after the fukushima accident, reactors that went offline for regular maintenance stayed offline. nuclear companies compensated by shifting to thermal energy, but there were concerns about a shortfall so the government asked businesses and households to conserve energy. >> translator: i didn't use air conditioning last summer, so i'm not worried about this year. >> conservation proved effective, but when folks have to make a lot of adjustments to their schedule to save power. >> translator: blackouts are crucial issues for our business. we cannot let them happen. >> the authorities need to import more fossil fuels to run thermal plants. they're planning to raise electricity rates. the government had estimated japan could face an energy shortage of around 9% this summer if it gets really hot and if all reactors remain offline. >> so miho, what's the government planning on doing with all the idle reactors? >> well, the fukushima accident prompted the government to order extra safety tests for reactors that go offline for maintenance. these so-called stress tests are supposed to gaug

after the fukushima accident, reactors that went offline for regular maintenance stayed offline. companies compensated by shifting to thermal energy, but there were concerns about a shortfall, so the government asked businesses and households to conserve energy. >> translator: i didn't use air-conditioning last summer, so i'm not worried about this year. >> reporter: conservation proved effective, but manufacturers had to make a lot of adjustments to their schedule to save power. >> translator: blackouts are crucial issues for our business. we cannot let them happen. >> reporter: need to import more fossil fuels to run more thermal plants. they plan to raise electricity rates. the government estimated japan could face an energy shortage of around 9% this summer if it gets hot and if all reactors remain offline. the fukushima accident prompted the government to order extra safety tests for reactors that go offline for maintenance. these so-called stress tests are supposed to gauge how reactors could withstand extreme events such as earthquakes and tsunamis. submitted results to ja

after the fukushima accident, reactors went offline for regular maintenance and stayed offline. companies compensated by shifting to thermal energy, but there were concerns about a shortfall so the government asked businesses and households to conserve energy. >> translator: i didn't use air conditioning last summer, so i'm not worried about this year. >> conservation proved effective, but manufacturers had to make a lot of adjustments to their schedule to save power. >> translator: blackouts are crucial issues for our business. we cannot let them happen. >> they now need to import more fossil fuels to run thermal plants. they are planning to raise electricity rates. the government has estimated japan could face an energy shortage of around 9% this summer if it gets hot and if all reactors remain offline. the fukushima accident prompted the government to order extra safety tests for reactors that go offline for maintenance. these so-called stress tests are supposed to gauge how reactors could withstand external events, such as earthquakes and tsunami. they have submitted the res

all 17 of tepco's reactors are now offline. that includes the six units at fukushima daiichi, four of which are damaged. the plants provided electricity to tokyo and the surrounding area. none of the reactors suspended since the fukushima accident last mar has restarted. the last active unit in japan is on the northern island of hokkaido. it's expected to go offline in early may. >>> earlier, nhk world miho talked about the importance of nuclear power in japan and the government's plan to deal with the idled reactors. >> before last year's accident at fukushima daiichi, 37 of 54 reactors were operating. they supplied abt 30% of the demand. ter the kusha accident, actorsenoffle for gular maintenance and stayed offline. companies compensated by shifting to thermal energy, but there were concerns about a shortfall so the government asked businesses and households to conserve energy. >> translator: i didn't use air conditioning last summer, so i'm not worried about this year. >> conservation proved effective, but manufacturers had

the second reactor is on the northern island of hokkaido scheduled to go offline in late april or may. 37 of japan's reactors were operating before the accent at fukushima daiichi, but the suspensions have not resulted in serious power shortages over the past year, but japan is importing more fossil fuels to run thermal plants to make up for its energy shortfall. >>> next, we go to patchari raksawong in bangkok to find out what's going on in the region. >> hello, michio. we begin with the news that the u.n. human rights council has adopted a resolution urging the sri lankan government to investigate allegations of mass murder. sri lanka's civil war ded three years ago after decades of fighting. a huge number of civilians are said to have been killed in the final stage of the conflict. we have a report from colombo. >> reporter: sri lanka's civil war came to an end after nearly 30 years of combat. tens of thousands of civilians were reportedly killed in the final phase of the struggle as government troops took control of areas held by ethnic tamarin insurgents. on thursday, they adopte

many of whom have offline.aypal supports millions of small businesses online, many of whom have offline channels. we'll start with our existing customers. and as word gets out and people see the features of this product as well as the pricing, i think we'll have good merchant ada adaptati adaptation. >> how should merchants value the success and how should they see mobile transaction volume? is it some other metrics we should be watching on this? >> as you know, we've said to investors paypal will double business over the next three years based just on sales on the web and on mobile. our move into offline, which is an enormous market both with large merchants with home depot solution which will go to other retailers and small business, we're not even putting in our numbers. >> this is in addition to that. >> this is in addition to that. we're going to where the market is and providing the most comprehensive solution so consumers can get what they want when they want it, how they want it. and we're helping retai

the second reactor is on the northern island of hokkaido scheduled to go offline in late april or may. 37 of japan's reactors were operating before the accident at fukushima daiichi, but the suspensions have not resulted in serious power shortages over the past year, but japan is importing more fossil fuels to run thermal plants to make up for its energy shortfall. >>> japanese financial regulators raided the offices of asset management firm aij investment advisers. the company is under investigation for allegedly losing more than $1 billion in pension funds. the securities and exchange surveillance commission conducted the raid on the tokyo-based firm on friday. commission officials say aij covered up huge losses fabricated investment statements to show profits and tricked new clients into signing up for contracts. aij had contracts with 104 pension funds and other firms as of the end of last year. officials say aij accumulated losses every year in government bond futures and other trading, losing about $1.3 billion in client money. and today the company has ready access to around $9

the middle of the twt 2008 race that tried to look at the online environment and compare it to the offline environment just to see what the premise of your question s-the right one. we found that for a lot of thing in the online environment that look like things until the offline environment, signing an onlynn petition and engaging with a news organization. in the on older days it was writing a left to the ted for or write an e-mail to the editor. when we plooked at a has not full of things offpalestine and online in that ekwifl lent. we saw the same stratification. people were much more likely to be civilly edge gauged thaen people with lesser education and amounts of money. the one exception was in social media spaces. the people who are active in politics and civics and social media places and in social networks sites and blogging and youtube and things like that. people were atvy different income levels. we're participating at the same level. there was a lot more differences between races and ethnic groups and there was more between generations. that was true in 2008, and we're anxious

we can go offline and talk about how to engage that. we have in terms that are also interested in working on that. perhaps we can study the scope of work we can do through lafco. chairperson campos: thank you, commissioner avalos. supervisor mar: i wanted to say i strongly support research in that area as well, looking at municipal banks in other jurisdictions, statewide and local jurisdictions, and how they have managed to control municipal banking institutions as well. chairperson campos: i want to echo that as well. i think it is a great idea. beginning a preliminary discussion of that topic, also keep in mind that not only do we have the benefit of having lafco staff look into that issue, but, to the extent that there may be a need to have an outside expert that has specific expertise in the area, we also have the ability to retain that, if that is inappropriate step to take. we have that ability. and i trust that we will hear from commissioner avakis ab -- avalos and mr. fried, if we get to that point. unless there is a question fr

traditional offline travel agents.vel agents. there's a big enough rising tide for multiple players to benefit. >> you feel they're better able to execute an ebookers or expedia or the deep pocketed rival like goingical make a big push or groupon. >> i think what you'll see with companies like google and kayak is another one, they're going to be doing some interesting things in what they called medisearch but that's going to be a little bit different. those end up being not totally competitive with what the traditional online travel agents are doing. so yeah, i think that priceline is probably going to continue to be best positioned despite the other competitors in the space. >> mike olson of piper jaffray. thank you for being on the program. >>> coming up security fears amid the markets and the economy, we'll talk to the u.s. secretary of homeland secretary, janet innapolitano on a first cc interview. stay with us. ♪ [ male announcer ] aggressive new styling. a more fuel-efficient turbocharged engine. and a completely

we can taket it offline if that is easier. >> if we can take it off line, that would be great. >> i do not care when, but sometime in the next 15 and a half days, could we have some kind of budget reconciliation in writing that shows where we are in various expenses? i would like to feel comfortable but we did our task within the budget as amended. >> thank you. >> public comment for task force and budget? task force member reports? >> nothing. >> nothing. >> i had to add we are receiving a few media inquiries, but i wanted to be able to alert you about that, and i anticipate we will continue to get more requests as we get closer to our final states. >> are responding -- are we responding to those requests? >> that those requests go directly to the clerk as well as to our share, and share macdonell will decide whether he wants to delete it goes to individual taskforce members. -- if he wants to delegate to individual task force members. >> we will move on to public comment for any items that were discussed this evening. >> regarding the blocks south, i recently learned our new supervis

not now, but i wanted to get an update from you offline. >> i have that information and would be glad to follow up with you. supervisor chu: without objection, thank you. item #4. >> item #4. resolution authorizing the department of recreation and parks to retroactively accept and expend a grant valued at $116,000 from the san francisco conservation corps to rebuild community garden plot terraces at wolfe lane community garden. supervisor chu: thank you. we have more with recreation and parks on this item. >> -- martin with recreation and parks on this item. >> good morning, supervisors. located in the heights neighborhood, managed by the recreation and parks department community grants program. the community garden is comprised of plots, many of which are deteriorated. the conservation corps is going to replace the spot with funding through the state's proposition 84 water bond of 2006, for public safety and erosion control in the amount of $116,000. i am available to answer questions. supervisor chu: sounds like there are no positions funded through this grant. is there a matching f

the emergency number was offline because of a power outage that a spot -- that affected the city communications center in southeast. during the outage, residents are asked to call an alternate number. service was were restored within 25 minutes. >> it appears that marion barry will be a delegate at the democratic national convention and september. the votes are still being counted. the official results likely will not be known until monday. if chosen, he would be one of 14 delegates going to charlotte. they say is this behavior in the past should disqualify him. >> we want to send people to the convention who are very serious, who bring some prestige back to this city. >> this city needs somebody fighting for statehood. >> marion barry is accused of behaving badly during the 2008 convention in denver but he dismisses the critics. >> more than 630 protesters were arrested in richmond, among five people to protested against a bill that requires women to get an ultrasound before the get an abortion. they're urging gov. bob mcdonnell to veto the measure but he has indicated he will sign the bill in

goes on top of this. >> so on top of the doubling of paypal that ebay has already projected, this offlineusiness would be on top of that. what is the potential here? paypal has more than 100 million users worldwide right now. they're trying to build on top of that base, get people to adopt this. there are competitors out there, as i mentioned, square, intuit, v verafone. a key challenge might be merchant education. they've got to get these out there. they are free. the software that goes with them is also free. merchants need to understand how to use it, either have an iphone at this point, or an android phone, and be connected to the internet. which these days isn't too hard, bill. >> merchant education is important. maybe the consumer will know more about it than the merchants do. jon, stay there. let's bring in our next guest. earlier today, credit suisse downgreated the stock on valuation basis. they said it got to be too expensive at these levels. the same issue that keeps harry from buying that stock right now. >> he joins us now with his bearish view. and gill is senior vice presid

nhk also asked about restarting nuclear plants which are now offline for inspections. only two out of 54 reactors are still running. 17% of the respondents supported the restart. 39% disapproved. 41% were undecided. >>> health ministry officials in japan are looking at how they inspect what people are eating. they're reviewing guidelines for food inspections. the government plans to introduce tough new limits next month on radioactive cesium. the revised standards will limit the amount of cesium in rice, vegetables and other food stuff to 100 becquerels per kilogram. that's one fifth the current limit. local governments are in charge of handling the spot inspections. municipalities that detect at least 50 becquerels in any of these items will be required to do the screening three times a week. the government temporarily banned the rice and vegetables over the last year in six prefectures in and around fukushima. test willing be mandatory in these areas regardless of levels of cesium found in food stuffs. >>> people cope with disasters in different ways. some pick thems

are near nuclear power plants are wary about resuming activities at those nuclear reactors that are offline inspections. the study covered 20 prefectures along with 2 cities, towns and villages outside fukushima prefecture. each is within 30 kilometers of a nuclear power plant. 14% said they would now or eventually give the go ahead for resuming reactor operations. but 75% said they would not allow a resumption for the time being or could not yet decide. and 4% said they would never allow a resumption. the municipalities expressed concerns about the effectiveness of safety measures at the reactors and complained the central government is not doing what it should. we also asked about what's important when deciding whether to retart the reactors. 63% replied a satisfactory investigation into the accident at the fukushima daiichi plant. 59% cited understanding by local residents, and 58% said new safety regulations. only 17% cited stress te isting which the government views as a prerequisite for deciding whether to resume reactor operations. industry minister edano says the government will dec

a southern california nuclear plant was taken offline last month after a precaution that a leak was detected. >>> the violence continues in syria. syrian activist groups say progovernment gunman killed more than a dozen people in the city of holmes last night. syria state media confirmed the deaths but blamed armed terrorists. both reports say the dead include a number of children. the continued violence comes despite optimism expressed by a -- a funeral for war correspondent marie is being held this morning in her home state of new york. a wake was hill over -- a wake was held over the weekend. she was culled while covering the violence in syria. she lost her left eye back in 2001 after an explosion covering the civil war in sri lanka. >>> it was a deadly weekend on bay area train tracks. on friday morning 39-year-old papal executive erik was hit and killed by a train. cal train officials say he was standing on the tracks when he was hit. and 39-year-old angela patton was hit by a train track. 24 hours later a man was hit by a different amtrak train. the three incidents are still under inve

probably i will just have to clarify with you offline. public comment on this item or these two items? items seven and eight. >> good morning, supervisors. i would like to speak in opposition to these two items. i am sure everyone is familiar with the elderly gentleman that comes before the board on tuesdays with his computer presentation about the different aspects of the library system. i am kind of wondering -- maybe we should pay a little more scrutiny to what actually goes on in the library system in regards to finances, etc., etc., etc. also, i would like to point out, in today's "examiner," there was an interesting article about a member of the library commission. i get the impression that everybody thinks that's ross is arrogant, but i have a feeling that i see a lot of arrogance every time i am here at city hall. i would like to remind everybody for the record the all of the employees of the city and county of san francisco are employees of the citizens of the city and county of san francisco and that everyone should show some re

you've had, for example, in sudan some oil that's been taken offline that's helping to restrict supply. so we're going to look at a whole range of measures, including, by the way, making sure that my attorney general is paying attention to potential speculation in the oil markets. i've asked him to reconstitute a task force that's examining that. but we go through this every year. we've gone through this for 30 years. and if we are going to be competitive, successful and make sure families are protected over the long term, then we've got to make sure that we've got a set of options that reduce our overall dependence on oil. with respect to israel, i'm not the first president who has been unable because of a whole range of issues not to visit israel as president in their first term. i visited israel twice as senator, once right before i became president. the measure of my commitment to israel is not measured by a single visit. the measure of my commitment to israel is seen in the actions that i've taken as president of the united states. and it is indisputable that i have had israel's b

supervisor kim: i would love to hear what mta is doing to achieve the reduction in crime offline. >> i will note since you gave me entree, we do have one part of our operation we believe has been fairly effective has been a grant funded unit of one sergeant and eight officers, this is the plainclothes unit that has been working on the muni system, that has been successful in making arrests of pickpockets and other types of crime that we see on muni. the grant funding for that unit and at the end of this fiscal year and as of yet, we do not have a backfill or sustainable funding. we're talking with the police -- with the police department and the mayor's unit in terms of reducing crime on muni. crime is down on muni. in all categories except larceny, which is largely related to theft electronic devices. if you get on muni, 90% of the people are immersed in their devices and it leads to inattention and it is making them vulnerable to that type of crime. overall, crime is down on muni. supervisor chu: thank you. >> even after -- given where our revenues are and our expenditures or after

nhk also asked about restarting nuclear plants which are now offline for inspections. only 2 out of 54 reactors are still running. 17% of the respondents supported the restart. more than double that rate. 39% disapproved. 41% were undecided. nhk has been asking survivors for their opinions, too. we've conducted regular surveys with them. one indicator we're tracking is motivation levels. here's the trend we've seen for the past six months. 27% of survivors report higher motivation levels. 30% say their sense of purpose is fading. the data suggest the gap is widening between those who are getting back on their feet and those who are falling into despair. >> reporter: one person who answered the survey is yuriko yamamoto. she said her motivation levels have risen in the past six months. she lost her mother in the tsunami. her younger brother and his wife also died. the loss of three close family members was a devastating blow. six months later yamamoto rated her motivation at 60, with 100 being the predisaster level. but in the recent survey she reported a score of 150,

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political life being independent observers at this election certainly many people both online and offline have been criticizing the prime minister for falsifying the election something of course the authorities could not have not taken taken care off or taken their attention off certainly this whole election process which we've been witnessing today and the complaint itself is pretty much different from what it used to be before that and this is certainly some sign that there is a certain dialogue between those in power and those in the streets protesting against it but of course a lot has been done to make the most transparent to date doesn't it. well it has certainly all the makings to become the most transparent voting in russia's history but it's already definitely the most expensive vote because installing the web cameras in every single. station across the country has already cost health a billion u.s. dollars also the ballot boxes themselves are made of see through glass so there's absolutely no chance of anything getting inside these battle boxes without the observers noticing it

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i want to make a few comments and then i'll take any comments offline. i'm in support of the affordable care act. and i just want to point out that for a number of years, a number of presidents have always said they wanted to do something about our health care system. no one has been able to do it. we finally get a president who decides he's going to take it on. what happens, the entire republican party from day one from the word go said, no, no, no. imagine if they would have stepped forward and said okay, let's work for the good of our country and do something about our health care system. do you think we'd be in front of the supreme court today? it would have been a well thought out piece of legislation that everyone would be relatively happy with. number two to understand and underscore the need for health care that pretty much within week's time of the passage of the affordable health care act what did the insurance companies do? they immediately went out and jacked up their rates to the high point it is right now. that's part of the problem that sa

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i will be submitting some questions for the record just -- or maybe we can speak offline. i don't want to have you reinvent the wheel, just some areas i think i need a better understanding of. thank you very much. >> thank you, senator brown. senator hagan? >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you both for your testimony today and certainly for your service to our country. thank you. general alexander, the administration believes that it's crucial for critical infrastructure companies to carefully diagnose their cyber-vulnerabilities and the risks posed to the american people should these vulnerabilities be exploited and to take steps to eliminate these vulnerabilities. the administration has proposed legislation to ensure that industry stands up to these responsibilities as a matter of national security. the administration's also seeking to extend the signature based defense that the nsa and u.s. cybercommand have developed for d.o.d. critical infrastructure. since the administration seeking to implement both approaches, the implication is that neither one alone is seen as s

i would like to take off record, offline any information you have about specific places where there's a 50% vacancy rate. i'm not aware of the fact we have this around the country. i would be delighted to meet and talk with your staff and find out where these areas might be so that we can address them specifically. >> my time has expired. but secretary shinseki, as we face budget constraints, we must all work to improve our efficiencies and redouble efforts to look for ways to get the most for our budgeted resources. my question to you is can you talk about any steps you had taken to improve the acquisition process at va and any efficiencies you've been able to realize in this area? >> senator, i would tell you that we have been working for several years now on restructuring our acquisition business practices. three years ago acquisition was spurred throughout the organization. now it's consolidated in two centers. one comes directly under dr. petzel and that's for all medical acquisition. gloves, masks, aprons. we ought to be able to leverage that into a bulk purchase and get a good

believing that the parliamentary vote in december was falsified people were protesting both online and offline world. the largest movement that russia has seen since the collapse of the soviet union i definitely this whole situation with so many people directing their anger at the prime minister urging him to resign to change the power in the country could not go unnoticed a certain a democratic dialogue has been established between the authorities and those in the streets something definitely very interesting because. we haven't seen anything like that for the past two decades since russia became a different state on the soviet union russia is changing as many say and corrals an economist from the principle asset management group is one of the people who believe in that. the fundamental problem is russia needs an opposition even needs serious loyal constructive opposition and for twenty years there hasn't been one i mean i remember the yeltsin years the opposition was fairly prophetic and right now it is it's not much better so it's still going to be putin for the probably the next six years