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The 96 act said we want competition competition. Some places it has worked. Some places it hasnt. This is one place where it really hasnt. We think consumers would have more choices and lower prices if we got competition into that space. The first question is is there a market for set top boxes . The answer is really in terms of what is delivered over the cable network, no, because the box is actually a component of the network. Thats the most efficient way to design and deliver Cable Television...

Conference with the senate. Live coverage of the house is on our companion network cspan. Coming up at 4 00 p. M. Eastern, its a look at programs for military members including medical care, education, housing and Legal Services and how effective they are and whether they should be privatized. The Wilson Center is the host of this event, live coverage is on cspan. Also at 5 30 eastern the federal reserve, how much its changed since its inception and what its role is today and in the future. This...

Overall numbers, they remain a high levels. 418,000 there are formal removals from the united eight estate. The obama admin surgeon has removed administration has removed 4000 or more every year, so every year, there have been ine removals than any year the bush administers a. So we have seen a sharp increase and border removals and a number of ice agents have been shifted to the border, partly to respond to the Child Migration surge, because we have seen an increase in families and children com...

Good morning and welcome to the to the monthly meeting the of Transportation Authority im supervisor wiener the chair of the tort i want to thank sfgov for broadcasting Jennifer Lowe and bill dillon mr. Clerk, please call the roll supervisor avalos commissioner breed commissioner campos commissioner cohen commissioner farrell commissioner kim commissioner kim . Here commissioner mar chens chang commissioner tang commissioner wiener commissioner yee commissioner yee . Sorry commissioner yee prese...

September and were very pleased that long last that system will be in place and greatly help our ability to track projects to keep track of our work and allow much more robust access for the public to see how were doing on development so moving on to case and permit volume trends. We are continuing to experience unprecedented volume growth both in terms and various planning cases. We have seen this growth over four years and case volume is projected to double with the year to year growth. By inc...

Freeze frame. 25 movies added to the National Registry of film. The new classic preserved for all time. We begin with details on the Sony Pictures cyber attack. The white house is considering a proportional response, but are not saying wh they think north korea was behind the breach. Today, three movie theatres planning to show team america cancelled their subscription. Films using the film to replace the interview, which sony pulled yesterday. New reeges si will not go forward with steve carrel...

Which i gather are more common in that neighborhood . Olive tree would do more sidewalk damage, plum trees less damage so ranking them in order of least concern would be the palms, and then the plums and then the olives are. One challenge is that we might have one owner who loves the palm trees so we try to be consistent at the department al level, but i understand the Property Owners concerns. Are they accurate about the cost of the maintenance . Well, the citation they made is accurate. There ...

Good evening and welcome to the december 17, 2014 meeting of the San Francisco board of appeals. There is one seat vacant ton on the board this evening, when a vacancy exist it is board may overrule the action of the department on appeal by a vote of three members, four votes are not required. To my left is deputy city attorney, and im cynthia gold steen, the boards director. Chris buck is here in the front row, hes a forester with the department of public works. And at the table in the front co...

Steen, the boards director. Chris buck is here in the front row, hes a forester with the department of public works. And at the table in the front corner here is corey tigue, representing the Planning Department and commission; and senior building instructor whos representing the department of building inspection. If you would please go oefrz the Board Meeting guidelines and conduct the swearing in process. The board requests you turn off all phones and pagers so they will not disturb proceeding...

Implosions in metropolitan areas period. You can read the full pdf or click on the web link and the deal here is that mechanical removal creates more jobs and local jobs i think that lenare is trying to accelerate its process and save money and we need to protect the public and tell them sorry. And the final thing is a mechanical demolition makes it much easier to reuse materials we need to save those materials not blow them up. Thanks. Thank you. [applause]. Mckenzie. Thank you. Commissioners i...