everywhere i go, i see organ is versus food that is not organic.the right thing buying organic. or would it make a difference? >> that's a common question, will it make a difference? i want to look at a stanford study in english and human studies and comparison of the foods. they really concluded that they couldn't say it was any healthier at this point however they did admit you'd get less pesticide residue and less antibiotics if you eat organic. in order to know if it's healthier. you have to have long-term studies. the knnutritive value of the fo is not different. there are reasons to eat organically that may not contain in the study's analysis. >> many people who have cancer, changed their diets, they go completely organic and treat their water to make sure they don't have anything extra in there. maybe it makes them feel better. >> it's very logical when lower to pesticide residue. when formed by people who care so much about their product. any time they eat something you know that's better for you, that's very good. >> how do we knowis somet

we learned very recently that the executive director has already left the organization. i think he was there for only 10 months. that means that this is the third executive director that pride has had in just a few years. to me, not just as a supervisor but as a resident, that raises concerns. i'm wondering if you can speak to that in terms of what that means in your future executive director search because if you have that much turnover, that creates problems for any organization. >> sure. since this report came out almost 3 years ago, we had twoen credible individuals who served in the leadership of the management leadership of pride. the first was better than -- brin an and binge ham and he saw us through the 2011 production and he then became our executive director and through his leadership we were able to make great strides towards achieving many of our goals especially in terms of our finance. we had operational deficit and luckily we were able to make quite a good dent in repaying and getting our funds back to where it should be and where we would hope to be. reg

in 1997, we organized a meeting, and international organization of securities commissions. very important because it is very official, governmental conference since the 1970's, the republic of china, taiwan, we've been kicked out from the united nations. it was the first one, very governmental conference was held in taiwan. so all of the people -- they are from the security exchange commission and from new york, from tokyo, hong kong, so those people came to the global security market. and we used a lot of elite places for our dinner functions, the tap ago health. -- the guesthouse. they can use it to receive some very important guests. and we used the building, the so we would make a very good impression. in 1998, we organized another conference. only the mayor of the capital cities can attend, and during the time, 75 capital cities, including washington, d.c., panama city, they came to taiwan to join the meeting. they went thing i can now remember, we had a lot of demonstrations during the time. in 2000, we had a meeting for congss, manyig names like bill gates, he w herf

so that we as a city could have a better understanding of how to better assist that organization. that the controllers office viewed all of pride's book and information and successful for providing the opportunity in a very open way. that assessment found that as sf pride had both 70s -- fiscal and govern nanz, a $25,000 deficit and no assets and despite hiring a fundraiser at the time their inability to meet those objectives. in terms of issues of governance, those included a board at the time that didn't fund raise nor saw the the organization and failed only 5 of it's 15 allowable positions at the time. the controller also found inconsistent methodology, out of date contracts and oral agreements with partners such as sponsors and beverage sellers. non-compliance with city non-profit monitoring standards were also found including things like not performing regular up to date audits and using plans and balance sheets that did not conform to accounting principles. a lot has happened since then and a lot has been said about pride and both supervisor wiener and i thought it was impo

public trust is important to organizations particularly non-organizations. over the last number of years it is clearly visible that this has been eroded. sf pride has unfortunately become the laughingstock of all event side worldwide. it's lose the public trust. what is needed now is to rebuild great ship and relaunch it to repair it's once grandeur. this be guileless me. the lgbt community should be the proudest event and show case to the world. i think it's possible to get there but major and fundamental changes are needed. i believe in the pride. i hope these will come to fruition and 1 day my daughter and future gengz will be able to see this event as something to be proud of. what i may is one solution to have a team that will be responsible and help restore the confidence. this needs a new advisory board. thank you for your time. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> my name is brook oliver. i resigned this year. i declined an opportunity to run for the board of directors' of san francisco pride also to maintain my independence. i'm unexperi

i'm deeply upset about this organization. this management has led our pride organization to a disaster. we've seen night violence and shootings and this needs to be addressed. it's totally appropriate for the city of san francisco to hold the host body in any event fully responsible for those that attend the event. there are many ways to do this in the future. i suggest get the cameras. as we all know the heinous violence before the pride, the only reason that person was apprehended was because of the cameras provided. for the pats -- past 3 years it's been more violent. earl plant nominated one of the candidates up for board election and that should not be appropriate in any non-profit organization. i'm glad lisa was here. she's a very beautiful woman. if you put one hat on top of her head it would be magnificent. she has decided to take a leave of absence when board of pride while she accepts the interim director ship of pride. congratulations to lisa. she has not given herself a rise. i would like to throw the issue of rai

i left the organization in 2007. while i dispute the claim that the problem emanate from my long tenure. this shows a deeper problem with the management of pride. if the organization has operated without clear policy and procedures it demonstrates a lack of governance. on may 21st meeting minutes from november 2012 from the president and on may 29, i was informed that the board minutes were available but she would need to do some research to find january. to date i have only received february, march and april may and june minutes and only june draft of minutes. this is a problem because there is a lot of claims being made about revised policies and procedures and there seems to be no trail in the minutes and the board minutes of these changes being affected. again i haven't seen the board minutes. two planning meetings in may and august of 2013 were canceled and only one was rescheduled. these meetings are mandated by the corporation's bylaws and set boo i the approval of annual ship of the meeting. i was e-mailed on

a thing of the past, well, as far as organ transport. >> ia human organ has never been kept alive outsidef the human body until this machine became a clinical reality. >> reporter: the head of u la's heart and lung transplant program. >> to say that instead of having my heart on ice, i want it to be warm and beating. >> for some of his patients like 44-year-old sandra aguilar, this is a second chance at life. ♪ >> she suffers from a debilita debilitating position, and has been waiting for a heart since last december. [ speaking spanish ] >> sandra decided to participate in a study, which is designed to compare the outcome of patients who receive hearts through the organ care system against patients who get their hearts transported on ice. >> the patients you were talking to, to participate in this trial, how have they responded to that? >> once they fully understand the concept, why don't you guys come up with this sooner? >> to date, eight out of ten available donor hearts never make it to a patient in need for a variety of factors, including distance between hospitals. this would preser

for me the most important thing what you just said that the organization went from a deficit organization to having a reserve because if nothing else, you couldn't get over that, it maybe the end of that celebration. so, and it's really important to have stable management and hopefully you will get there. even with this management this organization has been able to get in stride with this management. i'm going to give you on the board and anybody affiliated a lot of applause for being able to do that. there's a question about the audit and whether you know where the next audit is or not. as a board member, when was the last time you saw an audit because i have sat on many non-profit boards and we always get, whenever it comes out, a copy of it. whether i look at it carefully or not is another question, but when was the last time board members received a financial audit? >> the last time i recall seeing a financial audit was the previous term, 2011-2012. i have not seen an audit in recent months. >> probably one of the things that could be done is even with that, if that's the most current

rosa parks -- [inaudible] united front is organized. you have to write the -- [inaudible] joann -- right, i mean, hon and on. but by the -- it needs to happen cloture capital to make it a male definition millions of women were fighting in self-defense. so we have to change the term of some of these discussions. >> thank you, yes. doctor, you mentioned micky who wrote for the periodical that he mentioned, freedom. one of the few places you can read in the original copy of the freedom which was a paper on which the editorial board here in the some berg. i did my dissertation here. a very helpfully librarian helped me pore over single issue. for truth and justs is in term of anticolonial work, and the importance of -- i want to ask about key point mentioned about pressure. it will respond to pressure. they will respond to pressure. that's speaking to me deeply now, and also with regard to your work on el will baker that shows, like you said, the importance of organizing. people never -- one of the they think they think -- thicks she issued

the organization. and for the respondents and that we, a community member have the ability to be view the respondents. and we are, you know, anxious to see this process move forward. and look forward to how we identify which operations fall under the port jurisdiction and which ones make sense to keep under the jurisdiction of a leaseholder as well. that will be key and there is a lot of work that is being done on that currently. so. thank you, very much. and we look forward to this moving forward. >> thank you. >> is there any further public comment? >> hearing none, commissioners any comments before we vote. >> i think that is a great recommendation to have the community person on the selection panel. and i think that she brought up some of my concerns, and that is what is the capacity to run this operation? i mean, ledge is a great organization, and they did a wonderful job with such a great concept and it is a jewel, but how do we know what the financial capacity is, or what, you know, just because

if you go to walmart today and buy an organic apple or any organic produce, it's been sprayed with bt. i just want--people should understand that, it is labeled. you can go right on the government's website and look for labeled organic pesticides. bt is labeled as an organic pesticide. so if organic crops are so much safer and more valuable for the food supply why is it labeled? we're expressing the pesticide within the plant which has proven harmless versus having to aerial apply it and create the potential for drift. >> they're talking about bt. with organics, they're spraying it on the crop. it can be washed off in a kitchen sink. they have genetically engineered that protein toxin into every cell of that plant. the epa has bt corn register as an insecticide. so you're he'ding a registered insecticide when you're eating round-up ready sweet corn. it's hard to remember which talking point kevin is trying to go over, the fact is the american people have a right to know what it in their food. he talks about conspiracy theories. it's no long arrest conspiracy theory because the america

our organization was about 30 people, we are now upwards of 60. all to support the work that meta is doing, that mission promise neighborhood is doing. we spend a lot of time hiring, interviewing and compiling a great team that is working hard together. we have contract with our partners. we had a fantastic backpack give away at the high school with the mayor's office. we had our launch where a lot of city leadership came out, leader pelosi came out and we had secretary donovan come out and we also had some leadership from doe come visit us. our data team has been working hard on data discovery assessing the performance of or assessing performance measures for all our organizational partners and understanding how they collect data. we've also been focused on building our collaborative. we do want to see this go beyond 5 years. we think it critical and we've engaged with cutf, with koretzsky, chase and we are building that foundation for sustainability. so what i really want to focus on today and i wanted to frame this conversation is to ensure tha

detractors from within the organization took to twitter to voiccriticisms themselves. at times you see an undignified to and fro between al-shabab supporters and members and detractors. twitter proved to be useful for al-shabab on one hand and a curse on the other. >> al-shabab says it attacked to force kenya to pull troops out of the somalia. movements leaders were under the gun from within. if the real objective was to change the conversation, the media strategy was simply, brutal and effective - go to the media capital of east africa, terrorise the innocent and let the cameras take care of the rest. on inside story, we bring together unexpected voices closest to the story, invite hard-hitting debate and desenting views and always explore issues relevant to you. >>> time for listening post news bites. remember a few months when the associated press accused the u.s. department of justice of a massive unpress dented intrusion into its phone records and the white house was accused of silencing sources in the name of security. a former fbi bomb technician agreed to plead

but some of the organic carbon falls from the upper ocean making a slow rain of dead organisms and organically accumulate in the cold depths. here, because of the slow circulation of the deep ocean, the carbon remains out of contact with the atmosphere for a thousand or more years. chisholm: if there were no phytoplankton and if the pump didn't exist and the oceans all mixed top to bottom, and all of that co2 in the deep ocean equilibrated with the atmosphere, the concentration of co2 in the atmosphere would more than double. so that just gives you an idea of how much the deep ocean plays a role in the global-carbon inventory and how important the phytoplankton are in keeping that pumped -- pumping downward to keep that co2 in the deep part of the ocean. narrator: by regulating carbon dioxide and producing oxygen phytoplankton play an essential role in maintaining a habitable planet. although the role of phytoplankton in the world's oceans have been studied intensively, surprisingly, the most abundant variety of phytoplankton was only recently discovered. prochlorococcus. chisholm: it's in

he did not have an organization. undiscovered was the negro american labor council was composed of several thousand black trade union mostly in the urban north stretching all the way from the york, chicago, detroit, los angeles, some smaller branches in atlanta, new ones. these people, it was the relatively small organization. elected officials, staff members of local unions, many of them are also president or officials of local civil rights organizations. and so their work in a tremendous position to mobilize people. and there were really the people that laid the basis for this massive crowd that will show up in august of 1963. i also discovered an important brega of the mobilization in black women's organizations, the key figure in this story is our own management. somebody is really one of the most important leaders of the civil rights movement and almost completely forgotten and left out of the history. the 1940's to and employment discrimination. she was one of the first people return to when he wants to renew t

humanitarian organizations? what have you seen when you've gone and helped in responding to these cries? >> last year, i was in the horn of africa and there are obviously tons of ngo's, a big crisis at the famine. the u.n. tends to run the whole thing and other organizations, everyone pitches together so you can do nutrition, sanitation after a while, people get allocated to different things. it doesn't tend to be too competitive in that situation. everyones there ultimately for the goal of helping as many as possible, and of course that means cooperating with other organizations. we worked with many, many different people over the years, and crib to do so. i think our incentive is to reach as many people as possible. >> interestingly, we're a bunch of news people here and none of us, we were having a discussion earlier, had heard about the international revenue core, even though it's had a revenue over $230 million, that's up there with doctors without borders that everybody knows about. why do you think the in

the next is to recognize an outstanding organization, a long-standing organization with the representatives of the san francisco chapter of the links. please come forward to the podium. so, as they begin to take the podium, i want to speak a little bit about the links. the links, incorporated as an organization of professional, intelligent and of course elegant women. the organization was founded in philadelphia in 1946 with a focus on education, culture, and civic engagement. there are five facets of the links, incorporated. youth services, the arts, national/international trends and services, and health and human services. now, the san francisco chapter was incorporated in 1950 of which pamela stevenson who is the current chapter president, pamela is joined by hundreds of members including today ms. angelique thompson, dr. alison metz, both are with the health and human service [speaker not understood]. these women are being honored forted work they have done in the outreach in the bayview committee for president obama's affordable health care act. these a incredible driven women have put

foods and far more healthy than even organic foods.e have a whole new generation of vitamin enhanced genetically modified products bench i think there is a bit of disingenuousness in the argument that it's a right to know. there is no interest by activists, anti-biotech organizations for right to know. if we want ed i right to know, there are labelings, genetically modified corn is modified to prevent micro toxins, carcinogen micro cock tinses wit toxins we. genetically modified golden ricin creases betacarotene which could save a million lives a year, that's information. what these groups wants is a skull and cross bones which will sen shall i demonize these products, that's what happened is europe. she wants to cut out choice, if we label we will not have any choice on these things because scare organizations are trying to demonize perfectly safe products that the science community has overwhelmingly already evaluated. >> patty, aren't those two important points? the scientific literature overwhelmingly favorable to the safety of g.m

i think it is an organization they should definitely look into. >> how does the organization coordinatewith other humanitarian organizations? what have you seen when you have gone and helped in responding to these crisis? >> well, you know, it is obviously last year i was in africa, and obviously ton of n.g.o.s there. there was a big crisis with the famine. the u.n. tends to run the whole thing and a lot of other organizations. everyone pitches together so you can be doing nutrition, sanitation, specifically after a while, people get allocated to different things. it doesn't tend to be too competitive, i think everybody is there ultimately for the goal of helping as many people as possible. and of course, that means cooperating with other organizations. and we as an organization worked with many many different people over the years. and continue to do so. i think our incentive is just to reach as many people as possible. >> interestingly, we're a bunch of news people here, and none of us -- we are having a suggestion earlier had heard about the medical core, even though it has a total r

where does the organization exert its mission and its vision in a proactive manner and to what degree does it react to what the -- the grass roots is also bringing forward? and i'm wondering if you can talk about that kind of a concept within the context of how our federation on this side of the bay functions. >> well, i think it -- it begins with strategy, and recently, we just went through a strategic planning process where we could step back and kind of take a look at the whole community and start to look where -- where the needs are and where we could make a difference, where we would be relevant and where we could make a difference. i think we were very proactive about that. so we look at these challenges, and we become proactive in trying to address those challenges through the work that we do. but we alsz have to react to changes in the veerment because as you noted earlier t environment is constantly changing. so we need to keep our finger on the pulse. the last study we did was twrour where we did an expensive community study. we need to stoort looking at maybe redoing that s

and i took it over, my organization took it over years ago from another organization that was going to give it up and part of it was that the state wasn't giving us enough funding to feed our kids and i turned around and asked st. anthony's can you help with this? this is serving the community here, we're going to lose it. so, to the credit of organizations like st. anthony's stepped up, sent the kid a good 7 or 8 years free of charge until my organization was able to raise enough funding to turn things around so that we were able to get the type of food that's a little more appropriate for little kids, but -- it was a life safer and i want to commend all your work. so, once again, i'd like to ask for a motion to forward the recommendations. ~ saver >> i'd like to second that motion. is that a motion? >> i make that motion to forward the 8 names that have been brought to us to the full board. >> madam clerk, do we need to assign the seat numbers for each of the individuals? >> okay, all right. well, i'd like to make a motion to assign karen gruneisen to seat number 1 and anne quaintanc

the more people that are involved, the better it is for the organization. that's just simple me thinking. i just want to put that out there because i don't understand how that happens. >> i understand. >> supervisor wiener? >> thank you. i'm not going to express a view on the side of the board. i think there are boards of 10 or 12 or 14 that just function 15. but i do want to say that some of the issues that we heard today and this is general comment, you don't need to -- thank you. in terms of that there are outdated bylaws and procedures that should have apparently been updated a long time ago, haven't been. we have the situation which has been resolved thanks to a lot of hard work but probably shouldn't have happened in the first place to have significant turnovers of executive directors which is not just recent thing but happened in the past as well. we see problems and apparent low moral among contractors who make the actual parade and festival work every year. and to me whether the comments whether the structure, it's a challenging organization. wheth

as you know to stop the organ harvesting. what if you're wife or family member or your people actually went to the organ harvesting are you going to sit quiet. would i like to sit safely. and please i'm asking you if you keep silent and

where does an organization do to react to what the grassroots is moving forward? and can you talk about that kind of a concept within the context of our our federation on this side of the bay functions? >> it begins with strategy. and recently, we just went through a strategic planning process. and we stepped back and looked at the whole community and looked at where the needs are and where we could make a difference and be relevant. and i think we're proactive about that. so we look at these challenges and we become proactive in trying address the challenges through the work that we do. but we there is to react to changes in the environment. the environment is constantly changing. so we need to keep our finger on the pulse. the last study we did was in 2004 where we did an extensive community study. and we need to look at redoing that study because a lot of time has passed by. we saw some of the natural disasters of that taken place where we will immediately try and step in and provide a vehicle for our donors to be able to help address the needs as a as a result

we have a lot of reasons to be thankful to organized labor. several of my colleagues earlier today referenced their own personal experiences as it relates to the labor movement and as i was listening to those experiences from representatives donald payne and mark veasey, i thought about myself and my own family growing up in brooklyn from two parents in a working-class neighborhood in crown heights. my parents were married in april of 1967. at the time they got married, they were married of the social service employees union, 371.quently became members and e.u. got married in 1967 and a short while thereafter, the union decided to go out on strike because they were fighting for improved conditions both for the workers and for the clupets that social service workers served. my parents, confronted what was an extremely difficult decision, do we trike with our union brothers and sisters, even though we will have no possible means of providing for ourselves and don't know how long we will e out of work or do we cross that picture line in defiance

we want to make sure that we get to the 40th anniversary of the organization. >> nobody wants to get any faster than us. let me go to the part that victor talked about in terms of really opportunities and where we see opportunities exist. i think there is an opportunity to standardize family engagement and really around developing a standardized system. it should say with the school district and also making sure that they are culturally base and linguistically trained personnel. and we've learned that our early childhood managers working with some of these providers and she's worked with latino providers network, she knows there is also african american provider network and asian provider network and what we are hearing is there are more support to working together and share chaelgs as challenges as well as strategies. the comment relative to the paper in terms of the secretary donovan's visit was where the student talked about the neighborhood being taken over. we think that one way in which we can help young people really aspire to these leadership roles is to help build capacity i