Opportunity in the privilege doing a ride along of march 24, friday. I want to acknowledge chief gonzalez, but also wanted to acknowledge chief [inaudible] met me at the station, station 49. Part of that was the desire by this commission to ride on a friday night which is usually a hot night. The intention is go from 4 a. M. To about 1 a. M. And pooped out about eleven p. M. Discouraged and disaopponented in myself i didnt stay long frr the hot time. I had the privilege riding with medic 79 with paramedic chris couch and emt leslie fong. We left the station at about 5 oclock. Commissioners i encourage all you to take a site visit to station 49 and have the chief show what the layout is. Again, being a commissioner of some years, station 49 changed quite a bit. There are and a squads used to be there and closing depot is there but there is modifications of the members and room and dispatch room and a ride along like that is invaluable. Valuable in terms of getting a first pond point of
Clerk would you or john read number one, please oh, are there any announcements. Please silence any devices that may sound off during the proceedings. Items acted upon today will appear on the april 18th board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated and why not get a housekeeping motion to excuse supervisor farrell motion by supervisor tang and without objection and madam clerk can you please read the first number one, an ordinance item no. 1 planning code Affordable Housing requirement and fee in divisadero and fillmore neighborhood commercial higher Residential Development potential as a result of the zoning of divisadero street neighborhood commercial Transit District and the fillmore street neighborhood commercial Transit District in 2015 and making appropriate understanding autopsy thank you. I have been informed by supervisor president london breed that she would like this matter continued and representing her office is mr. Michael sir any words. No good afternoon, supervis
Im caroline hyde. Lets kick off with china. The shanghai composite closed down 5. 5 today, as sliding industrial profits and widening investigations into chinas brokerages fueled concerns over the world second biggest economy. Lets get straight to our beijing euro chief, nick wadhams. Fergus the focus . i think the data figure is fairly minor. The big thing is these probes. There are many ways to read this. One is that they are looking possibly at insider trading. All we are hearing his they are looking at rule violations, which can mean a great many things. The government is looking for someone to blame after the market rout in june and they are going full force. They had thought that the Market Recovery in the last couple months, they thought there was enough strength that they could launch these probes without hitting the market. The market has shown otherwise. Andemains extremely jittery reversed course is sharply once those probes came to light. Caroline just having that breaking
Well, i just want to welcome you. We are still so thrilled tonight to be hosting doctor John Palfreman in conversation about his new book, brain storms the race to unlock the mysteries of parkinsons disease. His books are up for sale at the register. Also, a big thank you to the Parkinsons Institute in sunnyvale for helping us arrange this. And cspan is here filming tonight. I amim going to ask you to raise your hand if you have a question command i will bring the mic over. Professor emeritus of journalism at the university of oregon, and me, dupont, and peabody awardwinning journalist, nieman fellow, and recipient of the victor khan prize for excellence in medical science reporting. John palfreman is coauthor of the case of the frozen alex along with doctor jay william langston. The science fix director of the institute in sunnyvale, california. They coauthor, received numerous awards including the distinguished Achievement Award for modern medicine. Please help me give a warm welcome
Managing the congress. It becomes a detrimental, but really when youre talking about structural legislative problems, that really is one way in which Lyndon Johnson was much better positioned than almost any president in modern memory. I think we have time for one more question. A question for both of you. It when you talk about being less critical of politicians going forward, are you talking about the number of times or just what our criticisms are . I think there will always be an abundance of things about which we should be critical of politicians, and certainly when i was talking about before in terms of inflated rhetoric in the sense that the public cannot take reality and truth is something we should ask more of from our politicians and do it in a concerted fashion. What i was trying to suggest as we hold them to re our standard in terms of understanding with the important issues are going to be in a moment whereas when you look back in history you really see that is beyond thei