Are we ready good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon my name is supervisor cowen the chair and this is the regular meeting of Land Use Committee to my right is commissioner weiner the vice chair and our clerk clear and thank to charles kremack and others for broadcasting this meeting electronic devices. Completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the june 7, 2016, board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you very much call hematemesis one ac. Amending at planning code for the rooftop screening. The Planning Department is the sponsor of this item we have a staff person from the Planning Department to present. Were ready. Good afternoon chair cohen and honorable supervisors tilly Chang Department staff this is the planning code for the controls to two spate areas of planning code the map controls and rooftop park screening with the clean up of applicability of the controls expan
Kelly watts. When you come up say video and theyll put it on for you, kelly. Sfgov i have a video, no audio. This vid you shows footage of the tire particles children are exposed to on San Francisco synthetic fields today. The video also contains pictures and video of the rpd installation. In many cases shown on mbc, espn and [inaudible] cpsc meetings. Electron microscope [inaudible] these particles are invisible to the naked eye. Zooming out reviles the zaged edges that enables them to get stuck in the lungs and gastrointestinal track. Even the lanchlgest particles which are easily seen are the size of a grain of sands. The commission is responsible for introducing thousands of tons into childrens play fields and 35 acres of the city environment. That is millions of pounds. This commission is responsibleas you know, yale publuxed a study which found 12 cancer causes particles. Despite you and your Business Associates other notable agencyerize not sure. The health risk are questioned b
Army medical museum. Our mission is much the same. It is to collect objects that shed light on the value of military medicine and preserve the legacies of military medicine. What we will show you today are highlights of the Museum Collections from the last 150 years in areas of military medicine, Human Anatomy and medicine, forensic bioengineering, and a special few artifacts we have on display here. So, along. Long. , come a we start our tour today with this object, the floor of what 2 fromown as trauma bay an hospital in iraq. From 2003 until 2007, during the height of the iraq war, the hospital served as the evacuation point before soldiers were flown to germany and the for the next level of care. Trauma bay two was where the worst cases were treated. This helps tell the story of modern Battlefield Medicine and it shares that story by the deep gouges you see in the floor. If you can imagine, the gurneys being carried into the emergency gurney legs being kicked into place over and ov
Military medicine, one exhibit display focused on the advancements in surgical kits. We see a surgical kit from the time of the revolutionary war n and the war of 1812, compared 18 and contrasted with kits from rq afghanistan. One thing to notice in the surgical kit from the war of 1812 is that the knives may look to us today very much like kitchen knives or butcher knives, but these were the precise tools of that era. So its interesting to note that those knives are alongside the tools used to extract bullets from injuries and one can imagine the pain that might have been caused by even the tools themselves. Another object kit of note is the kit used to do a postmortem examination, an autopsy on the remains of the father of the United States navy, john paul jones, jones had died and was buried in france at the end of the 18th century, but in 1905 a surgeon named joseph corniel had jones remains exhumed and core kneel used this kit that we have on display to positively identify jones r
Shipping and handling. To look at items spanning over 150 years of existence. Civil war collection. Some viewers may find images in this program disturbing. Mr. Clarke hello, and welcome to the National Museum of health and medicine. My name is tim clarke and i am the museums deputy director. We are here to give you a short tour of the highlights of the museum. It was founded in 1862 as the Army Medical Museum. Our Mission Today is very much the same. It is to collect objects that shed light on the value of military medicine and preserve the legacy of american medicine. What we will show you today are highlights of the Museum Collections from the last 150 years in areas of military medicine, Human Anatomy and pathology, forensic identification, biomedical engineering, and a special few artifacts we have on display here. So, come along. We start our tour today with this object, the floor of what was known as trauma bay 2 from a hospital in iraq. From 2003 until 2007, during the height o