14156550001. And entering access code, 146 703 5243. When we reach your item and you would like this submit your public testimony, please press star and 3 to be added to the queue. Each speaker will be allowed up to three minutes to speak. When you have 30 seconds remaining, you will hear a chime indicating your time is almost up. When the time is reached, i will announce your time is up. Best practice to speak clearly and slowly, and please mute the volume on your television or computer. Before i take roll, i did have an announcement to the Historic Preservation commission. You may have heard that a the Planning Departments longtime probably longest Zoning Administrator passed away in september and so i would just request that the commission adjourn in his honor and eternal memory. So now i would like to take role. President hyland here. Vice president matsuda here. Commissioner black here. Commissioner foley here. Commissioner johns here. Commissioner pearlman here. Commissioner so h
Since the death of george floyd in Police Custody last month, we have seen nationwide unrest and protests not only here in america, but internationally. And weve also seen a certain narrative take hold. It starts with the assumption that the only way to properly view george floyd staff is through a racial lens. In fact all encounters with police and black suspects are increasingly viewed this way. Its a narrative that assumes the behavior of typical Police Behavior towards black suspects and shows george floyd as a black family man in america that have happened and happens to black people all the time. That they leave the house each day parade about a violent encounter with police. The media has run with this narrative, which faces very little pushback and very little skepticism. And it leaves us with the impression that the biggest problem facing black America Today are in fact the police. About Law Enforcement i is at te root of social inequality in america. And so, we find ourselves
Maybe they are not so well known now, so we created such a project as the word of tolstoy, where we collected all the texts of tolstoy and you can see how many literary texts, how many public works, its interesting what people read besides the three greats novels, well, this is a separate statistic for study, but it just seems to me that the general reader does not imagine how much tolstoy wrote, how many pages of his texts were devoted to philosophical and religious issues. Philosophical, this is probably the largest part, there is a very lively public, that is, to say that tolstoy, they know him primarily as the author of literary texts, but there is also a huge legacy, it is attractive, it is intelligible, it is convincing, it is perfect, and chernyshevsky very correctly formulated not the most a close person, thick in spirit, purity of moral feeling, thats for me. In this sense, if we return to the definition that dima gave, ordinary and simple, it was important for tolstoy, here y
That his third. Spending a lot of money on dealing with these and parachutes so were asking for a number of changes. Also looking at collective licenses so they can pay for them instead of having the librarys saying we cannot so they are big but there is a bunch of issues. Lecter where we are in 2016 is there another period history of a revolution like it is now . And in the beginning of publishing it was a huge change the written word was eagerness you would follow and never had access to books no socially you did it to acquire the hundred years for the industry to realize we can use that technology for mass jewish tradition. Because right now what has happened the information read once to be free but the Technology Companies are making a huge amounts of money. The big four, before worse men are costing content and the content creators are losing their shirts. That isnt fair but it is very shortsighted because they cannot afford to keep creating they will want some of the executive di
Authors guild. Mary rasenberger [inaudible conversations] afternoon. One more time. The next panel black writers in said digital age we are very excited about this panel and we will be joined by our individual the case so much he will be very excited because they do know some of the participants. Good afternoon. Give a strong return. Good afternoon. I want to apologize first. In this case a train derailed so he should be coming soon. But i am excited about this i am an artist but when you start to do this with two different periods and believe it was 94 and how those do things help to change that direction and in those places where we could see black artist using technology and now they will find new audiences that is part of the Conversation Technology can be a crutch someone to talk too long but we have our panel today and also one of the founders of the producers i know we just met upstairs push multi talented producer there is another movie and production now is the beautiful woman