the western end of golden gate park was intended to be a naturalistic grassy field. later, the golden gate master plan of the general plan were approved to retain the naturalistic landscapes in connection to ocean beach. today, the area fulfills the recreational needs of many people. this proposal is for a single use and the eir does not address the impacts. it will be a 9.4 acre loss to visitors. the proposal would be -- would decrease the number of birds and other wildlife that live in or migrate through golden gate park. a local birder conducted a casual survey. completely missing migrating and nesting species. the eir has no mitigation for birds or other species. there is no other place in san francisco for these birds and wildlife to go. the lighting was not properly evaluated. the adjacent -- species depend on dark skies for navigation. darkness is needed for resting and nesting. san francisco boasts of being a green city, but this proposal is not a sustainable project. >> thank you. >> i urge you to make a thoughtful decision. >> thank you. >> good evening, co

however, it would do so at some level of impact of the naturalistic landscapes qualities of the park. the department finds on balance the proposed renovation of the beach chalet soccer fields to be in conformity with the general plan. some of the highlights include, in addition to the ones i have already mentioned, that the evolving recreational needs of san franciscans require facilities to perform more efficiently than they currently do. we found that the 1000-plus acres of the naturalistic landscapes in golden gate park are not diminished by the proposed renovation. finally, that the large increase of the number of people using the facilities will result in a greater sense of safety amongst pedestrians moving through the western end of the park at night. that concludes my summary. i would be happy to take any questions. >> commissioners, just so you know, we will have different sections of it. there's time for questions now, but at the very end, we will have time for questions and full deliberation, but if you have any specific questions right now. >> i just wanted to get clarifica

something we also need desperately in san francisco is naturalistic areas in our parks. in golden gate park, it has taken over a vast area of the park. more and more of the park is not available for simply enjoying the walking through and appreciate the naturalistic qualities that it has. this is one of the rare places we have left in san francisco and preserving it is critical. you can maintain golf courses, a grass field for soccer. do we need lights? no. i urge you to reject this report. thank you. >> i consult with san francisco unified. i live in the richmond district. i have a soft spot for those who cannot fend for themselves. that is why i became a speech therapist. i have a passion for education and a passion for nature. i agree that kids need a place to play, but i am horrified as to what this teaches children in terms of environmental conservation. there are alternatives that have been presented. i urge you to consider them. i listened to the children and diet loved it. they work -- and i loved it. they were coached well. i wonder how many know of them about t

while i realize this is not a naturalist space, it is a naturalistic space and there's a lot of wildlife there and it's very much underappreciated. and this is just such a false choice between soccer and the environment. all these kids who are out here, they deserve to be able to play soccer and as was previously said, it's really location, location, and i also urge you to look at other alternatives for this project. this is not the place and it does violate the golden gate park master plan for the west end. the east end is very built up and that's what it's -- what's happened over the years but we don't need this on the west end. we need a place for tranquility, for quiet, for strolling, for observing the wildlife out there, for it just being peaceful and quiet and by the way, a turf has been used the term has been used so much today, refers to lawn, not necessarily to plastic or green grass lawn, but just to lawn, just for the record. thank you. >> remy towne, barbara delaney and lorraine wolrough. >> my name is barbara delaney. i live in the outer sunset and i have lived there since 1

it is the lights that fundamentally change the naturalistic character of the park. there is no way that the department or the commission can find that this maintains the naturalistic character of the park. please look for an alternative. there are good alternatives before you. president fong: thank you. [reading names] >> good evening, commissioners. we are the largest parks serving organization and the city with 55 years of experience. the parks alliance strongly supports this proposed project. we encourage the commission to approve the eir. the parks alliance believes this project will be -- will do significant public good. the project represents an uncommon opportunity to ameliorate the city's document a shortfall of available playing field recreational hours. the city has adopted synthetic turf standards that requiring recycle turf materials. with the implementation of storm water collection and testing requirements, the field would not contribute to degradation of ground water quality. the are also fines proposed lighting is unlikely to spillover the boundaries

i think what we are trying to do here is the find something naturalistic and these are things that don't necessarily mean a lot until you get into the context but there was -- i remember when we were i casting and i remember andrew the first time i saw andrew there was at that scene not in the film and making a phone call to oscar, most actors additioning picked up the phone and, you know, they dance and they would find an emotional alliance, andrew started moving in places like he picked up the phone and then he sort of turned around and waved for the camera which is a very strange thing to do in an audition and he sort of began to embody this person and his movement extended beyond here and even just on a simple scene like a phone call and half of the audition he was facing away from the camera against the wall, it was so magical, it felt very real and very naturalistic as i told a story, my sister-in-law is a psychologist and talks act how to communicate with patients and of course there is verbal communication, but what you can deduce, how you can read somebody is through nonverbal c

. >> reporter: casey anderson is a son of montana, a naturalist and filmmaker long obsessed with america's most fearsome omnivore. after rescuing a grizzly cub, the two bonded so strongly, brew does grew up to be the best man in his wedding. but big difference in temperament between a tame animal used to educate tourists. >> stay in this possession. don't make a noise. >> reporter: and the wild version. among the best places to find them these days, alaska, where they enjoy such a hearty surf and turf diet, including the occasional beached whale, you can sometimes find them lotting in a food coma. but in the lower 48, the best belt is still yell localstone. >> back in the 1970s, old faithful had some real competition also the crowd favorite because back then, there were grandstands like this set up at the yell localstone dump. tourists would line up to watch the bears feast on their garbage. when rangers decided to cult off that free lunch, it was devastating. the animals forgot how to field themselves. thousands starved to debt and the grizzly became endangered. to get a sense of how they

experience of having the boot and published a while ago sky meet the adults in particular kirchners and naturalists and jewish and our mental educators climate in the ago you wrote the book is still have it and i think that was the intention that was something people would find very useful to help them connect jewish people with the outdoor some majesty of the wilderness. >>> the one thing out of my book is my character creates these were the list and select makeup words i saw on the internet it was wonderful but rob connected now a little girl in canada reviewed rebook and said one thing she liked about it was making upwards as she puts in her review her favorite metaphor it's anathema was delightful. worldwide connection with something that put out there. >>> such conversation in the one a large about the impact of the internet in technology on the way we think and interact and communicates with a lot of conversation among the impact of internet and the way that we actually read and how you read on a computer screen and on newspaper and print and a book on a piece of paper the morning if you coul

, a nationally recognized historic site which has been cherished for generations as -- for its naturalistic beauty. it's a unique natural area within the confines of a major estimate the area, only 500 feet from the ocean, is listed on the national register of historic places and is the first large urban park built west of the mississippi river. i do not approve of this project. this reminds me very much of when the cable cars were going to be removed from san francisco and there was one person that stood up and said no, you can't do that and now they're a treasured asset to san francisco. you cannot pave over a grass field in an urban area with such limited urban areas. there are altern atevbs for these fields. especially you might want to consider the west sunset which is being considered in the 2012 general obligation bond. thank you very much for your time. [applause] >> if i can just interrupt for just one second, there is one thing i did not do. and that's to state that this, the planning commission and recreation and park commission will hold one public hearing for the public to prov

site to project golden gate park's beach chalet athletic field as a natural turf field within the naturalistic parkland as a multiuse meadow and as a wildlife habitat, while providing additional playing hours. csfn believes this can be accomplished by a combination of alternatives two, three and four. and csfn asks that the new e.i.r. consider a compromise alternative as follows -- one, renovate the west sunset playground with improved playing surface and night light for some or all of its fields. two, renovate the beach chalet athletic field with natural grass. three, do not add lights to the beach chalet athletic fields. csfn opposes the e.i.r. for the beach chalet project because it is inaccurate, inadequate and incomplete. now, it's not as though the beach chalet is the only site that city could provide extra hours of soccer for players. but the west end of the golden gate park, a renowned treasure, cannot be duplicated anywhere else in the city. it's not a choice. we want soccer fields. we want kids to play, but it doesn't have to be in golden gate park. >> thank you very much. any additi

stloe was a rather naturalistic language as i see it that was part of that process, and so it's a really intriguing thing for me to wonlder about the environments hadtry of the great awakening. how did people experience this nature and how did this language become part of that historical event? >> and actually back to a question you asked earlier about the language of the deck drashgs endowed by their create around you asked, is this religious or secular and one of the lessons for me is that that dichotomy is it this or is it that, was not as strong in the 18th century as it feels sometimes in america today. because, in fact, out of these religious traditions emempg the many core values of the nation, which today looked secular. but when today does genealogy you recognize kind of groups of certain religious ways of thinking about the environment or of the nation and what do they feel like non-religious ways of looking at it actually have much more in common that you might imagine, which is really an interesting part and what mark just said about the great awakening is an example of that.

so there was a rather naturalistic language as i see it that was part of that process. so it's a really intriguing thing for me to wonder about the environmental history of the great awakening. how did people's experience of nature and how did this language of nature become part of that historical event? >> and that actually goes back to a question you asked earlier about the language of the declaration about endowed by their creator. >> right. >> and you asked is this religious or is it secular. and one of the lessons for me in that is that dichotomy, is it this or is it that, was not as strong in the 18th century as it feels sometimes in america today because in fact out of these religious traditions emerged many core values of the nation which today look secular. but when today does their genealogy you recognize the common roots of some of the religious ways of thinking about the environment or the nation and what tay feel like non-religious ways of looking at it actually have much more in common than you might imagine, which is really a very interesting part. and wh

the studies to refer to or not based on naturalistic driving. >> anybody else? [inaudible] >> angela, i was talking about my own personal feelings about this. i feel very strongly about this. i have no idea. i had not been sitting around thinking about that. what i had been sitting around thinking about is a blueprint to get rid of distracted driving. we know what works. that is why we are giving out these grants today. because that is what works. in order for me to start talking about some sort of national law and the specifics of that, i need to make sure i am on good solid ground with good statistics, good studies and all of that sort of stuff. i am a former lawmaker. i know that laws can make a difference. i also know this, in states that have passed distracted driving laws, they work. i.e. this sentence that was just handed down for someone who was just involved in an accident or somebody was killed. that law worked. hopefully that sends a message. we know the laws work and we know good enforcement works. that is why a 84% of us are buckling up. all right?

brock was a star, sort of a naturalist daredevil. >> it took only a moment for the situation to totallyo r.a.m.-- completely devoted. he has no family, takes no salary, has no home. brock lives in an abandoned school that the city of knoxville leases to r.a.m. for a dollar. until recently, he took showers in the courtyard with a hose. when we see what we've seen over the last weekend, how do you pay for all of that? >> in the first place, we really know how to stretch the dollar. we operate entirely on the generosity of the american people. >> r.a.m. operates on a shoestring, about $250,000 a year. what have you accomplished today? >> well, we basically had 600 or so people that have arrived here overnight, and we were able to do just about everybody. i think we may have turned away about 15 people who are gonna come back tomorrow morning anyway. >> the next day, sunday, there were hundreds more. tickets started again with the number one. but now, the doctors were racing time. in hours, they'd be headed home. >> who's got 361? 362? 362. 363? >> and we're really glad that you came in, es

. >> here we have what's known as naturalistic shading because it goes around the corner. >> reporter shading is like painting with thread. there are dozens of different stitches. >> stem stitch. sat institch. french knots. black work just uses black thread. you get the shading from the thickness of the black thread that you use. >> reporter: by the mid 19th century, thanks to changing fashion and mechanization, these techniques were being lost. so in 1872 lady victoria we willby opened the school with two goals in mind. >> one was in order to keep hampton embroidery alive. the other was to provide working opportunities for ladies that would otherwise be destitute. >> reporter: once they were trained, the women could make a living producing embroidery. the school sold their work in its own show rooms and took on private commissions. queen victoria agreed to be the school's patron. her daughter princess helena president which is how "royal" was added to its name. >> this is the building that was opened in 1875. here we can see princess helena in her carriage. this is the place to be se

[laughter] you're hearing a very almost resource-naturalist approach to u.s. domestic energy production a la venezuela. >> guest: and exxonmobil's not too embarrassed to join in that. >> host: right, right. >> guest: their philosophy's the opposite. >> host: so it's kind of shocking to me, and i'm asking for an explanation here. how can this all-powerful company with huge influence not have changed that political discourse to make it, actually, more adhere to the facts of how global oil market works? >> guest: yeah. >> host: and also engage in it, as you say? >> guest: well, i think they've had influence in sort of the leaks in the united states -- in the elites in the united states. educating. they've carried out this intense education campaign to try to bring what they call informed influentials in government around government and media into their conversation about how the global oil markets actually work. but, yeah, most politicians don't have time or interest to study in depth these kind of complexities, and one of the executives i interviewed told me tha