he wrote a concessional letter. for the 21-year-old jack kerr back, 11 years later he wrote a quotation in his blood. he did so in 1944 in an early period of artistic searching and self-chase. he had borrowed alan ginsburg's library card to check out volumes of nietzsche, and in his text he sent a vision of the transformative power of art that he was trying to achievement and in his own work as -- kerr back cut his finger and with his blood wrote the following words from the birth of tragedy. quote: art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life, end quote. over a half century later, that desire to bring nietzsche onto and into be one's self can be seen on the bodies of 20-somethingers and upwards. like the actress megan fox who has on her ribs a quotation and like derek gottlieb, the indexer of my book, who incidentally is also an advanced graduate student in educational theory in comparative literature who, at our first meeting to go over the manuscript and talk about the index, showed m

what i don't have is how much these letters reflect and how many letters came in. i can see funny things. it is actually nietzsche who writes a follow-up letter. he says oh, dear, i understand you cannot send an autograph of me. you need to keep his body of autographs intact. i respect that. and i have records of other people saying thank you for the autograph. she might've been very choosy and selective and very savvy about who she was going to foster a relationship with and who not. >> is the response to nietzsche different than other national responses? >> that is a wonderful question. it is a question that i can answer with varying degrees of precision. here is what i think is the clearest distinction, if you will. only two into the question is now, there are some things which we see, in all of the receptions, of course that nietzsche is a worldwide phenomenon. in scandinavia, spain, italy and japan. what i can see some of the things we are seeing in america are happening elsewhere. what i think is particular to the american reading is that i have very few niet

just nelson is what the letter states. >> i can show you the letter from mr. cogan, basically was the hearing judge. >> vice president fung: well perhaps i don't -- i'm looking at -- is this the official letter from your department, notifying mr. johnson, dated july 23, 2012? written by william cogan? >> yes. >> vice president fung: that's the official letter to him, right? >> yes. >> vice president fung: it says denial of sfpd issue tow truck driver application to drive for nelson's towing, only. >> that was probably for the revocation. he never received a permit for bay bridge. that was -- his application for bay bridge was denied. the revocation was for nelson's and i believe nelson's expired but i believe it expired. >> vice president fung: you know what this is? this is a denial of the appeal of that denial, i presume. >> yes, i believe you're correct. >> vice president fung: okay. the original application was for bay -- >> bay bridge. >> president hwang: again, if i could just clarify, the statement from the appellant states on may 30, the bay bridge tow

this is good and i appreciate you doing this letter. speaker: is there a motion to approve the letter as amended. all in favor? the motion passes. we'll take a short break. we'll take five minutes. speaker: we're back in session. the next item on the agenda is consideration of ethics complain

>> i'm confused. >> the letter that you would like -- >> the letter today? >> yes, relates to an august 22 study. >> this letter, i'm sorry, it has the wrong date, it should have today's date on it and it relate tos the august 22 study and i have some copies of that study here with me today. >> i'd like to see it. i think we should see it if it's considered new evidence, if that's part of your argument. >> i do have cop pis of the study. er >> and the letter, please. >> the letter, i apologize, this was done very quickly by the attorneys, it should have been dated today, not august 12, i believe. >> and this is the study which the attorneys for sf ocean submitted on september 5th. >> we need to -- >> that's the other appellant, they are not part of our appeal. >> we need to make sure that rec and park gets a copy of each document. >> i just -- i believe rec and park got a copy of that. >> what ice -- what's the document? >> mr. wiko addressed that in a let e i believe they have a copy of that. >> yeah, we have a copy. >> yeah, they have a copy. >> thank you.

and we had, my brother had a crisis and wrote me a letter about it, kind of a stunning letter that came like a time bomb, when he was quite young, barely 50 that he had a rare form of non smoker's lung cancer. it was all typed out like the fruit in a control freak way, a lawyers letter that came by fed excompletely mysterious when we had just been together at thanksgiving for 4 or 5 days. i get this manifesto, i am asking you to save my life. my life changed completely when that letter came into my life. then the great task was with how to come together, which we did. again, it was a huge experience. i never thought i would write about it. i didn't think i could bring myself to. >> yet you took notes all the way through? >> of course. i write in a journal almost everyday. i was trying to come up with a new book idea. i wanted to write about this. the first day was to meet with sara to meet about books. we discovered that we both had an older brother thing that she had a brother who was as mysterious to her as mine was to me. it was so perfect, cynthia, we had launched on our brothers. w

most of these cases start with a letter. a demand letter. that is usually signed not by a lawyer, but by it up plaintive. the plaintiff may not be a professional plaintiff. that does not make any difference. the defense has been tried in court. is a civil rights statute. -- it is a civil rights statute. they can be a perfectly legitimate plaintiffs to bring a lawsuit, and there are a number of people who belong to disability organizations that actually, that is what their livelihood is, bringing these lawsuits. the gentleman over here, who was also a lawyer knows of at least one case involving two lawsuits. they started all neighborhoods. the target places like san francisco because this is an old city with old buildings, virtually none of which comply. we only have new construction that would be billed to 1988 compliance standards, usually. whatever kind of business you have, the building part does not enforce ada compliance. you have your architect look at the ada if you are going to make a major revision anyway. is very expensive to do th

. >> sure. >> this is your letter, sir. it says on june 20, 2012, the police department made a decision to revoke my existing tow permit under nelson's tow which has been in effect since may 2007. >> i don't mean to cut you off but that's what i thought he was trying to do and that's what i thought i needed to address because i thought it was taking everything that i got, and i got a family it feed. i mean i got to go to the end with it because i've been working here for the last 15 years, no problems. so i thought that's what was going to, to take the existing thing that i have, to work here in san francisco. >> okay. and that's because, at the top, as mr. pacheco's pointed out to us it refers to nelson's towing. the top of the letter from july 23. >> right. >> it says denial of tow car operator permit for nelson's towing, not bay bridge. >> right. >> is there a way to clarify, i would think there would, whether he has an existing valid permit. >> my permit is valid because i just renewed it 2011. they accepted my money an

but the letters otherwise, other than that zeal, the letter's innocuous. and peggy's, ultimately, there's a separate level of communication that benedict arnold has with andre, and they're not getting the money they want. what they want is a guarantee of what do they want, like 10,000 pounds? >> they started at 20,000 quid for sale of arnold and all his secrets. >> right. and so, so it takes more than a year for them to get to this point. but some of for circumstantial evidence is that whenever arnold was away from philadelphia, he would send these letter to peggy that would be chock full of military information, where armies were, where installations were weak, where they were strong, what plans for troop movements were. not the wind of thing that -- it's not pillow talk. it's not what a man would send to his wife. and also coincidentally, she just happened to find a way to hand those messages to the go-between who took them to new york. so, i mean s that circumstantial evidence, or is that her as a spy? so, ultimately, they are about to come to an agreem

this is good and i appreciate you doing this letter. speaker: is there a motion to approve the letter as amended. all in favor? the motion passes. we'll take a short break. we'll spea back in session. the next item on the agenda is consideration of ethics complaint numbers eight one one zero eight one six and zero 911 zero eight one six. we have recommendations. speaker: before we proceed with items five, i would ask the commissions permission to be excused from any of the proceedings actually with item five, six and seven as has been pointed out correctly my wife both as city attorney and in her private capacity has been closely associated with lieu gun awe hospital and is also chair of the lagoon awe /hopbd awe foundation. i for the record will tell you i have no idea what any of those complaints are about , i have not spoken with any of the staff and have not looked at any of the papers associated with items five and six but i would think it more appropriate receipt if i'm excused. i am more than willing to go in the back while you a

we take a letter of a piece of evidence, there is a ah-huh, this anger daughter wrote a letter to her father. my grandfather working away in san antonio then adored this daughter, book dedicated to him. she was then gone up to new york and going to school at columbia. he wrote her a furious letter. >> your grandfather? >> yes. you have broken your promise and haven't been putting yourself full time, although the book would you say in the front of "new york times". he pulled the carpet on her. that kind of thing. you could leap on that and say, well that says it all, doesn't it? one of the things i learned about writing about family is there aren't answers to so many questions. it is a mistake in a family to think every question has an answer. one of the questions i had going into the book was, do we pass sibling relationships down? was the fact that my father had such a difficult relationship with his older sister, was that the thing? going into writing this book i would say there it is, it is passed down. the fact is my brother and i were with able to get passed this. my brother woul

did you look at return letters?guest: i did some when i wanted to know what they were responding to. those do exist, few fewer of them, though, then the soldiers letters. some has to do with the practicality. if you're a soldier and write home, they can put it in a drawer and they're afraid somebody might happen to you so they have an insend different of so the soldiers letter were more likely to survive. the loved ones letters to the front, if you're a song you have a knapsack, you don't have a drawer and it gets wet and muddy and survival makes letters back, letters to soldiers from women, harder to get but that it didid survive. sometimes soldiers send back the letters so they can get saved. i did not make specific inquiry but some people are beginning to do that work. >> hey before we have been talking with chandra manning here professor at georgetown university and codirector of the georgetown workshoppin' 19th 19th century u.s. history. this is her book "what this cruel war was over: soldiers, slavery, and the

there is a letter talking about being charged with a misdemeanor. we met with the chief of police and others in the department several times. before i introduce the legislation, i sent a letter to the chief asking if he had any concerns. he indicated that it was fine to proceed. with that, colleagues, i want to ask that the committee support the legislation, and i also just want to know that in talking to the police department, there has been in discussion about very specific kinds of theft that can result in something making its way to a second-hand store. i want to stress that there are other sections the cover these concerns. for example, metal theft is this again concern right now, but any business that deals with recycled metal as to receive a junk permit. this does not affect that. there is a pawn shop section. any concerns covered by the punch of regulation. there is a separate fire our license. of course, all the provisions of the penal code related to the merchandising of stolen goods is dealt with by the penal codes. colleagues, with that,

finally, i have a letter from mr. carp, but i don't think was in their packet to you, but it's dated march 11, 2012 -- >> how long is it. >> i'm not going to read it. >> your time is up. >> this whole page and a half is just about worrying about the garage, roof, and the possibility of it caving in, and how it could be structured differently to make it more stress resistant, et cetera. >> you can have time on rebuttal. >> okay. thank you very much. >> ms. dick. >> good evening, madam commissioner and members, ilene dick on behalf of shane bush the owner for the property which has been appealed. hind me is what i like to think of the braintrust of the design team. i'm just a lawyer. i don't understand most of this though i will ask these gentlemen to come up and give a short presentation mostly to clarify and rebut what was said. let's be very clear here, dbi is the city agency entrusted with reviewing these permits. they're skilled. they did an independent investigation. the plan checker spent over nine hours. everybo

aware of the two letters? this had to be retracted. the february 4th letter was retracted. i think as the committees on report indicated us to them a second letter an argument that is literally strewn, but that is what impart troubled eyes. and he wrote in your report that troubled you? >> i don't know if you use the word misleading, but it could mislead. so that may just ask you a simple question. and really quickly tell me how much time -- how many people to have on your staff working on this report? >> i don't know the number precisely because so many people worked on it for 18 months. it was i'm guessing north of 20. >> how many man-hours were spent on this report? >> the good news is i was in here for the first 13 months. the last five months i can tell you a lot and hours. >> as we just heard from mr. lynch, your report is so long that it might encourage someone that you read it. you have over 451 pages in the report. do you think your time spent on this report come your time spent on investigating this

c-span: well, here's a letter. '"write guarded letters for a while until i can get the secretarial situation down there under control," cautioned the horrified governor. once stevenson rebuked his house guest about, quote,"that strong scent."' >> guest: oh, god. c-span: 'the place reeked the next morning and the maids must have been slightly confused or not confused at all.' >> guest: yeah. yeah. now these are letters, it's interesting, that aren't in the official family letters, as you might guess. but, in fact, are in another collection of letters. so some of this is detective work. you're not going to get all the stuff from the stevenson family they're not going to show these--i think they're wonderful love letters--between the two. c-span: what does the stevenson family think of your book? >> guest: i hate to think from one perspective, because they have a sense of themselves and i certainly wouldn't speak for them. i hope that they respect the book from the point of the view of the integrity of the research an

so the motion is to grant the appeal and overturned a letter of determination adopting the findings -- and overturned a letter of the termination of adopting the findings and adding an additional note that the zoning administrator failed to recognize the information that was available about the nonconforming use back in 1997. president hwang: more gentle. thank you. secretary pacheco: so, again, the motion is from the vice president, or the president of to grant the appeal, overturn the letter of -- as proposed by the appellate attorney, with the finding of error by the zoning administrator -- can you repeat that again? for not director goldstein: for failing to recognize the nonconforming use. secretary pacheco: for failing to recognize the information available in 1997 regarding the nonconforming use. excellent. on that motion, vice president fung, commissioner hurtado, and commissioner lazarists. -- lazarus. the appeal is granted. it is overruled with the adoption of those findings and the error, and it is a rehearing and no additional rehearing is allowed. a notice will be release

the purpose of that letter is to establish damages. the first thing to do when you get that letter is to have your place it inspected. if you have done so, let the person know that you have had the place inspected. that makes the case go away. certainly, it lessens the likelihood you were going to be sued. if you need more time, talk to the tenants or talk to the person suing you, sending you the letter. get some additional time. they do not have elyria. what you need to do is find out what your rights are, and if you need to make repairs or remediations, do it because you are going to have to do it sometime during the course of litigation if there is a problem with access to your premises, so long as the renovations are readily achievable. if it does not so much cost that it is so excess of for the amount of revenue being generated for your business, you have to make -- the way to look at it is let's say it takes $50,000 to renovate or remedy a the property for business. if your business is generating $100,000 a year in revenues, you

he knew the fabric for letter was false. -- february 4 letter was false. i appreciate that there could be explanations other than reading a letter that you would forward a letter to your personal e-mail accounts, and i appreciate the fact that from time to time we do not read e-mail's in full, we just a good job or thanks for sending it. i just have a higher expectation for that department and the criminal chief. i think it is wonderful we have some of your independence. i am going to conclude by saying, you have an incredibly hard, important job. you were exceedingly candid in our personal conversations. you have been exceedingly professional in your public testimony. i wish you and the people who worked with you all the best. on this weekend agree -- the department of justice is not a political entity. if we lose confidence in that plan for a woman holding a set of skills and a sword, we are finished. -- set of scales and a sword, we are finished. this is a very politically charged environment that we work in and you work and. the fact that your work has

let's say you have colored letter synesthesia.created a color palette where there are 16 colors you can choose from. you best match-up what matches your synesthesia spectrum. you see every letter three times each in random order. if you're a real synesthesia, you have no problem picking up those colors every time you see that letter. if you're faking it, it's impossible to remember the color you chose the last time you saw that letter. in this way we're able to distinguish between who really has synesthesia and who does not. >> the reason we think it might be genetic is because it tends to run in families. so lots of times if you meet someone who has synesthesia, they have a relative or sibling who also has it, too. so what we're doing is trying to determine how the genetic makeup of that person could be related to them having synesthesia. >> when wie find it, it will be the first genetic difference between people in how they see reality, how very tiny genetic differences between us change how you see the world and how i see the w

my reaction is based on her letter. she works for the mayor's office of economic and workforce development, which clearly speaks to how she will envision the process. i assume she would know what is required or not. she makes it sounds as if it is basically a neighborhood consensus, that is it, we will come back and record to you. that is the way that is written. if you wouldn't mind to explain that further. >> sure. i think -- unless there is a letter that i'm not aware of, you are talking about a memo from me dated august 20th. >> it is under her signature so might be from you. >> well, she is on the letterhead. i sent the letter. i see the confusion. >> i didn't read your signature. it is very possible that -- >> just to clarify, all we are doing is facilitating a conversation the community wants to have with technical experts to look at the possibility of these things happening. i don't think -- it is clear we don't know if an open space or next-door t.o.d. is possible. we want them to be possible, there is a very g

to filing and then to send a second follow-up letter. when the second letters came from my signature it was already mid-august and i thought it was done months ago and that's my failure to follow through on that and i'm taking full responsibility for that but the practice should be and in the future will be that first we send people late letters and we can assign them up to ten dollars a day for being late. beyond a certain amount of time beyond that we have to assume they don't intend to file and that's when we should be doing referrals but it shouldn't take six months speaker: i /paoerb that and i appreciate what life is like really on the ground /skpw taking responsibility for it. the back and forth of writing to somebody remains private and if they are tossing all the letters then we're stuck in a box where nothing is going to change, commissioner as a communications expert once you start communicating to a wider audience sometimes things crack loose where people respond differently so i think what you said is good. we might want to

> the letter kristen kanaan is talking about is a letter she claims remained hidden in a file at the school district for nearly 20 years. >> i'm writing to inform the administration of an incident that occurred in june of 1990. >> reporter: this letter is dated june 1994 and was allegedly sent to the school principal by an 18-year-old girl. in it, the woman documents alleged sexual abuse by a science teacher at joaquin middle school. >> on this day in june, however, when we arrived at my house, he stopped the car, kissed me on the mouth and placed his hand on my chest and inside my shirt. >> reporter: kristen was raped and stalked by her p.e. teacher in the mid '90s, who is now serving an eight-year sentence for the crime. she claims she was also touched inappropriately by the same teacher mentioned in the letter. when kristen discovered the letter, she decided to file the civil suit against the district for not protecting her and other children. >> i read that letter the girl wrote and nothing happened. i'm sure she knows he went on to molest other kids and rape other kids and event

i have 9 copies of this letter from lippy gardener llp. thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker, tamika moss. >> good morning, commissioners, my name is tamika moss and i'm the community planning director at spur, it has supported the subway project since 2007. this project is a critical strategic investment that will improve public access for the entire city, the design of the space was approved by this commission to have minimal impacts on union square park, no shadow impact, so we believe at this stage, it's critical to move forward with approving this phase of the plan. spur conducted a -- convened a work group to really look at the cost effectiveness of how to keep the central subway project its most cost effective and maintaining our schedule for construction costs is really the best way to contain construction costs, so we really encourage the commission to approve this phase of the project and really get this project done. thank you. >> thank you. >> is there any other public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is cl

did you look at every turn the letters? >> i did some when i wanted to know what they were responding to. they did exist far fewer of them miss some of that test the practicality. if they were afraid something might happen to use a they have a real incentive to put it. so the soldiers' letters are more likely to survive. loved ones letters to the front if you're a soldier to have a knapsack and a drawer to put things in and it gets muddy for survival the are harder to get at the did survive. sometimes they send back the letters specifically so they get saved. i did not a systematic and perry the beginning to do that kind of work and i think it will be really interesting. >> we've been talking with chandra manning, professor here at georgetown university and also the co-director of the georgetown workshop in 19th century u.s. history. this is her book "what this cruel war was over soldiers, slavery and the civil war." professor manning, thank you for your time. >> thank you very much. it was nice to talk to you. >>> we had a

i followed that with two letters, i got no response, and after that when i -- in my letter, i said if i don't hear from you within two weeks, i will assume that i can remove my windows, the blocking. i did not hear anything. i'm not here by the way in this country. i'm abroad in london and i got the windows were unblocked and the response -- and afterwards through all of it sort of in a normal and mature approach would be to discuss the matter with me, come back to me, what i got was the neighbors, the requestors came and shouted, yelled, boarded my whole sidings, the deck is about -- just about 1/3 and my whole siding is [inaudible] feet, came and boarded with illegal material, completely blocked the four windows, three of them are not even looking at the deck, the two windows, the bathroom windows are really the only light that provide -- they are the only windows that provide light to my bathroom, my window, shouting, yelling at a 4 year-old kid, well, i think i haven't got time, but a lot of accusations and things and i personally would like to say that it's not just costing time