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

order, and it was originally $67,000. we negotiated and down to $61,000 on the ultimate -- on that alternate. if there are questions, i would be happy to address them. >> this originally came in at $10.5 million, and we are now coming up to $15.5 million. that is nearly a 50% jump from where we started. i guess one question is -- what was the original budget for this work? presumably, it did not have a 50% contingency. where is the balance coming from? specifically, why do we have such a high number of change orders? i understand that the alternates was a relatively small piece. >> difficult for me to address the first question. a lot of the changes during the course of the project were unforeseen additional conditions. once we start taking it down, a lot of additional asbestos- causing material that were not picked up in addition of -- initial surveys, issues like that. as we went through the building, for example, the topic of the bath debt was not believed to have contain any asbestos material, but the actual topping m

on the original permit comic it is -- on the original permit, it is code compliance. the revised plans showed the wall being partially in the rear yard. that would necessitate a variant. one reason for a continuance would be to do a measurement of the rear yard. there was a rearguard of 22 feet, which would comply with the rear yard requirement -- there was a rear yard 22 feet. that would probably be the best solution here. basically, and the planning code, for a portion of the deck -- under the planning code, it would be a portion of the deck, and it would also trigger a neighborhood notice at that point because we do have a policy that if it is on a noncompliant portion of the building, if the debt is on noncompliant portion, we would do a courtesy notice -- if the death -- deck is on in noncompliant portion -- on a noncompliant portion, we would do a courtesy notice. i thought continuing the jurisdiction request would maintain the ability to request jurisdiction on this permit, but as vice president garcia noted, -- is also be an appealable document, and i believe

they can view the 150 original drawings, always on display. before he died at the age of 62, fujiko created many beloved ife makoayer hba wa czybo cldren. s h.oodsped bseskin f fujiko would sit at his dk and autograph the paper the children had brought. >> reporter: these are some of the artist's original drawings. masako wanted to share them with the public. that's how the museum came about. >> translator: i remember how strongly fujiko felt about his original artwork. he spent most of his time working on his cartoons. sot' le esdrings are m. >> reporter: she wanted to find a good use for his more than 50,000 original drawings. so, she paid for the museum's construction and donated it to kawasaki city, where fujiko lived. visitors can see a replica of fujiko's workspace and tools, as well as hisbeloved cassette player. >> translator: he was always listening to music. often it was classical. but he also enjoy ed other musi, humorous japanese stories. >> reporter: the cat character receives the most attention. it has appeared in comic books and

the scope of the work originally stated seems to have changed from the original discussion about what is necessary. it seems like it is going way beyond what we're asking. what am i missing? commissioner miller: i am asking for $100,000 to do some of those tasks. the $390,000 was provided last february. maybe i am missing your question. it is a lot of money. i think some of the tasks, particularly the risk and financial analysis could be cut down. there are people we have available at the sfpuc

it was actually originally a third reich design.of what i write about in the book discusses our program called operation paper clip was put into affect after the war where america pillage third reich scientists to head up our aerospace programs and much of our military programs. turner von braun is the best example. redesigned the the 2 rocket for hitler and the apollo rockets for kennedy. but russia also did the same thing. they pillaged the scientists they could get their hands on. so this flying disc according to the engineer was something that had crashed in new mexico and the intent was for it to be a hoax. that stalin in 1947 when we are talking about the roswell crash, 1947 stalin did not yet have an atomic weapon. truman did. they were bitter rivals. so stalin made a move. fired a warning shot over truman's ball to say you may have the atomic bomb but i have psychological warfare. he wanted to send this flying disc to land in new mexico and have people come out that looked like aliens. the engineer told me that the child's e

artists were commissioned to create 100 original works of art.s was for the gardens and courtyard areas. >> be artwork does more than just hang on the wall. it will enhance the therapeutics of the hospital and will include sensory stimulation, orientation, social interaction. >> it was set into like boxes to create color filled areas in the hospital. inspired by nature, the signature painting of native san francisco birds, clouds, and the surface of the ocean waves were translated into a variety of media including glass mosaic and tapestry. the playful clock encourages memory stimulation among the patients. they used the theme of the four elements as they relate to vocation. it is a direct homage to the historical murals in the original laguna honda building. it features to large tile walls. by observing residents, the gardens created a public artwork in the form of the handrail. in one of the outdoor courtyards, the circular grouping of -- with a smooth finish. this features ten unique button sculptures with different pastel colors that function

if anything, it's a better known origin than most of us are as people. most of us have no record of our ancestors further back four or five generations. the world is bursting with language families of this kind whose ancestral languages can be reconstructed in the same way as the caucasian word above. that's enough from the book. anyway, the book starts out like that, and that is just the introduction. and what the point of the book is, is to show that there is a world of wonders out there linguistically because it's hard to get a sense of because we don't encounter a lot of those languages. but it's really as amazing as the variety of flora and fauna out there. and once we realize that there are 6,000 truly fierce languages out there instead of there being maybe 100 languages and then a whole bunch of dialects, then we're in a position to understand a lot of things about english that are harder to understand if we think that english is a normal language. so just by way of preview, oneover the main point -- one of the main points of the book is that if y

the original chaldea san francisco -- the original county of san francisco came from san mateo county. they decided it was too large a county, said the card off another county. at the time, the largest population in the state was in san francisco. l.a. barely made a presidio. they had, like, 50 or 60 people. 90% of the population was in san francisco, and everyone down the peninsula is saying if they are in the county, san francisco has this huge population, we are going to have to go along with them, so they can't get off -- they carved it off. >> it looks like it is the richmond district, but a kind of shows what was on the west side town. a great deal of it was sam, and for that reason, people thought that the weather and the san -- it was really not a place that people wanted to live, and it was going to be very typical for san francisco -- very difficult for san francisco to expand west. >> if you look at the early maps, it was 3 miles wide by about 6 miles long, this huge sand dunes that just moved around. >> here is an 1875 map of the laguna. says along the side of the map, hig

part of the piece of the original world trade center, it was singular building. was one of those great soupes blocks. this is evolving, as cities do. so i find that very natural andn reassuring. it will have variety and over time it willak take on particulr details that will make it a vospecial place of its own nature. >> when in fact, you you have to remember that the original twin towers contained 10 million square feet of density. in the master plan there are now 5 towers that distribute the density making the buildingsld lower. it's also because of the street and because of safety. but to have streets that are not with heavy shadows, to shift the sites and do the light, there's, pleasure, there's cultural activities in the center of the site, not just a memorial. >> putting back the streets i think it was a key decision. in the end the city is defined asby streets in as buildings,yt certainly new york is. >> maybe more so. >>is maybe more so. >> that's what makes manhattan unique is its grid.at you look at it and it's sort of a restrictive grid and allows an

only the language of unknown origin. otherwise it is about good jokes tell about one another program not waiting for a newspaper writer to derail the increased -- linguistic perception of it on the beach perceptive it is hard not to feel like something has happened miss it this flags and passing attention must be paid, if not in the article was somewhere that the unknown origin with the quite implication, archi is all alone and not classified and all alone is maybe less than a dialect. if the ada is a language origin must be on paper than it is lost in the. with all but about 200 of the 6,000 languages. the paper is not the only way to tell where it came from. similar languages began as one language but when populations become separated over time. they compare the word for something to do is what the word was in the parent bank raised. we know that works well in cases where the paradyne bridge was written down and hand and then also know linguistic is surprised based on the technique after verite of reconstructions and i

so they were bid as part of the original contract. now, there were additional items associated with that, like the mechanical and electrical work that were added to the existing contract. vice president moran: the reason i ask, and i will support the program, the request of scope changes are my least favorite, and i do believe in the process. you tend to get a better price, so if you have the foresight to say you are messing with this, you tend to get a better price than if you do not. the condition of the foundation, that may be a surprise. >> i fully agree with you, and i think to that extent, we want to bid out that work. the costs and to put another bid package on the street may compensate for these big savings. vice president moran: as far as the original package. >> i agree. vice president moran: you cannot have two contractors. >> we went through a lot of discussion. it was not an easy thing. >> by the way, i do not approve those on my own. i bring them up to the team, and general manager ed harrington, we go over those. vice p

so, orgy is not an unknown origin of all. it's brown from a posture from the language probably spoken about 6,000 years ago. if anything it is a better known corrigendum most of us are as people. most of us have no records of our ancestors further back than four or five generations and certainly couldn't reconstruct them from our dna and our relatives. the world is bursting with language families of this kind whose ancestral language can be reconstructed in the same way as the caucasian were above. that's enough from the book. anyway the book starts out like that and that is just the introduction. with the point of the book is is to show that there is a world of wonder about their linguistically that it's hard to get a sense of because we don't know what people are saying and we don't encounter those languages but it is amazing as the variety of flora and fauna and once we realize that there are 6,000 truly fierce languages out there instead of there being maybe 100 languages and then a whole bunch of dialect, than we are in

only it is a language of unknown origin. otherwise the article is about archie people and nearby caucasian language speaking groups that tell about one another. i met waiting for a newspaper writer together and acoustics lesson about archie. but given on the beach perspective on language, it's hard not to feel like something has happened when a language like this is flagged in passing especially, attention must be paid if not in the article but somewhere, that unknown origin business for example, with the quite implication, archie is all alone, on classical as it is unknown outside of a life less than something, a dialect perhaps. to be sure, if the idea that a language's origins must be on paper, and archie is lost in the. it's been a spoken language rather than a written one like all but about 200 of the world 6000 languages. the paper isn't the only way to tell where a language came from. a group of similar language such as french, spanish, italian, portuguese and romanian begin is one language which splits off into sever

>> yes, these are upgrades to the original elevators from 1980. all the controls and wiring has changed but the physical mechanisms are the same. >> how much energy to these use? >> with all of the things that we did hear, energy savings is about 50% from where we started. that is a significant improvement for such a major system. >> tell me how it works. >> this is the hall keypad, which controls the elevator. the system asks where you are going before you get into the elevator. imagine you are going into the airport. you would not get on the first airplane departing, you would get on the airplane that is going to the city you are going. we are doing the same here. in this case, we are going to the ninth floor. this building has security, so i also have an access card, which gives us permission, and then we go to the assigned elevator, which is elevator a. >> and this is only stopping at floors 4 and 9. i do not see any buttons in here at all, except for the door and the alarm. >> we only have the standard buttons required by code and safety, but

many of the original employees still work there. about 15 from the original 24. the best i've retired -- the rest had retired. san francisco is a creative community, and we believe if you are going to be created based and manufacturing, you should

it's also back to where it originally started in a way. and it's a shame to have a major corner like that stay vacant as lopping as it has. may i ask about how many employees, at least in the beginning, are intended roughly? >> i apologize, i want to be accurate on this. i was about to say six to eight. i'm told eight to 12. vice-president miguel: very good. thank you. the idea of kraigen being in the vicinity doesn't bother me. i had to go out to buy a specialty non-automotive item this morning, and ended up within a two-block radius going to the third store. all theoretically carrying the item until i could actually find it. so that's not unusual today. and then also, this will be the second corner in the immediate area that is being reopened. the old palace steakhouse will be opened a block away from you. so with that, i would move approval. >> second. >> the motion on the floor is approval with conditions. [roll call] thank you, commissioners. the motion passed unanimously. commissioners, you are now on item 19, case number 2011.0270 c

. >> the labor council fought hard to enact the original ordinance. to the extend that the labor council and labor wants a closing of this loophole, it need to be done in a way that does compromise the entire law enacted a few years ago. we want to make it clear that if this board goes to the point of of trying to micromanage those accounts beyond what is proposed, well not support any effort to micromanage the accounts and amend the lou in a way that jeopardizing not only the closing of the loop hole, but also the entire ordinance as amended. that is not only a message that labor is sending, but from workers, and from the assembly member who was the arthur. the last point i will make is that labor is united on this problem. a number of us have gotten later on this issue. there was a letter that went out to the board of supervisors on behalf of the jobs. the organizations on the letter head of this letter have indicated they do not agree with the position outlined in this letter. those individual have disassociated themselves from thattler. and to the

the one that says original joe's -- john is here. there is also a coca-cola one. i want to see them put the old phrase in their "the real thing." i missed that. we are also doing some restoration. it is all about making sure we pay attention to the uptown tenderloin historic district. we have done this for some years now. ever since the fire that occurred here -- unfortunately, there was a fire here a few years ago. my predecessor gavin newsom asked me to come down here to work with the arts community, come up with every idea that we could, to work with the office of economic development to please key dollars here. we are working with so many organizations working our way up this great street, finding out that there was a lot of history to showcase. we wanted to make sure that we used our artistic ability, the ability to forge artistic programs, and that is why we invested in this foundation. they are taking over the old theater. now these murals. i want to thank the people who got our two artists here. their work is presented here, in this unveiling of these adve

>> it was originally my idea and shape as we went along. we had talked about maybe doing a book on savanoroola and machiavelli. it is interesting that two people who represent diametrically opposed visions of the world or in the same place at the same time. one of the early chapters of the book, i talk about that point in which machiavelli is in the crowd while savanorola is preaching one of his hellfire sermons and machiavelli is commenting on it. he was sent there to write a report and report back to the ambassador in rome. the idea of those two people being there and have a completely opposite views of what made the world tick and what the world was about is a fascinating thing. that was pared down a bit to machiavelli. we were both interested in this period of florentine history. it is an endlessly fascinating. . >> do you have any idea how many copies of this book that the publisher thinks will sell? >> i do not know how many they ran off. i stay away from the marketing end of things. >> what is the audience from their perspective? is

host: is your original manuscript anywhere? guest: no. it was not published in its own day, in fact. as far as i know, there are no exigent copies of the written manuscript. but it circulated in manuscript in its own day and a few years after he died, it was published. but it was quite well known in intellectual circles in florence during his lifetime. and it made him actually quite notorious among the florentine intelligence. host: here's something out of chapter 15. and it's a small book. guest: that's one the reasons it's so popular. it's an easy read. host: this is in the middle of chapter 15. this particular translator uses rulers for the word "prince" all throughout. he says, "if you always want to play the good man in a world where most people are not good --" this is what machiavelli is saying -- "you'll ends up badly. hence, if a ruler wants to survive, he'll have to learn to stop being good, at least when the occasion demands." guest: that is a classic formulation of machiavelli. again, he made the rather reasonable assumption t

one of the indicators of the edge of the bay, many of the streets down in this part of town were originally wharfs. >> the ships would come in forÑa few years until the '4 9 gold rush they would offload and theseñr were wharfÑi house buildings. gold hit and the ships never left. >> so we're talking about earthquake issues and how the soils affect the earthquake stability of your home and building. here we'reÑi on an area which ws filled there is in the engineer filled. nobody figured out we need to exact it. it was filled with old ships and this sort of stuff. there's endless reminders -- in fact, i want to point out this is an old self--styled snrash block and carried -- splash block and carried water off the edge of the sidewalk. this is the edge of the sidewalk right here. >> there wasn't much sidewalk. this is before we had concrete so it might have been kobl stone. it was only wide enough to pass. >> everything got filled and looks modern, how does that affect build. >> this side is the original shore line. that side the fill amplifies the ground motion and the 1850's to now, engineers

many of the original employees still work there. about 15 from the original 24.he best i've retired -- the rest had retired. san francisco is a creative community, and we believe if you are going to be created based and manufacturing, you should do that in a creative place. if you want to make fiber products, you should do that i and -- if you want to make vibrant products, you should do that in a vibrant place. >> looking at the product here, imagine what we're arguing with a company like twitter, for example. in the benefit, they will want beautiful spaces. they will want in a beta ibm -- innovative ideas. this ain't castigation. every renovation that goes on in midmarket -- they will all of the most beautiful things to

the natural material was reclaimed land, because it was the original airport for san francisco. it was about 4,000 feet long. in those days, they had small propeller planes and it was adequate. the bridge itself is supported on case sounds that go to rock. -- is supported on casings that go to rock. it is predominantly sandstone and shale. it was the shape of a dome. it was dome shaped. because san francisco was growing, because they needed the dike, that allowed miners to come in and open quarries. and they blasted. they had no concern about environmental issues, no concern about how they would leave the quality of the rock. as a result, they opened up fractures in the rocke. even today, we are paying for their mining negligence. we read it just last year where 455 vallejo, there was a rockslide that affected properties on broadway and montgomery. at rock slide occurred because of blasting that occurred back in the turn-of-the-century that left the rock week. 100 years later, the weak rock cannot stand there anymore and it fell. this slide is a long sansome street, where the ci

>> it was originally my idea. it was shaped as we went along as most projects are. i had, we had talked about doing a book i think it's interesting that two people who represent almost dime etically opposed visions of the world were in the same place at the same time. and one of the early chapters of the book i talk about that point in which machiavelli is in the crowd while he's preaching one of his hell fire sermons and machiavelli is commenting on it. he was sent there to write a report and ropt back what he was saying. but the idea of the two people being there, having completely opposite views of what made the world tick. what the world was about. would end up being sort of paired down a bit to machiavelli. but i would certainly, both interested in this period of florin tin history endlessly fascinating period. >> do you have any idea how many copies of this book that the publisher thinks will sell? >> i don't. i'm not sure. i do not know how many they ran off. i sort of stay away from the sort of marketing end of things. >> but what's the audience? is this for

the appropriation originally approved in fiscal year 2010. with that, we would like to seek a recommendation to approve a one-year contract with two one- year extensions for liaison services with the national park service's and ask that the executive director be allowed to enter this agreement and modify any terms and conditions. if you have questions, yes to more than happy to answer them, and i have two representatives from the national park service is here. commissioner mar: thank you. questions, colleagues? and seeing none, i would like to abolish our colleague, commissioner cohen. anyone from the public that would like to speak? >> good morning. my name is nancy, the planning program manager for the golden gate recreation area. i want to express our appreciation for the support. this is the largest construction project in the history of the park, and it takes place entirely within the boundaries of the park. the potential of the impact apart resources and of the visitor experience is quite high and over a long duration. we found that the

what was the language that the -- that was translated, the original language? jesus spoke in aramaic, correct? >> probably. >> and that was first translated into hebrew? >> the jewish bible is, for the most part, in hebrew. there are a few parts in aramaic. >> then it was translated into greek for the common man. >> for the greek-speaking common jew ininus 200. >> ok. now, it's your contention, is it not, that when the translation occurred between hebrew and greek there was a mistake made. what was the mistake? >> you know, that's augustine's contention too, i'm in good company. >> you mean the saint? >> yes. yes. >> of hippo? >> yes, one of my favorites. this is something that greek-speaking christians were aware of as early as 150. >> what is the word in question? >> the word -- it's like the word for the parthenon because athena was a virgin goddess, the word is parthenos and that's the word that appears in greek of isaiah 7:14 but it's not the order in the original hebrew. >> what's the word? >> the hebrew text says ama. >> what does that translate to. >> i

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so thearilyiest sorts of living cells seem to have originated quite quickly. within a few hundred million years. so it seems likely but of course we don't know this, that other sufficiently hospitable planets will have life on them within a few hundred million years. >> this is what you say on one page of your book, the universe and common spec cease a container for everything else but the universe of modern cosmol gee, you're also an astrophysicist? so you know about the quant um theoriet cell setra? >> yes. >> but the universe of more than cosmologiy is not just a container, it's a dynamic evolving being. the initial explosive expansion slowed down as it made most galaxies and stars but about 5 billion years ago it began expanding faster and faster. the universe exists in different ways on every size scale from the largest to the smallest. and all times are within it. and it's increasing in size as massive speeds, correct? >> correct. >> now, are you saying here that the universe is smou somehow divine? >> no. >> is thine verse god? >> no. >> you're not sayi