without my garfield id, i left havana in 1981 and went to zurich, switzerland, thanks to james joyce. my dancing there became walking through the silence of the city. instead of people looking at me like my family did when i was a child, people began to ask me, where are you from? i felt disoriented, exiled. the changing perception of nature, religious views, philosophical and political opinions, botanical knowledge and idiomatic sounds, everything new. i asked myself many times for a specific reason why my irish family went to cuba and began searching for missing pieces of my irish history in irish, cuban, and catalan archives to discover before me that i had a fascinating history of displacement and transformations in various geographic setings. my book, ticket it ride, is a personal journey towards the past and the present. there is no one but many places i belong to: havana, dublin, mahon, barcelona, and since the lay 80's, the bay area. so thank you very much. . >> i'm going to do this in about 5 parts. i hope you will bear with me. first of all, i want to thank cross roads for i

our staff has been working directly with garfield, which will be impacted by this. they are exploring ways to make sure that there are after school services available and at garfield and they have been working directly with school communities about it. for the first year we anticipate a minimum impact on the after school programs. in future years there will be a more dramatic impact. it is not feasible to continue all of those. working on the redesign of the after school services. that is a major part of the program as we make more extreme changes in the future. >> any other questions? not just about transportation but any of these three areas? i want to just for the record, with all three members of the member and the three other commissioners that we welcome plus the superintendent and deputy superintendent. any member of the public that wants to testify on just these three issues? the transportation, attendance area boundaries or the monitoring? please come to the microphone and identify yourself for the record. >> i believe the commissioner sent an email to vick

. >> if you have problems, i see right here, we call garfield 7171 for service. member that is right. operators standing by. >> from here, we are going to look at those wonderful elevators that go of the outside of the high rise building that everyone wants to take a ride in. >> let's go do that. >> here we are in the most exciting elevator in the city of san francisco. this is the outside elevator that goes into the 32nd floor. tell us about this. >> we are in one of the tower elevators now. these were originally installed in 1972. 1,000 feet a minute, outside observation elevators, so a great view of the city. some of the most popular elevators in san francisco, as you mentioned, and these cars run a lot. they run about 2000 starts per day. about 700,000 starts per year for an elevator like this, and these are pretty hard working. >> must be hard to maintain these elevators. mechanical devices in the rain. >> this is much more difficult to maintain. normal elevator installation is all sealed from the elements, but in this case, it is all exposed to the outside,

the pool would be packed as well as garfield, and i am hoping that you will rethink your hours of operations for the pools. sunday is the only day that people can get together as a family in it. >> the question wreaks of too much common sense. we would keep all of our pools and are recreational facilities open seven days a week if we had the resources to do it. we have to make some tough choices. one daily, the pools have to be closed for maintenance. we have come leaps and bounds in our aquatics programming. we have a new manager in charge of aquatics that comes from the city of oakland and has some excellent experience. the suggestion is a good one, to rotate the days off so that more are open during the weekends. we're also aware of a desire for families and kids that have family pool time. our tools are very heavily used between labs swimmers, recreational swimmers, and the swim leagues. we're working this budget season with our aquatics staff on some changes that we think are likely to result in increased access and increased hours. in to sort of more of the ideas that the gentleman was

--" >> jimmy: garfield -- "if you want to -- i've been taking mma lessons." [ light laughter ] "ricka split." [ laughter ] >> steve: you can get elmo, right? >> jimmy: i gotta get on my moped and take off. [ light laughter ] [ imitates moped engine ] he drives a little moped. >> steve: yeah. >> jimmy: "ah man, could you give me a jump?" [ light laughter ] >> steve: "push me down this hill. [ laughter ] if i pop the clutch, it'll start." >> jimmy: "push me down this, i'm gonna throw it in drive. anyways, nice meeting you, man. [ light laughter ] push me, man!" >> steve: "nice meeting you, little dude." >> jimmy: "whoa, here we go! nice meeting you, little dude." [ laughter ] "don't call me 'little dude.'" [ light laughter ] pro -- using skype to have a long conversation with mom. con -- about how to use skype. [ laughter ] "mom, just press the button -- i can't hear you. i can't hear you, mom." pro -- calling your mother a "mom i'll love forever." con -- or calling her a "milf" for short. [ laughter ] that could get confusing, i think. don't do that. >> steve: i don't get that. >> jim

a principal at garfield elementary school presented, and did a principal at a high school. all of them serve on the advisory committee to the enrichment fund. they expressed support for the resolution. it passed out of committee with unanimous support. i believe there are staff members of that committee here with us tonight. president mendoza: a u.n. to do the reading, or would you like stuff? -- do you want to do the reading, or would you like staff? commissioner murase: i would be honored if bombing would read the resolution into the record. -- if fleming would read the resolution into the record. >> resolution 115-10 a 3, redefining the responsibilities of the advisory committee for the public education and richmond fund. this creates the community advisory committee to make recommendations for the superintendent and board of education for the use of money and in kind services supported with the education and retirement fund. whereas the board of vacation recognizes the crucial importance of input from all voices of the critical community and i use their expertise and co

>> reporter: the 24-year-old and his 31-year-old uncle hat drinking beers in garfield bark late one decemberight. elsa says they were just at the wrong place at the wrong time. >> they shot them in the head, shot him several times and shot his uncle, too, as well. >> reporter: investigators still have not motives for the murders and say neither victim was affiliated with a gang. >> they suffered a lot. it was hard to go to the funeral. it was hard to see him there. he was too young. there was a lot he missed out on that he was robbed from in just a moment. >> reporter: no one know s what compelled cabrera to turn himself reason. whatever the reason, elsa is grateful. >> i would thank him for doing a brave thing, for having the courage to come forth and saying something as difficult as this. >>> osama bin laden may have been a porn fan. navy s.e.a.l.s found a huge stash of pornography. it was confiscated and is being analyzed by the cia. journalists contained random thoughts how bin laden could kill the president. he later concluded he was too well protected. >> former iran prisoner speaks ab

>> reporter: the 24-year-old and his 31-year-old uncle, out drinking beers in garfield park late one night. they were just at the wrong place at the wrong time. >> shot them in the head and shot his uncle too, as well. >> reporter: investigators have no motive and say neither victim was affiliated with a gang. >> they suffered a lot. it was hard. it was hard to go to the funeral. he was too young. there was a lot me missed out on. that he was robbed from. in just a moment. >> reporter: no one knows what compelled cabrera, who turns 34 years old on monday, to turn himself in. whatever the reason, elsa is grateful. >> i would thank him for doing a brave thing, for having the courage to come out. >> reporter: we did request an interview with cabrera this afternoon. he said, yes, he would talk to us, but jail officials said no. he is being charged with two counts of murder. he'll be back court next week. >>> flames shot through the roof of a home in the mission district this afternoon. the fire department had to call on at least 60 firefighters to help douse the flames. the fires spread

and the book there is a final section on the politics of data, which would seem to be quite garfield. the 20th century, and the international artistic movement of the first half between the two world wars took really the approach that commonsense had gotten us to the first world war, mass destruction and it was time that we consider the possibilities of undoing common sense. and i'm fascinated by the idea that much of the artistic avant-garde, literary paintings, movies of the 20th century is focused on challenging commonsense, figurine out attention to syria but nonsensical, the absurd is the kind of response to politics of common sense that ended in the 20th century with an offer letters deeply destructive events. >> now your book, "common sense: a political history" is published by harvard. why? >> well, that's a good question. harvard does wonderful books that i think straddled the realm between the academic and the trade, really trying to reach a broader audience with intelligence series books and marketing them as such. and it's hoped many of the publications will so that partic

they say douglas cabrera turned himself in for fatal shooting of two people in garfield park.ictims were vincent betancourt and his nephew, ruben. the park is known for gang- related violence but neither of the victims reportedly belonged to a gang. >>> the last of four suspects in the deadly shooting of antioch is in the county jail this morning. police say michael pulliam- banks turned himself in last night. he had been spotted on a dorm last week. he's accused of shooting a 24- year-old pittsburg man during a robbery attempt. that victim was an a -- was a suspected drug dealer. three others were arrested. >>> eta james is in the hospital this morning. her son said his mother was in hospital for sepsis. etta james is 73. best known for her version of the song "at last." >>> tomorrow is the day you can help your local food banks without even leaving home. the annual stopout hunger drive starts tomorrow in the bay area and nationwide. you can help by putting out cans and nonperishable foods by your mailbox. mail carriers will pick them up and deliver them to your hole food ban