and now we have a chance for helen to jump in. helen took issue, but i left it on the graphics to give her this opportunity. unitarian universalists; there's a great difference which she's going to explain to us about the top three and unitarian universalists. i put them in the middle ground simply because of something like cups , because they can be- they are so diverse in their beliefs, that sometimes they can be liberal to the point of, legitimizing as it is said in terms of the convention a coven. the coven, we met kate cogen way back sometime in the mythic or ritual dimension, a coven of unitarian universalists pagans. and so that open mindedness can create attention with a dominant society. as certain kinds of fundamentalists christian groups because of intensity of belief can create tension. one example you can-- be the second largest established protestant denomination in the united states, is the southern baptism. you might remember a while back where they came out with one of their conventions statements that women-- i f

. >> we can only all hope to be as cool as grandma helen when we get old. 93 years young, helen mcdonaldd to get on a ride. >> helen is on a roller coaster, 93 years old. >> she is on a potter-themed roller coaster. she is with her son vick and her daughter-in-law, joyce. this is no little kid ride. there is a little washing here. grandma helen is up to the challenge. i'll even wear my glasses. i don't care. >> they probably won't make me take my glasses off. >> here we go. grandma helen having the time of her life. it's over pretty quick. but listen to what she says at the finish. and i didn't die. >> listen to this. that whistle is apparently grandma helen's trademark whistle. >> can't wait to see what she does at 100. >> good job. >> we like pranks on "right this minute." i think this is the first time we've seen one executed with yl an alligator. >> what? >> this video was captured by mark andrew thomas. the fellow you're looking at is george, a 12-foot alligator, a favorite with tourists in florida. they say george comes to this area, wait force fishermen to throw him fish. he doesn

this is just really a big, community win and a celebration for us all. >> to learn more about the helen diller playground in dolores park, go to sfrecpark.org.

helen, your response to the overturning of this verdict? predictable.ce the very beginning, it was very clear the legal strategy the defense wanted, they never wanted to dismiss all the charges that were given to rÍos montt, so everyone was expecting this. we lostfor guatemala, an opportunity and for the victims, we lost respect. the justice system does not work for everyone. elite that it the works. due process is only according to what i want to be understand. it is not what is the law. >> what was the actual argument the court used to overturn the verdict, the sentence? >> every ruling they have been given is under the legal issues. even the two judges from the constitutional court have a dissented opinion and saying, we don't have to roll right now because that is ordinary justice. they want to do it because they want to cancel, but that never had the intention to really discuss in a healthy way of the was or wasn't genocide. >> helen mack, we all know about september 11, 2001 when 3000 people were incinerated in a moment in this country, but there

this is just really a big, community win and a celebration for us all. >> to learn more about the helen diller playground in dolores park, go to sfrecpark.org. test, test, test, test, test, test, test, test >> like to welcome everyone to a special joint hearing of the recreation and park commission. like to make the audience know that we don't allow any sdurpgs at any time. when you speak before the commissioners state your name for the record. (calling names) >> and now for the recreation and park commission (calling names) >> please note that the joint commissions will hold one here we go for the pickup public to hold testimony. following the hearing we will adopt the finding under the california act. we will have the union square park issue. we will consider the action and the recreation and park commission will consider making a recommendation of the adverse shadow on union square park. we will adjourn and the planning commission b will remain in session and separately consider others actions. that places us under the following issues for the consideration of the adoption of the cal

this is just really a big, community win and a celebration for us all. >> to learn more about the helen diller playground in dolores park, go to sfrecpark.org. the recreation and park commission. >> arata. >> here. >> commissioner bonilla. >> here. >> commissioner harrison. >> here. >> commissioner martin. >> here. >> and commissioner levitan is on her way. just to a few reminders for those joining us this is the rec and park meeting for march 21, 2013. we welcome you today but we ask that you turn off electronic devices that may go off during the proceedings. we ask if you have a secondary conversation take it outside for the meeting to run as efficiently as possible. unless announced by the president of the commission each person has tee minutes to speak under public comment. as a reminder we have public comment on item four and then -- and that is for 15 minutes total and then again continued on item number 10. please address your comments to the commission during public comment on items. in order to allow equal time to all neither the commission or staff may respond to questions. th

and i want to thank helen mckenna, who was my instructor. i was able to take affordable botany classes through the botanical garden society. so that i could learn a little bit about pollenation and the hard work that those icky bugs do to create this amazing place called the botanical garden arboretum. it's fabulous. i just encourage you to vote for this 30-year lease. so i can keep playing with them. i love it. thank you. >> thank you. >> okay. is there any other public comment? being none, public comment is closed. >> i'm sure we get some commissioners to weigh in on this. i want to make some preemptive comments to frame this. i read the letter from dennis and i this there are good points in in it and i wish they would have come to committee and worked them out before coming here, because i think they have merit. i don't believe at a rec and park commission meeting that we can work out all the detail and get all the answers to all the issues in a constructionive way. so what i want to suggest is to get comments from commissioners, but to e

. >> next speak, do we have monica or helen here, please? >> good morning. i am helen mckenna and i am a science educator and i was thinking on my way here this morning i have been a science educator in san francisco for 50 years. i taught in the san francisco unified school district and san francisco state and for the last six years i have been teaching at the garden. at the garden i am a volunteer. at other places i was paid. so i do it out of love for what i call "a scientific institution." i think that garden doesn't really convey a role in the community. we are a repository of 8,000 plants. we have a staff, 4-6 curators who catalog the plants and who label those plants. we have the only garden map geopositioning map of plants and i think i have mentioned before you can go online, any one, any citizen in the world can go online and see our plants with photographs and names. they are all located by bed. this is a scientific institution. this is, if you will, a living collection. and i think we have a responsibility as a society to preserve this collection

and so we do have helen ying and the executive of our school. sandra notten and our policy manager and glen who is planning annist for the yeast work force. this was continued from last month. we want to appreciate you all coming back for a second meeting and also allowing us to hear item number three first. >> thank you. good afternoon, i'm helen ying for the high school division and i was also a traffic girl in the 6th grade. i wanted to give you a brief over view of the summer programs has happening in san francisco unified school district. so there's four major programs happening this summer. the special education extended school year program, and the micro education prap, the school grant improvement and these are the bay zones that's funded that's continuing their program and the high school credit recovery program. so this year once again as every year wore extending the students with iep and they're serving the students at seven elementary schools and four high schools and the purpose of this program is so the students don't lose any lea

why helen miren left hefr own play during intermission. cúrú >>> lauren hill sentenced to prison for failing to pay tax autos and three additional months of home confinement. today hill explained she was always going to pay the taxes but she was unable to do so during a period of time when she dropped out of the music business. before sentencing her attorney said she paid 970,000ses today satisfy the state and federal tax liabilities. >> you can walk to the beat of your own drum but not outside of a helen mirren show. she is starring in a play "the audience". >> she took time out to scold a troop of street drummers because they're disrupting zat matinee. they were marching to promote a gay festival. mirren dressed as queen elizabeth the ii. >> these drummers said they were actually terrified in harsh language and she the stopped. >> don't mess with the queen or helen mirren. >> here is tony cabrerra. >> and. >> i yorn man 3 taking in $175 million. the trip to the big screen had brought in a half billion world wide. the total stands at $680

the movie was the cook, the thief, that one -- with helen merrin, who is absolutely fabulous -- helen mirren, fabulous actress. he showed me some painting of rembrandt and said, "uc that? could you do the in modern, in today? and i said i will try. yes, but it is part of the job. so i tried. i worked with a dutch artistic director, and i get to work with him. he was very specific and fabulous man. also, they were very specific about the color. in reality, they asked me because the color is a little like in the spirit. it is something in common. i was flattered to do that, but it is beautiful to see how much they are -- our work, our demand is to make a beautiful movie. i should not be able to do anything. i never thought about it, but when people ask me, you have to be so clever. >> tom ford made a movie, so why not you? >> because my brain is not that sure. you have to think about so many things. truly, it is a big work. you have to be strong. you have to take care also of the physiology of the actor which is, like, oh, my god. you can be depressed. also, you see the depression of ev

helen. it would take me a long time to pick out the dress. >> happy mother's day!ou know how whenre fishing and you catch the fish and you got to try to take the hook out? sometimes it's a weird, painful process. one fisherman is about to find out how that actually feels in worse fashion. guy goes for a cast. you hear his friend say -- >> [ bleep ]. >> is it in your eye? >> here's where i have to warn you this video is pretty graphic. this is known as a treble fish hook. >> am i really going to see a hook in somebody's eye? >> it's not in his eyeball. it's in his eyelid. his friend is ever so daintily trying to feed it back through. it's not working because these fish hooks that have barb on the end. >> it's going to hurt a little bit. >> you know what? i got to give it to him. i'm not hearing a lot of screaming. he's taking it like a man. >> how does that not get his eyeball? how did that not puncture his eyeball? it's in his lid. >> maybe a good idea for the future. we don't actually see these guys remove the hook by the end of this video. >> do you want to go to

the movie was the cook, the thief, that one -- with helen merrin, who is absolutely fabulous -- helen mirren, fabulous actress. he showed me some painting

but, thank you helen, there is a couple of reasons we wanted to do that; first off, we needed to hear some thing about the unitarian universalists, but also how interesting helen's reaction i think that, when we're looking at these categories, believers are going to have their own say and where they belong and we have to understand that also, but thank you, this is really nice. the rest of the presents, i hope you'll be forth coming. [laughter] let me move on to non-conventionality. we'll tie up this scene, see a couple of provocative roll-ins and already with the unitarian universalists we will see there is some problem. so let's be even more careful i don't know whose toes i am going to step on with the non-conventionality here. but the key point is, think about longevity, how long they've been here traditions and it begins to see why people have some of prejudices they do. anyway, eastern traditions; only reason is they have not been in this country as long. although, they're moving much more into a middle ground. see how that is, they are moving into a middle ground because, now t

well we have to ask helen to highlight a few politicians about that but will anybody ever hold any responsibility for those mistakes because the consequences are very tough and ordinary people are suffering they they don't deserve consequences what do you mean consequences the crisis across office quinces for somebody that made money out of this yes there will be consequences for somebody that this side the wrongly poorly what kind of consequences i believe the biggest punishment for a politician especially a leader is what history writes what other consequences put them in prison if we had that the political union along with the monetary union we wouldn't have arrived at this point if before lending the money we were checking better we wouldn't have arrived at this point if we had known we wouldn't have done what happened but with if you don't solve problems what is most urgent for us is to make think it's better for the people and still greek society is united how how you feel it isn't bad enough of course listen it is a very difficult period it is a period that. you know unemployment is the be

helen mirren grants a sick boy a wish. >> how science skills are more beneficial than family relationship afternoon commute. this is in san jose. you can see on the overpass there that is highway 17 traffic going into the right headed towards santa cruz and moving nicely at this hour. stay wit >>> we're both very excited. >> yes. it has to do with $1 million. a cash year in missouri got a $1 million surprise. >> she ended up selling herself a winning power ball ticket. >> it's fixed. >> no. >> she chekd after a co-worker told her someone who worked at the store won. >> she had every number but power ball number in the $600 million lottery. she won $1 million. she's a huge fan of nascar and used numbers of nascar drivers to figure out power ball. she'll help out her son and take a trip to hawaii saying she's going to keep working both jobs and continue to play the lottery. >> actress helen mirren helped grant the dying wish of a british boy who wanted to visit buckingham palace and have tea with the queen. >> these photos show her and the 10-year-old playing with a stand in for one of quee

. >> i am joined by helen, who is here to school me on all the nocturnal activities that are getting ready to take place here. tell us a little about what we can expect to see at nightlife. >> we open up the doors every thursday night at the california academy of sciences. there are certain things you can see every week you can go to the museum, visit the planetarium, and we bring in bars and a deejay or band. it is a different feel from during the day, something different every week. tonight , we have beer and music. -- tonight we have great beer and music. it is beer week. we have a dozen local brewers in african hall. we have a deejays to set up throughout the museum and a live performance at 9:00 p.m. tonight. >> what has been your favorite part as a participant or as an observer? >> my favorite part is to walk around the aquarium in to see people with a drink in their hands, getting to know maybe somebody new, may be looking for a day, or chatting with friends. there jellyfish. i mean, they are beautiful. >> the culmination of the animals. >> it is very impressive. we do not hav

helen, helen helen, listen to me you mine american. my life, but particularly regarding home repair. >> yes and drapes. >> stephanie: my drapes are good -- >> but your old drapes. >> stephanie: oh yeah. i got my new drapes through angie's list. did you see larry king we're going to try to get him on. he's a fan of the putin. >> yes, he is. >> stephanie: bringing his current show to russia today, adding another show politics with larry king. you know i love my larry. >> stephanie: russia today is a cable channel, right? >> stephanie: i believe so. he explained, it's a love story -- he and putyputty. he said there are certain people that come into your life that change it. his power is an afro dee shee ak. he didn't make out with him but -- >> like katy couric. >> stephanie: we wish him well. good luck to him. >> stephanie: that's where you met aisha tyler. >> stephanie: that's right. we were bitch slapping poor little somebody, ben ferguson or something. >> he has a crush on you. he is like 23 years old, and we were next to him at the r

and i want to invite you a special event on may 9, sister helen rajeem will be here, and she's well known and played in deadman walking. that's may 9. i want to thank all volunteers and those who made this event possible. and all of you for attending. thank you and have a good evening. test, test, test, test, test, test, test, test ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (clapping) ladies and gentlemen please welcome the voice of the children ken roy. good morning. thank you to our drum line and the warrior girls. i've had one the fun jobs i've been the voice of the golden state warriors. the bay area is warrior ground and san francisco. i know it's not the afternoon yet but have you guys had fun? we're the bay areas team we've played in oakland and san jose. we've got to get to a lot of things this past year was really special. i realized something was up in the season but we've broadcasted games and we'd be leading by 5 or 10 and this team had a certainty chemistry and what a combra great play off run? >> beating denver in 6 and giving the spurs all they can and doing that p that without the all

. >> helen will be doing that. >> thank you. >> i want to talk about school pool. and basically school pool is an online resource where families can log in and find other families at their school to walk bikes, transit and carpool with. it's a support service, and a support for the programs and help the school to encourage pooling to school, not driving alone or in a family vehicle to school. and the goal relate to our outreach is to have a program that schools can use and continue to use in their transportation tool box and promote it to their parents. the service is part of the mtc 51 sweet of services and it functions very much the same way as the commuter website for finding carpool and van pool matches. s environment received a grant from the air district and the transportation to do outreach and education on this tool. and really to support safe routes and encourage parenting to form walking school buses or bike trains. so our grant cover two years and we just are finishing up our second year. outreach was provided to an a total of 44 schools. and between the first -- for the fir

this woman helen ended up having car double on her way to a campicamp ing trip.pulled over to the side of the road, saw this undeveloped roll of film, developed it, then posted the pictures on facebook. that's how she was able to reconnect photos of this newborn baby girl and her family again. >> wow, the internet, man. >> floored. >> if they never saw the pictures, how do they know? you look at that one dude's shirt, the blue and white shirt. you see that, you know there's a match. >> some photos were of the baby, but there were photos in there with her dad, the dog. there were enough recognizable elements. >> i can't believe the film was still able to be developed. >> that's a lot of work for a stranger to go to. try to get these photos back to somebody. good deed. >> good thing that dude is wearing the pineapple shirt that day. day. >> this video totally speaks for itself. got a guy on a kohler coaster, a cam wheera in his face -- >> that didn't take long at all. i feel bad for everyone around him. you know that stuff is flying all over the space. place. >> i

helen exploded sending down dead lila sra and smoke that sent hundreds running for safety. vacationers running. and as news of its spread, curious californians took to the mountains to have a look at this amazing thing an active volcano right here in the united states. picnicking families would gather at ered a safe distance and take on the show. leaving a devastated area miles wide where there had been forest. the eruption put the previously obscure area on the map. laser became a national park in 1916. today's visitors come for the awesome views, the wild flowers, the clouds that look close enough to touch. >> a first guy coming through here. the devastated area was actually devastated there wasn't any trees. just very small brush and you could see all the way to the mountains now it's forest. so we've seen a tremendous change to this place in 40 years. >> it's not as popular as yosemite for instance. i would say the complaint of the forest service, nobody ever seems to come up. it seems to be a lost attraction for the park service. that's one of the attractions that brin

. >> but helen is here and lives next door. she watched coverage of the three women, she saw similarities to the garido case. >> i thought not another case like garido. i thought how terrible. terrible. >> in the cleveland case neighbors never expected anyone was being held against their will. same in antioch. no one thought it was the garidos who kidnapped dugard. she later gave birth to two children. >> tried to find out what is going on. releasing a statement, quote, these activities need the opportunity to heal this, isn't who they are. it is only what happened to hem. the human spirit is resilient this, reaffirms we should never give up hope. some neighbors are still upset they didn't discover dugard sooner. >> no they shouldn't blame themselves. no. you just never know. you can't read people. >> dugard wrote a memoir called a stolen life and is in washington, d.c. attending an event live in antioch abc 7 news. >> just minutes ago we caught up with one of the two uc berkeley police officers helped save jaycee dugard rememb

and i want to invite you a special event on may 9, sister helen rajeem will be here, and she's well known and played in deadman walking. that's may 9. i want to thank all volunteers and those who made this event possible. and all of you for attending. thank you and have a good evening. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> the san francisco playground's history dates back to 1927 when the area where the present playground and center is today was purchased by the city for $27,000. in the 1950s, the center was expanded by then mayor robinson and the old gym was built. thanks to he pasthe e 2008 clean and safe neighborhood parks bond, the sunset playground has undergone extensive renovation to its four acres of fields, courts, play grounds, community rooms, and historic gymnasium. >> here we are. 60 years and $14 million later, and we have got this beautiful, brand-new rec center completely accessible to the entire neighborhood. >> the new rec center houses multi-purpose rooms for all kinds of activities, including basketball, line dancing, playing ping-pong, and arts and crafts. >> use it for whatever you want to do, y

and i want to invite you a special event on may 9, sister helen rajeem will be here, and she's well knownand played in deadman walking. that's may 9. i want to thank all volunteers and those who made this event possible. and all of you for attending. thank you and have a good evening. test, test, test, test, test, test, test, test ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

and i want to invite you a special event on may 9, sister helen rajeem will be here, and she's well known and played in deadman walking. that's may 9. i want to thank all volunteers and those who made this event possible. and all of you for attending. thank you and have a good evening. >>> well, i'm daniel leery. the chair of the super bowl committee. we've been going at this for about 9 months now and mayor lee gave me the honor and privilege of taking on this task. we've had an incredible momentum and we have mayor and condoleeza rice and steve lewis, we have some firepower to the committee in the form of world champions and hall of famer and folks that have taken over part of 10 percent of super bowls and we can't thank you enough for taking this on. we hand off our final package. the one thing i want to realize is that this is a community effort. it's not just about san francisco, santa clara, san jose. it's about the entire region coming together. the reason i took on this goal is that we have amazing things had -- happening in our community and we are going to highlight these in the

and we also would take you out to dolores park, and the beautiful new helen dillard playground open a year ago between public and private partnership between the city and us, through the bond funding, and private philanthropy, one of the most beautiful playground in the country and yet we are having trouble there with vandalism and damage caused in part because we don't have park patrol officers out there monitoring our parks; same thing is the case all across the city. in a study that was done recently by spur, they identified about a 30 million dollar gap, between the level of funding that we are currently putting in and what a park system of that size and scope and complexity really needs, 30 million dollar gap. growing because we have been cutting the budget to parks instead of growing it. this leads me to a twofold question to you mr. mayor, and to you supervisors. in the budgeting process, how can we begin to turn that around and address the budget shortfall? the second half of the question is, beyond the budget, what is the long-term fix to close the 30 million dollar gap? does

carson bail bonds and in the industry for 4 decades and former mistake mayor of carson california and helen for the juvenile and criminal justice system and currently on the and ralph on the commission of san francisco and works closely with the sheriff's department which now leads the program for violent offenders. >> san francisco, he has over 3 decades of experience in law enforcement including his former role as chief of police in san francisco. he's been a critic of current models in the criminal justice system that rely too heavily on incarceration. will looeng is the c e eo of diversion project from ranging from final alternatives to rehabilitative programs to more comprehensive case management and finally jonathan simon is adrian craig in professor of law, teaches courses on criminal laws, criminal justice, law and consulted culture and law risk and studies. his book includes parole and the social control of the under class 1890-1990 how the war on crime transformed american democracy and created fear. welcome our panelist. [ applause ] >> i'm going to start with catherine mccrack i

. >> the first richest person in space was helen in 1991.er trip lasted one week and was privately funded. became american citizens to fly. now the government has cleared the way. his launch will come in november 2015. that'll be the start of a six- month stay on the international space station. there he will be using zero gravity conditions for medical experiments and other research. .n inspiration, they hope >> people talk about the apollo affect, about how people went on to study science. i hope that his mission will encourage a generation of school kids and college students. >> i think i've achieved a alignment now. >> the hope is that british space industry's will get a boost. here at the laboratory they are building cameras for the space station. new contracts mean more jobs. >> this work has gone on largely unnoticed. the government is now saying the potential of it. getting a british astronaut into orbit is meant to raise the profile of this entire industry. >> meanwhile, chris has fueled new interest with his version of david bowie'