ability to generate their own power and thus be more resilient joining me now for more on that is john farrell director of democratic energy at the institute for local self-reliance john welcome. thanks so much for having me thanks for joining us could you first define what energy decentralization means and how is that different from the centralized systems that are prevalent today. you know for one hundred years we've had power systems that have been centralized the power plant is out in a remote location and the power travels from there to our homes and businesses and the idea of decentralization is basically to spread it out to generate power closer to where we use it from all the sorts of different sources and the great corollary frankly is the internet decentralizing our computing power and letting everybody have a piece of the pie are there regions of the world countries look allergies that are already decentralized. you know i would say there are areas that are already decentralizing germany and denmark for example have done a tremendous amount in order to transition both to renewable e

ability to generate their own power and thus be more resilient joining me now for more on that is john farrell director of democratic energy at the institute for local self-reliance john welcome. thanks so much for having me thanks for joining us could you first define what energy.

airbus -- >> john farrell is all over the story.morning, it is all about the a350 -- the a320. and the uplift that we have in terms of delivery and the workhorse. the demand is fuel efficiency. then interesting report on future of ffr. we talked about the future of vivendi yesterday but they are adding a new twist. that frenchtand authorities have already betweend that a merger could posem and sfr problems. keep an eye on that one. will happen next in the telecom space between sfr, and vodafone. it could be around vodafone but not today. >> we will see what happens with that. let's get back to you, mark. breath -- ab inbev, maker,ld's biggest beer is turning to craft beer growth. but go to berlin and bring in a man who has had a few craft beers in his time, international correspondent hans nichols. on german beer, they do not do craft beer here in the same way that they do in the u.k. or the states because they have such strong german purity laws on how you brew your beer. you can put lavender or anything like coriander into a beer.

>> rbs, john farrell will break these numbers down.oadsheet said the tabloids, they're cutting bonuses, but when you look at the heart of the issue, having the conversation about what is rbs, five years on past the crisis, six years on, still taking historical issues on the chin. the biggest upgrading loss since the losses began. the question is, is this ceo who wants to throw the legacy issues and historical relations within rbs? we have rick from state street global, and we will get his perspective. perhaps he can help me wade through the china story. >> thanks, manus. anna? >> you have heard of hollywood and bollywood, but the nigerian film in history is the third largest in the world. with the man behind the nigerian netflix, who weighed in on the opportunity in africa as more people get internet access. >> we actually have more people watching in london then all of nigeria, which demonstrates the massive opportunity. 170 million people. you look at the tens of millions of users going forward, it will be coming from south africa. >

nonprofit displacement work group to the board of supervisors 1234 >>supervisor mark farrell: supervisor avalos? >>supervisor john avalos: i would like to call the chair to hear in mid-march. >>supervisor mark farrell: we have a motion to continue this item. anyone wish to comment on this item? >> good morning supervisors. picarello. is there a reason why you want to fund this program at this time. it seems to me this program has not been proposed on enacted by the board of supervisors. i would like to see what the parameters of the programs are before you allocate a million dollars to this program. >>supervisor mark farrell: thank you very much. next speaker please. >> i want to know what budget housing is. i wish you would show me. i want to know what budget housing is. i wish you would show me. and there is a place for us housing place for us and you will stabilize the rent you could. someway you should someway somewhere today. >>supervisor mark farrell: thank you walter. anybody else have public comment? public comment is closed. we'll take this to the call of the chair. >> i just wanted to be added as a cosp

farrell: okay. thank you. to our attorney, can we put that condition on our item no. 8. >> deputy city attorney, john gibner. yes. you have to. >>supervisor mark farrell: all right. colleagues any questions for mr. rose. okay. is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. all right. so, as to item no. 6, we have amendments recommended by mr. rose? >> motion to approve amendment. >> to send -- line item for no. 6. >> as recommended. >>supervisor mark farrell: item no. 7? >> item no. 7 forwarding to the full board. item no. 8 you are adopting the motion to rel -- release the funds after approved by ceqa. >> item no. 7 we can move to the full board. >> so moved. >> item no. 8 release pending approval by the board of supervisors to the full board. >> okay. approval of item 7 to the full board. can i take that without opposition? okay. so moved. >> okay. madam clerk, any other business? city clerk: no, sir. we don't. >>supervisor mark farrell: okay. we are adjourned. [ meeting is adjourned ] >> >> >>loud. >> is here. >> yeah.. the administrator ms. kelly is here my farther supervis

farrell, i will be chairing this committee. i am joined by supervisor and committee vice-chair eric mar as well as supervisor john avalos. want to thank the members of sfgov-tv covering this meeting, charles kremenak and jennifer low as well as the clerk of the committee, ms. linda wong. madam clerk do we have any announcements? >> yes, mr. chair. please make sure to silence all phones and electronic gao vices. completed speaker cards and copies of documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the february 11, 2014 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> thank you. so, for those of you in the audience, we have about four regular agenda items as ll

farrell, i will be chairing this committee. i am joined by supervisor and committee vice-chair eric mar as well as supervisor john avalos. want to thank the members of sfgov-tv covering this meeting, charles kremenak and jennifer low as well as the clerk of the committee, ms. linda wong. madam clerk do we have any announcements? >> yes, mr. chair. please make sure to silence all phones and electronic gao vices. completed speaker cards and copies of documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the february 11, 2014 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> thank you. so, for those of you in the audience, we have about four regular agenda items as well as two hearings taking place. so, madam clerk, if we'll start the first one, if you could call item number 1. >> item number 1 is the hearing to discuss and evaluate san francisco's 10-year plan to abolish chronic homelessness, which is due to sunset at the end of 2014. >> thank you. so, colleagues, our first item today is a hearing i called for a few months ago to discuss our city's ten-ye

john avalos and i am the chair, and our clerk is cheng and recognize the work of our staff at sfgtv who are broadcasting today. >> avalos? >> present. >> breed? >> present. >> campos? >> present. >> chui. >> present. >> cohenn. >> present. >> farrell. >> absent. >> kim? >> here. >> present. >> commissioner mar? >> mar, absent, commissioner taning? >> present. >> commissioner weiner? absen

farrell, we signed them just before the board of supervisors met. he took it to the board of supervisors, and he presented the agreement and the plans and they approved it. john of rubens and rose, the attorneys representing her, shook hands with us and said may i take this to the board of appeals to hand in so a permit can be ensued. we did. turns out the materials never reached it. what was handed in was the plans and at no time was there a serve ability. they decided what they were going to submit to you. what you voted on in september 2012 was an incomplete agreement and the agreement was left out. we don't discover this until a year later when the building is lifted from september to about april the project lay fallow. the mother permit that was issued in march, 211215319. when that was permitted, the building was lifted. we asked the project sponsor for the markings on the agreement and none was done. we asked to is you -- survey the building and we found out the building was more than 16 inches and over 40 feet. the question then arose of is there a valid permit? you were supposed to approve with the board of supervisors approve and send to you and it

john avalos and i am the chair, and our clerk is cheng and recognize the work of our staff at sfgtv who are broadcasting today. >> avalos? >> present. >> breed? >> present. >> campos? >> present. >> chui. >> present. >> cohenn. >> present. >> farrell. >> absent. >> kim? >> here. >> present. >> commissioner mar? >> mar, absent, commissioner taning? >> present. >> commissioner weiner? absent. >> yee. >> present. >> we have a quorum. >> item two, approve the minutes of the january, 28, 2014, this xanax item. >> any comments or questions on this? seeing none, let's go under the public comment on item two, and seeing no one come forward we will close public comment, and could we have a roll call vote, please? >> avalos. >> aye. >> breed. >> aye. >> campos? >> aye. >> chui. >> aye. >> cohen. >> aye. >> farrell. >> absent. >> kim? >> aye. >> mar. >> absent. >> tang in >> aye. >> weiner? >> aye. commissioner yee in >> aye. >> the item passes. >> okay, item tlao. >> chair's report, this is an information item. >> thank you, madam clerk. >> colleagues, this month at the transportation authority, we focus on safety and on the latter we are pleased to see the project celebrate the opening in late january, this project was a great example of c

john avalos and i am the chair, and our clerk is cheng and recognize the work of our staff at sfgtv who are broadcasting today. >> avalos? >> present. >> breed? >> present. >> campos? >> present. >> chui. >> present. >> cohenn. >> present. >> farrell. >> absent. >> kim? >> here. >> present. >> commissioner mar? >> mar, absent, commissioner taning? >> present. >> commissioner weiner? absent. >> yee. >> present. >> we have a quorum. >> item two, approve the minutes of the january, 28, 2014, this xanax item. >> any comments or questions on this? seeing none, let's go under the public comment on item two, and seeing no one come forward we will close public comment, and could we have a roll call