sunday with strange rages including mrs. tomnd how many times she will be shown on tv during game is one 1.5. and katy perry, you can guess what she 8 sing and if she will wear a bikini. those are all bets. >> they were talking about it the count down to super bowl is on. the nfl is watching all footballs used during the big game because of the new england patriots deflate controversy. >> 108 footballs are used by both teams to practice and they will then be transferred to nfl custody until kickoff. they will be eye keep an eye with extra security and tested three hours' game time before they are brought do the peeled and given to the ball boys. the machine responsible if holding on to the footballs for the nfl is the chicago bears equipment manager. it is a super bowl role he has held for years. >> i am the perpetrator. don't want to plaintiff me there is nothing i can say to change director mind i turn myself in. i take a little bit of air out of most of them, 11 out of 12, and it does the trick >> as the controversy continues

chamber of commerce for years has been supportive of lifting the em bar go and their own leader mr. tomas in cuba last year giving the speech at the university of havana. talking about how greater relations between the countries is better. >> okay, great to have you with us tonight. i'm looking forward to going to cuba again sometimes. beautiful folks, beautiful country. no doubt. still to come the party of lincoln delivers an interesting gift to americans on martin luther king's birthday. plus republicans are going to make america -- at the state of the union. >> i am truly humbled and honored to have this opportunity to deliver the republican address. push your enterprise and you can move the world. ♪ ♪ but to get from the old way to the new you'll need the right it infrastructure. from a partner who knows how to make your enterprise more agile, borderless and secure. hp helps business move on all the possibilities of today. and stay ready for everything that is still to come. [ narrator ] mama sherman and the legion of super fans. wow! [ narrator ] on a mission to get richard to his

mr. ron tom they'll be looking at the material and easter after they look at the material they'll send to the planning to see if there's comments thereafter they'll i understand he e send to us to review the materials and then be able to decide the status of this project because of the fact we believe the process should be allowed to be continued and if you rails release the suspenses it will be right back where construction will have occurred prior to the permit being vetted and brought to completion therefore we're oppose opposed to the release of the suspension at this time this hearing is being drawn very, very inaugural it's not our choice we wanted the issues of the height the encroachment into the south yard and the encroachment into the backyard and the roof and surcharge of the drainage of the underground streams the construction that has been undergo taken and the merger we wanted those problems to be addressed all the hearings we'll competitive kick the can down the road and there's a current chief inspector ron tom that's as opposed to agree gate all the permits we we'll have

mr. tom hanks. [applause] so, reverend al green, patricia mcbride, lily tomlin, sting, tom hanks.rm, soul, spirit, spoke -- they have helped us better understand ourselves and each other and as president kennedy expressed, they have helped us center our purpose as a nation and together reflect the quality of our society. for that, we cannot thank them enough. we are so glad to be able to celebrate these extraordinary people. thank you for everything you've given us over the years and for what you are going to give us in the future. congratulations. god bless you all. pleased with me in saluting one last time our extraordinary kennedy center honorees for this year. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> coming up on c-span, the 2014 nobel peace prize ceremony. then stories told by heroes of war world for -- world war ii. later, william kristol talks about the incoming republican-led congress. then the role of democrats

mr. tom hanks. [cheers and applause] so, reverend al green, patricia mcbride, lily tomlin, sting tom hanks. charm, soul, spirit, spunk they've helped us better understand ourselves and each other. and as president kennedy expressed they've helped us center our purpose as a nation. and together reflect the quality of our society. for that we cannot thank them enough. we are so glad to be able to celebrate these extraordinary people. thank you for everything that you've given us over the years. and for with a you're going to give us in the future. congratulations, god bless you all. please join me in saluting one last time our extraordinary kennedy center honorees for this evening. [applause] [cheers and applause] >> coming up the 2014 nobel peace prize ceremony from norway. then a look at religion and politics throughout history. on the next "washington journal," a look at the factors that could determine economic growth in 2015. including job creation trends, wages and legislative action. our guests

traffic fatalities by 2024 and we'll have a presentation by tom maguire and timothy papandreou can they step forward? >> good morning good afternoon mr. chairman i'm tom maguire from the san francisco transportation agency and mr. papandreou will be here any second. pardon me. just a second. >> no problem. >> so i'm going to talk today about citywide initiative called vision zero a joint commitment by the mayor's office, by the by the board of supervisor's and the mta board and by the san francisco transportation authority as well as fire department police department and health department to reach an am ambitious goal each year approximately 30 san francisco i 30 san franciscan's are killed and vision zero is saying that number is not acceptable. we're taking every measure we can to keep our citizens safe on the street and it's it's a joint effort involving engineering, educating the the public improving traffic enforcement and citywide policy changes to support this goal. this is a long history i think in san francisco dating back to really 1983 and throughout the 2000's san francisco taking the lead on everything from signals. we h

mr. taylor and tom birmingham. >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm tom birmingham a consultant with before a and caldwell we have two contracts with the puc and the bio sellers contract we're g d with the consultants on one and large partners on the other we've heard a lot about the interns it is good to work with the interns two other things that wouldn't have taken plays was the programs is working with a small firm in the bayview we've worked with them to get 678 l d certified that's brought them in more work and allowed them to hire for youth we're prude of that and seen direct consequences we're starting a mou with the department of public health and ceqa to try to increase the food guardian program and increase it we look forward to being a good neighbor for district 10 and want to build it. >> good thank you let's see the next speaker is jackie. >> good afternoon commissioners i'm jackie i'm here today to offer my full support to the picking benefits program i'm a resident of district 9 in the mission and also the president of the theatre at 24th and new york although hyperglycemia

. >> we go to mr. tom emmer, a new member of the committee. >> thank you chairman rice and mr. engel for holding this important hearing. i would like to thank the committee staff for their work and the distinguished panel for providing us with their analysis. ambassador kim, david albright the president of the institute for science and international security has commented that north korean policy of -- president barack obama's administration has been called quote, strategic patience. and recently the president said in response to the hacking, the sony hacking, that the u.s. would respond, quote proportionally. can you define that for me and comment, if you will, on this strategic patience reference? >> thank you, congressman. strategic patience i think has been misunderstood as our policy. it is not. it was just a description of the approach we were taking about resumption of negotiation precisely because of the important lessons we have learned from our previous efforts in negotiating with the north koreans in the six-party process and earlier in the framework of the mid 1990s

. >> we go to mr. tom emmer, a new member of the committee. >> thank you chairman rice and mr.engel for holding this important hearing. i would like to thank the committee staff for their work and the distinguished panel for providing us with their analysist. ambassador kim david albright, the president of the institute for science and international security has commented that north korean policy of -- president barack obama's administration has been called quote, strategic patience. and recently the president said in response to the hacking the sony hacking that the u.s. would respond, quote, proportionally. can you define that for me and comment, if you will, on this strategic patience reference? >> thank you, congressman. strategic patience i think has been misunderstood as our policy. it is not. it was just a description of the approach we were taking about resumption of negotiation precisely because of the important lessons we have learned from our previous efforts in negotiating with the north koreans in the six-party process and earlier in the framework of the mid 1990s.

mr. kenneth harold l. on behalf of supervisor mar for the late tom bowman. on behalf of supervisor yee the late mrs. pat and on behalf of supervisor wiener for the late helen diller. >> thank you. thank you all for attending today's meeting is adjourned. >> >> welcome back to the three time world series city and county of san francisco. [ cheers and applause ] >> i just want you to remember that phrase because whenever you have residents or people at your commission complaining about something, let them know you are the commissioner of a city of three time world champion, so please take it down. i'm going to welcome everybody here to this wonderful event where i get to rewelcome and also welcome new members of our official city family who are going to spend personal hours of sacrifice and time to help me manage this wonderful wonderful city. today we have some 21 people who are joining the ranks of a variety of 11 different agencies that assist and you are invaluable to this administration. let me tell you that i truly believe that it is through all of your capacities that provide us with the necess

mr. peabody & sherman", "turbo". is tom brady a cheater? underinflated footballs, he says no way. >> i didn't alter the ball in any way. i have a process before every game where i go in and pick the footballs that i want to use for the game. our guys do a good job of breaking the balls in. they have a process that they go through. when i take those footballs out, at that point, to me, they are perfect. i don't want anyone touching the balls after that. i don't want anyone rubbing them, putting air in them, taking air out. to me, those balls are perfect and that is what i expect when i show up on the field. >> earlier, belichick also denied any knowledge of under inflating footballs. now to the lead. a critical time for ebay, laying off 2400 employees, 7% of its workforce. the market facing intense competition from amazon and beyond. may split into not two but three separate companies. they sold off their enterprise unit not too long ago. carl icahn, he got one of his nominees on the board. mark joins us right now. it's a really interesting

tom? >> caller: i enjoy your show mr. . >> caller: i would be appreciative of your opinion of spectra energy. >> distribution business a good 4% yield. don't have to worry about the price of commodities. got my blessing. charles in new jersey charles? >> caller: cramer you're a good teacher. >> thank you. >> caller: i have people that have been telling me the stock split and i says i haven't heard anything about it from anyplace else con ed so i went on the computer and got stock split and sure enough it came up it is they are having a stock split january 25 having a meeting on it and they are going to increase the dividends. >> look, we care about a the increase of the evident than a stock split because you have one share, you get two. i would tell you con ed had a big run. coned is going to be down $3, that's when you buy. carol in new york. >> caller: hello. >> what's up? >> caller: i would like to ask about carlisle group? do you like carlyle? have you ever owned any in your cartable trust and is it a long-term hold? >

mr. kenneth harold l. on behalf of supervisor mar for the late tom bowman. on behalf of supervisor yee the late mrs. pat and on behalf of supervisor wiener for the late helen diller. >> thank you. thank you all for attending today's meeting is adjourned. >>. >> good morning good morning. welcome i'd like to call this meeting to order like to welcome you all to the san francisco transportation authority finance committee i'm malia cohen to my right is julia chris son and supervisor farrell and image okay may not i thought i heard another one coming mr. steve is the clerk i'm to thank jessie larson and charles i'd like to now let's see i'd like to call roll mr. clerk and roll call. >> supervisor chinning son and supervisor president tang and supervisor wiener we have quorum. >> thank you very much now i'd like to misconduct i instruct the clerk to call the consent calendar. >> consent calendar items it through 4 considered by the board to be routine and will be enacted by one resolution in the form or forms listed below. the staff is presented if they want to and will be considered separately. >> than

mr. kenneth harold l. on behalf of supervisor mar for the late tom bowman. on behalf of supervisor yee the late mrs.pat and on behalf of supervisor wiener for the late helen diller. >> thank you. thank you all for attending today's meeting is adjourned. >>. >> good morning today is is january 21, 2015 this is the regular meeting of the abatement appeal board i'd like to remind everyone to turn off electronic devise. >> commissioner clinch commissioner melgar president mccarthy commissioner mar commissioner lee commissioner mccray commissioner walker we have quorum and the next item is item b the oath we'll all parts giving testimony today please stand and raise your right hand do you solemnly swear or affirm the testimony you're about to give will be the whole truth and nothing but the truth? to the best of our knowledge thank you you may be seated next the minutes approval of minutes discussion and possible action to adapt the minutes for november 19, 2014. >> move to approve. >> second. >> we have a motion and a second any public comment on item the minutes? seeing none all commissioners in favor

mr. kenneth harold l. on behalf of supervisor mar for the late tom bowman. on behalf of supervisor yee the late mrs.pat and on behalf of supervisor wiener for the late helen diller. >> thank you. thank you all for attending today's meeting is adjourned. >> >> hello, i am with the recreation and parks department. we are featuring the romantic park location in your backyard. this is your chance to find your heart in santa and cisco with someone special. -- san francisco with someone special. our first look out is here at buena vista park a favorite with couples and dog walkers. both have a significant force. a refreshing retreat from urban life. the romantic past that meander up and down the park under

mr. kenneth harold l. on behalf of supervisor mar for the late tom bowman. on behalf of supervisor yee the late mrs.pat and on behalf of supervisor wiener for the late helen diller. >> thank you. thank you all for attending today's meeting is adjourned. >>ation thank you very much regular meeting of the board of education of the sfusd for january 13, 2015 is now called to order roll call please. president fewer mr. haney thank you mentioning dr. murase mrs. jordan and ms. wynns and mr. walton and sonata and mr. chang and please join me in the pledge of allegiance. >> thank you superintendent i believe you have an announcement? >> thank you, president fewer this is announcement this is the announcement that the superintendent of schools makes following a swearing in it is announced that the following pledge before any business of the agenda of the january 13, 2015 meeting the president and board called this announcement i'd like to announce that hydra mendosa-mcdonnell and dr. murase and mr. smallest were sworn into office to 4 year terms by mayor ed lee supervisor for gail and senator isadore the th

mr. kenneth harold l. on behalf of supervisor mar for the late tom bowman. on behalf of supervisor yee the late mrs.pat and on behalf of supervisor wiener for the late helen diller. >> thank you. thank you all for attending today's meeting is adjourned. >>present. >> >>at this time i'm going to turn the meeting over to my vice president because i have asthma and i think he can carry through. thank you. >>thank you. richard, would you announce some changes to the treatment of the agenda, please? >>if you all look at page three on the agenda please note that vice president seriina will not be calling the agenda items in that order. >>thank you. >>the items will be called in the following order: item e, item i item j item f item h and item g. with that modification i ask for a vote to approve the agenda. >>approve. seconded. >>all in favor, any opposed. thank you, the motion carries.

mr. kenneth harold l. on behalf of supervisor mar for the late tom bowman. on behalf of supervisor yee the late mrs.pat and on behalf of supervisor wiener for the late helen diller. >> thank you. thank you all for attending today's meeting is adjourned. >> good afternoon. welcome happy holidays welcome to city hall today, we have a wonderful announcement but let me put it in some context for you and quite candidly it is personal for a couple reasons one i don't know if bernard tyson knows this i like the number 5 i was born in the 5th day the 52 year and something along those links is good i'm happy to welcome bernard tyson the chief executive officer for kaiser permanente to make this announcement second reason i want to kind of put this in context a few weeks ago the council released a report that confirms what i think we've been seeing for quite some time the health care industry in san francisco is the number one employment and economic quack industry in all our industrial settings over $23 billion impact in our local economy and certainly a great employer of thousands of people many are standin

mr. kenneth harold l. on behalf of supervisor mar for the late tom bowman. on behalf of supervisor yee the late mrs.pat and on behalf of supervisor wiener for the late helen diller. >> thank you. thank you all for attending today's meeting is adjourned. >>

mr. kenneth harold l. on behalf of supervisor mar for the late tom bowman. on behalf of supervisor yee the late mrs.pat and on behalf of supervisor wiener for the late helen diller. >> thank you. thank you all for attending today's meeting is adjourned. >> welcome to north beach. sunny day. thank you everybody for coming out. especially if i if i may special thanks to all of our board of supervisor who are here today. elected officials, our commissioners, police and fire department. people. the city are recreational about our libraries, all of this is is better up here. many of whom i've engaged in many dialogues around the last month. i want to say thank you everyone for getting your input to me. you know, i want to say that this is an exciting day. while my little tired because of all the activities of the last 30 years, i had to do a marathon i know that this isn't, district 3, is a very, dated, very diverse, and one of the most exciting districts in all of san francisco. >>, >> >> i recognize that because i spent a good part of my adult professional career indecision degree in chinatown and i kn

always good to hang out with mr. tom colicchio. it's like a guitar. there's too many parts to this thing. >> this boiling water is -- >> before we get to the meal let's talk about the show. >> it's chef against chef. entire restaurants against entire restaurants. >> 16 restaurants to start out with. >> i go and do a brief interview. we open the doors and send 30 people in all at once and turn the cameras on. pretty good to see what happens. some mom and pop restaurants, and so it's a good -- >> you have been doing this for a while. are you ever surprised when you get into some of these eating environments and people producing some of these meals like there's really great things happening? >> there's amazing talents out there. mom and pop operation, and this kid is cooking with -- >> how much salt are you going to put in there? >> garlic parmesan turkey ham, another smoked pork butt here. i actually like -- it collapses on to itself. >> why do you like this meal in particular? >> one-pot meal. most people think when the chef goes ho

for the incredible amount of work and tom for the incredible amount of work that concludes any racks i'm happy to answer any questions you may have. >> thank you mr. sharp and for your work. >> with that opening it up for public comment i have one public comment card tom mcdid you have vindicate. >> from liveable city i'm ahead to see this moving forward it's been a folks have been working on this for a few years i understood this is a long need those tables are a mess and the controls are parolee organized with had we did the neighborhoods it was confusing and i understand this is the third effort at doing this i wanted to commend aaron and his colleagues people were cynical it is non-sexy it is essential we try to make a code usesable and thank you, supervisor wiener for doing this i'm glad to have a supervisor that likes to clean up messes and this is a big one. >> thank you. is there any additional public comment on item 2 seeing none, public comment is closed. okay. so first i previously described some minor amendments supervisor cohen can we take that without objection okay. the amendments are adapted and to recommend to the full board we'l

and the authors are james andrew miller and tom shales. mr. miller, what was the point of this book? >> we had written a definitive -- we wanted to be a definitive hoyt of "saturday night live," ended in 2002 and decided to update it. and turns out the last 12 years of "saturday night live" were very busy and there's a lot to write. we added another 200

. >> good afternoon so wrote my name is tom helene am an attorney presenting mr. he and his family.i have little to say that is different from what mr. -- from the planning department said. what i want the board to remember is that this is an appeal to land-use decision. it's not an appeal of a health department decision. san francisco has a professional planning staff that is thoroughly reviewed this project and made recommendations that approved its use for sale of tobacco paraphernalia under conditions. the conditions were approved by the project owner and, as you just heard, kiss the vision of being able to operate his business to be able to support his family and to improve the conditions at the neighborhood. much has been said here about the 1900 block of ocean avenue. and about how these projects appellants are interested in promoting health and diversity. the general state of the neighborhood. when everybody is forgetting is that there are 20 percent of the retail establishments are vacant and had been vacant for years. the neighborhood association, retail association, well,

tom brady number 12 jerseys right? they rock those every time they watch the pat's. as do you mr. 42-year-old. e or hate tom brady. he's perfect. >> tom brady is perfect. tom brady is perfect. that's why people hate him. it's why i love him. i fear -- i fear -- i shake in converse high tops now over the fact tom brady had something to do with this. i don't want to think for a second he could have somehow been involved asked someone to take air out of the ball. >> it would be cheating. >> it would be cheating. again, if he did it knew about it it's cheating. it's against the rules. >> nfl still hasn't afterddressed this. >> nfl says they're not going to make official comment. i can't believe they're going to let this go on much longer. if the reports are true they've got to come out and say if they have evidence that the patriots did it deliberately what they're finding. i have to believe they'll issue some kind of sanction before the super bowl. they can't let this linger 10 more days. >> let's say we hear from the nfl that they were cheating or if they don't make any comment -- could be any sc