came to cyprus. >> this is the tomb of saint lazarus. >> so who is lazarus? could these be his bones? as science puts the miracle under the microscope, the hunt begins. ♪ larnaca, the island of cyprus, christianity dates back to 45 a.d. here, roughly a decade after the crucifixion. but the basilica in larnaca maintains an ancient tradition that puts cyprus at the heart of the jesus story. worshippers here venerate the relics held to be evidence of jesus' greatest miracle: the raising of lazarus. in the bible, lazarus has an exclusive title. >> we are introduced to the character of lazarus in the gospel of john. what we are told about him is unique. he is the one whom jesus loved. >> lazarus, come out! >> and he is famous for his part in the ultimate miracle of jesus' mission. >> the raising of lazarus is one of the most lengthy narratives anywhere in the gospels, yet the person at its center, lazarus, never actually speaks. he is the enigma at the heart of the story. >> in 1972, workers repairing the basilica in larnaca made a startling discovery. >> there's

. >> vice president lazarus: mr. buck, i have a question for your presentation. why would it not be an option to the developer to water the transplanted trees? >> the trees would need to be watered -- >> vice president lazarus: don't you water street trees? aren't the trees under your department's priorities just now? >> it was actually a detail we hadn't discussed yet, but the trees that are transplanted will be needed to water weekly for about three years. >> vice president lazarus: oh, i see, because they've been transplanted, it would be beyond a normal watering schedule. >> yes. i would prefer to keep it in house. >> commissioner tanner: my question is about the survival of the trees. is it your opinion they could be successfully transplanted to another location? >> i do. it's a lot of work, but i believe in this particular case, it would be successful. >> president swig: and the cost of the transplant and moving to the new location is at the cost of the permit holder? >> correct, and it would be a considerable cost. >> commissioner santacana: and do you kno

on that motion, commissioner santacana. >> aye. >> lazarus. [roll call vote] that motion carries 4-0. the matter is carried to march 18. we expect the plans to be provided the thursday prior to the hearing. i'll send out a reminder. >> thank you very much. >> we do have one more item, commissioners. >> we do? >> i planned this because i knew it would be very short. direct correcting? if you don't have any questions we can just adopt it and move on. >> i like it but let's do it properly, please. >> okay. thank you. >> can we clear the room? we have one more item to go, please. thank you. >> thank you. moving onto item number 9, this is a special item, discussion of possible adoption of the annual report for fiscal year 2019. so commissioners, as you know, the charter requires all boards and commissions to issue an annual report and gives the public an opportunity to see what we have done. so we can just start going through some of the pages just to highlight. looking at page two, we had 30 meetings, 89 hours, which is pretty efficient, i believ

. >> the gospel of john places the scene in the house of lazarus, the man jesus raised from the dead. >> just a few days before his crucifixion, a woman came to jesus and anointed his feet with expensive ointments and perfumes. >> mary anoints jesus with pistic nardis, the chanel no. 5 of antiquity, and she uses a whole pot of it, a whole year's worth of a day laborer's wages. >> people who saw it were scandalized. they were shocked. >> none more so than the group's treasurer, judas. >> why was the ointment wasted in this way? >> leave her alone! >> jesus has been preaching this message about the poor and ministering to them and giving away your coat, and now all of a sudden, he's going to let this woman pour a huge amount of money's worth of perfume on him. >> this ointment could have been sold for more than 300 denarii and given to the poor. >> it's sort of one set of rules for the disciples and a different set of rules for jesus. we can see why this event would upset judas. >> this was a big turning point for judas because immediately after he sees this anointing, he goes to the au

and one of them is things like "the new colossus," the poem emma lazarus wrote, on the statue of liberty. >> she -- >> we're constantly being told by this administration you don't see what you see, you don't hear what you hear, now they're saying you don't feel what you feel. you don't actually feel that. >> and -- >> you don't actually believe that this is a nation of immigrants. >> you've called president trump a -- i think a heretic. >> to reality. >> to reality. >> heretic to reality. i was raised a catholic. the greatest sin is actually heresy. not only are you astray from the right path, you're inviting, you're encouraging other people to come with you on that path. specifically, heresy like proselytizing for the devil. >> and the punishment is -- >> think it's red hot iron coffins in "dante's inferno." i think it's called diss the level of hell they're in. so it is pretty bad. >> doesn't get worse than red hot iron coffin. >> the worst spa treatment. he, our president, wants to live in a fantasy world where only the way he perceives the world is the way it is, only things that sor

. >> we have a motion from vice president lazarus to denial the appeal and on the basis that it's a permit is no longer required for this type of pole. that motion commissioner -- >> aye. >> honda. >> aye. >> tanner. >> aye. >> president swig. >> aye. >> so that motion carries 5-0 and the appeal is denied. >> we're going to take a brief -- how many minutes you need? five-minute break, please. we'll be back here at 7:25. thank >> welcome back to the regular meeting of the board of appeals. today's november 20th, 2019. we are now on items 7a, 7b and 7b. appeals number 19-071, 072 and 073. ingrid evans, gissel and kay lean versus san francisco public works, bureau of street use and mapping subject property 2735 green city on june 14th, 2019 to gte mobile net of california lp of a personal wireless service facility site permit. construction of a personal wireless service facility and this is permit number 18wr-0185 and we will hear from ms. evans first. you have seven minutes. >> good evening, ingrid evans. for the record, all appellants, evans, klein pa tell would like to join in the brief an

we will hear from the department. >> good evening president swig, vice president lazarus and members of the board. my name is nicholas representing san francisco public works bureau of streets and mapping. just to back up a step quickly and give a quick overview of this permit application the applicant san francisco creamery first submitted an application on december 28, 2018 for two locations. the first being 301 pine street the second being 2298 post street. after reviewing the application it was found the post street location was not in compliance with the location requirement in the public works code. according to the applicant voluntarily withdrew the location on march 20 of 2019. public works accepted the site plan for the remaining 301 pine street location which is before you today. on march 22, 2019 for operation on mondays wednesdays and fridays from 11 to 3 p.m. public works proceeded to send out a notification as required by the public works codon april 10, . they posted a notification in 2019. in response the public notification, public works received ten letters in suppo

he is joined by commissioner lazarus, commissioner honda, commissioner santacana and commissioner tanner. he will provide the board with legal advice this evening. i'm julie, the board's executive director. we will be joined by representatives from the city department that has cases before the board. scott sanchez from the planning department is sitting in front. he also representing the planning commission. we have joseph duffy representing the department of building inspection. we have leah from san francisco public works and i believe debra will be present from san francisco public works bureau street use and mapping. the board requests that you turn off or silence your phones and other electronic devices. please carry on conversations in the hallway. the rules of presentation as follows. appellants permit holders and respondents are given seven minutes to present their case and three minutes for he re but thal. rebuttal. members not affiliated with the parties have three minutes to address the board and no rebuttal. they are given three minutes and no rebuttal. to assist the board yo

mark lazarus, that's right here on the wall street journal at large. thank you for joining us and have a very happy new year. jack: welcome to a special edition of barron's well roundtable i am jack otter. this week when the investment lessons of 2019 and three important things investors should be thinking about as we head into the new year. retail closings. thousands of stores shut down in 2019. is the carnage over urschel we expect more in 2020? the consolidation of asset management and brokerage industries is the changing investing landscape. what you need to watch out for. an impeachment, trade or concerns, and no earnings growth. the s&p 500 is on pace for a fantastic year. we'll next to be just as good? on the barron's roundtable tonight ben levinson beverly goodman and jack how. jack i will start with you. it's an ugly year for retail. is the light at the end of the tunnel? >> or an oncoming train? in terms of spending, spending was a great, we are ten years into a bowl market and within expansion, and yet we had 5000 net store closings, after s

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tepid market last week the ipo market rose from the grave with three red hot tech deals is this a lazarusesurrection or more of a night of the living dead situation consider last week's best performance, one that we understand under the radar screen it's a cloud based software company that helps small, immediate ymedium sizes. it makes it much easier to create them. make payments while syncing up with their accounting system and managing their ksh their platform makes paper based processing obsolete. we do everything by paper. this was intriguing because it's getting tiresome to just write things down. i think this is the kind of ipo wall street would have devoured if it come in the first half of the year on the other hand, if build.com has the misfortune of coming public in fall, there would have been very little interest because we have gotten burned out on high flyers >> the house of pain >> december is looking like the beginning of the year. wall street is getting hungry for new cloud names. so hungry that bill.com had to increase the size of the offering from $8.8 million to $9.8 mil

foretold nothing even for apple stock it bottomed after the horrific numbers and came right back in lazarus like resurrection. thanks to strong cell phone sales apple searched 267 as of today. sure it was down a little bit but you can't -- at one point it was down five and people were upset. please yeah, people were interpreting everything through the worst possible light and being armageddonist used by michael semblist a strategist. late last year apple told us they would stop breaking out the number of cell phones and everybody assumed that iphones were falling off a cliff the opposite was true. they stopped breaking out the numbers because they want to emphasis it is more about the service revenue from the iphone eco-system the company proved that it could make a fortune away from cell phones including the watch and the air pads and then the new iphone comes out and boom, now apple is firing on all cylinders. and the fed wants to crush out the economy for nonexistent inflation and the armageddonists wanted to change course and giving us the rate cuts we desperately needed who could have

so we have a motion from vice president lazarus to adopt this annual report with the correction of the typo that was identified. [laughter] on that motion, [roll call] >> good job, and we are adjourned. >> thank you. the motion carryies. >> good job, everybody. ... [cheers and applause] >> let's give it up for the tree all right. good evening, everyone. around of applause for the young people theatre company and its director. they were amazing. they will be performing the little mermaid next month at the museum. bring your family, come out and support. all right. let's get everybody up. are we ready to light this tree? [cheers and applause] [♪] my name is phil ginsberg. i am the general manager of your san francisco recreation and parks department. we want to welcome you to the 90 th, think about that. the 90th annual tree lighting. this started december 20th, 90 years ago on john mclaren's birthday and his spirit is here tonight because it is not raining. [laughter] this is truly one of our signature events of the year. certainly one of my personal favourites. and if you see all the i

so we have a motion from vice president lazarus to adopt this annual report with the correction of the typo that was identified. [laughter] on that motion, [roll call] >> good job, and we are adjourned. >> thank you. the motion carryies. >> good job, everybody. ... >> still a lot of people wonder since the trees have a lot of issues, why did we plant them in the first place? >> trees are widely planted in san francisco. with good reason. they are workhorses when it comes to urban forestry. we have begun to see our ficustrees are too big and dangerous in san francisco. we have a lot of tree failures with this species in particular. this is a perfect example of the challenges with the structure of the ficustrees. you can see four very large stems that are all coming from the same main truck. you can see the two branches attached to one another at a really sharp angle. in between you can't it is a lot of strong wood. they are attached so sharply together. this is a much weaker union of a branch than if you had a wide angel. this is what it looks like after the fi c.u. resolution s limb .

there is a man named marx lazarus, a character in the book who has a very interesting biography.e was the son of a very wealthy slaveholding jewish southern family. he came north and he joined up with the utopian socialists. he had a brownstone commune in new york city. he was part of a wave of reformers who followed the graham diet, meaning they were vegan, avoided alcohol, caffeine, sugar, anything with flavor. susan: the graham cracker? prof. jackson: sylvester graham was himself a conservative, really, but his most ardent followers, much to his chagrin , the characters in my book love his diet. many followed his diet. many were vegan for other reasons, but -- so, he had a commune in new york city. they were into the water cure. there were some of the only 19th century americans who believed in regular bathing. they wanted to abolish marriage. he wrote this long, 400 page tome -- he wrote many books -- and he was really kind of out there. his most famous book was called love versus marriage, and it was about how passional attraction should not be limited to marriage and marria

vice president lazarus? a few minutes? okay. >> first person, come on up. yep exactly. >> you have two minutes. thank you. >> thank you for waiting. good evening. >> good evening. my name is emilio. bay area resident. i for one think it's exciting and productive when young people put together a business like this and it should be encouraged by the city, not made more difficult than it already is. i very much enjoy the hometown creamery and support their endeavors. thank you for your time. >> next speaker. welcome. >> doing great. my name is elise. >> thank you. >> i love the hometown creamery. i live on the same block at the main place is at. i really like that they are a small business. i know they have really like the footprint of having a mobile food truck is not a lot of cost. it really helps. i don't know why if they've already got the permit why it would be overturned. it's just really good for them to have a small business. we don't want to make it harder for small business folks to operate in the city. especially downtown i think it's really cool to

we have a motion from vice president lazarus to adopt the minutes on -- as submitted. [roll call] >> that motion carries. was there any public comment on that motion? that motion carries. the minutes are adopted. we will now move onto item number four. this is appeal number 9-2007. subject property is 610 delmar appealing the denial on generally seventh, 2019 of the site mac permit. extension of existing tariffs and railing at the main liver -- living room floor. no alterations -- new alterations in front of the house. on september 11th, 2019, the board voted 4-0 and commissioner tanner was absent to continue this matter to october 23rd, 2019, to allow time for the parties to work on a settlement agreement. if a compromise was proposed, it would be reviewed and proposed to the next hearing. on october 23rd, the board voted 4-0 to continue this matter to december 4th to allow more time for a settlement discussion. if the board grabs the appeal, this constitutes approval action for the purposes of ceqa. as up a luminary matter, commissioner tanner, have you had the -- as

something and mark twain and they have some poetry and one of the poems is done by a woman named emma lazarus, and she writes a sonnet about the statue which she identifies that the mother of exiles and it's call the new colossus because she is contrasting if witness the colossus of rhodes, the ancient statue everybody would have thought of at the time and that celebrated a military triumph. and she says this is different. this is not about that. this is welcoming people here as a refuge, and this is what we should be proud of, that we have free country, country of liberty and we're willing to welcome people to it. it gets put on the statue after she is dead. she leaves her poems and she tells her sister, who is her executor, when you publish my peoples make sure the new co'll sunday is at the front, her sister print s it on page 404. seems to have been some family issues going on. but she had a friend, another blue stocking who was a descendent of alex -- hamilton who lobbed to get the poem put on the med stall where it is today. that's how the statue me and poem meet, and i think the poem i

twitter, facebook, and signum paired i will back next week when ellie back with hedge fund manager mark lazaruse on the wall street journal at large. thank you for joining us and have a very happy new year. jack: welcome to a special edition of barron's well roundtable i am jack otter. this week when the investment lessons of 2019 and three important things investors should be thinking about as we head into the new year. retail closings. thousands of stores shut down in 2019. is the carnage over urschel we expect more in 2020? the consolidation of asset management and brokerage industries is the changing investing landscape. what you need to watch out for. an impeachment, trade or concerns, and no earnings growth. the s&p 500 is on pace for a fantastic year. we'll next to be just as good? on the barron's roundtable tonight ben levinson beverly goodman and jack how. jack i will start with you. it's an ugly year for retail. is the light at the end of the tunnel? >> or an oncoming train? in terms of spending, spending was a great, we are ten years into a bowl market and within expansion, and yet w

lazarus is another state enterprise. potentially, working with other eastern european partners.hey want to understand how we ifk to be able to undermine and when they needed. -- need it. piece,ts to the third which is selling panic. they had the attack against south korea was expensive and went through the banking system. went through the critical infrastructure and how in anment's business ,olice report from south korea they showed they could so panic. panic. looking at this attack, it was not money necessarily coming out. not many actually paid the , but it was to show that panic.uld sew all of a sudden, you could have broad-based populations in south not being able to get into their atm's, not being able to hear messages from the government. how do you think that affects the population and what that population put pressure on to maybe back off? maybe not go as far as we need to go. so that is a very quick overview. secrets,ealing, strategies, those are the three big areas. -- those are the big areas. >> anything you want to fill in have not discussed? a 1.2 million range of t

, how south korea, the united states and our partners work together, we are seeing more and more, lazarus it is another big state enterprise, north korean state enterprise, cyber force now potentially, it is, coming out working with other eastern european partners, you know, again, they want to understand how we work, what we do, how we do it, to be able to undermine it, if and when they need it. so and that gets to the third piece, which is sowing panic. right? this is a great tool in their arsenal, in 2013 he had the dark school attack, against south korea which was expensive. it went through their banking system. what do the critical infrastructure. it went through how the government does business and in a large police report from south korea, they said that it was the intention of the north koreans to sow panic and to show they can so panic, right? when you look at attacks like want to cry and it wasn't the money up because not many people actually paid the ransom. they attacked 200,000 computers and 250 countries i wish to show that they could show panic and if there were a de-escala