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United states to lean very heavily on the government, especially on maliki. If you were to point to one thing that has unraveled our ability of iraq as a cohesive it is theesist isis, decisions made by mr. Maliki. Awesomeously, he is so he has so ostracized the sunni and kurdish community, but on top of that his decision to go to the military he just put his son for those of you who saw that his son is now in charge of the military in iraq. He has gone to the officer corps and removed a competen...

Be like serving in the United States senate. We actually liked one another than. We actually got along with one another. And deal with all of you has been one of the pleasures. I mean this sincerely, of my tenure as Vice President. And saw a lot of you back at the white house not too long ago, and i want you to know that i want to thank, i want to thank bill for the passport to get back into tennessee. I appreciate very much. He said you here last week. Hopefully youre not coming next week. No, ...

City that we all loved. And there were avid gardners and nature lovers and i have a background in the arts. So, what followed was what inspired me, anyway, was two things. The wonderful [speaker not understood] in the presidio. And in new york, if youve been to the jaialai, you know these are two projects that have brought artful interventions to lots of people in an urban setting. So, i love that idea. So, that led me to Phil Ginsberg who is very enthusiastic and he arranged the tour for me to ...

Department of public works to establish a new crosswalk there across kesar drive. Presently the existing crosswalk is at the left there. People have to cross into an island and wait at an island and cross to get to the childrens playground. So, we did manage to secure an assurance from the department of public works that they would establish a new crosswalk there with crossing lights to make a direct link into the park. And our plan consists of increased planting at the edge at the southern edge...

This triangle is an example of one of the types of agricultural art projects that is being proposed in the plan and the idea is to plant barley since this is a natural plant and was once grown there to feed the horses. This is an example actually of an art project that the Arts Commission considered more landscaping rather than art. So, this was not one that they thought the need to review or approve, but i did want to share it with you today just to show you some of the beautiful ways that arti...

The high traffic areas nearby as well as from the parked cars that are there on lincoln. Another great thing about this project is its being privately funded so, theres not actually any Public Resources that need to go into this project. Thanks to the generosity of the Crane Foundation. And, so, this is a great opportunity to accept a wonderful gift from them for the city. So, we urge your support for the project and look forward to working with you on it. Thanks very much. Thank you. [speaker n...

To know a little history how this all came to pass. My parents passed away, i thought i would find a project that would honor them and the city that we all loved. And there were avid gardners and nature lovers and i have a background in the arts. So, what followed was what inspired me, anyway, was two things. The wonderful [speaker not understood] in the presidio. And in new york, if youve been to the jaialai, you know these are two projects that have brought artful interventions to lots of peop...

Numerous picnics and social gatherings at the triangle and they plan to continue doing so. The mou before you establishes the framework for collaboration between rec park, the Parks Alliance, and the friends [speaker not understood] this project. The agreement [speaker not understood] assigns roles, responsibilities to Design Construction of the project. Specifically the mou includes the following provisions. The San Francisco Parks Alliance as fiscal agent to the friends shall provide all labor...

They are not optional. They are something that we as a city have repeatedly indicated that we want to see more of, and this fire Code Amendment allowed us to do that. When just a month or two after the mayor signs that unanimously passed legislation, the Fire Commission forwarded to us this update of a fire code and stripped out that amendment that we had just unanimously passed. When we learned of that, we put it back in, and we passed it out of committee. Colleagues, i want to thank president ...

We love our parks, but we love. And the community who is really the core of it all, came together and said what we need is a place for our teenager to play, not just play grounds for the kids and soccer fields but we need a skate park that will keep the kids home in the neighborhood so they can play where they live. The children in the neighborhood and it will be a major boone. And we have generations, the youth generations that will be able to use this park in different places. The best park in...