the skylight that covers a stair penthouse, a skylight 5 has been trumped in its footprint and reduced in height. there is an agreement that as a result of the infill of the allied court on the respondents property, they will paint the walls abutting the light court in a reflective color. there are restrictions that would cast clear offside. in terms of elevation, they have a black line shows to the heights of the skylights that were approved and under appeal. the yellow highlights show what the parties have agreed to in terms of height. if the board has any questions, we would be happy to discuss it. >> attorney for the permit holder. we're in agreement with the conditions set forth. material component of the settlement is in agreement to provide access to complete the project. that is something that my clients are relying on in agreeing to reduce the scope of the permit. we will be asking the permit be processed through the board of appeals in order to move this forward. >> is there any departmental common? -- comment? >> this evening. -- good evening. department staff is always plea

and so laminated is probably most skylights that we do are laminated. or an insulated glass, where the laminated is on the bottom, and tempered is on the top. >> with an air space -- >> with an air space. the laminated, at one time, they used to sell tempered skylights but they really didn't work terribly well. yes it breaks into little safety cubes but if it's falling from 100 feet above -- >> the code had a provision that you had to have a net underneath to catch the pieces, if it broke. >> which i'm using. so at this point, not going there. it's laminated on the bottom, tempered on the top, so that a fireman can really walk over this on the rooftop, and whatever. you know, it's good for the top. bottom is protected. so that's primarily where most wire glass has gone. >> just a comment about skylights in the building code. skylights of glass can be located at any distance from that property line protection that i mentioned earlier. typically in san francisco when you're on a property line you have to have a one hour wall. olderbles don't have it but a

. >> but we were talking about skylights, skylights were tempered, we had a problem with chardz coming down. >> and to answer the question, yes, laminated glass is very often used for glass. and we do use quite a bit of laminated glass. it's ordinary, laminated is two pieces of window glass together, with a pbb in between. ordinarily it's 030 or to meet safety requirements and they put a little bug on the corner that says what requirements that meets. >> if you use a piece of safety glazing it is required by the code to have the little stamp that's permanently etched into the glass or attached somehow. so that you can see what the safety glazing requirements are being met. >> sometimes, though -- sometimes, if for example you have a french door, and you've got 18 lights that are about 10 by 12s, you may, sometimes, talk the inspector into say, hey, i don't want to see american tempering, tempering, tempering, as an advertisement on each of these stupid little panes. this is silly. suppose i give you certification that i bought all of these at a tempering or laminating factory, and i pu

he got up on the roof and fell through a skylight. he'll get money from the shopping center. >>> protesters demanding an apology from an airline that kicked a college student off a flight after wearing saggy pants on the plane. today the san francisco chapter of the naacp and other activists will deliver a petition with 40,000 signatures to the us airways ticket counter at sfo. in june a flight crew asked 20-year-old desean marman to pull up his pants before walking down the aisle of the airplane. marman refused saying he would do so when he got to his seat then argued with the pilot over the pants. he was kicked off the plane. in the process a police officer was injured. no criminal charges will be filed but his lawyers say he plans to sue the airline for racial discrimination. >>> well, it's a done deal. the country no longer in eminent danger of default but the deal will have a major impact on programs and services in california. the plan calls for more lawmakers to cut federal spending by more than $2 trillion over 10 years. that

that's when he fell through a skylight helping police investigate a burglary at the pet store where he worked. he claims police told him to get on the roof. his attorney argued police should have been more careful with him since he was helping with the investigation. the police department settled the lawsuit for over a million dollars. >>> there's been no apologies of a man who was kicked off a flight because of his baggy pants. the naacp is planning to deliver 40,000 petitions tomorrow. in june, the 20-year-old was arrested and jailed because he would not pull up his baggy pants when asked by a flight attendant. the charges have since been dropped. us airways denies any wrong doing. >> he suffered some political wounds but president obama says his fight is not over. he will continue to push for tax increases for wealthy americans. mr. obama today signing an extension of that debt ceiling deal, meaning the federal government can send out its checks tomorrow as scheduled. but it's only a temporary fix. part of the deal includes the formation of a 12-member bipartisan committee tasked wi

>> basically for any purses than -- purpose that is listed in the code for mechanical equipment, skylights, whenever an exception. 20% total. -- what ever it exception. 20% total. -- whenever exceptiatever excep. >> commissioner sugaya: it calls for various unit mixes -- i think that is the perspective i am coming from. i realize the and lasalso becaue of the drive to provide affordable housing, there are requirements. if this was market driven, we would not have affordable housing at all. i think the public policy aspect of it has to take some precedent. >> president olague: i wanted to mention, this has been a long time coming. i remember meeting about this during the eastern neighborhoods discussion, talking about daggett triangle. the issue was the pdr usage. something that supervisor maxwell had a lot of concerns about. that was something that was taken up at the board. ultimately, i think it is a good decision and it will work out to the benefit of the city. just given where a lot of the conversation around that was going. lately it seems to be revitalization, as far as the industry

i do hope that if you haven't seen the exhibit, you will go up to the skylight gallery and see it. the project actually involved over 225 young people who studied the japanese internment through the personal stories of 15 people who were interned or impacted by the internment. and the exhibition highlights the individual stories of each of the japanese americans who came into the classroom, as well as the rich student responses to these stories. the project really gave the students space to make very meaningful connections between the historical event of the japanese internment and contemporary and historical instances of social injustice in america today. but we're here today to meet phillip and chloe, so i want to introduce you to them. phillip also was one of the gracious japanese americans who came into the classroom and told his story. phillip congatonda went to law school and graduated hastings law school but never actually practiced law. he became the first chronicler of the japanese american experience and is credited with broadening the japanese -- broadening the definitio

quite a sight on the ground and in the air with over one hundred planes to do to take part in a skylight or showcase. arches rory sushi is about the max air show for us rory i know you're in her element right now you're a fan of the biggest and the baddest ride was catching her eye right now. you know the problems have some ideas and i actually came in today with my credit card i might be flowing flying home tonight it looks like a lot of trouble actually i am surrounded as you know by the biggest and about as to you we have anything from a big color coded transport ships here to big planes to the strategic fighter jets even to the microlight sea of microlight so if one person or two people one of the highly anticipated debut today will be got to be super t.v. fifty this is the russia's fifth generation strategic fighter military jet it does have stealth capabilities and of course a long time of defensive capabilities as well you know this is not just a russian event this year two thousand and eleven the access show just on the outskirts of moscow the italians and the americans are here

hundred planes due to take part in a skylight showcase artie's royce's shape now reports. r.t. is live for the next few days here at the max two thousand and eleven international air show i'm a real researcher have a look at this bad boy and with right now this is a russia's latest high tech version of the search and rescue helicopter the. state of the art technology on the inside let's have a look and see what the fun to play with here. ok here we are inside the. the latest state of the art search and rescue chopper it's got major long range capacity exercise fuel tanks here all the latest gadgetry here in the back plenty of space for emergency helpers a hospital er doctors and nurses a large bed there as well and as i was saying absolutely state of the art technology that we're here as as i was saying earlier the max thirty thousand eleven airshow so far seeing some dramatic displays of the russian swiftness of flying we have the baltic beings are flying in there acrobatic planes lots of things to see and do here and the crowds are certainly pouring in so as we continue to br

but where i actually right is right in the top -- would be claustrophobic except to put into skylights that look out and let in a lot of light. c-span: much time you spend there? i mean, obviously the period and many hours you spend to write 1,006 utter pages? >> guest: absolutely none. my book discipline is that if i don't certify o'clock in the morning and do what i call stewing for a while, then days can get away from me. if i start after a break to take the kids to school, have to get going in the morning and sit for a certain number of hours a day. i can't start at five and go into the evening the way i did when i first started because i'm getting a little older. i don't have quite the same stamina. but i do -- i believe in a routine because to assimilate this, you know, this is a period here in 63, 65, for "pillar of fire" where everything's happening at once. freedom summer in vietnam and malcolm x and all these things are happening at once. and every time i should -- my goal is to allow the reader to experience that smoothly, to go from one world to another. and every time i sh