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That his third. Spending a lot of money on dealing with these and parachutes so were asking for a number of changes. Also looking at collective licenses so they can pay for them instead of having the librarys saying we cannot so they are big but there is a bunch of issues. Lecter where we are in 2016 is there another period history of a revolution like it is now . And in the beginning of publishing it was a huge change the written word was eagerness you would follow and never had access to books...

Authors guild. Mary rasenberger [inaudible conversations] afternoon. One more time. The next panel black writers in said digital age we are very excited about this panel and we will be joined by our individual the case so much he will be very excited because they do know some of the participants. Good afternoon. Give a strong return. Good afternoon. I want to apologize first. In this case a train derailed so he should be coming soon. But i am excited about this i am an artist but when you start ...

All right. I think we probably have time for at least one, maybe two. With the incredible job that darpa is doing, do we need diux . It is an initiative in the Defense Department to try to connect the dod better to the commercial tech community, the first part of that activity is in the Silicon Valley area. I actually think this is a really important opportunity for the department. Darpa is designed to be deeply engaged with the technical community. My 100 Technical Program managers are out in t...

Up next were going to go from space to dna. And we have eric schulte coming. Hes up next. Thanks very much. Really appreciate it. So a beloved astronomer was faced with a task that would seem daunting to just about anyone. Okay . If we humans were to announce our existence in this universe, how would you do it . And more importantly, what would you say . Now, i say say very lightly here because language is a very human construct. A concept weve applied to many living and nonliving things to help...

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Prejudice, the small contractors but it is going to be good for the city. And it is going to reward, the good contractors, and the many good contractors, large and small, and who do good work for the city. And so, i do and i just scribe these amendments in the beginning i would ask that the committee would adopt them and to forward this item with the positive recommendation. Supervisor yee . Thank you. First of all, i also want to thank the public for coming out. And thank you for supervisor wei...

Hearing for the budget update on Information Technology and the capital plan for 20162017 and 20172018 and okay. Thank you i know we have bryan sfroong from Capital Improvement planing well leave to you in terms of which ones goes first. Good afternoon board of supervisors Budget Finance Committee im sandra the director of the committee on Information Technology i have the pleasure this afternoon of providing a brief presentation on this by fiscal year 20162017 and 20172018. Go to our computer s...

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