the city among other things shuts down market streets and waves permitting fees for this organization. proceeds for this event are meant to be shared among san francisco non-profits that serve the lgbt community. non-profits that support the hiv community or provide breast cancer awareness services. as you maybe aware in 2010 at that time i was a relatively new member of the board of supervisors. supervisor ben do and i were approached by the lgbt community because of concerns that were raised because of the operation of this committee and this organization. in response to that, we asked the city comptroller ben rowsen field to perform an assessment of pride as an organization and the idea behind this assessment was to understand what the challenges were that were facing that organization so that we as a city could have a better understanding of how to better assist that organization. that the controllers office viewed all of pride's book and information and successful for providing the opportunity in a very open way. that assessment found that as sf pride had both 70s -- fiscal and g

we learned very recently that the executive director has already left the organization. i think he was there for only 10 months. that means that this is the third executive director that pride has had in just a few years. to me, not just as a supervisor but as a resident, that raises concerns. i'm wondering if you can speak to that in terms of what that means in your future executive director search because if you have that much turnover, that creates problems for any organization. >> sure. since this report came out almost 3 years ago, we had twoen credible individuals who served in the leadership of the management leadership of pride. the first was better than -- brin an and binge ham and he saw us through the 2011 production and he then became our executive director and through his leadership we were able to make great strides towards achieving many of our goals especially in terms of our finance. we had operational deficit and luckily we were able to make quite a good dent in repaying and getting our funds back to where it should be and where we would hope to be. regr

i hope that we can turn around the -- the organization. >> thank you very much. please turn off your cell phones. >> hello, i'm a pride member and gay man. it's been difficult to find a good c exterior -- ceo and what the criteria maybe. traditionally it's been lgbt person. i think we should open ourselves to the straight community, at least let them know that we would consider them. we might get a rather motivated and interested person who wants a challenge. the two lawyers who won the victory in the supreme court over the lead lawyers over scene ame sex were heterosexuals. the broke back mountain the movie about gay relationships were heterosexuality. why limit ourselves. we might have someone that has something special to offer. i'm not saying it has to be but something to consider in our search. >> thank you very much, next speaker please. >> good afternoon, supervisors, i can't tell you how relieved i am to be here and that you are conducting this hearing. it's something that we wanted in the community for a really long time. i appreciate this opportunity and

this is a continual lack of the understanding of the bylaws and the organization. that is obviously very trouble. at the september 3, 2013, board meeting, learn lest than 2 weeks before the annual meeting of the board election, the directors change the number of board seats from 12 to 10. it was at 15. the previous standing rule stated a third of the board members that had previously been elected had to stand at election. in the case of a fraction, you end up with a fraction, the previous standing rules say the numbers had to be rounded up at this meeting last week. this has changed to round to the nearest whole numbers who stand for election. there is relevant document in the attachment i gave you. finally board president lisa williams stated that the organization policies and procedures was a reason that they had to -- relay chelsey manning as this year grand -- marshall in this parade. the policies clearly states they are authorized to a point up to three. i have provided relevant document. i have one short closing. i think a lot of the issues about problems with

as the pride has gone with many great organizations and lost it's vision and pride. it's lost it's focus on the mission and tried for constituents. the lgbt community worldwide. throughout my tenure with sf pride i witnessed many directors come and go and spent the manuality of the time focused on internal squabbling. for a successful and safe event should be their priority. celebrating our culture and liberating our people are all parts of the pride. however squabbling is a quandary i'm sure many are left with. the only reason they are left with what is is the dedication of the contractors involved. theyen insured the events were a success with the diversity and uneducated board. without these contractors, sf pride would not have happened. it is fundamentally parented to me they are on the board for their own political gain. they are not paying attention for an organization they should be caring about. being on the board by one's responsibility, if they can not meet the standards. they should not be in office. this highest job possible -- it appears to the the epitom

the organ is removed and preserved by placing it in ice. e heart must arrive at the recipient's hospital within six hours that's because the ice damages the heart making it unfit for transplant. in this will keep hearts warm and beating. this will be a major break through in transplant history. the first human transatlantic took place in a hospital in south africa in 1967. since then it has become a fairly routine proceed cur proch 2,000 happening in the united states. there is one aspect to the process that has remained the same. yep, getting the heart from point a to point b still involves putting it in cooler full of ice. here they're testing out a new device that will change the way organs are transported and make a cooler a thing of the past, well, as far as organ transport. >> ia human organ has never been kept alive outside of the human body until this machine became a clinical reality. >> reporter: the head of u la's heart and lung transplant program. >> to say that instead of having my heart on ice, i want it to be warm and beating.

i was badly treated and to give out blood test and be the target of organize harvesting. and the police saved me and said i was in huge dagger that my family was almost can't see me again >> sister is the senior staff because she was her body was put in the refrirlg and my brother is a senior engineer. >> thank you very much. thank you very much. next speaker >> i'm robert livingston i speak as a citizen. i might be outside your jurisdiction but i think this is a good stage but i don't want to disinterest other. i read today that nancy pelosi said that they have killed thousands of children she told her grandchildren. this comes down from nancy pelosi who reviews to not 340e7 meet with people here in san francisco and they authors billion dollars for the torturing the children. following the recent parliaments decisions that syria had used chemical weapons obama has turned to congress that his decision will be arrived at the democratically. americans are opposed to war. and we shouldn't be fooled that the will of the people matter to the president and one has merely to gla

, the marketing organization to help the city to promote their city in the international label. ke a central government, they have a kind of section, a city marketing section. that kind of organization can help the city government to promote their plan internationally. at this point, i think we should do in the future. the other thing we should do, we have to look at our facilities. although we have convention centers, we have exhibition centers, we need more centers in different cities. >> and given the fact that you have more and more cities coming up in taiwan, for example you mentioned shinjuku, others, all these cities have their pluses and also their disadvantage in terms of attracting international organizers. given the fact the you have so many cities within tiny taiwan trying to become the meeting capitals of asia or of the world , would you think that would be kind of diverging the resources away from some of the leading cities in taiwan that have a better chance of becoming the meeting capital of the world? >> before i answer your question, i think we have to look at t

confidence in the federation to know where the needs are and that we evaluate those needs and the organization serving those needs so that we can most effective and relevant in the community. >> you remind me that one of the most dynamic aspects of the federation is it is not only a granter of money, that it also gets engaged in a lot of other ways in which an organizational structure can use it. and i'm wondering if you can talk a little bit about the other kinds resources that the federation offered the community at large to help bolster that vibrantsy. >> tom mentioned the capital planning committee that are important who are real estate experts and banking experts, all manners of experts and they've probably contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of hours in any given year. in addition to that, we talked before about grant making. so we play three roles in the community strategic investing and capital building. in the capacity building, we match pro bono experts in the community which we have about 175 signed up and the organizes in the community that have particular needs and

, a community representative, be on the selection panel for the organization. and for the respondents and that we, a community member have the ability to be view the respondents. and we are, you know, anxious to see this process move forward. and look forward to how we identify which operations fall under the port jurisdiction and which ones make sense to keep under the jurisdiction of a leaseholder as well. that will be key and there is a lot of work that is being done on that currently. so. thank you, very much. and we look forward to this moving forward. >> thank you. >> is there any further public comment? >> hearing none, commissioners any comments before we vote. >> i think that is a great recommendation to have the community person on the selection panel. and i think that she brought up some of my concerns, and that is what is the capacity to run this operation? i mean, ledge is a great organization, and they did a wonderful job with such a great concept and it is a jewel, but how do we know what the financial capacity is, or what, you know, just becaus

so when they organize meetings or congress, they would like to have someone outside the organization helping them to organize their event. >> ok. what was the development process of the meeting industry in taiwan? why is it called m.i.c.e.? what does the acronyms stand for? >> as far as i know, it was created by a professor in the hawaii university? m for meeting, i for incentive, c for conference, e -- if i speak further for the meeting as my personal definition, it would be corporate meetings. i is for incentives. incentives means you are in the kind of meeting by yourself. so for those people working for the insurance company, for those direct marketing companies like herbalife, like new skin, there are many top sales that are in their meetings by themselves. there are a lot of exciting programs, bring them outside to somewhere like hawaii or paris or tokyo, and they have an awards ceremony to award them for their achievement in the past. so it is incentive. convention, relation to the meeting of the ngo, nongovernment organization, or government meetings. -- of course thinking abo

experts in the field could you explain where the organizations are. >> of the 15 organizations that were stated in the lass list those are professional organizations that i specifically scalding scalding asked to speak to someone. so i did this pole myself. of those 15 only 11 responded, 4 did not return my folks. of those 11 only one supported the fire system as a required system. there were i believe a couple that supported the position but not as a mandatory system >> so in other words, it's the all of the system we're talking about today. >> yes. >> supervisor kim. >> why didn't we make it an option for 75 to 1 hundred feet to pick between the elevator or the system. >> for the current code cycle or are you talking about history. >> i understand that the state level at 1 hundred and 20 feet our required to do the sir, elevator below 120 there's no state code why didn't we decide to give them the option of picking between the systems. >> >> thank you. next speaker if the building wants to put in the fire system they can; right? >> but it would be on top of the elevator. >>right. >> i

the activists or the greenpeace organization the organization which has always been fighting to prevent any kind of ecological disasters and catastrophes could in fact have led to such a catastrophe by breaching the security of the oil rig. by obviously the injuring the security of the oil rig or they could have endangered the quality of the entire region is of course that is good to be determined whether their actions could have led to such things but we already heard from the head of the investigative committee of the russian prosecutor general's office that those who would be found guilty if they're found guilty will be prosecuted criminally regardless of their nationality and i'd like to remind that up to thirty activists are now detained and six of them are believed to be citizens of the united kingdom yeah and have you heard any reaction from greenpeace to the actions of the russian authorities there well the greenpeace organization staunchly denied any kind of claims and accusations they have said that they were there in the northern seas. just to protest the peaceful oil just to

it really does make a huge difference for the organization. i feel fortunate to have gotten some of the people we've managed to recruit. >> you've been active, traveling to the congo, haiti, through your roam as an ambassador. what kind of things have you seen, what has struck you the most? >> i've seen so many things, too many to recount. i've seen a woman who flat lined in a makeshift tent in port-au-prince and two minutes later, from doctors, she came back to life. that was the most profound experience. i met victims of gbg and malnutrition and scarfation. it's always an encouraging work in the field, because you see the things done. most of the medical staff are locally trained individuals. it's not putting a bandaid on a problem, it's training a community to become resilient and self sufficient, which is vital. >> the positive consequences of what you see overcome just very tough situations that you face, death, disaster, how do you deal with the suffering you witness, and how has it changed you? >> well, you know, it's impossible not to b

the international organization is based in the hague. it's a global watchdog that will implement the chemical weapons convention. more than 100 international experts act as inspectors. they have conducted missions in 86 countries, including libya and iraq. the investigations often involve considerable personnel risks. >> we need to know what kind of agent you encounter. it can be a chemical agent or toxic agent. the most important thing is that you have an indication what you might encounter. >> reporter: collected samples are preserved in double and sometimes triple-sealed containers. the researchers verify the results of analysis conducted at multiple facilities around the world. officials say the mission in syria is the first time the inspectors have worked in the middle of a civil war. >> it's a mission which has never been before been contemplated by the opcw. it's an extraordinary challenge. >> reporter: experts from the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons are already preparing a road map for the expected mission.

as the pride has gone with many great organizations and lost it's vision and pride. it's lost it's focus on the mission and tried for constituents. the lgbt community worldwide. throughout my tenure with sf pride i

initially, what did you think the organization did or was doing? > i thought they would advance the practice... >> bergman: bridges was in charge of acfei when leah bartos became a member of the organization. he quit soon after because, he says, he could not change the way the organization does business. you were cautioned by people who knew you. what did they tell you? >> i think the assessment of the organization is that it's looked at as a certification mill-- that if you send in a check, you will receive a certificate. i think the focus was primarily on revenue versus professionalism. >> money was more important than the quality of what was going on. >> i think that's a way to sum it up, correct. >> we asked for the failure rate on the tests. we didn't get an answer. >> i would say the failure rate is probably less than one percent. so if you want a certificate that says you are certified in forensics, this is the place to go to. >> wspoke with someone who is knowledgeable about what goes on inside the organization and how many people pass not j

the show. that is what is most important is that this is a member driven organization. theoretically that's how it started. the whole thing began because of people's oppression. people don't join to get this because they are oppressed. what came was contentious out in the street saying we need to be acknowledged. what happened? we started to get a little bit of acknowledgment and stop -- acknowledging everybody else and we come to chelsey manning and this whole process and we decide this isn't good enough we are going to throw the rules out. they throw out a lot of rules, they throw out the bylaws. they just keep throwing out what doesn't work for them. i want to say one thing before i go on in the negative. i have had extremely positive experience with lucky gutierrez. extremely. he's been professional. every time i have e-mailed, called, he's answered. there are real problems in the board, the board is trying to maintain itself and they forget that there are members, that there are rules and there is reasons for rules and that's so we can all be actually involved but w

so what has greenpeace reacted with after being accused of piracy well the organization itself the greenpeace organization is staunchly denying any accusation saying that they were simply involved in peaceful protest against drilling in the arctic sea world definitely we have to wait and see what the investigators say on that because. there are accusations at the moment there are charges that these people were involved in piracy activities and right now we know that the arctic sunrise ship has been told to the. gulf and in the northern sea and that's where these people will wait until investigation is over we know that they were locked inside the ship they're not allowed to be let out to the mainland and they will wait until the investigation is over or arties alexy jarosz esky thank you for that. as air pollution levels in the british capital reach a high londoners are encouraged to leave their cars at home and shift from four wheels to two parties polly boyko takes up the story. well our blog the great london small give nine hundred fifty two written by law back in the dozens of square mile

the stage. and lots of these organizations are predominantly women. well, women are represented. that was enough. but i think he was related in this sort of what the main goals of the movement or. >> yes. >> my question is, dr. wright appears on the stage during the presentation, the march. can you talk about how she operationally had an impact on the march? not officially a part of the march. he became known as one of the big six. part of that answer is a very long history of the national council of negro women supporting specifically the movement. plated important role in connecting the national council of negro women to the labor activism by 1963 she was well-known among all the leaders of these movements. her sitting on the stage is actually part of a compromise that resulted a. philip randolph and picked him when he spoke at the national press club. this led to a crisis. to allow a number of women to sit on the stage, to allow a woman to speak briefly and introduce other women so that this would initially be robinson and it became daisy bates. actually gave a speech in which

>> not the organs themselves. the organs are covered by fascia. so i'm focusing on the fascia or the muscles that glide over the bones. >> so you're not moving bones around or cracking or manipulating the body in any way. >> no. >> but yet you went through a lot of training for this. what was your training? >> originally i was a physical therapist, and then i found it limited in helping people with their pain. so i went on to look at different manual treatment techniques and found osteopathic techniques that really made a difference because they did focus on other things, like looking at the mobility of the fascia around the organs. so i studied a five-year program of osteopathic techniques. >> so this is actually based in sound science? >> absolutely. >> one of the strange things that was happening when ifls sufferi -- i was suffering from this pelvic pain, i went on line and found a lot of women suffering greatly for this pelvic pain, yet there were no answers from their conventional doctors. it didn't seem anyone really knew the cause of this pe

it was mentioned this was supported by the organization of the largest firefighter by cal professional firefighters the second largest union in the state and by california fire you chiefs operations and fire prevention officers. and i participated in the fire marshall's committee in which the firefighters went into the process and no point during that conversation was it as given at a coefficients >> i have a few questions i'd ask this question to the department about the trend in terms of codes and specifically it requiring this as opposed to making it on option. could you compliment on that and where respect to the proposed change international code i guess it was appendix k could i comment on that and the department indicated if it's an appendix it's optional not required >> when an item is an appendix item it's not in place until it's adopted but once adopted it is in place if it's not adopted it's a recognized standard that has been used. it wasn't a requirement in the code so you have two optioned one is you adopt it for law or you don't adopt it. the trends is the opposite direc

, we match pro bono experts in the community, which we have about 175 signed up to date, and the organizations in the community who have particular needs. we made 45 matches last year in the areas of real estate leasing, it, marketing, finance, legal and more fblth, and then we also have these communities of practice, communities of learning that are consisted of -- or consist of the executive directors of jewish organizations, their finance professionals, they're fund raising professionals. we bring in outside experts or use our own staff, each of our organizations, to really provide learning and best practices so that everybody can really thrive. our feeling is that a financial invest. in the community isn't sufficient. it has to be followed with the sort of insurance that everybody is getting everything they need in order to succeed, so much out of which is nonfinancial, as you know, and in addition to that, they need leaders for the future. they need people who are going to sit on their boards and really help to guide and inform their decisions, and they need donors. how are we going to ge