dvds and workbooks and quizzes and look just like science tests, the lecture city, amps, volts mitochondria. at the bottom. and as i say, it is not in anyone's best interest to raise a generation of science students that cannot reason, that has no creek quick of thinking skill. that is where they cross the line. >> the question then to me is, if you have that faith can you have faith and be a critical thinker or doesn't pull you out if you believe in something that is supernatural? >> supernatural, let me say i am sure each and every one of us believes in something that we have no evidence for don't you think? like fish like me. something that we believe that there is no evidence. >> the mets will win win the world series again. >> yeah. [laughter] [applause] so i grew up in washington. i was a senator spent. i know for a store careers are some orioles fancier. sperry troubling. but they used to come to washington and play with like seven guys. they had one outfielder and he would be smoking a cigarette. i i just hope they do well next year. all right. so we were somewhere. >> believing in

the most literate cities in the united states. multiple reading events are happening every night of the year competing against a big names like city arts and lecturesradar was voted the winner of these san francisco contest. after two decades of working for free michelle is able to make radar her full-time job. >> i am a right to myself, but i feel like my work in this world is eagerly to bring writers together and to produce literary events. if i was only doing my own work, i would not be happy. it is, like throwing a party or a dinner party. i can match that person with that person. it is really fun for me. it is nerve wracking during the actual readings. i hope everyone is good. i hope the audience likes them. i hope everybody shows up. but everything works out. at the end of the reading, everyone is happy. ♪ [gavel] . good afternoon. today is december 12, 2014. welcome to the san francisco local agency formation commission. my name is john avalos, the chair of the commission. the clerk is alyssa samir a madam clerk could you call the roll. >> commissioner avalos. >> present. >> commissioner breed. >> here. >> commissioner campos. >> commissione

the most literate cities in the united states. multiple reading events are happening every night of the year competing against a big names like city arts and lecturesradar was voted the winner of these san francisco contest. after two decades of working for free michelle is able to make radar her full-time job. >> i am a right to myself, but i feel like my work in this world is eagerly to bring writers together and to produce literary events. if i was only doing my own work, i would not be happy. it is, like throwing a party or a dinner party. i can match that person with that person. it is really fun for me. it is nerve wracking during the actual readings. i hope everyone is good. i hope the audience likes them. i hope everybody shows up. but everything works out. at the end of the reading, everyone is happy. ♪ >> hello, i am with the recreation and parks department. we are featuring the romantic park location in your backyard. this is your chance to find your heart in santa and cisco with someone special. -- san francisco with someone special. our first look out is here at buena vista park a favorite with couples and dog walkers. both have a sign

despite the success of markets, trade of a lecture city is utilities that remain difficult. the balance between consolidation of system operators and coordination between systems is needed. the need will become more critical when solar power continues to grow and the greater access to balancing is required. electricity is no longer just about networks. climate change and extreme weather are fundamentally changing the way we view energy systems. the united states is experiencing with disasters like hurricane sandy. system resiliency has become a greater priorities and never before. given the scale of challenges ahead we must increase the scope of combined public and private efforts to improve climate preparedness and resilience. thankfully regulators have begun to respond to this thread and are providing guidance to network assets and operators to enhance the resilience of the assistance and you can imagine these efforts have continued. climate is not the only threat to energy systems security of the past two decades. threats have expanded passed a result of increased use of a

the edge of voting do 616 dean. >> a high school senior who was appointed toker h city mayor. and from nashville, jenny change a lecturer in law she thinks the voting age should stay put at 18. michelle is, why should 16-year-olds be given the right to vote? >> sara did a great job of voicing why it originally started the idea started in the youth commission, there's so many inconsistencies in civil liberties and responsibilities, that we hold 16-year-olds accountable to like we are allowed to drive be paid as an adult but they don't have the right to vote, and at the youth commission we have seen so many great examples of youth civic participation that we want to provide a chance to directly engen in the system. can't you be an activist and not be able to vote? >> that's a great question, and i just use animism of that. at the youth commission, we passed unanimously to support the soda tax that recently failed. even though we are an established government body and we were able to make reck are commendations to the board of supervisors we weren't able to voice our opinions in the vote in what mattered. >> jenny presumab

the capital city. but i assure you, that will not be my lecture tonight. in fact, i've heard it myself so many times, i'm tired of it. in the summer of 1939, in in event, nature and technology offered a little choice but remained here through the washington summer. on the same trip, i went to new york in the company of aunt maddy to attend the new york world's fair. there i had the first encounter with the novel technology that will have more profound consequences than air conditioning. and it was television. it was the same katie mckeller, my aunt's boss three years later would help roosevelt launch the manhattan project that will usher in the nuclear age. by the way, senator keller was chairman of the senate appropriations committee and president roosevelt summoned him to the white house to ask if he could hide $1 billion for the super secret national defense project. senator mckeller said president, of course i can. and where in tennessee are we going to build this plant? perhaps things don't change as much as you think. i recite this personal history no

the capital city. but i assure you that will not be my lecture tonight. besides, i have heard it myself so many times, i am tired of it. in that summer of 1939, in any event, nature and technology offered little choice. we had to remain here through the washington summer. on that same trip in 1939, i traveled even further north -- to new york, in the company of the same aunt mattie -- to attend the new york world's fair. and there i had my first encounter with a novel technology that would have more profound consequences than air conditioning, and it was television. it was the same k.d. mckellar, my aunt mattie's boss who, a mere 3 years later, would help president roosevelt launch the manhattan project that would shortly usher in the nuclear age. by the way, senator mckellar was then chairman of the senate appropriations committee, and when president roosevelt summoned him to the white house to ask him if he could hide a billion dollars for his super top-secret national defense project, senator mckellar said "well, mr. president, of course, i can -- and

but the lectures and seminars you know confirmed in many respects the interpretations of strauss that i was developing, particularly, for example through cities. strauss did not have a powerful political interpretation of -- [inaudible] but an interpretation that gives a very subtle understanding of the relationship between power and right in international relations. and, for example strauss in his reading deals with international law much more and much more favorably than any other interpretation i know of. most interpretations place a lot of emphasis on the dialogue where there's that famous power political sometimes that the strong take what they can and the weak bear what they must. strauss, however emphasizes -- and this comes through even more in his wonderful seminar than in the very short, extremely compact or compacted essay in "the city and man," on the importance of treaties, the importance of treaty law in greece and, indeed, as he puts it the importance of treaties to any civilization and, therefore, the importance of trust that countries or powers that sign treaties will actually obey them. and you can see how far that is from t

the industry? and, if not, why don't young people want to work with lecture city -- electricity? [laughter] >> well, i was already a baby boomer in retirement age when i left the utility. they seem to have managed without me. [laughter] this is a big issue across many sectors. i used to be on a hospital board about nursing, about teaching, about other sectors. there is the big population spike of the baby boom and then a valley and then the millennial's. i think it is of concern in the electric sector because it takes a while to train somebody, or a control room operator, that makes a lot of retirements all at once a concert -- concern. i think a lot of important work is going on with the community colleges and others to really try to develop -- there are always plenty of lawyers and all -- it is the people who work on electricity who are hard to find, to develop those trades and get people interested, i lot of companies are working on that. and military hirings is natural for the utility industry. with so many veterans coming back now a lot of them are a wonderful source of tomor

the woman with sheets and a pillow. >> rahm emanuel said take his own advice. here's what he said about the city's new red light cameras during a summer lecture. >> follow the lawiolations over the last three years? emanuel says he's still following the rules because he's paid every ticket. >>> a community rallies behind a georgia walmart greeter after he told, he is told not to wish customers a blessed day. managers of the blue ridge store silencing james phillips following just one customer complaint, but once word got out, the community held a protest, bombarded the corporate office and bombarded the retailer's facebook page with comments. >> response, some would say you're a nice fellow and i said, if you see anything good in me, it's the lord. >> managers have reversed the decision, so phillips can still wish people a blessed day. >> how could anybody be offended by that? unbelievable. >>> let's get outside to rick who is freezing out there. what is it it, like 10 degrees? >> it's up to 14 and it's windy, so it feels much colder than that. take a look at the maps. really, the only extreme cold air we have in the country is across parts of the great lakes a

lecture. seminars will be offered, as well as free flu vaccines to everyone age six months or older. the event begins at 9:30 at the del rey school in dally citycausing thousands of dollars worth of damage. we spoke to police about who may have been responsible for the crime. >> nobody should be fearful in their own neighborhood. >> a morgan hill community is on edge after vandals hit paradise valley elementary school, tagging graffiti all over campus. maria lives nearby and was stunned to learn about the crime. >> even if it's just graffiti it hurts. and it's scary, it could lead to something worse. >> reference toss kk, a rock band use of marijuana and other graphic images were spraypainted all over campus. >> with the tags that were on the school property and the walls, the concrete, as well as the doors we believe that it were juveniles based on what was tagged. >> the extra feetty firsting inned by the school's custodian was cleaned up throughout the day. district leaders say the damage was in the thousands. >> vandalism i think speaks to crime. even though it didn't occur while students were there. we want our students feel safe at schoo

lecture. website workshops with cover california educators will also be offered, as well as free flu vaccines to everyone age six months or older. the event begins at 9:30 at the school in daly cityur time. >>> vandals hit a morgan hill elementary school with messages of hate causing thousands of dollars worth of damage. we spoke to police about who may have been responsible for the crime. >> nobody should be fearful in their own neighborhood. >> a morgan hill community is on edge after vandals hit paradise valley elementary school tagging graffiti all over campus. maria lives nearby and was stunned to learn about the crime. >> even if it's just graffiti, it hurts. and it's scary, it could lead to something worse. >> reference to the "kkk", a rock band, use of marijuana and other graphic images were spraypainted all over campus. >> with the tags that were on the school property and the walls, the concrete, as well as the doors, we believe that it were juveniles based on what was tagged. >> the graffiti, first noticed by the school's custodian, was cleaned up throughout the day. district leaders say the damage was in the thousands. >> vandalism i think speaks to crime. even though

lecture the congress in part. he saw this as an opportunity to enliven the whole process. by giving the speech in person he created a whole new environment. the city was a god. that is the way that he described it. the city is a god because i'm going to speak before congress. the newspapermen were going around. this is usually an event for the pick up the speech and reported on. now they will listen to it. it was quite a special night. >> 1923, president calvin coolidge added the new medium of radio. >> he was called silent cal but he was the first to use the radio. i don't remember much of the content. i have listened to a recording of that and it was pretty dry and pretty straightforward. i think they were more interested in the medium. it did not get very many people because in 1923 radio is coming along, but it was mostly in the cities. >> next up as the media progressed was 1947 and president truman. what did he do? >> president truman was the first use television, 1947. he read the speech. this was before teleprompters were in and did. he read the -- teleprompters were invented. he read the speech from paper in front of him. there are clips

al gore telling the economic fund we should spend $90 trillion to rebuild every city on earth and get rid of cars. he says that's the way to put an end to greenhouse gases. and a lecturetraight from elsa? ♪ let it go ♪ let it go ♪ can't hold it back anymore. >> one state department official wants to use frozen characters to teach kids about climate change. drug policy alliance and dr. david murray, former chief scientist at the white drugs do in their life is extraordinary. they are more vulnerable than others because they are in poverty because they are in disadvantaged neighborhoods extent you could use incentives and leverage their behavior and help them towards treatment and recovery you are doing general good for them helping them to help themselves. >> thank you. sharda this is already something in place similarly in 11 different states. in florida a court ruled that a similar law was unconstitutional. do you think this is unconstitutional this proposal by governor scott walker? >> i don't understand the consistent fascination that politicians like scott walker have to do with the urine of poor people. drug testing people for public assistance has been proposene