we're talking about unique legislation and a unique set of factors that causes our office to consider this legislation. part of it is keeping twitter here, but part of the motivation for that is it is about job growth and creating jobs in the city, not just 350 employees of twitter that get to stay in san francisco, but potentially 3000 jobs if they stay in san francisco. that is one of the reasons why we consider this. i also want to follow up, because i know there have been concerns from the community and members of the public year-to- date would want addressed. i want to thank the folks from south of market and the tenderloin for continually giving input to the supervisors on this legislation. our office agrees about strengthening the community benefits with the twitter and that's something we are continuing to negotiate. we have taken many of the feedback given to us and we're working to strengthen at and working with the full board if that strengthening does not happen. what we are looking at in terms of what twitter could address in the neighborhood, it would be something twitte

she is such a unique candidate. that is why your soul -- hearing so many different things about the hat she wears. you are also hearing about peter cohen. you are hearing that we lost a valuable vision when renae passed away. i have spoken to peter. i think that he has that touch. we are very much in need of having bat. it is an incredible sleep with those. the committee has been pro -- opposed by the republican congress to cut 100% of the funding that brian chiu is advocating to stop that. we could use these candidates as soon as possible. thanks. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is winston. i am part of a community-based organization in district 10. there are no words or adjectives left to describe utuma belfrey. i feel like i should have gone up here first. she is a dynamic person. she is passionate and committed to the work. she has helped me out. she was a member of the church where i served as a pastor. utuma is very dedicated to helping people, not only bayview and hunters point. her skil

they are unique and distinct and have their own characteristics.t's what we love. >> i think the most characteristic in district 7 you have residents that have been here forever. you have generations. i am fourth generation san franciscoian. you have a lot of people that live in san francisco that live in the sunny side and lived out here for years. as a result you have a real concern and care for just basic quality of life and community issues. i think that's our unique characteristic. >> strict 7 has reputation of being the conservative district. let's hear from the locals. >> i would say it looks to city government to provide more basic city services. it's a focus on the basics. and if that's more conservative, so be it. >> frequent midwest, anybodying that sfanz is to the left of anything in the country. it's relative. i think because there is is an older population out here in the past, it's been slightly more conservative. in general homeowners tend to be more conservative. because i think their properties taxes are being used for the bond is

. >> he was unique. he was unique in this important way -- he did a column, had an opinion column on the op-ed pages of "the washington post," and did straight news reporting. no one questioned his integrity, fairness and balance when he came to report a story about them. they questioned david's judgment and they knew he would treat them fairly in his reporting. he would call it as he saw it but he would listen to them get their view and put it together. in that way, he was unique. i think he had another thing unique and you touched on it, he loved the game of politics but he did not think of it as a game. he always wanted to bring something more serious to it, something more elevated to it. political reporting today is so much more about inside stuff and minutia and david loved all of that but he didn't get trapped in it and he didn't think that was the highest form of political journalism. gwen: i think we can all tell our stories, in fact i'm going to ask you to when you first met david. because when

and it reminds them of somalia or iraq, i think that is dangerous because i think there are very unique elements to each conflict, and if you do not focus on the distinctions, you start to create a broader, watered-down topic, which is armed conflict, so i think it is important that when we focus on conflict, we make sure we do not just generalize, but we allow specific places and voices and people to be heard and we do not make these generalized assumptions about what conflict is like. >> the other photographers in the show, what is local, and the others are from new york and new delhi. what do you like about some of their work? >> in a big fan of the fact that he approaches photography from a non-traditional point of view. he also cunner has a mixed view of cameras themselves. he calls them toys. >> he uses these cameras that one might assume our toys, but he also says all the toy cameras are cameras, so it does not really matter to him what he is using to take the images as long as he is getting the images he wants. and because they are taken with these film cameras, they have a very

[applause] [applause] [applause] >> [inaudible] [applause] this is really a unique performance. before we end tonight's program, i want to, on behalf of the city, thank at&t again for your generous sponsorship, making the celebration happening. we would liked everyone to join us for the reception. we want to thank owner of moonstar. we want to thank you for your contribution. [speaking foreign language] >> thank you. >> i have been a cable car grip for 21 years. i am a third generation. my grand farther and my dad worked over in green division for 27. i guess you could say it's blood. >> come on in. have a seat. hold on. i like it because i am standing up. i am outside without a roof over my head and i see all kinds of people. >> you catch up to people you know from the past. you know. went to school with. people that you work with at other jobs. military or something. kind of weird. it's a small word, you be. like i said, what do people do when they come to san francisco? they ride a cable car. >> california line starts in the financial district. people are coming down knobbhil

the high speed rail authority is one of the most uniquely powerful boards. senator steinberg, the pro tem, has sb 439. notably, senator lowenthal is carrying sb 517, found on page 14. it requires authority board members to be subject to senate approval. it also places the high-speed rail authority under the cabinet position of transportation. last, i want to highlight a couple of bills i think will be emerged as something you will want to recommend supporting in the future as these become more refined. sb 733 and 735 -- dated two different things. they are on page 50 and 60. they require on the one hand that small business element be included in the high-speed rail authority business plan. secondarily, sb 735 requires a local work force initiatives and would establish a preference in contracts of 2.5%. those would be the bills i would like to highlight right now. the one we are calling for action on is ab 650, which is the blue-ribbon task force. i would be glad to answer questions. i think i understand most of the bills right now. bigger picture, are we goi

. >> do you see as the development tool of choice or was this a unique deal done in unique circumstances? >> i think it began as a unique one because we have been struggling with how to activate the mid market with many years. many of you know this is the closest thing to skid row that we have. the struggles with middle-market and talking with supervisor kim and david chu, we felt that was the appropriate tool because we had tried everything else in that district. this is a tool that we believe will be successful. twitter management, even though -- when we compromise on the six months of exemption, that was the right thing to do for the corridor. we have invited them and we know there will be other businesses because when you walk into their offices and you know how it operates and the engineers informed us of this, that operate in clusters. you hardly ever see an employee working alone. the applications companies are there with them. even in their current site they have a whole floor of other companies that are working with them as well. we think this will be the way to do middle-market

rer running response to -- that is very unique to our school. that's why we chose to do it. we heard from the learning specialist. i said this at the criminal lunchtime meeting that i just wanted to share that with anyone who did -- >> i want to be clear too. i haven't had any complaints and a lot of our happy parents came up both at the curriculum meeting and here. in having this discussion i certainly don't want to leave you with the impression that i think you're doing something wrong at c.a.t. i'm just saying there is a larger issue here as far as compliance and oversight. unfortunately your renewal kind of brought it to a head. >> ki just follow on the comment that you -- can i just follow on the comment that you made? it doesn't provide that specific kind of service that you're talking about that you get from el dorado? >> i think it is just different. yes, it didn't that specific kind of service. we have more choices in the way that we run the special education program at our school through the -- so it really matches the learning that we do at our school. >> other qu

cable cars were invent in san francisco to solve the problem with it's unique, vertically challengederrain. we are still using cars a century old >> the old cable car is the most unique thing, it's still going. it was a good design by then and is still now. if we don't do something now. it's going to be worse later. >> the cable cars are built the same as they were in the late 1800's.

but it is unique. it cannot be. it is a totally different place. part of what we bring to the table is financial strength. financial strength not just in our capital partner, cherokee, who manages $2 billion, and has millions available for these types of projects today, but about the financial strength of our team. i worked for 13 years in the investment and lending sector. i understand what it takes to bring capital to a project, how investors think. with that knowledge, we can figure out what are the areas we need to remove to help make the products succeed. we also have the experience of having done $270 million worth of public financing to help facilitate infrastructure, parks, and open space, and it is that understanding of the public market that will be critical to making pier 70 work. and finally, we have experience in soliciting state and federal funding. at the end of the day, to survive these economic cycles, you have to be able to tap into all sources. that is something we have done at mission bay. we get this is a long-term partnership.

quite a unique meal truthfully, a deliciously unique meal. >> after the food tasting and note taking,my blog is called fishmanfoodie.com. it basically has reviews from all over the city, all over the world, all over the country. >> well, i think david gets a perfect score for being a great dining partner! for "teen kids news," i'm hannah. >> that wraps up our show, but we'll be back soon with more "teen kids news." >> thanks for joining us, and have a great week! ♪ . >>> write to us at info@teenkidsnews.com. >> on behalf of everyone here at "teen kids news" we want to express our appreciation to all of our military overseas.

the situation is unique in our project area. mission bay has a master of tax increment -- master development agreement signed by the city and county of san francisco, the redevelopment agency, and the developer. it was signed in 1998, which mandates that all the increment would flow directly to the developer and that the city would issue bonds. i understand that the general fund does not include or anticipate any increment into their general fund numbers as well. so this is a unique agreement, and i think that is why we have been able to accelerate the growth of mission bay north and south and see such an amazing development in the area. in addition, as a result of the increased tax increment, we are looking at about $70 million bond. this is for reimbursement to the developers, pass infrastructure improvements they have made. we have worked with them in prior years to set forth some infrastructure improvements, all the underground for the water facilities, just everything under ground that was required to build vertical, and th

just being around the tremendous unique neighborhood, and discovering san francisco in the 1980's as i grew up, but i also have been very active as a community organizer. i worked in chinatown, and some first jobs also at the mental health center in the richmond area multi services in the 1980's, and i was also a staff are at the chinatown youth center -- i was also a staffer. a lot of my work has been supporting community empowerment, especially in an immigrant and people of color communities. most recently, i have been teaching at san francisco state. i ran the immigrant rights coalition in the city in the 1990's for several years. i'm also an immigration attorney, and a lot of my passion is supporting in power met for immigrant communities in the city as well. >> why did you choose to live in san francisco? supervisor mar: a lot of people bring this up, but is one of the most exciting, culturally diverse places in the world. learning about new cultures and people from different parts of the world, like a gateway neighborhood. not just for the new chinatown, as it was called in the

to me, it has been a unique experience. i have not heard a lot of talking in the background and the exile -- anxiety. they are business as usual. the board is meeting as needed and taking full responsibility for their government's responsibility. accountability and verification of information. they are authorizing a, preauthorize and all expenditures. they put on a hiring freeze. we have worked together, the board, the staff, the consultants to bring in a turnaround team and implement a turnaround plan note -- plan, which understand you have a copy of. -- which i understand you have a copy of. we fully intend to comply with those requirements. the clinic's turnaround plan has begun. the first step was hiring an executive director with experience, and the board has done this. the board has also entered into a contract with a firm to provide consulting and accounting staff. i now take great pleasure in introducing you to the new executive director of lyon- martin health center. supervisor mirkarimi: welcome. >> this is litera

necessarily think any one of these have a great deal of traction, because one of the really most unique things is they are really cute gimmick -- really organic and leaderless. no one could claim credit for the egyptian revolution because there was no one in exile but suddenly flew in. it was ordinary people that took to the street. that is a good thing in bad thing. it presented an opportunity of a new generation of egyptian leaders to emerge. this grouping of real -- revolutionary groups that are between 12 and 13 groups, are not traditional political players. that excludes the west party. none of these parties are part of the score revolutionary group. many of them support the ideology, but they're not a part of it. i think what we are with some witnessing is ideologically of a new group. if the ndp is banded there will be a great opportunity for these groups to emerge. these people with their institutional knowledge may not suddenly find themselves involved in helping these group if they stay and allow, it is a recipe for a problematic election because the strong this parties will b