after that time, henry adams reinvented this fantastic center as the preeminent design center. it houses designers of all walks, all environments. the center today is home to over 85 different showrooms -- >> supervisor tang: may have to flip it a little. >> thank you. there it is. 85 different showrooms catering across the design community and residents. we believe that the landmarking progress will give us one more tool to preserve the building and to have the resources to make upgrades going forward. we have planned some broad scaled renovations. compliance with a.d.a. and our mission is unchanged. we preserve and maintain the center status of one of the leading design centers. i'm joined by showroom tenants and i have as well signatures of support of our showrooms and tenants as well and we thank you for your support today in maintaining this building an historic landmark. >> supervisor tang: thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello, supervisors. thank you for hearing public comment today. i'm eric hughes. i'm the managing principal of a showroom at the design center. i'm

name is jim woods i'm the founder of woods beer company and the proprietor of woods copy k open 2 henry adamswhat makes us unique is that we're reintegrated brooeg the beer and serving that cross the table people are sitting next to the xurpz drinking alongside we're having a lot of ingredient that get there's a lot to do the district of retail shop having that really close connection with the consumer allows us to do exciting things we decided to come to treasure island because we saw it as an amazing opportunity can't be beat the views and real estate that great county starting to develop on treasure island like minded business owners with last week products and want to get on the ground floor a no-brainer for us when you you, you buying local goods made locally our supporting small business those are not created an, an sprinkle scale with all the machines and one person procreating them people are making them by hand as a result more interesting and can't get that of minor or anywhere else and san francisco a hot bed for local manufacturing in support that is what keeps your city vibrant w

several other books including teddy roosevelt and after the white house and in intimate portrayal of henry adams. that was a finalist for the pulitzer prize what motivated you to write a biography in the beginning i wanted to write about him because of world war i i was totally fascinated. i thought i would write about him as commander in chief that then to learn he delegates most of his responsibilities so there was just enough for a paragraph. [laughter] so then i started to think about his record in office. he was highly successful then he had a terrible last two years. it is a fixed legacy so i was curious and i just wanted to know why that happened. >> in the last ten years coming out with well acclaimed biographies so how do we think of your book in context? . >> they are really quite different this is why people write biography after biography of major figures. a political historian and a very good biographer as well and concentrates more on politics and tries to cover a lot more ground than i am and then concentrate on those events for those that are deeply principle principled. there is

quite frankly, i think it's a long time coming. 2 henry adams is a jewel of the building and an anchor of the san francisco design center. when the owners first approached us about landmarking status back in 2003, we learned that such a designation would have allowed for absolute conversion from affordable p.d.r. space to office use. and since then we've passed restrictions on what zoning uses a p.d.r. 1-d landmark building can convert and through that effort have ensured that no p.d.r. tenants will be displaced during this landmarking process. the landmarking before you today for your consideration would allow the san francisco design center to raise funds for much-needed investments in the building, but it will also preserve our galleries, it will preserve our show rooms, and quite frankly, the heart and the soul of the design center located in showplace square. i'd like to take a moment to recognize and thank the tenants of the design center for advocating, and moving us through this process. i want to recognize the outstanding leadership of ms. kimberly smith for her tireless work,

tweling units on the ground floor passed its second read as did the landmark designation for 2 henry adams. the amendments and the amendments to section 190 that deal with medical cannabis dispensaries passed their first read. the biannual housing report was adopted. and the board then considered the ceqa appeal for a school playfield project. one of the neighboring residents appealed the [inaudible] for this project on the grounds of school children-related noise impacts. at the hearing, the appellant went as far as to play sounds of recordings of children playing outdoors to make his point. supervisor brown's opening statements, she stated that the sound of children playing outdoors makes her happy. staff gave their usual cogent defense of the department's rationale for the ceqa determination and two elementary school children made a moving speech in support of the play field. the hearing was short and then the ceqa determination was upheld unanimously. next the board considered the appeal for is 1 gladys street. the project proposes a modest vertical addition to a small house in vernal

henry. that drops out sam adams. >> adams. >> right. who were involved in the first -- >> right. right. but it's then becomes madison, who i -- well, madison, who i think was politically agile, jefferson, who i think is the most intellectually sophisticated. >> neither jefferson nor adams were present at the convention. >> at the constitutional convention. >> and their letters were influential. >> so hamilton is the smartest. hamilton would have got the highest grade on the lsats, let me tell you. and he's a prodigy. >> true. >> in that sense, the players justified -- although if i was to predict 20 years ago who was going to make it on broadway, i would have never ever predicted it was hamilton. >> i would have said franklin. >> yeah. and they would have been, like, who is this guy? he's like a comet that came through. we're the stars in the firmament. but who else? adams. and adams, you know, is the most well read in politics especially, i think. and he's a contrarian, but he's my favorite one because he spills the beans. >> right. >> if you're a historian or a biographer, you can't d

henry clay is? he was a giant of the whig party. we don't have time for this. people think tim adams' gop party could become the next whig party to go away just like henry clay. jon: thank you very much. two,ne, we don't care, day day 33t care -- does matter for the u.s. economy? or are we not there yet? >> we will get there quickly. the point where there's an inverse relationship -- something will go wrong, when tsa workers stop showing up at the airports, that's when we will have a problem. jon: that's when washington, d.c. wakes up and does something. >> a couple weeks, we will see what happens with airport traffic. tom: heaven forbid we would speak about banking as we do. a backstory here is european banking. that is not removed from you and your mandate. how urgent is it for the european banks to get their act together? >> they have raised a tremendous amount of capital and liquidity. we've seen npl's drop precipitously. europe,d curve across the interest margins are pretty thin. they have not made it up in revenue. have,very conversation we we always come back to real yield and

ecretary of state john quincy adams and secretary of the treasury william crawford as well as the speaker of the house henry clay and the military jackson.rew crawford had suffered a year laterg stroke a but was proceeding all the same. in the election, jackson had popular and the electoral vote, but with the vote split four ways, he didn't electoral votes needed for election and so for the second time in the young the house of ry, representatives would be picking the new president. it was under these circumstances that lafayette returned to the capitol to be first greeted by senate on december 9 and the house the following day. in the unanimous resolution of invitation to lafayette, the assurances ed that will be given to hill of the dprat tude and the profound espect that the chamber maintains for the imminent services that he rendered during he revolution and of the pleasure that it feels in seeing him again. invitation,to their lafayette addressed a joint session of congress being the to do that.ner speaker of the house enri clay rovided an emotional introduction in which he acknowledges the changes the

adams gave $20. you have thomas jefferson in the middle. jefferson is sandwiched by henry knox, a member, and alexander hamilton, another member, and james madison. this is also believed to be the only document that holds the first four presidents' signatures on it, and what's even more interesting about the story of this document is it was rediscovered, i guess you can say, in the 1960s, by an intern who is going through an old vault during renovations and found a scroll rolled up with a red ribbon on it and opened it up and realized he had a national treasure on his hands. i would also like to point out this was a bipartisan effort. the desire to explore, to support science, was a bipartisan effort bringing together both the jeffersonians and the federalists at this moment. here's another one of our treasures, another jeffersonian document just like we have the constitution and franklin's copy. we also have thomas jefferson's final draft of the declaration of independence. he sent one copy to congress and then he sent a few others to some of his friends. this was sent to