i want to be up there, being lauded and applauded and given all these and on the red carpet, waving at the hordes of people. but expect? i can't say that i did. tavis: i told you when you walked out because i haven't seen you in a few months, or a little while, i guess, so not long ago, not too long ago, i was in our home state of mississippi, where i was born, of course, and where you are from, and got a chance to hang out in your club for a couple of days. did some filming, as a matter of fact, in your documentary i was working on that we filmed. cornel west and i and a few others filmed this documentary in your place. had a good time down there. it leads me to ask how your upbringing has informed, to the extent that it has, the kinds of acting choices that you've made, your upbringing specifically. how has that informed your acting choices? >> i'm not sure that my upbringing has in itself informed my acting choices. tavis: that's fair. >> but in growing up, i was a child of the movies. i went to the movies every given opportunity, and that's pretty much what has informed a lot of my

we have a statement given right after the incident. that the credibility of which will have to be tested against whatever the sheriff says now and whatever miss lopez says now. and it's accepted that the kind of relationship that exists that pre-exists and predates the violent incident is welcome to make that determination. >> mr. keith, isn't it your position that the mayor -- that the sheriff having pled guilty to false imprisonment, that was pleading to domestic violence? >> yes. >> that's your position, isn't it? >> it is. >> why do you need anything about conversations or incidents that happened back in october if it's your position the official misconduct is proven by the mere fact of entering a guilty plea. >> commissioner, it's the mayor's position that the conviction alone, when we put it together with a sentence and probation consideration, et cetera, that's official misconduct. but we -- but there's also an argument to be made and we expect the other side to make it, that it's not official misconduct. at which point we then

>> supervisor wiener, we were given a description. the reason we recommended manager 2 was the scope of the program. they had not developed yet. they had not come up with any detail. it is a $400,000 budget. we did not see this a significant program to justify the higher level manager. since they are now saying they need someone with higher level technical skills, that is not information provided to was previously. supervisor wiener: would you have come to a different conclusion? >> i think it is new information. part of the reason for recommending the service is that we have no information on this program, so i think it might be worthwhile to talk about this program a little bit more so we understand it better. supervisor wiener: ok. maybe you can do that. we talked about the desire to accelerate, because, you know, we all know we have an enormous amount of work to do. given that new information is not a particularly huge amount of money. but if there is a legitimate amount of rationale, that would be good to know that. >> thank you,

state officials do not understand why this program must be given priority when the backlog for other agencies is just as great. on the issue of appraisal fraud, an appraisal is an opinion of value which makes it difficult to show that the appraiser intended to deceive someone. for this reason, law enforcement officials often shy away from bringing fraud charges against appraisers, although state and federal law enforcement have joined task forces with state regulators, they are often not able to share information due to concerns that their investigations could be compromised. appraisers are not usually the originator of fraud schemes, but are brought into it with the promise of future assignments. instead of large payments which would provide the smoking gun tying them to the fraud. appraisal management companies. amcs have existed for many years. as a result of the home valuation code of conduct, many more amcs were established. there were, however, no regulations in place defining amcs or controlling who could own or operate an amc. often appraisers are prohibited from speaking wit

and given the boot. instead jim rogers, the chairman and ceo of the old duke energy who was supposed to be chairman of the new duke will now be both the chairman and ceo. it's not the munich beer hall push of '23, unlike the leaders, rogers was successful and doesn't share the genocidal tendencies. it's not some piddly human resource issue. a former member of progress energy's board of directors called the move, quote, the most blatant example of corporate deceit i have witnessed during a long career on wall street. and added one of the greatest corporate hijackings in u.s. business history. this is lousy corporate governance. it has real consequences. standard & poors has said it might cut duke's credit rating. the north carolina utilities commission has started an investigation into the move, and north carolina's attorney general is looking into whether consumers were misled about the merger. so what does this sordid tale mean for the stock? i am outraged by what happened here. it's horrendous, a total

>> given where the mta is going, this is not in line with what we're doing. supervisor wiener: i want to follow upon -- i want to follow up on, there was some questions about vehicle trip generation that seems to be in conflict in terms of the direction they were .i r'o i think the view was expressed that the percentage of private vehicle trips would be much higher. d1ßthere are some questions abot the number of parking spaces in the facility being too low. one thing i want to make sure, we're not putting it -- if you have too much policy, at -- parking, you are violating our transit first policy. if you do not have enough parking, he will be generating too many vehicle trips. you'll be clogging up the roads and taking on street parking and walking emergency vehicles. i want to make sure the way that we are analyzing this, what we need to be doing is using art cities -- the way we analyze projects. this is not the first large project. this is a very important project. it needs to betj analyzed very carefully and evaluated very carefully. every project is uni

i do not have to agree with the commissioner on the outcome in a given case, but i am always interested in their reasoning. i wonder if you can talk about your reasoning around the 8 washington project. i have a lot of concerns about that project, which created the housing for not only the wealthy, but the altar wealthy in san francisco. one of the concerns i have raised is that if you follow that trend, you will not have low income or middle income people living on the waterfront. i wonder if you can talk to me a little bit about your reasoning in your thinking around the project. i may agree or disagree with someone, but what is important to me is how we think about these issues. commissioner antonini: my process began many years ago, when this project came before us in another form. that did not reach with approval. there were issues on mapping, and a few other things. i think it was not nearly as good a project as the one approved recently. however, a project like that has to give back to the city many things. you have to weigh what it is giving back against what it is providing. ob

he said i was never ever given the opportunity to fail. his teachers, his family, his coaches, is friends, his neighborhood would not let him fail. that is what happened to me and i am sure that is what happened to you. did you ever dream of going home and tell your parents were dropping out of school? >tavis: i take your point. i would have got a be down if i had the thought. >> i would have been thrown out and they might have gotten another kid. tavis: we're talking about you now, back to the book. you talk so much about this, "it worked for me. it talked about working hard. there is no american who is opposed to working hard. so many americans are unemployed, they are underemployed, they have been unemployed for one, two, three, four years, they have lost everything. as a consequence of this recession and corporate greed, as a consequence of political indifference. they find themselves were there but it is not because secretary powell, they did not work hard. those persons who are tired of someone saying, or card, what do you say to the

i ask you, sir, given the basic laws of supply and demand, that's what economists would call a ( bleep ) load of footnotes where for me the demand is very, very little. ( laughter ). >> the supply was very great. >> jon: what drives you to write this book? >> inequality has really become one of the major problems facing our country. i don't know if most americans realize that we have become the most unequal of all the advanced industrial countries, and we've become the country of among the advanced industrial countries with the least equality of opportunity, so different from our myth of the american dream. >> jon: there are two things in there-- equality of opportunity versus equality of wealth. some would argue that equality of opportunity more important because the ability to reach that, we had a guy on the show, ed connard of bain capital who had written a book saying we don't have enough inequality because it will drive the people with less to want more if they know the carried interest rate would be 15%. >> and they got lower taxes. >> jon: exactly. so is there not-- what do we n

i want to thank members on both sides of the public who have given testimony. the kids who have been here. it is very late. hopefully, they are in bed now. there is a lot of passion about our parks. i really feel that i had been clinging to the part of golden gate park remaining a grasp park. that is something that i feel really strongly about. seeing the changes to the park that are inevitable, it is very hard to see that change going to turf. it seems like that is where the votes are. i was the director of a midnight soccer program. that was back in 1995. i really see the value of having soccer as an available recreation activity for young people. i believe that the decision we have today is expanding the opportunity for those of us in the city. i see that as a great good. i have talked to numerous people in my community and my community of parents with kids. soccer parents, dads and moms. it is unbelievable, the need for greater recreation opportunities. i do see a loss in what golden gate community should be like. i believe that will create a glow over the

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aid in any given country at any given point except when that exercise is taking place it's very hard to make the case that military personnel outnumber diplomatic and development assistance personnel ok well i mean it's kind of interesting and what if i could say in two thousand and ten seven hundred sixty three million dollars was allotted to africa command whereas the state department's africa bureau operational budget had two hundred twenty six million dollars i mean. how do you respond to that peter i mean it certainly the military is much more important well you know if you look at the military it has to do all of that with the six hundred million you quoted the state department's only the operational budget when you add in the aid budget the budget for military and challenge corporation and other things you get a far larger budget it's just simply parsed in several different pots one has to look at the aggregate rather than the singling out the budget the go simply to embassy personnel salaries and maintenance ok i mean if i go back to you i mean is the united states sending ch

at the french her house given plenty of ammunition to critics. and after the aftermath of last year's fukushima disaster that hit u.s. shores and it's hitting the u.s. shores in the form of radioactive fish that story is coming up in a few minutes here on r.t. . it looks like one of the world's most reclusive states north korea is taking a step in another direction its young leader is said to be so on a path of reform to revamp the country's economy and agriculture. this week dismissed the north's long standing military chief for opposing change south korean medio report that these certain general could have been injured or even killed when a gunfight broke out as a new commander attempted to detain him erik's wrote in from the national campaign to end the korean war says signs that the north is stepping away from military are encouraging but adds that the international community should change its attitude as well. the military plays a huge economic role in north korea they they deal with harvesting the crops that you with working on the roads th

to corporate sponsors and not given out. not available for you and me and other people to buy online or directly but if the tickets aren't given out, the seats are empty. >> okay. that is so not cool for those of us who would give anything to be there. what about if they have an investigation, tracy, and they find it to be the case, does someone get penalized? is there a problem with this? >> reporter: well, what they're doing now, i mean, they haven't really talked so much about penalizing the companies that haven't given out the tickets. what they want them to do is give the tickets back which may sound strange but they have actually had a big ticket resale effort going on here. they have a whole website for ticket resale so that when people aren't going to use the tickets for some reason, they can put them back in the system and make them available and now a big push out to say if you have the tickets, if you're not using the tickets, give them back to give them or sell them to people who might want them. >> that would ma

i choose instead during the scarce five minutes given me to do as the lawyers do, namely, to set forth the conclusions to which i have arrived as a result of my experience in the financial markets, my research and study, all of which can be examined in my published writings, one of which is available this evening, as dale said. now, herewith, my conclusion and a modest proposal -- america and the world desperately need monetary and financial reform. indeed, they need a modernized 21st century gold standard. the gold standard that is currency convertibility to gold is the simple proven global monetary standard by which to transmit uniform and reliable price information worldwide and to reestablish order in the chaos of our financial markets today. unlike central bank manipulated floating paper currencies of today, a stable dollar defined in law as a specific weight unit of gold exhibits the optimum impartial networking effects characteristic of our electronic age, of transparent global standards, not unlike the efforts to agree global communication standards, global standards. and globa

and given the boot. instead jim rodgers, the chairman and ceo of the old duke energy who was supposed to be chairman of the new duke will now be both the chairman and ceo. it's not some piddling human resource issue. a former member of progress energy's board of directors called the move, quote, the most blatant experience of corporate deceit i have witnessed in a long career on wall street and one of the greatest corporate hijackings in u.s. business history." this is lousy corporate governance. standard & poors has said it might cut their rating. and the attorney general is looking into whether consumers were misled about the merger. what does this mean for the stock? let me be clear. i am outraged by what happened. it's horrendous, a traf industry and i'm calling for investigations. we want the names of people misled and the bad guys pun ird. but -- and this is a very big but, i still like the stock! i think duke energy is worth owning right now, despite all the scandal. because in this market domesti

the ballot, given their recent history of having cuts adopted and blocked. it really is anyone's guess. i will say that the second year did not contain state reserve, of course. almost certainly we will have a reduction in year two. there will be choices in the second year, you will be reviewing it again next year. do you want to add money to that reserve in the second year? do you want to manage cuts as they come? if the city's finances are not otherwise able to absorb them? supervisor avalos: do we have that choice about the first year as well? we have had larger state reserves. it just needs to be considered overall. let's given the magnitude of the state budget cuts in terms of our local health and welfare services, set aside it will increase flexibility. supervisor chu: thank you. i know that we had a state reserved in the past, and i think that as miss rosenfeld spoke to, it is difficult to find the subsidies, for child care a loan i think that hsa has worked with different providers to see what the impact would be. so, if the state budget came to be a

how are you able to deal with what the projection should be, given our current crazy system? >> well, you're right. it's a lot of uncertainty. i don't think anyone knows what the defense budget is going to be next year. our primary defense products, however are these small unmanned aircraft systems. they are -- the demand comes from boots on the ground because those are the people that use them across the service. they dramatically improve their effectiveness. and they save lives. that's driven all the services in the department of defense to adopt these systems for long-term programs. it's how they train, plan, equip the force with how they fight. much like night vision goggles a couple of decades ago. they're also extraordinarily less expensive than any other alternative. in a period of uncertainty and tight budgets, i think high demand and low cost will be a benefit. >> at the same time, though, there are branches of the military that like to have big projects. i mean, that's what we always read about, right? we always hear about these giant projects bring a lot of jobs ho

given the issues that were brought forth, i am supportive of the concept of the gate. the qualifier is that date has to be accessible and it has to be per code for exiting purposes. if you look at the photos at the building in process, there are stairs immediately behind it. this building at best is probably accessible only through the lower level. i do not know of the elevator goes down to the lower level. from the street axis point of view, it appears the street is at the cusp of a percentage of wet iraq would be for accessibility. however, -- what a ramp would be for accessibility. there should be allowable access and it has to conform to the code. i am supportive of the concept of trying to the gate and see if it reduces some of the problems. >> i would agree. we're trying to solve the two issues. the ability of residents to get in and out of that gate and use that entry and there were letters in the package from residents talking about the problems in the alley. i would be supportive of conditioning the permit making it accessible from and ada standpoint as well a

given, a kind of, the surprising need by the federal government over the last six months, i have little faith that they will not make other changes in august on a system that we are intending to build. i am very sympathetic to the position you are in. also wanting us to move forward and not having perhaps the three-month delay. but it does not seem like there is this level of urgency to build the system when the federal government has not made decisions around what type of system it is building. i guess i am worried that there will be other changes that will come out in august, so i think three months is not a huge price to pay to get a little more certainty. i am not asking to reduce the budget of the department of emergency management because i understand the importance of supporting a public safety communications network. for me, personally, i have some questions about where the federal government is heading and would like as many answers before we invest in that system. supervisor chu: to the department, with regards to the amount, you talked about how it really pays for staffing at

every child can be given the opportunity to be creative and unique. we have 23 signatures. thank you for your time. >> my name is janet. i am speaking on behalf of two parents that bring their children to kangaroo preschool. i am a parent and teacher at kangaroo preschool. this letter is to communicate my strong support for the proposed alpha kids academy. i have a two year-old daughter and have a hard time finding a school that would meet my needs. this would be an ideal fit for us. previously sent our elder daughter to school in the sunset, and we were very pleased with the care and education provided. we believe the teachers contributed to my daughter in joining her early school life so much, and anxious to have our daughter at the new location as soon as possible. i also have a letter from another parent who has been bringing her children there for a few years. i am writing this letter on behalf of the development center. i am a mother of four girls, including a five year-old. my children have been attending the organization since the opening in 2009. they are a great a

we have given points to people who are able to reduce the parking the most. we certainly intend to continue that in the future. supervisor olague: in order to shift some of the jurisdiction -- basically, the board of supervisors does not have the ability to amend any of this currently. it would all go to the oversight body. can we amend that? >> i believe the board can amend any legislation that is approved. supervisor olague: ok. supervisor kim: thank you. i does have a question on two issues. ég/ ongoing conversations -- many folks know about child carry -- a child care facilities. given the growth in the area and our priority in the city,[óqzh t are the current plans for providingur facilities? >>> good afternoon. we do have a plan to put child care facilities in as many sites as possible around the transit center. we did not do a child care facility in the first residential project because that was a supportive housing project. we look for as many opportunities as possible. the first one is going to be block 5, which would be a 550 foot tall office buil

>> yeah. >> given the way things went today? >> that's the first time the court said something good about me. >> i could have given him more time in our detention center. i think that the taxpayers have spent enough money. he's already being supervised by another system. he's on parole. hopefully that will give him some, you know, supervision to the extent that he won't go out and re-offend. you know, we can't save everybody. i know that, but you know what, i'm going to keep trying. >> i'm about to be free. even though it's a crummy day. i don't care. i'm so happy. you don't even understand. spent four birthdays locked up. 15, 16th, 17th and 18th. next year i'm going to be at the crib on my birthday. actually getting released from somewhere. >> just goes to show you, you can't sell people short. you never know what's going to happen. you wouldn't have expected most of what occurred this go around, would you? >> yeah. >> see, it just goes to show you. one ricardo pizano. >> thank you. good luck. take care. thank you. >> well, i c

the venture has given plenty of ammunition to critics. in the aftermath of last year's fukushima disaster hits u.s. shores in the form of radioactive fish this story coming up in a few minutes here on our. it looks like one of the world's most reclusive states north korea is taking a step in another direction it's young leader is said to be set on a path of reform to revamp the country's economy and agriculture kim jong un has of this week dismissed the north's long standing military chief or opposing change south korean media report that the sacked general could have been injured or even killed when a gunfight broke out as a new commander attempted to detain him eric zero can from the national campaign to end the korean war says signs that the north is stepping away from military as them are encouraging but adds that the international community should change its attitude as well. the military plays a huge economic role in north korea they they deal with harvesting of crops they deal with working on roads they are a lot of the employment

he wanted to let me know about an assignment that he was given yesterday. they have a conventional 1004 appraisal for a property in georgia. it is in georgia and not in florida. if you're interested in working with us on this and future appraisal, please reply to this e-mail with your estimated turn time and fee. this appraiser is licensed, actually certified in florida. not in georgia. that is an example. i don't know how many appraisers in florida received the same e-mail. that is the primary driver of a lot of amcs determination as to who gets the assignment. the turn time and the fee. no question here whether or not he even is certified in georgia or what his qualifications are and whether or not he's a designated appraiser. >> the problem with that and i do like appraisers. i'm not impugning anybody. don't anybody mischaracterize what i'm saying. everyone is shopping for business. when a lender receives an estimate from this appraiser that says we'll do it for this amount and lender says that's a good deal. doesn't matter if you're hundred miles away.

around that time, given a 2010, -- june of 2010, we got served. no communication, no outreach from the developer. we did not know what was going on. about a month ago, my neighbor got a call. i got a call, did you get it? so and so, three of the members got the call and they were on vacation. is that three minutes? >> you have 30 seconds. >> there is no notification come at the very last minute. the neighborhood group got together -- there is notification, at the very last minute. the meeting was held at old first church. i thought it was canceled. finally saw somebody go in the side door. i echo everything that was said before. please do not certify anything tonight. commissioner fong: thank you. >> i would like to remind the public that this is public comment regarding certifying the eir. your time is limited to two minutes. >> i am a resident bishop for the california and nevada conference of the united methodist church. our conference serves the northern two-thirds of the state of california and the northern half of the state of nevada. i come

as wealth has exploded and continues to increase year after year and what have working people been given out of this deal with the billionaires we've been given political corruption as billionaires like sheldon aid in the koch brothers now proudly by politicians and legislation to benefit their own selfish interests like tax cuts for wealthy people deregulation of polluting oil corporations free trade for job outsourcers we've been given we've been giving gigantic transnational corporations. we have been steered by billionaires they can crush the competition of small businesses and kill the american entrepreneurial spirit according to a new study released today by the new america foundation the number of entrepreneurs per capita in the united states has dropped by fifty three percent since one thousand nine hundred eighty seven and since one nine hundred ninety one the number of americans who are self employed has dropped by more than twenty percent americans who used to be able to start their own businesses are increasingly being forced to join the ranks of the working poor crowded out

second, uaw employees were given -- [ no audio ] -- it's going on right now as we see in the airline bankruptcies, for instance. [ no audio ] as a result, the wages for general motors, in particular, still remain above that of any foreign transplants and in any other states. third, brings us to the issue that we are here today. the $1 billion that was given by general motors to top up the pensions of certain delphi employees, united auto workers, and uswa union members but not other hourly employees or salaried workers. how can this be? delphi was spun off in 1999, a full ten years before the general motors bankruptcy. they were a completely separate company. there was no continuing legal obligation for general motors to pay for the retirement of the employees of a completely separate company. instead, all we've heard as far as i can tell is a far-fetched rationalization that we needed to squander a billion dollars for some theoretical fear related to this. it's hard to see any explanation other than political clout. what i would like to know is whether any rational investor would sp

and i believe that appraisers are fully capable of gaining necessary competence if they're given the appropriate and the necessary time to spend in a market, interview the folks necessary to gather market information, and given the time necessary to appropriately complete the appraisal report. >> but even a very competent appraiser who is given just one job in some community he doesn't know -- he's only paid a few hundred dollars, so he can't spend hours and hours studying everything that a competent appraiser -- if he's only going to do one appraisal in that neighborhood, he's probably going to miss some things. >> i agree. i think the uniform standard of professional appraisal practice provides the appraiser guidance with what to do in such circumstance and that is to decline the assignment. i believe that we have to hold appraisers to that standard. they have to know when it is appropriate for them to accept an assignment and when it is appropriate for them to decline the assignment. >> if i can squeeze in one more question. how are appraisals and valuations affecting the housing

we have given them the best chance we can. now we begin to transition down because ultimately sovereignty will trump. no one has ever been able to militarily control afghanistan in the history of that country. we will not be the first. president obama was very realistic about the direction we need to go now. i do not know the exact number, but i hope it's lower than 68,000. >> five minutes remained in our conversation with adam smith from washington state, the ranking democrat on the house arms services committee. jeremy herb from "the hill." >> we hear talk about how dangerous it would be a thing got nuclear weapons. we have also heard from the the joint chiefs, general dempsey, that they are acting rationally on the international stage. do you think iran is as dangerous as advertised? >> yes. both of those statements can be true. there are a lot of rational actors in the world were very dangerous. where iran is concerned, part of their effort is projecting power. they view themselves as an original power. they are involved i

that means you have to circle back and buy a lot of tech given up for debt. wednesday will be a dualing bank day when we get reports from bank of america, the bank struggling to d things right and u.s. bancorp, the bank that can do no wrong. i bet both will live up to these epithets. we will hear from honeywell which concerns about aerospace. boeing said fabulous things about the demand for jets but airbus is having trouble delivering them. the market was in negative mode until today. people stold everything aerospace. honeywell can explain how we are not at the peak of the cycle. i read that five times in the last 72 hours. it is the conventional wisdom. talk about myth busting, we are expecting terrific news out of china on sunday. right there. lot of people think if we get it we will see a rush of buying in to everything from capital goods companies like caterpillar to luxury good makers like coach. you know what stock portfolio managers are using to track chinese fortunes, yum brands. that's right. because of the monster chinese kfc footprint. on wednesda

but the money given thus far to the super pac backing romney, restore our feature, was just given in june so it is a little too early to predict how much this will impact the romney campaign. a >> stephen engelberg, how far will this investigation go? >> these things take a while. this willve asked if thes be resolved before the election? no. jereis is a fascinating question. if the incoming president is mitt romney, how does he handle it? how does the attorney general handle it? today recused themselves? they will be looking at ultimately the results of what to do about a major investigation -- >> why does it have to wait until then? >> these things take forever. it is clear from documents and other things floating around, the justice department is just in the early stages of looking at this. it takes a long time to collect documents, interview people, depose them rid there is no chance this will be resolved before the election. >> i wanted turn to sheldon adelson's on opinion on funding and presidential elections. in february, he told forbes magazine -- peter stone, your response t

>> we're given you all you people need to know. >> all you people need to know? >> we don't owe you any answers. >> it's about romney's personal wealth and the country's lack of wealth. >> it's given all you people need to know. >> whatever you're debating, you're debating wealth. >> backtrack on bain. >> bain? >> bain. >> rush limbaugh now denying his "dark knight rises" conspiracy. >> the villain in the "dark knight rises" is named bane. >> the conspiracy that bane the villain is out there because of bain capital. >> same name as the most frightening and current batman villain. >> corporations are people, my friend. >> it's a side show. >> oh! my goodness! yes! >>> with exactly 110 days left in mitt romney's campaign to win the presidency while hiding his tax returns, team romney sent first lady hopeful ann romney out to put out the fire without a fire hose. the increasingly incompetent professionals pretending to be in control of the romney campaign actually put the candidate's wife on national television and didn't give her one word to say that made any sense

to us -- i actually went through every sheet of paper that the city and planning have given me, gone to their office several times to get clarification on how you are charging me, what are these assessment fees for, and therefore, i have given a breakdown, and i would love to give you guys a copy of that just to see from the time of the initial permit that we had it in 2008 than it up on the muni bus hitting the building in 2009, from 2009 until -- president chiu: thank you very much. you will have an opportunity to meet with dbi. you can submit that card to the clerk. thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello. the assistant city attorney filed a lawsuit against us about march 15 of this year. we met with her, and we are trying to cooperate fully with the city. these penalties and fees that the building directors had said to me were included in her lawsuit, so why this is in respect to me, i do not know. we met with the building inspectors this morning, and they suggested i not come here because the penalty will go on our tax bill which is due october 1, so, again, the city attorney

we are given the duty of determining whether the eir duty is adequate and complete. as far as i can tell, based on what the department presented, i agree that it is adequate. i will be supporting it. as we were going on and on on the discussions on the beach chalet, many of you saw the chief and i talking on the sideline. this is inside the baby district. one of the things we pataki about and i was surprised to see him. i would like to thank the supervisor for bringing him, and giving him an opportunity to speak. the reason he was here was to talk about the importance of kids' activities and teaching them team building principles as well as a value on themselves and their lives. to the coaches that came out, thank you very much for taking interest in young people and being a deterrent to gangs or other activities. every child does not necessarily fit into that category. it is a reality that i deal with on a daily basis. i would like to thank that we would all be taking the seriousness of gun violence to heart. i would like to see the naturalists and the coaches and t

however, they have not given any opinion, one way or the other. has the court suggested to you it would take an additional six months or are you just requesting that? >> my concern is that in six months it would be december, right before the rainy season. that and that is a concern of my client. that is why earlier i said hopefully. there are a lot of things that have to come into play. that would be the goal. we tried to give you a best estimate. i do not want to make any misrepresentations here, because some things are outside of my clients control. we anticipate that would give us enough time to get things done. >> this. >> this is not a question, more of a discussion. should i do that now? i wonder if we could uphold the order and then hold it in abeyance, for six months, so i would hope the court would take that into consideration. >> i appreciatethat there is a e for this to end. we have issued now -- this would be the fourth. we have issued three continuances,that there is a dee my, to submit the order to uphold the order and then hold the

the fields are in poor condition, given the level of use they sustained. they are riddled with go for holes. the have a number of other issues. our project addresses these deficiencies, and that's needed amenities, including 100 trees. we are removing 16, and we are going to add 100. we are doubling the capacity of the restrooms. feedback from the public, city departments, and the national park service has also helped us reform and improve the project, including modifying the restrooms that will remain a contributor to the national register designation. the product has many benefits, the most important of which is the increase in play hours. the polo fields are host to the up/all lands and other large events over time. west sunset is an appropriate substitute. any site that is larger than beach chalet will have more total hours of play. beach chalet in total, we expect, will yield about 1800 more hours in time. supervisor chu: i wonder if you could elaborate on the hours played at the different fields. >> in terms of the increased tax beach chalet -- in te

given your work with our minority contractors. i appreciate your perspective and and candor and your consistency and your work in the city. i am happy to support this motion and we can do that without opposition. do we have a motion to refer this as a committee? >> i am looking at the agenda. supervisor kim: it will be heard on tuesday, july 31. we can do this without opposition. thank you. can you please call item number 4? >> motion approving/rejecting the mayor's appointment of cabinet -- kevin cheng to the board of appeals for the term ending july 1, 2016. supervisor kim: we received notice yesterday afternoon that the mayor has withdrawn this appointment. colleagues, can we entertain a motion to continue this motion to the call of the chair? we do need to open up for public comment on this. two minutes. >> good afternoon. i am a san francisco resident. i am pleased to hear that this appointment has been withdrawn by the mayor's office. i think he received considerable information. it would be a very inappropriate to have some

what we lay out for you here is the many missions, the key missions that were given to the plumbers, not only were they supposed to investigate those behind the pentagon papers leak and to look for other possible -- for people responsible for other leaks, they were also asked to use the material that they found to discredit the president's enemies. that is where the administration began to shift into actions that would later be termed abuse of government power by the house judiciary committee in 1974. on the wall, the key moments and players are described. if you like to absorb your history that way then this is laid out for you. on the other hand, if you prefer to get your history the way you might get it on an ipad, iphone or any other smart phone, we have a touch screen where you can listen to the president on tape. you can also listen to interviews of people involved in the story. for example, you can hear orlando martinez one of the plumbers that broke into the office of dr. fielding, lewis fielding, daniel ellsberg's psychologist. you can listen to him talk about that operation

given how much most semiconductor companies have slow growth. this might be a homerun hitter that isn't going to flame out in the stretch although i'm sure it will be weak tomorrow. last and maybe least is a controversial stock. pharmacyclics. it's done 296% year to date on the strength of a drug that treats chronic lymphocytic leukemia. that's a fatal blood cancer. the company's drug abrutanin is compared to revlomid and glevek. i'm skeptical. you have to be. given how the drug is early in the trials and a lot of people are betting against it. why else are the shorts gunning for this one? how about the fact that it's been around since 1996 with little to show for it. the company has been burning through crash. considering how long it takes to deliver new drugs that's not a good sign and the patient population for this particular form of leukemia is much smaller than those the big block busters address. that said, it's up to you, not me, to anoint the homerun derby winner. omitting this star would be a hideous injustice to the process. here's th

all right the reality is talked about home i have given. me a break i wish i had his number but anyway because those numbers are. kudlow given a set that interview because those are just part of the capitalism report yeah yeah well i love the way carlos started off that interview he says i want to call this a scandal let me call this a lie bore flat a very really it's not a scandal all of these banks are under investigation and at least one has settled over this and it's not a scandal he's so funny he's so good at the things that i was again that one couple of charming that's the thing that's what i said even if you know you can't stand we're called the saying the way he says it is so charming that he gets away with this and we'll just call it a full flat. mr treasury secretary don't worry about it just a little flap let me give you a little softball interview here let's move on really quickly we probably don't have to time to play this sound bite but let's get to one more story yeah because finance usually doesn't win the high school popul

more than half a million bonuses have been slitted to given to senior -- slated to be given to senior officials. the gsa says it's changing its program and includes temporary hiring freeze, suspending 85% of the bonuses to senior executives through the end of 20913 fiscal year and -- 2013 fiscal year and the program fell under scrutiny after after controversial vegas weekend. many of the executives who organized the retreat were set to receive bonuses ranging from $8,000 to $10,000 each. >>> 450,000 jobs, that's how many jobs the d.c. region stands to lose when federal government spending cuts begin next year. the washington examiner says the number which includes jobs in virginia, maryland and the district account for one-fifth of the estimated 2.1 million job losses. it's part of a report released yesterday by the george mason university center for regional analysis. according to the report virginia stands to lose more than 207,000 jobs. the district could lose more than 127,000 jobs and maryland could lose more than 114,000 positions. the examiner also reports the entire region cou