[inaudible conversation] good evening everyone. Can everyone hear me at the very back . I will talk more loudly for the moment. Then we will fix that. Thank you very much for your participation. Good evening and thank you all for joining us. I am alex and im one of the book sellers here at the store and im very happy to see all of you for our talk tonight. The book has a vibrant and busy schedule yearround and we depend on your enthusiasm to keep our store and those events going. If you would like to know more about them and what else we are up to, feel free to take an events calendar. We have them next to the register where you will also find susans book. You also join our weekly email list will look us up on facebook or online which keeps getting reinvented and is very suave. Tonight, we welcome susan quinn and her new book eleanor and hicks. Although susan has, for a long time, im told 45 years, made boston and brookline her home she was raised in ohio. Thank you fellow midwesterner
Around the clock. Whenever they have fuel its is around the clock with 95 reliability. One of plant goes out the next day all around the country the thing that gets tuned up as a fossil fuel power plant. It is a swing fuel. Calculations i have done unfortunately indicate that in order to replace that baseload amount of supply you really have to come up with orders of magnitude more investment in Renewable Energy just to replace it. Renewable wind might have a 40 as opposed to 95 output for every piece you put in the ground. Solar is close to less than 20 . You have to have four times 26 times to eight times investment in those in order to replace something that is going offline. We need to make forward progress so i would like to see us building a transition on these reactors that enables forward progress that we have already seen on cost productions and renewables. Replacing on that scale is hard in terms of backsliding. Thank you so much for the honor. Anthony rogers right. Wright, t
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[gavel] this meeting is called to order. This is the tuesday, june 7 meeting of the San Francisco Entertainment Commission by name is brian tan. A few housekeeping items did turn off your cell phones and keep them on vibrate. If youre here from the public and like to speak when i call for Public Comment we have other common speaker cards which can fill out they had to our staff. Come up when i do call that. Finally, thank you to sfgtv and Media Service for airing this meeting live to the public. Also, happy election day. I hope everyone is voting today. You have not yet, go do it. Lets start with a roll call. [call of the roll] lee, here. Treasures of, here. Jen thomas, here. Cohen minimum we have a quorum. Commissioner frost said he would be 1520 min. Late. And weve not heard from [inaudible]. All right. We have a quorum. The first item on our agenda is general Public Comments. This is for any business that pertains to the Entertainment Commission thats not currently on the agenda. A
Are you going to be entertaining yourself or do you have a manager doing that for you . We do not look into that yet. We just want to get the ball rolling with the permit for the standup comedy. These guys are from day one have a huge following apparently so they want us to dothat he turned down several venues already because it was no permit and they were bit behind with filing a onetime application, and so i just said, look, as long as we have to wait, we have to wait get if they came in a few saturdays want to do something i said, no, unless we have a permit we wont do anything to have someone inhouse in charge of the sound system and volume whos going to manage the equipment we pick no. Theres nothing going to be that loud in the system right now. We can put anything in which can go that route. You have an existing sound system yes. Its not a pa system its like a home stereo system with some macintosh and [inaudible] speakers. Because of the jazz back onto idea was to play jazz wer