. >> i mean we are meeting on the tenth? would another draft be ready by then? >> commissioner walker? >> i am not as support it the way that it is and i would like to, if we all to be on the same page i think that we need to listen to the input and have more discussions about this. i think that the goal of this is to try and help us with our two-year plan. and i think that this business for engineering blueprint that we came up so long ago is good, and appropriate. and if we implement it, i think that it will do a lot to address some of the remaining issues that we have all been listening to for the last year. i mean we have had folks coming from the public talking about the lack of code enforcement and we have seen the numbers, and it does not really jive with what is in here. and as far as code enforcement and the number of cases that we resolve. and you can always take a slice out of any kind of history and get the numbers that you want, but i think that over all, we are all trying to achieve the same goal, and i think that as a commission, trying to emphasiz

i mean, there's still a lot of folks that are homeless. but i do think that san francisco is leading the way to innovative policies that can really help change things for the better post redevelopment. i think that the affordable housing trust fund is a step in the right direction and is something that no one else is doing all over the state. i think that the fact that san francisco is so committed to affordable housing, we already had resources where we were invested in affordable housing in the city. but more importantly, we're looking at revamping public housing and how that is a bigger picture of affordable housing long term for san francisco. we're looking at public-private partnerships. i just think san francisco is really leading the way. and could we do enough? you know, i mean, you can never do enough until everyone has a decent, clean, respectable place to live. i think san francisco is clearly leading the way to it that. >> oftentimes city issues and district issues are not one and the same. what are some of the biggest issues yo

if we are not willing to look at that issue, i do not think we are going to solve -- i know we will not solve our long-term financial issues. that, to me, is the biggest deal. second, it is about job creation. jobs are not just putting people back to work, which i think is the highest priority, but it is all the ancillary benefits we received, whether it be payroll taxes, an increase in property taxes. people who live and work in san francisco also shop at local restaurants, so shop at the local retail stores. it is a huge economic impact in san francisco. in my opinion, it is getting our costs under control but also promoting economic development so we have a financial engine that will continue to promote us year after year. >> what are your ideas on dealing with the issue of homelessness in san francisco? >> i am one that thinks mayor newsom did a great job thinking proactively about what we need to do in san francisco. when he started care not cash -- but enacted so many things past that. project award down, when he ended up making sure there were family members on the receiving end,

i know that there are certain things that do work. i recently was at the urban market that was somewhat of mobile retail that was recently held in bay view or what they have in hayes valley. are you saying the merchants would oppose something of that sort, or is this just coming in district corridors? so i guess in some mobile retail, if it is an event driven merchant corridors would be okay with that or no? >> [inaudible] because it seems to me that those bring traffic to the corridor. >> you might want to get to the microphone. it's probably what they are calling about. >> your question was if there are mobile retail events such as the hayes valley urban market or the bay view urban market that happens to have a mobile retail driven, is that something that you see the measure chapters -- merchants being against. >> i'm not in power to represent the whole county district. most of them were opposed. >> even if they would drive traffic? >> they didn't see that as driving traffic as a brick and mortar. the scenario was that small busines

i would never do nothing like that to you. >> kirk: you said you are. >> i mean, are we haven't done you think we done or anything like that. he has never seen me. >> kirk: what have you done? >> what the hell is that tiani? that is the stuff that i'm talking about. you do that stuff and you think it's funny and it is not funny to me. you need to calm it down. >> it's funny. >> oh, it's all a big joke. >> because me is pregnant and just extra emotional. >> kirk: are you extra emotional because you are pregnant? >> yes, you are. >> isn't everybody? i mean like, yeah. just a little bit. [applause] but it's my sister and if she -- if you are not doing the wrong thing you will be exonerated? >> what. >> if you are doing the right thing -- too big of a word? >> spell it out. >> if you are doing the right thing -- >> is it really that serious to you. >> it is. i love him and want to get married to him one day soon. >> kirk: do you not trust him? >> i trust him but who jokes with somebody's sibling like that all the time? and i don't know it's too much for me. it's definitely wrong. >> kirk

are you? >> 28. imore informed voters. the more we educate ourselves the better people we put in office and the better national security will be. >> i i think the american people are more together than they have been. the aclu is working with the tea party and the liberals are not wanting to go to war. a lot of different groups are coming together. we are more informed and waking up to what's going on with the leadership. we need better leaders on both sides of the aisle. >> the country lacks leadership now. the president will leave in three years. i think the country will turn a corner and elect a leader. >> i'm sorry. you keep saying he lacks leadership. a leader reflects on what happened in the past, analyzes and makes the best decision. he's looked at the country not wanting to go go to war. he knows we have had two wars. the country was taken in by false information. he 's reflected and said, okay, i have to balance these issues. >> so we have learned from the past, from the mistakes. >> this pres

6 foot 4, i know you are mumbling but i still heard it. i respect you enough that i'm talking to you face to face. i'm not going to write this up right now because i expect this problem will be done. are we good? in my experience when you talk to kids like that, they stop because you are coming at them with respect. the last thing i would do is go to the target when nobody is looking, hey, i need some help with something. as you are walking down the hallway, hey, the thing i saw in the hallway yesterday, i don't know if that was playing or what it was, but from my end that doesn't seem right to me. you know you can always come to me. i know i'm not your teacher, i know i don't have all the answers but i can find somebody who can. you don't expect a big hallmark moment where the kid tells you everything. but you are planting a seed. we need to have teachers look like i am present, i am seen, i see you, i care about you and i care about you as much as i care about every single kid in this school. defend the rights of every child in the schoo

>> and okay, and i know that you are typing in the minutes. i hope that you got that. and so that is my motion. >> so can you repeat that? >> i don't know. >> you are moving to make these official guidelines that are posted on the website. >> that are included in the application packet. >> which is both physically handed out to people who come to the office and on our website. and for new applicants change of ownerships and llps. >> i second. >> and seconded by commissioner akers. and i wanted to double check, did you get all of the changes and just about word and that kind of a thing? >> does someone have a final, final? >> i wrote it. >>vy that written down. >> thank you. >> great. >> and any other discussion before we take a vote? >> no. >> and on the motion, commissioner akers? >> aye. >> hyde. >> aye. >> joseph. >> aye. >> lee. >> aye. >> campagnoli. >> aye. >> tan. >> aye. >> thank you commissioners. and all right, so we are going to move on to item number 4 and the report from the executive director, thank you for everyone here who is a permit applicant that is

[gavel] >> if i can just finish. whether you are a citizen or undocumented immigrant, i think many of us can all agree we have no tolerance for serious or violent crimes in our community. and again, we as citizens as well are held to very high standards. and like supervisor avalos, i do represent a district made up of many immigrants and many of whom which also care very much about public safety. so, today i really just want to say that i want to thank supervisor kim for bringing forth the ideas for proposed amendments that we will consider at the next board meeting. and again, although it is not something that, you know, i agree with every single aspect, i think that it has reached a good balance and compromise where all of us can hopefully eventually agree. so, with that, again, i want to thank supervisor avalos and supervisor kim. >> supervisor cohen. >> thank you very much. [gavel] >> i'll ask for people's respect here in the chamber, please. thank you. supervisor cohen. >> the beautiful thing about being in this country as such

i think that we are... i mean that we still have to go through the traditional hiring process and make sure that that follows. and it is regular procedure. >> because what she did with the business 1, 2, 3, licensing on-line is like phenomenal. i know that the people that use that and she did a great job on that. >> yeah. >> so, okay. >> so that is the direction that we would like to go in. >> and then, there is a list of series of workshops and conferences and i am going to include this because you are not necessarily aware that martha once a month goes to give how to start a business 101 at the sba and also does that periodically at our economic development organizations and i think that quarterly, also, does that, at the library. and so, and then, commissioner, yee riley is going to talk about a workshop that is taking place towards the end of the month. and i want to highlight that, and i briefly mentioned last month, about the shops small campaign which is part of the small business saturday and so the

i think on balance, i have been able to appreciate the social media thing. areyou starting to appreciate it? >> i am.i am looking forward to meeting -- tavis: and now you want to be followed by millions.now you won millions of followers. >> i am like wait a minute. tavis: that will not be a problem. thing, .the third i read an announcement that there was going to be a "jurassic 4." >> there is. tavis: what do you know about ?hat?are you signed up for it what is the story? >> i am not signed up, and i think there was a lot of back and forth in the development about whether steven spielberg would be directing. an opportunity for a new world and dinosaurs and all of that.i think they are figuring all of that out.god knows that working for steven spielberg is the great joy. those of us who have been lucky enough to have that experience. but what i do know, which i heard from him recently, is that i will have a pleasure of sitting in a dark room with bizarre glasses on watching the original version in 3-d, which is going to be released this summer, and he said it was

i'm a strong supporter of s b 645 and supervisor wiener and i are in support. there is a lot of fear that comes with change. the key here is to make people understand what we are talking about. there are 9 states where this has already happened. there are dozens of cities that are an allowing this to happen and the world has not come to an end because what we are talking about is simply local control. the point of this legislation is simply to have jurisdictions like san francisco decide for itself what makes sense and the idea which we were never going to have a blanket rule throughout the city but that we would take it on a case by case city and we would allow the city to figure out and work with city government to see what makes sense. from a public safety issue there is an argument to be made that as a matter of public safety, it's good to have that opportunity, to have different businesses close at different times. i used to be on the police commission i know that everyone that closes at a specific time becomes a challenge for the police department. i think

we are hearing that from a bunch of companies. iieve that we are going to hear from jabil and i think we would hear it from cisco too. also sports much stronger margins from molex and the stock deserves to sell at a higher valuation. molex says it has to get the markets up at 11.5% thanks to the company's exposure to consumer electronics. it is at a 14% operating margin. that number has been rising. i also like that a third of business comes from europe. related to the auto industry which is coming back. with europe's economy turning i think it would be a major source of upside. it is a huge tailwind for tel. we want industrial. it fits the bill perfectly. what about the third guy? it is relatively expensive. td connectivity has already rallied 42% year to date. much cheaper than anthenol and it has more auto industrial business. at the very least i think they deserve to trade in line with anthenol, and there you have it. 29% boost. i think we are more likely to see that kind of move now that molex has drawn more attention to a spac

it's good to see that validated and that these are good ideas and i do thinks these are good ideas. i think we need more analysis. i think commissioner wynns, i want to echo her call for a deeper analysis and i want to sit down with you to go through some of the financial assumptions because there were a number of then i didn't understand, but i think the most crucial analysis that i want to see done and will help us build out some of these other ideas is the facilities assessment because we really need to know sort of what are we talking about when we talk about building kitchens and wh warehouses and, i just think we need a deeper analysis of that and have for a long time. i'm very supportive of that. i also think i would like to see us working. i see miss miller in the back. i would like to see working with different patterns and different job classifications that are required with that and we should be working collaboratively with them and how to do this and hand in hand with the facilities analysis because some of what we do with facilities will be drafting and vice versa and i

see. >> and entertainment venues are supposed to be fun and i think that go to a venue where there are shootings and fights and knifings and people getting knifed and kurt is not fun. so i understand and i don't know if you have been in this business before noble? no i haven't. >> okay. >> i have been in this business a long time. so i appreciate you trying to educate us on how you do it, but, i think that i know how a nightclub runs as well. you answered one of my questions, that you said patting down, so you do pat them down? >> yeah. >> who trained your security on how to pat down? >> do you want to speak to that? >> our security guards have gone through the guard card class and process where the process is taught. >> did you go through guard card? >> i have, but my card is currently expired. >> did you learn how to pat down? >> i did. >> how much of your security plan do you train your security on? >> well, whenever we add something to do it was in the past months or however, we have a meeting, and we what is the word? >> excuse me. yeah, we train on the stuff that we are adding an

i hope we are keeping you awake. we are going to throw some questions to these panelist and we'll have questions. just be nice and there is that mic. it's cord less. you can pull it out and move it around the crowd if you want to. yes. thanks again for coming. we'll take later. >> okay, panelist, recently for the second time senator mark, introduced last call at 4 a.m.. this would leave it to individual jurisdictions to determine whether or not they wanted to implement a 4 a.m. last call. the resolution did not make it through the committee. keeping in mind that other cities have late last calls and many foreign visitors are used to late hours. can you address the problem with last call as it relates to the problem with san francisco as it strives to compete with tourism. who would like to start? h? >> why don't you start. >> okay. having an international background and having lived in europe, i think it is paramount to the success if the future of san francisco's image that we attract a global community to come here

i didn't have a platform i listened to people my platform was on what people are interested in >> i mentioned issues are different. >> there are many issues one of the things is counts economy in san francisco is improving a lot. we didn't take a hit like the rest of the country. i look at the stats today and how are the wider margins in cal how do we sustain, you know, that growth so everybody can prosper. it shouldn't be just for the wall street folks but it should be for the mainstream. so that's one of the things it's always a challenge in the city to make sure there's prosperity for all >> san francisco is always facing cuts and whether or not to increase taxes how will you approach those. well, that first of all, i'd like to say as i mentioned earlier when i was the executive director of an organization and being on the budget committee for 8 years. one of the things i've learned from being an administrator i does not - my values would be we don't spend more than what we have and if we don't have enough there's two things you can do you can cut things or look for more revenues. for me,

really good at recruitment and i think that they are struggling also, and i think that is why with tsa they are sort of not, i would not say that they would be, that the organization that would be helping us with retaining, building, a city teacher, workforce in the classroom. which is what we are trying to do, right? especially in these schools like mlk, so i sort of question that role. i mean, i think that 32,000 is a small grant and i think that it is reasonable to look at for a year and then we reevaluate it and i think that we should be sure and be cautious that we are looking to in our school district retain, teachers in the classroom, and so that they will see it as a career and commit to our classrooms and especially in those schools that need ak celebrated learning, you know? and the students who have the most challenges and so i know that we have many teachers and the relationships, and with the tsa teachers they do not say and they stay in the world of education, but they are not particularly seen in the classroom, which is what i think that we need help with

i really, my expectations are higher than that. what i want to hear is i'm responding. i'm engaging. i'm reciprocallying. those of us who are members, we wanted to know more, joey cane has been instrumental at moving behind-the-scenes to try to work with the board that he thought that was going to be friendly and responsive as well as reviewed bylaws and procedures and practices with very little return. >> if i may ask you to finish your statement. >> i'm on the runway to wrap up here. basically to a lot of steps have been taken but to what end, all the meetings, trainings, retreats and consultants and the huddles that the board has gone to and what is has come in all of this . where is the involvement of the community, transparency, democracy and accountability. it takes a heart, soul and conscious. this is what i present you with. >> thank you very much. next speaker please. >> hello board members. thanks for your time. i'm going to troo i and be brief and try to say things people haven't said with regard from a rather unique perspective from having been a labor union

i will tell you the iranians are -- i am told are sophisticated and i hear the north koreans are sophisticated. >> and their capability is sophisticated. kind of reminds me leading up to 9/11. we had a lot of little attacks here and there, there were a lot of yellow flags out there that we more or less dismissed. what i'm worried about is the fact that our government dismisses it because they don't know how to fight it or can fight it or to your poin melissa? some sort of -- in some sort of serious false reality. when that big one comes, whatever it is -- >> i don't think it's a false reality. i think most of the big banks, i cover the banks, i know they're all geared up for this. whether, you know -- >> they weren't geared up for the last freeze. >> well, come on. >> honestly, charlie -- >> technology -- >> one at a time. >> technology breaks down listen, i'm no -- >> neither are you -- >> computer ever break down? >> jpmorgan -- >> i'm just saying these -- >> let me give you perspective on this. listen, i will say computers break down all the time. i do know the banks are working. doesn't me

i think there are other alternatives. congressman, i actually did not have time yesterday because of our testimony to read the "the new york times" editorial. i would like to read it. .ut there is a plan in place the london 11 so-called have .een working internationally last year, secretary clinton joined in the, in can meeting toh the russians and others set up a process for transition in syria. that is what we are currently pursuing now. together with our allies and friends in this endeavor. that includes france, great britain, italy, germany, the emirates, saudis, and others. it may not be working as well as we would like and has not had its impact yet fully, but in we have seenhat, the president take steps in response to the initial attacks of chemical weapons to increase lethal aid to the opposition. that is now known. time. almost out of with all due respect, ltd. damache corp., a special tribunal on war crimes for syria. duration, aa short special tribunal on war crimes for syria. >> perhaps we could have more luck

think that we are vulnerable is and i am sorry that you did not get to the meeting and didn't hear commissioner mar's comments and the two areas are about the notices of violations and about the system, you know, where our public, and comes in and gets routed and so, you know, to not acknowledge that there is a public perception, whether or not it is based on fact, and we need to close the door to a lot of folks who are out there looking at us and as commissioners to represent the public, and so since i am the person in the public seat i have a responsibility to acknowledge that people are thinking this and so was it based on fact. but where it is not, where there is, you know, a factual basis in which we acknowledge in our comments ethose two areas i think are problematic in the wording that we do not agree with the findings because i think that we should say that we partially agree or we agree and these are the areas where we commit to doing some work. >> commissioner walker >> thank you very much for pulling it together like that. and i totally agree with your input

>> i think you are minimizing the al qaeda and muslim brotherhood involvement. not know the exact number. we know between 15,000 rebels. >> i don't see it at the same level as iran and hezbollah and syria. and putin. i don't see it on the same level. >> the reason we are involved because of what al qaeda did to us. how is it possible to be involved in supplying them? i don't think it's in our national interest. >> if you are going to get involved in the middle east it's a murky soup. remove qaddafi as a villain and then we have nobody. >> then we have got chaos. >> is chaos better than qaddafi. i am glad is he out of there libya has a chance now. >> right now no one can get on that. the point i'm making is assad to me, it's not separate when you have got the terrorists not jihadists, tears on the other side who we are now supplying and if we bomb we are not supplying them. >> supply the rebels supplying al qaeda. >> not supplying. this week they announced that some groups are going to get it. >> last two weeks. they assure us that the groups that are getting the

>> those are really tough choices. i think often, the economy in san francisco is not in a vacuum, and we are impacted by the state and federal government, so we need be advocating with our legislative delegation to prioritize health and human services job development and work force development and important projects as much as we can. at the state level, as we face this huge budget deficit as well to make sure there is flexibility in spending at the local level. but i absolutely think that we need revenue measures that come on the ballot, and voters have to be thinking about ensuring that we have enough revenue so that we maintain infrastructure, the building and maintenance of the streets and buildings and even a kind of parts of the coat -- coast. the need to make sure infrastructure is there and also that we have money that -- to protect the critical safety net for seniors and young children and families and the most vulnerable in our communities as well, but i think those are key questions as the difficult budget fo

see. >> and entertainment venues are supposed to be fun and i think that go to a venue where there are shootings and fights and knifings and people getting knifed and kurt is not fun. so i understand and i don't know if you have been in this

there are 9 other ones. something i want to address is slightly off topic, food express is something they brought up. they are a local store and they contribute locally to the pets and homeless dogs and cats to this town. they weren't allowed to go in. i think with some precedent which is jack spade which is known internationally shouldn't be allowed to go in either. one of the reasons why jack spade to go in is because of the gentrification of what's happening in the mission. what if you can buy more expensive hand bags and purchase things that don't do anything but make you look like you have an expensive handbag. thank you for your time and i appreciate it. let us have more interesting things around than the same things over and over. >> next speaker. >> my name is adam and i live in the district where this controversy is happening today. i work in technology. i have my entire life. i work in enterprise software. what people would definitely call a techie. i'm wearing formula retail now. i'm a capitalist. i have grow

i was like i don't understand why everybody is screaming. and they are throwing glass bottles and i have seen so many fights. and i mean, i swear i should just record all tf because it is actually not, and it is actually every weekend. and it is almost every night, noble is open. and it is just that only the really bad things get like reported. and there were shots, actually last year before the i didn't even know that i should contact the local police commissioner or whatever his position is, but any way, i have in that process and so i have been keeping track. but this is not new. it has been happening since noble opened. >> thank you. >> hello, my name is (inaudible) and i have been living in the block for 38 years, and this is the worst that i have seen, and i am scared even to be around there. >> and in the 70s, nothing like that bar. >> thank you for keeping it brief. >> next speak snerer. >>vy been in the neighborhood for a couple of years >> karin alovera and this club is nothing that i have ever seen, i wanted to make money and put a web cam on

i would like to take at face value what statements are presented to us here under oath and i would like us to however understand because statements are made from people who are not here. i would like to hear them say it themselves. so if others here in client, i don't know if it's something we can do, would that be acceptable. because i feel like that's a missing piece from the record before us to allow continue this to allow the representative from the department of health. >> i just want to understand that the board is issuing a continuance if it provides additional clarity. >> that's where i'm going with this. >> do we you need the fire department's certification if we are getting the health department? >> i think we are just looking at the health department. that was the challenge. the challenge that were faced is not a fault of the appellant. >> i would support that because i'm trouble by this notice to notify dpw. i think that was incumbent upon the permit holder. but i would fully support hearing because i think it is a very key element. >> i am more with frank, but i'm open to y

>> i think they all are connected. grading military capability as you know is a pretty significant part of momentum shifts. >> john, over the weekend, "the wall street journal" ran an important op-ed, i hope you saw it. a syria analyst spent a great deal of time inside syria including this month. i want to read her assessment of the situation on the ground. i quote the story. the conventional wisdom holds that extremist elements are mixed in with moderate rebel groups. this isn't the case. moderates and extremists wield control over distinct territory. contrary to media accounts, the war in syria is not being waged entirely or predominantly by dangerous islamist and al qaeda diehards. jihadists pouring in from iraq and lebanon are not flocking to the front lines. they are concentrating their efforts on consolidating control in the northern rebel held areas of the country. moderate opposition forces, a collection of folks known as the free syrian army, continue to lead the fight against the syrian regime. while traveling

believe we are doing well. i believe with the sheriff's because we are doing well does not mean that we can't not do better. i believe we can do better. that someone is going to stay in custody in a pretrial setting should be really based on risk, risk of violence, risk of reoffending and/or is a flight risk. i think also as we looking at this, we need to push the whole concept of adjustment reinvestment. that needs to go to places to keep people coming into system in the first place. prevention models, more going towards public education and health is a long-term investment instead of putting into criminal justice system. i hope as we continue to develop this and other areas that we are focused in the whole concept and where we can take money away without risking public safety and putting money in social services that are more likely over a long period of time to continue to reduce crime and continue to create a safe environment and environment where we would not necessarily need to have this large investment in

you are my judge? what if i told you that are you my judge. the public eye. >> that's up to you to judge, my friend. i don't take my judgment for you. i don't judge you. >> that's your judgment? >> no, it's obvious. are you a deviant. it's immoral behavior. >> you are perfect. don't judge me. >> it seems every time i go in a deli in new york. coming out of politics, i will give a piece of advice, i think you know, mr. weiner, you are going to run into these things over and over again in your political life. you have to learn to suck it up and go. it wasn't a nice thing they did. but it happened. >> you got to point out, he did insult his wife and actually made a snide remark about his wife, so i don't blame him for getting ticked off. >> okay. good. >> dana, are we talking about obamacare and the cost of regulation, the american action form put up something i thought was interesting. under obamacare, if you own a restaurant, or a menu, have you to have the calorie, which i think the calorie for each item. i'm not opposed to that. you wonder how

i think we are not there yet, here in san francisco. i am not sure if that is a time issue or the tenderloin is a different type of neighborhood then -- than red hook. i think we need alternatives to our criminal justice system. i do not think our criminal justice actually works. many of the offenders to come through our system of flood started as victims of urea the community courts is a way of addressing those offenders, which is important and what i hope to see from the community court here. i do not think we are there yet. it does not mean we cannot get there. it took several years for the judge to develop a relationship with that neighborhood. >> what are your thoughts on the city's economic development? are we on track? supervisor kim: i think economic development is a policy area our city continues to struggle with your read it is so dependent on what the state and federal government does. on the local level, i would love for us to figure out what we can do, because this is the heart of san francisco. as i said before, they provid

what i would ask for is has been asked by president mazzucco to try to figure out where we are with the patrol specials and i had several metings with the police department and i know that they are difficult and must be complied with and they spent a lot of time to analyze and put it in a con size manner and so it is the green fold and her it is in chart form and we will dive into what we find after you call these items. >> >> good evening commissioners and chief and members of the public, from the community and engagement unit and this is officer carly brown and she has worked to try to answer some of the questions that have came up regarding the patrol special and she is ready to plenty on some of the findings and again open it up to discussion if there is anything else that needs to be addressed. thank you. >> >> good evening. >> you talk about the patrol special compliance, and that was asked about in the prior hearing. we are here to talk about the patrol special compliance that was asked about in a previous meeting. and just a quick review because i don't know we don't know if you

it's hard to know what those qualities are. ie a number of questions about "star trek," but how is it you acknowledged you are not a big fan of the franchise, yet you did something that fans apparently loved? >> part of it is i had an amazing cast, incredible writers. huge fan.a i became a fan getting to work on it. those are wonderful characters and incredible relationships. the funny thing is it always felt a little bit phony. much, to appreciate it so the intelligence of the debate. oft he was doing was so much a comment on where we were as a country at the time. the idea of people working together from various countries, different races all working together. it's just us working together as humans. it is an undeniably beautiful inc.. -- beautiful thing. i have become like an evangelist trek," whereas as a kid it did not click with me. this as something that can offer commentary about the world we live in. if you were to pick one of your are not -- you preaching, but if there is a project that you think speak something to us a