to look forward to next generation of tools. while there is a lot going on with this generation of tools including direct assessment, using different types of pigs -- as their reference to in our world -- we are looking at what we can do to jump-start into the next generation of tools. supervisor mirkarimi: you are referring to that robotic greater than is looking for breaches in the infrastructure radar? >> yes, they are pieces of equipment looking for leaks. every pig is different depending on when you're looking for. supervisor mirkarimi: the reason i am asking, it is not too uncommon to have nonprofits that are not of competing interests. less partisanship and the nonprofit world on these questions, one that is focused strictly on public safety and making sure all the right materials are being effectively applied. i assume that is the quest of pipeline 2020? >> yes, that is correct. it is all about the integrity of the system. supervisor mirkarimi: i did not hear this, as it relates to san francisco, steel versus plastic? >> in today's world, plastic is used for distribution systems which generally operate at 60 pounds or less.

so we see that there is a lot of cause for concerns and the trends um, cause us to look at these chemicals and say what is going on here. we know from the science that chemicals are ending up where they are not supposed to be and that is inside of our bodies. scientists can measure the chemicals getting into us, bio measuring. this is from the first chapter, indecent exposure, the intimate details. charlotte was surprised by the test results. mother of 2 among the first people to be tested for a wide range of industrial chemicals. test revealed that her body contained mercury lead cosmetics. i felt violated charlotte reported. she was upset about the pesticide. i never used them in my house, never on my lawn. i bought organic whenever i could. her body contained several variations of organic chlorines designed to attack nervous systems of insects. i never bought it. isn't that trespassing. i tell this in my story of mary broon. mary never felt called to be an environmentalist she was nursing her 6 month daughter olivia and a story had been done by texas tech where they looked at breast mil

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so that is when we do anything and we have to look at this document and when it is completed as a point that we can use in our evaluation but not as a litmus test to what is good and what is bad. these are hospitals with regional scope. i don't have a problem wit and should be paid for without existing funding and maybe from the public health department. and certainly not passed on to those being evaluated by those and we would like to see that. and as far as the individual aspects of it, i do agree with the staff recommendation and the pipeline and i don't know if you can do that kind of business and a lot of times it's many projects and if we made a recommendation that the placed be located there and the project sponsors know there and this is what we like to see. i think we have excellent health in san francisco and from the place i come from, i do not plan to be served there. and we have a lot of hospitals and a small geographic area and not that we couldn't improve that but we have to remember that the larger scope of the health care problem and real hospitals and different entities and while we h

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what happened to the ability to actually make that i pointed mhz available across broadband use? what if that legislation is passed? >> the legislation looking at commercial uses identifies broadcasting bands at good candidates for reallocation. they believe they need an incentive option to carry out that reallocation. the administration supports the idea of incentive options. next year, the administration will be putting forth legislation to deal with that issue, as well as issues that we think will speed up the process of federal agencies making their spectrum available more quickly. with federal agencies, they would be greatly aided if they had resources to do up front plans from research and development, if necessary, to be able to plant more forcefully for a possible reallocation -- plan more fruitfully for a possible reallocation. >> i think i have this right. 100 megahertz of the 115 that you have look at comes from the department of defense. what is the department of defense's reaction to losing some of their dedicated spectrum? >> the 100 megahertz you are talking about, we have protected the department of defense. one of the large

and those agencies who are the only ones looking out for us, the oil industry isn't able to look out for us, are unable to move ahead and protect us. and mms is just one example, and we have to make sure that we don't paper over the solution and come up with something that looks good on paper but, in fact, doesn't fully protect us. the other -- the good news here, though s that we actually can do something. oil is a very precious resource. it's really remarkably useful stuff. and yet we waste it incredibly. i'm looking at these lightbulb here. you know, we waste energy, 90 better of the energy that goes swoosh 90% of the energy that goes into lightbulbs is wasted. 80% of the energy in the oil of our cars is wasted energy, wasted heat. we can change all of that and dramatically cut our oil use. the cool thing here, and it actually is, we're actual pretty amazing that using technologies ha we have today we can probably cut our oil use easily by half over the next couple decades. we're pushing, and we're waiting thousand for the president and the administration to announce the next round

with devastating impact the human life and potentially to the environment, so that is what drives us to look into ways in which we can raise the bar on the standards imposed so we can drive down the risk this will happen again and drive it down to the point where we can feel comfortable and confident that it can proceed in a relatively risk-free way. >> isn't the nature of what you're doing that it is always going to be 5050? -- 50/50? >> there are 4000 holes dug in the gulf. there was one blowout. those are not 50/50 odds. those are low odds. even though it might only happened once, it could have enormous consequences, and that is why we are legitimately concerned about driving down their risk it could happen again. is it possible it could happen again? absolutely. when you have an unknown reservoirs', you have the exploratory drilling, and you have human beings involved. there is a chance something could go bad. i think what we will learn is that what happened in deepwater horizon was a perfect storm of mechanical and human error, so the risk of that happening again is not great, but it ex

those kinds of things would have impacts directly on san francisco, and it would behoove us to look at conditions across the border from us. supervisor maxwell: thank you very much. thank you all for coming. supervisor campos: thank you. if i may call some speakers. [reading names] >> thank you, supervisors. i am a longtime independent consultant for health planning and policy based in san francisco. i support the legislation to initiate city-wide planning for health services. long ago, such planning first enabled and then mandated under federal law. i served as a consumer volunteer on the san francisco sub area council of the west bay health systems agency. i co-chaired the committee for several years, holding hearings and making recommendations to the state planning agency concerning certificate of need and help service grants channeled through the hsa. this planning strongly influenced local and institutional decisions about future investment. for example, many empty beds and underutilized services, which we term at that time excess capacity, were a major cost driver in that era as

currently, the system does not allow us to look at that.he other thing it does not allow as when a bad goes vacant. if a reservation is made for one shelter, the system does not tell us when that reservation was released back. we are working with hsa to utilize changes to provide the city and county with more information. one of the issues that was brought up in the last two reports is that people wanted to go to a certain shelter but they did not have transportation. currently, the human services agency a loss for 1250 tokens a month. there are 1134 shelter beds in the single adult system. that means only one single homeless adults one token amount. the committee understands there are other ways in which people get transportation. some are on ssi, some on a cat program that allots them a muni pass. london that we have gathered during this report, site inspection that are done monthly, complains that the stafford seized from clients is that there is not enough access to the shelters. if you get a reservation at glide, and the reservation is

backed regime change used to look like back in the days in a bid to ensure u.s. political and economic interests were safeguarded cia backed coup d'etat was announced the democratically elected leaders from home and most adept in iran to sell the door again day in chile. by the one nine hundred eighty s. the reign of terror that blazed across latin america by washington's henchmen was too much for most people to stomach to replace the overt support for dictatorships a new concept for regime change was born one that sounds and looks better democracy promotion dr william robinson is the foremost expert on regime change to democracy promotion he wrote the book promoting poly arche in america. eastern europe with the velvet revolutions in africa in the middle east or really all over all over the world and so the us set up these different mechanisms now for penetrating the civil societies and the political systems that don't have countries that are going to be intervened in to assure that the outcomes would be pleasing to two washington foreign policy objectives we do

and so that's what drives us to look to ways in which we can think of a common sense, nonstifling way raise the bar in terms of the standards that are imposed on the industry so that we can drive down the risk drive it down to the pointed where we can feel comfortable proceed in a relatively risk-free way. and i emphasize relatively. >> is it the nature of what you're doing that it's always going to be 50/50? that there's a 50% chance that this could happen? >> i don't think -- keep in mind, my understandling, there have been over 4,000 holes dug in the gulf just in deep water. ok? there was one blowout. now, those are not 50/50 odds. those are low odds. but what i think people did not recognize is that even though it might only happen once, it could have enormous consequences. and that's why we are all legitimately concerned about driving down the risk that it can happen again. is it possible it can happen again? absolutely. when you have unknown reservoirs, you have exploratory drilling, you have advanced technologies, and more than anything else you have human beings involved, ther

result of the r.f.p., at which point the airport entered into a six-month extension with them to give us time to look at their concerns. o airport city attorney met with them and attorney as well as going over the evaluation sheets and scoring and their protest was found to be without merit. chairman avalos: what are the things that i saw -- one of the things i saw in the scoring is if you had experience and one of the outlier panelists looked like they scored versus the other group five star didn't have the experience but was rated higher in terms of experience and to me it showed something that i didn't expect, i wouldn't expect to see given the length of time they have been there. >> what i can say, i can't speak to the individual panelists' scoring, but i do know when the city attorney looked at the question of experience and it is unique out there. all airports are different. there is not really a cookie cutter approach to this. so there haven't really been other companies that have, are we have had the shorter r.f.p.'s it has mostly been daja that gave their bids because they were there. this t

we thought it was time that it could be a helpful response for us to look for potential revenue generation. in lieu of pursuing that particular strategy, i was listening to a number of people, especially the parking lot operators -- a well represented consortium -- talking to experts inside and outside city hall about the possibility of us trying to recover moneys. there was a supposition from some by parking lot operators, private operators, who were approximating the city would be able to recover upwards of $20 million a year with the strengthening of various compliance and enforcement strategies, some of which are before us today. while i would like to be as optimistic and thing that is the case, that is the need, i do not think that is what the yield will generate. i think it will probably be considerable but nowhere near $20 million, as i have learned more about the system. working with the treasurer's office, understanding their parking lots in operation in san francisco, designated by small, medium, and a large size, essentially half of those are part of an organized consortium comp

the public domain and they are required to provide a referral to the department of justice for us to look at, there is a standard set of 11 questions that the agency builds out that it goes into whether this information will be publicly available, which is obviously putting into the prosecution, how sensitive it is, that of thing. they make a referral to the department. the department then looks at the referral, brings in the fbi, and makes an assessment as to whether we should prosecute the case. given that there have not been that many lica prosecutions, you can imagine the vast majority of these referrals do not that many in the pacific -- given that there have not been that many in the prosecution's, you can imagine the vast majority of these referrals to not get prosecuted. it requires more than mere classification. so you might not meet the elements of the statute, but be, it might be something under which you hold your fire for serious leaks, so we might say there is that datapoint that got out there that is classified, but that is not the crime of the century and we do not want to

to the weekend. we have a mild weekend ahead of us. here's a lookhe temperatures, it is pretty chilly. 38 in that book, 35 in fairfield and about 38 degrees in livermore and as you take it you today we're going to warm up, where one is the fifties from the 10:00 hour and a minute that we're getting rid of the 60s and will top that out as we head into the afternoon peart new members today are coming into the upper 60s, 30 pleasant conditions up in santa rosa there's a sense of today, 64 degrees in san francisco it is clear to continue to see one temperatures and to assess. worry temperatures. 67 degrees in monday and about 65 degrees in redwood city. here's your seven day around the bay. which shows a lot of the amount of sunshine to the we get into next week as well. but to my we could be up into the '70s series 71 degrees expected on sunday it could be the warmest day of the week. we will keep the seven is around as we get into the work week reported that by next week as the temperatures are back down again into the 60s and that could be steered th

to that promise. i look forward to working with all of you call ever to pla. we invite you to stay with us. we look forward to continuing this dialogue in the future. thank you very much. >> welcome, dancers. bring them in. coming to you live, san francisco city hall, the indians have all arrived. how about a big round of applause for our native american dancers in the house? rocking san francisco. singing loud, dance hard, all right. all right, one more time, let's give it up for our singers, our dancers, kicking it live here in san francisco city hall, all right. good to be here tonight. seeing all these shining indian faces once again. could i have all the native americans please remain standing? all native americans, stand up. how about a big round of applause for our native americans here for native american heritage month in november. all you non-indians, just look around. this is what custer saw at the little bighorn, and you know what he said to his men? where did all these indians come from? once again, welcome to the sixth annual nida american heritage month celebration here at cit

backed regime change used to look like back in the days in a bid to ensure u.s. political and economic interests were safeguarded cia backed coup d'etat the democratically elected leaders from hama knows a dock in iran to salvador allende in chile. in their place all too often brutal dictatorships and governments that committed heinous crimes against their people. to replace the overt support for dictatorships a new concept for regime change was born one that sounds and looks better democracy promotion we do this through surrogates and we do. non-governmental organizations and we do it through people who're. less suspecting the evil that may lurk behind their actions perhaps they were before. have we learned some lessons of our guard you bet do we do it better you bet is it still just as highness as it always was you bet the concept of democracy promotion is simple finance train and politically back local opposition forces around the world that support washington's agenda but in america in eastern europe with the velvet revolutions in africa the middle east or re

what i did want to ask was is it an absolute certainty, and it is it entirely unfeasible for us to continue to look at the oceanside and the facilities as opportunities for this treatment plant? could you explain to me what the negatives are? i hope i'm not putting you through this needlessly because there will be opportunity to discuss this a little bit more, by that is of major interest to me, why we would, at this point in time, be saying that these areas are not, at least at this point, open for consideration and that we are really looking at this other alternative proposal. if you could just shed a little light there, that would be great. >> i invite you to attend our workshop if possible because that is going to be the focus of those workshops. if other areas come up, they will be considered, and we will have an engineering team that will help further develop the alternatives that come out of the workshop from the public input and will determine if they are still feasible. that is going to be part of that process, and if you are available, we would welcome your participation. >> so they are s

. >> reporter: 58-year-old photographer vincent giordano is used to looking at life through a clear lensconfronts advanced esophageal cancer, seeing things clearly is more important to him than ever. what do you think the different possible pathways are? >> it's over for me very, very soon. >> reporter: giordano has decided to stop chemotherapy. instead, memorial sloan- kettering is giving him palliative care. >> i think a lot of education is required. >> reporter: which means relieving symptoms like nausea and pain. it's not about trying for a cure or resorting to feeding or breathing tubes. the hope is to enable him to go home. >> hope's got many dimensions to it. it isn't all just about living longer. >> reporter: studies show that most patients don't want to spend their last days in a hospital. dartmouth researchers analyzed how well this wish is fulfilled around the country. they found the quality of end- of-life care varies widely. in mason city, iowa, just 7% of patients died in the hospital compared to almost 50% in manhattan. >> the care they receive is much more dependent upon