ruskin was spellbound by its beauty. (ruskin) "it was, i think, when i first saw it...t perfectly beautiful piece of color of all that i have seen produced by human hands." (narrator) shade and darkness - evening of the deluge, painted in 1843, is more about light than a biblical account of noah and the ark. turner's light produces a mystical bent that shows up in several late canvases. layer after layer of pigment, applied to create the vortex of mist and air churning angrily around the blinding light, conjures up the elemental forces of the cosmos. the abstract beauty of turner's late canvases that dissolve into light are especially apparent in some of his unfinished paintings like norham castle, sunrise. returning to a subject he had painted years earlier, he advanced his composition to a point at which the subject is barely apparent. its unfinished state shows how he could stretch the poetic possibilities of color and technique to the threshold of abstraction. even as turner developed his watercolor technique to the level of his oil paintings, he pushed oil painting

ruskin was spellbound by its beauty. (ruskin) "it was, i think, when i first saw it...t perfectly beautiful piece of color of all that i have seen produced by human hands." (narrator) shade and darkness - evening of the deluge, painted in 1843, is more about light than a biblical account of noah and the ark. turner's light produces a mystical bent that shows up in several late canvases. layer after layer of pigment, applied to create the vortex of mist and air churning angrily around the blinding light, conjures up the elemental forces of the cosmos. the abstract beauty of turner's late canvases that dissolve into light are especially apparent in some of his unfinished paintings like norham castle, sunrise. returning to a subject he had painted years earlier, he advanced his composition to a point at which the subject is barely apparent. its unfinished state shows how he could stretch the poetic possibilities of color and technique to the threshold of abstraction. even as turner developed his watercolor technique to the level of his oil paintings, he pushed oil painting

. >> ruskin. >> aye. >> ortiz? >> aye. >> kim. >> kim aye as well, that is four ayes * and consent calendar is approved. >> next we have item eight. >> go ahead. authorizeding executive director to execute professional services agreement for legal services with bench of law enforcements consisting or weinberg err, shaw, student loan hold, nix and peabody, services within * practice areas on as-needed area for five-year terms, total compensation under bench agreement does not exceed 8 million. >> director sarah jalati will report on this item. >> directors th, is a proposed bench of law enforcements of maximum contribution of 8 million so work would be authorized for each and budget for each firm on an as-needed basis. we conducted an rfp process to solicit proposals from legal firms. we received 19 proposals. we short-listed ten and conducted interviews. the firms really broke out into four main practice areas. general counsel, construction counsel, labor and employment and public and private finance. following the

>> aye. >> ruskin aye. ortiz aye. chair kim, aye. that's four ayes. item 11 is approved. >> can we call 12? >> a presentation on oscar park, proposed open space under the transbay bus ramps and caltrans freeway ramps but the successor agency to san francisco redevelopment agency. >> director mike russo with the successor agency is here to report on this item. >> thank you, director. my name is mike russo, with the successor redevelopment agency. i'm here to talk about the concept plans we have worked on for oscar park. what you see in front of you is a map of the project area, of course. one of the challenges we have had since the formation of this project area has been how to deal with the many freeway and bus ramps that crisscross the project area. as you probably know, these are not things conducive to creating a good pedestrian urban environment. they also can be magnets for crime and litter. now fortunately we have a plan to address these. the first part, you are obviously family with is the tgpa has eliminated a lot of the ramps that previously

gold let's look back in one of his writings a leading english art critic of the victorian era john ruskin told the story of a man who boarded a ship carrying his entire wealth and a large bag of gold coins now when a storm hit a few days into the voyage and the decision was made to abandon ship the man strap the bag around his waist jumped overboard and sank straight to the bottom of the sea now the man's body was found with the rock of the ship many years later and reflecting on this ruskin asked now as he was thinking had he the gold or had the gold him now i'm telling this story to emphasize the enduring value that gold is held in the minds of people throughout the centuries it's represented not only a store of value but a means to an end and any end evidently including one that is at the bottom of the sea now for much of western history gold has been synonymous with money listen closely to the characters counting their money in the classic gone with the wind. it's me. twenty thirty fifty and he's not afraid of money. she was way more excited about the gold now it wasn't so long ago th

ruskin as part of his directors report. >> bethlehem addressing, the problem of parking. it also brings less revenue to the city. >> there will be no report, item 9, public comment an opportunity for members of the public to address the board within the jurisdiction of the board of directors but not of today's calendar. we will start with benjamin [indiscernible] >> good afternoon sir. >> my name is benjamin [indiscernible] i would like to say, as a cyclist in san francisco i am excited to see the handout with new bike lanes. as a taxi driver that will impact my commute to work. it can be a a harrowing ride for me. c not on the agenda today but was on the agenda at the last meeting were 200 taxi medallions issued directly to companies. i would like to mention that there have been really shockwaves that have gone out throughout the industry by this decision. when the current program for sales was initiated, there was a promise made to the cab drivers, one medallion, for every new medallion issues we will be offered to the list on a seniority basis, and one for purchase. th

ruskin's >>gary: one thing i know about vicki liviakis, people love her. i have seen her and all types of situations. she would not promote a restaurant or product or a channel unless she believed that it was top-notch. to the oakland is 13-zero. tonight there are one game of of a playoff berth. fifth to the giants are in san diego its march 9th. mad camped from the dodgers, the pirates be los angeles 10-6. he said something in the dugout and the umpire told him to get out. he went crazy. cost 66 look at this, the umpire got spiked in the face by tory hunter accidentally. he had to get the digits. he took the rest of the game of. the >>gary: there is bradley smith also known as a big cat. he was a starting pitcher and he struck out seven. on national television and 13 years old. petaluma advances to the winners for bracket and they will play the winner of the tennessee and nebraska game on sunday. it is a double the nation's so they will be there at least another five-six days. >> even since she has passed away, people still remember her. they always remem

karen ruskin and kansas city, dr. russell, forensic scientist and attorney.ld evil like this ever be dealt with effectively, dr. russell? >> well, bill, you can't eliminate it, but you can minimize it better than we're doing. not just by enhanced security practices. a couple big things, bill, one is we can rethink our deinstitutionalization policy where by far too often we actually show more compassion for an obviously dangerously troubled individual than we do for everybody in the society that that person may harm. and secondly, we can get back to being the kind of a culture in which kids grow up getting lots of messages at home, school, church, everywhere about being part of something larger than themselves. thinking about the impacts of their actions on others because we've become coarsened and callus to the point that a kid can grow up in this society and not necessarily internalize the kind of disgust that you and i feel, this visceral disgust for the kind of disregard for human life that we saw today. >> bill: dr. ruskin, it seems to me that there is ca

director ruskin. >> i know you have thought this out, renderings look nice. * light colors like nice especially that ramps are not there. recognized -- but given the ramps are not there i would assume and encourage that considerations of design principles along the lines of crime prevention through environmental design or something. lighting, sight lines, graffiti resistance. because those things will have a pretty different feel with ramps there, with the shading. i think the use of art on the undersides of structure also be helpful. depending on ownership it can take negotiation to get permits to fix art and lighting. we have been through other parts of that. i think the -- it will be important to make sure this really works and the a safe place to be. inviting place to be 24 hours a day. >> we are definitely doing that, but thank you. that is an excellent comment. in fact, we are working with a tgpa security consultant too. obviously it is a consideration with any park. one of the things we found is the best solution is creating active uses that will keep people in there. even if

ruskin and his staff. my hope is that in future matters of this nature of this type, that we will be able to increase the level of our proactivity, if you will, in terms of how we approach these kinds of matters. so i will respectfully be voting against this item today. thank you. >> supervisor wiener? >> thank you. i will be supporting the item today. i will be honest, when this first came forward and i first looked at it, i wasn't so sure. and i wasn't sure if i was going to support it. and when i took a much more careful look and got all of the background on this, although i can't say i'm thrilled with this lease. i do think that it is from everything i can tell the best that mta is going to get. so the only thing that is going to be accomplished by rejecting this is that mta will continue to be at a situation at the port that they will be losing their lease at some point and won't have an alternative space. there are very, very few transit-accessible, conveniently located spaces of this size that can a

ed ruskin was referring to earlier.nk you, please support this and we are in strong support of this. thank you. >> supervisor wiener: thank you. next speaker. if there are any other -- i've read all the cards i have. if there's anyone else who wants to make public comment, you can line up now. go ahead. >> hi. my namej!jpi is jeon brown withr and premuni for youth coalition. we are really excited that we're finally at the moment of having the program forward. we're looking forward to the mta vote on the 4th. i think this is a response to all of our various departments from the mayor, through the transit authority, all the different levels of government and the mta board have been responding really to the outcry of bus riders and thousands of folks who ride the bus. we want to thank supervisor chiu and olague who are here, who are supporters, of course david campos, our champion, supervisor -- and jane kim all support this. so we know we have majority support on the board. if this move forward out of committee that it mo

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