first, rita lindall, rita and i are both in the same cohort as the music program at uc berkley and we've been saying for 4 years, we need to play music. so we finally made it happen. so, rita lindall, and then masuro koga. mas and i have been playing together for a very long time, so much so that we wore the same shirt without having to talk to each other about it. mas is in high demand both as a teacher and as a session side man, having played with everybody from anthony brown's asian american orchestra to wane wallace's newest cd. who haven't you played with lately? yeah, he's played with everybody. you can find mas on a lot of different cd's from the local jazz community. this song we're going to do is an air called the brown-haired girl. when i was recording, when i was fortunate to be able to record bridge across the blue, i was telling them i got this air, i got it off the chieftan's album, i'm going to do it on the electric base. he looked at me and said, you're nuts. people are going to go crazy but if you can do it, i'll help you. he gave me this book of airs and went, figure it

i just got a call from someone from berkley with millions of pages of copies of plans of san francisco buildings. millions of sheets that somehow got rescued in the 1906 earthquake. part of what we're doing in the building and planning department is how to assemble the records and your about to see they're not in one place. the biggest lesson you'll find is your challenge is to go to all of these agencies and get a set of records for your building. right now your assembling a program to do a single records management program to dial up on the computer your address and get the historical data. right now we can do that for a very short timeframe so if you go to,sfgov dot org. the cities website you can go to the beldings department link, hi alice, and go to permits. it says check on-line permit status and it's a permit tracking function and you can enter your address and i think all the permits since the mid 80's now will come up with their disposition and what happens, who reviewed them and all of that. that's the first step. that's as we were rushing headlong into the 90's and we're tr

berkley and these are students from thurgood marshall. and last -- one more thing. i probably shouldn't say this because i was invited to be on a panel for one of the superintendent republican instructor forum up in sacramento last week in which the whole discussion was chronic absenteeism. claudia was very helpful in giving me information and updating me. it was really nice that the whole -- four hours was just discussing -- different people discussing you know, what to do with this issue. i'm real glad that people are beginning to recognize that is an issue. >> thank you. >> commissioner maufas? >> thank you, just very quickly, president mendoza. i just wanted to say that thank you to commissioner mirase for being the master of sore moan nis at the asian week foundation -- ceremony anies at the asian week foundation. and i went to thurgood marshall's carnival and they attended the hilltop graduation which was again lovely as ever for parents and pregnant teenagers. last year they had a dad. and that was again just heartwarming. and also at the principal center wit

to introduce paul church, an old friend who is the disability access coordinator for the city of berkley now. you have been involved in the whole accessability enforcement, the movement for many years. >> since the early 90's. >> since the early 90's and has been involved in the city of san francisco as well for a long period. >> not so much any longer, but quite a bit in the past. >> carla johnson in the acting deputy director of inspection sftions here at the building department. people who go out and do inspections for buildings, including inspections for disabled access, are responsible to carla's management. i know carla has been involved as well for decades and decades. >> 13 years here at dbi enforcing the disabled access codes. >> and my good buddy tom fowl at the end. tom is an engineer at the smith kettle research institute and a sailor and tom and i met sailing 10 or 12 years ago and we met sailing san francisco bay. people say how can a blind guy sail? . >> you get in a sail boat and you pull on ropes and move the tiller and listen to the sighted people who of course have to

in the play but actually was drawn from our financial struggles trying to build this house in the berkley hills. but it also sort of shows you how real life intrudes into your work and how we either can listen to it and put it into it or try to ignore it. i usually choose to sort of put everything that's going on around me in the world when i'm reading what i find intellectually curious into the work, no matter what the story is. >> so let's turn our attention a little bit to these characters you have created, 9, i think, characters, all very extremely different from different backgrounds. you spoke just now about wanting to find an authentic voice for each of them and working from the inside out. so how do you go about creating specific voices for a jewish russian character by way of yokohama, for an african american character, for all these different characters? i know you worked with specific actors. did they help at all? what was the process there? . >> absolutely. in terms of the african american characters, i wrote this piece initially for the act core company and i thought it would

in berkley, we actually have high and low.we put one down around a foot plate which where somebody using a wheelchair who doesn't have any kind of arm function or can't reach that high, they can hit it with a foot plate. we are finding that more people prefer to kick them than use foot plates on them. people that play soccer, especially during world cup they were very popular things to kick. delivery people use them a lot of time to kick. it's a lot easier than using the buttons in the elevator. same idea as this, just a larger button you can hit to open the door. >> they are very well received in san francisco. people actually -- we consider this to be equivalent to full access. this is not like an alternate, you need special approval, this actually provides us with what we think is almost the same as full access. >> they are also really useful if you have a really heavy door. sometimes in these really beautiful buildings you have steel and glass and the pressure required to operate the door is more than 20 pounds. a power do

the johnny appleseed complex where we are meeting today is located in the alien berkeley halls berkley hall's name for frances bailey. the printer considered to be the father of a new church in america and for bailey's work hester barkley sister-in-law of john young who arthur has shown convincingly certainly gave johnny appleseed his first taste of swedenborg. the place crawls with connections direct and indirect. for me please perhaps most rewarding of them all is the fact that this museum happens to be the repository of the papers of florence murdoch the longtime secretary of the new church library in cincinnati. because it was in those papers that i was able to trace his history of how johnny appleseed happened to happen to make his film debut. the story begins with the december 1944 letter to murdoch from a librarian and the indiana historical society or good library and wanted to let murdoch melded to studios, mgm and disney, have been asking around about johnny appleseed. of the to the library and clearly preferred disney take on the job she was not 100% certain. i only trust sh

. >> there is that storm so working its way across berkley it right now.and east. that is kind of what we are looking like. he is right there at the north end of the golden gate bridge. as we pull out, a majority of the rain is on the peninsula. the most intense area is in north bay. the sonoma valley and napa valley, white-water shower activity. the most widespread rain is over the peninsula, you can see from the tip of san francisco all the way down to the dumbarton bridge, near palo alto, light-moderate rain activity. 101, to 80, no matter which road you take you will run into rain. you will begin of that, out of it and back in it again. in oakland, the bay bridge, it is a wet out there. also this section of 13 a and 8580, we are dealing with rain. all that stuff is a thoroughly in the northeast direction. everything offshore, west of half moon bay, that is coming over the hills and into the peninsula and ultimately into the east we might intensified by noon, we are not looking for much anywhere else. then, as we advance of the clock towards 5:00 p.m.,

berkley, the gentlewoman from illinois, ms. schakowsky, the gentleman from california, mr.ia, ms. schwartz, the gentlewoman from florida, ms. wasserman schultz, and the gentleman from florida, mr. deutch. vice president biden: the senators as members of the committee to escort his excellency, mr. binyamin netanyahu, into the house chamber. the senator from illinois, mr. durbin, the senator from michigan, mr. levin, the senator from massachusetts, mr. kerry, the senator from wisconsin, mr. cole, the senator from connecticut, mr. lieberman, the senator from california, ms. feinstein, the senator from california, ms. boxer, the senator from arizona, mr. kyl, the senator from south dakota, mr. thune, the senator from texas, mr. cornyn, the senator from indiana, mr. luger, and the senator from utah, mr. hatch. the speaker: the members of the escort committee will exit through the chamber doors, please. >> mr. speaker, the acting dean of the diplomatic corps. >> mr. speaker, the president's cabinet. >> mr. speaker, the prime minister of israel. the speaker: members of congress, i

berkley: madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent that i may hereafter be considered as the first sponsor of h.r. 427, a bill originally introduced by representative heller of nevada, for the purposes of adding co-sponsors and requesting reprints pursuant to clause 7 of rule 12 and in addition to that i also would like to be considered as the first co-sponsor -- first sponsor of h.r. 673, another bill originally introduced by representative heller of nevada, for the purposes of adding co-sponsors and requesting reprints pursuant to clause 7 of rule 12. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? >> madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent that the committee on transportation and infrastructure be discharged from further consideration of house concurrent resolution 16 and ask for its immediate consideration in the house. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the concurrent resolution. the clerk: house concurrent resolution 16, concurrent resolution authorizing the use of the capitol grounds for the greater washin