peer review alone is not a sufficient check. peer reviewers are not always provided the underlying data and the quality of preer review is highly variable. the simple premise behind h.r. 1030 is that public policy should be backed up by public day tafment peer review alone does not allow independent scientists to verify the e.p.a.'s claims. this amendment would destroy the purpose of the bill and provide the e.p.a. administrator with permission to disregard the basic principles of transparency and accountability that are provided by h.r. 1030. for these reasons i oppose the amendment, mr. chairman, and i reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from massachusetts is recognized. mr. kennedy: if i can inquire as to the time i have remaining? the chair: the gentleman has two minutes remaining. mr. kennedy: i want to begin by thanking the chairman of the committee, my friend from texas, for his friendship and for the work that he's been doing. i know that we share the same goal of having a tra

to accept a grant in the amount for substance abuse for the peer support project for the 2014-2015 we have waving directly costs. >> good morning supervisor farrell and supervisor tang we're requesting the board authorize the public health to accept the pier program through the mental health services administration this program will provide much needed peer support to participants in 3 of the collaborative courts program the veterans and the drug and behavorial health court the folks will be dual diagnosed with substance abuse and bringing in peers to work with the inmates and we're excited about this program. >> thanks very much if no questions we'll open up for public comment we don't have a budget analyst report anyone wish to comment seeing none, public comment is closed. >> can i have a motion to send this item forward we'll take that without objection. >> madam clerk call item 13. >> resolution authorizing the probation department for the guaranteeing the program by the state and community corrections. >> hi, i'm karen shane from the adults probation department this essentially

ktvu's allie rasmus is live at peer 33. one supervisor calls it ludicrous. >> the supervisor was not very happy about this idea but it is the company that has the contract with the area to take people from peer 33 to alcatraz island. they have a ferry out here. night time departures. their contract expires next year. so representatives from the agency that operates alcatraz says they would like to find a permanent location for the service. >>> for visitors, alcatraz is on the bucket list. >> absolutely. that and the bridge. >> you can see why. such a history to it. cool place. >> reporter: 5,000 people a bay board the ferries. the thoughts of transplanting all those people and traffic two miles west makes neighbors cringe. >> i understand the need to have a traction for people who come here and i understand the importance of tourism but you got to look at neighborhoods and there is tranquility built in to every neighborhood. >> reporter: moving from peer 33 oo fort -- to fort mason is an option they are considering. they wa

right are women's right and to come reiterate are a the form of action san francisco was asked to be a peer leader to luggage the presidio champion with the enthusiastic support of mayor ed lee what has challenged other cities 80 join san francisco's leads we'll be hosting the u.s. conference of mayors in june we're so fortunate to have a mayor it gets it i want to share a quick story when he was the head of public works he, he we participated to make it a better workforce one of the things he created a space for women empowerment group among the employees to invite women to the first meeting he sent them a personal invitation to the home addresses helped them to pa participate and that group has been flushing every sense his qualifying didn't stop with city employees we know that 3 out four women's work in the private gender and you launched the 230u6r78 and challenged the private sector to encourage women in the workplace i see supervisor cohen has joined itself to enact the family friendly owners and the equal pay act and he's made a tremendous commitment to fight violence definition wom

in an essay "saving our own through peer review," it appeared in the publication from the cops office american policing in 2022 we described the idea of applying peer review principles to the nation's law enforcement officers. arising from this publication, a national near-miss database and reporting system is currently being deployed by the police foundation. this should help improve officer safety and should begin to help us change the practice that continue to place us at risk by failing to review our mistakes in a sound, protected fashion. we have to begin to take a hard look and learn from those times when things don't go exactly as planned. we do need some national protection because there needs to be protection from legal discovery on a nationwide level to allow this peer review process to continue. this is exactly what happens in medicine and, trust me if you make a mistake, there's still plenty of malpractice claims that can be brought against you but it allows for a frank and honest discussion. let me summarize with my four recommendations to the fafk taurus. first, ensure h

i'll teach you peer to peer analysis. get your pen and paper ready.s next. ♪ ♪ charles: all right. so i get asked all the time. how do you pick a stock amongst a group of names that all look similar? you compare those names and compare them based on business trends more so than absolute value. let's take american eagle outfitters and abercrombie & fitch two names that used to trade in tandem. you can see how they went separate ways. american eagle had lower operating margins. 4.7% versus abercrombie & fitch's number, 8.2%. why is american eagle taking off? they both have revenues of 1.1 billion. but abercrombie & fitch's revenues were down 15%. american eagle's were flat. operating margins 4.7%. up from 3.3%. 8.2% is down from 8.5%. you understand? you see where the trends are. of course, then we talk about same store sales. flat for american eagle. doesn't sound good. much better than a year ago when they were down. abercrombie & fitch, not had a positive same store sales number since 2011. now, the first buy signal between these two stocks came last

but not peer review when i send my final report and it's changed without my knowledge.t peer review. >> alfonsi: just days ago, the offices of hi-rise engineering were raided by the new york attorney general's office, which is conducting a criminal investigation into hi-rise as well as the insurance companies that hired them. hi-rise, wright flood, and u.s. forensic all declined our requests for an interview. they have denied allegations of criminal activity and all three say they are cooperating with the investigation. more than 2,000 sandy victims have filed lawsuits in federal courts. >> mostyn: you know we thought originally it might be one engineer, right? and then we find multiple engineers inside the same company. and as we dug into it, it's other engineering companies. well, then you gotta start looking for a different common denominator. >> alfonsi: and in this case all of those companies are overseen by fema, the federal emergency management agency. more than five million homeowners living in designated flood zones all around the country are required to buy fl

latino students as a whole have historically lagged behind peers. by research is shedding new light on a little known strength. >> common perception about language delays somewhat lower cognitive skills that is all borne out. >> it's okay that the pages are torn. we will use them again another day. >> that doesn't track against their social skills. >> i need a one and a two. >> and learn. >> what we're realizing now and as i talk to my teachers is that when looking at the top, both classes, the kids that were really ready socially were latino family children. that tells us that things are changing. >> the principal says latino families increasingly take advantage of educational opportunities before age five include including free tranation zillion kindergarten. >> he wants to come every day. >> her daughter went to a year of pre-school which she says really helped a lot and she says she and her husband are committed to helping with hoechl work at home. >> it's that environment at home that may be having the biggest impact at school. >> it's extremel

sammy, is this about peer pressure? >> good evening, john, i think its more than peer pressure.t we see is an issue that is really consistent on college campuses across the country. we have a real issue with race relations and race discrimination. i think its time that the university administrators across the country take action just as expeditiously and decisive as we've seen in oklahoma over the past few days. >> why the fraternities, and why is this so blatant? >> well, let me say as a member of a black greek organization, racism and prejudice has no place in any brotherhood or sisterhood. these are founded on principles of leadership, and we have to make sure that they take seriously their role in producing leaders. we think its blatant because we've seen so many incidents of racism across the country and quite honestly, university officials have not been held accountable when those racist actions take place on their campus. a precedence has been set for university administrators across the country. >> you mentioned you're a member of a greek organization, and some of these

this is about peer-to-peer lending, too.these alternatives including peer-to-peer lenders. scott: if you're going to fail, fail small. peer-to-peer lending is failing at the lowest level. the banks have gotten bigger and bigger. when i hear shadow banking, i just get aired. -- get scared. betty: i know. we will be back. ♪ betty: welcome back to "in the loop." let's get back to the most important stories you need to know before the bell. julie hyman and keep holdings founder and ceo scott kurnit. we have got to talk about oil. oil plunged. it had many people scratching their heads. forecasters veiling to predict it would be cut by more than half. it means eight years on the direction of brent crude. it used to be that they were a dollar part on these forecasts. now they are tens of dollars apart. julie: the high forecast is 80% higher. betty: incredible. nobody can figure out where oil is going to go. scott: if you think about how complicated it is going to be, when you think about oh, shale we can do that then you think abou

. >> as many of adelson's peers in>> as many of adelson's peers have noted, it is his very success in macau that has left las vegas in the dust. a point not lost on the billionaire. >> did you ever think that macau was going surpass las vegas in the way it has? >> yes. >> what convinced you? >> when we first applied in macau in 2002, there was $2.5 billion in gross gaming income. by 2004 when we opened the sands, there was $5.5 billion. >> $5.5 billion? >> right. in two years. >> wow. >> the business was there. people were not recognizing it. how do i think it was going to grow? because there were 1.3 billion chinese. >> about 64% of his las vegas sands revenue comes from his macau properties. since opening the sands in 2004, he has expanded into other industries, including ferries, bringing people from his resorts in hong kong to macau in high-speed boats. >> what i recognized was there was not enough ferry service, so i set up a ferry business. what do i know about the ferry business? what i know about every business when i go into it. zero. but there's not much i cannot learn. i be

but if fact based evidence supported peer review science. if you listen to some people in washington you think there is a question whether climate change really is a problem if we really need to respond. to stop and think about the basics. when apple falls from the tree will drop toward the ground. we know that because of the basic laws of physics. science tells us gravity exist in the one disputes that. it also tells us when the water temperature drops below 32 degrees the turns to ice and no one disputes that. so when science tells us the climate is changing in human beings are largely causing the change what right do people say i dispute that or deny that? but yet there are those who do so. literally a couple days ago state officials are trying to use bin the german climate change in public documents because they're not willing to face the fact we literally do not have the time to waste to a debate if we can say climate change and how we solve it. no matter how many people want to bury their head in the sand will not alter the fact that 9

there are peer review studies that i can link you to, as throughout the 20th century we have seen fewer droughts, become less severe and that's the national oceanic and atmosphere administration shows. that's simply not true. >> you're a lawyer not a scrient scientist right? >> i successfully completed ivy league atmospheric science courses. do you believe that? >> i'm the only person this this interview right now who spent the last 15, 20 years on a daily basis conversing with scientists climate scientists -- >> you are not a ph.d. >> no i'm not a ph.d. about. >> i could stay in a holiday inn express but that doesn't qualify me to run a coal fireding energy plant owned 50 koch by the koch brothers who are supporting you. >> that's your attempt to draw the attention away from the science. >> the credentialed ph.d.s have said the global temperatures are going up and man made science are what are contributing to it. >> i say the same thing, thank you for pointing that out david. >> in order to believe that maybe there's a chance that a lot of human beings won't be helped by warm he temper

includes in high school and those taking calculus are on track to go into technology field all of their peers will have had algebra going go engineering and science and math and computer programming field thank you. >> >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good evening. i'm deb what i ramon are a an sfusd parent and former career public serpt i was a physics major green under graduate having two years of california includes was important for engineering and computer science not a requirement at any california college but the kids that go on to do those things have them under in their belt the ones that doesn't dropped out that if you haven't take place two years of college math you'll not been able to keep up at the colleges public schools children shouldn't be denied those opportunities that the urban children are having i don't see a purpose i reject the decot no one is tracking the 0 population tracking the kids i said what that that is. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi, i'm john a personality of a second grader at daniel webster and teach on after school

she is one of the plaintiffs in the peer lawsuit. for years she has filmed what she calls manatee harassment. >> what was it like out there this morning? >> crazy, too many people, too many boats, not many manatees they know where to go when things get crowded. i see people stand on them climb on their backs to ride grab and lolled their anybodiers, try hug them from behind and catch a ride. blocking them from surfacing to breathe. just about everything you can think of. >> fueled by the manatee swimming experience provides at least a thousand jobs and tens of millions of dollars of revenue for gift shops and hotels. it really is the only game in town. >> reporter: so where do you draw the line? >> i think people should not touch the animals or attempt to. i think that's where a lot of the harassment and the disturbance of the animals occurs. >> but it's not at all clear that tourism is harming the manatees. in fact manatees seem to be making a come back. researchers found they were at a record high this year more than 6,000 of them,

his peer never complained at all. i would totally use naja in other nugauche -- negotiations. i said say do you know who naja is? if you stop working you are causing him to loosese money. you should call him. i share this to show in arabia power is the only thing that brings true respect. it helped me avoid what i wanted to avoid. strength is what is respected in that part of the world. in the tribal world it is practically suicidal to make concessions to appear weak and weaken our allies position. you have to demonstrate one's power. as a nation confronting threats from russia and north korea we need leaders who deal in strength. leaders like ronald reagan who understand the world is not a classroom on a college campus. the world is dangerous and full of people who only respect strength and power. if we want to understand our cherished value of liberty and free market and tolerance that can only happen through a projection of strength and confidence. today we are increasing our leadership but we are paying a price. broad senseless cuts to the military through sequestration, s

his peer never complained at all. [laughter] >> i would totally use nadji and other negotiations later on. totally. some guys were holding stuff up one time i get a dahl and they're stopping work. i'm like, do you know who nadji is? because if you continue to stop work you're making million lose money so call him. problem solved. so i share this experience with you to make a simple point. in arabia power is the one thing. the only thing, that brings true respect. it got nadji what he wanted, helped me avoid what i wanted to avoid. strength is respected in that part of the world, and in the tribal world it's practically suicidal to make unilateral concessions. the only way to establish peace or command respect or retain any influence is to demonstrate one's power. and now as a nation, confronting threats emanating from that part of the world, frontal russia or know, we need leaders who deal in strength leaders like ronald reagan, who understand that the world is not a classroom on a college campus. the world is very da

years i know that supervisor campos knows it first hand often he and i often on different schedules peered through the events why not have something positive ranch this place those portals were used in the classrooms broken into no type of wirings in the place i word why nothing worked and optimistic as neighbors moved in and around they word what feels the focus of this place but we have a focus a long term focus this is the place for one hundred and 25 bringing unit of low income housing this will be built here hopefully within less than 8 months (clapping.) all of the process going through and all of the sprifrdz every one of you have had the challenge to provide low income housing and transgender youth housing and want to speed that up while authenticity happening public works working with trent working with barbara gary suicides and homelessness connect guided united states if we're going to be able to welcome in groups of people that would never come to a shelter by themselves feel they wouldn't survive groups of people yes, we call them sometimes homeless but i call them groups of p

latina students as a whole have historically led behind their peers.ch is shedding new light on a little known strength. >> i did the pumpkins and chocolate. >> the common perception about language delays lower english proficiency, somewhat lower cognitive skills problem solving skills is all true. that's empirically born out in findings. >> i need them to be closed up. it's okay the pages are torn. >> the surprising finding is that that doesn't track against their social skills. >> clear? >> go. >> where does this go? >> on your table. see the pile leslie is making >> latino children have strong social and emotional skills on average. >> on your mark. >> they show up for kindergarten mature. they respect their teachers. >> go. >> they're ready to share. >> are you missing a none? >> i need a one and two. >> and to learn. >>. >> four five. >> what we're realizing now and as i talked to my kindergarten teachers when looking even at the classes we have here as the bear resford, both classes the kids that were really ready socially were our latino family

this mirror is paired with a glass, a little wind drove -- window that you peer through. you look to the horizon. you move this back-and-forth until the sun is reflected from here to here thus measuring the angle at the bottom. it is more exact than a gunther's quadrant. it gives you your latitude as accurately as possible. it was used all the way until the invention of the gps. it is a very accurate tool. latitude was easy enough. longitude was a different problem. longitude is the north and south lines. they go from one pole to the next. part of the problem with the longitude is that there is no geographical area on earth that is different enough for you to measure away from. there is no real point in the earth that you can tell you are east or west of it we had to settle on a primary the, zero degrees. today, it sits over greenwich england. there is a great observatory there, the royal observatory. england won all the wars and got to tell people what they were going to use. it is not just those reasons. england was the one that eventually solved the longitude problem.

sometimes these evaluations are peer to peer evaluations. >> this has happened five times in history. zero times had in the united states. one's hierarchy of values and priorities it should be near the bottom. >> there are a lot more plane crashes that are unaccounted for. >> do you know what i read this week even in the financial industry, eric was talking about, lots of people say i don't want to invest my money with someone who is going through a divorce. well, why can't i know that when i get on a plane? >> view crew, azalea banks hates america, those are her words and think americans are racist i have a few words for the rising hip hop star on wake up america you won't want to miss those fireworks, tweet your thoughts using #wakeupamerica. coming up, can you get a deal with folks who want us dead iranians heard chanting death to america at a rally for the ayatollah, so should the white house still be playing let's make a deal with them? . >>> crowds in iran said to be chanting death to america, but yet the white house is still wheeling and dealing on nukes with them. yet again th

this important work and may his example of quiet generosity be one to be yes, ma'am late among the peersre grateful to the mayors staff and here i'd be remiss if i didn't thank the deputy of staff jason elliott and director of the strategy partnerships and our director of hope bev their efforts in guiding us to the government together we can meet the projects many sensitive guidelines deadlines and i'm permanently indebted to the chair as the the executive committee and the interfaith board of directors many of whom have joined us height to get with the human resources agencies when we received the call they k37b9d the leadership in embracing n this collaboration and do everything we can to make sure we met and exceeded the fiduciary responsibility of a nonprofit so our partnerships partners can be met allow me to end pro effective voices of faith tloit throughout the aged remind us that history will just the greatness of society to the regress e degree it takes care of the people in needs no doubt we'll smile to the countless souls that will be helped thank you (clapping.) >> as the may

they use small fishing peers like this to off-load drugs. i never talk to them as i fear for my life. >> three months ago, thailand, laos and myanmar launched an attack. they say there has been a 50% increase in arrests and cease tours. >> an arrest in one country can lead to another arrest in another country. coordination can lead to many rests, and to drug kingpins. >> reporter: an example happened at the headquarters recently. thai officers were shown how tea packets were used to smuggle methamphet mean locally auld ice. their counterparts saw the same thing. all know now to keep an i out for the tea packets. >> about 5,000 soldiers and police officers are directed by the coordination centre. in each country there were provinces bordering or connected to the golden triangle. the operations ranging from trafficking, breaking up money laundering syndicates. they operate within their territories and borders. there are no joint operations number of. >> it's a trust-building exercise, to work together on the same initiative. that's a lot of ba

have open conversations with them about their responsibility on social media and how they treat their peersit's important to tell them it's okay to step up and be the hero to prevent these situations from happening. and it's also okay to check their phones to check their computers. it's part of being proactive because you never want to be sitting where i'm sitting where you have to deal with a tragedy and the loss of someone. >> absolutely. >> so dear. >> thank you so much for sharing your story today. i really appreciate it. >> thank you. >> and we have to take a little bit of a break. when we come back, we're going to hear about how our lesbian, gay, and transsexual teens are facing their social pressures. stay with us. hey! i found my true love, livin' in a sweet dream. singin' my favorite song and it all starts with you. whoa-oh-oh-oh, all this goodness... what matters most should always come first. which is why whole grain is the first ingredient in every general mills big g cereal. and why we never use high fructose corn syrup. general mills. look for the big g. it means goodness firs

i'm going to be a biomedical engineer. [ girls laughing ] i mean, i want to succumb to peer pressure all of my life. i'm going to be a best-selling novelist and win the national book award. i'm going to be a marine biologist. wait! i take mine back. i'm going to be a biomedical engineer. i think i'll be the president. i'm going to be secretary of state. world-class chef right here. race-car driver. artist. paleontologist. film director. surgeon. teacher. scientist. olympian. i'm going to be the boss. i'm going to change the world. >> this report is brought to you by a grant from the connecticut tobacco & health trust fund. >> if you have a boyfriend or girlfriend who smokes, you can do them a huge favor. you can help them to quit. katie tells us how. >> if you don't smoke -- and hopefully you don't -- no doubt you'd like to see your boyfriend or girlfriend kick the habit. >> if i had a boyfriend who smoked, i'd want them to stop because it's really bad for their health, and... >> their breath would be pretty bad. >> they always kind of smell like cigarettes, which is just not somethi

everyday during lunch, and all day on friday ramma leads a team of peer tutors. and in this her junior year ramma has, by herself tutored more than 120 fellow students. >> you personally have tutored about half the school. >> yeah. yeah. >> her teachers are understandably grateful. >> yeah. she is an incredible model of compassion. >> not just compassion but dedication as well. and proof that a little bit of kindness can go a long, long way. >> okay. okay. >> coming up they may be cute -- but they require tons of care. meet the kitty crusader who helps these tiny kittens with a little more than a thank you. >> because they were wrong, okay. it's just that simple. >> and he's a nasa-aimed scientist that doesn't take no for an answer even if it takes 30 years to get a yes. don't wait for awesome... totino's pizza rolls... ...gets you there in just 60 seconds. go bold with flavors that kick. (humming) oh yeah. (humming) they're magically delicious. ha! very funny, kyle. [ birds chirping ] [ inhales, exhales ] [ announcer ] cigarettes are not just dangerous when they

what must have been peer pressure in some cases. >> i never felt any peer cindy. >> to get in trouble. >> but i don't know how i can explain it. it's just that i always thought i was special. and it wasn't an arrogance. it was a knowing and it was there is a life out there, and i am just doing time. and i am going to make this time work for me. i am going to do everything right so that when i get out of this existence, out of childhood and into life as a young adult, i want all that it can offer, and i want to take advantage of all that it can offer. so, therefore, i had tunnel vision in that respect. it's: do you want to go get high? no. do you want to go hang out with boys? no. no. >> was part of it also when you write this so after you leave the convent, you go to a group home and you are actually excited about that. and you write about how you sort of got this moral code from that. was there a silver lining to being, you know, in the system as you describe it in the book? >> yes. you know, when you talk about, you know, the issues of child abuse and the foster care system and bein