. >> my name is linda stein and i am an individual. i will leave the technical side to more knowledgeable people. i am here to say that things we can -- we can protect wild birds without having an negative impact on humans, protecting them is what we should do anyway especially in a city like san francisco that prides itself on being green. i think we have a moral imperative to do all we can to make our impact is small as we can so if we can remove human created obstacle's we need to do so. >> good evening. i would like to thank you for the opportunity to be here to speak at this hearing. i am responsible for market development at arnold glass. my goal is to present information from the glass manufacturing perspective, to provide a level of confidence and insight into glassmaking and to make arnold glass the bill as a resource. i applaud the city for taking on this issue of birds safety. it is one that we took on 10 plus years ago and i see some synergy between what the city and arnold are doing. we are encouraging change. from the man

linda miller? >> that was the incident i was referring to be for where henry -- hemingway records gertrude stein telling him that he is part of this lost generation. whether or not that really happened, whether or not this mechanic gertrude stein based her story on had this incident or not, whether or not that was true is dependent on the way hemingway recorded in this memoir he wrote for the end of his life. >> i will take my leave of you because we're standing on the portico but have not seen the inside of the house. we will take our viewers inside and be right back. let me go in the screen door here. waiting for us inside is john dentinger. you are on the staff of the hemingway house and this is our first look at the inside. what is important to know about hemingway? >> this is the living room of the hemingway home. you can see here some of his pieces. ernest was not exactly a furniture guy but he certainly did enjoy the finer things in life. pauline hemingway collect a lot of things and had them send to key west. one of the things you see here is indicative of the life that they lead. >> you can ide

linda miller? >> yes. that was the passage, the incident i was referring to before, where hemmingway records this in his "moveable feast" and he talks about gertrude steinelling him that he's part of this lost generation. so, whether or not that really happened, whether or not this mechanic that gertrude stein was basing her story on had this incident or not, whether or not that's true, we are really depending on the way that hemmingway recorded it in his memoir that he wrote toward the end of his life. >> i am going to take my leave of you for just a little bit because we have been standing on the portico here but haven't really seen anything of the inside of the house. we will take our viewers inside and be right back. let me go in the screen doors here and waiting for us inside is john. hi. >> hi, susan. >> you are on the staff here at hemmingway house. this is our first look at the inside. what is important to know about hemmingway from this place? >> well, this is the living room of the hemmingway home. you can certainly see in here some of his wife's pieces. he was not a furniture guy, i have to admit that. but he certainly did enjoy the finer thi