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corner and insult to sensitivity in the coming days as they pass by or be a good citizens and take responsibility and just wet your pants. more public toilets, please. >> thanks, next speaker. >> good afternoon supervisors. i'm saying so it's on the record officially. the super bowl goes to santa clara, san jose, who is responsible for losing the 49ers ? in my opinion gavn nusom and
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edwardly, two are responsible to come with a viable plan for the 49ers, when we start having those super bowl celebrations, i would like everyone like everyone else around the country know the headquarters for the san francisco 49ers is not in san francisco, it is in santa -- santa clara and a lot of the big shots. the only reason why the giants are here is because they paid for their own ballpark. nobody is willing to tell the officials face-to-face. i just came back from oklahoma city last night saying that san francisco is a
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city of losers. >> next speaker? >> good afternoon supervisors. this is some historical information that i wanted to provide you that occurred here in san francisco. this is historical material in time. president bush welcomes president of kenya. president bush, mr. president madam first lady, members of the kenya delegation. on behalf of the american people, laura and i are please today welcome you to
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the united states. this is the first visit by the leader of an african country directing during my administration. [ applause ] and the president since last year. [ applause ] . i have been in front of you for some time now and actually even given you some information about some name changes. his son is now currently president of kenya. i just wanted to ask you if any of you smoke newport cigarettes. there is a charter in the united nations and by the general assembly and millennium declaration. i will leave a copy for you if you are
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interested. >> thank you. next speaker? good afternoon, president chiu and supervisors. i know we had a wonderful time of celebration with asian pacific heritage month. i have some sad news to deliver this afternoon. a very personal friend, a very fine city folks, business owner in memory of tony keng. where it all began and in the beginning. many of you are aware that advertising was established back in 1990. tony king was ahead of his time even before the u.s. census of 1990 that
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informed us about americanation demographics in collaboration with the founders opened the advertising agency partnering with companies to target the asian american consumers who would meet for hours and conduct business in hotel lob easy -- lobbies across the city. corporate america was about to talk to these firms and think about their mainstream background. jay was out here in san francisco and it was the first client the help of -- we basically started to work with this client with tony. tony also opened a successful chain in the sandwich shops in the financial
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district. tony was the original founder of the asian business league of san francisco when he coined with the group of the business seminars and programs and honoring many asian american business leaders. he was born in asia. >> thank you very much. are there any other members of the public who wish to speak in general public comment? okay. seeing none. public comment is closed. madam clerk please go to our adaptation counter. >> item 29 through 30 with a single roll call vote. >> colleagues, would anyone like to serve sever any of
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these items. >> items 29, 30, supervisor aye, cohen, supervisor, supervisor yee, avalos, supervisor breed, aye, campos aye, chiu. there are 11 ayes. >> these resolution are adopted. >> today's meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following individuals on behalf of the supervisor tang for the late mckal ha anterior dan.o >> do we have any further business?
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>> that concludes or business. >> i would like to thank sfgtv for their work and with that ladies and gentlemen we are adjourned. >> >> when the new california academy of sciences opened in 2008, it quickly became one of the top tourist magnets in the city. part of the cal academies'
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astronomical success is the weekly nightlife party. >> i am joined by helen, who is here to school me on all the nocturnal activities that are getting ready to take place here. tell us a little about what we can expect to see at nightlife. >> we open up the doors every thursday night at the california academy of sciences. there are certain things you can see every week you can go to the museum, visit the planetarium, and we bring in bars and a deejay or band. it is a different feel from during the day, something different every week. tonight , we have beer and music. -- tonight we have great beer and music. it is beer week. we have a dozen local brewers in african hall. we have a deejays to set up throughout the museum and a live performance at 9:00 p.m. tonight. >> what has been your favorite part as a participant or as an
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observer? >> my favorite part is to walk around the aquarium in to see people with a drink in their hands, getting to know maybe somebody new, may be looking for a day, or chatting with friends. there jellyfish. i mean, they are beautiful. >> the culmination of the animals. >> it is very impressive. we do not have this at home. >> tell us a little about some of the spider's we see here on display. >> at the california academy of sciences, there is a very large collection of preserved and live specimens, which are the evidence about evolution. we have the assassin spiders, which are spiders that exclusively kill and eat other spiders. they are under the microscope here. research done and the california academy's i rhinology lab suggests that the assassin
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spiders have been doing this for over 150 million years. this glassed in room is a real scientific laboratory, and the people in that room are preparing specimens of vertebrate, that is mammals and birds. the way they do this is to remove the skin, sew it together in a relatively lifelike pose, and ensure that it does not decompose. >> i am a really big class actress fan, so i am here to see them, and beer week. >> i wanted to learn something and have fun. >> i always enjoy it. i am not all is well -- always working as i am tonight. sometimes i come to enjoy the music and to dance. ♪
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>> culturewire covers the arts in san francisco, and one of my favorite culture artists is here tonight. jason, thank you for being on culturewire. tell us about some of your posters that we have here today. >> most of the posters here are four specific shows or tours. i am hired by the bands or the venue. >> what is the inspiration behind these posters? >> no, disease of the related to the bay and, of course. music -- it is related to the band, of course the musical content or isn't related to the bed. album covers can come from anywhere. ♪ ♪
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>> class actress was great. we have been having so much fun. i did not realize how autiful the cal academy looks than that. what other events take place here? >> we do corporate events that night on a regular basis. but nightlife is your best bet to come in as a regular person pharmacy the academy at night, and visit with friends. calacademy.org/nightlife. we have details for the next few weeks. you can get tickets online in advance or at the door. >> thank you so much. thank you for watching culturewire on sf gov tv.
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>> i think it ae's public and private property. i'm against graffiti. >> who can get it out the most who can be noticed the most. >> i i've seen seniors doing graffiti. >> the city is art, other people who have their names tag -- >> [inaudible] our unit there are 2 sections we are doing one is abating and others are notice of violation to private property. all the utility boxes in public right-of-way we abate. >> we abate calls that come
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within 48 hours. >> we are a small group in g f graffiti. we don't have enough help. >> i have a group in town down and china town and the north tunnel. [inaudible] the graffiti we abate everything is coming up to the areas now. >> i'm willing to take it on. i think -- >> you are telling me you are ready for this? >> i think so. >> okay. >> there you go. >> all right. >> all right. >> ready to do it. let's go. >> want to get the gray signses this over here and the garbage can and normally we don't do private property since it's on the corridor route you can come with me we will use black.
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>> we had a lot of changes in the graffiti unit. we do private property if someone moved we remove it and send it to the attorney's office and they take appropriate action. >> damage their property there. it's important to write the color in case they want to say what part of our house you abated the graffiti on. >> using your safety glasses the gloves. >> you got it. >> you know some places we gashi, people appreciate that. you know, a lot of timeses they say, thank you.
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>> the time where it's visible. a lot of people put it on the ground. >> i like when tourists come and say, you do this for your city and you get paid for that? >> we use the [inaudible] for the holes and the retaining walls. [inaudible]. white on the fire hydrants. fire box red for the fire boxes. our brown for the pg and e poles. >> we are not painters we do our best.
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>> i'm assuming it has to do with gang activity. >> if it's territorial i mind. >> in case it's gang related and they are marking our territory i would like to paint it over. >> anything with numbers like x iv or x 13 west side mob and the bay view those are gang related. with gang related or profanity we will abait it as soon as possible. >> i consider it an art. there are circles of people that form around it whether or not they should ruin public property. >> this is art work i'm for it. unless it's on someone's property and they don't want it there. judge kids with silver paint
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expressing their ego needs doesn't belong on our property. >> graffiti is when you don't have permission to write anything on their property. >> eighth street is part of your regular rout? >> yes. >> everyday. >> eighth street. divisidero street. irving street. every block they going through they paint 3 or 4 streets in the block the poles the utility boxes, mailbox. >> thank you. >> okay. >> put the drop cloth. come on around. >> there you go. force for we have to remember we are not painters we abate
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graffiti. we are abaters not painters. get that out of the way and keep moving. >> how many of these do you do a day? how many poles we do a day? >> yeah. >> depends on the location. may be 20. >> do you like working with the team? >> yes because i'm a people person. i like being outside and interacting with the public and i like the response we get especially from the good job we do in the community. >> goodbye. do you like this top? that's so gay.
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really? yeah. it's totally gay. you know, you really shouldn't say that. say what? well, say that something is "gay" when you mean it's bad. it's insulting. what if every time something was bad, everybody said, "ugh. that's so girl wearing a skirt as a top." oh. you are. ha ha. shut up. those are cute jeans, though.
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