president chiu: thank you, next speaker. >> i am the [unintelligible] i am a patient of medical campus. [unintelligible] where there were silenced. i feel like i am being silenced and i do not feel that is right. president chiu: thank you, next speaker. >> i wanted to have the support of hiv and cancer patients as well. we need support as well as everyone else. >> good evening. it has been a long day. i started not to come here but i changed my mind. i am a resident of parkmerced. planning never released the

documents for me, or give them to me, i have had to piece my way through them. recently i can across a memo that was part of your packet when you voted on parkmerced. in the memo, $50,000 of supplemental money goes to a project in supervisor carmen chu's district. you gave so much time regarding paperbacks that i felt there residents of parkmerced should have had the opportunity to discuss that issue regarding the $50,000 in a packet that the donors stand to benefit from. it is hundreds of millions of dollars. i think that it speaks to your integrity in regards to not disclosing that or reducing yourself given the fact of the controversy from the former

supervisor. i think it is scathing that something like that is allowed to happen. everyone is going to look at this development to see if it was legitimate. just because you voted does not mean it is legal and it will be upheld in court. it is scathing. i am disappointed in those of you who did because you deny the citizens of san francisco their voice that day. to give public meaningful comment regarding their homes being demolished. for those of you who are attorneys, it is especially upsetting that you would deny an american citizen the first amendment right. those of you who voted for that, i think you are domestic terrorists and you're not worthy. president chiu: thank you, next speaker.

do you need more time to set up? show your from the next speaker? -- shall we hear from the next speaker? >> are you able to see what is on the screen? president chiu: yes. >> thank you. a few weeks ago a comment was made that 9 of 11 of you have not been elected by majority. that statement invokes misleading comparisons. nine were elected in rcb runoffs. for comparison the 11 were elec ted using delayed runoffs in 2000. they elected the winner with a

majority of voites. -- votes. to regression to polarizing to canada delayed runoffs in december, it seemed like a good idea. rcb was being evaluated against a different kind of majority. the denominator is being increased by including all voters to cast a ballot votes in any round, not just the final round. while none of the run of winners were elected with a contest majority, neither were any of the delayed runoff winners. do not be misled by this apples to oranges comparison. which runoff method produced winners with the largest share of all voters? runoff winners have on average one -- won with 43%.

the number of exhausted voters -- is half the number under the laid runoffs. also i would like to ask in a resolution today. >> you cannot address items. correct, you are free to talk. >> vote counts that include the second and third choices and not pass the resolution that shows votes. [bell] thank you. president chiu: thank you, next

speaker. >> good evening. i have been to a few meetings in the past and will be brief. i know enough things to do and i have things to do, too. i will say this much. i am a vietnam veteran, ok? a lot of veterans would love to speak their piece and see what they have to say when it comes to the medical marijuana issue. they're paranoid and scared because of the federal situation and ideology on marijuana. the thing of it is, i sit here and i say to myself, when they asked me to go to vietnam when i got drafted, i went. and thank god i was able to get marijuana over there when i was there. that is how a basically made through over there. that is how i basically make it now. i have a permanent hip injury.

the thing of it is, organizations like access of love make it safe. i do not have to go through back alleys and go through the negativity. i can deal with someone on a medical issue who cares and was concerned about veterans and this woman has put her heart out to help individuals like me and the hat -- appreciate what she does for the committee and what she does for veterans. i am speaking as a veteran. i would like to say more power to people like shona. president chiu: thank you, next speaker. if there are any members of the public who have not yet spoken, please line up. please go ahead. >> from this chamber, i govern. not only to paris but to china.

not only to china, but to the whole world. without anybody knowing how i do it. how many of you are having difficulty finding the perfect gift for that certain somebody this christmas? there is 18 more shopping days. i recommend this book, "50 years in the church of rome," that quote was from the general of the jesuits. it is reasonably priced for $13.50. it can obtain your own copy. i think it fits nicely into some restocking. there is no doubt abraham lincoln was assassinated as a

jazz would plot. all the murderers were roman catholics in their religion. and shortly after he was assassinated during the time of reconstruction, our military was used against american citizens. we wisely passed a law called posse, titus -- commitatus. the military cannot be used against the population. 93 senators voted to do away with it and we can be arrested for the rest of our days, tortured, killed, or sent to guantanamo bay. inforwars.com, read your bible, come to jesus before it is too late. president chiu: thank you, next speaker. general public comment is

closed. >> items 43-49 are considered for adoption. president chiu: would anyone like to sever? madame clerk amod roll call. >> supervisor kim, aye. supervisor marc, aye. supervisor mirkarimi, aye. supervisor wiener come up aye. supervisor, aye. supervisor campos, aye. president chiu, aye. supervisor chu, aye. supervisor cohen, aye. supervisor elsbernd, aye. supervisor farrell, aye. president chiu: these resolutions are adopted. >> recommending the national

council on alcoholism and other drug addictions be licensed to offer a russian language multiple offender driving under the influence program in san francisco. supervisor mar: i am amending this to include russian-language population for a multiple offender dealer program but including expanding it to include other languages. the only reason that spanish is not included is spanish speakers are served by the mission council, an existing organization. supervisor elsbernd has asked to be a co-author of this so i urge your support. it is a non substantive amendment and i would like your support today. thank you. president chiu: is there second? -- a second. can we take this without objection? that shall be the case. and the underlying resolution, can we do it same house, same call? without objection. the resolution shall be adopted.

madam clerk, can you read the in memoriams? >> today's meeting will be adjourned in honor of the following. on behalf of supervisor campos for sonia pierre. and for the recommendation on behalf of the full board on behalf of samuel lipke. and for the late mr. michael goldstein. president chiu: is there any more business? >> that concludes our business. president chiu: we are adjourning for the evening.

>> when there is this a children's theater, it is a good theater. it is a good theater, you would like it, even if it is for children. that is what i think. i feel like it is both a story

for kids and for much older people. it is both about being a young child and letting a toy or a friend, and it is also about what it means to get old. ♪ >> in 1986, my son was two, and i decided i would like to go over the story of the velveteen rabbit, mind you i had never read it myself as a child. i only heard it as a mother. my first-time hearing it was a bedtime story recording. it was through that that i found the theme and determined how it was going to produce this story. it was through listening to it. when a first mated, i really did

watch my son, because i took him to live performances as soon as six months old. he loved it when someone was on the stage. he loved it when somebody was reading to him, the language. >> there was once a velveteen rabbit. >> usually when the bunny first comes out ago, ah, the rabbit. i think kids can relate to it. and they built love nana. nana is the man at all figure in the show, and she represents stern love. the ferry is also played by the same person. -- the fairy is played by the same person. it is like the love you have for your first child. pure love. >> i think nature is a beautiful

thing. all the wild rabbits come from nature. i like that. i think nature is mysterious, a beautiful, and not something our kids get very much these days. ♪ >> there is fantastical spectacle these days because of computers and films. i feel that in a live performance, being pared down, you can be more successful you can ask everybody to buy into the world you're in. if it is a simple world, they will buy into it, as long as the world is consistent that you have onstage. in some ways, i also want that message for kids. the world does not have to be spectacle. the world can be about relationships, how you feel, and having fun and taking them seriously. and not about being blown away.

>> what is real, asked the rabbit one day. >> it is a thing that happens to you when a child loves you for a long, long time. >> i think it is a success because, for the most part, if you are 3 or 7 years old, you sit in the sea, and the kids are engaged. they laugh and ask questions but that is part of the success. i think the fact that we tour and do it here and still have audiences says it is a lasting. i really want to say that it is lasting is because of the story is a gentle story. if it was just ok, it would not have lasted this long. i have had people come up to me and say that was the first dance

show i ever saw and that is why i am a choreographer today. i have had people come back after being in the shows and come back to see it when they're 20 and 23 years old. little kids and people in their 50s and 60s tell me how much they love it. and they come back more than once, year after year. ♪

>> the question when i started 11 years ago when i started doing resolution work is can anything be presented on a really low resolution device where it is potentially a digital image? can anything be presented that way? or will it feel cold and electronic? >> the imagery will change. there will be four different sets.

it is a two dimensional image. it is stretched out into three dimensions. the device is part of the experience. you cannot experience the image without the device as being part of what you are seeing. whereas with the tv you end up ignoring it. i make gallery work more self and budget and public art work where i have to drop this of indulgence and think about how people will respond. and one of the things i was interested in the work and also a little fearful of, it is not until you get to the first and second floor were the work is recognizable as an image.

it is an exploration and perception is what it is. what are you seeing when you look at this image? one of the things that happens with really low resolution images like this one is you never get the details, so it is always kind of pulling you in kind of thing. you can keep watching it. i think this work is kind of experience in a more analytical way. in other words, we look at an image and there is an alice going on. -- and there is an analysis going on.