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Halfway around the world, in california, are clues to understanding the fall of mesopotamia, as farmers here struggle to overcome a threat to this fertile garden land. The ruins of ancient societies may hold keys to our own survival as, out of the past, archaeologists explore one of the greatest of mysteries the decline and fall of grand civilizations. Mission control ignition. And liftoff. Liftoff. Keach for more than five millennia, humankind has seemed to dominate earth, both creating and des...

Well, thank you, everybody. And welcome. Happy thanksgiving and happy season of sharing and caring for each other. I just spent a wonderful morning with the Interfaith Council and their 15th anniversary of breakfast with quite a host of wonderful, wonderful people who care about the city and about the world. And while the theme was articulated as a very rich greening theme, i think we found out from many, if not all of the speakers, that the way we care about our earth is reflected in the way we...

Immediate short term stabilization and work with people to link them up to service and housing that is appropriate for their need and we worked very closely with the red cross and we try to provide housing search assistance, but, this population does not have a priority standing, the only priority that this place fire tenants have, is that they are already on the waiting list for the housing authority, and then they can move up to the top of that waiting list. And so, we have had maybe 5 or 6 pe...

Were going to go over search and rescue in this class, go over some buildings and how you assess buildings. You already had classes on utility controls, correct . How about medical . Did medical . Okay, as i said, my name is alec, im on truck 11. Lets go into some light search and rescue. Before you start, what do you do . Stop, look, listen and think. Any time you pull up to an incident or you see something, you take a breath, assess the situation, use all your senses and think about what you a...

Damage. If they do not comply on the notice of violation, the case is set for administration hearing, could i ask that what could be done to merge and expedite to bring a Building Back up to ha bit able conditions more quickly and i know that as some buildings burn down, sometimes, the owners will wait for a long period of time and then people will leave the city or find other permanent residence, but what could we do to speed that process up . We try to encourage the owners to get a permit righ...

A question about premium pay. Could you go into a little deeper describing what that is . What are the changes that youre proposing, what is currently the status of premium pay for yes, specifically, if were talking about the legislative premium pay for longevity, the legislative aide is working for the same supervisor for a period of four years and the fifth year they are working at the top step and they are entitled to an additional percentage based upon the mou for retention and any special s...

Class, go over some buildings and how you assess buildings. You already had classes on utility controls, correct . How about medical . Did medical . Okay, as i said, my name is alec, im on truck 11. Lets go into some light search and rescue. Before you start, what do you do . Stop, look, listen and think. Any time you pull up to an incident or you see something, you take a breath, assess the situation, use all your senses and think about what you are going to do. Those are all components of what...

Here. applause . And our state school chief tom torlichman is here and he is making his way to the podium. Thank you all for being here. Rob, i want to start with you. You are a los gatos man. How old was jill when this started happening. It started happening when jill was about 14, it started in december, she turned 15 in february and then less than a month later, she passed. I cant even imagine what that was like for you all. You have another daughter so you just couldnt fold so how did you de...

800 a month. Matching that because the tenant and they may be doubled up and i am not able to say, well, you know, there are nine People Living in the studio, and we refer them on to another landlord. Next is dan laury and he is the deposit director and we also have the manager of Public Affairs as well. Dbi inspects the fire damaged building, and the larger buildings we will get a call from the San Francisco Fire Department and a lot of the smaller buildings were not called out on the larger fi...

Supervisors. The project is also consistent with the general plan, the eastern neighborhoods plan and the Mission Street area plan specifically which is passed in 2008. As you know eastern neighborhoods plans were developed over several years through participation with the City Government and other stakeholders. The Mission Area Plan encourages higher density transient ordinary housing along valencia street. The plan rezoned the property to allow the type of Current Development property proposed...