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experienced that work of art. ♪ >> this lodge is home to some of the best fly casting pools in the world. these shallow concrete pools don't have fish. this is just a place where people come to practice their fly casting technique. ith was built in the 1930's and ever since, people have been coming here to get back to nature. every year, the world
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championship of fly casting is held in san francisco and visitors from all over the globe travel to be here. >> we are here with phil, general manage of san francisco rec and parks department at the anglers lodge. what do you think about this? >> it is spectacular, travis from oregon, taught me a snake roll and a space cast. >> there are people from all over the world come to san francisco and say this is the place to be. >> yeah. it's amazing, we have teams from all over the world here today and they are thrilled. >> i flew from ireland to be here. and been practicing since for the competition. all the best casters in the world come here. my fellow countryman came in first place and james is on the current team and he is the head
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man. >> it's unique. will not see anything like it where you go to compete in the world. competitions in ireland, scotland, norway, japan, russia each year, the facilities here in the park are second to none. there is no complex in the world that can touch it. >> i'm here with bob, and he has kindly agreed to tell me everything i need to know about casting. i'm going to suit up and next, we're in the water. >> what any gentleman should do. golden gate angling has free lessons the second saturday of every month. we have equipment show up on the 9:30 on the second saturday of every month and we'll teach them to fly cast. >> ok.
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we are in the water. >> let me acquaint you with the fly rod. >> nice to meet you. >> this is the lower grip and the upper grip. this is a reel and a fly line. we are going to use the flex of this rod to fling away. exactly as you moved your hands. >> that's it? >> that's it. >> i'm a natural. >> push both arms forward and snap the lower hand into your tummy. push forward. >> i did gave it a try and had great time but i might need some more practice. i met someone else with real fly casting skills. her name is donna and she is an international fly casting champion. >> i have competed in the casting ponds in golden gate park in san francisco. i have been to japan and norway for fly casting competition.
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i spend my weekends here at the club and at the casting pond. it's a great place to learn and have fun. on a season day like this, it was the perfect spot to be. i find fly casting very relaxing and also at the same time very challenging sport. takes me out into the nature. almost like drawing art in the air. and then i can make these beautiful loops out there. >> even though people from across the globe come here to compete, it's still a place where locals in the know relax and enjoy some rely unique scenery. until next time, get out and play!
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(clapping) >> hello. (clapping.) good afternoon san francisco. >> (yelling n what a beautiful day a day for a celebration we've finished 12 years in inform we toward is two folks and now opting 6 hundred with our commitment and have the pleasure of this beautiful building because of you the employees in the for you part of the spirit is the technology is
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a start up and this event helps to catch this this is part of the culture we want to have going into the future. (clapping.) we're in san francisco because it's as toxic place our business technician is a daily war for top talent and even though people want to be in a beautiful city coming out have to integration i've lived in second amendment and new york and miami and los angeles san francisco is the place to be. >> yeah. (clapping). >> so his our great honor and pleasure we have the honorable mayor, mayor ed lee here to see a is a few words about the city
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of san francisco as well and jerry congratulations and thank you very much how sufficient riverbed team? well, your wearing great colors because there's only two team that concludes my report i know is the world-class giants champions and the riverbed team. yeah. >> yeah. >> well, i want to say emigrations again, it was almost a year jerry that we kicked off the construction of the building now to be here open opening day for riverbed on of the united states street this wonderful sign we're a city that's strong how about 4.4 percent in unemployment we've been a part of the nation capital of the world san francisco i want to thank you because right here there's going to be over 4 nine
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hundred jobs at the site thank you for a being a great community partner as well not only are you celebrating the success of our company you've joined me in making sure our youth of the future begin this summer with 7 thousand 7 thousand paid jobs thank you riverbed for obeying being a partner. and as part of this wonderful announcement i want to say thank you, again four showing you your great community and passion for this city by making sure our workforce is part of my workforce in helping people in this city succeed by nominating to our san francisco food bank that's a wonderful contribution $68,000. 69 that is >> 6 hundred 80 cans of food
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and cash my i got the numbers all right. that's a great way to celebrate our food bank needs it you're showing your graciousness in doing this thank you, thank you on behalf of the city and if i may take the honor, you know, the mayor gets to proclaim days when i know it's special to the city and on behalf of the city that recognizes community passion and growth we would like to proclaim today riverbed day in san francisco. >> (clapping) >> i proud to say thank you to supervisor jane kim who's here that will be recognizing this always with you i'll be proud to we are wear the orange shirt and
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orange hat the next time i go to the giants. >> i didn't think he was going to wear orange anyway, i get to introduce supervisor kim who's the supervisor in our district thank you, ms. kim (clapping) >> thank you. well i'll keep it short i was here a couple of weeks ago but thank you to raise your hand to join south of market community it's high honor to represent this district where we are this is all part of the amazing growth it's happening here we're creating jobs and building how's this is where san francisco is dynamic dynamic and exist that is a beautiful edition i don't know if you remember the building that was here before fwhu is a amazing
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attraction f to fultd and south of market it's not about just creating jobs but kickoff engagement so thank you for your volunteering and being a part of a larger community we have diversity we have low income residents and high income residents we want to build one san francisco and go giants. thank you >> (clapping) thank you supervisor kim fantastic and now before we cut the ribbon we have one chairperson of the san francisco blue bank we've been involved that the food bank for almost 10 years now and our employees volunteer there and in fact, i was a boy scout master for 12 years i would take my boy scouts to the food bank and we thought
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it was woody allen a great thing to do since what we have new officers on 640 faculty we/have 6 hundred and 40 cans of food there's a marketing brand and another check one in a long series of many checks that we've presented to the food bank so - >> gary why don't you get not middle (clapping) now know that looks like the accomplisher sweepstakes but it's really, you know. >> well, thank you jerry and mayor it's a pleasure on behalf of everyone i want to thank
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jerry and riverbed let me hit you with some facts this year, the sf food bank will distribute 46 million pounds of food it's fresh produce some that's the eventual of one hundred and 5 thousand meals each day. it's a one hundred and 47 thousand people get food from the food bank every week (clapping) 11 thousand school children everyday get a healthy snack every school day thanks to the food bank and more importantly thank you to the folks like you and riverbed. there's one last thing to mention i heard the volunteer word a second ago.
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the food bank is blasz blessed to have 25 thousand volunteers every year and its people like jerry and many of you i've seen you at our facilities thank you very much that's incredibly important to our mission (clapping.) so one last shout out to the riverbed team we're glad our calling san francisco your home (clapping) and thank you tim for that opportunity >> all right. the big moment we have an orange ribbon. i wonder why we picked that color who has the official
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scissors? okay cutting through our competition. 1, 2, 3 wow. yeah. 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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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>> 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. at 62942 working with together we can support your children. it's been my dream to start is a valley school since i was a little girl. i'm having a lot of fun with it (clapping) the biggest thing we really want the kids to have fun. a lot of times parents say that
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valley schools have a lot of problems but we want them to follow directions but we want them to have a wonderful time and be an affordable time so the kids will go to school here. we hold the classes to no longer 12 and there's 23 teachers. i go around and i watch each class and there's certain children i watched from babies and it's exciting to see them after today. the children learn how to follow directions and it ends up helping them in their regular
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schooling. they get self-confidents and today, we had a residual and a lot of time go on stage and i hope they get the bug and want to dance for the rest of their
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today is tuesday, july 1, 2014, this is the san francisco community investment & infrastructure commission i'd like to call this meeting to order at one 15. please call roll >> thank you, madam chair the first order. commissioner members please
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record >> commissioner ellington. commissioner mondejar. commissioner singh. commissioner rosales. chairperson johnson. all members of the commission are present. the next order of business is announcements a the next meeting will be held on tuesday july 15th at 1 o'clock at city hall room 416 and announcement of the prohibition of the please be advised the ringing of and use of cell phones, pagers and similar sound-producing electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting. please be advised that the chair may order the removal from the meeting room responsible for the ringing or use of a cell phone, pager, or other similar sound-producing electronic devices. c nauchlt of the time allocate of the public members of the public may address the
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commission up to 3 minutes on each agenda item. it is strongly recommend that pubs who wish to address the commission please fill out a card and submit it to the commission secretary. item 3 report an actions at the previous closed session if any. no reportable actions next order of business matters of unfinished business no items. the next order of business it item 5 the matter consisting of new consent calendar. first item 5 a the minutes of may 20th and 5 b approval of the minutes of june 3rd, 2014. >> thank you very much