Supervisor stefani present. Supervisor walton mr. President all anybodys are present. Thank you, madam clerk thank you, madam clerk unceded ancestral homeland of the ramaytush rahmytoosh ohlone olonee who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco peninsula. Responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. Ramaytush ohlone community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. Colleagues please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Madam clerk do we have any communications. Yes. Thank you, mr. President. Welcomes you at city hall or watch on sfgovtv channel 26. You may submit your Public Comment to to www. Sfbos. Org or dr. Carlton city hall San Francisco, california. To make a reasonable accommodation for the facilities act p
Good afternoon, everyone. I am the director of the museum and staff director of the museum of Natural History. It is my pleasure to welcome you to the next pandemic. Hopefully its not the next pandemic right here. You might think that the Natural History museum is not the best placed at the meeting like this. This museum is the largest Natural Museum and has 145 million objects. I say that objects, whatever, but the reality is collecting the Natural World for the last frontiers in preserving preserving those objects in museums, and this is the place where we have what we know about planet earth, so the records have collect and over the years 300 years preserved at acceptable by research scientists. Last year over 400 species were described by scientists working the building. At the same time we welcome 6 million visitors. Most of those visitors are tourists which means the next years a different 6 million, the world plus largest collection, visit by the Worlds Largest is the audience,
Television coverage has impacted politics through the years. Cspan founder, brian lamb, moderated the Panel Discussion with two former u. S. Representative from indiana, steve buyer and tim roemer. Rolealso talked about the of social media and its impact on politics. Good evening. Welcome to the 30th anders bursary anniversary celebration of the cspan archives. I am robert browning, the director of the archives. Ago this month that we turned on the vhs machine. I have to explain what those are. Noise as theyt of rewound. We round it is all digital recording. Was to indexgoal it and make it available for public use. Fun 30 years later to look at how those goals have been met which is what our panel is about. Back then, the internet did not exist. Digital recording was unknown. The cloud was something you watched in the sky. Vision a vision of what could be if we kept this material not knowing how it would be used and we are creating the future of american democracy the history of americ
The cloud was something you watched in the sky. But we had a vision a vision of what could be if we kept this material not knowing how it would be used and we are creating the future of american democracy the history of american democracy. Before i turn this over to Mitch Daniels for some words, we will look at a video because that is what we do. Look at kind of a fun some of our panelists tonight. Just give you a warning. [video clip] we have a resolution that we put forward. Roses are red. Violets are blue. If we are not home by 7 00, we are in deep we encourage the gentleman to give us some definitive time on tuesday night. I appreciate the sentiment. How would you define your ideology . Is it more liberal, moderate, or conservative . I appreciate that. I am fiscally conservative but on social issues, i am moderate. I guess what you could say what that means is i have great reverence for the past and the sacrifices of many but i also have a piece of liberal in me. What a piece of li
Good evening. Welcome to the 30th anniversary celebration of the cspan archives. I am Robert Browning, the director of the archives. It was 30 years ago this month that we turned on the vhs machine. [laughter] robert i have to explain what those are. They made a lot of noise as they wound and rewound. It is all digital recording. Today, it is all digital recording. Our original goal was to record everything on cspan, index it and make it available for public use. It is fun 30 years later to look at how those goals have been met , which is what our panel is about. Back then, the internet as we know it today did not exist. Digital recording was unknown. The cloud was something you watched in the sky. But we had a vision, a vision of what could be if we kept this material, not knowing how it would be used and we are creating the future of american democracy, the history of american democracy. Before i turn this over to mitch daniels, were going to look at a little video. That is what we d