international agreements, but when we go to ground zero and if you have the guts to address our issues magdalene to empirical data -- our issues by going to empirical data, particulates and more, and seeing that all of you who are supposed to be addressing quality of life issues impacting our constituents of san francisco have done very poorly. and there are some tricks that people will bring. they're called machinations. [bell rings] and you can see that whatever is going to be done on a van ness, the comment period is kind of focused during the holiday season, and and what has been extended to december 19, i think from december 12. and i spoke about this before. more time should be given. having said that, i want to wish you, jerry mirkarimi, all the best as the sheriff. thank you very much. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you, mr. da costa. i appreciate that. any more public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> item number 5, accept the audit report for the fiscal year ending june 30, 2011, action item. supervisor mirkarimi: discussion? public comment? cnn, public comment is closed.

. >> the gospel of mary magdalene, for example, shows us a christian community in which mary magdalenegarded as a disciple, as a leader, as one of the major teachers in the group, and one who claims that women should be able to teach. >> another text called the "gospel of truth" is not a narrative of the death and resurrection of jesus at all. it's a symbolic reflection on certain themes that come from scripture and are associated with the life and teachings of jesus. >> we also hear of other kinds of gospels that develop, stories of the birth that tell you the... in lurid detail, really, how true it really was or how marvelous and miraculous it was; stories of traveling apostles to all kinds of strange lands-- thomas, who goes to india, andrew, who goes out to some strange world, and so on. these kinds of stories proliferate through the second and third century. >> narrator: one of the important discoveries at nag hammadi was a complete copy of the gospel of thomas. written in syria in the second century, this collection of sayings proved very influential... and startling. >> the gosp