Comment is closed at this time. Supervisor wiener last remarks. I want to thank again the taskforce for its work and all the city departments for their support. Im optimistic about the recommendations and we can move forward from there. With that i move to file item number 11. Thank you. Motion is made by supervisor wean and without objection the mokez passes. Any other business before the body . No birther further business. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned. [meeting adjourned] good afternoon id like to call roll at this time. Meeting of the puc to order madam secretary call roll marry commissioner moran commissioner courtney commissioner caen and commissioner vietor are excused we have quorum thank you, commissioners you have the minutes from the october 11th any additions, deletions, or changes. Ill move the minutes. Second. A motion any comment any any Public Comment . All in favor, say i. I. Opposed . The minutes are adopted Public School item 4 this is a chance fo
Commissioner vietor are excused we have quorum thank you, commissioners you have the minutes from the october 11th any additions, deletions, or changes. Ill move the minutes. Second. A motion any comment any any Public Comment . All in favor, say i. I. Opposed . The minutes are adopted Public School item 4 this is a chance for people to talk about items on the jurisdiction and the first one is mr. Da costa. Welcome. Commissioners for the most part i first and foremost i want to express my sentiments to our general manager you know his mother was not in keeping well and we always need to support our mothers you know because they play a special role no our lives having said that, i was watching the deliberations at the last sfgovtv commission and we have to be very mindful of how we conduct our business when it effects the communities especially a community that is the southeast sector unabout known that played an Important Role in contributing a lot to the city the hifrtsz committee was
In the back row, got me my very first tolstoy finger puppet. [laughter] and they dont sell them here anymore. Oh and antoine mentioned this to me. And this has been a mainstay of my talks on tolstoy, i dont know, for the past seven or eight years. So i feel as if we have come home tonight. [laughter] and in honor of this special event, im going to leave him on my finger during the whole talk. [laughter] just kidding. [laughter] i am not going to do that. Oh. But hes here for inspiration for all of us. And during q a, if you really would like him to be present with me, im happy to put him back on my finger. So one of the first questions i get when people see the cover of this book is, cool picture, whered you get the picture . Ladies and gentlemen, exhibit a, my copy of war and peace. [laughter] this is a book that has been well loved, a book that has been lived through, lived with, struggled with, engaged with, tossed around a bit. Tolstoy and i have been together for almost 25 years.
He was definitely an engaging teacher and as you mentioned his experiments influence a lot of people including including you. [inaudible] this is a bit of a followon and im still trying to formulate what is probably a very elementary question but you talk about all the research you did and obviously he mixes in real historical characters with his primary fictional characte characters. Was he primarily using fiction to illuminate history and historical forces or using history to illuminate human nature . Yes and yes. [laughter] i mean thats a huge question. One of the criticisms that this book has received is that tolstoy intentionally distort historical facts for his own purposes so for instance he creates in the character could to save us a far more salt of the earth kind of character than he actually was. He was apparently much more widely, much more questionable in terms of his morals so historians have accused the full story of using history and distorting it for his own ends. I do
He has the eye and the hand of an artist. His works have been compared to some of the great painters of the 19th century, but heres the caveat ken perenyi is now most famous for his fakes. Do you think qowfers as an art forger . Yeah. And youre okay with that . Fine, yeah. For me, it was a contest of wits. He was good enough to dupe the art world, but is he a painter or a pariah . His story ahead. The beatles are certainly no fake, john, paul, george, ringo and frida, shes sort of fifth of the fab four. This morning Mark Strassmann has her story. Millions of fans in the 60s pleaded for a small piece of beatlemania. Grabbed one of them. I wouldnt hurt to them, just talk to them maybe. Frida kelly always had a backstage pass as the only secretary the beatles ever had. You related to them on that level. Yeah, i thought of myself as one of them. I was fan and still fan. The fab four and frida, her story ahead on sunday morning. The president who signed his name Woodrow Wilson was a lot mor