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>> split infinitives i don't mind about. i think our rules derived from latin where the infinitive is one word. in ancient greek, a split infinitive is a beautiful construction and used frequently. >> i have never been able to [unintelligible] the most famous split infinitive is to go. [unintelligible] >> can language designed to be spoken ever be preserved in the librarians equivalent of [unintelligible] >> we will be showing have the printing press accelerated change, but also began to fix the language. the scientific revolution brought in a huge amounts of -- the internet is changing
>> split infinitives i don't mind about. i think our rules derived from latin where the infinitive is one word. in ancient greek, a split infinitive is a beautiful construction and used frequently. >> i have never been able to [unintelligible] the most famous split infinitive is to go. [unintelligible] >> can language designed to be spoken ever be preserved in the librarians equivalent of [unintelligible] >> we will be showing have the printing press accelerated change,...
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this woman expelled tyranny as partial to a split infinitive which she likes to use. >> split infinitiveson't mind about. i think our rules derived from latin where the infinitive is one word. in ancient greek, a split infinitive is a beautiful construction and used frequently. >> i have never been able to [unintelligible] the most famous split infinitive is to go. [unintelligible] >> can language designed to be spoken ever be preserved in the librarians equivalent of [unintelligible] >> we will be showing have the printing press accelerated change, but also began to fix the language. the scientific revolution brought in a huge amounts of -- the internet is changing language now. >> some cards were crushed by a television tower. it was built to withstand winds of 110 miles per hour. >> the bbc has produced style guides for announcers. it is funny how often you hear in an emergency people are evacuated. with language constantly in flux come out words come and go and all errors are soon forgotten. my colleague has been speaking to one actor and the president of the queen's english society.
this woman expelled tyranny as partial to a split infinitive which she likes to use. >> split infinitiveson't mind about. i think our rules derived from latin where the infinitive is one word. in ancient greek, a split infinitive is a beautiful construction and used frequently. >> i have never been able to [unintelligible] the most famous split infinitive is to go. [unintelligible] >> can language designed to be spoken ever be preserved in the librarians equivalent of...
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the sky is infinite, the sand is infinite. it's hard to keep your focus because you are constantly using peripheral vision looking all around you. it doesn't matter which way you walk after a while, you are just wandering. and so on the first trip out there, we didn't get to the sea because we just ended up wandering. it happens out there. you have a plan but the landscape becomes beautiful in a way that you weren't expecting and you start disappearing into it. you start forgetting why you are going in one direction. you start thinking, no, i just want to see that shadow over there and spend time there and then i want to see the next shadow and the next. it took 3 trips actually before we got to the sea. and all over at the edges of the dunes and sometimes even out in the middle of the dunes where you get into a deep hole, you will find a broken ceramic ojalla, you will find a sea shell that somebody carried in there, you will pick up the shell going what were you doing out here, why were you walking in this place, were you se
the sky is infinite, the sand is infinite. it's hard to keep your focus because you are constantly using peripheral vision looking all around you. it doesn't matter which way you walk after a while, you are just wandering. and so on the first trip out there, we didn't get to the sea because we just ended up wandering. it happens out there. you have a plan but the landscape becomes beautiful in a way that you weren't expecting and you start disappearing into it. you start forgetting why you are...
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please join me in thanking the school for providing the city of san francisco with nurturing the infinite capacity of young children. thank you all for coming today. >> thank you, supervisor. we have been in the area for a number of years. in the last three years, i cannot tell you how wonderful the community has been to us. from a pizza parlor owners, to the store that we go to for christmas tree decorations, to all of the neighborhoods. after three years, we have been a thriving community. i have passed along an overview of our school. some of us have graduated and have come back to show our delight in this. this is a little baby that says, i love mommy. we do represent a very diverse community. to extend our thank you, our children have created booklets for every single supervisor here. without further ado, i would like to thank you for having us come. where are the booklets? they are all original artwork from our kids. there should be of levin. we hope you enjoy it. [applause] >> thank you. i also have another accommodation. hi. colleagues, i would like you to join me in honoring her
please join me in thanking the school for providing the city of san francisco with nurturing the infinite capacity of young children. thank you all for coming today. >> thank you, supervisor. we have been in the area for a number of years. in the last three years, i cannot tell you how wonderful the community has been to us. from a pizza parlor owners, to the store that we go to for christmas tree decorations, to all of the neighborhoods. after three years, we have been a thriving...
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it is infinitely more powerful to become transparent. once you claim your mexican, or israeli, or irish, then you look at it for what it is and you remember before you were any of those things. you were like and loved. those are the things they give you peace, lasting chances over the history of the planet, a lot of war happening because of religion, because of differences. i like to celebrate, like bob marley. like marvin gaye. i would like to thank jerry and diane for helping me to accelerate into a new perception for myself. when we perceive specialists, you can get in trouble -- when we perceive that we are special, you can get in trouble. you need special drugs for special pain because no one understands you. but someone thinks you are special. will you except they your significant and meaningful? then you do not need a doctor. being special is me, myself, and my experience. it will always get you in trouble. when you except that you are significant and meaningful, something happens with the universe, it comes to life. but i look at
it is infinitely more powerful to become transparent. once you claim your mexican, or israeli, or irish, then you look at it for what it is and you remember before you were any of those things. you were like and loved. those are the things they give you peace, lasting chances over the history of the planet, a lot of war happening because of religion, because of differences. i like to celebrate, like bob marley. like marvin gaye. i would like to thank jerry and diane for helping me to accelerate...
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seeing children smiling mes me think that they have infinite potential. i don't mind hardship. i want to continue helping them and open the way to a bright future. >> reporter: the contingent teachers are still needed in rural areas, despite the government's policy. a lot needs to be done if every child in this country is to get an equal chance for education, which will youallow them to dre of a better future. >>> well, analysts insist that the contingent teachers should be rewarded for the many years they've contributed to teaching. they should be given assistance even after they retire. >>> railway companies face a crisis. the customers are old, the birth rate is dropping, and the number of passengers is dropping. in this report, we see how one railway company is rising to the challenge. >> reporter: this rail service, one of the capital's busiest, stretches for about 30 kilometers west from the central tokyo area into the suburbs. the tokyo corporation owns and operates the line. commuter service started fanning out from the capital around 1970, during japan's explosive econ
seeing children smiling mes me think that they have infinite potential. i don't mind hardship. i want to continue helping them and open the way to a bright future. >> reporter: the contingent teachers are still needed in rural areas, despite the government's policy. a lot needs to be done if every child in this country is to get an equal chance for education, which will youallow them to dre of a better future. >>> well, analysts insist that the contingent teachers should be...
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i think in the infinite wisdom of this commission, you do not allow this to happen to the playground. on the topic of leasing, the city charter co says nothing might be sold or leased for non recreational purposes. there is the conservation of energy costs. >> congratulations on one-year. i am john rothman, president of the laurel heights improvement association. whoever gets the lease, we will work with, welcome, and in the race. the observation -- has been at laurel hill for two decades. the thing that is most destructive to me -- distressing to me is that no notification was given. i have been the president of our association for two decades. i received notification of the fact that there was any problem. we want the child of sufficient program to continue. they will able to come in, they were able to come in on a walk- in basis. our hope today is not that you reject anything, rather to act for a continuance. we are prepared to work to raise that money from the participants. we have negotiated in rental agreements for least 15 years. whatever happens, we will welcome everyone, we w
i think in the infinite wisdom of this commission, you do not allow this to happen to the playground. on the topic of leasing, the city charter co says nothing might be sold or leased for non recreational purposes. there is the conservation of energy costs. >> congratulations on one-year. i am john rothman, president of the laurel heights improvement association. whoever gets the lease, we will work with, welcome, and in the race. the observation -- has been at laurel hill for two...
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millennium, which is a 6-00 foot to your, one renkin hill, which sticks out like a sore thumb, and the infinite. so 1,500 additional residents have come to the neighborhood. i live at bakers towers, built in 1991, the first mid rise condominium built after the earthquake. while there are children's playgrounds planned for the trance bay transit center, that lovely park we hope to see in 2017 and a couple of other parks i will show you, the kids right now need space to run around. anything that can help to hasteen the development of open spaces and other infrastructure like traffic calming and other needs for this community, to encourage people to get out of their cars and walk, use bikes. public transit would be wonderful. on the projector i have a plan that -- could we see what is on the overhead, please? sfgov, please? supervisor maxwell: it takes a second. >> anyway, there are already two projects with plans. it has been vetted on the community. the one i have on the projector right now is for a park. the parks and rec department have conducted things to get outreach from neigeach from nei.
millennium, which is a 6-00 foot to your, one renkin hill, which sticks out like a sore thumb, and the infinite. so 1,500 additional residents have come to the neighborhood. i live at bakers towers, built in 1991, the first mid rise condominium built after the earthquake. while there are children's playgrounds planned for the trance bay transit center, that lovely park we hope to see in 2017 and a couple of other parks i will show you, the kids right now need space to run around. anything that...
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don't worry, resources are infinite. they are telling you food should be available 24 hours a day and eating with your family and friends is not important. that food should be fast, cheap, and easy. >> right. >> so i just understood a whole different set of values by eating differently. >> what are those values? >> food is precious. that um --, it is important to restore the land because that is where our food comes from. farmers are precious. and that um, nourishing ourselves and others is an activity that is unlike anything else. and that there is um, something really important to offering food to people that don't have it. and i could go on. >> and those values led you to desire to educate others to the one you were sharing with many other people at the time and turned your attention to educating a generation that you referred to as the first generation, not to sit down at the family table. and you have discussed a lot of what that means. it is actually an interesting point of view. this generation hasn't had that con
don't worry, resources are infinite. they are telling you food should be available 24 hours a day and eating with your family and friends is not important. that food should be fast, cheap, and easy. >> right. >> so i just understood a whole different set of values by eating differently. >> what are those values? >> food is precious. that um --, it is important to restore the land because that is where our food comes from. farmers are precious. and that um, nourishing...
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the other thing to mention here, is the infinite of the extremely warm base and that is called, heat base. norm miller has done a lot of work on this kind of behavior and he published a paper recently remarking about some of these same scenarios and ot days over this terrain but the message here is, the number of heatwaves gets greater. they begin earlier and last longer both in seasonal context and their synoptic event scale. that's a two day heatwave may all the sudden be a five day heatwave. of course you probably know, just human nature knows if we get more than two days of heatwave we'll run the air conditioner a bit longer and finally give in as far as requiring more cooling, so in california, of course, we have a summertime heat and electrical demand and you can expect that peak power load will creep up because of this. this has the enormous ecosystem implications for this environmental justice issue mentioned earlier, because a lot of people can't afford air-conditioning and ones that can, are going to suffer more or can't will suffer more. evidently there's a geographic issu
the other thing to mention here, is the infinite of the extremely warm base and that is called, heat base. norm miller has done a lot of work on this kind of behavior and he published a paper recently remarking about some of these same scenarios and ot days over this terrain but the message here is, the number of heatwaves gets greater. they begin earlier and last longer both in seasonal context and their synoptic event scale. that's a two day heatwave may all the sudden be a five day heatwave....
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new york city has infinitely more construction than seven sisters and a density that is on par. as a constituent here, seeing the apart -- department's response and the fire department's lack of response, we went for this legislation two years ago. they know it is a consistent issue. to date if you have concerns regarding the band, personally i have yet to see anyone with a vested interest in terms of a written policy or any part of the fire department to proactively address this issue. and it is an issue. seven to 10 fires each year but there is no change in the permitting process, enforcement admits that they do not really enforcing. two weeks after my fire, picking up the remains of my belongings, the roofers came back to finish the job with the same court to apply roofing. only upon by yelling at them and eventually having to call the police department, because no one answered of the fire department, did anyone come up to say and ask them to stop what they're doing, even though the police apartment admitted they had no control over permits. i ask for your support in supporti
new york city has infinitely more construction than seven sisters and a density that is on par. as a constituent here, seeing the apart -- department's response and the fire department's lack of response, we went for this legislation two years ago. they know it is a consistent issue. to date if you have concerns regarding the band, personally i have yet to see anyone with a vested interest in terms of a written policy or any part of the fire department to proactively address this issue. and it...
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but we can close our eyes and we can imagine a line that's infinitely long, a point that's infinitely small, a series of numbers that goes on forever, and our ability to imagine those things forms the basis of everything from formal mathematics to science to technology to everything that we are. i don't think we understand how the brain does that. i think for all the advances that have been made in genetics and neurobiology, we don't know where abstract ideas come from. but my hope is if we could figure out how little kids get to have them, we might start making some progress. >> rose: great. >> actually, it's very similar to you. i think that, you know, if we could figure out how genes influence, say, schizophrenia. how do you generate a hallucination because you have a mutation in some genes? i mean, that's a profound progress from a simple gene and a protein in a synapse to a circuit that's somehow recreating experience that was... that occurred earlier. so i think someday to explain these psychiatric disorders that are very complex but they have genetic underpinnings, so must have
but we can close our eyes and we can imagine a line that's infinitely long, a point that's infinitely small, a series of numbers that goes on forever, and our ability to imagine those things forms the basis of everything from formal mathematics to science to technology to everything that we are. i don't think we understand how the brain does that. i think for all the advances that have been made in genetics and neurobiology, we don't know where abstract ideas come from. but my hope is if we...