the club house did not feel like a lively place in such a lovely city. you want to fix this and address this. i understand that you will have concerns. as a neighbor, as going to the neighborhood meetings, they are very reasonable people. they want this to work out. this is a city where the first language of many people is spanish. my child can understand spanish now, that is good for me. this helps to bridge cultural gaps. these are meetings and they are a little bit sterile. this is something that i wish i could share with you. >> thank you. >> thank you so much. since the program was established, i used to teach mandarin in china for 18 years. i could no longer teach mandarin. -- gave me the opportunity to teach mandarin. the action helped me to go to city college in san francisco. i encourage you to teach mandarin in the nine states. today, i became an american citizen. thank you, thank you so much. my students also enjoyed this program. the children have made great progress in all of the programs. thank you. >> how do you do. i got involved about th

died in the 1920's, as you've been told, her bequest is what built this tower, to beautify the city she loved. little did she or anyone recognize that this memorial would beautify the city but also become one of its iconic images. in the 1920's, a group of neighbors formed the pioneer park project and raised funds to build the new stairways you see here and you can visit the pioneer parks display over here on the west side that will announce phase two, to deal with the plantings on the north side. they have a credit card machine and are willing to take donations. if there say message in this commemoration of lily coit's gift to us three quarters of a century to us i suggest it be a reminder of the importance of civic pride, to honor the history of volunteerism, to help the city in times of need, and believe me our parks are in a time of need, in small or large ways, support your parks and open spaces, appreciate the contribution the parks make to the extraordinary quality of life we enjoy in san francisco and the tradition of our men and women pioneers, step up and do what you can to maintain

love this city. thank you. >> runners up.l cable car bell ringing competition, no particular order, mr. trini whitaker. sullivan philips. ken lunardi. and joseph hsu. come up and get your trophies. thank the judges. [laughter] now it's time for wh

love this city. thank you. >> runners up.l cable car bell ringing competition, no particular order, mr. trini whitaker. sullivan philips. ken lunardi. and joseph hsu. come up and get your trophies. thank the judges. [laughter] now it's time for what you've been waiting for, third place, ladies and gentlemen, mr. howard woo. howard woo. again, they're not booing you. all right. mr. ken mcdonald. chief of muni operations officer, please come forward to help me present the second place trophy. second place, ladies and gentlemen. mr. frank ware. and before we announce the winner i'm going to drag this out even longer. i'm going to take a moment to thank the kind people who made the 47th annual cable car bell ringing contest possible the the vice chair of the sfmt board of directors. and friends of the cable car music, union square association, trophy masters shanghai restaurant, ghirardelli chocolatesing, and the american automobile association and the $250 cash prize, deluxe sightseeing. let's bring up gilberto gad oy with the h

i love this city and it's always a pleasure to be here. i want to thank mishell t. one is new. it will give you a back story. a few years ago, i had been attacked on the streets of brooklyn. i am deaf in my left ear. >> sitting on the l, i was made a wear, my voice of louder. he didn't know about the hearing loss in one here. i remained silent. i didn't turn around to expose the scar on the back of my head. so that i wouldn't have to explain the origination. instead of business cards, i should explain, it would read as follows. my name is emaniel. i became a prostitute. i found my salvation? writing. i pushlished a book. i was recently attacked on the streets where i lived. >> the surgery left me deaf. i do not have aids. men are not allowed to be a soldier. i am not asking for your money. please get home safe and keep this pen to share your story too. may be some day, i will get to hear your voice. this next poem is from my first poetry. this is for latinos in the house. can i get a woo. >> i want to break tradition about latino macheese mow. >> forget. i want to break traditi

i have lived here since 1982 and have loved the city as long as i can remember. i live in the haight asbury district and am a member of the civil service commission, an attorney, and friend of carol kingsley. i urge you to appoint her to the commission. her professional skills and integrity will be a commitment to the public good,ép and public service. she and i met through the woman lawyer's alliance, an organization created to provide free legal services and resources to the community. both of us, along with many other bay area alumni are -- have created a sisterhood. we are now judges, business owners, professors, and community activists. while the alliance is no longer in existance, the legacy lives on. the alliance was responsible for establishing 3.15 of the san francisco code, which created the child care fund to increase the availability of child care for low and moderate-income households. the woman lawyer's alliance spearheaded two reading rooms at the hall of justice and superior court to serve criminal defendants and parties to action, so this is some

this is like -- a kind of a happier situation here. >> hopefully. >> jimmy: because we love you here at new york city i can try to block one of your shots but i know that can't happen so i'm just gonna defend the goal. i'm just gonna stand in the goal. maybe just show me how you fake people out. >> you're gonna wear this? >> jimmy: yeah, i have to wear this. [ laughter ] >> but we don't. >> jimmy: because i don't know you that well, yet. yeah, here we go. don't do it yet. right there, yeah. right from there. [ vuvuzelas ] nice kicks, by the way. i like those. [ laughter ] >> can i do it from here? >> jimmy: vuvuzelas -- no, no, too close! [ laughter ] like this. >> ready? >> jimmy: yeah. now what do i do? am i going to get hurt? >> i don't know. >> jimmy: well, do i do this? >> you ready? >> jimmy: use these? can you use your hands? >> no, first of all, stand in the middle. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: yeah. [ laughter ] >> you ready? >> jimmy: yeah. [ cheers and applause ] let's see what you got, man! >> you ready? you see it? i knew it. >> jimmy: now how'd you know that? all right, try another one, try a

i can't walk anymore, but i certainly enjoyed walking all over the hills all these years and i love the city. and thank you so much! [applause] thank you. it's wonderful. president chiu: thank you. congratulations. i would like to ask our colleague sophie maxwell to present the next commendation. supervisor maxwell: who is behind the big red cranes? i would like to recognize richard patani. he is the co-president of the dreyage company. he is carrying on the business started by his father in 1925. richard is participa

i can't walk anymore, but i certainly enjoyed walking all over the hills all these years and i love the city. and thank you so much! [applause] thank you. it's wonderful. president chiu: thank you. congratulations. i would like to ask our colleague sophie maxwell to present the next commendation. supervisor maxwell: who is behind the big red cranes? i would like to recognize richard patani. he is the co-president of the dreyage company. he is carrying on the business started by his father in 1925. richard is participant of the trade entrepreneurship program. he has given freely of his time and energy to help hundreds of apprentices to learn the schools of the trades and take pride in the hard work and craftsmanship. he was awarded for his participation in the trade unions apprenticeship program and as chairman of

this reminds me of how fortunate i am and how much i love this great city. we are very blessed to have starts of the system for a generation. i want everyone to recognize today as the former mayor and dianne feinstein's leadership. it was her leadership as mayor that preserved these cars. they were on the press at this of going away. -- press thprecipice of this gog away. cable cars connect us to our proud past. this is an expensive endeavor. i know that things come at a price. this investment into this cable car was roughly $800,000. it was a lot of money. it was worth every penny. it could be possible to bring these together. these are historic cars. you cannot bring a new cable car and bring some plastic and refurbished sheet rock. you have to bring it back to its original glory. we will put some local dollars up so this was not a big general fund contribution. it is part of a $17 million commitment that we have to the cable car vehicles over the next number of years. we have 24 million over the next 10 years that we will address in the infrastructure. a

she just wanted to give something back to the city she loved and it was up to the board of supervisorshen -- what they should do with the money. the first idea and the one that was promoted in its day was some asphalt and a road to be constructed around lake merced. now, we love lake merced and we're proud of lake merced and it certainly needs a similar type of investment today. but clearly it was like nothing we see today. but it was the witness dovepble the park and recreation commiss, -- commission -- wisdom of the park and recreation commission at the time that said no, we need to do something more substancive, more significant and they decided to reach out got a that built the city hall and the opera house in that great beaux-arts style. for those of you visiting, come down 8:30 to 5:30 monday through friday to city hall and enjoy one of the most remarkable civic institutions anywhere in the united states. it was done by arthur brown. designed by arthur brown, who came up with this concept. people thought for years that this, and i kid you not, and i know the chief will talk a bit

from, i don't know, some action because i made that comment but whatever - that's what we all love about the city. any way i'd like to introduce emily loyd taking on the job of moderator and developing a plan of action. emily is up to this tough job. she's commissioner emily loyd and the head of department of environmental protection of new york city and appointed by mayor bloomberg to head this agency in 05. the department is responsible for imagining new york cities waist water and treatment, drinking supply, handling hazard materials and emergency x toxicities and removal of those and enforcing cities air and noise codes. they also have substantial responsibility outside of new york city managering 2 thousand square miles of the hudson valley. prior to heading up this agency commissioner loyd served as executive vice president for public affairs at colombia university and was in the administration for ten years and commissioner for sanitation under mayor, jenkins and was ma developer at port an authority and commissioner for traffic and parking for the city of boston. emily, thank you so much.

it's a city of battlers and i love this city. >> we're back live. do you think george steinbrenner will most be remembered for? i know many on the team seemed to fear him but he also seemed to inspire his players? >> larry: he'll most be remembered for what he just said. you don't want to play in new york, there's something wrong with you. if you don't like pressure, i don't want you. that's from a guy who originally tried to buy the cleveland indianas, in the shipbuilding business. he had 32 partners, wound up buying them all out. there's so many things to say -- there's a few book out about steinbrenner that ought to be read by everybody. a few biography. terrific book. >> when you were talking to a-rod earlier you were talking about his take no prisoners attitude. i remember the famous battles he had with the manager billy martin, fired him, hired him, and he said he was crazy. crazy like a fox, i guess >> larry: that was a crazy relationship. billy was an alcoholic. billy was hard to handle. george was tough to handle. george was a great game ma

all my family shared a great loving for havana, a city they call home. but contrary to my family, i grew up dreaming of traveling and wanted to leave havana for dublin, where some of the most famous writers i keep admiring were born, and also dreaming of paris where my grandparents, my grandfather, spend many important years of his life. also i want to move to my place, i don't know what was the name of that place. every time people call me la englicita, the little english woman because in cuba, in the caribbean, they didn't make any difference. all the irish were english. and all the people from asia were chinese. all the jews were called polacos, polish. that is interesting because the irish were part of the spanish community in cuba, but usually they didn't make the difference. so they call me and they call my father el inglis, the english guy. so when they call me that and when my name suffered many different spellings. later on in life, in the 70's, i had many identification cards with names like coffee that i didn't drink at the time, so i began dr

yeah so you get to moscow for two years yeah here's my game in two thousand nader will be a great city i love it i want to think about the amazing busker about tris. best in the world in terms of traffic it's a great yeah it is just a beautiful it's clean efficient player on the train comes the only time you never have to wait look at this as the so clean and nice in the wintertime this really not because it's warm you have to take a coat off it's really nice to get indoors in the from the russian wind but i just keep this wall virtually nothing. and also the most important thing is to during the working days we comply no time for me to go meet clients that's what i like most of it if you're going to give some advice for a tourist in the first time what would it be. just go around the circle route. in the station have a look it's beautiful especially. realize you have this church like windows ornaments things really nice and right i mean if it's also one of the best things i think about the batteries by the trains every every minute here i predict. the you can see that that new way to like an

city was sold out. it was the biggest crowd that they had in years there were very few incidents and everybody loved it. i want to say the city did great business that weekend. so there. >> new items? oh. all right. thank you.

it was lily hitchcock coit to give money to the city to beautify the city she loved of the park project worked to develop this south side and still that's the basis of our future project to address the north side. let me tell you about the project and a lot about san francisco and by the end of this, you're going to feel like you have been buried about the new deal. i am only scratching the surface. i haven't even gotten through it. it's terrific. i recommend that is supplementary reading. homework assignment that you have to do that. i am going to tell you about the living new deal project and a lot of stuff that got done in san francisco and various other places as well, too. we have to really learn from the last great depression. because, in fact, we might be having another one soon. the great depression was photo. the farm security division which turned good photographers into great ones. berkeley photographer dorothy alang. these give you an idea of just how apalling bad the great reh depression was. the best we have, as well as movies, it's difficult to million how it was. we tend

forty others were injured as crowds tried to pack into the already crowded entrance tunnel to love parade in the city of times before the events continued has police organizers feared a second wave of panic if the festival was abruptly stopped the love parade event tracks music fans from one of the world throwing a crowd of more innocent. cuban state television has released footage of the form of liberty del castro visiting a town outside the capital of ana i think three year old caspar was attending a ceremony to commemorate those who were killed in a failed revolution attempt fifty seven years ago this is the latest in a series of recent public appearances and his first confirmed outside of anna castro fell ill in two thousand and six and disappeared from public view of a pallet in his younger brother. and police have discovered fifty one bodies in a field in northern mexico for two days of digging the graves are believed to be connected to drug gang violence best gaiters are struggling to identify the victims of the numerous tattoos found on the remains could give an indication officials believe s

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it was lily hitchcock coit to give money to the city to beautify the city she loved of the park project worked to develop this south side and still that's the basis of our future project to address the north side. . >> my name is mark tieman and i'm senior councilor at pet camp, san francisco, california. we dispose of a lot of carbon-based material here, dog poop, and the more we can turn that into something viable, the better off we are. in san francisco there's more dogs than children. finding a viable use for dog poop. >> proenvironmental policies, that's a way to win hearts and minds.

city now. do you like eagle because well i mean i love seattle well atlanta is i like atlanta washington's ok but new york city i really hate it well i think it's no place to live in i mean i live my heart and well it's not the same as i'm going to visit as a tourist. would you like to live in when i was really manhattan and sometimes many times i was teaching in jail when i was leaving jail i was a very very practically at seven o'clock in the afternoon to the never in my heart and it was laughable you think your use a livable city monotonous a livable place yes my heart and in my opinion the most rational she's in a war but iran is the city of the old people you can go to manhattan and it's really female really as if you are born there because probably for the cinema for the leader for many respects anyway ok but so here. is a very interesting the brownlees between the battle for money. in the therapies and that mosque is really cool so so so you drawing these parallels professor you want to say that it still is possible to make moscow a very livable city a nice city to live in there are you su

i regard these alleys as perhaps the most lovely and charming parts of this glorious city. i aspired to connect better to my community. i long to live among the stew of italian and chinese, young and old, and gentrified and working class. they have the right to renovate and rebuild their homes. we have worked hard through this long and arduous process to work with a possible compromise. i thought early on that that could be effective. this massive building project, it could profoundly reform this. i urge you to reduce the size of this project. >> good evening, commissioners. i am stephen lee. i have lived in this area of for 40 years since 1970. i am really against this building. it will be blocking all of the sunlight. i enjoy some light every day. thank you. >> thank you. are there any additional speakers in favor of the request third? seeing none, project sponsor. there is one mort? -- more? >> if i hear that ominous bell once more, i will be encouraged to install it in our church. we have some long winded preachers. it is a little bit frightening. you have heard the ple

city agencys. the man is fantastic. i love the idea of transforming really -- a -- pavement to park into a three dimensional manifestation of that idea and finding across the city sites which could do the same thing. obviously we have the most competent architecture do this work, mr. herman indeed shines with his contributions to innovative site planning and housing solutions in this particular category. i couldn't be happier to support this project. i do think this -- we should, though, be aware of the neighborhoods concerns. that's fair and that's request we're sitting here. i do think when we approved the pal boa park plan that we -- with ask for city college do really start coordinating parking efforts and really deal with students not completely conjesting neighborhoods. we had that the other day at san francisco university and i do think that there has to be a little push back toward the institution, particularly as that area will take on a different shape to help with balancing neighborhood feeds with institutional need

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. >> in fact, i would love -- i want the city to tell me, could i ask them, what would be the very best tree, the safest one, i'll put in whatever size tree is most likely to succeed, and what's going to be most likely to live past its first difficult five years and what size would be best to put in? i mean, i am ready to be helped here. i'm not the expert. and i suggested -- it's called a tristiana -- tristianopsis -- it was in my original permit but i was advised by ann arborist it would be the safest. president peterson: thank you. thank you. is there any public comment on this item? if there is, please step forward. ok. seeing none, then ms. short, you have three minutes of rebuttal if you care to use it. >> thank you, karla short, department of public works, bureau of urban forestry. i don't need my three minutes but if a permit is granted we would be very happy to work with ms. kantor and advise her on species and we do it every day when people come to us for permits to plant trees or remove trees. tristianopsis loritis is a good street tree. all trees are capable of damaging side

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