tv [untitled] January 20, 2015 8:30am-9:01am PST
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waffle noise, 2001. god-waffle noise noise pancake came out of cubist art, place on mission street, brutallo where the church -- opened up his house and saturday morning cartoons. a big space. you can have everybody set up and barely move equipment around; small room for an audience to move around, walkover and get pancakes without getting burned up in the kitchen. there's like people in their hard-core gabber; people into really fast death
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metal; black metal. people who don't listen to music at all. guy like larnie bock (sounds like) set up huge, motor driven harp. i don't know how to explain it. 40 foot of motors that he had running over strings and wires. and then played each string individually with the mixer. there is a feeling of euphoria when somebody's really good at what they do. experiencing a buffer,
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pushing your bowels out your rear. different. a lot of noise. you don't play clubs with a cleaning schedule, a guy coming in the morning emptying the beer bottles. you play the warehouse. if you travel around you will see the exact same kind of weirdos doing their own thing. it is like in the bay area it's even more absurd. there seems to be more people that in a place like new york or tokyo. we did a show in new york, i didn't think that anyone was at hardly, and people come up and said i saw the show. i wish they had some kind of breakfast noise going on over there. i think a lot of people were
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being, walking out of the shows. that was incredible. i can't believe it's over already, after two hours. if you are reluctant to enjoy something like this it will probably take a mass of peers to sell you on it. it's fine if you stay away. most of the people that come to the shows are pretty happy to be here. you may not be one of them. which is fine.
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>> 7 and a half million renovation is part of the clean and safe neighbor's park fund which was on the ballot four years ago and look at how that public investment has transformed our neighborhood. >> the playground is unique in that it serves a number of age groups, unlike many of the other properties, it serves small children with the children's play grounds and clubhouses that has basketball courts, it has an outdoor soccer field and so there were a lot of people that came to the table that had their wish list and we did our best to make sure that we kind of divided up spaces and made sure that we kept the old features of the playground but we were able to enhance all of those features.
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>> the playground and the soccer field and the tennis fields and it is such a key part of this neighborhood. >> we want kids to be here. we want families to be here and we want people to have athletic opportunities. >> we are given a real responsibility to insure that the public's money is used appropriately and that something really special comes of these projects. we generally have about an opportunity every 50 years to redo these spaces. and it is really really rewarding to see children and families benefit, you know, from the change of culture, at each one of these properties >> and as a result of, what you see behind us, more kids are playing on our soccer fields than ever before. we have more girls playing
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>> what do you think about working at an airport and i love it is busy all the time. >> we want it to be an those away was this is a venture if i didn't love it i'll be an accountant. >> we want the experience that is a non-airport experience the negative stigma we're trying to erase that. >> everything is in a bad food to excite them about the food and they have time to learn about us. >> people are imitated by traveling and the last thing to do is come to a place fill of
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chaos. >> telling me how the extent of napa a farms came about. >> it was a vision of the airport director he had a suspicion of a really cool gourmet speciality market locally friendly products this market local flavors this is the best. >> can we get a little tour. >> absolutely (laughter) ♪ ♪ >> so first on our tour. >> we have the clock we like to call it. >> this is coordinating it is made in san francisco. >> what about the customer presence. >> we like to get the permanent farther i love the cappuccino and you have to go to multiple
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places for the cupcakes the cup a cakes from kari's people want to live here they're longing phone call for one thing in one spot in you know anything about san francisco the cheese the most popular cheesy think a lot of the people from the west coast say so this the real san francisco sour dough and they're curious. >> you find people respond to the idea of organic and absolutely. >> this is autumn. >> thank you, thank you and there's a lot of personal touch. >> i see san francisco. >> it's very hands on. >> what's the most popular items. >> this is quite surprising our fresh jotting this is the chronicle special a bowl of warm
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oats and coconut that's mites farther. >> and speaking of drinks tell me again the cocktail scenes is that one, the things your known for . >> the cocktails are fantastic. >> really. >> fresh ingredients we don't have a mixture it to order this is our marcus bloody mayor. >> farmer's market bloody mary the bloody marys in the airport are great shikz it up. and then we're going to garnish it with olives. and some lime and a fresh stalk
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our meetings available to the public online and also transcribe our meeting. and recognized jessie harlan and egan. >> do we have any announcements. >> ly call roll. director lee. >> here. >> lee present. >> director nuru. >> present. director reiskin present. >> director harper present. >> i will note for the record that director sartipi will not by able to join us today due to scheduling conflict. >> do we have any communication or board of directors old or new business? seeing none we'll move to the executive director's report. >> good afternoon everyone and happy new year. we start with some good news today, having to do with our bridge loan that we reported on last moment we will be closing next week, that is a great achievement. also we had reported to the board that we're looking at syndicating the loan. it turns out that we no longer have to do that.
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golden and wells fargo have committed to fund the entire $171 million, $86 million and $85 million respected [sp*-ebgt/]ively and that is very good news and we're closing next week. i can't tell you what a testament it is to our organizion and the growth of our organization to apply for $171 million loan and close on it. it's a good achievement and i want to thank our ffo and staff for their work. the groundbreak of january 6th in fresno was attended by the governor, labor leaders and business, small businesses, and student leaders. it was a really inspiring event. the governor gave a really good speech. i attended along with our board member sartipi. it was really great to see. just as a reminder, the first session is 19-miles in length and stretchs from madero to
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fresno county. more good news on tuesday of this we're the board of supervisors unanimously approved the legislation to declare the election results, levy and special tax and i again want to thank mayor lee and the board of supervisors and our chairperson kim for her steadfast support of the cfd. we're beginning to solicit applications for the citizens advisory committee for the transbay joint powers authority and the applications will also are on our website. in particular, i want to mention that this year we have a daily cal train raider opening, as well as a daily ac transit rider opening. so always look forward to your recommendations. and now i would like to move on to our annual program status
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report. every year we give an annual status of what we did and what our accomplishments were the prior year in 2014. what the plan is for 2015, and where we expect to be by january of 2016. we will be reporting on accomplishments, our dbes program and public outreach as well. the members of our staff will give this report, starting with our program manager mark sabani. >> good morning, board members and happy new year. as nila mentioned the annual presentation, the program milestones and accomplishments will be done jointly by myself, as well as manager dennis, cfo sarah and manager scott and will include the milestone accomplishments for
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