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second? is there any discussion? supervisor campos: i want to thank him -- supervisor mar: i want to thank him for continuing this for one week. the food and department of public health -- department of public health stock fell they meted more time. currently, the student activity task force. supervisor wiener will speak to them on thursday to give them more time for dialogue. i knew that the assemblymen from carmel does not know the conditions in cities like san francisco and urban centers. my hope is that more dialogue can lead to improvements so that the goal and intent of protecting the student activities have improved over the years. it is seen as a major goal.
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food trucks -- i am a big fan of them. there are a bunch of them that i go to. often, the food truck vendors do not know about the improvements in the school system. parents raise problems when they appeared outside galileo and mission at sometimes. there are problems that the food truck vendors do not often know about. if there are more problems, the parents and others could see an improved piece of legislation. i really appreciate delaying this for one week. thank you, supervisor wiener. supervisor olague: i'm going to go ahead and support the continuance on this. i do believe that when you look at this type of legislation, that would prohibit this use to 1500 feet from a school, we would be faced with similar issues that we are faced with
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the medical cannabis dispensaries. which is a clustering effect on this type of thing that would place an undue burden on those types of neighborhoods that do not have schools within 1,500 feet of this type of use. ultimately, we should continue the dialogue around nutrition and food in the schools. we may want to continue that discussion outside of this conversation. i just want to put it out there that i think this is but is not related. i think there are other venues that we can still have this discussioni'm open to continuint dialogue. >president chiu: any discussion? >> do we have a second? president chiu: supervisor mar has made a motion. is there any further discussion? can we do that without
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objection? this item is continued to march 13. madam clerk, could you read the in memoriams? >> this meeting will be adjourned in memorial of the following individuals. for the late ms. mary howard, for they wait ronnie montrose come off for the late margaret mccarthy. and at the suggestion of supervisor elsbernd and the full board, for the late supervisor, hal brown. president chiu: i want to thank sfgov tv for coverage. i know that years ago used to broadcast these meetings and we welcome you back to the board chamber. with that, is there any more business? >> that includes the business for today. president chiu: we're adjourned for this evening. [gavel] thank you.
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abstract expression. even his peers saw his form. >> he was able to find a middle ground in which he balanced the ideas of human figuration and representation with abstraction and found it even more meaningful to negotiate that duality. >> another challenge was to create art from a meeting that was typically viewed as kraft material. his transforming moment was an accident in the studio. an oversized vertical sculpture began to collapse under its own weight and spread onto the floor. he sought a new tradition before him, landscape sculpture. >> you feel this extended human form underneath the surface of the earth struggling to emerge. eventually, it does. it articulates his idea that the earth is like flesh, and the
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archaeology and geology in the earth are like the bones, the structure of the earth. this tied in with his idea of mother earth, with the sense that we are all tied to nature and the earth. >> a half dozen bay area museums and private collectors loan the massive sculptures to the museum for its matter and spirit retrospective. but the most unusual contributions came from stephen himself. a wall of autobiographical masks and hence from the early decades of his private study. >> he had one of the most beautiful studios i have ever been in. when you walk in, your first impression is of these monumental figures that you see in the exhibition, but if you went into the back corner of his studio, there was a series of shells with these diminutive figures. he told me, these are the heart of my studio. these little, and held intimate
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study is that he referred to as his sketchbook. a painter might make drawings. stephen de staebler made miniature sculptures. >> during the 1970's, he was inspired by the monuments of egypt. he assembled a large rocks of clay into figures that resembled the ancient kings and queens. he credited a weathered appearance by rubbing glazes' into the clay while still wet. the misfires from his killed were brought in his backyard in his berkeley home. he called it his boneyard. in the last year of his life, he dug up the artifacts from his own history, and the bones were rearranged, in the were slimmer figures with wings. >> even if you knew nothing about his life or career, you sensed there was an artist dealing with this fundamental issue of life and death, the cake, netting back together, and you feel there is an attempt to deal with mortality and
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immortality. there is a seeking of spiritual meaning in an existential stage. >> during his 50-year career, stephen de staebler worked to form and out of the clay of the ground and give it a breath of life. matter and spirit gathers the many expressions of his meditations. and gives the viewer and insight into the artist's life. learn more about the retrospective on line at
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