that's the conservatory garden and i photographed that all the time. this is up at jeweliard park. i thought i would show you san

the hamilton red center, the conservatory, a blend of vista park, and campbell playground. we have four applications in with the state of california for brand-new park renovations for we have less for a total of $20 million. we have three projects. we have a key city projects under way. this is going through the environmental impact process. if you have not been out there, i encourage you to go there. thanks to the voters, we have our trails, restrooms, and i'm very pleased at the last commission meeting that you approved. our community can apply for over $5 million worth of grants. on the finance and administration, we have a $12.4 million problem that we were able to solve. we are pledging $8 billion in new revenue. we did have cuts and they were real. we had a 20% reduction in the cost of new workers compensation. we will be debuting our new web site in august. on the resources side, we gave ourselves a very ambitious goal. we have a bike rentals. we had peter pan. we had outside landscapers coming. we had a free concert. we had the world cup. we had barcelona, one of the

that's the conservatory garden and i photographed that all the time. this is up at jeweliard park. i thought i would show you san francisco. i read they improved every park. i didn't believe this at first. this is the fly casting pools. here was a fly casting champion ship. here it is today. it's still in use. the stables out there. they are meant so the public would have the opportunity previously only available to the elite, as it so often the case, as is with golf. like lincoln park built by the wpa. think of the experiences that people have had and the history which is embodied in them. there is daves tennis stadium. here it is, this was a tournament for inner-city youth. archery at golden gate park. our play grounds. here it is in use today. this is bernal heights park. you can still see the gutters they put in there. this is buena vista parks. this is quezar park. this is mount davidson. look out for the rock. this is on telegraph park. this is stern grove. this is a little known park above candle stick. here's my friend jake, standing by a wall. this was rosy play ground. th

that's the conservatory garden and i photographed that all the time. this is up at jeweliard park. i thought i would show you san francisco. i read they improved every park. i didn't believe this at first.

they're hungry for attention at the conservatory of flower like the venus fly trap. >> it's in the crevicer: when an insect gets in there, it triggersthe closure. watch this. >> look that! >> reporter: these plants are seductive, eecially if you're a bug. glistening dew and anything like thatar offer a one way trip. they can grow two feet tall. >> some are so big, that they'll attract small frogs or mic >> reporter: here is one where they cut off the top, that's a cockroach being overcome by the plant. this may look like pond scum. it can ge baby fish in a small time. >> the speed ishat's amazing foromething that looks so simple. >> reorter: chomp 2 is a sequel to the fst show three years ago. it's a great experienc for kids to learn more about the intrie and mystique of carnivorous plants. this is what they look like in natu. none of them has growto this size. thiss a costume they entertain childre with this. just to ma sure they don't get too close. like this fly did, trapped and squeezed by the little hairs on the sun dew. there is a message here. a cll to save these plants. >> around t

>> i started at mit and then decided i wanted to be a singer and to the conservatory of music and my voice teacher left, so i left. i ended up at brandeis and then went to summer school. i ended up graduating with my class at brandeis. the reason i went to brandeis was because i could study economics and music which was the interest of my life. >> when did you decide you wanted to make a career of this business of the arts? >> i had the idea in undergraduate school. had a thesis on productions, which they were not doing at the time. i did this thesis which made economic sense. i got interested in the managerial site of the arts, but it was really not a career back in in arts management. it was not anything you could say that you wanted to start here and move your way up. it was a career that people fell into a rather than plan for. i did not start immediately in arts management. >> >> compare today as to when you were growing up, do we have more arts or less? >> over the past years, there has been an increase in ballet companies, theater companies and we have so many more than we had

. >> another building and the sunny side conservatory and build in 1901 and fell into disrepair and people tried to demolish and got the permit and did a third of the building until the neighbors got up in arms. >> monterey boulevard. >> it's open to the public and you can take a walk up there and lou let's get woody on this. >> i want to point out the third that was demolished and three years after it was made a landmark. >> we issue a lot of permits. a landmark here, a landmark there and this is a building essentially rebuilt with neighborhood efforts so the city isn't putting money into it. it's the city putting the energy and money and inside of this structure and these really interesting stresse stresses. >> >> holding it up. a modern landmark. this is an unusual building. we have -- we have a question here. >> i wanted to point out that the museum is base isolated and the tower is not. >> i didn't know that. >> the tower is for the people and the museum is for the art work. we got our priorities right. >> pardon me? >> what good is have base isolated if the building is negligencnexti

she was at the oslo conservatory of music. she had a perfect score on all facets of voice. she would wow audiences, get long standing ovations, a lot longer than the ones i got, and i really asked her if she would please put together the best songs, the best spiritual songs, that really reflect the messages of the "tao" and come on the show and sing for us. she's going to sing in the next segment, but i think you're going to do something else right now, right? we're going to give people a preview. listen to this, this is a bonus in many ways. here's cecilia. ♪ it's the heart ♪ afraid of breaking ♪ that never ♪ learns to dance ♪ it's the dream ♪ afraid of waking ♪ that never ♪ takes a chance ♪ it's the one ♪ who won't be taken ♪ who cannot ♪ seem to give ♪ and the soul ♪ afraid of dying ♪ that never ♪ learns to live no matter where you live in america today, you're in traffic some of the time. i think having this cd in your car to play under those conditions would be just about perfect. dyer: well, it raises the energy of what you're doing. that's absolutely true, and it's fr

the mother- in-law of chelsea. marjorie margolis. >> and you still been get them by. >> she's working washington d.c. with me. they are conservatory was the size of our whole house and i tell you. >> nothing like inside gossip. >> we will tell you about some of the worst slum flooding in pakistan in thousands of years we'll have that for you. also news on the gulf >> we've got avi know don't sing. abbey the surfing dog coming up. we have amazing video of one of the day in their earliest pooch's on the waves. wait to see what happens. maybe we should for see if it's good surfing weather. >> let's check it out dude. >> actually you could surf on the fog bank. this is downtown san francisco. that should lift anything. >> i think so let's find out from our expert o'brien. >> could sunday morning we have more nice weather to talk about the temperature not too hot while to warm or misplaces in the '80s led concord. those are below average with mostly sunny skies san francisco low 60s san jose topping out mid to upper '70s for this afternoon. the fog coming back in for this evening around the rest of the bay area book for mostly sunny sk

the acting? >> any good conservatory or any -- even at a university, bfa program or anything, it gives you ideally a safe place to practice. and diverse group of teachers, if one or two makes sense to you, it resonates. then it helps, built it's really like juliard. juliard is a music school, you can have a great teacher but it's really -- you've got to practice, get in to the practice room do your work yourself. but a good training -- i learned a lot. i learned a lot about speech and movement and period acting in various styles. that's what juliard was about, teaching that there's a difference between playing chekov and david mammet and restoration and shakespeare, there's a thing called style. they aren't trained, i do the same thing -- >> charlie: when people refer to method acting today, you talk about brando and others. james dean. do they still -- people still talk about the method in terms of what they learn and how they go about defining what it is, what gives them the tools to inhabit a character? >> now i think the common misunderstanding or understanding of the term is, he's a method ac

the old horse cars and cable cars. they could be used for news stands, fruit stands, lunch stands, play houses, poultry houses, tool houses, coal sheds, conservatories and polling booths, etc. and it really is a testament to the market street railway's imagination that these cars essentially got used for all of these different purposes. here's a shoemaker in oakland. he opened up his little cobbler shop in an old horse car in his backyard. he locked it up at night with a long nail going through. he said, who's going to steal old shoes? a little bit more dramatic, a man named james mcneal took four old horse cars and put them on a pontoon to make a house boat near bell very deer. he called it the nautilus. he rent it out to people, tricked it all up in the inside for rich people to come have a little summer vacation in a very novel setting. and a watch maker. there was a realtor who used a car as a real estate office. we'll talk more about him in a second. charles stall took three and put them in the sun dunes of the -- the sandunes of the sunset district, created a little ouse -- house out there. and this guy on the bottom left, charles daley opened