china is the world's biggest maker of solar panels. chinese manufacturers have cut their prices aggressively, putting foreign rivals under pressure. price cutting is the major factor of solar panel industry. this factory in malaysia is expected to reduce the course of production by 20%. until now, panasonic produced the key component to solar cells in japan and assembled the panels overseas. by integrating production in one place, the company can reduce costs for transport and personnel. >> translator: price competition could continue to intensify. we'll keep improving productivity to stay ahead. and improve our performance. >> reporter: solar cells are the critical component for generating solar energy. they contain valuable business secrets that manufacturers fiercely protect. panasonic's decision to shift production of solar cells overseas reflects the price competition the company must endure. nhk world, malaysia. >>> people who work in japan's tourism trade are focusing on malaysia and other nations in the muslim world. 1.7 billion

beul to representatives asking us to be represented on the panel. and either the subsequent mr. wooding's perceptions of what our true motives were to be in perception, but at the end of the day, there was a public discussion about golden gate park and we asked for representation on the panel. the charges that are directly focused on me, i think, that there wasen ean e-mail on which i was carbon copied on and i deleted it and i will get well over 300 e-mails a day and based on the department's record retention policy, that is not a record that in my view at least at the time was either essential or required in any sort of serious departmental action, this was an outside entity that was again hosting a panel and again, the e-mail said mr. wooding sites were again, in an effort to actually have a department representative and present what we felt to be a balanced view of a public policy issue. >> it was nothing that was required departmental action. it was not anything that was either the essential record or a legal record. and mr. wooding's sunshine request i believe came in on j

this next two days, it's not just about the panels. the most important part i think for all of us that we've discovered is the personal relationships, looking each other in the eye, the ability to shake a hand and look each other in the eye and say we are in this together. it's a wonderful opportunity for each and every one of us to understand the capabilities and limitations that we each bring but i think most importantly for us in the military, it's for you on the civilian side to know it is not uncle sam showing up large and in charge, but rather uncle sam showing up with a multitude of capabilities in a supporting role in hopes that we never have to ememploy it, but better to be prepared like we are than not to be. it's a wonderful opportunity. i encourage each and every one of you to ask questions, take advantage of the opportunity that is so important so if the bell does sound we know who we'll call and who we're going to be working with. thank you so much. >> folks, i have two more speakers to welcome you all and the last one wil

by the panel? the reason i'm asking this is we've had some questions in the past when we asked questions of the chief during the return to duty presentation and then sometimes the city attorney will caution us not to ask certain questions. and the reason why, it was explained to me and i got it, is that the powerpoint that is shown to us isn't necessarily what the chief saw and was basing his decision on when he approved or disapproved of the return to duty panel's recommendations. and that's part of why when we ask questions related to the powerpoint and not really to what the chief looked at, we're not doing things the right way. so, a part of this presentation was to figure out what does the panel look at and what is given to the chief versus what we see so that we are asking the right questions and we know the zone of questions to ask when we're given those powerpoint presentations so it's not the confusing thing to us. >> really, the powerpoint forms the basis of documents that are in there. a

and if i could ask the panel to stay where you are, jody, if you would sit down. i want to bring the closing remarks, i want to bring up former secretary of state george schultz. >> for closing remarks, want to bring up secretary of state george schultz. if you could help on this end. >> that was a great panel. thank you all. >> well, we've had quite a display. we've had a lot of area planning, filled with op exercises. we had the ocean beach yesterday. the military made something difficult look easy. it was a display of competence. and it gives us confidence that not only is the military going to help us if we have a problem here, but the military is able to do its job of protecting our national security with confidence. it's wonderful to see confidence on display. i was asking myself as i listened to the panel today and i'm working with mike and leslie on the program, what kind of words would describe what we're doing? well, certainly impressive is one. reassuring is one, that we see what's going on, the planning, the capabilities. i think another is to underline

>> i work with the panel with my calculation. but then at the end it is not the panel that sets it, it is

>> i work with the panel with my calculation. but then at the end it is not the panel that sets it, it is he, or she would communicate to me to say, oh, the zoning administrator said no. and this is the number. >> what number did she agree with you? >> in the calculation? this is what... >> the planner and you agreed to a number? >> no. we agree that the calculation comes up. >> to what? >> 1100 and that is like, too low for a lot like this. >> wait a minute. >> you said that you came in with 18-something, and you both agreed that it is 1100? >> the 18-something is our proposal after the public hearing when the zoning officer expressed that our house 2000 square feet is too big, he wants it smaller and so we tried to reduce to see if we could get it but we don't get any numbers. >> wait a minute, the 18-something you knew that based on your calculation that was not the correct number? >> but you were willing to accept that number; is that correct? >> that is a negotiated design that we give. the numbers always come up to be less t

this is a composition of the return to duty panel. the deputy chief of administration is the chair and the involved members deputy chief's and commander are present. his or her commanding officer, the commanding officer of the risk management office, the internal affairs division, the homicide detail, the investigators and a representative from the behavioral science unit. the recommendations of the return to duty panel, return an officer to work forwarded to the chief for review. the chief can either concur with the recommendation or come up with his own decision. the chief reports the decision. that's the return to duty presentation that you've heard. and a copy of that is forwarded to the occ. and the chief's finding and decisions are to be reviewed by the police commission in closed session at the first session following the return to duty panel. so, if you think about -- you know, the calendar, that's going to put that first 10 days, that puts us usually right around that point, first 10 days comes into play around there. entering

i follow how to do the calculation and i verified it with the panel. and i never could see the zoning administrator. it is always the panel just go between that do all of the calculations and all of my drawings go from her to the zoning administrator to come back to give me a answer or a number. and i don't know why we were not given the chance to explain if my diagram was wrong, why am i, like, different number. but at the end. after we appeal and then we were given a number and so at this point, i tried to fight for my, for the owner to why not, unless, yeah, maybe you explain how it is calculated. >> otherwise, >> yeah. >> the set backs and stuff i do the calculations that way. >> are you finished? >> then, you are faced with the following situation. >> you said as one amount, and planning is saying that it is a different amount. why should we take either? >> because i think. >> we could make it less. >> isn't that just a calculation. it is not just a number. >> i was... i was trying to get to a point but maybe i should not have said it quite that wa

tanaka argues tepco's explanation constitutes a serious obstruction of the panel's business. he's demanding the diet look into these developments and conduct an on-site investigation. tepco spokespersons refute the allegation. they say the officials in charge made a mistake in dating the footage. >>> from earthquakes to tsunami, when it comes to disasters, people in japan know just how unforgiving nature can be. since 1997, just two years after the great earthquake, an annual exhibition of emergency equipment has featured hundreds of products to help save lives in a catastrophe. organizers expect this year's show to attract a record number of people. nhk world has the story. >> reporter: 226 companies and organizations are taking part in the event in yokohama. nearly two years have passed since the earthquake and tsunami hit northeastern japan. since then, designers have been turning out more and more life-saving products. one example is a moving shelter for fleeing from a tsunami. this huge object is actually an emergency shelter with an engine. the shelter can hold as many a

in response, the former government set up the reform panel. friday's report included three main recommendations. one, increase competition by bringing new generators to the market by 2016. two, set up an organization to improve connections between power grids. finally, split up power generation and transmissions operations as early as 2018. the panel says these measures will give consumers more choice to create better opportunities for new power sources such as renewables to enter the market. but these are merely suggestions. how they will be implemented remains to be seen. last year's eviction brought the democratic party back to power. the party failed to push through similar reforms in the 1990s. bowing to fierce opposition from utilities and prime minister shinzo abe has yet to make his intentions clear. >> translator: power utilities wield a lot of influence over various stakeholders. you can't move forward with reforms like these without political decisions at the very top. decisions at the ministerial level are insufficient. >> reporter:

this is a composition of the return to duty panel. the deputy chief of administration is the chair and the involved members deputy chief's and commander are present. his or her commanding officer, the commanding officer of the risk management office, the internal affairs division, the homicide detail, the st

. >> the panels? >> yeah. >> we haven't determined yet what we're going to use for the panels. it will really depend what structure we end up looking it on. we're looking at 4 locations for the free wall at this time. again, everything that i've seen shows that they don't work. we're kind of caught between a rock and a hard place on this in that the public art plan was approved by city council that includes the creation of free walls so we figure better to control it as opposed to fight it because we weren't going to win the fight. again, by taking this approach we think we'll have some really good empirical data at the end of it to say, look, this is how much graffiti in that neighborhood increased over the last two years. this is how much additional graffiti was on each of those streets. this is how angry the property owners are now compared to what they were then and these are the physical changes. we'll be looking at, again, safety and security issues as well as we go through that project. any oth

and the previous panel talk about the importance of grassroots politics and you spoke a little bit about citizens united so i'm wondering how you viewed that decision as impacting your organizations and is all of the sort of media and i guess advertisements do they cancel each other out and at the end of the day it's just the grassroots politics that win? >> we talked about this on the previous panel is the oversaturation of the media that we saw. it's still an effective medium in communicating. but the reality is when there is so much to cut through and so much to figure out and there are real different differences, it's important to have a face to face conversation. there is nothing more effective. it was not by co-incidence we focused -- 14% is african- american, 12% latino. our members were uniquely suited to not only speak but were in our communities. they live and work in these communities. so i think that has been and continues to be the most effective way to communicate. as for the specifics of citizens united, i would say for working people there is

and the person that will be introducing the panel, lewis loeven. i have to tell you, lewis loeven is the person that put all this together. he's worked months for this so i want to thank you publicly, lewis, for this. >> thank you. while the panelists are coming up i'd just like to tell you when general myat and i went down to brief secretary schultz a couple months ago, he invited admiral roughhead and secretary perry into the briefing we had a discussion about the whole program at fleet week. we talked about all the public events that went on but we also talked a lot and concentrated a lot on the senior leadership program and what the rest of disaster preparedness was about. in that conversation we started talking about the internationals a special agent of fleet week. secretary perry actually suggested that we extend invitations to people from around the world that they might benefit from the discussions that we're having. admiral roughhead suggested that his friends from chile had an experience down in their part of the world with an earthquake

they asked that i come down here and be on the panel about immigration. i did that this morning. this afternoon i will look around the hall and then i will fly into santa fe. pretty good so far. >> what was your role in the panel? >> there aren't a lot of problems with our immigration system. -- there are a lot of problems with our immigration system. that technology world sees that people have gotten their phd from schools like mit. if you are a farmer, you would say that the migrant farmers do not have their papers. if you are checking crowdabs in maryland, the season be destroyed because you do not have workers. below thing is a mess. i have hope that -- the whole thing is a mess. >> you represent a lot of companies in silicon valley. what are you hearing from them? what is the solution to these problems? >> at it not so much a h-1 visa problem. i'm not saying it should be repealed, but it has structural problems. the real answer is residents. if you have some hot shot that got his phd in computer science from stanford, he's getting offers from all over the world. if you make t

taeking planning to find a place to put the panels. david louie is live. a green straid zwraimd for red and gold. >> well put the 49ers stadium is incorporating sollar from the start. advances in technology andy are yaitive problem solving have gone into this planning. work on the stadium is seen where fr sky 7 moving along quickly. the site lines will be great for fans. how do you power these lights? the president and ceo of sun power know autos we've got panels on enry ways. there is going to be a leading edge renewable area. >> this is an artist's covered walkway. energy energy is doing installation. the panels will be manufactured locally by flex tronics for sun power. solar system will be a showcase for silicon valley technology. >> we're engineering it and bilgd next door. the team here with manufacturing. we built the panel then we can see it put on what is going to be the world's best football stadium. >> on game days the stadium will draw 4,000 homes. silicon valley power serving the city is building a new substation nearby to make sure the stadium

i did not want the panel to shy away from biology. i do not think the state of 1's biology increases or a facts military effectiveness. but i was in okinawa in 1962, i was carrying a pack on my back, arching up a mountain. beside me were okinawan women who were balancing a large straw basket on top of their eggs. the ballot -- to the baskets were filled with ice and coca- cola. when the enemies were captured on the top of the mountain, we would take a break. my point is, these women in okinawa were walking right along me climbing the mountains with as much weight and burdens as i had in my military gear. that is what changed my way of thinking that i was initially wrong in assuming that women with the weaker sex. they are not. thank you. [laughter] >> i have a question about perception. there was a woman who wrote an op-ed in the washington times the spoke about how women were not fit to be in combat. here i was working the night shift in baghdad. i wrote to her and said, what gives you the right to think i should not be here? you have

this time, this year we had a functional exercise in august which was terrific, you saw the panel, a medical exercise as part of fleet week and you saw the enthusiasm of the participants, then we had the back brief. now we've had a strategic operational and tactical discussions about going forward and the things that we can accomplish. so what are you going to do in 2013? well, fill out the form and tell us what you think we ought to do but we're going to be working hard to move this forward. i think ray cheney said it from cal fire best today: we are all better off because we're in here for the last day and a half and i'm sitting here wondering, all my contemporaries, what have they been doing for the last 36 hours? they haven't been doing anything near as important as what we've been doing. i thank

the return to duty is the panel -- you've got the slide that has the numbers. >> i don't see the chief on here. it looks like from my understanding, return to review panel composition has of course numbers of -- the people who report to the chief, i don't see the chief listed on here. >> the chief is not in the return to duty panel. so, the chief is concurring with the recommendation of the panel or not. >> or not. >> or not. and the chief, the chief has access, obviously, to the full breadth of information that is available to make the decision. >> thank you. i also wanted to ask about the occ, i see it and a part of it says there is a formal complaint filed with the occ, they do a certain kind of investigation. what happens if a complaint is not filed? this could probably go to director hicks. >> yes, commissioner chan, the occ does not investigate unless the occ receives a civilian complaint of misconduct. so, while we roll out to all officer-involved shootings, we don't necessarily investigate all officer involved shootings. it would be only if a civilian files a complaint. >> that

i'd like to thank the panel members for taking time out to discuss about lifelines. i want to point out that all of these organizations are members of the san francisco lifelines council along with many members in the audience, and rest assured we have been working with the fire chief and the police chief with pg&e and the san francisco public utilities commission to make sure we can get them to their emergencies in a timely fashion during rush hour traffic and would like to thank both chiefs who are here today. so thank you. (applause). >> thank you. and general spiese, if you could talk a little about the relationship and what it means to the marines? >> sure. let me reference mayor lee from this morning. he said what we are starting to do is get beyond conversation and we're getting a feel for the impact of our training and our particular interaction. just this past year alone from the communications, command and control exercise that we did in august, yesterday bringing an air cushioned vehicle ashore on the beach, landing helicopters at lake merced and working be