how did you learn about the program? my plans for the summer were that i wanted to move to san francisco and lift my young 20s -- live my young 20's in s.f. jobs are hard to find, and living there is expensive. my other option was ttt, introduced to me by my mother. she loves reading the chinese newspaper and watching chinese television, and heard about taiwan tech trek through those outlets. she urged me to apply. after some convincing, i looked it up online and it actually looks really great. i have been to taiwan many times before and i love taipei, living in taipei. i thought this would be a good alternative. it has been great so far. >> you have been back to taiwan before many times. how is the experience different this time that you are part of this ttt program? >> i did a bunch of ocac programs before. we just have more freedom now. >> you are also older. it has got to give you more freedom. >> yes. being on our own gives me a better way of learning about taipei. i have to learn how to take the mrt on my own, the

welcome to a brand-new edition of the "taiwan outlook" -- the program that lets you hear the different stories from taiwan. i am your host, wu ray-kuo. although it is controversial, nuclear energy has always been an important part of energy supply worldwide and taiwan is no exception. on today's program, we are delighted to have a conversation with officer -- with professor way kuo from city university hong kong to discuss the state of nuclear energy in hong kong. >> good to be here. >> a pleasure to have your on the program today. you have recently come out with a book on the state of nuclear energy. can you tell us a little bit about the book and what are some of the important findings in the book? >> ok. this is a book that was written right after my visit at fukushima about two and half years ago. the energy issue is a major issue today. the key of the book is to look for a connection between energy and the environment. the issue that addresses in the book is to look at the trade- offs among manufacturers. like resources, safety, reliability, all kinds of benefits we can get from e

while it envisions construction but it would impact the local economy like the program would. >> i appreciate that. that makes perfect sense and i just wanted to make sure that we are getting all of the information we need because i would like us to figure out a way to be more aggressive to provide this program, bought the provide it that number one is of course successful and competitive and that's really important for it's success. i know we had a slight bit of a setback with the fact that the commission has determined that they will not set rates which is really unfortunate, but i do think that we as a board of supervisors, i know this is lafco, but we as members of the board have sent direction to puc commissioners explaining that we want to see this move forward. what i want us to be able to do is work with puc and we want puc to be more aggressive with helping to support us to move this forward and to make sure that it more competitive in doing so. so, i just don't feel that the support is there. i know we are talking about and you are investing in the local build

the ongoing farm programs? so for all of those reasons, i support this motion to instruct. and let me finally say the time has come. the time has come to put away the posturing, go to work, go to conference and pass a farm bill that reflects america's needs. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from oklahoma reserves. the gentleman from minnesota. mr. peterson: mr. speaker, i am pleased to yield one minute to the gentlelady from ohio, one of our subcommittee ranking members, ms. fudge. ms. fudge: thank you very much. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from ohio is recognized for one minute. ms. fudge: thank you very much. 2642, rm act, which h.r. re-authorizes farm development and agriculture trade programs through fiscal year 2018, for five years. however, h.r. 3102, the nutrition reform and work opportunity act, which passed last month, re-authorize nutrition programs for only three years. this separation is problematic and it needs to be addressed. farming and feeding go hand in hand, and a comprehensi

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the film rebate program >> colleagues that is legislation that i introduced a little while ago. it continues to attract both film and production in the 76 san francisco. the most recent legislation was to rent space that helped to get a series and it's stemmed to have an estimated $12 million no our city. this includes the web series among eligible productions and it's through june 30th, 2014, and authorize additional funds into the program. again, we're not going to fund those budget it will be next year but it will put the cap. we're seeing that the web series are 0 popular and we need to continue to make sure that is adopting to the film destroy to capture all the film in our city. in the about jobs and our after the community and continuing to promote the on screen productions pr it's a streamline of web tv. and rising in popularity through a lot of net flicks and house of cards which is an amazing series my wife and i got addicted. and it's about thanking susan robbins for her hard work running really san francisco's kind of film industry and grabbing hollywood. susan if you

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so they can verify that you are eligible for the program. 's not necessarily about your medical data which goes to your doctors. >> not necessarily, but -- >> let me counter that. the problem here isn't the -- the website. the problem here is the notion of government healthcare. why did patrick henry said, "give me liberty or give me death" and not say "give me healthcare or give me death"? he knew liberty is required to prosper, not the free stuff with government which comes with the strings attached including this case the complete loss of medical privacy. it's ironic that the president who railed against the fine print in mortgage disclosures in 2008 of 2009 now conveniently puts in a tiny type on the website you no expectation of privacy when it comes to your healthcare records, your medical records, seven government agencies sharing this information? >> even more insidious, john, more insidious is not on the website. you have to click a clickable link, right before you accept. source code. you to go to the source code. one click away whe

we need to continue the sugar program, the livestock indemnity program for our producers. we need conservation rules that make sense in the house vergsz, you do not tie the conservation compliance to crop ininsurance. i think that that is the right approach. obviously, under the current program, thaen you're also tied to the conservation radioradiorequirements. where he need strong research for ag productions. we need to support those programs. >> the senator was kind enough to mention some of the work that we've done on a bipartisan basis. she's been an absolute leader in some of the conservation programs. this could make a real difference in terms of water management and a big difference to help prevent frooding. the last one i'll mention, we need to make it safe, eligible. this can make a huge difference for wildlife and for our sportsmen. it's a great program and i look forward to working on it with you. this benefits all americans. and i very much look forward to working with all of you to get this farm bill done for the good of oir country. >> the senator e yields bac

manager for the green building program. and with me is rami co-worker and he has been with the environmental justice program and he does a lot of multitasking and works with the energy program as well. but, we are here to present and ask for your approval of the resolution to grant an award to black coalition on aids to perform brown field's out reach services some background united states epa awarded the department a grant to perform a community-wide assessment, and we will use this federal funding, to perform an inventory of the sites on the eastern side of the bay view community. and this is to support the green way, awarded of the open space corridor, e tending the bay trail south ward from att park to candle stick park and we are going to conduct the side investigations and we have a technical contractor. and urs corporation and we issued an rfp to get the services of a non-profit group to help with out reach. earlier this year, in may, i stood before you seeking your approval for an out reach grant award, that was cont

not fully read the program. i want to comment on that. >> i would say that every program was impacted. yearre able to use prior to absorb some of the impact. frankly, the department of the navy had to push a significant amount of that impact. the impact is still staring at us across the board in the same programs. did we canceling? no. our priority was not to cancel and create more harm. sta concur with secretary ckley. what you didn't see was the ability of the services to use unobligated investment funds. earmarked orere identified for each investment. we still have to reconcile. we still have to pay those bills. we were able to make good decisions in the near term. the services are always looking for an opportunity for reversibility. that thehope inflexibility of the sequester can be remedied by congress. agree with my mates here. i will tell you that every program we had in the marine corps was affected either by quantity or schedule. we also think the sequester in 13 has set the conditions to cancel programs

public utilities commission and for the commission to make the program more affordable and get the financing for build out to make sure we had a program that was going to be as green as possible and the puc staff has, kim malcolm and have worked to respond to these issues that have been raised. now it seems the concerns raised by the commissioners on the public utilities commission were rational that were pretty flimsy about really to cover up their over all opposition to the program going forward. that's the perception issue but given the track record and given the answers provided for even though they were real answers and the program that has been altered and tweaked to make affordability, those didn't measure up to any recognition that they were worthy of supporting shows there wasn't an effort to make this program work but to object -- object 50s skate -- this program. it's a political issue we have of moving this program forward and it's unfortunate that politics get exposed. our inability to move forward on the clean power sf program and trying to

the u.s. sugar program. the first resolution expresses the sense of the house that conferees should agree to limit crop insurance based on average adjusted gross income in excess of $750,000. this commonsense proposals ensures that crop insurance is appropriately targeted to those who need it most. the second resolution instructs conferees to advance provisions to repeal the administration of tariff rate quotas and thus restore the secretary of agriculture's authority to manage supplies of sugar throughout the year to meet domestic demand at reasonable prices. i strongly support this resolution as it restores free market principles to the u.s. sure gar program. this -- sugar program. this rule provides for the business of legislating and resolving differences between our two chambers to find common ground and move forward in re-authorizing federal agriculture policy. i urge my colleagues to support this rule. the motion to go to conference, instruct tions to provided by this rule. mr. speaker, i reserve the b

tell us about the program. is it working? >> let me tell you what the program is about. it's a program where people are convicted for drink in public 5 or more times or arrested and held and if they are convicted for the crime in public. if you see it like a drug court model, that's how it works. so if we want to talk about is it successful, we can throw out a number of definitions for that. we know that drunk in public arrest are down 77 percent in san diego. that's good for you and we can talk about health care cost have been reduced by $73,000 a month on health care for people picked up by paramedics and drunk in public and hospitals. i think that's good. i know in my program that 70 percent of people that enter the program complete a program and graduate and are 80 percent of employed and housed at the end of the program. we think that's good. and there are serial neeb rate programs across the united states. we have a call from ireland and alaska which begs the question how can you be homeless in alaska? but there are. if i were brought to a conference for the police,

that is going to stretch the program out and drive the cost up. these are all spiraling impacts that take a strong performing program at the front end and revese its course. >> general walters. >> i echo the sentiments already displayed here. i will also tell you that the longer-term effect year-by-year as sequestration marches on, if it continues to march it will put us in a more difficult position of making harder choices as we try and buy out a vehicle portfolio that will become unaffordable. >> thank you. representative cooper. >> thank you, madam chair. chairman turner said earlier that the house had done its work and was implying that is was the senate's fault. we need to operate as a congress. and fulfill our article one responsibilities as a congress so that you can do your work. i thought your testimony was excellent. i wish you had the ability to question us. the fault is on our side of the deus. i will make some points on my own about the house's and congress's inability to perform adequately in these trying times. as one of the witnesse

the thirty years. this is a very important program. a few years ago when my son left the nest i decided to stay here and grow san francisco and, you know, keep everybody working here that's my goal. with the rebate program i'm able to tell folks around the world about this they're interested because truly even though san francisco is san francisco having that extra entitlement makes a huge difference to each year e exceptionally all the people i work with to be gainfully employed and that speaks for myself too >> thank you. next speaker, please . if you have are here to speak on item 3 i might have called our name wrong but go ahead and speak >> i'm jim i'm a former san francisco commissioner and here to speak in favor of the rebate. i'm not going to get into the detail. but one of the main things about filmmaking in san francisco is that it will continue to not only create jobs here while the film is being made but the re1i7b8 films. so there's many things filmmaking creates thousands of jobs and brings in moifld jobs. i was first appo

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to be the result of our reassessment program. this includes all the major thoughts that they had during the construction. the company has to convince them that all this resolution will withstand. we will consider to issue it. >> we need to take the final break on our program. we will be right back. ask welcome back to the part -- the final part of the program. we will wrap up his very fascinating conversation with the chairman of the atomic energy council of the republic of china. we are going to start off with a concern of over transparency. nuclear power use has become somewhat of a controversial issue. some people are for it as it is inexpensive. some people are against it because the possible catastrophe you can cause. given the fact that this is a controversy, we're probably not going to see the end resolution or some kind of compromise in the foreseeable future. it is likely to raise a lot of questions. a lot of people raise questions concerning drug today's program. the root of all these concerns is regarding the issue of t

i joined over them this one because one of the best programs. this is going nowhere owen had a slight idea of years ago the one minus ten to war will complete tv show. strong quantitative. it was interesting signs. so that's what women can take and that we continue on to students although all who were home and some pumpkin pie want this to which it a simple way to return to the one that sticks to the temple as well you have meal you do when having such a wonderful career in the united states don't empathize said john hopkins university. while the leading universities states is not the world. i know sleeping coming back to taiwan. noah helping the local universities and research institutions to get involved in the study of miles to st. one need to make that decision to come by to come on. you know that on a permanent basis. what were some of the factors and motivations. it is simple this is a gift that i need to have a the range of new states yes and no one can cozy with a wary of fright the professors and students they always remind myself that t

for the graduating the program's first class of community work and hers there is a document in the packet which is a draft resolution and the sponsor is commissioner joshua arce. >> thank you, colleagues, you know, there was a meeting earlier in the year with some members from the public said, how do we know that the city's pesticide ordinance is being administered in a way that protects people and how do we know that the parks are maintained in a way that is safe that promosts sustainability. how do we know that our city workforce is properly trained to advance all of the goals that we have with respect to the department and open space and sustainability. and the answer is the kind and participants in the program received both hands on training and in area of golden gate parks and other parks and facilities and spaces combined with ininstruction and plant identification and partnership with the city college of san francisco that lead to full time employment for the graduates of the sustainable and living wage and benefit and also promotes i

the livestock program and the livestock 4h program. i appreciate the house addressing burdensome regulations we worked on in the senate including pesticides, farm fuel tank storage, the lesser prairie chicken, and mandatory control of origin and labeling. regarding nutrition in the snap program, the house passed similar reforms to legislation that i offered to have eligibility standards, close state loopholes, and end wasteful and duplicated programs without harming benefits to those who need the most assistance. finally, i have significant concerns regarding two proposed commodity titles. the 2010 farm bill contained real reform. we ended federal subsidies that encouraged farmers to plant for the government. ie target price programs. this year's version created a new market payment, the program tied to historic base acres. the house price loss coverage, the poc program, went further backwards in my view and recoupled production to plant acres and sets high fixed target prices. a modern farm bill should not create planting, marketing, o

that was one of the best programs in the world. so i give the one line answer that we are looking for strong quantitatively with interesting signs. that is what we are looking for and we've been getting a lot of students all over the world. some of which have returned to his taiwan since then. >> you were having such a wonderful career in the united states. for faster of johns hopkins university, one of the leading universities in the states, if not the world, and you have been coming back to taiwan and helping universities and research institutions to get involved in the study of biostatistics. why did you make the decision to come back to taiwan on a permanent basis? what were some of the factors and motivations? >> actually, it is quite simple. i think i have a great job in the states working closely with right or festers and students. i always remind myself that my roots are in taiwan. like many of us, we are born and raised in taiwan. i hope i can spend the rest of my life to make some difference grade >> one of your motivatio