so, i'm going to take another question from gideon, gideon cramer, former member of the san francisco graffiti advisory board. and let's hear what you have to ask. >> this is a follow-up question for larry. we were talking about concrete sidewalk graffiti and curbs. and your response was that that is private property or the owner -- the property owner is responsible. a number of my neighbors had asked me when they had graffiti said where do we go? technically you're responsible. so, what am i going to do? they ended up -- i said, do not paint over it. it's got to be power washed. you have to use -- that can be

so, i'm going to take another question from gideon, gideon cramer, former member of the san francisco graffiti advisory board. and let's hear what you have to ask. >> this is a follow-up question for larry. we were talking about concrete sidewalk graffiti and curbs. and your response was that that is private property or the owner -- the property owner is responsible. a number of my neighbors had asked me when they had graffiti said where do we go? technically you're responsible. so, what am i going to do? they ended up -- i said, do not paint over it. it's got to be power washed. you have to use -- that can be really expensive. they went and painted over it. and now it looks worse than the graffiti. i see it all over the city that a tag is painted over with brown paint, with whatever is available. and then it becomes a real problem because it's really hard to remove it then. so, i think that -- my thought about it, i know dpw doesn't have the financial resources, but realistically i think sidewalks even though they're kind of that nebulous gray area where technically they're owned by

. >> he's in hayward and i'm going to come over to gideon unless anybody else there has a response to this. gideon if you'd like to stand up. >> i'd like to ask about, there are three pernicious forms of graffiti that in some ways have actually gotten worse. as the city of san francisco has greatly improved the graffiti situation, i've noticed that there's more graffiti on concrete, on sidewalks, on curbs and also on trees, tree trunks. and tree trunks, graffiti on trees to me is the lowest form of graffiti that there is because it just -- it is so lacking in any consciousness about the environment and life and so forth. so, i'm wondering when i was in a graffiti advisory board, several of us tried to get some special attention paid to those things as well as glass etching. i don't know if glass etching has gotten worse or not, but particularly graffiti on concrete sidewalks and curbses and trees. i'm wondering if perhaps officer parerra [speaker not understood] can speak to that if any special efforts are made to address those. >> i'll speak to it. when we invoked the blight ordinanc

we have visiting with us today gideon lustig who is the deputy general counsel from the consulate general of israel is with us today. mr. lustig, welcome. (applause) >> and the mayor and ms. kelly both spoke about public housing. appropriate to that, we have with us today members of the public housing tenants association board of directors, ms. joyce armstrong, neola gans and deirdre smith from the public housing tenants association board of directors. we want to welcome them. p (applause) >> and last but not least, ms. jones from the -- >> [inaudible]. >> the department of aging, ms. jones from the department of aging is with us today. i'm sorry. (applause) >> wanted to make sure i got that one in. with that, i'd like to hastily call forward cheryl smith who has been a tremendous supporter of the society who will introduce our keynote speaker. cheryl. (applause) >> good afternoon, everybody. and happy black history month. i have the great pleasure of introducing today's keynote speaker. we are fortunate to have a speaker whose experience and background exemplifies african-american histor

there is the people look of all the support for the new purple but see even in this condition the gideon vote. or believe it or not economists in the u.k. have warned the recent heavy snowfall in britain could push the country towards a triple dip recession as bad news for retailers and especially local independent stores who are going to the wall in greater numbers than ever but it's not his party boy who discovered there is still one traditional business which as managed to turn the tide it's older than buckingham palace and tower bridge and it's been a local store in the heart of rural east england for three hundred and seventy years this is you stumble across the it's a ring and village shop in this remote region of norfolk say that it's like an oasis in the middle of the desert. it was faced with going out of business until twenty five villages stepped in raise five thousand pounds to keep it open and offered to walk them for free i couldn't live in this village without. the community nature of the village which is the free workforce allows it to stay open and breakeven i think peop

i do not have time to tell about gideon, samson, david, samuel, and the profits. -- the prophets.minister justice and gained what was promised, a shut amounts of lyons, quenched the jury of flames, and escaped the edge of the sword whose weakness was turned to strength. others were tortured and refused to be released so that they might gain a better resurrection. some face years of flogging, while others were chained and put in prison. they were stoned. there were sought in two. there were put to death by the sword. these were all commended for their faith. therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great crowd of witnesses, to let us throw off everything that hinders and ascend so easily and let us run with perseverance the race set before us. let us fix our eyes on jesus, the author and perfect or of our faith. for the joys set before him, he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of god. consider him who endured such opposition from simple men so that you will not grow weary and lose heart. make every effort to live in peace with a

hasn't been done since a case called gideon versus wainright. >> judge hatchett, let me ask you thist is called a frequent filer, this man, kim millbrook is. he files cases again and again, usually written by hand, he's done it in every jail, every prison he's been in. how much does this tie up the legal system? as a judge how often do you see things like this? >> it does. it does. everybody is entitled to their day in court. it is his legal right to do t s this. i am fascinated by this case and i oom delighted, actually, that the solicitor has weighed in on this, because i think this may well be a landmark decision by the supreme court. involving this issue of sovereign immunity. i think we're going to be hearing a lot about this case going forward. but because he frequently files, he has the right to do that. and the process should go on. >> okay. again, they're hearing that case just today. we will update you when we hear more of that. >>> just ahead, alec baldwin's run-in with a "new york post" photographer. that, coming up next. all waking up. ♪ becoming part of the global pheno

i do not have time to tell about gideon, samson, david, samuel and the prophets.ed justice and gained what was promised, who shut the mouths of lions, quenched the fury of the flames and escaped the edge of the sword, whose weaknesses was turned to strength. others were tortured and refused to be released so that they might gain a better resurrection. some faced years in flogging while still others were chained and put in prison. they were stoned, they were sawed in two, they were put to death by the sword. these were all commended for their faith. therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great crowd of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us. let us fix our eyes on jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joys set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of god. consider him who end doored such opposition -- who endured such opposition from sinful men so that you will not grow