[music playing in background],iha chi. iha chi! the samurai is calling me. i wonder what is wrong. did you call me? yes,iha chi! i'm sorry. next door being noisy. sorry i will go and tell them to be quiet. very, very sorry. [loud party noises] come on in. excuse me. sorry. can you keep the noise down please? be a little bit quieter. huh? be quiet. look at this. three young men on holiday. three beautiful geishas and all this expensive saki we ordered from you and you tell us to be quiet. actually we don't mind but someone next door complained. someone complained? about us? tell them to come here and complain to our faces. no. no. wait! i understand. they're just jealous. we're here having a good time and they're all alone, right? that's it. they're just jealous. maybe so but actually it's not just an ordinary person that complains. what do you mean not an ordinary person? someone with three heads, six legs? a ghost? very funny, sir, but actually it's a samurai. samurai? next door? why didn't you tell us. we don't like samurais? sometimes they just kill people by mistakes. sorry abo

because,iha chi i just wanted a quiet night! [applause] [music] [music] [applause] good afternoon, everybody. thank you for joining us today. the first thing i will ask you to do is put your hands together in front of our heart and bow slightly and say nanasta it means the good in me greets the good in all of you. who knows where is this is from? india. today we are sharing an form. we are members of the dance company based here in san francisco and we are taught by somebody who has been doing this art form for over 50 years much the ladies including myself we have been studying with him for a long time. you will see different things. lots of sounds with our feet. a little bit of story telling through mime and expression and you will learn about math in dance. who would have thought. today we will start, our next piece means the coloring of the stage. dancers show the hindu aspect of the dance by using the positions of our hands we will show you we are decorating the stage and make a water picture and cleaning the stage with the

it ihas always felt a comfortable place to live. it's part of my life. [applause] >> i want to -- here we go. [applause] this is the second time in our entire history we have given this award. thank you, ed harrington. >> thank you very much. thank you, david, for the nice introduction, and to mfac and spur for the award. when someone wants to give you a lifetime achievement award -- are you [laughter] dead] it is a nice thing to think. i want to congratulate the other awardees and also the other nominees. i was nominated for this award several years ago and never won it. it is kind of like the academy awards. i have been extraordinarily fortunate in city government to have two of the best jobs anyone could ever have, the controller and the head of utilities for the city and county of san francisco. the rally has been a labor of love. i have enjoyed the substance of the job, the topics we engage in, but much more than that, the people. you have such incredibly smart, creative, wonderful, talented people that work for the city and county of san francisco

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fried ihas been working diligently on this item. i know that some of you may have been briefed on the progress on this work. but i will turn it over to mr. fried. >> thank you very much. jason fried, lafco staff. i am presenting a preliminary report and more data that we could put into a final product. there has been a lot of interest in what we have found out so far on the big picture items. as we start drilling down, i will be coming with a more drill down approach. the objectives of the survey is to look at what are the basic voting systems we use an san francisco and what type of information is available for us to be able to determine how the impact of voters as far as over-0 vote, under-a vote, who shows up on election day, what are they choosing to participate in. there are two main sources of data, the department of elections has a lot of data on their website. a lot of their data in recent years is much more informative than what they provided an older years, so it is harder to compare rank choice voting out compared with th

fried ihas been working diligently on this item. i know that some of you may have been briefed on the progress on this work. but i will turn it over to mr. fried. >> thank you very much. jason fried, lafco staff. i am presenting a preliminary report and more data that we could put into a final product. there has been a lot of interest in what we have found out so far on the big picture items. as we start drilling down, i will be coming with a more drill down approach. the objectives of the survey is to look at what are the basic voting systems we use an san francisco and what type of information is

iha b iokee year for the past four years. we have missed three great "vanity fair" parties and probably another one this year. >> they have it at the french ambassador's home, and i don't know that i have seen a more impressive residence in washington, d.c. >> i heard it's amazing. >> it is an amazing house. it was relatively small this year. they tried to keep the numbers lower than -- they had a fire marshal problem last year. the mayor was there. chris christie and the mayor talking it up. a lot of people look at that as e 2016ict, jokinglof cose loofolwo ppl >>thvatyai rt beusalo ohe tng ar ttlsov " actually got a list stars there. i'm sure they did this year. the stars came out this year. >> the a list of the a list. i'm a company man, so i was at the msnbc party at the italian embassy. phil did it big this year. >> was it a bunga bunga party? >> it was close. >> what did he do? >> it was close to a bunga bunga party. >> really? >> we got the whole embassy. we had the run of the place. >> what? >> wait amite. wh d pl? i