(speaking spanish) (applause). >> (speaking spanish). >> these are the spanish influences. >> (speaking spanish). >> they adapted to the style of this type of music (applause). >> (speaking spanish). >> these are just simple spoons, kitchen spoons. (applause). >> (speaking spanish). >> and here we have our principle instrument. >> (speaking spanish). >> the name of this instrument is called cajon. >> (speaking spanish). >> in certain places in africa this instrumentality existed. >> (speaking spanish). >> and the percussionist will play with their hands and their feet. >> (speaking spanish). >> with the african slave trade he used to be in the ports. this type of boxes. >> (speaking spanish). >> so they were sit over these big boxes and play over them. >> (speaking spanish). >> but for the blacks these type of instruments were not allowed to be played because they were too loud and for the church they will provoke movement that was not appropriate. >> (speaking spanish). >> they could also work as a form of communication with the drumming patterns. >> (speaking spanish). >> this was wha

-- >> span spanish. >> are >> >> (speaking spanish). >> are here and it means soul. >> (speaking spanish). >> and when we go to move our bodies -- >> (speaking spanish). >> they mean the essence. >> (speaking spanish). >> when they go to work the earth -- >> (speaking spanish). >> is the contact with our mother nature. >>nature -- >> (speaking spanish). >> that will live us food, take care of us and receive us before we die. >> (speaking spanish). >> we also have this and movement of work. >> (speaking spanish). >> or conversation. >> (speaking spanish). >> which is the key to receive love. >> (speaking spanish). >> and all these type of movements were followed by this style of dance with its own co n coring on gravy. >> >> (speaking spanish) (music). (applause). >> can you play the music please? >> i want to dance with everybody. >> well, he's not there. (music). >> okay do you have any questions? we need to have some minutes and would like to answer some questions. yes? >> (inaudible). >> is it hard to dance? >> (speaking spanish). >> it's not difficult. you just got to put a lot of ef

. >> (speaking spanish). >> (inaudible). >> (speaking spanish). >> yeah it does. >> (speaking spanish). >> (inaudible). >> (speaking spanish). >> but it will change, yes, of course if you do that. >> (inaudible). >> well, -- (speaking spanish). >> (speaking spanish). >> it's a type of plywood, so this one in particular -- yeah. >> (speaking spanish). >> (inaudible). >> (speaking spanish). >> in the language it's called dulo. >> (speaking spanish). >> yes? >> (inaudible). >> (speaking spanish). >> yeah. >> (speaking spanish). >> (laughter). >> yes. >> (inaudible). >> in the 16th century, about 1500. yeah. >> (inaudible). >> no. no, no, just you have to leave this room thinking we did not kill anybody for that. yes, you had a question? >> (inaudible). >> yeah. well, yes, there are -- in cities like the northern part and lima there are certain districts like -- certain ones and the capital and to the south of lima the district there and to the south almost border to chile there is a community that is unknown that we are doing research right now on it. yes, the value there and with chile

[speaking spanish] >> my son is in special education. he is in a program where he gets transportation, and they told me he would get the services for special needs if i wanted to. >> [speaking spanish] >> some other people in the school have stopped me and told me i am bad, but i should not say those five things about the principle, but i know because i have seen them. >> [speaking spanish] >> someone approached me, and there are three of us who came to place a complaint, but that person said, i know what you are doing. we are not going to do anything wrong. it looks like we are not going to be able to do anything because they seem to have more influence on mr. positions -- on district positions. >> [speaking spanish] >> my problem right now is my kindergarten girl has been told many times, you do not know nothing, and they take her out of the classroom. they say she is mischievous, and i know kids are mischievous, but they never called to tell me she has been placed in silent lunch. >> [speaking spanish] >> my daughter cries every day.

she was afraid to speak out, so i took her home. >> [speaking spanish]

(speaking spanish) (speaking spanish). >> what he is saying that thanks to the bant. bante he got funding for of the peru vaifian culture and got approved. >> (speaking spanish). >> okay. >> good. (speaking spanish). >> so we have a variety of instruments -- that we're going to be showing you. >> (speaking spanish). >> the name of the instrument is called tale boheha. >> (speaking spanish). >> it was a time in peru when the africans were prohibited from playing or making instruments. >> (speaking spanish). >> so they were forced to make their own instruments. >> (speaking spanish). >> so they use the surroundings and big jars and they used to have water or other type was drinks. >> (speaking spanish). >> covered with leather skin. >> (speaking spanish). >> and they make the drums. >>. >> (speaking spanish). (drums). (applause). >> (speaking spanish). >> this instrument is called dungo. >> spr (speaking spanish). >> we have two but only one was used. >> (speaking spanish). >> this is one that was used north of the capital. >> (speaking spanish). >> in the cities of the

he is spanish and irish together. if we look at the history of the irish in cuba, most of the irish to went to cuba in the 18th and 19th centuries arrived from spain, some of them with the spanish royal armies; other irish influx arrived from the u.s. for the construction of railroads used to transport sugar cane to the sugar plantations. that was at the end of the 19th century. and then at the beginning of the 20th century, we're talking 1902, 1910, before odono that i mentioned before, this man who gave his name to -- he was very proud of this lighthouse. the cubans offer hospitality to general alexander alejandro o'reilly. he rose through the ranks of the spanish army. the spanish sent alexander o'reilly to cuba to form a militia. he was appointed governor of louisiana and head of the army later on. he arrived in august, 1769, and took formal possession of louisiana for spain. think of new orleans and cuba, in particular havana, governors there were also in cuba so there was all this traveling from one city to anot

. >> [speaking spanish] >> good afternoon, my name is -- [inaudible] [speaking spanish] i work with this cause, and for over a year i have been trying to modify my loan with bank of america. so for over a year, bank of america told me they would help me look modify my loan pitted to this point, there has been no evidence that they're going to actually be able to do that. i am eligible for the program under the obama administration, but i have not seen any action. so in all of this, i have not received any help with modification. but i have received notices telling me that by november, if i am not able to pay off what they're telling me to pay off, then i will have a few days to get out of my house because they will be taking it from me. it is not just me that is suffering this. this is having on a statewide level and a nationwide level. children are suffering from this. there are thousands of people who have taken their own lives because of the affected banks will not modify their loans. loan modification can happen, and it is just not. i have been working and saving money in the u.s. fo

this is to ask the spanish speaker residence. spanish speakers, with all of the problems that they have on us, they are allowed to communicate how they feel. it is important you have a solution for this problem. >> and is there any other public comment? public comments is now closed. we have seven applicants for three seats, and six of them have spoken to the rules committee already. i would like to concur that i would like to find some by lethal -- bilingual spanish speakers as well. at least three of the applicants speak spanish. i did watch the last rules committee meeting and was able to hear the conversation. >> i think that this is easy. we only have one woman applying, mrs. muse, and i would like to appoint her to seat four. >> it was good to see you and i appreciate you applying again. i would like to see you on the shelter monitoring committee. we can nominate her for seat four. >> i would just like to ask a question. in the back -- are you currently living with a child under the age of 18? that is a qualification for th

. >> [speaking spanish] >> thank you very much. i want to make sure what i am saying does not just a year, that it gets to higher levels of government because we need to make sure we take into consideration all people being affected by this and we continue to build up our country and local economies. >> good afternoon. i have another meeting to go to. i want to state this. it's been about three years ago when i came before your committee and stated was happening in my community with the latinos and asians and how their homes are being foreclosed. but when the program came out, homeowners could get their homes modified in order to pay less than the amount they were paying to the bank. bank of america said oes, you qualify, but just so happens, -- they said oh, yes, you qualify, but there are taking out so much each month. i received two letters that my house was being foreclosed and i am waiting on a modification, for them to tell me i'm going to have to pay less rent because of the fact i don't have a job, the incoming have coming

. >> [speaking spanish] >> it good afternoon. i would like to tell you all about how lost two of my homes. >> [speaking spanish] >> that happened in 2008. i bought my homes in 2006 in san francisco. >> [speaking spanish] >> i got a letter at chase which at that time was washington mutual, that i was behind on my payment. >> [speaking spanish] >> they called me on the phone and told me i had the opportunity to refinance my homes, but they were giving me the opportunity to do one. >> [speaking spanish] >> this that needed to give them $1,300 for them -- $13,000 to refinance my mortgage. >> [speaking spanish] >> i sent them $13,000 because i had to mortgages, a small mortgage and a big mortgage. >> [speaking spanish] >> between three and four weeks after i sent money, i got a letter from the bank telling me they had denied my modification. >> [speaking spanish] >> they told me if i did not pay my balance in third to 45 days, that i needed to leave -- from 30 to 45 days, i needed to leave my home and i would be evicted. >> [speaking

this is to ask the spanish speaker residence. spanish speakers, with all of the problems that they have on us, they are allowed to communicate how they feel. it is important you have a solution for this problem. >> and is there any other public comment? public comments is now closed. we have seven applicants for three seats, and six of them have spoken to the rules committee already. i would like to concur that i would like to find some by lethal -- bilingual spanish speakers as well. at least three of the applicants speak spanish. i did watch the last rules committee meeting and was able to hear the conversation. >> i think thats

. >> [speaking spanish] >> thank you for having me. it is an important point to say that you have spent money harassing used for the police. this program would cost less than what you are currently planning -- currently paying the police department. >> [speaking spanish] >> i think it is more important for you to provide funding so that youth can get to school with freedom and get their education rather than be criminalize or punished by police. >> [speaking spanish] >> if you think with love and a sense of humanity, then you know that it is important for youth. they are our future. all of the mothers are here organized wanting this to happen. for their youth. chariman nolan: thank you. i see that supervisor avalos has joined us. we will extend the same courtesy to you that we did to supervisor campos and allow you to say word. supervisor avalos: good afternoon. thank you for having me. i want to think the public for giving me the space to jump the line, so to speak. as you know, the board of supervisors just approved a resolution urgi

and we just really want to have the spanish-speaking needs met. our policy recommendations are the same four recommendations that we have made for the past few years. and that is measuring vacancies, the types of beds that are going vacant and not being used. tokens, they will not be able to use tokens at each site. training and case management. so we believe that if we knew which types of beds were vacant, then we could better outreach to communities so there would not be so many vacancies. i am sorry, so there would not be beds that are vacant when there is such a high turnaround. this corridor, with respect to the tokens, there have been a huge improvement. the sites that tend to have tokens, or at least there were coming, there were on the way, the tokens would be there soon, so that was important. training, training and case management are based on improving staff and service availability to clients. this quarter, we requested information about the training that the staff had received. and we got -- it looks like the average level of complian

my audience is my irish catalan and spanish family. the eyes of my family activate the dance but i was disoriented and forget the steps, but i wanted the dance to continue. i grew up in havana surplded by murphies, jeovese, all speaking spanish. this was in the late 50's. my grandfather and my father, like many other irish who went to cuba during the past three centuries, became integrated into the cuban society and many used spanish as their mother tongue. as a child, i was never able to pronounce certain words. i spent many solitary hours searching for words and phrases in dictionaries. my spanish was not cuban enough. my english was not irish enough. my catalan, only a few words. spanish was and is a privileged territory where i feel alive and well. my father grew up in new york and havana and married a cuban woman, my mother. all my family shared a great loving for havana, a city they call home. but contrary to my family, i grew up dreaming of traveling and wanted to leave havana for dublin, where some of the most famous writers i

(speaking spanish) (speaking spanish). >> what he is saying that thanks to the bant. bante he got funding for of the peru vaifian culture and got approved. >> (speaking spanish). >> okay. >> good. (speaking spanish). >> so we have a variety of instruments -- that we're going to be showing you. >> (speaking spanish). >> the name of the instrument is called tale boheha. >> (speaking spanish). >> it was a time in peru when the africans were prohibited from playing or making instruments. >> (speaking spanish). >> so they were forced to make their own instruments. >> (speaking spanish). >> so they use the surroundings and big jars and they used to have water or other type was drinks. >>

, but the choice has sparked puree in other spanish cities bidding for -- a theory -- fury in other spanish cities are vying for the title. they claim the choice was made for political, not cultural reasons. >> with a skyline like miami, a beach like the couple cabana, and a film festival like cannes, san sebastian is spanish, yet a basque, historically separatist, but soon to be a cultural capital of europe. >> there is not a more beautiful city. as far as peace goes, there will not be any while aetna is still active. -- etna is still active. >> i do not want to hear anything about politics. >> san sebastian's role as european capital of culture is contentious. the city lies in the basque country. there, the separatist group eta has long demanded independence from spain and spread terror in the name of its cause. this memorial commemorates the victims of eta and violence. he is a member of the party with basque nationalist leanings. shortly after taking office, he sparked outrage by removing the kings portrait from the city council chamber. >> he is not hanging in the plenary chamber anymo

director ramos: if i could address the audience in spanish in. [speaking spanish] [applause] chairman nolan: do you offer -- what we are expected to do is to offer at least some -- we're not taking any action, but a direction for director reiskin to go for it -- to go.

learn chinese and spanish. -- be global. learn chinese and spanish. i continue to be proud to work in the city. i am excited about all the programs. the challenges are to improve all of our communities and make them stronger. every time i have a chance to work with new leaders and department heads like nancy worling o -- working on 311, and get very excited. david campos is walking in now. we have worked together on challenging legislation. we still know we will be united around building our communities. i am very excited to do that on behalf of our great city. it is a city of diversity and strength. i want to present something i have wanted to do for some weeks as we talk about how to really give celebration. i know there are a couple of people that i wanted to help recognize on their behalf. we had a moment earlier this year with the passing of maurice vela. i wanted to recognize him by providing the proclamation to his family who is here today. >> carlos, eddie, rose. [applause] >> thank you. >> carlos, eddie, rose, i want to welcome you to the sta

director ramos: if i could address the audience in spanish in. [speaking spanish] [applause] chairman nolan: do you offer -- what we are expected to do is to offer at least some -- we're not taking any action, but a direction for director reiskin to go for it -- to go. director ramos: we have heard the call, not just from these wonderful folks, but from our board of supervisors, that we should pursue something. i would love to start to offer some direction, but i would like to hear from everyone before offering anything assertive. i want folks to recognize that this is a valued that means a lot for me. i grew up on the school buses before proposition chretien happened grid when that happened, they took away our buses and we all had to take public transit. i grew up on the boss, but it was affordable back then. it costed 50 cents for me to get on the bus at that time. now, it is no longer affordable for our young people. it is not their fault. it is not their parents' fault. it is our fault to have it get to the point where the folks like these, w