but without a wellness program at george washington school, the outreach program, there would not be me speaking to kids about important topics, you know? none of this would be possible without the wellness, so i would just keep in mind that oliver students vote -- value the wellness in our school. some have over 2000 kids, and we need our wellness, and we appreciate it, so they q4 letting me speak. [applause] -- so thank you for letting me speak. [applause] >> i would like to introduce william, who was speaking about the professional program -- who will speak about a professional program. >> my name is william, and i attend prep just a few blocks from here. i am currently a sophomore. all of the lsp's in san francisco. i just want to talk a little bit about my life before. i used to be involved in gangs. my life before was like a puzzle that i did not know how to make. i was confused in every point of my life. i have a lot of problems. i am not an open person. i am still not an open person. i never had anybody to talk to before i met her. in middle school, i just wanted to drop out o

programs. what kind of success are we seeing with that? well, the issue of cultural competence is really the important discussion point here. we do find that programs that are run by american indians, alaska natives, for american indians, alaska natives or programs that target hispanics, run by hispanics, tend to produce better outcomes than programs that are not sensitive to those issues. so we use sort of a bias force paradigm. there are programs that are not run by the specific population group, but have modules that are targeted to the unique needs of that group. so they do not as well as the programs that are run by the specific population group, but they do better than programs that are general. so when we look at the outcomes of, say, a woman in a male program or a general program that doesn't have any gender specific programming, she doesn't do as well as the program that is targeted to, for women, run for women or a program that has gender-specific issues. the same thing for american indian, alaska natives, hispanics, african americans

this response to many well- documented programming needs. it allows us to pursue multiple opportunities for community partnership with a broad set of stakeholders. the creation of the new community gardens -- it is one of the most needed facilities. it also states that the community gardens are one of the most important recreational facilities to households. this demonstrates the level of enthusiasm, and the project manager will describe in more detail. this is confirmed by our experience in managing the community garden program. the recreation and open space element also clearly urges us to expand community garden opportunities throughout the city, noting that it is a valid use of open space, revitalizing neighborhoods. in july, 2009, the mayor issued an executive directive stating that food production and horticulture education will be encouraged in the city at to the extent feasible on city-own the land. -- city-owned land. we also comply with one of the most important mandates, the master plan. we had extensive community outreach process

would one go about to doing some outreach, how would one make it easier for them to come into a program? well do- regularly we do trainings of other alcohol and drug treatment programs that are not lgbt specific in order to transfer the expertise that we have. and it is very specific. getting back to treatment adaptations, we learned a number of years ago that a number of our clients were relapsing because of the sex, the high risk sex/drug link when they would come out of treatment. so we designed a program during our treatment episode where we addressed very directly high risk sexual behavior and the relationship with drug use. and as a result of that, the evaluations of that particular aspect of our program have been very powerful. and in fact, that is something that we are also trying to disseminate to other treatment programs. because i think there is a strong link between alcohol and drug use, whether it's gay, lesbian, transgender, bisexual, or the general population, there's a strong link between sexual behavior and the shame associated with it and drug use. so we try and address that

program. specifically funding criteria. it was well-developed and designed to go to the most distressed communities but i would do it with a spin. connect programs for employment as well as programs for other social services with housing and foreclosure and let communities figure out how best they can solve their own multifaceted economic and housing crisis. we could have between 20 to $30 billion going to those communities in a way that they could decide to use those dollars. that would stimulate the economy and not require new dollars but using dollars that have already been provided. my final recommendation build off of the previous panel. the problem that brought the economy to its knees was a foreclosure crisis but the extreme economic distress we continue to experience because of structural and economic problems that long been in the making. migration of jobs out of the country, shifting of wealth to small share of healthy household, the inability of the nation to create new jobs and increasing economic distress for the most econ

. >> if you continue to smoke, it will cost the state medicaid program as well as other programs overall. it will be tremendously devastating for their health. >> reporter: the government got a "b" grade for helping regulate the tobacco industry. the fda banned flavored cigarettes and unveiled graphic warnings to be added to cigarette labels next year. and the health reform law requires insurance plans to cover efforts to quit smoking. however -- >> it is a little less aggressive when it comes to medicaid and mandates only that pregnant smokers have access to cessation services. >> reporter: nationwide smoking rates have been falling but over the past few years they stalled among kids and adults. and experts say federal and state governments have a long way to go to help more people kick the habit or never start in the first place. erika edwards, nbc news. >> here's how california stacked up in the report. spending money on programs to curb smoking gets an "f." >>> meanwhile, it will be a fabulous air day today. christina loren is here with warm temperatures and just beautiful conditions

seniors need to be particularly cognizant of-and if they run into trouble, what type of programs are available? well, at hanley center, we have a prevention program, called aging to perfection. and actually our older adult unit, to answer your question, when you become old is 55 and above. so i qualify for the older adult program now. but what our aging to perfection program actually addresses is helping the older adult- first of all, you know, simple things- write down the prescriptions that they're taking when they go to the doctor because, again, they're getting multiple prescriptions from different physicians, and there are drug-drug interactions that potentially can be lethal to them. so writing them down, understanding, you know, asking questions, throwing away their medication when it's, when they're finished, not saving it. and that's a hard thing in today's economy, you know, not saving the medication. so there's a list of prevention techniques that we teach the older adults so that they can use their medication in a more safe and effective manner. dr. condon? i wanted to echo that. i think

hello and a very well welcome to the business program. well it's not just heavy industry in russia that's a need of more tonight some a severe drought exposed major shop comings and the country's culture september michael explains. thirty five degrees in the shade and no rain the weather played a hot trick on russian farmers this summer with a severe drought devastating more than thirty percent of the grain harvest but it was not just mother nature's fault. russia's wheat crop yield is the third out of europe's to improve we need access to modern seed as seed industry has been lost and foreigners won't sell their technology to us because they're afraid they will be paid rural trees for the use of the technology we also lack modern farming vehicles it's hard to improve technology quickly the government has pumped extra cash into the sector which it hopes will plant twenty percent of all crops this spring but produces doubt they'll be able to do this on the handouts they've been given and what officials to come up with further stimulus measu

. >> i wanted to briefly say, i had the at some point to go to c-5 and i thought their program was well run and it was a nice program and very happy children. i did however -- di leave with concerns that i shared with the directors and -- unfortunately didn't see any -- for the being a -- addressed in the application and so, i -- i unfortunately won't be supporting the charter this time around. hopefully we could work toward solidifying the description of the actual school and especially around the rejio piece which i'm familiar with. it would have been nice to hear more clarity to that. >> eanl other comments? >> question, commissioner wynns. >> is this not the same type of approach that is uted -- used at creative arts charter schools. it was in the charter when we granted the charter. are we monitoring that? supposed to be a rejio program. do we pay attention to what is in the charter and whether they're actually following it? >> we actual deloy in the sense of -- because we're not, we're not technically as a charter school, we're not technically there to evaluate their program -- th

as far as bus rapid transit projects, there has been significant work on those programs as well. small starts, federal funds, which could bring the project to as much as $75 million in federal funds. there has already been a milestone in terms of funding from the climate initiatives program, the draft being completed will be circulated in the next month, ground-breaking -- completion of projects scheduled for 2012. making progress into one -- throughout 2010. the feasibility study demonstrated that the concept is likely to achieve a 15% reduction in congested levels. there is an authorized section of the study that should take us to a position on whether to implement the pilot in the beginning of 2015. this is of necessity, you can already see that i could spend a couple of hours here, but i will spare you that. i will check off a few of the subjects that are continuing to move forward. the county land use prioritization plan is a very significant multi-jurisdictional effort that is on the way. completed in 2010, some of the recommendations are moving through the process for imple

and i'm only going to mention a few things would take away free preventive care, wellness program for seniors, would take away the 50% reduction in health care costs for seniors to continue filling the doughnut hole. it would take away the tax cuts for businesses that have health insurance for their employees and he would give the insurance company is a right refuse coverage for those people who would preexisting disabilities. some have said over there that they have to take a whack of social security. but they certainly believe that our wall street reform bill was drawn. they cited than with wall street and are obviously doing it again. the republicans aren't stopping there. they are even threatening to shut down government, to have the united states of america default on its bill. you can imagine as well as i can the economic crisis that this would cause. and not only what we do internationally, but what do we do at home. social security checks, troops would get their checks, veterans would get their checks. border security, fbi, all of it. we are focused as democrats and creating j

well still to come on the program when great political rhetoric turns into a rampage. titian's groups turns into a black box imus to tell us what they think growth going to tell us six cents a day gross for. the price of loyalty trying to. get in the shoes of this. taliban instead of creating more instability. former cia operative who is wanted in venezuela and cuba for terrorist attacks throughout latin america has gone to trial in the us that's not why. he's in court steady he's being charged with lying to gratian offices. looks at why the us is turning a blind eye to the terrorist. miami florida white sandy beaches miniskirts and bikini. this vacation spot is also home to a convicted international terrorist luis posada could be less coined the bin laden of the americas the anti castro cuban was the cia's dirty secret in south and central america trained as an explosives expert at the new tory a school of the americas posada's acts of terrorism spanned five decades it impacted half a dozen countries. over seventy people were killed when cuban airliner four fifty five

made the statement on the eve of the laws the latest round of talks on iran's nuclear program well the envoy says his country's atomic program is completely self-sufficient under which wind will continue even if iran comes under military attack the country is a wedding suffering of four sets of u.s. sanctions iran is currently sitting down at the close talks with six world powers in istanbul. told r.t. is iran is sure to have to bear any international pressure in the first place. is imposed on us by the u. when illegitimate we were obliged to allow inspections our reactors and we did the international atomic energy agency found nothing wrong with our nuclear program i mean speeches were going on within the us britain france and germany pressured the i.e.e.e. and the security council got the report it was waiting for international inspectors and never found any of their land is working. and it's our country is not broken the law there is no legal basis for demanding that we stop enriching uranium. now residents of the ukrainian city of hot coffee given. greeted by an infamous and deceas

i'm manager of the tour program as well as i am the historyian of city hall. this building is multifaceted to say the very least it's a municipal building that operates the city and county of san francisco. this building was a dream that became a reality of a man by the name of james junior elected mayor of san francisco in 1912. he didn't have a city hall because it was destroyed in the earth wake of 1906. construction began in april of 1913. in december 1915, the building was complete. it opened it's doors in january 1916. >> it's a wonderful experience to come to a building built like this. the building is built as a palace. not for a king or queen. it's built for all people. this building is beautiful art. those are architecture at the time when city hall was built, san francisco had an enormous french population. therefore

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last third, also known as the third third or other general uses, funds in general support programs, including wellness centers, translation, interpretation services, restored to the justice, and custodial services. -- restorative justice, and custodial services. it also has a detailed budget for the entire allocation. the allocation for 2011-2012 is anticipated to reflect a 25% reduction, and this would be the fourth year of the reduction, as stipulated in the charter when the city's budget had a shortfall of $100 million or more, 25% can be deferred. in addition, we have a second reduction this year, and this is the second year this is in place, because the charter says that for the fiscal year 2010- 2011, until 2014-2015, the contribution shall equal the total contribution for the prior year, adjusted for the estimated increase or decrease in the city's discretionary general fund. the estimated 2011-2012 allocation of $29.30 million, which is in this budget -- the 2010 allocation estimate of june 2010. which would represent the prior year. the 2011-2012 will be finalized by the comptroller's office

street conversion program, the birth storage program -- the first stewards program has mutual benefit both for the sfpuc as well as the communities we are partnering with for this program -- the earth stewards program. as we were talking about the program, developing inventory, we realize the level of macro impact that it has intentionally for the puc. the puc is a large property owner, and we have a lot of properties that need to be managed, whether it is the landscaping and the upkeep and maintenance. programs like the earth stewards program allows us to be able to work closely with the community to get these types of efforts under way, that is done in a way that has benefits on the ground as well. i wanted to conclude quickly by letting you know where we're headed. both of the led program and the earth stewards program, as you look at the categories under the umbrella of where we are making our investments, really just a snapshot of where we hope to head as an agency. as i mentioned a week ago, we introduced the policy commission in november. we got concrete feedback from them. they will be adopting a policy

community and seek the partn partnerships or they might approach us with an idea for an event or program. as well as we have active community minded staff throughout the library who have a wealth of resources and ideas at their finger tips. they often bring ideases and from that we create programs. >> that was a really great program. that came to us as a lot of events and programs do through our book seller community. bo and our staff worked to bring poets and writers for a wonderful program. we had over a hundred people that attend third degree event in the auditorium. from that, bo is continuing to do work toward the knobby street project today. >> on march fifth 2007 a car bomb was exexploded in baghdad, more than 30 people were killd and more than a hundred were wounded. this local is the historic center of baghdad book selling. a winding street filled with book stores and out door book stalls. named after the famous 10th century arab poet, this is an old and established street for book selling and has been for hundreds of years. book selling on this street is no different from book selling h

performance standards, then the program operator has the ability to find another provider for those and that's something that the legislative authority should include as well. there are a couple of examples of sort of governance structures that have addressed different types of pricing programs. there is a joint powers authority i am manied or in place now for the 580 express lanes or high occupancy toll lanes on the peninsula today. so here is a potential timeline. i know there is a lot of concern about congestion pricing being implemented tomorrow. that is certainly not the case. there are several institutional considerations and milestones that need to be addressed moving forward. however, we are presenting the board, to the board the study reports. in the next year or two, we would want to evaluate a couple of related or associated programs. one is s.f. park which i am sure you are all familiar with to look at peak period pricing and other forms of pricing to understand the impact on parking demand as well as the impact on congestion management and also for example the peak period of pricing on the bay bridge and other sorts of pricing programs. we hav

can i ask you when you go back and advise him and tell him me all think the crn program is working pretty well and put a plug in to expand that program. >> i think there are already on going conversations. we are going to coordinate all our out each efforts and make sure they are working in concert. >> okay. i want, cheryl, did you want to comment on the bed checks? maybe, bed checks. ernie was talking about in the colin? cheryl? i have been ignoring you. but not really. anything you would like to add before we move on here? no. i did want to say. i want it to be really clear. the partnership we had with mlcj. it wasn't an attack on the mayor's office. i think the challenge for us to figure out how when someone workd and another part of it doesn't, how do we make it work together? that's part of what as we kind of move on. realizing that we need to stay connected to

his proposal calls for cutting state funded services and programs as well as cutting up to 10% and take home pay for government workers. he plans to raise the money by extending the tax hikes put under under the schwarzenegger administration, including a 1% increase in sales tax and vehicle license fees that are due to expire this year. he plans to shift more state responsibilities for counties, including juvenile detention. this morning we spoke with our political analyst about the plan. >> kind of reminded of "jerry mcgwire" where he says show me the money. you talk about getting out of the box. he is doing that, much more so than schwarzenegger. he wants to shift, realign program services. that's fine. but you've got to come up with the money as well. >>> we'll be streaming the state of the state live tomorrow. go to nbcbayarea.com and it's said to start at 5:00. >>> a japanese american civil rights leader is being recognized across the state. he became famous as the first person to appeal the conviction for resisting the world war ii interment camp. on friday, students at the davis

honest of the international energy agency dr bell thank you very much for being here with us in the program well for the first time ever the russian president opened a summit in davos how significant do you think this is and how will this boost the russian cause are. very significant for vertical and for for the participants here and also for russia on the learns one more important is russia today for the global economy global just system beyond. well what signals is made you need a bit of sending out to the west. i think that message is. very received disability have underlined the first of all the importance of russia the rules of the game. like to play which is very much in line. into our nation rules of to gives is the best and participants here understand it is very very deceived and also defective. need more and more investments especially and i just sector is a very valid discussed very valid you see it here of course the reaction from here from the investors from the company to and beyond in the finance committee is the framework conditions for investment in russia should be suitable for

efforts that we think will be important to the community, of provided to every customer in the program as wells general marketing when we thought we would get an onslaught from the incumbent utility. saying things that are not necessarily true. so, the budget analysts office as i understand it has recommended the release of funds for those negotiations but not for the opt out process. from our perspective that would just require us coming back again and asking for another release of reserves. in terms of operations moving forward we do not have a problem as it is presented. supervisor avalos: thank you. mr. rose? >> on page nine-nine of the report be pointed out that the issue was selected tuesday rfp for a selection of an -- of a service provider in 2010. mr. campbell reports that on november 3, they did submit proposals and planned to evaluate those proposals to select the energy provider. we stated on page 10 of our report in the recommendations, we have three. the first is that we recommend you reduce the amount from 1,000,873500, covering the estimated cost of the city attorney's office f

well welcome to our business program.the board of impulse com has approved the purchase of telecom assets owned by egyptian billionaire not good so we're just for a total of six point five billion dollars this despite opposition of some norwegian shareholder telling or russia second biggest mobile phone operator wants to take over so we are says italian mobile company when telecommuting cuts jani and his fifty one point seven percent stake in egypt's forest telecom holding this would create the world's sixth largest phone company simple calm signed a new agreement after telling or rejected an earlier six point eight billion dollars proposal ultimo which owns over forty percent of impled com says it's disappointed by telling the us position. were disappointed by their growing this league asians made in their statement. we are the position that. difference in views on business development shouldn't be an obstacle to effectively develop. into one of the leading global typical operators. telling or says it will fight the appr

and they say well, it's a program that we all have. >> my thanks to european central bank president jean-claudeet. mr. trichet was just one of the many people i spoke to here in davos about the global economy. in fact, there were heavy hitters from the banking industry as well, and the topics ranged from risk tolerance to investing in asia, the rise of china to america's economy and when it will get going again. here is what they had to say in their own words. >> the engine of growth has to be the private sector. and it's banks and corporate working together to free up that $2 trillion in cash sitting on corporate balance sheets. and to your point, the chief executives having the confidence to invest and hire in the u.s. >> china prices have gotten very high. you know, in china there is no shortage of money. i don't know what people around the world who watch this program would think, but there is no shortage of money in china, and there is a lot of optimism. in india, there isn't so much money around. growth rates are close to the same. >> individual side, the activity continues to pick up. we