we are very forge to have with -- "fortune" to vo with us some guests who are going to speaking to us about balconies and problems and what maintenance issues you should be paying to. we have dave from lynnagain, associates from what you normally would call a termite inspector. it's actually a structural pest control company. is that right? >> that's right. >> we'll talk more about what license pest control folks do and why it's so important to know them and to know dave. and a structural engineer who looks at lots of decks and balconies and tries to figure out ways to fix and solve problems. and sometimes looks at the reasons that problems occur and called in to do the forensic investigation of that failure as well. and of course, harvey is here with pat. thanks for joining us, harvey. and i'm chief building inspect, lawrence cornfield. we have a bunch of slides we're going to go through today that i hope will give us sort of a basis to ask questions and focus our discussion. most of the decks that we see that we're going to talk about are made of wood. san francisco is a city built

writing about is what it is used for. -- i think that is what it is used for. the question is wis that is adequate. that is what i recommend. >> i would like to ask what is the reason why we are flexing so much less of these funds than other districts, what is the russian now, richard rational -- rationale and what are the tradeoffs? by most of its

they can use in the much more substantive ways than they are using it today so... and i think that over the long run we see them use in the a more sophisticated way. >> brown: you've been watching the white house with the use of social media. what do they say they're trying to get out of an event like this? what do they say this is for? >> they want to reach more people, and as many people as they can particularly ahead and going into the presidential election of 2012. twitter is a really valuable resource for them in that people on twitter... first of all, the platform itself is growing tremendously. 13% of all online users use twitter. and that's up from just six months ago where only 8% of all online users were on twitter. so it's a fast-growing platform and the people who use twitter are very engaged politically and they tend to be demographic that these voters... that the administration would like to get their attention from. >> brown: andrew rasiej, what does it tell us and not tell us about the pulse of america? is it analogous to a poll? are we learning som

who is using those? , many of those businesses would even know if they are not -- how many of those businesses would even know if they are not complying? if we are taking away so much money from businesses based on substantial statistical information, that is a hard thing to justify it. supervisor campos: the interesting thing about this tete-a-tete is that it is coming directly from the businesses. we have 80% of the businesses who are meeting their obligations under help the san francisco not doing it using these accounts. we are talking about only 13% of the businesses using the services we are talking about. >> let me try tore- summarize -- let me try to summarize. the details i gave earlier -- president o'brien: let me stop you. the 90% is not a problem at all, right? and the 3% and 7% -- does the problem manifest through both of those, or just one of them? >> i believe supervisor campos's legislation has not tended to have an impact on the money allocated to healthy san francisco. those who meet th

if they don't acknowledge us. with a beige and see us. event is that they could care less about his family. business and has he didn't see we're poor people that could handle living from trash. go a lot of foreign companies to show myself some people's homes and their trash i mean well good for them. just because it's not getting any easier for us because you know many of us are forced into scavenging in the streets for scraps with only want to go with there's no poor little walk fast life has become inhumane. our own we try to apply all projects of sorest separation. enmity and it seems the residents were recently to have a husband who missed a penalty but nine out of ten residents like the idea and cooperated with us about what a foreign company worker's year makes up the trash in front of the residence a book that people are realizing that the company workers that amateurs they are base work is to remain child project almost the last three months the family of a get paid whether or not their trash is separated out of aba up their own r

i can't use it. what use is it if i have $3,000 why can't i use this money to get my teeth fixed? she said oh, really? do you work? she talked to the dealership and they reimplemented the flex plan in. so i was able to get part of the money to pay for it. meanwhile, this was back in october. she got it reimplemented in november, i believe. so i got the money but still, from october until now, i still have temporary teeth in because i can't afford to get the rest of the work done. tomorrow morning i'm actually going to get the teeth put in. but it just seems to me the way this is set up and i can see it. i used to be a business owner. they put all of these limitations down so that at the end of the year you can get the money back so they don't have to -- and that's why they put all the limitations on it. so i just wanted to come here. i have two other guys at the shop that wanted to come here but they decided not to because they were afraid to come and talk about the situation. i just wanted to come and tell you guys what is really going on out there and the fact that it is not jus

and the purpose of mixed use general is to put together as many compatible uses as possible. there are other parts of suth of market particularly the whole area south of harrison street which accounts for about a third of the entire special use district which will be rezoned sally which is service, arts and lights industrial. and we've gone so far as to bring down the housing action coalition upon us by saying no residential at all. so the theory is, you know, we have probably the most places of entertainment in the whole city, is that correct director cain? there's always an argument between us and north beach. >> i don't know who wins. but it's close. you can see on the map. >> and i can assure you that every single venue in the south of market has some conflict with their neighbors already. so what we're trying to do is avoid putting more incompatible uses side by side. so i think it really works very well to take the area south of the street to say we would like all forms of entertainment and that's a major step forward, this limited live performance would certainly be we

the commercial program to front costs without allowing us to sell today with the use of commercial paper that is very efficient at this time. in addition we have also added some documents. we ask you for that. we have looked conservatively at the numbers we are showing today. we have an interest rate of 5.6%. if you have any questions, i would be happy to answer them. supervisor chu: ok, thank you. >> a good morning. it is my extreme great pleasure to be here before you to present the veterans building project, which i have been working on for over 20 years. the department of public works manager, without the capital planning program we would not be here today. we have a presentation that we have passed around for you. certainly the president did go over the historic significance of the veterans building. it is internationally significant as the birthplace of the united nations. the city and the state landmark, currently we have data that over 300 performances for year. we have city offices on the third floor and fourth floor. currently it is vacant due to damage. from the top of the bui

i like using my credit card. it is so much easier which is why credit cards encourage the economy but we know what happens when you use your credit card. at some point you get a bill. the people who sold you the bill or loan you the money expect you to pay them. i will tell my friend i understand what he is saying. we have just come through arguably the worst recession since the great depression. it was consistent with economic policies that started in december of 2007 when we lost eight million jobs but the gentleman continues to say he wants to have policies which were policies to grow the economy. expand jobs, have those folks that you talk about do well. the gentleman misrepresents our position i want to make clear. we are not for asking people trying to make it in america, we are not for asking those who are struggling in america. we are not asking for those who rely on social security. we are not asking for those who rely on their medicare benefits to pave the burden of the spending we have been involved in

we have to look at things on a case by case, use by use basis, and we would consider this sort of thing. protective glazing, wired glass, we see traditionally all over. >> so we've got wired glass here. you know, it's a product that we used to sell a lot of. but almost a product whose time has come. i mean this is an obscure wire glass, with -- it's rated 45 minutes for fire. but the problem is there's no impact. so this is not -- at one time, you could put this in a fire door, only in a -- there was a time when they put this in shower doors. and so clearly that's not legal anymore, with good reason, besides the fact that all of the wires rusted. there's some pretty nasty-loo nasty-looking shower doors that we replaced. the other thing is it's not terribly strong, cracks easily, and -- >> if you put your hand through it, or to it, you can get seriously injured. it looks like it's supposed to be safe. it is actuall actually not terre for human impact. >> so at this point, there are some -- because it's got wires in it, you really couldn't temper it before. now i believe there is somebody

can you tell us about your experience? >> there were a lot of anticipation about how people would respond. at first, we had to get in front of people to direct them from their habits. early morning, they are more into carrying their coffee and going inside of the elevator and then spilling their coffee to hit the keys. we got right in front of them, stopped them and told them exactly what they had to do. that helped out a lot. the other thing that helped were the lights in the lobby would tell them where the elevator was. a lot of these systems have not done that. we were the first to do that. the nice thing is we've got less spills in the lobby, too. you get into the elevator in the morning, and somebody is standing in front of the buttons and you cannot get to it. people are fighting each other, spilling coffee and stuff, so this works out well. once you get inside, you are going to the floor that you have already decided on the outside. it really helped traffic flow and security as well. >> would you say your experience

us. thank you so everybody's outraged over murdoch's phone hacking but in the us when we talk about privacy to be honest the orwellian comparisons have been used so much now that they almost have become trite you wrote a book on this i want to know your best example to give me that americans should think that having their voicemail packed is the least of their concern. well there's numerous cases of police sending fake friend requests to college students and going through their photos and signing pictures of them with alcoholic beverages and then arresting them for under-age drinking numerous cases of this in america we have people posting when they're going on vacation or posting photos of their vacation as they're on vacation on their facebook page and then one of the friends quote unquote friends on their friends list that one of the hundreds that they've accumulated over the years often will go and break into their house because they know that the person is gone and on vacation you're

use. >> i fully appreciate that. but the way i read this, if music's being performed -- if music's being performed and the windows are open, now we can hear music on the street. the only way we'll know if someone's noncompliant with that level of amplification. we close the windows and you can't hear the music. but it's almost like, it's like if the violation occurs an we test for it. where it's >> can clear for a nightclub when they're in violation if you can hear anything on the street, then they're in violation. the music's heard on the street is the only way we test for that and closing the windows and seeing if it's too loud. am i reading this wrong? >> yes. but the 10:00 p.m. is sort of the benchmarker and again with nightclubs, you're talking about a time of day where, you know, it's a -- a lot of people are still asleep with the 10:00 in terms of from our commission and discussions from our perspective is we're talking most -- a great amount of use, you know, ex-september with bars prior to 10:00 p.m. and the

tell us what we can expect. we do have a listing of most of the vendors, but tell us.>s as someone who was not on the planning committee but was an attendee, i was blown away. e planning committee but was an attendee, i was blown away. how festive and fun. we knew proceeds were going towards a good cause and because i had so much fun last year and it was such a good use of time and money for me, i decided to join ray in planning this year. >> you can drink and be merry and help out the community at the same time. alex will be in our next segment. tell us about it this rear. it sounds like another great opportunity. we saw most of the vendors on there. >> ultra premium tequila and also's it's a taste of the valley. so several from napa. and we have others from the area. >> have we suddenly as what tee knows become wine connoisseurco? there's a national association, but a lot of us have grown close to the wine industry. >> i think there was an article back in may describing the wine, the con simple shon sumption of la tee knee communixhun latino . and it's increased 50%.

we have supported re-use and supported in whatever way we can uses which we felt were marginal or somewhat inappropriate to the changing demands in that corridor. the fact that it's a highway at this moment, there's little we can do. but we carefully watch how city policy takes on the discussion with caltrans to make lombard street a more pedestrians-workable thoroughfare. president olague: commissioner sugaya. commissioner sugaya: my thoughts echo the two other commissioners that just spoke. i'm reminded that commissioner olague and i, last week, went to san francisco general to -- for a visit to their psychiatric emergency room. we had quite a briefing there. and then we also went up to the fourth floor, i believe it was, where we were briefed by the sheriffs -- commissioner moore: seventh. commissioner sugaya: was it seventh? by the sheriffs on their psychiatric ward that they maintain. and the interesting link, i think, to this is that in both cases the staff people said that the most important thing to them was not

players was for players especially canadian players and us players this is a first experience for us we decided to dissipate in this tournament and we had very nice negotiation last. nerves it was a tournament and we think the serious experience in boston has been running since ninety seven to two hundred fifty players who appeared in last year's event went on to play in the n.h.l. the minor american hockey league. culture is one of russia's top you clubs very spanked very well in the tournament while it will be a great experience for players to come out against different hockey trials. she isn't. going to play in the u.s. will be a massive benefits while sides we can look at our players playing under pressure and coming up against different styles of play and against opponents they've never played against we were prepared well for this tournament and of course we will do our best to wait. however the team from the goals one time she's supposed to go and play in the states spent team as a last minute replacement the problem is that they can't go because seven players will be as a tra

use eventis picture and study. the results demonstrated the presence of elevated chromosomal disturbances of new zealand veterans only fifty years ago so they're basically saying i have suffered any damage. we spoke recently as a national conference here on disarmament when the daughter of one of the trends spycatcher father was too ill to speak and she talked about growing up with that fear of having a child born to food and even in new zealand because of the effects of radiation from her father being exposed to nuclear tests in the pacific. and i'm lucky. i have three children. and i don't live with the think that. i was so it was normal until i got to school and sit on the mitts and go around so i would appear. and most of the kids would say i'm up as a take for news and then. and my mom tries to stop nuclear. because that's how i understood it. crane is. now working at the disarmament security center. back in the one nine hundred seventy s. when i was in and she submarine helicopters i was required to train my

the car use went down, the bicycle use went up. higher parking fees are very effective in decrease in car use and increasing other modes of use -- in decrease in car use iqi 5u9 it was quite effective. another thing, peter talked about the parking permit. in amsterdam, you have to wait two and half years before it because you -- you have to wait two and a half years for the parking permit. >> people except they can just not have a car. in amsterdam, the other modes of transport are so well-organized, it is just like in the hague, a car is more of a new sense that a create a car is more of a nuisance and liability. it is expensive. the other modes of transport are much more convenient. >> ok, mike, you have a question? use the microphone, please. >> separated bike paths in the united states are controversial, and they're slowly catching on. how important is it to have those facilities in place? is it maybe a quarter of importance, 50% of the attraction for people to take their bikes? i'm wondering how important it is. >> i think tha

they wanted to use it. 38% was used. everyone knows they can take that money and apply it to health insurance. why do 62% of my employees, for the last 30 years, choose not to purchase insurance? perhaps it is cost. perhaps it is another blank check to drive up health-care costs. medicare pays $10,000 in dues for home care agencies in certain associations. i have to pay $72,000 in workers' comp or somebody to take their daughter to a weight- loss clinic in the philippines. you are not dealing with cost. you say that all employers should pay this. this should be a benefit that all employers pay. based on the fact that i have always followed the law and everyone gets their quarterly notices, i do not restrict, and only 30% of my money is gone. there must be something wrong. supervisor campos: i have a few more names. [reading names] >> good morning, supervisors. our employees do have hra accounts. we do not have a use it or lose it provision. the balance accumulates year over year. they receive quarterly notices, they make

land use. and entertainment land use cans not under any circumstances at this time be considered an accessory use. in practice what that means is that a restaurant with a live guitar is treated as the same manner as a warehouse rave with a d.j. for hundreds of people. regulations for entertainment uses vary between zoning districts. entertainment uses are permitted in some districts and are conditionally permitted in others and are not permitted in the third category of districts. with the proposed ordinance, the police code would be amended to create the limited live performance permit and the planning code would be amended to allow entertainment uses that receive the limited live performance permit from the entertainment commission to be considered an accessory use. this opportunity would be available in areas of the city where entertainment uses are allowed, either as principle or conditional uses. i think what's most critical for you to consider and to remember is that the proposed ordinanc

writing about is what it is used for. -- i think that is what it is used for. the question is wis that is adequate. that is what i recommend. >> i would like to ask what is the reason why we are flexing so much less of these funds than other districts, what is the russian now, richard rational -- rationale and what are the tradeoffs? by most of its -- >> most of it is really 3/4 or more of the total $58 million associated with the program, and in our district, we have a long history of using these funds that originated with a court order programs throughout the state for programs and activities to try to address our goals and access to equity, and those goals are still very present in our district, so we do not favothink it is appropriate fors to consider all of these funds as flexible, as some of our neighbors have done, and in many of those districts they do not have the same pattern of funding. it is not a program most school districts receive, so it is not in our view the same type of context for us to consider $40 million or $30 million as unrestricted fun

unfortunately he wasn't able to join us today because he is still in a land use meeting at the moment do want to recognize him because he would love to be here. today, it's my honor to be able to announce the community impact award. the primary reason why we do have this award is really to recognize the community organizations and the impact they make in our community. especially where the differences that they make in the media really have a profound and lasting impact on how our communities are perceived and how we go forward. and so today, again, it is my honor to recognize these folks. but before we do, the people who -- or the organizations who are finalists in this category include hyphen, round of applause. [applause] kqed. [applause] and new american media. [applause] apparently, tonight is hyphen's night. so congratulations to hyphen. [applause] a quick word about the organization. it was founded in 2003. it's a volunteer run nonprofit news and culture organization that illuminates asian america through hard-hitting investigative features on the cultural and political trends

has given us a lot of useful and helpful. pieces of advice in this topic will not disappear or be resolved in the coming years but we're not going to give up this in the out three specs but. we think that we're approaching. some. helpful solutions in that sphere. if we talk about political risk. possibility. we know that i missed it. all we need to know who is responsible for the press and how we can. remove. or me to gates and the consequences of its. way with me to get three on different measures which will help to create. these prosecutions and we need to look at the roots of the process of the crisis. and that's what we need to increase the level of competence which is subtle eat which is now insufficient and which instantly deepened but. probably have to take several more steps in that direction to solve the problems. i think we're facing historical solutions euro is good for us all. the euro is. working in both in germany and in the european union you can't. get it i don't think without a europe without the euro and i t

morgan bank i could work for goldman sachs he knows how to steal money he could be useful to us someday but this is how they just reclassify him decide that's not what you think it is your eyes are lying to you so ben bernanke you can say oh all those people buying gold that's just they're afraid of tail risk go up stealing also puts more people in prison and there's a huge prison industrial complex and private prison business so that's good for the economy too yes and remember george bush tried to re classify as manufacturing all the hamburger flippers in america so they try to paint their economy as looking like the biggest economy in the world and it's becoming more and more obvious that that's a big fraud if at all it all comes back to you know you can make a comparison to roman coin clipping where they clip the quote which created this massive inflation of the collapse of the roman empire in america the coin flipping columns in these new ways they statistically recalculate the statistics to make it look like there's no inflation or they've they reclassify hamburger flippers from a

if they don't acknowledge us. they don't see us. as humans is that they could care less about the savvy. business and trusting you didn't see we were poor people that could earn a living from trash. can go without a foreign companies or shows from people's homes and their trash and then well. it's not getting any easier for us this because you know many of us are forced into scavenging during the streets for scraps with only water go with there's no got a poor little walk fast life has become inhumane. out and we're trying to apply all projects of sorest separation. enmity and it seems the residents were receptive it has been almost a kind of nine out of ten residents like the idea and cooperated with us in the past a foreign company workers get a break up the trash in front of the residence. people are realizing that the company workers that amateurs they are base workers to remain child projects i'm still largely muslim i mean they have paid whether or not their trash is separated all of aba up on residents divided up the billies

that will help us with money that i had to use to balance the budget this year. i had to get into the reserves. i want to build up those reserves and be prepared for one or two more years of bad economic times for the city and county. i have to be smart about that. i hope the public understands, we're not increasing the sales tax, we are just trying to get half a percent back. to me, that is a lot of work between now and november, meeting with the different resident councils, neighborhood associations. if you see me, which you will, i will be active selling those three things as the mayor of san francisco. i wanted to give you a head start on the detail and answer any questions you had, make sure our asian community as well are versed in the details of it. at this time, i will open it up to any questions you have. thank you for being here. >> [inaudible] have you seen his proposal? >> yes, it is not that different. i have to say, mr. adachi is offering a compromise because i think, he is the to realize we did the right thing. the only way that he can come in is t

that is going to do it for us. i'm cheryl jennings, thanks for joining us.ave a great week and we'll see you next time. bye for now.

we just see this as a dying retail use, and there is no reason to lump it out from other retail uses. at one point, there was a concern about that, so they tried to control it. it would also maintain existing controls for each neighborhood commercial district. so here is a graphic that illustrates our methodology. we take the uses that currently do not allow on-site alcohol consumption. we put them under the restaurant limited control. the definitions, one in article 7 and won an article 8, would be grouped into one, in article 7. finally, for those other three, they would be considered restaurants. this just so out -- shows the tuckahoe consumption issue. -- alcohol consumption issue. the existing controls were developed in 1987 and were to address concerns over restaurants displacing neighborhoods serving retail uses and proliferation of chain of fast-food restaurants. since that time, several things have changed, including for miller retell clothes and section 312 neighborhood notification, which requires when there is a change of use for neighbors to be notified three days before

that will help us greatly. it is going to take time for people to begin to use a different paradigm in how they think about laying out the services for children. but that will really help us in potentially freeing up staff to be used more flexibly. at the same time, as we do professional development, staff will build their capacity to provide services. the work we are doing around improving instruction overall and the core curriculum is really going to help. the other recommendation in the audit report around implementing tier systems of intervention around academics and behavior will help. as we know as we look at that, that is called rti, focusing on the court, a solid frame and foundation of instruction. that is ultimately going to help all kids be successful. that will help us rely less heavily on paraprofessionals and help us integrate the services into our classrooms so we do not have rigid recommendations for many kids to be served in a self-contained model. it is called inclusion because the kids would

to mean use x. quit dot com or whatever secure search engine is a certain protect yourself personally i've pretty much given up on trying to avoid an intractable. and i'm not sure what touched this off but on yesterday's full episode on you tube allie eldar yes two zero writes yeah well abortion is murder over fifty three million american citizens have been murdered through the selective genocide carried out by so-called doctors that love the sure reading maybe the live if you are truly constitutional you know that humans have the right to life if you kill someone before they are born you private person of life adam you need to make your stances more clearly do you support a woman's right to murder or do you support the right to life liberty and happiness ok well let me set the record straight once again and answer question in a way that should leave no doubts whatsoever yes apparently i'm not the only one holding out final hope for america and ron paul two thousand and twelve i hate ron paul writer

forward and helping us all together as a community. i'm proud of this budget, in addition to all or wheaton, to ensure public services and families are taken care of. -- to all the work we have done. we are implementing our first police academy class. this is party we have to ensure the health and safety of our residents. that is a great step and i look forward to future budgets, hopefully moving forward as well as we have been able to do this year. >> thank you. supervisor wiener? >> thank you. i want to echo the praise of the chair. carmen has done an absolute ly great job. i want to talk a little about trees. for years we have been bleeding our department of public works and our recreation and parks department, two departments that impact the most people on the most frequent basis, and maintenance and other services have really suffered as a result. this year the department of public works cuts under thousand dollars from tree maintenance. --i want to restore that $600,00 so they could hire some arborists to take care of their trees

the american people agree with us. they agree with us. the polls, democrats and republicans, independentends, all agree there should be shared sacrifice. that's our bill called the shared sacrifice bill. we're happy to have a trigger, but they cannot keep turning their heads away from the american people who say there should be shared sacrifice. this will be the last question. [question not audible] >> in a little zpugs i had with the senator on the floor today, he has to get this straight in his own mind. he complained on the senate floor that he was combing the white house last saturday and said i don't want to be here. let's work this out by ourselves. today he changed his mind. he wants the president involved. the president has been involved. he told us -- i also said this on the floor, with the republican and democratic leaders and the cabinet from the white house, they have been there a long time. it had been a long meeting. he said i have spent more time, and i'm paraphrasing what he said, i have spent more time dealing with this r

us. what were you doing when the soviets put in their rockets. through your country as terrorists oh no. there's a lot of discussions going on these aren't easy agreements to put in place. for the p.l.o. going to schools but i feel optimistic to hold off on the smelter missed that we will get this done as the prime minister said we're down to a couple words what you probably want to know is the three words i'm not going to tell you someone's doing it because that's nicholas the shit that's interesting five hours a day or three often they certainly i think there's a call for. that. because. let's. call it the quota system there's a police or justice thought. was there many politicians in the world very few politicians will more real statement even a small bit of a bill to the two of them. also that needs a slogan eyeball quaternions honestly to sheets of all of the cost. of the office if you have one printed on the level of those who are you may not spoken about this extensive this is what

dot com stay with us. the follow from the french tests went beyond the polynesian islands it caused outrage in new zealand which took the lead in the n.t. nuclear movement and became a blank sheet among western countries yes unlike any other country new zealand refused to rely on nuclear weapons for its security but here nuclear technology is banned it's the law. i think a lot of the young people do feel proud about new zealand speech a free post say that people have come complacent and feel as farm we're safe there of these other she said i mean a lot of people to say the people in the peace movement was happy sent out of me gravy it's reserves and that's what peoples like. even in new zealand it's difficult to find young people concerned about this issue they are more sensitive to the melting of the antarctic and he wants to revitalize the ageing pacifist movement when i'm working at peace foundation in my role as the used outreach coordinator. and the race that they are going to tie he to the pacific yo

writing about is what it is used for. -- i think that is what it is used for. the question is wis that is adequate. that is what i recommend. >> i would like to ask what is the reason why we are flexing so much less of these funds than other districts, what is the russian now, richard rational -- rationale and what are the tradeoffs? by most of its -- >> most of it is really 3/4 or more of the total $58 million associated with the program, and in our district, we have a long history of using these funds that originated with a court order programs throughout the state

not about us being successful. all of us already made it. it is about how we get everybody in this city and community to rally behind the young people like yourself who have a whole future ahead of you, and we have screwed up the plan of for you really bad. you guys are going to have to be 10 times smarter than us because we did not figure it out. it is exciting to be in a place where you folks are going to be in the future and to have the gates foundation stepped up and give you some of the tools. one of the frustrating things for me as a superintendent is i kind of believe we are educating all you young people for a world that just does not exist anymore. things have changed so much. when i was in school, there was not computers. things have changed so radically that if you do not have the tools of the world in which you are going to live in, how are you going to compete? one of the things we have been working on together, and it has been great because everybody has said, a "look, it is not about us. it is about what we're going to do in t

you can use the same fountain. you can fill the bottled water with have water and put it in. >> there may be a particular issue with plumbing in a few schools that we are addressing as they are modernized, and once that happens we will be able to use the tap water, because the plumbing will have been modernized. that is a small number. i think we all enjoy it, so we will do our best to make sure that is what we are drinking a curator >> -- we are drinking. >> are there some schools but would need some modifications that are not in our bond measure? >> as we go through the process, and we are looking for a way to be able to include that and in the schools that would be on the 2011 bond, each individual school outside of the group will have to be assessed to see if there is a water fountain already in the cafeteria. in some schools there may already, and it may be a matter of making short is -- making sure it is suitable size is. -- as is. we will not know until we have a full assessment. >> any other questions? >> t

thank you for welcoming us for a second time. i would like to do basically what we did the first time i came. i would like the students to ask us some questions as a group. came with me.m they would like to ask that you and your culture. applied to ask a good friend of mine to share some thoughts and reflections. this is is first trip to china. -- i would like to ask a good friend of mine to share some thoughts. he used to be a professor at harvard. now, he is a professor at princeton. his name is cornell west -- his name is dr. cornel west. we will have some dialogue and see if we can have a good conversation. please welcome, professor west. [applause] >> let me say that i am blessed to be here. each one of you are precious and priceless. what that means is that you are the future, not just of china but also to the future of the world. the human family. the relationship between china and the u.s. is crucial because both are superpowers. the challenge for young people are around the world but especially around china and the u.s.

we readily use our enforcement tools. we use it in a progressive way. we teach. we will use warnings. and then come of violations.