we will go to, and i am going to modify this, too hellman hollow, and i will bring the banjo and fix some bluegrass tune that warren e. there sang or road, because the best i can hope for them is that they will be just like warren when they grow up. as for me, i am never going to grow up, just like warren. i mention these things because the best thing campus -- encapsulates, from my view, the warren hellman i know, want to encourage the adoption of this resolution, and i want to ask the general manager to weigh in. >> delight, mr. president. commissioners, it is a great honor to support the resolution to rename speedway meadow after warren hellman. i want to thank supervisor elsbernd for his leadership and initiative in partnership with the department and the family and with this commission in making this moment happen. it has been said that golden gate park is in many ways the heart and lungs of this great city. the canopy, landscapes, legs, gardens offer an oasis from the urban world. the attraction stimulate our minds, and the ball fields and playgrounds allow the child in all of

she ended by saying, but i intend to learn to play the banjo, and while i may never be good, my effort will teach my children the value of hard work, discipline, and fun. i will remind them to be generous and lend their talent and their resources to making the world a better place. i will ask them to stand up for workers, as warren recently did with the passage of proposition c. i will ask them to treat everyone with respect and generosity and a plot others for their creativity and coming in. i will ask them to practice gratitude. we will go to, and i am going to modify this, too hellman hollow, and i will bring the banjo and fix some bluegrass tune that warren e. there sang or road, because the best i can hope for them is that they will be just like warren when they grow up. as for me, i am never going to grow up, just like warren. i mention these things because the best thing campus -- encapsulates, from my view, the warren hellman i know, want to encourage the adoption of this resolution, and i want to ask the general manager to weigh in. >> delight, mr. president. commissioners, it

. >> ♪ over in hellman hallow, where the grass is so blue dance, said the banjo player so they dancednd played joyfully ♪ thank you. president buell: thank you very much. [applause] >> good morning. my name is rebecca. i am with the municipal executives association. i was also one of the people who worked with warren on the pension reform efforts that just concluded in the city. i just want to take a couple moments to speak about what a true civic leader is. that's how i view warren. he starts out with a recognition of our shared humanity, which is so important in these times where we are stratified and divided by so many things. he makes a personal commitment to get involved. he values public services. he has a deep respect for the public employees, the public servants. he has a belief in a collaborative problem solving model. he believes that if you bring people in their room and told them to the highest standards and the best expectations, they will not disappoint you. we're happy to say that we did not disappoint him. he brought in experts when experts were needed. he brought in f

only in san francisco do you have a billionaire with a banjo on his knees throwing a great concert.hink i was most touched recently when i went to the fund raiser for san francisco free clinic. you can gauge a man or woman by their accomplishments in life. buildings, rich's, etc., but i think the real measure of a person is if they pay attention to the most important things in life. hearing his daughter's comments and a love of family that was demonstrated, i know that i had become friends with a very great man. i think all of you should rush this through as soon as possible and let's put the sign on hellman hallow. thank you very much. president buell: thank you. >> commissioners, general manager ginsburg. many of you are used to seeing me come before you an advocate on behalf of one of my clients. i always wondered if i came to testify on something as a regular citizen. today, i'm wearing a different. fifth generation, a native born and raised, live within blocks of golden gate park, three blocks away from the wonderful san francisco clinic, which is a great neighbor, and here to

. >> when did you pick the banjo up? why the banjo?g going to work. i just kept seeing it all the time and i just thought, i should just get it. >> so the banjo you play on is a banjo from a pawn shop? >> no, the one i play on now. it's not from the pawn shop. that was my training wheels banjo for sure.

banjo, four-string, five-string and minstrel. three kinds of banjo. mandolin? >> bones? i'm sorry. >> bones are like -- i got one set that's wood, but these are cow rib bones here. >> they're bones. >> and you hold them between your fingers and make a rattling sound with them like that. she and i both play two sets of bones apiece. >> and there's kazoo. >> kazoo, snare drum. >> cello. >> she stays on the cello because we can't play cello. >> there's harmonica and the quills. >> all of the instruments will be represented through the night. >> did you know how to play these instruments when you formed, or has this been an evolution. >> oh, and the jug. >> and the jug. >> can't forget the jug. >> you start picking them up as you go because you get one going and then you hear another one and you're like, oh, i want that one, too. you kind of run after that one and they all form each other and start mixing together. >> especially in the groups where everybody plays several different things, there is a lot of room to change the instruments and also develop new materi

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playing with the southern people for the southern tradition, white people, trying to play them like a banjothat is what he's up to and i couldn't believe coming instead of being magnanomous, a third of the vote in this state is southern, meaning for the northern part of the state, and for the panhandle, he's heading for that territory. it's not nice to watch, not good at all. >> enormous show down tonight for both candidates. i get a feeling washington dc, though, is thunderstruck by where newt gingrich is right now. chris, great to have you with us, thank you so much. >> as always, ed, thank you. >> next in "psycho talk" i'll take down chris christie's delusional view of the american middle class. >>> newt gingrich is appealing to voters who really can't stand this president. we'll tell you how he's taking advantage of it. >>> in "psycho talk" tonight, new jersey governor chris christie is trying to get mitt romney's campaign back on track after their disasterous loss in south carolina, so he goes on offensive. christie is ignoring the thousands of jobs mitt romney destroyed as head of bai

that was my training wheels banjo for sure. ♪ >> it's the past. it's a haunting thing. just think that's always going to be a really big, important part of anything that i do, the way that i live my life, the way that i write my songs. ♪ >> there is always that feeling of to go or stay. you know, there's all these wonderful things. ♪ >> kelly mcfarling, thank you. you can always check out my blog for all our music monday interviews. just go to cnn/brooke. now this. >>> here we go, top of the hour. i'm brooke baldwin. a couple stories we're watching for you. first, which republican hopeful will best challenge barack obama? also the latest on the cruise ship investigation, and a glitch on a very popular web site, and snow projected to cover half the united states this week. jim costa, i'll begin with you in myrtle beach. are you near that coalition group at which romney is expected to speak at? >> brooke, that is across town, just up the coast, i believe, and it's going to be happening any minute now. we're actually outside a tea party conference that is also going on in

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prior to that they just taught me that black folks was nice and docile and stood on the stoop playing banjoand was basically happy with it. and it was just the opposite. so i'm shocked. i mean, you know, it was a thing. so i'm really an o quest, deny on a quest, a literal question to understand, know and realize my african, african-american people's history of struggle. martin luther king came in town to speak the latter part of that year, and i'm there in oakland auditorium, 7,000 people in there, and martin luther king is castigating all these businesses and stuff for not hiring people of color. and he got to one point in his speech, and he says and we're going to, also, boycott these bread companies, kilpatrick's bread company, and we're going to boycott wonder bread company, and we're going to boycott 'em so consistently and so profoundly, we're going to make wonder bread wonder where the money went. [laughter] dr. king. police departments that -- [applause] that caused a standing ovation in that auditorium of 7,000 people, and i'm one of the young students of the year 1962. he was the

just taught me that black folks was nice and docile and sit on the bench and stooped and played the banjo was basically happy. it was just the opposite. so i'm shocked. .. >> we're going to boycott them so consistently and so profoundly we're going to make wonder bed wonder where their money went? went. [laughter] that caused a standing ovation in that auditorium, 7000 people. and i'm one of young students in the year 1962. he was the first person that truly inspired me. the next one was none other than nelson mandela and his plight and the need to end apartheid. the next thing i know, 1963, i'm in a situation in a period where, where i'm in a situation in a period where martin, no. john f. kennedy is killed, and malcolm x leaves the nation of islam and decreased the only issue. and that i'm trying to get myself to new york to some point. john malcolm x organization. to push the story on of malcolm x was killed in 1965. i had a one man riot. nobody else on the street rioting. i'm talking about on the coming down the street from a house with crocodile tears running down, i'm so upset that