and thus was born pollack ands olen's short new book: "the index card." a few simple rules... >> and that just seemed much more doable to a lot of people. >> reporter: so, what's on the card? s rule one: "strive to save 10 to 20 percent of your income." which means slashing your spending on what you don't much care about. >> we've got some nice rust over here, also... >> there are other things that i do spend money on. i go on vacations, i go, i take, my wife to bruce springsteen, so, but i try to spend my money on things that i enjoy. and i really just am apathetic about my car, so i shouldn't spend money on it.ab >> reporter: though rule one is easier advised than accomplished, helaine olen acknowledges. >> i mean, how on earth are you supposed to save between 10 and 20% of your income if you're making $20,000 a year? and the answer is you probably won't.e my position is, is that everybody is helped if at all possible to just even get a little bit of money aside.ey >> reporter: rule two: "pay your credit card balance in full every month." obvious, yet l

pollack. >> it does it justice thank you. >> a motion colleagues to move with a positive recommendation made by commissioner peskin and we'll take that without objection. that item passes unanimously congratulations to all the folks that work hard we're almost there. >> thank you for your co-sponsorship chair cohen. >> thank you madam clerk, is there any other business before this body? there's no further business. >> almost this meeting is adjournedse spbed by the office thorf meeting. speaker are requested but not requiremented to state their name. please deliver speaker cards to the commission secretary prirep prior the apruching the lectern. there is a sign in sheet at the front table for those that would like to be added to the mailing. sf gov tv if we can have our slide, please.

we'll be joined by ron pollack who is the executive director for families u.s.a.captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016]] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. isit ncicap.org] host: good morning. it's monday, april 25, 2016. the senate returns today at 3:00 p.m. with votes expected at 5:30. the house will meet this morning and returns tuesday at noon to begin legislative business for the week. but we began right now on the "washington journal" discussing the deal announced last night by the ted cruz and john kasich campaign to coordinate efforts in three states in an attempt to deny donald trump a pass to the g.o.p. presidential nomination. the deal to divvy up oregon, arizona and new mexico by trump and

pollack. >> it does it justice thank you. >> a motion colleagues to move with a positive recommendation made by commissioner peskin and we'll take that without objection. that item passes unanimously congratulations to all the folks that work hard we're almost there. >> thank you for your co-sponsorship chair cohen. >> thank you madam clerk, is there any other business before this body? there's no further business. >> almost this meeting is adjourned city of san francisco >> mayor's disability council >> please stand by... >>

>> it came from an early conversation with alan pollack. we were talking about how to represent a new generation of ai bots that microsoft is creating. you think of what artificial intelligence is, it does not have a body. it is existence based. so it thought of what the first representation of an ai bot for microsoft was which wasn't quite ai but deftly a bot. characterpping, this in the 90's it didn't do so well for them. he came in a tory us figure but really has somehow persisted to the years as kind of a symbol for this thing that microsoft tried out the did not work so well. regardless, we took him as a character. he is clearly recognizable with a paperclip body and large bulging eyes. toive this to an illustrator determine how this would work in the future. he give him a large brain to make them smarter. he has some kind of optical device. he is basically like a smarter clipping. >> it's cool they on skype so it's a whole vision idea. >> how much do you think about how this would be interpreted are what some we might think of it? >>

pollack. >> it does it justice thank you. >> a motion colleagues to move with a positive recommendation made by commissioner peskin and we'll take that without objection. that item passes unanimously congratulations to all the folks that work hard we're almost there. >> thank you for your co-sponsorship chair cohen. >> thank you madam clerk, is there any other business before this body? there's no further business. >> almost this meeting is adjournedof the san francisco commission on community investment and infrastuck khur successor agency will come to order. er >> the first order of business is item 1, roll call. commission members, please respond when i call

betty: alan pollack of bloomberg businessweek.: the luxury hotels are having their worst order since 2009. find out why occupancy rates are dropping. that is next. mark: london's luxury hotels are having their worth since 2009. the priciest hotels are down 70%. what is keeping the world's wealthiest travelers at bay? the managing director of christie and code joins us now. what is behind this big drop-off? >> of there is a 6.9% drop. i think what we're looking at is just a key one statistic. there are two parts of that. number one is a seasonality. this pollof year goes. in march or april. that can drive the decline. we see that donate, 2009, 2016. the drop-off is higher than what we would like to see. concern about the uncertainty in the market especially with overseas traveler. mark: there are terroristic concerns. putin is advising staying at home. what about the upcoming referendum? address: i think that we are dealing with the transaction market. sales and hotels, people are taking stock and saying let's see what will happen,

pollack. >> it does it justice thank you. >> a motion colleagues to move with a positive recommendation made by commissioner peskin and we'll take that without objection. that item passes unanimously congratulations to all the folks that work hard we're almost there. >> thank you for your co-sponsorship chair cohen. >> thank you madam clerk, is there any other business before this body? there's no further business. >> almost this meeting is adjourned >> good morning, everybody. welcome to the board of supervisors budget and finance committee for wednesday, april 13, 2016, my name is mark farrell joined by sxhangs. >> thank you; correct and charles kremack and other staff madam clerk, any announcements? >> yes. completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the april 19th board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> okay thank you very much madam clerk call item one. >> item one an ordinance amending the building code for the inspection and maintenance and establishing a fee. >> thank you very much.

charles brought pollack -- paula poundstone to the white house, i said, how are you? he said, stop being political. it is that kind of year. i know it. she knows it. i told her not to hold back. paula and i are both funny people. [laughter] but she is funny on purpose. thank you very much. [applause] ♪ [applause] pres. clinton: good evening, ladies and gentlemen, president-elect dylan, distinguished guests. i am really happy to be here. [laughter] happy to be reunited at long last with the white house press corps. if i may, let me direct your attention to a photograph. [laughter] taken moments ago. it proves beyond a doubt that i am happy to be here. now, wait a minute. it seems that my hair in that photo -- it is a little longer than it is tonight. [applause] [laughter] so maybe i am happy to be here, maybe not. feel free to speculate. admittedly, looks and photos can be deceiving. look at this photo. it is a recent one of the vice president applauding one of my policy initiatives. but look a little closer. those are not his real hands. [laughter] [applause] now this

pollack. >> it does it justice thank you. >> a motion colleagues to move with a positive recommendation made by commissioner peskin and we'll take that without objection. that item passes unanimously congratulations to all the folks that work hard we're almost there. >> thank you for your co-sponsorship chair cohen. >> thank you madam clerk, is there any other business before this body? there's no further business. >> almost this meeting is adjourned >> hi everybody, we down here at the /ep is a center which is our pop up space down here in san francisco where we operate a store front to educate the policy from the home owner who has center which is our pop up space down here in san francisco where we operate a store front to educate the policy from the home owner who has never done anything in the house to the most advanced structure engineers we have working around here. we we're going to here from kelly to talk a little bit about san francisco. how are you doing kelly? >> very well, thank you for having us here. >> in front of us, we have a typical soft story building. when i see thi

. ♪ david: we are here with alan pollack, the editor of "bloomberg businessweek."ou have a double issue focused on design. how did this come about? >> when bloomberg bought is this -- businessweek in 2009, we read and since then design has been part of what we , do. our writers and editors work very closely with our artists and art photography editors, -- our photography editors and it drives the way we tell stories. we tell them graphically, through photography and we all work together, and design kind of moves us. a few years ago we started doing these special issues and we did design conferences which starts on april 11 in san francisco and many of the speakers are featured in the special. carol: is there a theme you kind of think about? ellen: not really. we are try to talk about all different kinds of design. we have graphic artist, architects, and sometimes a theme kind of emerges. in this issue, it emerges that all the designers were talking , we are talking about how to solve problems and improve your business and life, so that kind of organically became th

. ♪ carol: i am here with the editor, alan pollack. highlight super thinkers, working on the next big thing. that includes the folks at industrial light and magic. what is interesting is they are looking to build virtual reality for "star wars." which is really cool. ellen: that's right. they have people all over the company. they have brought in people across various lines. they have put them under an executive and she is the leader to bring in the expertise and create entertainment you are sort of familiar with, but in a different way, using new technology. carol: when you see the millennium falcon, it sounds like it, it looks like it, it is as real as it can be. ellen: and it feels like you are in it. they are doing extensions of "star wars." they are doing the trials of tatooine. some of this is experimenting with this so far. they showed us some clips and it really did -- you could imagine what it would feel like to be looking around as they -- the center of the action and see some of these characters you have seen. carol: you hig

charles brought pollack poundstone to the white house, i said, how are you? he said, stop being political. it is that kind of year. i know it. she knows it. i told her not to hold back. paula and i are both funny people. that she is funny on purpose. thank you very much. [applause] ♪ [applause] president clinton: good evening, ladies and gentlemen, president-elect, distinguished guests. i am really happy to be here. [laughter] happy to be reunited at long last with the white house to score -- press corps. if i may, let me direct your attention to a photograph. [laughter] taken moments ago. doubt -- the on the beyond a doubt that i am happy to be here. now, wait a minute. it seems that my hair in that longer- it is a little than it is tonight. [applause] [laughter] so maybe i am happy to be here, maybe not. feel free to speculate. admittedly looks and photos can be deceiving. look at this photo. it is a recent one of the vice president of plotting one of my applaudingiatives -- one of my policy initiatives. but look a little closer. those are not his real hand

we are joined by alan pollack. there was an article last week about amazon that is attracting attention. >> we did a story that showed cities had amazon note available but it was available in predominantly black areas and was not the intention of amazon to discriminate but the results were there were these lines. in boston, it was extremely obvious because the delivery service excluded roxbury and was surrounded by areas that were able to get the prime one day service. there was a hoopla and the mayor asked questions and senator markey of massachusetts demanded answers. as of today, amazon have that track and said roxbury will be getting this one-day service now. david: in the global economic section, a he's about wild cap minors going after amber in ukraine. >> ukraine is a bit of a mess area they have rebels backed by russia fighting in the east. there is a lot of tension still going on and the attention is bad. in certain areas, people are illegally trying to mine amber which is made of resin from ancient trees

we are joined by alan pollack.article last week about amazon that is attracting attention. >>

already, -- even though i had one of the first copies, i was already too slow and the great sydney pollackad already optioned it and had it for 15 years or so and a script was written by the great robert towne. what no film was forthcoming. i just -- but no film was forthcoming. this was a story i desperately wanted to see on the screen. i had the temerity to imagine myself in the role of the night manager. jeff: in your younger days. jacob: yes, thank you. the youth -- the world turns and hair fall out. got the script for the movie not a tv series. hugh: he wrote a movie and then made an odd public debt location -- declaration that the author was not fill mobile. lmable. he is writing thought rather than deed. there are not necessarily a lot of car chases and not much blows up. stuff blows up up here. we probably blow more stuff up than the others combined. we are quite combustible. ofis part of the nature being about ordinance. about the explosive material. we do blow things up. delivered, a contemplative show. hugh: i would say so. it is adult. it is literate. these are smart characters

. ♪ carol: i am here with the editor, alan pollack.n issue, you highlight super thinkers, original thinkers, kind of working on the next big thing. that includes the folk

ron pollack examines the recent announcement by unitedhealth group they are pulling out by most exchanges by 2017. the overall status of health care coverage in the u.s. be sure to watch "washington journal," next, q&a with ron chernow talking about his biography of alexander hamilton. then, and david cameron takes questions from the house of commons. after that, a news conference with president obama and the merkel. merkel. oh -- angela this week on q&a, historian ron chernow. he talks about the hit broadway musical hamilton in the consulting work he did on it. then minimal miranda base their musical on journal passion biography of alexander hamilton. chernow, when did alexander hamilton first kid on your radar? ron: i started writing about it in 1998. the reason i chose to

pollack. >> it does it justice thank you. >> a motion colleagues to move with a positive recommendationade by commissioner peskin and we'll take that without objection. that item passes unanimously congratulations to all the folks that work hard we're almost there. >> thank you for your co-sponsorship chair cohen. >> thank you madam clerk, is there any other business before this body? there's no further business. >> almost this meeting is adjourned ladies and gentlemen, chair call thd meeting to order. can you please turn off your electronic devices as they tend to interfere with the equipment in the room and please rise for the pledge of allegiance. >> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. i like to call the roll. >> please do, sergeant. >> commission president lofts, here. commissioner vice president turman, here. commissioner marshzal is in root. commissioner dejesus is route. commissioner wong excused. you have a quorum also with us is chief of po

host: heelys appreciate your time here. , ron pollack. --will be able to talk about united health, pulling out of most exchanges by 2017. we will be right back. ♪ >> tonight, the safety and security of the u.s. electric grid is the topic of nightline anchor. the book, lights out, a cyber attack, a nation unprepared, examines the potential for cyber attack on the grid. it looks how vulnerable is thetric is to an attack and degree to which electric companies of care to respond to a -- an attack. that you willn give over control of the industry requires that you give up an awful lot of information and a lot of these companies do not want to give up. there was a bill passed last years, the senate, after and that now has private industry willing to pass on information to the government. but only after they have sanitized it. >> watch tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span two. washington journal. is back at ourck desk now. director of a consumer abbasid group that has it -- and has been a long supporter of the affordable care act. i want to start w

. ♪ carol: i am here with the editor, alan pollack.ht super thinkers, working on the next big thing. that includes the folks at industrial light and magic. what is interesting is they are looking to build virtual reality for "star wars."

pollack. >> it does it justice thank you. >> a motion colleagues to move with a positive recommendation made by commissioner peskin and we'll take that without objection. that item passes unanimously congratulations to all the folks that work hard we're almost there. >> thank you for your co-sponsorship chair cohen. >> thank you madam clerk, is there any other business before this body? there's no further business. >> almost this meeting is adjourned so, same time next week? well, of course. 2, 1 you innovation on or was on over 200 years they went through extensive innovations to the existing green new metal gates were installed our the perimeter 9 project is funded inform there are no 9 community opportunity and our capital improvement plan to the 2008 clean and safe neighborhood it allows the residents and park advocates like san franciscans to make the matching of the few minutes through the philanthropic dungeons and finished and finally able to pull on play on the number one green a celebration on october 7, 1901, a skoovlt for the st. anthony's formed a club and john then the sup

the fire started by the king of the mountain road in pollack pines in september of 2014. it took almost a month to contain fully. flames burn nearly 100,000 acres of el dorado county and destroyed a dozen homes. laura anthony was in mass floridaerville today as man who set the fire pleaded guilty and was sentenced. >> after he was even there selfie video one of several pieces of evidence el dorado county prosecutors have incriminating the now admitted king fire arsonist. wayne allen hunts man. video shows him standing near the fire in the moments after it started on september tlaerngs 2014. then he was trying to portray himself as a hero. >> i always have. >> now he's an admitted arsonist. >> probably the most remorseful person i represented. this was very difficult for him. >> oh, my god. >> the king fire burned for more than a modest stroying 12 homes. 68 structures and scorching 9 97,000 acres. in court hunts man said i have cried many nights for the victim. i love people. i love mother nature. my heart hurts for the pain i cause. among those in the courtroom to hear h

and in the years after the second world war, we actually really got back in, jackson pollack and a couple of years after it was painted. henry geldzaller in the 60s got a whole program going, did an exhibition in 1969. and so we've been building up the collection. but it-- it's pretty-- it's patchy. there are areas of strength and areas of weakness. and i think that the moment has come when, you know, our-- it's clear that our audience is-- they really want to see modern and contemporary art at the met in the context of historical collections. so we're not competing with moma or the whitney or the guggenheim. we're doing something different. >> rose: you're offering in context-- >> this bigger context, yeah. and so when i was appointed director, it was clear that this is one of the areas we-- you know, we really wanted to focus on. and i've bn taking steps to do exactly that over the last few years. building up a program, building up the staff who can develop a meaningful program. now occupying the-- taking over the old whitney building and further down the line, planning to remodel or re

- even though i had probably one of the first copies, i was already too slow and the great sidney pollack had already optioned it and had it, i think, for 15 years, and the script was written by the the great robert town but no film was forthcoming. i thought this was a story i so desperately wanted to see on the screen. , i did, of course, i had the temermt to imagine myself in the role of the night. >> glor: in your younger days. >> yes. the world turns and hair falls out. >> glor: laurie, always youthful. >> thank you, thank you. >> glor: so town wrote the script for a movie. >> movie. >> glor: based on it, not this, not the tv series. >> that's right. he wrote a movie, and then i think he made some rather odd public declaration that john le carre was not filmable. and that didn't go down too well with the great man. >> glor: not the only person who feels that way, i would assume. it's tough to translate, is it not? >> i suppose it is. i mean, he tends to write-- he's writing thought rather than deed a lot of the time. there isn't a lot of-- in what we think of as a sort of prototypica

families usa executive director, ron pollack, examines the reason announcement by united hill that theyre pulling out of most aca exchanges by 2018. the expansion of medicaid in louisiana, and the overall status of health care coverage in the u.s.. be sure to watch c-span's washington journal, begetting life at 7 a.m. -- 7:00 a.m. eastern. monday night, on the communicators, the safety and security of the u.s. electorate grade is a topic of a new book by ted koppel. out,"ok, "lights surviving the aftermath, examines the potential for cyberattacks on the u.s. electric grid, he looks at how companies are prepared to respond to an attack. >> the notion that you are going to give over control of the defense of your industry requires that you give up an awful lot of information that a lot of these companies do not want to give up. there was a bill passed last fall in the senate after years of wrangling that now has private industry willing to pass on information to the government. they havefter sanitized it. >> watch the communicators monday night at 8:00 eastern. now, a look at the process

charles brought pollack poundstone to the white house this a.m., i said, how are you? he immediately turned to me and said, stop being political. it is that kind of year. i know it. she knows it. i told her not to hold back any shots. paula and i are both funny people. [laughter] but she is funny on purpose. thank you very, very much. [applause] [applause] pres. clinton: good evening, ladies and gentlemen. president, president-elect, distinguished guests. i am really happy to be here. [laughter] happy to be reunited, at long last, with the white house press corps. [laughter] if i may, let me direct your attention to a photograph. [laughter] just moments ago. it proves beyond a doubt that i am, indeed, happy to be here. [laughter] pres. clinton: now, wait a minute. it seems that my hair in that photo -- it is a little longer than it is tonight. [laughter] [applause] so maybe i am happy to be here, and maybe i am not. feel free to speculate. [laughter] pres. clinton: admittedly, looks and photos can be deceiving. now, look at this photo. it is a recent one of the vice pr

. >> thank you her for her work and jeremy pollack in my office did a lot of work working with that community groups on the process of approvals for the plaque and the arts commission and review committee approved the design for the plaque on monday and will be before the arts commission for their approval very, very soon, the department of public works has been very, very helpful in agreeing to do some of the maintenance for the plaque the first plaque on mission street and, of course, the crocker amazon excelsior grasp is r group is very, very responsive and taking care of the daily operations of taking care of the commissioner sako plaque - and - colleagues, i ask for your our o support. >> thank you supervisor avalos colleagues, can we take that same house, same call? without objection the ordinance is passed unanimously on the first reading. >> item 29. >> item 29 an ordinance to amend the green building code and the environment code to establish the code for building construction facilitating the development of renewal incurs and updating the provisions for city this in a date of 2017 p

. >> thank you her for her work and jeremy pollack in my office did a lot of work working with that community groups on the process of approvals for the plaque and the arts commission and review committee approved the design for the plaque on monday and will be before the arts commission for their approval very, very soon, the department of public works has been very, very helpful in agreeing to do some of the maintenance for the plaque the first plaque on mission street and, of course, the crocker amazon excelsior grasp is r group is very, very responsive and taking care of the daily operations of taking care of the commissioner sako plaque - and - colleagues, i ask for your our o support. >> thank you supervisor avalos colleagues, can we take that same house, same call? without objection the ordinance is passed unanimously on the first reading. >> item 29. >> item 29 an ordinance to amend the green building code and the environment code to establish the code for building construction facilitating the development of renewal incurs and updating the provisions for city this in a date of 2017 p

providers union and equity coalition and i would like to thank by ladies and gentlemen ive aid jeremy pollack for his tireless work on this version of the transportation sustainability fee. this veto underscores the economic bias of mayor ed lee, a bias that favors the wealthy at the expense of work people. mayor lee has you to thed his reputation to bring people together, however this veto calls into question the mayor's consensus approach. i would dual at the end of the concessions approach, get a bunch of people in the room and stack it with the rich and powerful and force the less powerful to make concessions. in the end the working people get less and end up paying more out their own personal pocketbooks for basic city services. the concessions approach, brought us a lower inclusionary-level in the housing trust fund, a lower-level that we're now trying to fix and gave us tepid gross receipts tax that left millions on the table for tech companies to pick up and you now the tsf. when muni has an enorthrop grumman backlog of deferred maintenance, $10 billion deferred backlog as identified

pollack -- public chicks.com editor in japan. a crew supporter.st time with all the breaking news we had. you're a big time crew supporter you for a crew supporter that's kind of tough. i want you to outline the path to victory because i can see mr. cruise -- senator cruz wins in wisconsin. i can see that. but i can't see him winning in new york. that is donald trump territory and cruise does not win new york. he's got a real problem with the delegate count for the convention. >> he does fear this is not an easy win for him. but all along this has been a kind of tortoise and the hare kind of raise for senator cruz has been slow, steady, building up his grassroots base, building up run support. right now he is winning over a lot of former trump delegates. he's doing really well in arizona right now. colorado. >> hold on a second. he's contacting delegates. trump delegates. ted cruz is trying to persuade those delegates, change your mind. when push comes to shove at the convention, change your mind. that is what ted cruz is up to? >> that is not som

one piece a pollack is estimated to be worth $400 million. why are they sitting in this basement?cted in the '70s by the monarch at the time. and then the revolution happened in 1979. very violent. they had to escape the country. all of those paintings were left behind and that is where they sat for decades now. there is no known clog catalog of them at this point. they do display one at a time upstairs. but again, there is a lot of talk about why all of these piece of art aren't on display or what would they do with them or if they needed the money over the years why weren't they sold on the international market? there is talk they might go too a museum in germany next year. we wait to see the ongoing. one of these pieces is actually kind of owned by steve coen. there was a transfer back in 1994. the iranians gave up one of those pieces to give a very famous iranian book. so they did a barter exchange. that piece was bought by a man who had it many years and then bought by steve cohen who still owns that. so that's the only piece we know that's left that collection in the basemen

providers union and equity coalition and i would like to thank by ladies and gentlemen ive aid jeremy pollack for his tireless work on this version of the transportation sustainability fee. this veto underscores the economic bias of mayor ed lee, a bias that favors the wealthy at the expense of work people. mayor lee has you to thed his reputation to bring people together, however this veto calls into question the mayor's consensus approach. i would dual at the end of the concessions approach, get a bunch of people in the room and stack it with the rich and powerful and force the less powerful to make concessions. in the end the working people get less and end up paying more out their own personal pocketbooks for basic city services. the concessions approach, brought us a lower inclusionary-level in the housing trust fund, a lower-level that we're now trying to fix and gave us tepid gross receipts tax that left millions on the table for tech companies to pick up and you now the tsf. when muni has an enorthrop grumman backlog of deferred maintenance, $10 billion deferred backlog as identified