embedded in that is an understanding of how to work logistics, and understanding to how to respond to lift requirements, and understanding of command and control. the plea today -- the fleet today has people who have strong technical competence in being able to respond and answer those sorts of questions. the fleet today is more mature and more seasoned because of the forward-deployed in nature of our operations. and we can apply that in the lessons that we have learned, and i think what you'll recognize is a very adaptable force. so this is what japan looked like before 2:00 p.m. on march 11, 2011. what you see at the top of the chart is the question the dai- ichi power plant -- the fukushima power plant. on the left-hand side is sendai airport. on the other side, any japan. this is a bird's-eye view of what the tsunami looked like -- so as approximately 2:45 p.m. in the afternoon, what we now know is that a 20-meter way -- wave hit the prefecture', ands in the course of that, located approximately 125 miles off the coast at a depth of about 20,000 feet, the eurasian plate and the pa

it is important to understand of what we did not know. we did not know the full extent of the damage. we did not know the full impact of the tsunami. there were entire population centers affected by this. in many of these prefectures that we went to, one of the first things we said was that there was a complete loss of the mayor's office. the complete loss of the municipal leadership installations and buildings. people were having to land on their feet, figuring out where they go. in addition to the isolated communities, we needed to assess the infrastructure that we had in place. looming in the background was the nuclear crisis. this is where information became critically important. everyone was aware that their work risks, but they did not know what they were. the important thing was that we were available to help japan in any way that we possibly could. with technical expertise, with equipment. the challenge becomes, where do you begin? the japanese word for the operation is friend. what you are looking at here is how we presented forc

now, we are trying to understand trends over time. but we realized was that the heat coming from the reactor would dissipate. but we needed to stabilize the situation on the ground to allow for that key to dissipate over time. the alternative was to flood the reactor. the concern with that strategy is that although it would put the temperature into a controllable situation sooner, it would provide far more contamination into the environment, which was already at an intolerable level. so, we went digging into understanding what radio isotopes were the ones we were trying to deal with and how to react. but i am showing you here is downloaded from the next public web site. you are looking at 80 sensors around tokyo. a report on atmospheric levels of cesium and iodine. which is critically important during a crisis. what this means is information. the information in a seat -- event like this is critically important. anyone can go to this web site and download the information. anyone can get these actual readings. they will be published aft

it is the case that sba works with these organizations to try to help small businesses understand howto get credit and fine tools to be able to do that. sba programs cover a wide range, and i will talk about this range of lending and the kinds of things we do, but in many ways, we do not do it alone. we do it with partners, and that is the takeaway message, the sba lending activity, while would guarantee loans through a number of lenders, we do it with a lot of other partners as well. let me give a little bit of a sense of what the small business administration does and is. we in san francisco covered the bay area and north coast counties, and we do a variety of things. i will come back to the credit card because i know that is what this session is about, but before i do that, there's two other roles we play that are important as well. one is about helping small businesses understand how to start businesses, getting good technical assistance, getting good advice about starting and managing your business. equally important is being prepared for credit. one of the things we tried to do

if you don't understand that, if you don't understand that culture, if you don't understand where they are coming from, you can have the best employee in the world but you will not be able to retain him or her and you will not be able to make him work effectively. you have to understand who they are first. whether they are wounded or whether they are not and whether they were in combat or whether they never saw something being shot at them. about thisssionate as you can tell. i have four sons in the military. between my sons, i have 12 stores in iraq and afghanistan. i understand what is like to be parent waiting for a word from your kids. i understand what is like having one of your sons come back and call you at 6:30 and the morning on a saturday morning and ask you,"hey, colonel, not using dead, calling you by your rank -- and saying "do you have nightmares?" " when you walk down the street, do you smell something that flashes back?" dealing with marine who was an f-18 pilot who is a phenomenal individual, you have a three our conversation and you spend five minutes talking out of t

folks should understand, but how do you understand you've never been taught the principles of interest were layaway or a whole series of issues related to the management of credit cards committed cards, prepaid cards, savings accounts or what is a retirement account so on and so forth. all of these things are essentials to the families promoting and building their own strong financial innovation with a very complicated world. i think it's important to remember how much more complicated that world has become. when i got of graduate school and went to work for the defense department, i applied for mastercard. i was turned down because i didn't have to years of work experience and i was a presidential fellow. that is what the world was like when i came out of school. now i get credit card implications for my daughter and my son on an almost daily basis. i think that my dog would qualify for a credit card. the complexity of the financial interest has become extraordinarily greater. the difference between your home loan bank down on the quarter that creates a simple interest-rate and has a

we are in the planning phase of that and trying to understand what the time line is they will need in order to have those needs met and working closely with the city so we don't recreate the wheel and we leverage existing access whether 311 or neighborhood services, working with congresswoman pelosi's office and having direct connections to the federal agencies that ned to deliver some -- need to deliver pieces. i think that is generally what you need to know is going on with the organizing committee. we will add more members. we are also helping for the advancement of the sustainability plan and community benefits package. >> can you go over the money part again? what is your total obligation and time line? >> the host city agreement calls for $32 million to be raised by the local organizing committee. it is broken up in terms of deliverables. the first $12 million is due by the end of the environmental review process. i defer to the city on exactly what the time of that will be. i think we are on track to meet the commitments of the host city agreement at the end of this year. we ar

but if i understand you, you understand that this is an imperfect system. >> one thing that we understand -- this is the power of the district attorney's office to pursue the conviction. he has the right to the judge and the trial, but by the same token, i have never heard the district attorney say -- did he ever prosecute a police officer for perjury. did he ever prosecute? and any other office persecutes -- prosecute. continue to do that. did they ever prosecute anyone as a prosecutor for of seen things were bad things. when you try to put accountability together, you look at the whole picture and was going on in the trial. where is most of the misconduct happening. it becomes important. who is up to, so unless we can put accountability not just with the district attorney, he needs to have accountability. we need to find out who will be responsible for the prosecutors that go wild, and how do we deal with this? does the defendant get a chance to make that claim? what happened? nothing. this is his witness. >> can you tell me this story that you told me? you showed me a photograph of a m

this is something that most people don't understand. all of our orders are sent to us electronically, at 8:00 at night. we received those orders and we deliver them to the pharmacies the next morning. if you ever had an occasion to go to a pharmacy, and if you come back at 10:00, that is the miracle of how that happens. we fulfill the order, and it is critical for how we handle national disasters as well. the orders can actually be routed to any of the distribution centers in our system at the moment notice. they are centralized in one location and we have great flexibility in times of national disasters. it happened to be a relatively new facility, only of for a couple of years when the hurricane ike passed through. of a, i will just sit in all. it passed right through our facility, it was a disaster is a storm, and have tremendous implications. the one thing that is different about a hurricane, we had notice of the hurricane coming. we move inventory and to oklahoma city in preparation for filling orders for the texas market place out

i want to understand those things. one other question i have. i will e-mail you, but i really appreciate all the work. it is of huge challenge for everybody. i do not know how everyone can take on a huge challenge, so my admiration is unfounded, but my practical lens is telling me we need this conversation, and this is what we are actually going to do, because i honestly do not see anywhere we cannot do what you appear to be recommending. at the curriculum meeting we talked a lot, and i would like to understand more. we talked lot arthur curriculum meeting -- at the curriculum meeting, so my limited ability to understand instructions at an elementary school level or even high school level, i would like to understand more about this specific program and what we might expect it to look like and how it might be different, and i actually think one of the things we can and should do is the community and parent out reach, so we need to be talking about the two-year kindergarten program. i would like to see how about is developed. i am sure we can come

where we are today you really have to understand where the country was on line 11 to understand how far does that, and how far it still has to go in terms of changes. there were two things that we focused on early in our reporting. one was a 9/11, just how little the united united states governt really knew about al qaeda and about terrorist networks and to get an understanding of this you need to understand a little bit about how little is known. as we went around and we talk to individuals in the bush white house, we were there that day and we ran the white house and in washington and it became clear on 9/11 that al qaeda was the organization that was responsible for carrying out the attack. there were actually people inside the white house who asked, al hu when he came to understanding who this organization was. it just wasn't on the radar. al qaeda is an organization was not well understood even though it had already carried out on attack an attack against the world trade center towers in new york in 1993 and they carried out an attack against the uss cole in aid and harbor in y

i cannot understand his need for the parking space. not to say that parking is not necessarily difficult. as a commission, we generally support people who do not want to add more parking because we're trying to get more people who want to walk, by, and take many. i cannot imagine a precedent where we would make someone provide a parking space anyway. for me, i find this dr baseless. it is an abuse of the system. you went to the board of supervisors, you went to permit appeal, this is a legalization that make sense. we're not changing the footprint. i have a hard time understanding what is going on and i am frustrated because i was -- which the system would not allow people to put people through this process. it is unfair. very much of her. i will not move to take the dr. >> second. >> i agree. this is a renovation of a building that sat in this repair, basically vacant for a long time. if it was occupied, it was in bad shape. that is something we need to encourage. for a bit of an explanation, i read the case report. there was apparent

i understand the churches need. other times it is unmanned. i have seen the lack of maintenance and have been concerned with my security, and the permits that have been pulled from 2003 that expire and this is the structural issues. this is the retrofit. this is dry rot that has not been addressed. the permit expired august 2011. for dry rot and the bell tower that we're talking about putting 2,000 pounds of equipment, there are holes in the wall. this will follow us. -- fall on us. it is unmanned. tio collect money to put the community at risk for a structure that has been not proven to be sound is not necessarily -- necessary or desirable. this is a high residential area. there are other options and we ask you please to consider them. there will be redundancies. [bell] >> thank you. if i called her name, come on up. -- your name, come on up. >> i am an art sstuden -- student and in turn in the neighborhood less than a block away from the church. -- intern in the neighborhood less than a block away from the church. we value the esthetics of t

the best thing would be if everyone can do their job. >> i understand that. from the general contractor perspective, that makes sense, but there are tenants on fixed incomes for whom it is not so easy to go someplace else. i am trying to see if there is some way they can stay. >> anyone can stay. it might take 50% longer. >> thank you. >> it raises another question i would have for the owner. i understand these three tenants have had what some would consider to be a terrific deal. is the street right there? >> yes. >> they live in a beautiful area. they probably have views. they are getting a good deal. let's make the assumption they actually to have financial problems ascribed. somebody talked about equity, and it has been stated it would be far more expensive, take longer, and i do not know anyone would consider a reasonable compromise, but if we were to double the allowance offered nine iron who rent board. it allows for three months, and doubling it will only allow six months. goowould that be something to consider bowman -- something to consider bow? >>

we understand that your good -- we understand that. he has not done anything he did not say he would do. >> just some of the things said in a public comment. these are all things the fire department has already told us we are at great liability as a city if we let this happen. i have responsibility when put on notice by the fire department to ask for compliance, and given nine, we have to gain compliance. i know there are folks who do not think that is so, but they're withdrawing decision -- the assertion. you have to go down there and see if everything is on top of itself. all of these tarps are highly flammable. it is a situation. it is great to sit there when it is peacetime and that will never happen, but i do not think anyone wants rats of the campsite. i do not think anyone wants anyone to get harmed, and i had to use my judgment as chief of police in trying to make it safe. that is why i wrote it down. i met lawyers and all, and it has been about safety. if we can keep it saves, but i think when there are comments about we are g

we are continuing to work to understand how we can approach that and come to a solution we think all sides will be happy with. >> i would note it also was a commenter on the draft environmental impact report and they detailed these concerns in their letter as well as some potential solutions. and they also talked about public access that would be additional legacy benefits to san francisco. >> i think something we have been continuing to talk about throughout is a thread throughout all the plans is what is the legacy to san francisco. it really has for us it steps beyond the legacy of the high profile event that is coming but what people with take away and say you know because of the attention and resources and interest in this event that things got better in san francisco. times that is brick and mortar for public access but sometimes just a pwbetter operating platfm or better communication or different ways to involve people and educating themselves about our waterfront which is one of the most exciting parts of this process for me is learning what a fantastic place the northern wa

thank you for coming out on au >> to understand where we are today, you have to understand where the country was on 9/11 to understand how far it's come and how far it still have to go in terms of changes. one focus was on 9/11, just how little the united states government really knew about al-qaeda and about terrorist networks. to get an understanding of this and really understand a little bit about how little it was known, as we went around and talked to individual in the bush white house who was there that day and were in the white house and in washington, and it became clear on 9/11 that it was al-qaeda that was the organization responsible for carrying out the attack, there were actually people inside the white house who asked, al who? when it came to understanding who the organization was. it was not on the radar. al-qaeda was an organization not well-understood, although they carried out one attack against the world trade center towers in new york in 1993, and they carried out an attack on the uss cole in yemen, but terrorism was something that happened overseas, not to people

they need to understand that before they incur $100,000 in debt. is there always room for another good lawyer? we need good lawyers. there always is. you have to ask yourself how much that you can afford -- how much debt you can afford. they have been watching too much "boston legal." you see $100,000 starting salaries. that may be for the top 10 students at the top 10 law schools. there were 30,000 graduates this year. what are the others going to do? there are jobs available and good jobs available, but we have to first let them know what to expect upon graduation. second thing we have to do is make sure we continue to have the profession look like our society. two spots of the examples. hispanic lawyers, less than 4%. 15% of our society. african americans come 8% come away under-represented. what we are doing in that regard as we have minority scholarships and a program where we put minority students with federal judges and state judges. we have a diversity center, which are the only four missions of the aba, one of them is to promote diversity

i don't understand why this is getting another continuance. this has been going on for three and a half years. i know that some of the people from the nob hill association say that we should do this in january. i say not to do this at all. this should not be continued for legal purposes and i am against this happening. and thank you very much. >> is there additional public comment? >> good afternoon. i am here on behalf of the owners of the masonic temple, and we support the continuation of what oppose any continuance until january. this hearing was noticed three weeks ago on october 7, with six weeks of time for people to prepare for this hearing and we believe that this is plenty of time. this hearing that we're talking about is only for the interim conditional use. we continue -- we continue to operate with the non-conforming use until this is completed. this will not be done until 2012. we will recommence the hearing on the permanent addition, and the other reason is because this cannot make much progress until this hearing takes place. th

it is understanding how it impacts real life. irish the mayor to go back to the drawing board a look at those costs. do not justesen and without understanding the context in which it happens. anything else, colleagues? let's not take it to public comment. there are a few names. you each have three minutes. john, shasaun, keyong, mike casey, steve, tim paulson, gus feldman. please come forward. >> thank you, supervisor campos. i am here today to speak in favor of your legislation, as a worker who has been effected by this loophole. specifically, as someone who really had to fight to get my health care money. i work early this year, for the first six months of the year, for a very well-known, established, made from scratch cafe in bakery in the city of san francisco. i needed a lot of dental work done and was in the position, like so many minimum-wage workers, of not having health care, or so i thought. i found out through a friend about the health care ordinance. i asked my manager about it, and they told me they did not know what

people don't understand the math of switching. so if there were ten votes, right, and it's 5-5, one switches at 6-4. you need two new people to get your four up to six to come in. hold on to the center. hold on to the independents. and you win. that's the lesson of every last election including obama's last election. >> michael moore, you say he shouldn't go for those centrist voters. >> no, no. >> the ones who see themselves as centrist. not by your definition, theirs. >> i understand. again, according to all the recent polls the majority of independents want taxes raised on the rich. the majority of independents want these wars to end. the majority of independents are actually quite liberal on these issues. i agree with mark. most americans do not define themselves as liberal or conservative or democrat or republican. what they look for in a president is someone with strength, someone who is going to lead, someone who has a back bone. so they like franklin roosevelt. they like john kennedy. they like ronald reagan. it sometimes

i just do not understand. supervisor farrell: to add to that point, no other jurisdictions, and there are a lot of other jurisdictions, have come up with a solution. this has been around since the summer. no other jurisdictions have come up with a solution. to think we are going to implement something in one week that will stymie a lawsuit and save our taxpayer dollars is a dream. i am all for finding a long-term solution to this, but right now it is fixing the problem at hand. president chiu: supervisor cohen. supervisor cohen: nothing. president chiu: there is no motion in front of us to rescind this vote. supervisor elsbernd: i will make the motion to rescind or one week and hear from supervisor mirkarimi. president chiu: seconded by supervisor campos. any objection to the motion to rescind? without objection, this motion passes. we will continue this meeting to october 4. supervisor elsbernd: would it be advisable from the city attorney to continue the closed session item to next week so he can get whateve

but just to give you a way to understand this is what is going on. this is what millions of people have gone through. they've had relapses and many of those people go on and recover. so it's not-it's tough, but it's not the end of the world. in terms of the family, let's be honest, the family suffers, too. it's not just the person in recovery. many family members, all family members with the children, etc. suffer a great deal and i think the recovery supports need to include the family and i know like the 12-step al-anon and nar-anon are for family members. and for the children, ala-teen. right, ala-teen for the children and there was-during the 1980s in california during the social model movement, alcohol recovery movement, back in the 1980s there was a wise man in the same county that leon panetta is that argued that if the whole country adopted al-anon principles, we all would be a lot better off in terms of actually helping people in recovery. that they're very constructive ways of helping, not capitulating but standing firm and helping, so i thi