it has been particularly great to have a co-chaire from california edison who has been a great partner leading the effort. doug. [applause] i would like to give you a few details about the california against lighting controls sales training program. it is a really exciting program. we are thrilled to be here. you have heard some things about it from some great sources of information already. it is hard to follow those terrific acts. i will give you a few more details. we will be training and recruiting salespeople in all the major metropolitan areas in california. the people we will be recruiting are unemployed executive sales people. these are sales people who are well experience. they have sold software, corporate jets, commercial real estate, i.t. infrastructure, all kinds of big ticket items and services to ceo's. they really know how to sell already. we will not teach them how to sell. we will teach them about sustainability and energy efficiency. they are the sales tacake. we will add some sustainability frosting. that is our goal. [laughter] governor, you made my day. [laughter]

in 2006 the average begin the customer had twice as many hours without power as southern california edison customers and four times as san diego gas and electric. as you just enumerated, there have been a number of dangers explosions, manhole covers, and other. based on the best practice, that you put forward, best practices against what? what is the standard that we are measuring our expectations to pg&e? >> i am not sure if there is a national standard that is set by all the large cities. i think we are trying to reduce the numbers significantly, so we are proceeding on a progressive look at what we can do in our city to make sure it is the safest as possible. i do not know what that national standard is. i do not know that there is a city with no outages. what is example? it is up to us to determine that and to also petition the cpuc for that particular acceptability. >> if i could suggest one, -- supervisor mirkarimi: if i could suggest one, we should be as honest as possible in comparisons to all utility companies in the state of california, that being one standard, and that we listed

he is currently vice president for public affairs at southern california edison. aaron williams is the current director of the peace corps. he came to the peace corps directorship from all long career and development with us aid. he was a peace corps volunteer in the dominican republic back in the late 1960's. director williams asked that we begin our evening tonight by observing a moment of silence in honor and respect for a peace corps volunteer who passed away while serving in niger and a few days ago. her name was stephanie camp, and our thoughts and prayers are with her family and friends. thank you for that. and now we will start the evening by thinking back 50 years ago this week, when president kennedy was at the university of michigan and, late at night, doing what you will see. >> how many of you are willing to spend your days -- as technicians or engineers? how many of you are willing to work in the foreign service? on your willingness to do that, not merely to serve one or two years in the service, but on your willingness to contribute part of your lif

he is currently vice president for public affairs at southern california edison. aaron williams is the current director of the peace corps. he came to the peace corps directorship from all long career and development with us aid. he w a peace corps volunteer in the dominican republic back in theate 1960's. director williams asked that we begin our evening tonight by observing a moment osilence in honor and respect for a peace corps volunteer who passed away while serving in niger and a few days ago. her name was stephanie camp, and our thoughts d prayers are with her family and friends. thank you for that. and now we will start the evening by thinking back 50 years ago this week, when president kennedy was at the university of michigan and, late at night, doing what you will see. >> how many of you are willing to spend your days -- as technicians or engineers? how many of you are willing to work in the foreign service? on your willingness to do that, not merely to serve one or two years in the service, but on your willingness to contribute part of your life to thi

drug companies, pg&e and southern california edison are there. critic says they are basically vacationing with corporate executives and lobbyists who are looking for their vote when they head to sacramento next month. organizers of the conference argue that taking trips to relaxing settings such as maw by allow public policymakers get to know each over on a personal level. huffman state assemblyman from san rafeal tells the "sacramento bee" he has such limited vacation time that mixing business with pleasure would not fly with his family and political advisers add it is risky since the next attack add could feature you lounging on the beach while the economy suffers. we should note that most of the state's 120 lawmakers are not participating in the hien conferences -- hawaiien conferences held right now. >>> 7:47. >>> the latest numbers in the state attorney general's race shows harris is maintaining her lead over republican steve cooley. harris ' lead is a little over 30,000 with 46% of the vote, compared to 45.6 for cooley. several hundred thou

he is currently vice president for public affairs at southern california edison. aaron williams is the current director of the peace corps. he came to the peace corps directorship from all long career and development with us aid. he was a peace corps volunteer in the dominican republic back in the late 1960's. director willis asked that we begin our evening tonight by observing a moment of silence in honor and respect for a peace corps volunteer who passed away while serving in niger and a few days ago. her name was stephanie camp, and our thoughts and prayers are with her family and fends. thank you for that. and now we will start the evening by thinking back 50 years ago this week, when president kennedy was at the university of michigan and, late at night, doing what you will see. >> how many of you are willing to spend your days -- as technicians or engineers? how many of you are willing to work in the foreign service? on your willingness to do that, not merely to serve one or two years in the service, but on your willingnesso contribute part of your life to t

he is currently vice president for public affairs at southern california edison. aaron williams is the current director of the peace corps. he came to the peace corps directorship from all long career and development with us aid. he was a peace corps volunteer in theominican republic back in the late 1960's. director williams asked that we begin our evening tonight by observing a moment of silence in honor and respect for a peace corps volunteer who passed away while serving in niger and a few days ago. her name was stephanie camp, and our thoughts and prayers are with her family and friends. thank you for that. and now we will start the evening by thinking back 50 years ago this week, when president kennedy was at the university of michigan and, late at night, doing what you will see. >> how many of you are willing to spend your days -- as technicians or engineers? how many of you are willing to work in the foreign service? on your willingness to do that, not merely to serve one or two years in the service, but on your willingness to contribute part of your life

he is currently vice president for public affairs at southern california edison.ron williams is the current director of the peace corps. he came to the peace corps directorship from all long career and development with us aid. he was a peace corps volunteer in the dominican republic back in the late 1960's. director williams asked that we begin our evening tonight by observing a moment of silence in honor and respect for a peace corps volunteer who passed away while serving in niger and a few days ago. her name was stephanie camp, and our thoughts and prayers are with her family and friends. thank you for that. and now we will start the evening by thinking back 50 years ago this week, when president kennedy was at the university of michigan and, lat at night, doing what you will see. >> how many of you are willing to spend your days -- as technicians or engineers? how many of you are willing to work in the foreign service? on your willingness to do that, not merely to serve one or two years in the service, but on your willingness to contribute part of your life to

california . >> cruz azul, monterrey ya están en la final, pero aún se disputan los otros puestos. >> hector gonzalez es el nuevo director de deportes naciónales. >> edison pero habían carteles que decian edison peña, gente que no conozco, esa calidez de los estadounidense es impresionante. >> edison peña dijo que se consideraba un corredor del corazón . >> edison peña debuto en su primera competencia fuera de chile, el se ha convertido en un hñroe mundial y corrio en la gran manzana en la maratón de new york . >> y edison peña cautivo al mundo cuando corria en la mina san josñ, pero a pesar de sus lesiones, nada le impidio seguir corriendo en la maratón de new york . >> super contenta, todos contentos por el. >> no faltaron las banderas y porras de chile . >> es algo que nos trae vida y renacer. >> no creo que voy a correr, pero seguir haciendo deporte, con mi vida y siempre positivo. >> la maratón de new york es una de las carreras más importantes del mundo, pero la presencia del chileno edison peña le dio un nuevo renacer. >> jóvenes si quieren ser papás, alejense de su celular y laptop, ya que un estudio dice que los jóvenes que se mantiene durante l

edison's incomplete analysis of the extent to which clear wire's project will meet fcc guidelines under unusual circumstances such as earthquakes, i urge you to require environmental review under the california environmental quality act. i vote, please vote to support this appeal. president chiu: thank you, next speaker. >> my name is william. i lived up on bernal heights all my life. i moved there january 11, 1945. i was seven days old from the hospital. my family's lived up there for about 90 years. my children are the last of the new family coming up on the hill. so when somebody's been doing something wrong for 50 years, one more time don't make it right. you know. i would just like to see a little common sense in this thing. i was a teenager when that tower went up and i didn't know why it went up, i didn't know what it was and how it got there and now i find out what's been going on for 50 years. that's a long time. take a little consideration on the people that live up there, because, you know, a little of this, a little of that, it just keeps getting worse and worse. how bad could it get. i don't know how bad it is and i don't think anybody in this room knows how bad it is or what it