there was no entrance on geary and masonic, and i assumed there would be 1. there was a lot of exercise going up the stairs to wear best buy was. anything you can do to make it easier for people, not only on pedestrians, but for vehicles to get to the right places, there will be a lot less people searching for parking. this can be done in a peaceful way. the fact that the signs are higher does not mean it is less desirable. i would support the concept in general, and i would ask that we go ahead and approve as proposed by project sponsor without staff modifications at the height of the signs. president olague: commissioner fong? commissioner fong: thank you. i will take a littl different approach, commissioner antonini. i think we all looked at the sears site. my personal experience with that left-hand turn is the cars parked on the street would impede you from seeing which lot to go into. if we are serious about the parking spaces, if we shipped the parking spaces down, that will give more visibility turning in. i am ok with the proposed 15- foot, 17-foot si

at the moment, i am friends of the owners of 224 mason street -- 2244 mason street. president goh: did you want to say your name? >> he has basically done the same thing to my property, and i find it an egregious, and i just want to bring up some of the outstanding lawsuits. that is all part of public information. the first one is against him and north beach partners. they breached the aforementioned fiduciary duties by, among other things, failing to inform planes of the sale of the filbert property. misrepresenting to plaintiffs that the sale of the film board property -- the filbert property -- converting proceeds from the sale of the filbert and jones street properties for their own use and failing to provide documents in conjunction with those properties. basically, the property was sold four years ago, and that person was notified four years later. james gay versus creative alliance and w.b. coyle. on april 8, 2011, creative, w.b.coyle company, without plaintiff's knowledge or consent. the plaintiff first received unconfirmed confirmation that they had sold the

how am i doing on eliciting your sympathy for derrick o'neal mason?outrage over the death penalty? i know what you're thinking, you're thinking he's not the case to use to build outrage over the death penalty. nor is the case of lawrence russell brewer who was executed at 6:21 p.m. central time yesterday in huntsville, texas. he was found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of the 1998 hate crime murder of 49-year-old james bird jr. lawrence, russell brewer and two is had friends chained bird to the back of a pickup truck and drove along a bumpy asphalt road at 2:00 in the morning. they drove for at least three miles with james bird dragging 24 and a half feet behind them at the end of that chain. six hours later, when what was left of james bird's mangled body was found, the sheriff who found him at first thought he was looking at animal road kill. lawrence russell brewer's execution yesterday passed virtually unnoticed by the national media at the very moment when they were covering minute by minute developments in a possible stay of execution for troy

there was no argument over derek o'neal mason's guilt or innocence.ution-style shooting of a convenience store clerk in the store that mason was in the process of robbing. before shooting 25-year-old angela kagel in the face twice, derek o'neal mason forced her to take all of her clothes. how am i doing on eliciting your sympathy for derek o'neal mace snon how about outrage over the death penalty? i know what you're thinking. you're thinking derek o'neal mason is not the case to use to build outrage over the death penalty. nor is the case of lawrence russell brewer, who was executed at 6:21 p.m. central time yesterday in huntsville, texas. many of you will remember his crime. he was found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of the 1998 hate crime murder of 49-year-old james byrd jr. lawrence russell brewer and two of his friends chained james byrd to the back of a pickup truck and then drove along a bumpy asphalt road at 2:00 in the morning. they drove for at least three miles with james byrd dragging 24 1/2 feet behind them at the end of that chain. six

the anti masonic party begins when a stone mason named morgan disappears in erie county. his body is never found and the claim is the masons assassinated morgan because he was going to reveal the hard secrets of the masonic order. the real motive was to fight off andrew jackson who happened to be a mason and martin van buren because everybody knew andrew jackson would be running against the incumbent john quincy adams in the next election but fillmore isn't clued in to this. he is giving speeches and buys into this fear of a huge masonic conspiracy. next time we see shriners in their little motorcycles with their hats we can begin to wonder what was he thinking? but it gets him elected to the state legislature and he is elected to the state legislature in 1828-1830 running as the anti masonic candidate from erie county. is our culture and in the legislature is to propose a bill to bans sending people to jail if they are in debt. the old english law notion of debtors' prison was most people who went into debt in medieval england were wealthy people who borrow money to get

i appreciate the conversation amid the different districts that straddle this area of masonic and geary. i believe there is strong support for the target, which is great. as a harbinger of things to come, i was concerned when target needed to do better outreach. when i asked about their knowledge of the geary bart program, they had no idea what i was talking about. when i talked about the traffic going into trader joe's on masonic, they had no idea what i was talking about. at trader joe's, where we have had a bicycle incidents and fatalities, this is going to be an area where there will be an increase in traffic. hopefully transit will be the way people go back and forth from this area. i think this is a step in the right direction. i just think that those coming to san francisco need to do their homework, making sure it comports well with neighborhood needs. supervisor mar: i wanted to thank supervisor farrell for his work. i will be supportive of this zoning change. i think this proposal by target and adam miller from the property group will increase the visibility of the signs and w

party and buys into the fear of 5 huge masonic conspiracy. the next time we see the shriners in their motorcycles with hats, we can begin to wonder what was he thinking? [laughter] but, it gets him elected to the state legislature, and he's elected to the state legislature in 1828, 1829, and 1830 running as the anti-masonic candidate from erie county. he proposes a bill to ban sending people to jail if they are in debt, sending people to debtors prison. the old english law notion of debtors prison was this. most people who went into debt in wealthy england were wealthy people who borrowed money to get more money. the assumption was they hid their assets, and they would fess up in jail. that may have made sense in england, but it made no sense in america in the 1820s and 1830s when farmers went into debt to buy land and sometimes went bankrupt. fillmore is responsible for drafting the bill that ends debtors' prison in america, but because he's a minor party, he has to back off and let the democrats who control the legislature pass the bill and

it is often difficult on a one- way street like o'farrell and masonic, where people pull in and do not know where to go afterward. that sign is an important one. the blade design they have shown at land use committee -- they walked me and my staff through the different proposals probably about a year ago as well. i think they make a lot of sense. i think it is an important change that will improve the site. i also am concerned about labor conditions on the site, but that will come up later. i also am glad that our former colleague, mr. dufty, and others have held target accountable to their financing of certain campaigns. i also want to say from the target representatives that flew out to our land use committee meetings -- i think they have been very transparent. most of the residents from the richmond district, which is on the edge of the site on geary and masonic -- most people are supportive. a handful are concerned about the attack on a box scores. i hope to work with them on looking at economic impact reports on large for miller retail sites like this. as a former sharper at sears

it shows the signs we have introduced along geary, masonic, o'farrell. from some of your feedback we have heard two weeks ago, we're looking at a couple options we wanted to show you. these are some of the recommendations. we have approached the signs and we have reduced their scale as you go down geary. the main sign, the other as you go down is smaller in scale, hopefully tying into the recommendation of having more subordinate blades has to go down. instead of the panels that we have previously -- the place themselves. just trying to respond to your previous comments. the other comments, as it relates to the screens, the colors, that. we have shown you one other element where we changed it to a singular color. as we continue to work through with planning staff, i think there are a lot of different options in your. between the green, the yellow, and the orange, i think the intent was not to have something that would become more prominence than the building itself. the set its is to replace an update antiquated signs at the property. this is the sign pr

s paul mason on his tweet he says hash tag details people switch off t.v. because too depressing get news from dot dot dot max kaiser and perez hilton also specialist web sites cultural frag there's a cultural thing you know what we enjoy the churches we do some nasty bits good you know we don't take any prisoners i say if i could actually fire you right there in the airport oh mr hurt toure is becoming head and when i get to twenty thousand followers whatever is way twenty thousand followers are going to want to go and cohen let's go back to the street is name is paul mason he's from the b.b.c. and he's saying the greek people don't go to the news they go to max keiser so max kaiser is officially what jon stewart is to the domestic u.s. audience max kaiser it's the global audience because not because we report on the grades that have already blown up we report before they blow up police and famously went to reykjavik a few years after we went there and warned of the icelandic people that that country would blow up i want to show another flashback here max

this is the corner of geary and masonic. one tenant has installed windows beside -- has installed signs behind the window. others have their own signs along the facades. another photo, looking up geary -- each of these signs is by code, but there is not an integrated plan. this is the proposed -- one of the proposed elevations. again, as a way of breaking up the facade and the size and mass of the building, adding these new blade signs -- based on planning commission commons, we did modify the new blade signs to be subordinate to the existing signed. other planning commissioner feedback was making screen elements that are installed a unified color. before, there were multiple colors. those were incorporated as part of this plan. here is another example of the new signs, looking up geary from lyon. here is another example at the corner of masonic and o'farrell. in addressing the antiquated siphonage -- the antiquated signs, here is the pylon that has been there since the property was repositioned for multiple conduce in the e

bette davis was 52, as was martha, and james mason had always been 46, you know, so... [laughter] so it was--it was good. and so i said okay, knowing at the time that when you sell the rights of a play to be made into a movie, you lose absolute control over it-- understanding that. if you write a play, you have absolute control over what is done to your play onstage. they can't change a word without your permission. but you take a chance when you sell a movie. but that whole combination struck me as being pretty good. but then there's a thing called movie magic, and bette davis and james mason turned into elizabeth taylor and richard burton. and oddly enough, mike nichols stayed mike nichols, and...but i sort of trusted mike. i didn't think he was going to allow them to really screw it up. and what happened, finally, by some great fortune: there was no screenplay. i mean, there's this guy, ernest lehman, who is credited with the screenplay. but then again, he produced the movie too. but i think he changed two sentences of my entire script and maybe cut about five minute

mason's sentence, there is no basic question about derrick mason's guilt. today the state of georgia, about half a day after they killed troy davis, set their next execution date on october 5th for marcus ray johnson for a murder he committed in 1994. marcus ray johnson contends that he had bad legal representation in the trial that got him the death penalty. but here, again, there's no basic question about his guilt. is the justice of the death penalty fundamentally about the goodness or badness of the person who is to be killed? is it about their guilt or innocence? or is it an intrinsic question about whether or not the governments that we build for ourselves are governments that should kill prisoners? to the extent that killing prisoners is one of the jobs we ask of state government employees, it's not an abstract thing. it is a physical job to be done. tools. is a job that requires set of tools to kill troy davis last night. thstate had its supply of sodium pentothal seized by the federal government earlier this year under suspicion that the state had

mason and in the same day being able to hear kila and angela mcnamera. it was a sonic history lesson in a day. the best thing was, you could talk to any of the people who were there and you could have that history lesson expanded for you. being able to interact with folks like photographer karen rich, who is sitting in the audience right now, being able to interact with kong on his album, bridge across the blue, these events i really don't think that can be taken lightly. for urban american indians we have powwow which are intertribal events that revolve around a shared repertoire of songs and dances like some of the singing you have heard me do here today. it's a time for people to be able to come together, not for the casinos, not for that part. talk about fighting stereotypes, that's a stereotype for us. yes, we have casinos, but that all of our culture? no. it's not all we are here to be defined by. for most people, especially in urban areas, powwows are places to go to reconnect. powwows are places you go to see people you haven't seen in a long tim

i believe it has been proposed to reroute the six masonic. the haight-ashbury line. what is going to happen is, if you reroute that line and it was proposed it goes straight through haight street, and not go up masonic avenue, what will happen is, you are going to have people who are elderly and frail. how do you expect them to get to their homes? are they going to have to crawl? right now, people are inconvenienced with the 2 clement line. you have to walk to california street and that is a long block. why do you on the board tried to walk that walk on a walker? suppose you are on oxygen. suppose you have hiv. it is a gross injustice to do this and i have brought this to the attention of people. they simply ran this thing through. this has been an ill-fated idea to begin with. you need more buses and need more drivers. $2 million for contractor, you can have it for the buses. if you can get those lines downtown, you can get them through the clement. you have six digit salaries. this is a disgrace and it is cruel to the most probable in san francisco. this has to sto

the special sign district with the following modifications, that the masonic sign not be taller than 20 feet. i don't want to set a high. do we have to have the ordinance? >> [inaudible] president olague: no taller than 15 or no taller than -- i don't know if you can use that language or not. commissioner sugaya: i think the commissioners understand that we like to have more work and going on between the project sponsor and staff. and a preference is for something that can come out on the sidewalk if it is possible. it is much slimmer, like a column. the projecting signs, and isn't that right? the copy is by staff. i'm going to include [unintelligible] the large lettering on the screen itself. president olague: i think everyone was good until the last piece. do we have a second? >> without a second, the motion dies. president olague: i will make my comments brief. i like where sugaya was going, but i am not ready to accept the last part of it. i think a lot of the comments that we may hear, -- we made here regarding the fsaesthetics, i like the way that there is a more subdued approa