Get up, stand up a new study revealing how bad sitting is for you, and taking the plunge. A look at the worlds tallest water slide. Imagine that. Immigration reform front and center tonight. The president in dallas on a fundraising trip meeting with local leaders to take about the flood of immigrants crossing the border. Among the leaders governor rick perry, the onetime president ial candidate who thats there are not enough resources at the border. Some democrats are criticising the president. Reporter what about what some of the democratic members are saying, criticising him for not going to the border, especially if hes in texas fundraising. One of your democrats say they hope the border is not president obamas katrina moment. Many chris sized bush for not criticised bush for not heading no new orleans after katrina. There is an issue. If he had been in the area, i probably would have gone to take a closer look at what is going on. Its not like he cant see it. Or he hasnt been told
Im going to talk today about something that has unconsciously and indirectly led to a tyranny of experts. Lets call it the technocratic approach to Economic Development. Its the idea that poverty is really just a set of technical robs, so that, for example problems, so that, for example, for malaria theres a variety of Technical Solutions. One of them involves spraying a chemical on the walls of peoples houses, on the inside walls of peoples houses to kill mosquitoes that carry malaria. Thats a technical solution. Another technical solution might be to convert land to higher valueses like from food crops that have low value to Forestry Products that have high value. Now let me tell you why this might, this purely technical approach to development which seems so appealing, so straightforward, so countercontroversial might, in fact, be not quite that easy. So heres the story. And this is not a happy story. This is not like do not think this is the runup to a punch to a joke. Ill try to w
Comment. We have granted the principle of floor to certainty individuals who wish to speak in america of many collins so if you could please respected that well have Public Comments in a little awhile thank you youll have an opportunity to speak later. Thank you. Im bruce a friend. I did my comments. I had to write the obituary. She was a wonder woman to a cave man like me. We were i loved this woman. I was there when she transmissions from male a female it took me a week to digest. I i just want to thank the family and friends for coming here today it couldnt have been in city hall in every way in her memory and we did justice to her here in the chambers with all the diverse perspectives and even in her accomodation come to follow that. Im grateful for her work and life so much good happened. And were all here to decade her journey that shes started and a thank you very much clapping thank you very much. Madam clerk why dont we precede with the regular business of the board and if we
For being here today to commemorate this beautiful new strut. Street. This is a wonderful area of San Francisco and we are happy to mark this completion of this project. What a great new place for the city of San Francisco. Im mohammed, from the dpw. You think of places that are inviting, welcoming, spacious, contemporary, while maintaining its heritage. You think of easy access for visitors to enjoy themselves and make plans to come back again. Fishermans wharf is a world Class Destination spot. Today it is even better. There have been lots of handson this project, many many hours and meetings to put together. Besides the strategies for making it work here, creating an updated top notch public space. These improvement were driven by the Fishermans Wharf community. Without the support of all the businesses here, we wouldnt be standing here today. Today we have the opportunity to recognize the individuals and groups who played a part and then well officially reopen this beautiful vibran
Clubhouse imagine around the vertical spice where theres a swooim pool and its surrounding it and around it are a series of amenity spaces for the resident. Light filters from the top of this garden so it creates a heart of the edge of the residential but still faces the street. So exwhat is it it distinguishes the building. It translates into lots of lights inside the unit. We know that light is a sustainable design. This will allow the buildings p to be light filed and open up the views of San Francisco. It is this that makes the name lumina. Thank you very much thank you. Now mayor lee and sherman and the other ceremony all right. Thank you a for being here today to commemorate this beautiful new strut. Street. This is a wonderful area of San Francisco and we are happy to mark this completion of this project. What a great new place for the city of San Francisco. Im mohammed, from the dpw. You think of places that are inviting, welcoming, spacious, contemporary, while maintaining its