they were written over the course of a decade and published in various periodicals, many of them in the new york review books. they are for non-science, nonscientists. they all are. and i hope that i succeeded in making them clear enough. i certainly tried. >> and then for another nonscientific question to you, is there life similar to what we have here on earth in your view somewhere else in the universe? >> the universe is pretty big. and i think the chances are very strong. but how, i me, it's a big unknown question. how likely is it that if you have a planet that is about the right distance from its stars so that water can be liquid on the surface and has a solid surface and has the right chemistry, how likely is it that life will get started there? nobody has the slightest idea. we know the answer isn't zero. on me, there's some chance, and since the universe as so many planets, so many galaxies, each galaxy having so many stars, most stars having planets, i think the chances overwhelming that there is volume elsewhere in the universe. but whether that is life elsewhere in our gala

it consolidates for consistency various parts of the ordinance. it creates a transition period of up to six months when a contractor is changed and we saw earlier this year were last year when the city switched contractors and another contractor immediately laid off the workers and this board supported the workers unanimously in that dispute. also it eliminates a loophole where people, employees are classified as independent contractors instead of employees to get around the prevailing wage ordinance. this resulted from a very good process that worked closely with the number of labor unions. we also worked closely with the department of public health and human services agencies and nonprofits to address their concerns and we did make a number of amendments in committee and i was proud this came out unanimously from budget with a positive recommendation. i ask for your support. president chiu: supervisors kim. supervisor kim: i wanted to express my support for this legislation and think supervisor wiener's office for working on wiener's office for working on this ordinance and t

>> map's are available on-line through subscription by various libraries through the sand born map company. the san francisco library for a period of one year had a trial subscription and the use did not justify the cost so they suspended and the public demand to return that may occur again. >> what is sand born. >> the short answer is, no. sand born was a mapping company that was part of a fire insurance program that went around cities all over the united states and maybe beyond and actually, physically, mapped by hand every building, hold that up for me -- every building and every out building and set of stairs and updated these map's on an annual basis walking around the city and unfortunately someone had the mistakes of canceling the subscription ten or twelve years back but we have these historical map's and their fantastic in many ways. they don't give you a full history of the building but at the snapshot, i think this was in the 40s. you can look that building and actually see, if you look carefully, you can see the number of floors. two floors with an addition in the back and a bunch of an abbreviationses and the big ke

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period. the building is held in trust by two families. it took a great deal of effort for the variouss to agree as to what course of action to follow. city planning staff. they are willing to entertain the use of this building as a single-family apartment over a broad -- garage. we are ready to permit -- submit the permit application this week. i have copies, if you wish to look at them. they include floor plans -- this is all in preparation of a site plan. in addition, the property owners capped the gas, electric, and water lines. the building is vacant. >> so there is plumbing fixtures -- commissioner murphy: so there are plumbing fixtures in there? >> yes, and as you can see from this picture, there was residential use. i should probably leave it right there. we had to deal with problems of legality. when the notice of violation was issued in may of 2010, the owners were aware of the problem, and we are seeking financing to complete the rehab this property. they received some bids. those that we have received are to the $20,000. this is a major rehab project. -- $220,000. financing

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there was a period of time when the cot in the back of the store was a drop off for various disassembled armaments. sometimes someone we didn't know would put something under the mattress, making the cot unusable for several days. someone would come by and take the hardware away in a shopping bag and that would be it for a week or so. there was often a black photographer who would come to the shop with an empty shopping bag. when he left, he with leave in a zigzag and eventually get on a bus going south. >> i wanted to read a poem that was sent by the poet that i invited to the recent san francisco international poetry festival from iraq i've been in touch with for more than a year and a half. after the united states would not give him his visa, i asked him -- i told him about mutanabbi street and he wrote a poem and he wrote it in english, though he writes in, of course, in arabic. but this one he wrote in english. so i'll read it. one figure in the poem you should know, humbaba, which is an ogre, a monster of immemorial age. that was a special big garden, a forest, where all types of t

period of time we have come to call, quote, the '60s. we're mrs. considering issues of power in society and the narraters discuss various conversations, issues related to government policy, to university policies, to behavior and to social norms as well. and again, just considering this issue in terms of the idea of reconciliation over the deaths and the two issues there are the reconciliation and again the larger meaning of the 1960s. if we take a queue from work in conflict resolution, we can see that the events at kent are a long way from a point of reconciliation which you can consider on a continuum between sort of an additional stance on one end and then reconciliation at the end of a conflict resolution process. it's clear within the oral history testimonies that in the collection, and in many other sources that you can look and read about, that the events are still yet marked by an additional stance. scholars have written that these adversarial relationships in the context of conflict and trauma which is our theme for the conference involve assigning blame to the other's actions. the goal in this discussion then is to get the other person or

unlike the previous time during the period during the time of mubarak so we understand that this is a threat. several members of. different movements have received various threats of this murder including myself so it is going to be hard but we are still doing our peaceful nonviolent revolution in the form of protests rallies and sit in a last question here before the elections the muslim brotherhood was standing by the protesters recently their stance seems to have shifted you think that was part of the group strategy all along. the muslim brotherhood didn't join the protests until january twenty eighth after three days already several people were killed the boy the security. were put in jail including myself who was in jail with an injury as my nose was broken. and they only joined when the thought that the protests may win so unfortunately the most the muslim brotherhood always choose the winning side under their point of view and they don't see that probably the protests is the winning side but once the see that they are going to join the protest the protesters are we have to leave it there ahmed salah political activist in cairo thanks for your ins

periods, and 25 off peak. motorists get plenty of warning for variable costs of using the icc, through various electronic signshe relatively high tolls keeps some drivers away. >> i could go that way, if the traffic was really bad, all those exits that take you into dc i might take it if it wasn't $4 but if there is no wreck i will take my time around the 495. >> if it was a buck or two would you use it. >> probably but between gas and all that, it is a little ... >> state transportation officials estimated in the early months of usage, 20,000 cars per week day would ride on the icc preliminary figures for traffic volumes show more cars than that on week days in december. >> i think it is great speeds up time getting around to other side of 95, i use it whenever i go that way now. >> i came from baltimore, montgomery county, every single day, an hour and 15 minutes i am paying $8 a day, i don't thing twice about it >> you like it >> love it. >> preliminary traffic counts for december, show 15 week days volume in excess of 25,000 cars per day on the icc. state officials weren't expecting to hit that kind of vol

before we get to go to the various balls that night, we're going to have a work period.orking presidency. i may not get in as much golf as obama, but i'll get in a lot more job creation. [ applause ] and i'll tell you up front, i'm not going to compete with obama in singing, because i'm not running for entertainer in chief, i'm running for president. [ cheers and applause ] and i would say to him now, mr. president, you cannot sing your way past a disaster of your presidency. now, we will immediately, you know, i forgot my teleprompter. i said to my staff earlier, i'm having to wing this because of a staff failure. so we're going to sign on that day the authorization for the immediate deployment of the keystone pipeline as of that day. [ cheers and applause ] my message to the people of canada is, don't cut a deal with the chinese. help is on the way. by january, we'll build the right pipeline to the right place. [ applause ] i'll just give you a couple more. we'll put together a package. you're going to see this is what a serious conservative president is like, who is b

various words we're dealing with here commonly appeared. so it seems a bit much to say well, they didn't bring any cases for that period. there were no cases to be brought. >> the only point i'm trying to make, chief justice, is that if you're talking about this as sort of the core understanding between the parties, it simply played a fairly minor role in the process through the bulk of the regulatory period we're talking about. and indeed, if you put it in context, this is a statute that prohibits obscenity, profanity and indecency. and while the fcc spent a lot of time writing about profanity as somehow being offended by what went on in this omnibus order, the commission has completely abandoned that under the -- >> how about this, mr. phillips -- look, you've been given a privilege and that gives the government at least somewhat more leeway to impose obligation on you. not -- can't impose everything, but at least has a bit more leeway. and here we've had something that's very historically grounded. we've had this for decades and decades that the broadcast is -- the broadcaster is treated differently. it seems to work

various words we're dealing with here commonly appeared. so it seems a bit much to say well, they didn't bring any cases for that period. there were no cases to be brought. >> the only point i'm trying to make, chief justice, is that if you're talking about this as sort of the core understanding between the parties, it simply played a fairly minor role in the process through the bulk of the regulatory period we're talking about. and indeed, if you put it in context, this is a statute that prohibits obscenity, profanity and indecency. and while the fcc spent a lot of time writing about profanity as somehow being offended by what went on in this omnibus order, the commission has completely abandoned that under the -- >> how about this, mr. phillips -- look, you've been given a privilege and that gives the government at least somewhat more leeway to impose obligation on you. not -- can't impose everything, but at least has a bit more leeway. and here we've had something that's very historically grounded. we've had this for decades and decades that the broadcast is -- the broadcaster is treated differently. it seems to work

about the issue of workers at various levels because we described to me the other day with a very large portion of your workforce eligible for retirement and a very short period of time. so my sense is that you need workers with certain skills much more substantial than quote unquote traditional manufacturing. do you have the sense that our high schools, community colleges , intermediaries, labor or others are able to produce these workers? secondly, on the management scale, someone came up to me during the break and had a critical question and actually they were three or four in here, this first top-notch management talent coming out of the best school is here and around the world still on attraction to the financial effect terry. >> manufacturing madness other issues. how do you think about the workforce challenges these multiple scales? >> so, let's talk at the production level. and clearly again we heard a good about it this morning. there is a need for skilled crafts worker. people who are really good i've been able to build and maintain plans. they are in short supply. we've been able to meet needs and they will be increasing in the next several years a

various levels. because what you described to me the other day was a very large portion of your work force eligible for retirement in a very short period of time. so my sense is that you need workers with certain skills, um, much more substantial than quote-unquote traditional manufacturing. do you have the sense that our high schools, community colleges, intermediaries, labor or others are able to produce these workers, and secondly, at the management scale someone came up to me during the break and said a critical question and, actually, there were about three or four of them in here is for topnotch management talent coming out of the best business schools here and around the world still an attraction to the financial sector. manufacturing sector not as attractive because of compensation issues and other issues. so how do you think about the work force challenge really at these multiple scales from your respect? >> so let's talk at a plant, at the production level. and, clearly, and again, we heard a bit about in this this morning. there is a need for skilled crafts workers, people who are really good at being able to build and maint

period will facilitate thoughtfully and robust responses. the letter of invitation also switches -- solicits views with the proposal places u.s. banking entities at a competitive disadvantage. competitive consequences here various sources. there are competitive consequences that follow from the provisions of the statute that reflect legislative shlaes is made by congress that may differ from the approach is adopted in other jurisdictions. these differences are based on policy as well as risk management crounse, and it's not unique for the u.s. and other jurisdictions to have differences on such issues. second, the manner in which the provisions of the statute are implemented by regulation can affect its competitive impact. this is why we welcome comments of the impact of the proposed rulemaking on the competitive of u.s. banking entities as well as comments on the flexibility that may exist in the statutory requirements. i appreciate the opportunity to update the committee on the work. this is very much a work in process. we appreciate your concerns and we will keep the committee advised of the status of the rulemaking effort, and i am happy to answer your questions. stat thank you. i want to thank all the witn