recently built buildings are about 10 stories, about 120 feet. the margin by smart is about 10 stories. there are a lot of good examples around south of market. older commercial industrial buildings that have these characteristics that are so attractive. this is important not just for cultural reasons but also because of the dynamics of the industry's. companies go from five employees to 50 employees, possibly merging and supporting, and they need the flexibility to move around and reallocate staff. while they may not be extremely tall in terms of height, there typically very high density, even more high-density than the typical downtown high-rises in terms of employees per square foot. we have seen up to one employee per and hundred 20 square feet. and then back to the culture, a lot of these firms want to be in this location because it is that a high rise culture. it is sort of a subjective cultural thing about standing in line for an elevator with a bunch of suits going up to the upper floors. we hear that again and again, and maybe it is some

recently our controller's office completed a review of the arts commission. this report along with recent leadership changes at the arts commission provides us with an opportunity for the city to take a closer look at equity issues. the rest of my items i will submit. >> thank you. supervisor wiener. supervisor wiener: thank you. today i am introducing legislation making a number of amendments to the campaign finance ordinance. this legislation came up through the ethics commission through their public outreach process. i am sponsoring as a request of the ethics commission. it would do a number of things. most of the items are clean up and consolidation. some of the primary features are the following. first, right now, there is an aggregate contribution limit which is $500 times the number of races on the ballot. it was $65 a year before. it was an arbitrary and ever- changing number and especially with ranked joyce boating, -- choice of voting -- it makes it difficult to do that so it would eliminate that limit. it would also take the $500 contribution cap a

i am going to touch on just a few of the major recent enforcement actions. i think it is useful just to kind of bring it home. you are probably familiar with these as they occurred. we are going to touch on the orange county, the city of san diego and the state of new jersey, which is the most recent one. as you recall, orange county -- i mean, they ended up going bankrupt, so it was quite a mess. all the bonds, i think, were paid in full. some of the payments may have been delayed, but in some sense, the conclusion of the story was that everyone did eventually get paid. however, at the time, the county was running basically a significant part of its budget off of a derivative scheme, or they were investing in very dangerous investments that were working to generate a lot of revenues -- risky investments. all well and good except that none of it was disclosed. so really, that is what got them in trouble. i mean, the investments themselves did not help because they crashed. all those investments started to go south. but what they got in trouble with with the

so newt says it's one of the dumbest things he's done in recent years.ause he's exhausted peace in vanity fair in 1995 after he was speaker. she quotes, gingrich's neighbor and campaign treasurer tip carter who tells this story about gingrich? i have newt's daughters, jackie, sue, and kathy with me. i was cutting across the yard to go up the driveway. there was a car there. as i got to the car i saw newt in the passenger seat, and one of the guys' wives with his head in her lap going up and down. newt kind of turned and gave me his little-boy smile. fortunately jackie, sue and kathy were a long younger and shorter then. there are some voters who would score what gingrich was doing in the driveway as an awful lot dumber than agreeing with nancy pelosi about climate change, and, of course, limiting himself to recent years allows gingrich to ignore the $300,000 fine that the house ethics committee hit him with in 1997. as is newt's habit, when confronted with something politically embarrassing, he lies about it. when he was yontsed with the million and a ha

i am going to touch on just a few of the major recent enforcement actions. i think it is useful just to kind of bring it home. you are probably familiar with these as they occurred. we are going to touch on the orange county, the city of san diego and the state of new jersey, which is the most recent one. as you recall, orange county -- i mean, they ended up going bankrupt, so it was quite a mess. all the bonds, i think, were paid in full. some of

was the most recent to uphold the law. the nation's highest court has allowed five hours in the case, a rare departure from the usual one-hour allotment. a ruling is expected by july. >>> here's a look at other stories making news early today in america. according to city official as slow-moving san pedro landslide has become an immediate and life threatening hazard. it's breaking up the roadway and also causing chunks of earth and concrete to fall into the pacific ocean. city crews are scrambling to remove vulnerable infrastructure and keep spectator as way. >>> five north carolina families are out on the street after an suv crashed into their apartment complex. the driver apparently lost control before barrelling through a fence and into the building. no one inside was harmed when the vehicle ripped through the apartments. the driver and two passengers suffered nonlife-threatening injuries in the crash. >>> finally, the famous ruby red slippers from "the wizard of oz" aren't in kansas anymore. the iconic for the wear was

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s always been a leading promoter of free trade until very recently recent i think the recent years maybe all of us. reckon politicians seem to feel that maybe it's not such a good idea after all why. it seems that. we are losing our competitors. and in certain situations of free trade and we are actually not being as competitive as we have to be so are we saying actually the competition is getting stronger and stronger from those emerging countries countries yes. and the danger is that the u.s. is losing its position as the dominant financial player in the world and what effect does that have only on the dollar as well well the. dollar is been on a steadily weakening trend for quite a few years i would say since the end of the bush administration beginning in obama administration why because we're printing more and more dollar bills and we're really only country that has the. ability and privilege to print more money who we need. the national consequence of course is that we can in the other dollar as far as being competitive or not being completed i think. a lot of that is a structural.

european shares managed to snap their recent losing streak and locked in solid gains tuesday. u.s. shares have also rallied at the news of silvio berlusconi's pending resignation. germany's dax finished up more than half a percent. the dow jones up even higher. blue chips have rebounded from earlier losses now that berlusconi has agreed to resign. the dow up by 0.6%. on currency markets, the euro rallying, up to $1.3829. western europe can look forward to a warmer winter than years gone by, now that a direct link has been established to russia's national gas reserves. the strategic pipeline runs directly from russia to germany, along the bottom of the baltic sea, circumventing ukraine, which closed of pipelines in the past amid disputes with russia. nordstream took a seven years to build at a cost of 7 billion euros. there was celebration by angela merkle and dmitry medvedev. >> it is truly international. the pipeline is owned by gazprom, two german energy companies, and one from france and the netherlands. this bypasses routes through ukraine, belarus, and poland, which have been

to start off south of crucial some afghanistan's future next week as nato is recent deadly strike deals a blow to a strained islam about washington times. the live pictures for you right here on our t.v. is pretty dry and to all hold public sector workers begin walking out of a pensions of the country's biggest strike for a generation i'm going to live pictures here of central london for you on our. an estimated. one strike in the u.k. today schools are closed and hospitals i can fill in much and see only for me in london in just a moment. and a record number of egyptians turn up to cost their vote in parliamentary elections but surreal square demonstrators say the poll is meaningless powerless parliament is ruled by the military. and business with our will look at the possible investment starvation for russia they cannot ministry expects the country to see a six percent growth in investment in two thousand and eleven journey for a full business. because i could have you with us on this wednesday you watching r.t. live from moscow works now at just after five pm pakistan has dealt a fre

gas in the whole of europe which makes the position of germany very important ok again one of the recent events japan's fukushima disaster and this of course made germany decide to abandon nuclear power an important decision here while the gas flowing through north stream would be enough to fill the fill that gap. you know people who are criticizing north seem understand how important this pipeline is for the second. reason not only for security reasons but also for getting more gas from russia because softer of a german ear is closing down all the nuclear station in the next ten years we will need to of course more gas and since the pipelines from russia exist it will be easier to get from the east and from anywhere else so again the pipeline is being seen the strategic a very important also for a reason for the german economy and germany will not suffer from any kind of energy source or just in the upcoming decades like manner like some other countries who probably have not worked. as germany in buildings as important infrastructure oh you were talking there about security but let's ta

supervisor wiener: this is an issue i have sort of focused on recently. a lot of playgrounds are very focused on younger kids without adequate attention being given to older kids. a lot of times you have parents who are involved to have young kids that helped design it, and then the kids get older, and it is not as useful. i know recreation and park has recently been focused on this to make sure a range of children are able to use the playgrounds. >> absolutely. our playgrounds serve children of different age ranges. i think you are referring to the episode i of those part playground, which we work with recently, and we are on the verge of breaking ground for a playground geared to slightly older children. it is my understanding from conversations with our playground advocates that the idea would be to have it accepted for basically two different age groups and also proposed play equipment for older youth. supervisor wiener: thank you. >> i was just going to ask -- i appreciate what you said about keeping families in the city and challenging obesity with

their recent hearing and that meeting was a good one we discussed a lot of questions. aren't and cannot win situations and he spoke about their apec summit spoke. russian without ruti own. i think president. first american president and. the most exotic africa story. he did for. russia would already be in the w.t. oh and we would not have a situation when russia chicana me so that and as a whole range of innovations is not a member of. scotland's original problem was spoke about it. and we discussed some other things that i cannot share with you but not that i want probe you know i was about six. as you mentioned. i mean the last in recent days we've overcome a number of hurdles towards accession to the w.t. . is it now a done deal and what does it mean for russia i mean after all we saw that when china joined it it entered a new phase of its economic development i mean can we expect something similar with russia. i hope. it will be bringing in a very good showing for the russian economy. that we were getting is when you are alone time and a whole range of russian comp

recently they were granted a visit outside her cell. >> this time we hugged and kissed momma. then momma and isa were both crying. i was encouraging mama, don't cry. god will help us. >> help is coming through prayer and advocacy and other believers around the world. more than 400,000 people have signed a petition asking the pakistani government to have mercy on asia bibi and release her from prison. call for mercy campaign sponsored by voice of the martyrs. they have asked to create a video. here is a clip from the winning entry. >> her life on the line, we have a voice and with god we can achieve even the impossible. go to callformercy.com right now and sign a petition for asia bibi release. >> she said i pray for them that are signing and i hope i will be released soon. >> what does little isam say? >> i want to say thank you to the people who are signing. thank you very much you are doing so much for my mama. >> how can we pray for you? >> pray for us, pray for our family, pray for asia bibi that she may soon come back home and say thank you to the entire world when she re

singing from the same song sheet leaders of russia but in recent kazakhstan a meeting to discuss the creation of a new e.u. ration on the european union. britain has reportedly been endorsed to lead a campaign against syria's present. but any diplomatic at this stage russia has signed a bill done anything to beat violence in libya. when it comes to belting out an emotional composition russia's downs track record so. take moscow out. great. you need. to. go. hello good to see you again and welcome now this makes sense time but i will be taking a look at the opera seen here in moscow many say that the russian capital post some of the best possible it's up in the world so join me most about greece and the rest of the must rock crew as we find out that statement is correct starting off here at the sun's last theater the main focus of the building is the glorious old fashioned style of p.k. so a stunning all the tory in here sees one thousand five hundred people and it's every night. theater itself was created on the first of such a match my nine hundred forty one on the side of a theatre

competent economic governance this resulted on the record figures that the labor party got on the recent election toe much did your government improve the situation well what would you for example answer to the left wing critics who accuse the of i quote slavishly submitting to their dicks that some of the financial markets and those faceless institutions that hold the lives of tens and hundreds of millions of europeans in their grip well this is this is what you're doing according to your critics no in fact what we're doing is we're working our way to recovery the first thing that the new government did was we took decisive steps to restructure and to recapitalize banks aren't have been hit with a double whammy first of all the effects of the international. the collapse of lehman brothers in addition to a domestic crisis which was mainly property fueled which was fueled by excessive lending the new government has worked to deal with the restructured family capitalized our banks we've introduced a jobs initiative to encourage people back to work and to provide training for those who are

it may seem hard to believe, but as late as -- as recently as 1970 the united states was the world's biggest oil producer. now, that quickly changed when oil production in the continental united states reached a peak. at that point the u.s. was forced to compete for foreign-produced oil against its own trading partners in europe and japan. with less spare capacity in the system, the world oil supply became vulnerable to a single intervention or act of god like political unrest, pipeline sabotage and even severe weather conditions in the persian gulf which can lead to loading and shipping disruptions for oil tankers. the economic boom in asia and china over the past decade, especially in the runup to the 2008 beijing olympic games, saw oil prices skyrocket. between 2004 and 2005, the world's oil consumption rose an estimated five million barrels a day. according to dr. roubini, asian economies accounted for 59% of the growth in demand for oil in 2004. now, when gerald ford was faced with a potentially catastrophic increase in oil prices in 1976, he turn today the saudis for help as ev

have you seen change in that, and when you talk about your focus groups with recent arrivals, are you convinced those groups are giving you -- giving you an accurate assessment that the audience is larger or the potential audience is larger than the 1% that the gao found? >> guest: before i took the job, i read all of those reports, and i looked at kind of my basis, because, you know, you have to listen to all sides. let me start with the focus groups. the focus groups, we're not asking them whether they listen to radio and tv marti. we're exploring and understanding the daily lives of our audience. my previous comment was based on the fact that unsolicited and irrelevant to the focus group or the topic of that focus group, generally, they say we get our news from radio and tv marti. more from radio than tv. how do we know people are listening and watching is based on probably the things i already expressed. i mean, there's surveys also. in 2010, we've done research that show that 40% of -- this is 2010 -- 40% of listeners or people that we asked listen to radio marti during the last

recently the country may be sliding. kind of civil war because the protests apparently the peaceful protests have not had the kind of impact. the organizers had hoped for and in fact they may be moving more and more to some kind of armed confrontation nevertheless these these activities are also could be a double edged sword i think all those who the best interests of syria and its people should make at least another effort maybe more efforts to try to get something of a log growing between the regime and the opposition to internalise well as the external opposition because unless we see that i think that's true ations going to be dangerous for everybody involved both within syria and in the region it's an explosive situation. you with r.t. live from moscow it's good to have your company today always more stories and eye catching videos waiting for you at r t dot com but for now a taste of what's online right now american drones dropping bombs across afghanistan and pakistan are set to get closer to home as a new legisla

today why aren't the protests is accepting those recent concessions made by the military really just just how long is this arm rest look like it's a loss this time. i think no one can really say for how long this is going to continue certainly for here the focus is very much on what's happening right now i mean the point is that the military council to step down immediately but i think trying to ask some of the protesters what they think and what they want to happen often with an arm that school they not becchio the committee for its side has been holding these crisis talks it's been trying to introduce reforms it now says that it will insist that the parliamentary elections go ahead on monday that it will be holding these presidential elections next year june but the fact that the violence continues and the fact that there is this heavy handedness from the security personnel that's a crutch from any kind of promises any kind of token any kind of restraint that is coming from the military council people there saying that the heavy handedness of the security is a crow back and a remin

for workers of these metallurgical company it all looks like a win win situation their most recent project is the north stream pipeline should they enter international markets they'll face very little competition. and this is raw so much the largest plant in russia south producing harvested rushers is because food for months ahead and workers who conspired. but the head of the company has a rather different outlook to that of the w t o cheerleaders. our oil and gas will be in demand even without entering the well agriculture will tumble. agriculture will be among the hardest hit sectors but experts say the domestic automotive industry will be the one to undergo most step he will. the troubled mortgage giant of the vase was rescued from the brink of death in the economic crisis of two thousand and eight by prime minister putin with more than one billion dollars in loans cash and guarantees. out there as is the government's favorite child but not all car makers in russia are cherished this used to be a thriving. open the ninety. thirty its most successful years were the fifty's and sixty's w

watching with me rule received shy a furious pakistan is making its abundantly clear this over the recent nato air strike which killed twenty four of its soldiers it's now pulled completely out of a key security conference on afghanistan's future next week it also promised to permanently close the alliances key military supply route through its territory. marina portnoy has details relationships are never easy but when it comes to the partnership between america and pakistan the sugardaddy of this geo political alliance has turned out to be islamic most dangerous friend in a post nine eleven world pakistan joined forces with the u.s. in the war on terror receiving roughly eighteen billion dollars in return over the past ten years you have hundreds of pakistani civilians have been killed in u.s. drone strikes targeting terrorists most recently nato had to admit it killed two dozen pakistani soldiers. this said protestors onto the streets of islam abad torching an effigy of president barack obama burning american flags and demanding an immediate divorce from its american partner this is har

recently it's least seen its economy stagnating has now become the latest country to be dragged into the center of the eurozone crisis. italy has a strong economy and. it is now italy could now face a similar fate these countries having to see convergence see parallels despite being one of the year isn't largest economy we're not greece we're not greece because we have a lot of savings we are not greece because we have been very prudent in this recession we haven't done big deficits in this recession might not be greece but with a mammoth that soaring borrowing costs just how did italy and in this situation right now nobody's spending nobody spending in all or all of europe consumers are not spending they are saving they're scared to death of what's going to happen meeting you is in tomorrow's to be. tough for forms it's been a large part of was made with getting growth in the country so you difficult hopes are now pinned on a new government being able to bring about positive change we have had too many years. that was not credible outside and very divisive inside i don't think it's

the recently its least seen its economy stagnating has now become the latest country to be dragged into the center of the year is in crisis it only has a strong economy and is a liquid has. been so far better than it is now it's lee could now face a similar fate these countries having to seek emergency bell outs despite being one of the year is it largest economy we're not greece we are not greece because we have a lot of savings we are not greece because we have been very prudent in this recession we haven't done big deficits and this recession might not be greece but with a mammoth soaring pouring costs just how did italy end up in this situation right now nobody's spending nobody's spending in all or all of europe consumers are not spending they are saving they're scared to go from what's going to happen meeting your isn't it most that tough reforms are still a large part was made with putin growth in the country so difficult. government being able to bring about positive change we have had so many years of leadership that was not credible outside and very dismissive insights i don't