and i had to write for permissions, copyright permissions, 48 of them whose work was still under copyright protection. i started a year before the publication date. and the year that followed a year ago, in other words, was an education for me in bureaucracy, greed, control freakry, inefficiency, outright lying and the blindless of copyright holders to the circumstances of readership in the 21st century. i thought, naively, that many executors and copyright holders would be happy to have some long-forgotten story or poem by a writer that nobody had talked about in 30 years, 40 years, 50 years. i would come and say i'm going to reprint this and it's going to be called the vintage book of women writers? isn't this wonderful? not a bit they did not find an opportunity to find a new opportunity for their writers. there were a tiny number of exceptions. in fact, there were two exceptions. [laughter] peter davis, whose wonderful book "mrs. flinders" was tammy to made his mother's work available and was exceptionally generous in its terms. copyright holders made it as hard as possible to analthou

i cut my list to 100 writers and i had to write for permission, copyright permission, for 48 of them. 48 of those were still under copyright protection. i started a year before the publication date and the year that followed, a year ago in other words, was an education for me in the kantian bureaucracy, greed, control freak, and efficiency, outright lying and the blindness of copyright holders to the circumstances of readership in the 21st century. i thought naÏvely that many executors, copyright holders, would be happy to have some long forgotten story. nobody had talked about in 30 years, 40 years, 50 years and i would come and say i'm going to reprint the senate is going to be called the vintage book of american women writers. is in that wonderful? they did not see it as an opportunity to find new audiences were there writers. there were a tiny number of exceptions. in fact there were two and exceptions. peter, the set of -- the son of ted's lessons are, fabulous story which i recommend you, was happy to have his mother's work made available and he was exceptionally generous of his

i had to write for permission, copyright permissions for 48 of them. forty-eight of them who have worked under copyright protection. i started a year before the publication date. the years that followed, a year ago, in other words, and education for me in the bureaucracy, agreed, a control freak three, in efficiency, and outright lying, and the blindness to copyright holders to the circumstances of in the 21st century. i thought, naively, that many executives and copyright holders would be happy to have some long forgotten story or poem by a writer that nobody had talked about in 30 years, 40 years. abbott, and say, i'm going to reprint this. we will be called the bid to to look of american women. they did not see this as an opportunity to find new audiences for their riders. there were a tiny number of exceptions. in fact, there were two exceptions. peter davis, the sun of tesla singer his wonderful stories are in the book. just fabulous story. happy to have his mother's work made available, and exceptionally generous with his terms. overall copyright

somebody has to handle the permissions, though, and i would think that in these days permission fees could be centralized and standardize ad and handled -- and handled online. they're not. on their web sites, publishers say they will respond to written or e-mail queries in 2-6 weeks, and they warn you not to telephone you to follow up. in fact, several of the largest publishers took up to five months to reply to simple queries. in one case i never could get a reply from the copyright holder and just gave up. and when you read a review that says why isn't so and so in the book, i want you to know these are are some of the reasons why writer x does not make it into the book. back in the 1970s i thought $100 was a lot of money for a poem, even a great poem. but poems and stories have become more costly, like everything else. their price is held by the copyright holder. there is absolutely no standard, no convention. you charge what the market can bear. you charge what you think you can get away with. there is no correlation to length or even to the fame of the writer or the classic natu

i cut my list to 100 writers and i had to write for permission, copyright permission for 48 of them whose work was still under copyright protection. i started a year before the publication date and the year that followed, a year ago in other words, was an education for me and the new bureaucracy, agreed, control freak greed, and efficiency, an outright longing and the blindness of the copyright holders to the circumstances of their leadership in the 21st century. i thought, naively, that many executives and copyright holders would be happy to have some long forgotten story or poem by the writer that nobody talked about and 30 years, 40 years, 50 years. i would say i am going to reprint this that's wonderful. they didn't see this as an opportunity to find the new audiences for the writers. there was a tiny number of exceptions in fact there were two exceptions. [laughter] peter davis, the son of test slash center whose wonderful story, mrs. flanders, is in the book, a fabulous story that i recommend. was happy to have his mother's work made available and was exceptionally generous in his t

number one, leading an assigned area without permission. the prosecution did not bring one witness to testify that he left. he did not proved it was a particular day, a particular time, nothing -- he did not prove it. there is no written document, nothing. they just showed a video. that is all. it was not even authorized. let's go to specification number two. he did not devote his entire time to the achievement to protect life and property. obviously, this specification is vague. there was no evidence that was presented. there were no witnesses that they presented on this specification. a lieutenant came and testified about hearsay upon hearsay upon double hearsay, which is a violation of his constitutional rights, because there should be direct witnesses to come up and testified so that you can have a full transcript. -- in and testify -- in and testify -- and testify. this is hearsay. that is why you have a trial, so the witnesses that were being investigated as part of the investigation, so the officer lewis could cross-examine. he was n

stacey tells more max that's in our first headline here china bans reincarnation without government permission the law which goes into effect next month and strictly stipulates the procedures by which one is to reincarnate is quote an important move to institutionalize management of reincarnation oh the dalai lama right now the chinese government wants to control the cosmic reincarnation wheel to make sure that the dalai lama doesn't go broke to. mention to the people that they might want to system other than capitalists last communist slash to tell terrorism slept in merican style neo liberal market manipulation j.p. morgan sucks but is also propaganda against the dalai lama in the propaganda and you know manufacturing consensus is in all the rest of our headlines like this and this is a headline from february eighteenth friday before the weekend in which libya blew up don't pay attention to the gold bugs so this is from david b. armstrong a c.f.a. and a managing director and co-founder of a wealth management firm in alexandria virginia he says that if there is some sort of national or global

would it make more sense or if it would be permissible under this methodology to basically segregated out the money-making part of the business and to take the load out and the revenue out and to have this totally separate. then to look at the rest of the business and allocate this. >> i may not be the best person to answer the policy question. >> for the methodology and cost- based, is it permissible to separate an enterprise into this? >> this allowed us to do that. [inaudible] ultimately this is a policy decision. we did a rate steady some are based upon cost of service and how we can do that by offering a premium. >> i guess if i can synthesize this discussion. are we saying that the rights you are proposing would have the effect that any revenues and costs would receive from the district and actually subsidize rates? >> there is not cost subsidization we cannot sign any of this to offset any cost anywhere else. >> what we are recovering from is paying for the cost and the obligations that we have. >> if we make money off of them , they are not being held. >> i'm not sure i agree

this debate where it was closed to iran for more than thirty years how did to run manage to get permission now and are we getting any hints as to what might happen if the ships go through the canal. well this has been in the pipeline for the past week and wasn't clear whether or not he took the officials would actually agree to give iran permission to stay in these two ships through as you correctly say since nine hundred seventy nine since the iranian revolution there have been no iranian warships that have actually passed through the suez canal this is the first major diplomatic headache for the egyptian interim government for the ruling military council as you well know president mubarak had a close relationship with the united states he was an ally of the u.s. and at the same time relations between him and the rand were strained for the past thirty years it is not clear exactly why they gave permission we haven't had any insight on that but what we have been told reportedly is that it dipshit officials have checked the cargo they are confident that there is nothing suspicious on board

in fact, there's a very large gate there -- we plan on putting it in with your permission into one of the conditions of the permit so that he doesn't have to feel like a month from now or two years from now things start changing. and i believe that those are the issues. and i'm hoping to leave myself available to any questions that the commission might have, the individual commissioners, police officer, any neighbors and perhaps be given an opportunity to respond to anything that will come up. >> mr. whitaker, i have some questions and i'm sure other commissioners do. do you normally accept deliveries through the back door? >> no. >> no beer, no sound equipment? everything goes through the front door. so that would not be an issue the back door deliveries? >> that has never happened. you'd have to build a large ramp. what we're trying to do is alleviate a concern that the neighbor might have for the future. >> and then you're not dumping bottles but do you have a recycling person that comes and separates your trash? why don't you come up so we can ask the owner? are you with the club?

. >>> in san francisco, chopping off all books without permission could be punishable by a -- droping off old books without permission could be punishable by crime. >> the total costs to recycle old books in the city is estimated to be $1 million a year. >> distributors could be fined up to $500 for each book and the yellow pages say they can go -- people can go to the website to opt outs of delivery. >>> a pot farm ordinance may be scaled back after it was said that it violates federal law. options include limiting facilities to 50,000 square feet and have them tied to a dispensary and we will have the decision coming up on the 10:00 news. >>> a coalition of education groups is calling on taxpayers to propose an extension into the tax measure is fully doubt it will cost schools about $2 billion. they say school funding has been cut and he buried by $3 billion. that is out $1900 -- has been cut by $3 million that is about $1900 per student. >> and it's a little bit like trying to say that the world is flat. >>> still had come and accept a concession from the president of egypt. also a

paper, permission for us to bomb and permission for the north vietnamese to bring supplies in also throughuntry's only salt water port. so he was on a tightrope trying to keep out of the war and a complete sense, and of course this now made the war spread the war all over cambodia and everything changed. and i came to believe that the only victims were the cambodian people. at the time we did the incursion there were a group of about 3,000 to 5,000 men scattered around the country, and they were in no shape to do anything against the government. at the end of the war, there were 70 to 100,000. how did they recruit? the recruited something like when we talk about terrorists. they recruited young men whose families had been exploited by the people in the cities and the government and they were farmers and they got very little for their produce and then it ended up giving -- making other people rich. and they were primed for a recruitment. so, i wrote most of the time about what was happening to civilians and how many were going and how many were being forced on mr. holmes or even killed by b

this offer the permission to succeed. this included a 100% that small business set-aside for trucking and hauling services. our contract indicated that a resident participant level of 22 workers to date and six city- built construction placement. this is a union approved pre- apprenticeship program. we continue to work closely with the sfmta to receive the full funding grant agreement projected for december of this year. thank you and i look forward to briefing you on the successes of the central subway program. >> i appreciate it. >> moving on in our report. they are making preparations for the park project. the park has a bold new approach to parking management that contest weather sparked parking policies can reduce congestion and improve safety for pedestrians and private automobiles. they will test a package of smart marketing management techniques that include real- time information about parking availability through the web, 511, and the text messaging, mobile device arena. we will be installing new parking meters,

you need special permission to film this building and permission is never given. the army is one of egypt for l t real-estate owners. president mubarak has made his military commanders rich and powerful, including the new vice president, but now they seem anxious to shift away from him. >> any particular support for mubarak damages the army. they are trying to position their own people, including the new prime minister. perhaps the army may well believe that -- >> the army we -- the army may well believe that vigilante's control every street corner. but they understand they cannot just move in in force and qb demonstrators down. bt and menswear option -- they will understand that president mubarak will have to go. >> so it will not be the army, but the demonstrators themselves to define the outcome. just as it will be the army which besides the ultimate fate of president mubarak. reached -- which besides the ultimate fate of president mubarak. >> and our middle east editor jeremy bowen is with me now. jeremy, this decision is truly momentous, isn't it? >> what it

this offer the permission to succeed. this included a 100% that small business set-aside for trucking business set-aside for trucking and hauling services.

they have been reposted on baidu's site without permission. a similar copyright violation on the site was reported recently. the p.e.n. club also asked baidu to set up an in-house section to deal with copyright-related complaints from novelists and publishers. baidu says it will respond to the requests as soon as it confirms the facts about the alleged irregularities. baidu says it will also try to educate its users on the proper use of the site. >>> a top researcher in japan says an outbreak of avian influenza could spread across the entire country. bird flu has just been reported in two prefectures along the pacific coast. there are now 18 confirmed cases of the disease. the new outbreaks were reported between tuesday and early wednesday in the western prefectures of wakayama and mie. this season a total of 18 cases have been reported in seven prefectures, mainly in the western part of the country. more than 1 million chickens have been culled so far. >> translator: at the end of last year, it owed a lot along the japan seacoast. e migratory

do what have your permission? president mendoza: any objection, colleagues? >> ok. 111-11sp1, be it resolved that we commend the hard work and thoughtful recommendations from the community advisory committee, the arts education steering committee, an advisory committee, the physical education master plan steering committee, and all of the staff members who contributed to the success of these, and therefore be it resolved that the board of education of the san francisco unified school district approves the spending plan for 2011-2012 school year after examining the recommendations from the staff and advisory committees, and be it further resolved that this spending plan may be amended during the district's development, budget development process, based on availability of state funding. the superintendent has requested to inform the board of supervisors that such amendments could occur. i would like to have the of the presenters to they introduced themselves, please. -- the other presenters. >> good afternoon. i oversee this program within our office. >> hi, my

. >> i would like to request permission to recuse myself from this item. it is listing i might have a personal conflict of interest with it. >> ok. do we have to take a motion to approve that? >> yes. that is correct. >> may i have a motion? >> i move. >> i second. >> all those in favor. >> aye. >> you are recused. >> first of all, thank you for having me here today. good to be back in front of the small business commission and i want to thank you for your service on this valentines day. as i think you know the proposal in front of you is first and foremost about honoring consumer preference and giving all a choice in whether to receive their yellow pages. it allows distributors to distribute yellow pages to all and any san francisco residents and businesses who want one. anyone who wants a phone directory will get one. i think there has been a misunderstanding. this is not a ban on yellow pages in any way, shape or form. under my proposal they will still be delivered to anyone who personally accepts the directories as well as homes or businesses that requ

. >> i am asking for commission -- for permission to go back and look at legal options, including the -- to look at less lethal options, including the taser. i want to have community involvement. among stakeholders to be part of that. i think it will take me 30 days to come back with a specific weapon. it could take between six and 12 months to come back with a plan for that weapon. all i am asking for is commission to go back and research the feasibility of looking for a less lethal weapon, including the implementation for the taser. [applause] i have brought commander dan mahoney. he is going to guide the department presentation, what the issues are we are dealing with, and our goals for the remainder of the evening. we are going to have a real-live scenario played out in front of everyone here. i want to utter what the president said. ftc the real-live scenario, this is not about mental illness. i am working very hard with commissioner chan on the cit program, the memphis program. the will be a component of the mental health issues we have in the city. this is separate from the use

we sought to get permission from the state regarding that. supervisor chu: ok. quickly, city administrator offices? litigation as well? >> that is anticipation of litigation costs around a case before the city. supervisor chu: thank you. is there anyone from the public that would like to comment on this item? >> good morning, supervisors. my name is douglas yep. i have lived intemperances go for 59 years. i was glad to hear the mention of the department of public health. the facts that were mentioned earlier do not surprise me. for the record, i would like to remind everybody that the board of supervisors has consistently, through different committees, absolutely refused to hold hearings into the department of public health, in regards to suspected misuse of money, especially metical, at san francisco general hospital, where i worked for 20 years. i would also remind everybody for the record that the comptroller's office, in my opinion, has been uncooperative to push for a follow up financial audit of san francisco general hospital financial practices that was o