that is non-structural and your chimney and water tank. >> let's talk about what the structural thingsd he is exactly right. you don't want to make the deck chairs safe on the titanic, it is going down, you are going down, you have to make sure that your house is safe. there are basic things that you need to do including bracing the water heater, not just because of fire hazard but because of the water source and the damage, but basic things are installing anchor bolts, and adding plywood and strapping your beams to column and posts to footings and foundations are really easy things to do and most contractors can do the building department is set up to approve this work, and these are things that every home owner should do, and it is a little harder because you have to get a building permit and hire a contractor. but you want to be able to after a big earthquake to climb in bed that night and pull the covers up and say i don't have to worry about going to a government shelter. >> that is the main focus that it is great to have an earthquake kit to be able to bug out for 72 hours. here

look at this weird circular structure.e went down with little information except for the fact that this thing was found on an island twice. take a look. >> reporter: onest best things about working in the rainforest is the adventure. join me on an expedition that's sure to get wet, whid and muddy. the peruvian youngle is a last wilderness with a huge population of endemic plant and animal species. they are found nowhere else on earth. >> why here? it's a unique place in the amazon completely undisturbed by human pressures like hunting and deforestation. it makes it a beautiful, pristine place. six months ago a researcher here at the research center found a weird circular web structure, took a picture and posted it on the internet. little did he know the huge amount of attention it would get as people tried to figure out what it was. we are here with a team of scientists with a mission, to figure out what is making it. >> we arrested the island where it was first found. we found 20 days ago. what is the goal. >> catch an ad

let's look at the purchased structure. this will be the per phonetic looking uphill the proposed structure drafrdz the house. another view from across the street. again, you can easily tell the structure is much taller than the adjacent property. another view looking at down open duncan street from this vantage point it viable you have to consider the proposed structure from all points uphill i downhill and neighboring blokes and the mo p dr to remove the penalty how did but the project sponsors didn't want to lose the penthouse so the set back is not going to solve the problem. as a community we ask please require the removal of penthouse and roof-deck audience if you were here to protest this size please stand up >> this is who we are commissioners. this is from duncan street the 27 and 28 to noah and sanchez this is our neighborhood and we're united open this request and have been for two years we've had numerous letters and signed petitions in your packet there are more 80 signatures we've gathered in the last two actr

here is what their structure would look like in context so the roof-deck is visible from across the street their own renderings show that from the street i think this was taken in my derivative it is visible. so from midway to the street all the way over it's visible that's their rendering here's mine it's visible from down the street including the rendering >> thank you. sir, your time is up. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> project sponsor you have to minutes. >> hi, i'm greg scott with the design architects i want to speak about the context and the miss characterization of the blockbusti blockbusting at that particular timely float roofs and blockage multiple unit buildings directly across and you can see, in fact, uphill across the street street 3 flat roof buildings in a row to chiefr that as flat roof is not correct the consistentcy of the design guidelines i see the kind of example of the consistency of the scale but the varying kind of scales and styles and somewhere in between those two is the nature of that block. in terms of the overall bulk the zone allows the map like this that

one for existing structures and the other for new structures. the most relevant to our case is for existing structures and the act states that an alteration must be made if it's readily achievable. as you know most of the buildings in san francisco are over 50 years old. the one i reside in is 100. so it's almost a century. it not a public accommodation but it gives you an idea of how old the structures are here. readily achievable. what does that mean? it wasn't the intent to have a very specific hard line definition. but the cfr does provide some hint as to what that means. so as i mentioned it's not precise, but it does state that it should be without difficult and not costly. so factors that they give the court to consider they are such that for instance, the effect on the expenses of resources, nature of the businesses, the amount that the business em employees and these are all factors of the determination. we are still not sure what that entails and what that means. my job was to dig more into that. the courts haven't explicitly stated wh

problems they have the poor structure and show signs of previous branch failures and other things that have a future limb failure we'll also speak to this but dpw's decision was the right won those trees are located on private property and pose long term liability to sf property owners so this includes a number of improvements including planting new trees and the existing trees with in good condition and to liability and those will have a lower density so he ask the board to uphold this permit without further delay to move forward with the site work. the sooner the trees are removed the surrender we'll make improvements to the neighborhood i'm going to turn it over to ray. i'm roy i'm a consultant ash rift also a tree assessor i'm a certified tree people the tree in questioning r in question is subject to the pruning requirements that would if you can give me the overhead it will require that branches be reduced significantly on the ends in order to prevent breakage. what we have as a failure pattern are 3 limbs that failed an 8 inch in the middle of the photo and two 6 inches on the l

we're quite concerned about the proposed structure of the new building. i agree it is too big i think that this fourth level penthouse with the roof-deck will also have a negative impact the noise and the privacy of our neighborhood. i live about two houses uphill from the proposed site and people are on the roof-deck a they'll directly see into my living room and one of my bedroom windows where my little daughter is sleeping i'm concerned that is an impact on our privacy and also concerned about the potential noise so in enclosure i'd like to ask you, please request the removal of the fourth floor with the penthouse and the roof-deck to make that house better suitable for the neighborhood thank you for your consideration >> thank you. >> good afternoon commissioner president wu and commissioner and members of the public i'm jim lynch my own reside on the street we speak as a resident of noah valley in my lifetime i'll lived in the neighborhood and attended noah valley and worked in retail establishment prior to coming and resident of 31 years at the poli

it's structural and organizational. it is asked him pointed out i cannot imagine in my wildest imagination to a comfortable conclusion as to the ether eithr inability or the unwillingness of congress to reconfigure itself so that we can be more effective partner in the maturation of the department so we can be a more effective leader dealing with frankly the escalating threat environment from the physical to the cyber over which the department of homeland security has so much control and jurisdiction and i can think of only one reason and it's a turf. we both sat in the congress of the united states for 12 years. we would tell you that on the way to the floor after we vacated the hearings people would be expressing their profound distaste and displeasure. there are too many committees on monday to too many subcommittees i going for half an hour, 45 minutes particularly when c-span is there i do my thing and move on. they do not develop. there are not enough people to develop standards of excellence in the committee. tha

look at this weird circular structure.nt down with little information except for the fact that this thing was found on an island twice. take a look. >> reporter: onest best things about working in the rainforest is the adventure. join me on an expedition that's sure to get wet, whid and muddy. the peruvian youngle is a last wilderness with a huge population of endemic plant and animal species. they are found nowhere else on earth. >> why here? it's a unique place in the amazon completely undisturbed by human pressures like hunting and deforestation. it makes it a beautiful, pristine place. six months ago a researcher here at the research center found a weird circular web structure, took a picture and posted it on the internet. little did he know the huge amount of attention it would get as people tried to figure out what it was. we are here with a team of scientists with a mission, to figure out what is making it. >> we arrested the island where it was first found. we found 20 days ago. what is the goal. >> catch an adult

leading up into this wooden play structure. but off to the right-hand side is the actually transfer tier, where a child can transfer out of chair, onto a raised deck, and there are hand grips. so that there are things to hang on to while you are doing that functional transfer. however, you are trained or however you learned to do the transfer. and then the steps are a certain height or within a range. so that you can kind of butt-bump into the play structure to play with your siblings. i call it the butt-bump. [laughter ] . >> it works. >> again this particular structure is out at st. mary's, i believe. when there is over 20 play elements, then of the elevated ones that are up inside the play structure, 25% of those can be reached by transfer tier, but then 25% must be reached by ramp, for a total of 50% or more play elements must be in that kind of accessible reach-range. but one of the things that i think, as adults, we are realizing we have reach-ranges for adults in ada and reach-ranges for children as a voluntary thing. we

so what we structured in illinois from a tax perspective is what i call an anemic tax structure. it doesn't grow with the economy and slower to growth. and we have to knowledge that we need fix that. and in our book we proposed various ways to do that. broadening the base of our tax structure. lowering the rates and with that broad n based we will get more revenue growth than in the current structure. we need to have have long term vision of our fiscal challenges and how we will address them. if we do that, we will gain the confidence that we have a long-term plan and we build the faith in the ability to manage the fiscal challenges. >> and you note fax fairness. we have the effort it will be an advisory referendum about a millionaires tax. and we had talk about a graduated tax. even the sales tax has a fairness question there. >> absolutely. me perspective is get the tax base first before you decide the rate structure you put on top of it. we don't tax retirement income. the federal does. but we tax unemployment compensation. what the policy rational for that? the fastest growin

what is their leadership structure as it stands today and what is the succession plan?ung is controlled by lee in the hospital. he is the son of the company's founder who started the company in 1938 and of course his son lee jae yong is the heir apparent to a collection of companies, a true conglomerate comprising 74 business units that range from the electronics we talk about two life insurance, ship building, and many other businesses as well, all organized in a complex structure across holdings that allow the family to maintain control well actually not owning very much of the company. lee the right person to lead samsung? a couple ofas advantages. he was involved with companies like google and helped push the smartphone side of the business ahead. he has worked in the partnership side of the business. forward, given the changes in ownership likely to take place, now that there are bands i'm cross -- bans on crosses shareholding, he is alliances to maintain control of the company. looking at its structure right now, it is hard to see who else might step into the shoe

it's structural and organizational. it is asked him pointed out i cannot imagine in my wildest imagination to a comfortable conclusion as to the ether eithr inability or the unwillingness of congress to reconfigure itself so that we can be more effective partner in the maturation of the department so we can be a more effective leader dealing with frankly the escalating threat environment from the physical to the cyber over which the department of homeland security has so much control and jurisdiction and i can think of only one reason and it's a turf. we both sat in the congress of the united states for 12 years. we would tell you that on the way to the floor after we vacated the hearings people would be expressing their profound distaste and displeasure. there are too many committees on monday to too many subcommittees i going for half an hour, 45 minutes particularly when c-span is there i do my thing and move on. they do not develop. there are not enough people to develop standards of excellence in the committee. tha

. >> since the structure the building represents the super structure the lower part of this particle on the buildings on the corner they shack quite a bit. >> so for the floors above as shaking that top floor is fog go-go have no more mass and we saw in 1984 more structure destruction where we're ryan white this by adding a steel frame typically you want to brass in both directions and see how strong the building is. >> we've adapted a thirty year implementation program i worry about that was a retrofit requirement this is what we do to mitigate the shom and have's evacuation for the people and our partners. i had questions about what kind of professionals are involved in this i want to start to put together a team of people to help me get through this. i'm a structural engineer and i'm thrilled at the quality of the contractors and engineers >> we've taken one civic awesome and put all the vendors in one place. >> you have financing and engineers and contractor and they come here and every we're rebuilding are that the office of the city of administer and the depth thought i environ

makes senseing i'm in agreement with commissioner fong the house can live without the penthouse structure >> commissioner moore. >> i think the project for this round has explained itself better it finally submitted rendering by which which we understand the proportion of the building and it's overall relations to get other joining properties this sub i cannot the fact that they're in step with each other is one of the still unwritten guidelines for hilly or up slope streams we've basically affirmed that over and over again so while i'm not as concerned about the roof form i think there are works as he you can count them there are buildings with flat roof collectively blend with each other in the longer waking lines as you move uphill having said that, there's one concern i have shared with the plan as well as with the gentleman what is of concern is a concern lack of care about how thirty this project is brought are forward. i believe the last rendering show a sensitivity particularly as it deals with multiple treatment of windows, etc. the plans which we got a few weeks ago don't match

as you can see, it's about to collapse. >> reporter: people also damage the structure. they've cleared mountains of trees in order to collect mineral resources or build roads. also farmers have taken bricks from the wall for their homes. people sometimes sell the bricks to tourists. hao believes the farmers could make a better living if the wall is repaired and attracts more tourists. also, if they can live a comfortable life, the locals will stop pilfering bricks and the structure will be better preserved. hao has been working with a local company to fix part of the wall inside the city. it's a one-hour drive to the site. but hao believes tourists will flock to it after the road is paved and the section is repaired. he also published a book containing thousands of the photos he has taken. he's trying to persuade his readers that the great wall is an irreplaceable cultural asset. >> translator: if the destruction of the great wall in our city continues at this rate, there will be nothing left worth seeing in 50 years. laws to protect the wall should be observed strictly

this word, table, it is a common business structure in korea. explain how it works with respect to samsung? to essentially the [indiscernible] era. they weree -- designed to take industrialized south korea. you have the equivalent of a u.s. conglomerate or it it is family controlled. you don't have the strength of corporate ownership that shareholders would have in the u.s. or other countries. helped in south korea economically developed. it has allowed the government to work more closely with the development process. much of that ended in the 1990's, and especially in the 1997 financial crisis. >> the chaebols seem to be under threat in south korea. there was a headline from bloomberg but called samsung's chaebol a time bomb. why? >> i think the challenge with the chaebol is because of the family structure, you have a situation to where -- lee kun-he e build a company -- built a company into one of the top companies in the world. ung may have many of the skills needed to lead the company, the question is, is family leadership in the long run th

we can't make reforms most of the time because the power structure word blockbuster. but even worse, when occasionally we get a reform, the same power structure having left the efforts to block it now goes to work to undo it to reverse it and go back to where they were. therefore the conclusion he reaches and tries to teach the american people than is the same one i think many of us want to teach now. you've got to change the system not because it is an alternative to achieving reforms, but because changing the system is the only way to make a reform that is doable. the revolution is the way that you complete the reform process just as it is the condition for the reforms that you get to last and to mean what you wanted them to mean while he fought for them. that's where the word revolution ring. it's a big change. not this or that. we have to say to the king of the link, go home. you are out of here. it's over. the british empire hundreds of years of dominance. you're out of here. a powerful ending of the colonial relationship that gave this country its modern birth.

one structural reform of education, focusing on quality, public education and inclusion. two, stimulation of economic growth and productivity, innovation, and competitiveness, and this obviously involves also tackling the challenges facing us regarding energy. three, tax reform providing ongoing resources for the state and redistributing more forms of common development. it must also lead us back to the path of fiscal responsibility, which is essential if the state is to honor its commitments in the medium and long term. four, new constitution and up-to-date one allowing more scope for democracy, participation and guarantees for people in all their diversity. i should like to refer briefly to all these topics. firstly, education which fosters equity, productivity and democracy. i'm not going to say anything that i will win a nobel prize here but knowledge is essential in order to achieve ongoing prosperity in these areas and to generate this knowledge they must make education the focus of their development strategy. this is what we -- what countries have done. those count

the presentation evidence in the past attributed to weaker branches so it's faifs those trees are structural problem. i'll note the one of the reasons our inspectors who are certified tree risk careers for the record that the root structure was potentially problematic it's true the roots clear road i cannot beyond the box but that can't be sustained for even those roots will 0 need to be removed in order to fix the situation and the area around it, it's a combination of the structure in the planter and even if the trees remain we can't leave the hazardous conditions out for the public this is a need to be fixed. the last point the appellant referenced some eucalyptus trees that have been looked at in san francisco. i think it's fair to say that they were landmarked because they were large for the species in san francisco. and had not been previously topped that those trees exhibit. thank you >> question. so can you remind me of the box size of the replacement trees >> i believe that it was discussed at the previous hearing 60 inch box i stated that a 48 inch box i thought would be no problem

he had to relocate government back over to a new structure. we are now standing in the most historic room in the state of mississippi. in is the house of representatives chamber which was a witness to many important events in our state's history. for instance on january 9, 1861 delegates voted to pull mississippi out of the union. the reasons were clear. they did not leaf much doubt in regards to their documentations, the journals that were passed passed and the statement that were made. they were doing it to defend the institution of slavery. there was a tremendous concern about what would pap if the institution of slavery was attacked. it is one of the most common questions we get here, is why did mississippi succeed from the union? that is a different question than why did soldiers fight in the civil war? that is a different question. those who live in mississippi and did not own any slaves fought in the war is doing it for home. he is doing it for his state. he is probably not doing it to protect slavery, an institution that he dud not tak

so when the structure, we have 1840 bricks. we have is the 61 flo resent writing. we literally have the sitchen sings. i think the rotunda dome and most people look at as soon as you walk in and greet you at the front desk. some of the ornamentation inside that is original. a lot of questions we get in the building. inside the interior dome of the ow zet, the ornamentation is fine. so it's our ooh, ah. . kids love to -- it. and we enjoy giving them that feeling of aw in the old capital. >> now we are standing in the governor's capital. we restored it. there have been many descriptions of the news. one of them comes in 1861, a british correspondent covered the sus sellings event and he wrote the outlook of the building. and which is very interesting. the government's office was very nice. but he obviously coming from great britain was used to covering the queens and kings. so the obvious offense did not impress that british correspondent very much. jon jay pettis was one of the governors that served during the years. very much a fire eater meaning he would have to e

frankly, because the committee structure in terms of interacting between the legislative branch and the executive branch had been narrowed down over a period of time. make a general observation, we still have a congress with which i was privileged and honored to serve with a committee structure operating out of the 20th century. the challenges related to the united states federal government in the 21st century -- not just within homeland security, but across the board -- currently for rethinking how the legislative branch exercises its constitutionally-delegated authority and responsibility to oversee the executive branch. so in my -- and i'm just going to focus on homeland security. i understand there are different jurisdiction cans because of the mull -- jurisdictions because of the multitasking nature of the d.. if i could wave -- department. if i could wave the magic wand, i would probably have no more than two authorizing committees and one primary committee. i would have a couple of select -- i would have a couple subcommittees in the different, it might be clusters of responsibil

was necessary and in order to destroy that structure they portrayed women as victims. quote the individual capitalist family structure is a wasteful social forum and not healthy for children to grow up in. it's a trap for women. as a sanction form for sexual explication in a hypocritical double standard. the family brief competitiveness among us. if you think the left hates competition they do. the family based -- allows no future for women to means older women separating from the life of the committee and the ability for single mothers to maintain a household is a monument to women's strength and determination. the modern male run clear family when the tear with the of sentimentality is the basic unit of capitalist society. capitalism the modern family which are together a starkly feeding off of each other's development. so you can see that they understood what capitalism was about and the way they needed to change it to implement their own progressive socialist policies. the fact is despite what they want to think about the so-called wasteful structure of the free ma

i want to say there's no 3 existing offer garage structures. for those reasons i plead that the planning commission will have the top structure of the building removed >> thank you. next speake >> thank you. next speaker. >> good evening. i'm christopher baker. i live at 356, 28 street i've been in real estate development for 25 years but very if i experience in front of of the planning commission. in reading did project analysis i was struck that it is compatible with the health and depth of the buildings in the surrounding area how could that be when any finance background forced me into a walk around the neighborhood where i looked at 35 single-family homes and said how many of those stories are they over garage how many square root it the lot for public record how many secret is the building for public record i came up with comparing 35 homes the proposed project is 2 1/2 size larger than the average home on the street the proposed project as 1.7 average levels it is twice as many levels as the average single-family home the living space is

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