. >> yeah, ms. young, are you in agreement with the project sponsor as far as the distances that have been presented in the report? it looks like they're fairly extensive between the patio area, the closest being 85 feet, many of them over 100 feet. >> am i in agreement? >> do you agree with the accuracy of that, what we saw? >> i'd say roughly it should be from that radius. i didn't have a map to scale that was presented to me, but based on that, i mean, even going, i guess on a site, there is some distance as far as like the large parking lot, common area. >> right, that's my key point. we have had a number of different patio situations and almost all of them are much closer to adjoining neighbors and these are i would say huge distances, with parking lots in between. and it sounds to me like they've modified their usage to go only to 10 o'clock at night, is that correct? >> yes. just to clarify, with the neighbors came in, [speaker not understood] the restaurant was closed at 10:00 and patrons were out

my name is ms. young and i live in district nine. it's a great privilege to share with you my qualifications and interest on being on the cac. so i have a very deep passion and interest in transportation, and i feel like it plays an integral role in the landscape of any city and i would like to be involved in the improvements to sf transportation. i wanted to share with you a snapshot from a user standpoint and occasionally a driving although i don't have a car and i am sure these ideas are bounced around but i would like to be on the team that makes the improvements and make the transportation system the world class system that san francisco deserves for being a world class city. that involves reducing the everyday barriers for using the transit system. i know people that don't use it because they think it's complicated. they don't understand the signage and the schedules and by increasing ridership you can increase rates and a cycle for overall improved transit system. i similarly have a lot of ideas for traffic easing and bus only

ms. chandler on "the young & the restless." never thought she would.he greatest gift was wa what my audience has given me. the opportunity to take care of her and have her live the best life she could. >> i love the story. she passed a car on the road. red jaguar. love to have one of those. did you ever get a chance to get her one? >> i did. i was a little boy at the time. driving, man, i really like that car. i said, when i get big i want to buy you that car. and i was in new orleans onstage at the singer theater before katrina and called her up onstage during, close to mother's day and gave her are the keys to the car. it was a great moment. so many tears from the audience and from her. a really good moment. >> what did she say? >> speechless. the thank you and love. here's a woman who never asked me for a dime. never asked me for a dime, but as a little boy, watching all that she had gone through i wanted to do everything i could to take care of her, make sure she had the best life she could and because of my audience, god bless them, i was able to

ms. hester. >>> good afternoon, supervisors. eddie young with by line defense project. the two things stated previously is the excitement around this project, around just alone bringing basketball to san francisco. and secondly, jobs. the prospect of having jobs and jobs now for low-income communities in san francisco through the local hire agreement that was just signed last week, for instance. but to seriously address the quality of life and neighborhood issues are incredibly important and we'd like to commend, first of all, the mta, oewd, and the architect for addressing these issues in the process, having sensitivity in the process and addressing traffic, views, night life and open space. and even amongst the committee as well, we've seen as well sensitive in the process in addressing things such as open space. supervisor kim, for instance, had a specific question on making sure it's reusable open space. that goes to show precision being used to address these issues being brought up by the neighborhoods affected by the project. and that's incredibly important. and,

ms. chin and they both grew up here and they live and work here and i think it's great to have young folks that live here that are interested in transportation so i am happy to support winston too and i hope when we have another vacancy you can let me know and i can do recruiting in the tenderloin but i don't want to hold up this applicant in the meantime. thank you. >> thank you. we have a motion from commissioner farrell. seconded by commissioner cohen and we can take that without objection so congratulations. next item please. >> number six recommend allocation of 3 million in prop k funds for [inaudible] communications base over lay signal system project and subject to cash flow and implementation of strategic plan and the money in 2013 and 2014 -- [inaudible] in fiscal year 2013, and 2014 to the prop k funds. this is action item. >> good morning commissioners. i am louis and project consultant to the authority. let's begin with this request with a little context. the context begins with the california high speed rail. as you know the california high speed rail authority has the mandat

gang members literally taking girls as young as 12, 14, going to construction sites, places where they believe there is a paying customer base. >> these convicted msmembers were found guilty of trafficking near a church. >> we do not have any control over who is in the room and what they are doing. >> the victims can be tough to spot. >> they look just like girls who got out of school. >> it could happen right next to you and you would not know it. >> susan's parents do not know anything about it. >> they do not come from that life. they do not know what. >> susan is peace in her own life together. >> i am still trying to struggle with am and what i have done. >> the gang members have been locked up, but with an estimated 5000 gang members in our area, investigators say that is the tip of the icebergs. >> thank you, pamela. a horrific crash involving a toddler -- but this story does have a happy ending. and that is thanks to one man who rents -- risked his own life to save another. he heard something that sounded like two trains colliding. it was this ford explorer getting sandwiched between two cars. he went out to help. >> i found the baby dangl

the first is that young voters, they don't turn out the a are not that many voters but it doesn't really matter. and i think this election sort of definitively, i hope, busted that ms. that now not only turnout was down overall, young voters was 18 or 90% of elected. poll after poll shows young people not paying as much attention to this election, that they were less enthusiastic, that they lost faith in the president. but they still turned out. the other myth i often find myself facing is the idea that it's been built up by this winston churchill quote, which google tells me is falsely attributed to him, that if you are 20 and your conservative you have no hard. if you're 40 and little you have no brain. the idea -- just grow up. when have to do, when have to start paying taxes and they will all become conservatives. the political science says that's not necessary case. that actually partisanship is relatively stable at the individual level, and if you look, i think it is few who has been an interesting study, which shows if you became a political agent in 1980 you are more likely to be republican debates than those who and the older our younger cohorts. what happ

ms. shong, a beijing meat seller. she grew up in a village in one of china's poorest provinces. >> when i was young my family could only afford to have pork once or twice a year. wpoor and our clothes were covered with patches. >> reporter: she says things got better when the family started raising pigs instead of just working in the fields. over the past 30 years in china, meat consumption per cap to has quadrupled and city gel dwellers eat twice as much meat on average than those back in the countryside. pork reigns supreme. china both produces and consumes about half the world's pork. that increase isn't just about appetite. it's about aspiration says cornell university's mindy schneider. >> now that many people have the income to do so and buy meat every day if they want to, there's this idea that they're eating meat in revenge. it's the revenge against poverty and scarcity and what felt like struggle. it symbolizes progression. >> reporter: but this is creating a huge challenge for the chinese government. china has almost a fifth of the world's population. but it has just 9% of the earth's arable land and a chroni

i walk young leaders for a lot of adventures in my own life and one of the places i take the ms. rwanda. i was working in rwanda in 1995 couple months after the genocide many of you remember between 800,000 to a million people were killed. i went through to work specifically with unaccompanied children. these are kids who have lost their parents during the genocide or been separated from their parents during the refugee movement. again i asked young leaders to think about their own experience and imagine themselves if they were up rwanda refugee child who was living in the camp. these four boys you are looking at were part of a group of 15 boys who were all living together and alone in a refugee camp. i asked readers to imagine themselves as part of this group. you learned what you need to do to survive. you created a shelter for yourself. you were healthier than so many at is an grab food and water when it was given out, hiding them away for when the supply runs dry. one day as you lie in the shadows of the knee that stand between you and the blazing sun you hear a sound. rollov

young decided to reconstitute what his church calls the first presidency. a church president with two counselors. after joseph smith's murder, the people had chosen the 12 appos mso lead -- apostles to lead in joseph's absence. the decision of the 12 quickly became the de facto president of the church of the after several years, he wanted to clarify and streamline the leadership. after his successful pioneer preace to the great salt lake valley, he asked other apostles to affirm him as church president. almost all of the other apostles opposedded young's proposal, which would augment his authority at the excellence -- expense of their own. one apostle, a name manned orson prat said he thought of the apostles akin to the house of representatives, and young, therefore, should be more like the speaker of the house than a president. shifts on cang was young's response to orson, but not a warmly received suggestion. it has occurred to me that if mitt romney made that his slogan for his campaign this year instead of the rather bland believe in america, he would be on the way to a massive landslide. everybody could get on board with that. [laughter] young, by the way,

ms. johnson. >> thank you very much. mr. chairman and ranking member, my remarks are very brief. in october 2005, they issued a report to then chairman young concerning amtrak's lack of a strategic plan and the report identified that without a comprehensive -- amtrak's business practices were lacking and could not ensure consistent and improved corporate deployment. in august 2010, the amtrak inspector general's office released an evaluation report of amtrak's strategic planning and said the key elements necessary brought effective strategic process. the igs report formed the basis for amtrak's november 2011 strategic plan for fiscal year 2011 and 2015. while the reorganization is not yet fully complete, there appears to be significant performance and accountability improvements and i look forward to the testimony. it seems to me that they are doing exactly as we have desired. thank you an ideal back. >> i think the gentlelady. do others seek recognition? if not what we will do now is turn to our three witnesses and we welcome them again. our first witness and i will recognize him at this time is the president and ceo of amtrak and mr. joe

ms. johnson. >> thank you very much. mr. chairman and ranking member. my remarks are very brief. in october, 2005, g.a.o. issued a report to then chairman young for lack of a strang plan and the report identified that without a comprehensive corporate mission, amtrak's business practices were lacking and could not ensure consistent and improved corporate performance. in august, 2010, the amtrak inspector general's office released an evaluation report of amtrak's strategic planning and set forth key elements necessary for an effective strategic planning process. the the report formed the basis for amtrak's november, 2011, strategic plan for fiscal year 2011 through 2015. while the re-authorization is not yet fully complete, there appears to be significant in performance and accountability improvements, and i look forward to the testimony. it seems to me that they are doing exactly as we have desired. thank you. i yield back. >> i thank the gentlelady. others seek recognition? if not, what we'll do is turn now to our three witnesses and welcome them again. our first witness, and i'll recognize him at this time, is the president and c.e.o. of am