time and again a lot of things wonderful things happened when we exchange those wonderful exchanges i have another intent to get back to cork old head golf course when i listen to those bagpipes mark and i he reminisce he brags he can go out to a gulf of mexico and similarly with dennis herrera as well and you know mel murphy they get to play more gov. also i have on a welcome back basis an opportunity to go to the wonderful companies in the city of san francisco and most recently this past year our accessory carmen chu has been there to find out what resources with international companies this st. patrick's day we have the intent to visit with our consul general grant one of the irish home companies d c h that will be doing their custom manufacturing we get to visit them together they have a thing if it can be imagined it can be made that's the spirit of irish people creating things here in san francisco now a irish company with that slogan and support for the efforts to exchange and be an international company as well those are few examples of the wonderful outcomes of having stro

charlotte and willie or on the they wonderful yeah. (clapping) tale of two cities and donna thank you very much so for your support we're doing this and thank you to the california historical 10esh9 and they've been wonderful we've had a great exhibit and still on the rest of the year the pal list of fine arts how's everybody are you ready for new lights well, gosh what a wonderful time in the city wildfire been taxing about the bay 4r89s and how wonderful to brought a refreshing look at the city and people from other than the world are coming to see the bay lights i'm glad that money was rates and tale of two cities thanks to you and the people the private sectors joined the public sector and really willie lewis brown and together gosh so see those numbers 1915 on the feedback ferry building is exciting my thoughts what were the innovators of that time one hundred years ago thinking about how were they moving themselves of themselves and ultimately talking to each other how this city will be successful they had 80 be looking at the fu

>> on a monthly basis. >> wonderful. you have mentioned there have been some interesting conversations. can you give an example of what those might be for you? >> yes. a couple of them have been -- looking at -- how do we tell personal stories? and how do we use that in talking to the community? also, having -- how to look at text from a lgbt perspective -- especially the most traditional or controversial. >> i think it is probably important to say -- when we talk about text in this context, we are talking about some modern commentary as well. >> yes. >> sam, so you are also a coach for the lgbtq alliance. what does the alliance do? >> we really make sure that the jewish community is aware of all of the important programming that is being offered to the lgbtq jewish community. and also to make sure that there is programming available. one of the main objectives is to oversee and maintain a grant of that goes to keshet, which really does most of the outside of the synagogue programs, for lgbtq jewish folks in the bay area

words i think all of us appreciated what vieira did it is a wonderful feeling in the room so have this many people that cared about her and this impact so many people in the neighborhood that work was influenced or started by vieira this is a wonderful opportunity with people that shared that experience i want to bring up ms. jackie robinson a new resident here to say a few words ms. robinson is quite be unbeliever she's raised 14 children and she's here today (clapping). >> hello, everyone (clapping) i'm a resident here at vera haile housing senior housing i'd like to thank mercy housing for giving me an affordable place to live a wonderful place thank you (clapping) and especially thanks to vera haile housing (clapping). >> all right. thank you very much jackie and so by way of of closure we're going to have a brief encounter for some of the folks for the speakers on the deck there's going to be tours and a little bit of a buffet lunch we hope you'll stick around i'm scanning to make sure i'm sure i forgot someone i'm going to have a will with the fact i'm sure i forgot someone i wan

, wonderful festival for our entire city. i just love this time of the year. the year of the ram this year is going to be about artistry, about coming together supporting each other. i want to say thank you very much to the festival volunteer community and the vietnamese community and economic development center. they have been wonderful in putting this on and now that we're revitalizing market street there is a connection of the improvements of the area and connected up with market street and this is a wonderful celebration that we have it here at the center of our united nations plaza. i want to congratulate all of the store front owners here the small businesses here for working together with us. we have been putting a lot of emphasis on our market street as of late and our investment in neighborhoods and i hope that the small business owners along that corridor have really appreciated the work we're doing together. things are always improving and look at the wonderful crowds that you have coming out today so we join you i

. >> thank you doug doug in many ways this is an honor of you and certainly of our wonderful combination between you and st. anthony's i want to be here because i've known vourgz and want to say thank you to jane kim we both continue this record pace of cutting ribbons and opening doors of opportunity and praising our developers our nonprofits our service provides in this community it wasn't long ago that st. anthony's opened their brand new kitchen more than that a kitchen their entire services a whole floor was being created along with a brand new food center in this neighborhood and we pointed out at this time we pointed to this housing side as the one i wanted to get to as soon as as it was ready to get open you have to be at least 62 year-olds well, i'm 62 this year laura i joined the ranks of other seniors wanting to make sure that our city is welcome to everyone this is an incredible center over 90 brand new units in the heart of one of the most challenging afterwards our city i know that supervisor kim knows that we've been at oscar pistorius were time after time the needs were i

entitled the otero now innocent thanks to many, many more people we will again above entitled the wonder of the awe illumination in the fair city a citizen technology later thank you very much (clapping). >> thank you laura right now let's bring back craig and the ditch he is for their rendition of san francisco by the way a i heard was the number one song and the theme song for the 915 fair. >> ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ in >> oh, e oh, away u way when it is waiting there before me i love her so wherever i go i think of her all day where eyeing and her smile and light and her voices soft and dreem write i can't forget the ones i've met on san francisco bay on san francisco bay well, i first met kate by the golden state way out on san francisco bay and he stole high heart away on a dreamy summer day we then went cancun and the we watched the fields that day on a golden foggy one mile route on san francisco bay ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ in well i first met kate by golden state way out on san francisco bay and it stole my heart away on a dreamy and summer day then we went canyoning councilmember wagner and did our wow. wh

curious because we only have one cbd in the district, but are trying to get a second, and i always wonder what the cbd's do for vaeckancy? do they get involved with when dhai see vacant store fronts and so forth? do they try to bring in business somehow? >> each is different so they are governed by eemp of the management plans. some of sth plans are resfricktive where some can only be focus odon clean and safe and there are some that have economic development as a part of the marketing program. there are a handful of cbd's that focus on filling vacancy. i know troy explained to me that many of the commercial vacancy it is hard to attract retail and offices to the space because of transporpation to the bart line is extremely slow and infrequent to fishermans warf so that is something i want to help try to tackle with them in the future >> thank you very much. thank you for your presentations. this is very eyeopic and seeing what you guys actually do with the funding. [inaudible] any public comment? no public comment. there is a motion on the floor motion passes. is there anything else? >>

it's wonderful and such a fun time of the year. there is every kind of music you can imagine and can wander around and go from one stage to another and just have fun. >> 81 bands and six stages and no admission. this is hardly strictly bluegrass. >> i love music and peace. >> i think it represents what is great about the bay area. >> everyone is here for the music and the experience. this is why i live here. >> the culture out here is amazing. it's san francisco. >> this is a legacy of the old warren hel ment and receive necessary funding for ten years after his death. >> there is a legacy that started and it's cool and he's done something wonderful for the city and we're all grateful. hopefully we will keep this thing going on for years and years to come. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i supposed to say the honorable mayor ed lee honorable willie brown mr. gesture pa elementary honorable guests and ladies and gentlemen, in times of the astrology i'm saying this is loving peace that the addition of the wood elements the goat characteristic is taught of

thank you so much wow, i wondering if that hat is available on the auction later day today, i bet a lot of people not that i'm thrilled to be introducing our final hero kairpd and san francisco general hospital have a long partnership to protect the safety net in our state that are visitor to our community health together over this last 12 years with the health commission health education we're recruiting our new nurses we've protected heartaches and strokes and helped that the electronic records across the community it's in the spirit of partnership that i'm privileged to introduce our final hero dr. edward a passionate man, i had a chance to speak to him a passionate and husband and father and mentored our and, of course, a leader in our health care industry he's someone that that many of us call our health care your calling an example why we entered the field our industry has a lot of vociferated people as you imagine that put ourselves and our crazy towards the care and service of others but few of us can say we've committed our entire cease to the safety net institutions he's one o

.) >> >> first of all, everybody welcome to the kickoff of our wonderful chinese new year the year ofsxhaifshg thank you for being here did i miss any other supervisors or rams here gosh what a wonderful kickoff this just gets more eloquent every year i want to say thank you to the san francisco chinese chamber of commerce for their leadership we're going to have a wonderful two weeks of celebration actual very much to the asian presiding officer's you saw their display along with the chinatown youth center the youth fair with their we have displays you'll be seeing repeated and more eloquent during the parade how about those the rams for the chinatown community children's center weren't they wonderful i look forward to seeing them march throughout the parade with them that's a glimgsz of what we're going to see in a couple of weeks with the celebration of the parade but also for the most part you're here at the empire jeff asian pacific islander elementary school home the empire is standing next to us imper pa elementary thank you for inviting us to our palaces in chinatown we call i

, wonderful job (clapping) hello, everybody it's great to be here i wanted to say thank you to every one of i here today when you when i walked up to this field i've had had strange and wonderful feeling we're on the field of the 3 time world series champion giants this is who you or so i'm going to volunteer smng something i know that willy and beven those who who have been successful if he can enhance our ability to bid how about a personal autograph from all of us to remember those bids we can help enhance that lets do that; right? so hopefully, you'll get the bids out we'll continue this effort it is unique to have willie in his red clothing and it is, of course, for san francisco general hospital a place where i think represents the values of this wonderful city that we have and again you know larry and pam and judy and rich we've been to month meetings to for this strategies of how to raise private dollars to support our hospital as pam said and i know exactly how she feels i've been there at the hospital when gunshot victims were there and police officers were met that unfortu

>> these kids are wonderful. they get to explore, they get to see different things. >> we let them explore a little bit. they get their best. if their parents ever ask, we can learn -- they can say that they learned about the depth of field or the rule of thirds or that the shadows can give a good contrast. some of the things they come up with are fantastic. that is what we're trying to encourage. these kids can bring up the creativity and also the love for photography. >> a lot of people come into my classes and they don't feel like they really are creative and through the process of working and showing them and giving them some tips and ideas. >> this is kind of the best kept secret. you should come on and take a class. we have orientations on most saturdays. this is a really wonderful location and is the real jewel to the community. >> ready to develop your photography skills? the harvey milk photo center focuses on adult classes. and saturday workshops expose youth and adults to photography classes. >> you're

opening their hearts and minds to this wonderful opportunity we call the willie l. brown middle school in the heart of bayview the students were awarded certificates and took they're first class picture they look great, thank you everyone that was there i have some exciting news the governors committee in the higher education announced $50 million in what wards to the university of california and california state and community college who are expanding higher access to higher education i'm very happy to announce our partnership with the state of california and our psychopath i school district known as wrinkle to success was recognized as the award winners or the $3 million group so bridge to success began as a purpose initiated in the san francisco under the leadership gavin newsom and involved the community college of san francisco and the department of children youth and families and scuffed and several important community organizations so i want to extend my hearty congratulations to everyone associated would bridge to success we're to call you the $3 million bri

thank you for being here and thank you for celebrating and thank you for being part of this wonderful wonderful centennial. >> thank you so much mayor lee for your support, for your guidance and your wisdom. it's now my pleasure to introduce phil ginsberg. recreation and parks has had a long history in san francisco and john maclaren played a critical role in this site for this fair and launched this ground and actually he won at golden gate park and phil can a test to that park's extreme beauty. please help me in welcoming phil ginsberg recreation and parks. >> good morning, everybody, on behalf of the recreation and parks i'm very happy to stand before you today to kickoff this wonderful celebration. we are proud and extremely humble stewards of this site. the mayor spoke of this celebration then and now and tomorrow. it's incredibly significant. parks are more than swing sets and playgrounds. as joyous as they are, they are part of our natural cultural heritage, the place that connects the then, now and tomorrow. when we think about what's before us and commemorating this celebrati

the algorithms have a wonderful power.nologists that craft them on clay, in computer science, or optically, they make aesthetic choices creating code. so yes, i think it is an aesthetic pursuit. cory: is the presentation of this code a big part of this? is it just the code itself is magical? the way it is written, the paper it is written on, the shape of the pieces of art. >> i want to talk about the pure code, the d.n.a. of it. you can say a person is beautiful but the d.n.a. created the individual. instead of printing code and putting it on the wall i want to talk about why the technologist crafted it the way he did. i want to talk about the back story of the code. we do have some pieces expressed. "hello world" is a challenge that welcomes all computer scientists may learn how to code -- when they learn how to code. they may not remember their first kiss but they remember the first "hello world." there is nostalgia that reminds people of where they came from. a lot of technologists will buy these archival algorithms pri

so we see your wonders world and raise you seven of our own. the seven wonders of oregon.ne, or better yet see them all. >>> a bay area teenager has been named one of the nation's brightest young scientists earning him a $150,000 prize. 17-year-old andrew gin of the harker school won from the intel science search. he created anal go algorithm for genome mutations that will help understand the genetic causes of diseases. >> while many of us got spend some time at the conference in san francisco response erred a booth and abc7 news anchor cheryl jennings emceed the event. jackie spears started professional business women of california 26 years ago to help level the playing field for women. >> it is not going to come without demanding it. it is not going to come organically or naturally. anything we have achieved has come with battle. >> women need to have each other's back. this is what this conference is doing. we have each other's backs. >> more than 5500 women attended today's conference. we have a video slide show and more highlights on our website, abc7news.com. >> a gr

wonderful check for 15 you this dollars. bev, is that a a south philadelphia accent. >> slightly further north than south philadelphia. >> a little bit further are north. thank you. >> this is special. >> very. >> aberdeen has been with us all six years of the tell a then and we are so appreciative on the not only what they do here but in philadelphia ronald mcdonald house. >> sarah and angie this is special, you see what people are doing, you see how much people care, how does it touch you. >> just knowing all the people out there care that there is good in the world it makes me happy. >> isn't that something. >> it is wonderful. >> so wonderful. >> thank you. >> big thank you to everybody and thank you, very much for aberdeen asset management. now what we were like to do is give a solute to our volunteers. home people giving up, so much of their time, look at them answering the phones, they are standing by. i have people who are waiting for you to call lets take a look at some of the volunteers right now. st. christopher's

has the wonderful opportunity to provide entity for the policy initiative team we would like to thank mark and others for a great presentation we look forward to continue working with this special committee next is the l cap student engagement we're finalizing the student fbi question inform provide for all our constituents to get a better feel and quality of service this field gives thank you. >> okay. so last night the fcc vementd demonstrated a hands-on training facilitated by the american heart did i say that wrong - >> american heart association there is they were able to witness and see the cpr by a coach fac fund-raising is interesting in the interest of the asking her the money the sat partnered with the express monday march second the date is going to be at the sf shopping mall westfield on market street in case you guys don't know at 11 to 7:00 p.m. and 53 we have those flyers so if you guys could like garble one maybe before you leave and just go there that day and show them the flyers and certain portion of the tophic i topic it decision this year so next s ac c meeting ma

all of their wonderful leadership. eddy is here, rose is here. the entire chamber has been doing this for many decades and we have been growing it for the world to see. i am very proud that this parade is put on by so many volunteers. i want to thank all of the sponsors but most importantly all of you here and enjoy yourself. buy flowers. norman said earlier to tell each other you're beautiful. that's the first time i heard that from anita. i have been telling her that for 35 years but the reverse hasn't happened but anyway this is a great time to celebrate. i want to say thank you for so many of our community partners that put this on that really think about and are creative and are dedicated to building this chinatown community so we're proud to display our culture for the rest of the world to see. thank you for being here. [speaking foreign language] [applause] >> just to let all of the dignitaries know we're keeping it short this year and keep of the blessing and that's it and of course we have to thank the chinatown chamber of commerce and e

. >> so i wonder perhaps not the chairs per romantic. >> it requires commission to act so it is in our rules. >> it is in the rules. >> so, yes i'll put the item on so there is no a.m. gut we'll ask there are be scent on part of the commission so no questions. >> we'll agenda device it for tabling. >> we'll agenda device it for postponement. >> that moves us to adjournment. >> you want to name the places we're going to be meeting in the next. >> march 27 van ness conference room and off the top of my head the mission neighborhood center incorporated neighbor on 18 and 19th between those i'll send the information. >> so we're aware where the sites are. >> and the information is posted on the web so did public has accessing access to that. >> dr. cow can question get the agenda for the discussion items that gives us more time to wrap other than the ideas. >> yes. we will then be submitting the planning session agenda sure i'm happy to talk about that that later and we've got the topics we'll have them circulated. >> if you look at the calendar in front of you. >> it is just in time one m

>> i don't think so and i wonder if she's getting paid in kind. maybe that's why it's a dream job. >> maybe the government should go into prostitution, may hay it raises money. >> john i know it may be better than the feds getting involved here, but you're okay with all of this? >> obviously we want government never involved with commerce at all, but if it's going to err and it always will i would rather contain it here than something national. government is vofds involved with alcohol i don't see the major business. let's not nationalize things. >> don't you think that somehow the federal government will get involved at least the obama administration sees favorable to this whole son september. >> yeah, and i think that's concerning. i think that legalization is something that's okay and as john always, you know, suggests the states are individual laboratories, let them figure these things out at the local level and see what works for them but i am really reticent to see government get into the business of selling pot. >> at least the feds aren't

so wonderful for our young people that everyone comes together and the roll we play to make sure we have a place for this as it is an example of a public-private nonprofit partnership that happens and northern california enlist and the city loosening group city and all of this is doing their best and surrounding facts and circumstances thank you four chaernl our services to make that a welcome place i'm honored to be here and it is show that well so clornt michael is your r our vip i will go back and tell our story about how this effort the two has affected your lives and how you suggested that it can be a model for the country thank you so much (clapping.) >> so i'm very thrilled to welcome up here who did i call the housing mayor the man with the vision for san francisco shooip housing and equity mayor ed lee. >> (clapping.) thank you gail and dennis thank you, again. and michael and all the residents here i love it when leader pelosi visits everyone a leader comes in we have to show case something he will she needs more and more example and this in particular is a heartwarming on

but wonderful. also wonderful, this bird. the liar bird. it can imitate any sound. sound. budgies. they like to hang together. they work so hard all day that they drink water equal to more than 5% of their own body weight daily. the laughing kookaburra. some size diversity now. this thing, the pigmy glider, is about the length of a piece of gum. but look at this bat. the flying fox bat. those are three-foot swings that can move these animals along at 30 miles an hour. now some sit around all day guys. the central bearded dragon whose color changes over the hours of the day to keep his body temperature steady. and the thorny devil. the tongue does most of the work. watch the feet. 1,000 amps sants swallowed in a single session. yes, there are dingos. the largest land predators making themselves at home in the wilderness that is not just kangaroos and koalas. john donvan, abc news, washington. >> "destination wild" sunday nights on nat geo wild. thanks for watching. check out the "nightline" facebook page for some of your favorite highlights this week. from women givi

i wonder what tenet was believing when he issued that threat? one of the things the book delves into, what is does it mean, issue of credibility american credibility. now pundits and politicians often use the phrase, unprecedented to describe the uniform lar but the kind of scenario that the book focuses on would truly be something new under the sun. so there are limits to the lessons of history. so what i try to do to transcend the problem somewhat, begin each chap per of the book with a fictional nair i have. there is a scenario with the secretary of state speaking with their foreign counterparts. the secretary of defense con firing with military commanders. talking heads on tv news shows, intellectuals debating what could be done. the president speaking before the american people and conferring with his advisors. the point of this drama isn't to be dramatic but to really underscore real challenges and complexities that decisionmakers would face right of boom. the other thing that the fictional narrative aims to do is inject a temporal element

for me, i love that it brings me into contact with so many wonderful people.ately all of my work that i do intersects at the place where food and community is. classes or cooking dinner for someone or writing about food. it always come down to empowering people and giving them a wonderful experience. empower their want to be around people and all the values and reasons the commitment, community and places, we're offering a whole spectrum of offerings and other really wide range of places to show that good food is not only for wealthy people and they are super committed to accessibility and to giving people a glimpse of the beauty that really is available to all of us that sometimes we forget in our day to day running around. >> we have such a philosophical mission around bringing people together around food. it's so natural for me to come here. >> we want them to walk away feeling like they have the tools to make change in their lives. whether that change is voting on an issue in a way that they will really confident about, or that change is how to understand

vicki, this wonderful, wonderful occasion, thank you. [applause] you have done the nation a favor , with a tireless efforts to construct this incredible, incredible chamber, which brings me to some opening remarks i would like to make, with your permission.