and our new supervisor rafael mandelman and the owner of the victorian manner bernadette joseph. bernadette is the second generation of owners of this type of facilities and we really appreciate her family's commitment to the communities that we serve. our residential care homes are very important form of housing in san francisco, providing compassionate support for our community who live independently. the department of health, the department of aging, and i want to acknowledge that we have our department heads with us today. and both departments depend on these homes and facilities to ensure our clients are safe and that they get the care that they need. so we're so fortunate to work and live in a city that cares -- cares for its most vulnerable community members. our strongest leaders for this is our own mayor, mayor london breed. mayor breed is committed to ensuring those facing behavioral and health challenges are provided care and housing that they need. so please welcome mayor london breed. [applause] >> mayor breed: thank you, barbara, and thank you, everyone, for being h

my favorite thing about my home, although i miss the charm about the old victorian is everything is brand-newmy kitchen is amazing. i've really started to enjoy cooking. i really love that we have a gym on-site. i work out four days a week, and it's beautiful working outlooking out over the courtyard that i get to look at. it was hard work to get to the other side, but it's well worth it. i'm super grateful to the mayor's office of housing for having this for us. >> president wolfram: calling this hearing to order. good afternoon and welcome to the san francisco historic preservation regular hearing for wednesday, august 1st, 2018. we remind members of the public that the commission will not tolerate any obstructions or outbursts of this time. please silencer mobile devices. we will take role at this time. [roll call] we expect commissioner hyland to be absent today. on the agenda is general public comment. this time members may address members of the commission.

mayor breed for recognizing the work of residential care facilities for the elderly like victorian manor. the new funding will help us to make ends meet. and to continue to serve the seniors that we care so much about. we are happy that the city is also looking into long-term solutions to keep the facilities like ours, residential care facilities for the elderly, to have them remain in san francisco. so, thank you so much. [applause] >> thank you, that's the end of our program. and i'm sure that the press may have questions and i'll leave that to the press. thank you. >> any questions... anything off topic we'll take on the side. >> can you say specifically what the funding will go towards, is it services or more beds? >> one of the important things that we have done with the facilities is that we have provided them with an extra amount per day for the bed and part of that is because we have individuals with different levels of need and that really helps for the staffing of the beds, and making sure that the right staff is for the right client and their needs. so this will provide extra dollars f

lost a victorian poet is new literary star. tell us more. that's right. incidentally, i wrote it.ight. incidentally, i wrote it. i love that we are starting with your story. at least i know about it. the university of exeter have an academic team, a professor of victorian poetry there and what he has done is he searched through hundreds of newspapers in lancashire in1800, hundreds of newspapers in lancashire in 1800, the 1860 to 1870 and uncovered this fantastic cash of forgotten lancashire dialect poets and they are incredible, they say that these poets are up there in terms of the standard of poetry with anything that has been seen before around that time, the star of the show is a guy called william cunliffe who basically was a wool is sought and so hisjob cunliffe who basically was a wool is sought and so his job was to sort the quality of different types of wool. as it came in for the docks in liverpool. but he would write and the subjects he would write about would be the american civil war. in lancashire at the time, a lot of cotton came from the south, so the confederate s

my favorite thing about my home, although i miss the charm about the old victorian is everything is brand-new. it's beautiful. my kitchen is amazing. i've really started to enjoy cooking. i really love that we have a gym on-site. i work out four days a week, and it's beautiful working outlooking out over the courtyard that i get to look at. it was hard work to get to the other side, but it's well worth it. i'm super grateful to the mayor's office of housing for having this for us. today. >> (clapping.) >> i've been working in restaurants forever as a blood alcohol small business you have a lot of requests for donations if someone calls you and say we want to documents for our school or nonprofit i've been in a position with my previous employment i had to say no all the time. >> my name is art the owner and chief at straw combinations of street food and festival food and carnival food i realize that people try to find this you don't want to wait 365 day if you make that brick-and-mortar it is really about making you feel special and feel like a kid again everything we've done to celebrate tha

my favorite thing about my home, although i miss the charm about the old victorian is everything is brand-new. it's beautiful. my kitchen is amazing. i've really started to enjoy cooking. i really love that we have a gym on-site. i work out four days a week, and it's beautiful working outlooking out over the courtyard that i get to look at. it was hard work to get to the other side, but it's well worth it. i'm super grateful to the mayor's office of housing for having this for us. today we are going to talk about fire safety. we are here at the urban center on mission street in san francisco. it's a wonderful display. a little house in the urban center exhibition center that shows what it's like in a home in san francisco after an earthquake. one of the major issues that we are going to face after earthquakes are fire hazard. we are happy to have the fire marshall join us today. >> thank you. my pleasure. >> we talk about the san francisco earthquake that was a fire that mostly devastated the city. how do we avoid that kind of problem. how can we reduce fire hazard? >> the construction was a

my favorite thing about my home, although i miss the charm about the old victorian is everything is brand-newitchen is amazing. i've really started to enjoy cooking. i really love that we have a gym on-site. i work out four days a week, and it's beautiful working outlooking out over the courtyard that i get to look at. it was hard work to get to the other side, but it's well worth it. i'm super grateful to the mayor's office of housing for having this for us. >> really appreciate you being here. in april 2013, urge the leadership of the late mayor ed lee and then supervisor london breed, the city and county of san francisco resolved to undertake something that had never been done before. in the face of decades of federal underinvestment in public housing, they've put together a massive plan to utilize the new rental assistance demonstration program, to undertake massive repairs across 29 public housing properties in san francisco. the rental assistance demonstration program did not offer any new funding, but instead flexibility around rules show that cities could utilize creative ways to fina

my favorite thing about my home, although i miss the charm about the old victorian is everything is brand-new. it's beautiful. my kitchen is amazing. i've really started to enjoy cooking. i really love that we have a gym on-site. i work out four days a week, and it's beautiful working outlooking out over the courtyard that i get to look at. it was hard work to get to the other side, but it's well worth it. i'm super grateful to the mayor's office of housing for having this for us. >> in room 400 at city hall, room 124. we thank everyone for being here today on a friday and joining us. so right now we're going to get started with the meeting and i'm going to read the welcome and then we'll go right into the introductions and then roll call. good afternoon, again, and welcome to the mayor's disability council, friday june 20th -- excuse me, july 20th, 2018 in room 400 of san francisco city hall. city hall is accessible to persons using wheech

my favorite thing about my home, although i miss the charm about the old victorian is everything is brand-new. it's beautiful. my kitchen is amazing. i've really started to enjoy cooking. i really love that we have a gym on-site. i work out four days a week, and it's beautiful working outlooking out over the courtyard that i get to look at. it was hard work to get to the other side, but it's well worth it. i'm super grateful to the mayor's office of housing for having this for us. >> hello! is it afternoon yet? yes. [laughter] you know, the hours just go by so fast now. my name's london breed, i'm the mayor of the city and county of san francisco, and i am excited to be joined by so many amazing people to talk about something that so important. -- that is so important. in july, san francisco became the first country in the -- became the first city in the nation to stop charging administrative fees to people who are exiting jail and the criminal justice system. >> whew! [applause] and i was really proud to sponsor this legislation when i was president of the board of supervisors. the public de

victorian times. so, could these new laws help make our roads safer?hojoins us here in the studio, as well as matt briggs, widow of kim briggs, who joins us live from lewisham. to you first, you have been campaigning long and hard on this in recent times, do you see this as a positive step forward? good morning to you. good morning, thank you for having me on. yes, i do see it as a positive step, the first was the legal report the government commissioned confirming while much of the focus is on death by dangerous cycling, there is also a need for causing injury. they confirmed there was a gap in the law and this is the next step which is a 12 week public consultation. yes, slowly but steadily, we seem to be making progress towards updating the law. laura, when you hear matt talking and the situation him and his family have had to live through, do you agree there should be some change in the legislation or do you think the government looking at the wrong thing? i think if there is a gap in the law, it is important we look to close the gap and i think it

my favorite thing about my home, although i miss the charm about the old victorian is everything is brand-new. it's beautiful. my kitchen is amazing. i've really started to enjoy cooking. i really love that we have a gym on-site. i work out four days a week, and it's beautiful working outlooking out over the courtyard that i get to look at. it was hard work to get to the other side, but it's well worth it. i'm super grateful to the mayor's office of housing for having this for us. [gavel] >> good morning and welcome to the san francisco county transportation authority meeting for today, tuesday, july 24, 2018. our clerk is alberto quintanilla. if you could call the roll. [clerk calling roll] kim absent. commissioner mandelman absent. we have quorum. >> thank you. colleagues, could we have a motion to excuse commissioner tang made by commissioner ronen, seconded by commissioner cohen. colleagues will take that without action. -- objection. next item, please. >> item two, chair's report. this is an information item. >> thank you. i'd like to start by welcoming our newest members, one of whom is

homosexuality in 1973 new orleans was by large still the neo-victorian love that dare not speak its name. meaning that most homosexuals are so private and paranoid about being caught by police who would beat you down if you did not bribe them first, right? host homosexuals were still so discreet tha at the star to prie parties and soirÉes and would not be so brave as to be seen at the up stairs lounge on your blessed night. so let's deepen our understanding of the up stairs lounge fire by interrogating further the society that created the conditions in which such a tragedy would occur. that means something i did you as a author and something i did want to do, it's a bit painful to lift the mental guard rest of the day and step away from a world really where the majority of citizens believe homosexuality should be legal. call it an acceptable lifestyle. favor same-sex marriage and would encourage same-sex parents adopting a child. to deepen our understanding we have to rebuild the closet at that existed institution in the past. so let's enter the world of 1973 and not just flip the skill

and our new supervisor rafael mandelman and the owner of the victorian manner bernadette joseph. bernadette is the second generation of owners of this type of facilities and we really appreciate her family's commitment to the communities that we serve. our residential care homes are very important form of

victorian times. our business correspondent, joe lynam has the story. new found that overall satisfaction with rail punctuality and reliability has fallen from 79% a decade ago to 73% today, but regular commuter satisfaction fell even further to 62% in that time. on top of that, rail fares could be set to rise by 3.5% next year. that is because train fare increases are tied to the higher measure of inflation, known as rpi. it could add £150 to an average long—distance commuter. i understand that our passengers have had a really tough time over the last few months. i'm a regular commuter myself. but we have to work together with a long—term plan. that's what companies are doing, rail companies are doing. that plan is going to make journeys better over the coming years. it's going to improve the economy, it's going to better connect communities up and down the country. to compound things for some train users, another strike by rmt rail workers is set for next month, in a very long—running dispute about guards on trains. joe lynam, bbc news. a painting bought

victorian times. our business correspondent, joe lynam has the story. neween a happy time for many rail users, and it is evident in a detailed satisfaction survey over the past decade. a study of transport focus data found that overall satisfaction with rail punctuality and reliability has fallen from 79% a decade ago to 73% today, but regular commuter satisfaction fell even further to 62% in that time. on top of that, rail fares could be set to rise by 3.5% next year. that is because train fare increases are tied to the higher measure of inflation, known as rpi. it could add £150 to an average long—distance commuter. i understand that our passengers have had a really tough time over the last few months. i'm a regular commuter myself. but we have to work together, and with a long—term plan. that's what companies are doing, rail companies are doing. that plan is going to make journeys better over the coming years. it's going to improve the economy, it's going to better connect communities up and down the country. to compound things for some train users, anot

new line from london euston the birmingham? nothing to do with that at all. it is about trying to get the old victorianll be really quite exciting as well. i am sorry to be the voice of travel boom, but... you always are, simon, thatis boom, but... you always are, simon, that is why we get you want! the busiest station in britain, london waterloo, will not be very busy today. strike on south—western railway over driver only operation, so railway over driver only operation, so typically on the main lines, the number of trains are halved. if you are doing anything exciting like trying to get from waterloo to exeter, you get as far as salisbury and then there is a bus every two hours. good luck. you can switch to another line which is running normally. so the journey is essentially are going to be a lot longer and pretty convoluted. wherever you are heading today on the west coast main line, be prepared for delays and disruptions. if you can possibly find another way of travelling... if you can possibly find another way of travelling. .. if you had booked and onlyjust of travelling. .. if you had booked a

victorian times. our business correspondent, joe lynam has the story. newncelled services, angry commuters, strike action, and rising costs — it has not been a happy time for many rail users, and it is evident in a detailed satisfaction survey over the past decade. a study of transport focus data found that overall satisfaction with rail punctuality and reliability has fallen from 79% a decade ago to 73% today, but regular commuter satisfaction fell even further to 62% in that time. on top of that, rail fares could be set to rise by 3.5% next year. that is because train fare increases are tied to the higher measure of inflation, known as rpi. it could add £150 to an average long—distance commuter. i understand that our passengers have had a really tough time over the last few months. i'm a regular commuter myself. but we have to work together, and with a long—term plan. that's what companies are doing, rail companies are doing. that plan is going to make journeys better over the coming years. it's going to improve the economy, it's going to better connect c

new york's guggenheim. >> he started practicing in the late 1800s. and he really broke away from the traditional models. >> he really changed the way things were built and how people lived in america. >> in the 1800s, victorianght called boxes within boxes. square house, square room. you open a door, go into the next square room. he blew all of that open. >> wright wanted buildings in the united states to have their own character, one uniquely american. so in 1937, he bought 160 acres of land in arizona and built what he called his winter camp, taliesin west, right here in scottsdale, arizona. >> he had been here in the '20s working on the arizona biltmore hotel. uh, fell in love with the desert. it was just -- for him, it was just pure geometry. the rocks of the mountain, the form of the plants. this was his laboratory. it was a place where he came and experimented with architecture. >> today it is the home of frank lloyd wright school of architecture and the frank lloyd wright foundation. and the property itself, it's a work of art. >> wright built to the human scale. everything in the desert is low. the trees are low. um, so his buildings are low. he also uses the low ceilings to kinda push you through sp

the victorian fussiness and kind of elevation of these outdated ideals were simply modern students were not going to take it. brewster's co-editor at "the new york daily news" famously described world war i as a centrifuge for pulling imperial chestnuts out of the fire. this was where the emphasis was during that period. we tend to forget this aspect of world war i as a liberal movement writ large because the people in that movement did not defend it after the conclusion of the war. obviously, they all joined the services that fought in the war as well. so i talked to robert stewart douglas jr., probably the founder of the organization at yale and asked him how he felt about the reputation of the america first committee after world war ii. he said, well, obviously, we didn't list it on our resumes. but if it was as vile an organization as has been claimed, if it was that awful thing, then there would have been something like lustration to people who had been members of it, and there wasn't. in fact, most of the people at yale, like potter stewart, like gerald ford, like sergeant shriver, went on to become ardent internationalists. in some w

the victorian fussiness and kind of elevation of these outdated ideals was simply this modern students were not going to take it. brewster's coeditor on the daily newsamily described world war i as a subterfuge for pulling imperial chestnuts out of the fire. this was where the emphasis was during that period. we tend to forget this aspect of world war i as a liberal republican movement, or just a liberal movement at large, because the people who were in that movement did not defend it after the conclusion of the war. obviously, they all joined the services and fought in the war as well. i talked to robert douglas stewart junior, who was the founder of the organization at yale, and asked him how he felt about the repetition of the american first committee after world war ii. he said you know, obviously we do not listed on our resumes. but, if it was a file as -- an organization as it has been claimed, there would have been something like lustration with regard to people who had been members of it. there wasn't. in fact, most of the people at yale like gerald ford, given brewster, sergeant schreiber, went on to become artists internationally. it was a

the victorian fussiness and kind of elevation of these outdated ideals were simply modern students were not going to take it. brewster's co-editor at "the new york daily news" described as world war i as a centrifuge for pulling imperial chestnuts out of the fire. this was where the emphasis was during that period. we tend to forget this aspect of world war i as a liberal movement writ large because the people in that movement did not defend it after the conclusion of the war. obviously they all joined the services that fought in the war as well. >> asked him how he felt about the reputation, we didn't list it on our resumÉs. >> it was a vile an organization, awful thing, there would have been something like illustration with regard to people who had been members of it. >> in some ways, it was a helpful experience for brewster to have been in the student movement. it meant that he understood the student movement in the 160s, he understood that this comparison of the unpatriotic students of the '60s who were shirking their military duty to go fight in vietnam and posed by the patriotic members. it was a false comparison. because that, those

educational reforms along with the biggest investment in rail since victorian times, but there is much more to do and we must all prove in this new with the way society works is nothing new, although social media can get spread wildfire. but we are putting our heads in the sand if we think we can blame social media by pretending that some of the causes of that resentment are not real, whether caused by the decline in real incomes for many americans and europeans dislocation caused changes in technology or the identity concerns of many voters caused by immigration. to reject those concerns has been held by a minority of voters with a liberal views is to make a dangerous mistake. in britain and 52% of our country who voted to leave the eu cannot be dismissed as far right extremists. nor the many who seek change in the us. our two histories share a common thread of the benefits of freedom and prosperity, progressively being shared by more and more of our peoples. but if our electorates believe that such benefits are no longer being shared fairly between political elites and the people they represent, resentment boiled over, expressi