i am with golden gate audubon. we strongly urge your support for the standards for bird safe buildings in san francisco. a professor of ornithology and conservation biology has studied and published extensively on birds and windows for 35 years. he said, clear and reflective sheet glass and windowpanes in homes and walls of multistory commercial buildings as a passive, invisible killer of wild birds worldwide. among the dead are the abundant as well as the rare threatened and endangered species. expensive -- extensive evidence documented cheap glass as a source of avian mortality and a contributor to of robert byrd population decline. preventing these unintended fatalities will require education addressing preventive techniques regulating -- regulation addressing the installation of glass and buildings and enforcement of existing position to protect wild birds as a valuable natural resource. weigh in have worked with the planning department to make positive changes to bird mortality. we supported the lights out for

some politicians are calling for toll charges on the audubon. and japan celebrates as their soccer team wins the world cup. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- the british phone hacking scandal at rupert murdoch's media empire has claimed yet another high-ranking casualty. earlier today, the assistant commissioner of the police resigned from his post. this came after the top police officer, paul stephenson, already stepped down. there was an emergency session called in parliament to discuss the issue. >> for david cameron, there is no escaping the phone hacking scandal. his talks with the south african president jacob zuma were supposed to focus on trade ties, but journalists are more interested in the crisis at home. in particular, the prime minister's decision to hire a previous news of the world editor, who quit earlier this year. >> in terms of andy, no one has argued that the work he did in government was in any way inappropriate or bad. he worked well in government. he then left government. >> cameron's associ

the audubon society and the coalition, a number of different folks. things that folks feel pretty strongly about lake merced.

and we have the photographs from the audubon society, showing the building strikes from different while a lot -- wild and resident birds, downtown and throughout the city. and there are widely publicized deaths of the falcons downtown. this is something that has happened every time that the new babies have been born. they don't see that the glass is solid, and they perished on the glass. i know that we could certainly stand for more research. but we have 30 years of research and as you have heard here, it seems to be that this problem is something that happens regardless of the location, based on the behavior of the birds. >> we did talk about this, and you must be talking about 55 ifill street, this one is not that knew, anyway. this is probably 30 years old. i am not certain about this. it seems like you have to establish a problem before you come up with solutions. i think that there is a lot of glass construction buildings and one reason is because you can fill the glass up there, and to do the building in a style that we did before, this would be very expensive. but it would make s

the audubon society and the coalition, a number of different folks. things that folks feel pretty strongly about lake merced. everybody's interests are a little bit different. >> are the conversations surrounding this? >> a lot of the focus of this discussion is on agreement, but there are some overarching issues. i think we're making good progress. the amount of fishing that takes place. how it should be pushed in a certain direction. these have all been on the table.

the audubon society and the coalition, a number of different folks. folks feel pretty strongly about lake merced. everybody's interests are a little bit different. >> are the conversations surrounding this? >> a lot of the focus of this discussion is on agreement, but there are some overarching issues. i think we're making good progress. the amount of fishing that takes place. how it should be pushed in a certain direction. these have all been on the table. we will work to use that document for guidance, for staff bring this back in the future. it lays out a menu of possibilities, but just understanding the envelope. commissioner: thank you. president vietor: i think this is a bigger question on puc land policy stuff. we have these various parcels that we own, and this question of recreation has come up. the liberal on the parcel -- laguna honda parcel. they are habitat corridor related, whatever, and i do not think there is a way to encapsulate his policies so as we move forward, we can say about the terms of the relationship with other city departme

when >> it brought more attention to get these guns off the streets and audubon homes her. >> the valueese guns and badges much higher than $900 they receive for turning the man "them in perry >> let's third year in our role the stockpile which brought in over a hundred weapons. >> we succeeded in keeping a big guns and other wrong hands today. >> no sign of the seven missing fishermen in the gulf of california. they continued the search of were of the weekend. the seven men have not been seen since the the boat capsized on sunday a week ago. one survivor talked about his ordeal. >> realistic, i am here day was like the autos attic as it slowly went into the water. he was al >> he was on the ship that sank on sunday. >> i felt the ship was abandoned me as i was in the water >> he and seven friends were on board for the fizzing trip they survive by laying on to coolers bearin. >> a large wave pushed me closer to the island. he >> continues to pray for the rest of the crew and better loss this same >> if i can make it i know they could make i just hope and has sapping ending tulips.to wit

there are many early natural historians, bachmann, audubon set up camp here in charleston, and the library society was kind of their home base. so it was an early center for science and learning in the colony. most of the founding fathers from south carolina, signers of the constitution, signers of the declaration of independence were all library society members on our board, very active members, plenty of them. we have lots of their letters and papers in our collection today. so these are a handful of letters that we have that are from george washington. this entire series of correspondence is with charles cotesworth pinckney, and time and time again washington tried to recruit pinckney to serve in the new national government. this is from 1791, and this is a letter to pinckney and his friend, edward rutledge, asking if they would join the supreme court. rutledge's brother had just kind of gotten warped from the court, and washington basically says you won't be paid anything, you won't get a lot of respect, but if either of you two guys would like to come up here and be supreme court just