executive producer of the "daily mandarin and cantonese newshour." next to him is the director of multimedia and technology programs at the night digital media center at uc-berkeley. next is the managing is theidd -- managing director at idd ventures sf. nexus' the editor in chief of marketwatch.com, part of news corp. -- next is the editor in chief. the co-founder and senior community manager of oakland local, a nonprofit media that promotes public discourse on issues. in the front row is a media analyst, who publishes an was a key developer of the mercury center. next to him is an assistant professor of broadcast and electronic media at san francisco state university. next is the managing editor for local news at -- i'm sorry. he is not at yahoo!, right. he is editor-in-chief of patch.com, a division of aol that provides news to specific communities. very local. after him, we have the managing director for local news at yahoo.com, guiding the company's local coverage nationwide. last but not least is the senator who represents san francisco and san

but if i speak cantonese, how my notified? >> again, i think in terms of the languages, that is something that we need to look at. we have done a number of things on an ad hoc basis, special events, to get people out. but i think in terms of on a regular basis, that is something -- i think that is something that i would like to come back and talk a little bit more about what we might be able to do to improve that. supervisor cohen: from this point on, you can continue with your presentation. i will not ask any more questions. i will save them for the end. supervisor mar: that is an important issue that i would have expected the mta staff to be able to respond to in much more specifics. because how terrible it would be for somebody of limited english- speaking ability to have to deal with that and not know where they are. i really commend supervisor cohen for bringing that up, at the hope that mta comes up with a much better response for that. >> ok, i hear you, and we will be back to you with a specific plan on that. the point

one hour of cantonese news and one hour of mandated -- one hour of mandarin is. challenges are daunting and hard to overcome here in the past, we were protected by our own language. we are the only game in town. but once you are online, that advantage will go away very quickly because those people will go on line -- everybody is your competitor. even if you have your language, there are hundreds of thousands of chinese websites. how do you overcome that? there is no silver bullet. for me, i think the right thing to do is really build up your community. you empower your community. the part of your community, and people -- it is not the you have a story that only i reported it, which is great, but it is not going to happen every day. so what do you give your audience for your readers to keep them coming back to your site or tv station to try to find the news they want? it is really up to how you feel your community -- how you connect and go into your community, make your voice known, make my face known to my community. i think once you establish that, it is very ha

. >> how do you deal with those challenges in the mandarin and cantonese communities? then i can anthony just respond to that? he wanted to respond to that. >> more like build on what was being said, which was that actually, what we decided to build for local at yahoo! was an open platform. that is why oakland local is a partner of ours. we realized that it is not in our interests to hire somebody in every neighborhood. what we said was why don't we build a platform on which the myriad of local content providers that have begun to spring up can ride, and the key here is that they are looking for distribution. even patch is looking for distribution, and one thing yahoo! has is distribution. when yahoo! provides you with a platform, you see it. publishers recognize that it is a fire hose. so we launched in october 30 neighborhoods. we are now up to about 400 neighborhoods in new york, san francisco, san jose, peninsula, a detroit suburb, and chicago. we are going to be launching in cleveland and dallas, end of april/early may, and as we iterate on product, we will get be

if you were to cover communities, for example, who speak mandarin or cantonese, and you do not speak a word, that is not necessarily a limitation. action--- definitely be part of a journalist's training and anyone who is of having will have a better shot at telling stories. -- multilingual will have a better shot at telling stories. >> we are out of time. i want to thank all of our panelists. thank you all. and thank you all for coming. [applause]

we basically have bilingual staff to the speaks spanish, cantonese, and mandarin. we also use interpreters as necessary for court proceedings. now our i.t. programs are critical, especially in anticipation of realignment. we have to know who we half and where we have it, and they are consistent with justice. they have been approved. they really focus on the population that is going to come and lea associated costs. staff training will be critical to your your -- critical. in terms of revenue, we do have some of our funding in federal and state grant funds. we anticipate the depending on what happens there could be pressure, and if we lose, but would impact the staff. xóhow we hope to embark to improve outcomes, and the this going to help with management. we are going continue to implements. now we have opened a learning center, and we had our first graduate l instead of basically utilizing the typical reentry strategy where individuals are incarcerated and come back, the starter since -- this target smals, and i am happy to reportd they reached out and offered hal

if you were to cover communities, for example, who speak mandarin or cantonese, and you do not speak a word, that is not necessarily a limitation. action--- definitely be part of a journalist's training and anyone who is of having will have a better shot at telling stories. -- multilingual will have a better shot at telling stories. >> we are out of time. i want to thank all of our panelists. thank you all. and thank you all for coming. [applause] >> welcome to a special edition of main stage. the first anniversary. time to look back at one year of great performances from the stage of san francisco's main library. we will key the authors, poets and playwrights, the story tellers and the photographers and hear music brought to our stage from 4 continents. we will also meet some of the people that help bring the performances from the coet auditorium to your television screen. time to celebrate, main stage year 1. >> 3 cups of tea with each other. >> doesn't anybody care? >> i have been on the river for 7 days... >> our first performance is one of our most popular on line videos. the da

are an organization with a skilled and passionate staff working with african american, spanish, cantonese, mandarin, japanese, vietnamese, and korean consumers. we are providing a place for people who are otherwise alone and isolated and in emotional and physical pain. they connect with others so they can feel part of a larger community. depression, schizophrenia, polar, bipolar, mental-health, different diagnoses -- they do not need the stigma of shame and embarrassment any more. it can and does happen to anyone. our agency provides problem- solving groups, current affairs, music arts groups, writing, travel groups. we teach computer skills. we go on outings. we have generous volunteers to work with our consumers and give their time freely so that they can benefit and co-benefit from each other. we have been watching them open up from every walk of life, coming from such dire places. limiting our budget could impact our ability to provide these critical services to the population of builders in our community. thank you. supervisor chu:. -- supervisor chu: thank you. >> hello. my name is

if you were to cover communities, for example, who speak mandarin or cantonese, and you do not speak a word, that is not necessarily a limitation. action--- definitely be part of a journalist's training and anyone who is of having will have a better shot at telling stories. -- multilingual will have a better shot at telling stories. >> we are out of time. i want to thank all of our panelists. thank you all. and thank you all for coming. [applause] >> i am glad to see some many of you people survived the apocalypse. he is doing a great job here. i see you've. who else is here that i can recommend. could deceive from the redevelopment agency. los is here? could this deal, it is good to see you. we have a great celebration today because i get to a 0.12 commissioners, -- get to appoint 12 commissioners, about half of them are repeats. i just wanted to signify that we got the opportunity to welcome new and existing commissioners, but to let the public know even more about what we're doing. they wanted to put together something that was in the works. making sure that we have an online abil

we have translation services in spanish and cantonese and maybe other languages. i want to ask the translators to make an announcement in case people need the translation services. [speaking foreign language] [speaking spanish] a wanted to thank them for being here. i want to quickly announce who is up here and who we are expecting later. besides mayor lee, we have greg wagner, the director of the mayor's budget office will give us a short presentation. we also have the head of the department of public works and ann from the department of aging services. we also have someone from the wrecked apartment. we also have the director of small business in the city. -- we also have someone from the recreation department. we also have the director of small business in the city. very soon, we are expecting ed harrington from the public utilities commission. we have carla johnson from the mayor's office of disability and maria from the department of children youth and families who will be coming shortly. i will hand this over to mayor lee who has been to eight other budget m

if you were to cover communities, for example, who speak mandarin or cantonese, and you do not speak a word, that is not necessarily a limitation. action--- definitely be part of a journalist's training and anyone who is of having will have a better shot at telling stories. -- multilingual will have a better shot at telling stories. >> we are out of time. i want to thank all of our panelists. thank you all. and thank you all for coming. [applause] >> good morning, everybody. thank you. welcome again to city hall and thank you very much for joining us in this very, very important occasion. i want to immediately thank all the people up here. today is a very special day. it is one of those moments where we get to see visibly a united official family but, more than that, a united city come together and embrace a very important decision that i'm about to make. >> thank you. [applause] >> there are so many people up here and been part of this whole decision making and advice and community, but i want to of course acknowledge officials here. we have presiding judge feinstein joining us. we

if you were to cover communities, for example, who speak mandarin or cantonese, and you do not speak a word, that is not necessarily a limitation. action--- definitely be part of a journalist's training and anyone who is of having will have a better shot at telling stories. -- multilingual will have a better shot at telling stories. >> we are out of time. i want to thank all of our panelists. thank you all. and thank you all for coming. [applause] >> good afternoon. thank you for coming out here on this beautiful summer solstice day with a phenomenal view. you can see mount diablo from here. you can also see our beautiful city. i am the director of public works. i am very pleased to be year. -- i am very pleased to be here to speak to this great community project. i will start you out with this fact, speaking of our beautiful city. 25% of our beautiful city is taken up by public right of way, streets, sidewalks, and scraps and parcels that the city leaders laid out to convey people and vehicles. the public rights of way are important. that is what we stoeward. a lot of it was designe

if you were to cover communities, for example, who speak mandarin or cantonese, and you do not speak a word, that is not necessarily a limitation. action--- definitely be part of a journalist's training and anyone who is of having will have a better shot at telling stories. -- multilingual will have a better shot at telling stories. >> we are out of time. i want to thank all of our panelists. thank you all. and thank you all for coming. [applause] >> welcome to "culturewire." on this episode, the director of cultural affairs takes us on a field trip to the mission district to check out odc's new 36,000 square foot campus, the largest in the region. >> for san franciscans, odc has a very significant significance. stands for a venerable performing arts organization celebrating its 40th anniversary of bringing fans and theaters to the bay area. standing with me today on "culturewire" is the theater director of odc. thank you for joining us. i mention that this is the 40th anniversary. >> it is indeed. >> i'm standing with you in a fabulous theater that was completed six months ago in ti

it offers services in cantonese, mandarin, spanish, english, vietnamese and korean. we actually have been invited to go to china -- >> thank you. next speaker. >> i'm an institutional police officer from general hospital, mark makita. i had lunch on eddie and mason before i was here and i noticed looking out the window that one out of every four people walking by has come to general hospital for some services, be it medical or psychiatric, mental health, social services. i did notice that. but i'm here to speak about the contracting out services that cannot happen and the cost savings, the department of public health should go back to institutional police at the cost of $2.5 million and the 30-plus deputies at the hospital now would go back to the jails and that would save $2.5 million in overtime so that would make us cost neutral and that's $6 million budget could go back to other vital services you're talking about cutting right now. the last thing i want to say is substance abuse, social service and mental health service is san francisco. if you're from san franc

in our district one workshop, i believe we did just cantonese. supervisor mar: i was at its session at the jewish community center, and a number of consultants held out to make it very multilingual and very sensitive to communities. supervisor cohen: thank you, ok. >> ok, if i may, the question had been asked of -- what kind of systems have been put in place to work on improving the service? one of the things i wanted to point out, the single biggest customer complaint that we get about this service, in general, but including the rail services is about travel time and why we cannot go faster. interestingly enough, the t- line is, in fact, the fastest line in terms of travel speed. again, i said earlier that the t-line may be a model for the way we design lines. it is faster, even though it has cut congested areas in part, because we have got exclusive right of way. we have got a signal priorities. it has less stops than the other lines. in fact, while it does have some segments that can slow it down, not just mission rock to folsom in that area t

call, which is also made, and i should mention in three languages in either english, spanish or cantonese. we follow that up with written information to each of our employees giving them information on the m.r.a. that is available to this. we actually take on the charge of setting up the m.r.a. accounts for the employee. the employee is not responsible for setting up the account. we do that. we give the employee instructions on how to set up a technique password for themselves so that at any point in time they are able to once they have incurred an expenditure, to go online, pull down the form, complete that form, mail it in with copies of their receipts to get reimbursement. we ensure that the level and the types of health care benefits that are available for reimbursement are quite broad from prescriptions that you have heard about, health care, vision, individuals can even use the reimbursements to pay for health care people areups if they so desired. we work to ensure that individuals on a regular basis are up to date on the dollars that have been deposited by their employers on their

if you were to cover communities, for example, who speak mandarin or cantonese, and you do not speak a word, that is not necessarily a limitation. action--- definitely be part of a journalist's training and anyone who is of having will have a better shot at telling stories. -- multilingual will have a better shot at telling stories. >> we are out of time. i want to thank all of our panelists. thank you all. and thank you all for coming. [applause] >> it has been amazing. the people have been so gracious and so supportive of what we're doing. the energy here is fantastic with so many couples getting married. it's just been an absolutely fantastic experience, so wonderful. >> by the power vested in me, i declare you spouses for life. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> to actually be able to get married and be a part of this time in history and time in our history is amazing. >> this is a momentous occasion for us to be able to actually have this opportunity to have equal rights. >> we have been together for 14 years. everyone is so welcoming. it's been all set up and people have guided us