and you know, i don't think that this is just semantics.s i just read quotes, that this in san francisco, the middle income housing orcpye middle i. and the housing element and the planning( b%ú codes.1 k8 so no one is making up a random phrase or arbitrarily putting this label on. this is how we define it. again i think it is sending a that we're not going to -- we're say that -- say two teachers living together in a household are not really middle income. we just don't feel comfortable referring to them as middle income. i think it sends a very bad message. colleagues i suggest that we reject this amendment or at least that portion of the vote. >> president chiu: any further discussion? okay. amendment. >> clerk calvillo: supervisor avalos, aye. supervisor campos, aye. supervisor campos, aye. president chiu,> elsbernd, no. supervisor farrell, no. supervisor kim, aye. supervisor mar, aye. supervisor wiener, no. there are seven ayes and four nos. >> president chiu: the motion passes. unless there's further discussion why don'thtp we take

there seems to be some semantics going on here around, you know, is it upper moderate income housing,y understanding was, that mayor's office on housing tends to refer and then you have planning that sort of has a different way of -- a different language that they use. rather than getting caught up in that semantics debate i just ja4ted to make sure that the intent of the amendment was captured which is to include 120 to 150, which wasn't originally this reporting. and then hopefully there will be a time when advocates and this board, land use committee, or planning and moh can come to some kind of consensus to define that housing between 120 and 150. so i think the fact that we're including it is some kind of acknowledgement that in fact this does include middle income because of, you know, some of the way it's been viewedm 4t regionally and there seems to be, in my mind, some -- still i'd just rather than-d you know, remove it, just kind of not include the name for now, and then maybe come back to that at a later time when there's more time for discussion. that's all. >> president

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and today america's love affair with semantics has given birth to a new phrase to describe the rich jobcreators in america basically are on strike increasing taxes on job creators this administration and this president policies are hostile to job creators that have a saying the wealthy who make over two hundred fifty thousand a year if you say a job creator they say well we can't raise their taxes they're the ones or create jobs when in reality when their taxes are higher under bill clinton three times as many jobs are created the propensity to add softer terms to the english lexicon has surged over the decades particularly when it comes to military related language there's a condition in combat most people know about it it's when a fighting person's nervous system has been stressed to its absolute peak and maximum can't take anymore and put the nervous system has either snapped or is about to snap in the first world war that condition was called shows today this same condition is known as an eight syllable hyphenated furries void of any emotion post-traumatic stress disorder the afterm

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blinding voters with the cavalry will look beyond the new american political lexicon and how semantics good bodies are really up to the brain. what do you see when you look at the scroll perhaps you wonder what bright future she'll have or maybe feel sympathy for her because you see she's in a wheelchair but if you're t.s.a. agent then you see hard core terrorist scum finding a small amount of residue from explosives on the girl's hands she was detained for almost an hour and her tears for mercy did not move the inspectors to allow her mother to be with her as they took her away for further inspection some of the t.s.a. agents couldn't put two and two together and realize that people in wheelchairs get all sorts of random stuff on their hands because the wheels they push roll along the ground when will these endless tales of bizarre instance of the t.s.a. stop when will they stop worrying about girls in wheelchairs one of the stop searching under a terminally ill woman's bandages and when will they actually catch a terrorist were to kill security feels a lot more like ridiculous tyrann

so in many many senses this might be kind of a semantic debate. but it shows you how interesting this place is, to scientists. >> warner: first before we get to that you can explain in layman's terms how they came to different conclusions? in other words, are they testing different materials? using different methods? >> there is not much debate that they got a good number on the age of the rocks and the depths of the rocks. >> warner: you mean on the side of the canyon. >> on the side of the canyon as they measured helium isotope as it escaped. that is not the question, the question is that part of the the grand canyon or is it a paleo canyon that morphed into the canyon we see today. in a way it is a semantic debate them are sort of both right except the paper that came out says the grand canyon which we see today is 70 million years ago. scientists on the other side are saying wait a minute, it might have been old canyons there but it is not our grand canyon. >> warner: on what do they base that. >> they are base continuing on the data that they

einselen brought up that we spoke about was number 3 on your list, i think that was just semantic, it states patrons must be visually and audio recorded, strike the audio, that was a clerical error, if you will, and again, you also addressed many of the same thoughts we had as far as business plan, what kind of venue he's promoting, what kind of crowd he's bringing in, it's excited to see the outcome, so if you have any questions. >> it's long. but nothing out of the usual, i don't think. >> do you know what kind of clothing you want the security staff to wear? >> the clothing is just something that distinguishes them easily from patrons. >> [inaudible] and striped shirts. and a mustache. >> and a baguette. >> i have a question for mission station, you are questioning proof of completion of score cards here, do you always require proof of completion to lead, or is that just us? we don't get it either? yeah, i think we should do that. do you normally request proof of lead training? >> no, the guard card as far as i'm aware, i'm still exceptionally new at this and i'm learning the road.

and i think it's a semantic argument.ple who are mentally solid and sane don't shoot up a whole room of first graders. there is always the danger that by suggesting people who do these things have mental illnesses, we somehow implicate many other people who have mental illnesses and will never do any such thing. and there is no particular likelihood of people with mental illnesses committing crimes like this. but i think if the crime itself shows there is some kind of profound dysfunction and i think pyschopathy, even though not listed in the diagnostic and statistical manual, along with schizophrenia and so on, is equally a mental illness. >> i heard a stat that people with many mental illnesses are more likely to be victims of violence as opposed to perpetrating it. again, i think your point is a good one. in the book, terrific book, you write about the families of people who develop skets afri n schizophrenia and how hard it is to push your child into treatment. was that the case with the people you met and interviewed

and today america's love affair with semantics has given birth to a new phrase to describe the rich job creators. buyer under bill clinton three times as many jobs are created the propensity to add softer terms to the english lexicon has surged over the decades particularly when it comes to military related language there's a condition in combat most people know about it it's when a fighting person's nervous system has been stressed to its absolute peak and maximum can't take anymore and puts the nervous system has either snapped or is about to snap. in the first world war that condition was called show show today this same condition is known as an eight syllable hyphenated freeze void of any emotion post-traumatic stress disorder the aftermath of war includes post-traumatic stress disorder those of you suffering from p.t.s.d. when it comes to wars where you have the most damaging euphemisms like when and so saying innocent civilians were killed in a drone strike you say there was collateral damage collateral damages to me is the worst expression no it's innocent men women children kill

this is not the green i think this is just semantics the u.s. is behaving just a. new clueless ball we're so this isn't changing regardless of all we made try to see things differently the u.s. is trying as much as it can to gain influence and i wouldn't agree with with the saying that the u.s. is effectively trying to retreat from syria over the middle east and concentrate in the gulf you know to some extent perhaps in egypt but the u.s. is trying to gain a lot of ground. you know trying to the outcome of the crisis in syria to the advantage of the jihad and the and the armed opposition josh are you afraid that syria is just going to explode we had libya imploded but syria could explode and then again let's say with the sectarian issue well i've not sure i think that has been overblown the sort of first cold war in the middle east because syria sectarian problems are just going to sweep over the rest the region it is true that the sarah sectarian problems and particularly the outflow of refugees. is weighing down the neighboring countries and lebanon is fragile jo

. >> so, again, it goes beyond a semantic point. we are in a time of tremendous economic upheaval. i agree with that. but what's contextualize it in two ways. first of all, hours is the most dynamic and a promising year of -- year of human history. why? because a majority of the world's population is joining the global economy. what does that mean? when japan industrialized, they brought nearly roughly 40 million people out of poverty. when china joined the global economy and so for the firm bought about 300 million out of poverty pity that's a big story. chinese savings in the world financial markets are a big part of what drove the most recent economic bubble because even alan greenspan couldn't figure it out. he wasn't looking at the reality of the moment. he called this the conundrum, he went back to it when he wrote his book. as brilliant a man as alan greenspan was, he was unable to grasp the reality of our historical moment. and it was in part to deutsch that failure, the systematic errors to the housing markets. and the policy was a change in the financial markets in growth

surveillance act sets the rules that are used to the national security surveillance in a surveillance semantic of classified information can be investigated under those authorities. now, i think the petraeus and particularly with general alan, that incident really got members thinking about how brad and fbi investigation with electronic evidence can inspire people who frankly in the case of general alan, 20,000 to 30,000 pages of his e-mail or turned over to his pentagon and yet, not suspected of any crime. i think that travels a lot of people. >> host: agent motyka. >> guest: yes, several issues there. as mr. nojeim points out in the above pointed out the update for epca has been there for some time and has worked on it for some time. whether the general petraeus situation has sharpened the focus of the leave to others to decide. i will point out although i don't have direct knowledge of that particular investigation, i would suggest any evidence obtained with it gained through a search warrant and not through any type of surveillance. >> host: agent trained to, how with the new changes propo

it is all about semantics here. you could certainly say they were working to overthrow the legitimate government. he forgot to mention the government was put in-law git matily has now changed -- legitimately has now changed. and if that stands there is clearly going to be trouble. egypt is at a turning point as mohamed morsi is speaking. anymore news of note i will bring it to you. >>> the white house vows if -- there will be consequences if syria uses sarin on its people. the sarin gas bombs are loaded, mixed and ready to go. all that stands in their way, an order from the syrian president assad. >> i can tell you that the president was very clear when he said that if the assad regime makes the tragic mistake of using chemical weapons or fails to meet its obligation to secure them there will be consequences. >> president obama has long said the use of chemical weapons would be the crossing of a red line. one that could lead to western nations getting involved, and many analysts it could mean ground forces. already

and that becomes the issue where you know, it becomes a tug of war and kind of a matter of semantics, you raise taxes on the upper income people, are they in fact job creators and has there been any demonstration that keeping taxes lower on those individuals will create jobs o will it not create job? if you go where republican's point of view and eliminate deductions, many people are not so wealthy. it becomes an issue of how do we deal with this and also look like you're looking out for the middle class? >> i think a lot of people, their heads are spinning right now. all they want to know is that it's going to get taken care of and it's going to be taken care of in a way that's going to meet everyone's needs. we appreciate you coming on today. thanks so much. >>> and coming up after the break, we'll tell you about a courageous teacher who gave up his own life. can i help you? i heard you guys can ship ground for less than the ups store. that's right. i've learned the only way to get a holiday deal is to camp out. you know we've been open all night. is this a trick to get my spot? [ m

and in the logical semantics fight, and a freeze are breaking apart we will be in big trouble quicklylou: reseeded certainly command with the newest "wall street journal" nbc poll, it looks like the polling has improved or they started talking to rational people who seem to see this as the fault of both republicans and democrats. >> it's -- it's great news that people are not being ideological about both parties fan. but the problem is, up until now the president is confronted with a strong component -- opponent. always tougher, but yeah, but the conclusion. lou: you do agree, he is that strong her opponent. >> a lot of people by all the way back to newt gingrich have gone bust betting against the speaker. deceiving the strong on a lot of these points. the great strength that he has is it does not make a lot of sudden moves, not prone to erratic behavior. very steady and is seeing this through. the president believes there convince the president of the republicans have had it with him and don't trust them to do the bigger deal. if he does not come to the table with actual cuts there i

the billions of documents and millions of books and there's a lot of information embedded in the semantics of what is on there. that is why they were written. the system should really understand that. the fact that it's feasible has shown for example by watson, people realize the information watson had to win the jeopardy game is not hand coded in computer language. it actually read wikipedia and other encyclopedias. 200 million pages of natural language documents. it actually does not do as good a job as you would do reading a page person you could read one page and say it's a 97% chance barack obama as president if he didn't know anything about them watson road reducing page and say there's a 56% chance barack obama's president. he did not do as good a job, but it's been 200 million pages, maybe 100,000 of those -- >> host: this is a computer that beat a human in jeopardy, right? >> guest: so within three seconds they can access all of the knowledge in this 200 million pages at its level of understanding even though that level is below tyumen, the scale is far beyond the human. you and i

billions of documents and millions of books and there's a lot of useful information embedded in the semantics of what is on there which is why they were written. the assistant should understand that and the fact that that is feasible shown by watson, people realize the information watson has in the jeopardy game was not hand coded into computer language. it actually read wikipedia and other encyclopedias. 200,000 pages of unnatural language documents. it does not do as good a job as you would do reading a page. you could read one page and say 97% chance barack obama is president if you didn't know anything about it and watson would read the same page and go there is a 56% chance barack obama is president. it did not do as good job but it has read two hundred billion pages and may be 100,000 -- >> host: a computer that -- [talking over each other] >> guest: it is within three seconds can access all of the knowledge in those two hundred billion pages at its level of understanding. even though that level is below human, the scale is beyonce human. we can't read that many pages and remember it al

. >> bill: playing semantic games with me. you are trying to get to the kid and say you are an idiot if you believe with god. >> nothing with god. myths from all over the world. judeo myth is thrown in occasionally as one of many myths from around the world. >> bill: judeo-christian philosophy is not a myth. >> bill: through the history. so worst regimes have been atheist stick, communists under stalin. >> nothing to do with atheism. >> bill: no, really? see, my hypothesis is that religion is a constraint on society. goodwill toward men, teach treating everybody as jesus taught the same as you. how you would like to be treated. the 10 commandments. there are constraints against bad behavior. >> of which the 10 commandments do you value. >> all of them. >> thou shall not make a graven image. >> thou shall not violate the sabbath. >> thou shall not kill. >> widespread believe. >> not by joseph stalin they all had one thing in common they didn't believe in god. >> in any case it has nothing to do with whether you believe in god o

some degree we're playing a bit of a game of semantics here.ause there's some calculation that the republicans say we go over the cliff and then technically we can be seen as not voting to increase taxes, but we can be seen as voting for cutting taxes once the sort of -- we go over the cliff and we're on the other side of it. am i right about that? >> yeah. it's a very cynical ploy. the idea of the tax automatically reset for everybody. they can say i didn't vote for that. they all go up. and then they can vote to lower taxes for the $250,000 and below households. that's 98% of households. that's a -- that's something like a -- you know, a multi -- that's something like 400, $500 billion of tax cuts over ten years. now, it's a tax cut relative to where it was four days earlier. so it's a cynical ploy. when you just think about the fact that we're here because of our gridlocked politics. i don't say pox on both their houses. i do believe house conservatives have played a heavier role in this. this is a self-inflicted wound on an economy that has

. >> isn't that kind of the -- i mean, a lot of this semantics. i'm not sure i know what an assault weapon is and how something becomes an assault weapon. because they all kill. so, i mean, why can't this weapon be seen as protection the way he is talking about it? that's what the primary use of it is for, right? >> well, look, i'm sure it is about protection and a lot of people's minds. i if i if we are really so concerned about protection. we should be investing more in our police officers. we should be investing more in people who post disasters are there and help us ready to reduce crime in a meaningful way. the 3% to 1% decline actually i think there is a study that shows almost 7% decline is very meaningful. and, for me, it's like i want to get rid of at least 1 opportunity for newtown or aurora or columbine. we don't need to talk about the percentage of the decrease. we need to create an opportunity where we are not allowing people to use assault weapons have tremendous impacts. killing multiple people at a time. >> larry, that's the real q

. >> it strikes me there's also a bit of gamesmanship in terms of the semantics of whether or not theouse republicans will vote for or against tax cuts or tax breaks. nbc's peter alexander, thank you. we'll be right back. [ male announcer ] it's simple physics... a body at rest tends to stay at rest... while a body in motion tends to stay in motion. staying active can actually ease arthritis symptoms. but if you have arthritis, staying active can be difficult. prescription celebrex can help relieve arthritis pain so your body can stay in motion. because just one 200mg celebrex a day can provide 24 hour relief for many with arthritis pain and inflammation. plus, in clinical studies, celebrex is proven to improve daily physical function so moving is easier. celebrex can be taken with or without food. and it's not a narcotic. you and your doctor should balance the benefits with the risks. all prescription nsaids, like celebrex, ibuprofen, naproxen, and meloxicam have the same cardiovascular warning. they all may increase the chance of heart attack or stroke, which can lead to death.