the san francisco cons tri of flowers in golden gate park is now showing a new exhibit that changes the way we see the plants around us. amy stewart s best-selling book, wicked plants is the inspiration behind the new exhibit that takes us to the dark side of the plant world. i am amy stewart. i am the arthur of wicked plants, the weeds that killed lincoln s mother and other botanical atrocities. with the screens fly trap, that is kind of where everybody went initially, you mean like that? i kind of thought, well, all it does is eat up bugs. that is not very wicked. so what? by wicked, what i mean is that they are poisonous, dangerous, deadly or immoral or maybe illegal or offensive or awful in some way. i am in the profession of going around and interviewing botanists, horticulturalists and plant scientists. they all seem to have some little plant tucked away in the corner of a greenhouse that maybe they weren t supposed to have. i got interested in this idea that ma
it s a great honor to be here. my name is debby dirsh, san francisco native. i d like to welcome you to the annual cable car bell ringing contest. i would like to introduce mr. ford. welcome to the 47th annual cable car bell ringing competition. this is one of a kind. this is a comptation competition for the world championship and thank you for coming. i also have to thank our cable car grip men and conductors. every day they help move people around our city, they re great ambassadors and do a great job entertaining visitors to our fine city. we have two members from the mta board, bruce oka and malcolm hideke here today. i d like to thank our judges. we have judges representing a lot of president businesses here in the union square area. with that, to all the mta employees and fine citizens of san francisco, thank you for joining us today and thank you for your support. matt ford, ladies and gentlemen. the bell ringing competition is a two-part event today. we have pro
the window, you can see his wife has just served him a glass of wine, and he is slumped over the table as the poison takes affect. a neat little factold dominion about that house is actually built out of three panels from old james bond movie. we wanted people to feel like i am not supposed to be in this room. this is the one that is supposed to be barred off and locked up. the ole andersonner oleander. this popular shrub is popular in warm climates. it has been implicated in a surprising number of murders and accidental deaths. children are at risk because it takes only a few leaves to kill them. a southern california woman tried to collect on her husband s life insurance by putting the leaves in his food. she is now one of 15 women on california s death rowan the only one who attempted to murder with a plant. people who may haven t been to their cons tore or been to do serve tore or their botanical garden, it gives them a reason to come back. you think let s go and
it s a great honor to be here. my name is debby dirsh, san francisco native. i d like to welcome you to the annual cable car bell ringing contest. i would like to introduce mr. ford. welcome to the 47th annual cable car bell ringing competition. this is one of a kind. this is a comptation competition for the world championship and thank you for coming. i also have to thank our cable car grip men and conductors. every day they help move people around our city, they re great ambassadors and do a great job entertaining visitors to our fine city. we have two members from the mta board, bruce oka and malcolm hideke here today. i d like to thank our judges. we have judges representing a lot of president businesses here in the union square area. with that, to all the mta employees and fine citizens of san francisco, thank you for joining us today and thank you for your support. matt ford, ladies and gentlemen. the bell ringing competition is a two-part event today. we have pr
pedestrian safety summit. thank you for joining us this morning. before we start i want to go through a few house keeping items. the restrooms are to my left around the columns and i d like to request you all turn off your cellphones or at least put them on vibrate thing thank you. i m the pedestrian program manager the s.f. municipal agency. i m your, mc for today. peter albert is our director of planning at the mta. [applause] good morning. with christina i welcome you to the 2008 pedestrian summit. i m the deputy of director of planning at the mta and it s my honor and privilege to introduce two of the most important people in san francisco for this. wade is the mayor s point person on climate and environmental policy. wade, thank you for joining us. i ll be brief on behalf of mayor newsom i want to thank everyone for being here today. this is a seminal moment in our city and i want to thank the mta board. some members here today, commissioner bruce oka, commissioner kn