today, i want to again invite everybody to our new asian. we promised it will be all- inclusive plan and offer you something to be awakened and inspired about. >> thank you. first, it has been a real pleasure and privilege to work with the museum, with such a clear vision, bold vision. it is a dream plan situation for a company like wolff olins to work with the asian art museum. the journey started in january of last year where we did extensive research with the museum.

today, i want to again invite everybody to our new asian. we promised it will be all- inclusive plan and offer you something to be awakened and inspired about. >> thank you. first, it has been a real pleasure and privilege to work with the museum, with such a clear vision, bold vision. it is a dream plan situation for a company like wolff olins to work with the asian art museum. the journey started in january of last year where we did extensive research with the museum. everything from analyzing the visitor journey to understanding macro and museum trends. we did ethnographic research with visitors, lots of insight, but a key foundational inside or that visitors wanted to connect more viscerally with museums and the arts. they are looking for museums to provide a platform for discussion, interaction, for discussion, even as an outlet for creative endeavors. some of the challenges that will faced museums like the asian is the subject matter is just a bit more difficult for people in the u.s., so the nation has to work harder to provide more c

>>> we've been doing invitational sense that opens this is the seventh invitational event with always sold these works had always been an important fund-raiser for the institutions so the jewish museum of additional exhibits are in fact for sell a 50% went to the artists and picture% going to the museum itself? >>> thats luggage and now for somebody was interested in collecting arts and that their contributions to speak is helping in different ways. it's very unusual thing in the bay area and i think that people don't quite know the depth of museum of asian if we can use that term in the bay area we have that madness collection now connected to a world-class university of california at berkeley have the contemporary jewish museum in museum that really think a is has attained world-class status because of its architecture in part because of its innovation and how works in the community and in fact it's a museum without a permanent collection and we have the museum a congregation emanu-el very unusual for a congregation across the entire country to actually have its own in-house museum.

thank you for inviting us to be here. salesforce.com is dedicated to recruiting and hiring the best possible talent across the city of san francisco. we are proud to be a founding corporate partner of your day area hosting four intern's. now over three years later i am excited to say, we have posted 47 intern's across seven classes. some are here today. [applause] just as salesforce.com transformed the enterprise software market with cloud computing, you are transforming the talent and what it looks like. i am sure i speak for all the partners when i say that the intern's bring value to our organization with their willingness to learn and their enthusiasm. it is because of this that we welcome them into our site as internes and in many cases, and by 10 to stay as full-time employees. it is a pleasure when that happens. salesforce.com will continue to support the efforts and as we continue to grow, we are excited to see it a partnership between the city of san francisco and europe bay area as they strive to support more yo

he got an invitation to attend the church. >> tremendous progress has been made, realities are tens of thousands are homeless. the government has set up temp shelters like this one. so many are looking for a place to call home. >> these are lonely people that have lost everything. i am here to show them the love of christ. >> did you know god has a plan for your life? japanese church leaders invited franklin graham to hold a celebration of hope festival in sendai featuring several artists. >> we are reminded god is sovereign and still on the throne. >> graham, son of famed evangelist billy graham drew 12,000 people. >> i think for the first time many japanese people are open to the gospel of jesus christ. >> this man co-leads a congregation not too far from the power plants. >> we remember those that died but seeing those move like never before. >> later in the broadcast we'll have an exclusive interview with franklin graham about revival. >>> now hope is coming from a surprising source that coming to help and support yousef nadarkhani. since learning of the pastor's situation, the cou

when someone is invited to present their expertise as a law student about the needs for women. it has been spoiled to be in san francisco because this is often our culture, to listen and to follow up with the articulation from advocates and people who served in all kinds of government and business, educational institutions, the private sector and the public sector, to listen carefully to the names of our children. to not only survive, but to go beyond that and succeed. i'm often reminded who holds half of the sky up in this city. i am going to continue inviting all of you -- i am speaking to the women here who do have experience and knowledge and foresight to advise me and my administration of how we can do better. nationally, locally, and internationally. to keep advocating strongly how we can protect and nurture and make sure our society is of equalness. the flashbacks of being at the human rights commission, recalling the advocates that came to meet with me and said palin pour into this for a city to sign on to united nations convention to eliminate all forms of discriminati

thank you for inviting us to be here. salesforce.com is dedicated to recruiting and hiring the best possible talent across the city of san francisco. we are proud to be a founding corporate partner of your day area hosting four intern's. now over three years later i am excited to say, we have posted 47 intern's across seven classes. some are here today. [applause]

it's by invitation. terry is one of the floral designer. >> that is more articulate than i could be in the concept. it's an art happening. and the idea, again, terry, tell us so you start with that painting that is the puppy dogs or the hounds, i suppose, ready to go out and this this place play that you brought with us today, i tell you what i see and you can augment again. the red is the hunting jacket? is that the idea? >> yes. >> and the roses do what? walk it through again. >> it goes back to what katherine said. you go to an event and you have a centerpiece. and you're kind of used to that. but this gives everyone a chance to really pull and show that flower arranging is an art form. so when you go and have the ability to take a painting, a sculpture and work with it and pull the subject from the painting. in this case what i was talking about is when i look at this painting, i see these dogs. i see them waiting for the hunt. i see them ready to go out to run and i think of horses and jumping over

i can tell you where the to beins first landed that invited me to the patio in the house glass of whisky regard in luminous in the long twilight. if you drive east on the way to gonegarvin off to the right you will come on the ring road where there are to beins from norman times. the name [inaudible] into our own name now. i had known history but not the place. so next day driving along the route each village seemed a station on the journey of return. kiely's cross i pursued the paper trail, unwound the breed of names through census and baptism each generation christening the last until it was language on the tongue and the trail trailed to the mists of the unrecorded. now i was tracing a highway to ore gin the potatoes struck black with blight. metals and we was their faces swollen with fever. stench rising from the evicted burrowed. men like dogs scoured the fields. i saw in one cottage a royal of rats feasting on an infant. no one where i witnessed anything like it not in calcutta. the voiceless children silenced by hunger the bodies burned at night leaving i don't trace. descending t

next, i would like to invite up supervisor malia cohen. [applause] >> good morning. i think today is another example, as was yesterday, of the physical manifestation of what happens when thoughtful people and thoughtful leaders come together. i like to publicly to thank the portola neighborhood steering committee. thank you for your leadership and commitment to san francisco and to this little cove that recall the portola. my home. i was raised here. my parents still live here. this corridor means a lot to me personally. it is a very committed to continue to support the merchant corridor, as low as the neighbors, and continue to improve our efforts to beef up and maintain the safety as the number-one priority here on the margin corridor. thank you to our community leaders. [applause] >> , thank you, supervisor. next, i would like to introduce reporter wrote rivera's to speak on behalf of the portola neighborhood steering committee -- i would like to introduce roberta ribble -- roberto ramirez. >> good morning. we recently went through and name change. we're not the p

it is my honor and privilege to invite dan from leader pelosi's office. >> thank you. leader policy could not be here because of congressional business but she was so proud to support the proposal because it has everything we need to succeed. we have a mayor committed to making san francisco the cradle of innovation and entrepreneurship. we have the talent and creativity of the people of san francisco and the strength and leadership of all of our partner organizations. she was excited to learn that this grant would be awarded and mushy could not be here today, ask me to share some words. dear friends, today we celebrate a victory for the economic security of our workers, the growth of our city, prosperity of local families, and creation of local american jobs. attorneys gramm and investing in tech as several transcendence systems for the jobs of tomorrow, as per our rt industry, strength and great careers and education about ways for the work force, and meet the needs of entrepreneurs and businesses large and small. perhaps most important, we will reduce our dependence

was your invitation lost? >> no, it's because i'm a friend of eric's and i will not give up that friendship on some cheap dinner. >> you have the boling taint? >> i've been to a statinner and so has dark ana. i want to go through the course here they had last night. now, chris with potato crisp. shaved brussel sprouts. how do you shave a brussel sprout? >> you got to hold them down? >> you do? spring garden lettuce and shallot dressing, shaved breakfast radish. they shave again. they get all these vegetables and shave them. >> country of metro sexuals. everybody is shaving. >> here is the main course. bison wellington. in other words, they shot all those buffalo so they could make beef wellington, which is terrible anyway. >> a very american thing to do. serve bison. >> french beans that. ain't american. >> they don't get anything past you. >> and onions. >> i could do without that. >> if i could say in your opening about the people who were invited, let me give you a little secret about the white house partie

we thank you and invite you in advance to our first party. we will have shish kabob and my special lemonade. >> is there anyone else that might to make public comment? bill? >> i just wanted to thank commission buell and lee for listening to us. i just really appreciate the fact that this has been followed through to its conclusion. i look forward to its completion. we have been here before. i just hope that it is now finished and we can enjoy it. >> thank you. >> is there any other public comment? and being none, public comment is closed. >> commissioners? >> move, seconded. all those in favor? it is unanimous. >> item 13, general public comment continued. is there anyone that wants to make the general public, and that has not already done so? >> this is a problem that i was not aware of in our neighborhood until we were preparing for the concert last friday night at the sunnyside conservatory. i am waiting because i'm trail was parking her car across the street. as a major she got across safely, and there was a group of skateboarders coming

you always need a star, which is why president bush invited me. hello! star. on frankie valli when i couldn't make it. it's true. that guy could sing a tune. producing your guest list, from what i can see, the best that a lot of them can do, maybe sign a check. maybe the guys who can sign a check can sing. i mean, that's what president bush had to resort to when i didn't make it. but i don't know. we'll see. we're going to explore this more in detail tonight on fox business when we talk to this fairness issue and whether the rich will pay more and whether they'll get invited to the white house or not. we've got a republican congressman from arkansas researching that and we'll have governor mike huckabee to say he'll have none of that. now, you don't have to be invited to catch stories like this. you only have to get it. you only have to get it. i'm thinking you might not

i invite you to be there next tuesday. thank you. welcome to this groundbreaking event for our new home at pac 12 studious. i am the president of pac 12 enterprises. we are thrilled to get this construction project rolling. pac 12 enterprises is a subsidiary of pac 12 conference and is home to aover 1200 employees. we will be launching one national television network, six regional television networks, and an additional network. as we have announced previously, we have distribution agreements with four of the most powerful cable companies in the cable industry. including comcast, time warner, cox, and brighthouse. if you live in the bay area, we will be part of your basic cable package with comcast. i would like to acknowledge and thank our new neighbor, the leader of comcast sportsnet. for his help in this process. when you live in a neighborhood, some neighbors swap eggs for making cookies. we will be swapping television cameras with ted's group. as part of our programming mix, we will televised 850 live sporting events across our 1

this is not the first invitation to events for which i am ill suited. i once introduced nobel prize- winning physicist george smoot, because i play a character who is a physicist and a genius. i am neither. science class was the only class i ever failed. while i am not an absolute dunce, i learn the signs phrases i speak on the show. i memorize them the same way you learn english phonetically. it is a good trick. i often speak at comiccon, because i play a character obsessed with, and books. i don't know anything more about comics ben -- than "cathy" or "calvin and hobbes." i finally had to admit i had never seen an episode of "star trek." i am so sorry. i never know if my thumb is supposed to be in and -- in or out when i do the hand signal. i do not know what it means. i apologize to all of you. tonight, i have the privilege of speaking at the tech awards. regarding technology, my knowledge is limited to a few facts. i know the character i play on tv uses a pc. i use a mac at home. the only difference to me is i think the mac is prettier. i just joine

we want to invite sfpd. the commissioners are invited. we are going to discuss issues that are ongoing, and we want the public to have a chance to give some feedback you're a good >> are there members of the public who would like to address this issue? thank you for coming. >> i own and dirty tricks, the neighboring business. from the police reports, there has been an escalating pattern of violence over the last two years, particularly on reggae tuesday night, but that is only the half of it. from october, 2009, gay bashing show to the most recent headliner, filthy rich, when booking shows, the record room has ignorance for the well-being of merchants and residents alike. several police reports have been filed with regard to property damage over the last two years, including the cost of replacement of the front window when a standing ashtray was used to smash it after hours. and dirty tricks has earned a reputation as a place to unwind after a long hard shift, and crowds from the rock-and-roll make that impossible. the foundation from my

we will be inviting ground -- we will be breaking ground on inviting projects.irperson campos: is there another member of the public who would like to speak on item 3? seeing none, public comment is closed. i want to thank the staff, advocates, and everyone who has done tremendous work in moving this forward to where it is. if we can make a motion to continue this item to the call of the chair? a motion by commissioner avalos, seconded by commissioner mar, who has joined our meeting. we can take that without objection. >> item number four, update on the voting process, including rent-choice of voting -- ranked- choice voting. chairperson campos: last meeting, we directed staff to review the voting process of san francisco, including looking at data and information relevant to the rank choice of voting system. i wanted to take this opportunity to hear directly from lafco staff and to get an update on where that is. >> jason fried, lafco staff. we put together a list of questions and sent them to the department of elections. they have since responded back. some of