we have a great partner right here in the bayview. i want to ask a representative -- she goes with the bayview renaissance center and the bayview merchants association. >> good morning, afternoon probably now. thank you, ed. i am the vice president of the bayview merchants association. as you ever heard from the mayor and ed and are supervisor, revitalization is about a lot of things. is about a lot of moving parts. is about a lot of relationships and things happen simultaneously. the work we are doing with the apprenticeship program, the things we're doing as bayview merchants, we are a robust group, and the work that the redevelopment agency and the mayor's office is doing with sf shine, all this work happens together. malia also referenced our community partners. revitalizing neighborhoods means all that were. and growing up, our mothers and fathers told us to where our best to sunday church. -- wear our best to sunday church. how things look matter. people need to be proud of how they look. vivian, we love you. this sf shines progr

it is a really great place to be. all around the room, you will see a lot of great financial institutions. talk to them. you will see people who can help you with financial aid. talk to them. he will see departments that might have summer job opportunities. talk to them. utilize your opportunities today. learn a little bit about what you should be thinking about in the future. generally, a very practical legislator. i like to look at what the impacts of legislation would be before really voting on it, so i think, depending on the issue, you can move around, and that should be the way most people think, which is let's consider the facts of legislation before you actually consider it, irrespective of what spectrum it comes from and what spectrum it is perceived to be. sunset district is a great district. has many residents who are families. we have a lot of families in our district. lots of kids, seniors, people who have raised their families there for many generations. the big issue moving people is the state of the eco

we have a great, new, strong ordinance, a new law in place. the one thing the mayor has been singing from day one. we need to think beyond construction. we need to think about the private sector, elsewhere in the public sector. neighborhoods and jobs coming together is why we are here. without further ado, the man who is responsible for all of this and has been leading this great city very well for the last seven months or so, our mayor, ed lee. [applause] mayor lee: thank you, ed. thank you, public works. as you know, i used to head the agency. thank you. you have been helping keep our city clean and keep the projects going and keep the employment that is so vital to the city up and keep the projects going to full completion, whether it is generally hospital or the library programs. i also want to think -- i also want to thank supervisor cohen. this is about promises we have heard from many, many years. and i want to thank her for being aggressive on this, because these are old promises that our city has made to communities like the bayview f

>> i work with a great lyricist. ote a batch of songs by myself, but most of the time i collaborate with great lyricists. before we do anything, we collaborate. that is the hardest thing about writing songs. that is where everyone struggles. once we get the idea that we are going to write a song, it is easy to write, but a hard thing is what are you going to write? >> back to the sea, and now the cover says 15 minutes of fame hryvna -- how can you take it? how have you handled it? >> i think i did pretty well. there was this one time four years after mandy hit, i did not like myself, and i was in florida in a rocking chair looking at the stars, and i realized everyone in the house was there -- the driver, the coke, my assistant, my manager, my agent, and i said, where do i go. where do my friends go common -- where do my friends go, and no one had been in touch with me, and i had to make a decision. do i want this life with a bunch of strangers telling me how great i am, or to our want to be geithner i started out as?

came out with some volunteers, and we weeded out the trees and all that stuff, but this has been a great opportunity. i will soon be graduating. when i came in, i was a 99-16. these guys are in the prince -- are in the pre-apprenticeship program. i took pride in my job. sometimes it would be tedious work. i would come out and work hard. you could see the merchants, the merchants will criticize you one way or another. if you are doing a great job, they will say, hey, you are doing a great job, give you a soda pop or water. if not, they will also write in and say, hey, this guy is not doing the job. i have enjoyed myself year. seeing everybody speak, this is a tough act to follow, you know? they also good and positive things. i will say, let's keep san francisco green and clean, do our best as partners in the city, and just keep up a good job. thank you. [applause] >> could not have said it better than that. i want to make sure we acknowledge different people. we have melanie nutter, mitch salazar. he is going to be on the ground. mohammed nuru. this is a great new way we are partnering to

it is a great pleasure to be here. it is a wonderful crowd today, and this is a wonderful panel to be here with. each of these individuals have enormous life experience that is so much more important than anything i could say, and i have learned a lot being on this panel which east of them -- with each of them, and i appreciate them taking the time to share their views and being so honest and forthcoming. these are exactly the voices we need to end the death penalty in california and across the country, and i hope all of you will get involved and go to the website -- deathpenalty.org -- and you will find many ways to get involved. particularly right now, telling the governor to cut the death penalty, to convert all death sentences. if each of you were to go home and take that action, to send an e-mail message or hand write a letter to the governor, that would make a huge difference. together, we can end the death penalty in california. [applause] >> thank you for having me here today. i would like to close by saying i h

there is a very sophisticated mechanical system. we have some great consultants here. s always a pleasure to work with a team at the department of public works. you are wonderful to be with. edgar, we have done this before. brooke, you as well. ed harrington, when he came into this position, he said this building would be too much. we brought it down to $140 million, kept it as lede platinum. everyone on this team is absolutely first class. it is a pleasure partner with the city. we are in good hands with mayor lee.

i don't know, i'm excited, let's have a great year this year. ank you. >> thank you, superintendent. just a reminder, monday, august 15, is your first day of school. commissioner? >> just a quick request in regards to the whooping cough. is it possible to give us a status report at the next school board meeting as to what -- i have no clue whether we're -- most of the kids are getting it or not getting it and if they're not getting it, it seems we really need to crank it up in terms of what to do to make sure that they get it. >> we'll be sending out a lot of things through the schools of where kids can go get the vaccine. so all of that is going to be, we're going to do a big blast as we start out the school year to make sure that people are aware of where they can go and have this done. it is something that i think a lot of people put off. but we'll try to bring that data to the next board meeting. >> thank you. item c is recognitions and resolutions of commendation. i need a motion and second. item 118-9sp2 in reng in addition of radio station

it's a great honor to be standing here before you,, a native daughter. what did you think of the 65-foot ladder race? pretty incredible. i would be certainly remiss if i didn't introduce personally each member. most of them are not working today and they volunteered their time to come here. just like the sheriff's department and police department that play a large role in the city, we're part of this -- the fabric of this great estimate so engine company 41, operating a rig under the direction of o'neill, and i would like to introduce each and every one of the members. it's a 10-person lift that made the demonstration. first, ramon simone. kevin walsh. julio delucchi, dave cites. doug menguay, pat moran. sasha grande. marco lopez. jonathan ashbrook. down to two. daniel mccloskey. and the person that called the ladder and bravely climbed the ladder and flew our beautiful flag, larry mcdonald. i'd also like to acknowledge paul barry in the red shirt. paul is president of our san francisco fire historical society and there are many members today, including

there is a very sophisticated mechanical system. we have some great consultants here. it is always a pleasure to work with a team at the department of public works. you are wonderful to be with. edgar, we have done this before. brooke, you as well. ed harrington, when he came into this position, he said this building would be too much. we brought it down to $140 million, kept it as lede platinum. everyone on this team is absolutely first class. it is a pleasure partner with the city. we are in good hands with mayor lee. he recognizes the importance of this kind of structure and it is always great to work with the city of san francisco and the mayor's office. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. just in time, the son has come out. mayor lee will lead us in having the crane operator bring a the beam up. >> everybody, on three, we are going to have frankie bring it up. we are going to say frankie, bring it up! >> frankie, bring it up! [applause]

lowe's and brought over a carpet so that our young ladies could do some dancing. one of the great part of being in this part of the city is wendy's cheesecake. before you go, make sure you get a wonderful slice of that delicious cheesecake. come on in and join us. we will all be celebrating again soon. [applause] >> thank you, donna. guess what, folks? we are almost there. i also want to point out this is multi generational. thank you, mrs. fuller, who is seated right here in front. she is the wife of the late mr. fuller, from the pharmacy here in the bayview. talk about wanting to see this come to fruition. thank you for being here today. also a shout out to the footprints, the community organization. thank you for your engagements and involvement in making this happen. here we are. we are going to ask the dignitaries to grab a shovel. we are going to have a countdown and then we will get this done. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. [applause] >> san francisco is home to a renowned civic art collection that includes a comic works -- iconic works by local and national artists integra

this was built in the midst of the great depression. this was aust months after the infamous stock market crash that led to that great depression. this was parted of the renewal and rebirth of not only the city and county of san francisco but that commitment to this new deal and investing in people and workers and investing in our communities and rebuilding the infrastructure of not only our great city but this state an the nation and so much of that is reflected in the leadership of nancy pelosi and the leadership that we are looking forward to in the future come this november adds we vote for real change. -- as we vote for real change in this country. i can't help myself. you know, i'm a little bit biased on the topic. it's also a celebration of our community in san francisco that is a living example of lily coit's contribution. the stew ards of our community, the people like ann halstead, ken bailey, the friends of pioneer park, who oftentimes have stepped up when government cannot and kept this place maintained, vibranted -- and kept the elect

no doubt, we achieved a great deal. this was not just another talking head conference where people were just here to give a speech. you really heard engaged discussion from this morning all the way up until now. we thank our panelists because they came here with an open heart and an open mind. we are going to talk in a minute about how we are going to move things forward. i want to thank the staff of the public defender's office and the many volunteers who made this possible. we thank the library staff as well as sfgovtv for their good work here. john came here because we invited him and because he knew that he is making a difference and will continue to make a difference. after serving 14 years on death row and spending 18 years of his life fighting the case, he continued to fight for justice, and he brought his case to the united states supreme court. he received a $40 million jury verdict, and in april, the united states supreme court overturned that, even though in this case, there were three prosecutors who have --

had a great piece you said. what does he represent. >> he reptz a liberal, sane israel, liberal in the broader sense, sane in the sense of understanding the opportunity and the mission of the country and reminding us there was an extraordinary story going here and is being derailed. and we must go back to the first principles. and these demonstration are saying and doing the same thing. they're saying, "we were a model welfare state. we were for a-- a country that didn't have great contrast between the rich and the poor. we had wonderful education" -- >> they were a place of diversity. >> yes, and respect for the other. so i think in that sense he's the voice of the liberal zionist israeli of secular, of the old school. but with contemporary meaning. i mean, it's not just -- >> he is the most prominent person? >> he is right now the moral voice of the country, i believe. >> rose: great to see you. >> good to see you. >> rose: the nfl season was saved in july ending a four-month lockout. owners and players aprufer

channel a great a great. market for for for a cartoon do you think russia needs a channel like nickelodeon absolutely absolutely and. of course from my not indicated standpoint that russia desperately needs an image that we do have the content do we all know that that's the problem because there's tons of content like imported content. nickelodeon d.n.a. and there's thousands of projects which could easily fill out the space on the such channels i strongly believe that russia needs its own content and nickelodeon has a very very strict requirements for animators for example they don't allow cartoon events of the past is that is that true why that used to be published i don't know because it's.

channel a great a great. market for for for a cartoon do you think russia needs a channel like think about it absolutely absolutely and. of course from my not indicated standpoint of russia desperately needs an image that we do have to do content do we all know that that's the problem because there's there's tons of content like imported content. nickelodeon d.n.a. and there's thousands of projects which could easily fill out the space on the such channels i strongly believe that russia needs its own content nickelodeon has a very very strict requirements for animators for example they don't allow cartoons events of the past is that is that true why was that used to be publicized in no are because when i was describing the situation in one of my interviews that was the end of ninety's quite likely this. time this policy has changed at that point yes that was one of the rules which were not carved in stone but we've been told several times that some projects that i was working on and let's say all the events we

a woman deserves a great business. the product has to be irresistible. >> we were talking about failures. you must have along the way come through a long period to figure out what worked. >> yes. what's comical is i started doing everything out of my living room. i made the jewelry and it was so not as cute as it is today. i was able to partner with the great design team. as we have grown we have been able to hire and attract the best of the best. and, you know, they love working at stella&dot. we take all three of those things very seriously and staff accordingly. >> you did jewelry design too? >> blight did. she's the design side. >> did you feel like there was stigma you had to overcome? >> my mom has a friend who sold tupperware and every christmas all you got is tupperware. i hope she doesn't watch the show or we'll never get any more tupperware ever. >> i was equipsed there had to be a better way. so it took me two years that we could fundamentally change consumer's vision and impression what a home-based business

is this a great country or what? but i do want to underscore the remarks by spencer and barney about the staff. they do a terrific job. they are incredibly dedicated people. a lot of the abuse of members take spilled out on the staff regrettably and i just want to thank them as they have already been thanks very much for the contributions they make. i served in the house for three terms and i didn't really run for the senate to get out of the house like some members do. i like the house actually. i really did. i look back on those days with great fondness and i am pleased to be back with you this evening and i am looking forward to my name's sake and his comments here tonight. thank you very much. [applause] >> it is my great pleasure to welcome michael oxley back to the committee as our keynote speaker. michael oxley was the first chairman of the financial services committee when it was established in 2001 with jurisdiction over all financial service industries. from the beginning of the committee had a full agenda.

. >> he's a great guy, a strong dude. and not a real big guy but very strong. >> charlie: by the time after the amateur and by the time you began to be who you were and are, you fully appreciated it. >> it was great. he was great. this is my first tournament win right here, the canadian open. >> charlie: that was in what, what year. >> 1955. >> charlie: that's three years away from when you started really killing it. >> i'm now as you know about approaching 82, and i've never shot four rounds in an official tournament lower than that. >> charlie: 265 a full round. >> yes. >> charlie: 64, 64, 70. pretty good. if you were today playing today, and it's back with the same, same age and skills that took place in 58 to 62, say when you won your most major tournaments. by then you won all your major grand slams. if you were playing today, would you be number one? >> i can't answer that. >> charlie: but you have the will to win. clubs are different. you'd be stronger. you'd like to give it a shot wouldn't you. >> you're damn righ