this is a part from the garfield chapter. this is one thing that i found interesting. one winter night in my kitchen as i poured peppermint tea into my friends cut, she said that she liked my teapot and i told her that my happy, yellow teapot had a creepy back story involving a 19th century vegetarian cook in upstate new york whose members lived as self-proclaimed bible communists before incorporating the biggest supplier of dinnerware to the american food service industry, not to mention harboring residents, and maniac two years after he moved away with paying for assassinating president garfield. it goes without saying that in order for me to find his teapot, the second coming of jesus christ had to have taken place in the year 70 a.d. to the oneida community, 70 a.d., the year of the temple in jerusalem, when it was destroyed, it marks the beginning of the new jerusalem, which means that we have all been living in heaven on earth for nearly 2000 years. everyone knows that there is no marriage in heaven, so one suspects there is no shortage of it in hell. [laughter]

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

you know, rolf and garfield. and if you look at page 18, district nine actually has the lowest cleanliness in terms of any district in this city. and you have a number of decreases in terms of scoring with some pretty, you know, ski parks, jose coronodo 20 to 18.8 which was a 30 percent reduction. 84.3 to 91.1, 5.1 reduction. and nenos from 93 to 90. so you can see that there is this trend and i know that you talked about having a list of parks that you are looking at. so you know, is that a document that we can so and what are you doing when you have something like this? but there is a trend where you know there are lower scores in a district like district nine? >> right. >> what is your strategy? >> absolutely we can get you that list of the parks on the watch list and that is the value of this report is that it draws our attention to what you draw our attention to and that is the further follow ups and the information goes to the supervisor and the directors are extremely interested in this kind of a trend as

i would have gone in, seen all the garfields and run for my life. for our kids, who knows? when i met my husband, i think it's very romantic, but it sounds pragmatic. i was like, this guy is nice. that's new. i might try that for a while. also he and i saw the world the same way. >> it ultimately came down to the same values, like with your dog. >> that's weird. >> what did he think of your history? were you honest with him. >> i don't think i threw out a number. i said you have more experience than you. he said, that would be nice, i would like to have experience, that means you know what you're doing. >> now what do you think after the book and the whole thing? >> he loves it now. he loves the attention. he feels like he's happy that he met me when he did. >> at the end of the trip. >> it was timing. when we met each other, i was ready to be with him. and pursue something long-term. >> how long have been married? >> seven years. >> you have a good question, don't you? if she has a daughter. >> if you do have a daughter now, would you raise her whe

garfield has its particular set of challenges as i think that you know and off a little bit too and sometimes, higher performing parks have more robust friends groups or volunteer groups. and we do try, you know, we can't, we do encourage volunteers and we very closely with the parks alliance and the other organizations. our approach when we do get requests for corporate volunteers, we do try to assign them in parks where they don't already have an institutional base of volunteers to get the extra help and we will continue to do that. >> so, if i may add, and i appreciate that, thank you. and you guys are always very responsive, that is one thing that i would say. that any time that we have a concern, you guys are there. >> if you do look at the issue of cleanliness in rest rooms. d9 has the best score if you look at page 18. i guess that the concern that i have is that i think that at some point d9 was the highest performing district in the city over the last few years we have seen a progressive decline in those scores and my fear is that we it is just assumed that district nine is okay when

that's why the fda will be asking people from garfield, new jersey, to donate, get this, their toenailgs. >> kind of nasty. >> yeah. tests done on the clippings can confirm if buried industrial carcinogens have tainted the soil and if people have been exposed. investigators are looking for chromium and slow-growing toenails apparently. >> slow-growing toenails? >> i guess. >> chromium. >> confirm -- >> how would you like to be the guy who has to test the toenails? double rubber gloves and tweezers. >> how do you sign up for that job? >> i don't know. >> how do you sign up to not have that job? guess you go to med school for 12 years and test toe nails or something. >> the epa has found no signs of chromium in garfield's water supply. chromium is the same chemical that was in the movie erin brockovich. >> that's right. >>> the weather may not be cooperating, but here in new york, a sure sign that spring has arrived. >> if you say so. all right, coney island. open for business. coney island is great. for the first time since getting battered by hurricane sandy. the storm left the amuseme

>> my second favorite is the garfield. >> oh, man. all right, fans. >> okay, this is a locally made film and lin is from palo alto, isn't he not? >> he is. and then the director is out of san francisco, the bridgeman district. >> uh-huh. >> it's a home-grown film and evan, the director, sort of -- jeremy before the whole lin- sanity thing broke up and he's been making the film for years and because of the trust and relationship they built up, this has developed into a fantastic film and a true labor of love. >> i would say if you have a lot of time, it's on your side when you are doing the documentary. >> yeah. i would think the hard thing is to get a real person who is not an actor or actress to forget you there with the camera. >> and they need to know you're not exploiting them and that you're telling their story. >> okay. >> and this is doing that, this film and you get to look into one of the most important asian- american figures in this century. so. >> yeah. okay, and sounds like an uplifting story. the next sounds like a serio

elementary. the francisco middle school pto. states peter and paul school. john parker elementary and garfield elementary and thank you victoria pastry cake donated the cake and make sure you eat some cake and join us for our campaign in north beach. thank you. [ applause ] >> thank you, scott. we're almost there. oh, former commissioner lonnie chen. thank you lonnie for being here [ applause ] we're almost there. one more individual. she has already been mentioned. it's a perfect tribute, a capstone, julie christiansen. >> thank you >> can i get my team up here? i have been fielding all the thanks, but it doesn't really belong to me. it belongs to all of these people. who else is here from our group? come on up. who am i missing? >> the whole village, come on up. >> so we have a couple of city folks. where is greg scott? gret get up here. greg, get up here. i want to point out jill, karen. jill is the deputy chief librarian and karen, these two women are the fairy godmothers of this project. we would not be here without all the people that you heard from, but we would not be here without them

. >> it james garfield, and it was a mouse-- musstatch. he was the first hipster in the 1880ings. i spoke with graphicings of - graphics what the president would look like with a wig and beard and it might look something like am just messing with you. i maintain he has. if he had the right. probably gopt o.k.ess to the c.i.a. with the best disguises on planet earth. yes, it is true. he can go as another president. >> he could wear bangings oh, no. >> maybe he has. so vument - when the president is in town and i see a man with a mouse - moustache i photobomb him. in atlanta, a guy spinning records amazing. we went up to his -- jimmy carter. it was a 24 year old. >> you should hope that the secret service knows what photobomb means. >> nais a peaceful way of doing this. >> we have to move on to my favorite story of all time. from kenyan born to an odd horn. is there no class in artificial gas. michigan first grader was barred from the talent show because his performance deemed inappropriate. he was excited to feign flagellant sounds until the principal backed by the superintendent g

you shut down 50 plus schools is you create 50 enormous empty buildings in communities like west garfieldis point create more opportunities for crime, for disillusion of neighborhoods. is there a push to make the buildings safe and make these communities whole? >> this is where i do call on our mayor to bring his opportunity back to our communities. to bring something in these buildings besides a light that may or may not be on because they're still going to have to heat and light the buildings in some form or fashion. but let us come together and build new opportunities for housing to go in there. we could have adult education programs in there. we could have transitional opportunities for clinics. we could do a lot of things. let's not have a bunch of 52 plus buildings abandoned in our community. we do not need another eyesore. >> we're looking at the zool board voting on this on may 22nd. any chance of them turning back this decision? >> historically when they put out this list, and they put it out every year. we call it the hit list. they have carry through all the closings on the lis

record this morning "chicago tribune" story where the police officers in the city's chicago east garfield park shot to death a 58-year-old man who refused to drop an automatic assault weapon which he pulled on policeman. certainly not a weapon which police often carry but now face from criminals on the street with regularity. >> mr. chairman, just concluding, i would say that, the underlying bill exempts retired police officers and the rationale for that, which i support is that they can use their weapons, they're trained in these weapons. they can use them for self-defense. so why we would deny other american citizens the right to legitimately use these weapons for self-defense is, escapes me. >> i think there's a larger issue here that we ought to think about and what senator cornyn is trying to do is protect constitutional rights and i think, everybody is trying to put the burden on senator cornyn to do that. the burden ought to be on those people trying to limit constitutional rights. i'm done. >> clerical the roll. >> mr. feinstein. >> no. >> mr. schumer. >> by proxy. >> mr. durbin.

this morning's "chicago tribune" story where the police officers in the city of chicago in east garfield park shot to death a 58-year-old man who refused to drop an automatic assault weapon which he pulled on the policeman, certainly not a weapon which police often carry but now face from criminals on the street with regularity. >> mr. chairman, just concluding, i would say that the underlying bill exempts retired police officers, and the rationale for that, which i support, is they can use their weapons. they are trained in these weapons. they can use them for self-defense. why we would deny other american citizens the right to legitimately use these weapons for self-defense is -- escapes me. >> i think there's a larger issue here that we ought to think about, and what senator cornyn is trying to do is protect constitutional rights, and i think everybody's trying to put the burden on senator cornyn to do that. the burden ought to be on those people that are trying to limit constitutional rights. >> the clerk, call the roll. >> ms. feinstein? >> no. >> mr. shumer. >> no by proxy. >> mr.

detroit, and most of the hotels in detroit are not open to black people, so they put her up in the garfield hotel, and she makes a number of very important connections at that meeting that and she's going to draw on, both personally and also politically, when they get back your not move back, move there. such as a long-standing relationship with the black labor. and interestingly, it is, the detroit naacp is a very big but in some sense in those years it was a very middle-class am not very activist branch. again, there's a little naacp chapter in river racer, and river rouge is kind of a bedroom community of detroit but it's also full of autoworkers. it's full of global 600 autoworkers in particular. and it is a little naacp group that actually gets the national naacp to help rosa parks. it is those sort of militants, and that little chapter, super interesting, they sort of cut a very different path. they a doing all sorts of boycotts of the banks because they're not hiring blacks, people. and then they actually after the assassination they pass the revolution calling on the national naacp