and the panel i served on did not redo any part of the accident investigation. we simply used the facts that they gleaned. so there was an excess amount of methane that had accumulated, a very effective way to reduce accumulations of methane is through ventilating, proper ventilating air. there was not proper ventilating air, according to the investigations. one of the reasons that there was improper ventilating air down in that area of the mine was because of a partial blockage in the tailgate entry from a roof fall. >> now i can -- sorry to interrupt. my dad, as an examiner, he would have come in previous shift and saw that was improper, he would have reported that up and that would have been corrected or the next shift couldn't come down that coal mine. so why did you find out why that that happened? >> i can't speak to why the operators' preshift examination is or the operators' personnel didn't detect and do anything than. >> i guess my argument is they probably did. and the question is did you find where that -- i mean i can't imagine the examiner, whateve

the hotter the panels, the less energy they produce. in summer, when their surfaces can hit 60 degrees celsius, they are 20% less efficient. one way to keep the temperature down is by sprinkling them with water. however, water evaporates quickly and the cost of using so much water actually drives up operating costs. so the company tried using ceramics underneath the solar panels. ceramics absorb water and that water evaporates slowly. that means less water is needed to cool down the panels. under the glass surface of panel is the layer of silicon that generates electricity. the ceramic underlay retains water, so the temperature can be kept down without having to add water continuously. the company has found that by making the ceramics into flat panels they can reduce the temperature by seven degrees. its next target is to bring that down by over ten degrees. >> translator: if this approach can be developed for use on people's houses, much more power can be generated than at present. >> reporter: another company is focusing on maximizing

they reorganized the subsidiary that makes liquid crystal panels. they agreed to sell more than half the subsidiary shares to a chinese firm. managers also plan to sell a stake to japanese parts suppliers. they say the alliances will help them bring in more revenues. >>> japan airlines will resume hiring of graduates for the first time in three years. the carrier has been under financial reconstruction since it went bankrupt two years ago. jal will hire about 30 men and women fresh from college for administration positions starting next april. they include sales personnel and people who deal with passengers at airports. the airliner will also add about 200 flight attendants. the carrier will also start midcareer recruitment of flight attendants for the first time in four years. jal also hopes to resume screening of engineers, including ground crew next year. >>> social networking giant facebook is making a bid to enhance its services and boost its user base. the company has announced it will buy instagram, a possible mobile photo sharing service for

on the panel are going to tell us about their companies. let's come straight down the line. >> i am a co-founder and ceo of viable, a community marketplace for travel experiences. anybody can offer their services to others as a guide, offering touristrs, sailing ships, cookig class. we have enabled terrorism -- tourism to access parts of the city it had never before accessed. restoring murals for example. we launched in 2011. we have been going for about a year. we're proud to be launched in san francisco and growing the platform here. >> i am the founder of a company called task rabbit, an online marketplace for people to outsource jobs to others. if you need dry cleaning pickup or groceries delivered, you can post that job. one of our over 1000 active task rabbits will be alerted and you will be able to be matched to them. they both run online vetting process that includes an application, background check. we're passionate about the idea of micro entrepreneurship. we have created over 1000 jobs for people in san francisco to set their own

the thing about solar panels is they work during the day owl. so the big question is what about at night? well when isn't shining. in the past the only solution you had to that was batteries. you would have to purchase a large group of batteries and wire them to your system. during the day the sun would produce what your house needed and charge up the batteries and at nighttime you would draw off the batteries. what has made solar go from a niche market and explode to a big popular market has been a breakthrough called net metering. because the sunshines differently during different parts of the year it makes sense to go for a whole year before you settle accounts. so you get a statement every month, but you don't have to pay it unless you want to. your credits or debits roll over from month to month and at the end of the year you settle accounts. the key concept is magical in a sense. the utility grid is a two-way street. you can send electricity back up in the lines. because you can do this, in effect, the grid can take the place of your batte

do you have to have the solar panels replaced periodically? no, actually the solar panels last a really long time. there are solar panels in operation from the 1950's and the 1960's. the inverter is a piece of hardware that has a lifespan between 10 years. they usually warranty between five and 10 years. that may need replacement down the line. the solar panels will last a good long time. this is what we have intalked here at british motors. what we have, there is no moving parts here as we are talking about. you have a tempered glass cover covering the cells themselves and an aluminum frame. each one of these little blue frames is the solar cell. the way this makes its power, you have the individual cells are tied together with these silver lines here which is actually thed soer which the equivalent of wiring. it ties the cells to each other in series or in parallel which are basic terms of saying how they join together, how they're wired together. this one here is about 35 pounds. you're welcome to check it out if you want. it's glass in an

welcome to the narrating disaster panel. before we start make introduction, the festival folks ask that i read a couple of things to you, please turn off your crrn cell phones and any other devices that might make a noise or interrupt. we'll -- there will be a signing after the panel at book signing following the session located the assigning area seven, area noted on the festival map in the center of the event program. personal recording of this session is not allowed. you'll see these two mikes here. we'll have a q and a session at the end. we encourage you to perhaps. that's where you come up to the mikeses if you want to ask any questions. that's it. that's the rules. welcome, again, let me introduce myself. i'm barry segal. the former national respond for the los angeles "los angeles times." i think we're all former corp. dents. i'm presently on the faculty where i direct a degree program in literary journalist. i'm the author of six books, both fiction and nonfiction. the latest was about a plane crash and the rise of s

i am excited to be on the panel. >> thanks, jessica. i was putting together a presentation recently with the logos of companies in the sharing economy on the map near our office at eco dash working place --at a coworking place. i counted 20 share economy places in my neighborhood. there are new companies launched every week. this is just a small sample, some the leaders in san francisco. jay, give us some background on the sharing economy working group and how you think it benefits san francisco, including underserved communities. >> it is historic we are being thoughtful, looking forward in shaping the policies. mayor lee and board president david chiu and the supervisors announced the sharing economy working group. the idea is to look at the issues at play as well as understand the benefits of the sharing economy, whether environmental or economic. you can see with the companies that there is tremendous dahlia to society. it is getting ahead of the curve so that we're not applying outdated rules to a new approach. earlier legislation d

can i call up for the next panel mr. steven whitesell, who is the regional director of the national capital region for the parks service and the department of the interior. m mr. william guerin. i hope i did not pronounce that. >> just right. >> with the general services administration. retired brigadier general carl reddel from the air force who is executive director of the eisenhower memorial commission. mr. howard who is the director emeritus of the national arts society. mr. rodney cook junior who is president of the national monuments foundationment and mr. bruce cole who is the past president for the endowment of the national humanities. and we barely got you in there. once again, the same rules will apply. your written testimony will appear in its entirety in the record. we ask for oral comments this time to supplement the written testimony. again, the clock in front of you, i hope you can all see it there, has a timer on it. the yellow light means you have a minute left. we would ask you to stay within the five-mi

i'd like to ask the panel members. why don't we talk about what drew you to your disasters stories, amy. how you came to the and what you saw there. >> bell, what true drew me to the haitian earthquake, i had had written had a book about haiti about fifteen, twenty years before the earthquake. i had been going there. i had an ongoing enbasementment with haiti. i tried not to go down for the earthquake. i was trying to sort of say, okay, i should do other things besides haiti. so i didn't want to go. i don't like earthquakes. i know, that all of you from california will agree with me. the little exciting but mostly horrible. the haitian earthquake was particularly terrible. i don't like earthquakes, i don't like aftershocks, i don't like crowds, blood, death. i don't like to leave home, i hate flying. there were lots of reasons for me not to go down within e will say eventually it was about a week and a half i said i have to go. i can't not go and see what essentially happened to my second country when it's suffering lik

what the panel did was focus on particularly on peculiarity is of the california system. where the california supreme court had determined that there was a right, a constitutional right under the constitution of california for citizens to marry someone of the same sex. and the -- when the case gets to the ninth circuit, the ninth circuit is focusing on the fact that the supreme court of the united states in the romer case had determined that similar constitutional amendment in colorado taking away the rights of gay and lesbian citizens violated the constitution, the equal protection clause and the due process clause. those two clauses of the constitution are folded in every time we talk about this issue. whether it's the lawrence versus texas case or the romer case or other cases that deal with this, and when we litigated the case we litigated it as a fundamental right to marriage and an equal protection claim. what the ninth circuit did was make a relatively narrow decision, but also talked about all of the justifications that california had offered for its active discri

the building department has a process to issue permits for solar panels. you come and get a permit over the counter. we have done a lot of work to calculate the loading of the panels and how the racks will be constructed. we haven't looked much how they ever flashed and waterproofed. we are leaving that to the solar contractors to do. >> what i like now is the solar panels resemble roof shingles. it actually looks like a roof. there is no hassle how they will be bounded or anything like that. >> no. just a shingle. >> here's a flyer. roof shingles. in fact, there are roll material i seen in magazines where it's roll material that have built into it for vertical and horizontal surfaces. it will be the site screens on buildings. >> in the next 5 years we will see ark lot of solar products and the price is dropping. >> while we are talking about solar photoable tech. let's talk about the green issues related to roofs. there were changes to the state law regarding roofing. you have been involved in that you want to talk about the reflectist issues. in october o

. >> thank all the panel members for their discussion. we'll go into a first round of questioning. start off. mr. wright, i know you haven't seen the entire report in your other memorandum, but you've been responding with respect to the discussions to the reports that you have. what is the leaked memo had on the morale of your members? they still have a desire to work for this program? they still think this program is worthy? do they still think this program is workable? >> above all, they think it's worthy and they are ready to move forward. with that being said, there was an aspect of insult to that report. there was an aspect of calling into question capabilities, education, training, and so forth. so there was and still is an aspect of being disrespected. >> mr. scott and mr. allmond, since the leaked memo came out, how has -- if they have, dhs engaged you on the issues that were outlined in the leaked memo? and has there been any suggestion of how you work together to solve any of the issues detailed in the memo, or is that viewed more as the department's internal problems that

before we go to the panel discussion. these facts may be intellectually stimulating or inspiring, but they do not really speak honestly to my heart. this is what brought me to the sharing economy. what i was after was a new way to live in a way that i felt i could live fully. what excites me about sharing is how it changes every day like for the better. it empowers us. the economic shift in the new businesses of creating and exchanging value is creating a new cultural narrative. it is replacing an old legacy narrative that was toxic. it told us the go live comes from shopping and competition -- it told us the good life comes from shopping in competition, from being free from each other. we are leading ving this because it has pushed us to the brink of extinction. it has enslaved as to debt. it is boring. it is spiritually empty. there is a news story being born in san francisco. it is one where the more you contribute to the common good, the more you are respected. the better you believe in committee, the more access to wh

and actually -- i know you are on the third panel. come on up. come on up. this is james "j.t." thompson. he came all the way from louisiana to be here today. [applause] one question, how did you survive? >> god. god. god. death row is a place that brings out the truest human being in you. it makes you realize you can't take nothing for granted. you need to love every moment of each day and praise and thank god for each moment you have out here. for the system to do what it did to me -- i was the only child from my mother. i was a father too. the system didn't see none of that. it did not see me not having a criminal record. it's hard to accept. it's hard to keep on continuing to accept a prosecutor or somebody that wants to sentence swub to death with a system that's corrupt as ours. all right. [applause] >> i want to take this opportunity to thank the sponsors who have made the summit possible. the law firm of brown and furtel and my good friend, dave young, thank you. the criminal trial lawyers association. we'll hear from their incoming president in a few minutes. and also st

my question is for the panel. the budget control act requires an enforcement mechanism called and i did mention in my opening remarks sequestration. and due to take effect in january of 2013. my question to the panel is what would the sequestration have on the department's budget and your ability to provide core services to tribes? >> well, we are very concerned about the sequestration. for the indian health service, a portion of our budget actually is protected in that automatic decrease would be less but it still would be 2%. and 2% for our budget equates to around $88 million, and that would have to be applied to both of our accounts in services and facilities. and so we already know that our system has had to absorb a lot of costs including high medical costs and inflation and so on. and having another $88 million to try to absorb in our budget would be very painful and would be very difficult for our health care facilities and would certainly impact services. so we're following the progress of this in congress

the government policy director at spur. it is my distinct pleasure to welcome such an amazing panel as well as the mayor of our fine city. this is the innovation mayor, mayor ed lee. [applause] >> thank you. can everyone here me? welcome to spur. i enjoy being here because every time i come here, some part of my brain wakes up that has not been woken up before. i am here to welcome you. earlier, i had a wonderful opportunity to exchange with our panel members about what they are doing and how they're doing it. . i think these panel members are here as part of their own entrepreneurial spirit. they own companies but love the city. they know the spirit of the city is one of innovation, that invites peoples and views, and smashes them -- meshes them together to see if we can make an even better san francisco. we have two other supervisors who may be coming later. we're all part of the initial group of policymakers at city hall who want to hear news views and ideas on the new collaborative economy. we're interested in it because it has aspects that have piqued our interest, about hoour environment, how to improve life for mo

the sharing economy will fail to meet its promises. 30 of things that are the biggest threats to our society. i will open a panel -- there are two things i think are the biggest threats to our society. i will give you a high level brief of the sharing economy. there is no textbook definition of the sharing economy. we will then begin the panel discussion which will last for 45 minutes or an hour, however long you want it to last. before i dived in here, raise your hand if you are familiar with at least one of these books. i highly recommend all of them. the one on the end is coming out in may. "share or die" -- i do not recommend that for marketing, but for a cause, we're trying to push a boundary and break a trail for new companies to follow. that is our perspective about what is at stake on a planet of finite resources with a growing population and growing per capita consumption. it should be obvious that we should be talking about sharing. this is a gigantic hole in our public dialogue. this panel and the working group and hopefully the book can fix that. see how this works. we face disaster unless we simulta

. >> i want to thank the panel. this is all the technology is remarkable, the innovation is amazing and you know, we here in congress are just trying to keep up with what's going on out there. as you can tell from listening to us this morning. i'm curious to know, this is for anybody on the panel because there are some studies out there that suggest streaming accounts for about 54% of internet traffic in north america during peak times, netflix and youtube for 37.6% of north america's daily internet consumption. which leads to a question, do we as a nation have sufficient infrastructure and band width to support the increased demand for high quality online streaming services and what are the foreseeable issues that arise fog our internet infrastructure in terms of this exploding demand and availability of online video and what should congress be watching for in this area? if anybody would like to take a stab at that. >> senator, thank you very much. i think the core characteristic of the internet is that consumers ar

we will turn to questions from the panel for this group. do you have questions? >> enthusiastic, mr. chairman. let me begin. did the eisenhower project deviate from, from the process, the memorial process that's in place? >> no, sir. it has followed that process pretty much to the letter. >> okay. and the question -- general, if i may, i understand you're still in the final stages of that design process? >> ak sthactually in the latters of the design process. the desoon pign process has bee going on for two years. >> that is the design process, not the selection process? >> no, it is the design process to bring it to the stage where it can be presented as a final design. so we are in the preliminary -- last stages of the preliminary design approval process. >> how is -- how is that being worked out with concerned parties at this point? >> well, as i noted earlier, we have gone through a series of public meetings, which have been open to the public and we have incorporated imputs as we received them along the way. we ask for a delay in our appearance before the nat

the blue ribbon panel on the future of st. luke's hospital includes 11 recommendations. among those recommendations that i knew it acute-care hospital should be rebuilt on the campus, that the size of the hospital should be it corporate to the planned improvements, and it should represent the commitment to excellence in health care. the house passed or recommend -- a resolution based on the recommendation. the health commission has two additional resolutions related to cpmc. i to thousand nine, it supported the rebuilding of -- in 2009, is supported the rebuilding cpmc facilities. replacing skilled nursing facility beds that are not included in the plans of the hospital, and supplementing the recommendations of the blue- ribbon panel. in accordance with this, the health commission also established a task force on cpmc's master plan. agreements resulted in a third commission resolution which was passed in march 2010. this resolution set specific goals for each of the eight recommendations, most of which have the time to responsibilities for the two hospitals. the help com

back with the panel. eallying it oureally laying ite calling it a trojan horse, saying the plan is radical. what about the speech, all that he said and reaction to it? >> well, the president was shrilled demagogic partisan and very small. he comes out looking for small. the problem is he is most strident on his greatest failure. for president to elect republicans, paul ryan on leadership and responsibilities on fiscal issues and entitlement reform and budgets when he can't, as you ask jay carney about in the interview earlier, he can't even gently nudge the senate democrats to pass a budget with 51 votes which they could do tomorrow if there was the political will. the president hasn't been serious about this since the beginning of his presidency. think what we saw from him today is a sense of desperation that he knows he can't make win, the argument on the substance so he has to lash out. >> bret: in the interview with carney, getting to a question i asked before. david axelrod and others about the senate

leading the panel, this is the chief attorney of the public defender's office, matt gonzalez. >> let me talk about how we decided to have a panel as part of this year is just a summit on the death penalty. san francisco is often known for being a large city, in this case, we have a unique history with the death penalty. during his reelection campaign of 1999, terrence hallohan said that they would not seek the death penalty for any offense in san francisco. he was reelected by a close margin a few years later, and she took the position that she would not bring any death penalty case. and she was reelected with the same conditions as part of the reelection campaign. harris was elected to be the state of the new general, and gavin newsom elected george gascon to be the district attorney. when asked his position on the death penaltiy, hy, he said he wouldn't rule it out. this raised a lot of concern among opponents of the death penalty who thought this would be a step backward. he has written against the death penalty, and adheres to san francisco values. san francisco has not had a jury

[applause] >> we're going to have to bring the panel to a close in a few minutes. we were just asked if there are any closing thoughts that you have for the audience, before we close it. >> i keep following tony. it's not fair. you know, the system is only as good as the people who are operating within it. and it's only as good as how the resources available to it can be used. and that's not an easy fix. that's a long-time issue. and i don't have a good answer for that attorney i am hopeful we can try in some manner to level the playing field a little more, at least so that the attorneys in my fictional world have it a little easier. but more important, you know, i have it easy. i write stories. we met the gentleman who is on death row for a long time. you hope at the very least you can avoid serious, serious mistakes. and allocating the resources to make sure those mistakes don't happy think is a very important thing. >> my view, be more activistic, have more courage, where there's manifest, protest it. everyone should choose an issue. everyone then should be behin

i have a question for the panel. in the past, whenever that vat trial balloon has gone up, it's been shot down by the governors associations, the mareses associations, who say consumption taxes, that's our sand box. the feds should stay out. so has perspective of the governors and mares changed? and if not, what can be done to change that perspective? >> first of all, i this i we have to say if you get rid of the phrase consumption tax when you say value added tax. consumption tax is related to income and things like that. value added tax is a business cash flow tax that's border adjustab adjustable. >> maybe you should unpack that so everybody understands what a value added tax is. >> here's the deal. i make cars. i sell my cars. i get $5 billion for selling my cars. from that, i subtract the billion i paid the steel company, the glass company, da, da,da,da, da. $4 billion. i send 25% of that to the government. i'm done. that's it. that's the whole thing. so the cash comes in, cash goes out. cash is only deductible i

any person on the panel can handle this. one of the world's leadingest authors on vietnam was a man named bernard who lived a 20-minute drive from the pentagon. why did mcnamara and his colleagues never bother to talk to him other than they never said what they wanted to hear? >> that story, there is a story about that. one time when they -- i think it was in 63 or maybe 64. they were agonizing over vietnam and i think mcnamara may have been the person who suggested that expertise was needed and someone actually suggested that fall who was in at howard university would be the ideal person and eventually in the context that is not that clear to me. eventually at least according to the stories i have heard and sms something somebody told in a memoire that they were skeptical about falling because he was french. this may have been a time -- that's the story. i am just repeating the story that was told. they went to an english journalist, pj honey, i think, who had written extensively on vietnam and i think i know whether he was

i'd like to thank the panel for being here. i'd like to know how would we a lot the black writers and publishers the opportunity to have their work promoted in the forefront when we're constantly bombarded by works of fiction and wiz arounds and war locks. i personally, i would like to i personally i appreciate good writers, writer that have a point to make. poignant work they need to address to the masses. how would we go about in expressing this and having greater writers such as yourself on the panel express their work through the public media? >> thank you. >> i think there's a big issue we don't talk about which is about writing. how many of us want to write for mass audience? you know, i think that's an issue for black writers. a lot of writers want to write about pain and suffering. my 99-year-old father-in-law who went through that doesn't want to read about pain and suffering. he reads mystery novels. he won't go to black films or precious. he said, i don't need to see that. i lived that. i think we need to think about,

we will take questions from the audience following the panel. please wait for the microphone to come to you because we are live streaming this over the internet, and we want to make sure everybody can hear your question. when you do get the microphone please identify yourself and phrase your question as a question. please don't give any speeches. keep your questions limited. lunch will be served during the third session beginning at 12:30. this session ends at 12:15. a little bit about our program, the program on crisis conflict and cooperation, known as c-3, the post conflict reconstruction proje project. we're now in our tenth year at csis during a time when the field has changed fairly dramatically ten years ago after 9/11 there was a lot of hope about post con mrikt reconstruction in the wars in afghanistan and iraq. we've had quite a lot of experiences with post conflict reconstruction and we have found that it's time to rethink where we are in the field, where we've come. a lot of what we do in our program looks at development in governance