we want an asia-pacific and -- an asia-pacific region in which poverty continues to decline. citizens are healthier. children are educated. environment is protected. and women can participate fully and equally and fully in their societies. we are working in partnership with countries throughout the region to give life to that vision. we know that we can fight and reduce preventable child deaths and approve security across the asia-pacific. we have seen real progress in all of these areas over the last five years. further progress is possible where countries demonstrate the political will to invest in their own development and step up to do big things together. our feed the future program has helped more than 400,000 rice farmers throughout the region increased their yields to the more efficient use of fertilizer. through the partnership for growth, we are working with the philippines to strengthen the country's foundation for economic development while improving their ability to mitigate future disasters. throughout the pacific islands, we are partnering to address challenges

which is the asia pacific.so. >> as they have grown, and not really bout that much from the united states. >> no, absolutely wrong. the southeast asian countries for instance, collectively are the united states fourth largest overseas market. they buy our products, our services, their educate their kids here, we have got to be part of organizing these markets and be part of the dynamism of them. if we don't, we would -- and lori's scenario, we would disarm ourselves and walk away and say to china and other countries, go ahead, you guys broe, you be the dynamic markets we will pray to god that we can live within our own boarders and grow our economy as americans only. >> by the way -- if other countries did that, we would be in serious trouble. if they took the actions that lori has esspoused here. so it is a very short sited, it isn't a real world sort of scenario. >> expect we are all in the w ao, so we are trading with each other. it isn't the version of tpp. the status quo is a high level of trade, but with

therefore they're pushing is far as they can go they've actually talked about their perimeter the pacific perimeter reaching to hawaii that's in the long future but of course not in the short term. and what they're doing is actually the primitives that gradually. you remember that they had they still have a confrontation with the philippines over the shoulder where they claim some arlen's rocks and the filipinos say they don't that's going on. and now they've just decided unilaterally to. put in a defensive zone apparently there is a lot of gas specially gas field within it so therefore one could say it's linked not only to. geo political ambitions but also to hydrocarbons because trying to desperately needs to increase its all in gas output ok is china demanding washington respected as an equal in the pacific it can't do that militarily at this point but you know for the chinese they have a long view i think we would all agree. well i would i would slightly disagree with with martin here it's true that china perhaps perceives obama as weak but i see this more in the longer term and that

with their new restrictive arizona and travel routes what step is this in the new battle for the pacific in your mind. i think that the chinese hard fact how they have recognized that proved to bomber he's a weak president and therefore they're pushing as far as they can go they've actually talked about their purview of the pacific perimeter reaching to hawaii that's in the long future but of course. not in the short term. and what they're doing is actually diplomatic that gradually. you remember that they had they still have a confrontation with the philippines over the shoal where they claim some arlen's some rocks and the filipinos say they don't that's going on. and now they've just decided unilaterally to. put in a defensive zone apparently there is oil the oil and gas gas field within it so therefore one could say it's linked not only to. geo political ambitions but also to hydrocarbons because china desperately needs to increase its all in gas output ok china it is china demanding washington respected as an equal in the pacific it can't do that militarily at this point but you kno

rio will start working level meetings on whether to join a us led asia pacific trade pact that would lead to forty percent of the world's economy. they sever second year in korea life from seoul and keep them from when they do so much for joining us. we begin with the president's confirmation of three key government posts today which went through despite the lack of the national assembly's blasting the president talking head pushed ahead with the appointments to maintain stability in state affairs as all elementary businesses come to an effective holt from a boycott by the opposition party the presidential office correspondence was into surface. health and welfare minister please don't kill prosecutor general keen to attack a cheese stick on a term high tech and have benefits to place your perspective seats by president mckinley. ordered the new we appoint officials to work or brooding up the normal practice is to penetrate its tv fears that its production. make sure that nobody in any case to find the constitution and the beaches democratic principles the president had to lay off th

he came to the pacific northwest in 1840. he was invited by native people, but being invited by native people is not the same thing as getting an assignment from the jesuits. theurgies suit superior in st. louis would have -- the jesuit superior in st. louis would have too weigh what this extension of jesuits from st. louis was going to cost. he wad an administrator. so when father found these indians -- in fact they found him. what happened was he was a missioner in moon the indians at council bluff, iowa, and one day he saw a group of canoes beaching themselves in front of his mission. from the missouri river. he went down to greet them, and as he went down to greet them, he heard them speaking to one another in french. french. his native language. how could this be that they were speaking french? he came to find out that they were iroquois indians but the iroquois indians are from the jesuit area of new france, they're from the st. lawrence river. so, what happened was, when fur trade companies moved across the map of cana

with they reached the pacific in canada they were released and went south and foupd a home among pacific northwest indians. so it was them that told there was a new world out there. there is a master of life out there. and there are men who can teach you about the master of life and a new set of ideas. so the iroquois were central to the bringing of christianity too the tribes of the northwest. and the iroquois said if you don't believe me, we will go to them and ask them to come to us. and so that is how those native people primarily the flat heads, put also we believe there were nes purse in that group. they were on the missouri river on the way to st. louis to knock on the door at st. louis university. and the father met them and foupd -- found -- out their goal and followed them and said i can take that assignment. i have experience and i am a full-fledged priest and ready to take the assignment. what each hoped to gain was complicated. they wanted to know more about the master of life they had heard from the iroquois indians. but the iroquois indians had oversold the idea. so the na

this trans-pacific partnership is a free trade deal that would benefit large manufacturers and devastate the manufacturing jobs in our country. that's what organized labor is saying. 12 prospective members failed to reach a self-imposed deadline to reach an agreement by the end of the year. but there is concern that the obama administration could receive fast-track permission from congress. lawmakers are making progress in pulling together a trade promotion authority bill and expect to pass it within the first few months of 2014. despite efforts to keep the deal out of the public view, details about the partnership continue to leak, which is leading to more concerns and more

difficulties lie ahead for negotiations on remaining areas such as tariff cuts. >>> 12 asian and pacific countries have begun ministerial talks to lay down rules for a transpacific partnership free trade pact. the discussions began in singapore on saturday. the negotiators have four days to strike a political deal ahead of the year-end deadline. officials from the 12 countries will take part in bilateral and other talks to try and resolve their conflicts of interest. japan's representative says the talks will be tough but he'll do his best to seek an agreement before the end of the year. he's attending the meeting on behalf of the economic revitalization minister ahmadi, who is undergoing medical treatment. >> translator: i will not give in to what should never be compromised in the talks. >> also on saturday, japan held separate meetings with mexico and new zealand on the abolition of tariffs and other issues. >>> the upper house of japan's diet on saturday unanimously adopted a resolution calling on china to immediate withdraw its recent establishment of an air defense identification z

so their permit was granted, but of course, with the 3 jackson, that trolley line along pacific, that trolley line did not last and of course in the 1950s, with the elimination of the cable car, the california line was stopped at van ness. and in 1982 the 55 sacramento line was eliminated and we have had the elimination of -- or partial elimination of 83 pacific and there was the old forest sutter. so without the 3 jackson, i'm afraid there will be no service to downtown san francisco between california street and union streets. so i have made the offer in the past to some of the leaders of the mta to give a walking tour, so you can see just how steep those hills might be. that offer stands and we appreciate the discussion earlier about public outreach and we are reaching out to you in the other direction. [ applause ] >> next speaker, please [ reading speakers' names ] >> good afternoon, sir. >> translator: good afternoon, my name -- i'm the president [speaker not understood] we're the largest tenant-based organization in the city and 1,000 members are all low-income seniors and i wo

and so when father de smet left the pacific northwest in 1846, the pacific northwest was in perhaps, in all honesty, more turmoil than when he had come. and that wasn't what he had intended there to be. father de smet was relieved of his position by the father general of the society in rome. he was unhappy because he wanted to be out on the trails. he wanted to be in the indian camps. he wanted to be in a canoe, on the back of a mule exploring. so he was very unhappy. he was very discouraged being back in st. louis. but in time he got an invitation from the federal government, united states federal government, and there was going to be in 1851 a gigantic indian conference at fort laramie in present-day wyoming. and they asked father de smet who had such a touch with the native people, would he go and be of assistance? and so his superiors in st. louis said, well, you are not really supposed to be leaving here going back on the trail, but it would not be politics for us to turn down an invitation of this magnitude, so yes, father de smet can go. so that is how father de smet reinstate

cpmc, the pacific campus has 400 nurses every shift. so that is 1200 people a day. there is a permanent staff of 300 and when it moves the building is going to stay there and it will be converted to outpatient services. the talk now is mainly cancer treatment and breast healthcare. on filmore street, close to cpmc, there is the eye institution, where josh millet, who is on the list, will address you and tell you what they do at smith keteral -- across there smith keteral is pets unlimited, only 24-hour pet hospital. there are 2500 students and 2,000 workers who rely on 3 jackson and i want to close just by saying for example, there is an abigail gould, who commutes from the east bay via bart, transfers to the 3 jackson five days a week. there is also a patricia monticello -- thank you. [ reading speakers' names ] >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon. i'm barbara bocce. if the no. 3 jackson is eliminated it will have a major impact on our community. when we heard about it, we said what do we do? the muni said take a cross-town bus and then transfer. well, that is fin

continued commitment to asia pacific.phil. >> well, just following up there, you say that the issue with syria was a -- that idris' departure was a big problem. is it a problem that you think has a solution? and if so, what is that solution? and for you, mr. minister, could you please tell us about singapore's interest in the f- 35b? i know that some of you were watching that in demonstrations this week in arizona. thanks. >> well, as i said, there's a war going on in syria and it's devastating to the people, having effects that hurt the people, destabilize the region. and when the moderate opposition is set back, that's not good. but that's what we deal with. so we have to deal with it. we will deal with it. and it is difficult. but we take it straight up, work with the moderate opposition, with our allies in the area, and we'll continue to do that. >> well, i've said in parliament during the last budget that singapore is seriously looking at the f-35s to replace our f- 16s. we're in no particular hurry, because our f-16

we're continuing our conversation now on united states strategic interests in the asia pacific. secretary of state john kerry is in the philippines shoring up alliances with asia. camille, earlier in this still young century one of the biggest concerns the united states had about the philippines was the muslim separatist movement in the south. just recently the country signed a peace treaty, how is that part of the relationship going, and is something that secretary kerry will be asking a lot of questions about? >> we are also expecting secretary kerry will address this because it is a security issue, and it is still ongoing. there are al-qaeda link militants there in the south, and we're expecting the united states to step up. but in the past years they've been supportive of this, and they've been training with our military and improving their capabilities, and that has sent a strong signal to the militants that they have a serious enemy in the united states and the philippine military. >> is the current aquino government one that is open to accepting more visits from u.s. flee

and hopefully, we can get that done. >> how about trans-pacific? >> the tpp, which is the trans- pacific partnership -- a lot of alphabet soup here, i think has to follow tpa. i don't think that the united states can negotiate the final agreement without letting countries know that we have a fast-track way to get this done for a yes-or-no vote on the floor of the house and senate, so i think you have to start with tpa. that's certainly been the experience over the years, so let's get that done first. then, i think it'll be easier to deal with the trans-pacific partnership. >> max baucus also was the democratic -- foremost democratic champion of some kind of tax reform, working withdave camp in the house. that's pretty much dead now, isn't it? >> no, actually - >> in this congress, will we have big tax reform? >> on trade and taxes, i would also make the obvious point that ron wyden is the likely successor as chairman of that committee. i spoke to ron about this today, in fact. he is very interested in the trade agenda, always has been. he believes

as fast as helping to keep garber data the pacific ocean. but efforts like this there are still tons of pieces of plastic. just like this which continued to make their way out to sea. clean up the mess that sort of been made is likely impossible but experts say that from the boat actually be solved with the radical a change in economic and social coulter when you hear politicians talk about growth you think it was one of the ten commandments our very being is as consumers of products this defines us these days the brand of car we have the brown of their geo we have the brand of clothing that we have. this is how we get our identity. moore argues that consumption habits and our creature comforts of the twenty first century problem. where to put all the trash we generate. we really have to redefine ourselves as human beings as something other than a consumer in order to beat this problem. new shorelines creative trash are appearing in all oceans. and even america's great lakes as world economies continue to thrive on mass consumption captain m

strategy to pivot towards asia and become closer to its pacific partners. >> the united states will stand with our friends in this region. >> the tour comes during rising tensions in the region. china declared a new air defense zone above the east china sea. with disputes still boiling in the south china sea, the restriction has concerned it's neighbors, including vietnam, japan and the philippines. >> the united states does not recognize that zone and does not accept it. the zone should not implemented, and china should refrain from taking similar unilateral actions i in the region particularly over the south china sea. >> we believe safety and security of the affected nations. >> the trip is kerry's fourth to the region as secretary of state. he canceled the planned visit just before typhoon haiyan. this week kerry plans to visit the area hardest hit in that storm, in the town of tacloban. typhoon haiyan hit a little over a month gone with winds gusting at 200 mph and a storm surge that swept away entire neighborhoods. since the u.s. has dispatched an aircraft area to discontribute aid.

for the past 5 years i've worked at the pacific campus and at the st. luke's campus. our nurses are proud of the care we provide for appear patients think about how much more we'll be able to chaff with the new facilities with the new technology. our state and federal staff is looking forward to the completion of this project because those hospitals will create a great environment for us. it will create a level of pride in the work we do. most importantly for our patients the new hospitals will bring a more pleasant healing environment and an improved experience of care. for our patients family we'll have a great assurance that their loved ones are receiving the best care possible for for our community the new hospital represents community pride. in my current position at st. luke's it will be uplifting for the community. st. luke's has long been held the center of healing with the long history of deep roots. dr. i want to let you know we're proud to be that center of healing for the community and proud to be a member of the st. luke's. lastly to all involved in the c

ocean is halfway between hawaii and california called the great pacific garbage patch. more accidentally found the garbage patch in one thousand nine hundred seven was selling through a gyre ocean currents circulate and collect trash it's a piece here a piece there it's not a solid island but in general what we see is a soup of plastic not really an island of plastic next year captain moore is planning to spend a month at the garbage patch to research its effects on the food chain it is difficult to see the collection of trash from above because it's mostly made up of pieces of plastic the size of a fingernail researchers believe that there could be two million of these little pieces of plastic persuade a mile millions of creatures are dying every year tangled in plastic it's not just the wildlife that is being fooled into eating the stuff and getting tangled in it it's we ourselves that are our changing. biological being with the chemicals in this hyper consumptive atmosphere that we live in scientists at the scripps institution of oceanography in san diego have also b

for all i know, he may be on his way to the pacific.wo of my children are in coast cities on the pacific. many of you all over this country have boys in the services who will now be called upon to go into action. you have friends and families in what has suddenly become a danger zone. you can't escape the anxiety, you cannot escape the clutches here at your heart. and yet i hope the certainty of what we have to meet will make you rise above these fierce. -- above these fears. we must go about our daily business more determined than ever to do the ordinary things as well as we can. and when we find a way to do anything more and our -- more in our communities to help others, to build morale, to give a feeling of security, we must do it. what ever is asked of us, i am sure we can accomplish it. we are the free and on -- and un-comparable people of the united states of america. to the young people of the nation, i must speak your word tonight. you are going to have a great opportunity. there will be high moments in which are strength and du

i am executive director of pacific primary. pacific primary is a nonprofit full day year round school that is at grove and baker since 1974. in 2008 we opened a brand-new school so that we have a total of 155 children and we did that only to keep families in the city and to offer the type of education that we give children two and a half to six, and we very much appreciate the supervisor's attention with this request and i hope that we can get your support. >> okay. thank you very much. colleagues any questions? okay. similarly we don't have a budget analyst report so we will move to public comment. seeing none public comment is closed. colleagues can i have a motion to move this forward with recommendation and do that without opposition as well. madam clerk can you call item seven. >> item seven is retroactively approving the modification between the city and guardsmark to provide security services for the human services agency to extend the term by one month for period of december 1, 2008, through december 31, 2013 in the mod

satellite and radar showing us the situation out in the pacific. that high pressure is just abeam the bay area, so the flow of most of the moisture is going north of seattle. it will weaken a little bit this week so they are going to get some rain in the pacific northwest. it will be sunny and warm for us during the week as that high pressure is just not moving and as far as the eye can see it's not moving. so the headlines show red flag warnings, gusty winds. it will be sunny and warm through the week. and then we are going to look dry all the way through january 6 and even beyond there is nothing coming in. so january the wettest month of the year and hopefully it will at least turn the other direction in the near future. as i said, let's hope it doesn't all happen at once. futurecast winds. where you see the red that's where the strongest winds will be coming in over the next 24 hours and there's a mostly at the higher elevations, not much except at half moon bay. it will be working its way to the surface. at sfo we are looking for sunny mild co

that's the third in four days of ministerial talks of twelve pacific rim countries. japan in the us on sunday failed to narrow their differences japanese officials likely be pitted their stance that japan can to cut tariffs on five key agricultural goods like rice and wheat. the us side apparently refuse to give in. washington says removing tariffs on all products is a basic principle of the ttp. us officials are also calling for a special measure that would allow them to temporarily raise tariffs on cars. that's it. japanese auto imports rise after the tee pee pee deal was closed and tears are lowered the us i made the request because of pressure from domestic carmakers. but japanese officials wouldn't budge. because varied us counterparts are compromising on farm tariffs. japan's economy in the third quarter grew slightly less than initially reported. officials at the cabinet office say the latest figures for the july to september period suggests the gdp rose by zero point three percent in real terms from the previous quarter. this translates to an annualized one p

ministers from the top countries at the trans pacific partnership talks say there won't be any agreement this year. but don't push on with discussions in two thousand and fourteen. for the course of this meeting. we identified potential landing zones for the majority of key outstanding issues in the text. you'll continue to work with flexibility to finalize these texts issues as well as market access issues. izturis released a statement to say it made substantial progress during their four day meeting in singapore. they'll meet again next month after their negotiations told several weeks of intensive discussions. the statement says it's important to aim for a high level deal that will create jobs and spur economic growth the japanese official guest of sheepish and said that. negotiators from all countries are eager for a profitable outcome the momentum noble than disney the most of these will keep up this dimension. today ten hour discussion site of a year and a new year period the twelve countries anime for a high ago and they share the same will and passion. it is clear world's top pla

one unexpected magnitude nine quake strikes among kites from the pacific ocean. the movement is about twice as intense as the authorities estimate that when they set to pounce quake resistance tampa. the post made the sox's top story this way more than sixty one centimeters. that translates to one hundred bt said to be just as it did not meet the skyscraper. the building did not collapse of globalism piece on its mid course was the peeling his court date reese is just summed up this way. the thieves four times stronger than expected hundred of these founders produce extreme twisting in the mobile phones cars and started to fade. we were able to collect important. as we could actually see the whole process through to the collapse of building it up. the researchers say they'll use the test results to study ways to strengthen walls and ceilings they also plan to develop technology to quickly take building's safety. secular tucking any skin world. managers of a nuclear waste reprocessing facility north east of tokyo are trying to get operations going again. they have

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this is one of the first images i drew of "pacific rim." not a giant robot be but a little girl with a red shoe. >> rose: and what are you writing here? >> i write ideas. i can be writing about several projects at once. i can be writing a piece of dialogue that i heard somewhere. i can be writing about a novel that i read, a movie that i saw, a piece of music. it's really -- they've been for many, many years quite -- >> rose: in spanish? >> spanish and english. >> rose: but mostly spanish, snow >> depends on the project. and what i like is i keep my pen in my pocket. i keep the little book and it's sort of a low tech -- >> rose: yes, it's very low tech. (laughs) >> but as i said, the stuff that has a rubber band is stuff that i already did and -- i mean, i like the sort of 1940s -- >> rose: what's the nature of a monoer? >> a monster by definition is solve i involved or extra out of nature. so the fact is you can make the monster in natural forms when you have to magnify them a way. and the nature of a monster is something that represents s

won all twelve asian and pacific countries of the gun at ministerial talks to lay down rules will cause us to pick up the ship free trade pact the discussions began in seeing a poll on top of it negotiate as the four days to strike a political deal ahead of a euro and the deadlock. officials from the twelve countries will take part in by the full lineup of tricks to try and resolve the conflicts of interest. japan's representative of the gospel she knew she was a successful talks will be tough but he'll do his best to seek an agreement before the end of the he's attending the meeting on the hof of the economic revitalization of us to ikea on monday who is undergoing medical treatment. is in a room all i will not give into what should never be compromised in the talks. also on the subway japan held separate meetings with mexico when new zealand on the abolition of current set up the issue. the opera house of japan's diet them some funny unanimously and talk to the resolution calling on china to immediately withdraw all its recent establishment of i and defense identification zone althoug

the united states has interest in the pacific asiaen region, and there is desire of president obama to be more active in the area and we're trying to promote the trans-pacific partnership that will hopefully get established next year. and in military terms there is also an important component. the united states is trying to reassure our allies and our partners in the region that the assistance that the u.s. provide ready presence, the peace and stability that we have provided for the region will continue in the future. that the united states will be a credible and reliable ally and partner going forward. so there are diplomatic components and military components. this is a critically important region in the united states. and the key factor is central in this policy is china's rise and how the united states will manage china's rise going forward. >> how does china's rise look, camille, when you're standing in manila. is the country looking to tighten itself to the united states because a politically , powerful china makes it feel insecure? >> you can see that the philippines may be ins