. >> engagement because it's important as fossil fuels have many, many degrees of harmful areas than fossil files as you and i talk i talked about i'd like to take the steps like maybe coal and things like that i think accident board needs to understand the research rather than going out owe and not being prepared to advocate and vote on proximateize which is level two have the board become more knowledgeable in that area i have for san francisco attended conferences in that area i just got back that f from one to understand the pension fund are doing in that area none that i know of have gone to level 2 so starting at level one is prudent i stektd the motion to go to level one so i have - >> to study level one. >> no. >> actually, we pulled up the notes you haven't read the notes correctly i've seen them verbatim and when it came to a vote on february 9th you weren't present at the meeting according to my notes and february 9th vote was on level one engagement which - >> colleagues. >> can the director speak. >> i have to make known we have folks from the retirement board so if folk

three principles that guide us in this work are engage, explore, excel. under engagement we want instruction to be captivating so our students and are focused during the learning process. to do that we are using digital tools and digital content to increase student engagement. we have a distributive leadership theory. under that theory, i am not the sole owner of the power in the school, it is distributed amongst my administrative staff and my teacher leaders as well as my teachers and ultimately our students and families so decisions are made collectively for our school at multiple levels where stake holders are invested. we have built into the schedule collaboration for teacher teams, emphasizing strong relationships between teachers, between students and students, we will have smaller class sizes, wrap around support services and exciting extended learning opportunities meaning after school programming and summer school planning. for explore we are strongly implementing the common core state standards through the core curriculum of san francisco unifie

how do you motivate them to become more concerned and engage in connections with the youth? >> you put on a really important topic and there is a grassroots if there is a grassroots movement going around the country and in organization based out of san francisco and creating on court flows and trying to encourage people to take their skills that they have developed over a lifetime and just what you're saying take it to the social service side of the economy. part of it is people are looking for an income. this isn't the traditional volunteer work. there isn't a big demand for the huge income. understanding what you are doing but that's okay. i'm going to show up at work and do this job and i'm going to try to draft some of the issues of society and i think that this is an enormous opportunity for the country that we have this educated generation that does want to give back but necessarily giving your money but volunteering your time. but working for the nonprofit organization and social service sector, helping out with government agencies and is so that is one resource that

i appreciate the value of our engagement through tpp. however, i am skeptical about supporting another trade deal based on the results of our existing agreements. for me, the number one issue facing america is that the middle class is shrinking. people can say that these trade agreements grow gdp, they help grow corporate profit. if they cannot show that they will increase middle_class incomes, i have some real problems. even further, i'm very skeptical about enforcement in these deals. it seems to me that we find these deals, we go right to the letter of wto. other countries say take us to court.. we lose. it took years for wto to charge on china, and they captured the goal __ the globe in that time. india regularly weighs patent rights on pharmaceuticals. we seem to shrug our shoulders and the enforcement mechanism is powerless. i'm proposing combating intellectual_property theft by countries like chinaand streamline. i hope you will work with me on some of these ideas. if you have any hope of gaining support for this agenda from any o

we simply are engaging in society. even when the boomers pass on we are going to be an older society. this is a global phenomenon. the u.s. has a relatively young population compared to places elsewhere in the world. we have to break down a lot of stereotypes we have about older people in their creativity in her knowledge because there's a sense of the real problem with our economy as we will have all these old people and they are not very creative and stuck in their ways and we have too many young people supporting too many older people but that belongs to a different economy in a different society the different era. i think we are going to learn older people are creative and they will continue to work. they will be doing different things. look you and you are doing something for 30 years do you want to do a? no you probably want to find something else to do but you will contribute and your employer is going to be healthier in a household income will be higher in the social security bill will be easier to pay. >> is t

the kurds are very heavily engaged. they have different notions about their own future. >> do you support a no-fly zone that turkey has been asking to protect the free syrian army from further destruction, a no-fly zone to give people a chance to regroup? >> i think we -- i would consider that. i would not use air power to do it. there are some 20 airfields in syria. we could bomb the runways of all of them with missiles and keep bombing them and in effect ground their air force. i would have no problem doing that. >> >> i don't think that solves the larger problem. >> i thank you. i think it's been a very important exchange. senator king. >> thank you senator. i apologize for coming in and out. i had a meeting with mr. carter who as you know has been nominated by the president to be secretary. you mentioned something very interesting which suggested that given the threat of terrorism to russia as well as other parts of the world, does this create an opportunity for an aligns with russia to deal with an issue like isis

engagement in the world. as the u.s. engages where a complement to what devry is doing on agricultural site. you have done a lot in a short period of time it's really impressive. i think devry has done a good job of laying out the case for normalization so i would be remiss if i didn't say we support that but rather than saying the same thing that devry just said about why normalization is good and important and should happen now i thought i would focus on a few other things. the first is the importance of announcement made by president obama to the business community and also some longer-term challenges aside from the sanctions to reestablishing trade investment ties between the united states and cuba. on the announcement it's just really good news. this is a fundamental change in u.s. cuba policy. wasn't half measures are couched in rhetoric. what it does is it flips the debate upside down so this is the first time since 2000 when congress was passing the trade sanctions reform act where we have a policy of engagement

they remain engaged in syria. it will remain engaged on the golan heights.t considers they are occupied by israel. it will be capable of engaging, defending itself against any strong israeli attack. the main asset they have today is that it does not rely on traditional ways of confronting the israeli army. it is more likely to stick to its guerrilla style, the way in which it responds to being able to witness attacks from the official israeli army but being more tactical and targeting more assets of the israelis that would wound much more the israeli army and would bring a kind of symbolic defeat for the army. >> thank you for taking the time to speak with us. let's go to jerusalem. what is the latest you can tell us from there? there has been confusion about whether an israeli soldier has been captured. >> it has been confirmed by israeli soldiers that no soldiers have died following this attack. there are several wounded israeli soldiers, one of them severely wounded. the reason for this confusion is the information is contradictory, whether coming from th

believe ♪ their hearts in the future of the city it's through that lens we've duplicate that we've engagedhe entire citywide staff through the series i myself have had a number of the conversations throughout the community justify and embellish the work program with that in mind you have materials in our packet we've amended those slithering i'll point out the changes i have extra copies for the public if you want to see those posted on our website director ram mentions we're not here to discuss the budget but the ideas that shape the budget request as part of our hearing so i'll drive this machine at the same time, we have a year of 200 vod and back tans what's the future we want to see in san francisco 2050 is the question and stepping back what can we do to we lay the foundation this is that one generational crisis for the years by the time we get through this in 2020 that is to share or insure that the next generation of san franciscans we want to be socially and economically so this is a quick outlines we're depositing four key challenges that drive this i'll audible u talk about the

engages her. in the earlier letters there is an instructional tone. in the later letters it is engagement with equals. both john and abigail are great advocates of public education. their advocates of both female and male public education. i think in a humorous exchange, i don't remember the exact -- i think it is late 1770's, he writes, oh woman i am writing politics to a woman yes. it is humorous. it is one of those things where he is commenting, the jocular aspect. there is very much of a teasing tone. the fact of the matter is part of abigail's attraction to john was that intellectual engagement she demonstrated, and certainly he fostered it and facilitated is growth in the beginning, but it was the respect and a mutual love for them. they are both in their later correspondence saying oh, have you read this? she is responding with ok but, but what about this person? well perhaps not intellectual equals, they were intellectual conversationalists. i think you do see that kind of shift in the qua

there are a lot of issues where people are engaged. i want heightened civic engagement but i talk about the low wage worker's movement in the book and you rattled off a a lot of them. my wife marched or walked in the climate change walk a few weeks go in new york. so there are a lot of people hard at work on these important issues. but we have not had a critical mass come together with powerful leadership emerge almost in an umbrella sense. that is why i was saying i would like to see sort of a movement around a specific issue that could bring in these disparate elements and have them all working together. i think employment would be a great issue. but the more people that work even if we don't get that sort of focus movement i am talking about, the more people that become involved in these varede movements we are talking about the greater the chance some kind of leadership will emerge and begin to reach a critical mass and bring more people in to the point where those voices from the bottom can't help but be heard and inthe way i talk

so re-engaging civic engagement in that sense is a big thing for n.e.h.nd democratic politics in the united states. >> the follow-on question, is political partisanship eroding the common good? and if so, what can be done about that? [laughter] >> that's an easy question. [laughter] is it eroding it? absolutely. and the sense of national community that's necessary to democratic politics has i think been badly affected by that kind of oppositional politics. i suggested in my remarks when i mentioned the challenges that we face, that this challenge, the intensity of these political and almost always cultural divisions as being important material for humanists to take up. so without having an answer, i would say that as a field for discussion, writing, communication and expression it's a largely important question. and we ought to be letting ourselves loose as humanists on that question in trying to understand those divisions better, what drives them, and how we might find our way to other forms of community. so i don't have an answer. i do have some medicin

and i wonder about the cost of citizens engaging or not engaging. because i think even though public-funded campaigns would maybe get us a better selection of people to vote for with like gerrymandering so rampant i feel like it often feels like there is no cause to voting or no voting because it was going to be rigged. so even if you have a better person to vote for in each category, it feels like it often won't make a difference. is there -- do you have some sort of -- what is the remedy to the lower levels of corruption? we mentioned yeah citizenship as a role being corrupted. how do we sort of uncorrupt that as well? >> well, i am on a kick to get more people with artistic backgrounds to run for office. so we should talk. [laughter] but i will tell you one of the reasons that people do not -- not one of the reasons, the reason creative, deeply political people are not running for office is because they do not want to raise money in the way that they currently have to raise money. it is the biggest barrier. it is the biggest barrier for women. pu

we are engaged with them on a whole range of outstanding issues. they know this is important to us and we are working towards hopefully a successful conclusion there. >> it would be very helpful. diary businesses in places in the midwest is starting to explode in some ways. we certainly want to see more of that and all the jobs that come with it but these tariffs are pretty prohibitive. you made remarks last june in which you highlighted data localization requirements as a significant problem for u.s. service companies working to expand into foreign markets and to compete globally. i agree with your view on that matter. i'm concerned about tpp not fully addressing those types of barriers for u.s. financial services companies such as banks and insurers and specifically i understand that tpp won't explicitly prohibit our trading partners for requiring finance service firms to set up local data center as a condition of doing business in their markets. that's a serious concern. i am wondering if your office can work with mine to krebt thiscorrect this

but engaging china does not mean forgiving bad behavior.ost and position against thatt behavior is something g we need to inject into our policy. >> speaking of that, there were recent, last year, agreements bebetween beijing and washington. two were seen as significant. do you think there were significant or do you think they were optical windowdressing? >> the two memoranda of understanding are a framework for talking. they are not fixed rules. we do not have any fixed rules with china right now in the maritime and air space, and the east and south china sea, and beyond. there are many disputes. i was recently in china having this debate with the chinese. they do not want binding rules that limit their ability to create a greater influence over the regi. >> what are some of the most important trends in the region from your standpoint? >> nationalism from the maritime countries of the asia pacific. i thought this in india recently. there is a new loading dock working across the pacific. indonesia, a dramatic change in the policy that is lo

we have engaged with the new government since they came into office of may of last year. i just returned from india yesterday, as a matter of fact. in all of these areas we have laid out a work program with the government of india to address these and other outstanding issues. recently the government of india published a draft proposal policy proposal that's open for public comment. we're in the process of providing comments on that draft proposal. we're committed to engage to underscore areas worveg that needs to be done in as well as in the area of patents. i believe we've got a good dialogue going now with the new government on this issue, and we're kplited ed greater role in china's economy yet the government continues to use laws, an instrument of industrial policy. this is increasingly pronounced in the use of china's anti monopoly law. how will you make they are they administer their anti-monopoly law in an indiscriminate matter. >> this is been an interest on the commission we held with the secretary in december. we made some progress in moving ahead of the applic

while at the same reassuring him we're not trying to engage the ukrainians in membership in nato. the arrangement would work out together with others and the others were more important to us with finland in 45-46, has worked pretty well. >> thank you. >> thank you very much, gentlemen. not only for your testimony but for your extorted service to the country. about two years ago in 2013 i believe you co-authored an open letter about the iranian negotiations suggesting it was time now to support these negotiations. and specifically saying, additional sanctions now against iran would -- in the negotiation our risk undermining or even shutting down the negotiations. letting ask first general scowcroft and then dr. brzezinski, is that still your position? if congress adopted the sanctions, did you feel that would undermine negotiations and perhaps this an opportunity not only in the nuclear realm but in other areas of concern? >> yes, senator, it is. i think that the system, the regime in iran is different to we don't know how different and we don't know what the results will be. but t

twitter, facebook online digital engagement increases that echo chamber so that the president can engage with his base, to push his agenda and his policies, but also reach towards new audiences as well. >> woodruff: i mean, does that mean, for example oimmigration. he wants a certain kind of immigration policy to be passed by congress. is this going to make it more possible to get immigration or child care legislation or anything else that he's pushing for? >> any time a political leader, including the president is engaging audiences and helping them to carry his message forward into new network, into new places, that's effective. that is the way that new media works these days. >> woodruff: and bill powers how do you see that? i mean, is it-- does this translate into something that has tranchible benefit for this president or future presidents? >> absolutely. i mean here we are talking about it judy. i think it's resounding around the country around the world. the president has to go where the people are and increasingly, the people are in this medium. you can see the numbers the tv vie

we all live and we are always engaged in our history our culture, our ideas and our values. and to the degree that humanists can contribute to that sphere, or those spheres it will do a lot of public good. humanists don't agree about these things, by the way. so there will be discussion and debate as there should be. but i think it's by attaching themselves to those problems and to those challenges that humanity scholar cans make a great difference in our public discourse. >> your n.e.h. nishtiff is called the common good. the humanities in the public square. what is the 21st centuries public square? >> complicated. the public square has sort of a residence of different times when we all could gather around the town square, and debate the public good. of course we're a very far flung country now. we're big in numbers, we're big in territory, and we have this entirely new and revolutionary thing called information technology and the internet to deal with. so, the public square looks and feels quite different from what it used to be and indeed i think there are interesting que

you leapfrog and then engage in some offensive activity. i am concerned that the chinese may feel that they cannot surpasses the nuclear area and no they are significant nuclear restraint in terms of the clinic appointment many times over nuclear weapon storage. but the cyber issue may pose at least at this stage the possibility of paralyzing without killing anybody. that can be a very tempting solution for a nation which is increasingly significantly economic and military disparity. that suggests that we have to be far more inclined to raises issues with the chinese which we have done to some extent. the capability to respond effectively what prevents an attempt. the.you just raised about prudent and help to contain him. >> basically his reaction to this economic crisis that he is confronting. >> he is conducting a very serious economic crisis, which is trying to deny. but it is quite interesting how many of his former immediate associates the political allies express growing concern. now here's the real question is not only how severe is

. >> it is bad news and that will continue system of what google needs to focus on is engagement. getting people to click on those ads and they seem to be making progress there. but at the same time they need to get people to pay up for that engagement, to preserve a.s.p. >> brad, i'm sorry, i'm ignoring you, he's sitting here across from me, i'm ignoring him. what do you think about those results? >> investors don't seem that worried. mobile continues to be a big challenge. mobile ad returns are lucrative for them and the iphone, such a runaway success, the relationship between google and apple so tenuous, i think that's a big potential weakness in google's armor if apple decides to go another way with default search on the iphone. >> they talked about that in the conference call for yahoo. it would be interesting if apple were to take some of oh the wind out of google's sales. but let's talk about amazon, your bailiwick. i know you've been poring over these numbers. >> it was a good day for amazon investors. got the top line beat. got a profit, a remarkable thing for amazon, ove

you know, too often complicated texts are hard for kids to engage in. so using these different aids and exercises and student-induced learning and so forth, all of that, social networking, it reinforces a process, even for the highest performing kids, we pilot this stuff, we pilot it with kids from the highest performing skills and kids from challenged schools. it applies and it works. and the most important thing is to get the kids excited. you mentioned the games, we've developed the suite of over 40 games done with the best gamers in the world. >> yeah. >> i mean this is not, you know, sort of some knockoff game. these are really world-class games, but they reinforce learning, so you've got a kid who is in a cell fighting off viral attacks and so forth, when he starts taking cell biology, he knows all about the cell because he's lived in it within a game. same thing we have which is called lexica, which is a library that is underchallenged and under attack. what does he do or she do? what the kid does is basically read more. and so since this is all

engaged with him while he was named crown prince on these issues? >> you would expect there would not be any change? >> exactly. i expect we'll continue to work on the same issues. >> so last night it was revealed that the ambassador staff had been reversed -- embassy staff had been reversed further. i'm wondering what the status is there right now and how -- whether or not you believe that the upcoming, i guess, emergency parliamentary meeting on sunday is a good thing and where you see this transition going. >> sure. on the security piece, information we put out last night, just to reiterate for everyone here in response to the changing security situation in yemen, the united states ambassador has fupt reduced it -- embassy has further reduced its american personnel working there. the embassy remains open and continues to operate. we'll continue to operate at normal with reduced staff and we'll also continually assess the situation. there's no new update on that since last night in terms of staffing changes to a security posture. on your second qu

it means public engagement in homeland security, public safety.efforts will be rolling out, a new state-up -- spiffed up campaign around the time of the super bowl. public engagement has become all the more important, public participation in our efforts. much of our concern continues to center around aviation security which the experts in this room know much about. in july, i directed that we enhance aviation security at last point of departure airports overseas, in reaction to some of the threat streams we were seeing in. -- then. we continually evaluate whether more enhancements were necessary without burdening the traveling public. the enhanced -- we enhanced aviation security just last week, and are looking at doing more and the short term in reaction to some of the right streams we are seeing this threat -- some of the threat streams we are seeing right now. tsa last year seized a record number of weapons from carry-on luggage, from passengers, many of them quite lawful who simply forget they are carrying a gun in carry-on luggage. last year,

if they engage in the u.s.sidered political activities, which we'll talk about in a minute. but the key thing to know about it is that if the u.s. person, a-skz /aw lobbyist right is u.s. pr agent whatever is engaged in lobbying activities they have the option to register%: under the lobbying disclosure act instead unless, unless the principal is a foreign government or foreign political party. and as a result of that, most of the registrations for farap/ are just for foreign governments and foreign political parties. if you have one of those clients, though, the scope of what triggers registration is a lot broader than lda. it does include grass roots lobbying, for sure. and it also of any kind. and includes providing any kind of strategic or communications advice about influences the u.s. government. so the tom daschle situation. that is, you know, sitting there not contacting anyone no state, local official, but just saying here's how you go about getting this done. here's how you plan your direct lobbying c

proving that 16 and 17-year-olds are willing to engage. i urge you to put your faith one more time for one last push for one more year, let's ensure over the next year we do not lose the momentum built up so that finally we are able to see through the cause we all hold dear to our work in the u.k. youth parliament. i envision a youth parliament standing in the house of commons, being able to stand and say our work is complete. our national campaign, so that finally at last, our dream can become a reality. thank you. [applause] >> thank you very much indeed for opening the debate in such a spirited and compelling fashion. to oppose the motion, i call, and i ask you to welcome warmly, mr. neil riley. [applause] >> thank you, mr. speaker. some of the arguments we hear time and time again are truly uninspiring. a list of well rehearsed rights like getting married, joining the army etc. -- this not -- this does not begin to constitute this does not begin to engage with the question as to whether giving 16-year-olds the right to vote now would b

those how to get more people a engaged in our processes and be more one of the themes or comments even from our critics was that traditionally the port has been essentially stronger in seeking the public comment in our promotions we'll continue to do so we've had a couple of projects but overall a reputation has already been very strong and i know we'll take advantage of the technology we have before us and want to participate and make sure that our commission stays involved in helping to develop the processes to we can be inclusive as a city as possible i really liked i made note one the comments i actually liked a line that came from one of the comments the word is out and i think this really sums it ulcer up the word is utility about our waterfront we've been successful and part of the same authors comments no one knew it was down here and now everybody want to be here we have to be good structured of our success to accommodate someone coming here it sums it out the word is out our waterfront is really here for all of us to share we're looking at 9 next phase of how we finish up opt

>> the facts are, he is engaging of free syrian army right now. the free syrian army today on the ground -- what is so frustrating about this, when the moderate rebels took on the aside regime back in 2010 -- do you remember this? they had the momentum. this is what happened. the iranians jumped in with 5000 has below to assist and russian airplanes flying in with supplies every single day. the free syrian army came to us, the momentum shifted. many of you were on the dance card when they came through town here. even i was on it. what did they want? they wanted simply this. we need arms to be able to stop tank systems and antiaircraft systems, to shoot down his airplanes. we don't need your troops are your airpower. let us fight this war ourselves we think we can win it, and we said no. we have never recovered from that decision. that decision was revisited again by the tray is, connecticut, and dempsey. petraeus vetted that force as the cia director. we have never recovered from that decision. >> but we may have missed the opportunity to work wit

we've been rightly or wrongly as known as the department that the up zoning here's an opportunity to engage people how to make their neighborhoods the best this is an area we want to reinvent and on our discussions with the neighborhood how we can help them improve in their neighborhood rather than making a list to accommodate the parallel rezoning this is a different type of contestants how to get more affordable housing or more mix of housing and how to create community capacity around resigns and emergency response how to make active places reusable without going through big expensive kind of things and here a footnote you'll see in the budget request next week that we've requested two community development positions so see so other than having the policy and decision makers we'll want to go out and talk to the community development engagement prospective sow we've asked for two additional position that may be helpful in the midst district in the tenderloin and others we need the community development this is a very, very rich area of endeavor for us promoting this enhancements to urban

we've expanded our reach to serve more than 27 thousand students and engage more than one hundred plus teachers over the past two years alone puc creates opportunities for workers and businesses in the city and throughout the region as one of the largest employers with 23 hundred employees having a scale and diverse workforce is critical to running our system the puc is one of the largest economic engines that develops did contract the puc has one of the largest planned capital investment with the wastewater utilities and the technical report conducted by the research foundation talked about the labor impacts of our agency it illuminated a huge risk for the puc our need for program report and the data was valuable and reinforcing our office of economic workforce development strategies as we looked at to strengthen our pipeline and create new opportunity for local workers and businesses our strategy one strategy we're using to develop and maintain a difference pipeline is to have the employees training and partnerships we've done this through project pull and use work and the conservati

so 31 years ago, we were engaged. michigan park, christian church. the pastor, marvin owens, and his wife, first lady barbara owens, who are here with me today. to president obama who entrusted me to serve as the chair of the eeoc, and to the administration colleagues, both those who are here today, and those who are not, but who worked alongside me to enforce the nation's civil right laws. to all of the eeoc's public and private sector, and civil rights and human rights community allies -- allies and stakeholders. and to all past and present eeoc employees, who are represented here today by three very special people and guests, who have come to join me today. they were indispensable during my eeoc service, they weren't dead, the wind -- they were indeed the wind beneath my wings. particularly james price, who recently retired after more than three decades of service in the federal government. and heroic service in the united states army during the vietnam war. thank you all for being here. these men and women, and th

decision there's no way to engage that the architect and have any kind of interact active dialog so given the permanence of the proposed restrictions to the much you larger resolve we hope the next available date will be acceptable for everyone we hope you'll consider that and continue to the next available date thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon and intermission not to be distracted by our larger picture that we seek rather to said our role may be limited to understand the quality of life around cities and states have adapted anti honkable like chicago and delaware and dlarz and fort wayne and indianapolis and minute applies and salt lake city and others suggestions are declared this january 15, 2015 slightly after the 12 hour that mike may be responsible for the jurisdiction and in the city and county of san francisco such legislation maybe a larger part of a slow down campaign including the quality of upper life to over one million people that reside in downtown san francisco we feel like such legislation may benefit the individual awhile reducin