why is that important? we did this for the first time with the last winter we had the storm that went from new mexico to new england and affected 100 million people in this country. so it's important to know which stores are open and closed narrow resources. 12k0 if the stores are open or closed, if they are going to be closed, are they closed for a day? in new england they were just closed for a day a lot of them because they had literally 60 feet of snow so they would shovel off the roof and be open the next day. in the midwest they were open for a -- they were closed for a week or two weeks. but why were they closed? this would give us the information. if they were closed because roads for blocked maybe we should prioritize opening those roads. if it was because they were without power, we should prioritize them getting power after the hospitals and safety people because guess what, the wal-marts of the world, the stop and shop or supermarkets of the world, they feed people every day. they do it much bet

it's important to really look and listen to what happens in the community, because that's the most important. as i started out saying, these are not new ideas, new concepts for craig and myself and how craig operated in that place in florida, wherever that operated, and what we admitted boston and what you're doing here in san francisco. it's about bringing people together. and after us talking about a year or so they said well, you have got call it something. it's really neighbors helping neighbors. thank you. [applause] >> thank you rich for being here with us today to commemorate this important event in san francisco history and for sharing with us fema's view of the private sector. it's very much appreciated. as a private sectorly asia zon, i'd also like to recognize and say to our partners in the non-profit faith-based in the neighborhood and business communities for all their efforts and for joining us here at this event this morning. at this time i'd like to invite our panelists for the next segment to join us up on the stage. when we began thinking about today's panel and the topic o

it's important to not just understand that -- it's important for everyone to learn english but it's important for everyone to understand that we must learn several languagesf

everybody has played an important role. but the way the u.s. has this time not led the whole operation from scratch has been i would be a wake up call and take into account in the way we develop capabilities right now in various parts of the alliance. >> there is a question that folks have about a capability gap. obviously long time discussion between the united states and europe. but there is a fear that this gap is going to widen given that europe is likely to spend less than the united states. obviously at any point. as the united states starts to shift its emphasis and focus to start fighting in more contested areas. one of the areas is operate in anti-access environments where libya was a permissive environment. what sosht of electrical focus that european countries have to make particularly european nato allies to wrap their minds if we are sent to an iran situation or some other place where we can operate in an area that is in much more contested area than for example a libya or an afghanistan? >> basically i think we will always be diff

and, of course, it was vitally important. but equally important was the work of many others. prominently including winan, harriman in laying the groundwork for the partnership and then keeping it alive once it was born. throughout 1940 and 1941, murrow championed the british cause in his broadcasts to the american people. harriman and winan meanwhile who were sent to london as roosevelt's eyes and ears, made clear to the president and his administration that they thought britain would hold out and that america must do all it could to help the british and churchill. after the war, "the times of london" called winan, the glue that helped to hold the wartime alliance together. from the day he arrived in britain in march, 1941, which was the worst time of the war for the british, he made it clear that unlike joseph kennedy, he was there to stay. the first words he spoke after stepping off his plane were "there's no place i'd rather be at this time than in england." during the heaviest raids of the blitz, he would walk the streets of london while the bombs were still falling and a

the last lines are important.for instance, in at the city of amsterdam, 85% of the trips are faster by bike then by car -- then by car. i do everything by bicycle. i am a slow cyclist, and i am still faster through the city. that is why most of the people in amsterdam go by bike. if your interested in funny and nice invidious, go to youtube. but you will see a lot of videos in which the bicycle and the car cooperate. these are some pictures and examples of how the public authorities can invest in cycling. this is a parking space for a cyclist. tend thousand bicycles can be stored there. -- 10,000 bicycles can be stored there. you can build a shelter for about 30,000 bicycles. now, what can employees do? many employees are working on the bicycle programs. this picture is a picture of a bicycle shelter at the company where my wife works. it is quite luxurious. that it is a lawyer's firm, 500 lawyers work there, and most of them, by bicycle. -- and most of them come by bicycle. many companies give their employees the

something really important. that is the diversity of this nation. to have a stand that celebrates the lunar new year with more to come really sends a message that the chinese-american community is part of america and that all of our cultures are important. as a kid growing up in the bay area, the postal service has played an important role in our community. everybody knows somebody who has worked for the postal service. the postal service has been one of the most important employers of minorities throughout its history. i remember as a young child one public neater we could look to was postmaster lee. [applause] that was the most important role model we had. we did not have a mayor, board of supervisors president, people on the board of education. but we had somebody we could look to. i want to thank the postal service for playing a leadership role in making sure diversity is an important part of our country. [applause] >> for the dedication, it is my pleasure to introduce the vice- president for sales at the u.

>> i think my onofre mixer by the important point. clearl the markets in europe are going to be difficult. 50% of the we export goes to the e.u. and we're seeing a freezing effect across the european union but the rest of the world economy is growing and we need to get out there and sell to those markets. i'm pleased to say that exports to china were up by 20% last year. i think the arrangement my right honorable friend the chancellor's can do will make london one of the great trading centers i think is a one important breakthrough, we need many more like that. >> can the prime is to clarify what the coalitio government position is on inheritance tax? we received correspondence from the junior partner state income and ago, if tories were governing -- cutting inheritance tax remainders and received by the public spending even more. is that true? [laughter] >> the position on ineritance tax is covered in the coalition agreement. [shoing] >> richard graham. >> last week on the serious -- syrian border, they refuse to cover fellows citize

it becomes an important area. and some of those brady's are the ones in a much greater period how did 86 is produced but that variety is that is more prevalent leave produced but most have some relationship to the varieties that were consumed back in the moment the encounter with of native american. the europeans first encounter an average 80 there is the second to variety at the time of the europeans arrival. and to bring them back to north america and so it supplants so it is more prevalent on the eastern seaboard. and that spreads from the caribbean in beyond it. >>host: we have been talking with marcy norton history professor at george washington university and the author of this book "sacred gifts, profane pleasures" a history of tobacco and chocolate in the atlantic world" >> ien had a special collections for the lsu library. today we're were the special collections is house. and has a variety of different parts. today i will talk about and i know from the lower mississippi valley collection that is a a prem

i think it's very important. i also think at the state level we really need to think more substantive recovery plan that would, you know, seek to tie a lot of these pieces together. >> i might just add that there's a thing called the joint policy committee. it's immediating up with the four agencies, regional -- it's meeting up with the four agencies, regional agencies. now implementing, trying to figure out how we can implement the bay plan that was just approved by vcdc to figure out how we can implement the plan. in addition to that they are looking at climate change and disaster preparedness too. we do have some regional activity that's taking place in addition to that work. >> there is something to be said in bringing together resilience. economic resilience, climate change resilience. it's really all about being resilient. i think if we can put those into one conversation we can be stronger. >> i want to thank all very much for doing a great job as our moderator and for the entire panel, i had the opportuni

and that i can see it is important. thank you. supervisor kim: thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors, committee members. i am strongly against their current system of -- the current system of ranked-choice voting. i believe democracy works better when people go to the polls to say who they want to have as their leaders and not who they are willing to settle for. i'm not that crazy about the results i have seen, either. i look at this past election where we had all the controversy with mayor lee. we had so many exciting asian- american candidates. we had bevan dufty, a gay leader of the community. we had a perfect storm for good turnout. i do not remember these numbers but the turnout was something like

another way in which they were politically important was that they become very important sources of staterevenue. by the late 17th century, tobacco, the taxes on tobacco become the single greatest source of revenue for the spanish state. more important at that point and returns from gold and silver. so the tradition of taxing tobacco to bring in state revenue has a very ancient history. and infect tobacco, and chocolate in third but not in practice becomes state monopolies in the 1630s. and chocolate doesn't really go anywhere, but tobacco, the state becomes the exclusive purveyor of tobacco in the kingdom of, starting in 1632. the state officials themselves don't handle it. in modern language, they outsourced the. they have contracts for the tobacco monopoly that gets leased out. and effective people who have this tobacco monopoly throughout the 17th century have run-ins with the inquisition the whole time but most of them end up incarcerated because there's seen as secret jews which become a subplot in the story. the inquisition records actually were really a rich source for this projec

these are all important items, many important different people throughout the city that we have dealt with. in the future, i am looking forward to working with the president and working on the planning code legitimization for eastern neighborhoods. it reopens impact fees. some people think that is just a development fee. we saw the bowling alley that was an attempt to be started. also, we literally afford to being involved with the proposal for the new charter amendment, giving focus to the small business commission, something that i alluded to earlier, having looked into for quite some time. i pride myself on remembering to remember those that are being overlooked in the very small businesses. they don't maybe know that there is such a thing for a small business commission that arrived here. i pride myself in remembering after everybody has late in -- weighed in, that their voices are heard. items that are brought to me by the public, it concludes my statement. it is time for commissioner comments. commissioner clyde: i would like to speak about my nomination of commissioner dooley f

it's very important during the conflict. the war also involved the region of the lake champlain corridor. it's largely between two state, new york state on the western side of the lake and on the east, vermont. the northern tip of the lake does touch canada. lake champlain was important in the war. it could be an artery of invasion moving north ward or south ward as we'll see at various points of the conflict. lastly, of great importance was the saint lawrence river. the great river of canada. beginning with its source in the great lakes and of course, it's course downstream moving northeasterly all the way to the atlantic. quebec being the main french fortress and most powerful single point in canada. it was to be very significant in the conflict. let's take a look at a modern map and get a sense of this geography. today, beyond skudiscussing the military history, i'd like to give you a sense of the human dimensions of this conflict and the various people and interests involved. the struggle, the sufferings which were great

>> very important question. >> so they all can become hedge fund? [laughter] >> margaret, do you have any feedback for his question. >> i think it is very important that they see how possible it is. on some of it is through role models and some of it is through understanding the pathways that she have to follow in order to get there. one of the national comparisons at one time i was working on a youth apprenticeship from school to work transition and looking at germany and how they establish a way in which people understand the path that you take. so by eighth grade, students and their parents know that if you want to do this, this is the path you have to take your these are the courses you need to tape. we don't have any of that. even among middle-class students, is not always a clear picture of how you get from here to there. and we need to instill some of that in our system as well. but i think also we need to have people see the possibilities from the neighborhoods in which they are. and that they can see the resources -- that there are resource

that is an important aspect of that. affordability is very important. we are trying to balance the regulations against other consumer needs. we are very proud of the fact that we didn't have to take the government taxpayer assistance that ford was able to go through our recovery on our own. we know how important it is to have a strong auto industry because it does mean jobs for the u.s. >> how many people in michigan are employed by ford, do you know? >> i'm not quite sure of the michigan total. i know we have over 150,000 employees. i probably should know that number better, but i don't. we have plants around the u.s. and around the world and in michigan. a pretty active auto production. >> are the cafe standards in place reasonable? >> they are challenging. we knew it would be a stretch. that is something we think is the right thing because that's what our customers are seeking. we asked people what they are looking for in a car. fuel economy is high on their list. >> 202 is the area code. we're going to begin with a call from los angeles. you are on

i think it's important to address the actual issue. clearly the issue is are we maximizing voter turnout. do voters understand the voting and election process. how do we make sure that as many people as possible are able to vote, feel educated and comfortable with the voting system and that the candidates that are elected really reflect the top choice of the district or the city. and so i really appreciate all the authors who have put forward amendments here today. furthering how they think we may achieve this outcome. also we'll be looking at the fiscal impacts. do we have a motion to continue items four and five? we do, and we can do that without opposition. colleagues, are there any other comments on items four and five? seeing none, madam clerk, is there anything else on the agenda? >> no, madam chair. supervisor kim: thank you. meeting is adjourned. >> sanrio famous for the designs for hello kitty. i thought i would try to make it as cute as possible. that way people might want to read the stories. then people might be open to lea

for us that's going to be important. cracking down on employers who are unscrupulous and who are taking advantage of the current situation is also important. so there's a combined number of elements that would lead us to, i think, what would be a very rational common sense solution on immigration reform and that's what we support. >> again, talking with jan marguia. before you were there you were with the university of kansas and before that a deputy campaign manager and director of constituency outreach, lieberman/gore campaign and served in the clinton white house as a deputy assistant working on what issues? >> i was the deputy director of legislative affairs, commercial affairs. i worked in helping promote the clinton agenda with congress. i worked very closely with members of congress but probably my, you know, proude esest credential is that i'm a jayhawk. i have three different degrees from the university of kansas. i'm proud to hail from the great state of kansas. >> let's get to the phone. david is from illinois

but, in addition to the screening, i think what's so important is then, what do we do about it? how do we train the staff to recognize what is a flashback? what are the symptoms of trauma? how someone is self-injuring really is not manipulative attention seeking but is really relief seeking, solution seeking. how do we help staff understand, again, that those symptoms are adaptations? so, what happens next to me is the most significant. we know the literature says that the majority of people coming into our public systems have histories of trauma. so we know that, and trauma-informed care is really creating that environment that recognizes the trauma and seeks to do no more harm. and, dr. harris, what is it that we need to do in terms of children who have experienced trauma to help them lead a more healthy life? you know, i think ... let me take a step back for just a moment because i think we don't want to make this sound more complicated, honestly, than it is. we humans are wired for resilience. and the truth is, we also go through a range of events that could be labeled as tr

[inaudible] it is a really important issue. i have been working havepower -- -- i have been working with p.o.w.e.r., so giving everyone the opportunity to get to the resources the city has to offer. all the things that young people want to be engaged in. it is about helping the environment by encouraging ridership as well and investing in our young people. until now, the city has been balancing its budget on the backs of bus riders and drivers, and that is not fair, and it has to stop, like a lot of people have been saying. we need to manage the budget better so we can have funding for programs like this. more than ever, we need to make the buses more affordable for families who are struggling to get by and for those who depend on it to get around san francisco. people impacted by fare hikes and service cuts are working- class folks in san francisco, so i encourage you to look at that and for us to work together to make this happen. thank you. supervisor campos: thank you. next speaker. >> good morning, supervisors. i support t

it's quite important.ituation if we make a european market for young generation and something else. >> minminister, it seems like a innovation in terms of deficits and austerity put in place. >> we have in reducing our deficit we have increased our budget figures for science, for research. you have to concentrate. if you're reducing deficit does not mean you cut every expansion. you have to look where are the investments for the future and we're going to do so. it's what we do in all european member states and the european level and that is the you'europ mandate. >> we have a question in the back. please, yes? >> my name is maria. i'm a member of the european parliament for sweden. last week we voted a position across political groups asking in the negotiation of the new treaty to take into consideration, one, the community approach. two, that everyone should sit around the table 27 plus the presence of the european parliament. three, that the european law is respected, which means that the treaty should w

and that i can see it is important. thank you. supervisor kim: thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors, committee members. i am strongly against their current system of -- the current system of ranked-choice voting. i believe democracy works better when people go to the polls to say who they want to have as their leaders and not who they are willing to settle for. i'm not that crazy about the results i have seen, either. i look at this past election where we had all the controversy with mayor lee. we had so many exciting asian- american candidates. we had bevan dufty, a gay leader of the community. we had a perfect storm for good turnout. i do not remember these numbers but the turnout was something like 14% and there were 14 candidates. 1% per candidate. it seems that was an indictment. a lot of the problem is a number of candidates you have and i have seen some proposals that would reduce the number by changing campaign finance instead of having the runoff. let me tell you how you get disenfranchised by ranked-choice voting. b

we feel this is important for both of us, personally, to participate in the debate of this issue in a way that we can help people frame it for a conversation. >> i came out to san francisco about seven years ago. i was trained as a carpenter. i got sick of the cold weather and the hot weather. i wanted to pursue art. i thought i really be here for about three years. here i am, 7 years later. ♪ i have problems sleepwalking at night. i wanted to create a show about sleep. a mostly due painting kind of story telling. these are isolated subject matters, smaller studies for the larger paintings. i fell in love with it and wanted to create more of them. it is all charcoal on mylar. it is plastic. i was experimenting and discovered the charcoal moves smoothly. it is like painting, building up layers of charcoal. it is very unforgiving. you have to be very precise with the mark-making. a mark dents the paper and leaves the material embedded. you have to go slowly. the drawings are really fragile. one wipe and they are gone completely. it is kind of like they're locked inside. all of the anima

why is that important? it is important because mayor lee mentioned, you cannot run a city, have infrastructure for a city, without these jobs. there is a connection between college and career and career and college. they are very much interconnected. as my father, who never graduated from high school, later earned a ged, the person who taught me geometry was not my geometry teacher, who had a master's degree. she was wonderful, but i was just one of those kids. i learned geometry with my father actually doing the work. when you are cutting out sheet metal, bending the angles, you have to make it fit and you have to measure. i learned about ankles and how geometry works by actually doing it. when i say that career tech education is about college readiness, it is about utilizing all of those skills that we send kids to school every day to learn. this gives you a reason to read and write and do arithmetic, because you get to apply it. that is the duty of what is happening here today. happy to have you here. wh

but it was important in england. and it moves into early 19th century to become the basis of economic thought. and then economics changes in the end of the 19th century, and you no longer have a labor theory of values. they have a theory that value comes from demand. what we will pay when we are just about satisfied with an object. anyway, so adam smith has not been important in modern economic theory, except as sort of a godfather and as a totem, as a symbol, as a name with resonance. so, i would say he's still important, and i'm sure he's taught in most economics classes. >> the second on the list is thomas payne's "common sense." another brick. >> another brick. well, you know, he was another american immigrant, too. because he thought he was going to stay. he didn't realize they would have all the wonderful revolutions to call him back to europe. payne was important because payne had this -- had such powerful attacks on privilege and political conservative and traditions, and he was such a p polemicist that he op

it is important for -- is even more important. this of course is up to the governments of the world and they will make that decision. let me have one more thought before i move onto either percentages. i want to be clear that this index is not, although we do a countries, no doubt about that is not about greg congratulating some countries and chastising others. instead it should be used as a tool for initiating discussion, analysis and debate as well as beginning to help build a consensus as i mentioned on the priorities and the imperatives. bottom line, if the world is to succeed in preventing catastrophic nuclear terrorism, all countries can and must do more to strengthen security around the world's most dangerous material. we believe this is a tool, very powerful tool and is set it's up to the government to decide that and its a setback on it. the ndi index challenges governments worldwide to respond to the threat by taking appropriate steps to strengthen security conditions. as citizens and his leaders, we need to ask ourselve

well the most important thing, as dr. harris pointed out, you listen but you should also believe your child unless the evidence is overwhelmingly to the contrary, which means, as dr. harris points out, you are taking it outside to explore, to get vindication. so, if it's bullying you are talking to the school. you're talking to the teacher. if it's sexual assault, you're bringing in the appropriate authorities to address that. if it's a family member, you are not keeping it a secret because you're afraid of embarrassing the family. the issue is that the child will suffer long-term consequences, and you too will suffer consequences because you are either, you're a victim yourself based on the past or you're sitting there harboring this piece of information, which is going to have a destructive impact on you. so, those things become very important to your getting the child help, your getting help for yourself, as dr. harris pointed out, and your setting things in motion where you can mobilize resilience by dealing with the

islamic this is really important to.he reason this particular question is being asked is it isn't the money the innovation center is awarding that matters in fact i would argue it isn't relevant as much. it is the policy tools that say if what you experiment is needs to a new reimbursement methodology that proves the quality goes up and cost goes down you can change the regulation policies of the that reimbursement scales. indeed supply references and basic r&d at all. it's basically seeding reimbursement pilots that what the evidence cummins skill to change the medicare reimbursement for malae and help us create beckett conditions for a better economy. let's just see what happens in the first to launch. in the recovery act we funded a series of community college programs that are all open source so that now dozens of colleges around the country are training what you would otherwise have called, you know, middle class americans and other sectors. you can be a metal >> caller: utter in as little as three months. i'm under

they'll lag eighth political process but not escaped from it and it is important to note. but also it is not just the conservative effort to take over the judiciary which is a natural part six of the political process which anybody in power tries to do but the narrowing of ideas is the reliance on the courts or individual rights that left us without other options when that is what we want to focus on in the book. >> host: the other options of policy? >> changing hearts and minds. the whole new way of thinking about a question primarily in terms of individual and legal entitlements to think of a broad social policy may not involve legal entitlements are individual rights adderall. >> host: is there any argument some of these should be reformed or do we just move line for other things? >> some should be reformed. i could have a long list of potential reform proposals. [laughter] that would take a variety. but yes. civil-rights laws could be reformed to address those more repressing forms but some of those are back to the future because they were advance in the '70s either re

so it is important for us to embrace, support this industry. it's also important to do whatever we can to make sure that professional dog walkers are as uniformly high quality as possible. a significant majority of professional dog walkers do a great job. there are some who maybe aren't so experienced and can cause problems. in addition we want to protect consumers, those who purchase dog walking services, by making sure that they can be confident that their dog walkers are qualified. and we want to protect our park and other public properties from overuse and make sure that we're balancing the needs of all users at our parks. this legislation resulted from an ex treatmently -- -- extremely collaborative process among stakeholders. i worked closely with various dog walker groups, with individual dog walkers, with dog walking businesses, with dog owner organizations, with the spca, which is supporting this, with animal care and control, rec and support. the dog walker, dog owner groups as well as the spca are supporting this legislation. we had

i think she's doing something important. she's also pretty. >> last word. >> in fact i think that what angelina jolie demonstrates is that in hollywood you can be multiple things. you don't just have to play on one field. men don't play on one field, she doesn't play on one field either. >> all right. from women in hollywood to women on the campaign trail. @michelleobama, that's where you can find the first lady on twitter. michelle obama instantly amassed thousands of followers when she joined the social networking giant this week. although campaign staffers will manage the twitter posts, mrs. obama's personal tweets will end with the initials "m-o." the account is believed to be an indication of the first lady's commitment to playing a major role in the upcoming presidential election. spousal support is not new on the campaign trail and over the last few months the wives of republican presidential hopefuls have received national attention for standing by and defending their men. >> i find it ironic that michelle obama star

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[applause] on that front, we will have a very important. is the world dangerous, and do we need to be strong enough to protect ourselves, or is the and it islly safe, lore just the americans that are confused. i have no doubt about 9-11. it was bad people trying to kill us. i have no doubt about the importance of the survival of israel as a moral cause we have to recognize for our future. we will have a great debate, and it is important for setting the new stable foreign policy for the 21st century. one other thing, and that is whether this party wants a reagan conservative who helped change washington in the 1980's and helped change washington as speaker of bauhaus, some -- speaker of the house or do we want a moderate who will be pretty good at managing the decay but has given no evidence of any ability to change the culture or change the political structure or change the government. [applause] let me be clear, because i think it is important, given all the things done in the last few weeks. we are not going to run nasty ads. goo[applause

why is this important? it's important because it's not that angela merkel and nicolas sarkozy are so important, but in the way of thinking of french politicians and also german politicians, there are certain basic patterns of contradictory patterns as well are played out. and we have to overcome them. the belgian prime minister said to me recently that belgium is actually quite a good role model. on a small scale, it is in a way emblematic of what france and germany have by way of systems. the polls for example. but who do you think you are? italy and spain after all are also big countries. and europe is only working if we strike the right balance between the so-called bigger and the so-called smaller countries. and that's not an easy task to have. the danish prime minister will also be able to tell us a thing or two about this. anyone who has ever been in the presidency knows how difficult it is to inform each and every of those 27 member countries at one and the same time about what is going on. and they

family dinners are very important.ny chance you can sit down together and have a meal together, it is great communal atmosphere. one of the things i like the most is the opportunity to be creative. hello. anybody with sets their mind to it can cut. always nice to start chopping some vegetables and x and the delicious. all this double in view is this broth with great flavor. but your heart into it. make something that you, family, and friends will really enjoy. >> i am here with a manager at the heart of the city farmer's market in san francisco. thank you for joining us. tell us a little bit about the organization. >> we're 30 years old now. we started with 14 farmers, and it has grown out to over 80. >> what is the mission of the organization? >> this area has no grocery store spiller it is all mom-and- pop stores. we have this because it is needed. we knew it was needed. and the plaza needed somebody. it was empty. beautiful with city hall in the background. >> thank you for speaking with us. are you on the web? >> y

most that i talk about are very important. and most of them play a veryoo important role quietly. like the original jurisdiction clause is great because one state wants to use to another where it are that?oing to dot that will not go over well. so go to the supreme court makes complete sense.ct there is a natural born citizens cause that i do think should be expunged byze it to that it is unique. the recess appointment clause is interestingbu because that originally made a lot of sense back in the day you could not sit back over to the capital mccain somebody died it could take a long time for somebody to get the senate back to gather to do a confirmation. it was very important for the president to appoint somebody during the recess. p but now i am not so sure how important it is in recess appointments are made not because we can't get thee senate home with this is themade only way to a pointed out confirmation and that is the problem with both parties. medicine other things that you could look up the issue to think how should this be interpreted? when everything there rule should

but i think it is also important to try to pull at the strings inside people. >> missing is not just specific extinct or endangered species. it is about absence and a more fundamental level of not knowing what we are losing and we need to link species loss to habitat loss and really focuses much on the habitat. >> of course the overall mission of the academy has to do with two really fundamental and important questions. one of which is the nature of life. how did we get here? the second is the challenge of sustainability. if we are here how are we going to find a way to stay? these questions resonated very strongly with maya. >> on average a species disappears every 20 minutes. this is the only media work that i have done. i might never do another one because i'm not a media artist per se but i have used the medium because it seemed to be the one that could allow me to convey the sounds and images here. memorials to me are different from artworks. they are artistic, but memorials have a function. >> it is a beautiful scupltural objective made with bronze and lined with red wood from

it is important to neighborhood businesses and residents. this neighborhood is lucky to be represented by supervisor wiener who has been a strong advocate for smart transportation policy. he also is one of our representatives on the metropolitan transportation commission. he is doing great things for san francisco in terms of transportation. we're happy and grateful to him for hosting us today. supervisors go scott wiener. [applause] >> not for tall people. thank you. one of our goals in having smart parking policies is to make it as easy as possible for people to pay for the street parking. i think we have seen that when we make it easy for people to pay, the number of parking tickets goes down and revenue goes up. that is how it should be. people paying for parking and not being penalized and coming away with a terrible feeling. we're lucky in this area. this is one of the areas to get credit card meters first. we're thrilled that the castro is the first neighborhood to get paid by phone. we are really doing innovative work that will be a

this, for me, is very important. life -- i feel lonely doing these things but this is how we defend against emergencies, and let the bondholders know that we are doing the right thing. at least, the three outside bodies -- if this proposed policy could be brought to those three entities, in the next month or two, it would be good prior to the commission adopting a policy, often those entities see something after this has been passed. it would be good to consult with them beforehand. this was about everything on the policy. let me go back to the overall budget. i think this squares well -- i was thinking about the costs -- that are fixed and what is variable or discretionary, within the budget. it seems a lot of the staffing is fixed, and you kind of need the. it is not like you will not staff a treatment plant at three in the morning. but in terms of what is a choice, things like chemicals. i was focused on chemicals recently. we spend a lot of time on chemicals, but some of these are for -- what if we had a program