and secondly, the beacon program which, we have 8? >> yes >> we have 8 beacons around the city. they are really wonderful and lead the way to helping us with all of our kids. and i commend the mayor and

and secondly, the beacon program which, we have 8? >> yes >> we have 8 beacons around the city. they are really wonderful and lead the way to helping us with all of our kids. and i commend the mayor and margaret for help us out with those. >> mr. garcia? >> also, i need to add the wellness centers. >> around thing we need to build on is restored advocacy. we are pilots jane kimberly. she educated me. and then we are starting to get the principles together. people are starting to buy into it. it's a learning process. it's not just, punishing kids more. they are used to be punished. my momma hits harder than that. we need to have systems in

and secondly, the beacon program which, we have 8? >> yes >> we have 8 beacons around the city. they are really wonderful and lead the way to helping us with all of our kids. and i commend the mayor and margaret for help us out with those. >> mr. garcia? >> also, i need to add the wellness centers. >> around thing we need to build on is restored advocacy. we are pilots jane kimberly. she educated me.

secondly, with respect to square footage, possibly and misstated something. i am not sure. the point of which to communicate is that the square footage of the home as established by criteria lengths would be unaffected by the reconfiguration to address at the commission's concerns. let me back a second, if i could. one of the things that struck me during public comment was the tone of the commons. -- comments. it is refreshing to hear from a group of people that are enlightened about the character of their neighborhood and change to their neighborhood, the maturation of their neighborhood. i cannot begin to articulate how unusual that is. it is to be cherished. with that in mind, i need to address some of the things that are mentioned, to state what we are and are not talking about. at this point, we are not talking about building in the backyard. we are not talking about family housing reverses some other kind of housing. we are not even talking about size. what we are talking about is configuration, layout, interior space design. the commission ruled that this project had

and secondly, that instead of waiting for the final hours.n reality, many of us argued that when we had the tax debate last december on the bush tax cut, that was the moment to include the debt ceiling as part of the deal because republicans wanted the tax breaks for the wealthiest people in the country as a critical part of what they wanted to see happen last december. we wouldn't be in this position today. having said that, what i'm really worried about brooke, as we move forward, the commission that this law calls for, what it will do. and since republicans said they will include no revenues in it from their members who they're going to appoint, which means big oil keeps getting tax breaks, those who use tax havens get tax breaks, ethanol gets tax breaks. everyone gets tax breaks but not the average american. >> it's either tax increases or a lot of cuts from defense, which republicans, including one republican senator i talked to last hour, you know, they don't like to hear that either. but i do want to talk about the fact that you are ab

is, are you prepared to give sound advice, number one, that you are going to be asked to give and secondlyf the administration appears to be headed down a road that you don't think is the right direction to go, will you say to this committee now that you are going to express yourself in a very strong manner to help to try to develop the best possible policy for detention and interrogation of high-value targets even though your opinion may be contrary to the folks at the white house who are nominating you today? >> yes, absolutely and if i may, i do make that pledge. i think in my prior position, i had taken a position. in other words i have given advice in an unvarnished, objective independent way as a career government official. i've made known my personal views and sought to move positions based on my objective and independent and nonpolitical perspective. i do think that these questions senator, if i may say, some of these questions are the most difficult ones that they face we face from a counterterrorism perspective. the question of detention policy, i absolutely agree that it would b

of the government to invest in the project i'm not aware that that final decision has been taken secondly the development of a an appropriate plan which should involve a contribution from the council of which i am a member and then finally the actual implementation all of the things i believe are yet to be done or decided well can you name a single high tech industry that should become a could become the cornerstone of our of this this revolution it may be now i know which is which is like a great obsession in the kremlin today between the russian two russians got a nobel prize this year for for nanotechnology do you think this may be the driver the locomotive of the of this scientific revolution i think it's possible but i would add that perhaps the greatest opportunity the future lies in the biological around i think that biotech will ultimately become the leading or the driving force in technology and innovation in the world the reason is that it is agreed by all or if the twentieth century was the age of physics and it culminated in the high tech industry that we have today. the twent

other such meat so i think there is a political financial entity which we associate with the west secondly however the west is also very rightly put it a certain kind of ideology it is always stood for technical advance whether or not this is true it stood for a certain notion of liberalism or democracy and very often the notion of the west is deployed by other cultures when they're in a period of transition when they don't quite know what they're happening. right now germany was a typical moment where there was a lot of unsettled feeling in the country and people always somehow thought that was americanized asian you know the farthest of the west outside europe so the west is an ideology of a kind the west is a geopolitical set of interests but now very interesting we have a situation where across the world west and east form a kind of new hybrid culture and therefore it's very difficult to say this is western on this is non western because those a relationships have changed in the new global networks we have and i point out later on let me jump in and let me read you let me jump in here

secondly sciences very skeptical when it's done well. you always challenge your own theories. your own worst enemy for your own theory. so what this means is that when you construct a theory or an idea that explains how things work you challenge it. you attack it. you never let it alone. that means that over the years, a theory or an idea get better and better because it's been challenged for so long. and that's why sometimes we think science isery secure like newton's laws of motion. and sometimes we n't think it's secure at all because right at an early point of the study and we've not done it. the constant attack makes it better. and the third point which again is something that not everybody understands is there is a community of scientists who are challenging these ideas, challenging the data and when they come to a consens abt it you've got many, many minds who have been convinced that something is happening. and that isn't trivial. it's part of the socioly of the process that tually makes science secure. so science is important because it is very reliable generation of

secondly, there needs to be something done differently where fulsom street is coming up. there is a request for the chief of police -- where the law can be enforced and citizens are safe. and we don't have to put up with skulduggery. last but not least. a couple of shout-outs. i they know who they are because i can't say their names. we like the drug task force guys. keep up the good work. we also like the extras. i'm going to bequeath my 14 minutes to you guys to have a shorter meeting. >> next speaker, please. >> neighbors emergency. we have an invitation for you to come to our panel -- annual meeting. you have just been chosen as chief, we would love for you to be our guest speaker if the all possible. we will let all of the politicians come and give the spiel. thank you very much. >> the location? >> good evening. i'm jim salinas, sr. born and raised in the mission district. i want to say that given the fact that we have other native san franciscan that is also raised in the district. commissioners chan, hammer, for coming done in the mission district, during the chie

grafx, yes, secondly though, they have an underdeveloped consumer sector.s the real problem in the united states, our consumer sector is maxed out in terms of 70% of g.d.p. and high depth in china and brazil the consumer sector is much more infantile in tes of development and has 10 20,, 30 years to grow. not just from the standpoint of percentage of consumption to g.d.p. but from the standpoint of relevering. and so they have distinct distinct advantages that the u.s. and other countries don't. >> rose: there's no doubt about china's commitment togo fromn exporting model to a consumption model. domestic consumption model. so you have the awareness and the commitment. how long it takes is a different issue. >> right. and that's their five-year plan to gradually wean themselves from an export nation to a consumption type of nation. but one of the recipes, one of the remedys in doing that would be to revalue their currency and they do that very gradually. so it seems like they're unwilling to give up the ghost of a cheap currency and exports at the same time

secondly, nobody can find the guy. he is in hiding. he is a 69-year-old guy who dresses in gold lamay. that's like going to the grammies and saying "i can't find little richard." our only source as to where he is is a chess player. and he is friends with qaddafi. like being a chess player is not socially alienated enough. and this guy's idea of military experience is a whip to queen move, right? i don't understand why we don't know where this guy is and can't get him right away? how is that for cogent middle east analysis? >> very good. we don't have a lot of chess humor on this show. people are worried about the influence with these new rebels coming in. i like to think of them as a motley crew, if you will. are you worried? >> the great thing is they please and they please as they do. what i will say is i am watching the guy and one from the few perks of rebellion and battle and death is plundering. i would be an awesome plunderer. i would get diamond encrusted badays. i would take the endangered rhino. i would take everything. >> wh

secondly, promote the path to citizenship that is already there. let me tell you what the solution is for immigration. we have a path to citizenship. we do not need a new one. do you know what it is? legal immigration is the path to citizenship. the third problem is to enforce the laws that are already there and number four, the government cannot and will not deal with it the issue, so what i believe we should empower the states to do with the federal government does not doing and let them deal with the illegals that are here in this country. empower the states. empower the states to deal with their problems. we have a foggy foreign-policy coming out of washington, d.c. i have been criticized because i have not had any direct foreign policy experience. the guy we have there now has? [laughter] helped me understand that. i may not have an extensive foreign-policy experience, but let me tell you what my approach to foreign policy will be. number one is, clearly identify who our friends are. clearly identify who our enemies are. and stop giving money

but boy say secondly, you know the bible talks about really loving one's wife as christ loved the church. i, you know i wish there was a school for guys as we grow up there. is not. you figure out as best you can. i don't think i properly loved jenny. and she deserved to be loved as a woman and this is love as in actions. and you know one of the guys took me aside an old timer from jackson hole wyoming, this is sim pliftic. i'm not try tok a chauvinist. he said courting a woman's need for security. emotional, security, she gets that, she's happy, playful and encouraging. she didn't get, that he she could be. and a man is significance, if he gets knit work he's going to get it there. if he doesn't he might become a scout master or a little league coach. if you get the dance of marriage right, the woman is giving security she needs and man getting respect. >>. >> greta: wait. if the man does not originate as he should in terms of loving the wife a lot of things can go wrong over 20 years. i think that that is important z lastly another important lesson i learned is the importance of puttin

secondly, be concerned enough that they're not going to be re-elected or that things are going so bad, 500 points is horrible. $5 gas is worse. when people, constituents, really feel it and have to make sure they'll get re-elected they have to compromise. >> karen? >> i agree with susan that job number one is figure out how can i leverage this so at least i lose less if i can't look good. but then what i would hope, frankly, and i thought i heard something that suggested that actually members of congress are not actually doing as many town halls, shock, this recent -- than they have maybe in the past. champion i wish they would and i hope every single american, if you see your member of congress out and about, go up and tell them how disgusted you are. go up and tell them you will hold them accountable. we've talk and this before. until there is a political consequence, it doesn't change, because look at what's happening here in washington over the last few week. everybody was talking to each other spinning each other despite the fact again as we saw today the markets were saying some

secondly, we have worried that some of the farmers overdose in their food products with pesticide. this has contaminated our waterways, our air, sometimes the coastal seas. that means that -- >> in your opinion, are the chinese authorities doing enough to tackle this food safety problem? >> they are growing in demand from the people to control food safety and actually take some action to strengthen the management. of course, part of that i think could be addressed through better management, more stringent enforcement of food safety rules. much of this is called by the widespread pollution problem. that would pose a longer-term threat to the food safety issues. i hope that the government could take more action to try to address the whole pollution problem. >> we will have to leave it there for your perspective on the food safety issue in china. >> when japan was struck by the devastating earthquake and tsunami earlier this year, it was hard to imagine how people would begin to rebuild their lives. many people died and hundreds of thousands of people were forced to leave their homes.

secondly, people who work for government should get as good a deal as the taxpayers get. the compensation of people in the government should be similar to the compensation that exist in the private sector. the benefits should be the same as well. the people who work for government should not get a better deal than the people who are paying the wages, namely, the taxpayers. i appreciate the work of federal employees and government workers, but i want to make sure their deal is comparable to that of the people that is paying for it. if those numbers get out of whack, and you are seeing them in some state -- even imy home state of massachusetts they are saying there are some things that are out of control and we cannot have collective bargaining anymore because it is out of line. we are going to get to be honest with faults and not keeping for things we cannot afford. that is what leads to the plot doing what it is doing back there. i support efforts to be honest with people and make sure we have for government employees a fair deal, but not a better deal than the rest of us

secondly, an interesting glimpse of what kind of rhetoric rick perry thinks republican voters wants to hear. tim pawlenty left early because he could never connect to the back lash rage that's animating the republican presidential primary. rick perry will not make that mistake. he's practically instructing the crowd to rustle up a lynch mob. the perry campaign could not be more clear he had no regrets when he said this afternoon, "look, i'm just passionate about the issue, and we stand by what we said." a perry spokesman told "the washington post" in a statement the governor was expressing his frustration with the current situation, out of control spending that persists in washington. many agree spending more money is not the answer. technical note here, the federal reserve is not involved in spending anything. carl rove sharply criticized rick perry last night on fox news. >> you don't accuse of chairman of the federal reserve of being guilty of treason and suggesting we treat him pretty ugly in texas, you know, that's not, again, a presidential statement. >> now, rove and perry have

secondly, i would like to urge you to go ahead with the issuance of the medallions some conditions of qualifications. it has come to my attention that they have is withdrawn from the calendar and that is wrong. this is a process that has gone on for months. medallions that are proposed, i believe 50 is too many. if it can work, i believe it deserves a second item. i want to oppose the issuance of 10 medallions to be sold directly by the agency that can afford a sale price, because this is tainted by the fact -- are you making this decision for the benefit of the public, the benefit of the industry, or your own pocketbooks? i urge you not to take that step. lastly, i want to say that whenever the question comes up, it is always in the context of more cabs. look at measures to improve taxi efficiency and open taxi access. and by all means, take some actions against a limousines. chairman nolan: next speaker please. >> [reading names] >> my name is phillilp war -- phillip ward, i'm a lawyer for taxi companies. i objected to the item going forward because we did not have sufficient time t

secondly, we ask the board to order the removal, and there is a number of reasons for this. it is without question that this new window was installed without a permit and replaced in 2005 with a new window and moved above the edge of the appellant's roof. it made contact flush with our roof a significant noise from this window and directly into the corner of the appellant's house. access is obtained by the neighboring tenant and left on the appellate's roof. we voiced concern in january of 2007, but nothing has been done to alleviate this issue. it is our relief that it is a and violation of the building code and code of regulations. that specifies that openings in exterior walls have to comply which indicates that an alteration of an existing window on another property line which is clearly what we have here what violate the california code of regulations that require the alterations chow comply with the requirements of the code of new construction. you could not have a window there. it is of great concern. because the exists with less than 3 feet of fire separation, we ask

. >> it was a consistent pattern of getting less hours to work and, secondly, being given more cleaning assignments, the bathrooms, cleaning the tables, >> reporter: the suit was filed yesterday but the incident dates back to 2008. the commission says it is a violation of the civil rights act of 1964 to discriminate in the workplace on the basis of ethnicity. we contacted a panda spokesman who said the company doesn't comment on pending litigation. but regular customers we spoke with today said they have noticed a similar pattern of job assignments among panda workers. >> i see a latino cooking, cooking, taking the trash out, wiping down the tables. the asians are usually, you know, charging the register or helping out, you know, people for their orders and stuff like that. but they are nothing doing anything like heavy work. >> reporter: the eeoc began investigating after a latina employee filed a complaint. >> we look at the records that the company provided to us and all that evidence corroborated to us that there was discrimination going on particularly to the number of hours of the