because -- if you have to hoist these, unitized wall or window systems, on other parts of the building -- >> yep. >> not just the one where those particular trees are, wouldn't you have a staging area in front of those other -- >> yes. that's correct. >> ok. >> so there are seven trees that are creating this conflict on folsom. one tree on fifth street. the only other frontage where this is an issue is along clemontina street. and the trees that were there were approved for removal. the fourth frontage, there's a park that we're building. so we can stage there directly and go up. >> ok. so five on the side, one on the -- and i don't know. >> on fifth street. >> where's that tree? is that going to be removed also? >> that tree has been -- yeah, it's requested to be removed for the same issue. >> and been approved for removal? >> no. that's the subject of this appeal. those eight trees. >> the one on the right. on the fifth street. i see. thank you. for clarifying. can you also help me understand better the pedestrian causeway that interferes with an alternate possibility? you mentioned

boston built the first modern sewer system in the united states. ours was completed between 1877 and 1884. with this wonderful new sewer system, we were taking our filth and moving it out to the ocean. of course, all of this was untreated. in the 1960s, we were still pumping all of our sewage out to moon island, untreated. we would get swimmers here, never knowing, in the middle of summer, why you would have a cold. well, we were swimming in diluted sewage. melosi: the major way to deal with pollution, at least until early into the 20th century, was through the process of dilution. the assumption was that the capacity of rivers and streams, and even the seas, allowed for certain levels of pollution that eventually would purify themself. as we get later into the 20th century, it becomes clear that the volumes of waste made dilution unworkable as a single solution. and so treatment became the ways in which we deal with pollution. narrator: to protect public health, starting in the 1950s and '60s, there was a push to put in wastewater treatment plants

financial system, and we've seen last fall the global financial system under both pressure from europe and from the housing markets in the united states move towards systemic crisis again. and interests, i'm afraid, the very real possibility of systemic crisis in the second half of this year as bad policy choices in europe and unresolved issues in the united states, combine with slowing growth in asia, pressure that financial system again. now, as in the 1930s, we are living through an economic crisis created, prolonged and intensified by bad policy choices made in the interest of the 1% or perhaps the 1/10 of 1% or the 1/100 of 1%. now you probably know all about the first generation of bad policy choices. the first generation brought us to the crisis of 2008. financial and labor market deregulation. trade policies and global financial policies that encouraged deep imbalances between different parts of the world and the way they traded with each other. wage suppression, wage suppression means government policies designed to keep workers' wages down. but now we're into the second generation of bad policy choices. austerity. thi

systems of care. we help families advocate and navigate the victim of crime unit, navigate the system with sfpd when property, clothes, things of that nature are confiscated, we work with families to kind of work those systems and help them with the immediate aftermath of violence. the c.r.n.'s role following a homicide or violent incident is to support both hospital and crime scenes by working with the community, san francisco general hospital, sfpd and to provide answers and information to the family and community. we provide crowd control at the hospital. we help the families connect with the mortuaryy and burial service. the first responders are the ones doing the family and funeral arrangements. we have a close connection with the actual family and that request our services, we also assist in those type of services. often we are taking the families to pick out the caskets and the suit and make sure they're paid for as well. we have family support and we expedite services through the victim service unit. we coordinate healing activities such as candlelight vigils, hearing circles and organized peace rall

this was already presenting a lot of reasons for us to worry that the united nations system has been captured by corporations who are driving policy from the background. this is a very worrisome trend. >> you talk about the scorecard but the u.s. environmental program tracked 90 goals that were developed daughter rio 20 years ago and by other international conferences, and it found significant progress has been made on only four of them, reducing ozone depletion, removing lead from gasoline, improving access to water supplies, and boosting research for marine pollution. four out of 96. that would be a failure on any score card. your assessment on whether or not that will improve at all as a result of this summit? >> i agree with you completely. there has been a total failure by government and policy makers over the decision that were reached in 1992. the pillars of justice have been supplanted by the emphasis on the economy. the green economy is opening up the space for the whole sale of nature. troubling is the concept of payment for environmental services. the whole thing is openin

amend the constitution to overturn the citizens united, reform the system to remove money as completely as possible from the process and elect reformers who will do that in both parties. we are at a crossroads, but it's important to note that this is nothing accidental, coincidental or just happen to happen. it's a decision to suppress the vote, to validate policies that have increased the deficit and increased unemployment in our country and that is exactly what they have in mind. yes, sir? >> that's a pretty tough bond on george w. bush's attorney general, michael mu casy and alberto gonzalez before that. what's the difference between what republicans are doing to eric holder right now and what the democratic majority did to michael mukasey and alberto gonzalez? >> well, i -- in the house, our con term. of congress was addressed to josh bolton. i can't speak to the other cases. they never came to a vote on the senate floor. in the house, however, we did take a vote on the floor and the circumstances are quite different. we were talking about political intervention in the hiring of u.s

i think folks think i wouldn't know the first thing about how to transition from a system that pays me for every unit i produce to a system that is now going to ask me to have accountability for overall spending and quality. so you have to help them. >> mr. chairman, when a witness says that they support the effort along the lines of what senator grassley and i are talking about to expand access to medicare data and they want to promote transition beyond fee for service, i usually think i ought to quit while i'm ahead. so i really -- >> you're doing just great. >> i thank you for the time. >> to follow upon your first point, and you mentioned it, mr. cardoza, that is earlier physician resistance to access to medicare data. i assume some positions are, you know, proud of their building practices, wondering whether their billing practices will be questioned. maybe there is some medical liability issues there. and i'm just wondering if you could help us figure how to bridge that gap. because i do think it makes sense for that data to be available. but we should do it in a way that is sensitive to legiti

one is the transnational system as we know from the united states experience, which lives a strict separation of powers in which the legislative is not checked -- i mean, legislative and executed branches of government do not have powers to dissolve each others. surveyor and perfect situation of checking about teenage others with the independent judiciary checking imbalance thing of the other branches so that the purpose of this government according to the american founding fathers is to protect individual liberty by blocking some kind of pandering in the possibility of tyranny maturity. so when the system, the president is kind of in a weaker position than the prime minister for a president in a parliamentary or semi-parliamentary system. so if we want the presidential system in turkey, then i think we have to debate this very seriously, taking the american model as an ideal type and discuss this with some possible form of not fabulous in av, that some form of regionalism modeled on either the spanish case or the french case for the italian model may be and do something that we might have in

whatever stability there is in the world, whatever there is essentially provided by the united states and it's system of alliances. i'm not of the view that the united states is the world's policemen. i think our role is to protect our interests and those of our friends and allies. we are the only world power and it's a big job. >> john: but why is that good? doesn't our role as the dominant power of the negative impact? if there was chinese security forces outside the studio frisking me, i would be furious. i think other countries get furious when we have troops everywhere? >> i think most other countries understand and appreciate the role that we play. what criticism we get often masks the private position is that they understand that only the united states can play that role. don't get me wrong. i think a lot of other countries are free riding on the united states and a lot of countries, best friends in the nato alliance should do a lot more to help protect them. >> john: they are free loading. they are against the welfare state. it's a welfare world? >> a lot of it is. but a lot of countries are

whatever stability there is in the world, whatever there is essentially provided by the united states and it's systemliances. i'm not of the view that the united states is the world's policemen. i think our role is to protect our interests and those of our friends and allies. we are the only world power and it's a big job. >> john: but why is that good? doesn't our role as the dominant power of the negative impact? if there was chinese security forces outside the studio frisking me, i would be furious. i think other countries get furious when we have troops everywhere? >> i think most other countries understand and appreciate the role that we play. what criticism we get often masks the private position is that they understand that only the united states can play that role. don't get me wrong. i think a lot of other countries are free riding on the united states and a lot of countries, best friends in the nato alliance should do a lot more to help protect them. >> john: they are free loading. they are against the welfare state. it's a welfare world? >> a lot of it is. but a lot of countries are steppi

we have the slowest transit system and the united states at 8 miles per hour. the only way to speed up is with robust rapid transit. we strongly urge for this project's approval, and with the mta and the board of supervisors, thank you for all your work on this. thank you. commissioner campos: thank you. if there is any other member of the public would like to speak, please come forward. >> good morning. i am here to voice my support and hope you guys approve the brt with limited left turns on the van ness ave. this affects the 47 and 49 lines. many people from those neighborhoods rely on those lines every day to get to and from work. often they are delayed because of ridiculous traffic levels on van ness ave. not only that come up with the advent of brt, you will be revitalizing the corridor. if you walk up the corridor, it is lonely out there. it is pretty downtrodden. this really brings new hope and it will breathe new life on to the corridor. and you guys would also be reaffirming transit first, which is part of the city charter. to many times, we have been

amend the constitution to overturn citizens united reformed the system to reform the system as best as possible and elect reformers that will do that on -- from both parties. we are at a crossroads but it is important to know that this is nothing accidental coincidental or happened to happen. the decision to suppress the vote, to validate policies and has increased the deficit and increased employment in our country and that is exactly what they had in mind. >> they're pretty tough on george w. bush's attorneys general. what is the difference between republicans are doing to eric holder and the democratic majority did to michael mukasey and alberto gonzales'? >> in the house, our contempt of congress was addressed to josh bolten and ms. meieirs. those others never came to a vote on the floor. the circumstances are quite different. we were talking about political intervention and the hiring of u.s. attorneys for having them retain their positions, political intervention from the white house and the very rigid in a very political manner. far be it from me to speak about this issue becaus

system of u.s. control would erode so for those reasons which persist the united states has carried out first of all a massive terror campaign that cuba has been the victim of more terror than probably the whole world combined international. and beyond that economic strangulation i would extraordinary sort if you are. that wants to be independent votes an independent state like talk about other forms of independence like that independent state in defiance of nato or if you need china in defiance of china or russia or some of the form of the soviet states. they call it tolerance at a cost in the in the case of cuba perhaps that cost is that you're in a state of war being a state of war you look around the world there are similar problems but not as dire as the one that cuba faces so go a little bit to the south south america and one of the most dramatic and important of developments of the past decade is that south america for the first time since the european conquerors came for the first time in five hundred years has made a very significant move towards independence towards integration there isn't

you have a legacy, and that is, i think, the finest and most unusual public transportation system in the unitedtes of america. let's keep it going, strong, fixed, and funded, for the next 100 years. thank you for letting me be part of it. [applause] thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you very much, senator, for being here. if you and the mayor would come over please, we would like you to unveil the logo here. this is the muni centennial logo, which will brand our yearlong celebration. ready n began. go! [applause] nicely done. good team work. by the way, let's recognize the mta graphic designer who created the logo. [applause] which, of course, features the historic street car number one, the first car to be operated when muni was launched december 20, 1912. recently restored, this hundred- year-old trends or course sits right outside here, and we will be taking rides on that later on. soon to be as famous

the idea he was assassinated without due cause and by the way there's nothing in our legal system here united states which indicted him he was not under indictment so he was essentially assassinated in addition to that there's been a record of an outlook i'm form. member of our military. there's a record of us killing civilians in the process of going after these bad guys so what we're doing and i and others on the on the conservative side of said we have to be very careful of the fact that we're creating the next generation of terrorists so i think in many ways by the fact you kill civilians most of them become enraged by what you've done then they gravitate to these these terrorist organizations were alluding to here and i think that's why we're seeing this we recruit vision of radicalism across the board at this point when we talk about a revision of our radicalism across the border this point also that of breeding a generation all of new terrorist let's talk about right what one big event a month away now of britain's top spy says the olympic games could be a target for attack e.g. think

system mapped out in a computerized or electronic format. and we can locate our pipes, we can locate our valves, we can locate water meters that are out there. we've got small units installed in the distribution system. and they actually listen for leaks. we can schedule the repair, minimize its impacts to the surrounding community, and it minimizes cost, because obviously, if you've got a leak that's been leaking for sometime, you're going to see a lot of undermining of the roadways, potential property damage. fisher: all the sensors in the field come into this location. these two operators behind me operate the entire water system, 24/7. so we can see all of our reservoirs, their elevations, whether they're going up or down, how much water we're getting from our two treatment plants. we try to move it very quickly through the system and serve it to our customers in the most economic and efficient manner. narrator: las vegas serves as an example for cities across the country, whether they have a limited supply or not. and many utilities can identify with the struggles that come with maintaining underground assets to support a growing population. one of the most

we don't have a good healthcare system in the united states. i think we're in a situation where a lot of your help depends on why you leave, how much you earned and what you look like and your current health. i think a lot of families need more peace of mind and deserve secure, affordable, reliable, high quality healthcare. if the court decides to strike down the law, we're going have a major setback building the system that we deserve. >> there are a lot of americans against this, doctor. 28% of americans will be please deemed the affordable care act unconstitutional. the mandate forcing someone to buy health insurances is unconstitutional and what do you say to those critics? >> what i would say, the individual mandate and insurance mandate has taken up a lot of attention in the political arena and what is important are those provisions of the law that provide piece of mind. this law is going to extend insurance to millions of americans unable to afford it through no fault of their own and the law is able to train more primary care doctors in

systemic risk. given what you've studied in europe, given what we're facing here in the united states is systemic risktill on the table or do you think we're somewhat more immune to it as investors try and balance the risk in their portfolio? >> i think europe is the issue here. i don't see anything in the u.s. from a domestic point of view here. even if growth disappoints here that can create that kind of financial shock wave. i think we have an open door here if something really does go wrong in europe. there's no doubt that markets have priced in bad news in europe. but they haven't priced in the potential for what could really happen here if the system begins to fall apart. >> are you surprised they haven't done that, though, given how long this has all dragged out? and now we have spain in the mix in a very meaningful way? the market's supposed to anticipate. but apparently it's not. >> i think what the market is doing is it's putting a weight on an event which would be terrible but still is relatively low probability. i don't think we should underestimate the capacity for europeans to do too lit

governors then appoint the other officials down under them, so basically, we have set up a system that if it was in the united states, the president of the united states would be controlling all the governments all the way down to the local city hall. do you think that system lends itself to corruption? >> i'm smiling, congressman. that's a great question and it's one that actually i think during the constitutional jurga, we in the international community debated almost constantly. what we fell back on to in the end is it was not our decision to make. we did have and there's no question the international community influenced the afghans in the shape and form of their government. answering from a developmental academic perspective, i don't think that a centralized government fosters corruption more than say a decentralized government would. what prevents corruption is robust institutions, and if the afghans had the capacity and the provinces and the districts for robust institutions, there would be more room for decentralization. it's my experience, my personal experience, not the agency's, that in afghanistan

the gold standard was prevailing in the united states by virtue of the coinage act of 1792. in 1792, it was a bi-metallic system, gold and silver, which edward suggested itself had certain flaws which we haven't time to get into. but by 1834, gold was the sole established weight unit of the dollar, and it was defined in law as the currency of the united states. it was constant in its purchasing power and in its definition, but for the interruption of the civil war, until 1934. so the value of a currency defined by statute in gold weight had many examples in this feeble, imperfect laboratory of human history of a very stable purchasing power. what edward i think is getting at is that there were always bankers and politicians who wished to prorobe the monetary system in order to finance political subsidies to privileged classes, including cartalized banking systems or military establishments. for example, it is a fact that the bank of england was established not to be the lender of last resort, despite the comments of chairman bernanke in his lecture in washington, the bank of england was established to finance t