just lazarus gave a puppy a little sweetie like that, and the crocodile grew up, lazarus has no timeo deal with. he's on tour all the time. he can't and walked people for money fed. faina faina and our housekeeper and it worked out. so bingo is a lazarus, he didn't listen at all. oh, i was afraid of him. ok then. lazar is his real name. no, what are you a pseudonym? real name ivan petrovich shchukin hello our employees at your place. pass thank you hello kohl hello. well, he's dear, we should conduct a search here. i'll go talk to my neighbor, who walked more often than lazar with a dog. who is the police? open, please. hello. you are yegorov. yes, oleg nikolaevich. what happened to you sometimes take your neighbor's dog for a walk? yes, i'm just a lazarus. you promised to return at night. so i have a day off today. what happened? something with the dog is not the owner. he was killed on the playground, and his dog disappeared somewhere , so bingo must be running around in the park. maybe he can help find it, of course, do me a favor. tell me, is this lazar's phone, right? i will tak

that mohammed the 5th university in barcelona, jeff lee lazarus is head of health systems research group at barcelona institute for global health. and in mon, by md offer ish, walker, ladder and infectious disease specialist, and secretary general of the organized medicine academic guild. a warm welcome to you all. thank you very much. indeed for being with us. dr. yolanda i want to start with you are these spikes that we're seeing mainly down to countries opening up or is there something else at play here? if we just heard the word dr. doss' was telling from w, joel, what we are looking at is only in good, you know what up cases, but we're not looking at the trajectory. how many of those cases required oxygen? how many of them are lining up in hospital? how many have require you and how many of them are dying? if you look at the global debt still today in last 20 years, it is 1.2 percent of the total cases. that is called case propeller did it, but currently on the ground that has come down to 0 point one percent, you don't want to percent. that is one in 2000 to 2000. and that's why th

ah, what professor lazarus says is right that long ago it is a major issue. ah, we do not understand completely what is long career to how many people will get it . we'll get it over there. only symptomatic people will get you dory. when i symptomatic people who get it, but what we are seen or the year when an off year or 2 years is that those which we are in the fall spend 2nd vale, they last year, june or day got go it. they are having longwood problem. we are not seen much of the people with tommy granville and they got covered and they're getting longer. it may be because in day, oh me, granville we are seeing mainly uh, what is frederick infection, and that is only our fee were sore throat, unaided wiggly thought a g and cup b i and little headache, but lower part of lung is not in white. near one i this is not dead. ah, we are there. what are the oxygen requirement is lot. so possibly those required oxygen. those will ended up in hospital lou lanyard up in ice. you or her or we're going to bed with her. we're director. there may be piercing water proble

vice president lazarus. >> thank you. i want to clarify that there are five trees-is one of those the cherry tree that replaced the ficus? >> no, commissioner, the cherry tree, the street tree towards the curb, so it is a tree the cherry tree replaced a ficus tree that had been removed so that is not part of the literal proceedings this evening but i can assure the appellates we can look at the conditions of the street trees planted towards the curb and look at opportunities if any of those trees are not thriving to look how to beef up the potential canopy replacement trees in those sites. >> okay, so we are talking five ficus trees and each of them individually has got problems that warrant their removal? >> it does and the tree i referenced that failed was not part of the five. that was a additional tree. >> thank you. >> okay. thank you. we are now moving to public comment and president swig indicated it would be two minutes. if you are here to provide public comment please raise your hand. we are taking public comment

like to close it out before -- commissioner lazarus makes a motion. i would like to encourage the parties especially it seems well is good well and neighborly tendanceies with the neighbors and the attorney -- that you know if there are concerns about the plans as presented i agree with president swig's analysis. they would be able to get a permit reissued if we granted the appeal. and so. i think it makes sense to skip that and see if some agreement can be reached now. or the next month or 2 here. sorry one additional thing is that it is neither the appellant north holder's fault arc side from yes. the letter of the law was not strict low followed but it goes back to the procedures of you highlight exclude it seems the word is escaping me. but -- too pune taoism i guess to totally revoke the permit. io totally revoke the permit. i gu totally revoke the permit. i gu totally revoke the permit. i gu totally revoke the permit.a i g totally revoke the permit.t i g i guess to totally revoke the permit.v i g e i guess to totally revoke the permit. it would

vice president lazarus. >> thank you. i want to clarify that there are five trees-is one of those the cherry tree that replaced the ficus? >> no, commissioner, the cherry tree, the street tree towards the curb, so it is a tree the cherry tree replaced a ficus tree that had been removed so that is not part of the literal proceedings this evening but i can assure the appellates we can look at the conditions of the street trees planted towards the curb and look at opportunities if any of those trees are not thriving to look how to beef up the potential canopy replacement trees in those sites. >> okay, so we are talking five ficus trees and each of them individually has got problems that warrant their removal? >> it does and the tree i referenced that failed was not part of the five. that was a additional tree. >> thank you. >> okay. thank you. we are now moving to public comment and president swig indicated it would be two minutes. if you are here to provide public comment please raise your hand. we are taking public comment

and i have no doubts about it. lazarus, to clarify presidents allowing thank you for talking to you. you're welcome. i i, in the early hours of the morning, these palestinian families are being forced to leave their homes and belongings. these already military sometimes uses this area in the north of the occupied west bank as a training ground explosions like these often break the piece here and i fear for the children they get scared of the bombing. i tried to calm them down there, but we're scared to. these really are me told them just either that it takes measures to protect civilians during back the sizes. what is really, officers previously said that trainings are used to push palestinians out. 48 families once lived in this village called zeek. now, there are only 20 people here, say they have nowhere else to go. so they have to stay out until they're allowed to return to their home. after midnight, the military drill will continue for 3 days, which means they'll have to go through this again, twice this week. after a life time within the walls of been a rainy, ensue, a bengal

commissioner lazarus always advice stay focused on the permit at hand, so i need your help. you wnt a little too fast for me. you mentioned there were 12 overall permits i believe. 8 had to do directly with apartments. >> correct. >> that leaves 4. i lost you on the 4. can you go, 1, 2, 3, 4? >> sure, i can tell you exactly what they are for. >> okay. >> there was a building permit to clear the notice of violation issued in september 2020, that was the-they need to submit a test report for demolishing the ceiling in the garage and they submitted that clearance report showing no trace asbestos remaining. >> that is number one. >> that is number one. there is another building for work at the rear yard. says ground sand along the property line to be excavated. demolish remaining wall to enlarge patio. >> that has nothing to do with the adu. >> that is had rear yard. >> there is another one. replacement water heater with new existing 12 apartments replace existing baseboard heater in units 3, 4, (inaudible) replace piping with new (inaudible) for apartments 1, 2, 11 and 12 for n

and i have no doubts about it. lazarus, to clarify president of allowing thank you for talking to you. you're welcome. i off to a life time within the walls of been a rainy ensue a bengal tiger horizons us suddenly whiten when she lands an unlikely role in a feature film. but how long can how bitter sweet freedom last? when crisis strikes the zoom? ah, witness meyer a tiger's tail on al jazeera. we know what is happening in our region. we know how to get for places that others can on. i was just thrown fear god by the police on purpose and fires. and so i'm going on with the way that you tell the story is what can make a difference with the euro structure state and the russian foreign minister discuss ukraine. taiwan and a prisoner exchange in their 1st phone calls. since the warn ukraine begun ah.

, ah lazarus to clara president of malawi. thank you for talking to alex rivera. i want to start with a pressing issue for your administration and for many millions the global food crisis. now we know that maloney is a very heavy net food importer in 2018. something like 17 percent of that came from russia, i believe, including majority of your wheat. now since the start of the war in ukraine, the price of a bag of flour i believe, has risen by 42 percent. and we've also seen floods late rains. how, why do you about your country going hungry, sir? you know, these real issues you raise their war has not helped me, because prices are food, fuel and fertilizers have 5, and you're right about our consumption, particularly. we related food stamps is been affected negatively. we pray for peace and we pray for there was a list of this things. however, what we are doing currently is to diversify and have other food systems that can enter into the equation. so we can still survive and thrive this period despite the pain that we all exp

. >> vice president lazarus,iovua question? >> just to follow up on president swig's question, did the checking of that box play any role in the decision regarding the permit? >> i don'ts believe so. i think this is more for buildings 4 units or less. >> right so the same answer as planning essentially. >> right. >> thank you. >> i do see the zoning administrator hand raised. i dont know if he wanted to follow up on your question? >> if it is pertinent to the question that is okay. >> mr. teeg, did you want to further elaborate on your answer? >> sure. i realize i failed to fully answer president swig's question and then that was kind of transition into his question for mr. green. on the issue of the seismic retrofit even though it was not issue relevant to the permit, the planning code requires the seismic retrofit happen in conjunction with the adu development. that is the point. there is a nexus that while you are doing a seismic retrofit you are putting in a lot of money to make the building safer and the ability to add mor

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president swig is the presiding officer and joined by vice president lazarus and commissioner lopez.s accent. also present is (inaudible) at the control is legal assistant (inaudible) julie roseen burg the execive director and joined by representatives by city departments. corey teeg is representing the planning department joing

>> that was david lazarus reporting.s a 53 and we're b a 56 stagecoach has announced its dates for its 2023 festival. that's that country music festival in southern california out of the empire polo club. they're going to be back april 28th through the thirtieth next year with presale tickets to the festival going on sale this coming friday at 10 in the morning. the window will be open for 24 hours with general admission passes, going for about $359. so it looks like it's going to pretty big crowd. look, you have say so. yeah. oh, there you to be 56. and coming up in the next hour, firefighters in oakland are getting ready. >> for the wildfire season, we'll show you just what they're doing and why they're working doubly hard. and breaking news overnight, a man was set on fire and a shopping center in concord. we're going to talk latest get the latest in a live report. talked to shoppers about what they saw. this burger will blow your mind? really? how? bacon two ways... cheese two ways... any more questions? try my $5.99

david lazarus tells us about the growing use of boss where >> the average employee will accept the job and say okay, like the like salary. i'm gonna sign on the dotted line. and of course, they're also signing away all of their privacy rights. he's talking about workplace surveillance, software, known as boss, where. >> it's in many of the laptops companies gave us for remote work. the entire notion of a separate court place went away and the tools that employers are using to track the activities of their employees did not go away. so these tools are still being used to monitor you when you are sitting at a desk in your home, privacy experts say that while use of boss where he's grown since the start of the pandemic, few bosses bother telling workers. here's the thing. it's not your laptop. it's their laptop and they can do whatever they want with this data points. he collects may keystrokes mouse browsing habits. what websites you are whether you're active on the computer to come with time or whether you opened applications on the computer rather than the ones that employer wants you

i saw him, hello, it 's popular, like his main beast lazarus, his name is exactly.azarev is funny. well, here, only we still lacked the stars. hello, we found a corpse for a walk. lived a dog brought here, what kind of dog is a half-breed pitbull's name is bingo but he is not visible. i already called think.

lapis lazuli # -- lazarus >> she is a great example of great public service.'t know how many commissions she has served on and under mayor she was working since then and she has been giving so much to the city and we thank her for that. >> is there any public comment? seeing none, we will move to item about. >> adoption of the minutes. discussion and possible adoption of the july 20, 2022 minutes. >> would anyone like to approve them? >> move to approve. >> is there any public comment on commissioner chang's motion to approve the minutes. please raise your hand. i don't see any public comment. >> on that motion, [roll call] >> that motion carries 3-0 and the minutes are adopted. >> we are going to item no. 4. >> (4) appeal no. 22-047 linda matsumura, appellant(s) vs. dept. of building inspection, respondent planning dept. approval 515 3rd avenue. appealing the issuance on june 10, 2022, to justin li, of an alteration permit(new deck 10 feet by 14 feet at rear, less than 10 feet in height; all work performed at rear yard). permit no. 2022/06/08/5905. we will he

with almost 5000000 people crossing the border since february polish parliament has also approved lazarus lint legislation, helping ukrainian nationals obtain jobs in poland and given them access to national health care to the social benefits a growing number of polls, her voice concerns about the presence of refugees in poland amid a growing crisis in the valley, we heard from dr. stephen gouge, professor at the institute of europeans to live in belgrade. you said that praising a nasty calibrate in poland was bound to eventually backfire. this is so kind of a postmodern or craziness you. you have literally ideology that is responsible for the murder of, of thousands of thousands of poles during world war 2 being tolerated. and in some cases, celebrated in the country, people are not blind, they see that there is an attempt to recreate the polish for national narrative in the sense that a band around the reason is $1.08. and then it means that all the victims that fall under the hands of followers on step one, but there were to all the polish victims actually fell in vain. and this is ins

he something of lazarus, he can resurrect himself from scandals and blows that would sink other politicians. so he is going to be trying to rally the loyal. there are numerous ministers that have come out this evening and said that they do back him. there hasn't been another resignation since that of of richie soon act. so it is possible that he can survive in the interim bots. the mood of the party is, is going against him clearly. and he survived a vote of confidence in the last few weeks under the rules of the game. he is unable to. there will be another vice a confidence against him for, for a year. but those rules can be changed. next package m p 's feel that it is getting so bad that i need to change the rules they will try to do so. and so using that, the, the catalyst or that these to these big, big resignations might act as a catalyst for those m p. 's who up until now might have been loyal to him but, but were unhappy for them to to sort of start her readiness support as well. yeah, i mean it's, it's very possible if there are further resignations, then it might be that another vo

lazarus, not far from venice, in childhood, the brothers were incredibly attached to each other, separationeveryone. and so they found each other again, ivan, shocked by the meeting, decided to paint a canvas where light conquers darkness. painting chaos, the creation of the world attracted the attention of the vatican, the cardinals accused the artist of the image of demons it could have cost too much not only the reputation, but also the fate of the artist hung by a thread, it cost the catholic church to recognize the picture as heresy, ivan would simply turn into an outcast. but the pope wanted to personally see the chaos. quality brought for the presentation. e to the papal palace and dad from his desire to purchase this picture and avazovsky, as we would say now, made an absolutely wonderful marketing move , he gave this picture to me. it was this picture that the artist signed the names under which he will enter story, aivazovsky, meanwhile, as predicted in childhood, trouble for aivazovsky musicians turned into fame and fortune again and again, they continued to happen ordinary event

this racially based anti-immigration law was in full effect in 1903 when that famous poem by emma lazarus. give me your tired your poor your huddled masses yearning to be free was emblazoned on the statues pedestal. the fourth vignette moves us on to the final wall of the exhibition and into the 20th century. it is about about a monument by augusta savage someone who is little known today, but who in her time was a true mover and shaker of the harlem renaissance. she was a remarkable woman born in 1892 in the jim crow south to parents who had been born into slavery. she moved to new york to study art. she opened her own art school, which one visitor described poetically as a sanctuary of industry and dreams. she founded and directed one of the largest wpa art centers and she became the first black woman to open her own gallery. this is a souvenir reproduction of her signature work a commission for the 1939, new york world's fair. it was the only commission at the fair from a black woman artist life magazine in fact described savage as one of few black people commissioned by the world's fa

he something of lazarus, he can resurrect himself for from her scandals and blows that would sink or other politicians. so he is going to be trying to rally the loyal. there are numerous ministers that have come out this evening and said that they do back him. there hasn't been another resignation since that of, of, of richie soon act. so it is possible that he can survive in the interim, but the mood of the party is, is going against him clearly and her. he survived a vote of confidence in the last few weeks under the rules of the game. he is unable to her. if there will be another voice of confidence against him for her, for a year, but those rules can be changed. russia has struck several targets across ukraine's east internet's region. as the war enters, a new phase and moscow's forces have turned their attention to capturing due next, after president vladimir putin claim victory enabling new hands. province officials their market to the city of soviets. quiz hit on tuesday, killing at least 2 people, and injuring several others. nato has signed off on the accession protocols for

lazarus said he didn't see a path for winning, so instead of saying in this last two weeks and spending a lot of money on his own campaign that he is going to join hands with mandela barnes and help pushing forward. because he recognizes that mandela has the best possible chance to beat one of the worst senators, ron johnson. so anybody out here who is thinking about how can they help, this is a good moment to send mandela barnes a little money. mandela barnes needs to help. and that is what we should be doing. if you really care about these midterm races, let's support the strongest progressive democrats out there. mandela is one of them. >> we are almost 100 days away from those midterms. once those midterms are done, we'll start talking about 2024. you ran against joe biden in 2020 and lost in the primaries. there's a lot of talk about whether he should run again in 2024. a new cnn poll, senator, shows a whopping 75% of democratic and democratic-leaning voters once a candidate other than joe biden. do you agree with? them should biden run again in 2024? will you be running again in 2

been fatal enough to totally finishing morphine in one go, he is, are renowned as being a kind of lazarus light figure politically. he can bounce back her no reanimate himself after scandal off the scandal of the scandal blow after blow. or he is going to have to dig very deep into his sir reservoirs of political survival skills to get through this one. but it is certainly possible. he's going to be the centrally trying to work out what her level of loyalty he still has from within his cabinets and, and working out what he can do to persevere. there will be back bench, mpi is to nights. and in the next few days, we're going to try and work out whether it's going to be possible whether they will have to try and reanimate the, the vote of confidence that, that bar restaurants and survived last month. the rules of the game say that they can't hold another one within a year, but those rules are made by an organization called in 1922 committee and they can be change. so it is possible that they might be changed if there are no further big resignations that make boris johnson's position untenab

but to the fundamental values upon which this country was built then you write about you quote emma lazarus. and then you go on to say that her poem speaks to our true character a generous country that respects and embraces those who have made the difficult journey to our shores often fleeing harm that seeds our quintessentially optimistic and can do spirit in those who aspire to make the american dream their own the budget debate was offering a false choice fund the government or oppose the wall. i believe we could do both that was 2017. and here we are. it's two years later. this is exactly what we're talking about if you are in that crazy meeting at the white house today at the in the situation room. what would you have said? i mean look, first of all, let's be clear. you cannot hold the american people hostage over your vanity project. what it is, that's what it is. that's what it is. and you know, let's be clear about that. let's be clear about the fact that that we've got we've had enough. of these powerful voices that are trying to so hate and division among us. done with that. i'm r

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. >> aye: >> vice president lazarus. >> aye. >> motion carries 3-0 and are appeal denied. >> thank you. >> we are done. >> that concludes the hearing. >> thank you. good night everyone. >> thank you. [meeting adjourned] all 2, 1 you innovation on or was on over 200 years they went through extensive innovations to the existing green new metal gates were installed our the perimeter 9 project is funded inform there are no 9 community opportunity and our capital improvement plan to the 2008 clean and safe neighborhood it allows the residents and park advocates like san franciscans to make the matching of the few minutes through the philanthropic dungeons and finished and finally able to pull on play on the number one green a celebration on october 7, 1901, a skoovlt for the st. anthony's formed a club and john then the superintendent the golden gate park laid out the bowling green are here sharing meditates a permanent green now and then was opened in 1902 during the course the 1906 san francisco earthquake that citywide much the city the greens were left that with an ellen surface and not

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lazarus who has been on the board for a number of years has chosen not to seek reappointment and the mayor has nominated john -- and trasvina, he has served on a number of administrations going back to as democratic to obama and biden and the usf law school where he taught u.s. immigration law and stanford law school. i have met with him and he clearly understand the adequacy judicial role of the court of last resort to manifest justice within the city that is the role of board of appeals. i don't know if you have been able to talk with him or meet with him, but i am prepared to send to the full board if it's acceptable to you, colleagues. with that, i noticed the chair of board of appeals is in chambers this morning. with that, mr. trasvina, the floor is yours. and i will note that the board member retired and i can vote for you. >> it has been an honor to be nominated by the mayor and i appreciate this opportunity to serve san francisco. my native city, ingleside born and proud father. while i started as the school board member and the voting rights for the elections and deputy cit

lazarus who has been on the board for a number of years has chosen not to seek reappointment and the mayor has nominated john -- and trasvina, he has served on a number of administrations going back to as democratic to obama and biden and the usf law school where he taught u.s. immigration law and stanford law school. i have met with him and he clearly understand the adequacy judicial role of the court of last resort to manifest justice within the city that is the role of board of appeals. i don't know if you have been able to talk with him or meet with him, but i am prepared to send to the full board if it's acceptable to you, colleagues. with that, i noticed the chair of board of appeals is in chambers this morning. with that, mr. trasvina, the floor is yours. and i will note that the board member retired and i can vote for you. >> it has been an honor to be nominated by the mayor and i appreciate this opportunity to serve san francisco. my native city, ingleside born and proud father. while i started as the school board member and the voting rights for the elections and deputy cit

. >> i am kate lazarus on the board of public library fends.ank you to all of the members of the board for supporting this charter amendment. a little bit about our organization and why we support the amendment and my colleagues will join as well and i will share thoughts. friends of the library founded 60 years ago by those who wanted premier system in san francisco. we advocated for stable funding in 1994 it resulted in 174% increase in budget and the nationally recognized library we have been hearing about today. in 1994 this ambush us ballot measure was for 15 years. it is renewed most recently in 2007 with 74% of the vote. they empowered the library to increase educational programs, technology and retaining a thorough extensive neighborhood branch where everyone can walk or ride to the local library. nothing more democratic than public library. in san francisco we support our library. i was a richmond branch regular as a kid and i bring my children there today. this amendment introduced by may or breed and supervisor safai we expect to be

president swig is the presiding officer and joined by vice president lazarus and commissioner lopez.esent is (inaudible) at the control is legal assistant (inaudible) julie roseen burg the execive director and joined by representatives by city departments. corey teeg is representing the planning department joining remotely

. >> i am kate lazarus on the board of public library fends.u to all of the members of the board for supporting this charter amendment. a little bit about our organization and why we support the amendment and my colleagues will join as well and i will share thoughts. friends of the library founded 60 years ago by those who wanted premier system in san francisco. we advocated for stable funding in 1994 it resulted in 174% increase in budget and the nationally recognized library we have been hearing about today. in 1994 this ambush us ballot measure was for 15 years. it is renewed most recently in 2007 with 74% of the vote. they empowered the library to increase educational programs, technology and retaining a thorough extensive neighborhood branch where everyone can walk or ride to the local library. nothing more democratic than public library. in san francisco we support our library. i was a richmond branch regular as a kid and i bring my children there today. this amendment introduced by may or breed and supervisor safai we expect to be cospon