forward just in terms of this two-year budget, and i think it s i think, you know, we could fight. we could certainly fight for more, but i think mr. brooks raised a good point and i think it s important to recognize that staff has had an awful lot of success, the general manager, todd, and your staff, at persuading the other departments and the elected officials that this is something that we needed to do because of all the other things people want us to continue doing so i think, you know, there s a price. we may not have, you know, exactly, you know, what we really need but to not fight this year and to move forward and to try to address some of those things, i think it s a good course of conduct for us. i m prepared to move there and have some confidence that, you know, we ll get the support that we need. thank you. it does strike me that this is these are rates and we are still able to do anything that s cost effective to do. so that if we have programs that achi
my age, we had a wood shop. we had metal shop in middle school. we had exposure to how to deal with graphs. more importantly, you are talking to somebody who used to spend five years at the department of public works, as the director. we re having to pay attention to our infrastructure, one of the most important things any city can do. when we are trying to grow a new economy and as you know, i have gone around the city selling this idea about how the economy is about tech jobs, but we also have an important infrastructure to take care of. if we do not take care of the infrastructure, these other jobs will not be here. jobs at the transbay terminal, which we are already building, celebrating and historic project labor agreement. we also have a commitment to our growing kids, that we are going to get them there. they are not just going to school to get bored. they have to have those jobs here, and we need them trained and ready for those jobs. so, in this new economy, when w
complicated problems. you would not want me doing that. believe me. still, you have the context switch of being creative, non creative. that is true. sometimes you need something to wipe the slate clean. it could be taking a walk. these days, disconnecting. i have a studio. when i go there, is a place to work, i did not need to take my cell phone out there. having a physical location you can go to this is where i do this even just a quarter of your room. from a cognitive neuroscience standpoint, if you dedicate a place, if you are religious about it or clock 30 i am going to spend an hour 4:30 i m going to spend an hour here or there. that contextual aspect helps. inform is now wrapping up all of our events by asking our speakers, ourselves included, the following question. alex, what is your 60-second the idea to change the world? i think everybody should listen to music from other cultures. even daniel has said that, you know, we need to have that in print
it is over 100 feet tall. it has over 700 lights. it took 8 rec and park tree toppers to light this up. let s give a big round of applause honoring john mclaren, who would be 160 today. 82 years later, our staff has continued the tradition, and i want to thank all of the park staff, recreation staff, tree toppers, electricians, structural maintenance crew. everyone had a plan in hand in planning this tonight. i want to make sure that everyone is applauded for the great job that they had done. [applause] i also want to thank the city family who is here tonight. mayor ed lee. we will hear from him in a second. members of the board of supervisors, including supervisor farrell, supervisor elsbernd, supervisor wiener, i think supervisor mar is trying to park. supervisor mirkarimi is supposed to be here. i want to thank our fire chief joanne hayes white for being here today. i want to thank our police chief. our treasurer, jose cisneros our rec and park commissioners. [applause]
trying to start creating music is not that different for me that it is remembering music. it is revoking some kind of image or movement. evoking some kind of image or movement. can i ask, i am a musician, do you have any advice often have trouble losing moving away from my everyday and getting into music. do you have any recommendations on how to speed up that context switching? i am assuming that as a professional musician, he doesn t have to do with complicated problems. you would not want me doing that. believe me. still, you have the context switch of being creative, non creative. that is true. sometimes you need something to wipe the slate clean. it could be taking a walk. these days, disconnecting. i have a studio. when i go there, is a place to work, i did not need to take my cell phone out there. having a physical location you can go to this is where i do this even just a quarter of your room. from a cognitive neuroscience standpoint, if you dedi