between the science supporting climate change and the reality of the dangers that climate change brings, we really center to ramp up our efforts to master this challenge, and that means wise investments in clean energy r&d and deployment. they're just a good place to start. plus these investments encourage the growth of domestic clean energy, domestic clean energy economy, which would create jobs and has created jobs, grow our manufacturing base, and keep us competitive in global energy markets, and that's so important because germany and china, denmark, countries all over the world are winning this race. now, one of the great parts about this job is spending half time here and then half time in minnesota. minnesota is a national leader in clean energy. in 2007, minnesota passed the highest renewable energy standard in the country at the time and all our utilities are on track to meet the goal of 25% renewable by 2025. our largest utility, excel energy, son its way to 30% by 2020. we have universities like the university of minnesota morris which is pushing the frontiers of innovation i

that need has not changed. the commitment to that open space, it and i do not want to use the word open space without saying active recreational space, has been challenged. this is the fourth time. three previous times, prospective developments have come forward and wanted to remove the recreation area. in june of that time, the mayors and the board of the redevelopment agency and the executive directors, like me, opposed it, because that commitment was made, and it seemed that it was working. and it has worked incredibly. since 1968, this facility has served the golden gate residence, has provided recreational opportunity to downtown workers, and most important, for families with children. thousands of children have learned to swim there, and thousands have attended the summer camp, so it is a priceless facility that very few cities have downtown, and the charges are affordable to lower middle-class families. it is not the olympic club or the california tennis club. this is within reach of the middle-class fam

by getting healthy, he changed his brain and in the process, changed his life. remember, this is not a program to lose 10 pounds. it is a program to get control of your brain and your body for the rest of your life. so carlos is here. would you stand up? [applause] so imagine not carrying 50 pounds around with you. i mean, no wonder people who are overweight have trouble with their knees, right? i mean, you can't put that kind of pressure on. many people overeat as a way to deal with past hurts or emotional traumas: troubled childhoods, difficult parents, being abused, losing your job, going through a divorce. all of these stressful events can cause actual physical changes in the brain that lead to anxiety, depression, and emotional overeating. whenever we experience emotional trauma, it often gets stuck in our brains, even if it happened decades earlier, and it can hurt you. emotional distress increases a hormone called cortisol that normally helps us deal with emergencies. but when we are exposed to too much cortisol, it causes us to store fat, especially arou

you can adapt to slow change, quick change is much more difficult. >> one of the great features of thent arctic coast, the wilkens ice shelf, is seeing broken up. the frozen planet crew filmed huge fissures running through it. this on its own doesn't prove anything but fits into a pattern of change. >> it's not beyond possibility that warming will actually cause sea level rises and london -- >> is there a risk of sounding too alarmist about this? >> i try not to. the fact is that we know these changes are happening. the evidence for in a is incontrovertible -- for that is incontrovertible. and if they go on, they will have catastrophic effects on the human race. >> and behind this concern is the lifelong passion for which he's best known. wildlife. but his favorite polar creature is quite surprising. >> i think a caterpillar that lives for 14 years and is frozen solid, frozen solid to its core, 14 times, which takes 14 years to accumulate enough food to allow it to go into a moth. that's amazing. >> what about the future? scientists can't be sure about the rate of melting. but we do kn

we also love the changes that have been made to allow grandfathering. we saw projects we like that were good. i think it is fair that they be allowed to go under the old rules. we think this is pointing a good direction for the city. i think supervisor chiu and tom should be commended for the work they do. we would call, all, which is a term of esteem and height approval for someone who takes the planning code and gets in and works with it. we like where it is going. >> good morning, commissioners. we represent priority parking. again, party parking -- priority parking strongly object the proposed elimination of the longstanding provision under section 184 of the planning code that allows for the continued operation of parking lots our grandfather when the downtown plan was passed. these parking lots have been in legal operation for over 25 years. we think the changes proposed to stop are positive, but we still think it is a mistake to allow these businesses to go out of business in five years. generally legal non-conforming uses are grandfathered. char

next stop, climate change. we take the climate train.reedom of the press -- holiday broadcaster is defying the regime. and, a far cry from hollywood -- life after the silver screen for "slum dog millionaire's" child actress. climate change is far down the list of concerns in south africa with the largest number of aids-related deaths in the world. one of africa's richest nations is still over coming effects of apartheid. large parts remain disenfranchised with one-quarter receiving state benefits. the perception of climate change remains abstract, a product that is out there, but not part of the daily struggle. a special train has made it its mission to inform the population that dealing with climate changes not only necessary, but will ultimately provide helpful. it will go on its way to the climate conference. they want to demonstrate the destruction of the plan that does not have to be a one-way track. >> so, we are here to learn what is making our mother sky said, and we need to make sure she is not sick anymore, and make her beautif

but change you are. in the thirty seconds we have left literally bill your message to our viewers. you know what it's it's it's time it really is time. inertia is a big force in human affairs it's hard to overcome it's hard for any of us to break out of our conventional ways of doing things but the moments come and it's the biggest moment human beings have ever faced if we can't figure out how to change we're not we're out of luck if we do well. well you know we'll see it could be quite remarkable quite remarkable bill mckibben thanks so much tom thank you of the voice of a great awakening and great hope thank you it's an honor to have you to watch this conversation again as well as our other conversations with great minds go to our website of conversations with great minds dot com. what drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions come to the breakthrough had thirty billion made who can you trust no one who is in view with the global machinery see where are we heading stat

so i have seen all of that change. it is an attitude change. and as my sister called it, a cosmetic change. they say, dixie had a cosmetic change. they have the same mental attitude haas racists, but they cannot call you girl and gal anymore. to me, they are over-polite. in my experience in the hotel -- ms. colvin, how can i help you? it is a little over-polite, and i get tired of it sometimes. [laughter] now, you remember i live in new york, the big apple. help me to stay the word -- say the word -- i do not want to sound like sarah palin -- [laughter] what is the word for many races? multi-cultural, yes. they could not care one less if you were white or black. let mayor bloomberg tell you what their value is, the money. in new york, every night, racism raises its ugly head and you have these killings, racial profiling, like we had sean bell. anyway, we see racial profiling. one of my neighbors said, yes, they are always going to find a psychological reason why the white child is bad, but an african-american or child of color is just a badass.

this is an issue of change. i am concerned that the real project, which we do not even really know in this current configuration, is being basically described and perched in front of us without us having a real full overview of what it is, what we're commenting on. it is a wall. it is glass. it is this than that. the project is unknown to the majority of us. and i think that makes it very difficult to support one way or the other, while what we're doing today is not going to approve the project. it has little or nothing to do with the project. we still have all the possibilities to basically not like the project. that still was in the credit of of this commission. so there are a couple of other commissioners, and i will listen more. commissioner sugaya: i guess, for me, it is a matter of context. did the project proposal that asked for rezoning further south on the embarcadero, and this one, i think, are quite different, in my view. what we have is immediately across the street from this particular project. it w

i want to change that. i want to level the playing field and make it easier for people to other insurance. people might say i'd rather buy me a chair and then had to register by it for me. and that's a choice you can make. that's one change on the rebels want to make sure we provide for the concerned of preexisting conditions. people shouldn't have to worry they will lose their insurance if they change jobs or if they become ill or they are laid off or whatever. so you have to cover those things. those things i would insist that the federal level. let me go on. i'm mentioned fixing the income statement. the other side of the balance sheet. our balance sheet problems, $62 trillion of unfunded promises as medicare and medicaid -- excuse me, medicare and social security and other entitlements including medicaid. social security is relatively easy analytically to make balanced -- fiscally balanced. medicare is a tougher one. and with regards to social security, i would for the next generation, not the current g

barack obama embodied change. it seemed he brought into politics a generation of young people and minorities who never thought of the electoral system as a vehicle for change. so many people saw in him the possibility of change that would come quickly. my sense is that it is so corroded that we need to take back a government that has been rigged against working people, ordinary people, the poor. we need to understand it will take more than one election cycle to bring about fundamental change in this country. it will take wind at the back of the president and political system to bring about change. president obama -- this is not a political time when roosevelt lived in. the labor movements are not as strong. today there was a story about the tea party move -- losing its mojo. we're seeing overreach that has led people to this tipping point moment where millions of people have said enough. the obscene inequality in this country colliding with downward mobility that people feel in their gut, they see it among their f

it's about the necessity of political changes. not all of them were necessarily carry the votes but the several things which he articulated which he made. which are not working so far. which which may well work in the nearest future for instance hello the threshold for the parliamentary election from seventy five this will work from the next election. he gave the rights to the parties which is not cross the line to gets this one the two m.p.'s from the sort of minority opposition parties it doesn't work this time or may work in the future same sex being a lawyer. here to collate a couple of things theoretically. which do not look like practicalities for snow boots which me may well be executed to see that it's all three or four years since the last speech determine if there is a president but all the eddies in the city just what relevance to t.v. coming they've got the chance for doing things you know exist so that make you very much for your insight city being built less than an hour left to be worked each image that it comes up

the proposed ordinance make several changes to parks and maximum controls. this could create problems with projects that have already been approved by the commission and projects that are in the process of getting funding and getting prepared to be built. the department is recommending we had a grandfathering clause to the ordinance that would exempt those projects, projects that have already gone conditional use from you. the next section seeks to clarify certain provisions in the ordinance. there are just two of those. recommendation no. 10 remind -- deals with section 184. these parking lots are non- conforming uses currently. we want to make sure that they do not have to go out of business immediately, which is the way some have read the legislation, so i am seeking language into the ordinance that would make it clear they would have to cease operation within five years and 90 days. recommendation no. 14, the proposed ordinance exempts affordable housing from f.a.r. limits. there was also concerned this would exempt all units in the building if there wer

it's not for me to change.t's for me to do it as effectively as well as possible. >> in a statement, the u.s. bishops said there is "an openness and readiness to receive the new text." some priests clearly aren't ready yet. >> at some point, i will be required to teach the congregation about what is coming. and i cannot lie to the people. i cannot pretend to be enthusiastic about a translation that i don't believe in. i will say what needs to be said, but i will have to say to those people whom i love that my heart isn't in it. and i dread saying that. >> but, for now it seems, catholics will have to learn to live with the changes whether they like them or not. >> this past year, there was a wave of new books examining age old questions about the afterlife. do heaven and held really exist? what are they like and who goes where. one of the best selling of these books was pastor robb bell. it ignited a fierce debate. >> i can only imagine when all ki co. >> for millennia, people have been trying to imagine what h

treaty changes are being discussed by the european council. they are trying to persuade the nation's they do not need to change the eu treaty, the protocols currently exist that would allow them to make changes to ensure the safety of the euro. we must stress that these, from an unnamed european democrats who are at the meeting in brussels. the british prime minister, david cameron, has demanded certain concessions. the u.k. is not part of the eurozone, but part of the european union. they the camera demanded the concessions that france and germany are not prepared to -- david cameron demanded concessions that france and germany are not prepared to accept sweden is not interested in those changes. the 17 countries that formed the eurozone will try to go it alone. there is also news that 200 billion euros and is going to be raised in bilateral loans and 750 euros of that will come from the 17 eurozone nations. that money will go to the imf in washington, d.c. that organization will use the money to help european governments deal with the sovere

chang is with us. if you could call 10. we're trying to keep this moving. >> item 10, presentation discussion of the rate fairness report and presentation on municipal power rates. shall i call 13 as well? president moran: um, no. >> in that case, let me run through quickly item 10. i am a member of the raid prepared this board. i would like to quickly give background on the board, the numbers, and our findings for rates for men is about power. in your presentation on page two. let me put this on the overhead. the rate fairness board was in november 2002 by 2002e, designed to set forth rate policies for the city. it is an advisory body from the charged with quoting public hearings in making rate policy recommendations to the puc. members of the board consists of four members of the polish, two appointed by the mayor. two from the board of supervisors. three members of the city departments. administrator, controller, and the office of public finance. this year, we had process for reviewing and is about power rates. in doing

there is a number of technical changes are will not review, but i will review the substance of the changes. there was some changes to bags with packaging of both items. -- bulk items. there is an exemption, whether it is damaged or contamination of other goods placed in the same bag. a key change was the effective date was moved back three months to october of 2012, and the date for food establishment was set back another three months. one of your recommendations was up there would bay some sort of an analysis completed -- there would be some sort of analysis completed. they have a review on the businesses to large and small of 10 cents to check out the bags, and they are going to do additional criteria, including whether to see f. they have specifically and now we did see if they have specifically impacted businesses. there was an ordinance there could be free giveaways of reusable bags promotional way for seven days, and that has been extended for 12 days. they clarified the waiver provision for house stores can obtain a waiver, and the largest change is that they decided to remove the i

and if they have change for the good or the worse. short. of risk in russia is obviously elevated. because of the protests and the disturbances in moscow and around russia as a result of the parliamentary elections long term it doesn't necessarily have to be that way i mean i think if if the kremlin listens to the protesters and understands that there is a growing call for more. parity in parliamentary politics as well as a very strong economic necessity to reform. the way that the budget generates. its revenues records revenues from predominantly not just oil and a slightly more diversified knowledge based economy if they can make these changes i think for investors may well worn story in russia fresh can show itself to be dynamic the lessons are concerned and i think the risk premiums might might start to dissipate i think there's a real potential for foreign investment to start flowing into russia i think in the short term maybe run the run up to the elections it will the presidential elections in march to that a bit more complicat

change. pm here in moscow these are the top stories from our team day one of the late north korean leader's funeral ends but hopes a change in his successor overshadowed by concerns that foreign nations might actually want to keep the status quo. post mubarak egypt seeks to shape its international ties amid turmoil and uncertainty at home while its ousted leader trial finally resumes. also a russian court decides against banning a trance.

as you have heard, one of the primary changes is the change to make what has now been a prevailing wage ordinance which the city has attempted, city departments have struggled to apply to situations involving non-employees, independent contractors, to require anyone bidding on any of these contracts to have a employer- employee relationship. the reason for that, one cannot apply a prevailing wage ordinance to people who do not earn wages. it is not an apples to apples comparison, by any means. what was noted to earlier by mr. levin was the sludge contract came up last year, the before. frankly, that is a good example -- not the only example, but an example of the problems that exist in this field, where you have a situation where employees will be paid what appears to a layperson as a large amount of money per hour, but the bulk of that money goes to the maidens of their own trucks, insurance, all the other provisions would be required. the department of labor relations simply said, look, we cannot apply a prevailing wage ordinance to that type of arrangement. not only have we taken tha

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so we feel that the change to the article 10 and 11 to reflect that change in the additional review was given to us under prop j and why take it away in article 11. and the 180-day time limit on reclassificati reclassification, the thing about reclassification in article 11 districts is that the only ones we have seen have been initiated by the property owner to increase the status and the historic status of a building for some advantage for t.b.r.'s or for exemptions for occupancy exemptions that are in the planning code. so my concern is that the time limit is putting a burden on the applicant and whether they need to do more research for the h.p.c. is not convinced that enough outreach has been done to justify the upgrade and that may be enough. i think there is the presumption that these higher concentrations are in the protoowner's -- the that the property owner's are in their disinterest, but the ones we have seen are in their interest. that is something else -- president olague: i apologize, commissioner martinez, i have to leave. but i would be interested obviously in the ration

these changes were needed and reforms, these changes and reforms were desperately needed in order to promote student achievement and success. president mendoza: thank you. is the other clock not working? ok. we can do the two-minute, so that you can see your time, if that's helpful, but otherwise we're just going to stick with the beep, beep, beep. >> i'll be really brief. i'll be a minute or less. good evening, superintendent garcia, deputy and

we also love the changes that have been made to allow grandfathering. we saw projects we like that were good. i think it is fair that they be allowed to go under the old rules. we think this is pointing a good direction for the city. i think supervisor chiu and tom should be commended for the work they do. we would call, all, which is a term of esteem and height approval for someone who

as i mentioned, there have been project changes. some of them were already recognized in the final eir and were documented in the comments and responses document. layered on top of that are changes that have taken place in the project since we published the staff report. with respect to those that were covered in the eir already, those were related to changes and refinements in the scheduling for the race events themselves. there were a number of improvements and refinements that the event of authority and race management were able to make on their own in terms of their operations, having learned from all of these world series of events. they have made a green commitment to buy the tier 4 highest efficiency engines for their votes, and that yielded adjustments in the environmental impact analysis from what had been published before. as you know, we have gotten hundreds of commons from the public, and the dialogue that mike martin and his team had been leading with regards to all the implementation plans and the comments that have co

certainly, not reached on the purposes of these sign changes, screen changes, making sure it is appropriate wherever it is called for. i think the legislation has a lot of promise, but i would agree with -- peter cohen brought up the idea that it is a large piece of legislation that is very complicated. i think we're getting closer to understanding the different parts of it. thank you. commissioner olague: commissioner miguel? commissioner miguel: an unusual piece of omnibus legislation. i do not thing there is any other term for it. i appreciate what aaron, and marie, and justin, and tom has put into it. in general, i am in full agreement with the department's recommendations. i think -- i know they are thoughtful, and i think they have met many of the concerns. i will go over three or four items that i have concerns on. i am working from the executive summary that was produced for the commission. in the section on streetscape improvements, there is a comment of removing basements that extend under the public right of way. refers to this city street plan. i know the tree planting is what i

when the dust settles, we will know if we have changes, and what those changes are. we will produce guidelines for our department so we have uniformity across the department. we will also be issuing some guidelines in the stand by rome -- realm about duties which are primarily administrative in nature, which is already existing language. one of the things the audit showed is that departments are not defining consistently -- different departments are using different definitions of what is primarily administrative in nature. we will offer some guidance to departments. chairperson campos: right now, are there guidelines that govern lead pay or standby pay? >> no. the standby pay section -- assignments that are primarily in administrative in nature are not eligible for standby. when the department asks dhr for advice, we say it is primarily clerical, people in budget supervision who do not have the technical skills to turn the water off or get the computer systems running. they should be excluded. but we do not have written guidelines on that issue. chairperson campos: r

, and additional map changes. so i am well aware -- i am sure you are well aware that this has become more complex. more things that were added to it were necessary to address the emerging code changes in different neighborhoods and various parts of the city. however, since it always a also contains redundance language, some definitions are listed in several places, and also includes several outdated sections. the proposed legislation looks to clean that up, and, for example, two of the areas of concern are the consolidation in dealing with section 136, new controls modeled after other controls, which are very comprehensive, and it also reduces the amount of automobile use definitions, by consolidating some into one section. it does a lot to reduce of street parking requirements and dense, mixed-use districts, particularly rc districts. i am sorry, like the tenderloin or along van ness. it removes the 1 to 1 requirements, making this consistent and removes the minimum parking requirement in broadway and the north

change change and we need some job change training. supervisor chu: is there anyone from the public that would like to comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. supervisor mirkarimi: motion to set with recommendations. supervisor chu: we can do that without objection. thank you. item 3. >> item 3. resolution authorizing the department of emergency management to retroactively accept and expend a fy2009 buffer zone protection program grant in the amount of $199,820 from the u.s. department of homeland security, through the california emergency management agency, to fund critical infrastructure protection needs. supervisor chu: thank you. >> amie alden. the bread before you today as the buffer zone protection program. this is a grant from the u.s. department of homeland security that is designed to protect critical infrastructure. the grants go from the fed's to our state, cal ema, to local law enforcement to enhance security around critical infrastructure. examples include power plants, dams, stadiums, financial instit

to cut the number of signatures needed to take part in the presidential election i also suggest changing the system for the parliamentary election i suggest introducing proportional representation in two hundred twenty five constituencies this will allow each territory to have the director representative in the parliament. well this wasn't as comfortable as usual for admission advantage to deliver these annual address mostly because he had to respond to the most recent events in the country protests and allegations which followed the december for parliamentary elections and claims that the elections had been had been raked early admission and that if that ordered a thorough investigation as a result of that criminal cases had been filed for alleged violations during the elections the results of twenty one polling stations cancelled by the president stressed today that elections in any country are part of domestic affairs of that country and the russian leadership would not allow any foreign interference but our . people's right to express their opinion by all means is guaranteed but atte