the next issue is usually in bathrooms. a lot * -- a lot of times, but is difficult to comply with depending on the size of the establishment. to make a wheelchair-accessible bathroom, it takes a lot more space than a regular bathroom. so, it is a problem oftentimes with small businesses. especially if you have to do two of them. and it cost about $15,000 to $25,000 to build a wheelchair- accessible bathroom. for restaurants, bars, it's a truck, there is an issue on the height of the counters -- for restaurants, bars, at such wreck, there is an issue on the height of the counters. that keller would make the person wheeling up on in the chair not be able to be eye level. you cannot have it like that. you have to have a portion of the counter down level. it is 34 inches. i daresay most of the counters will not be that size if you have a business like that. however it may be. that is not what the normal business layout is. tables. there is a percentage based on the number of seats that have to be wheelchair-a accessible. they

well it's it's sad but it's on surprising the auditors usually the last one to come in the picture they stay on the sidelines like switzerland and play both sides. seemingly helping the investigation they do know a lot because they're on the inside they have access to all of management to all of the financial statements all of the systems but until someone sues that usually general media doesn't notice however they have been active on the sidelines and they are there are probably helping with the investigation however they're helping from a friendly perspective they should be scrutinized though because they know global

don't know it's usually july or august of of the next year when they're closing everything how much we're getting so there is we don't we don't have eleven twelve in here because that would tell you anything. so over the five years here. about nine million dollars this includes all the cost to the city attorney's office inclusive of any phone calls that may really related to getting general advice or specific advice on a case or so that that's even if we call john to ask a question about. we get our job as a community that's that's included in the billing it's not just related to or there are outside entity call or even an insight into t. calls the city attorney's office based on our case it gets billed to us so. there it shows nine million versus about five and a half million but you'll see that. they basically ramp down i think i'm not one hundred percent sure why i think part of it was the shortage is a budget situation but. we're starting to get in two thousand and ten we're starting to get revenues that are coming in which are greater than the expenses the revenues are some som

usually all filled up because everyone wants to play on the turf. so i think we should change the beach chalet fields into turf. >> thank you. ok. those who are organizing the kids coming in, if approximate you can stop bringing them in until some leave the room -- [laughter] >> we need to -- i mean, again, you create a fire hazard. you're standing in front of the doors, there's no way to get out in the aisleways. this side of the room is obviously crowded. those who are not on that side if you can go back outside and just wait for somebody to leave and then come in so that we can get through this. reasonably. >> next speaker? >> i just want to -- >> soir the did as a parent when the grass fields are very, very often closed for rain and not necessarily because it's raining during the practice time but if it's rained the day before or sometimes even the day before that it's very frustrating for the kids to not be able to get out and have their practices and games. as a parent we've done a lot of research from the emails on the safety of the turf and

it is usually amax. >> thank you. -- it is usually a mix. >> thank you. i really appreciate the overview of for the litigation committee is. and its relationship with the city attorney. this was not -- i am afraid something got lost in the translation because this is not quite what i requested. my request was one of general data and a little bit of analysis by staff. not so much of where the cases are, but what the nature is, and how we deal with them. i wanted to know, you know, at the process by which staffed sense stuff to litigation committee and on to the city attorney -- staffed since stopped to litigation committee and on to the city attorney. -- staff sends stuff to litigation committee and to the city attorney. i do appreciate the cost analysis that pam presented. i wanted to see more of that from the city attorney. not just the cost per case, but how long it takes. and if there are some types of cases that cost us more than others. i wanted to get all this so we could consider the cost of litigation. litigation is not the only way to resolve iss

it is usually amax. >> thank you. -- it is usually a mix. >> thank you. i really appreciate the overview of for the litigation committee is. and its relationship with the city attorney.

usually, we have large kennedy populations, in the hundreds of thousands, it is usually a class-based examination. -- windt we have -- when we have large candidate populations, and hundreds of thousands, it is usually a class-based examination. >> when you're talking about city-wide activities to fill a particular class, here we are concerned particularly about migration. is there any class or specific city-wide activity that your department is plugging into around reversing the out migration? >> no, i'm not following you there. but i think the reference for the citywide hiring is really what we're trying to say, that the classification is used for multiple departments and their hiring into these positions. brecht's -- >> multiple departments are not responding at all to the out migration. >> how does that relate to this? gregg's hiring. trying to get people -- >> hiring. it tried to get people spread out of diverse backgrounds. brecht's we have a number of programs. outreach, you are talking about outreach. we have programs where we are trying to do is lower the minimum requirements

the pieces usually start with a question or an exercise.nd they brought in performative responses, and what i mean by that is something that could be performed, like a gesture or a piece of music or a song or a line. one, two, three, four, five, six. the question really gives us an excuse to explore what we're thinking. ...all clap your hands for amelia earhart. ritual and endurance are things that have been of interest to the group. matthew was interested in working on this character in the hitchcock film "39 steps." mr. memory! karen was interested in working on amelia earhart. and the old, reliable tomato juice. but what really happens is that we follow a lot of different tangents in the belief of everything being interconnected. i think that's a philosophical belief that underlies our work. man: i think one of the most important things about working with this group is the way ideas feed off each others' energy and create a way more complex piece. saner: goat island's work, i think, is much like painting in that there are many layers and

usually, we do not know who will come to public comment, but they will usually bring someone. either a community organizer will be in there, or a friend, or family member, to help them transit. what -- translate. if we knew that there would be a need for translation services, we could provide it. certainly, in a two-way manner. supervisor chu: and that would require devices for individuals to hear? >> we have tried that. certainly, we would be willing to try again. we have some technical difficulties. i remember one time we used it, we had 1 people on the son of a room had the speaker speaking to them live. we can do what we need to do so that people and the hero have time for translation. if they need to wait for the translation, they are accustomed to doing that. supervisor chu: i would love to follow up with you on this point in particular. we would be for the permit appeals board and there were language issues about that. people knew that there was going to pay a large group of folks there who would be limited english speakers. i want to make sure we are ensuring a fair pr

consulates are usually in the smaller cities. with regards to missions, missions are more sort of delegations that we have to a particular international organization. for example, in geneva, where there are a lot of u.n. agencies represented, we have what is called a mission. >> what's the role of the ambassador? >> as u.s. ambassador, that person is the representative of the country as the highest-ranking u.s. authority in the country that they are serving. so it really is quite an important job with tremendous responsibility. >> besides working with governments around the world, foreign service officers also help americans traveling abroad. >> and if something were to happen -- if you get in trouble or something gets stolen and you lose your passport -- then you go to the american embassy, and we have consular officers there who are prepared to help you. >> itnot an easy job. diplomats need to be able to work well with people from different cultures and backgrounds. you need to be able to handle the pressure of being in the pub

what i had done is i usual low don't work with an out line.f writers do they will out line what will happen and sometimes they have to because like if you are writing a mystery you need to write out the plot. i write about characters the characters drive the story. when that hatched i sat down and said, what happens is, a, he arrived and gets off the train what's going to happen. >> i know z, he would get on the train and leave at the evented book. i didn't know the alphabet in between. i was nervous and i took one step at a time very japanese like. i began to study and read everything i could find on the japanese culture. the incredible thing was not having everything that went into it and it still became a quiet book. there is a tsunami. there's tv and lep easier and a fire. i call it my zen book i think it's because as i was learning about the japanese culture, all of that started to go into the book. and it gave me the structure of what the book would become, which was very much taking after what a japanese garden it. early on a read about

just went on as usual almost. and there was sort of a detachment to the people that were doing the fighting and ourselves it seems like. and they didn't get the reception they should have. they should have been really brought home properly. and reassembled -- assimilated into our culture again. it was a terrible thing. i think there was a lot of difference, too, between the war in europe and the war in the far east. in the war in europe, there was an awful lot of fighting and a lot of firing. and i don't know why i wasn't hit 15 times over. and people were just firing. in the far east, seems there was an intent to either kill you or maim you. preferably to maim you could take four or five more guys out of the picture. i was lucky i was in europe. >> if you've seen "the pacific" i thought the series did a great job of showing the brutality of the fight in the pacific. that war wasn't fought by a geneva convention. there were no rules in the pacific. having been there and seeing the conditions and knowing the enemy

is he able to move his arms and legs, and talk as usual? dr. saver: then at the ten minute mark, you should call 911 or be driven directly to the emergency room. don't waste time trying to reach your doctor or reach aunt minnie, who had a stroke ten years ago, and is the family expert on a stroke. call 911 and come directly to the hospital. that's the only way we have a chance of getting to patients in time. we have a 54-year-old white female, 54-year-old white female, possible stroke. in the past, before doctors had the means to check the damaging effects of a clot, stroke victims were not considered a priority, by paramedics or emergency personnel. now that we have proven interventions available, that attitude is changing, and more and more emergency medical systems are recognizing that stroke is an emergency that should be treated as equally important as heart attack or trauma, or any other level i priority. and the same with triage nurses, and other decision makers in the emergency department after arrival. you're going to the chest pain ce

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this is the good to my weekends and the usual bay area hot spots is getting ready.ng some people they think might cause trouble to get them out of town. robert lila's in the downtown area right now with the story. it is said the announcement of prevention is worth a pound of cure and they're taken that quite literally tonight on this night before some of the mile cover pie has been high above the streets of downtown san jose trying to follow it and said that police activity as they stand at the ready to execute for they're calling the diversion plan that plan sets off access to all cross streets along santa clara boulevard that is starting at first street in extending all the way to 11. if problems erupt the crowds in their cars are pushed for their freeway and of the downtown core and that the stepped-up presence by san jose's patrol division in special operations units has been in effect since about 7:00 tonight taking in and telling cars parked on santa clara and not telling remains in effect through sunday because last year drunk and sing good mile crowds smashe

let's get back to business as usual. we cannot afford business as usual, because it brings down the economy with these institutions when they become so large. that they have an inpact across not only the american economy, pu the economy of the world. i think it's appropriate for us to examine the rules and it's also appropriate to note that we cannot allow business as usual to become the order of the day. i yield back the balance of my time. >> i'd like to ask the witnesses, recognize the witnesses for the five-minute of your summation of your submitted statement. our first panelist is mr. lance allor ev, deputy financial secretary for financial institutions, u.s. department of treasury, welcome. >> thank you. >> do you have your microphone on? >> maybe pull it closer. >> how is this? >> chairman caputo, ranking members maloney, members of the subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to discuss the financial stability oversight council's rule and guidance for identifying nonbank financial companies that will be enhanc

>> but you're not doing business as usual. we have very strict rules.ou have to grow the trees bigger. you have to manage your forest better. >> reporter: you're not doing this out of the goodness of your heart. >> of course not. >> reporter: spi admits they stand to gain hundreds of millions of dollars through carbon offsets but insist the company is changing its business practice and not doing business as usual. >> we can show we're well above carbon practice, but, more importantly, the change in business practices, once we move into the offset market, we can no longer cut the forest down. >> reporter: therefore they claim we're reducing gas house emissions as demonstrated in this grasp of their 100-year plan. >> in order to maintain the carbon offsets that we've sold. >> reporter: sierra pacific hopes to use three main tracts to gain carbon offsets. including those 20,000 acres around cherry lake, potentially gaining millions of dollars with trees planted 15 to 20 years ago. the key, they say, is that they are changing their business model on these t

have another discussion and vote at that point and public notice and everything would be usual. >> mr. chairman, when public comment begins, i will have a statement to read. i can do that from here or from the public podium. >> sometime during public comment, i would like to read this statement. >> ok. >> did you get an answer to your question about whether you had covered all of the points? >> ok, public comment. >> ok. i am here are my own time as a private citizen. >> like to read a memo. "the primary concern had been that the staff draft, this is so drastically restricted to the commission's enforcement jurisdiction as to render it nonexistent. another part of the memo is that the staff draft would be the jurisdiction. we should completely rewrite the guidelines for enforcement. those guidelines must be written. finally, i would like to remained both the ethics commission and the sunshine task force members, that the task force found mr. st. croix in willful violation on my sunshine complaint and the city comptroller was also an willful violation on 113 and 11. i have begged to ov

there's usually only one way out and that's the way you went in. if that's compromised, you are in big trouble. forcible entry. when do you use forcible entry, what kind of tools do you use? you want to go in -- first thing you need to do is always try to get in the easiest way. what do you want to use to force entry? you can use axs, you are use pry bars or jacks, car jacks. you need to do a lift, you don't have any levers, there's some cars parked outside, you go up and ask the owner of the car, is it okay if i use your car jack? because you're not going to break in, are you? there's always cutting and boring. here is that ax. of course striking and hammering. how do you break glass? at the top, good. we're going to say that this is the glass from here on down, so how would you break it? do i just want to take it like this and smash it this way? no. the end of the board, going to use the end of the board, but i'm also going to remember that the glass can hurt me. if i were to hit it like this, the glass could slide down, cut my hand. so you want

through the golden gate the uss iowa leaves the bay area for its final destination >>> is here the usual tomorrow day weekend in the bay area the golden gate anniversary celebration brings thousands into san francisco the dumbarton bridge closure is imminent getting run difficult anne mackovic shows as a strike had shut down the ferry system >>> the timing of a strike on the golden gate ferry system could not be worse thousands fled san francisco to celebrate the anniversary of the golden gate bridge many accounting on ferries from larkspur and sausalito. >>> the inland boatman's union has been without one for a year >>> are members are putting up with a lot of things in the background the public does not know >>> they are working around mold and better braking areas and word about security cameras >>> why did and need to surveil us? >>> anything about programs or cameras is unfounded >>> last year the district decided to allow management ticket agents from ferry terminals >>> there's been a lot of work over fallen onto the terminal workers >>> they are not valid concerns. >>> left in th

i noticed in the green book that you were handed when you walked in, there's the usual slide which i'm not going to show you on page 7 of the u.s. spends a lot more than everybody else which susan alluded to. what's less well appreciated, though ken mentioned it in passing, my first slide, is that -- how do i advance the slides? >> right hand. >> the -- what i've done here is look at annual growth rates per person in real health care spending over time. so this is almost 50 years. and the asterisks -- the g-7 -- by germany, italy, japan, because there's strange things about their numbers, not just that they're different. germany had reunification, italy doesn't start until 1988 and most of the japanese bulge is in 1960s, when their economy was growing 11% a year. if i look at the other four, the u.s. actually is the highest but not by a lot. certainly not by nothing like the levels. and then i'd like to go on to say when we participated in the medicare trustees 75-year review, which you may think is a waste of time, but we were doing our civic duty and in projecting 75 years or even 10

i hear a lot of that in other words, let's get back to business as usual. we cannot afford business as usual because it brings down the economy with these institutions when they become so large that they have an impact across not only the american economy but the economy of the world. so today i think it is appropriate for us to examine the rules, but it is also appropriate to note that we cannot allow business as usual to become the order of the day. i yield back the balance of my time. >> gentleman yields back. i believe that concludes our opening statements. i would like to ask the witnesses -- i would like to recognize the witnesses for the purposes of a five minute summation of your submitted statement and our first panelist is mr. lance hour, deputy assistant secretary for u.s. department of treasury. welcome. >> thank you, chairman, ranking member maloney and members of the subcommittee. >> do you have the microphone on or pull it closer. >> how is this? members of the subquestion, thank you for the opportunity to discuss the financial stability over

and they all usually have labs. which they work on these yeasts. but in washington's day with an orchard, there's naturally occurring yeast. he may have well had the apple juice all pressed and let it sit in barrels in an orchard, and let that naturally occurring yeast get in there and do its job over a period of weeks. when i refer to the 6%, that's when it's in its stage at the end of fermentation. so we're going to then distill it. and so that's going to get the proof up to much higher alcohol content by volume. so by running it through these big pot stills as we're doing now, we're going to get this proof upwards 80, 90, 100 proof. through doing two distillations. right now we have all five stills charged with the 6% juice, which is the fermented apple juice. and as the stills run, this first run today, we'll bump that up, might get to 50 proof, maybe 60 proof. we'll collect all that first run distillate and then run it through on wednesday. we'll double everything. we'll run it a second time through the still. each time you distill, you gain p

off the victims are usually immigrants. women and the elderly because they are less likely to ask questions. things are up and running again. all of the escalators were down due to a mechanical problem. the recently slow down the morning commute. and it is a do or die time for the washington capitals today. today, game 6 between the caps and the rangers. the team is standing a strong but message with t-shirts. -- but calm message with t- shirts. >> as usual, surrounded by facebook fans. today, things are a bit more intense than usual. >> i am optimistic. >> is this feeling of anxiety normal these days? after all, the caps have already faced elimination and survived a. >> they pulled together. >> this is the 11th time they have been down in a playoff series. going into tonight's game is the stanley cup half full or half empty? >> we win some we lose some. >> the biggest step right of of the hockey stick is how they perform when the rangers tied the game with only six seconds on the clock and only one in overtime. >> we have

so you get a lot of people surviving, more than we usually realize. where the people get to choose the place for their reservation as the pumunkies did. osamkateck, right in the middle, the modern day pumunky reservation. they chose what land to keep. why did they choose it? maybe because it was farrell easily defensible. look at the wonderful red stars just across the river. they were still going after the stuff in bread basket marshes. if the corn crop failed, these local, king williams, whites and blacks, might be doing real poorly next winter. the indians would still be doing just fine, thank you. therefore, you can expect that there will be plenty of indians still. the refuge areas they were able to go to and they used resources that the white competition didn't want, enabled them to change their culture at a slow pace. it didn't mean it wasn't painful. we are all living through that now. they were able to adopt and survive and they are still here. thank you. [ applause ] >> any questions, pertinent or im? >> what was the food preparation with th

that sleern -- certainly is usually the first accusation that's usually made, you don't want the government picking winners and losers, and if you make it that simplistic, i would agree with that comment. the comment is in the real world the government does, and has to, pick winners and losers every day. government decides who wins contracts, who gets grants for research, what projects are continued, which ones get canceled, and that's, once again, a fact of life. and i think not inappropriate. i believe three guards are very important if the government has to have difficult choices, which the government has to do. the first of those is that the government employ competition to the maximum possible extent so everybody has a fair shot of contributing and being involved. secondly whatever is done is highly transparent. the third thing that i think needs to be done is to have -- assure that we have competent people in our government who are able to make sensible judgments without conflicts and given those three criteria, i believe that the government not only can, but it has to make choices. p

so technology is usually treated as a residual. it's not technology, it's the "i don't know" factor. if you see somebody say, technology is responsible for 60% of cost growth over some period of time. maybe. maybe not. it's just not at all clear. and technology alone, as susan said, technology alone is not the culprit. it's everything. but in the end, if there wasn't money to buy it and if people didn't want it and if doctors weren't prepared to do it, then that piece of technology wouldn't be used. so it's more complicated than, i think, most studies are capable -- most empirical studies are capable of dealing with. okay. so when you have better technology, you generally have better care. not uniformly, but over the vast span of time, we see this to be the case, and my example is cataract surgery. there is evidence that a crude form of cataract surgery that was literally somebody sticking a, putting a stick in your eye, was practiced sometime in the babylonian era. but more concrete evidence, there is some evidence in the 16th cen