an thank you to sonya for making the transition into the commission so seamless. thank you very much. commissioner hechanova: as a working body, as the complement's continue to really have this category of momentum, the wheels that are rolling forward, there is significantly more work to be done, and the category is not that we are missing, but the people that are now in the position to keep the wheels rolling. this also set the bar a little bit more higher where we have achieved and that category of how to achieve those is the transparency of making sure that the safety and welfare and health of our fair city is really at the apex of our objectives, and the category here that the core value of those objectives are clear. and that's the way the permitting process is fair and transparent. last but not least, i would also like to extend my personal thank you to sonya, who has been terrific to step in and a step in boldly and more than adequately the wide and a big shoes of ann ahe andr also the strongestn directivee and i, opinion and the guidance that john malamut

an thank you to sonya for making the transition into the commission so seamless. thank you very much. commissioner hechanova: as a working body, as the complement's continue to really have this category of momentum, the wheels that are rolling forward, there is significantly more work to be done, and the category is not that we are missing, but the people that are now in the position to keep the wheels rolling. this also set the bar a little bit more higher where we have achieved and that category of how to achieve those is the transparency of making sure that the safety and welfare

. >> sergeant her man was meeting with sonya quevas, whose drug use brought her back to jail on her thirdviolation. >> tell me something, what is going to keep you other than your kids, from not come hearing again? >> my plan is to actually complete my ged and find a job to keep myself busy. >> each day you have to choose and decide what is sonya going to do today. if it doesn't feel right, you know it's wrong, leave. run. that was my word for you today i'm happy you have your mind set on doing the right thing. >> yes, i thank you and appreciate it. >> no problem. >> thanks. >> you're welcome. >> when we were filming the exchange, i couldn't help but think that sergeant her man was getting through to her. but as soon as she left, the other side of sonya emerged. >> make sure you don't come back in here anymore. >> yes, ma'am. thank you. >> as we were placing her back in her pod, she was doing it for show, for the other inmates, but her comment as i closed the door she said "i'm going home i'm going to smoke a blunt" makes me very upset and she knows i heard her and snowes that i will prob

. >> i want to thank sonya davis, one of our peacemakers in the community.ealer, civil rights attorney, and she has been a member of the restorative justice for youth program in oakland. linda. [applause] >> good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to the koret auditorium of the san francisco public library. i'm a member of the african- american interest committee here at the library. it is our hope that you will be profoundly moved and inspired by what you hear and see today. social justice is concerned with equal justice, not just in the court, but in all aspects of society. this concept demands that people have equal rights and opportunity. everyone, from the poorest person on the margins of society to the wealthiest, deserves an even playing field. every race, every color, every culture. what happened in 1955 is not unlike what is exploding out of the headlines today. it was a young person's death that started the uprising in tunisia. it is young people on the front lines in egypt. slowly but surely, the young people in sudan are following suit and rising u

. >> we could easily make that change and send it out through sonya. you could agree to this with that caveat, or we could consider it at the next meeting. i just want to make sure that -- or just reiterate that having any changes happen on the 15th will make it very difficult to get it into all the information forms, so it is not just passing it on to them, but we have done it before and would be glad to again. >> i actually think that this is the second reading. we have gotten some clarifications, and it seems like we could make these amendments to help define the justification. i think that we should just vote on it. i think that all of it has been explained, and this is why we have a special meeting. commissioner mar: i am also kind of concern -- i want to make the budget document as clear as possible, but i am also concerned that we do not get into employee classifications, description of their work or work assignments because, to me, that is not part of the budget process, either. it is a fine line we should not get into because i'm sure all that

. >> just a few more recognition sprint we're joined by current commissioner, signed a, -- sonya, as well as a representative from the office of nancy pelosi, the san francisco political committee. they do women's policy summit in september. for gin and harman, former director of the human rights commission, and galena -- helena. thank you so much for joining us. >> our next award goes to the unsung heroine, carol ito. she is bed a passionate advocate for women of all levels of the community. she was one of the founding members of the national asian pacific women's movement in the late 1970's, which resulted in the development of the local bay area group, pacific asian american women. the have been running 30 years. she recently completed three terms as a san francisco airport commissioner. please join me in welcoming carol ito. [applause] >> thank you. i am very humbled this afternoon to join all of you. i want to thank shelly's committee and everyone who made this happen. i am honored to share many of these honors. many of us have work together for the various causes and policy cha

sonya is an artist and she's done snow circles before. this pilot andot said, she's coming to town. let me contact her and see if i can film some of this. they worked together and she created this cropcicles. >> good name for it. >> took about three hours this past sunday to do it. she uses snow shoes and basically didn't map anything out. it's very organic. she told people this is how you do it and sent them out and this what is they came up with. >> a team of people did this. >> there were only five people that did this. >> from a high vantage point almost looks like needle point or stitching or embroidery. >> like a quilt. >> when it starts to get warm all probably going to melt, right? so the art will be lost forever. at least this photography gives it a chance to live on. >> looks like he was flying a remote control drone. >> a digital slr. >> remote controlled helicopter with a digital camera hanging at the bottom. >> it's like art but also a workout. >> put a good play list on your ipod and off you go, go march around in the snow. >>> i got a video of some competitive eating

. >> to tell us more about his interest in a million dollars we have little liam and sonya, his mom, right here via skype. was this video completely spontaneous? >> yeah. we were hanging out. i'm a photographer so i take lots of pictures and visdss of him. he seemed to say no to everything until i said a million dollars. i don't think he knows what that is. >> do you want a million dollars? you do? >> do you have any theories as to why the million dollars made him say yes? >> i think it's because he was looking at the expression on my face and i must have been smiling or something and -- >> can we ask liam a few questions? >> sure. >> okay. liam, would you like some pepperoni pizza? >> i don't think he likes the sound of that. >> i think that's a no. >> would you like a gold and diamond ring? >> yeah? >> okay. >> do you want $2 million? >> do you want $2 million? >> uh-huh. >>> it's a standoff between seal and rottweiler. >> my money is on the seal. >> see who wins this beach front meet and greet. >> and if you love coffee, you're going to love this. yep. it's a mosaic made of coffee

. >> sonya and robyn are heading for work in of kosovo. they are germans working for eu border police in the region. a helicopter takes them to their 48-hour shift on the border. >> normally, you get in the car and go to work and start working. everything is a bit more complicated. the eu pays 4000 euros an hour for the rented helicopter. aircraft rather than police cars are used here. since costs of a became independent four years ago, and eu mission has been active here -- since kosovo became independent. the mission includes police and customs officials. >> as for now, there has not been much to do. there have not been many pedestrians or cars coming over. >> it sounds like a dream job, but it is actually a sign of tension. some 30,000 serbs live along the border. they do not recognize kosovo as an independent country. the dispute has become increasingly fractious since the summer. radical serbs have positioned themselves near the border checkpoint and are deciding who can cross. officers from the e you are not allowed over. that is bec

ann, now retired, and sony up for their tireless work and keeping the officially connected -- and sonya for their tireless work and keeping me connected. frank was here when i got here. he was just a wonderful commissioner, wonderful friend, and also reuben. reuben was my vice-president for a couple of years, and i enjoyed working with him. kevin. enjoyed working with him. also warren mar. i have a lot of great memories. i remember when president who was president -- he was on the commission for two or three years, and when he left -- i remember him saying to me, "i have been on this commission for four years, and you know what? i feel like i have not achieved a god-damned thing." i could not relate to that kind of statement. i think we have made some remarkable achievements. commissioner walker deserves a special mention because we were at loggerheads so often. however, as you all know, i prefer to look them in the eye. if i had anything to say -- she is not here today, so i will leave that alone. the sweetness in parting is the extra time i will have to be with my wife, my daughter an

kevin and sonya are the few who are not here to party. they're members of a special unit called a hit team. it may look random. the leader of the team is very precise in what he was looking for. i noticed when you were coming down here, you were very targeted in some of the things you were doing. trash cans. bins. >> yes. we're always checking the trash cans. the newspaper boxes. the vehicles, police cars down through here. stage areas. she is trained to detect explosives, only. >> reporter: in other words, they're looking for the signs of a lethal combination law enforcement fears most this week. a crowd, a bad guy, and a bomb. >> what happens if we have crime, or a significant incident, in the midst of 3,000, 4,000, 5,000 people. how do you deal with that? >> reporter: they're among the team of multiple agencies, the fbi, local police, and the military, roaming the streets tonight, sweeping for explosives. biological and chemical weapons. even nuclear ones. all this fact, that despite the fact, police admit, right now, there's no specif

last but not least, i would also like to extend my personal thank you to sonya, who has been terrific to step in and a step in boldly and more than adequately the wide and a big shoes of ann ahe andr also the strongestn directivee and i, opinion and the guidance that john malamut has provided me in my presidency and during my years as a commissioner and vice-president. thank you very much. in light of that, let's move on and get back to business. thank you. >> first, and went to officially welcome commissioner melgar to the commission as well. and just to say thank you to commissioner hechanova, murphy, and commissioner roegner, though he is not here, and i thoroughly enjoyed working with you guys. you have been instrumental in getting me where i am and of the department. i am sure that ann sends your well wishes as well. next, any comments on item number two, the president's announcements? seeing nine, item number four, report, discussion, and possible action to approve the department of building inspections proposed budget for fiscal year 2012- 2013. commissioner hechanova: number 3

wife sonya. two children. jewish and unitarian. politics, independent. massachusetts institute of technology, b.a. computer science and literature. kurzweil technologies. parent company to nine companies. specializing in artificial intelligence. speech and character pattern recognition. and technology trend forecasting. founder and ceo. 31 years and currently. national medal of technology, the nation's highest honor in technology. recipient from president clinton. 1999. half million dollar m.i.t. prize. the nation's largest award in invention and innovation, winner, 2000. inventions, numerous. including the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind. and the first large vocabulary speak recognition instrumentation. author, five books, including "the age of spiritual machines, when computers intelligence." and coauthor of the brand new "fantastic voyage" live long enough to live forever. hobbies, cycling, hiking. ray occurs. ray kurzweil and mark grossman on the live line from denver, i want to comment on the book that you've put together. this b

estÁn separadas, de sus niÑos con la necesidad de venir a nuestro paÍs y superarse, es el caso de sonyatenÍa que adoptar mi esposo a mi hijo que tengo en mÉxico, estoy muy triste. vive uno con ese miedo. >> mario, es una historia muy triste que se repite familias separadas por el status migratorio, cuÁnto tiempo le puede tomar a sonya? >> asumiendo que cuando se casÓ el niÑo tuviera menos de 18 aÑos, si es -ese es el caso, en cuestiÓn de nueve meses lo puede traer, el consulado va desde bien de la polÉmica de que ella no tiene estatus, pero es soluciÓn porque hace cuatro semanas vienen cambios en las regulaciones en la cual la misma forma el ciudadano americano la va a poder pedir, cuando vengan las instrucciones por las formas le da a ella ese perdÓn, y soÑaba a poder salir a mÉxico recoger su residencia sin ningÚn tipo de peligro, asÍ que excelente noticia para ella, vaya de nuevo ante la licenciada de seguro, que en ese momento no tenÍa esas nuevas leyes, porque aunque no tenemos las instrucciones en este momento en cuatro o cinco meses, va a poder aplicar con su perdÓn aquÍ y si en

that, in a sense, the system betrayed him because his sentence for the same crime of the murder of sonya rosenbaum was, in his mind, much greater than his cohorts. in actuality, everybody took a plea bargain. he went to trial, so he ended up getting a more severe sentence. >> i vowed that wherever i got out of jail, i would pay frank rizzo and his party back for what they did to me. >> we have criminals walking our streets that will never be rehabilitated, cannot be rehabilitated and should be put in prison. >> the overarching focus for him was frank rizzo and for 24 years in prison, that feeling festered. >> in 1993, he died of a heart attack on the campaign trail. i felt the mixed pleasure of both pleasure that he died, finally he died, but also felt cheated. and i still had in me this desire to get back at him. >> if mcfadden's vengeful, it's not apparent. he seems to become a model prisoner, reverting to islam, taking college courses, and helping guards restore order during the notorious prison riots. >> he's a bright guy, he understands how you manipulate the system so that it works

sonya tells the judge she wasn't hurt or scared, the ruling? john hurley said the husband should pick up his wife, get dressed and take her out to her favorite restaurant, which is red lobster. after dinner he should take her out bowling that is what she said is one of the things she liked to do. the judge getting a lot of flack, he wouldn't have ordered such a whimsical ruling if the charge was more serious or if it looked like the wife was hurt, also first offense for the husband. the judge also ordered marriage counseling for the couple. so, how do we feel about this? did the judge give the right ruling? it is our "get real" this morning and a strange one, right? because domestic violence is one of those charges when you ask someone if they are afraid of their spouse in front of the spouse and if you ask them would you like to get back together, most of the time even in severe domestic violence cases they say yes, i'd like to get back together. did the judge do the right thing? >> talking about people's worse moments on national television,

as an elementary school student when i was 8 or 9 years old and give a shout out to tiffany, renee, sonya to which i used to jump rope on the playground of ps 83 in the east bronx. >> you jumped rope with them? >> i did jump rope with them. >> maybe we will do it on the program. and for some reason we went every day, we would sing "greatest love of all." the children of the future, this was our -- like our sort of anthem as 8 or 9-year-olds. chefs a massively iconic figure. and, you know, it is hard to know how to react. clearly it it happens, there is this sort of -- arc we have seen people have tremendous success and fema and that brings with it or facilitates personal demons that everybody has. and millions of people have outside of the public life. but to watch it happen unfold is sort of extra tragic, i think. >> absolutely. being a little older than you, i was sitting in graduate school listening to her his album. home wax when i am supposed to be doing my homework and work. over and over and over again until the grooves war down. i would tell my friends her second album should be h

yeah, sonya. i'm going to get them.goes down the hall again, reaches in his other pocket and has bigger holes. and his self-esteem dwindles more. his wife says we've been married 15 years. our anniversary is friday. what are we going to do for our anniversary? now he has tears in his eyes. yeah, baby, we are going to have a good time friday, noting that he can't fill anyone's dream. and then it gets to the point that his self-esteem has gone so low until when he gets up in the morning to go brush his teeth or his hair he realizes that a guy in the mirror i do not like. how does a man not like himself? god didn't intend for him not to like himself but someone set the stage for him not to like himself. and someone said drugs. all you guys in here or may be back in college, most of you saw that movie billy holiday and remember the scene where the boss is going through the south and he saw the kkk their sheets and had a big cross burning? she was going crazy like what is this racism? and a kind of depressed her and put her

yeah, sonya. i'm going to get them.goes down the hall again, reaches in his other pocket and has bigger holes. and his self-esteem dwindles more. his wife says we've been married 15 years. our anniversary is friday. what are we going to do for our anniversary? now he has tears in his eyes. yeah, baby, we are going to have a good time friday, noting that he can't fill anyone's dream. and then it gets to the point that his self-esteem has gone so low until when he gets up in the morning to go brush his teeth or his hair he realizes that a guy in the mirror i do not like. how does a man not like himself? god didn't intend for him not to like himself but someone set the stage for him not to like himself. and someone said drugs. all you guys in here or may be back in college, most of you saw that movie billy holiday and remember the scene where the boss is going through the south and he saw the kkk their sheets and had a big cross burning? she was going crazy like what is this racism? and a kind of depressed her and put her