let's hear it for our friends from huckleberry house. >> hello. i am jason martinez and this is victor. we work with huckleberry street clinic and i am a health educator and i found there was a need for a group for young men in the community, so i wrote a grant to youth funding ideas and i got $10,000 to have young men's group in the western edition, and yesterday was actually our last day, and i'm going to have victor tell you a little more about the program. >> we run a group over there at plaza east. we just graduated eight boys from the ten week program. (applause). >> we run groups all the time, but with this group just a bunch of young men and subjects that affect their lives and violence, sex, drugs and media, and also we also do community projects like we just finished up a community clean up and we had them go around the community and pick up trash and things to help the community and we designed t shirts and hoodies for them like this one right here. (applause). >> yeah. sorry that the kids couldn't be here today. this is a little last m

the partners that we are actually gathering here today and are present here in the room are ymca huckleberries program, sfpd, dcyf, and jpd. we are trying to create a one- stop center where we would actually provide youth academic and psychosocial assessments, and it would work closely with the district in order to be able to prevent some of the current attitude of continuously being truant. i wanted to invite someone who has been collaborating -- collaborating with us a lot more and taking initiative on a day-to-day basis. liz jackson is the person that has been one of the instrumental people that has been supporting some of the day-to-day work there at the center. >> thank you. good afternoon, commissioners, board of supervisors. i'm the executive director of program development with the ymca in san francisco and branch manager with urban development services ymca. first of all, let me thank you for your continued interest and support of the truancy assessment and referral center. we have been working since january to come up with a comprehensive strategy and plan and have actually begun to

reynolds and the staff at the african-american art complex, huckleberry for their willingness to takeprograms, carmen johnson and jaunita for their dedication and to the others that have shared their message of peace and donna williams and her flexibility and moving to the african-american arts culture complex. and miriam do ming guess for all of her hard work. erica green at urban solutions and the classes and she has been working with our kids and teaching them entrepreneur skills and the others for their support. (applause). thank you for bearing with me. as you know the african-american art and culture complex has gone through a major transition. we went from a place that no one participates in programs and everything else to this absolutely gorgeous beautiful amazing facility i am proud to call my home and i have to say if it wasn't for one person in particular -- and i have a great staff and community that has always 17 supported me and there is one person that stands out and he deals with my tantrums and demands and he continues to work hard and bust his butt and the center wou

rare and damaged film of twain late in his life is part of the archive, as are early copies of huckleberry finn and tom sawyer, regarded as monumental american novels. overseeing the vault-- as the room is sometimes called-- is robert hirst, general editor of the mark twain project, which this year, 2010, is finally publishing along with the university of california press twain's uncensored autobiography. finally, because twain decreed that this document not be published in its entirety until 100 years after his death, which took place in 1910, when he was 75. most people don't have the nerve to speak exactly what they believe while they're alive because of the repercussions. people will shun them. he says, "i'm only human. i don't want to be shunned. i don't want to be thought ill of, and therefore i'm willing to write this down and put it on paper and leave it behind." >> reporter: working with numerous copies and corrections, the editors at first thought the autobiography was unfinished and random. but after six years, they figured out twain's had produced a complete, provocative docume

one of my businesses was a small coffee and ice cream shop called huckleberry's. with a shop that sells food, the use it or lose it principle is intrinsic. we would not buy more perishable food than we could sell, otherwise we were at a loss. every small business owner knows that when you are working on a tight budget, you cannot afford wasteful spending. and that, mr. speaker, is exactly what these earmarks are. by targeting these earmarks, my legislation will deliver real savings. h.r. 5730 is one step towards the ultimate goal of reducing our nation's deficit. by rescinding unused earmark funds from over 20 years ago, we will be improving the way in which federal funds are managed while both proving our commitment to fiscal discipline. in today's economy it is essential that we manage taxpayer dollars well, especially with respect to transportation funding. we will never be able to adequately address the investment gap in transportation infrastructure if we do not curb unnecessary spending. to promote responsible future funding, my bill also requires the secret