The World Without these sounds or sites. In the scientific realm it is shifting baselines. We get used to less and less, diminished expectations of what it was. When i came along lobsters six feet long and oysters 12 inches within they days all the oyster beds in new york, manhattan, the harbor would clean the water. So, just getting people to wake up to what was just literally there 200 years ago, 150 years ago. You see the object and say what is that. You come out and hear these intriguing sounds, sounds like i have never heard in my life. And then you step closer and you almost have a very intimate experience. We could link to different institutions around the globe, maybe one per continent, maybe two or three in this country, then once they are all networked, they begin to communicate with one another and share information. In 2010 the website will launch, but it will be what you would call an informational website and then we are going to try to, by 2011, invite people to add a me
San francisco Public Utilities headquarter project during the time when the project was at a stand still for a number of reasons, largely due to budget issues. And at the time we were asked to consider an alternative design using concrete rather than the scheme that was potentially planned for previous to that, which was a steel frame structure that used hydraulic dampers to control seismic motion. So, i met with my team. We worked hard. We came up with a great idea. Lets take out the heavy steel structure, lets put in an innovative vertical post tension concrete structure, great idea. We did that. A lot of other things. And we came up with a price of 140 million. So, we achieved that goal. And, so, when we first started looking at the building, it was going to cost a lot of money. Because of the way it was being built, we could only get 12 floors. We wanted more space for our employees. We ended up going and saying, okay, if we do a concrete building instead, which was web cores idea,
The most Ribbon Cutting and most Ribbon Cuttings, we keep everybody off limits and then we cut the ribbon and then stuff happens. You cant stop them. You can only hope to contain them in there so were going to let everybody continue to play. So, its been said that, that success has many, many, many parents and there are many parents, many people who have contributed to this outstanding, outstanding effort. We are so, so proud of this project and so thrilled to be able to give a new face to Lafayette Park. This park has tremendous history, from a City Attorney who claimed ownership of 12 acres in the 1860s, holiday hill, how many know about holiday hill . Right . Where the City Attorney actually thought he owned a piece of this. To a professor who set up the first astronomical observatory on the west coast here in 1879. To the hundreds of people who call this park home after the 1906 earthquake, to controversial mind troops. To controversial park renovations. Lafayette park has many sto
Nolan and cheyrlbrick man. And the mayor and director transportation policy, jilian gelet,. And mayor district, executive director jack broadbent. Department of environment, melanie nutter. Sfmta, bon ye. San francisco bike coalition, kit hodge. [ applause ] sfcta Deputy Director for policy and programming ana lafort. Sfcta interim director maria lumabardo. And San Francisco police chief greg sure. [ applause ] so how do we get here . As early as 2009, tda ban working towards a Bike Sharing Program in Santa Clara County intended to address the bike issues on cal tran and provide the connections to the light rail and bus services at the same time, there was a growing interest from other bay area agencies to pursue and expand bike sharing on a regional level, as a recall, with the support from the partners represented here today from the bay area, air Quality Management districts, board of directors, the district submitted an application to the commission for an innovative climate protec
Working an assignment at the bank of america at 1525 market street. Mike was there to work a security assignment at the bank. As well as monitor a protest that was going on outside. Where there was over 50 participants in the protest. A career criminal by the name of joseph hike, chose this day to commit a robbery. Mr. Hike has been arrested 21 sometime 21 times in the city of San Francisco. Mr. Hike produced a handgun to a teller face and ordered her to put all the money in the paper bag as he held a gun to her face. Officer simmons was inside the bank at which time he observed there was a robbery in process inside of the bank. Officer simmons immediately notified communications and called for backup. Knowing that he was inside of the bank, officer simmons turned off his radio not to alert the suspect and knowing that dispatch acknowledged that he needed emergency assistance. Officer simmons then developed a plan on how he would get closer to the suspect who was committing the robbery