. >> assistant general manager for external affairs, and commissioner courtney, you said you can imagine buildings. i would like to close your eyes and imagine food. hi, to you in a couple of months, we may have a triple bottom line further developed. in the absence of that, we had wanted because we had been working on this item for quite awhile with regards to moving forward an approach on property that the puc owned, there is a secondary use opportunity and ways that can be consistent with other efforts that are underway by the larger city family with city property and food growing that we wanted to come today with this item. so, we're asking you to take action to direct the general manager to conduct a feasibility assessment for food growing on two sides that are owned by the puc. college hill reservoir, which is a what the deputy city manager showed on his presentation, and the southeast treatment plant, which is another side that he shared, and the goal is to have an agriculture program on these two sides. at the workshop earlier demonstrated, cpuc owns a range of property. the comm

general managers for external affairs. i can be brief. this item came before you all at the june 28 commission meeting. at that meeting, you gave us feedback, both on the resolution and ask us to bring the mou back to you and give direction for the general manager to move forward with that mou. since that meeting in june, the mou has been developed but with the puc staff as well as staff from the arts commission does death internally have begun to meet across the enterprise to begin to identify priorities for arts enrichment spending based on places having impact. i am happy to answer any questions that you may have today. it is pretty straightforward. commissioner torres: there was a commissioner -- there was an issue was supportive of. making sure the whatever arts works better commissioner given at least some priority to local artists. >> we have taken a completely to heart. so the arts memorandum of understanding and the resolution to speak to the fact that one of the priorities and the resolution is to support local artists. both to

i am with at&t external affairs, representing the san francisco area. i am joined by the people who conducted the radiofrequency reports in your packet. i am here today seeking your approval to pace -- to place this facility. this is a preference two location, as adrian stated. it meets with the necessary and desirable component under section 303 of the planning code. i want to thank adrian for his and the planning department's work on this. i am available to answer questions if you have any. president olague: public comment on this item? if you would like to speak to it? >> hello, commissioners. my name is lucy. my parents live next to the building, and i am here on their behalf. my dad complaints about noise from the existing antennas right now. he says the noises especially loud at night, even with the windows closed. his fear is that with an additional antenna, there is one to be more noise. he wants to know whether at&t or horizon, who has antennas on top right now, -- or of horizon -- or verizon, who has antennas on top right now, can address this

i am with at&t external affairs, representing the san francisco area. i am joined by the people who conducted the radiofrequency reports in your packet. i am here today seeking your approval to pace -- to place this facility. this is a preference two location, as adrian stated. it meets with the necessary and desirable component under section 303 of the planning code. i want to thank adrian for his and the planning department's work on this. i am available to answer questions if you have any. president olague: public comment on this item? if you would like to speak to it?

also here today is the external affairs director for at&t. at&t provides the cell phones and services provided for emergency calls by the ambassadors. we could not exist without the help of deputy city administrator linda young. she is also the cfo. she makes sure we have all our resources. so this concludes our press conference. media kits are in the front of the room. thank you very much, everyone. [applause]

>> the president describes him as the external affairs chief or words to that effect last friday, that was the first time anyone in the administration has described him that way. we don't see evidence of it but was primary lay propagandist. >> paul, thank you so much. a lot to chew another this. thank you very much, paul. >> thank you. >> good see you again. for more on president obama's counterterrorism operation joined by wes moore, retired army captain and combat veteran and author of the other wes moore. thank you for joining us. we are in the week of the tenth anniversary of the war, the other war, the war in afghanistan. and at this stage, what can we say looking back, especially after there was a key haqqani figure reportedly captured this weekend by nato force bus this follies series of devastating attacks on nato facilities and u.s. facility in the afghanistan. >> it does and i think it really goes show that, you know, even though we are ten years out and literally thousands of u.s. and allied lives and thousands of afghan and pakistan lives as well, this really is causing a l

make use of russia's veto we used to lift external pressures from our reforms process and we agree with russia that any foreign intervention into our domestic affairs is unacceptable just as any attempts to increase economic sanctions against syria since they infringe upon the interests of syrian citizens in the course of our consultations it became clear that russia is even more demanding than other countries in urging syria to complete the forms and to maintain a comprehensive political dialogue another issue here is that russia is between the proposed resolution gave new life to the security council itself by stripping the usa of its decision making monopoly on the international stage and that's a very important thing and just look at what their monopoly did in libya iraq and afghanistan the truth is that the policy of the united states is trying to implement here in our region is far from unbiased and it's not even our own policy it is a policy that serves israel's interests that's the truth and i worked in the united states for ten years and i know this to be true that i was it will get all over the whole year we have taken steps to litigate t

choices in life because almost everything, all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrass the or failure my doctor advised me to go home and get me affairsrder, which had is doctor's code for "prepare to die." it means to try and tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next ten years to tell them in just a few months. it means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. it means to say your good-byes. i live with that diagnosis all day. later that evening i had a biopsy where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, into my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle in my pancreas and got a few cells. i was sedated but my wife told me when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a rare form of pancreatic cancer cured by surgery. i had the surgery and thankfully i'm fine now. had this was the closest i've been to facing death and i hope it's the closest i get a few more decades. having lived through it, i can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful by purely intellectual concept -- no