nicholas persky, a key for being part of this and stepping forward. -- thank you for being part of thisnd stepping forward. paul rodriguez, thank you for stepping forward. rachel broadwyn, thank you. sarah armstrong, thank you for stepping forward. vanessa, thank you for being part of this. vee, thank you. that is our commissions. let us proceed with the swearing in. stand if you can and raise your right hand, those that can do so. please repeat after me. i, your name, do solemnly swear that i will support and defend the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of california against all enemies foreign and domestic, that i will bear true faith and allegiance

we have a virtual version of our exhibit on our website, and part of this exhibit, part of this conversations an open website where we are asking people from all over the world to comment on the books we've selected, but also to tell us what you think something we selected shouldn't be on our list. and even more important, why something you think should be on the list should be added to the list. and we want to hear from you. so far we've heard from over 5000 people, and we encourage everybody to go to our website, www.loc.gov/book fast and you will find the book of -- the list of the books but you also find the opportunity to put it very, very brief form of as what you think of the book and what should be on this list. >> the last book you have on your was published, india is 2002. >> yes come we can't decide to put a cutoff on a. we thought if we're really going to be looking at books that shaped america, we have to give them an opportunity, give books an opportunity to prove their worth in shaping america. so this is an organic endeavor by the library of congress. we intend to keep lookin

nicholas persky, a key for being part of this and stepping forward. -- thank you for being part of this and stepping forward. paul rodriguez, thank you for stepping forward. rachel broadwyn, thank you. sarah armstrong, thank you for stepping forward. vanessa, thank you for being part of this. vee, thank you. that is our commissions. let us proceed with the swearing in. stand if you can and raise your right hand, those that can do so. please repeat after me. i, your name, do solemnly swear that i will support and defend the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of california against all enemies foreign and domestic, that i will bear true faith and allegiance to the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of california, that i take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that i will well and faithfully discharge the duties upon which i am about to enter during such time as i hold the office of -- for the city and county of san francisco. congratulations. thank you very much. [applause] than

of the ballot measure, but i believe i heard a figure of $13 million is the part that would have to come out of the gross receipts. at least i guess that is the initial figure. is that a figure that would grow as time went on? >> that is correct. it is not linked to the housing trust fund, the gross receipts tax measure. the general fund revenues at the discretion of the board through the budgetary process, but for the purposes of our sizing of the housing trust fund, we use a figure of $13 million in year one that would be revenue generated from the gross receipts tax. >> -- commissioner antonini: ok. we do not need to do this today, but i think you had a very good presentation. i think it might have been instructive if we could in the future of the public or anyone what those figures are in today's dollars. i know it varies between whether there is one person, two persons -- the number of persons in the household, but it would be good to do that. >> to that point, i think that is agreed recommendation. a nice shorthand would be for a family of four, the income amount roughly corre

in part because of prop m and in part because of ceqa and in part because the higher fees have raised the bar and today there are very few actually entitled projects and we at tishman speyer have tried to capitalize on the locations here. this is a site we entitled in 2001. the dot com bust made us wait until we began construction and this is the only sizeable new building built from the last cycle. when we began in 2006, we felt we were early. midway through construction in 2007, we were feeling pretty smart, but we delivered this within weeks of lehman's bankruptcy in the fall of 2008, again into one of toughest markets you could envision for building half a million square foot speculative officer building, but it's a lesson in building great products and even in terrible markets you will do okay. we were able to sell it for just over $800 a square foot, which i think is a strong sign of the recovery in san francisco. also allowed to us make an $11 million contribution to the general fund for transfer taxes. [ [ laughter ] [ applause ] looking forward this is foundry square 3. this

you took out my favorite eating place and i thinkit part of your kitchen. i've been waiting for you to reopen and i think everyone else is going to vote yes. so i call the question. >> on the motion to approve with conditions, commissioner antonini, aye, commissioner borden, aye, commissioner hillis, aye, commissioner president fong, aye. >> that motion passes unanimously and places you on the final item under your agenda, general public comment that's a time members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission except agenda items. i have no speaker cards. >> president fong: i have one speaker card, dino. >> hey, how is it going in dino, i want to inviolate you to check out 474 fairly street, a neglected property. we've talked about finding some solutions to what goes on in mid-market and north of mid-market and one of the solutions is addressing negligent owners of properties. i tried to put pressure on them. we've started doing reading if you want to join us,

and one part a station entrance and one in part of t.o.d. that may or may not materialize. this implies transitory is an indication of use of site that is implied in the word that. is what the practice does. i do think that should be part of disclosure * by which this commission structures approval. i ask these questions. there is no programmatic outline of potential uses, or idea about what this building might contain, how tall, what architectural expressions it would require. we are in an emerging historical district. the state itself requires basically, ignoring the fact a building over 50 feet in width requires more modulation on the facade than this particular approved hardwood fascia is putting in front of us today. i'm asking again and repeating my question. the piecemealing and fragmentation of process, or art piece, the main feature of the building is approved before we have created conditional approval to approve the structure which holds this. for me it a confusing sequence of steps. i'm bewildered that there is quite a bit of uncertainty and unanswered questions

part of that is history has hit in beginnings. you do not get a mushroom cloud all the time telling you, boom. you have gone into a new era. sometimes you slide into a new era and you recognize that you have crossed the watershed after you're on the other side. one of the big stories in this and i do not think -- i have talked about it a few days ago, a lot of washington correspondent and a missed it and they did not know it. lewis powell is a guy we associate with the supreme court. a famous corporate attorney, former head of the american bar association. he served for 17 years and he was known as a quiet presence, a modest man. lois paul was -- louis powell had a major impact on the stealing of the american dream. i discovered it in the last couple of years. what he did was he wrote a memorandum to the u.s. chamber of commerce and said american industry, the free enterprise system is under assault from the labor union movement. from ralph nader and the consumer movement. from a salt from regulatory agencies from the environmenta

i wanted to be a part of this history. some parts i wouldn't want to be. this part was really wonderful and a joyous occasion and a long time coming. it's absolutely the right thing to do. to bring 2 loving people together, in helping acknowledge and certify that relationship, i find really wonderful and a joy and one of the most pleasurable things i have ever done in the city in my life. i will be continuing this afterwards >> when i was conducting the ceremony. some of the friends said, now it's real, now it's legal. in other words, they had gotten married before. this time, it's legal. you know, a sanctioned. it was hard for me to get to the end. i was starting to get emotional too. >> it's really one of the most extraordinary gifts to be given in life and that's to participate in a ceremony where you can celebrate the ultimate gift in life and that was falling in love. i say this because it's important to remind people. doesn't matter what position you have in life. you can't buy it and you can't force it upon anything. love just happens. when it happe

and be part of our community of interest. thank you. >> thank you, sir. >> my name is paul hogarth and i want to commend the task force for all the stuff you have done for trying to keep the tender loin whole. by keeping the western boundary you've allowed tenderloin elementary school, a senior citizen housing and homeless shelter all to stay in district six and for that we thank you. crow did a lot of great work on the boundary which was a very difficult task as far as population. you've kept the most tenderloin parts into district six and for that we thank you. i'm here with one small request. on wednesday night when you were making non-population changes you moved two blocks over by halladay [applause] yao out of six and into three. i don't think this was your intent, but what it did was took the bristol hotel, which is an s.r.o. of approximately a hundred people when eddie and market street out of six and into three. that is a problem, we are asking that you take just that one block of halladay plaza back into district si

our community colleges, as i say earlier, is the really important part. let me tell you how important. 90,000 students come through city college. we cannot let that fail. we will not let that fail. [applause] it is, i think, california's finest example of a true, urban community college. it serves 90,000 students, it has nine major maker of campuses, and more than 100 institutional instruction sites throughout the city of san francisco. and it has that because it wants to make itself available to every resident of san francisco and make it accessible by transportation, by bike or by foot, but also and most importantly, it becomes accessible because it is affordable and it is high quality. it has 815 full-time staff over 1035 part-time staff, and over 900 classified employees. offers affordable opportunities for san franciscans to earn associate degrees, to prepare for a transfer to hire institutions, or to pursue a career in technical education, over 50 academic programs, 100 occupational disciplines. city college also offers distance learning and free no

and parcel of life and for palestinians and is a part and parcel or a major part of policy of israeli policy towards the palestinians this ethnic cleansing goes unchecked and nobody talks about it where the united nations and the the issue in every newscast in every newspaper is iran it's an issue that doesn't even exist so for even a ten you know how this is a major victory and and whether or not you know president obama gets re-elected or likes him or dislikes him to tell you how this is completely irrelevant he's using this card this political card of the threat of iran very skillfully and and i hope that president obama gets reelected and if and when he does i don't think it's going to make any difference i don't think he's going to want to get himself involved in this issue any more than he has already because he's got nothing to gain and and the relationship with israel i don't see it changing at all certainly not in the next four was interesting getting you know we've done a number of programs lately on this topic and there seems that there are a number of elites of the united

right now we have heavier downpours through louisiana and central parts of kentucky and southern parts of the state of tennessee and alabama. some of the storms could produce severe weather. current drought extreme drought conditions the wos category of drought across southwestern parts of indiana and kentucky and tennessee and especially bad across the state of arkansas and missouri. most of the state is under one of the worst categories of drought. much needed rain from isaac. today severe weather risk include areas like kentucky, tennessee northern parts of alabama into mississippi cities like memphis, nashville and birmingham you are under the gun to see large hail damaging wind gusts and even tornadoes. we have tornado watches in effect from kentucky through parts of alabama and mississippi. these are in effect late night 11:00 p.m. local time. we have a severe thunderstorm watch including northwestern portions of georgia into western parts of the state of north carolina so again widespread area we are looking at for the possibility of severe weather. you can see the one line of s

and i'm very happy to be a part of it today.as you know, bayer is really committed to innovation and knowing the intricacies of science ever growing and becoming more complicated. it's pretty clear that we must reach out and compliment our internal research strengths with partners, partners from academia and tech and collaborations with academia part of our research. it's not just an incubator model, but collaboration with mutual fit of interests. we help each other really for the benefit of the patients, which is really our ultimate goal to bring treatment to the impairments. the collaborator is one of the newest models that we pursue. it's an addition to our partnering models which cover actually pretty wide spans. another example i want to give you is our grants for targets initiative, where we use the internet, really to reach out into the whole crowd of scientists, worldwide, and the collaborator is our newest addition. we do have other forms of collaboration beyond of course the collaborator and the grants for targets init

this part of the united states will play a strong part in the development of these vehicles. as well as we also started a venture firm. the venture fund operates out of new york. it started 15 months ago, we made our first investment in a company called my city way, which is working on intermodal transport. started in new york, now in 35 cities around the country and many cities around the world provided information to not only our customers, but also anyone interested in moving from a to be in a city. that has worked exceedingly well. as you have seen, we have been investing in other companies as well. the electric charging stations system is another one of those. as is our first in this and in parking. most of us leave our house is in the morning, go to work, part of our cars at work, leave a vacant parking space at home. if you can bring a marketplace together where someone can park under drive during the day, and of course, give them a certainty of where they will part, it works. many thousands of customers now are enjoying that has a potential different way of operating

the second part goes beyond children. it will be developing opportunities to educate the larger public. since most of it is underground, we are looking at tangible ways where we can take folks out and show them how the system works. what does it mean when the systems are 100 years old and you have digesters falling in on themselves? the fifth strategy is to utilize community benefit activities to build support for the program. with the adoption of the community benefits policy and the environmental policy, staff has a goal to reach out to neighbors and educate them about the source system improvement program. as part of the program, we will apply both of those policies from the outset of the project. whether it is putting community benefit projects that result intangible benefits or a 2% requirement into impacted neighborhoods, those will both be efforts that will allow us to tie these types of activities to ways to educate the public about the source system. in summary, the overarching approach to underpin ease of the st

>> no, that is part of the redevelopment area. >> okay. >> will it be part of the community benefit district, which will include rincon hill, which will help pay the maintenance. >> i know the isd is paying for a dog park around lansing street. will they be coordinated? >> i don't think that is coordinated, the one on guy park. i think that is not determined yet what it will be. there is a dog park much further south on the other side of the bridge there is a dog park. >> okay. >> that is pretty far away from this dog park. >> bryant. >> this is at least a mile or so from that other dog park. one thing we have learned is there no limit to demand for dog facilities. there isn't a place to talk your dog. >> that has been completed on beale and bryant. there is another part of the rincon hill area. it would be great to coordinate. the there is no shortage of demand for dog parks. >> there is a small park proposed on guy street. we are familiar with that. i didn't know it would be a dog park. i knew it would be a park. i haven't seen concept plans. it is small and would eliminate the need for th

part of a long-range vision. that would free up the entire sidewalk and maybe, you know, extending that a little bit within the perimeter of the current bike lane. you'd have a facility wide enough to do both. pedestrian and bicycle movement without the hazard of having the light poles in the way of moving bicycle. again, we are talking about fairly significant amendments of money. >> this is the biggest connector from this part of san francisco towards the northern part of san francisco. yeah, we have to figure out how to make these investments, do it right. stuff like this has to get done. we are seeing more and more cyclists coming from there, which is great. >> go back to the slides. i won't dwell on all the finding, i think i have touched on them throughout the presentation. the real story of octavia boulevard, what it is. as i mentioned before,ly reiterate, it did bring sitting benefits to the community. some traffic diverted else where. as this part of town grows and we seek to provide robust alternatives

but in sculpture, space is part of the work. and so, especially in this modern piece where you have very organic forms, it's not only the solid quality of the sculptural piece, but it's how space interacts with it. not only that it occupies space and it confronts space, but it absorbs space. it integrates it and uses it through the hollowed-out spaces. and we can actually then use the term positive space against negative space, and space defines. it is an active, almost physical entity in this particular work of art. therefore, when you are given the task of analyzing a work of art, perhaps writing about it, if you are able then to carefully walk around and separate the individual elements and to identify them very clearly in your mind, that is the beginning of any art criticism, of any analysis of a work of art. and hopefully next time, this program could be continued to include the most exciting part of art analysis and that is interpretation of a work of art. thank you very much and see you soon. [music] you have the right to

that is part of the conversation. i do not think we should unilaterally just listen to whatever the schering economy companies are saying, nor should we do the same for the traditional companies. it is hearing both sides, understanding the different perspectives, a managing the risks, and seeing where as a city our values are and where we should be headed. >> can i add something? i would like to clarify -- this is not us versus them, new economy versus old economy. there is room for both of us. these are complete the experiences that someone would have in the old economy. the trick is figuring out what is different about this, making sure laws and regulations and policies apply reasonably to this new economy, and make sure that there is room carved out for both. >> thanks for making that point. one more question? >> [inaudible] i'm curious if this conversation about companies devoted to schering physical space. the idea of using or facilitating, seven commercial space for nonprofits and that sort of thing. [inaudible]

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. >> this has been part of market, some of the district's but are not part of a large and rezoning -- some of the districts that are not part of the large rezoning. good ultimately, i think it would be great for the planning department to take on a comprehensive look of the neighborhood commercial district to see where the height increase is appropriate, but for now it is left of to the discussion of the supervisor's office. >> any other questions, commissioner emm? commissioner riley: chris mentioned we have heard it at the committee meeting and recommended approval. taiex i am trying to remember -- >> i am trying to remember how we dealt with that. does it just result in the taking of so did, or does it result in potentially raising it? >> the entire building depends on the amount. the floors above do not become smaller, or they would become uninhabitable, because of tight controls -- because height controls for levels. the entire building can be pushed up by that height, so the ground floor is 12 feet and building height can be 2 feet higher. if it is 12 feet, it can be 2 feet high

. >> con un mensaje que marca un parte aguas en su carrera polÍtica el ex candidato presidencial andrÉs miles de seguidores que ante el tribunal electoral vÁlidÓ la victoria de enrique peÑa nieto su lucha es de largo plazo. >> reitero no voy a reconocer a peÑa nieto como presidente legÍtimo de mÉxico. >> las palabras de lÓpez obrador fueron una respuesta directa, al seÑalamiento hecho hace 4 dÍas por el presidente electo en una entrevista a un noticiero de la televisiÓn mexicana. >> tener un diÁlogo y si lo quiere partir del reconocimiento que a esta presidencia ganada por el voto mayorista. >> peÑa nieto no lo queremos. >> afuera!. >> en la concentraciÓn hubo crÍticas al ex a quien acaba de nombrar su.... >> traidora por completo. >> estaba apoyÁndolo. >> es oportuno recordar que luchamos por ideales, no por cargos. >> una multitud llenÓ la plaza mayor para escuchar a lÓpez obrador, quien pidiÓ a mÁs de 5 millones de miembros de su movimiento de regenerociÓn nacional conocido como morena, que adopten una estrategia de resistencia civil de largo plazo. >> por mÁs que nos haya dolido est

>> in part climate.omething to do with it. >> what role does the drought play in it? >> let's talk west nile virus. the reservoir for that virus is in birds. you would think in a drought there wouldn't be many mosquitos because they transmit that infection to us but it turns out in those few standing water sources that's where the mo squimosqtos uitos breed, the bi down fleed, the mosquitos bite the birds, pick up the infection and& the birds, pick up the infection and& to us. >> why yosemite national park? >> we don't know that. but that's the hantavirus. that's where deer mice come in, close to us. they are looking for food and water and so their droppings are inhaled sometimes by us and then we get sick. >> the symptoms for that are what? >> initially you get fever, eli& gpfeeling develop a pneumonia like illness that can be very severe and also kidney failure. >> remind us what the danger of >> well the west nile virus can cause an illness with fever, but particularly among older people, people older

did the sea really part? i don't know.but to them, that metaphor meant something, and that religious or numinous experience occurred within that context. so that's a good point. yeah, warren? >> i wonder if, following this argument, if an atheist had a near-death experience, if they would come back and say, "i got to the end of the tunnel and there was nothing there." >> yeah. i was waiting for you to get one of your zingers in. but if an atheist had a near-death experience - i mean, that's an interesting point - what kind of language or description would the atheist use to make sense of that coming back? if the atheist came back, i mean, it would be a wonderful story. "what exactly did you see?" "well, i saw nothing." and that, in its own way, is exactly what the atheist had to see - the atheist saw the big nothing. yeah, chris? >> i think chung tse says it best. he was an ancient chinese philosopher. >> i think i knew him. >> well, i know you would but - sorry. do you channel him? that which can be said, "that which can

part of the country, if you look at a map of europe, is much closer to the industrialized part of westernurope. the czech republic is in a good position in terms of import and export. the distances are quite short. slovakia ends up being farther away. bratislava is very close to vienna and budapest, and is probably prospering more than the eastern parts of the country, which now seem very far away for ankind of german investment or french investment. just... they... they won't invest in factories in the eastern part of slovakia just because of transportation problems, communication problems, lack of infrastructure. countries bordering, you know, countries of the european union-- very industrialized-- have prospered quite nicely, but the eastern halves of the country haven't received the kind of investment that the western portions of the country have. narrator: slovakia initially applied for european union membership in 1995, eager for the economic and political benefits this alliance provides. membership approval is expected early this century. the e delay in membership can be attributed

he's part of a strong nuclear family. and i'm a regular person and so is he. >> charlie:hi spoke to them in an interview they very much wanted me to know or make the case for themselves that he very much liked campaigning, that he loved the ebb and flow, loved being out there, he loved all of that. yet at other times people say he doesn't, he has a certain distance and that he has a problem connecting. >> i think it's changed. the 2008 campaign was a two-year long forced march. it was terribly difficult it was a long primary. he did have to force himself to campaign. a funny thing happened in the white house you could hear in interviews by the end of the come pain everything in the obama world had a thank god this is over now we can go to the promised land, which is the white house. fast forward you start hearing people miss the campaign. we miss the excitement, magic, connect. >> charlie:missed the poetry. >> missed the poetry, et cetera, et cetera. the president seems much more enthused and assured. >> well he would rat

as part of our code, we can for good cause revoke a medallion permit holder for not driving because part of the requirement is being a full time driver. we had a hearing in june of 2010 and at that hearing, the sfmta presented the weigh bills that we had from mr. kipnis, we had 31 weigh bills in 2007, 41 for 2008 and 43 for 2009 and for general reference, each shift is generally 10 hours so we assume for sake of argument that each of mr. kipnis' weigh bills represent a 10 hour shift. during and after these hearings, mr. kipnis submitted additional weigh bills, now for the second hearing in 2011, we reviewed those weigh bills and we found numerous discrepancies and problems with those weigh bills and i'm going to introduce mr. scott leon who's been the investigator from the very beginning to go over those discrepancies with you within our timeframe. thank you. >> good evening, board members, commissioners, my name is scott leon and i am the investigator for the taxi services. part of my duties is to ensure the compliance of the full time driving requirement for the taxi medallion holders

i go through the soprano part, and i teach them their part.altos and teach them their part. ♪ jesus is a rock in a weary land, ♪ sing that. (choir singing) ♪ jesus is a rock in a weary land, ♪ ♪ a shelter in the time of storm. ♪ you take one voice part, leave it alone, you take the next voice part, teach them their respective part, couple them together, and then put the third part together with it. that's called layering. that's an effective tool for teaching by rote. ♪ jesus is a rock in a weary land, ♪ ♪ a shelter in the time of storm. ♪ (hammond) after rehearsal, they take the words home with them. very often, they'll tape the rehearsal, and then they learn their parts at home. when they come to the next rehearsal, they're prepared. what i'd like to do now is to start with the tenor section, then the alto and the soprano, and then i'll add the bass. they don't have the music sitting in front of them because that destroys the power of the text that gospel music can bring. so memorization is a very, very essential element in communicating eff