i have highlighted in yellow 150 of this. -- otis. there are joint uses, both subterranean and at surface. as these rights that are granted are considered by my office to be roughly equivalent to the wrights received in the reciprocal declaration, no money shall change hands as a result of the agreement. each party mutually benefits. we have representatives from the mayor's office of housing, chinatown cdc. chairperson mar: is there anyone from the public that would like to speak? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, can we move this forward with a positive recommendation with the objection? -- without objection? thank you. >> item two, ordinance ordering the jurisdictional transfer and sale of city property at ocean avenue and phelan avenue. >> john updike, real-estate division. this project has quite a long history. i will give you the recent version, give you some context of what is before you today. on december 4, 2008, a final environmental impact report and monitoring program of the balboa park area station plan, w

elisha otis -- elijah otis successfully demonstrated the safety device he had created. even of the elevator and he cut the device, and he did not fall. everyone was impressed by that. in 1857, the oldest brother's company installed their first passenger elevator on broadway in new york. believe it or not, many of those first elevators were actually started and stopped by a hand broke. >> what drove those old elevators? what was their motive power? >> in some cases, they might have even been hp. >> and then changed to electric? >> electric cited to come in the 1890's, and that was around the time when the elevator stopped from material handling and started to be used more frequently for passengers. in 1878, there was a demonstration of the other thing that allowed architects to build taller buildings was the advent of a higher quality steel manufacturing. in 19003, the first production year track models were introduced, that it was when things took off. >> that mostly happened in new york city? >> lower manhattan was the first place that took off, then chicago. those ear

they said goodbye to each other crucial for apologize to the painter for his attack on evelyn god otis at the minish gallery soon many years earlier. or shamed him with. he said. to me as i looked at. the leading artists said. i was very angry at him. but i started shouting at. us and those official guys took advantage of that. it came about. they were built. there was a catastrophic shortage of. crucial try to resolve the problem by building. a prefab apartment blocks. because they do. but at the time they were breakthrough in housing development. then it was a rail holiday when people were moved from the filth of poverty to new houses. about the end of his life. never talked about removing stalin's cult of personality in the soviet union he didn't even speak about the rehabilitation of political prisoners. he talked about how he provided thousands of people with new homes he always thought of people. crucial for remains a controversial figure to his death his son has lived and worked in the united states for many years in the country that is fun to overtake and. crucial remains loyal

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i'm otis livingston. ncaa college basketball action, top-ranked ohio state beat minnesota to remain undefeated. ben hansbrough had 25 points and eighth-ranked notre dame topped rutgers. number 18 wisconsin dominated michigan state. in the nba, dwyane wade had 28 points and miami beat the l.a. clippers and boston downed orlando. for more sports news and scores, log on to cbssports.com. along the way. you leg >> kroft: after his court case ended in december of 2009, gotti returned to his home in the fashionable village of oyster bay, long island. at age 47, he is married, with six children ranging in age from four to 20, and he is now trying to acclimate himself to being a free man. even though he claims he is no longer part of the mafia, or "the life," as he calls it, there are things about being a gangster that he misses. >> gotti, jr.: i was in the life. i was active in the life. i embraced the life and everything that went with it. but a lot of what you've heard and seen about me is fiction. there's fac

onto our commentator, james otis and is professor of philosophy and economics in new york, and the charles senior fellow at the fund for american studies in washington, d.c.. he received a ba from university of notre dame, m.a. in philosophy from the university of wisconsin milwaukee, and advanced degrees including ph.d from the university of chicago. his has taught me was at georgetown university and the university of alabama. he is the author of adam smith marketplace of life, and actual ethics by the same publisher in 2006. the latter when the 2007 templeton enterprise awards. he is the editor of the levelers. i know we were against them, but i guess that's probably not right. okay. you can always get straightened out at these things. and he's also the editor of adam smith's writings which appeared in 2004. his book "adam smith" will be published in 2011 and he is currently working on a book and he is very industrious, won't you agree? he is currently working on a book on the roles of adam's socialism. will you please welcome james otteson, please. [applause] >> thank you. it's a pleasu

in 1761 the famous colonial leader james otis challenged these writs, arguing that, quote, a man's house is his castle and while is he quiet, he is as well-guarded as a prince in his castle. this writ, if it should be declared legal, would totally anye light this privilege. -- annihilate this privilege. 250 years later the patriot act restores those roving searches. in the audience that day in 1761 was a 25-year-old lawyer named john adams. he would later recall, quote, every man of an immense crowded audience appeared to me to go away as i did, ready to take arms -- arms against writs of assistance. then and there was the first scene of the first act of opposition to the arbitrary claims of great britain, then and there the child independence was born. the american founders responded with the fourth amendment. it provides that before the government can invade a person's privacy, the executive branch must present sworn testimony to an independent judiciary that a crime has occurred and that there is reason to believe that an individual should be searched for evidence of the crime and the

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john adams sthaid this was the spark that got the revolution going when james otis was talking about writs of assistance in the 1760's. the king was granting writs of assistance through his soldiers. now we have essentially government agents akin to soldiers writing warntdzs. it is rife for abuse. even the f.b.i. when they did their own internal investigation, they areviewed 1,000 f these national security letters and found that 10% of them were in error. the area thing for those who say, oh, this is just a subpoena, it's just your bank records, no big deal, should be wary of this: people have gone through the fisa court and been turned down under section 215 and not gotten a warrant and done an end-around and gotten national security letters. i think it is something so basic to our constitutional republic. i tell people on and on, i am a big defender of the second amendment of but you can't have the second amendment unless you defend the first amendment of you can't have the second amendment unless you defend the fourth amendment. we need to defend the right to be free of search and