molina: we have to measure the pressure, we measure the temperature, we measure the relative humidity, and the wind speed -- the wind direction. these all affect the transport of the pollutants. narrator: the aerodyne team traveled to mexico city as part of the milagro campaign. to help monitor the plume, they set up their mobile lab in a unique, elevated location between t0 and t1, called pico de tres padres. we're about a thousand meters above each of these two sites. so we have an opportunity at this location to actually look at the lofted plume that's coming to us. narrator: in the morning, this location has relatively clean air, since it is above the boundary layer, a layer near the ground that does not mix well with the atmosphere above. this layer traps the pollution below in the basin of mexico city. but as the sun heats the earth, the boundary layer rises. herndon: but what we're observing right now -- we're above the mixing height. all of the pollution and emissions that are taking place are not able to mix up and come up to this location. what happens is that the sun comes

i am here to express my concern about the bond measure. i have always voted for every bond measure for recreation and parks since i have been voting in the city for 30 years. this bond measure has given me thought about not voting yes on this, because in the recreation park is the natural areas program which i think needs to be re-evaluated. i think it is ridiculous. it is time to cut -- it is ridiculous to cut down healthy trees just because their non- native. on my own mountain ride live, their spring insecticides and pesticides, tier one and two, which are highly poisonous, and we're not sure what the long- term residual effects are going to be. i have always volunteered to help on previous bond measures. i have always voted yes on the them. but this bond measure, i will have to really think twice about it. i think that rec and park needs to be a little bit more transparent about the natural areas program. i feel that they need to let us know exactly how many trees that they want to cut down. from what i have read on their website and o

the va should stop rewarding taf for measures that are not real measures of health care. extensive oversight into how care is being provided and how program funding is deployed to ensure the funds go to the programs they are intended to supplement. finally, i would urge the committee to press the va to develop and implement a very long overdue empirically supported mental health staffing methodology so it is no longer to guess whether 19 more mental health staff will be enough. in closing, i'm honored to have had the opportunity to share both my experience and assessment of problems that i hope you can help to resolve. i'd be very pleased to answer any questions you may have thank you very much. >> major general jeans senator murray -- can you hear me now? >> move the mic up to you. thank you. >> people jones retired marine, founder and director of outdoor odyssey, a camp for at risk youth. i don't have nel expertise in mental health but have a lot of experience in dealing with those who is have mental health issues. i have been visiting walter read and bethesda pre week

down to measure all the year regularities of the ice formations. yuri and nikolai thought that if such a technique was being used to study ice antarctica then why couldn't it be applied in a cave before that ordinary fishing ice axe was used to measure the ice who takes a little time to measure a fairly large area with the help of this device scientists that in some places the ice is six meters thick. the state of the ice inside it it depends on the range of temperatures created by natural ventilation when it's colder on the surface lower temperatures accumulate inside the cave forms and freezes over vacay the process is controlled by the external environment in other words they came back as a kind of natural condition. if we do these measurements every year we can understand how freezing and melting happen. and can even make conclusions about climate change. the spill your drivers have never swum in the protected area of the cave before for the first time a team of underwater researches from the russian geographical society will dive into a barely

we definitely need to measure the protruding parts of the plate the results will enable us to predict future growth or development so that we can then lay out the safest route for visitors. today geologists are measuring one of the most beautiful grocers a difference in temperature makes it peculiar at the bottom it's freezing on top it's above zero celsius because of this there are no static types in the growth or only mites reaching from the floor. husband and wife. first met while working at a mine together. in landslides another hazardous activities he is a mineral survey. as a geologist nicholai researches different rocks and looks into their formation and structure his job also involves making laser measurements of caves. or notes down the results to measure the entire grotto they have to record two thousand different points with the help of special equipment have you got it yes good. we are now on top of the rock slide which formed when the roof collapsed over. these rocks will eventually be washed away by underground water in the cave will cease to exist so this is very precio

deck in 2012 with respect to these measures. ballot measures present an interesting opportunity for us. they're used by our opponents to create division and we capitalize upon that to unite our movement and fight back and win. there's a lot going on. we have a distinguished panel here to talk about anti-union initiatives, anti-choice and personhood initiatives. i'm going to briefly speak about voter identification measures and amendments that have been passed, in addition to anti-marriage equality and anti-lgbt initiatives across the country. we are -- it's been an interesting last two years with respect to voter identification, which is i think a good way to perhaps kick off this plenary session. last fall i was in mississippi working side by side with megan darby and planned parenthood and the aclu. we, the feminist majority foundation, were very active on college campuses throughout the state working to defeat initiative 26. that was the personhood initiative that made it to the ballot in mississippi. yes, that was a huge vic

a good measure of wait time. we want to work very closely with the ig and with any other resources that are available to assist us in assuring that we provide veteran centered performance measures. >> mr. schoenefelt with with all due respect, so my question is, how are you going to address that growing gapa we have seen, what central office believes and what's actually happening in the field? >> as dr. day described in our response to the ig report, we have a number of things going on. one is first, we have a working group that will report this summer on a new set of performance measures that includes providers on the ground assisting us with ensuring that we have developed measures in conjunction with support from the ig, that are really centered on a veteran's individual condition and one in which we can revamp and go forward. we fully embrace that our performance measurement system needs to be revised. and we will be doing that with people on the front lines to assist us. we have the benefit of these mental h

anti-women ballot measures. anti-immigration ballot measures. anti-affirmative action measures. what is happening in the country that not one of those are trump cards anymore can they are losing, they are losing, they are losing. so what do they do they have to go deeper than that, they have to strike at the very ability for us to cast our vote. that is offensive, anti-democratic and we must stop this threat to democracy in our country or none of us will win. [ applause ] i believe we can stand together because i've seen it before. again and again, many of you have shown up for us, and our families, and i will show up for you. i promise, we will continue to do that. but we have to stand -- and let our voices be heard. thank you. [ applause ] >> i'm hoping we have time for q and a now. so we have some mics i believe, help me point them out. they are on some tables or -- yes, the people lining up, oh, yes. please, go ahead while we have our wonderful panelists. >> hi, everyone, my name is melanie kerl i'm part of the unite women team the maryland state chapter. so if everyone coul

we recruit samples of consumers who let us measure that. there are a growing number of people who do not own -- there's contradictions going on, there's a young, general group of people who do not own a tv set. they tend to have a smart phone, not a land line. and they're getting their content and their information that way. you balance that with households that now have four tv sets and their pcs and every other device and our task because the programmers and advertisers really require it is to measure the programming across that. so technology's our friend here without giving a long explanation we use technology to help us measure with permission the behavior of all those screens in samples of people. so it's possible. and we're doing it and i expect we'll have to continue to innovate because they'll just be more screens. >> well, technology refined your technique with regard to television screens because you could put a box on a representative sample and then determine who was watching what program. how do you do that with a hand held co

a good measure of wait time. we want to work very closely with any other resources that are available to assist us in suring we provide -- >> with all due respect i think back in 2005 the ig said this information was there. so that's a long time with a lot of veterans in between. so my question is, how are you going to address that growing gap that we have seen what central office believes and what is happening in the field? >> as dr. day described in our response to the report we have a number of things going on. one is first we have a working group that will report this summer on a new set of performance measures that includes providers on the ground assisting us with insuring that we develop measures in conjunction with support that are really veteran centered and centered on a veteran's individual condition and one in which we can revamp and go forward. we fully embrace better performance measurement system that needs to be revised. we will be doing that with the work of people on the front lines to assist us

meaning to meet our performance measures. the goal was to see as many veterans as possible but not necessarily to provide them the treatment they needed. performance measures are well intended but linked to executive pay and bonuses and as a result create incentive to find loopholes that allow the facility to meet numbers without providing the services. far too often the priority is to meet the measure rather than meet the needs of the veteran. many factors including under staffing make it very difficult to make performance requirements, but administrators don't feel they can acknowledge that and instead as soon as new performance management program manuals were published each year network and facility leadership began planning how to meet those measures. that led to brainstorming, even with colleagues of mine across the country to find loopholes to gain requirement that is couldn't be met. while i have detailed multiple examples in my full statement, i would like to share two now. several performance measures mandate veteran

being able to measure the success of an economy they have tended to use sort of measures i mean we fall back on things like g.d.p. because that's and it's easy to measure we have on our balance sheet because we can count things. in the beginning of the nineteenth century in. the twentieth century in the nineteenth century so they didn't believe that we could measure anything else now we've actually started seeing that we can do some measures of people how people feel at first it might seem like a strange thing to do might seem a bit sort of can we trust people but actually the data that we've been getting over the last fifty years and particularly over the last sort of ten years we start getting more and more actually tells you something meaningful it does seem to tell you a story that you would expect it correlates with the things which we know to make us happy people who are people who are in good relationships are happier people who are in abject poverty less happy people who have lots of friends are happier people who do you who do lots activities are not so pretty and lives are hap

seeing ballot measures? is in all of the states where issues are at play. what is true is that it used to be possible to mobilize the right wing base on hating the gays, anti-woman ballot, anti-immigration ballot measure, anti-affirmative action ballot measures. and what's happening in this country is that no one of those are their trump cards anymore. they are losing. they are losing. they are losing. and so what do they do? they have to go deeper than that. they have to strike at the very ability for us to cast our vote. that is offensive, it is anti- democratic, and we must stop this threat to democracy in our country or none of us are going to win. i believe that we can stand together. because i've seen it before, again and again. many of you have shown up for us and our families, and i will show up for you. i promise. we will continue to do that. but we have to stand together. there are far too many forces at play to tear us apart. so let's stand together, let us save this democracy, and let our voices

finally, growth enhancing measures are very important for the fiscal accounts. here i'm talking about measures to boost the potential growth. growth over the median term. and i want to end this -- with an optimistic remark. and a note of optimism. bringing down public debt to the level where it was before the crisis seems now almost impossible, but the task will be greatly facilitated if countries grew faster over the longer run. we have computed that an increase in potential growth of just a quarter of a percentage point of gdp could set in place a virtual circumstance that would lead after ten years to a decline in the public debt to gdp ratio by 6 percentage point with only a quarter percentage point of additional growth, because higher potential growth allows, makes it easier to run primary surpluses, lowers the public debt to gdp ratio directly. this in turn lowers interest rates, which in turn boosts economy growth. if this -- if this circle is activated, this circle between growth and public debt is circulated. what many regard now as an almost impossible

has no real value as an access to care measure. because the ig measured how long it took to conduct the evaluation, not how long the patient to receive that evaluation. we calculated the days between the first contact of the veteran for mental health and the completion of their treatment. we see that the va only complete 54% within 14 days, of either the veteran's request, on average it took vha 60 days to provide the full evaluation. once the vha -- schedules the patient for an appointment to begin tree. in fiscal year 2011, we determined that vha completed approximately 168,000 or 54% new patient appointments for treatment within 14 days of their desired date. that's approximately 94,000 or 36%. vha data showed that 95% received timely care. we also projected that vha completed approximately $8.8 million or 88% for follow-up for treatment in 14 days nachlt's approximately 1.2 million or 12% of the appointments nationwide exceeded 14 days, in contrast, va reported 98% received timely care for treatment. we based our analysis on th

and we defeated that measure by ten points in the end. i would like a little round of applause there. thank you. and it was a tremendous effort. but unfortunately we lost when it came to a voter identification measure that was on the same ballot. and voter identification measures are out to disenfranchise millions of americans. we saw a massive proliferation in 2011 of voter identification measures nationwide. i think over 34 measures were introduced across in state legislatures across the country in 2011. there's at least 32 introduced in 2011 and many of them have passed. it's interesting in states like texas it's passed, wisconsin, south carolina. many of these states are subject to preclearance under the voting rights act because of bad behavior in the past in terms of discrimination. so they're actually subject to preclearance by the u.s. department of justice. guess what? they're not getting it we know that these are racist, sexist laws that are designed to disenfranchise voters. how are they designed to disenfranchise voters? if yo

and the question is where you are measuring this distance is it measured in a straight line or around and about? harvey hacker who does architectural work with the city and i think we agree it's measured in a straight line unless it's in a protected area. >> if we are tight on the measurement we can't measure from the 2 closest jams the center. >> the center. >> even if you miss by 18 inches or a foot. >> you misby 18 inches or a foot. now we come to the section of the code where there are some potential ways to solve problems. if you misby 18 inches we will figure something out. i think we and our new director and our take is let's solve problems like that. not everybody thinks that way, unfortunately. i have to say. it's easier in the government world to say, it's not there so therefore, it's wrong, resubmit it and make it right. i don't like that approach. i like to figure out a way -- may be we can provide an alternative safety measure, another sprinkler head or something. >> as you say if it's a foot and we get turned down at the counter or by the plan checker what would you sugg

we don't measure it because no one's asking for it. the school's measure is a average daily attendance of the school. turns out this is one case where 90% is not an "a." we're hard wired almost genetically to hear 90% equals good. right? a school can have a 90%, 91%, 92%, 93% average daily attendance and a 40% literacy rate. the truth is, you could have 90% average daily attendance and have one-fifth of your kids missing a month or more of school. different kids on different days equalling that 90%. if you dig beneath that 40% literacy rate you're probably finding half those kids aren't coming to school regularly. until they come to school regularly, it doesn't matter how great the lesson is because they're not there to get it. we really have to campaign at a local level, at a time level to say we need to measure how many kids are missing a month or more of school, about 10%, in a week or less. two incredibly understandable metrics. once we have those thinks, the community can galvanize against. we have to get our kids to school on a r

strong policy measures were taken, new governments came to power in italy and spain. the european union adopted a tough fiscal fact and the european central bank injected badly needed liquidity. things have quieted down since then. and one has the feeling that at any moment things could well get very bad again. so this very much shapes our forecast. based on our forecast as you'll see in a minute is for low growth in the countries especially in europe but with down side risks being extremely present. our baseline is constructed on the assumption that another european flare up will be avoided. but that uncertainty will especially in europe will linger on. it recognizes that even in this case, even in the absence of another flare up, there's still very strong breaks to growth in advanced economies. let me talk about those briefly. fiscal consolidation is needed, it is proceed iing about it is clear iweighing on growth. bank leveraging is needed but needed especially in europe not to a credit crunch but to a tight credit. in many countries particularly the united states

i don't think of one measure where wee he has been successful.hat's his biggest problem. >> we have the video archive to call himself out. the regular media's not going to do this. if i can't fix this in three years, i have been a one-term president. there is an avalanche of things like that. we need to not get caught in the dog scandal. i wouldn't be surprised if they weren't behind that-- >>> it's like sandra fluke, it backfired. they think they got mitt romney on the dog thing and the dog lovers are going to be mad. but president admits, he ate dog. >> they have to talk about dogs and birth control and these issues because it's a distraction. they don't want us focused on the economy. >> sean: i have to take a break. >> whoa, whoa, whoa. watch where you throw that thing. >> sean: i'm telling bob beckel to be mad at you tomorrow. >> i didn't even curs wake up! that's good morning, veggie style. hmmm. fohalf the calories plus vgie nutrition. could've had a v8. >> sean: we continue with our great american pafnl we pass the $5 trillion. lifestyles

well being ok christopher what do you think about that can you do it can you i can measure g.d.p. but can a how could how do you measure happiness all you can do really is ask people how happy they feel generally on a scale of zero to ten and people generally say in reasonably wealthy western societies that there are seven or eight and this is been the case for the many years so although i think it's quite interesting to do these surveys from a policy point of view they have very little relevance and they're very little use ok family guy we have two points of view here what do you think where you fall in on that. well for years economists have talked about and have dreamed about having a way of measuring utility to measure the success of an economy they had tended to use it and i mean we fall back on things like g.d.p. because that's and it's easy to measure we can we have it on our balance sheets and we can count thanks. in the beginning of the nineteenth century and. the twentieth century in the nineteenth century where they didn't believe that we could measure anything else now

he said, "we measure progress differently." it was the fact that he said, "we measure progress." he described how he and his party measured progress. it is interesting that he gave us a report card to go back and score him on the very report card he laid out. he said, for instance, the democrats' measure progress by whether people have good jobs that can pay for mortgages. we are 3.5 years later, and he has not created a single net new jobs in america. there have been job losses. 93% of the people who have lost jobs have been women. on the measure he put in place, creating jobs where people can pay mortgages, he fails. there was another measure he laid out. he said in a setting where you are having progress you can measure it by whether people saw wages and income going up or go in belem. -- or going down. ok. for the last -- or going down. for the last four years, the median income has dropped by $3,000. -- 10%. health care costs have gone up. gas prices have doubled. food costs have gone up. the second measure he has failed. the third measure he spoke about -- he said to see pr

data in command centers of the missile defense system and of quote the her to that he said these measures should be if improper it efficient and low cost school co long will it take to work out the set of measures and could you give us any specifics about them. as i just look at them with a bit. in order to detect ballistic missile launches taurine other ereal targets you need in network of powerful radars and that's what is being deployed in europe now is that the main part. that's the main part which supplies all the data so you and then you need to have interceptors to destroy the target to eliminate a threat that could be potentially harmful to russia we need to work out a set of technical measures to neutralize both the data component and the military component of this task can be accomplished in different ways it could be a military solution or a smart technology that can be siebel such a system without destroying it physically just know that just like other countries russia has been working to design that type of technology but it is and if the west goes ahead with its phased adapt

even in a ballot measure, yes/no issue, while there is a small percent of the vote, there is still a% of the vote that messes up and does not have their ballots counted. i then went out into the plurality races, supporting statewide from local races. just a bit of an idea of what was going on. there are errors that increase. city-wide it, rank choice voting races have 6.5% of the vote is actually an error on average among the four races available to us. what is interesting, that is not the race the ec the most number of errors. school boards and community college board elections actually produce the highest number of errors on the citywide average. in this case, there were only three elections -- the committee college board and one of the years had three candidates running for three seats to fill. i looked at that as a one candidate, one seat race to fill. the numbers were so low, there were still some over votes, but it was not a high number, so i left that out under the same reasoning as one can it also does not the same type of voting patterns in the system. then, in order to say 0

it was a safe measure that we were taking and an easy measure for us to take on the residents here inncisco. we have to say that we are unnecessarily engaging in this type of activity. we have many upstanding officers that this type of activity is not acceptable whether we are engaging in the activity or not. it is incredible to see the community leaders from the broader api community, thanks op-ed pieces. in legislation, it was incredibly strongly and passionately written. i have really enjoyed participating in that process. and the labor partners for coming at that support. i am glad that we are able to move forward done something. i'm glad that we will have certain -- thank you to my colleagues. supervisor avalos: i want to thank you for bringing this legislation forward, i am proud to be supporting it with you. we see that this legislation happened, and i want to thank the police department for their flexibility and their willingness to hear from the board of supervisors on how we can put some transparency in place. it gives a lot of comfort for san franciscans and i believe it ha

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government leaders need it to bring in austerity measures to remain in the you're loweuro zone. they're debating how to manage through the turmoil. nhk world reports from athens. >> translator: please trust us. we need your support. >> reporter: the country's two largest parties launched an interim government. they were successful in getting the pa lament to ent strict tight belting measures to get bailout funds from the eu and imf. last month euro zone countries gave their official approval to a second bailout for greece worth 130 billion euros, which is about $170 billion. the public had an opportunity to pass judgment on the austerity measures that have made people's lives difficult. amid violent protests against those measures the latest opinion polls show the two biggest parties will likely lose many seats in parliament leaving neither of them with a single party majority. the other hand, minority parties on posing the austerity are gaining support and are expected to increase the number of their seats. some voters in athens say they will not go to the polls because nobody