second qwest at all in favor? any public comment? please call to last and final item. >> adjournment. president mazzucco: all in favor parke? so moved. thank you. >> good morning, today is wednesday, april 18, 2012. this is the meeting of the abatement appeals board. i would like to remind everybody to turn off their electronic devices. the first roll -- the first item is roll-call. [roll-call] we have a quorum and the next item is -- i have one housekeeping item to mention. that is to let you know that item e1 on 1117 gehry has been withdrawn and will not be heard today. >> the appeal has been withdrawn? >> yes. the next item is the election of officers for president and vice president. >> i would like to start. i would like to begin by nominating kevin cliched to be the president. >> i second that. >> and the other nominations or comments? >> we have a motion on the floor. is there any public comment on the motion for president? seeing none, we will take a roll-call vote. >> [roll-call] congratulations. the next order of business i

second qwest at all in favor? any public comment? please call to last and final item. >> adjournment. president mazzucco: all in favor parke? so moved. thank you.

second qwest at all in favor? any public comment? please call to last and final item. >> adjournment. president mazzucco: all in favor parke? so moved. thank you. but the anniversary of the great earthquake was remembered. >> i would like to ask for a minute of silence. >> let's have a moment of silence. >> they meet for the annual reflating ceremony. he was joined by winnie for an afternoon celebration. we are here to commemorate all that it signifies. at each anniversary the leaders meet to prepare for the next great quake. bob welcome everybody to the anniversary. i got to say, the mayor gets it done. gooa round of applause for our e chief's wife. you look terrific. do we have sydney close five? -- close by. we will pass the microphone to the mayor for a couple of quick words. we have a fire chief and the police chief. >> good morning, everyone. 106 years since our earthquake. we do have a grandson? she was with us in 2009. goopublic works is here. this reminds us of the 3000 people but passed away in 1906 from the devastating ear

second qwest at all in favor? any public comment? please call to last and final item. >> adjournment. president mazzucco: all in favor parke? so moved. thank you. >> you probably think you know all about the exploratorium. but have you ever been after dark? did you know there was a monthly party called after dark? science mixes with culture and adults mix with other adults. no kids allowed. every week there is a different theme. to tell us about the themes is melissa alexander. tell us about some of the previous themes we have had. >> we have had sex ploration, sugar, red, blue. many things. >> what is the theme tonight? >> rock, paper, scissors. we are having a tournament tonight, but we have also used as a jumping off point to explore lots of different ideas. you can find out about rock, paper, scissors as a game as a reproductive strategy. you can interact with a piece of art created by lucky dragon. you can get your hair cut from a cool place called the public barber's salon. they use scissors only. you can find out about local g

second qwest at all in favor? any public comment? please call to last and final item. >> adjournment. president mazzucco: all in favor parke? so moved. thank you. >> we came to seven straight about 10 years ago. -- 7th street about 10 years ago. the environment is huge. it is stronger than willpower. surrounding yourself with artists, being in a culture where artists are driving, and where a huge amount of them is a healthy environment. >> you are making it safer. push, push. that is better. when i start thinking, i see it actually -- sometimes, i do not see it, but when i do, it is usually from the inside out. it is like watching something being spawned. you go in, and you begin to work, excavate, play with the dancers, and then things began to emerge. you may have a plan that this is what i want to create. here are the ideas i want to play with, but then, you go into the room, and there maybe some fertile ideas that are becoming manifest that are more interesting than the idea you had initially set out to plan. so there has to be t

second qwest at all in favor? any public comment? please call to last and final item. >> adjournment. president mazzucco: all in favor parke? so moved. thank you. >> everyone deserves a bank account. in san francisco, anyone can have a bank account. everyone is welcome, even if you are not a u.s. citizen or have bad credit. qualifying for a bank account is simple, just lived or worked in san francisco and had a form of id >> we started bank on san francisco at six years ago. we wanted to make sure they know they have options, which would be more successful for them. ♪ >> check cashing stores can be found all over the city. they're convenient locations, with a hidden price. -- the convenient locations, with a hidden price. >> i got a refund check and they took out $200. >> i understand they have to make money, but they are a little high. >> people who used check passers -- cashers, they could pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees. >> i do not have that kind of money. >> i would not have to pay it if i had a bank account. >> ban

. >> some tense moments aboard theazamara qwest. >> this is your captain from the navigation bridge,ask you all please to proceed to your muster station, we need you in the muster station so we can make sure everyone is present. >> the vessel left hong kong for what was supposed to be a 17 day southeast asian cruise. five crew members were injured in the incident >> i can tell you things happen and it was unfortunate. >> despite the or deal passengers are giving praise to the captain and crew for maintaining order. >> the crew was totally utterly amazing, taking care of us making sure we were safe, pulling double duty to make sure we got everything we needed. >> the crew handled it excellently couldn't have been done better. real safe. >> this fire was the latest in a series of accidents hitting luxury cruise liners since january when the costa concordia capsized off the coast of italy killing 32 people despite the incident one passenger says she is ready to cruise again >> i am not disappointed i am glad i am safe if they had it again i would come. >> the rest of the cruise has been

there were honest police officers but then took on the qwest light norfleet. they could not break apart those structures that were so embedded. it took somebody complete outside or oblivious to blow it apart and green publicity -- bring publicity >> [inaudible] >> he started to make a silent film financed largely be by himself before the great depression and never finished. one of the actresses sued him of for something. that is curious. there are a few stills and that is it. i don't know what happened. there are a few in the book. it is so can the but that is the era. he hasley eyeliner. a done. it would have been good. he saw the potential of his own story. but american history intervened. >> if they make it into a movie who plays norfleet? >> tracie paul newman. he is very short those are all very read towering as con men. that is so i think of from the sting the. play that game. who else? he is not the brad pitt type of hero. james franco. [laughter] i don't know. >> jon stewart. [laughter] i will tell him that we talked. he would be good. [laughter] >> is

could speculate well the banks found out how to get around it know the rules kind of like trying to do qwest egalite and they're screaming about that as well yeah and as far as glass steagall lie from i understand people that have that are working to kind of bring light to what's really in us regulation there are tons of loopholes that the banks may get around to telling cage in this action so i guess my question is what is the solution because if regulations don't fix the problems because they don't actually address them because banks lobby them what is the solution to this you have to completely cut this off you can't do it halfway you have to make it is a matter of federal law the disordered activity can take place and what the banks will say is well then we'll just take all purposes so we'll go to london or whatever and my response to that is if you want to play with chores at night for glycerin please go do it in your house not in mine tell you they can go to london that's fine i don't care. well. pleased with their yeah i guess it's only fair how far that would spread and how many peop

in fact, i met qwest on the sect of "meet the press" -- i met him on the set of "meet the press" and david gregory it asked him what things should be taught -- and he said everything should be looked at, include defense cuts. no sooner had we gotten off the set than his cell phone rang and it was the chairman of the house armed services committee saying, what the hell are you talking about. and west wanted to be on this committee but he said, look, mr. chairman, i know it is a low hanging fruit, but there are things that need to be cut. as soon as he did get to town, west took one look at the calendar majority leader harry kantor -- eric cantor put forth that would involve congressman spending less time in washington and more time in their district and west announced that is exactly backward -- he said we have some of to do with it spend more time in washington, and cantor was offended, too. but finally, to your question, west plays a role, to surprise of many and made himself, to convince freshman there is no point of looking for 100% solution, that 70% is better than nothing. and h

. >>> 8:45 a.m., caps continue their playoff qwest, nats debut -- quest, nats debut a new face, daven't it nice we can talk red skins football,. >> you are right. >> let's start off with the caps this is a big game tonight goingup to new york for game two we remember in the first series against boston they lost game one against a hot goal tender and found out a way to beat him in the series, henry lind quest is that same deal for the rangers in game one it was close. 1-1/3 period, 90 seconds, two goals happened here is the first one coming up. braden who is so good against boston, a little shaky on this one a couple soft goals at least for him he is a rookie so it is hard to really say well, hopi was bad. he has to play better if they are going to win. >> rangers didn't even take that many shots on goal. >> they played a very defensive style and just got enough, in this bang bang sequence to get two goals in 90 seconds. it will be a low scoring series i just don't think this will be that many goals, so therefore, hopi has to elevate. >> we got to keep playing. >> speaking of waking u

at cwa she's bargained for contracts with qwest and other companies.he worked as a technician for pacific bell northwest. annie, why don't you tell us a little bit about the cwa. >> thank you. first, it's a great pleasure and honor to be here and thank everyone, the staff and reverend sharpton for putting on this great conference. communication workers of america is, um, also a very diverse union, was founded in 1947, um, and the -- as a woman i'm very proud that the backbone of the first organizing effort was actually telephone operators. so, of course, -- who, of cours, were all women at that time. it's become much more diverse since then. we have, our union clearly came out of the telephone industry, but over the years it's very much diversified, and while we still have a large contingency of people working in the telecommunications industry, we also represent people in the media sector, journalists, broadcast engineers and printers. we also have flight attendants and people that work in passenger service in the airline industry. we have a manufactu

the bayonets and charge the enemy to victory but i think you opportunity offender because although qwest is a reluctant tea party freshman, i should mention he is from the fort lauderdale area of florida, he wasted very little time upsetting leadership. in fact, i met him on the set of "meet the press" and david gregory it asked him what things should be cut -- and he said everything should be looked at, include defense cuts. no sooner had we gotten off the set than his cell phone rang and it was the chairman of the house armed services committee saying, "what the hell are you talking about?" and west wanted to be on this committee but he said, look, mr. chairman, i know it is a low hanging fruit, but there are things that need to be cut. as soon as he did get to town, west took one look at the calendar majority leader eric cantor put forth that would involve congressman spending less time in washington and more time in their district and west announced that is exactly backward -- he said we have some of to do with it spend more time in washington, and cantor was offended, too. but final