just some highlights working down between the micro pile contractor and among the bracing at the far west end, the lower right-hand photograph shows you what is left after the micro piles are complete. those are the tensioning rods that run through the middle of the micro pile and will tie into the slab that will be poured in the below-grade structure and affect that whole down progress or the whole down design on the mat slab. zone 2 continuing bracing and excavation. they have gotten to 1st street in the left-hand picture. zone 3 they are excavating under the fremont bridge. the archaeologists are always on standby and those are areas that hadn't been disturbed in the top surface and they continue to find little things in that. and the overall picture of the east end where the buttress work is going on. the red circles now represent the buttresses shafts that have been eliminated. and the green obviously the completed,elo yellow in progress and we'll be up over 174 by tomorrow. you can see the production curve as we are just about right on where we should be. the quality control wo

this opportunity of this mindset and try to figure out a way to bring more work to the smallest, the micros set-asides and possibly some changing of the thresholds. >> chair: thank you very much. are there other members of the public who wish to speak on item number one. seeing none public comment is closed. (gavel) though i have a motion to amend the legislation as read in the record? >> so moved. >> seconded and we can do that without objection. this helps to address from component of the prompt payment process; other areas where we do think that we have room to move, we have room to look at what we require prime contractors to do with regards to submission, once they receive an invoice from a subcontractor. we have a lot more work to do around transparency and how the city can make sure all parties involved have transparency with where we are in terms of processing payments. finally i think the city has room to move in terms of figuring out how to standardized reporting and tracking payments and how it is that we do reporting. these are some of the areas of that forward to continuing to

let me mention ap geny and found an important bank and the inventor what we call the micro credit and helped the city recover from the big earthquake of 1906. guy mo roller who was the founder, established the opera in san francisco, by the way there's an italian directing the opera and laurence fergetty and 93 and good friend of the community. he is the father of the b generations and the guy that started the culture revolution of the 60's and 70's so in many ways italians have made lasting contribution to this city and the silicon valley. there is an important engineer that developed the first micro prosser for intel, so it's a tremendous foundation to celebrate italian culture 2013. also i was reminded by our pastors that san francisco gets its name from an italian man and holly man. it is noted. >> >> for kindness and compassion and generosity and i think these are traits that this city has adopted and made its own traits , so this is not to be under scored, not to be forgotten. what are we going to do in the coming year? basically we have three principles, three guidelines. we wa

if we cannot, i look for the micro guys to help me out with the smaller loans. it is a collateral loan that we cannot do, i do what i can. we are here to lend. >> thank you. hopefully, people have their question cards. i am going to open it up to the audience. if you have written a question down, please give it to us so we can start compiling them. if i see a repeat questions, it will help to expedite the process, answering those questions that people want answered. we have some of the best and brightest minds here. don't be shy. if you could do us a favor and use the microphone so that everyone can hear your question. >> you had mentioned about assistance in public contracting. for small companies, one of the issues is bonding. what do you do on that? >> for all public contracts, public agencies need to see that there contractors have bonding in order for them to demonstrate they can complete the contract. sba provides an insured bond guarantee to those who do bonding to small businesses on public contracts. so there is an sba program on a maturity bonding, sim

the money? >> as a micro lender, we expect the principles, the corporate form, to provide guarantees. >> personal guarantees. >> the same. 20% ownership in the company. [inaudible] >> [inaudible] >> i heard something about sba guaranteed loans. maybe i missed something. does that have to do with the sba guaranteeing the entity? >> the question on the sba guaranteeing a entity as the order of the business, whether it is a corporation or partnership, for any small business lending, you should expect to be guaranteeing that long personally. as a small-business owner, from a lender's point of view, we want to see that you are as invested in the business as you are asking the bank to be. the idea that non recourse loans, the way you describe it, loans that you get without having yourself personally liable is not the way it works. you should assume you will guarantee the loan regardless of the structure of your business. the good news, though, for businesses like you are describing, internet business, is that the capital requirements for that type of business is generally small. you are able to get you

when it is a requirement of 50,000 or less, i tend to call of the micro guys to help me out. that is right in their box. for us, the capacity for us to do the smaller side is not there as much as it is for them. on getting a loan through my side of the bank, i do not require an account to do that. we would like to have it, but i do not require it. >> last question for the opportunity fund and a critic representative. are you a cdfi? is san francisco and s.p.a. in support of cdfi's being established in san francisco? >> yes, we are. we were founded in 1999 with a small business loan. that is how we started our tenderloin office. >> opportunity fund is a certified cdfi, so we are providing a benefit to low and moderate-income communities. he is the city establishing support for new cdfi's? >> mark wanted to address that, in support of cdfi's in the city. >> we have a wealth of partners in the city. s.p.a. is just now rolling out a program for r -- will be the case by the summer. let me get one last point and on the question about relationships to lenders. the question was, do ha

remove offensive content but the authors were anonymous and punished so french jews brought the popular micro-blogging site to trial the court decision in january asked the company to divulge the names of people behind the tweets the fight against racism has nothing to do with the violation of freedom of expression it is an american concept and it cannot be applied in france in the way it is understood in the us we just wanted this part of our life to obey this country's legislation which prohibits public racism but not everyone agrees if freedom is limited they say it's no longer freedom jeremy of jewish origins himself is one of them he says greater liberty shouldn't bring more restrictions but a different approach to controlling the internet you have twitter a private company that may be acting as a judge. deciding what is legal and what is not and removing content which is censorship so i agree that this content should be combated but i don't agree that the private companies such as twitter should implement private or censorship of free speech online this is a major risk today this story

one of the largest micro car checks up for sale. ill show you some of the coolest rides, robert? >> reporter: thanks, bill. check out this drag racer. one of four cars in the world modelled after a hot wheels car. this one can you drive. it will be sold today as part of the largest collection of micro cars ever assembled and you will not believe the prices. that coming up next. >>> one of the world's largest collections of very little cars, very profitable cars, is going on the auction block this weekend. now with the micro cars, cnbc's robert frank. >> they are so darn cute and prices will wow you. it is amazing. micro cars have been the poor kuz cousin of auto collecting but not any more. the micro cars collect goes on sale today. sold by a candy mate. he collected 200 cars that could fetch in total more than $6 million. micro cars were built after world war ii when europe was short of money and materials but they are not cheap any more. here are some of my favorite. this 1958 fmr tiger, one of the fastest quote mezerschmidts in th

it operates one of the nation's largest individual development, programs, a leading provider of micro loans in california, and has a robust community real estate finance unit. next, we have the ceo of ne community federal credit union. since 1988, she has been the ceo of northwest community federal credit union. under her watch, the credit union group to over 1600 members. it has become the national model for institutions seeking to provide financial education and banking services to the low- income communities. last but not least, we have our conditional lender represented here by wells fargo. mark cyrus is the senior fda banker for the region -- the senior sba banker. he held businesses choose the best loans for the growing business and focus on a comprehensive understanding of their goals for their business. mark is responsible for helping entrepreneurs with sba loans every step of the way. i would like each of you to speak a little bit about what your organization does and, more importantly, address the audience here and let them know what your looking for when you are hoping to f

. >>> drone strikes are under the micro scope on capitol hill. robert gates is pushing to create a special court to review president obama's use of unmanned aircraft. the administration has received sharp criticism for its use of drones to kilter or suspects, including americans overseas. drones can be used for more than fighting terrorists abroad. now, police, the weather service, and private businesses are exploring their use in the u.s. could these eyes in the sky see more than they're supposed? mike reports on who's watching you and who's trying to stop them. >> reporter: this is the smoldering wreckage after a navy drone costing more than $170 million crashed last year during a test flight on maryland's eastern shore. for many, it was the first time they'd even heard the powerful aircraft with no one in the cockpits were flying above us. from the atlantic coastline to neighborhoods across the state. >> there's no stopping this technology. anyone who thinks they can put this benie back in the box, that's silliness. >> reporter: they've used un

so here with a review of the chicken and chorizo fajita, is the micro machine's guy, john moschitta jrusting with chunks of cheesy chicken and chopped charred chorizo packed with piping peppers and splashed with salty soy sauce. it's a fajita that's so full of fantastic flavor that will tickle your tongue and tingle your taste buds like a twisty tornado of tasty temptation. so, don't forget to wash down the spicy with some beer and some icey, and it won't hurt to have some dessert, so indulge in some dulce de leche, or make a plan for some flan. so i give my favorite fajita four out of five fingers for that lovely lunch that lovers to linger. back to you, jimmy. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: thank you, john. [ applause ] folks, i want to take a moment to welcome back our cameraman, rob martin, who has been out the last couple of weeks recovering from plastic surgery to fix his nose. so, welcome back, rob. how are you feeling? >> i'm doing well, jimmy. [ laughter ] much more confident now. >> jimmy: good to hear. [ laughter ] happy to have you back on board. [ cheers and applause ]

have to change the tax code, change the tax code but do it in the sense of the macro sense, not the microense. >> wish we'd been doing that for the last several years. >> me, too. >> senator, good to talk to you. johnny isakson of georgia. >>> coming up, if you think the debate over taxing and spending can get ugly, just wait until my next topic. the minimum wage, a subject that has divided economists for a century. get ready for a minimum wage cage fight with my colleague, christine romans. >>> and parlimpic champion oscar pistorius charged with murder. nike learns once again pinning a reputation on a star name is risky. sands of home businesses. because at usps.com®, you can pay, print and have your packages picked up for free. i can even drop off free boxes. i wear a lot of hats. well, technically i wear one. the u.s. postal service®, no business too small. we were out when it happened. by the time we called the police, there wasn't much they could do. i felt so helpless. we were out when it happened. but adt quickly called the police. i felt like it was over right away. feels like it'

. >> let's go from the macro right down to the micro. do you know what your child is doing online? children as young as 11 are writing malicious computer codes with the intention of stealing information, according to the anti-virus company a.v.g.n. one instance, they discovered an 11-year-old canadian boy who had written the code to steal log-in information to a popular online children's game. as younger and younger children learn how to write computer codes, parents and teachers should be ready to teach the right and wrong ethics of computer programming. >> no one person is responsible for teaching the child the right thing. you know, when we teach them coding, we should teach them the right ethics of coding and the way to construct code. then it's reinforced with parents with the right moral values and the rights and wrongs of life. we wouldn't go to the shop and just pick something up and walk out. we'd tell the child it's wrong. >> more news, back to you. >> jamie, thank you very much indeed. now, police in nigeria say nine polio vaccination workers have been shot dead by unknow

ok in others and that's indeed exactly what's getting twitter in trouble right now from sort of the micro blogging sites reveal the personal data of users who've posted would deem to be hate messages will pay a hefty fine but because twitter is an american firm operating under u.s. laws. then examines the implications of a move which could potentially open up the censorship floodgates. two democracies stumbling over the concept of freedom the french court has called on twitter to help censor hate speech on the website in france because it violates its laws the tweeter is an american company and the american constitution sets no limits to freedom of expression given that the french worked as we wired to do that the question is how can the french enforce this judge those decision when the union of jewish students of france took the issue to paris court in october they wanted to stop away with and to semitic messages posted under the hashtag on bones we are a good jew it was the third most popular tagged subject at the time the number of insulting jokes reach thousands but these people all o

we went out with the -- we spearheaded the micro joc where it's a micro set aside for small businesses. and we've looked at bonding issues on joc. so, we've done a lot to really make joc, you know, palatable to a lot of small businesses. and what miguel mentioned, we are very proud about that. i think the issue, you know, as far as the audit is concerned is actually pointing out some things that we acknowledge and there are some thing we want to fix. there are some things we don't agree and we've said much that we don't agree, i think on one issue. but we i think -- we will take the responses of the contractors and also the gordon group and the ah auditor to make sure we address their issues. but i think overall it's a great program. it gives us the ability to do projects faster and save the rate payers money. >> i think local business is being the contractor is a very important step. it's very hard to find in any other municipality, quite frankly. all right, thank you. >> thank you. >> appreciate it. any other comments, public comments on item 5? commissioner vietor. >> there's a lot

rather than what's known as the micro, meaning information about the actual companies behind the stocks. fact is, it's all too easy to assume that a company and its stock are synonymous. a stock gets crushed, okay? and we assume there must be something wrong with the underlying company. why else would the stock have been pounded? when a stock surges, we presume the company must be doing something right. but that's simply not how the markets work. often shares of a company stock will have big moves up or down for reasons that have absolutely nothing to do with the underlying business. it happens all the time and it doesn't mean the market is crazy or irrational. what is irrational is believing there will always be a straight line, a lockstep, between the performance of a company and the performance of its stock. why is that wrong? shouldn't stocks trade based on the changes and the prospects of the underlying company? isn't that the way the market should work when it isn't broken? don't we spend lots of time on the show analyzing companies, look at them in a free and fair way, showing th

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he gets in the victim's vehicle and drives to the micro center where that incident occurred. >> they identified the vehicle. when they stopped it, the suspect got out and shot himself. >> police say they do not have a motive in the shootings yet. we'll have more on the crime spree as it develops for you. >>> new developments in the shocking vol tin's day murder case. we have oscar pistorius's graphic account now. this is riva steenkamp. she's being cremated today. her family broke down at her funeral. >> we're a family. there's only one thing missing, it's riva. i don't think i ever will get over it. with the lord's prayers and what she stood for, abuse against women. >> while her family and the prosecution say this was a premeditated murder. the olympian known the world over as blade runner says he shot and killed her by mistake. i want to read you his account detailed in a court document. he says, quote, during the early morning hours i heard a noise and realized that someone was in the bathroom. it fills me with horror and feel of an intruder or intruders being inside the toilet. i

saw this sponsored video from general dynamics one of the leading defense contractors in the us about their new micro drones that are about to hit the market. might grow in their vehicles or. will play an important role in the future warfare the urban battlefield calls for tools to increase the war fighters situational awareness and capacity to engage rapidly or syslog and with minimal collateral damage and they will be integrated into future reinforced layered sensing systems these systems may be airdropped for hand launched depending on the mission requirements. i'm sorry that plane just shoot out a bunch of little tiny drones terrifying really there are by and so these micro air vehicles are m a v's are designed to deal with urban battlefields with the rapid precision the question is what urban battles are military fighting that they need this kind of creepy technology and for not shooting these things down there about this big. small signs of a maybe allows them to be plain sight once in place and they may be taken into a low powered extended surveillance mode from missions lasting days weeks thi

and that is a very good argument on the macro level, but when you take it down to the micro status, withamilies, some of them legal, some of them not. a close-knit family always worried they could be torn apart. this couple is undocumented immigrants, her baby, a u.s. citizen. her brother just received temporary legal status. they all want to stay in the u.s., the place they call home. >> this is my country. i was a teenager when i came here. >> reporter: when marcella and her brother came to the u.s. from el salvador, she was 16 and he was 2012. they went to school, graduated from high school. they always lived in the shadows, ricardo was diagnosed with bone cancer. later, he is cancer-free. now he dreams of becoming a doctor. >> helping folks is what i always wanted, especially after my cancer. like i think i owe the american people back for giving me my life back. >> reporter: what stands in his way is his legal status. for now, he is free of the threat of deportation under the obama deferred action program. but he wants to become a citizen. last year, he joined others to lobby for co

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but do it in the context of the macro sense, not the micro. >> can't agree more, joining me are david political analyst and professor of public service and the director of the center of public leadership at the harvard kennedy school and ron brownstein, executive director at the national journal magazine in washington. gentlemen, good to see you. ron, republicans could push president obama to accept further budget cuts by threatening to shut down the government. we've heard one leading republican senator, johnny isaacson, you've heard him say it's a very bad idea. could we be headed down the road to a shutdown? >> i think we are probably not heading down in that direction, there's republicans who have talked about that. but the could be census of sentiment seems to be moving on a different path now. i think what republicans are looking at more now is taking the sequester cuts and then codifying them as you note a continuing resolution to extend the government funding through the rest of the year and in effect daring the democrats to shut down the government by refusing to accept those