from the rest of nature. we're in nature. our lives are dependent upon natural systems and our relationship with other organisms and many, many historical phenomena aren't fully explicable if you see us isolated from those relationships. >> is it your vup that history in the past has been caught as a series of personalities and more of events rather than saying, including the environment, the topography, the climate? >> well, certainly if you were to talk about the history of history very broadly, you could say that the farther back you go the more the impulse is to see history in terms of the role of single individuals or great leaders. and abraham lincoln told the story of the civil war in terms of one person. but i would say over the last 100 years really, there's been a greater and greater tendency among professional historians to think about groups of people, institutions, large processes. but often before environmental history, non-human things were not much a part of that. so we could talk about the history of the supr

i am against the policies of the natural areas program, which would destroy the natural ecosystem, but i want to support the bond that will bring much needed upgrades to the parks infrastructure. we should not have to choose between habitat and infrastructure. we can have both. this is why i support the proposed changes to the wording. if i am forced to vote for infrastructure at the expense of habitat, i am going to protect the habitat. we cannot change that. we cannot come back at a later date with a more reasonable approach to upgrade infrastructure and make the parts safrks safer without destg the forest. i want to see the exact amount of money in the bond that will go to deforestation. again the 1 percent signed, 20 percent signed. $4 million is still a lot. -- it could be 1%, 20%. thank you. supervisor elsbernd: thank you. any other members of the public that wish to speak? >> supervisors, good morning. i am richard mcgarry. i have about 400 paid members and serves 4500 households around the park. i am here speaking as an individual, because we do not take positions on political

explain in your own words why you think we need to keep natural gas here. >> natural gas is a domestic market where as oil is part of an international market. so for example, right now, natural gas in the united states is proximately six times less expensive than natural gas in asia, and four times less expensive than europe. what does that transfer to. if you're thinking about product, energy is the most important part. we have a huge advantage. secondly, we can begin to move natural gas into the automotive sector and oil to reduce or depend on oil from the committees. we can begin to think about a natural gas automotive marketplace. thirdly, the price for generating electricity in our country by natural gas will be lower, and that helps every industry with lower electricity of costs. so there are many reasons why this whole issue of this incredible bonanza that we have in natural gas should be exampled closely before we begin to export it. >> congressman, we're in a capitalist society, and the profit motive is very strong, many corporations -- that's their fiscal duty to their shareh

they consume huge quantities of natural gas, and the natural gas winner trade is still on especiallyith the chemical companies. lately there's signs of a natural gas bottom. it was up again today. it's something people have predicted for ages despite the continued weakness in the fuel. the reality is the price remains low in america for the foreseeable future. it trades with british thermal units, and we have such a glut in the fuel with no way to export it for years that i get prices remain down in the dumps for a very long time. many, many years, certainly long enough to put up plants and capitalize on it. unlike the nonstop craziness in europe, cheap natural gas is go to roll out. let me introduce you to a company that is thinking of this. it's right not to like. it's a company called ce for all of people. it's only been around since 2005, when the company was bought public by the blackstone group, they took it private a little more than a year earlier. the stock has been hammered and that's one of the reasons why i want to call your attention to it. it's awful. it's fallen 27% fr

one of the things i love about the city is our natural areas. i would love to keep the natural. i do not want to pull up bushes that are growing and try to replant them, and how to use pesticides to keep the bushes from coming back. i love the wildlife. if we take the trees down, we are going to lose everything. it is something you will not be able to turn back the clock on. i am absolutely opposed to nap and its policies. under any name, i am against it. until i can feel comfortable the bond money is not going to support these policies, i cannot support the bond. thank you very much. >> after mr. -- chairperson farrell: after mr. paulson, we have further speakers. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i am not convinced the bond funds will not be used for now. we have read tailed hawks, woodpeckers, and over 40 species of birds who visit our features, including the non native, but much-beloved wild parrots, as they are called. we have also seen skunks, possums, squirrels, and other clear favorites. look at mount davidson. it is like a wound. nap seems to think plants cut -- trump ani

and i did not support the natural areas program. i think it is inappropriate to actask taxpayers to pay or voter a program they know nothing about and they object to once they learn about it. i think the natural area program has done some good things and not so very good things. i think it needs to be looked at and probably scaled-back of it. they have had 15 years to explain the program to the public, and they have not done so. that is why i think to ask the voting taxpaying public to vote for something they do not know about and may not like or want is inappropriate. there have been the three surveys in 2004, 2007, 2010 of what the public wants from the parks, and it is clean and safe parks to relax in, and they have never said take it down 20,000 trees. we want things to look like they were to agree years ago. icing that the public needs to be informed about this program, and it needs to be looked at closely. supervisor elsbernd: thank you very much. i have when the share offer and carolyn johnson. >> i lived on mount davidson. i

natural gas is cheaper. it burns cleaner. you are less likely to get asthma or have a baby with birth defects and if you live near a plant that burns it, you're feeling better about the health of your own children because you know that there are more dangerous elements coming out of coal than out of natural gas and you can get natural gas without blowing the tops off of mountains and detroying the environment. so right now 36% of america's electricity is currently generated by coal. 36% today. first three months of 2012. six years ago, coal was producing half of america's electricity. so it's gone in six years from 50% down to 36% of electricity. at the same time, electricity from natural gas has grown from 18% of u.s. generation to 27%. wind has gone from producing none of our power to 3% of our power in the last six years. newer, cheaper, cleaner technologies are beating coal. the free market is beating coal. adam smith is spinning in his grave as we're listening to the republicans talk about the node to prop up the coal in

heritage in this country nature yes you know i. not easy for me to say it in general because. we care for a lot of nature of heritage but in the least. in the early stuff you know score character actually still is ninety nine sites neat nature on sites. it's not is a question from one side to yes we have very street legislation. it's in russia yes in russia we have very strict religious station concerning the parks and all this and what is very important with nature all heretics may be and was culture of involvement of local people because in their environment they have first of all to defend. so from the point of view of legislation what tests to make government a normative you know this very strict and proper in how we development development in reality on the earth it's maybe another story but maybe not in all in all parts of farm country it's proper education to do all these but it depends on local people and that's why this year the most important topic of these forty son. is heritage and local society well the reason i am ask

cheap natural gas you can rely on. let me into use you to a company i haven't liked on the show and it's been right. a company called celenese, a specialty chemical maker founded a century ago. it's only been in this current incarnation since 2005. when it was brought public they had taken them private a year earlier. now the stock has been just hammered. that's a reason i want to call your attention to it. it's fallen 27% from the early february highs. it's finally gotten to a point where it is too attractive to ignore. what does celanese do? they make acytyl. they make engineering resins, plastic used for light weight car parts. the company is a consumer's best. they make acetate tow, a soft material used in filtration products, cigarette filters. and they have industrial business where they make emulsions used in paints and coatings and performance plastics for films, lamination films, solar panels and medical devices. these are the building blocks of the u.s. economy. what do these disparate economies have in commo

the margin's natural gas. when i made that ad, natural gas was $7. today natural gas is $2.50. you can't finance a wind deal unless you have $6 natural gas. >> chris: and i just want to point out before we get to natural gas which is the reason you are here, true that you lost $150 million promoting and invest manager wind power? >> yes, he he. >> chris: does that hurt? >> yes. >> chris: okay. >> how could you ask a question like that? >> chris: i guess it is a stupid question. >> sure, it was painful. >> chris: now, you are pushing natural gas. why? >> it is -- well, it is up every street and down every alley in the united states. the lajeunesseest natural resource that we have. dark the largest natural resource that we have and we are now talking about exporting it it out of the country. use it here. increase the demand for natural gas and use it here. don't send our cheap clean -- it is 30% cleaner than diesel. don't shift it out to china or whereever else and import dirty opec crude. i mean we are going to go down as the dumbest generation in the world if we do that. i mean

with respect to natural gas and compressed natural gas and what we are doing there, we are hopeful that we will continue to see an increased usage and an increased demand for natural gas in this country. there is no doubt that because of hydraulic fracking and hoar sonltal drilling and a whole soviet of technological innovations that are occurring, that the production of natural gas in this country is one of the renaissance things that has happened in the energy world for this country. but right now, you all know it here, because you know what the price of natural gas is versus the price of oil. the problem is we don't have the infrastructure to do everything that we should be doing with respect to the usage of this very abundant domestic energy resource that we have. so the president has pushed very hard to try to work with the private sector and with secretary lahood and the transportation community on the conversion of vehicles over to natural gas. and so our -- i mean, you've heard the -- the plans that are out there in terms of how much oil could, how it could be saved if in fact w

i hear the anger and disappointment about natural areas. natural areas has not been approved. there is an e.i.r. coming. there is a public process on approving that program. to put a gun to the head of this program over something that amounts to less than 2% of the total bond ask -- is -- that's one of the most significant threats i've seen in the 12 years i've worked here at city hall. and to the folks in glenn park who are here. glenn park is going to get $12 million for its rec center. i spent a lot of time in glenn park. that park needs it badly and i've heard from more people in that neighborhood who desperately want to see their park taken care of that are concerned about there. to the folks in miraloma park, you all know i've lived this. -- there. born and raised there. both of those playgrounds where prime candidates for the $15 million pot for di lap at a time dad -- dilapidated playgrounds. to think we would deprive the tens of thousands of citizens from those redone playgrounds other something that amounts to 2% of this bond when you have so many opportunities to ex

henry hub natural gas price histories. my geography isn't all that great, and it certainly isn't very recent. i believe the henry hub is in the state of oklahoma. that is an area where prices of natural gas were as high as $12.30 1,000 cubic feet as recently as 2008 in the midst of the oil price run-up, and as senator nickles reminded us, it's now $2.43. that's the figure from may 2012 which is the latest figure. we have to use the price system. that's the whole idea of using a tax neutral approach in order to achieve our energy goals, just like our other goals, and the price system is working, senator. >> your time has expired. >> thank you. >> we can go back if you want, another round. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> senator carper? >> thank you. i just want to say to senator nickles, my old xadry, young xadry and congressman sharp, a good friend from the house. great to see both of you. dr. jorgenson, i don't know either you or mr. hamm well, but if you two are half as good as i'm hearing from my colleagues, this is a gr

is so would you would you characterize what's going on with natural gas right now as a bubble. it's not a bubble in the sense that it's going to end quickly but it's a bubble against the long term of history you know it might last ten years but it's not going to last one hundred years which is what president obama said in his state of the union address what he said that it's not going to last one hundred years. he said we have enough natural gas for one hundred years well that's simply not accurate interesting very interesting one of the. actually back in one thousand nine hundred eighty as i recall julian simon and paul ehrlich made a famous bet with each other are you familiar with that you remember that. e.s.i. i do i don't know the exact details but of course i remember the famous bet yeah well i'll characterize it very quickly and i'd love to get your take on it because you write a lot about resource depletion paul ehrlich had just written his book the population bomb and he was talking about how you know populations explode in the next decade is going to add eight hundred

these naturalizations we have up here between 1856 and '67 on average about 9,200 people were naturalized per year. in 1868 there was a very fiercely competitive election and they needed as many votes as they can so they managed in that year alone, in new york city alone, to naturalize 48,000 immigrants. this was done in illegal, corrupt ways. they had judges they bribed who didn't really care if immigrants who had arrived actually waited the five years. we talked about it is a five-year waiting period for citizenship. so they had judges who just ignored the fact that the person just got off the boat a couple weeks ago and allowed them to register people. they hired a printer in 1868 who printed up over 100,000 ballots -- or, excuse me, not ballougts. 100,000 blank naturalization forms and about 70,000 completed naturalization certificates where they could just write somebody's name in. also they could basically churn out as many new immigrants who are now american citizens as possible, so you had cases of immigrants being in the united states for a matter of months, a matter of a year or

in a place like japan where they import their natural gas through liquefied natural gas i mean the ratio is more like five to one i mean it i mean you're paying twenty dollars per m.c.f. in in japan for liquefied natural gas whereas it is you know it's two dollars you know two dollars and fifty cents or so here you know here in the united states and japan is a huge user of natural gas in particular so. they shut down over nuclear plants last year after the fukushima disaster and they spent the whole year shutting their plants down and who knows who can say whether they will ever restart any of their plants let alone all of them right and i want to get to the nuclear too but first i want to back up because you're saying that oil prices we're going to see them go higher ok it's going up and over the long term over the long term i want to talk about technologies are there any technologies in the pipeline that could be game changers that could allow more development more excavation more cultivation of oil they could and steady increase production when everybody is expecting this decrease in

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." >>> at long last, could natural gas finally be bottoming?rs its felt like this commodity has been in a death spiral. even two months ago, it looked like natural gas prices were headed straight to 0, or definitely $1. but as shocking as it might be, it looks like nat gas should be making a comeback. we're going off the charts with tim collins, my colleague, sister site of the street.com is figuring out if the natural gas bottom is for real and what you should do about it to make money. take a look at nat gas, you can understand where he's coming from. in the second half of april, the fuel got just slammed, falling below $2. but since then, it's been coming back. natural gas has made a higher low, and that's always a good sign, okay? from a technical perspective. but really, you see higher low. what really does it for collins isn't that. it's the fact that nat gas seems to be making a very large w formation and he loves w formations. that's a classic bottoming formation. it's an extremely bullish sign. in other words, chartists say wow, here i

they talked about lights with natural turf. they talked about artificial turf with no lights and the preferred plan which is the one that's before us. also there was a question about the coastal commission and apparently the project is outside the jurisdiction of the coastal commission so i'm not sure that if you can see the lights from somewhere within the jurisdiction of the coastal commission it does not necessarily mean they have jurisdiction over that but that may be a point that was trying to be made. i've already talked about the trees and i think some of the trees are thinning out to make it a healthier area. and finally, the wildlife situation. there wasn't a lot of wildlife in that area before 1939 when it

i am against the policies of the natural areas program, which would destroy the natural ecosystem, but i want to support the bond that will bring much needed upgrades to the parks infrastructure. we should not have to choose between habitat and infrastructure. we can have both. this is why i support the proposed changes to the wording. if i am forced to vote for infrastructure at the expense of habitat, i am going to protect the habitat. we cannot change that. we cannot come back at a later date with a more reasonable approach to upgrade infrastructure and make the parts safrks safer without destg the forest. i want to see the exact amount of money in the bond that will go to deforestation.

when you talk about the natural state, we all know that the natural state was sand dunes, though we're not really preserving a natural state. at best, a natural state would be the current condition which is soccer fields or athletic fields and that's not exactly a peaceful, serene environment because people are walking all over it all the time and playing games in it. i think the park can be a place for everyone. i think we've devised a park with space for people do lots of different things, for people to watch birds, for people to do tai chi, for people to visit museums. i think there can be a space and place for all of us to co-exist in the park. i don't think it has to be one way or another. this project is about seven acres which is less than 1% of the overall park which is over 1,000 acres and it is a renovation project of an existing facility within the park. if we were talking about taking a new space that had never been athletic fields and making it athletic fields, i think we'd have a different conversation but i think to the extent that we are talking about a renovation of an

natural gas has been bumping up against it a number of times. collins told me he thinks this time is different. this time natural gas has a chance to have breaking through that key 27 5 level. sure enough, that's exactly what happened today. see this tiny little thing here? that's the breakout. how did collins see this coming. why is it so significant? take a gander look at triple exponential moving average. when it comes to technicals, tricks, not for kids. this is a leading momentum indicator technicians use to figure out when a stock will change direction. it can show big moves before they happen. what we see here is that the trix is currently making what's known as a bullish crossover. the third one we've had this year. boy has it been accurate. boom, boom, now this one. the last two times this happened, we caught some nice rallies. but both of them terminated at the same point. this time the bullish crossover single when it was only a few cents below 275. this one started right beneath it. it blew through the key ceiling of resistance. and

of natural gas. and again unanticipated in the beginning of the decade. we have a decline, again in our oil imports and it is viewed very positively from the security standpoint. with a projection that it will continue if we don't mess it up. fourth, we have a decline in our carbon dioxide emissions in the system with a projected minimal growth over the next decade. this is a positive development, some of it, of course, is just the consequences of the unfortunate slowdown in the economy, but others represent actually improvements in fuel efficiencies and switching and things that have gone on. more to be done in view of many people on this front but this is progress. why did this happen. let's remember the power of price because we almost always want to deny it in private conversations in this country. we had a very high rise in natural gas prices at the turn of the century less than a decade ago. it was followed within a few years by a very high rise in oil prices and by the way, again, neither acad

is ninety and nine sites nature on sites. it's not is a question from one side to yes we have very street legislation. it's in russia yes in russia we have very strict with your station concerning the parks and all this and what is very important with nature of heretics may be and was cultural to involvement of local people because in their environment they have first of all to defend. so from the point of view of legislation what press took it to make government a normative you know it is very strict and proper in how we development development in reality on the earth it's maybe another story but maybe not in all in all parts of farm country proper education to all these but it depends on local people and that's why this year and the most important topic of these forty seven of us are is heritage and local society well the reason i am asking this question is because because because russia is getting ready to hold the olympic games in sochi and the western carcasses is one of the few russian world natural heritage sites so th

i think it is the nature of debate, the nature of dissent, the nature of discussion. tonight, it's obviously no exception. at the end of the day, this is the fundamentals of agreement and disagreement. for my purposes, it is just going to have to be something where i agree to disagree. with the many people who have testified this evening whom i have respect for and who i actually agree with the sentiment of the environment and concerns. at the same time, i fear that some of the issues that were raised relative to the eir were also availed it disregard for children activating that part of the park. i was a little dismayed. i felt like there was a fair amount of comment aimed at children and families that i was a little disheartened by. one gentleman said it is not always about the kids. i have to say, you know, no kidding, try raising a family here. somebody said the reason families are leaving is because of the high cost of housing, not because of the lack of playing fields. i would just say to that that is a cumulative effect. it is a constant struggle trying to deal

perhaps the most significant result of this new naturalization law, though, is a rule that all naturalizations will take place through the federal government. it creates an agency that will be in charge of immigrant naturalization. so no longer do you have -- can you be like tammany hall and have a judge in the back pocket to let people in even if they haven't met the five-year residency requirements and so forth. so, it's a lot harder to naturalize people and combined with the fact the parties don't have the same incentives to naturalize people -- and you can see up here. the numbers drop. the table we have up here, you look at the percentages in each of these cities we have listed new york, boston, chicago, san francisco, philly and pittsburgh. and in 1900 they're all about 50% of the foreign born population as naturalized, so in new york a little over 55% of all immigrants, all people born outside of the united states are naturalized american citizens. fast forward 20 years and the percentage dropped to 42%. you can see most places drop, boston drops about what's that about 7%, chicago drop

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. >> i'll tell you how teens are using mother nature to help protect mother nature. >> in sports, we'll see why young pitchers need to play it safe. >> coming up, i get to spend the day with some knights. i'll tell you all about it. >> and we're just getting started, so stay tuned. >> welcome to "teen kids news." i'm mwanzaa. >> and i'm livia. here's our top story for this week. >> teens are often under a lot of pressure to do well in school, but that doesn't mean it's okay to copy someone else's hard work and pass it off as your own. teachers call it "plagiarizing," but, as we see in this report, you can also call it cheating. and don't think you won't get caught. >> you've probably heard the word "plagiarize," but what, exactly, does it mean? >> when you take somebody else's words or ideas and you use them as your own. >> that's exactly right. in fact, the word "plagiarize" comes from the latin word for "kidnap," only instead of stealing a person, modern plagiarizing means stealing someone else's work. now, most of us won't copy another person's work exactly. we know that's cheating.

>>uh hum >siendo un producto natural que es un aceite graso que es algo >exactamente >es algo muy naturalción. >¡la inflamación! al reducir esa inflamación se va el dolor >ahora, claro, ahora si lo podemos ver claramente y también lo podemos entender. otra cosa doctor ¿cómo se genera o produce los aceites de omega xl? >es un proceso bien interesante. el omega xl viene de un mejillón que vive en una bahía en nueva zelandia. el proceso de la extracción de ese aceite del mejillón es una cosa bien interesante. >numero uno porque nueva zelandia tiene una de las aguas más limpias del mundo >segundo, usan barcos especiales que en menos de dos horas se extrae el producto y se lleva al proceso de hacer el omega xl. en dos horas >impresionante ¿no? >>en menos de dos horas, muy costoso que ha de ser eso >oh es claramente muy costoso son barcos especiales y mantienen el mejillón muy frio, de esa manera manteniendo toda la potencia del aceite dentro del mejillón antes de procesarlo. >o sea que usted lo que nos está tratando también de explicar es que cuando procesan a un producto eh, un proceso que se

to enjoy nature. western end of golden gate park is one of the last of those. we need to protect it. we do not have to choose between soccer and nature. we can have both. our organizations are urging the city to do a supplemental eir to consider an alternative that would restore the beach chalet with natural grass and better drainage. to install artificial turf, but safe artificial turf, at west sunset. that would give -- we would have more artificial turf with lighting at west sunset. at least as many played hours. we could have both. we could protect san francisco's crown jewel. we need to protect that. we can provide even more soccer field at west son said while protecting this special environment. -- sunset law protecting this special environment. that area will be gone and spoiled for ever. we do not have to make this false choice. >> next speaker, please. >> the primary purpose of golden gate park, yes, it is recreation. what are we nearly defining recreation to be only the active sports the tea

the margin is natural gas. when i made that ad natural gas was 7 dollars. today natural gas is 2..0. >> you can't finance a wind deal unless you have natural gas. >> you lost 150 million promoting an investing in wind power. >> yes. >> did that hurt in >> yes. hris: well. >> it was painful. >> chris: now you are pushing natural gas why? >> it is up every street and alley in the united states. it is the largest natural resource that we have and we are now talking about exporting it out of the country. use it here. increase the demand for natural gas and use it here. don't send our cheep and 30 percent cleaner than diesel. don't ship it out to china and import dirty opec crude. i mean, we are going to go down as the dumbest generation in the world if we do that. we are fools if we do it. because we have so much natural gas it is unbelievable. but we also have a lot of oil, too. we are increasing our oil in the united states and that's all because the industry has geped techniques to recover both oil and gas. >> and let's focus on the natural gas that is cheap