>> i believe so, is that true? yes, my science advisors, that's why they're here. >> [inaudible]. >> yeah. there are a lot of carcinogens in diesel exhaust, yeah. >> [inaudible]. >> well, you're still seeing an oil that combusts, some of them we know burn more cleanly than others but if it's combusting, you end up with productions of combustion, it may not be better for pollution on the other side, depending on how clean the air burns and that's a theme we end up talking about a fair bit unfortunately is that bio doesn't always mean it's safer, it can, it can definitely mane we're reducing destruction of greenhouse gases but it can still make bad things outs of good ingredients if you know what i mean, another outdoor thing is to reduce your reliance on household pesticides so the active ingredients can be of concern, the pesticide itself, but most pesticide companies done label what are called the inert ingredient, that's the one that's not doing the pest killing per se, they can still really be bad chemicals, end

so as the customer, because you have so much competition and so much innovation you're getting your products from these vendors at a far lower cost. you're becoming way more productive and employees in your organizations are getting much better solutions. so we talk to an enterprise during the semiconductor space and their it, their it sort of organization spends half as much money on their it strategy. their employees are two times more productive. and for the first time ever, the it organization can focus on innovation, not focus on keeping servers sort of on-line and maintained. and that's a big change. because three or five or ten years ago would you call your it person when your e-mail went down. well, today, your e-mail stays on-line because it's from a third party provider that has the competencey in managing an e-mail system. you don't have to call your it provider when your crm system goes down because it doesn't go down. sales force has lots of redundancy on how they are managing their systems for you. so we think it is creating a dramatic change in how technologies can buy and use

so, conclusions. edmonton's method for auditing graffiti vandalism is unbiased and effective as far as we've been able to determine. we use the results to work with the edmonton police service to determine our other services. the graffiti index and intensity index allow for specific locations within the neighborhood. we found we had significant results over the first year, in terms of the decrease 42.7 percent and while we have leveled off this year, we are confident that by analyzing the neighborhood data we will be able to make strong changes to our programs to be able to effectively decrease that number again. five neighborhoods accounted for 46 percent of the graffiti vandalism, compared to 60, 2011, 10 taggers responsible for 40 percent of the graffiti, 88 percent of the graffiti was small or extra small and 90 percent of it is text only. 71 percent was on private property. so that's basically the graffiti audit in a nutshell. but i always like to show this slide because nothing speaks better tha

so, thank you very much. with reference to the fleet, i see that, 350 of our cars are 12 years or older? >> that's correct. >> and the rule is were they nonemergency vehicles, we wouldn't be allowed to use them by the current code. so there is an exception in the code for emergency vehicles and director began on and carolyn did just a terrific job with the budget. we're so lucky to have them. one thing that's not in there, though, in the thing, it's sort of unspoken or common sensical. the maintenance on these cars, our maintenance bill is tremendous. and, so, if the fleet were newer, if the fleet were more efficient, with the uncertainty of gas prices, a lot of variable costs would all of a sudden become very predictable if the cars were on a five-year replacement schedule, on warranty and on and on and son. so, just from a common sensical reason, i'm sure those 1985s are off warranty and pretty much on the city dime. >> it is also an officer safety concern. we're putting our officers in bad equipment. and t

on so i hope we can work together with that in the future. >> any questions? yes? het her bring the mike phone to you. >> why -- when you were talking about the cans and the bpa exposures, why did you just address beans? i'm assuming you mean any food or liquid in all cans? >> yes, it's all of them and i didn't mean to just address beans, that's why the recommendation is frozen or fresh vegetables, for instance, frozen and fresh fruits, we did a bunch of product testing and looked at also past product testing to see where are the highest levels of bpa in canned foods and it looks like they end up the most in kind of very complex foods like soup or, you know, the pasta dishes that i grew up in that came out of cans, those kinds of things that are salty and maybe also acidic and maybe also really fatty seemed to like suck the stuff up, so the highest levels were in those followed by i believe vegetables, my memory's a little rusty, especially if you're trying to pour your whole meal out of a can, that may be especially problem mat -- problematic, getting your th

so now you're up to 50% or so of world gdp that is a drag on the economy.how do you look at the broadest sense of contagion as it relates to emerging market growth, developing country growth with 50% of world gdp possibly in a situation? >> i think the trade figures tell it all. whether you agree with the figure on growth or not. i think the trade figures show what's happening. and there's no doubt picking one of the countries you mentioned, china. i mean, china for the last 20 years has been double-digit growth. last year they had one of the worst years in recent memory. we'll see the final figures coming out. it didn't get below 7%. but when you move from double-digit down to seven something percent, and one of the major drivers of that was their largest export market is europe. and they didn't believe that europe was a, getting into the problem, and b., what take so long to get out of. and, of course, their second largest market is as. so the help of the world out of the great recession might tremendous tennis program. we are not going to see that again

so he releases me.so i then started calling the police commissioner and all those folks to say look, i don't want to see this ever happen to another black person, particularly a politician or clergy person or someone in the community. as a, we were supposed to work out some agreement. welcome the agreement didn't happen. so i followed a lawsuit. by the wake of the newspaper, the media said he was interfering with police. he was interfering with police. and when i was interviewed by the internal affairs, one of the internal affairs officers said to me when you were in the police academy did you learn a -- was a civilian you had no business interfering with police, didn't you learn that you don't interfere with police and i said respectfully captain, not a civilian, i met public official. there's a difference. so, they found the police officers guilty of speaking to me with a foul language. so i joined a lawsuit, and people said know you shouldn't sue the police. well i sued them. [laughter] i sued them b

. - so grab the screen.ready marked. - yeah. - the easiest way to do it is to use the film, and most of the time, they tell you the placement on it. uh, placement, placement. they don't tell us placement. if they don't tell us placement, we do it by eye. there is another problem. the problem with the designers-- they don't update. we update every six months this book. - so the designer's supposed to tell you where to place the design on the t-shirt? - some designers leave it to yourselves. okay, that's what you give them. see, center this. - i got a real quick sense that he makes a lot of his own decisions on the floor because, quite frankly, the instructions are not that clear. - some of the designers are, like, real prima donnas, and some are real cool. but communication with them is the key. - yeah. - and i need to see what it takes. when they change a color, a little box in the computer, and it changes the whole process in here, you know? - yeah. this is a huge problem. i'm definitely gonna have my desig

so it did not have to be that way. but we change that had three years ago when it was taken out of the code. because the funds had dried up. but as i remember, it also the fund was made available because of individual actions of the inspecters that you have to file something with the state in order to get the money back from the board of equalization and that stopped happening too. so maybe we can look into that rose marry and see if we can get that going again. but it will take some actions from us. s >> right. >> to put it back on the code. and in dedicate, the money will be as a policy body i think that it is best. and it may not be single family home owners. in fact, that stopped making sense 25 years ago. so... >> i think that we should revisit that. >> yeah. >> great. >> commissioner mar? >> yes, i would like to thank our partners for coming today. i think that there is going to be another item on the agenda next month which perhaps some of you might want to come back to because i think this has been an important

and, so, what ms. hale has spoken to you about is to get plenty of input from you as far as what the pricing range would be so we have 2 points to then interpolate what could be a potential opt-out between deep green premium product and then a lighter green that does a rec mix similar to what lpi had mentioned as a scenario. >> what would you do? [laughter] >> would you opt in or opt out? because i'm totally confused. >> there are five right answers. it depends if you with wanta light green or dark green product. both green are moving the dial. what we found from previous surveys is there wasn't a big difference between 40% renewable and 100% renewable. >> let me tell you where we're going to have the problems. in the cost of staff to explain this to rate payers who will be calling in confused. i know i'm doing that with my medicare program. i don't know what to do, opt in or opt out. with drug programs, et cetera, we're going to have the same problem here because it's a very difficult decision-making

so... >> that's great. 'cause i think people think of dried fruit, and they think of maybe, oh, just trail mix or snacking. but i mean, look at all this stuff we have here. this is amazing. >> exactly. and i think that's what we really want to communicate to our customers-- that dried fruit is so much more than snacking. >> yeah. >> you have--obviously, you have all of the baked goods, delicious baked goods. we've got-- >> those look great. >> orange cranberry poppy seed muffins and granola bars. but not only that--you can do main dishes. >> oh, yeah. >> so, you can do a pork loin roact, like we do for our holidays as a family. >> oh, that's nice. >> it's a family tradition now, which we love. we do a plum-stuffed ravioli with ricotta cheese and parmesan and sage butter-- >> oh, wow. >> which is delicious, 'cause you have a savory and a sweet. we've got a ham and a plum kibd of a chutney. >> oh. that looks good. >> just delicious. and what's really fun is, we get feedback from our customers. so, for example

just so you know. >> all right, commissioner mendoza. >> thank you. >> so on the report so buildings and grounds met on monday and we had a really good conversation about local hire policy and we put forward a positive recommendation which will be coming to the full board directing the staff to develop a policy. and there is a city school district select committee meeting tomorrow and there are a couple of agenda items and one includes the presentation of the shared school yards and the other is i am sorry, thursday. yes. what did i say? >> tomorrow. i still, thank you. and then, a discussion on middle school on the middle school or the middle school development. and actually i don't know if i framed that properly. >> good enough. >> more or less. >> we are not really fully clear. >> and then i want to just make a couple of announcements, there is the 6th annual crab fest for san francisco rec and park fund at the irish cultural center tomorrow evening. and why i wanted to note this is because this was set up actually by supervisor elsbern and he created this event to support the loc

so, it's very short. so, rather than issuing long, say 4, 5%, you'll stay very short in the 270 day window, you'll borrow at 1, 1-1/2%. to your point, lowest cost of borrowing. >> lowest cost. >> are these still used, certificates of participation? >> they are. the city actually uses them. so, a lot of the general fund finance debt that is in the capital plan, there's two different ways they do it. one is general obligation bonds. there's also a smaller subset of projects that are funded using certificates of participation where they're basically pledging city assets such as real estate to secure, to secure the vehicle and then they're paying the debt service over time out of the general fund. >> there is a really big thing about cities and things just sort of -- putting buildings up, right? stuff like that? can they do it at one point like that? >> it is another form of financing for capital market street proceeds invested in infrastructure. >> the city just approved, i think, more than 500 million dolla

so so they're working to make that's national priority. >> so many workers are immigrant women.l us about some of the challenges and maybe strategies for engaging them, keeping in mind that some of them at this moment may not be of legal status and really reluctant. >> i think that the long-held belief that immigrant workers cannot be organized and they will not take the risk. however, there's a lot of success stories that really challenge that myth among janitors and among construction workers, restaurant workers, hotel workers, and now as the national workers domestic alliance. i think that a lot of the strategy -- it's hard to add to anything already being done by the domestics bus they have beener innovative, recognizing the fact that these women work alone primarily in homes, and so there are, to a very large degree, isolated from each other, but identifying the places they come together and terms of parks, churches, and in terms of bus stops. it's just been incredible to watch how innovative they have been in terms of getting the message out and getting these women to part

so moved. >> mr.n, if there are any actions on the proposed amendments by the budget analyst? >> we actually by the city attorney's comments we're actually not. >> deputy city attorney john givener again. you can adopt the amendment today and then continue so that the next time this item is agendized, the amendments will appear in the notice. you can adopt the amendments today and [speaker not understood]. >> okay. so, we can do that. we can adopt those amendments first. >> i'll move the amendments. >> okay. first of all, can we rescind the previous vote. colleagues, we can do that without opposition. i'd like to make those amendments [speaker not understood] subject to the legislative analyst. we can do that without opposition. and from the underlying items number 8 and 9, we can continue them to the call of the chair. so moved. all right, thank you very much. mr. clerk, can you please call item number 10? >> item number 10, hearing on the annual review and adoption of the board of supervisors draft

so, we have a couple minutes. if there's no more questions, no more compliments, the panel, thank you so much for coming. (applause) >> it's been awesome. hopefully we'll be having another one next year somewhere in the world. ... . >> hi, my name is sharon, i'm the graffiti project manager for the city of edmonton, canada. for some of you weren't in my presentation earlier today i'll go through what the city of edmonton is doing in terms of programming but then go through auditing and what we do. capital city clean up brings cities together to create safe, clean inviting xhueplts and neighborhoods. our motto is a clean and safe edmonton is a shared responsibility and we work on the premise that we can't do it alone, that we need to work as partners with the community to create solutions to graffiti vandalism and litter enforcement. just a technical point, if any of you want to ask questions, they are recording the session so they would like you to speak into the microphone and if you have any questions along the

on and so forth. and i'm sure one of us can give you a copy and let you know what it looks like. * we card >> to interrupt further, we had a discussion regarding that kind of thing. it would be best if the long shore man's hall had a preferred list of vendors that would provide to people who were renting the hall so that they were just like with security, they would rent -- have their own security, meaning that the preferred vendors would be those which are trained and obviously prepared to do the right thing. >> he okay, that's a great idea. * last but not least, you understand that item number 10, which is electronic surveillance, is video cameras around the outside and the inside of the premises, around the outside of the premises it says, yes? >> that was my understanding of the condition, yes. >> that's all of my questions. anybody else have any other questions? commissioner hyde? >> number 13, the good neighbor policy will be attached to the permit. that's so it will be carried out, right, as pa

why did it take so long? again, a lot of thanks is due to the people in our code advising committee and a lot of people who have worked on this for many, many years and for some of us on the commission as long as we have been on the commission we have been talking about it. it is overdue and i am support of it as well. i am just concerned with a couple of things maybe that some of the legislators have not discussed and if they have, maybe they could let us know about it. one was we know that a lot of the buildings the main part of the construction is going to take place on the ground floor where it is mostly parking garage and things like that. but we also have some small businesses that occupy some of these spaces. and so this located a small business where there is a bar or a restaurant even for six months or a year, that is the depth of their business. they can't just go away and come back. and expect everything to be all right. so i was on wondering if there was any relocation and funding and something th

so i called dr. galitz and asked him the protocol and he said to go to the hospital when they're at five minutes apart. so by 10:00 the five minute mark hit, and we waited for about an hour to an hour and a half to make sure it was consistent, and it wasn't, what's called the braxton hicks, which are inconsistent. and it was, they were very consistent every five minutes. so i went to the hospital, got hooked up on the fetal monitor and the contraction monitor, and was examined and was told that i wasn't dilated. and that that's known as prodromal labor, meaning that the water hadn't broken. and there was no dilation, my cervix was 70% % effaced, so it wasn't real labor. so they had me walk around for about a half an hour, to see if there would be any change. there wasn't, so they sent me home. try not to lift or carry any heavy objects over the next couple of days. got to keep drinking a lot of fluids-- eight to ten of glasses of water or juice a day. shower only. if you feel decreased fetal movement

oh so far so good i mean. roughly in a small way what we what we thought we might do it's going up it's pretty much is going up every day this year and it's help of woman go which is something else we thought would happen and we think there's a lot more potential in the navy i mean the u.s. marine the stock. sell in sulaco and there will be bigger there there's very severe shortage there surely there's a shortage of developing the silver market is that correct this is just a massive demand for the silver coins in a comin them fast enough. and all supply of so far is not that great a comes out of the ground right so it's been several million ounces exactly and unlike go in the big differences between gold and silver is the central banks sit in the way with tons and tons of silver and no central banks don't own any so over they have loads of gold but they don't any so so so it's not this immediacy of supply that can suddenly hit the market people are confused by silver because it's both a monetary metal but it's

taught me so much. invite all of you to become member of the nert family. and thank you again. (applause) ♪ >> to introduce our next award i would like to invite someone to the stage -- i have a cold, too, i apologize. [laughter] >> sneeze with my mouth moving. i want to invite someone who i think many people in this room know who works behind the scenes here at city hall to actually create what i think are some of the most significant physical examples of neighborhood empowerment in the city. and that, of course, is lenny denriquez. i want to invite her up here. if you walk around and see an amazing mural or amazing garden, it's a good chance she's the one that said yes to that application. so, here we go, lenny. (applause) >> good evening. i'm up here because i nominated the progress park for the best ccg nen award. i'm proud to present this award on behalf of nen to bruce and bill for their hard work and dedication for turning this vacant lot, this eyesore in their community to a beautiful green park

studio thanks so much ramon. thanks for having me i mean so room before we even get into the sequestration stuff let's talk about this nuclear site two days ago i extensively covered the aspects of the site to give us a sense of how bad this really is because i don't think the corporate media is really touching upon the extent of it. sure well i gave the department of energy a call today they've yet to respond but we do know as you mentioned in the intro there are six large tanks that are full of radioactive sludge are leaking right now you know last week we got the word that there were six tanks that we could for that the deal he was only saying that it was a one tank so there's some people wondering if there's more tanks leaking department of energy has been. has revealed so far what they have said is that up to three hundred million gallons of radioactive sludge may eventually leak out of just one of these tanks and we have to remember that hanford reservation there are fifty million gallons of nuclear waste t

suicide bombers and we have two sons bankers and they basically have cut from the same horror cloth so here's the headline regarding this horror frog ben bernanke bernanke you seen buying one point one four trillion in assets and twenty fourteen federal reserve chairman ben s. bernanke these latest round of bond buying will reach one point one four trillion dollars before he ends the program in the first quarter of two thousand and fourteen according to median estimates in a bloomberg survey of economists well he thinks he's fighting deflation and he thinks he's really neutralizing any impact of inflation but as we know people are watering down milk portions so procter and gamble go to the store a little so patters they're smaller the coca-cola is smaller but the same price here in the u.k. they're serving horse meat instead of beef in their burgers that's inflation but they don't recognize it as such they are there's so sound of one hand clapping it's a one. football see when hank laughing doesn't make any noise. well let's look at this chart here this is the fed's balance sheet from

and so on and so on and so on. now lop off the zeroes on either side of the triangle. what you see there is what we've seen before, pascal's triangle. let's say it's your cousin louie's birthday and he's crazy about hats. you're considering a birthday gift of five hats, but you can only afford to buy two, and you can't decide which ones. so the problem is, how many different combinations of two hats are there, and that way you can know how many pairs you have to consider. when we're working with pascal's triangle, we can actually read this information off the triangle. so now what we need to do is go to row 5. and remember, we started numbering the rows by 0, so we actually have to count down six rows to row 5. and again, the columns also start with 0, and we go in to the second column, which actually requires 0, 1, 2, so the third entry. and there it is. the number we find is 10, and that's the right answer. and this number, the number of ways to choose two things out of five things, a mathematician calls "5 choose 2." so 5 choose 2 is equal to 10. pascal didn't inven

so, exactly what you're saying. the word on the street -- and part of it is you're driving -- i don't notice as i'm accuweathering. moev of us are cruisers. we get what we see. that's an issue coming up. these people are networking. they spread the word. sidewalks are cool game, trees are cool, they don't touch that. you're exactly right. i experience in my own life. we're going to have to open people, we're going to have to focus on sidewalks unfortunately. >> if i can just add, we're a network, too. this is a network. your city is a network. the city is networking with the police, with the business units, with the volunteers, with the seniors groups, with youth groups, whoever is walking those streets, cleaning those streets, going down there to enforce by law and properties, they all need to be paying attention to these things and it can be as quick as a saying. recently we've noticed x is happening. we're asking you to report it to this department, this person so we can proactively deal with it. it's the same th

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>> yes. >> so moved. >> okay. without any objection, motion >> deputy city attorney john givener again. in the closed session the committee decided to move item 15 to the full board with recommendation. >> thank you. so, is there -- would you like to make a motion to -- >> yes. i'd like to make a motion that we not disclose the discussion from closed session. >> without any objection, motion passes. madam clerk, are there any other items? >> no, mr. chair. the agenda is completed. >> so, meeting adjourned? meeting adjourned. [adjourned]

on and so forth but we don't know where they all are so this in some ways is kind of a wake up call to us because there are other objects out there which will come close which will probably come closer and as was very aptly demonstrated this morning over russia can actually hit us now the difference between the one that hit over russia the swarming and two thousand and twelve d a fourteen is on the order of one or two orders of magnitude in size so we see a fair number of these smaller meter size objects enter the earth's atmosphere burn up or come down more or less harmlessly in places. almost all the time there's something like ten thousand tons of meteoric material that rains down continuously on the earth every day so i ask you let me ask this what would happen if a an asteroid hit the earth i want to show you a picture really fast this is a picture of the crater in arizona commonly known as the baron's or crater it was created about fifty thousand years ago it's and massive obviously i mean if something like this were to hit us today what type of damage would it cause well let'

thank you thank so much. planet. there are twelve cities in the united states in which half of the people with hiv aids lives with. this with this is a problem that. is substantially like the big elephant in the room and nobody wanted to talk about they were really good public health campaigns people were really focused on this problem you certainly should be able to. see a lot less human suffering. the way. he. illa. welcome back to the kaiser report i'm max kaiser so i'm not a go to make fire stein author of planet ponzi which i'm holding here right now this is the book that explains this is the the result of stone of the entire global scam which welcome back to the kaiser report thanks for having me here all right mich firesign you have some props some lovely props i like what i say tell me what is all this well max i think that what we need to do is explain to everyone the scope scale and magnitude of what a trillion dollars or three trillion dollars actually means this is a u.s. hundred dollar bill hundred dolla

so that within five years or so, we can replace half of our power. it's a big deal. so, to what's presented to -- in front of you in your conversation right now, i'm sorry, but we have gotten badly off track in this conversation and we need to push the reset button on it in a couple different ways. >> today's conversation or previous? >>> yes. part of it is that the presentation that was put before you, especially page 9, is absolutely not in any way accurate when it's describing the "like lpi" scenario. and i'll try to get into that later. but the main thing i want to reset is this light green, dark green stuff. light green means you present like they did in marin, you present the customers an option that is a percentage green, like 25%, they're up to 50% now. recs is not light green. the point is that the latest model that local power put before us is not light green at all. it's 100% green with the jobs, with price parity with pg&e. on pg&e's current rates, not pg&e's 100% green rate. and that's using all california recs and pg&e is using basically bad recs, recs

so, graffiti is not defined. it doesn't say that it slashes or it doesn't describe it in that nature. and it doesn't speak to permission either. the by law is written such that it's under community standards 14600 with respect to community standards and buildings that are considered a nuisance. there's a specific statement in there, i don't have it in front of me unfortunately, with respect to graffiti. and, so, i guess the question, then, -- question is, do we ever have trouble with property owners saying, well, i want to have this piece of graffiti on our property and i don't feel it's a nuisance and i'm not going to remove it? and we haven't had any problems actually whatsoever with our graffiti by law being challenged. how the by law works is that our by law officers, any graffiti that comes up is at their discretion. so, whether they determine what is on the property is a nuisance and it allows us to keep our mural programs running. it allows us to look at individual situations. early on we had one situation

>> well, so, so this dollar.19 was based on having that fixed discount of 32%. bart fare went from $1.50 to $1.75. based on this particular agreement, we would go up consistent with that. and from there on out it would be based on cpi. >> so, i understand that comment. to me it's part of the core issue of what's going on here. but we're basing it upon bart fare increases which is out of our control. and to me, but it's coming out of our budgets now. so, we're kind of linking and falling victim to whatever bart decides to do. and that strikes me as a raw deal. , i'm trying to get an understanding. historically how it's been done that's one thing. but we're here to decide how it is going forward. we're trying to understand why and the justification for this. 32% as a historical formula that's well and good but i'd like to understand why today. >> i think it was the sfmta [speaker not understood]. i think it was the sfmta's understanding that we would do this one time and then go forward from here it would be based on cpi. so, this agreement would take us to 2014 b

this is the time, where if you have an announcement or a report to make on a topic you may do so, so i am going to start with commissioner murase. >> just on monday, the curriculum committee will be meeting on march 4, on science, technology and engineering and math. i just want to congratulate the alliance of black school educators for the accident honor roll celebration last week it was really wonderful. i want to do a shout out to the numerous elementary schools who paraded in the chinese new year parade, the ones that i saw, gordon low and west

so we need to... i show an increase in nursing which you don't know on your allocation we need to increase and open more nursing positions. we need to bring in some and we need to reduce the proportionalty between nurses and social workers. safe passages. we ended that and had that last year and that was several social workers and the counseling grants are sending education and $1.6 million grant is ending this year and i want to say with respect to the grants. i know when we enter into the grants, we enter into them knowing that they are going to end. and there is this (inaudible) in the grant. every time that it ends, what are we going to do to fill that grant that is ending, that is kind of working against. it is not the intent of the grant to then get a grant and then make it be district's responsibility to continue that grant. and that is certainly what i say within my department. when the nutrition education project goes site coordinators are phenomenal at the school and i just want to give a sh

machine so what we are focusing on now, from upin the sky, so what we are doing now is we are focusing on removing all systems, utility lines, conveyor belt that is inside the tunnels that we can start laying the final lining for the item and that will begin sometime in april. also, i wanted to mention that in recent weeks we have completed the tie in between the bay division system that is the five division pipeline with the new irving ton tunnel this is sensitive work and it has been done and another important mile sewn and we have beneficial use of the crystal spring pipeline number two and the only remaining work there is minor restoration and this is additional pipeline that makes our regional system more seismically reliable. and also mentioning is the sonoma valley water treatment plants, activities there are fast approaching completion, we have started testing some of the improvements built as part of this project and we are expecting substantial completion by april. and finally, i wanted to mention that the recent management team is taking a program wide review of all our acti

then they started the experiment so they can make more, and doesn't go so well, so the u.s. government takes it over and transforms that same project into a way to eradicate coca back in the amazon. and so the last i heard was, i think it was president clinton, who said -- the dea was asking to release this fungus in the rain forest. president clinton said no at the time. the last i heard in 2007 was that they're still looking into ways of using the fungus as eradication. it sounds iffy to me, releasing a fungus into a rain forest. i think that's kind of an interesting way of seeing how these privileges are afforded to some powerful factors and not to others. i wanted to throw that in. >> i would just add real quick, first, on the brazilian fungus thing, one of the great experts on this has didn't a lot of research, is sitting in the audience. but on the question of the u.s. embassy, the u.s. embassy's own web site used to recommend to travelers in la paz to have coca tea. how many have been to la paz? it's about 13,000 feet high, and the airport, which is a plateau above th

so, they have no issue basically with us. in terms of liability just to ensure that we don't have any problems with property owners in terms of painting, we ensure that we get $2 million of liability insurance. that blanketly coffers all of our volunteer program. that is a range to cover my program. iest mate how many volunteers i'm going to have per year and basically buy an insurance policy to cover that as well. in terms of safety i think martin can speak more to the issue of, you know, going into areas where there could be problems. edmonton overall is pretty safe community. we haven't really had any experience with people sort of being there present when we're painting over it. so, i can't really speak to that in terms of issues. but the liability issue is pretty well covered. i have a guide that's available on my website that outlines all of our forms and criteria that they go through and the property owners are also required to sign off a form giving the volunteer agency permission to paint their building. so, we're di

actually, i'm a contractor so i know. you need to have a lot of power on your power washer, a specific amount of pressure in order to be able to take some of the graffiti on the sidewalks. one point i haven't heard talked in this conference is an issue that has a lot to do with ghosting is that vandals are coming up with new concoctions of paints that they use to make it harder to take out. so, i say that graffiti abatement is a combination of science and alchemy. because every time you get to a place, a small percentage you find pigments that's like from another world almost. but just to finalize, and i understand what larry was answering. it makes sense that you cannot hold property owners liable to graffiti ghosting. but is this a point of policy that maybe could look forward? other municipalities, that whenever there is ghosting, you actually encouraging more vandalism because that is an etch that is going to stay -- my grandchildren might still see it. so, what i'm saying is i think dpw does a great job on giving ref

so just, so, so this is overhead, please? i mean this is essentially what we are looking at, just the blank wall, this 20 and a half feet long and our proposed deck that we are proposing the to reconfigure is back this far, basically, if you look on my plans that is where it is at and it has no, in our opinion it has very little to no impact on the appellant. her building extends as do the other structures around and many of these do extend into the rear yard. not all of them, but many do. and so, you know as far as what is being represented it is just a matter of perspective. in regard to the sand bar, map i am just, i am using the sand bar map to indicate where the decks are in relation to the current to the owner's property. >> a clear indication of the size of that deck and it does extend into the rear yard as does the property extends into the rear yard. it is not only a fire escape as you look here, this extends back and there is a deck on top. the large portion of this extends the rear yard. and i stated that. that thi

so how you tell.nce again how do you tell it and it's very thrilling to work with that language. and have it become physical and visual because it is so, so physical in its own words. >> rose: this is not a brave new question but what is the state of theatre in america today? >> oh, god. >> rose: well, that bad? >> well, see i never think these certificate going to die because i don't think one-to-one human connection will ever be surpassed. >> rose: i don't either. >> so you can do all the technology you want. you know, i get often asked, i was at the aspen conference, you were there this summer. would i be interested in et creating for the i pard, and i said well, why would i want to have everybody aim down here when they can go up, and out. and it's-- . >> rose: i will tell you if you want me to tell you. >> yes. >> rose: because it is not either/or, you want to create for the ipad because that's its own world. and people can see it, around the world and it's just an extraordinary vehicle to make a

so on. but this is a 300 year sleep and it's a flawed focus my colleagues will tell you maybe, but the first of rereading the epic in its relations with the rest of the world through the lines of smuggling and illicit trade. since we are here at brown university, where teachers students and colleagues, one thing i found particularly interesting and quite traumatic and shocking is the importance of brown university in rhode island, the tiniest state in the nation in the realm of illicit trade in the very beginning. the great irony i trace in the book is that a country that corruptly smuggling, given birth recycling this today the world's leading policing superpower, the most aggressive enthusiastic anti-smuggling crusader at tivo. so it's quite a transformation. markey is the hypocrisy. it's not only not in the index. i'm not even sure the word hypocrisy appears in the text itself. amazon can get inside of the book. i haven't checked. but let me tell you in just a few minutes of my time for s

so let's go through a couple of these steps really quickly so when we say large protests and for the parliament how many people are we talking about here. the biggest the biggest was six thousand people i believe ok and how much or how many people does iceland have . three hundred twenty thousand so it's a pretty big number compared of let's say of the prosecuting the bankers that i mean you know how was it that isom was able to prosecute big banks i mean were iceland banks had to be in the first place not too big to fail was there more gov regulation in place at the time that prevented that like it did in the u.s. . the icelandic banks were way too big to be saved the balance sheet of spending banks was ten times g.d.p. so the government really did not have a choice they did not have the foreign reserves to save the banks and they just they just let the banks default because simply they just couldn't save them and they were nationalized correct. yes the first bank was nationalized the there were three large banks the first one was nationalised. but that sent a signal that the financ

so here we are at a place where we have all of these big pipes. so let's walk over here. david, come with me here. what are we looking at here? what's going on? >> this is a metal conduit made out of aluminum. it's lightweight. that's the advantage. it's used for service conduits to take up the power from pg&e down to the meter. >> so on the outside of buildings sometimes you'll have the wires coming over from pg&e. >> the service drop. >> and i brought something called -- >> a weather head. >> weather head. here it is. >> so at the top you have the weather head. and the conductors come into the service drop. >> look at the front of the weather head. you see these little knockouts here. you knock it out and you run your service conductors. >> and the conductors go down the pipe. >> in san francisco we have special requirements for service entrance equipment because of the corrosive marine environment. right? >> that's correct. >> so what are some of our special local requirements? >> well, we require the conduit to either be aluminum rigid conduit or galvanized steel cond