but peale also thought he would try a print. he had learned engraving while in london from 1767-1779. his maiden efforts were guided by expert london printmakers and supported by a thriving industry, which included technicians to prepare the plates, skilled printers, and a consumer market. i am taking you back to the print of charles lee as an example, a technically demanding process. the metal plate was roughened all over by a rocker and sharp tools, and the engravers worked in reverse from black to white furnishing down the sharp point of metal to create lighter tones and highlights. everyone admired the english comprising its range tones from dark velvety black to soft grays. it was especially suitable for portraiture and considerable money could be made. so, peale thought he would give it a try back in america, noted -- noting in his diary in 1778, began a drawing to make a mess of tinto -- mezzotinto of washington. a long-lost mezzotint and they were thrilled to finally identity one in the early 1990's for its modest size a

is it pealing off? >> it is pealing off in some areas areas. >> okay. any questions from the commissioners? >> yeah time left if you have anything else? >> i think that's it if you have questions, let me know, otherwise, we do feel it would help the underlying civil issue, it would help if you held this in abeyance, at the least, wait for the property owners, to be finalized, to return on the aabatement order. >> thank you. we will take public comment. >> is there any public comment on the item? >> my name is david ron, i'm the surveyier that performed this survey i worked for martin ron surveys, we specialize in boundary issues in san francisco. to address some of the confusion going on. what we did when we were there, when you look at the walls, you can see they're not straight, they're bowing so we looked for worst case scenarios, to show what was happening, if you look at the survey in front of you, on the easterlily side the two story garage building, below half way up the page, it says below 2 feet clear up. >> if you could put it on the overhead.

and p gets approved there is a lot of work into those assets we're prop e e pealing portfolios a lot of title and legal costs those sorts of things assuming the p and p is approved this year. >> thank you. >> you're welcome. >> i might have to take a break so - since we're talking about attorneys let's talk about the legal budget yes and commissioner singh needs to leave. >> i have to go. >> right now. >> so we have a quorum - >> so that when my staff arrives for we'll have to take a break it shouldn't take more than 5 minutes okay. thank you. >> okay. so i think what he wanted to ask the question on is deputy general council position just more than more of a procedural point how are we're going to go about hiring i guess it is an employee of our agency employing do we go through i don't know with when it comes to hiring lawyers as an employee do we go through a procurement process or more of a handpicked process because we need people in quickly. >> certainly commissioners we have a position we have a classification and former agency one hundred clarification for various work we don

i do want to emphasize the case is oun peal to the california supreme court because of the berkeley hill side decision, a different issue involving the unusual circumstances decision. we can't rely on it. there is nothing on point and think the board is charged with determining is this a reasonable inturpitation of what it means to be on the cor teasey list if a site is cleaned up and remediated >> okay so & so with that colleagues we are at 3 thurtd clck and have 3:30 comidations. because we specially are honoring small business we know we want to do this as efficiently and quickly as possible because we want to make sure that we respect their time and so we are going to leave our 3 p.m. special order and start with recognition of our honorees here today. as many know today we are celebrating small business week with over 80 thousand small businesses in san francisco. we are joined by our outstanding businesses from each of the districts and before we get started everyone under board rule 4.13 which limits each comidation to 5 minutes each that include your comabouts as supervisor, your

unionize workers are taking part demanding the repeal peal of a law making it easier to fire employeest in the west of the united states is forcing cities to cut back on water use. it's also hurting farmers who grow most of the country's fruit and vegetables. nasa researchers are warning of a megadrought in the decades to come. rob reknelleds reports. >>reporter: normally these peaks are covered in snow in the u.s. state of washington. this year they're only at 16% of normal. that's bad news for farmers and - vendors at this fruit and vegetable mark. >> cherries peaches, water mel lops honey due. >>reporter: the governor declared a state of emergency. >> we're seeing things happen at this time of year we've just never seen before. >>reporter: it's expected to cause more than a billion dollar in crop losses this year. the state is offering some incentives to farmers to sacrifice some crops for water savings. a new study predicts parts of the u.s. will suffer dry spells lasting for decades. using tree rings and computer modelling scientists at nasa and columbia university forecast drough

fall to do more extravagant planning retreat that everyone will be asked to attend so keep our eyes pealed did other date for our annual summit is june 8th so if you're available that is the date we'll moving forward with the bans variability of the chief and speakers and invokes we typically asked to come not required for you as commissioners but if you're interested just write that down that's all for me i'm going to turn it over to my inspectors to be as brief as possible as well. >> thank you, director cain and hello commissioners one thing to mention we had one incident over this past weekend at squiggle 5 61 geary 239 in the police report i saw the officer made mention the footage was not available to the police department because the no one at the business knew how to operate the equipment i'm waiting on a call back if the establishment to change their policy i'm sure they do have someone always on site to be able to assess that equipment we had two successful outdoor events over the past weekend and the cherry blossom festival in japantown and the groves on the road that happened o

have the numbers of the awning as well as the glass walls which are a 2-step process as well as pealings by june meetings, we should have all with the exception of the rooftop park. >> will the risk analysis be done by then as well. >> yes. we are open to have it by now, in two weeks we will have it. >> if we were to vote in july on the expenditure side we have a fairly pull if i canture and on the revenue side there are things coming later in the year it seems like it's less a matter of exactly wa we end up on sponsor ship on parcel f it's how much we're pulling from other sources that could be phase two. to that end it could be helpful. as we go along if you could show us what was originally envisioned from phase two from landfills and melarus what trade offs we can see easily how much we're pulling from phase two to the extent landfills are coming in what we initiately anticipated and that's helpful that is not necessarily drawing. >> so i guess my last question kind of back to schedule and burn rate i would think that a project of this size at full construction is probably an order o

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officials and proposed eliminating the 280 freeway and instead routing trains and eventually high peal speed rail. >> oh 0, i think they were startled. >> the mayor admits there were a lot of questions particularly about eliminating the fourth and king rail yard. this is the busiest station in the call cal-trans system. supervisor scott weiner is lined up with the mayor in proposing the plan studied sglit is ridiculous we are taking up thin credibly valuable land storing rail cars that should be located elsewhere. this is an opportunity to study that. >> less enthusiastic are the folks at cal train. it is their yard the plan would eliminate. >> we don't have enough space at locations along our system to store the train answer they need to be there to begin service when the customers arrive at the station. >> reporter: cal trains says there is a lot of unanswered questions. but a spokesperson says that's why the proposal should be studied to give us a new way of looking at getting around in the future. reporting from above 280 here in mission bay, mark matthews nbc area news. >> we're 1

such language but there is no sign of this it seems to me we haven't progressed beyond norman vincent peale little low and shakespeare. and psychiatry at don't think is in much better shape. the diagnostic and statistical manual of the american psychiatric association provides checklists of symptoms and if a person has a certain number of symptoms he is regarded as having an illness or at least for the most important purpose which is insurance. but many of those symptoms are normal experiences of daily life and i may tell you i personally examined from 10 to 15,000 people who have attempted suicide and i only ever heard the news the word on happy three times out of thousands and they all used the word deep first instead. that is an important semantic shift. it is hardly surprising when you add up the prevalence given at the bank the average person has 2.5 psychiatric conditions year. in other words we are all practically all of us, none of us is normal and we all need a psychiatrist if we can find the normal one that is. with this approach you can make up the disease is as you go along. if

a federal peals court has ruled that the program to collect telephone data is illegal.n correspondent peter cook has details. peter: this is the latest twist in the debate over the government surveillance program. seven legal reviews of the patriot act and particularly the collection of american phone records by the national security agency. the appeals court has ruled that the program exceeds authorization in the patriot act itself. the program itself is illegal. does not rule on the constitutionality of this and what is important is that congress needs to, by next month, decide what to do with the program going forward. we authorize it and allow it to move forward as it is currently with government holding this data and enabling to search it and look for evidence of terrorism or should the phone companies, perhaps, collect this data. this will affect that did they going forward. this is a blow to supporters of the patriot act. particularly a blow to supporters of this program and will shape the debate in washington to come. not the final word but a major turning heart

expect an appeal and the huh peal i hope is not heard by the commissioner. because incommissioner should remove himself so he's not involved. right now, it is going to be heard by the commissioner. >> let us know what you think. does the punish fit the alleged crime? e-mail us friends@foxnews.com. >>> another exclusive last night. megyn kelly sat down with jeb bush. they talked for about a half an hour. he had a grade soundbite we wanted to play you regarding in many cases across this land faith is being squeezed out of the public square. >> this incredible country of ours we need enough space for people to be able to act on their faith. when they do, they do good. they feed the hungry. they take care of the homeless. they protect people. they love people. that's the beauty of our heritage and our faith. i was deeply troubled by hillary's statement that you have to put your faith and your convictions in some lockbox i guess and not be able to act on them. >> first time we've heard that this cycle. >> incredible interview there. >> i think one thing is going