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Up next on booktv, after words, with guest host david plots, editor of slate online magazine. This week amy chua and jed rubenfeld, and their latest book, the triple package. In it they argue that the most successful ethnic groups in america have all had at least one of three characteristics that constitute the triple package; superiority, insecurity and impulse control. They also say that despite the respective success of the groups, all three traits have a dark side that should be avoided. Thi...

Trevelyan whose group ask called ngp van, he works with democrats, also joining us is chuck defeo of the Republican National committee where he serves as chief digital officer and shane daprile. Lets begin with you, mr. Terrell january, if we could. Trevelyan, if we could. What exactly are the components of a Digital Campaign . What type of tools are used . Guest well, so i think its actually evolving. I think historically the Digital Tools were largely thought of as the email tools and the onli...

Hypothermia. Three people were in san jose and the fourth in saratoga in a garage. A Nonprofit Group opened cold weather shelters with 275 emergency beds. Theyll remain open throughout the end of the month. The Santa Clara County coroner and officials holding a News Conference about the cold weather in a half hour, youll hear what they have to say coming up at 5 00. From busted pipes to furnace problems to cancelled events, cold weather continues to cause major problems from one end of the bay t...

Labor market available market is less than 15 percent. In this area, were doing well. That doesnt mean we cant do better. Can i ask you as a last graduation class, were there any asian folks that graduated from that Academy Class . I believe dhr, we dont have the graduation statistics, but i can have the chief address that. I wanted to know because you mentioned were doing very well and its my understanding and i want clarity on how many total and how many asian and if we had no asian, anyone fr...

Address that issue. I think you mentioned too that there was the last test was at 10,000 people that actually took the test and we have a pool of what to pull from . Speaker 6800. 6800 people and we cant find an appropriate number of asian candidates in that pool. Whats interesting is we cant go down the line and choose people based on their gender and race. Thats why we have secondary criteria which are published with the announcement, approved by the Civil Service commission and the chief uses...

And other cases, were not allowed to look at race and gender, which we all know and the the Fire Department has done well when it comes to gender and i want to applaud the chief and the management time. Were interested to has happen to go firefighters of color. Theres a both a reality and perception of issues and i want to look at the date that were talking about and chief officer rank, when you have 48 percent of the work force thats caucasian and you have 77 percent that are caucasian and in t...

Cant knees and spanish and thats the largest population and those stations needs those folks that have the ability to communicate with that population. Thats a natural need in the city. We can certainly include a statement to the effect that we encourage people various Language Skills to apply rather than identifying particular languages which would be a concern. Thank you. Im hearing a number of things from what youre saying from your presentation. You started off by saying because of prop 209 ...

City several times where this is. We already provide housing in the bay view for homeless people. We are compassionate and caring, but the last thing this shelter is very close to a problematic liquor store. If you look at the overhead, a 1 block area around the liquor there is almost 108 calls for police with problems. Mother browns had 79. Now your time is up. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Commissioner, 428 portrero, i requested a continuance based on the sunshine ordinance request. I haven...

Hearing on street scape clutter, particularly elements that congest sidewalks, such as news racks, and utility boxes and kiosk. And discuss the planning departments role in reviewing street scape plans. And specific request about the policy regarding at t utility boxes. The staff responded with the planning directors would need to discuss and review these items. This is information. Tuesday was the 5 items, the rezoning of 909 tennessee. This would change the zoning from p public to urban mixed ...

Westbound you can see traffic is looking good heading out to the mccarthur maze. When you get to the maze the traffic there also looks good at the toll plaza. This morning we are looking at the bay bridge and that traffic looks good coming into San Francisco. It is 4 29 lets go back to the desk. In over night news the chp is looking to witnesses to a dead latent on a san mateo freeway. Three young adults were killed on highway 92 in foster city. Tara moriarty tells us about the many questions th...