thank you for being unfair. president chiu: are there any other members are there any other members of the public that wish to speak in general public comment? sir? the mic to your right. i just got here, don t have time to fill out the form. if i may take a moment. it s too hard to pick it up. it s too heavy to pick it up but its full of customer surveys, taxi customer surveys, san francisco taxi driver, peter witt, san francisco driver for 24 years. i conduct these surveys just out of the about of good government and for the greater good of the city. being a native san franciscan i drive the taxi and walk the streets of sidewalk. i m concerned primarily because mta is a bunch of bs, okay. i ve been submitting these taxi surveys, 1,000, with a 93% return rate, by the way, which is phenomenal, if i do say so myself, an expert will guide you if you need guiding. but this is what it looks like when i process it. this is the very first one i did. i did 500 but i didn t t
person that is physically challenged. and so this fair city talks a lot about mandates, talks a lot about transparency, talks a lot about accountability, but when it comes to doing the right thing, i ask you so-called representatives, have you taken a stand to do the right thing. have you taken a stand to do the right thing. come friday president chiu: thank you very much. no. no. that was the first bell. this is the second time you ve done it to me. that was the first bell. this is the second time you ve done it to me. i need 20 seconds. president chiu: actually, that was the second bell as the clerk has told me. that was the first bell. president chiu: that was the second bell. let me conclude. i know. let me conclude. president chiu: thank you very much. i make one statement. president chiu: thank you very much. thank you for being unfair. president chiu: are there any other members are there any other members of the public that wish to speak in g
speaker. good afternoon, president chiu, members of the board of supervisors. my name is carey vials. and i am here today to support you, as diligent and thoughtful stewards of our city. and to defend your previous decision to approve the zoning map amendment that would allow eight washington to move forward. the current attempts to reverse the approval of the project are a destructive precedent for the future of our city, and gravely disrespectful of the commitment, careful consideration and great number of hours that members of the city, the port, the planning department, you, the board of supervisors, special interest groups, hundreds of meetings with the neighborhood groups, design professionals, engineers, environmental consultants, as well as specific waterfront properties have dedicated to this project over seven years. and i ask why would anyone ever want to contribute their time, effort, and passion to improving the fabric of our city to create new homes, both mark
battling this is the use i wanted to feel it was somewhat more connected to the problem. i don t think that was the only reason, not that they chose to do work about cancer, but i saw an opportunity in my thinking about cancer as a problem mainly we didn t understand how a normal cell became a cancer cell and there were a couple new tools having to do with how we measure dna and rna, some with viruses that cause cancer in animals that led me to believe this huge medical problem that affected my family would be amenable to some solutions by taking advantage of these opportunities to do interesting science. this is based on lectures you gave in 2004 at the new york public library. tell us about those and how did they morph into the book? that s a fun question. a famous biographer friend of mine asked me to give those lectures and i didn t read the fine printing. the norton elections, then i saw norton sponsoring the letter signed a contract with me and i had to turn them in
the people who became europeans. what the greeks and romans discovered were people who live in various ways. the talk about what we call culture and for the romans who work in various ways because the romans were imperialists and very interested in who was a good fighter and who could help and had to be vanquished. i followed this german idea into the united states, a french intellectual and thomas carlyle who was a british intellectual and ralph waldo emerson. i spend a long time with ralph waldo emerson, who was the kind of genius of the nineteenth century white race theory. ralph waldo emerson didn t have a lot to say about black people but he had a lot to say about white people. in the nineteenth century, the idea prevailed that there were many white races. so there were people who were considered white. no one could question their white this. very clearly the irish were white. people descended from english or scottish people or german people but they belong to to differe