and the us were interested in this in particular therefore today they're ignoring it at south or city or russia really attacks the consequences would have been different today we do realize a tiny place like south a city with its seventy thousand people could not attacked a well armed georgia practically all nato member states had participated in providing arms and preparing the georgian military including ukraine and israel. and you know arms were modernised by israeli experts georget was planning a sneaky attack on south ossetia at the time of the beginning of the olympics which was another breach of international law however they fail to consider the bravery and persistence of the defenders of south to setia their first two attacks the war the gulf. as the supreme commander in chief for forty minutes i wasn't giving the order to counter fire even though we knew the attack was being prepared we didn't even announce mobilization so that the international community would not blame south ossetia for provoking and aggravating the situation we only called to arms on the eighth we were do

what that means is that no city employee or no city resources can go towards helping ice or referring anybody to ice or disclosing any information to ice. it was meant to give people equal access to services, equal access to the city without any fear of retribution, any fear of retaliation, any fear of having their status being basically disclosed, and being deported for wanting to get health care. so it is a really important thing for us to remember that as we are thinking about comprehensive immigration reform, that we also continue to strengthen and defend sanctuary ordinance not just here in san francisco, where it has been under a lot of pressure and discussion and a lot of debate, bull also all over the country, because other cities also have a sanctuary ordinance. again, it is not about -- the way that the current dialogue that is been happening, a lot is about crime. it is actually about insuring that everybody has equal access and equal process in san francisco. so we want to put that out there and remind people that is what it is about, and we are definitely here to be able

the city or member of the hundreds killed in mill. a conflict with georgia two years after tbilisi shelled the sleeping republican leaving its capitol in ruins. last for the first time in sixty five years since tommy bond devastated hiroshima america sends an envoy to the memorial service but offers japan no apologies. those were the top stories of the week and next we'll bring you the sports update with her. a welcome to sport an artsy come and see you from moscow. and ourselves stories. russian premier league all the latest action from week sixteen while a couple of matches get cancelled in moscow due to heavy small surrounding the capital. football is back in europe player munich claims the german super cup as subplots kick off their domestic contents. high octane drivers gear up for the first ever russian stage of the european truck racing championship. and kick off with football in the russian premier league where anji have made a victorious return to their home pitch handing struggling am car their fourth straight loss the dug a

they don't ever walk down and talk with the kids or maybe even sit up there. >> i'd like to see police, as well as other cityervice agencies held objectable, --bilitiable helping us to enhance our local hiring commitments for people in more impoverished communities, making sure that children who may not have a school to go to or after school program they would like to go to, where there was one, that we could compensate so there is something positive for them it enjoy. where parenting skills sometimes need a lot of attention because it's not the city or police but the parents need to be better at parenting. we need programs that are designed for that particular community or population. >> we weren't against law enforcement. what we were against was law enforcement oppressing those before they even committed a crime. that's what we're against. it is a foundation of a lot of the problems with the police department right now. how can people respect the law if they can't respect the people in the community. the. >> the octavia boulevard is the first urban boulevard to be built in the united states in 50 years, a

law firm does not want to take a case, either because they are already employed by the developers or city, or because they believe it is bad for business? furthermore, there was a councilmember who stated, what i hope is a career-limiting opinion, that there are no nimbys on treasure island. we have no representation on the council. where is chris caly? -- chris daly? he has been absent for how long? furthermore, this will tear us apart and scattered along the island indefinitely, not keep us together as a group, and then make it so onerous, that we have no interest in staying. i expect to move from a 3- bedroom apartment to a 1-bedroom apartment on treasure island. after that, priced us up out of the ybi. why not price have the land to accommodate the residents that are there today. we know we have somewhere to come back to. we can take care of ourselves during redevelopment. furthermore, the cab has failed us. it ignored us and shut us out. each time that i attended a cab, after an over presentation, what to do one resident was on the board, who joined, six months ago? rolling every tim

that's why law enforcement and/or city was not more effective.we have seen when foot patrols have been applied, they work. the correlations really go, i think, unchallenged as it was studied by the controller in 2008 when they commissioned an independent study that saw, i think, the true benefits of what community policing is v.i.a. so it is worthy of extending those lessons learned into what may, some people feel that the legislative what was unconventional and orthodox back in 2006 when we legislated the demand and we overrode that veto, my district as well as others were well entrenched in what was considered to be the land morning or historical high crime rates. i'm pleased to say and delighted to say my district as well as other neighbors have benefited hand somely from that level of focused attention. in the southeast sector of san francisco when we saw an uptick of tension between asian american community and african-american community, literally the first response had been expressed by people and came to city hall was the dispatch of 32 p

no neighborhood, none in district 8 or in the city or country is stuck in time and frozen. you evolve, things change, there are dynamics and pressures whether economic or new housing and you have to respond to this. one of the things i see as my mission is the sustainability of the castro. i think there is concern that the dynamic of the castro is changing. >> a lot of families are moving to the castro a lot of gay families. and district 8 throughout district 8. what that has meant is i think that fewer people want the street fairs and parties. even john stewart in the daily show made fun there are straight families moving to the castro complaining about the sex shops with dildos in the window. it was called. there goes the gabor hood. there is truth to that. its sad that the the castro is losing its character. >> once every 3-4 years the issue of sex toys in windows has a flair up and dies down. i don't think that that is an on going problem. i have a daughter and she's a real fast learner, started her terrible 2's a 15 months. down the road we will be walking downcast row

law firm does not want to take a case, either because they are already employed by the developers or cityor because they believe it is bad for business?

there will be a county or state, or city that's doing this effectively and we can take that's an a template to our own environment and a slow kate that. i would love to hear more from you about regulatory and legislative issues and how the legislative regulatory and planning issues tend to cluster together. so if you have things you've done that have been helpful or strategies you are thinking of trying, or things where you think regulators are impeding important climate issues you can speak now which i would very much appreciate or write to the website if you think about it a little further. is there anyone that can speak today? yes? >> hi i'm will travis and development commission or if you watch,cnn, i'm travis mills. but that's okay. as a regulator, i think it's important to listen to the rhetoric of cutting through regulations and streamlining them, i think it's important to remember those regulations were all put in place in reaction to some abuse. they are advancing veryly get mate enlightened public policy. what you may see as an imped meant is really a regulation put there to prote

promises we don't believe anything will be done all of them are georgians from a cause in south a city or some were forced to flee two years ago during the south a city or war others have been here in tbilisi since the early one nine hundred ninety s. which though the first violence erupt between georgia and its then breakaway regions for two years the refugees have lived in a dilapidated building which used to house government offices several months ago they were told they would have to move out if they have many buildings in and it's suburbs where we could live and from where we could get to work but they don't want to use them they think refugees must not live and bill is saying. is a forty four year old sales assistant she survives on a salary of ninety dollars a month her son has cerebral palsy and gets financial aid of some fifty dollars a month when olga talks about moving she seems on the verge of hysterics. i'm not going to go anywhere even if they first simply evict me i'm not going anywhere i'm going to go on a hunger strike if that's what it takes i'm not going anywhere certai

or not services are already in place. particularly with fines and application fees, thinking about these folks as an investment in the city'sfuture and trying to determine if there are micro loans or other programs that the commission or city might be able to help sponsor to make it easier for people to be able to take advantage of the law when it is passed is something that you need to start thinking about now. there are good programs at other places have tried, the state of illinois, in particular. >> thank you. you have given us a lot of food for thought. commissioners, and this concludes the >> thank you, director. thank you penlists and speakers for your testimony. at this stage, we will at the end, if you have questions carb i know one or two might have a question. i will do it after public comment. if i may, i would like at this stage to see if there is anybody in the audience who would like to talk. i have some speaker cards. i will read out your names. i believe, director, two minutes? >> that would be your call. >> i would like to hold our comments to two minutes as our time is restricted here. if you would line u

or the cities where you may reside. thank you all very, very much for being out here. i hope you have a very successful conference. thank you. . >> thank you. thank you so much, mr. mayor for taking the time out of your very busy day and welcoming everyone here. i'd like to get to work here and the first thing i'd like to do is call up our first panel and introduce our moderator. and our moderator of our first panel, which is rising seas and coastal challenges, that moderator of our first panel is mary d. nichols. she is currently director of the ucla institute of the environment. she was appointed by mayor antonio villarugoso, commissioner of los angeles and serves as its president through september, 2006. we all know mary as a very capable secretary for california's resources -- california resources agency where she was the head of that agency from 1998 to 2003. those of us who remember back far enough recall the days as a senior attorney for the environment now foundation. she was also co-founder of the first environ

or that community. the key for me was really just engaging with the community and not really needing the by in of the city. or of the neighborhood associations. and being happy with saying, you know what this is an issue here and this is how we as this group plan to move about it and move on it. and working with the people that wanted to work with us. i think now at this point i'm into the formal names and having the organizations and the associations mainly because i have to be. but as a resident and as a parent and as a person that was living in the neighborhood, initially it became let's do this with this group of people. as you begin to do that it forces the neighborhood associations and the city to really begin to take notice of what you are doing. if you are saying that this is an issue and the people that are not a part of that group are saying it's not that this is the other issue now and you build that momentum and do that work it forces them to say, we have to acknowledge this group or these people and invite them to come in. i guess you have to figure out what that issue is that's not being wor

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well, they served in most cases to support the agenda of the city, not to defend you, not to support you, or even give you a chance. >> good afternoon, supervisors. [singing] sugar pie, city, now don't you know i love you? i cannot help myself, i love you and in of the else. -- and nobody else this is the same public comments song but with a different meaning and you cannot go wrong this is the same public comments song but with the different meaning and you cannot go wrong. >> you should protect some of these districts because they are dangerous. [singing] i have been to the danger zone come right in and fix the danger zone in the district's i hope everyone has a nice break. [singing] when will i see you again? when will we share precious public comment moments? well i have to wait forever? will we have to suffer the whole day through? when will i see you again when will our city hall be together. are we friends, let -- yes, we are friends? this is not the end. when will i see you again? precious moments. >> thank you, next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i just want to say thank g

if they are in favor of the city or plaintiffs they may not take it. >> if the prop-8 fight dies and the u.s. supreme court never hears the case, that leaves america with a patch work of marriage laws some allowing same sex marriage some not. that may not be seen as unusual as states have differing laws regarding heterosexual marriage. california lawmakers are urning a way it taxes domestic partners. they want the irs to require the couples to use the same rules it does for heterosexual married couples. california already does that. sponsors of the law says the california system is more fair and allows states to set rules for family laws. >>> the care sus will kick off -- the circus will kick off its show by a walk to the arena. the people for ethical treatment claim handlers keep baby elephants chained up all day away from their mothers and use painful techniques to train them. handler repeatedly hitting a lean of elephants with bull hooks. >> this video is so amazing this is a perfect example of random acts of violence. they go after these elephant. >> there was no intent to harm t

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the study that recognizes the tax revenue that the industry alcohol-only provides to the state or the city and the county. on rough estimates of about $1.5 billion in sales. that's $150 million gross. and then to the city, it's significant and breaks down about 2.5% to 3% but 1% is dedicated to public health and public safety and it looks to me in the nexus study, you know, that those would be applicable to public safety, alcohol-related, as well as other types of harm. >> in looking at the costs that clurred to the city for alcohol consumption over consumption, to our emergency services and alcohol rehabilitation services, so certainly i would recognize that the contribution that your business makes to the city as a whole and from what commissioner o'connor has to say as well, fully understand the contributions you've made at the neighborhood level, the citywide level as well. that's not something that the nexus study was attempting to measure, nor was trying to discount in any way. also, jobs. my wife worked at vasuvel, my wife worked there and it's a great establishment and i'm not comi