weiland. >> this is an easy agenda. i had two limit the live performance permits again and there were no issues with either one but to briefly tell you we had ss hole in the wall pizza on irving and laughing monk brurg -- brewing and they received a permit from us in the past and we received positive feedback and the police department didn't have issues with either of them. happy to answer any questions you might have. >> commissioner: doesn't seem like there's any. let's take a motion and we can open it up to public comment. >> move approval of the consent calendar. >> commissioner: is there a second. >> second. >> commissioner tan: any public comment? seeing none, let's take a vote. >> the clerk: [taking vote] >> commissioner: the motion passes. congratulations we'll move on to item number eight which is discussion and possible action for our chapter 116 projects. if you want to start the introduction. >> this is a project on 33 norfolk street. you should take a look at your files there and the map the surrounding pla

war began in two thousand and eleven human have been imprisoned humans have been tortured six chill weiland have been has been used against them and they have been executed they have been made refugees and i seen you believe that the time is now stop this happening in syria the time is not take this room and it is international rumors day and the time is not raise a notice stop this happening show our solidarity with the seven thousand human in syrian prisons so adama's arabic now the chance that. we thank you so much for telling us a little bit more as we mentioned you are the spokes person for the convoy of the conscious we appreciate it. now to a political shake up here in germany the country is to get a new foreign minister after one of germany's most recognized politicians and popular ones said he would not be part of chancellor angela merkel's new coalition government and foreign minister gabriele is leaving amid rumors of a bitter brow with the leaders of his own social democratic party. and for more let's bring in our political correspondent kate brady who joins us from our parliame

people are themselves and that's exactly why we're having this conversation as jenny weiland refers to she says on twitter a big power disparity between perpetrator and victim and there is none bigger than the that of a salaried ex-pat with food rations in his pocket and an orphan child in a displaced persons camp or a widowed mother whose children have no shelter. was when he was outlining which he's planning to do and hearing that tweet what comes to mind is a real solution something tangible that can be done beyond this rhetoric. so again i think the perspective of the people that that you mentioned in that tweet is completely lost because this illusion is now put into the hands of other powerful people i mean the three of us up powerful people. and. not to flip things around towards al-jazeera but i don't quite understand why the top of the show is introduced by an australian lawyer who just got into this business recently and is now considered the expert who will introduce this topic why not one of the one of the haitian women who are powerful local n.g.o.s why not one of those la

program in history, for sponsoring this and my publisher norton who is wonderful and matt weiland and will scarlett. i cheated, but now i'm going to answer your question. >> okay. >> yes. in darby, england, there still stands, actually, the foundation of a factory that started this 1731. -- in 1721. and it's an extraordinary thing in a way because if you look at a lithograph, i have one in the book, of it you look and go, oh, it's a factory. and yet it was in many ways completely pioneering. it made silk thread, and there was a kind of increasing vogue for silk, luxury good, in england. and the thread, you know, the silkworm and it's in the cocoon and eventually you have to get it into thread that you can weave, this process of making the thread was done by hand, extremely slow. and so this factory was built to use machinery to do it. and they got the machines designed by stealing them from the italians. bologna was the advanced manufacturer -- john oklahoma sent his finish john oklahoma sent his brother. it was illegal to export the machinery, so he memorized it, hired away a few ita

i'm maggie weiland. thank you for being here. thank you to the staff for putting this together. and the independent. and thank you to you and all their staff. this is incredible. we wanted to do something a little different this time than the library and brung you to one of our venues that we permit. so this is a fun change for us, too. so today -- and i want to thank our commissioners. they're super supportive. special shoutout to commission er al perez. he put together all of our marketing materials for today. so that was making us look incredibly professional, pro bono owe, which was awesome. and i wanted to thank commissioner laura thomas, who is here today. [applause] thanks, laura. she put together an entire presentation that we'll see today on harm reduction. and, finally, i wanted to thank ray bobbitt, who i believe is here. he helped to donate the donuts and coffee that you are enjoying. so, thank you. [applause] we have a loaded agenda. we'll have a few intro speeches and then we're going to get right into our presentation on active shooters. and then we'll have a smal