City. Host joining us from our studios in new york, ryan mcgrady. He runs the scholars and Scientists Program as the manager for wiki education, which means what . Guest i run a program that brings subject Matter Experts to wikipedia. Host how did wikipedia start out . What is its etymology in genesis . Guest wikipedia is a concept of a combination of the concept of wikipedia and if wikipedia. Is a software that it uses which is that easy to edit, easy to collaborate text and images software. Wiki is not the same of same as wikipedia but they merge the two together. It began in 2001 as a project of a more traditional encyclopedia. A drafting is for that traditional encyclopedia. It kind of took off and got a life of its own. Very quickly amassed hundreds of thousands of articles. Host who writes and edits for wikipedia and how do you check to make sure it is 100 accurate . Guest as far as who writes wikipedia, anybody can write wikipedia. You could write wikipedia. I write wikipedia. A
To note is there are 11 different design styles that are on this one block of parker, so the notion that theres a consistency or somehow theres a vocabulary that can be identified is just is just not true. I see art deco, classical, edwardian, english, storybook cottage, new england cottage, spanish, and storybook, all on one block. You can go anywhere in San Francisco, and while there may be important people that lived here, architecturally, theres nothing different about this structure than those on other 25foot lots. Thats a standard in the city. What i think is true is that there is a jordan parks file, but it just doesnt happen to be on parker avenue. On commonwealth, the next block over, jordan, and palm, the upper picture shows sort of grand houses developed in the 1920s. Theyre all set back equally, theyre all two stories over basement. They all are set back equally from the street. They all have larger lots. A lot of them have garages in the back, they have side yards. This is
Come up to the microphone when i call for Public Comment. We ask that everybody turns off their cell phones including commissioners and staff. I want to thank sf gov tv for sharing this meeting with the public. We can start with a roll call. [roll call] the first orer of business is general Public Comment for any item not listed on the agenda today. Does anybody have anything to say . Seeing none, general Public Comment is closed. The next agenda item is number two, approval of the minutes for december 17, 2019. We will need a motion to approve. I move to approve second. Any Public Comment on the minutes from december 17, 2019 . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioner perez [roll call] all right. The Meeting Minutes have been approved. The next agenda item is a report from our executive director. Thank you. Good evening, commissioners. Its been since november since ive seen you all in this setting. So this is fun to be back. Happy new year. And i wanted to take a moment and
A packed house. I do not know if i have ever seen in the auditorium this full. You draw an audience. It is a slow news cycle in south asia, so this is surprising. We are very excited to have the ambassador here to give remarks today. I am going to start with a few housekeeping items to introduce before i introduce the ambassador, 1520 minutes and then move to a moderated discussion including getting q a from the audience. We would like to leave some time to make this interactive discussion. But we do have some heritage products in the u. S. Relationship. This has been a big priority for the Heritage Foundation, for myself, for the u. S. Government. We releasedt night a new paper, navigating differences and consolidated reviewing some of the progress, some of the remarkable progress made in the first term modi. Dy and what we can expect in terms of opportunities and also challenges. Here at heritage we will be organizing a big conference on indiau. S. Relations in partnership with the O
Wages are creeping up, but households still unwilling to spend. Yet more signs that the missing puzzle piece when it comes to the japanese recovery. Remainingics story elusive with this threshold out this morning. Laboroyment, the tight market staying at the lowest in around two decades. Also looking at things like retail sales and consumption lacking. Take a look at this chart. Consumers. Is this the case that so many years of deflationary mindset is shake . Ry difficult to the stubbornness of a reluctance to spend there is. Low unemployment employment. You can see when it comes to spending, living expenditure, it is not going up at all. We are going to delve a little bit more. There is no change to the picture that japans economic recovery lacks that strong driver despite expending for a fifth consecutive quarter. The longest run of gdp expansion in about a decade. Lets take a look at other markets. It is a funny start to the trading week. Large parts of Global Markets closed. The u.