here. >> he is here at time and a half. [ laughter ] >> good evening commissioner staff, steve mathias from mission statement. i will run down the incidents running in the central district. august 26th at 1:30 a victim said she was choked by a bouncer at club atmosphere. the victim said that -- he was handcuffed and escorted out by security and then released. so we're still looking into that. an illegal unpermitted party occurred september 9th at 3:45 a.m. police responded on report of an assault and reports of a gun. fire was called out. 200-250 people when they finally opened the door came out. i have gone to the manager who owns the building and we talked about that as far as the permit process and they said that would not happen again.

september 22nd a victim had her purse stolen, total loss was about $600. september 23rd at club atmosphere, a fight broke out between patrons. there were at least three separate fights going on at this time. the fights spilled out into the alley and police were forced to deploy pepper-spray on the combatants. two brothers were arrested for being drunk in public. there was a battery at monroe. two patrons two, ladies said they were assaulted by the bar tender. and this is one of the situation where's it's very, very helpful to have video. because there are witnesss that said the bartender did this and that.

the video showed the opposite. that the bartender was rushed. so as far as getting that in the establishments. so if something does happen, if people are drinking, you don't always see things or there is a lot of emotion, but the video gives a clear example of what is going on. let's see, last thing was just there has been a multitude of fights last weekend on broadway and columbus that could not be tied to an individual club. >> thank you. >> i just want to tell you, october 13th, marin county fairgrounds, dog show. >> very nice. >> see you there. >> okay. so item no. 7, commissioners comments and questions? >> i just wanted to say that the folsom street fair was really great again this year. this will be my last year hosting the rock 'n' roll stage. it's time for me to go out and

have fun rather than dress up and perform like a trained dog. but it was really fin. hope you can make the castro street fair as well. >> i would like to thank everybody responsible for putting our party together. it was a nice event and first time i have been in a club for a while. and the one problem that i had and i think this may lead to serious issues when everybody from the staff was asked to make a funny face in the picture, there is one person on our staff that didn't do anything. [ laughter ] >> that is an issue. i agree. that is totally an issue. >> commissioner joseph told me my face was funny already. [ laughter ] >> all right. anything else? i just want to say -- >> my turn.

>> it's all yours. >> sam wo the famous chinese restaurant we have the plans. we had our first community fundraiser for that. and they are going to get that started. and we're going to hopefully get that thing up and running again. they are going to do their late-night food. >> speaking of that, the woman that cuts my hair, no jokes. [ laughter ] she is chinese and she told me that one of the most -- if not the most expensive chinese restaurant in the united states is going in on stockton. have you heard about that? i couldn't understand if she said

15 or $50 million is going into it and the entreewill be $200. >> are you sure it's not a gentleman's club? >> some very wealthy person coming out of london to open this restaurant somewhere down in chinatown. >> not the guy on market street? >> no. >> so also my comments, this is a very busy weekend in san francisco. and so is next weekend. and this month we host fleet week, the blue angels, america's cup. >> decompression. >> strictly bluegrass. ghost ship op treasure island. lots of really good things. lots of people coming into

town. >> 2nd sundays. >> and again, more late-night food. >> all right. >> well, that will conclude the october 2, 2012 meeting. entertainment commission for the cabarrus of city and county of san francisco.

>> what if you could make a memorial that is more about information and you are never fixed and it can go wherever it wants to go? everyone who has donated to it could use it, host it, share it. >> for quite a great deal of team she was hired in 2005, she

struggled with finding the correct and appropriate visual expression. >> it was a bench at one point. it was a darkened room at another point. but the theme always was a theme of how do we call people's attention to the issue of speci species extinction. >> many exhibits do make long detailed explanations about species decline and biology of birds and that is very useful for lots of purposes. but i think it is also important to try to pull at the strings inside people. >> missing is not just about specific extinct or endangered species. it is about absence and a more fundamental level of not knowing what we are losing and we need to link species loss to habitat

loss and really focuses much on the habitat. >> of course the overall mission of the academy has to do with two really fundamental and important questions. one of which is the nature of life. how did we get here? the second is the challenge of sustainability. if we are here how are we going to find a way to stay? these questions resonated very strongly with maya. >> on average a species disappears every 20 minutes. this is the only media work that i have done. i might never do another one because i'm not a media artist per se but i have used the medium because it seemed to be the one that could allow me to convey the sounds and images here. memorials to me are different from artworks. they are artistic, but memorials have a function.

>> it is a beautiful scupltural objective made with bronze and lined with red wood from water tanks in clear lake. that is the scupltural form that gives expression to maya's project. if you think about a cone or a bull horn, they are used to get the attention of the crowd, often to communicate an important message. this project has a very important message and it is about our earth and what we are losing and what we are missing and what we don't even know is gone. >> so, what is missing is starting with an idea of loss, but in a funny way the shape of this cone is, whether you want to call it like the r.c.a. victor dog, it is listen to the earth and what if we could create a portal that could look at the past, the present and the

future? >> you can change what is then missing by changing the software, by changing what is projected and missing. so, missing isn't a static installation. it is an installation that is going to grow and change over time. and she has worked to bring all of this information together from laboratory after laboratory including, fortunately, our great fwroup of researche e-- g researchers at the california academy. >> this couldn't have been more site specific to this place and we think just visually in terms of its scupltural form it really holds its own against the architectural largest and grandeur of the building. it is an unusual compelling object. we think it will draw people out on the terrace, they will see the big cone and say what is that. then as they approach the cone tell hear these very unusual sounds that were obtained from the cornell orinthology lab.

>> we have the largest recording of birds, mammals, frogs and insects and a huge library of videos. so this is an absolutely perfect opportunity for us to team up with a world renown, very creative inspirational artist and put the sounds and sights of the animals that we study into a brand-new context, a context that really allows people to appreciate an esthetic way of the idea that we might live in the world without these sounds or sites. >> in the scientific realm it is shifting baselines. we get used to less and less, diminished expectations of what it was. >> when i came along lobsters six feet long and oysters 12 inches within they days all the oyster beds in new york, manhattan, the harbor would clean the water. so, just getting people to wake

up to what was just literally there 200 years ago, 150 years ago. you see the object and say what is that. you come out and hear these intriguing sounds, sounds like i have never heard in my life. and then you step closer and you almost have a very intimate experience. >> we could link to different institutions around the globe, maybe one per continent, maybe two or three in this country, then once they are all networked, they begin to communicate with one another and share information. in 2010 the website will launch, but it will be what you would call an informational website and then we are going to try to, by 2011, invite people to add a memory. so in a funny way the member rely grows and there is something organic about how this memorial begins to have legs so to speak. so we don't know quite where it

will go but i promise to keep on it 10 years. my goal is to raise awareness and then either protect forests from being cut down or reforest in ways that promote biodiversity. >> biodiverse city often argued to be important for the world's human populations because all of the medicinal plants and uses that we can put to it and fiber that it gives us and food that it gives us. while these are vital and important and worth literally hundreds of billions of dollars, the part that we also have to be able to communicate is the more spiritual sense of how important it is that we get to live side by side with all of these forms that have three billion years of history behind them and how tragic it would be not commercially and not in a utilitarian way but an emotion l