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[ inaudible ] commissioner kopp, i think you were in the middle of your comments. A large percentage, not a plurality, a majority of these pending matters are tributable to deferring to a request by the District Attorney to abate our investigation, while the da investigates. And some of those requests, as the chairman noted, go back to 2013, as others are 2014. Others are 2015. There they are at least a year old and does that a disservice to the people of San Francisco. Itdoes a disservice to th...

All right. The meeting will come to order this is the regular meeting did Land Use Committee im supervisor cowen the chair and to my right is it scott wiener the arock and to my left is aaron peskin our clerk alicia and take moment to thank our forensics leo and Nona Melkonian for evaluating us in the broadcast thank you very much madam clerk, any announcements . Yes. All electronic devices. Completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon t...

All right. The meeting will come to order this is the regular meeting did Land Use Committee im supervisor cowen the chair and to my right is it scott wiener the arock and to my left is aaron peskin our clerk alicia and take moment to thank our forensics leo and Nona Melkonian for evaluating us in the broadcast thank you very much madam clerk, any announcements . Yes. All electronic devices. Completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon t...

Going to have it published. I want to also focus, again, a little bit on Alexander Hamilton. Not just because hes got wonderful musical but because even if your talk, the figure of hamilton, perhaps justifiable moves rather large. As you say, people were obsessed with him, fascinated with him, tell us more about Alexander Hamilton as a founder. Yeah, one of the things the book focuses a lot on the decade after the convention, those first years and i think one thing that people dont understand is...

Now we kickoff the weekend with a report on required reading for College Freshman. If we dont have enough people go out and find some. [inaudible conversations] welcome to the National Association of scholars. I am peter wyatt wood, president of the National Association of scholars. In 2009, a young man heading on vacation in mexico picked up and unusually heavy book for his beach reading, and 800 page tome of the life of an 18thcentury immigrant. 50 pages or so into the book the story took poss...

Copy. Everybody, i have about 300 people to thank and i am going to thank them tonight. However, between me and thanking those 300 people, there is an open bar and lots of sliders waiting for us at joes bar which is an amsisterdam and 83rd street. Lets keep the party going there. I will sign books there that you buy here. I will sign books here obviously. But thank you, everybody for all of the support along the way. You have been incredibly helpful. [applause] our booktv lineup continues in a f...

Which the history of immigration from Eastern Europe to america between 1846 and 1940. Michael lynch looks at the impact of technology throughout the digital age in the internet of us. And in the end of alchemy, the former governor of the bankf of england argues the development of paper mun aand credit are equally responsible for economic benefits and volatility. Look for these titles in bookstores this coming week and watch for interviews with the authors in the coming weeks on booktv. Welcome ...

Step out of your time and culture and your age and your race and your gender and imagine what life is like in some other era in some other culture. Theres a whole theory of criticism around that. Is that kind of rationale ever been used to select literature . Thats not racist, its just an active imagination. Has that argument ever been used to select literature and if not, why not . Has the argument ever been put forward to select books based on the imaginative distance from the here and now, sp...

29yearold, what emerged from his reading of the 2004 Alexander Hamilton is now the hottest ticket on broadway, the hiphop musical hamilton. Broadway play is widely note for many things, including its exact fidelity to the historical facts. So beach books need not be light read, and the right beach book can kick up a lot of sand. As it happens whether the top five most assigned common readings for College Freshman last year was also a book about the obstacles overcome by an immigrant. It is the c...

Remember that laudable progress comes not by might or power but through your spirit. Give them the wisdom to seek your guidance for every critical decision, as you infuse them with the courage to obey your commands. As they seek to do what is best for america, be for them a shield and sure defense. May they ask the right questions as they labor to keep libertys lamp. Burn bright. We pray in your sacred name. Amen. The presiding officer thank you, chaplain black. Would everyone please join me in ...