I want to learn more about it. Social networking and email. I want to know how to use it. Divisional divide is a divide between those with access to use Digital Tools and those who dont. With young people, having computers and i just dont know. Theyre doing it fast. So, i want to know. Not knowing how to navigate the internet or at a loss of what to do. We dont have a computer. Were a nonprofit that unites organizations and volunteers to transform lies through literacy. Our big problem right now is the broadband opportunity program. A federally funded project through the department of aging. So, were working in 26 locations. Our volunteers are trained to be tutors and trainers, offering everything from basic classes all the way to genealogy and job search. To me computers, knowing how to use it. I think its really important to everybody and possibly especially seniors to get enough of these skills to stay in touch. Its been fun. With seniors, to get them out of their homes. So they can
Those cars in the ordinary lanes. One person per car. You have this one person with all this steel and plastic and oil. It is ridiculous. Were figuring out ways to do that. Whether it is high speed rail or electric cars. The first will be rolling off the factory in treatments in the next few months in three months and in the next few months. Yes, the Innovative Companies are small. The electric cars the tanks are small but so is fairchild or in tal or hewlettpackard intel or hewlettpackard or steve jobs. The seats we plant brings the vast forests of new products and new technologies and new patents in the future. That is where we have to we have to keep our eye on the main thought here. That is the discipline, the imagination, and the investment. That is what makes california that is why people are still coming here. Theyre not staying in colorado, i am sorry to say. Theyre right here. [applause] just briefly, setting aside plunder for a moment. I am sorry about plunder. It is a big pa
Announcement because many of the people in this room are looking for that opportunity from all walks of life, from every community in San Francisco they see this as a city wide projected, not just on the waterfront. Its everybodys future. Everybody has to be heard and i know that even this weekend there was a telephonic ability to talk to people online and the telephone. There were over 4,000 people that engaged themselves with a conversation and the warriors and about what this project meant. Its incredible. I also want to give a shout out to the port and i know monique is here and theyre working hard with our team and continuing this ongoing dialogue and we will have more announcements to make. Right now this is just the beginning of this project but its a great beginning because usually when people talks about jobs and who gets to work on the project and i know supervisor avalos we have been through that and in the publicly funded projects they wait until the end to say whether they
Little glass containers, its almost as easy as pulling a can out of the cupboard, do a big batch and youre going to know exactly whats in it, what was organic and what wasnt and you know its not going to have bpa, but youre right, its all canned food. And then my second question, i just wanted to clarify something or bring it to your attention, a lot of us here today work for the administration in this building which is actually is a pump station still in use that uses diesel pumps to pump the water from the ocean so its not just a fire house, its also us being exposed to diesel exhaust, and so with you mentioned this gal, rachel, is she the person whos not here today, or when you were talking about the air quality, having your air quality tested, and the odd thing is now a Different Agency runs and maintains these pumps that are right beneath us now so it gets kind of complicated, but i think ive been exposed, i worked at the airport for 11 years and then worked here, i have this expo
Residents. We are committed to hope sf and to move it forward and the mayor announcement is another part of that moving that initiative forward. Mayor lee i also have the director of hud here and he is going to lead us and then we will have mayor lee up in a moment. Thank you very much and it really is a privilege to be here with you today and to build on henrys comments and its extraordinary that the grants across the country that were awarded to hud two of them are in the same state and its more extraordinary that both of them are in the same city, San Francisco so congratulations. [cheers and applause] so for context i just want to mention a few things and this is no news to all of you here in the room and the people standing up with me today, but today in america more than 10 Million People are living in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty and limited investment and opportunities for themselves and their children, and we know that one of the most important factors in determining