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the balance of san francisco not represented by the leader is represented by congresswoman jackie speer represents other parts of the bay area. she has been a great voice in washington for us as well. speaking on behalf of her, i want to welcome brian perkins. [applause] >> good morning. i am a senior adviser for congressman spear and she regrets not being able to be here this morning. she did ask me to read this statement. i want to thank the transportation agency for investing in transit as well as improvements that will create a rapid the scoreboard. for some, the only answer to our energy needs is more drilling. production is way up already, and including canada, the u.s., and mexico, we are already the new middle east. i am proud that this administration and the bay area are making a point of that independence about employing local workers in bus factories and improving public transit to move citizens or quickly. the home of companies making diesel fuel for by engineering, we also challenged americans using science for smarter buses and dedicated traffic lanes for bus service. but

. >> it's not only the swinging speers, it's light bulbs. >> oh, weird. so -- wow.light being sent down this line of light bulbs. >> is your mind blown? >> yeah, a little bit. like 50% blown right now. >> 50% sgloblown. >> you know what's going to blow your mind even more? how this works. our techpert is here. >> like some other things i've shown you, it's kind of cheating. if you check out the light bulbs on the outer end, you can see this little metal rod that shoots them across. >> i was wondering how these light bulbs didn't just shatter. >> my mind is not blown anymore at all. i'm mad at it. >> my mind is down to 5% blown, which is not even blown at all. >> not even blown at all. >> it's still really call because it does an excellent job of representing the conservation of movement and energy. you get to see how it moves through the light bull. this art project is actually a nominee for the 2012 mitsubishi design award. >> i am also disappointed. >> so be it. >> that's funny. >>> steven, the world has been fixated on sports the last couple of weeks. the slo-mo

i am here for the fact that eli speer from day one was a big community influence. i would definitely say anything he is going to be involved with, he is going to bring that to the table. supervisor elsbernd: thank you very much. next speaker. >> my name is nicholas hudson. i have been a business partner of andersen pugosh for about five years. we run the hospitality business together. i have known him to be very open to the community and also beat a very sophisticated and good business owner al add a lot of vibrancy to the community -- that will add a lot a vibrancy to the community and growth. i see it only as a positive thing happening. i would like to note my brother is a local musician and played the previous eagle talon and -- tavern. he enjoyed it as well. he has connections that we as well. ironically. thank you. supervisor elsbernd: thank you very much. next speaker. >> thank you for hearing all of this. i want to go on record as requesting to table this transfer on the basis there is so much passion in the community. there needs to be more information as t

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question would be, are the attacks hurting the morale on the people at the edge or the tip of the speer? >> i spent a lot of time. i try to get out at least twice a week. i spend a lot of time with the troops. i think one of the signal reaction, while there is concern, one of the signal reactions is a very stallwart commitment to the mission. we're blessed in the u.s. military, truly blessed, magnificent small unit leaders, and this is a tough mission. it's a tough mission for a whole variety of reasons, not the least of which is the operational environment in which these troops have to fight and partner, and so the non-commissioned officer, junior officer level, these troops are very well-led, and where we have seen incidents of insider threats play out in terms of green on blue attack, where those young notary public-commissioned officers and officers very quickly covered down on their afghan partners, and where they led their troops through the crisis of the moment and the grief of the loss of the troops, where they led them personally gave them context on the importance of the missi