i am your host, wu ray-kuo. although it is controversial, nuclear energy has always been an important part of energy supply worldwide and taiwan is no exception. on today's program, we are delighted to have a conversation with officer -- with professor way kuo from city university hong kong to discuss the state of nuclear energy in hong kong. >> good to be here. >> a pleasure to have your on the program today. you have recently come out with a book on the state of nuclear energy. can you tell us a little bit about the book and what are some of the important findings in the book? >> ok. this is a book that was written right after my visit at fukushima about two and half years ago. the energy issue is a major issue today. the key of the book is to look for a connection between energy and the environment. the issue that addresses in the book is to look at the trade- offs among manufacturers. like resources, safety, reliability, all kinds of benefits we can get from energy and what are the side effects i using diffe

i am your host, wu ray-kuo. higher education is very important to the continued development of any economy. i want is no exception. on today's program, we are delighted and a national lighted and honored to have professor kung-yee liang yang-ming university, the professor of, to share his date on -- share his thoughts on the state of higher education in taiwan erie >> i am honored to be here. i am currently the president of the national university. >> you have been the was a -- have been the president of national yang-ming university you -- since 2010. can you give us a general assessment of the state of higher education in taiwan today? >> sure. i think we are facing numerous challenges for higher education in taiwan. the first thing that comes to many people's minds as we are facing a crisis of having fewer newborn born every year. not long ago, it was 200,000 a year and now it has dropped to about 140,000. i think in a sense the impact of the university is number one. the other one is we are surrounded by reg

wu ray-kuo. taiwan is heavily dependent on foreign oil. it's it is how to balance and maintain energy security and how it becomes a top priority. on today's program, we are delighted to have a professor who is currently the minister of the atomic minister of the special guest to talk to us about energy related issues. >> thank you very much for the invitation. i am very pleased to have this opportunity on behalf of the atomic energy council to share with you. to ensure the safety. to the extent, much happened two years ago. i willd never fo -- i'll never forget this day because march 11 is my birthday. anyway, right after the accident, the atomic energy council was more lysed to join the government emergency response actions. in thehe meantime, we launched a very comprehensive nuclear power can program. the major objective has three thoughts. firstly, in light of the fukushima accident, we want to re-examine the compliance of the limit for each station in taiwan. we have three units in operation. each site has two units. we also have three

i'm your host, ray-kuo. traditionally summer camp has been used to over create -- recruit.n today's program, we are delighted to have two participants that were part of the taiwan 2013 project, and share with us their experiences living and working in taiwan for the summer. they are gina holly. welcome to the program. >> thank you. >> and david wang. >>>> we're going to start off wh a question to two of you, to tell us a little bit about yourselves. >> my name is gina holly. i'm 22 years old. i'm from los angeles, california, and i just graduated from the university of california berkeley. >> very good school. also where i got my phd and law degree. [laughter] david, tell us about yourself. >> my name is david. my family comes from toronto, canada. my school is the university of toronto. >> also a very good school. [laughter] >> never heard of it. >> i'm studying contemporary asian studies and political science. >> what are your plans after graduation? >> i would like to get some real-life experience first and work a little bit before i decide my next steps. >> good for you

. >> you look at this steak and you look at this packaging and you kuo line extension with the melba snacks. do you take more aisle space in here and pay more attention to this than this? >> this is a resurrection. >> you said it was pretty precipitously was the term you were using. >> the one customer where we've launched the new packaging launch, the display activity and racking that we want to do, that customer was declining 14% year over year. the four-week period after we launched this it was up 30% year over year. so we -- we saw the opportunity there. it's a matter of executing the opportunity and we think we've done it with the new package and the display activity and things like that. it was a brand we understood. so we really wanted to get our hands on it and we knew we could do that. here it's all about first refreshing the line, getting new flavors out there and the flavors that we think consumers like and then getting the shelf space back because this brand has lost a lot of shelf space over the years, too. >> what you're describing to me sounds like more business as usu

to some extent the republican dysfunction is allowing the status kuo to continue in a way that many on left are happy with. as the congressman mentioned, the president is not a dictator. he's working with an intractable congress that has both in the senate and in the house done everything they can to set him up to fail. done everything to shoot, you know, his signature legislative accomplishment and then wonder why things are going wrong. we have to be focusing on is there a point in the future in which this congress will be less dysfunctional. "the new york times" said if they're going to run, if we get more republicans and more democrats in the house and fewer people holding congress hostage then we might see some of the legislative agenda go forward. >> does some of the conversation change as well, josh, because the nation's deficit has been cut in half since the president took office. we just got word that the nation's deficit is below $1 trillion for the first time in five years. does that in any way change the conversation? >> i think it does. the congressional budget office says

we are an active lend we are a strong loan growth inform 21% in 2012, a $3 billion loan port foal kuo and pride ourselves of having loan size of under $2 million and represent thousands of small businesses. we're very active in s.b.a. lending, we're a preferred s.b.a. lender and ranked number one amongst banks headquartered in metropolitan washington, d.c. nationwide, s.b.a. lenders close nearly $1 million in loans every day. right now the program is frozen. at eagle bank, we have over 30 new s.b.a. loans in process, totaling $37 million, but we can't pr pro seed because the s.b. ample has closed its doors. when they reopen, there will be uncertainty as to when loans will be ready to close since we don't know how big of a backlog there will be. among others, government contracts and their subcontractors and vendors, are not being paid. if you're a small business, a janitorial service or i.t. consultant, you typically don't have capital and reserves to carry your employees and overhead. the result, closed offices and laid off workers. the furloughed workers at a security company and re