part of the american dream is to prosper, to climb the ladder, and at cheap. in the construction industry, people start out working for someone else on a job site. after winning their trade or skills, might move on to remodeling jobs. the five to nine projects are a crucial part of this latter, and by impacting this category, you are taking a critical wrong out of the latter, thereby prohibiting advancement in the construction field -- you're taking a critical rung out of the ladder. thank you very much. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i am kevin birmingham. i am a realtor, but more importantly, i am a native san franciscan. i have watched many of my friends and people in my family moved out of san francisco because there is an affordable housing problem in this city. i am getting on the board of realtors, and i am on the housing authority board committee, and we are bringing money to groups such as home ownership sf because i do believe in it. i think you need to look at -- the way to keep families in san francisco is what your building, and what we are see

i'm like any other part of the -- unlike any other part of the city. what other part of the city do you have these impact residential enclaves in the middle of blocks that have warehouses and very wide streets? it's a very unusual kind of setup. but i think we should embrace. and i have to say it's not all small scale patterns. south of the freeway, there are huge lots. that are in fact have always been huge lots. and so -- and we do have that challenge of if we are going to accommodate any kind of reasonable growth in the city, we are going to have to grapple with this issue that in some of these places, large lots are inevitable. and i -- and we are -- i completely agree that the issue of lot aggregation is an issue. and i don't disagree that we should try to figure out a way, and we are -- we are taking small steps in that. but i also think that we have to figure out a way to deal with large footprint development. it's going to happen without us if we don't figure out a way to do it. and anyway, again, he would be great to have a dialogue somehow in

work is part of the problem? >> they may work initially but the question is will they withstands the rigors and have the same reliability as a military part and probably not. >> how are they getting into the system in the first place? if we are being diligent and doing the testing and doing the supply sources accurate, how is the stuff getting in? >> this is a very, very large business in china. the people who are doing it are getting better and better frankly. it's a very large addressable market. and what will happen is you will get a part that again based on the -- was based on the original component so it looks like the original component. >> it's in the same box. >> yeah. and as you said, the ones that fail early, those are the good ones. those are the ones that are easy to catch. the ones that work are a little harder to catch, which is why we're moving our focus to prevention, early detection as chris mentioned, working with people who are reliable, dot testing early so that before these parts get into the

a programmatic component and it will be legislation we will pursue outside the charter, but it was part of our conversation in the working group. the charter amendment will do a couple of things that we talked about -- it will reduce the on- site obligation by 20%, and it will also stabilize the affordable housing obligations for 30 years. the reduction is calibrated both in the percentage of units that are required, but also to an ami or affordability level. for ownership, our current program requires that 50% of on- site units be affordable to residents who make 90% of median income. but we also want the flexibility to, where appropriate, increase the ami level. rather than sell units at 90% ami, in some cases, it might make sense to sell units at 110% ami, a higher rate. because that higher income targeting will increase the sales price and reduced the gap between the sales price and production cost, this program will allow us to require a developer to provide more units, more than 12%. conversely, when it is appropriate to provide deeper availability -- let's say, 70% ami -- they wo

we have done some calls for projects, part one and part two. part two is open now.s provides an opportunity for sponsors for inclusion in the strategic plan, including those who intend to(lcu seek allocatin for funds in the current fiscal year 2012-2013. over the summer, we will continue to evaluate the project would have received during part one and those we anticipate receiving during part two. we will prepare the draft strategic plan, including the draft program of projects that will include programming for 50 years. we anticipate presenting that draft strategic plan to the cac in the timber and adoption in fall of 2012, concurrent -- in september and adoption in fall of 2012. with that, i am more than happy to take any questions on prop aa and the policies and prioritization criteria. supervisor avalos: colleagues, any comments or questions? thank you very much. we will go into public comment. >> good morning again, commissioners. having served on this committee to draft this plan, i strongly approve what is being put before you, and i strongly urge you to pass

of our brain action, the conscious waking part of our brain from the unconscious sleeping part of our brain. >> rose: so let me open up this up to a wider discussion and this is a very much of a naive question. so understanding this, understanding these various aspects of the brain and relationship to disorder, how... what have we learned about sort of the developing brain and what we call the mind? >> i'll give you several examples. everyone here will have their own favorite. we first learned about the circuits that nora was talking about, the addiction circuit by a series of studies by olds and meler in who stimulated this pathway and found what we call the reward circuit. so there's a basic circuit in the brain that gives you a sense of pleasure when you eat, when you make love, when you look at a painting that you love, when you look at a person that you love. this system becomes active. so what what you see in addiction in the early phases is recruitment, parasitism of a basic circuit involved in pleasure. so we learn a lot about normal functioning of the brain by seeing in the d

and be part of our community of interest. thank you. >> thank you, sir. >> my name is paul hogarth and i want to commend the task force for all the stuff you have done for trying to keep the tender loin whole. by keeping the western boundary you've allowed tenderloin elementary school, a senior citizen housing and homeless shelter all to stay in district six and for that we thank you. crow did a lot of great work on the boundary which was a very difficult task as far as population. you've kept the most tenderloin parts into district six and for that we thank you. i'm here with one small request. on wednesday night when you were making non-population changes you moved two blocks over by halladay [applause] yao out of six and into three. i don't think this was your intent, but what it did was took the bristol hotel, which is an s.r.o. of approximately a hundred people when eddie and market street out of six and into three. that is a problem, we are asking that you take just that one block of halladay plaza back into district si

part of it?"bsolutely. because you've stepped into a role that ordinary people never taught you. >> you write in here the "lack of mature judgment" is what makes young men, especially teenagers, "ideal weapons of the state." >> yes, absolutely. when you're 18 or 19 years old -- well, you know, you've had kids. i have kids. you can't get them to put a raincoat on when they go out in the rain, because they're not thinking that way. they don't -- i mean, apparently, we've got the brain science today that the part of the brain that does judgment and foresight is not even developed until you're at least 21. and so you have these young people who have got the incredible bodies of a 19-year-old, the stamina, the speed, all of that. and they don't hesitate to do what you ask of them. can you imagine the platoon of marines, who are 35? "oh, wait a second, lieutenant, let's think about this. maybe we should have the air force come in and hit them for a couple of days before we do this." i mean, a 19-year-ol

you are part of that. we can reduce the footprint of our people, and more people can enjoy the richness of our city. i am year for all those reasons as well as what you mentioned earlier. they are coming back, and we get to celebrate that with you. five years from now, 3000 employees here at full power celebrating an nba championship right in our water from rita. this will be great, right? first of all, thank you very much for being part of a great company. thank you for so many of you living in our city, and thank you, alex, and the whole staff for having such a great model for clean tech, energy- efficient, and thank you for partnering with the city. we will find those opportunities to partner with you. you have a great model, and we are going to search for ways to do that. already been educated about what i do not have, which is digital thermometers in my house. i have a baby thermometer. that is how i feel warm, but thank you very much, and congratulations for being part of a great, successful -- now i

experience art where making a mess is part of the process.and the size the artistic process rather than the product. children have the freedom to explore materials at their own pace and in their own way. talks love art, especially when they died into the creative process -- dive into the creative process. at the end of the classes, they have cleaned and washup. of.com great way to get out and play. for more information, visit sfrecpark.org. that out and play and get into the groove. rec and parks offers dance classes for seniors. first-time beginners or lifetime enthusiasts -- all are welcome. enjoy all types of music. latins also, country and western. it is a great way to exercise while having lots of fun. seniors learn basic moves and practice a variety of routines. improve your posture, balance, and flexibility. it is easy. get up on your feet and step to the beat. senior dance class is from sf rec and park. a great way to get out and play. >> for more information,

i wanted to be a part of this history. some parts i wouldn't want to be. this part was really wonderful and a joyous occasion and a long time coming. it's absolutely the right thing to do. to bring 2 loving people together, in helping acknowledge and certify that relationship, i find really wonderful and a joy and one of the most pleasurable things i have ever done in the city in my life. i will be continuing this afterwards >> when i was conducting the ceremony. some of the friends said, now it's real, now it's legal. in other words, they had gotten married before. this time, it's legal. you know, a sanctioned. it was hard for me to get to the end. i was starting to get emotional too. >> it's really one of the most extraordinary gifts to be given in life and that's to participate in a ceremony where you can celebrate the ultimate gift in life and that was falling in love. i say this because it's important to remind people. doesn't matter what position you have in life. you can't buy it and you can't force it upon anything. love just happens. when it happe

the zoo feels it has to be part of the solution and dialogue.ve to conserve wildlife and wild things. this has to be one of our highest priorities. thank you all for coming together on this. thank you. [applause] >> thank you very much. next, we're going to hear from a couple community partners. on the issue of this not being the end, but rather, the end of the first chapter and the wanted to mention that as a result of this amazing collaborative work, and it is really this group of people and men -- many of the folks in the public as well,; been awarded over';#í funding to pursue a implementation studies and carry these ideas forward to the next level, do that technical work, doing the challenging effort of converting the big ideas into real projects that can be implemented on the ground. with that, i want to bring up laura, 2 has been working on this in bringing these issues to the attention of -- who has been working on this and bringing these issues to the attention of the city. she was there from the beginning of the process, having already

or even another part of the same problem. i think it's all part and parcel i mean you know one of the things i saw in washington repeatedly was how much the treasury officials i was dealing with as well as officials of the federal reserve so it benefits with the interests of the banks themselves so you know when we were pushing for different types of oversight provisions or conditions where we could identify ok here's a conflict of interest that might be a real problem here is an area of fraud that you really need to be concerned about a response was was really a roll of the i pad it had on the head and say like look you don't understand these are banks they would never do this they would never put their profit over over that of of you know that or the public interest they would never and the quote was risk their reputation which is really an alan greenspan ian concept that we don't need to protect the market from fraud because the banks will just behave and you know i think you see that same attitude when you see what happen

that will fund a significant part of muni's capital needs, as well as other parts of the transportationcture of the city. that is managed by the san francisco transportation authority. we are pleased to have our partner in transportation here in san francisco, executive director jose luis moscovich. [applause] >> good morning. let me clarify. i am here representing the chairman of the board -- san francisco county transportation authority commissioner and border supervisors, member david campos, who is not able to attend today. i will be wearing four hats. my own, commissioner campos' hat as the chair of the board, board supervisors, and also as a representative of the board of supervisors on the metropolitan transportation commission. but personally, i am delighted to be here today, and i want to extend a warm welcome back to the bay area to be administrator therese macmillan. in doing that, i am not only welcoming a distinguished guest but ab the bay area has just reached the end of an extensive two-year effort to develop the region's first combine regional transportation plan and to

both parties, including -- it is clear that there was part of the obama administration that was part of targeting the occupy most and also of as a form of political oppression happening currently. they are going after anarchists on the pacific northwest coast, targeting them for their beliefs. >> quickly, protesters here using ied's. >> it is absolutely upsurge. it is part of this scare tactic of keeping people from here, keeping the conversation away from what people want to talk about, jobs, the economy, and instead try to scare them about protesters. >> i want to thank you for being here. that does it for the broadcast. breaking with convention. war, peace, and the presidency. we are doing two hours every day from the republican and democratic convention. democracy now! is looking for feedback from people who appreciate the closed captioning. email your comments to outreach@democracynow.org or mail them to democracy now! p.o. box 693, new york, ny 10013. box 693, new york, ny 10013.

the eagle is part of our history, and establishment that has been an integral part in san francisco for so many years, and not just the lgbt community in san francisco, but abroad. so in light of that, i was really shocked that you would come here and say this is going to be neither a gay or straight bar. again, i think there are some cases where that is appropriate, many cases of beer that is appropriate, but when you're talking about taking over a clear landmarked and establishment that mean so much to this community, can you explain that? neither a gay or starighstraigh. what does that mean/ >> i was under the impression that any business owner could purchase of the establishment. have you been through the eagle tavern after it closed? supervisor campos: appointee you my point to you is -- >> my point is the previous owners were from the lgbt community, and they trashed it. i have some photographs. if you could bring those up. so as you can see, the place was destroyed and nearly unrecognizable. in some ways it is a clean slate, because obviously a considerable amount of work has to

there are some heavy downpours in parts of howard and montgomery county.s have quieted down a little bit but there is another that's coming in in northern virginia. this will likely run to the north. this will go through their western suburbs and get into parts of central maryland in the next couple of hours. we're not done with the threat just yet. when we check the precipitation totals and was with our view, we will see that pulls i area down and parts of areas of montgomery county. we have upwards of 5 inches of rain in parts of north central montgomery county and a pocket of heavy rain in the eastern part of howard county. 2, 3, 4 inches might have come down in those areas. you do see the isolated nature. there is lots of precipitation associated. at the airport, officially, 2 inches of rain. you see how isolated the heavy stuff is. the 41st time we run above 90 degrees at the airport. 96 would be normal. 101, the record, back in 1930. the thunderstorm activity will continue tomorrow. this is slowly coming out of northwest pennsylvania. this front prob

the work asking for what can we get -- part together?started our first location and then from there we expanded locations. >> why do think food trucks have grown? >> i have gotten popular because the high cost of starting a brick and mortar or strong, the rise of social media, trucks can be easily located, and food trucks to offer a unique outdoor experience that is not easily replaced by any of their setting any worlwhere else in san franc. san francisco eaters are interested in cuisine. there adventuress. the fact theyuse grea use great ingredients and make gourmet food makes unpopular. >> i have been dying to have these. >> i have had that roach coach experience. it is great they're making food they can trust. >> have you decided? >> we are in the thick of the competition? >> my game was thrown off because they pulled out of my first appetizer choice. >> how we going to crush clear? >> it will be easy. probably everyone has tried, something bacon tell us delicious. >> -- people tell us is delicious. >> hopefully you think the same thi

japanese companies are a part of the program as well. investing in scholarships and run internship programs. the program helps students find jobs at japanese companies. the program also aims to educate asian students to become the best in their field. waris has been focusing his research on chemical plants. he was offered a position at the largest construction equipment manufacturing company in japan and will start working there next spring. >> translator: raising asian talents here in japan will bring us benefits. they understand japanese well and will be our best supporters and help us in the business world. >> reporter: waris lives with two chinese roommates who are also studying in the same progr program. like waris, the chinese students say they were attracted to japan's advanced manufacturing technology. >> translator: i think what's expected of me is to come up with ideas japanese people cannot come up with. if i can do this, i'm sure i can make a great contribution. >> reporter: it's been five years since the program's launch and

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it is part as it stands. it really is. and we've cleaned up everything, the neighborhood, in hopes that guys will see that. this particular property with this perfectly. it would be such an asset to our community. it would also enhance all parts of the community. all these other areas are doing very, very well. we've had very little crime since the last four or five years. it's been just a great place to live and a great place to be. so i really appreciate your assistance in this endeavor. thank you very much. >> thank you, sir. >> i do not see valley. moving on. >> good morning. i am peter strauss from the lower haight and district 5 and district 8. it looks like i will be staying in district 8. we have reached the bottom of the night. i am. -- i am sure it feels more like the bottom of the 54th. baseball analogies aside, there are a bunch of us here to make one last pitch. in 55 laguna into district 5. we have talked about community and compromise. we have gusty to recognize haight is the spine of the community and shoul

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and in towards parts of illinois. there is a bull's eye here, shepherd, four to eight inches of rain. there's a lot of drought going on here. so they need the rain. but they're going to get too much too quickly and i think we'll be seeing significant flooding. folks into the central part of the country need to be preparing for that as well. >> you know, one of the concerns around here is the temperatures because the power company is suggesting hundreds of thousands of people could be without power for another week. the temperatures are going to get hot, aren't they? >> yeah. i'm wondering how you're sitting this with that jacket on. i know you needed the rain jacket. it's hot and will be humid. it's august and you're down around louisiana, southern louisiana. it's hot by any standard. the next few days looks like the temperatures will be the low 90s. that doesn't look like it's going to change, at least the next four to five days. for people who don't have the energy, it will be uncomfortable. >> so humid, rick, becau

otherwise parts of virginia parts of roanoke seeing that rainfall.wers expected in the southeast atlanta seeing pretty good downpours right now. westbound parts of kansas seeing the rainfall, much needed rain once again and showers and storms expected in the four corners heavier stuff during the afternoon hours. >> the time now is 6 minutes to the top of the hour. the comblier of fe-- the mayor phoenix finding out the hard way wnba players don't take practice lightly. >> can you figure out our word of the day. there it is. you can stick around we will tell you the answer. >> a minute and half until the top of the hour. we'll take a look at the good, bad and ugly. another reason to eat more chocolate. researchers finding that eating near flave noil a component in cocoa helps with cogniz and plood pressure in elderly patients. >> a break out the zoo in germany. a fox and bore dug holes under the fence to help the kangaroo escape. the ugly, the phoenix mayor breaks his nose in a pick up game with the phoenix murkry. his nose was fractured in two places

. >> this has been part of market, some of the district's but are not part of a large and rezoning -- some of the districts that are not part of the large rezoning. good ultimately, i think it would be great for the planning department to take on a comprehensive look of the neighborhood commercial district to see where the height increase is appropriate, but for now it is left of to the discussion of the supervisor's office. >> any other questions, commissioner emm? commissioner riley: chris mentioned we have heard it at the committee meeting and recommended approval. taiex i am trying to remember -- >> i am trying to remember how we dealt with that. does it just result in the taking of so did, or does it result in potentially raising it? >> the entire building depends on the amount. the floors above do not become smaller, or they would become uninhabitable, because of tight controls -- because height controls for levels. the entire building can be pushed up by that height, so the ground floor is 12 feet and building height can be 2 feet higher. if it is 12 feet, it can be 2 feet high

you have part a, part b, part c, part d. part a is the hospital insurance fund. part c, medicare advantage. it is not part d. these are complicated issues. and the romney campaign is taking advantage of this to confuse people, and that is shameful. >> a few weeks ago, a commissioner testified before the committee for the affordable care act. essentially, and i do not claim to have all of the details. he postulates in a somewhat unusual an unconventional role, and it is not certain. i think we would all agree that it is a 2000 page bill that is complex. are there ways that you can envision that the act may be made simpler or less complex? and what is the likelihood of that occurring after the november election? >> he is hoping that any constructive suggestion, this will fully kicked in in 2014. the reason the irs is part of this program is because you want to make sure that people can afford health care. it provides tax credits based on your income, so you go into these exchanges, these markets for health care insurance, very much like what federal employees and m

there have to be connections to other parts of it.e beauty and the investment that we make. as ed reiskin said, i am eternally grateful to president obama, leader pelosi, senator feinstein, boxer, others who are working so diligently with us to make these connections so that we/xo other regional transit system. so with that, please welcome our deputy administrator for the federal transit authority therese mcmillan. [applause] >> thank you so much, mayor lee. before we begin with my very good news for the region, the mayor mentioned how important connections are. i would like all of us to recall another connection we have as a human community and take a moment of silence out of respect for the victims and families of the aurora, colorado tragedy that happened yesterday. thanks very much. on behalf of transportation secretarys÷ [l$eÑ lahood, i am d to be here today to announce quality public transportation in the san francisco bayyya home region, about to take another step forward. for the third year in a row, we are announcing funds to

one part attack the incumbent, one part red meat, one part personal biography and one part defend theop of the ticket. romney offered a stinging indictment of the president. >> these past four years we have suffered no shortage of words in the white house. what is missing is leadership in the white house! [ cheers and applause ] >> it was also about talking to the base, firing up the conservative crowd with a bunch of red meat applause lines. >> that's freedom and i'll take it any day over the supervision and sanctimony of the central planners. [ applause ] >> there were cameras capturing governor scott walker tearing up as ryan talked about his roots in wisconsin. he defended the ticket on medicare by talking about his grandmother and mother who was in the audience. >> my thoughts go back to a house on garfield street in janesville. my wonderful grandma janet had alzheimer's. we had help from medicare. it was there just like it's there for my mom today. medicare is a promise. we will honor it. >> ryan's job was also to try to inoculate romney against perceived political weaknesses, i

it is such an important part of phase one. it is important that the funding be included as phase one so we have an opportunity to throw everything at it to get this to happen as quickly as possible. dan, i am not sure that he mentioned, we will be improving the existing digesters so people in neighborhoods to have been nearly so long will have a nominal improvements and impacts from the existing digesters. we agree that we want to deliver this faster and make it happen faster. >> we all had the same reaction. great, we shaved 18 months off. that is still forever. the schedule looks like we will have see " review and schedule and design work which takes about five years. construction takes five more years. does that mean they get no benefits for those five years or are their incremental benefits? >> there will be incremental. i will ask dan to come up and walk through the in-between phases, if you could talk about the processes as they are coming on line. >> to answer your question directly, the major benefit during constructio

when we go on vacation to see a different part of the earth, that is on our own planet but here we're seeing a part of mars and never seen before. >> it will be several days before the mass camera will begin to send high-resolution color images from mars but so far, so good. and some expressions of enthusiasm for the mars mission from some young people at the space and science center back here in the bay area. kids from middle and high schools turn out to the science center to hear about a new partnership. but they were also eager to talk about the events of the martian atmosphere just last night. >> i think that it is great. we're really actually going to mars now. i think it is very cool that it happened during the olympics because, this is just the united states sending probes. but if we all send a manned space mission together, that would be exciting. >> 1000 people were there last night to watch curiosities' landing, as for the partnership with hong kong, they will focus on differences between the western and asian skies. you can find more about the mars mission on cbssf.com, cli

we understand that's part of the territory. poll community could get together and realize we could be in the same room together and have a good time. those are some of the efforts we want to focus on and that's the preventative arm of the work that we do. that preventative arm works closely with the crisis response and the reactive peace we do as well. i want to open up for questions around what we do and how we operate. supervisor avalos: thank you for your presentation. >> i would like to thank the speakers. everyone knew heard to date -- public safety remains one of the highest priorities here for san francisco. it's really important for this hearing that you guys put on today, the presence that was here in terms of individuals talking to you and were here today for the hearing with that department heads, the san francisco police department and community-based organizations and the neighborhoods -- this is really important both internally and an externally. hearing from people in both the healing circle at having representat

so being able to cut into it come at into it, removed parts, it is part of the process of negotiating the final form. >> how do you jump from the two dimensional work that you create to the three-dimensional? maybe going back from the 3f to 2d. >> everything is in the process of becoming. things are never said or settled. the sculptures are being made while i am doing the collages, and vice versa. it becomes a part of something else. there's always this figuring out of where things belong or where they could parapets something else. at the end goal is to possibly see one of these collage plans be built out and create a structure that reflects back into the flat work. >> thank you so much for allowing "culturewire" to visit this amazing facility and to learn more about the artists in residence program. is there anything you like our viewers to know? >> we have art exhibitions every four months, and a win by the public to come out. everybody is welcome to come out. we have food. sometimes we have gains and bands. it is great time. from june to september, we accept applications from bay

some impact that were beyond the northeastern part of the city. the second part of 2011, we've actually had five or six hearings and through the diligent work of aaron starr and others who are here, we have worked to get the wheel the ordinands into its constituent parts. the we have three of those ordnances before you. there are for five more pending. if i could speak briefly to the specifics to each of these three ordnances, i will speak before -- the overall point of the ordinance i would say is twofold. it was to delete obsolete sections, fix redundancies, and clean up the code. and also furthered the widely held principles and policies in the general plan, such as the creation and encouragement of general -- of affordable housing, and sustainable activities like bicycling. and to get those things in line more with these policies. this goes through and lead just -- as the legislative digests expects. one of the things we are removing, to give you an idea, 263.3, which is removing a special height and bulk revisions. the last piece of that dila