investigation into perceived misrepresentation that the moratorium decision had been peer reviewed, my response to a subpoena to documents, the independence and ineffectiveness of an act be inspector general and my previous testimony before the committee. in short i can answer these issues as follows. i stand behind the i.o. -- o.i.g. investigation into the allegation that d.o.i. senior officials in the decision to impose a six month moratorium on deep water drilling misrepresented the moratorium was reviewed and supported by the national academy science and industry experts, this was obtained in the executive summary of a report commonly called the 30 day report, therefore the executive summary was the focus of the o.i.g. investigation. the question of whether there was intentional misrepresentation came down to a review of e-mails exchanged between the doi and white house in the late hours of may 26th and early hours of may 27, 2010, in which the executive summary was being edited. these e-mails revealed no evidence that the executive summary was intentionally edited to lead readers

to peer car sharing. we will be reporting back on how that is going. we will know quickly in terms of the impact of peer to peer cars sharing of people choosing not to own a vehicle. as we look at ways of enabling this behavior, not sharing your car is easier than sharing. it will have benefits, monetary, environmental, community, making the world a better place, helping people. i think all of us in this room want that. with this new tax on airbnb, each of these things are deterrents to doing the right thing. i hope we can make more innovative and informed decisions to make it easy to share. i would like to see tax incentives for any sort of sharing behavior. i think that is probably where it will go in the future. until we get that together, there is only a tax on airbnb. >> do you mind if i clarify that? the treasurer just held a hearing, so he has not the decision yet, so things are still open. just wanted to clarify that. >> we are interested in how this economy affects people in their everyday lives,

-- know the peer review process. the peer review process is what academics use. when you submit research, you submit it without your name, without your institution. it goes to a body that fact checks it before it can get published. and once it, once it passes a fact checking and if they really all agree in this blind process that you are saying something that is, a, a contribution and, b, is not, you know, hogwash, then it can get published. so that's where i started, was with the peer review process. and, by the way, there are flaws in every system, and there are some flaws in the peer-review process too. but at least it's, you know, um, substantive in terms of, um, in fact check enough that i can trust it as a foundation. some of these chapters, and bosnia was one in particular, there were competing, um, journals. there were two different narratives about what really happened in bosnia, so i got on a plane, and i went there. and i went and i talked to people all around the different sides, and i talked to judges, a

the power of mutual help and peers helping peers, both within adolescence and younger children but parents helping other parents. you know, the formal system is extremely important to be there with treatment and with recovery supports, but the power of what erica is doing with reaching out and really offering that "i've been there, i understand. you can do it. i did it." and someone said to me that what they really got when they were engaged with the parent partner was hope. that their life could change. that their family could change.

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the power of mutual help and peers helping peers, both within adolescence and younger children but parents helping other parents. you know, the formal system is extremely important to be there with treatment and with recovery supports, but the power of what erica is doing with reaching out and really offering that "i've been there, i understand. you can do it. i did it." and someone said to me that what they really got when they were engaged with the parent partner was hope. that their life could change. that their family could change. that they could parent their children and that there was a way out. because in the depths of the addiction or the mental illness, you really don't see what's the path, "how do i get out of this?" "what is there besides jail or besides institutions?" so the power of mutual aid, i don't think can be understood-or understated rather. can i add something to that? we've been talking a lot about prevention and some of about treatment, but i always like to say one of my mantras is after care should not be an afterthought. we're talking about the continuum of family

it creates a marketplace for peer to peer car sharing. she completed the inaugural graduate studies at a new school that focuses on inspiring leaders to understand and fulfill [unintelligible] to adjust humanities' grand challenges. next is molly turner. joe could not make it. she is the director of public policy. next is leah of taskrabbit.com in market place where you could outsource small jobs and tasks. it is a pioneering service network, a concept she conceived and has evangelized. service networking describes the productive power of a web based social network community. since its founding in 2008, she has grown to more than 40 employees and has expanded to boston, chicago, los angeles, new york city, portland, san francisco, and seattle, with several more markets to come. under her leadership, it was named one of the next big things in tech by the wall street journal, the start up to watch by ink magazine. please welcome leah. jamie wong is the co-founder and ceo of viable.com. her vision of a more open world and exchanges through t

if you look at the november 2007 peer-reviewed, i stress, peer-reviewed study conducted by a team of nasa and university experts found cyclical changes in ocean currents impacting the arctic. the excerpt is -- quote, and i'm quoting now, this is a peer-reviewed study by nasa, said -- "our study confirms that many changes seen in upper arctic ocean circulation in the 1990's were decadal in nature rather than trends caused by global warming." in 2011 -- 2011, this is nasa again, sees 9,000 manhattans of arctic ice recovery since the low point in -- let me explain what that means. when you talk about the -- a -- the manhattan arctic recovery, they take manhattan because that's something people can identify with and see and then they relate that to the recovery of ice. in this case, this is, again, from nasa. in 2007, there are 9,000 manhattans of arctic ice recovery since the low point in 2007. now, this study was 2011. so that means that low point was actually below that and it's been decreasing since that time. that's the arctic. the antarctic, there's a 2008 peer-reviewed paper in th

outcomes were moderated by age, as the kids age they became more popular within the context of their peer groups and you will hear more about that from dr. ferris. if you want to talk about moving forward from cross sectional studies and you heard from the department of justice that the assumed link between bullying and criminality. if we look at the criminal behavior and mental health and if you did begin to those studies you ultimately find that those kids who were in cage in bullied across wanted to know analysis are at risk for criminal involvement, alcohol and drug use, challenges within their occupation but the reality is there might be a -- association. once they look at the other risk factors in the environment that association between bullying and criminality was reduced. there at a point where there might be some kids that bullied others that may have this criminal trajectory but that may not be the story for all kids. the bottom line is a limited number of longitudinal studies that untapped the mechanisms and variables that explain why kids bullied others. there are few longitu

the facts and the schism fact that the executive summary caused such an immediate backlash from the peer review group where in some cases say that felt that they were being used, i think that is very important that we get to the bottom of why it happened. and that's what this -- that's what we are trying to ascertain whether you like it or not, you were caught in that discussion, and i think, as i have said several times, that independents was comprised was something that the committee needs to look into. and that was the reason for this hearing i'm not sure we have gotten all the answers. i certainly have some questions in my mind, but i do appreciate your participation, and only thing i can offer you is that both of us probably at some time in our political lives have faced similar situations that you have. there is em em pa think from us to you. if it is part of your job to recognize the responsibility and part of self-government. that's what makes it self-difficult. there's no more business. stand adjourned. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] next senators on the cyb

to peer, schering. it was very much the bread-and- butter, and i think we will see that nationally expand, though it may not be its own initiative. >> yes, i will just add to that that you are one of the largest -- one of the largest time banks in the country is here in san francisco, the bay area community exchange. could start using that to mobilize volunteers, so i encourage you to check it out. another thing to think about is public banking. it is not necessarily a different currency, but it would be a different way of handling money. for instance, san franciscans could do it. a good but the money instead of in wells fargo or whatever, a private commercial bank, into a bank that is owned by us, and that the interest goes into city treasury, and we extend credit to ourselves. there's really innovative things that are happening, and that our public banking laws being lodged in a number of -- i think it is, like, 13 states right now. very innovative things happening. in the back. >> there are a lot of

the things that would not be counted for peer you can help to remedy the problem and get help, so that your liability at the end of the day is a very small one, hopefully. we know we will be heard from from our experts on a legal side. a lot of them can really add up here this gentleman again had heard about a situation where someone had already racked up $40,000 with of legal fees. became an issue. we are not talking about what it costs to fix up which in itself would be excess of, but also the legal component. your word of mouth and the people you know will really help. and, of course, to our media folks, people will read your articles and understand that they can really do a lot to protect their businesses early on. >> i just want to add one comment about getting our association involved. we put together a really great training. we have a panel available to you. it is only going to cost you $35 for a 30-minute conversation, and that might be the best $35 you have already spent to avoid something that will be happening in the future. that is just part of the collaborative process wit

>>reporter: this woman peered out of her window and through the darkness of night saw a body on the ground. her husband called 911 and went out to investigate. >> the cops told him to wait and just see if the body is moving. my husband went and took a closer look. the head was moving a little bit. >>reporter: neighbors say the street lamp has been out for nearly a month, so it's unclear if that played a role in the deadly hit and run.

you also attended meetings with both the peer reviewers and the same senior department officials who were later subjects of the ig's investigation but only three weeks after the report was issued you sat here in that clip we just saw that you were not involved in the process of developing the report. after these questions were first raised in may of this year, you wrote to the committee to say that you did attend a number of these meetings in order to learn about offshore drilling in your role as a member of the secretaries ocs safety oversight board and that quote and none of these information gathering meetings that i attended was the substance of the 30-day report discussed. so i'm curious what happened in these meetings. for example there was a meeting on may 17 of that year that you were invited by, that you are invited to steve black, concert to the secretary and lead author of the report. he was one of the people who was part of this investigation. could you show exhibit seven, please? so on the agenda you will see in the red box to the right, document to be reviewed and also

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these include later childhood/early adolescent stressors like bullying and peer relationship problems, also substance use, access to lethal means and that normal ideation of suicide or that death by bullying narrative that i talked about earlier. there's a very complex relationship between bullying and other factors, and we found a really great slide that had lots of arrows, and you can see it's not just a single one cause that results in suicide among young people, but a varying number of factors. but what i really wanted to focus on today was the safe messaging piece. and there are two really, really great resources that are available that give guidance about safe messaging on bullying and suicide so we can avoid, um, that contagion or that unsafe messaging that so often happens when we're talking about them in a very direct way. we want to encourage accurate and safe portrayal of suicide in all forms of the media, and these two resources to help with that. they basically are etch sizing the -- emphasizing the potential of the media to change public misconceptions and correctness ab

there is an enormous literature out there that is already peer-reviewed and published on i.q. there are dozens of papers. the big question is how well can i take a single person's brain scan and with what confidence can i get a number associated with it that we would derive an i.q. those measures and ways that we do that get better every month, basically, every year we're getting more and more accurate at taking a single piece of information or complex piece of information and fitting it. to my knowledge, it hasn't been done. i am aware there are patents on estimating i.q. using brain imaging which is a measure of metabolites in the brain. i haven't actually -- i'm not aware of any cases in which it's been used. there is no reason why it couldn't be. >> the way it's been, nothing as you have described with the algorithms to map it has been used. brain imaging has been used to try to bolster a claim of lower i.q., not by an algorithm, but by showing brain abnormalities

there is an enormous literature out there that is already peer-reviewed and published on i.q. there are dozens of papers. the big question is how well can i

short-term achievement gains in reading and math among retain students compared to their promoted peers when the students are tested at the same age. so for example, after two years, two years after the initial retention decision, retained student will be in the fourth grade, most of the promote students will be in the fifth grade. if we compare their performance when tested at that same age, the retain students outperform their promoted peers at almost half of a standard deviation in reading and but about half that much in math. this amounts to more than a grade level equivalent in reading and about half of that amount in math. these are quite substantial positive apex despite the fact the retain students are a grade level beyond their promoted peers. these achievement effects, however, fadeout gradually over time and become statistically insignificant within five years. this is a common pattern, especially those in the early grades, to see achievement effects that are large initially but fadeout overtime. this is a common pattern even in many interventions that despite the fadeout of

reviewed or published in peer review journals should be included in their's? please understand without valid studies you cannot draw valid conclusions. thank you. president hwang: thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello, conditioners -- commissioners. i want to talk about the dark sky issues. san francisco and is nearly unique in that it has a significant dark star resources along its ocean coast. the sky is dark enough that a rich variety of star clusters, nebulas, and galaxies are visible with small telescopes and binoculars or even with the unaided eye. one can even see the milky way are to across the sky. a few places in the inner bay area provide such views of the cosmos. the dark sky is a wonderful educational and aesthetic resource that deserves to be protected for all san francisco's people. hobbyist astronomers, families with kids, and ordinary folks eager to connect with the larger universe. our local astronomical community has long gone public outrage at lands and while sutra heights park provides a spectacular view of the coastline. the 150,000 w