(applause) >> thank you, naomi.ant to thank you for that introduction and just a recall of what i said earlier this week. but i also said something else, too, that i want you to continuously know the way i have attempted to manage this great city of ours for everybody. that is, i'm not shy about asking for help. and when it comes to the challenges we have in the african-american community, we need help. and i have been deliberately assembling a very important group of people who are going to help me get the job done. and you've seen some of these people already. they are malia cohen, london breed at the board. they have to face all the different politics. but i know they're going to be great partners with me because we've got the right objectives to happen. we want everybody included in the city. we have naomi kelly, harlan kelly, mohammed nuru, rhonda simmons heading upstreamly important departments. and i've got to say this. if we can't get the job done with these people in these important positions or some tremen

please help me welcome naomi kelly. (applause). >> good afternoon, everyone. thank you for having me here today. again, i'm naomi kelly, city administrator for the city and county of san francisco and it's an honor to be participating in this important panel discussion on the uss macon island. over the course of the next 50 minutes, we will be going to focus one of our -- we're going to be focused on one of the most important elements of our city and that's the resill yepbs of our life line. i am joined by a prestigious panel of experts who i believe have a keen insight sbat resill yepbs of the capacities we will be relying on heavily in moving forward post a disaster. here with me today is kirk johnson, to my left, vice president of gas transmissions from pacific gas and electric. next to him is don boland, executive director of california utilities emergency association. next to him is david brig, regional and local water system manager for the san francisco public utilities commission and finally but not least, romel an jell lus, manager for san francisco w

first and foremost, our city administrator, naomi kelly. and our head of waterfront development in the office of economic and workforce development, jennifer maps in the back of the room. thank you all for joining us. it's my honor to introduce two more very partners. we would not be able to move forward here at the port of san francisco without the support of our board of supervisors. and particularly those supervisors whose districts that adjoin our waterfront. it's my honor to work with these two ladies on a regular basis. they are committed to the districts they serve and the broader san francisco. they both come at their jobs from different perspectives. but with the common goal that there something here in san francisco for everyone. and with their guidance and input they help make us great. just like we have the opportunity to do so today. please join me in welcoming supervisor jane kim and supervisor malia cohen from districts six and 10 respecti respectively. [applause] >> good morning. i was reminded this morning as the mayor was

and i'd like to invite the city administrator for the city and county of san francisco naomi kelly toard. (applause) >> good evening, everyone. thank you for coming out this evening. it is my honor to just thank all of you and all of the award winners for all of the great work that you do in the community. you are the nuts and bolts of san francisco. you are what makes us resilient, which makes us -- which gives us character. and, so, we appreciate all of you. these awards are important and they're an important opportunity for all of us at city hall to make a moment and salute the people and organizations that work hard every day to make our neighborhoods the very best that they are. so, i have the distinct pleasure to introduce one of my most favorite people, city employees here in san francisco. y'all just heard from mr. clean, and that's who we affectionally call the director of dpw mohammed nuru. and he has a right hand and that right hand, her name is sandra zanega. it doesn't matter what neighborhood you're in, you can call either one of them and they will tell you what's going

it is social attitudes. >> talking with american university professor naomi baron who teaches them with sticks and the author of growing up with language and her new was, always on and once again you are working on a new book? >> i am. words on screen. >>host: you're watching a tv. >>host: professor friedman author of rethinking american and he is some. why do they hate us? >> that is a good question americans have been asking that since 1899 since i discovered by looking at old copies of the new york times and forestall they don't hate us if you think of world opinion. since the advent of scientific polling in almost every country on the planet at any point* in time united states was more popular than unpopular our discussion slides into the sense that it includes foreigners in general they hate us into incoherence with the run-up to the iraq war this sense the whole world was turning against us when there was the largest coordinated demonstration in the history of humankind february 2003 against of looming war with iraq including antarctica they had a weather station and americans rea

. >>> finally naomi watts' picture. that's cute. >> she's stunning. >> she's wearing skinny jeans.d dara actually has two children. look how great she looks, but i say these coated jeans, very in, but if you're going to buy one jean, i would say you do something that's flared a little at the bottom. but i wanted to show here, you can put it with a longer top and blazer, and it really works. >> is this she's gilbert gottfried's wife. >> i didn't know that. >> i didn't either. he's hysterically funny i can't believe you two have two children. >> that did not come up in the fitting. >> she's adorable. now we know your whole family. >> everyone come back out again. >> did we not say everything about her outfit. >> no, naomi watts' jacket was $595, this one $69.95. >> so bring out our lovely ladies. >> i'm sorry, but i can't get over you're gilbert's wife. >>> this is joy's big segment. the best lasagna, after this. >> looking forward to it. . good morning to you. i'm kris warren with your weather channel forecast. looking at the next seven days tart issing off with today. still going t

without too much further delay, i do want to acknowledge a few more people, our city administrator, naomi kelly. [ applause ] as i would like to call it my partner in public safety, sir, thank you for being here. city engineer is with us. from the department of emergency management along with other people from the department of emergency management and i'm introducing all of these people because it wasn't just the fire department alone. it took a lot of work from the department of technology to the department of city planning, i saw brian strong here early and ken rich from the mayor's office. a whole host of people, and we have john green who is our department captain, who earlier this morning gave a very special blessing upstairs in the dining facility to all the members at station 1 and for blessing this building and all the work done here. few other folks that i would like to acknowledge, local 798, the men and women presented by tom o'connor behind me, thank you, tom. as well as some of his members of the executive board here, thanks very much to local 798. there is two retired deput

san francisco first african american city administrator naomi kelley. the mayor's office deputy chief of staff, for public safety. paul henderson. >> san francisco treasurer, sisneros. >> san francisco port commissioner kimberly brandon. commissioners south east city, toya moses. >> oakland port commissioner, brian parker. director of workforce development office of economic workforce department rhonda simmons and president jack and jill of america incorporated san francisco chapter and former soul service commissioner karen clopten. thank you all so much. well, we are so thrilled that our most distinguished keynote speaker was able to work us into his schedule today. welly has a way again of folks to show up. you know? he attended the american conserve torrey theater in san francisco and went on to appear on the big screen and the big stage. give a big warm welcome for the great amazing delroy lindo. can everybody hear me? >> i have to say that after agreeing to be here this afternoon, a few or some short time after i was sent a schedule, and on the sc

this is conducted at american university in washington, d.c.. >> american university professor naomi, is technology changing how we communicate? >> yes and no. there is an assumption that the technologies of computers and now mobile phones are changing the way the we write to each other because supposedly using all of these abbreviations and acronyms actually if you study it you will find we aren't using all that many. if you are a teenage girl you may be using a lot. there may be a handful of these kind of short cuts but not as many as the press but leave us to believe. ..

without too much further delay, i do want to acknowledge a few more people, our city administrator, naomi kelly. [ applause ] as i would like to call it my partner in public safety, sir, thank you for being here. city

extending the invitation to host the event here as well at city hall as well as our new city administrator naomi kelly who will be making remarks here promptly in a little bit. and thank them for their generous hospitality not only 230er this event but for this program because without their leadership and support the neighborhood department network would not exist. i'd also like to thank the folks at the city hall events team who every year make this event come together and make it a success. in addition, i'd like to also thank our sponsors. * once again, pg&e the fifth year in a row stepped up and become a major sponsor here for the neighborhood empowerment network. we have two new event sponsors this year. we have next door, which is a new online program here in san francisco, new neighborhood service which many of people in this room are using. you'll have more chance to hear from this if you advise the the life night court event. sterling bank, one of the great local banks we have here in san francisco. without further ado we'd like to begin tonight's program and we're going to start off wit

without too much further delay, i do want to acknowledge a few more people, our city administrator, naomi. [ applause ] as i would like to call it my partner in public safety, sir, thank you for being here. city engineer is with us. from the department of emergency management along with other people from the department of emergency management and i'm introducing all of these people because it wasn't just the fire department alone. it took a lot of work from the department of technology to the department of city planning, i saw brian strong here early and ken rich from the mayor's office. a whole host of people, and

and educating ourselves what we're doing and not doing is a big part of the life line process that naomi is running and it's been very, very helpful. >> thank you. and mr. angelus. >> in terms of standards, similar to pg&e we have established our own internal standards on how resilient our network is. it's two hour quality of service how to design our capacity and also in how we perform, we do these failure tests to make sure the network can withstand the additional traffic being transferred from one portion to another. we have an earthquake strategy binder which is available aupb lane for our employees that can be accessed. it's available in all of our switches. these are step by step directions what happens when this big one occurs. we also practice this on drills, we have very little drills within the company or within the region to make sure everybody is on the same page when this situation does occur. now, as far as our support with other agencies, you know, our first priority of course when this thing happens is to make sure our network is running. but we also have a number of hotl

received in that way for sure well here's another kind of interesting take on it i recently saw a naomi wolf talking about her new book vagina she was saying that the porn industry may be doing a disservice to relationships and that it's providing this hyper sexual atmosphere where you're providing males and females with unrealistic expectations of sexual satisfaction do you think that there's any truth to that. well i think that any entertainment can provide a realistic picture hills of different aspects of life but why are we picking pornography is that i mean we there's ways to receive pornography and a healthy way an unhealthy way there's ways to receive the news there's a way to receive movies there's a way to receive sports and on healthy and unhealthy ways but when people make essential arguments about pornography there's something inherent it that's giving us bad ideas about how to be in relationships well then i think that that's just a view that's polluted by our own sexual prejudices and sexual repression in our culture you know right i mean the whole entertainment industry a