this is called it piper's .com and it claims to be a former people want to wear adult size diapers. with similar interests. and with a vampire passion is also like dating site and social networking with the vampire and vampire lubbers. and members conjoined groups. -vampire lovers and family members can join groups. with farmers only. and with students, agricultural students and down to earth singles. and many schools do not get it that www.kron4.com if you would like to read more about this or any other segments, go to what's on the web section at www.kron4.com >>catherine: consumer pricing? >> they are ready to spend. and americans will spend $18.6 billion on valentine's day purchases. nearly 6 percent more than the last year. $125 per person. >> candy, >> chocolate. for my husband and my daughter. >> at least $100 for food. am i would split dinner with my boyfriend and then go to a museum. >> greeting cards, clothing, jewelry toward americans will spend the most of their del unromantic getaways, candy and the most popular is the dining out. those mills will cost $8.8 billion goes

commissioner peterson: if it were march 9, is there any way piper's could be done? -- papers can be done, especially since become -- council is indicating he has some evidence experts -- some evidence? >> it would be next thursday to submit, to be returned before. -- february 24. president goh: that would be fine with me. >> do you want that to be your motion, the hearing on march 9, with no more than five pages submitted on february 24? president goh: yes. >> we will take public comment on the question of the continuance only. is there any public comment on the issue of the continuance? >> it does sound like -- vice president garcia: if i can make a comment, we are allowing the attorneys a minute to argue their case and are going to allow the public three minutes to respond? president goh: you are right. one minute. >> i am representing supervisor jane kim, in which the property presides. we would like to issue our support for the continuance. it looks like that is what the board is going to do at this point. we are in support of the communities organizing. we feel

we want to grow the piper san francisco. there are opportunities to create more revenues in a thoughtful way, in coalition with other partners. commissioner borden: what is san mateo county doing? >> interesting. they are concerned about transportation operations, perhaps not as much as oakland and san jose. we have been looking at that problem. we have a lot of debate over what to read with to solve that is. i think that is pointed to be worked out of the next few months. the all looking at it. people are looking at parcel taxes, sales taxes. the likelihood of either of these passing without looking at the main operator, and bundling that together in the package -- that is probably not the most viable way for san francisco residents. they are looking at putting an hov lane on 1012 santa clara. -- on one 01 t -- on 101 to santa clara. there could be a high occupancy tolling. these are new ideas coming through to try to rationalize the funding sources, to grow the funding sources, to manage the corridor within which 101 and c

but i think what is gng on now is a lot of piper sexualization in our advertisements, i believe that has come to define what womanhood is to a loot of our girls. >> at the end of the day, you can advertise all you want, but unless a parent is going to throw down the cash to buy that barbie it's not going to happen. a lot of this is about parentingparenting, and i played with barbies, i had plenty of barbies my little ponies as well. but at the end of the day -- i grew up on a farm, my parents made sure i got out there did i other things that i just didn't live in this little fantasy world. there's nothing wrong with it, inspiring to be someone. it's just that over indulgence and spoiling little girls to where they didn't feel entitled as well. >> is it a casualty of over commercialization of how we raise kids today? that this brand of toys sells so parents will run and go by it? or saying, sorry. >> that's not -- >> that's parenting. >> we're out of time. that's it for this edition of "to the contrary." next week: women in europe battle for seats on corporate boards. please join us o

to levin's two growing plants or child piper has stopped an upcoming initial public offering due to unfavorable market conditions the company had planned to sell around thirty percent of its shares on the my six r.t.s. and london stock exchanges in a bid to raise up to eight hundred twenty eight million dollars and as predicted the i.p.o. would have value become pretty between two and two point seven billion dollars. the ruble is climbed five percent against the dollar over the past three months this is the best before my among twenty five emerging market currencies because it is appreciation is helping keep inflation in check as it reduces the cost of imported goods but as an example you think you are from the capital explains the russian central bank needs to balance its concern over rising prices against attracting unwanted speculative capital. for the central bank the tradeoff is really they need to they need someone to come conflation by the same time they. can't allow it to cause because otherwise they will treat it kept telling flows and it will make the problem of fighting inflation eve

plan to chell piper has stopped an upcoming initial public offering to two unfavorable market conditions to company a plan to sell around thirty percent of its shares on the my sixty r.t.s. and the london stock exchange in a bid to raise up to eight hundred twenty eight million dollars but analysts predicted the i.p.o. what about now between two and two point seven when you. ran out and says it lost twenty one million euros from its involvement with the russian carmaker after last year there are no ads it expects along with its alliance partner need to acquire a controlling stake in afterbirth by the end of the year. that's all from me joining my colleague tomorrow morning eight twenty moscow time bill is next with the headlines. wealthy british style. is not on. the. market why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's culture for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to conjure reports on. line. would be soon which brightened if you knew about someone from funds to impressions. for instance on t.v. don't come. me it is e

at the end of the free lunch and nature is saying to the economy of the world it's time to pay the piper it's time to pay your bill and people are squawking they don't want to pay the bill but it doesn't mean they're not going to pay the bill they have to pay the bill one way or another well the twin eco eco disasters are also in this headline max russia follows china and using reserve ratios to curtail inflation threat the twin eco eco disaster is number one is the economic disaster caused by the u.s. and that is the u.s. federal reserve plan to buy an additional six hundred billion of treasuries according to joseph stiglitz who is speaking in moscow last week he said that countries reliant on natural resources face an onslaught of more capital. in order to prevent this russia has had to raise their margin requirements and also because of the disasters that i talked about with the fires that swept through russia in the past year consumer prices have surged five nine point six percent from a year earlier triggered by the worst drought in at least fifteen years grain costs climbed an annu

. >> reporter: it's like the pipe piper, that snow brought a lot of people up here. this is a look at interstate 80 heading out of the hill, caltranss just moments ago confirming for me that this past hour, 2,150 cars an hour were passing over donor summit heading out of the sierra. there were so many cars, so many people out here today that the highway patrol had to crack down on an overflow problem. the crowds, the lines, the parking lots and the waits -- >> this is nuts. >> reporter: this is a look at how crowded in spots it was in the sierra on this long holiday weekend. >> crowded, it's definitely crowded. you would be lucky to find a parking spot. you better get here an hour ago. >> reporter: there are so many people flocking up to some of these onramps and off ramps, with all these cars there's no place to park. in some of these off lamps they actually wrote the words, no parking. two chp officers were issuing citations to several cars who they say parked illegally. >> there's too many people coming up, they are looking for places to park. they are parking in

given basic official equality under the law , now politics was about bargaining for your piece of the piper rather than meeting to demand what it should have been all along as the basic rights of humans, they shifted from making universal demands to bargaining for your share of medicis in. as soon as you move from universal to a bargaining style politics you lose the marvell electricity not to say that they don't matter like transferred job-training and bilingual education and housing and all kinds of other things. not that that doesn't matter but give-and-take kind of politics as opposed to the universal demand, and no compromise. that is what we have been since this period of roughly 65, 66, a 682 chase the end of the movement and have become a nation of bargainers' for benefits. but we need to make a move back to the universal volume is. that we need to think about it to see everybody has access to certain basic things. one example then we close. education. know it is controversial but i believe the single most important thing is to have free school choice. no reason the black child or w

. >> as kcbs radio's matt bigler tells us, it's time for pot clubs to pay the piper. matt, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. yeah, we're talking about measure u that san jose voters overwhelmingly passed last november. it goes into effect this week and yeah, it does basically require the pot clubs to pay a 7% tax. it actually does two things t allows the city go into these medical marijuana dispensaries. they are about 100 or so that popped up in san jose and forced them to open up their books so the city can do the financial audit of the pot clubs. once that's done then the city can start taxing those clubs at a rate of 7%. of course that's money that cash-strapped san jose certainly needs right now. the city is facing a $110 million deficit. but a lot of club operators have objected to the new regulations. dave honest the founder of a cannabis collective says 7% is way too high and will put some clubs out of business, according to dave hodges. >> it's not a tax that allows businesses to exist, it's designed to force people outside of san francisco. >> reporte

. >> i play piper, a small-town diner waitress with a bad attitude and a heart of gold. [ laughter ]charger. >> yeah. so naturally nick stumbles upon her and thinks that i could -- i could help him out. save the world, you know. >> jimmy: so you drive around in this muscle car. super cool. are you good at driving or -- >> i'm a horrible driver. i will just throw that out there right now. >> jimmy: me too. >> i will not be -- >> jimmy: i am an awful driver. >> i'm bad. >> jimmy: i'm like -- oh i rolled down the window, my blinkers and hand out the window. everyone, like "turning. about to turn." i yell -- yell signals. everything. >> jason: then you started the car. >> jimmy: then i start the car. [ laughter ] it's weird thing. i've never been in one accident. it's fantastic. uh -- i want to talk to you about -- i know you did -- you went to a nascar event and you got the honor of saying, "gentlemen, start your engines." >> yeah. >> jimmy: have you ever done that, jason? >> jason: no. i mean, not at a race. [ laughter ] few bachelorette parties. >> jimmy: "you guys are under arrest."

the federal government currently taxes private foundations by two-point pipers of the income on the corporate. i can well imagine the state government has just a future of federal law and organized in the state. and you take it resource is. you have tax benefit. you can accumulate income with investments. and you are not really providing anything to the public field has your money might go someplace else. so we want to impose on you attack the way the federal government does because you are a creature of state law in some anon the franchise tax to renew your state not-for-profit went the year. they were going to impose a 1% tax say there's how many billions of dollars of debt money where you can raise your taxes are imposed attacks of 1% or 1.5% on these foundations over a certain side. it is very difficult politically to fight that. and so, what would you -- i believe that's going to happen in california, new york, boston. it will be 1%, 2%, 3%, 1.5% and it will be incremental. .. >> i don't think it's an impossibility, but i think we need to educate a larger percentage of the population, no

people who demagogue "we have got to fix social is a dirty" don't want to raise the revenue to pay the piper -- "we have got to fix social secure" don't want to raise the revenue to pay the people who have built those houses and pay for those roads. it is fully solvent. the cast has been used for tax cuts and over things. they are demagoguing because they want to renege on the legal, moral, political right people have to social security. host: congresswoman, we are out of time. guest: oh, so soon! host: thank you for talking to our students. guest: thank you. you guys were great, yes great questions, and i hope to meet you some time. host: we want to get time warner cable and academy coordinator rachel sotelo for preparing the students. we will talk about judicial vacancies. but first, a news update from c- span radio. >> wholesale prices rising at the fastest pace in over two years due to higher costs for gasoline, pharmaceuticals, and other goods. excluding food and energy, the prices rose since the -- the most since october 2008. builders broke ground on a new homes and a departments at a

when or are instarted his business, he had a two-seat taylor-craft and a two-seat piper.s an example of the pioneering spirit that embodies alaska. he grew the tbhies a successful regional air carrier serving communities throughout rural alaska. penn air is now run by his son danny. this is a letter from danny seabert, the president of penn air. "for many of these communities, penn air is the only scheduled passenger air service link to the rest of the world." he goes on to say, "if the mccain amendment is passed -- quote -- "it would have a devastating effect on many remote communities in alaska. on many air carriers who provide those communities with the air transportation services and on alaska's economy." here's an e-mail my office received from the copper valley air service. copper valley flies two e.a.s. routes serving two communities. the e-mails read. 'if this amendment is approved, it will put copper valley air service out of business. it will cost eight jobs. this cannot pass'." this is an e-mail from bruce phillips, the chief pilot of wings of alaska. 'repealin