he does not understand. we will know that. commissioner kingsley: i have a few concerns. i'm not voting in favor of the agreed stipulation. i know that some commissioners did want that. i thought that certainly if commissioners wanted to have the parties make an attempt to do that, they should. what concerns me around this situation is the fact that i do not think it is terribly clear, the language, in terms of what is held in advance. if there would be a termination if something -- it is ambiguous in terms of what that would be. and the guilt or not guilty on exactly what charges. excuse me. just a minute. the other part of this that concerns me is the communication disconnect. i do not believe and after hearing what assistant patrol special officer ernest tachihara said tonight, i believe that a vote in favor of the stipulated agreement sends a message to him and a message he in turn is going to take out to his colleagues. these charges, two and three in particular as well as six concern me. these charges

but it doesn't mean that we've actually got a depth of understanding. how you think i suspect that people are discussing new movies today he says seriously because movies are really cinema is really replacing literature i mean in the culture is it true or more than that i mean there was a time when new society had for great wisdoms there was a time when we used to read philosophy to answer aristotle's great question how should a human being lead their life but today who's reading philosophy that doesn't have an exam to pass we used to we used to study theology. but today in many places religion has become an even jellicoe joke we thought that science would solve all of our problems but now as we realize science creates more talk city than book. and and we had art. but since these other ways of understanding life are in just in disrepute where do people go to get an answer to that great question do they go to the movies god help them. there's nothing bad about it well in the case that the movies are good that they really have to say they are saying somet

in the sense that it's what we need we do under we understand story. a greater depth or with a greater precision that aristotle did but he was looking at the very first works and he had homer and he had escalus and sophocles repartees to guide him but we now understand the difference between conscious and unconscious desires we understand the mechanisms of turning points and the rush of insight we understand set ups and pay offs i mean the world has achieved much more support. rich technical understanding of story but the essence of it has not deepened sincerest he understood it in its essence as well as you know as well or better than anyone since and so there's more technical understanding but it doesn't mean that we've actually got a depth of understanding. how you think i suspect that people are discussing new movies today he says seriously because movies are really cinema is really replacing literature i mean in the culture is it true or more than that i mean there was a time when the society had for great wisdoms there was a time when we used to

here with the concurrence of the officer is i understand it. the commissioner can order further training but the chief could also order further training. >> given the fact we sustained five of the allegations it should be written in the training aspect. we do that with officers anyway. i do not see why we would not. commissioner kingsley: is there a motion? i move that we suspend assistant patrol special officer ernest tachihara for 30 days, 10 days to be served immediately and then the remainder starting on, what day? >> the 11th which will be next week. >> in that instance, to wait and have the entire 30 days start on january 11. >> that is 30 days total. >commissioner kingsley: yes, sir. >> does that include sundays? >> 30 working days. commissioner kingsley: a thirty day period. whenever days you would work during that time. is there an issue around that from a legal standpoint? >> working days and calendar days are completely different things in this context. the commission needs to specify which it means. if you are doing working days, th

greene, who understands the behavioral health issues and understands addictions. so it becomes just one of the many physical health issues that we look at. and within the context of samhsa and the strategic initiatives, where is that going to take us to further the science? well, samhsa has eight strategic initiatives. we are focusing on everything from prevention right straight through to several different populations. we are looking at trauma and justice issues. we are looking at the military, because the military right now and the military families are really using the services that we have and are showing signs of both mental illness issues around depression and anxiety and suicide as well as addiction. and we know a little bit more about addiction, but we are really learning now some of the other areas of mental health. we're also focusing in on health electronics, technology so that we can start to speak to each other across all systems. so the doctors, physical doctors can talk to your psychiatrist. and we can ... and therapists can talk to other therapists

it is the case that sba works with these organizations to try to help small businesses understand how to 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

is that the understanding you have? >> yes, mr. president. it is our understanding. as has been explained on the record when a further development proposals are presented, further environmental review will be required. president chiu: i have a question around the turn cernan's concerning bed j -- concerns concerning the jumbo tron. i suspect that a number of our colleagues have similar concerns. based on that testimony and the issues, i was wondering if you or the authority would consider not pursuing the jumbotron on the water. if, instead, it he would consider looking at land-based alternatives. >> thank you for that question. we have listened to the testimony today. i would agree with the planning staff that the p i r -- eir is complete on this issue. the authority is prepared to commit to amend all of its plants and applications with all regulatory authorities to eliminate the jumbo tron in the water. instead we will explore, as suggested by some of the speakers, a land-based jumbo strong -- tron. we will review any of the agencies that currently have it in there

i understand that argument. but the argument that it's ok for certain people's ballots to get tossed in the garbage can because of ranked-choice voting to me doesn't hold water. there are groups and civil rights advocates that have fought for decades and so hard in this country for the right to vote and we are telling a number of those minority communities here in san francisco that it's ok that their ballots get tossed in the garbage can. for me, proponents of ranked-choice voting do not have a monopoly on the word democracy. to me, ranked-choice voting is the epitome of a system that is anti-democratic because it's ok that a lot of people have their votes tossed away. to me, that is unacceptable. so i know the debate will continue, but i wanted to make sure i articulated by comments and the real reason behind what i am doing. i am putting forth amendments today, and to let the public know the three things they encompass. first of all, it is to move to a september 1 ballot and a november runoff. i agree, we've

but i understand these savings have to be made. but i am more worried about the perception in the world of what the united states is doing. secretary of defense panetta mentioned iraq. in all due respect, iraq is unraveling. it's unraveling because we didn't keep residual force there because the president of the united states pledged to get out of iraq. we could have kept a residual force there and kept some stability. instead, it's unraveling and iran's influence is increasing. there's every possibility you could see a very chaotic situation in there. >> schieffer: do you think there's a civil war coming there? >> i think there's clearly an unraveling going on, which could eventually lead basically into three different kinds of states in iraq. we needed to keep a residual force there. that was what the bush administration envisioned. and that is what we should have done. we never gave them a number until, in the words of general dempsey, the numbers cascaded down to 3,500. the iraqis were ready to deal on the issue. this administr

i understand all that. i understand the processes that the transition required to implement. but when the appellant brought this issue up to your department, at that point in time, a glitch had happened of some type. >> that is correct. commissioner fung: and i'm just wondering what did the department then do to try to resolve the situation? >> the challenge is such that once we knew about it, had there not been another application for this specific site, the department would have had a finding that, you know what, this was an error, that as part of the correction, we would have issued a permit if this specific case to the appellant specifically in order for him to retain his rights under the peddler's permit. however, in this case, legally the permit expired and we have a new application and we have to try to figure out in terms of being fair who would need to take precedence. commissioner fung: ok. all right. commissioner goh: i have a question that brought to mind, ok, if mr. castillo is applying for a permit for the same location, is there any weight given to -- i don't k

the time to understand it fully? once we start doing that we have a chance, a presentation of understanding what our future is. it is fashionable among some politicians to tell stupid jokes that i am glad i didn't have a muslim doctor. this is acceptable to play around. and honest debate about sharia law which governor chris christie said -- to paraphrase he basically said crap. don't waste your time worrying that sharia law has a chance anywhere -- in new jersey. not losing sight of the dangers of radical terrorist anti islam, the largest question is let's get to know islam better and then we can understand the politics better and then we can understand these people are our allies as was the case in libya. >> let's bring the discussion, can you talk about patriquin's death and the reaction to it? >> he died in an attack on a convoy in 2006. he was in one of the follow-up cars that al qaeda would frequently try to hit a car. a vehicle in the middle to create confusion. this might have been a pressure place. he was ki

the fact of the matter is, if we do not understand the constitution, if our children do not understand the constitution, and appreciate the separation of powers, and appreciate the different roles that are branches of government are meant to play, how are our elected officials opposed to understand? what has happened today in washington? what is happening to our country? what is happening to a saying that we all have heard? i will ask people to raise their hands. do you remember going to school when we all heard the statement, "i don't agree with what to say, but i will defend to the death your right to say it." to do you remember that? how many of you recall saying that? every single person in this room raised their hand. today, the statement is, "i don't agree with what to say, and if you say it, you are a bum, and you should not say it, and i don't like to." where did we lose our way? what happened to us as a country? we cannot have a civil discord and discussion amongst ourselves and still respect the other point of view. is it 24-hour-day cable? is it a society that says "i won't

and violence is such a part of the way of understanding this. here is a button. this is a button that is a celebration of the life of martin luther king. these buttons were produced right after king was assassinated in april of 1968. and so in some ways this button gives the way people to be able to both symbolize their commitment to racial change, but as a way to remember the martyred life of martin luther king. in many ways the challenge of the 1960's is the transformation of america and what's the vision for that transformation. is it a vision of an integrated world, is it a vision of nonviolent sit-ins or were there

as a result, when we have now is a much more organic understanding and better understanding of dog behaviorand the importance of exercise and socialization for dogs, for them to be better behaved and everything else, so the well exercised a dog is a well behaved dog, and everybody says that, but it is true, and a well socialized dog is a good dog. supervisor cohen: i also hear them saying that about children, if they go to preschool. >> a lot of people like in dogs to about a two-year-old or three-year-old. supervisor cohen: thank you. supervisor mar: often, people are repeating that there are more dogs than children in san francisco and that sometimes they are treated better than children, especially those from lower income neighborhoods. i just wonder if you could talk about how important dogs are to the people that they live with and how you respond to people who are putting that out. >> yes, a lot of families that have children also have dogs, so they are not mutually exclusive. i think the importance of dogs in the community, it is a source of community. people pressmen to san francisc

if we have the time to understand it. as began to form opinions. he has been called not only by you lawrence of arabia of this war how conscious was that and are there similarities to lawrence and faizal the our original in world war i and. it was inescapable. on the one hand it is potentially cheesy, overreaching and i have no desire for a little thomas or for trustees to be misperceived by history, but it is a way of starting to think about it and inescapably because patriquin went to the remote desert in jordan to a spot if you remember lawrence of arabia the opening scenes were shot in the most spectacular interplanetary scenery we've ever seen that is where lawrence actually camped out and fought and it's where travis patriquin journey and in 1999 to sleep under the stars and coming in with the spirit of lawrence of arabia, the greatest night of his life. thus far to the co-stars are shining and patriquin thinks, and i got this from people who were with him on the roof at night and at the spot he was made your 90 years before. this is unbeliev

i did not understand that. i thought it was for anything and everything i do for the rest of my life. having been made clear that, i accept it. there is no unclearness. i understand everything. president mazzucco: you have had a hearing. you have already had a hearing. this is why you were given a call. your due process rights. commissioner kingsley sadr hearing with you. evidence was presented. this entire

i understand. president obama's made only 32 recess appointments, and his recess appointments in large part are because a one political party, the other political party has blocked time after time after time even bringing these to a vote. we weren't saying to my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, vote for rich cordray. we were just saying give him a vote. this is the first time, as i said in this committee and on the floor a number of times, the first time in american history, according to the senate historian, where a political party has blocked a nominee simply because they don't like the agency. so, if their precedents -- if the other side would get their way on this, and that precedent would stand, next time there's a commissioner appointed for the fda are we going to say we're not going to approve him until we weaken food safety laws? is that the way tear going to operate this place? we can't operate this government when one party says we're not going to confirm somebody because we don

i understand that. i just have a general question about one of the points that was made in the letter. is there a difference of opinion that planning has in terms of thf statement that is made in the letter that to the extent that -- that there is uncertainty about the funding for the mitigation and the monitoring and the restoration, that that constitutes potentially a sequa. does planning disagree with that statement? >> i think what's getting jumboed in this discussion about whether we are floating, mitigating whether there's uncertainty, whether things are funded is i say there are three kinds of mitigation. things that you you know will occur. there have been questions raised about deferred mitigation, in terms of that, again, i don't see that being raised so much as a concern. uh-huh, because again, you don't get your permit because if you don't satisfy the people. they have a statutory duty to do that. i think what's being raised and i think being confused is this situation where we have identifi

banks and understands anything about his commitment to children, to education will understand that that commitment is unwavering. reporter: at this point no evidence has been presented that garvin or banks took any of the money thomas is accused of stealing. meantime u.s. attorney ron meacham said in a statement that this will not be tolerated. >> once we get past where we are now, we'll have a lot to say about that. i think it will be very illuminating. >> garvin will be back in court in may for a status hearing. the maximum sentence could be three years in prison and a $250,000 fine. >>> american idol back bigger than ever, one on one live with one of the former contestants. >>> you always had suspicions

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

the question that was to be said, oh, well, you don't understand how capitalism works, you don't understandl street works. you don't understand how we feed the economy with our capital. now you have a situation where it's not the obama administration that's saying, hey, mitt romney destroys companies, it's his brethren in the republican party. >> jon: right. >> and so the question of whether you can question this anymore i think has changed. >> jon: it seems like it's all fair until the system is gamed on you, and then suddenly... that's the problem i have with a lot of political theories. i don't like gay marriage until suddenly you have a gay child. oh, well i guess they are people. just because they have personal experience, yeah, this is unfair, what's going on around here. it brings us to the second point, which is something you wrote about, regulation. to suggest you want regulation suddenly means you want to strangle and choke off capitalism. complex regulation is actually a problem. it needs to be simple. can the governmentñr simply regulate these businesses or are they just outclas

what we, i think, is important though for people to understand thep+@g terms of immigration it one of the issues. obviously that we follow closely because it's of great importance to hispanic community. we do believe that it's important to have comprehensive immigration reform and we have support supported that approach to reforming immigration laws. which means you can't support one aspect of reform. it can't just be about enforcement only. we understand that we have to restore the rule of law, so we do and have supported enforcement and increased enforcement. but we can't do that alone. and i think that's where we separate from a number of other folks want i'm sgrags reform because we understand that you also have to deal with those undocumented immigrants who have been in this country for now a generation. and the status of those families has to be addressed. and what makes things complicated, john, is the fact that, oh, we've got now mixed status families. quouf got folk and those familieses, perhaps a parent is here legally and one of the other spouses -- the spouse is not here l

to understand the decatur issue is to understand that this is not a street, this is a dead- end. problems are quite significant even in other parts of the city such as the specific streets such as the nob hill corridor where there is access to other buildings. there are always people you don't know coming by without them really being part of the own neighborhood and i am very sensitive to that issue. i talked to mr. chief about that at lengthsm would this be possible except from knowing the eighth street quite well. this is a strict street and this is going right as he crossed brian, the intersection is very confusing. you have to know at a time where you are going. people know that they can only trouble in the left lane. from a historic preservation front, we had a relatively narrow bay. clearance is probably less than 20 feet. that is not easy because of making the right ankle turned into a garage. there are opportunities and i would like to see them sketched out and address their complaints. it would have been worth investigating in order to come to some kind of compromise and

and we don't have a profound understanding now. but at least we're begin tolling understand not only aspects of normal consciousns but really subtle defects of consciousness. you can begin to think about them in biological terms. >> richard, this is where we ask toou help us undersnd exacy why faces are uniquend -- >> yeah, the question is what is special about a face. it is a pretty special thing that there are experiments that suggest that a newborn baby at the age of nine minutes will prefer to look at faces when shown pictures of things than other objects. nine minutes after birth. and at a year, will recognize itself in pictures. so it's quite a remarkable thing. i want to talkabout something that masud mentioned. that humans are visual beings. and when we start asking questions such as why, i think we need to go back to basic principleses. and of course for us that's charles darwin. now what darwin said was that we became adapted to our environment in order to feed and pro create. i abbreviate, of course. and the face people

so help people understand the stories that they thought they know in new ways, but to really understand the deep richness and importance of african-american culture. but what makes this important is that we want to use this museum as a lens to explore what it means to be an american. so in essence, this is not simply a museum for african-americans, about african-american history. this is an opportunity to create a national museum that allows us all to understand the role that african-american culture has played in shaping all of our lives. one of the challenges when i came back to do this museum is to recognize that i had to build a collection. that at the smithsonian, you could have wonderful technology, but you've got to have the iconic treasure. you've got to have the greensboro lunch counter or the wright flyer. we're going to go out to our storage area out in maryland to give you a sense of just some of the wondrous collections that we've been able to find. right now we're in the storage units of the national museum of african-american history and culture. in essence, this is the h

and violence is such a part of the way of understanding this. here is a button. this is a button that is a celebration of the life of martin luther king. these buttons were produced right after king was assassinated in april of 1968. and so in some ways this button gives the way people to be able to both symbolize their commitment to racial change, but as a way to remember the martyred life of martin luther king. in many ways the challenge of the 1960's is the transformation of america and what's the vision for that transformation. is it a vision of an integrated world, is it a vision of nonviolent sit-ins or were there alternative visions? one of the most important visions of the 1960s and 70s was the black panthers. the black panthers were a group that began in oakland, california, and they really called themselves the black panther party for self defense. created in response to perceived police violence and intimidation, and one of the things that's wonderful is that this poster became an iconic poster that was in the rooms of you know, myriads of high school

my understanding is that as important as the issue is, as i understand it, the issue of the possible devaluation of the property is not relevant to the underlying discussion. i wanted to make sure that we are clear on that. that is an important issue. i wanted to make sure that we were focused on what was before the board. >> supervisor campos, the board may not base its decision to deny a conditional use if the grounds are the environmental effects of radio frequency emissions. that is what you are not allowed to consider in making your decision. it is pre-empted by federal law. >> that may not be a proper basis for a denial? thank you. >> this is a clarification to my colleagues and members of the public that may not be fully versed on laws that govern on this particular issue. it is a very complicated and challenging issue, one bank that we have been supportive in dealing with i do not know how many times in the next three months. >> why do we not hear from our next number of the public? >> thank you. my name is ian wang. i am within 300 yards of the proposed site. i am here to su