because the original brick is no longer available we had to consider the alternative we originally considered them. and in june we met with the arc and stucco was recommended as a prefered alternative. >> we agree that it will be preferable. as the buildings were original with the stucco which was removed when they were renovated in the 1950s. >> it also a finish that will be compatible in the context of the priest or several buildings right around that area that are glad and stucco. >> and the windows and the holding place will be replaced with wood, windows that are similar to the original. >> the north and south facades are party walls and require to be rated under the previous, the aopposed approach is to put them with bricks and now we are proposing that because of constructbility issues that they be glade with the panels and the stucco wells turn the corner at the holding street for about 4 feet. and mocked up the matal panel and reviewed them with the planning staff and proposing a gray panel which will be distinct from the brick but will not attract the undue attention. >> and so the

. >> host: in this context you talk about original public meaning originalism which is not a very catchy name but can you explain what that is and how it came into play in the howard case? i. >> there is an interesting from my point of view, intellectual intellectual -- about originalism. first it was proposed narrowly as it counter toward liberalism. it was a method that was going to have content that would be nonwarren court liberalism so originalist originally began by criticizing the warren court for not relying on something of the original meaning of constitution. it started out as intention. what the framers of the constitution had intended. it turns out that is a very difficult position to sustain it for a variety of reasons. so originalism was transformed by trying to make it better. it's not a criticism of a position. they confronted challenges and they thought about how to address the challenge and they came up with the current version which as you say original public meaning of originalism which comes in various flavors but the core idea is there at these words written in the

i was told this is the original frame.is an exhibition frame, and in fact on the back, there is a label which shows that it was exhibited at the royal... painted in watercolors in scotland, and so i'm sure this is the original frame for it, and lovely frame it is, too. so if we could return really to where we started, and you're somewhat reluctant to tell me how much you paid, but anyway, we've agreed it's just between you and i, and you said you paid 1,900 pounds for it. do you think you've made a good buy or not such a good buy? well, if i had the choice of returning the painting and getting my 1,900 pound back, i'd turn that offer down. you'd turn that offer down. yeah, i still love this. well-- even if it's only worth a quarter of that. i know that you'd be disappointed, but i still love this picture, and that is the main thing to me. absolutely, and the way you say that is clearly said with a passion for the picture, and i think that's quite right. however, and i have to say i believe that it's well rewarded because i

this is the gear box, and this is original from 1913. it is a heavy-duty design that we really do not see any more today. that is probably part of the reason why this elevator has already lasted close to 100 years. this is the break for the voice machine -- teh brake. >> we have the original controller here. fortunately, the power is turned off. >> this room was built in 1913, but the national elevator cut actually was not introduced until 1921. >> tell us about this antique controller. what makes it different from a modern controller? >> the elevator is running on the original d.c. power. really simple in operation. does not include a lot of the features we would have in an elevator today, automatic door operation, dispatching, push button operation. none of those features are present, but this is the original from 1913. on this side, we have all the relays that actually control the elevator. the safety service -- city circuit, position, speed, and control of the power to the motor. >> here is a really interesting piece of historic mach

>>host: stephen meyer author of "darwin's doubt" and the explosive origin of animal life and the case for intelligent design" dr. meyer what was "darwin's doubt"? at. >>guest: great place to start the conversation i tell this story about his own theory and to he has grown up to be what is a major crisis is an evolutionary theory it was about the explosion that the theological presence of most of the groups of animals in a geological period quite a long time ago. 530 million years ago and darwin was aware of this problem in "the origin of species" he address that and the acknowledged it was a problem the basically he understood life unfolds in the slow and gradual way and depicted life as a branching trees in which the base of the tree or the trunk represented the first one sol organism all the bridges represented all forms of life that we see today and the connecting bridges were the in germany and forums -- and the reforms should have risen he also thought it was slowly because he thought random variation would act very slowly those that he conceived were minute ian small and increme

brick that the location of the original brick was a question. and it was not to be found and so, the next best historic representation would be through stucco, i guess that is the question. or, does this new information about the possibility location of the original brick would this make me difference in your original consideration about the use of the historic material? >> at that hearing we were told that the original brick was not available and we felt that the stucco was a better choice than the brick which seemed kind of not an appropriate material in terms that it was just a thick brick and that it was and there seemed to be evidence of those and since i had originally been stucco and so that was our recommendation and so so the brick situation is a new information that we didn't have at that time. if the brick is available or not. >> commissioner pearlman? >> yeah, i mean, part of the department had worked with the project sponsor about putting veneer on it and there is the sense that it looks very fake, you know, even a good one looks ve

original appearance, try to understand their original function.f we can't, we can't understand what greek art's about. the art we recognize as greek was produced in the millennium between 2,000 and 3,000 years ago. the temple at sounion was built in the great classical period of athenian triumph, but centuries before, greek society was already recognizably different from other near-east cultures. persia and egypt were mighty empires, ruled by dynasties that gave themselves the status of gods. the greeks lived in city-states under the rule of petty kings. the scale of these greek communities, never far from the sea, made them vulnerable to attack from larger forces, but also threw them back on their resources of fitness, strength, intelligence, calculation, and above all, individual heroism. the idea of the individual standing proudly independent is one of the most powerful and resilient ideas in human history. the figure of the kouros shows this idea taking the center of the stage. andrew stewart teaches at the university of california at berkeley

and which they were able to submit this week and we will look closely to the original glazing profile and then what is, it is shown in your packets what i shown in your packets has rectangular and what is submitted will have a spoked profile. >> and next, there will, rebuild the raised planner beds in the front and set backyard area and replace the non-historic glading with a raised black tile to closely match the original with the tile and the metal detail as shown in the 1940 photograph and the product sample of the tile of what they are planning to use and next they will replace the damaged metal front doors in kind also, to replace the handles to match the original 1940s design and next they will replace the 2 damaged metal projecting curved over hangs over the entry and at the art or the stream line and the section of the building, and they will plan to match the original 1940s design and also recreate and install the light fixture as shown in the 1935 and the 1940s photograph. and they will lastly repair and reenstall the historic box as shown in 1940 photograph. at the courtyar

and then i have to go back to what i said about the goals originally. we can't -- i don't want us to talk about these goals if they can all -- >> not to interrupt, but you may not have to even express that because the motion doesn't have a second. [speaker not understood]. okay, can you read it again? >> the program as we heard about it tonight does not meet the original goals, and we encourage the puc to work with the san francisco commission to craft a program that is acceptable to the commission. >> [inaudible]. >> must be the commission and the department of the environment. >> department of the environment. >> that was the original. >> the department -- thank you. i'm sorry i got it wrong. to craft a program that is acceptable to the san francisco environment commission. >> can we say all the goals? when you first crafted your original statement of concern, it was just the local hiring and the union jobs and the local buildout. is that accurate? >> yeah, i think that's fair. but technically, tom owen, if you're watching, if you can text monica, sou

>> right in the origin of species. it's one of the things that he expressed during modestly as far as the limitations of his theory i open the book by saying that when he finished his masterpiece , he thought he had to find every clue but one. the cambrian explosion was the one big thing that he knew that he had not yet explained. no, he had an idea about what my leader explain it. he thought that eventually paleontologists would find that sequence of intervening forms in the lower precambrian strata. as i explained in the book, subsequent fossil finds of actually intensified the mastery rather than alleviate it. >> where did the name cambrian come from? >> it was one of the names of the geological layers. it's a place in wales. the earliest locale. so the name was given from that location. the most famous are in canada and one in seven china. >> i want to ask you why you included pictures? >> well, in telling the story of what happened there are really to mysteries. one is the missing ancestral fossils', and that myst

. >> host: utah about the original original is some. kim you explain what that is and how that came into play with the hell space? >> there is an interesting problem from my point of view intellectual about originalism. first it was proposed that it was the mets said would be from the non ward court to regionalism he began by criticizing the warren court for something about the original meeting of the constitution and started out as what the framers of the constitution intended and it turns out to that is a very difficult position to sustain for a variety of reasons. the original is some -- originalism was transformed to make it better. this is not a criticism of those with those positions they confronted challenges they thought about how to address the challenge and cable up with the current version of the original public meeting which is the various flavors but the core idea is there are words written try to figure out what a reasonably well informed person in 1789 or 1791 would have thought what those words meant and what have unders

. >> the original goals. >> oh, all the original goals. and we encourage the puc to work with the department of the environment to craft a program that is acceptable to the san francisco environment commission. is that what you got, ellen? >> the program as we heard it described tonight does not meet all of the original goals -- >> goals. i assume. >> i want to say commission. the program as we heard it described tonight does not meet all of the commission's original goals and we encourage the sfpuc to work with the department of the environment to craft a program that is acceptable to the environment commission. [speaker not understood]. >> we can amend it now because we called the question, right? >> right. that's the question. all those in favor please say aye. actually, you want to do a roll call vote, may be easier at this point. he called the question, which -- >> do roll call. >> can we just have it read again? it was back and forth. >> the program as we heard it described tonight does not meet all of the commission's original goals

. >> this is a picture of the original mint in the western united states. when in 1852 san francisco was charted to have its own mint. the temporary quarters were in this building and cost $93,000. this building is a landmark -- california historic landmark and built the new building around it. >> on top of it too. >> and this on commercial street below kearney and it's a museum of pacific history or something like that and it is temporary -- it was temporary until the mint was built at fifth and mission street and people say is now the old mint but this is in fact the old mint and this is what pat -- this is just up the street. a little unusual house i saw on commercial street. that's all we see right now of the belli building. i couldn't be get behind it. this an old brick building that in some ways survived the 06 quake. >> a lot of the buildings did and i have a client that still owner its. right around the corner there are two buildings there and this area did survive the earthquake and the fire. >> one of the things that is most unusual about this and

if you go around to the side and there is an entrance where it is complete and if you look at the original drawing, it also i mean that it is hard to read, but it appears that and it would make sense that the corness would go straight across and i am wondering if why not while you are rebuilding that and make it the way that it really is rather than repeat whating was an error at the time to cut into a reference to a corness there and say that is what happened in 1961 and so we sudden just view that when it was not the intention of the original design and was done for expediency. >> i don't know. i am lost. >> well, it is not really... it is a question, i guess for this commission to say do we endorse the design as it is and it did not come from the lrc because there was not an opportunity and again this is a small project and relative to what we do here, but it just seems like a strange solution. when you have got this historic district and this is a building that contributes to the district and we do have documentations that shows the entrances of what the condition was most likely was a

meaning, original as some. and it's intellectual matter probably doesn't do any of the kind of work that conservatives hoped it would do. but remains an important part of the public understanding of what the court wants to be doing. >> host: it seems like the problem is often historical document can be that clear and as he said, what did someone in 1791 think about the right to bear arms? well, you thought maybe -- you could kind of come out either way. i think what she said with the originalists and you could talk and holler to make it do almost anything. >> i think that's right. i wrote a book about the second amendment in which i went through the historical evidence that the court and justice stephen relying on and i think i say this in the book, if i don't say in this book a seat in the other boat. bad judgment is if you look at the evidence with an unbiased eye, i don't particularly care one way or the other about the issues of the second amendment. i went not up for academic reasons. you look at the histo

wherever possible we will handle the original. for example, if we're going to put a new sword in our catalogue, if possible i'll go to the museum where that sword is. what i want to be able to do is take the original and take ours and set them down side by side and not really be able to tell the difference. this is a suit of armor we're building for a private individual, it's based on a german one from about 1510. if you add up every little element, yeah, there's probably close to a hundred pieces of metal in an armor like this. this is definitely an artistic endeavor; it's rlly free-form sculpture. when you're doing a suit of armor, really what are you doing but creating a hollow, life-size sculpture in more or less the form of a human being. we start out with flat pieces of steel and we hammer it out, and shape it, and fit it, and polish it, and do all of the work. what we're working on here is a custom sword hilt. we have a picture. we go from that picture to figuring out the shape. we take bars of steel like this, and with man

and so today, we will say hello, to the newly span, but we also say good bye to the original version.ps, a few comparisons between the old and the new are in order and you can follow along on your screens. the original was completed in the great depression and the new bridge as we weathered the great recession. and the cost was a little different between the two and even if yukon vert the original cost of the whole bridge end to end it is about one billion dollars in today's money and the newly span costs a little bit more than that. the duration of construction was also quite a bit different as well. and they did things a lot faster back then in the 1930s, and for one thing they did not have to tangle with someone as form mittable as willie brown. [ laughter ]. >> doing it for many decades after that. here's the clincher the old one can't withstand the earthquake. the new one can. so far as alternative transportation the folks in the 30s were quite farsighted running trains on the old bring but didn't put a sidewalk on that even though the golden gate had one. the sidewalk will go al

simply because it's to code versus what you originally planned? >> to my knowledge the person that did -- first thing i didn't do the construction. the landlords hermar did the construction. >> okay. >> to my knowledge we had no changes at all. there might have been tweaking going on in construction. that happens frequently but there was no reverse course to save $5,000 to make it less sound proof and we did what we always do and make it correct under the city codes. >> okay. >> okay. anything further from the departments? mr. dufty. >> commissioners, i probably know what you're going to ask me but i don't have the approved plans with me and this is one of the problems and we don't have the drawings to refer to the details. if there was a permit obtained to reflect the detail from the previous permit that would tell there was something different that the inspector asked for. i was out there but i deal with a lot of buildings and i can't recall what the issue was but mr. donnley is a thorough inspector and i checked and there were details for the a

>> it was still open it, and the second floor was the original waiting room. the port was very intrigued by the local business uses that would be down here. it took about four years to restore the building, and it took close to two years to lease it because we started early in the redevelopment of the building. we are fully leased. lots of wonderful partisans -- lots of wonderful artisans. >> unqualified success. >> in the 1950's, after the bridges were built, the port and the ferries stopped in the late 1950's. at the port was looking for new ways to build revenue. that is when they started to chop up the building on the second and third floor into small offices. that brought revenue, but also took away a lot of the historic elements. it was mostly restaurants beneath. then in 1972, the ferry started. in 1989, we had the earthquake that rendered the double decker freeway on safe. -- unsafe. >> in 1989, the ferry building was a symbol of the earthquake because the clock stopped and the flagpole on the top was tipped over at 10 degrees. this became a symbol of

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>> the whole backside of the building was originally line for ferryboats. it could handle about 14 boats at one time. the building was built in 1898, and the ferry boats were very popular up until the bay bridge got built in the early 1930's. at that time, the passengers shifted from taking the ferry boats out to going across the bridge and a ferry boat service diminished. >> the cars were a reduction in the use but also led to the development of the freeway in front of the ferry building, which in 1989 was damaged by the earthquake and demolished. lo and behold, we have a ferry building again after the earthquake? >> we have seen the city come around. the building was renovated and opened in 2003. at the downtown ferry terminal was expanded in 2009 perry -- in 2009. people are looking for other ways to cross the bay. they have found that the use of the ferry boats may have increased by three times it is today. >> a lot of people who are looking for alternative ways to get around, people who walk, bicycle, other transportation, less people are driving. it i

originally we were i fighting to have the clock start attorney-client on the approval. and now there's legislation only if there's a way to appeal a modification. we've been working with supervisor kim and chu for weeks now. this is not about the current e r o it's about future e r os 10 to 15 years dune the line who may try to sneak a proposal in. the recreation and parks are going to install - this was originally in january 2007 those plans to install soccer fields were categorically exempt from review. this was clearly a political decisions because neighborhood you fought back and there's synthetic soccer fields and the other neighborhoods fought back n and the rec and park backed down and they did an environmental review and the eir a big litigated. but they were no help in the soccer field struggle. again, the sierra club wanted to have the clock tick we agreed to go to support the current legislation only if we got the ability to appeal new environmental determinations of modifications. and so, please we are asking that you support the legislation that supervisor