if this is a future of football in russia but it certainly looks in good hands the state of the art academy uncross under trains of a free thousand kids from around the south of the country from the ages seven to eighteen and the great thing is it's absolutely free the only requirement being the children have footballing ability it's easy to understand why this is known as the best football academy in russia over three thousand children from arrive across the region have the opportunity to train here but our facilities would not look out of place leave abbas alone no real madrid the complex has numerous pitches both outdoors but the grass would graze any premier league club well there are also indoor pitches with a synthetic surface but when the weather gets a bit colder. overall the children dream about becoming professional footballers the stark reality years but only a handful will make it into the big leagues that's what you see cost and are taking education seriously providing their peoples with an excellent standard of education but a stance early with some of the young footballers on

as was pointed out, the academy of art university did do a master plan and instituted this as one of their properties, and they are not sure about the zoning as a lot of people are not entirely sure, but, i think that as it has been mentioned; just allowing this as a possible exception, to be grandfathered in does not mean they are not going to be permitted, they cannot go forward with the c u because they have to the finished the environmental piece yet because they don't have the same locketsy that the builder at 601 (er aian did because he is doing his environmental and so it's kind off prejudging a situation and i think an educational use is not the worse thing particularly in a new building. >> commissioner more. >>> mr. at a time could you perhaps explain to this commission why the institutional use for this commission is incompatible and you rezones rezoned for sally which does not allow it. >> so your question is why it was proposed to be a conditional use and now it's not proposed at all? >>> right. >> and i don't know the exact conditioning and i can ask mr. meek coand a lo

we want to thank chevron corp., wells fargo, mcdonald's, academy of arts university, at&t, southwest airlines. if you have not entered their raffled yet, do so later tonight. comcast, walmart, verizon, moon star restaurant. >> we go from the greatest karaoke's singer in the house of congress to the self-proclaimed worst karaoke singing in public office. i would like to introduce california state controller, serving his second term. he takes a hard-line and took immediate action to weed out waste, fraud, and abuse of public funds. and to amend the state's finances more transparent and accountable to the public -- and to make the state's finances more transparent and accountable to the public. [applause] >> i will spare you what the distinguished council president requested me to do, which is to sing for all of you. we used to go out for karaoke, but he would sing and i would leave. this is a magnificent evening. we gather tonight in celebration of asian-pacific heritage month. we take a moment to reflect upon our past, to understand the heroic struggles, obstacles, hardships that so m

the city of beasts some of the books have been made into films and inducted into the american academy of arts and letters and received the national literature prize and awarded the literature award and also a writer and humanitarian and how appropriate to have her here, improving the lives of others around the world promoting hope and social justice, honored to have you here and your husband, william gordon, both are here tonight. she will share a message and i will her to do a short count down and i think that we will start at 82. probably ten. please join me in welcoming isabel iyenda. >> thank you, thank you, thank you. i feel like a rat compared to this lady. really, thank you for this invitation. hope, that is the key word for the year to come. not irrational, but realistic optimism, there are many good reasons to be very hopeful. it is time to put our losses and frustrations in a paper bag and burn them. they belong to the past. the new year is like a last stage where we will write our dreams and hopes. what do we hope for? not only jobs, the end of the recession, and a congress that wo

he attend the academy of art college and san francisco community college. commissioner honda currently liveses with his family in san francisco's golden gate heights neighborhood/aka sunset. welcome and i appreciate the service that you will be providing and welcome. >> is there any other commissioner comments or questions? seeing none, is there any public comment on this item? seeing none, we'll move on to item no. 3, which is the board's consideration and possible adoption of the meeting minutes of our november 14th, 2012 meeting. >> i will move their approval and adoption. >> thank you. is there any public comment on the minutes? seeing none, i will call the roll. vice president fung? >> aye. >> commissioner hurtado? >> aye. >> commissioner lazarus? >> aye. >> and commissioner honda? >> aye. >> the minutes are approved as written. so then we'll move on to our regular calendar item no. 4 a has been continued and 4b has been continued so we'll move on to item no. 5, this ch is appeal no. 12-129. pierre viping eau versus the department of public works, bure

i think probably a lot of people -- i know you have been to the academy of arts and all the students, but i wonder how many people in this audience know how involved you have been in the performing arts doing costumes. with whom has it been the you have felt the most extraordinary experience? >> i should say that he is a different experience. i think first, maybe pedro, and very close after, greenway, an english architect, who is very talented. i must say, one thing is that i was very lucky because all those people i admire for their own work. they were different. for me, it was a fabulous experience to work with them. it was to get into their story and to see of how they are working. i will tell you, for example, one that is -- in real life, let's say, not in the movie like, it is somebody that maybe -- maybe does not address that well, has not so much sense of fashion, is not interested too much in his art, but when it becomes to the movie, first, he will explain to you the movie, tell you the story he is so much into it, and visually, so much into it. he gets very upset, then he ca

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founded the webby awards to spotlight the best of the internet, cofounded the digital a cad -- academy of arts and sciences and sits on the board for the huffington post. adviced hillary clinton on technology and society, produced several films and named by "newsweek," as, quote, one of the women shaping the 21st century. she is a parent and is focused on making an impact, especially in our everyday use of technology and connection and her newest film is called "engage." take a look. [ speaking spanish ] >> that is your life clock. some day it's going to stop. a lot of things are going happen in the world between now and then, so what are you going to do while you're here? stand on the sidelines? or are you going to be part of something bigger? give a little bit, give a little bit of my life for you give a little bit, give a little bit of your life to me. >> tiffany, welcome back. you always are so fascinating to me. you're constantly re-inventing yourself. do you ever run out of new ideas? >> right now, i'm in a fertile period. and i'm always interested in the same thing and that is basically

if there is no grand fartherring provision is the fourth street project and at on bryant and academy of arts and essentially in western soma right now education services are conditional use requirement and they have environmental review under way to convert that, to legalize to educational service. under the proposed zoning sli would become sally and in that district educational services are not proposed to be permitted any longer so that is potentially another project of another scale that could be impacted if there is no pipeline organd fathering provision so we want to talk about these in general. as i mentioned last week by in large it's not common to have it. market arcadia, recently balboa, and others didn't have pipeline or grandfathering provisions generally and we had a lot of projects held up by the process and the pdr issue that create what eastern neighborhood was, and i want to just -- yeah, talk about that a little bit, so under the asian neighborhoods pipeline -- because we don't have another example to grif you to base it off of it there were multiple types of pipeline projec

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i want to thank the academy of art university, the folks at aecom, comcast, kmd architects, recology. my favorite giver is anonymous. thank you, anonymous, whoever you are. now? if you have a cocktail in your hand, or you are about to find a couple, i want you to find david from the laborers. all the drinks tonight are being brought to you by laborers 261. let's give them a big round of applause. [applause] they are responsible for your hangovers. let's begin this great award. i first want to introduce cory, who is doing -- ok, we're having our first technical difficulty. i want to bring up corey marshall, who has done all the work that goes into the mfac award and the great government consulting as they pick the products to bring a lot of innovation to san francisco. cory? give cory a round of applause. [applause] >> thank you, chris. thank you so much for all of your hard work, chris. none of this could be possible without your efforts. good evening. the good government awards are incredibly important in san francisco. it's a chance for us to honor the tremendous work that happens i

stat what you teach at the naval academy? >> art and science. they are proud of the fact we've always been the number one major people don't assume that in the technical school to get the technical education and social science education. i have to keep my finger in the american government course. we haven't required the american government course. the congress in its wisdom says what's going on at the naval academy when all they know of doesn't understand civilian control of the military, and so in the budget hearings they require us to -- we don't talk got 70% any way that we teach 100% and i like teaching that because we also teach the ethics of public service the idea that when you get the government check when you're in the military there are extra responsibilities on you that a normal individual doesn't have. >> one more project that you are involved in, you are in a book to give away. what is this project? >> a started out as a one-shot activity we are going to send a lotus of books and exchange and at that point in time and africa we have