the consistency findings with the general plan and proposition 101 policy. and then also approving the resolutions adopting the planning code and zoning map amendments. and the ceqa findings identify the potential significant impacts in mitigations associated with the project. and they encourage the commission to make a statement of overriding consideration and in terms of bringing the neighborhood commercial district and the transit oriented neighborhood that promotes public safety and the compatible use in the area. and the general plan amendment including the area plan which is the glen park community plan or known as the glen park area plan and also amending various amounts of the general plan to revens the new area plan. and we would then be amending the planning code to include the new glen park neighborhood commercial transit direction as section 138 of the code and making various related amendments to different sections related to the new neighborhood commercial district. and the city attorney has asked me to bring up a relevant clause that we would

of the motion with the general plan and section 101.1 and 11b is the general plan amendment and item d to reclassify from public to downtown and question the northerly portion from mixed use -- >> if i could ask for a clarification to the inclusion of the language just -- in the general plan referral. thank you. >> with the inclusion of the new language that is provided by staff. commissioner antonini? >> aye. >> commissioner miguel? >> thank you. commissioners. the motion passed unanimously. commissioners, you are now ready to hear 12, case 2005.1004e. the glen park community plan. you have had public comment on this item, today you had public comment on this item and the public hearing on this item is closed on the certification of the final environmental impact report. >> good afternoon. i am lisa gibson of the planning department and before you is the certification -- >> commissioner sugaya. commissioner sugaya: thank you, staff. i have to ask for a recusal because we did participate in the environmental impact report. and so just asking for a recusal. >> second. secretary avery:

level in the steam generator. after three weeks of being online, it is now being turned on. at a plant in ohio, more cracks were found. the plant's been shut down since october 1st because of previously discovered cracks. those cracks were found accidentally when the plant's owners were doing some unrelated renovations. and yesterday a nonradio act af mo -- active ammonia leak caused a partial evacuation of a plant. and the 35 nuclear reactors that it built over the last 40 years from new york to washington may not shut down properly during an earthquake. the company is recommending testing now to determine how much of a jolt it would take to stop the nuclear fission process during an earthquake in one of those plants. they're recommendation additional testing, 40 years after making them, because we don't know the answer to that yet. some of these plants are 40 years old. these plants are all 40 years old. and we're just now getting around to figuring out how big a quake would turn them from a disaster into a cata

. >> let the attorney general answer. i applied to myself. >> you went one minute and 40 minutes -- he answered -- [talking over each other] >> before my time was up. you can answer his question even though he asked after his time was up. >> with regard to the question, the matter under investigation, there were couple of weeks and those leaks are an investigation by the inspector general and the office of professional responsibility and i am not in a position to comment on investigations. >> mr. chairman, attorney-general holder, i would like to thank you for working with us on our law enforcement officers and courage in the line of duty. in 2008 congress passed a law forcing congressional badge of bravery act. i am sure the and asked to choose 21 award recipients out of so many qualified nominees across the country so two weeks ago i was pleased to present the first of these awards to two deserving officers in wisconsin. james page and county deputy sheriff daniel dowdick. they made the state of wisconsin proud and i lo

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fall, in the general election. i don't think it's a smart strategy for romney because the country has moved on. it's not the same hawkish mood. >> can i just make a point. the reason i began this conversation by saying the huntsman applause shows me where the country has moved. >> right. >> is exactly what you said a moment ago. >> i can remember that to ask on radio whether we should get out of iraq or afghanistan was heresy and i'd be inundated with callers saying you're not being supportive of troops as if to somehow plan for their safe return was not to have their best interest at heart, those days are over. >> absolutely. >> so we're in a new era here, and it's an example of what you might call an overpander by romney. you know, he's pandering on an issue that people don't want to be pandered to anymore. namely war. >> go ahead, michael, final comment from you. >> romney is also fighting the 2008 he lost on national in 2008 he lost on national security to john mccain. he was perceived in that debate to be more

president chiu: the impacts on this on the general fund is the $50 million that was discussed by the previous -- >> there are two options. one option we have assumed when presenting to our commission is the san francisco public utilities commission fund could have the available fund balances in order to fund the startup cost. in this case the startup costs are to put money into a reserve, which we hope and project will not need to be spent, but you have to put them into research. right now that is the assumption. if the general fund a word to fund those reserves, we would not be opposed to that, but that is not our working assumption. supervisor campos: thank you. >> i just wanted to make one other point about the risk to the city and make sure we understand that part of the discussion also. we're putting 15 million aside, and that money would only be used if the program was just not successful. and if the market changed so that if we go out and help show you are buying this much power from us, and the market rates have increased, shell can determine to sell it. the cost does nothing

that concludes the general managers' report. thank you. >> is there any public comment on the general managers' report? if there is, please come forward. >> on the legislation, phil ginsburg mentioned that there is a ruling that there has to be a half mile distance of walking to get to a park. that is totally out of sync with reality. i think that has to be changed. because that is archaic. how can every person walk a half mile to a park? it is a possible. i think that has to be considered for change as soon as possible. >> is there anyone else who like to make public comment? please come forward. >> good morning, ladies and gentlemen, members of the recreation and park commission. and the manager of the rec and park commission. i am going to put an order of the termination from the sunshine or dance task force, and i am going to speak to you about a resolution that was pants -- past 10 years ago, around the middle of september 2001. before i do that, i would like the public to take note of the people in front of them today, the

up the matter by the attorney general. his work is continuing. i think we're close to the work that he has been asked to do. i think the decision i made was a correct one. going to the process that i asked him to do was the right thing to do. >> you have the advice of people who knew what was going on saying you shouldn't do this. then you have seven former directors of the cia who were offended by this. the problem is i think it hampers the work that they do in many areas if they are going to be brought into court years later. it is a decision you made. i just disagree with it. i think it was something that should have been done. it kind of takes me back to ted stevens. i have not seen much in the way of correction for those who took those prosecutorial approaches. there should have been some serious correction because of what they did to a great u.s. senator. frankly, to use an excuse that they just plain overlooked some of the most exculpatory evidence that has to be given to defendants, it would have acquitted him. it

the generals take no responsibility. instead they blame so-called invisible hand. that's code for foreigners. and it may be why three u.s. students from the american university of cairo were shown on state television today. gregory porter, luke gates and derek sweeney were arrested monday night for allegedly throwing rocks and molotov cocktails at security forces. the american embassy is now working to get the three released. now it's not clear how the general's fresh promise to step down early is going to go out with the vast numbers of egyptians who weren't out protesting today and do want a return to civility. but as for the thousands left in tahrir square, they say, scott, they're not going anywhere. >> pelley: the protests continue. thanks very much. the three americans who have been detained that elizabeth just told you about are exchange students studying in egypt. they were apparently caught up in the cairo protests. we asked seth doane to find out more about them. >> that's him. i can tell. that's my son. >> rep

the entire general fund is $3.3 billion per year. if one penny is $4.5 million, not to say that it is not significant because every dollar is significant, but this would be a discussion with the mayor's office as well as the board of what the importance is of the hetch hetchy system. everybody understand that the costs we have now are incredibly low. there are the best bargain we have right now, especially compared to pg &e. policy makers understandably could not forever sustained rates below cost. it is a matter of how they can fit them into the budget. we are all hoping that an economic recovery helps the general fund growth over the next few years. that is yet to be seen. commissioner moller caen: -- president moran: a lot depends on how the mayor rights his budget instructions in. if they anticipate this increase, it may be shocking to the budget as a whole and the mayor's office may have to think about that for a while. as far as individual departments, it would not necessarily upset their efforts. >> there is also one mutually

we are playing around with the date. we will open a up to the general public. if you could not make it this year, come next year. we will remind you. we got six new penguins from the monterey bay aquarium. they were part of a rescue operation out of brazil. they went to monterey aquarium for a special exhibit and now they came our way. they are on 40. -- are on quarantine. they will go on exhibit in two weeks. our flock will grow larger. thank you. president buell: thank you. >> is there anyone who would like to make a comment on item #6? seeing none, public comment is closed and we are now on items 7, the chinese recreation center. president buell: thank you. i introduced this item at committee, so i would like to make some brief comments. before i introduce this item, i would like to let everyone know how we will proceed. after i introduced it, i will ask the family to speak. following that, we will have the united states and then commissioner comments. i am truly honored to introduce this item. on september 1, mayor lee announced he was requesting to name th

, increasing the grade of the chief of the national guard bureau from the tenet general to general and making him a principal adviser to the secretary of defense to the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff on matters of dollars in non-federalized guard forces. other of their recommendations implemented by congress was established in the national guard euro as a joint activity of the department of defense, enhancing functions of the national guard bureau to assist in the secretary of defense and coordinating with other federal agencies to adjectives generally the states and combatant command with responsibility for the united states homeland, the u.s. northern command. we require at least one deputy at the u.s. northern command, again the combatant and responsible for the united states to at least one be a national guard officer and the grade of lieutenant general and that increase the number of unified and specified that command conditions for reserve component officers. we all are grateful to the witnesses, to the men and women with whom they serve for service to our nation. we think

generally is in at the moment. is this money that we already allocated and available? is that something or an action that has taken place? >> the money has already been approved by the board and the redevelopment commission in the agency's current-year budget. so the money is available. because of the suspension in redeveloper activities, we're not allowed to enter into any contracts at the moment. but we're hopeful that that situation will be resolved as early as january, at which point we will start the process of allocating that money to the construction of the station. supervisor chu: i guess the question for us overall is, depending on what the resolution is, we do not have a clear sense of what that will be in january. we are dependent on that half a million dollars to do the renovation work. it that were the case but the redeveloper the agency was not able to enter into a contract to provide that grant, what would be another option? >> the money has already been allocated. it is already in our budget. that $

game at 8:45 on saturday morning. >> at the risk of irritating my bosses, that includes the general managers' report. >> is there anyone who would like to make public comments on the general managers' report? seeing none, this item is closed. we are on item 10, general public comment continued. and is there anyone who would like to make general public comment? seeing none, this item is closed. we have item 11, commissioners matters. >> we have soccer games, and i know that the direct -- we direct spectators to the stands. in the past, the parents to watch the soccer games. i know -- i would like for this world to be reconsidered. the parents cannot see the games from the stands. and i would like to look at this rule. and i know that this -- given that we have had several concerts, i think that if we strictly notify the parents that if they want to spectate, they can watch the game but they can bring food or barbeque, which are the activities that the staff is concerned with. i think this would be a great benefit to the parents to allow for them to spectate and watch their children p

the actual equipment purchase was not from the general fund. this was basically free to the city. in my thinking, for us to have a four-year contract for a system costing $9 million is probably not the best place for the city. it makes sense for us to exercise these options so that, additionally we can extend out for three years, to go through the selection process, and the contract talks. the one thing about this system, it is the only system in the country that can run this system. there is nothing out there to replace the current system. the current vendor has a system includes the rank-choice voting, for this process. the system that we have is what we can use for san francisco the system that we bought only four years ago. i asked for the board to approve this option, contract the us for an additional three years. i don't know of any other funding source and no one has come forward to say that the money is available for new system. >> can i ask a few questions? but the conversation that we will have, many of us are wondering if we should do this, and if this fits into what we

that's why i said in the course of my remarks that the reason general westmoreland is the general who lost the vietnam war is that he basically squandered four years of support for our war in vietnam, and even though in the latter period after he was succeeded, things went much, much better near the end of congress and probably the people just ran out of patience and support for the war, and even when we just gave them the money, they were motivated to pull the plug. now, you asked me about the current situation. i'm not very well qualified to comment on that. you're looking at a genuine dinosaur. i occupied myself day and night for 30 years thinking about the period of 1960 through 1975, and while i have the general awareness of anyone who reads the newspapers has about the situation now in iraq and afghanistan, i can't profess to any particular expertise there. i will say that in the early and latter years of our involvement in iraq, we did see a similar pattern in that the early commanders went about the war in the way similar to what general westmoreland did, and then when we chan

level in the steam generator. after three weeks of being online, it is now being turned on. at a plant in ohio, more cracks were found. the plant's been shut down since october 1st because of previously discovered cracks. those cracks were found accidentally when the plant's owners were doing some unrelated renovations. nonradioactactive ammonia leak caused a partial evacuation of a plant. and the 35 nuclear reactors that it built over the last 40 years from new york to washington may not shut down properly during an earthquake. the company is recommending testing now to determine how much of a jolt it would take to stop the nuclear fission process during an earthquake in one of those plants. they're recommendation additional testing, 40 years after making them, because we don't know the answer to that yet. some of these plants are 40 years old. these plants are all 40 years old. and we're just now getting around to figuring out how big a quake would turn them from a disaster into a catastrophe. all of our nuclear

the generals. more on that from whit johnson. >> reporter: the white house issued its strongest show of support for the thousands packing tahrir square, signaling te a statement it's time for egypt's ruling military to yield its authority. the increase in pressure comes as egypt's generals have made clear their intentions to maintain political power beyond upcoming elections. the white house also condemned violent crackdowns in the streets of cairo, adding that typt's transition to democracy must continue, with elections ensueeding expeditiously and all necessary measures taken to ensure security and prevent intimidation. since the overthrow of hosni mubarak in february, washington has had to balance a push for tonocracy with its long and close alliance to egypt's military, which receives $1.3 $1.3ion in u.s. aid each year. the white house also wants justice for those killed in the totests and believes the only ony that will occur is through an independent investigation. t iah? >> o'donnell: whit,

have you talked with the general manager? >> i have not received a phone call from the general manager, no. i am speaking in front of you because the minutes said that i suggested something. i want to go on record saying that i did not suggest. commissioner moran: would a more appropriate word be that you stated? >> yes, sir. commissioner moran: would there be objection to amending the minutes to say that he stated? >> well, i question what the transcript says. >> commissioners, the minutes are just a summary. because the meetings are video recorded, you have a 100% minutes, a recording of what occurred in the meeting. so the commentary under the requirement of the sunshine ordinance are that they summarize the comments of public speakers, which is what i intended to do. i did not mean to imply anything by the use of that, only looking for phrasing that was a little bit less tilted. commissioner vietor: it does seem that the most neutral phrasing of that would be to reflect a statement that was made that then gives no particu

one line of the bill that we will control is the energy generation. everything else will still be pg&e. they will be doing the metering, building. if you have issues with anything, it is still the people from the service department. you get all of the services at pg&e. what is different is we deliver greener power. the state law provides that the way this program works is we send out notices to people and give them multiple chances and a lot of marketing to make sure they realize this is their choice. they have a choice to go ahead and stay with clean power or to go with pg&e. we give them to notices before we start delivery in two notices after. -- two notices before we start delivery and two notices after. again, this is about choice for people. this started a withab11 ab117. the board of supervisors seven years ago established the first cca program. in 2006-2007 we put 5 million into the budget to do engineering, research, and initial marketing. in 2007 with a draft implementation program. after that we started with proposals. in 2009 that was a bi

the general took a lot of what i was going to say. the amount of time that went into this, the amount of communication, the amount of relationship reform measurement , and the articles of the volunteers -- 75 that we can name, not to mention everyone down in camp pendleton, it was a celebration. when we were writing thank-you letters, we were trying to get at some facts. one of the things that charlotte said, when she was addressing the opening reception, it was one of the hard core things. humanitarian response. i wanted to make sure that not one of our sailors purchased a beer in town. and it happened. they were all telling us that we had really turned around their opinion of san francisco. we do have a quirky reputation. which is being nice. but we have really turned around that reputation. i think that our city fathers, the people that run the city, are in a better position to do that. i think is very important to understand -- is not nice to talk about money, but it is important to understand the economic impact that the port has

general said think that this is going to the attorney general. a cause of a higher level of performance and public spiritedness. i urge you to leave that employs. >> and let me make clear, my staff as well as the staff and the deputy attorney general's office review a large volume of this material, and some of the things that say to the attorney general get some brought to my attention that they make a determination that it is something that needs to be brought to my attention, as opposed to something that is more routine or can be handled at a lower level. i get a fair amount of information that i have to look out. i have to stay at midnight to keep up with that. those things and senator cornyn 's chart were not brought to my attention. >> and that is consistent with longstanding practice. let me switch topics to the vulnerability that our country faces to a cyber attack. a lot of the committees of congress have done a lot of work on the subject. bills are out of committee and ready to go. there was a long pause of the administration did its wor

one of my duties as attorney general as is common among the attorneys general is to serve as the attorney for utility customers in my state, advocating for fair rates for customers for electric utilities seek rate increases from the commission that approves them. as you know, public utilities that have reset by state commissions are entitled under the u.s. constitution to recover from customers for necessary expenses they incurred to provide utilities. that includes the expenses to comply with federal laws and regulations. that means every time new environmental regulations are placed on electric utilities, it is actually the customers i represent to pay the cost. this isn't to say environmental regulations should automatically be rejected because they impose some cost, but it does mean the epa should follow the proper procedures to ensure the alleged benefits of the regulation outweigh the real world costs. unfortunately the epa hasn't been following normal procedures in its regulatory impact analysis for the mact will come and epa conceded it would increase electricity prices and would

level in the steam generator. after three weeks of being online, it is now being turned on. at a plant in ohio, more cracks were found. the plant's been shut down since october 1st because of previously discovered cracks. those cracks were found accidentally when the plant's owners were doing some unrelated renovations. and yesterday a nonradio act af -- active ammonia leak caused a partial evacuation of a plant. and the 35 nuclear reactors that it built over the last 40 years from new york to washington may not shut down properly during an earthquake. the company is recommending testing now to determine how much of a jolt it would take to stop n those plants. they're recommendation additional testing, 40 years after making them, because we don't know the answer to that yet. some of these plants are 40 years old. these plants are all 40 years old. and we're just now getting around to figuring out how big a quake would turn them from a disaster into a catastrophe. all of our nuclear plants being decades old and con

both romney and gingrich weighed in on the usefulness of the debates both now and for the general election. >> i think the debates have been helpful. i think it's been a good chance for people to get to know the candidates, to hear them speak on issues of significance and to get to know us personally to a certain degree. that's always hard in a bunch of 60-second answers. you get some sense of the people running. in the presidential general election debates, i hope we have more than two or three. i'd like to have more of a chance for people to get to know both candidates. >> 2012, president obama is spending a billion dollars. we get to the debates, who do you want to have debate obama to draw clarity between the various lies that we're telling and the truth? i think most people would end up thinking i'm the better debater than my friends are. [ applause ] >> gingrich unveiled a plan also to revamp social security giving americans the option of a personal savings account, a proposal similar to a partial privatization plan rolled out by president bush in 2005. gingrich says the plan will bo

is going generic. >>> it's the best selling drug in history and now lipitor is going generic. >> this could be big savings for millions of people or as wyatan drews explains, they could still be -- wyatt andrews explains, they could still be forced to get the drug by brand name. reporter: it's not every day the best selling drug in history goes generic, but it's happening for 3.3 million patients like roz chicora who depend on lipitor to lower their cholesterol. >> this is a life saving drug in some ways. reporter: a life saving drug that's about to get cheaper. starting next thursday most copayments for lipitor will drop from $25 per month to a generic copayment of $10, an average savings of $180 per year. historically when a brand name drug goes generic, the price drops 90% within a year. based on lipitor sales of $7.2 billion last year, this one generic drug could save the healthcare system $6.5 billion, but that kind of money has led pfizer, the maker of lipitor, to launch an aggressive marketing campaign. >> if you've been kidding yourself about high cholesterol, stop. reporter:

order of the world force was formed at the suggestion of general of the armies, john j. pershing. as a veteran service organization comprised of members who were or are commissioned as warrant officers of the u.s. army, navy, marine corps, air force, coast guard, public health service, and the national oceanic and atmospheric administration. the military order of the world wars is represented today by their national commander in chief, retired navy capt russell. c. bowinkle. he served in vietnam. ladies and gentlemen, russell c. bowinkle. [applause] >> mr. president, fellow veterans, distinguished guests and americans everywhere -- on behalf of the companions of military order of the world wars, thank you for celebrating the service of america's veterans. secretary shinsecki reminds us that today celebrates the selfless service of our veterans, a day to rejoice that we as americans are willing to accept significant hardships to preserve and protect our nation. likewise, america is blessed that have veterans that continue this tradition after active military service. .erv

[applause] may we call back the consul general? >> ok. as they say -- [speaking foreign language] the healing nature and touch of a filipino is beyond compare, and or organization has made sure that our filipino american nurses were protected and empowered. tonight, we honor the philippine nurses association of northern california. [applause] >> in our human moments of weakness, vulnerability, and need, the care provided by our filipino nurses remains unparalleled. for 50 years, the philippine nurses association of northern california has served our nurses through professional development, education, information, and providing a support system that has given them strength and visibility. in its golden years, the philippine nurses association of northern california posted the philippine nurses association of america, bringing in hundreds of philippine nurses from all over the united states into san francisco, treasuring the legacy of our health care's industry was the finest philippine nurses. the san francisco bay area philippine american

the generals. more on that from whit johnson. >> reporter: the white house issued its strongest show of support for the thousands packing tahrir square, signaling in a statement "it's time for egypt's ruling military to yield its authority. we believe that the full transfer of power to a civilian government must take place in a just and inclusive manner that responds to the legitimate aspirations of the egyptian people as soon as possible." the increase in pressure comes as egypt's generals have made clear their intentions to maintain political power beyond upcming elections. the white house also condemned violent crackdowns in the streets of cairo adding that egypt's transition to democracy must continue with elections preceding expeditiously and all necessary measures taken to ensure security and prevent intimidation. since the overthrow of hosni mubarak in february, washington has had to balance a push for democracy with its long and close alliance to egypt's military which receives $1.3 billion