us to be here tonight. in the partner of the asian chef association , and in the founder of -- i am the founder of chefs without borders. for us to be year to stand in front of you, it is an honor to be here to be part out the asian pacific americans five years in a row, and we are honored to do everything to serve the food, and we try the best we can, so tonight, i hope you enjoyed the food very much, and we hope to see you again. thank you. [applause] thank you very much. we have more food for you. two quick things -- we have finally coming up right now, and we have a green room recession after the finale -- reception after the finale. when you are on your way up, as you leave, but not yet, you will be given a little ticket, and this ticket will allow you to go up to the green room celebration was more great food -- we are asian, after all. we have great food and lots of it. this ticket will get you into that green room reception. this ticket -- there will be a blank boxes on this ticket, and as you go to each station, you can check off that box. once the boxes are all marked, you take that ticket, put it in a raffle are -- jar, and it

quickly these events are the top level of intelligence where you during the cold war it used to take years to be fast and it was. a tux and afghanistan reached an all time high the bloodiest month for foreign troops since the start of the war itself the longest miniature campaign in u.s. history is a pos in the vietnam war and still there's no and science in this to report. it's the comparison that cannot be avoided by press pundits and now politicians last month afghanistan surpassed the. place that both ambassador holbrooke and i are all too familiar with as the longest military campaign in american history committee chairman senator john kerry brought up the failed u.s. war of decades ago at a crucial time in america's current one. conflict a moment when questions about strategy and progress abound at a hearing on governance and the u.s. civilian strategy in the region the man in charge of it all a vietnam veteran himself tries to make the lesson of that history a fundamental difference between those two wars since you mentioned it mr chairman and this war our national security interests are.

he knows about the stresses chefs face, since he used to be one. for 14 years, he was the head chef for randy parygary restaurants in sacramento. today, he's traded in his chef's hat to promote, educate, and even celebrate produce with other chefs. >> i use email. i use the phone. but the best thing to do is to be able to go into a restaurant, to go into the kitchen, to find the person cooking the food, and say, "hey, what can i get you? what are you looking for?" >> i would just be doing seed production if it weren't for jim driving in here and refusing to drive away and saying, "no, i really want this stuff. no, ycu don't understand, i really do want to buy this stuff." and "i really want this, and i really want it now, and i really want some, and i want samples," and you know, so forth and so on despite my best efforts to get rid of him. >> as chef michael tuohy starts preparing mals with the greens, he admits his job would be so much more difficult if it were not for produce experts like jim mills. >> jim fills a need here that nobody else does, and that is

using a child, a boy around 10 years old to break into homes. even when the boy is seen, victims are reluctant to report it. police say they understand. >> a 10-year-old being used to scout out burglaries is something we don't like to hear at all. >> i was afraid that person was coming in the home to hurt me. >> reporter: marrian encountered the boy. >> i didn't know if he was 10, but he seemed like a teenager. >> reporter: police believe that wrestling was the adult man. and one victim also reported hearing adult female voices as well. >> it's mind blowing actually. when it's sad that they are involving a child. >> i think it's real sad but certainly gives us something to be cautious about. >> reporter: marian andrews certainly agrees with that. >> they seemed scared, of me. >> and you were scared as well. >> yeah, you're in my house. yeah. i have trouble sleeping in the room. >> reporter: the male adult is described by police as latino in his 20s, 5'4", 15 pounds. the child's description, 5'and 100 pounds, and one woman called him, sweet looking. >>> a woman suspected in three bay area bank robberies. san francisco police arrested him. she robbed three ba

it was not designed to be used for many years, but as a place that was much better than the prior laboratory and that eventually in due time there would be a dedicated facility constructed. supervisor mirkarimi: what would you say is the condition of the building out? >> i am not allowed to go to building 606, but i have talked to people that worked there and the physical plant is superi deteriorating. there were management failures in the management of the crime lab, as well as the effects of time. this contributed to a rapid facility to climb. supervisor mirkarimi: what would you say that this scandal has done to expert testimony in san francisco? >> it has had a big effect. i have seen a reluctance of district attorneys on the trial level. this is not a policy, but individual attorneys that do not want to call anyone from the police department crime laboratory. making a very easy for the defense in many cases. but it is not the way the thing should be. because of the reputation they do not want to put someone in front of a jury who says that they are from the laboratory in the newspapers

to be used by seniors as they get older. most of us seniors by the time we get to be 70, 80, and maybe 90 years old -- we are not going to have a choice as to where to go for service. most likely, most of us will be taken to general hospital, and then, i kind of hope that it is going to treat me and the others fairly rather than have that unfortunate incident happened to that disabled chinese man who incidently could not speak english. thank you. supervisor mar: 90. is there anyone else from the public that would like to speak? seeing none, public comment is closed. is there a motion on this item? so move, without objection. why don't we go back to item three? on the dcyf of it -- audit. i do not see supervisor alioto- pier. by their recommendations? should we continue this to the call of the chair? >> the clerk has just advised me that she has just heard from alioto-pier's office. >> bill barnes is recommending that you put it forward. supervisor mar: can you give a brief overview of how the scope has been narrowed significantly sell it is not a full audit of dcyf but as a very narrow one? >> certainly i can explain. our con

it used to be even just 10 or 15 years ago in order to have access to porn you have to go down to seedy side of town and go to adult theater or go to a news stand and buy a magazine and risk bumping in to your boss, wife. now that is available on the internet, satellite television, cell phones. ipod. no longer any barriers to entry. >> children seeking it out. >> children are looking at porn as long as toddlers. they tracked usage among young children of pornography. the average age is about 8 or 2 years old. >> was it the position of the subcommittee of the judiciary which includes brownback and specker and lindsay graham and teddy kennedy and diane feinstein and richard derbin. was it the position of the subcommittee that pornography leads to divorce. that it is virtual adultery. that it is anything in that order? >> certainly that is what we were there to talk about and it wasn't just me but other expert witnesses who have seen a considerable in marital problems and divorce as a result of pornography, particularly porn on the internet. in 2003 the the american academy of matrimony la

we have to make up indecisions, it may go 25 feet but some of us won't be here in 150 years. we have to know what's available to us in the next 25 years so you have to get in your mind the range of possibilities. finally the worst thing we can do and i'm a general manager of a water district, is to believe we are not going to have to build this investment because we could flip the switch and the trends we see will continue from ten to 20 years. you understand that? we're not going back to our customers and say we're going to do greenhouse emissions and do things to stop it. first of all, we don't control the whole world, we can only do what we can do and that's a lot since five percent of the world produced most of the greenhouse e mibss but there's an economic move in japan and china and their moving forward but we can look back and say, tom i heard this morning say if it goes up a foot we have to and we're going to have to start educating the customers and people we serve. it's another problem that's here to stay and we are going to have to make the investment. message numbe

year would fund five days. we would have to somehow or other obtain funding for our people from another source. so the controller's office looks to us to be able to cover our payroll to continue during that time, so when we end the year and add more, based on this plan, we would end at $4.3 million. that still is only 29.1 pace -- paid days. it is the payroll in little over a month and a half. that is not enough. that is the point i'm trying to make, that we need to be prepared for an unexpected type of event. >> our customers are not bringing it in right now. do you have any suggestions on how we might get that fund up? >> just so you know, we are increasing our work order with the port to do more internal plan checking for the port until the customer base does increase some, so we'll be doingmou work with the port, so that will bring in additional revenue that can be completed by current staff but can be put forward into the operating fund at the end of this fiscal year, the one we are currently in now, so we are projecting in the budget that this both to the board of supervisors, that we will be adding to the fund balance each year fro

>> grout has to be sealed every year. again, you want to use a fungicide for cleaning it and seal it once a year, if you have a bathtub with tiles coming around, you want to really maintain that joint between the towel -- towel and bathtub. >> for energy consumption, the shower head has to cut off valve. you do not need water running all the time. you can shut it off without having to reset the temperature. just do not use a plumber's wrench or you will ruin the material. kitchen appliances, the lahood needs to have the screen and filter cleaned probably if you cook a lot once a month. take it out and put it in the dishwasher. that is what i recommend. take that out. all of these goods have a screen and filter that filters out the papers, and you stick it in the dishwasher. every couple of years, take up your support thanks. every fireplace? >> you want to make sure the damper is working in the shut position and you do not have the fire on so you're not losing energy for the outside and it is easy to open when you're going to use a fire. you wa

to change. does it work? >> it works. this is something in that is different in the last couple of years. it used to be that your marks were given out -- that earmarks were given out by committees. there was no way to link up the donations to a specific member. the proposed earmarke, money wet in and money went out. it was always a good investment. he did not know how to connect those two. this is one of the key reforms that has taken place in the past couple of years. it has curtailed -- it has put an atmosphere of shame around the year marking -- of the ea rmarking process. you can see that persons campaign receipts and their leadership pac receipts and you can see how much money they got and from whom. >> you quoted tax payers for common sense, people pay their taxes every year. they think they have a government that is watching out for them. why is it that we need all of these independent foundations to do the job that a lot of people think government should do? >> well, governments everywhere need watchdogs of various kinds. that is what it is all about. that is what these groups are all about. th

to be breaking ground behind us here in san francisco. we are very excited to be partnered with triscuit this year to be planting 50 home farms in 20 citiescross the united states. we are encouraging people to get back to the simple goodness of growing your own food at home. in addition to these community- based farms. by started to find out about victory gardens in 2005. in world war ii, 20 million americans grew almost half of our nation's supply. that was before the internet. before all the cameras here. before all the different ways that we can stay connected. they grew 40%, and we are excited at home with this home farming movement. if people start to plant at home, we can recreate that and make it sustainable. we are very excited by that. i would really like to call up astrid to the podium. she is going to have a few things to say about this project. i would like to thank everyone for coming out. looks like everyone here is into gardening. everyone seems to know what they're doing, we're very excited. there will be plenty of food coming from this 20 vote by 20 foot garden. thank you so much. -- 20 foot by 20 foot garden. thank you s

the alternative of using the glue approach to putting down new asphalt. >> so easy with the stroke of a pen to add costs on to the construction of it. people sometimes wait 30 years to be able to afford to put a new fund. adding all of this cost on their. >> do you know, this man on the use of torch's on the wood frame, the raw wood frame roof, you talked about the glue guns or the hot mopping. do you know how those costs compare? >> i believe that they are somewhat more expensive, but cheaper than the cost of putting down an entire new coating of non-combustible layers on top of the roof. >> seven to 10 fires each year? assuming * 100, giving a significant fires. i would dare say that most of these buildings are wood frame, next a wood frame. generally is not just the buildings that could damage, but the ones next to them. i understand the cost issue, but i also, especially in the light of the fact we are changing our name to the department of building safety, these are issues of great concern. when you have the opportunity to avoid setting fires and you have options within the realm of cost, it is good for us to consider. . >> is my belief that these kinds of roofs a

will make it easier for drivers to pay for parking by using coins, debit card, credit card or parking cars. another advantage of becoming early next year real-time data will be available for drivers to find an empty space. the bill to check if there's a space nearby by dialing 51 or check in the internet. officials say it is michael smart phones will be added so anyone can check for empty spaces on the phone. in san francisco kron 4 news. >> coming up in what 5:00 this evening will show you were those

to be here. thank you to the voters for giving us your vote of confidence last year, and congratulations to the board of health and city of san francisco for the great facility that is going to come. thank you. >> one of the challenges that you all will recognize is that you are standing on where the new hospital will be, but during the next five years, we cannot forget about the hospital there because that is where our patients are going to be. on that note, i want to thank and recognize kathy young, who has the responsibility of keeping all the other facilities going. are around here in the public sector, she does that with a lot of that tape. we have mops used to move certain engineering equipment. i know all of the secrets from having been here. i want to also recognize we have a great chief of nursing who is here. the administrative team -- i saw you here somewhere. our chief making sure that it all works well. we are very grateful to you. i also want to note dr. thomas kean, who is now head of medicine at ucsf. our former head of medicine here -- he watches over us and make sure that the univer

use so that we do not have to spend money on the side for this one. translink making it into it for us, i would be happy to see it happen. it is a couple of years away, but i would like to see parking become translink so that we could use one card instead of two. thank you. >> the morning, everyone. my name is eric williams. in the stand of the governor shot down a 46 million in the next few years, how convenient it is for the mayor to conveniently blamed the operators. unacceptable. there are so many issues that the mta is not making public in terms of what they are supposed to be going off -- going after, major funds. the average operator pays up to $900 on medical every month. yet they find it convenient for transit operators to blame the issues of muni. that one of the operators to carry the $16.9 million shortfall. what part of that are the operators? the operators of the union have been silent on a bunch of the issues were too long. we are no longer going to be silent. we have families out there. we are just like you. we are just like you, we want our families to have the best also. hitting the writers against the operators were trying to

having a real discussion about what this is going to mean in terms of increasing revenue, not just this year, but in subsequent years, that can be used to help programs for poor people and working families. i know it is not going to be popular, but i believe it is an important debate. there is a loophole. if you both purchase these online travel companies, it is a good deal. they go out and buy a bunch of hotel rooms for about $100, and a market it to you for $150. they pay the hotel costs on $100, and a pocket the difference -- they pocket the difference. that is a pretty good deal, and we think it is wrong. we think it is illegal, and it is called the online a hotel tax loophole. i do not believe this -- this is not a new tax. people already paying this tax were not collecting it. i want to thank him for his outstanding work on this. he has been an outstanding partner organizing this. thank you. he deserves credit. beyond that, there are no new taxes. there are no new taxes in this budget. we were able to draw down $227,000 in revenue without tax increases. i know some folks prefer tax increases. i do not. i think they should be on

hire back the police officers that got laid off which brings us to our question of the day: would you be willing to pay an extra $360 a year to have more police officers patrol your communities? "the city needs to learn how to budget the city funds like everyday people. instead of always going to the property taxpayers for money, why don't they do something to help bring businesses to oakland to increase the monies they receive in sales tax and payroll tax? " david says, "yes. he likes it. he likes the idea. less than a dollar a day? let's keep our streets safe." >>> and another david, david wong, says no, because if they actually did their jobs like writing tickets for the fools who drive 40 in 25-mile-an- hour zones, they would generate lots of revenue already. >> david a little feisty early this morning. david is one of those guys you will see in the fast lane going 50. >> that's not true. he probably lives in a neighborhood where they zoom through and is worried about the kids. i can see his point. >> absolutely. >>> coming up elected official in southern california town slash their salaries after some citizens confron

to be done? >> we do. using the database in this manner, we know what would be next. he would then like to compare those to our preferred maintenance over the year and make the same trade-off decisions at that time. >> and the work before them -- a lot of it is structural. >> i remember when i started that amount, it had to go out to bid. >> it has been a $120,000 category. >> i know historically we have had some issues with irrigation problems, and i could list a slew of them. have we addressed most of those issues? then i want to ask you, did we address the issue of the park or a neighbor who has major problems in the back of their yard? >> i thank you for mentioning that. there is one thing i failed to mention. all properties undergoing bond renovation or some other wholesale upgrade were taking considerations. they are going to be addressed by that, so irrigation is going to be addressed totally within the bond renovation. we will be receiving a little over $2 million to address our most pressing irrigation system needs, and we are looking at where we will be spending that money. between the upcoming bond projects, we will be able to address

but i want to thank her for her support over many, many years. >> ucsf medical center. [applause] >> thank you for letting us be a part of the celebration. >> wells fargo. [applause] >> it is a pleasure to be here today with all of you. this reflects the beginning of indepndence. independence to become an entrepreneur, obtain financial security, and i am proud to work for a bank that supports my community and me in my career aspirations at wells fargo. on behalf of the 1800 team members in the bay area, wells fargo wishes you all a healthy, wealthy, and properous juneteenth. thanlk you very much. happy juneteenth. >> medical center. [applause] >> i've been working with california medical center for some time, and reverend dyson has been working with juneteenth. she wanted to send her regards, that she would love to be here, but she went to a graduation. >> i will be brief, because i hear you get more applause that way. i am vp operations at cpmc and i would like to congratulate everyone and wish you a happy juneteenth. take care. [applause] >> another strong supporter, someone here from lennar. where are you? o

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be placed in november, i would like to ask us to support the package. the work has not been wasted. i will certainly be engaging in future conversations and future ballots either next year or in 200012 to consider something to really reform our business tax system but at this time, i will be supporting supervisor avalos and his supported tax. >> would you like to make a motion? >> yes, i would. >> i think that the parking tax should be tabled. we were challenged. so far, the one that i think seems to emerge is the one that i think the general consensus at least with a high number of us is revolving around the tax measure advanced by supervisor avalos. i want to keep in mind the role of the parking tax should it be considered. with the exception of the baby vlf, there are no measures that are going forward. this is the first time with the commission. it parking tax had not been enhanced and this was really since 1980 when the supervisor had led the charge for a successful parking tax. over 30 years, we have seen a great reason to doohickeys things. one is to be more effective and judicious in collecting revenue from garages. there is a consortium that is doing their best