this will also be a pilot in terms of ease of use by customers, usability, simplicity, and whether it will stand up to an urban environment. >> aside from the meter head itself that we're piloting to see how durable it is and whether or not it is easy to read, with also built-in security measures -- we have also built-in security measures into the infrastructure itself. all of these parking meters have an hour thing that rotates. this is to prevent people from putting a pipe cover on it -- pipe cutter on it to remove the head. [unintelligible] >> how you assure people that put in a credit card in [unintelligible] >> part of the specification was the highest level of security or credit card processing. none of the data is stored on the meter or by the mta. it is handled by the meter company and processed as quickly as possible. there's very little risk of using credit cards at the meters. >> [unintelligible] concerned about the possibility of [inaudible] [traffic] >> one of the great things about the meters is that it makes it so easy to pay. people should get a lot fewer parking ticke

>> one of the things is what they asked for, so a lot of it is usability. tackable surface >> so the walls, you can stick pins in here? what is the material? >> all the tackable surfaces are either recycled cork or recycled polyester. they are formaldehyde free. >> is that the corn based stuff? >> it's an agricultural biproduct. and of the fabrics are corn based fabric fiber. at the end of the life cycle they will be composted >> sometimes people say it's hard to find them. >> i think our specifiers were getting in touch with that. these products had been around and had been advertised a fair bit. people have seen them and we noticed our workers were keen to kind them. some of the challenges of making this leed. where were they manufacture exclude what went into them. some of the manufactures didn't know where to find their answers >> we made an effort to be as innovative as possible >> what do we have here? >> this is a great example of a green product because this came from your old office. this is one of the 3 r's. this was reuse. there is credit in leed

and i want my building to be repairable and usable and fully occupiable after the expected earthquakend you might with no interpretatiointerruption and om willing to 2 $20 million. >> and there is the building behind and used by the u.s. marine corp and sure wall building and this is base isolated and i would speculate the difference in the cost is -- but i mean if you're puttin -- and this is what an interesting point is the building might be worth 50 mil u have all that high-tech communication inside or if the telecommunication goes down for one hour you lose a billion dollars and some of these buildings get to the super high levels or they require double and triple redundancy. >> question in the back. >> base isolated to what intensity earthquake? >> we design for the maximum - well, the code looks at design base earthquake which is 500 year event and that is 1906 and the code looks at the maximum credible earthquake and which is a thousand year and looking at these people and what they did and i suspect they did to maximum credible which is 40 percent higher than the base or 1906.

the waiting area at the front of the building has the benefit of being usable for special events that could open onto the plaza. one goes up into the core to the access way for the gangplanks and directly over to the ships. it should be noted there is also provisions in the site planning for the semis that arrive in advance of the passengers. they have a route over here where they are screened and stored in a way that does not conflict with the other activities in the gta and also avoids any backup on the embarcadero from that process occurring. debark -- what happens is people arrive by ship and walk on the top. they go through customs and border patrol, like the experience one has at the airport. you go to clarence. the collector baggage. if you are okay, you can walk out. that occurs on this area of the building. you come up to the gta and there are povs and taxis waiting that can be staged offsite so you can always have taxis waiting in this area as well. the idea of this building, because we are trying to work with the existing shell, which does not have a very good energy seal,

seating blocks and benches and planters and trees in that and creating a space that's intimate and usable by the community of coffee drinkers but the residents and the business owners and anybody else who happens to wander through hayes valley and feels there and discovers this special space that's accessible to all. the meaning with community members was you know it's one thing i never liked to do. you meet with people and faced with a hundred objections or a hundred different ways of doing something we approached a collaborative idea. we do have a preconceived notion of the desired outcome but not on how to get there. the result was just an input of good ideas from unexpected places. people that you know are not necessarily professionals or used to thinking about urban spaces in these terms. i think that was one of the keys was going into it not knowing. as a professional i didn't know how to do something like this. i had never done one before and i think that was an enabler. relying on the network of people at stages through the permitting process. and you know which is where we are no

bowling river in the cascade mountains east of the city and two reservoirs and ten million gallons of usable storage. we have a secondary ground storing source on the south side of the colombia river and we have capacity to serve our base needs just by ground water some you can count portland among those that believe climate change is real and have been following it for over two decades. the ctional is a national leader. i know i need to tread carefully in san francisco talking about treading in this area but most of you are probably familiar with the list i have up here on this slide. in terms of predicted impacts for continued global warming on western water utilities perhaps it is most fundamental. what we're really struggling with is the notion we may faced increase demands in the summer with reduced supplies. so, in terms of climate change impacts portland is most concerned about. here are five according to me and my staff. i'm sure there's more and thinking on this i tried focus on things we're dealing with now. as i mentioned the higher summertime demand because of higher temperatures

the ceqa significance criteria asks if a project with affect usability of publicly accessible open space or outdoor recreational facilities or other public uses. as you see in the comments and responses document, we do respond to concerns related to shadow, sheeting on publicly accessible, privately owned open spaces, and in that context, the eir does not consider shadow impacts. similarly for when they eir finds some -- when the eir -- eir finds this to be less than significant. eir identifies a number of significant and unavoidable impact related to traffic congestion at the intersection of harrison and second street, as well as cumulative impacts at the intersection of howard and third, howard and montgomery, harrison and second street. the project would make a considerable contribution to future traffic volumes that could result in significant delays at these intersections to determine that no feasible measures are available to reduce these effects. commissioners, the draft certification motion is included in your packet. staff recommends certification of this eir. this concludes my

we design and establish criteria for furnishings that are durable, made tenable, comfortable, and usable. and again, the idea of connections. how do we connect open spaces together down to the waterfront? a good example of this is in vancouver where they have lives that come down to the waterfront so that it is not a linear system that if you drop from at&t park to herons head park, you just have to jog back, but you might be able to look into the neighborhood and provide down to the water and back up into the neighborhood, so it is something we're looking at as part of the connector street along the blue green way. since the community workshop and at the community workshop, we received a number of commons. most of them work around these six areas regarding have attacked. there were comments that we need to identify appropriate places to allow for future habitat and make sure that they are compatible with the types of programming and news is we are talking about for some of the open spaces. there were also comments regarding environmental issues, indicating that we need to identify more

. >> that's what you have security guards for to clear them out and make them only usable by the customers. >> as for the contemporary open air design, it drew some rave reviews. and some concerns. >> i like this. it will be interesting to see who turns out and how many buses can fit in here. it looks nice. >> we'll see when the rain starts coming, but hopefully in the summer it will be fine. >> the architect took the comments in stride. >> it will be a vibrant and wonderful space. >> the new terminal will have bathrooms. officials say when the bathrooms are inside buildings, it is easier for security to control who uses them. the new terminal is set to open in 217 and the new --2017. the new one this saturday morning. >>> a ruling in the same-sex marriage trial will happen tomorrow. a federal judge in san francisco has reached a decision on the constitutionality on proposition 8 as the voter approved an amendment outlawing same sex. they are not even waiting for the announcement. they started laying the groundwork for an appeal. >> the pro prop 8 lawyers can read the hand writing on the w

we design and establish criteria for furnishings that are durable, made tenable, comfortable, and usable. and again, the idea of connections. how do we connect open spaces together down to the waterfront? a good example of this is in vancouver where they have lives that come down to the waterfront so that it is not a linear system that if you drop from at&t park to herons head park, you just have to jog back, but you might be able

there needs to be attempts made to figure out what kind of commercial messaging is usable in ancillary streams. from the advertiser's standpoint, it matters to them when that the message appears. they wanted to appear within a limited number of days. they have an elaborate media plan. it is not the same to them whether somebody watches at the night it errors or catch is that on another stream of month later -- or the night it airs. we have no means of selling at downstream of view to the original advertising. they are only willing to pay for the original 72 hours. the viewers will lose are those who watch it outside of the 72 hour time frame and do not want commerciall. host: what do you think of canoe? guest: one of the potential solutions to this challenge is less advertising, but advertising that is more relevant to the consumer. if we could potentially gather some anonymous but relevant information that indicated what type of car you might be in the market for and we could deliver an advertisement just for people in the right groups that might purchase that clark, then we could del

countries are concerned because twenty percent enriched uranium is very close to being able to be usable in nuclear weapons and right now iran cannot do anything with this twenty percent enriched uranium it is pretty producing except stockpile it for weapons purposes because it cannot actually produce the fuel for the tehran research reactor there are so many contradictions in iran's explanations that make observers very concerned indeed about its intentions so let's talk about the issue of sanctions here the security council the u.s. and the european union imposed a new round of sanctions on iran despite terrans agreement to get back to negotiations why. well iran did not exactly agreed to go back to negotiations iran entered into an agreement with brazil and turkey two countries that had never been involved in negotiations before and on paper it looked like they had achieved something but you know iran is very experienced at negotiations and it agreed only to enter into discussions on subjects. of mutual agreement did never agreed to enter into negotiations about its nuclear program in

countries are concerned because twenty percent enriched uranium is very close to being able to be usable in nuclear weapons and right now iran cannot do anything with this twenty percent enriched uranium it is producing except stockpile it for weapons purposes because it cannot actually produce the fuel for the tehran research reactor there are so many contradictions in iran's explanation . that make. very concerned indeed about its intentions this sanctions on actually hitting the iranian people rather than the iranian government although many people in the wrist and in united states talk about intelligent sanctions but there is no such a thing as as intelligent or a small sanction well we just don't know whether they will be effective or not i mean i don't think i'm not optimistic that they will persuade iran to change its pursuit of technologies that can be used in nuclear weapons but i think they can perhaps be effective in persuading iran to come back to the negotiating table it looks like iran might be ready to talk again it might be but it's not clear now the the more sanctions th

website, which, as you heard, is undergoing renovation and hopefully will be much more accessible and usable so that it will be a better tool for us in the future. some new media, which we are working on building. facebook and twitter. attending community meetings to the extent we can engage the media, the newspapers, and television and community newspapers, and most importantly, prozac. is important to note that the outreach is really conducted by division but run through the public affairs office, which at this point is elton, who is over there, and myself, who has other tasks as well, so we need to amplify our efforts, and that is why our partner organizations are so important in this. quickly going to go through, as i said, out reached by division. the planning a capital division probably has our most refined outreach process, and part of that is because some of it is actually in the code for what is required for average, like the planning department, and dpw who do similar capital projects. obviously, this does not apply to every situation. there are exceptions to every rule, but essent

think we'll try to ship several cargoes maybe up to six next year and we'll try to make this route usable for our l. and g. projects notas only working in summer when the ice is thin but we hope to make it navigable year round. the effort to make it would commercial is been undertaking with the help of russia's nuclear company are going flawed that provides the nuclear icebreakers and soft conflict which leads us to tankers and other mary term support. for us it is very new to work in tandem with tankers this journey showed was possible the aim is of course to make the route commercial and it will take a bit of trying to get used to working together. primary motivation for opening there were other gas fields in the u. malcolm insula you know my tack is the biggest investor in the project the liquefied natural gas plant is scheduled to start operating in two thousand and fifteen it will have a capacity of around fifteen million tonnes anneli and just to compare the only alan g. facility in russia sakhalin to produce is nine point six million taunts the company hopes by the time you mel is

rebuilding a set of stairs, exterior stairs, what we try to do now is, if it doesn't have to be a usable space underneath, in other words, if it could just be an exterior storage, you can build the stairs and shim them off a finish siding on the inside. so you're not like the situation that -- i don't know if you've shown them the stairs, but you can build exterior stairs so you allow water to pass through. you can have it drain out. obviously if you have stairs over a living space you have to water proof the stairs -- waterproof the stairs but a lot of energy is being spent trying to get exterior stairs waterproof when you could just let the water flow through. some of the stairs you're showing are good examples of those. >> we have another shot in a minute. here's somebody's exterior deck and stairs which they've been -- a couple of rails have been replaced. i want to point out, by the way, that the spacing between the guard rails on this deck or guards, as they're now called, are pretty wide and don't need the mod -- meet the modern codes which they forum maximum space and it's easy t