today we are going to talk about fire safety. we are here at the urban center on mission street in san francisco. it's a wonderful display. a little house in the urban center exhibition center that shows what it's like in a home in san francisco after an earthquake. one of the major issues that we are going to face after earthquakes are fire hazard. we are happy to have the fire marshall join us today. >> thank you. my pleasure. >> we talk about the san francisco earthquake that was a fire that mostly devastated the city. how do we avoid that kind

of problem. how can we reduce fire hazard? >> the construction was a lot different. we don't expect what we had then. we want to make sure with the gas heaters that the gas is shut off. >> if you shut it off you are going to have no hot water or heat. be careful not to shut it off unless you smell gas. >> absolutely because once you do shut it off you should have the utility company come in and turn it back on. here is a mock up of a gas hear the on a house. where would we find the gas meter? >> it should be in your garage. everyone should be familiar with where the gas meter is. >> one of the tools is a

wrench, a crescent wrench. >> yes. the crescent wrench is good and this is a perfect example of how to have it so you can loosen it up and use it when you need it. >> okay. let's go inside to talk about fire safety. many of the issues here relate to fire, for example, we have a little smoke detector and i see you brought one here, a carbon monoxide smoke detector. >> this is a combination of smoke and carbon monoxide detector. they are required in single homes now and in apartment buildings. if gas appliance is not burning properly this will alert you before the fumes buildup and

will affect you negatively. >> this is a battery powered? >> this is a battery powered and it has a 10 year battery life. a lot of times you may have one or the other. if you put in just a carbon monoxide detector, it's important to have one of these too. every house should have a fire extinguisher, yes. >> one thing people expect to do when the power goes out after an earthquake about using candles. what would you recommend? >> if you have a battery operated candle would be better to use. this kind of a candle, you wouldn't want it in an area where it can cause a fire or

aftershock that it doesn't rollover. you definitely want to have this in a non-combustible surface. >> now, here we have our stove. after a significant earthquake we expect that we may have gas disrupted and so without gas in your home, how are you going to cook? >> well, i wouldn't recommend cooking inside of the house. you have to go outside and use a portable stove or something else. >> so it wouldn't be safe to use your fireplace to cook? >> not at first. you should check it by a professional first. >> outside should be a safe

place to cook as long as you stay away from buildings and doors and windows. >> yes. that will be fine. >> here we have some alternative cooking areas. >> you can barbecue and if you have a regular propane bark could barbecue. >> thank you for joining us. and thanks for this terrific space that you have in this exhibition space and thanks for helping san francisco stay safe.

>> 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 emotio l emotional, psychological, spiritual way if we watch them one by one disappear. >> this is sort of a merger between art and science and advocacy in a funny way getting people to wake unand realize what is going on -- wake up and realize what is going on. so it is a memborial trying to get us to interpret history and look to the past. they have always been about lacking at the past so we proceed forward and maybe don't

commit the same mistakes. ♪ >> and we're going here to give a blessing for this beautiful new library i'm here because when i went to high school i worked asia library payment in the late 60s and early 70s i thank goodness for ms. jackson for hiring me he learned to swim in the local pool. i also do a people's blessings who o so that when i raise my hand and say something repeat it. >> may this new home for learning and inspiration be

filed with great vibes of >> (repeated.) >> >> (repeated.) . turbulent >> (repeated.) imagination. >> (repeated.) . expanding horizons >> (repeated.) >> for those who hunger and this matter may the spirit of peace. >> (repeated.) >> joy. >> (repeated.) >> and wonder bless this new north beach library (clapping) so so much reverend functioning and what a glories day welcome ladies and gentlemen, i'm louis us the city librarian (clapping.) i've had the honor and privilege of doing ribbon cuttings for the

24 libraries it never gets old it's fantastic is we're here to celebrate the grand opening of a new icon in the north beach neighborhood it represents the end of the largest capital improvement program in the history of the city 24 libraries every library is seismic safe we have ada access and staiks libraries for every neighborhood in our city (clapping) isn't that fantastic really a testament to all of you we're here to celebrate the last one and best one of the lot (clapping) absolutely. >> how appropriate is it this is mother's day weekend abused happy mother's day but beyond that this is the mother of all

projects (laughter). >> (clapping) literally this is the capital to all the amazing projects you have a special library i know we're going to have a program it's important to acknowledge folks i can he can recall wait for you to experience it is 60 percent larger which means for this amazing neighborhood to have literature history where else than here lawrence and jack absolutely (clapping) 60 percent more space means you'll have spaces for children to minimum as the reverend said to be inspired the future scientists and perhaps the future engineers and librarians maybe the future mayors come out of north beach because their

inspired that from our lib. that has a teen space and an amazing living area on this side where everywhere you look you'll see coit tower or the cable cars the st. peter and paul. thank you marking for your vision of (clapping) giving you truly an amazing building so if you may have read the article from john king that talked about the public spaces being magic and all the other sense of the public is that a being engaged so her vision and that of her team is making a difference. but it also is is a play that's staishg more technology.

we used to have 6 public terminals for access to technology and you'll have 22 wifi and the first library connected to the cities fiberoptics network so board band and transmit anything you want that are as the afternoon unfolds he'll hear more and more but we'll start by thanking the community all of you for your patience and per southerners of making this a reality i didn't want to settlement for a modified expansion you knew from generations to come you would get an iconic building give yourselves a applause >> you wanted to vision for a

civic plaza and the plagued that's going to be realized that's a civic plaza so thank you. again. the community was a key partner it goes without saying the city family comes together to deliver on a promise i'll happy to a work with an unanimously team of individuals that needs to be recognized the team i'd like to start with our chief of branches ed back here (clapping) elsie wong she's helped us what designed of quite a few of the libraries (clapping) from the dpw side our michelle our project manager where's michelle lee. julia back there doing fabulous work and ed lopez they've come together and worked beautifully

to make this happen. i want to recognize the folks that are going to be delivering excellent customer public service to all of they deserve our recognition our management robert carlson and eric the librarian there you go eric the great support staff and shawn lynn and jason lee and he betty lee (clapping) let's hear it for them folks. okay. so now without further ado, it's my pleasure to introduce mayor ed lee he's hand print has been in the program throughout the entire had 14 years since 2000 when he was the director of public works and as mayor he's give us unwavering

port to make sure we come to the final full time so thank you mayor ed lee (clapping.) thank you lou yes, sir. and thank you for the librarian the wonderful job he's doing (clapping) well, when he said handicap print i didn't put my hand print in another of the concrete. but i look at this crowd and look at the t-shirts of the agencies printed on the back we're very proud of this library you're on important part of the san francisco and we bless it and reflect it by the energy this library medians and after hearing the list many of things make sure this library has modernization even though it is

the final one not the final investments the education for you kids and the community centers that libraries become more than you're old and my old libraries community centers are excepted for people to come together to exchange ideas and provide hope to learn and constantly learn and the button of this is the deimagine playground yes (clapping) i want to thank the supervisors again supervisor david chiu and a scott wiener they've been here with smaert on all of our branch openings we've celebrated in the bay area or out in the excelsior time and time again we've

celebrated this with literally every community around san francisco this morning we kickoffed prop a the emergency services response bond we can optional do that if we have used the bond you've graciously voted for and disciplined ourself to law room in keeping the promise not to increase property taxes i want to thank everyone that's involved because it's a promise we can continue to deliver great infrastructure and institutions where it will be part of the community if we do the right thing so we're lucky to have emergency respond money with our police department and fire department and retired those debts but today is about looking

at those kids having fun and being safe isn't it a transformation of an old parking lot isn't ii, visualize this we used our innovation and imagination and what else we didn't just build a library i think as friends of the library are showing as frinsz of the joe deimagine is showing when we do things like that we respond to form the agencies like friends and bring people together to finish what we can't do the friends are going to need our help the furnishings and the trimming so, please help when you can. the friends of deimagine

playground and phil will love it quite a nice blessing enriching each other when the kids are playing or lockup things and go out and play again in a safe community. the biggest thanks to are the people like you who never, ever gave up. you know when lewis was saying the moss mother of all projects sometimes, we encounter those entities and times when things get delayed but the people who rise up all the time and save us from being distraught and time and time again the residents of chinatown and naturally has risen up and given us the extra push t