News on Youtube Aug 24 2018

Hey, welcome to Public Works TV!

Before we get started let's take a look back at what we did this week.

Last Saturday nearly 200 Community Clean Team

volunteers were out sprucing up District 6 neighborhoods.

The new Fire Station Number 5 in the Western Addition is more than halfway done.

We designed the new building to be seismically safe.

We tried a new paving technique called bonded wearing course,

which better protects the pavement from the perils of water

seeping through and extends the life of the street.

Finally, our OnE team conducted focused outreach and enforcement on the Polk Street corridor this week.

We're working together with businesses and property owners to keep SF clean.

This is a once-in-a-generation project that the City of San Francisco is embarking on.

We are consolidating four departments,

1,600 employees to provide better services to the residents and businesses of San Francisco.

Hi my name is Samuel Chui I'm a project manager at Building Design and Construction at Public Works.

And my name is Julia Groat. I'm also a project manager here at Public Works working on 49 South Van Ness.

The project itself started in 2014 and since then we've been working collaboratively with the

City Administrator's office as the project sponsor, the Real Estate department and

Public Works to get to where we are today with the design construction.

Our late Mayor Ed Lee and our City Administrator Naomi Kelly actually took

the leadership and started the process of finding a new home for Public Works and other agencies.

This new building will house 12 departments.

One thing in common among these departments is that they all offer permitting services.

So we'll have a full house. There will be a lot of people moving in on move-in day

and we're pretty excited to get everyone together.

This building is located on South Van Ness, mid-block between Market Street and Mission Street.

It's also located central to Bart, to MUNI, as well to bicycle routes and lanes that will be going towards the building.

The office building will be a 16-story building that will be pulled

against 1 South Van Ness.

At the third corner of mission and Van Ness will be a 39-story residential tower.

The stakeholder engagement process started very early on and the biggest initial goal is to try to understand

the quantity of people moving and what the needs were.

So it's really going through working with every department.

Real Estate division, they've negotiated a contract with a private developer,

Related California, with whom we're

working with closely right now to help us develop this project.

Related California will be building and developing the 39 story residential

tower and helping us on the construction management portion of the office building.

Charles Pankow Builders and SOM are part of the team and of course

there's a host of other consultants and contractors.

This is an enormous privilege to have been working with the City of San Francisco over several decades.

Continuing that relationship with this

new building is, for us, to define both of the ways the City operates and also the look of city government.

We've designed a building that will be open, transparent, luminous

and really reflect what we think are the best attributes of city government,

and looking at how we can make this place one that is really of

the 21st century and we think will result in new collaborative practices

within these departments.

Characteristics of the workspace environment is to

provide for flexibility and changes in the future. This will be a building that

the City owns for a very, very long time. Sustainability features includes bicycle

parking for over 300 bicycles, EV parking stations...

...a high amount of daylight and in addition to that, outdoor spaces to get some fresh air during the day.

How many workers do have on? I'm sure it's peaked, but right now how many of you have on?

Right now, it's right around 70 or so.

70?

Yeah.

And the highest?

The highest would probably be closer to like, could be, 150 to 200.

Ok.

Yeah.

Welcome to the construction site for the 49 South Van Ness City Office Building.

We are pouring the concrete for mat slab number two today.

This operation started about 2 a.m. last night and will go till about 3 to 4 o'clock p.m. this afternoon.

There will be about 650 cement trucks coming in and

out of the job site, resulting in about 43,000 square feet of poor surface

at the end of the day.

It's a pretty complex project to have two major buildings

going up in the exact same time.

So this is a very hard site to build on and the construction team

is doing a great job to maintain that.

Hi we're the Pankow team from 49 South Van Ness.

We're excited to build the City of San Francisco's building for you.

and we look forward to completing by early 2020.

So Pankow is the general contractor on 49 South Van Ness.

It's a very challenging project. We got concrete structure below grade and then we're

coming up with the structural steel, a very busy intersection and street area

with pedestrians walking by, so being able to work with those subcontractors,

the different agencies that are involved is very important

One thing in common among these departments is that they all offer

permitting services to the residents and businesses of San Francisco.

And the permit center is really one of the biggest drivers for the project.

The permit center will bring all of the permitting agencies that handle

construction-based projects under one roof.

Why this is such a big deal, is that currently to get a permit,

even for a restaurant, you will have to go to multiple locations.

For the first time, you'll be able to go to one location and

handle all of your construction based permits. This is a huge change.

We're so glad you got a chance to meet the project team.

We hope you're as excited as we are about the new permit center and our new home at 49 South Van Ness.

Coming up, we'll have a few more episodes to share with you about the design, progress

and what to look forward to in our new office building at 49 South Van Ness.

Thank you for watching Public Works TV. Be sure to subscribe to us by clicking on the button below.

And follow us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. See you next time!

Hi I'm Lucas Yee, a Resident Engineer for the City and County of San Francisco.

My goal is to deliver the highest quality

projects in a safe and budget-conscious environment.

I am Public Works.

Together, we are Public Works.

Can we do a blooper reel too?

We're here working on your project for the Public Works...

We're gonna be as good into the first time!

I wasted the good one on you!

Hi my name is Samuel Chui I'm a project manager at Bullet, no?

I'm laughing... I'm sorry.

Oh no.

It's such a joke to you.

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Is public speaking skill evolving? | Every Tue & Fri Public Speaking Tips - Duration: 2:14.

Every skill is evolving in this world take singing the kind of music the kind

of songs we used to listen to few years ago are we listening the same kind of

music or songs now no singing has evolved take dance the kind of dance we

used to watch few years ago are you watching the same kind of dance now no

the dancing has evolved even public speaking is a skill is public speaking

evolved or is public speaking evolving yes and first time I realized that when

I watched the video called I see something from Dananjaya Hettiarachchi he's a

world champion of public speaking now even before I see something I've seen

lot of videos even after I see something I became a student of storytelling but

before that also I've seen lot of motivational videos lot of talks but

every time I use to see that I use to feel yes Wow

the speaker is good fantastic but speaker is not like me he's special is

different he's a different level but when I saw I see something Dananjaya Hettiarachchi

I felt for a moment that oops he just liked me I think this is the

evolution of public speaking that even if you are standing in front of 10,000

people the person who is watching you should feel that this person just like

me or this person is speaking to me or speaking for me and this is the

way the public speaking has evolved now not only Dananjaya Hettiarachchi even

Mohammed Qahtani, Daren Tay and all these are the world champion of public speaking when

you watch their videos you feel that oh my god this is just like my story he's

not different he's speaking to me so my tip to you this week from this beautiful

valley of Kashmir is this next time when you are going on the stage try to speak

as if you're speaking to your friend at tea stall But that is difficult not

easy but try to speak like that because when you speak like that

when audience feel that he's just like me or she just like me is very easy to

connect this is Praveen Wadalkar signing out

until we meet again with a new tip

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[KPOP IN PUBLIC] Red Velvet - Power Up Dance Cover - Duration: 4:02.

Hi guys, it's Minzyah!

Thank you for watching till here!

I want to tell you that i dance this song with Dandelion Dance Group too

Go check their dance cover, it's awesome, and was so hard to recording!

I recording with them before recording mine

We made our outfits, its an amazing job!

the video was so cool! Go check and tell them that you watching this because of my channel! <3

Follow me on Instagram, i always posting spoilers of my new videos

Kisses, see you on the next video!!!

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How Copyright Works: Returning Works to Public Domain | Berklee Online - Duration: 9:07.

The public domain is a gigantic area that contains music,

literature, books, all kinds of stuff that's free for everyone to use.

We use the public domain a lot.

Anything that Bach wrote is public domain,

and it's happened frequently someone would take music of Bach,

and add new instruments,

sometimes add words even though words weren't there,

and that's all fine to do.

That's legal. That's the public domain.

That's what it's for.

It's too we can use it as inspiration.

We can take it,

take portions of it, and change it.

Again, often, it's lyrics.

That is important to how a lot of works are created.

It can lead to interesting issues though,

what if two people were to take the same public domain song and add different words?

Well, if the melody stays the same,

then there's no issue you can't say that songwriter B who wrote after songwriter A,

that B copied A because it's the same melody because

A copied from Bach or Beethoven, his public domain.

There have been many examples of that happening.

Paul Simon has a famous song called An American Tune.

He took what he had heard from other people

that usually goes back to Johann Sebastian Bach and to his St. Matthew Passion,

this one chorale melody he has in that song is beautiful.

But Bach himself took it from Hans Leo Hassler,

so it goes back even deeper into the public domain.

Paul Simon said it,

said this beautiful melody with his own words.

Peter, Paul, and Mary working with Dave Brubeck said it before Paul Simon.

Paul Simon made a lot more money on it,

but if you listen to the two songs,

you can see how close they are and melodically,

but that's not an issue because it's in the public domain.

Sometimes public domain melodies and music can be used in television commercials.

I was involved in one where a songwriter had taken a Bach minuet and

G tah tah tah tah and he put it into 4, 4 and set 3,

4, tah tah tah, tah tah tah tah and added different chords

to it and added words and he had a big hit it was called Lovers Concerto, foolish title.

So song but it made a lot of money.

What happened was publics wanted to take the Bach minuet,

tah tah tah tah tah tah,

and they want to set that musically and do six or eight versions of it saying why

was focused on the deli section or

the midsection of the bakery section and they had different versions of Bach.

But the guy who wrote,

who adapted Bach said "No you've taken from me."

And the issue got really strange is to say well,

which of these, when publics took it,

are they copying from Bach or are they copying from the guy in the

60's and end zap you had to kind of split the differences and say "Well,

if he added a fourth beat,

would he own one beat per measure and some absurd ideas like that?"

But it didn't involve a lot of litigation,

a lot of mess over adapting.

He was okay to adapt from Bach but public's was not okay

to adapt from him unless publics was adapting from Bach.

It was a real complicated mess.

The way public domain happens, as I mentioned,

is if it's pre 1923 but there are also

some interesting things have happened in

the 20th century and that is under the old copyright law,

copyright term was different.

It used to be 20 years initially as I recall the copyright term and in the 28th year,

a songwriter would have to renew the copyright and they could get an extra 56 years.

If you did not renew your copyright in the 28th year,

it went to the public domain.

So suddenly this song you've written or the book you've written or whatever,

it's no longer yours,

it's gone, it's in the public domain because you did

not renew the copyright registration.

Under the old law, you had to register copyrights.

To get a copy, it had to be registered republished.

Now, under the law we live in,

its 1978 law on its automatic.

That's resulted in some interesting things and it's also had

some people look at some works that are under

copyright that maybe shouldn't be under copyright.

There's a famous example that recently lawyers decided that happy birthday,

the famous happy birthday song should not be owned by Warner Chapel,

it shouldn't be under their copyright.

Most people didn't understand the history of

it and/or didn't want to delve that far into it.

It was written in 1891 and it was a song

written by two teachers for their students whose good morning to you,

good morning to you,

good morning dear children and that was what it was.

It was written in 1891 or 1892 but it wasn't registered

the copyright office till 1935 and then it was with the words happy birthday.

But there's a lot of confusion as to what took place in between.

It ends up, it's complicated story but

a company owned it and then Warner Chapel owned it,

they bought the company about the publishing.

Then they were starting to issue licenses

and a lot of people would avoid singing happy birthday in

public because Warner Chapel could demand

so much money and people come up with other versions.

So what the lawyers did was to sue on behalf

of a plaintiff who was trying to do a documentary about the song happy birthday.

She used to work for MTV and she did a video,

a series of videos that show MTV had it led to

on extravagant birthdays that sweet 16 birthdays or we're crazy.

She wondered well, what's the history of the song?

So, after all that took place she ended up suing with

these lawyers and they won and happy birthday is now a public domain.

So the same attorneys I'm working with now and we thought that We Shall Overcome had

a long history and that should not be owned that we

should try to free it from copyright and we proceeded to.

We had a look at how did the song come about and even the owners

of We Shall Overcome said it's in the public domain but we added original expression,

therefore, we own it.

Because remember I said that if you can take public domain and

you will own what you add to it.

But if you look at it closely like we did,

ends up the melody and the music is from the 1780's.

Even Beethoven set it to music in 1815 or so and many other people

did and also it required new words and it just kept changing,

was handled by many people over many years.

What finally happened was that their claim that or they change

it from We Will Overcome to We Shall Overcome and

deep in my heart became down in my heart and they

thought that by making those two simple changes that they should own

the whole thing and the courts disagreed and agreed with us and

now not only we have is happy birthday in the public domain

and free for anyone to use but so is We Shall Overcome.

So with respect to Happy Birthday and We Shall Overcome,

both of those songs that had been under copyright are now

free for everyone to use and they are in the public domain.

So when it comes to public domain,

it's extremely important to know with the music words,

wherever the expression you're dealing with is an under copyright or is it not.

So it's copyrighted or it's public domain.

There have been examples where someone thought a song was in the public domain and they

used it in another composition only to be sued and to find out like oh,

oh that was not public domain is owned by copyright.

Sometimes at Christmas you hear Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and you here all these

songs that have been people song for years but Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,

for example, is under copyright.

This happens plenty in.

So it's very important to know the importance of

the public domain material you can freely use but

also to be to really make sure that

the work is in the public domain and not under copyright.

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hey what's up guys it's Patrick brown

here and today I'm going to show you how

to install I use real public bid on your

iPhone so here we go so first of all you

have to do is unlock your iPhone then go

to Safari and go to this link I'm giving

the link in description it's beta or

Apple comm slash profile so go to this

only with your Safari browser now log in

with your Apple ID or password or sorry

or and and password and then after

logging in let me put the verification

code

then after logging in you're gonna see

the blue button which says download

profile see no profile click on that and

it will allow and then it will head you

go to the settings profile now install

this profile after putting the password

and install it it will restart your

iPhone restarted so guys it restarted

after he's starting go to software

update and you will find is for a public

beta download and install install this

betas only with the Wi-Fi network

connection is not available with this

much of download it is almost 2.84

jeebies

let this install installing it is done

installing now now just make sure your

battery is all about 50% at least 50% or

connect your phone to the charger and

then install it it will verify the

update see it is verifying the updated

guess I need to remove the clock in my

room

it is pickling very much tick tick tick

tick annoy me very much sorry

see it is verifying update and after

verifying it will restart your iPhone

multiple times just keep that one

charged and go have a coffee and come

back after 20 minutes and you will see

it is done installing it is restarting

see it started installing it will take

almost 20 to 30 minutes guys

put your phone on charge and just code

for a coffee or a beer as you please for

flower

it isn't strong now it is done

installing as you can see put your phone

password and put your phone password and

complete the steps after installing

click continue choose the network Wi-Fi

network if you don't have any Wi-Fi

network you can also use this with your

mobile data

see this is the new feature of iOS 12

screen time I am really using this

feature to quit my phone addiction

continue welcome to I see it is not

installing now go to settings let me

make this clear for you zoom in see it

is is 4.0 that's it that's it guys as

watching this video as always stay tuned

for more videos please subscribe and and

and what NP SAP

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Chesapeake Public Schools Celebrates the 2018 Valedictorians and Salutatorians - Duration: 9:47.

On behalf of the Chesapeake School Board,

we want to congratulate all our 2018 graduates.

We are so proud of that over 2800 Seniors

that will be graduating at the Ted this week.

We're especially very proud of our administration

and teachers that make a difference

in the lives of our students every day.

Again, congratulations!

We wish you the best... Class of 2018!

I'm Margaret Winslow.

I'm the Valedictorian of Deep Creek High School

in the class of 2018.

I'm graduating with a 5.03 and

I'm going to attend Virginia Tech in the fall.

I imagine I'll be at a high school

or college teaching math.

Yes, I love teaching people.

It gives me great joy to see others grow with my help.

Miss J, she is my high school, um... 9th grade

Social Studies teacher and my senior year GOV teacher.

She told me to always put my registration

for my car in my wallet and not my car

so if anybody steals it, they don't know where I live.

Hi, I'm John Kothmann.

I'm the Salutatorian a Deep Creek High School.

I graduated with a 4.975, and I plan on attending the

University of Virginia in the fall.

For me, the hardest part of being a senior

was definitely dealing with the classic

case of "Senioritis", where you feel kind of

unmotivated to do certain things,

but, you have to push through it and get

stuff done and still finish strong.

I could definitely not live without caffeine.

I used it to wake up in the morning, used it to get focus

on the tests and get through uh... late-night

assignments after getting home from work.

And definitely, that was the key factor

for me in Deep Creek.

Hi, I'm Caden Messenger, and I'm the Valedictorian

of Grassfield High School for the Class of 2018.

I have a GPA of 4.99, and I plan on attending

Rochester Institute of Technology in the fall.

So, at Grassfield, I've learned that with enough

hard work and determination, I can really accomplish

a lot more than I expected.

Feels like, if I really focus and hone in on what

I want to do, I can just kind of achieve everything,

and keep any grade or finish any race.

Um...I enjoyed running cross-country

the most in high school.

I really liked running out there with my friends

every morning and it was just a really fun time.

And, I enjoyed it.

I'm Sydnie Matkins.

I'm Salutatorian of Grassfield High School,

the class of 2018.

My GPA is 4.98, and I will be attending

Colorado State University in the fall.

I think I've always been hardworking and

punctual, and I think that the teachers

of Grassfield have noticed that,

have appreciated that, and all my hard

work in their class.

In every class.

I think the sense of community is really

important at Grassfield.

I mean, our slogan is Community of Excellence,

and I think that we have exemplified that

throughout my... at least my four years of high school.

And, I will really miss that going to a big college.

Hi, my name is John Desmond Chastanet.

Uh... I'm the Valedictorian of Great Bridge High School.

My GPA is uh...4.99, uh...and I plan to attend the

University of California San Diego in the fall.

My fondest memory is probably at a Cross-Country

Invitational watching Seth Roper cross a lake

on an inflatable killer whale.

The biggest thing is just that nothing can really

stop you if you just try hard enough.

Uh...perseverance is everything when it comes

to achieving your goals.

Hi, my name is Tyler Temme and I'm the

Salutatorian at Great Bridge High School.

My GPA is a 4.89, and I plan to go

to Virginia Tech next year to study engineering.

I'm proud to be a Wildcat because of the sense

of family that Great Bridge High School has.

Everyone gets along and everyone's

supportive of everyone else.

I like to shout out uh...Miss Kathy Cannon,

my Calculus and AP Calculus teacher, for all she's done.

She's encouraged me to go far in math because

that's something I enjoy...it's my favorite subject.

And, she's just helped me a lot along the way.

Hi, my name is Evan Miller.

I'm the Valedictorian of Hickory High School,

Class of 2018.

My GPA is 5.0579, and I'm going to attend

University of Virginia.

I don't think I'd really change anything about

my high school experience.

I mean, the clubs, sports, teachers and students

were all great and I don't think I could

hope for a better high school.

So, yeah... I don't think I'd change a thing.

I'll definitely miss the students and teachers the most.

Ah...the teachers were absolutely great

and the students... I've made some of the

closest friends I've ever had in high school.

So, yeah... I'll...I'll definitely miss them the most.

Hi, I'm Camille Wilson.

I'm the Salutatorian for Hickory High School,

Class of 2018.

And, I'm planning to go to UVA for a major

in environmental studies.

I have a GPA of 5.0164.

I would probably say the janitorial staff

because they have to put up with a lot

cleaning up after high school students

and they don't get a lot of recognition at all.

So, they really do work hard and no one

appreciates it as much as they should.

Because, I'm actually Environmental Club President,

and we... we painted the windows for recycling day,

and we... to promote awareness and they

went above and beyond and cleaned them afterwards

even though we said we were going to.

But, they cleaned them anyways and they're

just really sweet and nice to everyone.

In ten years I definitely want to go into the

environmental conservation path,

either with policy or research.

And, especially ocean conservation, because that's

something I've always been passionate about.

Hello, I'm Sean Benish, the 2018 Valedictorian

of the Indian River High School.

I have a 4.87 GPA and I will be attending the

University of Virginia in the fall.

When I first entered high school, I really

just took classes, got straight grades

and I really didn't do much after that.

However, as I grew older I discovered that teachers

have much more to teach you about.

So, I formed personal relationships and

learned all that they could teach me.

The best part about being a senior is the flexibility,

not only in your schedule, but in your classes.

At least for me, most of my requirements for

graduation were already completed so I could

either pick the electives or the advanced classes

that I really wanted to take.

Hi, my name is Hallie Stewart.

Uh...I am the Salutatorian of Indian River High School.

My GPA is a 4.76, and I will be attending

Goucher College this fall.

Success I define as being willing to work well

with others to help you achieve your goals in

whatever situation that may be .

Yes, uh... from the musical, Dear Ivan Hanson, the quote

is... "Today you are you and that's enough."

And, that's to define being yourself and don't let

others change who you are in any type

of situation you might be in.

Hi, my name is Pinay Jones.

I'm the Valedictorian for the Oscar Smith class of 2018.

Um...my GPA is a 5.1 and I'm going to

the University of Virginia.

Umm... the highlight of my senior year probably was this

past week, which was the senior spirit week.

Um...basically, it was just a really nice time for

all the seniors to kind of come together

and sort of care...share in a common experience...

and have school spirit before we leave.

That's probably a toss-up between um... knowing you're

about to be in an adult and the money that you spend all

throughout senior year... so yeah...

That's probably it.

I'm Guian Cruz.

I am the Salutatorian of the Oscar Smith Class of 2018.

I finished with a GPA of 5.04 and

I will be attending VCU next year.

After graduation I'm looking forward to

moving a little farther from home even

though it's not that far, it's still nice to get away.

Memorable, uh... fast, and pretty stressful.

Well, the stress mostly came from

all the IB components.

Um...Memorable, because... because it's the last time

I'm gonna be in high school and

it seemed to go by pretty quickly.

Hi, I'm Gloria Lin, Valedictorian of

Western Branch High School with the GPA of 5.15.

And, next year I'll be attending MIT.

I think my biggest challenge was probably

a lack of self-confidence and the way I overcame

that is just by working really hard and

kind of worrying less about like failing

or what other people would think of me.

And, in the end like it keeps you humble.

So, it's not that's such a bad thing but,

to have some confidence in yourself.

I think you learned that through hard work.

Don't be pessimistic, believe in yourself, always

try your hardest and learn time management.

Hi, I'm Joseph Havens, Jr.

I am graduating from Western Branch High School

as Salutatorian with a 5 point G...5.0 GPA, and I'll be

attending the University of Virginia.

The one tradition I'll miss the most is ah...

going to spirited football games with all my friends.

It's probably one thing I'll miss at UVA.

The one thing I've learned to prepare me for

the future is definitely to have confidence in myself,

because you know, the first person that's gonna tell you

when you wake up in the morning that you

can do it is yourself.