to log in to facebook or check your bank account or whatever pay your cable bill you'll have one unique credential that all websites will recognize you by it. the white house said a consumer can use their single credential to log on to any website with more security than passwords alone provide it can provide it's a completely voluntary program but the white house is urging consumers and businesses to sign up for it calling it an innovation for online privacy so that's really the next step in keeping our online personas secure or is it the next step in losing our online security david seltzer is an attorney specializing in cyber issues and joins me now from our studios in florida david in miami david welcome to the program hi tom how are you this evening i'm great thank you so much for being with us first of all just real simple is this proposal by the white house a good idea or a bad idea. on it's face to me it's a bad idea but it depends how you look at it if you want to simplify your life it's a great idea but if you want to have huge exposure identity theft it's a horrible idea thin

new online policy that could change the way we all surf the internet the new policy is an online id unique to each user which would replace everyone's passwords is that having a different password to log in to facebook or check your background or whatever pay your paypal bill will have one unique credential that websites will recognize you boy. as the white house said a consumer can use their single credential to log on to any website with more security than passwords alone provide it can provide it's a completely voluntary program but the white house is urging consumers and businesses to sign up for it calling it an innovation for online privacy so this is really the next step in keeping our online personas secure or is that the next step and losing our online security david seltzer is an attorney specializing in cyber issues he joins me now from our studios in florida david in miami walking to the program hi tom how are you this evening don great thank you so much for being with us first of all just real simple is this proposal by the white house a good idea or a bad idea. on it's face t

we are keenly sensitive to that, and i think this one was unique. it is my understanding, cvs did do some outreach to the community and the community is not opposed. for these reasons, i think we are on track to proceed very cautiously. supervisor avalos: ok. and my comment about willy-nilly was not about your work. i know we are going to see more and more of the pharmacies coming forward, and walgreen's and cvs as they want to increase business in san francisco, will probably come forward. >> there's no question that every segment of our industry is looking for potential revenue streams. i can tell you that absolutely, we will be seeing cbs -- cvs tried to emulate walgreen's, not only with the number of locations in the city, but hoping to get licenses. we are seeing it every day where people are looking for innovative things, places that once used to shut down at the end of normal business hours are now operating later, trying to get one-day licenses to bring in a possible revenue streams. there is a lot of creativity out there, and that does come

supervisor campos: i have always felt that san francisco is unique. i have always loved this city. i think that san francisco is -- it represents the best of what this country has to offer. it is a place that welcomes people from all over the world, from all over the country, and is a place that not only tolerates, but actually increases diversity. it is a place that is forward thinking in terms of how it looks at issues, and it has always felt like home. as a gay latino man, i felt this was a place where i could be happy. >> why did you get involved? supervisor campos: i think a lot of the past to do with my being an immigrant. i am very grateful for all the opportunities this country has given me. only in this country could someone like me have an opportunity to go from having nothing to go to stanford, harvard law school, and to be an attorney. it really is a way of giving back. i really believe that when you are blessed with the opportunities that this country gives you, that you have an obligation to give back. i really believe in public service. i could be in the private sect

it also has unique origins, linking it to a box of cough syrup. author randy howe has this week's dose of flag history. >> washington state is unique for two reasons, it's the only green flag of the 50 states, and it is also the only flag to include the image of a person on it, and obviously that person is george washington. and it's from the portrait that was painted by gilbert stuart. he was an artist from rhode island, and it's the most famous portrait of george washington. but there were brothers who were put in charge of creating the image for the flag, and they went about designing it, coming up with all the different lettering, and they had it perfect -- except for the image they had of george washington came from a box of cough syrup. and it just wouldn't do. and in the 11th hour, they found gilbert stuart's portrait of george washington, put it on the flag, and it was accepted by the legislators in washington, and we still have the flag today. >> with flag facts, i'm kristen. color day after day? not me. new revlon top speed™ nail enamel.

my firm provides a unique servants. i do construction -- unique service. i do construction administration. and i also provide construction highway equipment rental. these are tough times. it has never been more difficult to break into major projects because they want to be performed by primes themselves. as i mentioned earlier, they may fall short because the crimes are not as willing to allow ubde to participate, but you need teams like this group working out on doyle drive, because they do a fantastic job providing out -- and opportunities throughout the city. -- out reach and opportunities throughout the city. they are professional and unrelenting in helping people such as myself break into the field. i am asking you to please extend their contracts. they go over and above to make he talked and make these prime contractors understand. -- they go over and above to talk to us and make these prime contractors understand. please, renew their contracts. [tone] supervisor mar: thank you. next speaker? >> supervisors, my name is francisco dicostra. we have som

>> is not unique to america. countries and governments in which prescription drugs and pills are more widely available are also experiencing similar problems. i do not think anyone is experiencing it to the degree the united states is. we are also the only nation in the world that has direct to consumer marketing of pills. >> are there lessons that we can apply here the jesse elsewhere? >> i think we are working with prevention programs that could keep young people away from drugs, regardless of whether it is a prescription drugs -- they all have efficacy. >> the larger conundrum has been how to curb the appetite coupled with how do you stop the flow of drugs. how do you combine that with the enforcement efforts where one of the largest criticisms has been on enforcement only, forget the consumption. you have said consumption is the problem we should be tackling in greater degree. how do we do that? >> the first interview i did, i tried to end the rhetoric about the war on drugs. it does not make sense. it is a p

i am not smarter than anyone else but it happened in a unique way. starbucks quintessentially was built by the experience in our stores and that experience comes to life from our people. we are not a franchise system. we are company-owned. the culture and guiding principles of the company have been and continue to be the significant competitive advantage that we have. that is why it was so important to go back to the heritage and tradition of starbucks in which the person who in wears the green aprons is the most important. of all the attributes that have built great enduring brands over time the most important attribute and it sounds trite is trust. we can't exceed the expectations of our customers if we as a company don't exceed expectations of our people. i think we had to go back to reminding people is not about growth next door. it is about you. for us to have transformed the company financially and leave our people behind would have been a tragic and very shallow results. the transformation of starbucks, why it is so gratifying and the reason w

it is not unique to the me system. that is how it is done in the transit industry across the country. -- it is not unique to the muni system. rail cars are expensive. we are looking at increasing the fleets. in the meantime, we're doing this rehabilitation. the fleet increases another 25 cars over the next 10 years. at the same time, we will be looking at a new design of car in terms of weeks as well as dealing with low floor vehicles versus the stairs in the vehicles we have now. thank you. [applause] supervisor wiener: thank you. the next question will be for bill ginsberg. the ggrna proposal will concentrate dogs in smaller areas which will lead to inevitable problems. how will the city deal with this? i have been working with bill on this issue. >> i was expecting to be challenged by a love questions tonight, but the dog question might be the most challenging of all. i think we are all falling -- following the public discussion facing the golden gate national recreational area draft eir that will restrict off-leash

what do they think about this unique, only in san francisco scenario. many have told us patrol specials do great things. and they do. there are some people they really love having around. and some patrol special officers are credible. when i was a young man, they did great police work and helped a lot of people out. jane warner was an incredible woman. in her honor is one of the reasons we asked for this. our goal tonight is to get a response to the pssg report, which i will read their recommendations. tonight is our turn to hear from the community. during the process we asked they change their uniform to a certain extent. so that they can be distinguished from the san francisco police department. compliance has been shoty at best. our concern is compliance. quite frankly i have to tell you i have seen a patrol special officer not once but twice in the wrong uniform. not a good thing for a police commissioner to see when this is being debated. i think i want to send out a theme. the theme is compliance. we haven't had compliance throughout the years. we

. >> 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

so there is a unique role beyond is this competitive or not what the fcc. and another thing is that many of these mergers involve crucial avenues for speech. and speech has a special place in our society and is worth taking a moment to do a special review of some sort of merger that will significant impact how freely speech can flow. but that being said, the current merger process is not free of flaws or problems. one of the problems is the reliance on, the voluntary agreements, they hang a number of conditions for the condition of the merger. at some point there needs to be a recognition that some mergers cannot be solved with conditions. there are no number of conditions that can make a merger in the public interest. it will get to the point where we pages and pages of conditions, especially those conditions by and large expire after a couple of years, it may be time to look at the underlying merger and say this merger is not in the public interest. and as a corollary to that, sometimes merger conditions are used to impose policy that is not specific to t

guest: pill mills are unique.hey have been like a prescription drug problem, somewhat under the radar screen. the broward county area of florida has been the focus but we have seen these pill mills and these are places where doctors write an inordinate amount of prescriptions. i met with women who were in custody in kentucky for prescription drug problems, they often talked about going to these pill mills. they are very difficult cases. they are very labor intensive. these are physicians. if you go in with a broken arm, it is clear with the diagnosis is. if you say you are in pain, is much more vague. these are tough cases to make. i applied the dea and the local agencies particularly b theroward county sheriff's office. >> going back to kentucky and some of their efforts, they have long been dealing with this issue for well over a decade. one of the programs that congressman rogers has in place this operation unite which works to educate the public and the work on law enforcement. to what extent is the administra

each phone has a unique identifier. so that that particular phone is unique in the world. so, you can tie a unique identifier to the location. so you know precisely where a precise phone has been. in many cases you're using services where they know things about you. like, you might have a facebook app on your phone. well, facebook knows who you are, where you live, knows your phone number. that type of information can all be tied together. >> belva: personal computer technology columnist here, you probably knew that's what he was going to say. it's time for this interesting conversation. to move on, but it is interesting. we'd like to have you back again to find out more of what we don't know. >> oh, dear. >> belva: well the rotc, reserve officer training corp, was banned from stanford university campus during the vietnam war but there is a controversial move to bring that program back as "newshour" correspondent spencer michels. >> reporter: if student at stanford want to join the rotc, they have to travel 16 miles to attend class at santa clara university. >> carry on. c

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

and as a result of that we put in two unique benefits 25 years ago. one was comprehensive health insurance for every employee -- >> right. >> -- the other was equity in the form of stock options, and we did that even for part-time people. but in addition to that there was a fanatical view towards exceeding expectations around the customer experience. and i would say that, you know, for 20 years or so that was the foundation of the company. when the company got to thousands of stores and hundreds of thousands of employees and a pe and a stock price that was very high, what happened was -- and i don't think starbucks is, is much different than, perhaps, other public companies -- is that the pe and the stock price began to, in a sense, intersect into the strategy of the company. and i think what happened was that there wasn't anyone who said we're going to do this, but what happened was we became complicit with wall street. >> you say in here or that it wasn't one cataclysmic event -- >> no. >> it was a whole combination of different things. but let's go

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

my firm provides a unique servants. i do construction -- unique service. i do construction administration. and i also provide construction highway equipment rental. these are tough times. it has never been more difficult to break into major projects because they want to be performed by primes themselves. as i mentioned earlier, they may fall short because the crimes are not as willing to allow ubde

we all have unique stories that make up our lives. the idea is for each one of us to add value to other people's lives, helping them make their story just a little bit better. we have all had experiences where we have been elevated, our lives have been approved because of the challenge and fashion from the remarkable action of people like carlos. with that spirit and a tremendous amount of pride, i come here tonight to recognize one of our own. to recognize someone who has been recognized so many times, appropriately so. someone who is not just a talent on the surface, but has an extraordinary heart and soul, someone who at the end of the day is someone that you want to cheer for, so when you want to support. -- someone you want to support. with that, i will conclude by all of you to appropriately put your hands together and to, with great intensity and purposefulness, allow me as i asked carlos to come to the stage, to introduce the awardee of the 2010 bears are award to our very own carlos santana. [applause] carlos, come on up. [ap

it is a unique space. there is a sense of history and heritage we have there. as a san franciscan, i ask for your support. please help us save the eagle. thank you. >> i am edmund larry. i would like to show you this. i will read to you. this weekend, we had the national trends gender conference. it was great. just to show you a few of the faces out here -- aren't they beautiful? these are called the angels of change. they are fighting against prejudice. it is great that i am here today. the eagle is a great place i could go with my pink wig on or what ever. you of not been seeing me is because i have been doing my karaoke at the cat club. but i wore a pink wig and they told me i could not come back. you know what? it is wrong i had come there for a whole year. we need places like the eagle, who raise money for breast cancer. they do a lot. a lot of people think i am janet jackson. you thought i was janet jackson. she is coming here on the 19th and the 22nd. supervisor chiu, your rhythm and blues. supervisor kim, we want you to give genentech's and a proclamati

cable cars were invent in san francisco to solve the problem with it's unique, vertically challenged terrain. 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. we use a modern machinery. we haven't changed a thing. it's just how we get there. >> it's a time consuming job. we go for the quality rather than the production. we take pride in our work and it shows in the end product. >> the california line is mostly locals. the commuters in the morning, i see a lot of the same people. we don't have as tourists. we are coming up to street to chinatown. since 1957, we are the only city in the world that runs cable cars. these cars right here are part of national parks system. in the early 1960's, they became the first roles monument. the way city spread changed with the invention of the cable car. >> people know in san francisco, first thing they think about is, le

it is unique. it has been used as a good example for the last few years in various other jurisdictions. if we'd looked at your commercial base rate, you appear to be high. but your rate structure is set up so that commercial accounts get a discount the more capacity they provide for diversion. it appears a 50% capacity is about average. when we look at 50% of the rates, you are right in there, a little below the average. you can get up to -- supervisor campos: a question about that. how does the discount kick in? is there an agreement with merck is that local law? how does that work? >> as a businessman, you go in and determine what size or capacity you want for waste and recycling. the calculator discounts of the price. that is an agreement that the city and recology worked out. both worked out the tables used by the calculator. supervisor campos: is it possible one party could unilaterally change the agreement? >> i cannot answer. i do not know. supervisor campos: ok. >> that is the portion of th

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

again, san francisco is unique in its ability to use isd funding. for treasure island, there are two areas where we do not change in two areas where the project does essentially change. there is no change to the physical project. the project would talk about, the 8000 units, parks and open space remain the same period the eir we're doing will remain the same. the transaction structure also unchanged. tida remains -- it does not remain a redevelopment agency. it becomes a non-profit public benefit corporation that was created before it was given the powers. it would still enter into the the development agreement with the developer, much the way it did under development. the two major changes, because this is a city project and not a development project -- the land use authority will be housed trough -- house within the planning department. projects like mission bay, the authority for land use decisions is made by the redevelopment agency. city projects, obviously, the decisions are made by planning, which would then become a city project, planning wo

we are a unique city. this is a unique area. if you come out and see this area, you will see what i am talking about. i love my home. i grew up there since i was 11 or 12. i am a san francisco resident, native. this means a lot to me. i do not want to see parkmerced become like the fillmore. it will. many of my fellow natives in the city had to move to other cities. i talked to them all the time about how they cannot afford to be in this city. the reason i am able to stay in the city is because i have a place that is affordable for me. i would not leave parkmerced even if i made a lot more money. it means a lot to me. i continue to want to live there, no matter how much money i make. i am not living there because of the money. but that is a real relevant issue in san francisco. we are pushing out a lot more people every year who cannot live in the city they grew up in. i would like to see this project not take place. there are numerous reasons why people talk about the eir. i was there in '89 and i saw how it was. >> good aftern